TFS explains right there, in the summary, that this is the third round of tariffs after Obama's two... but the Trump trolls keep on rolling. No Trump fan, here, but the Trump derangement is sad, especially from supposedly educated slashdotters.
I want to agree, but I don't think so - my kids get documents from the teacher that don't render correctly, and they've made documents that don't render correctly in Word. Perhaps they didn't do formatting the way they should, perhaps the teacher didn't, either - I don't know, but I do know they've had problems.
You don't need the public education system - virtually everybody has the ability to surf the internet or use public libraries and, for the record, there's more white people living in poverty in the south that blacks - sorry if the reality doesn't fit your narrative.
I agree - we need better education; but I also agree that not everyone should be able to vote. Why should we let people who don't even understand our constitution decide who gets to lead us? I posted this above: What Americans Don't Know About the Constitution, in a poll (granted an old one) "... Nearly half believed that the Constitution contains Karl Marx's phrase 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.'"
It's not wealth - it's education. It's an incentive to get educated. We're not talking about people living like they do in the favelas of Brazil (although, believe me, they have electric and water and most of them have internet and smartphones), we're talking about first world countries where even the poorest person can go into a library and read a book or look something up on the internet.
And since education is one of the primary factors in earning wealth, it's a plus all around.
Social Media, as it is now, is practically a disincentive for people to be educated, because far too many rely too much on it for information, and take whatever they read there as truth.
That's really interesting! I'll have to look it up.
Facebook, Instagram, and other social media should adopt that system... the first one to do it could bill itself as some sort of elite social media. That would be fantastic.
I agree - huge swaths of both republicans and democrats (or conservatives and liberals, or whatever labels you want to use) would be eliminated from the voting pool.
A public opinion poll conducted during the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution in 1987 found that most Americans were woefully ill-informed about the content and meaning of the document. Only a bare majority knew that the purpose of the Constitution was to create a federal government and define its powers. Nearly half believed that the Constitution contains Karl Marx's phrase "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."
It would be OK if they just stuck with basics, but you need to choose a spreadsheet program to use, even if you don't want to teach to that specific product; you need to choose a word processing program. Once you know the basics, that knowledge should transfer to just about any other spreadsheet or word processor, but you still have to choose one to use.
The bigger problem is when my kids homework MUST be sent to the teacher in Word format, or Excel format. I'm not sure what a good solution to that is, but the school having licenses and then requiring the kids have licenses is too much. If both Google and MS are tracking you, at least Google is free.
Maybe it's not just about a city getting more in tax dollars - maybe decreasing unemployment, even if many of the workers relocate to the city, you still have ancillary services they need - like restaurants, shopping, entertainment. Yes, it also increases traffic and makes a lot of other things worse - so it depends on what the city wants out of it.
37 unwanted pregnancies - that would be 3700 instances of sex by people using this app. I don't know how popular the app is, but assuming each one had sex more than once, even 99% effectiveness rate is going to fail a handful of times - it just doesn't seem like an unreasonably high number to me. I mean, really, let's say 5k people are using the app - it seems like effectiveness is actually pretty accurate.
I do the math... I don't see MS putting the OS on a subscription model, especially Windows 10 - they'd not only lose millions of customers, they'd be sued up the ass by every single government on the planet for the bait and switch tactic. If they did this for 11, then you'd be free to not upgrade.
But I don't see it happening at all. I think of it like Angry Birds... when it came out, you could buy the full version, or play the ad supported version. Roxio soon discovered that they made more money on the ad supported versions... so their games remain free, but they make more money on ads and DLC. MS gets a cut of every window's store transaction.... they are doing this to encourage vendors to sell and update subscriptions through the windows store so they can get their cut. I'm not saying it's good - I liked actually being able to buy software (or permanent licenses). The best model is an inbetween one - I bought a library; I have "permanent" access to it (it will be outdated someday, of course), but I get free updates for the first year. I can keep using it for five, six... however many years are practical, and then buy the new version. However, I don't see anything dastardly in what MS is doing.
No, they're not - it's because businesses lobby for special favors, they buy off politicians and get really complicated tax laws enacted that they can take advantage of. It's not just the businesses - it's a destructive symbiotic relationship between the businesses and special interests and the government. Year after year, the tax laws get more and more complicated - even the laws that affect individuals, as companies lobby to get individuals tax breaks for buying their products, or tax penalties for those who don't.
Yeah.... I just read the summary and it's just the same model a lot of companies are already using for their products, but simplified for Windows developers (I guess if sold through the app store, MS gets a cut). It has NOTHING to do with the OS.
You're wrong, though - you can put an arbitration clause in your contract for civil matters, but not criminal matters. Sexual harassment is a criminal offense.
I have to agree with rickb928 - a lot of people have reached a breaking point with government taxes and rules and regulations. It's not that they don't want to pay anything at all (well, there is that, too), it's that it's gotten to the point where all the rules and tax laws have gotten too burdensome - and not just for companies, but for people. Consider that not only are you paying taxes, but the more complicated the laws get the more you have to pay accountants to figure it all out for you... the "burden" of taxation is higher than some percentage of your income.
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Ahh.... I see what kind of morons I'm talking to. Your reply clarifies it for me.
TFS explains right there, in the summary, that this is the third round of tariffs after Obama's two... but the Trump trolls keep on rolling. No Trump fan, here, but the Trump derangement is sad, especially from supposedly educated slashdotters.
I'm not suggesting they give a dying person a shot and send them home - what kind of morons am I talking to here?
That simply doesn't work.... if the formula is 2x2, how does the teacher know if my kid entered "=2x2" or "4?"
Why? The public education system can't keep people down if they want to learn on their own. Why is that a troll?
I might become a mutant and kill Trump? Seriously... if I'm dying and want to try experimental treatment, I should be able to. Period.
We REGULATE because we care about the harm evil corporations will do to people.
And fuck you if you're on your death bed, you're NOT ALLOWED TO MAKE YOUR OWN DECISION. It's for your own good!
I want to agree, but I don't think so - my kids get documents from the teacher that don't render correctly, and they've made documents that don't render correctly in Word. Perhaps they didn't do formatting the way they should, perhaps the teacher didn't, either - I don't know, but I do know they've had problems.
How is the teacher supposed to use a PDF to see if my daughter entered a formula in Excel correctly?
Ooops.... you forgot to post your idiocy anonymously.
You don't need the public education system - virtually everybody has the ability to surf the internet or use public libraries and, for the record, there's more white people living in poverty in the south that blacks - sorry if the reality doesn't fit your narrative.
I agree - we need better education; but I also agree that not everyone should be able to vote. Why should we let people who don't even understand our constitution decide who gets to lead us? I posted this above: What Americans Don't Know About the Constitution, in a poll (granted an old one) "... Nearly half believed that the Constitution contains Karl Marx's phrase 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.'"
It's not wealth - it's education. It's an incentive to get educated. We're not talking about people living like they do in the favelas of Brazil (although, believe me, they have electric and water and most of them have internet and smartphones), we're talking about first world countries where even the poorest person can go into a library and read a book or look something up on the internet.
And since education is one of the primary factors in earning wealth, it's a plus all around.
Social Media, as it is now, is practically a disincentive for people to be educated, because far too many rely too much on it for information, and take whatever they read there as truth.
That's really interesting! I'll have to look it up.
Facebook, Instagram, and other social media should adopt that system... the first one to do it could bill itself as some sort of elite social media. That would be fantastic.
I agree - huge swaths of both republicans and democrats (or conservatives and liberals, or whatever labels you want to use) would be eliminated from the voting pool.
From What Americans don't know about the constitution:
A public opinion poll conducted during the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution in 1987 found that most Americans were woefully ill-informed about the content and meaning of the document. Only a bare majority knew that the purpose of the Constitution was to create a federal government and define its powers. Nearly half believed that the Constitution contains Karl Marx's phrase "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."
Switch to a replaceable blade straight edge.... I paid $6.99 for a 120 pack of replacement blades.
It would be OK if they just stuck with basics, but you need to choose a spreadsheet program to use, even if you don't want to teach to that specific product; you need to choose a word processing program. Once you know the basics, that knowledge should transfer to just about any other spreadsheet or word processor, but you still have to choose one to use.
The bigger problem is when my kids homework MUST be sent to the teacher in Word format, or Excel format. I'm not sure what a good solution to that is, but the school having licenses and then requiring the kids have licenses is too much. If both Google and MS are tracking you, at least Google is free.
Maybe it's not just about a city getting more in tax dollars - maybe decreasing unemployment, even if many of the workers relocate to the city, you still have ancillary services they need - like restaurants, shopping, entertainment. Yes, it also increases traffic and makes a lot of other things worse - so it depends on what the city wants out of it.
37 unwanted pregnancies - that would be 3700 instances of sex by people using this app. I don't know how popular the app is, but assuming each one had sex more than once, even 99% effectiveness rate is going to fail a handful of times - it just doesn't seem like an unreasonably high number to me. I mean, really, let's say 5k people are using the app - it seems like effectiveness is actually pretty accurate.
I do the math... I don't see MS putting the OS on a subscription model, especially Windows 10 - they'd not only lose millions of customers, they'd be sued up the ass by every single government on the planet for the bait and switch tactic. If they did this for 11, then you'd be free to not upgrade.
But I don't see it happening at all. I think of it like Angry Birds... when it came out, you could buy the full version, or play the ad supported version. Roxio soon discovered that they made more money on the ad supported versions... so their games remain free, but they make more money on ads and DLC. MS gets a cut of every window's store transaction.... they are doing this to encourage vendors to sell and update subscriptions through the windows store so they can get their cut. I'm not saying it's good - I liked actually being able to buy software (or permanent licenses). The best model is an inbetween one - I bought a library; I have "permanent" access to it (it will be outdated someday, of course), but I get free updates for the first year. I can keep using it for five, six... however many years are practical, and then buy the new version. However, I don't see anything dastardly in what MS is doing.
I was addressing the point that 10% can't be considered "only."
No, they're not - it's because businesses lobby for special favors, they buy off politicians and get really complicated tax laws enacted that they can take advantage of. It's not just the businesses - it's a destructive symbiotic relationship between the businesses and special interests and the government. Year after year, the tax laws get more and more complicated - even the laws that affect individuals, as companies lobby to get individuals tax breaks for buying their products, or tax penalties for those who don't.
Yeah.... I just read the summary and it's just the same model a lot of companies are already using for their products, but simplified for Windows developers (I guess if sold through the app store, MS gets a cut). It has NOTHING to do with the OS.
I work in computer graphics.... the impact of a render farm running 10% slower is HUGE.
You're wrong, though - you can put an arbitration clause in your contract for civil matters, but not criminal matters. Sexual harassment is a criminal offense.
I have to agree with rickb928 - a lot of people have reached a breaking point with government taxes and rules and regulations. It's not that they don't want to pay anything at all (well, there is that, too), it's that it's gotten to the point where all the rules and tax laws have gotten too burdensome - and not just for companies, but for people. Consider that not only are you paying taxes, but the more complicated the laws get the more you have to pay accountants to figure it all out for you... the "burden" of taxation is higher than some percentage of your income.