"You can get ESPN's exclusive programming from us, and the other guys don't have it." I would guess that more people would switch to the ISP just for the exclusive stuff than would switch to a different ISP to avoid paying an extra $1 per month for it, especially when the other ISP raised their rates by the same amount anyway.
The drinking age thing is not to prevent people under 21 from drinking. Mostly, to be honest, it's about people in their 30s wanting to be CERTAIN the girl they're hitting on is really 20 something, and not some 18 year old.
Yeah, that makes no sense at all. If you're in your 30's, do you really care if the girl you're hitting on is 18 instead of 21? If you could get into a bar at 16, but statutory rape were still based on age 18, I guess I could see your point, but as it is now, your argument simply isn't logical.
I'm not sure how well I'd be able to back in to a parking space (assuming that's what "reverse bay-park" means), since I haven't done it in years, but not being able to back out of a parking space? Shouldn't she have to do that about as often as going in to a parking space? How do you learn to get in to a parking space without learning how to get out?
Yeah, and that's why every Linux distro completely ignores things such as... RDP
Assuming you mean Remote Desktop Protocol, my Kubuntu system has krdc installed by default, which handles RDP quite well (and I would say is a better program than the regular Windows client), and there's an RDP server available, though not installed by default.
I wonder if comments like these are a symptom of humanity heading towards an Idiocracy-like future or if it's just a matter of more idiots finding the internet.
I wonder if comments like these are a symptom of humanity heading towards a humorless future of it's just a matter of more people with sticks up their asses finding the Internet.
The part that I thought might possibly be innovative (yeah, like I read more than the summary) would be if it did some complex image manipulations. Maybe it isn't just about rating the person's photo, but being able to alter their clothing, hair style, or makeup and then rating each change. If something like that is done well, I could see how it might qualify for a patent.
It's quite simple. It's a way for lots of people to have their own mailing lists, except it uses SMS messages instead of normal SMTP email. Other than that, and the obvious character limit that's part of SMS, it does absolutely nothing that mailing lists don't do.
I don't know if I agree. Twitter is kind of odd, its not like facebook or e-mail. It is as personal as a text message, yet as easily to ignore as a blog.
That doesn't make much sense. How is a text message more personal than email? They're both just plain text that can be addressed to as few as one or as many as millions of people. You could probably argue that email is more personal, because it allows the communication of much more information, thought, feeling, opinion, etc.
maybe allow longer posts at 5c an additional character
Unless they split the message or somehow convince the telecommunication companies to overhaul the SMS system, that isn't really possible.
In Massachusetts, the drivers would trap and skin the smaller vehicles, then wear the headlights on a necklace as we commute down the Pike each morning.
They'd be better off wearing the turn signal lights on a necklace. At least it would be a step towards people around here acknowledging that turn signals exist.
Not to mention try living in the south without a pickup truck. Yes, everyone makes fun of us for our pickup trucks, but you know what? We got stuff to haul people! Just this week i hauled two couches, three chairs, two loads of trash, and a load of PC components. I doubt I have gone more than a week without needing to haul something, and then you have to figure in the trips it saves my family members when they can call me to haul their groceries for them instead of having to make several trips in a week in their little beep beep cars.
That's fine for you, having a truck that you use frequently, and it's great that you let others use it when necessary. The fact that you have a truck that they can use, though, allows your family members to own smaller, more efficient cars. The problem isn't people that own trucks because they're hauling a ton of stuff every day, but the people that own SUV's just to drive on 10 miles of highway every day. I've seen a couple Hummers around here in suburban Boston, even though there's no such thing as "off road" anywhere within 30 miles.
That's exactly the problem. It looks like cheating if there's only N logical ways to write something and N+1 students in the class.
One of my more entertaining memories from my college classes was in the intro ECE class that CS majors had to take, where part of the class was learning Motorola assembly (I think we used 68HC11 processors). The professor would frequently give the class a short problem to do during class, then have a couple students put their solutions on the chalkboard next to his. I was one of the ones that wrote mine up on the board, and my solution was exactly the same as the professor's, right down to the variable names (or maybe it was registers or labels, I can't quite remember which). Of course this was only about ten lines of assembly, so there were very few correct/best ways to solve the problem, but the first thing the professor said when we went over our solutions was that no, he and I didn't discuss the problem ahead of time. The odds of this happening are quite a bit lower when you get into normal-length homework assignments in a higher level language, but whenever you have more students than possible solutions, you're guaranteed to have at least one duplicate.
After all you don't think its We The People who elect our President or amend our Constitution? It's Congress.
You could certainly argue about how little choice voters have in who they get to elect as president, though I don't quite see how Congress is the group in control of it, but it's pretty hard to make the same argument for amending the Constitution. Amendments have to be passed by 3/4 of the states. While an amendment can be proposed by 2/3 of Congress, it can also be proposed by 2/3 of the states. In theory, an amendment could be ratified without a single Congressman supporting it.
Don't be silly. Natural rights are ones that essentially describe the default state if no one, government or other individuals, were to interfere with you.
Not interacting with any other human beings doesn't seem like a very natural state to me.
Exactly. Free speech is an inherent right. The First Amendment does not grant it, but forbids Congress to restrict it.
That depends a lot on your definition of inherent. The authors of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights believed that all people (with varying definitions of "people") should have certain rights that the government could not take away. Either these rules apply only to the government, and any other person can take away your rights, or the government must enforce rules to prevent others from taking away your rights. If it's the latter, then those rights don't really exist without government. If it's the former, the only inherent rights you have are those that you can prevent others from taking away from you, either by fighting off aggressors or evading them.
On the back of the envelope it says something like "tampering with or changing the contents of this envelope may subject you to legal action." Oh yeah, I am so going to get a credit card from people who start off threatening to sue me (and for what?).
I doubt that statement is directed at you (the intended recipient), but at other people handling the envelope. Of course, interfering with postal delivery is already a federal crime, and I would guess that everybody knows that, so at the very least, the warning is pretty redundant.
And this would be a bad thing why? At least 75% of cable programming is nothing but syndicated reruns and budget reality shows anyways. Cutting out some of the fat in the Cable lineup could consolidate viewership to fewer channels, and put more revenue in the hands of networks that could really distinguish themselves with quality programming, which in turn would go towards funding programming that doesn't have to be based on the "lowest cost reality show to fill airtime" structure.
And you know what would be considered fat? The channels that don't have shows with huge numbers of viewers. The reality shows are, unfortunately, what are bringing in the advertising dollars. Discovery might survive (though it seems like the quality there is degrading to too many man-killed-by-nature shows anyway), but any channel that dealt exclusively in intelligent programming most likely wouldn't get enough viewers. Remember that what you consider quality programming is not what most people want to see.
And Disney's executives probably have more direct control over Pixar than they do over ESPN. I'm certainly not an apologist for Disney, but it is a bit disingenuous to blame Disney for something that may have been done by people within ESPN.
I don't even understand the argument for charging the ISPs.
Buying in bulk. ESPN gets a guaranteed X million dollars, no matter how many customers use the service. Maybe they would get 2X million if they sold individually, or maybe they'd only get X/10 million. They're exchanging potentially higher, but also potentially lower, income for guaranteed income.
Did they completely prohibit it? When I worked for a small amusement park through high school and college, the policy was that employees weren't allowed to grow a beard or mustache, but you were fine if you already had one. Presumably this is because most people look pretty ridiculous during the growing stage.
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"You can get ESPN's exclusive programming from us, and the other guys don't have it." I would guess that more people would switch to the ISP just for the exclusive stuff than would switch to a different ISP to avoid paying an extra $1 per month for it, especially when the other ISP raised their rates by the same amount anyway.
The drinking age thing is not to prevent people under 21 from drinking. Mostly, to be honest, it's about people in their 30s wanting to be CERTAIN the girl they're hitting on is really 20 something, and not some 18 year old.
Yeah, that makes no sense at all. If you're in your 30's, do you really care if the girl you're hitting on is 18 instead of 21? If you could get into a bar at 16, but statutory rape were still based on age 18, I guess I could see your point, but as it is now, your argument simply isn't logical.
I'm not sure how well I'd be able to back in to a parking space (assuming that's what "reverse bay-park" means), since I haven't done it in years, but not being able to back out of a parking space? Shouldn't she have to do that about as often as going in to a parking space? How do you learn to get in to a parking space without learning how to get out?
Yeah, and that's why every Linux distro completely ignores things such as... RDP
Assuming you mean Remote Desktop Protocol, my Kubuntu system has krdc installed by default, which handles RDP quite well (and I would say is a better program than the regular Windows client), and there's an RDP server available, though not installed by default.
"Doing some marketing" != "focused on marketing"
I wonder if comments like these are a symptom of humanity heading towards an Idiocracy-like future or if it's just a matter of more idiots finding the internet.
I wonder if comments like these are a symptom of humanity heading towards a humorless future of it's just a matter of more people with sticks up their asses finding the Internet.
The part that I thought might possibly be innovative (yeah, like I read more than the summary) would be if it did some complex image manipulations. Maybe it isn't just about rating the person's photo, but being able to alter their clothing, hair style, or makeup and then rating each change. If something like that is done well, I could see how it might qualify for a patent.
No, no, no. If you are shipping bugs the problem is that the bugs are introduced in the first place.
Can I come live in your fantasy world where programmers write perfect code every time?
It's quite simple. It's a way for lots of people to have their own mailing lists, except it uses SMS messages instead of normal SMTP email. Other than that, and the obvious character limit that's part of SMS, it does absolutely nothing that mailing lists don't do.
It isn't about whether blogs/mailing lists/email/etc are better communication tools.
Then what is it about? Specifically, what can Twitter do that regular mass email can't?
I don't know if I agree. Twitter is kind of odd, its not like facebook or e-mail. It is as personal as a text message, yet as easily to ignore as a blog.
That doesn't make much sense. How is a text message more personal than email? They're both just plain text that can be addressed to as few as one or as many as millions of people. You could probably argue that email is more personal, because it allows the communication of much more information, thought, feeling, opinion, etc.
maybe allow longer posts at 5c an additional character
Unless they split the message or somehow convince the telecommunication companies to overhaul the SMS system, that isn't really possible.
oh please, oh please let them start charging..that'll end that stupid shit once and for all and I won't have to read
@somefuckingretard #mymomfucksgoats #yourmomshouldtoo
I've never used Twitter, and I've never had to read anything like that. I think perhaps you're doing something wrong.
In Massachusetts, the drivers would trap and skin the smaller vehicles, then wear the headlights on a necklace as we commute down the Pike each morning.
They'd be better off wearing the turn signal lights on a necklace. At least it would be a step towards people around here acknowledging that turn signals exist.
Not to mention try living in the south without a pickup truck. Yes, everyone makes fun of us for our pickup trucks, but you know what? We got stuff to haul people! Just this week i hauled two couches, three chairs, two loads of trash, and a load of PC components. I doubt I have gone more than a week without needing to haul something, and then you have to figure in the trips it saves my family members when they can call me to haul their groceries for them instead of having to make several trips in a week in their little beep beep cars.
That's fine for you, having a truck that you use frequently, and it's great that you let others use it when necessary. The fact that you have a truck that they can use, though, allows your family members to own smaller, more efficient cars. The problem isn't people that own trucks because they're hauling a ton of stuff every day, but the people that own SUV's just to drive on 10 miles of highway every day. I've seen a couple Hummers around here in suburban Boston, even though there's no such thing as "off road" anywhere within 30 miles.
That's exactly the problem. It looks like cheating if there's only N logical ways to write something and N+1 students in the class.
One of my more entertaining memories from my college classes was in the intro ECE class that CS majors had to take, where part of the class was learning Motorola assembly (I think we used 68HC11 processors). The professor would frequently give the class a short problem to do during class, then have a couple students put their solutions on the chalkboard next to his. I was one of the ones that wrote mine up on the board, and my solution was exactly the same as the professor's, right down to the variable names (or maybe it was registers or labels, I can't quite remember which). Of course this was only about ten lines of assembly, so there were very few correct/best ways to solve the problem, but the first thing the professor said when we went over our solutions was that no, he and I didn't discuss the problem ahead of time. The odds of this happening are quite a bit lower when you get into normal-length homework assignments in a higher level language, but whenever you have more students than possible solutions, you're guaranteed to have at least one duplicate.
After all you don't think its We The People who elect our President or amend our Constitution? It's Congress.
You could certainly argue about how little choice voters have in who they get to elect as president, though I don't quite see how Congress is the group in control of it, but it's pretty hard to make the same argument for amending the Constitution. Amendments have to be passed by 3/4 of the states. While an amendment can be proposed by 2/3 of Congress, it can also be proposed by 2/3 of the states. In theory, an amendment could be ratified without a single Congressman supporting it.
Don't be silly. Natural rights are ones that essentially describe the default state if no one, government or other individuals, were to interfere with you.
Not interacting with any other human beings doesn't seem like a very natural state to me.
Exactly. Free speech is an inherent right. The First Amendment does not grant it, but forbids Congress to restrict it.
That depends a lot on your definition of inherent. The authors of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights believed that all people (with varying definitions of "people") should have certain rights that the government could not take away. Either these rules apply only to the government, and any other person can take away your rights, or the government must enforce rules to prevent others from taking away your rights. If it's the latter, then those rights don't really exist without government. If it's the former, the only inherent rights you have are those that you can prevent others from taking away from you, either by fighting off aggressors or evading them.
On the back of the envelope it says something like "tampering with or changing the contents of this envelope may subject you to legal action." Oh yeah, I am so going to get a credit card from people who start off threatening to sue me (and for what?).
I doubt that statement is directed at you (the intended recipient), but at other people handling the envelope. Of course, interfering with postal delivery is already a federal crime, and I would guess that everybody knows that, so at the very least, the warning is pretty redundant.
And this would be a bad thing why? At least 75% of cable programming is nothing but syndicated reruns and budget reality shows anyways. Cutting out some of the fat in the Cable lineup could consolidate viewership to fewer channels, and put more revenue in the hands of networks that could really distinguish themselves with quality programming, which in turn would go towards funding programming that doesn't have to be based on the "lowest cost reality show to fill airtime" structure.
And you know what would be considered fat? The channels that don't have shows with huge numbers of viewers. The reality shows are, unfortunately, what are bringing in the advertising dollars. Discovery might survive (though it seems like the quality there is degrading to too many man-killed-by-nature shows anyway), but any channel that dealt exclusively in intelligent programming most likely wouldn't get enough viewers. Remember that what you consider quality programming is not what most people want to see.
Disney owns Pixar.
And Disney's executives probably have more direct control over Pixar than they do over ESPN. I'm certainly not an apologist for Disney, but it is a bit disingenuous to blame Disney for something that may have been done by people within ESPN.
I don't even understand the argument for charging the ISPs.
Buying in bulk. ESPN gets a guaranteed X million dollars, no matter how many customers use the service. Maybe they would get 2X million if they sold individually, or maybe they'd only get X/10 million. They're exchanging potentially higher, but also potentially lower, income for guaranteed income.
Did they completely prohibit it? When I worked for a small amusement park through high school and college, the policy was that employees weren't allowed to grow a beard or mustache, but you were fine if you already had one. Presumably this is because most people look pretty ridiculous during the growing stage.
Queue the jokes... About self-gratification. This is /. after all. ;)
Why, do you think there will be enough of them that we need to form a orderly line for them?
You need to check up on the DiskWorld series about million to one chances.
Is it anything like the Discworld series?
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