My local newspaper is doing no such thing. Instead they are most certainly in-bed with the politicians. Us taxpayers are most definitely getting screwed, which is why I dropped the local paper years ago.
There appear to be a lot of other glaring errors as well. For example, France is listed as 1170, which begs questions such as "who is the current king of France?", or "was the Declaration of the Fifth Republic of 1789 a figment of the imagination"?
Also China stands out as being problematic at 2234 years old, which would seemingly ignore the governing constitutions passed since 1954 by Mao Zedong and his supporters.
Eventually, the consumers did go through the inconvenience of needing to change their account numbers, get new checks, and new Debit/Credit Cards, but there was a grace period. The consumers did get paid, and were still able to access their money and make purchases. I am not saying that a transition for major banks would be completely without problems, nor am I saying that transitioning for a large bank would would be as easy and fast as the weekend transitions for these smaller banks. But your argument that account holders would be completely without money for more than a few days is unfounded, and would not lead to a greater problem.
Okay, so depressed people sent emails, did internet chat, watched videos online, played games, and ran more file sharing programs. It doesn't sound like they're depressed to me; it sounds like they're just more advanced users who aren't falling in line with the corporate-approved activities and making someone money for clicking on their stupid webpage advertisements. And for that, those people are being labelled "depressed"?
So if I take a picture of the crowd at a nightclub and post it quickly, then it's okay. But if a service has a bunch of video cameras and takes a snapshot and has some software to look at it to judge how many people are there, then it's a privacy violation? I always thought the point of hanging out at bars and nightclubs was to be seen in public.
I thought one of the original promises of cable was to deliver ad-free programming. Finally, after after all these years, someone is holding them up to that.
A generation ago, a relative of mine was told that the Sciences were the way to go. Be a chemist and he'll have a high paying job for life, so that's what he chose for his career path. Decades later, realty proves it turned out to be quite a lie. As usual, the market forces work, and until STEM jobs start making significantly larger sums of money and have more job security, I can't blame this generation for ignoring the management call that we need more dummies to flood the market while they continue to receive higher pay.
I don't understand why anyone compares the internet and social media to addiction. We could just as easily have said that people are addicted to talking on the phone or watching TV. Heck, why not say that people who communicate by any means with other people are somehow addicted and should stop? I challenge the non-internet savvy crowd to stop talking to anyone or else I say that you too must have some sort of illness!
No, desire for interacting with others not addiction. The technophobes are just jealous that there's another popular form of socialization to which they are unaccustomed. Social media is in no way "evil".
These types of products with content lock and DRM should come with some sort of big warning label for consumers that you are not really buying the game. Essentially you're renting the software with an up-front one-time payment under the terms and conditions of the license. For the publishers to claim otherwise seems like false advertising to me.
Big government seems to have an anti-Midas touch; instead of turning to gold, everything it touches turns to crap, and that which it regulates costs way more than it should. I realize that life costs money, but I don't need it costing ME even more as punishment because a judge lets repeat DUI offenders off the hook.
How about this: If you don't have the gumption to put drunk drivers in jail, then go ahead and install a safety device on my car. The only catch is that YOU and YOUR ORGANIZATION have pay for it with your own non-taxpayer funded money. If M.A.D.D. wants it so bad, then I say let them.
Speeding up the PS4 could cause it to jump the gun, much like the Sega Dreamcast couldn't compete against the next-gen of consoles. That's not to say that the Dreamcast was a bad system, or that the PS4 would be a bad system, but the cost would be too high could be quickly surpassed by higher-performance and lower-cost hardware. Speeding up without a good reason to do so could really hurt Sony, as if the early PS3 days didn't hurt Sony's bottom line enough.
Please tell me something, is 12 minus 7 percent of $100k more or less then 12 percent of $0? Is 20% of $50k times three more or less then 25% of 0 times 0? You see, I'm confused because the government is making more by discounting tax revenue by means of tax breaks then they would be making by not having anything to tax at all, so how are they going broke and how would they not go broke without them?
In other words, the Laffer Curve in effect, which reminds everyone that taxes are a penalty, and that you'll recieve more in tax revenue with a low tax rate than a high tax rate attempting to collect taxes on nonexistent businesses.
Solution: Why not raise our import tariff rates to match that of our so-called trading partners?
Because the politicians (and make no mistake, I'm talking both major parties in the U.S.) are bought and paid for by the multinational corporations. They have absolutely no consideration for the trade deficit, or the standard of living for citizens, as long as they can profit from the situation.
Unfortunately, meaningful economic changes will not occur in the U.S. until there is a large shift in the way voters choose elected officials which allows outside independent candidates without connections to lobbyists to succeed at the ballot box.
As mentioned in the article it costs 50% more to make them locally. Personally I don't think that 1st world economies should have to compete against 3rd world labor laws, non existent environmental standards, and be forced to collude with the government to get subsidies and manipulate the currency exchange just to be competitive. So until things change for the better, no we shouldn't encourage more jobs to go overseas by legislating light bulb usage.
I think the Linux and Open Source concepts are very idealized, and are also have a lot of practical value. In the computing world many organizations (M$) that have hid their source information have often used it as a weapon against the general population to further their self interests. I'll continue to demand openness, thank you.
I worked in a call center, and I can definitely believe that 90% of the data is never read again. However, when a customer is calling back (and is angry!), you don't have time on a live call to wait to see what's up with the account. Also there can be some litigious aspects, and a lot of information was recorded for C.Y.A. purposes. Again, you never know which part is needed for C.Y.A. purposes, but that 10% sure is valuable.
So yeah, we needed to store ALL the account information, and we needed fast access to ALL of it ALL the time.
Last week Obama met with Russian President Medvedev and is going to start pushing for an arms control treaty which will need ratification by the U.S. Senate. The timing of the arrests could have been an FBI signal that they don't trust the Russians in an effort to scuttle the treaty.
The department that will handle that will one day become larger than the IRS.
I was of the understanding that the Pakistan has good relations with China, so maybe they could get some firewall installed with a little help. If China can sensor the whole internet to the extent that it does, I have little doubt that that Pakistan could at least attempt to modify it for anti-Islamic comments instead of (or maybe in addition to) political dissent.
So I guess that's the danger of censorship and anti-net neutrality. Once they get the ball rolling, it will probably become more efficient and more common, unfortunately.
I would have liked to have seen all BP assets in the US nationalized until every single American, every single waitress at Denny's who's gonna lose tips because vacationers aren't coming to the Gulf because of the thick crude oozing up on the beaches, is made whole.
We live in a country of laws, not in a communist dictatorship. Our government cannot simply wave a magic wand and begin confiscating property. Instead, there will be due process in a separate court case in which BP will pay for the damage that it caused.
In the case of the drilling moratorium, the government wanted to go one step beyond what you want, which was to shut down businesses BEFORE they had done anything wrong. Fortunately we don't live in a communist dictatorship (yet) and the judge determined that the executive branch cannot simply wave its magic wand and do whatever it wants without any particular reason.
The fake plate display is only good for defeating cameras. When the cop pulls you over, you HAVE to display your real license plate, unless you'd like the cop to believe that you either have falsified plates, or perhaps a stolen vehicle, in addition to your speeding ticket.
Of course, this would force the police to fund actual live police officers, instead of a bunch of cameras that do nothing to prevent serious crimes, and exist purely to stuff money into the coffers of government bureaucracy.
Even better, rather than limiting lawyers to sue for false patent marketing for expired patents or patents which were never filed, we allow lawyers to sue current patents which are obvious or already covered by prior art?
This is why most PvP is a long term failure. Players typically envision themselves as the ones doing the killing when they begin playing. When the reality sinks in that 95% of the playerbase will be on the victim-end of the killing, the playerbase abandons the game. Pre-Trammel UO was fun for the griefers because it was a captive audience; if you didn't prefer a PvP-enabled environment, your alternative was to quit the graphical MMO scene altogether, so griefers had a target-rich environment. The pre-trammel UO days will never be recaptured simply because there is competition. Griefers naturally force non-griefers out of the game environment until there is either noone left, or only griefers remain, both scenarios of which which defeats the purpose of being a griefer.
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My local newspaper is doing no such thing. Instead they are most certainly in-bed with the politicians. Us taxpayers are most definitely getting screwed, which is why I dropped the local paper years ago.
There appear to be a lot of other glaring errors as well. For example, France is listed as 1170, which begs questions such as "who is the current king of France?", or "was the Declaration of the Fifth Republic of 1789 a figment of the imagination"? Also China stands out as being problematic at 2234 years old, which would seemingly ignore the governing constitutions passed since 1954 by Mao Zedong and his supporters.
FDIC took over several smaller failing banks during the crisis. The consumer accounts were simply given to another non-failing bank for servicing.
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/2008/index.html
Eventually, the consumers did go through the inconvenience of needing to change their account numbers, get new checks, and new Debit/Credit Cards, but there was a grace period. The consumers did get paid, and were still able to access their money and make purchases. I am not saying that a transition for major banks would be completely without problems, nor am I saying that transitioning for a large bank would would be as easy and fast as the weekend transitions for these smaller banks. But your argument that account holders would be completely without money for more than a few days is unfounded, and would not lead to a greater problem.
Okay, so depressed people sent emails, did internet chat, watched videos online, played games, and ran more file sharing programs. It doesn't sound like they're depressed to me; it sounds like they're just more advanced users who aren't falling in line with the corporate-approved activities and making someone money for clicking on their stupid webpage advertisements. And for that, those people are being labelled "depressed"?
So if I take a picture of the crowd at a nightclub and post it quickly, then it's okay. But if a service has a bunch of video cameras and takes a snapshot and has some software to look at it to judge how many people are there, then it's a privacy violation? I always thought the point of hanging out at bars and nightclubs was to be seen in public.
I thought one of the original promises of cable was to deliver ad-free programming. Finally, after after all these years, someone is holding them up to that.
A generation ago, a relative of mine was told that the Sciences were the way to go. Be a chemist and he'll have a high paying job for life, so that's what he chose for his career path. Decades later, realty proves it turned out to be quite a lie. As usual, the market forces work, and until STEM jobs start making significantly larger sums of money and have more job security, I can't blame this generation for ignoring the management call that we need more dummies to flood the market while they continue to receive higher pay.
I don't understand why anyone compares the internet and social media to addiction. We could just as easily have said that people are addicted to talking on the phone or watching TV. Heck, why not say that people who communicate by any means with other people are somehow addicted and should stop? I challenge the non-internet savvy crowd to stop talking to anyone or else I say that you too must have some sort of illness!
No, desire for interacting with others not addiction. The technophobes are just jealous that there's another popular form of socialization to which they are unaccustomed. Social media is in no way "evil".
These types of products with content lock and DRM should come with some sort of big warning label for consumers that you are not really buying the game. Essentially you're renting the software with an up-front one-time payment under the terms and conditions of the license. For the publishers to claim otherwise seems like false advertising to me.
Big government seems to have an anti-Midas touch; instead of turning to gold, everything it touches turns to crap, and that which it regulates costs way more than it should. I realize that life costs money, but I don't need it costing ME even more as punishment because a judge lets repeat DUI offenders off the hook.
... *mumbles something about a foolproof society*
How about this: If you don't have the gumption to put drunk drivers in jail, then go ahead and install a safety device on my car. The only catch is that YOU and YOUR ORGANIZATION have pay for it with your own non-taxpayer funded money. If M.A.D.D. wants it so bad, then I say let them.
Speeding up the PS4 could cause it to jump the gun, much like the Sega Dreamcast couldn't compete against the next-gen of consoles. That's not to say that the Dreamcast was a bad system, or that the PS4 would be a bad system, but the cost would be too high could be quickly surpassed by higher-performance and lower-cost hardware. Speeding up without a good reason to do so could really hurt Sony, as if the early PS3 days didn't hurt Sony's bottom line enough.
Please tell me something, is 12 minus 7 percent of $100k more or less then 12 percent of $0? Is 20% of $50k times three more or less then 25% of 0 times 0? You see, I'm confused because the government is making more by discounting tax revenue by means of tax breaks then they would be making by not having anything to tax at all, so how are they going broke and how would they not go broke without them?
In other words, the Laffer Curve in effect, which reminds everyone that taxes are a penalty, and that you'll recieve more in tax revenue with a low tax rate than a high tax rate attempting to collect taxes on nonexistent businesses.
Solution: Why not raise our import tariff rates to match that of our so-called trading partners?
Because the politicians (and make no mistake, I'm talking both major parties in the U.S.) are bought and paid for by the multinational corporations. They have absolutely no consideration for the trade deficit, or the standard of living for citizens, as long as they can profit from the situation.
Unfortunately, meaningful economic changes will not occur in the U.S. until there is a large shift in the way voters choose elected officials which allows outside independent candidates without connections to lobbyists to succeed at the ballot box.
As mentioned in the article it costs 50% more to make them locally. Personally I don't think that 1st world economies should have to compete against 3rd world labor laws, non existent environmental standards, and be forced to collude with the government to get subsidies and manipulate the currency exchange just to be competitive. So until things change for the better, no we shouldn't encourage more jobs to go overseas by legislating light bulb usage.
I think the Linux and Open Source concepts are very idealized, and are also have a lot of practical value. In the computing world many organizations (M$) that have hid their source information have often used it as a weapon against the general population to further their self interests. I'll continue to demand openness, thank you.
I worked in a call center, and I can definitely believe that 90% of the data is never read again. However, when a customer is calling back (and is angry!), you don't have time on a live call to wait to see what's up with the account. Also there can be some litigious aspects, and a lot of information was recorded for C.Y.A. purposes. Again, you never know which part is needed for C.Y.A. purposes, but that 10% sure is valuable.
So yeah, we needed to store ALL the account information, and we needed fast access to ALL of it ALL the time.
Hey, c'mon they listed her linkedin profile. It's almost not fair when they make it that easy.
Last week Obama met with Russian President Medvedev and is going to start pushing for an arms control treaty which will need ratification by the U.S. Senate. The timing of the arrests could have been an FBI signal that they don't trust the Russians in an effort to scuttle the treaty.
The department that will handle that will one day become larger than the IRS.
I was of the understanding that the Pakistan has good relations with China, so maybe they could get some firewall installed with a little help. If China can sensor the whole internet to the extent that it does, I have little doubt that that Pakistan could at least attempt to modify it for anti-Islamic comments instead of (or maybe in addition to) political dissent.
So I guess that's the danger of censorship and anti-net neutrality. Once they get the ball rolling, it will probably become more efficient and more common, unfortunately.
I would have liked to have seen all BP assets in the US nationalized until every single American, every single waitress at Denny's who's gonna lose tips because vacationers aren't coming to the Gulf because of the thick crude oozing up on the beaches, is made whole.
We live in a country of laws, not in a communist dictatorship. Our government cannot simply wave a magic wand and begin confiscating property. Instead, there will be due process in a separate court case in which BP will pay for the damage that it caused.
In the case of the drilling moratorium, the government wanted to go one step beyond what you want, which was to shut down businesses BEFORE they had done anything wrong. Fortunately we don't live in a communist dictatorship (yet) and the judge determined that the executive branch cannot simply wave its magic wand and do whatever it wants without any particular reason.
The fake plate display is only good for defeating cameras. When the cop pulls you over, you HAVE to display your real license plate, unless you'd like the cop to believe that you either have falsified plates, or perhaps a stolen vehicle, in addition to your speeding ticket.
Of course, this would force the police to fund actual live police officers, instead of a bunch of cameras that do nothing to prevent serious crimes, and exist purely to stuff money into the coffers of government bureaucracy.
Taking something without paying is stealing.
Wrong. Back to remedial definition school for you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4
Perhaps "copyright takedown notice" was meant?
Even better, rather than limiting lawyers to sue for false patent marketing for expired patents or patents which were never filed, we allow lawyers to sue current patents which are obvious or already covered by prior art?
This is why most PvP is a long term failure. Players typically envision themselves as the ones doing the killing when they begin playing. When the reality sinks in that 95% of the playerbase will be on the victim-end of the killing, the playerbase abandons the game. Pre-Trammel UO was fun for the griefers because it was a captive audience; if you didn't prefer a PvP-enabled environment, your alternative was to quit the graphical MMO scene altogether, so griefers had a target-rich environment. The pre-trammel UO days will never be recaptured simply because there is competition. Griefers naturally force non-griefers out of the game environment until there is either noone left, or only griefers remain, both scenarios of which which defeats the purpose of being a griefer.