I recall from a few years ago that tails IS marginally heavier on the quarter...I believe that it is also the only coin that such a statement is true of (all the other coins are heads heavy, I believe)...Can someone confirm or deny this with some evidence?
I think his comment said that the 50% came from those who voted in the election. While I'm guessing that your statistic is probably more accurate, I say we give him the chance to reference his source and show us where his evidence comes from.
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For crying out loud...seriously...Hulser is right...you have NOT made any sort of effort to logically support your conclusions other than re-assert them repeatedly...
I should qualify my statement...personally, I'm really proud of our troops...It takes guts to do your job knowing that the United States citizens back home are not going to be supportive of what you are doing.
Agreed...the military is not so bad...the problem is that Bad Leadership creates bad performance from the followers...when Congress and the President and the rest of the Brass can't get their own crap straight, how the heck are we supposed to count on our troops?!?!
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I recall a lawsuit not too long ago that put the kabash on this kind of wording in a contract - the idea that one side can change the contract indiscriminately without any sort of penalty was kinda shot down...gonna have to go find that now......
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I don't like those with such attitudes either, I'm afraid; however, I find them, first of all, to be few and far between in my personal experience (however anecdotal). More importantly, though, I would rather see millions of pirates get away with stealing than see many more millions of people lose the rights granted them by their own governments.
Bad analogy. Unlike the super highway, there's no squeezing on the internet. Packet sizes are constant. The problem is queuing. ISPs are using old, outdated numbers to determine how much bandwidth they can sell from their infrastructure. They've oversold far beyond their capacity. They may have sold based on previous users' bandwidth usage numbers, but now that users actually utilize their bandwidth, their numbers are far off the mark and not useful for today. They've made a contractual promise to provide that bandwidth for consumers and are now trying to get out of it by claiming that "bandwidth hogs" are eating up the bandwidth.
The truth is that the AVERAGE USER is now a "bandwidth hog" to the ISPs. Good luck trying to sell that to Congress - hence the coining of a new term.
Ya...my favorite was the anecdotal comment that a teacher was using SMARTBOARD and it stopped working! God forbid! It must have been that SETI@Home program!!
I could see the possibility of the screen saver coming up in the middle of class, but none of the articles that I've read even mention that possibility or fact, whichever it is), nor do they tie it in to the story, letting us know that SETI@Home was the cause.
YA...just a little sensationalism there...even though it DOES sound like he was rather incompetent at his job.
Seriously man? It's gotta take a ton of arrogance to generalize and state that you have any clue about the attitudes of millions of people that you've never even met. It would be one thing if you said, "My buddy down the street has this attitude thing that makes him disrespect copyright laws by going to TPB, and there's this other dude I know that just shoots people when he gets pissed off", but to say that all of these other people that you know have the same mentality? That's quite a step. Must be an AC thing.
It shouldn't surprise me, but it still does to see someone have such arrogance. Don't get me wrong...I believe that the average person is perfectly capable of watching another person and making competent judgments about their attitudes and personality (heck, how else would we walk down the street and decide to trust those around us? We HAVE to make SOME judgments). Yours, however, have no basis in either observation or science...so unless you can come up with another source, the only other one (in my experience) that I've seen people draw from is belief - either religious or because Daddy always said so.
If some sort of belief is the basis of what you think, then you need to be honest about that to yourself first and then to the rest of us. Otherwise, we can't have any sort of reasonable discussion. The funny part about discussion is that you really can't good discussion unless people have reasoning/logic skills and are honest with one another.
To address your points, I agree 100% that society as a whole shows very little respect for other people. But, most of the time, I think the issue is not with the other person not giving you respect. The issue is with the entitlement attitude that many people have that they DESERVE respect. I'm sorry, but life doesn't work that way. You almost always have to earn respect and loyalty from people. I don't think that's a new thing at all. I think the NEW thing is the entitlement attitude that people have.
Funny thing is that it's these "entitled" people that are demanding that the rest of us give up our rights as citizens because they can't sit on their fat arses and make money off of us. The rest of the business world has to work all day to earn their pay. But, many in the content and recording industries believe that they are entitled to make a certain amount of money at a certain rate. That's fine...if they provide me with the product that I want so that I buy it. Otherwise, my money is going elsewhere...and yes, I will rip my CDs and DVDs to my hard drive to back them up and play them in the manner of my choosing...
If that's an entitled attitude or the "mentality" that you speak of, well...you need to get a grip. You can try and tell me that everything's ok because I don't download from TPB all the time or I don't share all my stuff with the whole world, but it's not really...see...after you come for the guy next to me because he's not paying you enough money for the content he doesn't want, then you're gonna come for me next...
I think he meant to say that, in other countries, the average connection is provided with higher bandwidth and at a lower cost premium...in the US, most people who live in major cities have an edge over the rest of us by quite a bit. You might be able to get your FIOS connection for $35 a month...but I am stuck with DSL or Cable, which both provide a 1-1.5 Mbps connection at almost $40 a month...
Refraining from using anecdotal evidence to make a universal negative will help. You might have a good connection for a decent price, but even if you are out in the boonies somewhere...study after study has shown that the US is VERY behind in bandwidth speed per cost ratio.
Yes, but...SOME of us here in the US are stuck with the single choice or duopoly that is in place. We are the ones who spend $40 a month for a 1.5Mbps cable connection that drops off the face of the planet during any sort of busy time (think evening...so...anytime that I would use it).
It's not always even about speed. Mostly...I just want to be able to use my connection.
Whether or not you believe the scientific community behind intelligent design, it doesn't matter. It's a supposedly non-profit scientific community that supports teaching the questioning of the evolutionary theories. That's a completely different kind of organization than the RIAA - who are out to brainwash the next generation for their own profit (er...profit for their members). For this reason (the questioning of commonly held theory), the Intelligent Design community is a good thing (whether you hold to evolution or not)...I think your beef is with fundamentalists who are quite a bit more extreme. Even then, as the next AC has noticed...it shouldn't matter whether we accept the teaching of some other dogma or not. If our kids are being brainwashed even by truth, it should bother you.
Yep...try asking...it seems too many companies are convinced they ALREADY know what the consumer wants. Or, they fix their own surveys by using a non-random sampling that skews their results and end up shoving products at people that they don't want. Then they complain that people are cheating them because their business model doesn't work.
Companies are ALWAYS faced with the dilemma of finding out what the consumer wants. It's part of what separates the chaff from the wheat so to speak. Good companies figure it out, whether the first time, or in subsequent iterations. Bad companies fail and complain. The responsibility for that falls on the companies shoulders. Suck it up. Do whatever it takes to find out. Stop giving excuses. That's unprofessional bull-crap...
Also, if it floats like a duck...then it must be a witch!!
Seriously, though...legitimate questions have been raised in this case about the honesty, transparency, and apparent conflicts of interest in this case. I'd say that a LOT of explanation is needed.
So...what you mean is that Teva's existence owes nothing whatsoever to copyright as far as we know, but it probably owes its size as the world's largest manufacturer to the established system?
I think, in this case, your conclusions are a bit stretched. While it is true that most people probably are responsible for this happening, I can still see the possibility of others whose information is stolen outside of their control. Banks have been hacked before...whether or not it's common or not, the mere fact that it is possible should at least give your conclusions some pause, right?
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The truth is that the AVERAGE USER is now a "bandwidth hog" to the ISPs. Good luck trying to sell that to Congress - hence the coining of a new term.
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I could see the possibility of the screen saver coming up in the middle of class, but none of the articles that I've read even mention that possibility or fact, whichever it is), nor do they tie it in to the story, letting us know that SETI@Home was the cause.
YA...just a little sensationalism there...even though it DOES sound like he was rather incompetent at his job.
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It shouldn't surprise me, but it still does to see someone have such arrogance. Don't get me wrong...I believe that the average person is perfectly capable of watching another person and making competent judgments about their attitudes and personality (heck, how else would we walk down the street and decide to trust those around us? We HAVE to make SOME judgments). Yours, however, have no basis in either observation or science...so unless you can come up with another source, the only other one (in my experience) that I've seen people draw from is belief - either religious or because Daddy always said so.
If some sort of belief is the basis of what you think, then you need to be honest about that to yourself first and then to the rest of us. Otherwise, we can't have any sort of reasonable discussion. The funny part about discussion is that you really can't good discussion unless people have reasoning/logic skills and are honest with one another.
To address your points, I agree 100% that society as a whole shows very little respect for other people. But, most of the time, I think the issue is not with the other person not giving you respect. The issue is with the entitlement attitude that many people have that they DESERVE respect. I'm sorry, but life doesn't work that way. You almost always have to earn respect and loyalty from people. I don't think that's a new thing at all. I think the NEW thing is the entitlement attitude that people have.
Funny thing is that it's these "entitled" people that are demanding that the rest of us give up our rights as citizens because they can't sit on their fat arses and make money off of us. The rest of the business world has to work all day to earn their pay. But, many in the content and recording industries believe that they are entitled to make a certain amount of money at a certain rate. That's fine...if they provide me with the product that I want so that I buy it. Otherwise, my money is going elsewhere...and yes, I will rip my CDs and DVDs to my hard drive to back them up and play them in the manner of my choosing...
If that's an entitled attitude or the "mentality" that you speak of, well...you need to get a grip. You can try and tell me that everything's ok because I don't download from TPB all the time or I don't share all my stuff with the whole world, but it's not really...see...after you come for the guy next to me because he's not paying you enough money for the content he doesn't want, then you're gonna come for me next...
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Refraining from using anecdotal evidence to make a universal negative will help. You might have a good connection for a decent price, but even if you are out in the boonies somewhere...study after study has shown that the US is VERY behind in bandwidth speed per cost ratio.
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It's not always even about speed. Mostly...I just want to be able to use my connection.
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Companies are ALWAYS faced with the dilemma of finding out what the consumer wants. It's part of what separates the chaff from the wheat so to speak. Good companies figure it out, whether the first time, or in subsequent iterations. Bad companies fail and complain. The responsibility for that falls on the companies shoulders. Suck it up. Do whatever it takes to find out. Stop giving excuses. That's unprofessional bull-crap...
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Seriously, though...legitimate questions have been raised in this case about the honesty, transparency, and apparent conflicts of interest in this case. I'd say that a LOT of explanation is needed.
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