I think John Steele may be auditioning for a job as the next Fox News legal analyst.
I'm serious. They've already got Mark Fuhrman as a law enforcement analyst. Clearly there is no level of professional humiliation that disqualifies someone from being a personality on right-wing media.
This is the same government that pimps for an industry that's selling death to it's own citizens, the gun manufactures.
I'm really afraid my country has a dead-ender, apocolyptic mentality, and the head rats are going to make sure they fill their pockets before the end.
The fact that while everyone was watching coverage of the drama in Boston last few weeks, Congress decided to repeal the law that makes it illegal for lawmakers to engage in insider trading on the bills that are about to be passed is a good example of our elite trying to "get while the getting's good". At the same time that Fed policy is goosing the stock market so those trades are more lucrative.
Kevin, there are no "improvements and efficiencies" to outright greed. The kind of greed that makes one act insane. The only "improvement and efficiency" is a stronger leash.
Improvement and efficiency cannot emerge until certain parties (Viacom, etal) stop running around with a baseball bat breaking up the furniture. They've been treated like a spoilt child long enough.
I'm pretty sure that Exxon does in fact hate your children, so isn't truth something of a defense?
Despite their recent public service ads for Common Core Curriculum, a very compelling case can be made that Exxon hates children and other living things.
In their defense however, it's completely clear that Exxon absolutely loves, covets and adores profits, though maybe a little more than is healthy. At least for the rest of us (and our children).
If you create something excellent, and price it right, people will give you money.
I tried it some years ago with a musical project. And no, I didn't sell anything but the music. No t-shirt, no concert, no video or special experience. Just the music, delivered digitally (or as vinyl or casette). The project took me a month to complete and it paid off in a year's income.
It succeeded beyond my expectations, even though the music itself in a somewhat lower bitrate was available for free online.
I believe too much of the fear of "piracy" comes from a entitlement mentality on the part of certain artists. Embrace, rather than reject, the understanding that the world does not owe you a living for your art just because you believe you are awesome. And if you do make something that people like and want to pay you for, stop believing that it's some sort of annuity that will continue to pay you into your old age. Artists have to work for a living too.
I don't understand why the author was surprised that the Mauz device, which turns your iPhone into a mouse didn't catch on.
It sounds like a terrible idea. The mouse is supposed to be an always on, always available device. Something that sits there waiting for input. Nobody wants to have to turn the Mauz on every time they want to use the computer, and if it was always on, the battery life would be terrible.
Plus, what if you get a phone call? Now you have to decide whether you want your phone to be a phone or a mouse. How often do you need to access something on the computer while you're on the phone? If you're like most people, I would say that's pretty common.
Further, people want a mouse to be inexpensive. Using something that costs hundreds of dollars as a pointer is as pointless as using the iPhone as a coaster for your can of pop.
This is part of the new belief in the corporate world that society owes them profits, no matter how weak their business model or how poorly they are managed.
They are so used to our laws being tilted in their favor that they have come to believe that society must indemnify them against any risk (though of course, they believe that any success came purely by their own cleverness and "hard work").
We need to get used to this new corporate entitlement mentality, because we're going to see it taken to even more ridiculous levels.
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Inevitable
I'm serious. They've already got Mark Fuhrman as a law enforcement analyst. Clearly there is no level of professional humiliation that disqualifies someone from being a personality on right-wing media.
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Color alerts were phased out in April of 2011.
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killing is good business
I'm really afraid my country has a dead-ender, apocolyptic mentality, and the head rats are going to make sure they fill their pockets before the end.
The fact that while everyone was watching coverage of the drama in Boston last few weeks, Congress decided to repeal the law that makes it illegal for lawmakers to engage in insider trading on the bills that are about to be passed is a good example of our elite trying to "get while the getting's good". At the same time that Fed policy is goosing the stock market so those trades are more lucrative.
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Improvement and efficiency cannot emerge until certain parties (Viacom, etal) stop running around with a baseball bat breaking up the furniture. They've been treated like a spoilt child long enough.
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Now hold on...
Despite their recent public service ads for Common Core Curriculum, a very compelling case can be made that Exxon hates children and other living things.
In their defense however, it's completely clear that Exxon absolutely loves, covets and adores profits, though maybe a little more than is healthy. At least for the rest of us (and our children).
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wrong question
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If the work is good...
I tried it some years ago with a musical project. And no, I didn't sell anything but the music. No t-shirt, no concert, no video or special experience. Just the music, delivered digitally (or as vinyl or casette). The project took me a month to complete and it paid off in a year's income.
It succeeded beyond my expectations, even though the music itself in a somewhat lower bitrate was available for free online.
I believe too much of the fear of "piracy" comes from a entitlement mentality on the part of certain artists. Embrace, rather than reject, the understanding that the world does not owe you a living for your art just because you believe you are awesome. And if you do make something that people like and want to pay you for, stop believing that it's some sort of annuity that will continue to pay you into your old age. Artists have to work for a living too.
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The myIDkey is a really good idea.
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lessons unlearned
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one of these things is not like the other...
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not surprising that Mauz failed
It sounds like a terrible idea. The mouse is supposed to be an always on, always available device. Something that sits there waiting for input. Nobody wants to have to turn the Mauz on every time they want to use the computer, and if it was always on, the battery life would be terrible.
Plus, what if you get a phone call? Now you have to decide whether you want your phone to be a phone or a mouse. How often do you need to access something on the computer while you're on the phone? If you're like most people, I would say that's pretty common.
Further, people want a mouse to be inexpensive. Using something that costs hundreds of dollars as a pointer is as pointless as using the iPhone as a coaster for your can of pop.
The other devices look promising, however.
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He's also very disappointed in his heirs.
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That comes to 9 downloads of an old Metallica album, 3 downloads of Skyfall, and 1 Harry Potter ebook.
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Another Jerry Falwell Liberty University law school grad, I assume. They have special colloquia in trolling, I hear.
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Now you're starting to get the picture of what Disney is about.
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oblige
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entitlement mentality
They are so used to our laws being tilted in their favor that they have come to believe that society must indemnify them against any risk (though of course, they believe that any success came purely by their own cleverness and "hard work").
We need to get used to this new corporate entitlement mentality, because we're going to see it taken to even more ridiculous levels.
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Re: bigger
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enough
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