Lost in your pseudo-analysis is the manner in which airlines meet the price point demands: charging fee upon fee for extras or slight increases in comfort are how they make ridiculous profits for a select few.
Pilots and crew do not make incredible dollars. Flight line sure doesn't. ATC, nope. Gate staff, nope. Yet, subsidy dollars keep flowing their way. Where's the money going?
It sure isn't going into a positive flight experience. Seats are cramped, service is diminished, and we're saddled with security theater that forces flyers to buy overpriced water at Hudson News. There's a racket going on for sure, but it's not driven by customer demand for poor treatment.
Nothing happened to the pharmas involved. Going after the doctors would be consistent if and only if the pharmas were punished, which they were not. In fact, I'd prefer to see the doctors used to prosecute the pharmas; I'd offer them full immunity if it helped punish the machines promulgating this fraud in the first place.
I think it's either misunderstanding or an act of disingenuous misunderstanding, but no one should be confused about Google's "openess" with Android. Google makes it free to use/ simple to license, but it doesn't mean the OS remains unencumbered once implemented on hardware. People are either intentionally confusing this to dirty up Google, or don't understand how to read. There's no third choice in 2011 since Android has been around three years now.
People are also forgetting that Verizon is an ILEC, and the most successful and vicious child of the AT&T breakup by far. Not too surprising since it was formed out of AT&T's old research region (NY/NJ); this is the company that rolled out CallerID, then anonymous calling,, *then* de-anonymizing CallerID. They created an arms race in their own ecosystem! This is the same company that gladly leases phones to its ratepayers. Who really thinks Verizon and VZW aren't in this *solely* for the money? People, they forgot more about nickel-and-diming than you will ever know.
Hey, when they give back the Spanish-American war tax money, we'll talk again.
What's more humane, saving your neighbors or saving anonymous Libyans? Which group is more likely to help you in time of need?
Let's put this in perspective. Saudis have more disposable income than you. What are *they* doing for *their* neighbors?
I'd rather have the US assassinating Mexican drug lords than Libyans. College kids will come out in droves at the polls for you, and maybe staying home will be a viable option for more than a few illegal immigrants.
I understand it, but it still rubs me the wrong way. The cop was clearly being baited; no one goes out armed, in public, and also happens to be recording the events unless that person expects trouble. Again, I understand, but provocation still doesn't make it feel any less shitty.
... is it time yet to lay some blame on the Obama administration for this, or are they still being held above this sort of thing, i.e "It's part of the established culture"?
When can we expect this to stop, reasonably, with Super Obama in office? Conversely, when do we stop making excuses for him?
Assuming the Swedes have a rational evidentiary system, nothing on the hard drives is admissible. The HDD owners have a good case for larceny, though. Props to the hijackers, though, it's bold.
Piracy is the only effective weapon available to corporate disobedience. That, and corporate short-term thinking that will, in the long run, destroy themselves by destroying the middle class.
I love the numbers on that. The Dust Brothers have never been able to create something as richly-textured as that since 1989, largely because sampling had been demonized. The analysis just makes it concrete. Once again, another reason to do harm to the music industry.
No one likes to be embarrassed. Given a choice between public humiliation or status quo, it would take a great deal of integrity to choose humiliation. Character and integrity are not really prevalent.
Why was "Vice" performing an assault raid? Did they think the owners were going to flush the mixtapes down the toilet? What happened to knocking, walking in, executing a search warrant, then leaving?
Seriously, if they need practice kicking down doors, Newark NJ could certainly use the help.
You hire me to ink Batman in a sailor outfit on your bicep. At SXSW someone sees it and a month later, wander into my shop and says "Ink me some Sailor Batman". I do so.
You hire me to write a sorting routine. I take mergesort and tailor it, and it works. I roll off contract and get hired at another place writing a sort routine. I take mergesort and tailor it, and it works.
What's the difference here? Is there any? Should there be?
Cattle price?
Lost in your pseudo-analysis is the manner in which airlines meet the price point demands: charging fee upon fee for extras or slight increases in comfort are how they make ridiculous profits for a select few.
Pilots and crew do not make incredible dollars. Flight line sure doesn't. ATC, nope. Gate staff, nope. Yet, subsidy dollars keep flowing their way. Where's the money going?
It sure isn't going into a positive flight experience. Seats are cramped, service is diminished, and we're saddled with security theater that forces flyers to buy overpriced water at Hudson News. There's a racket going on for sure, but it's not driven by customer demand for poor treatment.
-C
Piracy is good.
It's the "fourth box" in this whole scenario. And no one gets shot.
Fourth box.
Why not? They use gunpoint to trample due process and transparent government...
FDA redaction of its denial in 1974?
I would think that's the lead story here. Can't the people bring suit against the FDA for violating FOIA by so much redaction?
-C
I propose a new tag for these kinds of articles.
Any article dealing with the government overriding or circumventing the spirit of the Constitution, shall be hereafter tagged "fourth box".
-C
Disagree.
Nothing happened to the pharmas involved. Going after the doctors would be consistent if and only if the pharmas were punished, which they were not. In fact, I'd prefer to see the doctors used to prosecute the pharmas; I'd offer them full immunity if it helped punish the machines promulgating this fraud in the first place.
-C
Umm, what?
The Czech beer came after the AB beer; Budweiser is a made-up name.
Misunderstood
I think it's either misunderstanding or an act of disingenuous misunderstanding, but no one should be confused about Google's "openess" with Android. Google makes it free to use/ simple to license, but it doesn't mean the OS remains unencumbered once implemented on hardware. People are either intentionally confusing this to dirty up Google, or don't understand how to read. There's no third choice in 2011 since Android has been around three years now.
People are also forgetting that Verizon is an ILEC, and the most successful and vicious child of the AT&T breakup by far. Not too surprising since it was formed out of AT&T's old research region (NY/NJ); this is the company that rolled out CallerID, then anonymous calling,, *then* de-anonymizing CallerID. They created an arms race in their own ecosystem! This is the same company that gladly leases phones to its ratepayers. Who really thinks Verizon and VZW aren't in this *solely* for the money? People, they forgot more about nickel-and-diming than you will ever know.
Hey, when they give back the Spanish-American war tax money, we'll talk again.
-C
Re: Seriously...
What's more humane, saving your neighbors or saving anonymous Libyans? Which group is more likely to help you in time of need?
Let's put this in perspective. Saudis have more disposable income than you. What are *they* doing for *their* neighbors?
I'd rather have the US assassinating Mexican drug lords than Libyans. College kids will come out in droves at the polls for you, and maybe staying home will be a viable option for more than a few illegal immigrants.
-C
Lots of ire against police officers.
I understand it, but it still rubs me the wrong way. The cop was clearly being baited; no one goes out armed, in public, and also happens to be recording the events unless that person expects trouble. Again, I understand, but provocation still doesn't make it feel any less shitty.
-C
On the other hand....
... I kinda like trade barriers.
So...
... is it time yet to lay some blame on the Obama administration for this, or are they still being held above this sort of thing, i.e "It's part of the established culture"?
When can we expect this to stop, reasonably, with Super Obama in office? Conversely, when do we stop making excuses for him?
-C
Get out of jail free.
Assuming the Swedes have a rational evidentiary system, nothing on the hard drives is admissible. The HDD owners have a good case for larceny, though. Props to the hijackers, though, it's bold.
-C
What do you think piracy is?
Piracy is the only effective weapon available to corporate disobedience. That, and corporate short-term thinking that will, in the long run, destroy themselves by destroying the middle class.
-C
Paul's Boutique Analysis
I love the numbers on that. The Dust Brothers have never been able to create something as richly-textured as that since 1989, largely because sampling had been demonized. The analysis just makes it concrete. Once again, another reason to do harm to the music industry.
-C
It's not really this complicated.
No one likes to be embarrassed. Given a choice between public humiliation or status quo, it would take a great deal of integrity to choose humiliation. Character and integrity are not really prevalent.
-C
Ironic song lyric of the day
"We hate what we don't understand,
River Bottom Nightmare Band!"
Interesting deployment of police.
Why was "Vice" performing an assault raid? Did they think the owners were going to flush the mixtapes down the toilet? What happened to knocking, walking in, executing a search warrant, then leaving?
Seriously, if they need practice kicking down doors, Newark NJ could certainly use the help.
-C
Ummm, no.
You hire me to ink Batman in a sailor outfit on your bicep. At SXSW someone sees it and a month later, wander into my shop and says "Ink me some Sailor Batman". I do so.
You hire me to write a sorting routine. I take mergesort and tailor it, and it works. I roll off contract and get hired at another place writing a sort routine. I take mergesort and tailor it, and it works.
What's the difference here? Is there any? Should there be?
-C
Outrage = corporate disobedience
And as a result: break the laws, and keep finding ways to infringe, until this gets ratcheted down. Bad laws, even watered down, are still bad.
-C