Like every city that's implemented red light cameras, they get greedy and you'll have places where they turn the yellow light duration from the safe 3+ secs to 1-2 secs and it's a proven fact that collisions increase (including death rate) when you break the 3+ sec rule for yellow light duration.
If red light cameras truly increased safety (meaning they reduced the number of red light runners, which in turn reduces the number of intersection collisions) I'd be all for it, but the track record for these things has not been good, and it's been too tempting for cities not to abuse and directly cause people to have accidents.
You need to look at the bigger picture here, the rights of the people. If all you ever do is look at how something can be abused, then you move towards living in a world where cops have infinite power.
I'd rather live in a world of freedom with some abuse by criminals than live in a crime free world where cops are free to abuse the people.
And don't think for one minute that cops don't abuse their power all the time. If cops had a kill switch on every car, they'd use it all the time, nonstop, despite what their rules or regulations say. Just look at all the innocent shootings cops have done, overuse of pepper spray. While these incidents are the exception, let's not forget America is for the people, not law enforcement.
which is to serve the people, not invent new ways to tax them. If the economy is bad and they don't have enough money for their existing programs & employees, they need to downsize or raise the taxes that relate to that programs, but not invent new ways to tax. The Mass government mindset is seriously flawed here.
If companies are laying off 10% of their workforce left and right, government needs to realize they will have to cut back 10%, maybe more.
It seems most commentors assumed this applied to current news. And in that case they are correct, nobody would pay for news that way because somebody else was giving it for free. The smartest place to use micro payments is for old news. Many sites already charge for old news on a subscription based system, but instead they should move to a micro payment system where you pay a trivial fee for old news archival.
It's a niche use scenario, but I've come across a couple times where I wanted an old article, but the $3+ cost wasn't worth the effort.
While I'm against the Cable & Telco monopolies in place, they're still better than government owned lines. At least when the private sector owns the lines, you can sue them for crippling or blocking service, but with government owned, they gan begin blocking and censoring all they want.
First it will begin innocently, blocking illegal porn sites and hate sites, then overseas gambling and slowly things get blocked as they see fit. Of course by then the commercial lines have gone out of business and you have nobody to turn to but your own censoring government, and guess who wins that battle?
And even if you can live in that world, the fact that the government takes away YOUR paycheck to start commercial business that competes with it's citizen's tax paying employees is dirty as well. Government has NO place in the business world, especially when they regulate it. At least in the commercial business world people are actually held accountable for running their business poorly, a government ran business can simply throw more tax money at inefficient business models and/or embezzlement.
>> I have learned more important information from comments on this blog than I have through traditional media.
This is why we have to put a stop to the internet, because if you were a good little soylent green eating sheep, you wouldn't have to worry yourself over these complicated matters, let your government and the lawyers handle it.
Now take a deep breathe and let the nerve.. I mean pleasure gas fill your lungs.
You couldn't be more wrong, how do you think Apple stayed in business only 5yrs ago when all they sold was hardware (OS9 came for free on your Apple computer). There's a reason why an Apple computer costs twice as much as a PC with the same specs, a very large markup, to make up for the fact they sell so few of them.
Nowadays they probably do make more money off of their iPod sales than computer sales, but no matter how you cut it, 95% of their profit comes from hardware and only hardware. Apple has mentioned in the past 100% of the money from iTunes goes to the record labels, servers and manpower needed to run the setup, iTunes only exists to sell iPods, which is why they don't open up iTunes to support any MP3 player.
NXP is making a very bad move, especially if multiple separate people or groups know about the flaw. They're just asking for a writeup of the flaw to be posted anonymously on some key forums.
Obviously the group that discovered the problem alerted the company, have them time to fix, no fix is available (the problem isn't always easy or quick) but NXP should have made a plea to hold back, but instead they're resorting to hardball tactics, and I say you fight fire with fire, release the hounds!
The government is double dipping; either tax what we buy or tax our income, but when they do both, it's outright robbery.
Therefore since income tax isn't going away anytime soon, I'm dead against this tax. This is obviously a case of "The state wants more money, so what new taxes can we add? Oh yea, people like that iPod thingy!"
>> Why should I train my competition? Do you want to train someone who can then just up and set up next to you?
If you're company needs a DNC in order to prevent people from leaving, perhaps the company needs to rethink it's: poor managers, working conditions, payrate, etc. Instead of thinking up silly legal gotchas to keep good employees, they just need to provide a good job that people won't want to leave.
Oh and also, skilled labor doesn't have training. Nuclear scientists are nuclear scientists, they don't just walk off the street from the video store. The only place where training occurs is simple repetitive labor such as how to assemble a hamburger and how to operate a cash register.
I was a heavy eBay using, starting all the way back in 1997 on dialup. I was such an avid user that I thought up the idea of (manual) snipping, simply waiting until the last 30 seconds until I made a bid. And on dialup that wasn't as easy as you think, ahead of time I would do almost the entire big process then back out, that way I had all the pages & images cached.
eBay was also the reason I switched from Netscape 4 to IE5. I was sick of Netscape's random crashes, which once happened during an auction checkout that I didn't finish and consequently lost. At the time, IE rarely crashed (or at least wouldn't crash on pages with legit HTML and JS).
About 2004 I lost interest in eBay, it's still good for selling items and to find rare/collectible things but for purchasing new products, the prices really are better elsewhere.
So I created an account on Border's website and rated a book as I wanted to check out how well their virtual bookshelf would recommend books to me, bizarrely nothing happened even though I added my border's rewards card which I have used in the past in the store. Perhaps recommendations only work on my order history.
But ignoring all this, a book I recently purchased on Amazon is $29.69 and on Border's website it's $44.99 so if Border's is wondering why they are having problems competing, they need to stop sniffing binding glue and wake up.
Keep in mind the company also pockets all the failures, not just the profits. If you really want profit sharing and commission, then just work for yourself in the big bad world and take the risks. When things tank, you loose thousands, when things succeed you profit and then one-day you'll hire somebody and just pay them hourly or a salary to help out and realize how much of a good idea salary is in a risky market.
Ugh what?
So she's suing Google because she didn't look before crossing the road?
Watch serious increase in 3 months, here's why
Like every city that's implemented red light cameras, they get greedy and you'll have places where they turn the yellow light duration from the safe 3+ secs to 1-2 secs and it's a proven fact that collisions increase (including death rate) when you break the 3+ sec rule for yellow light duration.
If red light cameras truly increased safety (meaning they reduced the number of red light runners, which in turn reduces the number of intersection collisions) I'd be all for it, but the track record for these things has not been good, and it's been too tempting for cities not to abuse and directly cause people to have accidents.
Cars exist to service people, not aid officers
You need to look at the bigger picture here, the rights of the people. If all you ever do is look at how something can be abused, then you move towards living in a world where cops have infinite power.
I'd rather live in a world of freedom with some abuse by criminals than live in a crime free world where cops are free to abuse the people.
And don't think for one minute that cops don't abuse their power all the time. If cops had a kill switch on every car, they'd use it all the time, nonstop, despite what their rules or regulations say. Just look at all the innocent shootings cops have done, overuse of pepper spray. While these incidents are the exception, let's not forget America is for the people, not law enforcement.
This is why I...
patented the negatively charged particle, your very existence is in violation and I demand retribution!
The gov in Mass has forgotten their purpose
which is to serve the people, not invent new ways to tax them. If the economy is bad and they don't have enough money for their existing programs & employees, they need to downsize or raise the taxes that relate to that programs, but not invent new ways to tax. The Mass government mindset is seriously flawed here.
If companies are laying off 10% of their workforce left and right, government needs to realize they will have to cut back 10%, maybe more.
Micropayments would be for old news, now current
It seems most commentors assumed this applied to current news. And in that case they are correct, nobody would pay for news that way because somebody else was giving it for free. The smartest place to use micro payments is for old news. Many sites already charge for old news on a subscription based system, but instead they should move to a micro payment system where you pay a trivial fee for old news archival.
It's a niche use scenario, but I've come across a couple times where I wanted an old article, but the $3+ cost wasn't worth the effort.
Government owned wires = Pandora's Box
This is a Pandora's Box issue:
While I'm against the Cable & Telco monopolies in place, they're still better than government owned lines. At least when the private sector owns the lines, you can sue them for crippling or blocking service, but with government owned, they gan begin blocking and censoring all they want.
First it will begin innocently, blocking illegal porn sites and hate sites, then overseas gambling and slowly things get blocked as they see fit. Of course by then the commercial lines have gone out of business and you have nobody to turn to but your own censoring government, and guess who wins that battle?
And even if you can live in that world, the fact that the government takes away YOUR paycheck to start commercial business that competes with it's citizen's tax paying employees is dirty as well. Government has NO place in the business world, especially when they regulate it. At least in the commercial business world people are actually held accountable for running their business poorly, a government ran business can simply throw more tax money at inefficient business models and/or embezzlement.
Re: Important Information
>> I have learned more important information from comments on this blog than I have through traditional media.
This is why we have to put a stop to the internet, because if you were a good little soylent green eating sheep, you wouldn't have to worry yourself over these complicated matters, let your government and the lawyers handle it.
Now take a deep breathe and let the nerve.. I mean pleasure gas fill your lungs.
Re: Er, ya...
>> Apple makes NO money on computer hardware
You couldn't be more wrong, how do you think Apple stayed in business only 5yrs ago when all they sold was hardware (OS9 came for free on your Apple computer). There's a reason why an Apple computer costs twice as much as a PC with the same specs, a very large markup, to make up for the fact they sell so few of them. Nowadays they probably do make more money off of their iPod sales than computer sales, but no matter how you cut it, 95% of their profit comes from hardware and only hardware. Apple has mentioned in the past 100% of the money from iTunes goes to the record labels, servers and manpower needed to run the setup, iTunes only exists to sell iPods, which is why they don't open up iTunes to support any MP3 player.
Don't play hardball when you're the one who will lose
NXP is making a very bad move, especially if multiple separate people or groups know about the flaw. They're just asking for a writeup of the flaw to be posted anonymously on some key forums.
Obviously the group that discovered the problem alerted the company, have them time to fix, no fix is available (the problem isn't always easy or quick) but NXP should have made a plea to hold back, but instead they're resorting to hardball tactics, and I say you fight fire with fire, release the hounds!
Re: Well...
The government is double dipping; either tax what we buy or tax our income, but when they do both, it's outright robbery.
Therefore since income tax isn't going away anytime soon, I'm dead against this tax. This is obviously a case of "The state wants more money, so what new taxes can we add? Oh yea, people like that iPod thingy!"
Re: Of course it
>> Why should I train my competition? Do you want to train someone who can then just up and set up next to you?
If you're company needs a DNC in order to prevent people from leaving, perhaps the company needs to rethink it's: poor managers, working conditions, payrate, etc. Instead of thinking up silly legal gotchas to keep good employees, they just need to provide a good job that people won't want to leave.
Oh and also, skilled labor doesn't have training. Nuclear scientists are nuclear scientists, they don't just walk off the street from the video store. The only place where training occurs is simple repetitive labor such as how to assemble a hamburger and how to operate a cash register.
Sorry, but you're point doesn't make any sense
I'm one of the
I was a heavy eBay using, starting all the way back in 1997 on dialup. I was such an avid user that I thought up the idea of (manual) snipping, simply waiting until the last 30 seconds until I made a bid. And on dialup that wasn't as easy as you think, ahead of time I would do almost the entire big process then back out, that way I had all the pages & images cached.
eBay was also the reason I switched from Netscape 4 to IE5. I was sick of Netscape's random crashes, which once happened during an auction checkout that I didn't finish and consequently lost. At the time, IE rarely crashed (or at least wouldn't crash on pages with legit HTML and JS).
About 2004 I lost interest in eBay, it's still good for selling items and to find rare/collectible things but for purchasing new products, the prices really are better elsewhere.
But who's going to fix Border's horrible prices?
So I created an account on Border's website and rated a book as I wanted to check out how well their virtual bookshelf would recommend books to me, bizarrely nothing happened even though I added my border's rewards card which I have used in the past in the store. Perhaps recommendations only work on my order history.
But ignoring all this, a book I recently purchased on Amazon is $29.69 and on Border's website it's $44.99 so if Border's is wondering why they are having problems competing, they need to stop sniffing binding glue and wake up.
PS: the book in question is ISBN:1590599098
So what's his YouTube user account?
I won't lie, now I want to see his videos. Not because I want to see crime, but to see how outrageously obvious the acts appear to be illegal or not.
Did he break into people's house and rob them on video? Did he even wear a mask? Did he beat somebody up on video?
I guess my want to see them adds fuel to this imaginary fire the government wants to put out. But really, I just want the whole story.
Re: #7
Keep in mind the company also pockets all the failures, not just the profits. If you really want profit sharing and commission, then just work for yourself in the big bad world and take the risks. When things tank, you loose thousands, when things succeed you profit and then one-day you'll hire somebody and just pay them hourly or a salary to help out and realize how much of a good idea salary is in a risky market.
Re: Now?
I couldn't have said it better myself