eqreqeq's comments

>> The other solution is to be really, really nice. To be incredibly accommodating. To engender a spirit of goodwill, joviality and kindness such that the flunky wants to help you.

That is not a practical solution. It sounds almost like a bribe. I'm not saying that you should be rude to anybody, but you shouldn't have to kiss somebody's ass just so that they do their jobs. Is a slippery slope. Now you are kissing their asses, latter that will not be enough and the demands for bribes will be the next logical step. No, the line has to be drawn here.

Politeness is fine, more than that and you are kissing their asses.

>>In France, the verb 'work' is travailler. Traditionally this meant literally to toil, a chore, an obligation.

"travailler" comes from Latin, in spanish the same word is "trabajar", notice the resemblance. It literally means "to work" in english. Just saying this because I don't really buy it that "travailler" in French means "to toil".

Broke and programming everyday on a project I'm working on. And with no income for quite some time. I'm down to two sets of pants and some of my clothes have holes. My sneakers certainly have plenty of holes. My office is the local library. Life is great!

>>Alas, America isn’t what it used to be: Insulting the French doesn’t seem to be rewarded by the stock market, and Titan is down about 1% so far today.

As if. Correlation is not causation.

I know this may not be appropriate but wow is she cute [1] and hot [2] at the same time. And on top of that she is brilliant, regardless of how her gig with Yahoo! turns out. Which makes her even more attractive.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marissa_Mayer.jpg

[2] http://www.glamour.com/images/women-of-the-year/1103-marissa...

Is the same thing as people trying to buy a Ferrari. Demand vastly exceeds supply so they will have no problem finding people that will think nothing of spending that amount of money. And frankly speaking $1,500 is not a lot of money. If you are poor or stingy I guess it is but at this point in time they are not targeting cheapskates.

correlation is not causation.

Since we are making anecdotal observations I'll posit that you could significantly increase your IQ if you focused on it. Just like if you wanted to play an instrument. You can increase your playing ability by focusing on it, or more specifically, by practicing. That is how I see IQ, as something that you can get better at by practicing, nothing more, nothing less.

>>6) Voyeurist's refuge: Pay someone with social skills far more developed than yours, have him go out and pick up a woman while you sit back in our couch and watch the spectacle unfold. Not sure how many would consent to a partner wearing glasses while having sex, though.

pornstars

Maybe. I've been using a Tom-Tom lately and what I've notice is that it sort of turns you into a mindless drone. At least that is how I felt. I can certainly see a thing like Google Glass adversely affecting people by making them too dependent on it. How exactly? I'm not sure.

>>glass worship stones

I believe we are in the midst of a new religion being born!

>>t is also possible that his IQ raised significantly as he got older due to extensive study as it is also possible that his IQ test was simply poorly administered for whatever reason.

Which is why an IQ is useless. If it can rise then it is not really measuring intelligence. Rather it is measuring what you know so far. Which explains why kids from better income families have better IQs.

And yet people treat IQ as a constant. Glad I decided never to let a single number define me. To all you that believe the IQ is important I say ...

Without more details the whole story sounds iffy. Since he did not give us more details but still shared his story I will speculate that he took advantage of what he thought were some clever tax loopholes in MA. Remember that hid did state very passingly that he has a presence in MA. Specifically this:

>>Again, I hadn't lived there or worked there since 2003, but I did own part of a business that was headquartered in MA, and the state was using this fact to harass me for income tax money<<

So in essence, he probably took advantage of some iffy tax loop hole which the state now probably disagrees with and is asking for whatever it thinks it is owed.

>>You don't actually understand how bankruptcy works, do you? Not all debts are dischargeable.

Read about it and the debts that are not actually dischargeable are student loans (USA). Are there any more? Could you cite an example? In this specific case, would her debt not be dischargeable?

>>So i guess everyone else whose time and money she is wasting outside of the RIAA is just acceptable collateral damage?

Whose time and money? The government. Please, we wasted so much money already on senseless wars and security theater that this argument is silly at this point.

>>Note that while they won't throw her in jail, it will come out of her paycheck, they'll also make her sell a lot of her assets, etc.

One word: bankruptcy

>>It's hard to predict, but instead of helping others and getting a good legal result, she may end up having wasted some RIAA money and fucked over a lot of people. What a great idea!

OK, I'll grant you points on this one. Getting a bad precedent would not be a good idea. Although, note sure if that is even possible in this case so you just sound like you are fear mongering. How are people going to get fucked over? Are you sure you are not just spreading FUD?

It is the RIAA that is wasting our time and money by pursuing these type of cases in the first place. You do know that they could just drop the case. She is doing us a favor by not letting herself be bullied.

Sounds great to me. She is basically making them waste a lot of time and money. At this point 200K could as well be a 100 billion. She will never pay. I know it, she knows it, the RIAA know it. Is not like they can throw her in jail for not paying. I'm glad she is making them waste their time and really do hope this goes to the supreme court. RIAA like to play dirty games so I'm OK when somebody plays as dirty as them.

I'm sure they are regretting their bad luck in suing somebody that will just not bend over and take it. Which is probably why they probably offered her the 5K settlement a second time.

Her fighting spirit sets a "bad" example for the rest of us. It may even inspire a lot of us to follow her example and not bend over when the RIAA comes knocking. If that happens then the RIAA is pretty much fucked.

In USA it is also your responsibility. No, it is not an act of GOD for the simple fact that the fall a lot of times is caused by a damaged sidewalk. Fixing up the sidewalk is always the owner's responsibility. At least that is the case in New York City.

Now that Steve is gone they no longer know what to do with their money. The current management rather then reinvesting the money in the company will simply squander it away by giving it back to stock holders. I'm sure that in a couple of years, when Apple actually starts needing this money, everybody will realize how stupid it was to give away their war chest.

Really, that the current CEO could not think of anything better than to give money back to the stock holders tells me that Apple is now doomed. The guy has no imagination. This move is so typical for a numbers guy. Steve would never have done that. At least not to this extent.

Right now Apple is simply running on inertia but once the momentum is over I expect the entire company will collapse.

You must also think that it is unfair that people win hundreds of millions of dollars by playing the lotto when all they did was invest one or two dollars.