Go for it! I experimented with adding cheap drink powders like lemonade and coconut to mine and loved it! Make sure the system and connections can handle the pressure you're setting!
"BreakingNews is excited to tell everyone that At least 17 people killed, 45 others injured after a passenger train collides with a freight train near Pakistan's Karachi."
Make it so when I select images it says something so I know it is responsive. I kept on selecting the same image, then thinking... well it still says 0/50 maybe it didn't work. So now there are 3 of the same image.
He is referring to one specific job featured on Dirty Jobs that he believes has a better incentive structure (results instead of hours).
The title is a little off because it isn't about dirty jobs having better incentive structures, but rather an incentive structure which he explains is fair and rewarding to everyone involved and additionally resistant to racism, sexism, and other discrimination.
"We were trying to go after what [SOBE] had done because we were seeing the success they had with that young market," says Hargis, now the company's CEO."
A roommate of a personal friend was allowed to keep ~$600 in profits from trades using this 'fake' buying power after making a large stock purchase. Perhaps hearsay, but I'm inclined to believe that this really happened.
It sounds like what they actually did was increase your credit line, not your balance. So if people made trades on the (larger than normal) margin and profited, they can keep the profit. If they took losses, they are responsible for losses, slightly better than altering balances, but only slightly.
It is pretty much the definition of giving your users enough rope to hang themselves with.
It is an INCREDIBLY STUPID move on the part of Zecco. While it could be an accident or bug, I believe that it is too much of a coincidence to be chance.
While I agree that the patent is ridiculous in what it claims is an original idea, let's try to fix the patent system which awarded the patent, instead of blaming Blackboard for bad behavior.
After all, if Blackboard didn't get the patent first, some other company would, and Blackboard would be the one infringing.
All of these problems would go away if patents were awarded properly.
If Blackboard is behaving badly, then yes, we should blame them for bad behavior. Abusing the patent system, and lawyering your competitors to death in a frivolous patent suit is nasty, low, bad for the customer, and should result in karmic consequences (but karma, unfortunately, is not as effective or quick as it is on TV). At the very least, the "bad for the customer" bit ought to be a sin in any business mans book. If it isn't, the business deserves to die...and probably will, eventually. SCOX isn't doing so well these days, for example (not that they were exactly swimming in success before becoming evil, but it certainly hastened their demise).
And meanwhile, before the patent system gets fixed (assuming it ever will), we shouldn't blame Blackboard if it bullies the competition out of existence?
After all, if Blackboard didn't get the patent first, some other company would, and Blackboard would be the one infringing.
That argument is along the same lines as not convicting a hitman for accepting a hit on someone by rationalizing that if he didn't kill the victim, the business would just go to some other hitman. I think convicting whichever hitman accepted the assignment is reasonable, don't you?
The discussion is not about legality. I was responding to the OP saying that we shouldn't "blame Blackboard for bad behaviour" because if they hadn't done it, then someone else would have done it anyway. Hence the analogy is valid.
I agree that a better patent system is the solution, but as a Canadian company, Desire2Learn isn't in much of a position to fix the US patent system.
> After all, if Blackboard didn't get the patent first, some other company would, and Blackboard would be the one infringing.
Owning the patent is one forgiveable - If I were them I would want the patent too for self-defence. What is indefensible is aggressive litigating over that patent to scare competitors.
