Marketing and advertising go hand in hand. When you advertise a room for rent, you highlight the positive features of that room to get more potential renters. That's marketing. You would not advertise a room for rent without listing all of the positive features. Otherwise, you'll end up with a lot of calls asking about features that could easily be listed in the advertisement.

If people are so weak as to buy things they don't need because of marketing, they deserve to go into debt. It's the "keeping up with the Jones'" attitude that drives many people into debt. Stop worrying about what your neighbor has and enjoy the things that you have. They may have a boat, big fancy car, and a big house, but they also probably have a lot of debt.

The phrase "all politics is local" originally referred to the fact that as laws and other things got further away from you, they had less impact on you. A federal law cover very specific things so it covered very few people. A local law covered far more people, but as soon as you left that area, you were no longer affected. The is the whole point of a Constitutional Republic in the US. Establish ordinances and laws at the local and state level because those people know what's best for them. Establish a very few laws at the Federal level because they will impact everyone.

Being a large nation doesn't mean we need a big government. It means our citizens need to care about each other in their local communities and not keep depending on the federal government to come to the rescue every time there's a problem. That thinking gives us 2700 page bills. Small government local thinking gives you much smaller bills that are far easier to read and digest.

Yes, and I'm sure the big news agencies, who are doing the witch hunt, will gladly host the document. Of course, they'll put it behind a pay wall so anyone else that wants it will have to pay for it.

Sounds like he's thinking like the CEO of AT&T. "56k should be enough for anybody".

And this is exactly why she resigned. Frivolous lawsuit after frivolous lawsuit after frivolous lawsuit that the State had no choice but to follow through on, spend money on, and defend. So the State would likely have to defend lawsuits against making printed copies when there's likely a law that forces the State to make copies upon request and then allows them to charge a per page administrative fee for the copy.

As another commenter said, the State has complied with the law. Most of the commenters here just don't like the way they did it. Tough cookies. What Palin did in Alaska doesn't really affect those of us in the lower 48 and most of us don't give a shit what's in the emails.

Or inviting their readers to help them:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/help-analyze-the-palin-emails/2011/06/08/AGZAaHNH_blog.html

It's a witch hunt, plain and simple. They're looking for any type of dirt they can find. And this is why Palin isn't going to run for President. She's far more powerful as a regular person that gives her opinion about what's going on.

If Palin were the idiot that everyone makes her out to be, then why does everyone get their panties in such a bind every time she says anything about anything? You ignore the morons in Hollywood and at work when they do really stupid things (upskirt photos, getting hauled into court yet again for drunk driving, etc), but you freak out when the former Governor of Alaska says something questionable.

But do you pull the battery out? If you have an iPhone, this isn't even possible. With most modern consumer electronic devices, "off" is simply putting the thing to sleep. It can still send and receive information and the antenna is still active. Unless the battery is completely removed, it isn't "off".

Now who's the idiot? Apparently you missed this part of his post:

and flashing when you are behind someone in the passing lane (in MA, the slow-down-to-5-10mph-under-the-limit-and-read-a-book-or-eat-your-sub-or-watch-a-DVD-lane) means "please move over I'd like to pass."

I have found that taking rights away from people that don't really need it without telling them is the way to go. Just remove local admin from their account and see if they run into problems. They have no idea that they've been setup differently and they don't even know what you're doing if/when you add it back anyway (they don't care).

You simply do it and then watch as your level of support calls from those people drop. If necessary, for some older programs, you give the user rights to that programs folder or a few registry entries. It not only prevents viruses, malware, and other junk, but it also keeps them from installing all kinds of stupid little programs that they don't need.

Also, if you present the argument as "We need to take away this access so they don't try to install pirated software" management tends to agree in a heart beat. It's even better if you have evidence that someone has already installed "unauthorized software".

And, at least where I'm at, it's those same users that demand local admin rights that always screw it up. They don't even get viruses. They just somehow manage to mangle their file systems and registries so bad that shit starts crashing all over the place. Then you end up having to get them a replacement machine because "I can't have any downtime". So they just deal with the problem for months at a time asking you every now and then "Do you by chance have a fix for this yet?" "You mean beyond wiping it out and reinstalling? No".

For the past 10+ years I'd ad. Now that Mac users are getting a taste of it, they're coming up with the same excuses.

The Linux guys will probably never get a taste of it since nobody wants to use a computer where the expert says "No, you idiot! Don't do that!" and "You want that feature? Go write it yourself, the code is all there".

You lost at least half your audience right here (maybe even more of them). You want the average computer user to make a decision? Can't you just tell them what it should do? You're the expert, right? That is what I deal with on a daily basis. I am not even kidding.

Don't give them a choice until they complain about the way it works. Then switch it for them. It's so much easier than explaining the difference between the two choices. "Well, Carol's information always shows up automatically. Can you make mine do that?"

Yes, but the car is important to them. The computer is just a magic box that lets them communicate with relatives that they don't get to see very often. If the computer gets jacked up, they just call the local geek and have it fixed. If the car gets jacked up, they can't go anywhere for an extended amount of time (yes, even several hours a day is enough to make someone angry).

Nobody gets "silent" installs anymore. The malware writers realized that all they had to do was be nice, give it a good sounding name, and show some scary screens to make people think they needed it and that it was ok to install. Bam, no more silent installs needed.

This is effectively what we do with guys like that. We let them have at it. Then, when they call because something weird isn't working right, we tell them we don't know what's wrong and that we need to look into it. I'll spend less than 30 mins on the problem before getting another call telling me they figured out what's wrong and that it's working again. This happens a couple of times over a few months and then eventually something gets really hosed and their system gets really slow. At that point, we simply tell them that it would take a week or more to find the cause and that we'd still have to rebuild the computer from scratch. So they can give us 2 hours to rebuild their machine or they can just deal with it. If it's not a showstopper (it hardly ever is) they simply deal with it.

I have had this happen on multiple occasions with the same guy. It invariably comes down to either file system corruption or registry corruption. In any case, I really don't care because I have far better things to do than figure out what happened in the 6 months between when I gave him the fully functioning machine and when the problem appeared (which is usually something that showed up a week or two before I get the call, it's just "gotten in the way" now).