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Re:Samsung...
> They sell marked-up shiny.
The innovative part is doing that so well that they are the #1 company in the world by stock market valuation.
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Re:Two successive days last spring
Which would be about the time that magnets were no longer allowed in toys for small children, and Magnetix (toys for children that included magnets) were recalled and relabeled for age 6+. (This was an extension of the recall from 2006) Mattel then recalled their toys with magnets in the fall of 2007.
... etc.Are we still having problems with this 5 years later?
Are we going to need to havea story on here next week that small items are a choking hazard and shouldn't be given to children under 3?
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Re:Hahaha
Lets be honest, a lot of small business people run their own firms because they don't play well with others. So rather than slacking try accepting the feelings of others, try being less judgemental and try caring and sharing.
If you want to reduce your work load, try being a little less greedy and get into profit sharing allowing for more self management within your staff as their efforts more directly tie to their income and there is an opportunity to increase their income above average.
Of course you can always quit and go the corporate route, which is what everyone is obviously pointing to. So if you acknowledge the reptile in yourself consider this move http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/13150054/ns/today-books/t/snakes-suits-unmasks-corporate-psychos/, if you don't then you have undoubtedly come across it in other business people, the liars, cheats and thieves.
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Re:Legalize it.
You're an asshole worthy enough for me to un-mod all the comments I modded here just to post some links proving what a fucking asshole you are.
sold by her mother? Oh wait, it's just FUD, she was really a child whore.
But you know what? One link in, I find you too vile to care what you think enough to look for another link. Open google and open your fucking eyes, jackass. Really.
The "sex slave" hysteria is almost as bad as the pedophile hysteria. The fact that you can point to 1 or 2 cherry picked, sensationalized stories doesn't mean that the ridiculous claims of tens of thousands of sex slaves being bussed in for the Olympics are in any way valid. It doesn't mean that politicians and police chiefs and MSNBC aren't drumming up the non-story in order to get votes and viewers. It doesn't mean that hookers aren't "encouraged" to falsely testify against their "pimps" and make bogus claims.
But hey, keep on feeding at the FUD trough, it seems to get you pretty passionate about things. You've only proven it yourself - your "some links" are in fact, one link about one case. Until you can point to tens of thousands of cases in the US as is often claimed, and actually show people were forced into it as opposed to willing participants, you're just wrong.
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Re:Legalize it.You're an asshole worthy enough for me to un-mod all the comments I modded here just to post some links proving what a fucking asshole you are.
sold by her mother? Oh wait, it's just FUD, she was really a child whore.
But you know what? One link in, I find you too vile to care what you think enough to look for another link. Open google and open your fucking eyes, jackass. Really.
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Re:Docked Phones?
Amazingly, due in large part to efforts of the NHTSA, 2010 had the lowest number of fatalities on the road in 60 years .
The lowest in 60 years?! Was 2010 the year BEFORE we invented cell phones? Oh crap, 2010 had the most cell phones on the road in the last 60 years than any other year EXCEPT 2011!
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Re:Good!
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Re:Docked Phones?
Amazingly, due in large part to efforts of the NHTSA, 2010 had the lowest number of fatalities on the road in 60 years . So, yes, a lot positive has come out of their research and recommendations.
And when you say "they didn't think through very much", you're off by a magnitude that you (clearly) wouldn't believe. While perhaps the results going against so-called "common sense", the amount of distraction caused by hands-free vs hand-held cellphones is similar and very high -- there have been dozens of studies over the years, and they all reach this conclusion.
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Re:Suggestion to astronauts, private and otherwise
What you are missing with this diatribe is that the Commercial Space Launch Act already provides the indemnities via law for somebody who is going into space, and is something that has been addressed repeatedly at many congressional hearings in regards to private individuals going into space on commercial carriers.
Basically, anybody who wants to put their money down on any sort of spaceflight experience should already know before they sign a contract to travel on one of these vehicles that they are experimental and have not been certified by the FAA for general usage like is the case with most commercial air transport services.
Yes, some people might die in space. Then again, a great many people die each year in automotive traffic as well as get killed by commuter rail services or even urban "light rail" transit systems. Does that stop those transportation devices from ever being used after those deaths? Why is spaceflight any different?
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Re:Er, no.
I'm tempted to go out to the gas station down the block and take a picture of their sign about holds on debit cards, but I'll settle for a link to This article instead, 'cause I'm lazy, my tea will get cold, and I'm replying to an AC anyway. My bet is either you're paying inside, you're lucky that the gas stations you use don't do the holds that many do, you don't check your account's balance often enough to notice, or you're putting enough in that the difference between the hold and the amount you're *actually* paying doesn't exist.
I've been burned by the above issue though personally, so I can definitely vouch for it, and since I haven't seen a gas station in a long time that has a difference in price between debit and credit at the pump I either pay in cash or use my credit card for gas these days. -
Re:It's suprisingly large
Roughly the same cost as an F-15. Cheaper than an F-22 (around 200 million a pop depending on how you count things) and about what a hit movie brings in on midnight showings. (Just for some perspective).
of that $30 million the movie bought in, not a cent will be paid in tax. (just to keep things in perspective)
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Re:It's suprisingly large
Roughly the same cost as an F-15. Cheaper than an F-22 (around 200 million a pop depending on how you count things) and about what a hit movie brings in on midnight showings. (Just for some perspective).
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Re:India is a democratic country, right?
'cos there's no one left. Just as some Americans point out that both R and D are only loyal to different sets of corporate masters and have no interest in the welfare of the common people, here it's all about naked power grab for its own sake. India has a multi party system, but all of them pander to various communities and vote banks.
Educated urban Indians such as yours truly have simply dissociated themselves from the political process over the last 64 years since independence with the broad (and mostly true) argument that 'all politicians suck, and my vote isn't going to matter.'
The rural poor who are the majority, take their voting rights seriously and come out to vote en masse. Politicians pander to them by doling out freebies, which are often at the expense of the middle class non voting tax payer.That's the beauty of democracy, the tyranny of the majority ensures that the majority get the leaders they deserve.
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Re:Shouldn't it be fairly simple to determine that
It seems like someone is trying to do exactly that:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/02/9168255-arsenic-life-debate-still-percolatesCorrect me if I'm wrong, but the linked article seems to suggest that the problem has been that no one else has tried to replicate the experiment until now.
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Silly.
Look at this photograph. It depicts Einstein working with various equations.
Do you suppose he knew what the operators did? That he knew differentiation and integration rules? That he knew algebra? Or are you suggesting that he went back to his 101 textbooks at every step.
It is the most absurd thing to use Einstein to defend willful ignorance.
Yes, you do actually have to know stuff to learn how to think, guide your intuition, solve problems efficiently, and discuss topics intelligently. Get over it. Learning and understanding takes work beyond typing your query into Google or Alpha.
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Re:All this in the mist of global warming.
Well... Humans were likely hunting similarly sized mastodons 14k years ago. I don't see why mammoths wouldn't be hunted. This was in the news recently recently :
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44995744/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/sleuths-solve-american-mastodon-mystery/#.Tt-OXWAgcmQAnd the science paper the article is based on:
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Re:Silencing Dissent
The government has asked social media companies to develop a way to eliminate offensive content as soon as it is created, no matter what country it is created in, he said.
You'll notice, he said to "eliminate", not filter.
Call me paranoid, but I think that's a not-so-subtle death threat directed at Richard Gere.
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Re:Ice Age Park
They can already insert genes from a completely different species into e.g. a cat to make it glow: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/27338236/ns/today-today_pets_and_animals/t/me-yow-cat-has-glow-good-cause/#.Tt5uaRfNmeU I imagine they could identify the elephant-like portion of the genome and vary that using different "donors" to create diversity/swap sex. I think initially they would probably just clone one animal and sell it to zoos across the world. Setting up a prehistoric park that mimics the animal's natural habitat makes for a good story but there is no economic advantage. A simple zoo enclosure would cost less and be more accessible to visitors.
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Lost drone
The US lost a drone last week, whether it really "went out of control " is another question. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45541622/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/#.TtvTI0BKhEM
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Re:Analytics for Mobiles
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Re:Analytics for Mobiles
MSNBC Look at December 1st, "Secret software tracks phone activity"
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Re:No scarcity of land for landfills.
Heh. Pretty funny. To prove my point about being fined, here's an article about Pittsburgh fining people for not separating their trash.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5648030/ns/us_news-environment/t/city-fines-residents-who-refuse-recycle/
City fines residents who refuse to recycle:
"The city has issued about 100 citations since stepping up enforcement in the spring. Fines with court costs are $62.50. A second offense costs more than $500, though Costa said none have been issued.Costa said failing to recycle costs the city money. It's paid $11 a ton for glass, cans and plastics and $30 a ton for newspaper, Costa said. Statewide, the average cost to take municipal trash to a landfill is about $57 per ton, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection."
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Re:Americans
The only people who're actually making money on outsourcing manufacturing are owners of businesses that do it.
If you have a retirement plan, you own a business.
I would at least know that my money goes to workers who work decent hours, get a decent pay, and aren't otherwise abused.
Yes, you will know the workers weren't abused in a traditional sense. However, workers in the US didn't always have the rights they do today. I doubt workers in the 3rd world will remain abused as well. These kinds of reform take time, and we are already seeing conditions improve.
I don't see why it's an either-or. I would rather see citizens of those countries working in jobs that supply their own, domestic market with goods that it needs - and it surely needs a lot.
If undeveloped countries could produce all of the goods they need, they would be called developed countries. They have goods they can't produce economically, so they produce the goods they can in exchange. Believe it or not, China does buy things from the US, despite the huge trade deficit.
What you're describing is, essentially, charity under the guise of a commercial operation.
It's not charity, it's economics. Why give away money in aid, when you can trade goods and services to benefit everyone? In the long run, it reduces costs to everyone, with a temporary loss in wages to the US. The Chinese economy will grow, and increase its demand for goods and services. This increase in demand will be met through importing goods from the rest of the world. The U.S. will have a massive new market to sell it's goods and services and the trade imbalance will vanish or even reverse!
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Re:Needs Revision.
Read the Pi schtick - they are all about changing computer instruction into something cool, and getting away from making everybody into electronic secretaries.
Too late, MSNBC already has stated that geeks are the new chic .
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Re:That's not a bug, it's a feature
That news report is wrong. The seperate test in question evaluated the RF output of a laptop with its wifi switched off, but it did not measure sperm motility after exposure to that laptop:
"A separate test with a laptop that was on, but not wirelessly connected, found negligible EM radiation from the machine alone."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45469130/ns/health-mens_health/#.TtT0PlabUlT
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Re:That's not a bug, it's a feature
Here's the kicker - they ran the laptop with the wifi switched off, but only measured the RF output of the laptop in that state. They didn't perform - or performed, but didn't publish - the obvious control experiment.
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Re:I have problems with this
Where do they think they are? TEXAS ?
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Timing Hunter Joke in Vermont
I thought the two hunters joke in the article was pretty darn funny, so I posted it a couple of hours ago on Facebook. My friends sent this news story, about a Vermont hunter who accidentally shot his friend and then turned his own rifle on himself (I immediately took down the joke) http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/27/9049544-two-dead-in-vermont-hunting-accident So I guess humor is in timing,. Perhaps timing (rate of global extinctions) also explains why the animals aren't laughing.
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One Solution...
Verizon tried this on my account numerous times(almost quarterly) from '04-'07. Despite my regular calls to remove fees and block all web content again and again and again, my account kept defaulting back to allow web access fees and espanol spam text fees(I even wrote the Arizona AG and the BBB to no avail). It all stopped miraculously when I decided to continue our arrangement 'off-contract' as I waited for Android. I have not had a single mis-charge since August of '07.
*Google & Verizon give me enough reasons to retain my e815 and stay off-contract. I would ditch VZW but they are no better/worse than any other options, wireless or landline. -
Re:saved!
Unlimited supply once you take pricing effects into consideration. That and we can make more. We could set this on up in Washington, or any eco zone... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4732398/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/researchers-turn-manure-crude-oil/
The carbon from the oil under ocean beds is in the ground.
While the carbon from the oil in that link is made from pig manure, which a few hours previously was in a plant, and a few days/months previously to that in the air.
And if it wasn't turned into oil a good portion of that manure would biodegrade and end up back in the air anyhow.
So putting the carbon in that pig manure oil back into the atmosphere isn't really adding much.
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Re:saved!
Unlimited supply once you take pricing effects into consideration. That and we can make more. We could set this on up in Washington, or any eco zone... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4732398/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/researchers-turn-manure-crude-oil/
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Retire the old reactors
If the nuclear industry were willing to retire more of these T-Rex reactors before they blow up, people might be less resistant to letting them build new ones. But they aren't.
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Re:Impressive
And considering the trip is about 300 days, this distance is very realistic.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45394819/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/
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Re:weight and safety
When minvans first came out, they were given the same category as trucks, and got exempt from the car fuel standards. They also got different safety standards, too. So: they were initially missing door bars, etc. I don't think they've ever caught up.
Your information on minivans is outdated. When minivans first came out yes they sucked in more ways than I can count. But they have improved an incredible amount. Check out one of the three models that received IIHS top safety pick at the IIHS web site, or do your own search. Some probably still suck, but at least there are now safer choices.
Compare this to the safety design of the Smart car, where there's a neat video of them crashing one into a wall at about 60. NO intrusion.
Seen that. What good does no intrusion do when you just stopped at 20+ G and your brains are leaking out of where your spine snapped? Enjoy your 2-inch crumple zone. Those cars are nice for the city, and when you're not in an accident, but don't be fooled.
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Re:It's called "Insurance"
This is the car equivalent of "it's photoshopped, I see it in the pixels." Look at the most stolen car list only two have immobilizers (and I'm guessing those two are flawed). The other eight have been on the list forever. Why aren't newer cars on the list? They are harder to take.
Why my car (on the list) was stolen the insurance company said, they usually wait 1 month before writing a check, but that in the case of this car its only chopped so they waived this waiting period. So this is not joy riding.
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Re:HIPAA uber-violation
Haven't you heard? Literacy is a skill that's taught in college. Elementary and High School teachers don't teach it, so they aren't practicing it regularly. The grade school focus is more on tasks like diagnosing ADD.
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solved problem?
Doctors know how to prevent MRSA infections, is this any different?
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For Those Interested In The Product
The Nook Tablet (unrooted) is slightly more open than the Kindle Fire (unrooted)
Some links:
My takeaway is if you have your gold geek card, get the Fire (less money) and root it. If you're less adventuresome, get the Nook for more openness, but get an micro-SD card or you're stuck with only 1GB of free memory.
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Re:Nooks for the Holidays
The Simple Touch is great if your primary interest is an eReader. My girlfriend just got one and it works great for that. Using Calibre i was even able to transfer over a little more than half the books she'd already bought from Amazon on her phone. (I'm still looking into how to handle the rest of the books.)
On the other hand if you want a more tablet like experience you should go with the Color or Tablet. Given the marginal price difference i think the Tablet is the best buy. It's probably a tough decision for those who already have a Color to decide whether to upgrade or not, but that doesn't seem to be where you're at. In both cases it seems like "rooting" it is a simple case of installing Cyanogen on a SD card and plugging it in, something i think most people on Slashdot can probably handle.
Here's one review i found though it's focused more on the differences between the Nook Tablet and the Amazon Kindle Fire, and gloomily predicting that the Kindle will overshadow despite the Nook's superior hardware. -
Re:Entrenched Interests
Ok, I'll narrow my focus. People willingly pay big money for bottled water that comes from the exact same municipal source as flows free from their faucet. Seriously, many of the bottled waters sold in the US are from "Municipal Sources" - that means you might be drinking NYC water in Virginia, possibly complete with the copepods that live in it.
From this article, emphasis mine:
Often images on the label show mountains, snow or other bodies of water. For example, the label design on Aquafina (from Pepsi) gives me the feeling of mountains and snow; implying that Aquafina may be from a mountain spring, rather than bottled at Pepsi plants using processed municipal water. Coke’s Dasani, also one of the leading bottled water brands is processed municipal water with added minerals. Many gallon jug waters are also from municipal sources.
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Re:They should hire a social media consultant with
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Re:With apologies to everyone who knew and loved I
Doesn't Zuckerberg kill everything he eats with his own hands? Perhaps he was in the mood for something different. http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/26/6724708-mark-zuckerberg-kills-what-he-eats
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Definitely Qualifies as The Great Depression Redux
First, Take out the REAL inflation numbers, and GDP was negative.
Second, the only reason that this depression isn't having the same "misery index" as the first one is because of the greater safety net, and because we caught a lucky break with the weather. Without unemployment insurance and welfare, and the dust-bowl conditions of the 30s, it would already be just as bad as the first one.
The "real" unemployment rate - when you take into account those who are heaping on debt by staying in school because they can't find a job, those who have given up, etc. (the U6 measure), and we're into the same range as the Great Depression. The real rate of unemployment in California, for example, is now 20%. Another 5% and it will be equal to the peak in 1933
... and it's heading there, as cities and states struggle with their own ongoing debt crisis.There's almost 50 million people on food stamps. And housing is now already officially worse than the great depression (and it's going to get wors)
It's official: The housing crisis that began in 2006 and has recently entered a double dip is now worse than the Great Depression.
Prices have fallen some 33 percent since the market began its collapse, greater than the 31 percent fall that began in the late 1920s and culminated in the early 1930s, according to Case-Shiller data.
Half of all homes now have a mortgage that makes them unsellable - if there is equity left, it's not sufficient to cover the additional costs of the sale (real estate commission fees, etc). Strategic default is a problem, but another problem is that, without jobs (or only part-time or low-paying jobs), even people whose mortgages are now "ok" are in trouble.
The fact is that any rise in GDP is not being seen by the workers, and hasn't been for more than a decade. Ask anyone who's had to take a major pay cut, or simply can't find a job because for every opening, there are 100 or 1,000 applicants.
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Re:They should hire a social media consultant with
Everything outside of that is basically anarchy.
An area *ruled* by thugs is, ipso facto, not anarchy.
Anyway, in 2010 -- a peak year -- Tijuana had 844 murders, with a population about 1.3 million: that's 60 per 100,000. New Orleans's rate was 49.1 that year -- but was a whopping 95 per 100,000 when it peaked in 2007. It's bad, yes, but there are areas of the U.S. about as bad.
(I was in San Diego for a conference a few years ago and went over the Tijuana for an afternoon. Folks thought I had to be nuts, but when I pointed out that 1) I was sticking to the touristy border area, and 2) I'm from Baltimore, they quieted down...)
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Re:Doing more damage than we can reverse.
That would be the silly kind of formula everyone would have in mind instinctively. Is this real "scientist" bullshit, or just you explaining your (not proven) feelings?
I'm sorry, I thought you were asking for a statistical reason why setting high temperature records is correlated to a warming trend. Instead you wanted something like this. For the article about twice as many warm records were set in the 2000s as cold records.
It was 71 degrees the other day on November 1st.
and then over-over-over simplify things and say:
We've already done more damage than we can reverse.
Of course, neither of those statements are things I wrote and they further more have no bearing on what I wrote. I was talking about the trend in record setting temperatures above. I'm sorry I overestimate how informed you are about the trend and your ability to look it up for yourself. I was unaware that you were ignorant and incompetent.
I could say "there was so much snow last winter in my country, your theory of global warming is stupid".
Snow fall may either decrease or increase because of global warming, it will commonly depend on whether or not you're on the leeward side of a sufficiently large body of water. Paradoxically a region could experience both more flooding and more droughts because of global warming because when the wind is dry the area with become drying, but when it's wet it will get wetter. A perfect example is Australia's drought that was broken by a record setting flood. The area is drying because it's normally a dry wind which carries more of the moisture out of the area, but when it finally gets wind in the right direction it gets a lot more water and the prolonged drought has left the land less able to handle the extra water.
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Re:maybe
"Dead fuel is free energy; its that simple." It's not FREE. Not even remotely. So are you telling me the environmental destruction from the Alberta Tar Sands is FREE? http://s.ngm.com/2009/03/canadian-oil-sands/img/candian-oil-sands-615.jpg. Are you saying that the cancer causing elements that are spewed into the air from fossil fuels are FREE? http://www.epa.gov/air/basic.html. Your misnomer is one of the reasons we are in this situation. And there are a thousand other articles and studies that say that fossil fuels are harmful to you and me. If you want me to site them I will.
It's great that you made your argument on your opinion. But let me give you some information about alternative energy that is from reputable sources. From MSNBC (and others...FYI from a study funded by Google): "Clean, accessible, reliable and renewable energy equivalent to 10 times the installed capacity of coal power plants in the U.S....What's more, the energy can be tapped with existing technology, according to the researchers. That's largely due the recent development of drilling techniques that make methods such as enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) possible." TEN TIMES what we get from coal on an annual basis without the mining destruction nor the carcinogens in the air. THAT IS FUCKING FREE ENERGY. http://futureoftech.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/27/8509629-energy-from-hot-rocks-abounds?chromedomain=cosmiclog. Or CNET if you prefer: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20125837-54/geothermal-potential-reaches-coast-to-coast/
Or maybe you'd like to hear the opine of a nobel prize laureate in economics about the economic reality of solar power? Is there a Moore's Law to solar power? Actually there probably is, but if the fossil fuel industry has it's way it will probably be stymied....oh wait it already has. " In fact, progress in solar panels has been so dramatic and sustained that, as a blog post at Scientific American put it, “there’s now frequent talk of a ‘Moore’s law’ in solar energy,” with prices adjusted for inflation falling around 7 percent a year."--AND--"Let’s face it: a large part of our political class, including essentially the entire G.O.P., is deeply invested in an energy sector dominated by fossil fuels, and actively hostile to alternatives. This political class will do everything it can to ensure subsidies for the extraction and use of fossil fuels, directly with taxpayers’ money and indirectly by letting the industry off the hook for environmental costs, while ridiculing technologies like solar." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/opinion/krugman-here-comes-solar-energy.html?_r=1&hp.
So the question remains smarty are you with us or against us? Please give any sources that are not your opinion and actually sited to a reference to the contrary.
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Re:Wait? There is STILL DRM out there?
I thought DRM was already a thing of the past. Who is still doing that?
Netflix, for one.
Move over, Web surfing. Netflix movies now take up more of the Internet pipes going into North American homes.
A study published Tuesday by Sandvine Inc. shows that Netflix movies and TV shows account for nearly 30 percent of traffic into homes during peak evening hours, compared with less than 17 percent for Web browsing.
Only about a quarter of homes with broadband subscribe to Netflix, but watching movies and TV shows online takes up a lot of bandwidth compared with Web surfing, email and practically every other Internet activity except file sharing and videoconferencing.
As late as last year, both Web surfing and peer-to-peer file sharing â" mainly the illegal trading of copyrighted movies â" were each larger than Netflix's traffic.
Netflix's Internet traffic overtakes Web surfing [May 17]
Barnes & Noble made a big deal out of its brand-new Nook Tablet's compatibility with Netflix and Pandora at its recent unveiling, apparently giving Amazon a bit of a complex. Amazon did its best to one-up the Nook in today's release, rolling out the laundry list of Fire-friendly apps that will be available on day one, including "Netflix, Rhapsody, Pandora, Twitter, Comics by comiXology, Facebook, The Weather Channel and popular games from Zynga, EA, Gameloft, PopCap and Rovio."
Amazon now says "several thousand" Android apps will be available through the Amazon Appstore for Kindle Fire, considerably less than the hundreds of thousands of apps currently populating the Android Market. Of course, this could be a good thing, as much of what's offered there is pure garbage.
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Re:Still safer than completely unvetted apps
I'm not sure I see the flaw.
TSA's job is to prevent passengers from bringing weapons onto the airplane. They have some successes and notable failures in doing this. Apple's job is to prevent malicious code from running on our iPhones and iPads and I'm sure they have some successes and failures.
What you're saying is that it's okay that the TSA might fail every now and again because the passengers will spot the malicious person and prevent him from performing his dastardly task. Of course, passengers tend to generate more false positives because they are not trained in security.
But if you want to go with this analogy, Android would be a better secure environment than iOS. Android has various tools that smart people can use to find malicious software So, to carry this into your analogy, using Android is like flying on airplane with a group of passengers who understand security and can spot the evildoer and warn others. iOS is like flying on an airplane where everybody says, "Oh, they made it through the TSA checkpoint. They must be okay."
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Rename the War on Terror
Let's rename the war on terror to be more accurate too
...Virtual strip-searches, ball-fondling, never-ending but ineffectual id checks, forcing women to drink their own breast-milk, arbitrary rule enforcement, making everyone go bare-foot, singling-out people by the clothes they wear, forcing people to remove nipple rings with pliers, torturing injured flyers, making people piss on themselves, the list is practically endless.
And yet the TSA hasn't caught a single terrorist.
But they sure are doing a bang-up job of destroying human dignity. Therefore I say we rename the War on Terror to The War on Dignity.
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Re:He...
Or just scared of what would happen if she rejected him.
Scared she would be spanked with a belt again? So far there's been no evidence of abuse. No hospitalization, no division of family services, no broken bones, not even bruises, nothing to show she was being abused. Spanking your child with a belt IS NOT abuse in the US (yet). Federal prosecutors determined there wasn't even a crime depicted in the video.
Calling this video "abuse" is a horrible injustice to the 3.5 million children that really are abused or neglected.