You are 100% correct. I passed out in boot camp because I was overhydrated. The Drill Instructors kept having me drink water and the symptoms wouldn't go away. I eventually pissed myself and passed out in the chow line. That's when they realized what was really wrong and the simple solution was to wait it out. It could have been much worse though. I don't really believe that they were ignorant either, it's just that the symptoms are so similar, and recruits more commonly suffer dehydration than superhydration. People also do this to themselves purposefully to get a high, although that may also be an urban legend in itself.
I'm not saying that that stuff doesn't happen, but the very nature of the industry leads to oligopoly. And, no, I do not work for any company remotely related to telecom.
I would have emailed you this, but you do not have it listed. I didn't only see flamebait. I saw flamebait in your comment about Rumsfeld blowing up the world. Even the works of Lao Tzu state that war is sometimes necessary. There are several verses that discuss it, even though such things should not be glorified. I can speak of the Dao even though I may not follow it. It is said that everyone has their own way. No one is perfect, I do not claim to be. I only aspire to find the way. Is it "sad" that I speak this way? Tell me what is "happy," what is "sad," and what is the difference between the two? Feel free to email me at silentounce@gmail.com so as not to clutter the topic.
"And just for the record, the A.C. parent posted no commentary. Just the moment of zen. And others modded it as funny (and insightful!). Why did you automatically assume he was ridiculing it?" Read my signature, it's from the Dao de Ching, a root of Zen Buddhism, and you might get an idea. If you have a hard time, I had to squeeze it into 80 characters, go here. It's part of the way down the page.
"Which means just about the LAST place you'd expect it to come from is the mouth of the man whose job otherwise was to blow up as much of the known world as he could." Nice flamebait, but not true. His job is to defend the USA, if that requires some blowing up, so be it. But not "as much of the known world as he could."
We don't, we have immigrant culture. We take from the cultures of the people that make up our nation. I haven't seen the facts recently, but I'm fairly sure that we still have the highest immigration rate in the world. If our country was really that bad, that unfree, that terrible, would thousands of people arrive here every day looking for a better life? My ancestors came here nearly 300 years ago, and I know that means that they probably did some horrible things to the natives, but they came here looking for a better life escaping oppression and persecution in Europe. And they found it. Dissent is a form of patriotism, and that is very prevalent here. But why can't someone say something good about the States here every once in a while. We have our faults, but who doesn't? I know the above post was a joke, but, well, I just had to put in my.002 cents. Go ahead and mod this down and confirm my feelings about this forum.
Yes, we should. As far as we know, we are the only life in the universe. Unless you are one of the very few people in the world that thinks life is bad, the spreading of life to other worlds so that it can survive is perhaps the most important task of life on Earth. I know a robot isn't life, but it was made by life. It is a construct that shows that we were there. It shows that a collection of cells brought together by evolution can create something to cross a vast, to us, distance across the desolate environment of space to a new world. Even if you don't think that human life is a good thing, we'll bring other life with us. I also try not to take a humancentric view, afterall, we are part of the universe, not separate from it. If part of the universe, following universal laws decides to move a hunk of metal to a different planet and make some tracks, who are we to judge? We're just redistributing the matter, don't forget, we're all made of stars, and that includes our robots.
Maybe that industry "wants" to be a monopoly. You can't turn a pig into a chicken by gluing feathers on him, eventually they'll fall off. By the way, antitrust laws are not intended to break up monopolies. They are there to deter and punish only certain anti-competitive actions. The laws were put into place for mostly political reasons. Many economists are against them.
Monopolies or oligopolies aren't all bad in some industries, sometimes they are the most efficient market structure. I'm not saying that the telecom industry is one of these, but there is a reason that after several breakups that they just coming back together. The same thing has happened in the airline industry. Any industry that demands a very large infrastructure will always lean toward a non-competetive market structure because the "cost to play" is so high.
"Mon centre cède, impossible de me mouvoir, situation excellente, j'attaque." That guy also said, "Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value."
Don't forget this from the same month but different battle: "I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." 1stLt. Clifton B. Cates, USMC in Belleau Wood, 19 July 1918.
Cates eventually became Commandant of the Marine Corps.
"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the univese can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole universie is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."
MS isn't the only company that does this sort of thing. A friend of mine, Martin, creator of Memegen, received a similar, although less valuable, gift of iPod related goodness from Apple a while back.
In related news: Damn, that was, too, many, commas, in the above sentence. Anyone care to correct it?
"In a game based on true Evolution, you would just watch everything unfold randomly according to the game rules after perhaps tweaking some initial conditions (you are allowed some Initial Design of the rules / state at the Big Bang, since that doesn't involve any god/world interaction)."
And that is a game how? And it is "loosely" based on evolution, things you eat and how you behave determine some of the outcomes. Obviously it's more complex than that, but it is not just entirely designing. With your logic you could argue that Civilization isn't really a simulation of human history because it doesn't involve actual beings making decisions that result in a society unfolding.
How is this in the least bit immoral? Really, and don't give me any BS about a bribe, or that it is incentive to speak good about MS. If someone blogs about how great MS is in order to receive a laptop that's on their morals and ethics, not MS's. I'm seriously having a hard time seeing how this is immoral.
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They're just trying to win Wired's 2007 Vaporware Awards. They figure if they leak it now they have a whole year to build it up. It's good marketing
Are you proposing the end of mice and keyboards? Touch screen and pads only? Gah!
You are 100% correct. I passed out in boot camp because I was overhydrated. The Drill Instructors kept having me drink water and the symptoms wouldn't go away. I eventually pissed myself and passed out in the chow line. That's when they realized what was really wrong and the simple solution was to wait it out. It could have been much worse though. I don't really believe that they were ignorant either, it's just that the symptoms are so similar, and recruits more commonly suffer dehydration than superhydration. People also do this to themselves purposefully to get a high, although that may also be an urban legend in itself.
More like:
o nopoly/natural_monopoly.htm
http://www.tutor2u.net/economics/content/topics/m
http://www.progress.org/fold74.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
I'm not saying that that stuff doesn't happen, but the very nature of the industry leads to oligopoly. And, no, I do not work for any company remotely related to telecom.
I would have emailed you this, but you do not have it listed. I didn't only see flamebait. I saw flamebait in your comment about Rumsfeld blowing up the world. Even the works of Lao Tzu state that war is sometimes necessary. There are several verses that discuss it, even though such things should not be glorified. I can speak of the Dao even though I may not follow it. It is said that everyone has their own way.
No one is perfect, I do not claim to be. I only aspire to find the way. Is it "sad" that I speak this way? Tell me what is "happy," what is "sad," and what is the difference between the two?
Feel free to email me at silentounce@gmail.com so as not to clutter the topic.
"And just for the record, the A.C. parent posted no commentary. Just the moment of zen. And others modded it as funny (and insightful!). Why did you automatically assume he was ridiculing it?"
Read my signature, it's from the Dao de Ching, a root of Zen Buddhism, and you might get an idea. If you have a hard time, I had to squeeze it into 80 characters, go here. It's part of the way down the page.
"Which means just about the LAST place you'd expect it to come from is the mouth of the man whose job otherwise was to blow up as much of the known world as he could."
Nice flamebait, but not true. His job is to defend the USA, if that requires some blowing up, so be it. But not "as much of the known world as he could."
We don't, we have immigrant culture. We take from the cultures of the people that make up our nation. I haven't seen the facts recently, but I'm fairly sure that we still have the highest immigration rate in the world. If our country was really that bad, that unfree, that terrible, would thousands of people arrive here every day looking for a better life? My ancestors came here nearly 300 years ago, and I know that means that they probably did some horrible things to the natives, but they came here looking for a better life escaping oppression and persecution in Europe. And they found it. Dissent is a form of patriotism, and that is very prevalent here. But why can't someone say something good about the States here every once in a while. We have our faults, but who doesn't? I know the above post was a joke, but, well, I just had to put in my .002 cents. Go ahead and mod this down and confirm my feelings about this forum.
Yes, we should. As far as we know, we are the only life in the universe. Unless you are one of the very few people in the world that thinks life is bad, the spreading of life to other worlds so that it can survive is perhaps the most important task of life on Earth. I know a robot isn't life, but it was made by life. It is a construct that shows that we were there. It shows that a collection of cells brought together by evolution can create something to cross a vast, to us, distance across the desolate environment of space to a new world. Even if you don't think that human life is a good thing, we'll bring other life with us. I also try not to take a humancentric view, afterall, we are part of the universe, not separate from it. If part of the universe, following universal laws decides to move a hunk of metal to a different planet and make some tracks, who are we to judge? We're just redistributing the matter, don't forget, we're all made of stars, and that includes our robots.
I know you children see me as some sort of "booger man", but I'm really not such a bad dude.
I appreciate all the hard work, but was a comb the best tool to use for searching?
Maybe that industry "wants" to be a monopoly. You can't turn a pig into a chicken by gluing feathers on him, eventually they'll fall off. By the way, antitrust laws are not intended to break up monopolies. They are there to deter and punish only certain anti-competitive actions. The laws were put into place for mostly political reasons. Many economists are against them.
Monopolies or oligopolies aren't all bad in some industries, sometimes they are the most efficient market structure. I'm not saying that the telecom industry is one of these, but there is a reason that after several breakups that they just coming back together. The same thing has happened in the airline industry. Any industry that demands a very large infrastructure will always lean toward a non-competetive market structure because the "cost to play" is so high.
I was talking about an in-game concept in Spore.
I'd go with the IIgs instead of the Mac. I should have mentioned it in my previous post.
I think the Polish were.
"Mon centre cède, impossible de me mouvoir, situation excellente, j'attaque."
That guy also said, "Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value."
Don't forget this from the same month but different battle:
"I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold."
1stLt. Clifton B. Cates, USMC
in Belleau Wood, 19 July 1918.
Cates eventually became Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Semper Fi!
I don't take journalism seriously. Sometimes I take blogging more seriously than journalism. But then again, I am not very rational.
Generation ship
"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the univese can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole universie is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."
"These actions are intended to inhibit (albeit to a limited extent) the spread of unbiased criticism to those who would benefit most by it."
That's a good point considering that the majority of bloggers are already biased against Microsoft. In a way, this could be them fighting back.
MS isn't the only company that does this sort of thing. A friend of mine, Martin, creator of Memegen, received a similar, although less valuable, gift of iPod related goodness from Apple a while back.
In related news:
Damn, that was, too, many, commas, in the above sentence. Anyone care to correct it?
"In a game based on true Evolution, you would just watch everything unfold randomly according to the game rules after perhaps tweaking some initial conditions (you are allowed some Initial Design of the rules / state at the Big Bang, since that doesn't involve any god/world interaction)."
And that is a game how? And it is "loosely" based on evolution, things you eat and how you behave determine some of the outcomes. Obviously it's more complex than that, but it is not just entirely designing. With your logic you could argue that Civilization isn't really a simulation of human history because it doesn't involve actual beings making decisions that result in a society unfolding.
Yeah, see here for details.
I like the allusion that MS is a cult. Nice and subtle pick of a definition source. ;-)
But do they run Linux?
How is this in the least bit immoral? Really, and don't give me any BS about a bribe, or that it is incentive to speak good about MS. If someone blogs about how great MS is in order to receive a laptop that's on their morals and ethics, not MS's. I'm seriously having a hard time seeing how this is immoral.