Then you should also be worried about fighter aircraft which have been using fly by wire systems for quite some time now. As for using old cars, your sense of risk is skewed; you are concerned about the drive by wire systems more than the fact older cars tend to be built to older (read out-dated) safety standards. Even then, you are much more likely to be killed in a car accident of your own making than by a hardware failure; by at least an order of magnitude.
The CEO has accused workers of killing themselves for financial compensation, and the company has stopped suicide payments to suicide victims' families.
You know the working conditions/pay are bad when people would rather kill themselves for the insurance.
but since when is its mankind's responsibility to save every variety of every species of animal on the planet?
Since when does humanity have the inherent right to wipe these species out in the first place? That aside, why is it that a corporation like bp can wipe out an entire ecosystem and destroy a species that so many depend on for making a living? Wiping out a species fails on two counts: 1) biodiversity and 2) property rights violation
I don't think the author was saying that you couldn't replicate features from flash in html 5 so much as saying that it is lazier to just do it all in flash and therefore flash will dominate for quite some time. There's actually a bigger problem and that is that HTML 5 support is quite limited among browsers, especially in IE. So even if it was vastly simpler to do everything in flash, it will take quite some time for the older non-HTML 5 supporting browsers to die off.
That depends on whether we knock out a few very important species or not. kind of like the difference between knocking out a window and knocking out one of the support beams. One has very little impact; the other causes a collapse.
No. You misunderstood me. When I say depression, I mean they grab a knife out of the kitchen silverware drawer and try to stab themselves. (which is exactly what my grandmother tried to do)
It's funny until you've seen it happen. The person with Alzheimer's will certainyl forget but those around them certainly won't. Eventually Alzheimer's gets to the point where they forget *everyone* and everything. They often have depression from the times that they realize what is going on and not knowing who anyone is around them. Alzheimer's fractures the mind to the point where it has effectively combined aspects from their childhood, teenage years, adulthood and older years all wrapped up in the same person. They lose the ability to speak, walk and in the end even move. As bad as it is for them, it is fucking terrible for their family to watch that unfold when you know that there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop it. Stem cell research has the potential to significantly curb the effects of Alzheimer's but alas it will not be in time for my own grandmother who is in the final stages of Alzheimer's.
Would that include the janitors, the shiftworkers, the engineers, who all showed up and did their jobs properly and safely?
yes. cleaning up an oil spill is a great motivator to do everything you possibly can to prevent having to do it again. If the higher ups are bone headed enough to do something stupid there should be a good reason for their subordinates to smack some sense into them in whichever way they can.
You cant stop every disaster but what BP did was nothing short of negligence and it shows that we need to put a few rules in place to help stop further disasters. Will it stop them all? no of course not but it will help reduce the frequency of them.
I say we burn their company to the ground and then make them clean up the spill... Every last one of them. If your company makes money off of a dirty industry that is destroying an entire ecosystem, you ought not to get out of it without scars.
5GB a month is ok as long as you exclude video, music, flash (nothing of value is lost) and any software updates/live cds that month. 250GB is still a lot of bandwidth most likely someone watching video/downloading dvds several hours a day. It is doable if you're addicted to visual media. (eg. otakus)
The problem is that the *tiny* part of the GOP that remotely cares about controlling spending is grossly outnumbered by the social cons/pro war idiots that resulted in Bush's administration out-spending the "liberal" Clinton by 30+ percent. The fact of the matter is that military spending has gone batshit during republican administrations and it is the single largest section of government. The silly notion that GOP is in any way slowing down the expansion of government needs to die right here.
Corporate responibility for environmental damage is limited to 75 million$ + the cost of stopping the leak. Last I've heard there was a bill that would have increased the ceiling to 10 billion which was later shot down by the republicans. Free market my ass.
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If a CEO has no higher responsibilities than anyone else in the company, there's no reason they ought to be paid more otherwise they'd just be a corporate parasite.
transfinite != infinite a very large quantity that is effectively uncountable but not infinite. I would imagine that a few billion shares would effectively be uncountable during these short time periods especially with the inherent volatility that arises out of how the stock market works.
KDE4 to work exactly the way you want. It's very flexible, compared to all the others
Except KDE 3.5. KDE4.x was all about making KDE look pretty instead of making it more customizable i.e. useful like KDE3.5.x is. If I wanted a D.E. that abandoned customization as a virtue I'd use Gnome.
That is the worst argument against reducing emissions that I've ever heard. Facts are what matter and the facts point to AGW being a problem that needs to be addressed. We have two choices: reduce what we use or the one favored by myself and any sane environmentalists: 2) switch from polluting sources of power toward ones that are more sustainable and cleaner. ie nuclear power for the most part. This isn't a Coal or caveman lifestyle decision; humanity is very smart, we can make it happen.
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Tell me again why "big pharma" wants their experimental drugs restricted from use again?
Then you should also be worried about fighter aircraft which have been using fly by wire systems for quite some time now. As for using old cars, your sense of risk is skewed; you are concerned about the drive by wire systems more than the fact older cars tend to be built to older (read out-dated) safety standards. Even then, you are much more likely to be killed in a car accident of your own making than by a hardware failure; by at least an order of magnitude.
You know the working conditions/pay are bad when people would rather kill themselves for the insurance.
Since when does humanity have the inherent right to wipe these species out in the first place? That aside, why is it that a corporation like bp can wipe out an entire ecosystem and destroy a species that so many depend on for making a living? Wiping out a species fails on two counts: 1) biodiversity and 2) property rights violation
I don't think the author was saying that you couldn't replicate features from flash in html 5 so much as saying that it is lazier to just do it all in flash and therefore flash will dominate for quite some time. There's actually a bigger problem and that is that HTML 5 support is quite limited among browsers, especially in IE. So even if it was vastly simpler to do everything in flash, it will take quite some time for the older non-HTML 5 supporting browsers to die off.
That depends on whether we knock out a few very important species or not. kind of like the difference between knocking out a window and knocking out one of the support beams. One has very little impact; the other causes a collapse.
No. You misunderstood me. When I say depression, I mean they grab a knife out of the kitchen silverware drawer and try to stab themselves. (which is exactly what my grandmother tried to do)
It's funny until you've seen it happen. The person with Alzheimer's will certainyl forget but those around them certainly won't. Eventually Alzheimer's gets to the point where they forget *everyone* and everything. They often have depression from the times that they realize what is going on and not knowing who anyone is around them. Alzheimer's fractures the mind to the point where it has effectively combined aspects from their childhood, teenage years, adulthood and older years all wrapped up in the same person. They lose the ability to speak, walk and in the end even move. As bad as it is for them, it is fucking terrible for their family to watch that unfold when you know that there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop it. Stem cell research has the potential to significantly curb the effects of Alzheimer's but alas it will not be in time for my own grandmother who is in the final stages of Alzheimer's.
yes. cleaning up an oil spill is a great motivator to do everything you possibly can to prevent having to do it again. If the higher ups are bone headed enough to do something stupid there should be a good reason for their subordinates to smack some sense into them in whichever way they can.
You cant stop every disaster but what BP did was nothing short of negligence and it shows that we need to put a few rules in place to help stop further disasters. Will it stop them all? no of course not but it will help reduce the frequency of them.
I say we burn their company to the ground and then make them clean up the spill... Every last one of them. If your company makes money off of a dirty industry that is destroying an entire ecosystem, you ought not to get out of it without scars.
So your solution is to continue trusting idiots like BP with ruining our environment with oil? now that is insane.
5GB a month is ok as long as you exclude video, music, flash (nothing of value is lost) and any software updates/live cds that month. 250GB is still a lot of bandwidth most likely someone watching video/downloading dvds several hours a day. It is doable if you're addicted to visual media. (eg. otakus)
Whenever politics or economics are concerned I would say that in addition to being funny, that is a particularly true statement.
The problem is that the *tiny* part of the GOP that remotely cares about controlling spending is grossly outnumbered by the social cons/pro war idiots that resulted in Bush's administration out-spending the "liberal" Clinton by 30+ percent. The fact of the matter is that military spending has gone batshit during republican administrations and it is the single largest section of government. The silly notion that GOP is in any way slowing down the expansion of government needs to die right here.
No... No... see corporations can regulate themselves they don't need "regulators."
Corporate responibility for environmental damage is limited to 75 million$ + the cost of stopping the leak. Last I've heard there was a bill that would have increased the ceiling to 10 billion which was later shot down by the republicans. Free market my ass.
If a CEO has no higher responsibilities than anyone else in the company, there's no reason they ought to be paid more otherwise they'd just be a corporate parasite.
transfinite != infinite a very large quantity that is effectively uncountable but not infinite. I would imagine that a few billion shares would effectively be uncountable during these short time periods especially with the inherent volatility that arises out of how the stock market works.
If only the circuit breaker worked as quickly as these trades do, then we might avoid destroying a trillion dollars because of a typo.
Except KDE 3.5. KDE4.x was all about making KDE look pretty instead of making it more customizable i.e. useful like KDE3.5.x is. If I wanted a D.E. that abandoned customization as a virtue I'd use Gnome.
http://www.kde.org/info/3.5.10.php
KDE 3.5 should have been re-written in QT4 for the KDE4 release instead.
The difference is that we want flash to die horribly for a number of reasons.
How fucked in the head do you have to be for $#*! to be offensive... There's nothing there!
That is the worst argument against reducing emissions that I've ever heard. Facts are what matter and the facts point to AGW being a problem that needs to be addressed. We have two choices: reduce what we use or the one favored by myself and any sane environmentalists: 2) switch from polluting sources of power toward ones that are more sustainable and cleaner. ie nuclear power for the most part. This isn't a Coal or caveman lifestyle decision; humanity is very smart, we can make it happen.