But you can't actually do this: it flies in the face of all the progress corporations have been making first in acquiring the rights of a human citizen with none of the responsibilities (have any of the Firestone exec gone to prison for murder?) and second in acquiring even more rights than human citizens.
Tangentially, what's all the hoopla about accountability, anyway? So what if you can point and say "Bob screwed up!", if there are no sanctions for Bob's actions? This is a big problem with governments: they have ridiculous procedural overhead for accountability, but no culpability. --
Change is inevitable.
Hear hear, though it's especially true for the crap Compaq ships. Even when they take good underlying technology, like trinitron, they make it the dimmest monitor ever built (P75), or they ship a 19" (S900) with an alleged.26 dpi that looks more like.38.
I do like my big Viewsonic, though. It all boils down to quality: if you buy a cheap $200 17" or 19", you should expect it to ruin your eyes. Period. -- Change is inevitable.
Ahem. Go read the link you supplied, and also see www.dpix.com. They've just started manufacturing the things, and are targetting high-margin military and medical applications.
Besides, even if, by some miracle, I could actually purchase one of these things, the software infrastructure isn't there. All currently deployed and widely used windowing systems are pixel-dependant, and would be virtually unusable on something like this. -- Change is inevitable.
I won't proffer any grand unified theories of sociology, but I would like to point out one pathological manifestation in the US, Canada, and I presume other places: nursing homes.
The "I'm worth more than my parents" quip does run deeper than that, because it plays to this pattern that parents don't properly raise their children, the children grow up with no real emotional bond to their parents, and see nothing wrong with locking them up in prisons for old people. Where else are the elderly as reviled and disrespected? Where else are extended families just about nonexistent? -- Change is inevitable.
If they're standing outside with other socially ostracized addicts, who cares? So long as they're not inside.
I think that actually making an outgoing call from a theatre or lecture call would be grounds for a justifiable beating. And as for assholes like the guy you mentioned, if he sees fit to violate your rights and your space, then you should violate his: take his phone, shut it off, and return his battery at the end of the day.
Unfortunately, basic civility is harder and harder to find these days. We really are living in a dog eats dog society. A few weeks ago, I was nearly knocked over in a subway stairwell. And I'm pretty big and strong. That was the last straw for me, and now I'm rude too. But at least no-one tries to knock me over anymore. -- Change is inevitable.
I'd guess that most people settle for cheap and crappy Sony and Technics stuff. They don't realize that every piece of your stereo counts when producing the sound. For instance, hook up a really good and a mediocre CD player to the same receiver. The difference is amazing. Ditto for speakers.
If you've got some boombox or cheap radio, you don't know what CD's actually sound like. -- Change is inevitable.
I would also like some proof that "different looking widgets" somehow "confuse users". I think this is a giant piece of FUD being given to everybody by the toolkit-mongers.
For this point specifically: take a user used to more consistent environments like Mac or Windows and sit them in front of an X terminal, and watch them try to puzzle out the 3 mouse buttons, every other program having completely different scrollbar behaviours, etc. It goes beyond mere appearance to functionality: Each picture comes with a different set of behaviours. -- Change is inevitable.
How old are you? See how the life of an itinerant labourer suits you when you're 40 or 50.
Worried about getting sick? I've got medical insurance.. and I guess being Canadian helps in that the goverment helps with that (generally).
Not for much longer. One of the things that affords you your increased mobility is the abolishment of national sovereignty, and with it the right to protect domestic standards of health care and education. Don't believe it? Look at what's being negotiated through the WTO. -- Change is inevitable.
I just have to say it: drawing on your own physics analogy, what makes you think we won't be using silicon-based software much longer? Newtonian mechanics didn't suddenly stop being useful every day at the turn of the century.
There's no reason to believe that, say, quantum computers will be able to supercede the current paradigm. -- Change is inevitable.
Nonsense. A people's language carries with it an immense cultural and historical backdrop -- a philosophy. English, for instance, is incredibly limited when it comes to expression of all kinds of emotions.
It's enlightening and enriching for the individual to really learn and think in another language, because he learns another worldview -- another paradigm, if you will.
Besides, the answer to elitism is not some common populist smear, like we're seeing with the Hollywood Lowest Common Denominator. Differences are at least as good as they are bad. --
I was somewhat dramatic in my previous posting. If you're healthy, you won't notice much, provided you don't do it often.
Fat cells are used to store all kinds of toxins that you've ingested, and that your body can't expell at the moment. When you start losing weight and expelling those fat cells, then you're also releasing those toxins back into your system. It's your kidneys' job to flush them out. The faster you lose weight, the faster you release the toxins, the harder you work your kidneys (and other organs). This can, and does, lead to organ damage. Then you may need medication to make your kidneys work, or if you're really unlucky, dialysis.
As for the 3-5 kg a month, I have it on good authority from some well-known gastroenterologists, and I've also seen the figure in at least one book on fasting.
On a related note, here's something that I haven't experienced, but I've heard from people who claim to have: people who undergo a strict cleansing fast, properly, experience the recurrence of all sorts of illnesses they had had years ago and had forgotten about. Things like throat infections and abcesses. I guess as they purged themselves of new junk, their bodies focussed on expelling old problems.
Basically, be careful. Everything in moderation.:) --
It's great that you've found success, but I have to warn you: losing that much weight that quickly is unhealthy. It's a tremendous shock for your kidneys and liver to process that much fat -- and all the toxins stored in that fat -- that quickly.
As a reference, the healthy range for weight corrections is 3-5 kg a month (~6-10 lb.). It's sustainable, and most importantly, it won't send you into toxic shock. --
There's a very clear and prominent link to it on the postgresql web page. Seems to me that that should be the first place to look for resources. --
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First off, some people like books. I'd venture that the majority of North Americans -- Joe sixpack wrestling fans etc. -- are hard-pressed to read the local News for First-graders newspaper.
Second, it won't matter. I don't remember a plebiscite when music publishers stopped producing LPs and released everything on CD only.
Lastly, and here's a point which you seem to be mising, is that "e-books", if/when they replace the print medium, have the potential to impose complete control over the populace. The amount of revisionism, lying, and denial that occurs in broadcast media already is astonishing. Now imagine that you read your newspaper on "e-paper", that you download it everyday, that you have no way of storing an archival copy. But you can always download a copy of an old edition for a fee, right? But there's nothing to guarantee that what you've just downloaded is the same thing that they printed initially. 0 accountability.
Moreover, e-books stand to revoke what capabilities we have now with paper books: buying and reselling them anonymously, lending them, and yes, even copying them. If something is out of print, or it's being suppressed, there's a good chance that you'll be able to hunt down a copy in some form, with enough effort.
Not so when the fundamental reading and distribution architecture disallows it.
I know that many people around here have unrealistic theories. But at least they care about their liberties. You don't. You just about say as much. --
The basic foundation to *any* industrial society is educating the population.
Define educating. The basic foundation of an industrial society is a docile, obedient population. For a long time, the purpose of public school systems was to create obient, hard-working subjects who were loyal to the state. (Unfortunately, at some point it became sufficient to create mass-consuming imbeciles who are harmless to the state.)
Um, back to my point, public schools were designed as a place of indoctrination, where the common values of society were instilled.
Unfortunately, I've lost the reference, but I found an interesting article by a long-time teacher and recipient of several state awards for teaching in the US on the origins of the US public education system. He mentioned the strong influence of the Prussian system, which, he asserts, was founded to create good workers and soldiers so they wouldn't suffer more crushing defeats like the one to Napoleon.
Regardless, the purpose of public schools is not, and has never really been, to educate children in the most positive sense of the word. --
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You're still their customer. Why, then, is it amazing? If they're that bad, switch.
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Change is inevitable.
That's because it's a really abusive C program. What gave you the impression that it's C++?
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Change is inevitable.
If only I'd known about the plot, I for one would never have subjected myself to the agony that is this movie.
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Change is inevitable.
Who killed Kennedy? :)
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Change is inevitable.
Tangentially, what's all the hoopla about accountability, anyway? So what if you can point and say "Bob screwed up!", if there are no sanctions for Bob's actions? This is a big problem with governments: they have ridiculous procedural overhead for accountability, but no culpability.
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Change is inevitable.
I do like my big Viewsonic, though. It all boils down to quality: if you buy a cheap $200 17" or 19", you should expect it to ruin your eyes. Period.
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Change is inevitable.
Besides, even if, by some miracle, I could actually purchase one of these things, the software infrastructure isn't there. All currently deployed and widely used windowing systems are pixel-dependant, and would be virtually unusable on something like this.
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Change is inevitable.
Sorry, couldn't resist: In what direction is it going?
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Change is inevitable.
The "I'm worth more than my parents" quip does run deeper than that, because it plays to this pattern that parents don't properly raise their children, the children grow up with no real emotional bond to their parents, and see nothing wrong with locking them up in prisons for old people. Where else are the elderly as reviled and disrespected? Where else are extended families just about nonexistent?
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Change is inevitable.
And you replied in a very mature manner, and sure did set him straight. Thanks for coming out, as they say.
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Change is inevitable.
I think that actually making an outgoing call from a theatre or lecture call would be grounds for a justifiable beating. And as for assholes like the guy you mentioned, if he sees fit to violate your rights and your space, then you should violate his: take his phone, shut it off, and return his battery at the end of the day.
Unfortunately, basic civility is harder and harder to find these days. We really are living in a dog eats dog society. A few weeks ago, I was nearly knocked over in a subway stairwell. And I'm pretty big and strong. That was the last straw for me, and now I'm rude too. But at least no-one tries to knock me over anymore.
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Change is inevitable.
Have a look at Tera Term, a freeware terminal emulator for Windows for which ssl and ssh plugins are available.
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Change is inevitable.
If you've got some boombox or cheap radio, you don't know what CD's actually sound like.
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Change is inevitable.
n/t
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Change is inevitable.
For this point specifically: take a user used to more consistent environments like Mac or Windows and sit them in front of an X terminal, and watch them try to puzzle out the 3 mouse buttons, every other program having completely different scrollbar behaviours, etc. It goes beyond mere appearance to functionality: Each picture comes with a different set of behaviours.
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Change is inevitable.
Ahem. Nuclear-powers-with-really-long-range-delivery-sys tems. :)
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Change is inevitable.
Worried about getting sick? I've got medical insurance.. and I guess being Canadian helps in that the goverment helps with that (generally).
Not for much longer. One of the things that affords you your increased mobility is the abolishment of national sovereignty, and with it the right to protect domestic standards of health care and education. Don't believe it? Look at what's being negotiated through the WTO.
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Change is inevitable.
There's no reason to believe that, say, quantum computers will be able to supercede the current paradigm.
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Change is inevitable.
It's enlightening and enriching for the individual to really learn and think in another language, because he learns another worldview -- another paradigm, if you will.
Besides, the answer to elitism is not some common populist smear, like we're seeing with the Hollywood Lowest Common Denominator. Differences are at least as good as they are bad.
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Fat cells are used to store all kinds of toxins that you've ingested, and that your body can't expell at the moment. When you start losing weight and expelling those fat cells, then you're also releasing those toxins back into your system. It's your kidneys' job to flush them out. The faster you lose weight, the faster you release the toxins, the harder you work your kidneys (and other organs). This can, and does, lead to organ damage. Then you may need medication to make your kidneys work, or if you're really unlucky, dialysis.
As for the 3-5 kg a month, I have it on good authority from some well-known gastroenterologists, and I've also seen the figure in at least one book on fasting.
On a related note, here's something that I haven't experienced, but I've heard from people who claim to have: people who undergo a strict cleansing fast, properly, experience the recurrence of all sorts of illnesses they had had years ago and had forgotten about. Things like throat infections and abcesses. I guess as they purged themselves of new junk, their bodies focussed on expelling old problems.
Basically, be careful. Everything in moderation. :)
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As a reference, the healthy range for weight corrections is 3-5 kg a month (~6-10 lb.). It's sustainable, and most importantly, it won't send you into toxic shock.
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There's a very clear and prominent link to it on the postgresql web page. Seems to me that that should be the first place to look for resources.
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Second, it won't matter. I don't remember a plebiscite when music publishers stopped producing LPs and released everything on CD only.
Lastly, and here's a point which you seem to be mising, is that "e-books", if/when they replace the print medium, have the potential to impose complete control over the populace. The amount of revisionism, lying, and denial that occurs in broadcast media already is astonishing. Now imagine that you read your newspaper on "e-paper", that you download it everyday, that you have no way of storing an archival copy. But you can always download a copy of an old edition for a fee, right? But there's nothing to guarantee that what you've just downloaded is the same thing that they printed initially. 0 accountability.
Moreover, e-books stand to revoke what capabilities we have now with paper books: buying and reselling them anonymously, lending them, and yes, even copying them. If something is out of print, or it's being suppressed, there's a good chance that you'll be able to hunt down a copy in some form, with enough effort.
Not so when the fundamental reading and distribution architecture disallows it.
I know that many people around here have unrealistic theories. But at least they care about their liberties. You don't. You just about say as much.
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Define educating. The basic foundation of an industrial society is a docile, obedient population. For a long time, the purpose of public school systems was to create obient, hard-working subjects who were loyal to the state. (Unfortunately, at some point it became sufficient to create mass-consuming imbeciles who are harmless to the state.)
Um, back to my point, public schools were designed as a place of indoctrination, where the common values of society were instilled.
Unfortunately, I've lost the reference, but I found an interesting article by a long-time teacher and recipient of several state awards for teaching in the US on the origins of the US public education system. He mentioned the strong influence of the Prussian system, which, he asserts, was founded to create good workers and soldiers so they wouldn't suffer more crushing defeats like the one to Napoleon.
Regardless, the purpose of public schools is not, and has never really been, to educate children in the most positive sense of the word.
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I think it's telling how The Market isn't even referred to as the free market anymore.
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