Modern war isn't fought successfully by throwing raw manpower at an opponent. This was proven in the Iraq/Iran war, and that wasn't even a very big one.
Unfortunately, bricks and mortar do not equal success. Not necessarily, anyhow.
In the early 90's it was 'the era of Japan' and they were the up and coming power.
Without an ethical business infrastructure, China can't maintain a lead. And they're already facing the fact that the milk is poisoned again, only a short year or two past the last time they poisoned all those babies.
No, I see Civil War in China's future. Really messy Civil War.
The last time I looked at the lego blocks in the toy department at WalMart, there were three or four 'tub of blocks' purchase choices available. They were toward the back, and not as well displayed as the 'theme kits.'
I agree about the boxed single-purpose kits. For goodness sakes, most of them don't even look like Lego blocks, except for the packaging.
You cannot run a modern society, handle modern problems and improve the economy without good science,
You shouldn't be trying. Society isn't 'run' by any individual, or group of experts. That was tried numerous times in the early to mid 20th century. The ideologues in the Communist and Fascist movements of Europe made the claim that they were being modern and scientific. The eugenicists of the 'Progressive' era in the US claimed they were being scientific as they went forward sterilizing 'undesirable' people.
No particular 'you' should have the power to 'run a modern society.' We decide that collectively, by working freely and independent of rulers telling us what to do.
And that is the crux of the matter with regard to AGW. The zealots pounding that particular drum want to do more of that 'stuff' that was tried in the past. Some of them don't even really care if AGW is provable or not. They just want the power.
The place I used to work (layoff last October) blocked YouTube.
But the funny thing was, if you went into your browser (IE6 I might add) and just turned off the proxy setting entirely, everything they blocked Just Started Working(tm).
People working in places with 'blocked' web access should try that- just turn off the proxy in the browser setting and see what happens.
We want people to make native iPhone games instead that will run faster, use the GPU, save state on exit, etc.
That's the ghetto mentality that Apple is famous for. Box their customers off in their own world. Then sprinkle in some "it's better this way" for good measure.
If there is no viable third party alternative soon then there will be no way to get back.
That's pretty much a complete load of nonsense. Study your American Political History. Business interests have had greater and lesser influence on politics forever in history. Some times they have incredible 'pull.' Other times that pull is reduced. We are not 'on the edge of a precipice' and about to tumble down a cliff. It's just going back to the way it used to be, before the whole 'Campaign Finance Reform' bill was passed. Oh, and Obama declined his public funding during the recent Presidential election and went all on contributions. If that wasn't 'thumbing the nose' at Campaign Finance Reform Laws, what could be??
You can wave your hands around and chant all you like.
The bottom 50% of the population still don't pay any taxes at all.
I don't understand how you can make that claim about the reason 'our middle class is dying.' Seems like more hand waving to me. Oh, I'm sure there are 'cultural studies' 'scientists' somewhere who've published a study you can cite...
Now, where did you get the idea that the issue was sexual harassment. I thought the Media had done a good enough job of making the whole case into a friendly blow job or two from someone slightly over the age of consent?
Do we need to go over it all again, to make it clear that Bill Clinton, and the Feminists who supported him throughout the whole ordeal, had the best interests of the country at heart? Sexual harassment is good, and needs to be covered up, whenever it's someone 'friendly to the movement' (Bob Packwood comes to mind, also) who is engaging in it.
Haliburton hating is a growth industry (or it was, during the Bush era) so I am sure that no matter what anybody here says you can rattle off another bromide about them.
The current iteration of silverlight is not supported on PPC Mac OS X.
It's not supported on Windows NT 4.0 for PPC either! I bet, although I haven't tried, that it's not supported in BeOS either. On the Intel _or_ the PPC version.
Tell me, where does the commie fascist UN plot for a world government fit into this?
It's a Liberal Fascist plot. Haven't you read your history? The plan, as always, is: central planning, and a 'rational energy policy' meaning: one planned and controlled by the government. State manipulation of industry, just like communists, fascists, liberals, and their fellow travellers have classically done things.
But if we did that, all the sugar growers in the Red River Valley would stop cultivating beet sugar. All that land would revert back to it's natural state, absorb moisture like it always did in the past, and the annual flooding up in the Fargo-Moorehead area would end.
Think of the people employed in dispensing Flood Relief Aid. Think of the sandbag manufacturers! We can NOT stop protecting our domestic Sugar Producers in the fashion you suggest.
You're throwing up a link to a video which looks to be from a Lyndon Larouche website, which you apparently haven't watched, because you say it's 'supposed to be very good'?? Why not watch it first so you can have a more informed opinion.
Also, your Cold War sabre rattling is a little ridiculous.
Furthermore, SpaceX, Blue Origin, et. al. employ a large number of people who used to work at more traditional companies
And the beauty of it is, they shucked off all the dead wood in the process. I doubt if there are unions at SpaceX and Blue Origin, either.
Any place that government bumbles around slowly, moss and other parasitic growths like Unions latch on. That's part of why privatizing formerly government functions is such a cost saver.
And with the paper cost only being $1650 per ream, just think of the paper savings. The woman in charge of the copying machine can be in charge of giving out this new paper, and I bet everybody will get to use at least 4 sheets a week.
No, it sounds like a novelty printer. The kind of thing that a V.P. gets and keeps outside his office.
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I broken the handle on my clarinet case when I hit a bully with it. They left me alone after that.
Personally speaking, pirated software is how things like personally identifiable information is acquired in things like online indentity theft and organized crime.
The way you phrased that makes it sound like you're personally acquainted with online identity theft and organized crime. And based on your display of knowledge in the matter, it's hard not to conclude that you mean to imply that you've used exploits in Pirated Software this way to your advantage.
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It's okay, September's coming...
Too late. We've even got apple.slashdot.org now...
Modern war isn't fought successfully by throwing raw manpower at an opponent. This was proven in the Iraq/Iran war, and that wasn't even a very big one.
Unfortunately, bricks and mortar do not equal success. Not necessarily, anyhow.
In the early 90's it was 'the era of Japan' and they were the up and coming power.
Without an ethical business infrastructure, China can't maintain a lead. And they're already facing the fact that the milk is poisoned again, only a short year or two past the last time they poisoned all those babies.
No, I see Civil War in China's future. Really messy Civil War.
Don't show your ignorance. The (accidental) bombing of the Chinese embassy was all over the news when it happened.
The last time I looked at the lego blocks in the toy department at WalMart, there were three or four 'tub of blocks' purchase choices available. They were toward the back, and not as well displayed as the 'theme kits.'
I agree about the boxed single-purpose kits. For goodness sakes, most of them don't even look like Lego blocks, except for the packaging.
I am typing this on an old Dell Precision which sports two P3 processors.
Running a NetBSD smp kernel.
Well, the main one is that Communism has proven an utter failure. Socialism also isn't as popular as it once was......
I think you probably get the picture.
You cannot run a modern society, handle modern problems and improve the economy without good science,
You shouldn't be trying. Society isn't 'run' by any individual, or group of experts. That was tried numerous times in the early to mid 20th century. The ideologues in the Communist and Fascist movements of Europe made the claim that they were being modern and scientific. The eugenicists of the 'Progressive' era in the US claimed they were being scientific as they went forward sterilizing 'undesirable' people.
No particular 'you' should have the power to 'run a modern society.' We decide that collectively, by working freely and independent of rulers telling us what to do.
And that is the crux of the matter with regard to AGW. The zealots pounding that particular drum want to do more of that 'stuff' that was tried in the past. Some of them don't even really care if AGW is provable or not. They just want the power.
The place I used to work (layoff last October) blocked YouTube.
But the funny thing was, if you went into your browser (IE6 I might add) and just turned off the proxy setting entirely, everything they blocked Just Started Working(tm).
People working in places with 'blocked' web access should try that- just turn off the proxy in the browser setting and see what happens.
We want people to make native iPhone games instead that will run faster, use the GPU, save state on exit, etc.
That's the ghetto mentality that Apple is famous for. Box their customers off in their own world. Then sprinkle in some "it's better this way" for good measure.
Don't you mean: Goatse-man?
If there is no viable third party alternative soon then there will be no way to get back.
That's pretty much a complete load of nonsense. Study your American Political History. Business interests have had greater and lesser influence on politics forever in history. Some times they have incredible 'pull.' Other times that pull is reduced. We are not 'on the edge of a precipice' and about to tumble down a cliff. It's just going back to the way it used to be, before the whole 'Campaign Finance Reform' bill was passed. Oh, and Obama declined his public funding during the recent Presidential election and went all on contributions. If that wasn't 'thumbing the nose' at Campaign Finance Reform Laws, what could be??
You can wave your hands around and chant all you like.
The bottom 50% of the population still don't pay any taxes at all.
I don't understand how you can make that claim about the reason 'our middle class is dying.' Seems like more hand waving to me. Oh, I'm sure there are 'cultural studies' 'scientists' somewhere who've published a study you can cite...
Now, where did you get the idea that the issue was sexual harassment. I thought the Media had done a good enough job of making the whole case into a friendly blow job or two from someone slightly over the age of consent?
Do we need to go over it all again, to make it clear that Bill Clinton, and the Feminists who supported him throughout the whole ordeal, had the best interests of the country at heart? Sexual harassment is good, and needs to be covered up, whenever it's someone 'friendly to the movement' (Bob Packwood comes to mind, also) who is engaging in it.
Haliburton hating is a growth industry (or it was, during the Bush era) so I am sure that no matter what anybody here says you can rattle off another bromide about them.
The current iteration of silverlight is not supported on PPC Mac OS X.
It's not supported on Windows NT 4.0 for PPC either! I bet, although I haven't tried, that it's not supported in BeOS either. On the Intel _or_ the PPC version.
Well, if I had real work to do, I'd rather do it on a 90's era Dell running Windows ME than an Apple handheld.
I could then install the thousands of productivity apps I either already own or could download onto it for free.
Heck, I could even upgrade it's OS.
Tell me, where does the commie fascist UN plot for a world government fit into this?
It's a Liberal Fascist plot. Haven't you read your history? The plan, as always, is: central planning, and a 'rational energy policy' meaning: one planned and controlled by the government. State manipulation of industry, just like communists, fascists, liberals, and their fellow travellers have classically done things.
But if we did that, all the sugar growers in the Red River Valley would stop cultivating beet sugar. All that land would revert back to it's natural state, absorb moisture like it always did in the past, and the annual flooding up in the Fargo-Moorehead area would end.
Think of the people employed in dispensing Flood Relief Aid. Think of the sandbag manufacturers! We can NOT stop protecting our domestic Sugar Producers in the fashion you suggest.
You're throwing up a link to a video which looks to be from a Lyndon Larouche website, which you apparently haven't watched, because you say it's 'supposed to be very good'?? Why not watch it first so you can have a more informed opinion.
Also, your Cold War sabre rattling is a little ridiculous.
Furthermore, SpaceX, Blue Origin, et. al. employ a large number of people who used to work at more traditional companies
And the beauty of it is, they shucked off all the dead wood in the process. I doubt if there are unions at SpaceX and Blue Origin, either.
Any place that government bumbles around slowly, moss and other parasitic growths like Unions latch on. That's part of why privatizing formerly government functions is such a cost saver.
And with the paper cost only being $1650 per ream, just think of the paper savings. The woman in charge of the copying machine can be in charge of giving out this new paper, and I bet everybody will get to use at least 4 sheets a week.
No, it sounds like a novelty printer. The kind of thing that a V.P. gets and keeps outside his office.
I broken the handle on my clarinet case when I hit a bully with it. They left me alone after that.
Personally speaking, pirated software is how things like personally identifiable information is acquired in things like online indentity theft and organized crime.
The way you phrased that makes it sound like you're personally acquainted with online identity theft and organized crime. And based on your display of knowledge in the matter, it's hard not to conclude that you mean to imply that you've used exploits in Pirated Software this way to your advantage.
Oh, that's right. You work for Microsoft.
I hope Microsoft pays you at least $9 an hour.