After so many countless Americans have fought and died to protect our freedom, we end up with fascist totalitarianism. It's like they all died in vane.
Let them make money on it, it's actually very difficult to accurately trace what name and adress a specific IP is tracking back to, especially for users who have dynamic IP through their ISP. The ISP doesn't have an interest in responding to every request for a log when the RIAA asks, for instance. If the FBI is after you, I wouldn't be worried about your google searches anyhow.
Aside from privacy issues... It's really not that hard to block the ads they spend so much to tailor to you. The whole industry rests on the masses of users not smart or experienced enough to do this.
Global Warming Activist: The sky is falling!!!
Global Warming Skeptic: Like OMG, you are completely insane!!!
Global Warming Activist: I'll kill you!!!
NoScript is completely indispensable for me and should be #1 on this list. Browser scripting attacks are becoming more common so I usually put this on any new computer I install as a safety measure.
I also LOVE forecastfox, which did get mentioned. I wouldn't surf withoout Adblock Plus, and FasterFox is worth a look if you don't already have it.
I started with javascript way back when win98 was the big new thing, and tried to support it for so long. Once I started doing advanced scripts, like animations or scrollpanels, the browser incompatibility issue became a SERIOUS problem. It's not a bad language, though, it has some interesting quirks that make programming with it fun and powerful. I could see game development with it, but you'd have to target one browser. This is total slashvertising.
I belong to a philosophical group who assert that existence IS identity, that for something to exist it must have physical characteristics which are defined and obey causality, because this is the very essence of what it means to exist. I personally follow the classic pythagorean belief that "everything is number", and that all that truly exists is information. I this sense we not only are producing information but are in turn made up from it. If you believe that the universe is finite, then there may be a total sum of all the information, but I doubt it is in the exabit range. Nature uses qbits, so there is presumably some type of wave-like uncertainty to all information, which may mean that nature itself could have a signal-to-noise ratio approaching 50%.
I sincerely disagree. If Iran becomes nuclear armed, they will come under devastating attack immediately. These people CANNOT be allowed to have nuclear weapons and I think the Bush administration has been pretty clear on that fact. This is not like the cold war with Russia, the Islamists really WANT to use a nuke (on Isreal) as soon as possible, and they must be stopped even if it means making a parking lot out of Iran.
It needs to be an excimer, excited in the frozen state and coupled to the ground state, duh. Also, we're gonna need a big spinning mirror. Also a lot of popcorn.
that God DOES play dice, and she prefers 7 or 11 combos, with hard 8's approximately 1.618% of the time. Solid state physics is just her way of gaming us.
It used to be that belonging to a society meant that we all sacrificed a little for the common good of the society.
Thats the political theory of John Locke for you... Of course in practice it means that the government becomes your master instead of your servant, sacrificing the de facto rights of every individual to become de jure.
No one individual pays enough to cover the cost of the roads they travel or the cost of building an airport. Yet society benefits as a whole from having good roads and airports (and railroads, although in the US, we seem to ignore them).
Actually everyone pays for them, and the legal provider can now also take your money by force and not provide any service, or terrible service, and cannot be held accountable (case in point: american broadband service).
Why is it so hard to fathom that having basic health care provided would also not benefit all of society?
The right to life does not mean the right to have the government keep you alive. Rights are a guarantee to the freedom of action necessary for human life. There cannot be a right to a product or service because those things have to be provided by someone else, and this concept would be tantamount to the right to enslave, which is self-contradictory. Maybe its hard to understand because its completely wrong, you commie!
I'm not sure if you are being facetious here, but peoples rights (in the marketplace and otherwise) are de facto not de jure, meaning your rights aren't defined by what the government deems permissible. I'd suggest that a ton of bricks come down on anyone who identifies themselves as an "anti-monopoly regulator", or who thinks that the market and people's property should be in the domain of government control, because it sounds like fascism to me...
Anyhow EBAY's business sense seems to be ok to me. They are worth at least a zillion dollars. I'm sure this is economic, as pointed out before.
Ok, not really, but it did last me through computer engineering college. I bought a nicer model TI-89 for grad school in Applied Math, so I think it should do fine for your high-school math. If you want to get ahead in advanced graphing, learn MATLAB, but use it on a computer. The TI-89 is actually pretty frickin smart. Sometimes it mocks me when I'm trying to fall asleep, though.
insightful, indeed.
My point about the morality of corporations can be put another way. Corporations do the same thing that individuals or small businesses do, just on a larger scale. They produce a product or provide a service for profit. The reason corporations are are blamed is because they are the hallmark of a capitalist economy, which is based on the ethics of egoism. Corporations aren't resented for what they do wrong, generally, but for what they do right, which is turn a profit with great efficiency. Many people either disagree with egoism, or hold faulty economic premises which cause them to believe that this is to their disadvantage. As for Walmart, the only reason that it can do what it does is because of a complete neglect of human rights in China, and American duplicity with that. I personally don't buy chinese products. People can hate all they want on the oil companies, but trying to manipulate science to prove their inherent "evilness" is shameless. I'm not a climatologist, but I am a scientist, and I'm not convinced.
I may be misinformed, but isn't the price of gas hyperinflated in Europe to subsidize the public transportation systems? Average wages are way lower too, right? Wow, it's like a communist utopia or something.
As an atheist and a grad student in two science degrees, I'm somewhat well versed in the difference between religious beleif and substantiated science. I have read both sides of the argument, and I find no convincing science on the side of the global warming hypothesis. I find almost every "scientific" paper on the subject to be highly biased, for one side or the other. The fact that our government is only funding one side of the debate doesn't help their case, either.
Hey I live in the middle of the desert, global warming would be great for us, we'd get way more precipitation. Your deciding to live down near the shore was your own terrible mistake...
As for corporations being unbound by moral rules, thats just rubbish, and quite an old misconception about capitalism. Maybe it's just that your moral code is different from mine... Look at how quickly Jack in the Box went under after the E Coli scare. Businesses that hurt the consumer go out of business, and fast. You are acting like the oil industry just takes our money and pollutes our atmosphere, but you leave out the service that they provide that our modern civilization relies on. Tell me that you don't own a car.
:: A corporation is in many ways worse than an insane king.::
One of the reasons I can't take the current global warming debate seriously is that the entire global warming movement is sustained by rabid socialists who use environmentalism as a cover to acheive their socialist aims. Many people don't really care (or even know) about the environment, all they want to do is make give the government more control of industry and the economy, because, as you know capitalism and the whole profit motive thing is EVIL. Apparently corporations want to kill people and the French Revolution was about implementing socialist reform (??) At least I agree that Tom is hopeless...
Remember the greenpeace convention where Penn and Teller got almost everyone to sign a petition to ban dihydrogen oxide?
IMHO, the "scientific consensus" that global warming is *even happening at all* is completely manufactured. I just flat out don't believe it.
Americans are apparently no longer interested in freedom, just give us a slutty Ms America and a Trump to keep us entertained... I bet they took out the sentence that read: "... and then the Iranian diplomat asked why we had built so many secret prisons all across America..."
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After so many countless Americans have fought and died to protect our freedom, we end up with fascist totalitarianism. It's like they all died in vane.
Let them make money on it, it's actually very difficult to accurately trace what name and adress a specific IP is tracking back to, especially for users who have dynamic IP through their ISP. The ISP doesn't have an interest in responding to every request for a log when the RIAA asks, for instance. If the FBI is after you, I wouldn't be worried about your google searches anyhow.
Aside from privacy issues... It's really not that hard to block the ads they spend so much to tailor to you. The whole industry rests on the masses of users not smart or experienced enough to do this.
Global Warming Activist: The sky is falling!!! Global Warming Skeptic: Like OMG, you are completely insane!!! Global Warming Activist: I'll kill you!!!
ARRRRGH! Pluto be a planet in the 505, ain't it loco homes?
NoScript is completely indispensable for me and should be #1 on this list. Browser scripting attacks are becoming more common so I usually put this on any new computer I install as a safety measure. I also LOVE forecastfox, which did get mentioned. I wouldn't surf withoout Adblock Plus, and FasterFox is worth a look if you don't already have it.
I started with javascript way back when win98 was the big new thing, and tried to support it for so long. Once I started doing advanced scripts, like animations or scrollpanels, the browser incompatibility issue became a SERIOUS problem. It's not a bad language, though, it has some interesting quirks that make programming with it fun and powerful. I could see game development with it, but you'd have to target one browser. This is total slashvertising.
I belong to a philosophical group who assert that existence IS identity, that for something to exist it must have physical characteristics which are defined and obey causality, because this is the very essence of what it means to exist. I personally follow the classic pythagorean belief that "everything is number", and that all that truly exists is information. I this sense we not only are producing information but are in turn made up from it. If you believe that the universe is finite, then there may be a total sum of all the information, but I doubt it is in the exabit range. Nature uses qbits, so there is presumably some type of wave-like uncertainty to all information, which may mean that nature itself could have a signal-to-noise ratio approaching 50%.
IBM has thrown a spanner in the Oracle Linux works...
Holy christ, I got a spanner in my computer works once and it let all the magic smoke out!
I sincerely disagree. If Iran becomes nuclear armed, they will come under devastating attack immediately. These people CANNOT be allowed to have nuclear weapons and I think the Bush administration has been pretty clear on that fact. This is not like the cold war with Russia, the Islamists really WANT to use a nuke (on Isreal) as soon as possible, and they must be stopped even if it means making a parking lot out of Iran.
It needs to be an excimer, excited in the frozen state and coupled to the ground state, duh. Also, we're gonna need a big spinning mirror. Also a lot of popcorn.
that God DOES play dice, and she prefers 7 or 11 combos, with hard 8's approximately 1.618% of the time. Solid state physics is just her way of gaming us.
I tried to bend my phone once, it just snapped shut right on my face. I would buy this if I could still use phones.
Aw, man. Using firefox means I won't be able to buy DRM'ed video which is most likely censored, from Walmart. Darnit!
Would mean ripping of Xerox again? Anyhow, I want a holographic display.
It used to be that belonging to a society meant that we all sacrificed a little for the common good of the society.
Thats the political theory of John Locke for you... Of course in practice it means that the government becomes your master instead of your servant, sacrificing the de facto rights of every individual to become de jure.
No one individual pays enough to cover the cost of the roads they travel or the cost of building an airport. Yet society benefits as a whole from having good roads and airports (and railroads, although in the US, we seem to ignore them). Actually everyone pays for them, and the legal provider can now also take your money by force and not provide any service, or terrible service, and cannot be held accountable (case in point: american broadband service). Why is it so hard to fathom that having basic health care provided would also not benefit all of society?
The right to life does not mean the right to have the government keep you alive. Rights are a guarantee to the freedom of action necessary for human life. There cannot be a right to a product or service because those things have to be provided by someone else, and this concept would be tantamount to the right to enslave, which is self-contradictory. Maybe its hard to understand because its completely wrong, you commie!
is justified true belief knowledge? (an "unanswered philosophy question", lol) Psycho-babble
How about Tesla? AC power and dynamoes literally brought humanity into the light. How about Prometheus? First plasma physicist ever.
best off with more government controls. Unless you want "real" freedom...
I'm not sure if you are being facetious here, but peoples rights (in the marketplace and otherwise) are de facto not de jure, meaning your rights aren't defined by what the government deems permissible. I'd suggest that a ton of bricks come down on anyone who identifies themselves as an "anti-monopoly regulator", or who thinks that the market and people's property should be in the domain of government control, because it sounds like fascism to me...
Anyhow EBAY's business sense seems to be ok to me. They are worth at least a zillion dollars. I'm sure this is economic, as pointed out before.
Ok, not really, but it did last me through computer engineering college. I bought a nicer model TI-89 for grad school in Applied Math, so I think it should do fine for your high-school math. If you want to get ahead in advanced graphing, learn MATLAB, but use it on a computer. The TI-89 is actually pretty frickin smart. Sometimes it mocks me when I'm trying to fall asleep, though.
insightful, indeed. My point about the morality of corporations can be put another way. Corporations do the same thing that individuals or small businesses do, just on a larger scale. They produce a product or provide a service for profit. The reason corporations are are blamed is because they are the hallmark of a capitalist economy, which is based on the ethics of egoism. Corporations aren't resented for what they do wrong, generally, but for what they do right, which is turn a profit with great efficiency. Many people either disagree with egoism, or hold faulty economic premises which cause them to believe that this is to their disadvantage. As for Walmart, the only reason that it can do what it does is because of a complete neglect of human rights in China, and American duplicity with that. I personally don't buy chinese products. People can hate all they want on the oil companies, but trying to manipulate science to prove their inherent "evilness" is shameless. I'm not a climatologist, but I am a scientist, and I'm not convinced. I may be misinformed, but isn't the price of gas hyperinflated in Europe to subsidize the public transportation systems? Average wages are way lower too, right? Wow, it's like a communist utopia or something.
As an atheist and a grad student in two science degrees, I'm somewhat well versed in the difference between religious beleif and substantiated science. I have read both sides of the argument, and I find no convincing science on the side of the global warming hypothesis. I find almost every "scientific" paper on the subject to be highly biased, for one side or the other. The fact that our government is only funding one side of the debate doesn't help their case, either. Hey I live in the middle of the desert, global warming would be great for us, we'd get way more precipitation. Your deciding to live down near the shore was your own terrible mistake... As for corporations being unbound by moral rules, thats just rubbish, and quite an old misconception about capitalism. Maybe it's just that your moral code is different from mine... Look at how quickly Jack in the Box went under after the E Coli scare. Businesses that hurt the consumer go out of business, and fast. You are acting like the oil industry just takes our money and pollutes our atmosphere, but you leave out the service that they provide that our modern civilization relies on. Tell me that you don't own a car.
:: A corporation is in many ways worse than an insane king. ::
One of the reasons I can't take the current global warming debate seriously is that the entire global warming movement is sustained by rabid socialists who use environmentalism as a cover to acheive their socialist aims. Many people don't really care (or even know) about the environment, all they want to do is make give the government more control of industry and the economy, because, as you know capitalism and the whole profit motive thing is EVIL. Apparently corporations want to kill people and the French Revolution was about implementing socialist reform (??) At least I agree that Tom is hopeless...
Remember the greenpeace convention where Penn and Teller got almost everyone to sign a petition to ban dihydrogen oxide?
IMHO, the "scientific consensus" that global warming is *even happening at all* is completely manufactured. I just flat out don't believe it.
Americans are apparently no longer interested in freedom, just give us a slutty Ms America and a Trump to keep us entertained... I bet they took out the sentence that read: "... and then the Iranian diplomat asked why we had built so many secret prisons all across America..."