I have yet to see any alternative technologies that show even a hint of making oil obsolete. All I have seen is technologies that can supplement oil as an energy system. The best promise of alternative energy is to, maybe, provide a replacement for oil when there is no longer enough oil to meet demands.
Actually, I don't know who you are. I know nothing about you except for your slashdot login name and number. With that information, I could probably learn significantly more about you, but I don't really care. All that your post has done is make me aware of someone who owns a PS3, but I was already aware that some people who post on slashdot own them.
So, you think that the world would be better off if nobody worked as a prison guard? Which is not the same as if the world did not need any prison guards.
BP isn't worried about alternative energy displacing their current core business. If alternative energy sources become economically viable, BP will be perfectly happy to supply them to the market. BP would live to be able to generate profit without having to do business in unstable regions of the world.
As for "systems that are suppose to guarantee that the private activity of corporations overlaps with the public interest", there is only one system that does that. It is called the free market. The thing that is making these large corporations increasingly able to squash/buy-out smaller entrants into the market is government regulation.
For the record, I do not believe that greed is good. I believe that greed is evil. On the other hand, any economic system that does not account for greed will be a complete failure. Greed is. Capitalism is the only system that attempts to harness that fact to promote the public good. All other economic systems fail to account for greed, or they allow those with power to exercise their greed with no negative consequences.
I am curious where you got the idea that all government action is that which they think are in the public interest? My experience is that while occasionally a government agent will take an action because they believe it is in the public interest, usually they take actions that serve their own interests in a way that can be presented as being in the public interest, but acting in the public interest receives little or no consideration in their decision making process.
So, Dupont and BP have a joint venture that is developing biofuels. Said joint venture has patented a method of producing butanol using fermentation. This jont venture is suing another company for using a technique similar to the one they patented. How is this trying to "shut down efforts to wean us off of crude oil"? This looks like an attempt to profit from weaning us off of crude oil. There is certainly an argument to be made that the fact that the current patent system allows them to do this is contrary to the public interest. This is not Ford buying up the Los Angeles public transport company in order to shut it down and increase the demand for cars.
So, basically it is a device that serves two purposes. First, it allows you to annoy people more efficiently. Second, it is a wonderful entertainment device. All that for only $500+, color me impressed./s
Most of the people who made those developments did not actually work for DARPA. They worked for other organizations that received funding from DARPA. This is a subtle but critical difference.
The summary blows "give me a reason to buy" out of the water. When all new media (heck maybe even live TV) have these hidden flags toggled on, you'll have your good reason shoved down your throat.
Not really, I haven't bought any new media in quite some time. This sort of thing is why. To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure I know anyone who owns a Blue-ray player
So, are you saying that having three things that all do essentially the same thing is not an example of someone who has more money than sense? That would be my example of someone who has more money than sense.
If you feel that way, it is certainly your right and privilege to invest your money in that way. I would prefer that you not force me (or anyone else) to invest my money that way. I have other uses for my money that have a much higher priority to me (this includes my tax dollars).
I agree. I was beginning to doubt that until a particular friend of mine went out and bought one. When it first came out he was excited by it, but he said that he was going to wait for the "killer ap" to come out for it. Six months later he went out and bought one. I asked him what the "killer ap" was and he said, "Well, it does this and it does that." All things that fell into one of three classes. Either his laptop or his Iphone already did them in ways that totally suited his needs or it was a functionality that was purely for play. He bought one because his sense of "cool" could not stand being without one any longer.
So in your country you don't have to go to school? In the U.S., there are a lot of children who would not go to school if they did not have to. I find it hard to believe that there are not a significant number in your country as well.
I was commenting to those who were rushing to judgement that she was in the wrong. That is still to be determined and that is what will be determined at trial (at least theoretically).
There are two key things we do not know. Were the devices used to provide the time stamps for the Facebook post and the 911 call set to the same time? How much time passed, if any, between when she posted her update to Facebook and when Facebook timestamped it?
The girl's mother is claiming that her daughter made the updates when her car was parked in front of her boyfriend's house before she started driving. It is certainly reasonable to believe that there was sufficient differential between the devices providing the two different time stamps for this to be plausible. If she was updating her Facebook page while driving she should suffer significant retribution, but that is yet to be determined.
If a student skips beyond a certain number of classes/days, they or their parents are subject to fines and/or jail time (laws vary by state). School attendance is mandatory in every state in the U.S., isn't it in your country?
It doesn't report that you are where you are supposed to be at the appropriate times and the police come around and you get to serve whatever the alternate sentence (fine and/or jail time) was that you accepted this in lieu of.
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I have yet to see any alternative technologies that show even a hint of making oil obsolete. All I have seen is technologies that can supplement oil as an energy system. The best promise of alternative energy is to, maybe, provide a replacement for oil when there is no longer enough oil to meet demands.
Actually, I don't know who you are. I know nothing about you except for your slashdot login name and number. With that information, I could probably learn significantly more about you, but I don't really care. All that your post has done is make me aware of someone who owns a PS3, but I was already aware that some people who post on slashdot own them.
So, you think that the world would be better off if nobody worked as a prison guard? Which is not the same as if the world did not need any prison guards.
Are you saying that BP does not experience competition? If so, what exactly are Shell, Exxon and Lukoil?
BP isn't worried about alternative energy displacing their current core business. If alternative energy sources become economically viable, BP will be perfectly happy to supply them to the market. BP would live to be able to generate profit without having to do business in unstable regions of the world.
As for "systems that are suppose to guarantee that the private activity of corporations overlaps with the public interest", there is only one system that does that. It is called the free market. The thing that is making these large corporations increasingly able to squash/buy-out smaller entrants into the market is government regulation.
For the record, I do not believe that greed is good. I believe that greed is evil. On the other hand, any economic system that does not account for greed will be a complete failure. Greed is. Capitalism is the only system that attempts to harness that fact to promote the public good. All other economic systems fail to account for greed, or they allow those with power to exercise their greed with no negative consequences.
I am curious where you got the idea that all government action is that which they think are in the public interest? My experience is that while occasionally a government agent will take an action because they believe it is in the public interest, usually they take actions that serve their own interests in a way that can be presented as being in the public interest, but acting in the public interest receives little or no consideration in their decision making process.
So, Dupont and BP have a joint venture that is developing biofuels. Said joint venture has patented a method of producing butanol using fermentation. This jont venture is suing another company for using a technique similar to the one they patented. How is this trying to "shut down efforts to wean us off of crude oil"? This looks like an attempt to profit from weaning us off of crude oil. There is certainly an argument to be made that the fact that the current patent system allows them to do this is contrary to the public interest. This is not Ford buying up the Los Angeles public transport company in order to shut it down and increase the demand for cars.
So, basically it is a device that serves two purposes. First, it allows you to annoy people more efficiently. Second, it is a wonderful entertainment device. /s
All that for only $500+, color me impressed.
Most of the people who made those developments did not actually work for DARPA. They worked for other organizations that received funding from DARPA. This is a subtle but critical difference.
I am unaware of anyone I know who owns a PS3. I am sure there are some, but I do not know who they are.
The summary blows "give me a reason to buy" out of the water. When all new media (heck maybe even live TV) have these hidden flags toggled on, you'll have your good reason shoved down your throat.
Not really, I haven't bought any new media in quite some time. This sort of thing is why. To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure I know anyone who owns a Blue-ray player
Of course what it really does is encourage me to delay buying a Blue-ray player even longer.
So, are you saying that having three things that all do essentially the same thing is not an example of someone who has more money than sense? That would be my example of someone who has more money than sense.
If you feel that way, it is certainly your right and privilege to invest your money in that way. I would prefer that you not force me (or anyone else) to invest my money that way. I have other uses for my money that have a much higher priority to me (this includes my tax dollars).
I agree. I was beginning to doubt that until a particular friend of mine went out and bought one. When it first came out he was excited by it, but he said that he was going to wait for the "killer ap" to come out for it. Six months later he went out and bought one. I asked him what the "killer ap" was and he said, "Well, it does this and it does that." All things that fell into one of three classes. Either his laptop or his Iphone already did them in ways that totally suited his needs or it was a functionality that was purely for play. He bought one because his sense of "cool" could not stand being without one any longer.
So in your country you don't have to go to school? In the U.S., there are a lot of children who would not go to school if they did not have to. I find it hard to believe that there are not a significant number in your country as well.
I was commenting to those who were rushing to judgement that she was in the wrong. That is still to be determined and that is what will be determined at trial (at least theoretically).
If you, with any frequnecy, missed four out of five days, I still don't see how you graduated.
There are two key things we do not know. Were the devices used to provide the time stamps for the Facebook post and the 911 call set to the same time? How much time passed, if any, between when she posted her update to Facebook and when Facebook timestamped it?
The girl's mother is claiming that her daughter made the updates when her car was parked in front of her boyfriend's house before she started driving. It is certainly reasonable to believe that there was sufficient differential between the devices providing the two different time stamps for this to be plausible. If she was updating her Facebook page while driving she should suffer significant retribution, but that is yet to be determined.
Four absences? Hell, I coulda blown through that many "unexcused" absences in a week,...
Out of a five day school week, you frequently missed four? How did you graduate?
If a student skips beyond a certain number of classes/days, they or their parents are subject to fines and/or jail time (laws vary by state). School attendance is mandatory in every state in the U.S., isn't it in your country?
The police show up at home and Billy gets to spend some time in juvy hall.
Yes, but before this program, it was, if you miss school, you go to jail.
It doesn't report that you are where you are supposed to be at the appropriate times and the police come around and you get to serve whatever the alternate sentence (fine and/or jail time) was that you accepted this in lieu of.
Because these are people who chose this rather than a fine and/or jail time.