I'll bite:) How about medical advances?
- Replacement human organs w/o need for a donor
- Blood banks with no limit on supply (only the energy+materials used to manufacture)
- Reversal of tissue damage or decay
- Infrared vision?:-)
if the virus writer is the "terrorist" then the coast guard admin is the idiot who ignored the "we're coming to bomb $building at $time on $day in a $colour van with registration $reg" message.
What I failed to mention, is these employees are police officers. At this time, they are all unable to connect to the VPN which allows them to view/enter reports, which in turn, does not allow them to their job, and in turn, puts the public at risk.
Any police chief who supplies his force with inferior, useless tools deserves to be shot.
what does it take to chase a charity for alleged patent abuse. How does he sleep at night?
He sleeps very well at night. He's a lawyer and a capitalists, and lawyers and capitalists think nothing of taking everything from the widow and orphan.
's true that the problem is Globalization, however not the way you're describing it.
Globalization is applied the wrong way. For it to be ***REALLY*** effective, there has to be a **LEVEL PLAYING FIELD** between all countries.
Currently, the idea is that goods flow freely, no matter what.
What has to be done is simply a system of tariffs, whereas goods from a country with cheaper labour will get slapped with a tariff so the price of the goods gets more at par with the receiving country. This way, there is a strong incentive for the exporting country to raise it's standard of living.
But of course, it's not the case currently, where the companies want to have their cake and eat it, too...
Go to China, sit in a cafe in a bamboo forest next to a stream and have a glass of green tea. The tranquility of that is something I'm sure I'll remember for some time:-)
And then have the party ruined by the communist party goons who raid the joint because someone logged-on Slashdot...
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Never mind that. Think how one could LART spammers!!!!
Is it really that hard to move a mouse to the top of the screen?
It is TIME CONSUMING. The menu-on-top-of-the-screen evolved for the original Macintrash with the tiny postage-stamp sized screen. Going up there wasn't too cumbersome.
But with multi big-monitor layouts, going to the top of the window each time you need to click on a function is just plain insane. It's a tremenduous waste of time, and at times, it can be just what you need to lose your train of thought.
At one point, once you have passed the thrill of discovering the computer for the rest of them, and you start doing $eriou$ work with the computer, you need to turn pro and ditch the amateur computer, and move to one that doesn't have a crippled user-interface designed for brain-dead amateurs who get confused when the mouse has more than 1 button (and, heaven forbids, a scroll wheel!).
For that matter, once you learn it, Blender's user-interface is pretty efficient and puts things right where you need them.
Once you're caught in Richter's web, the only way out is to send an unsubscribe request email exactly the way that the CAN-SPAM says you should. Sure, responding to the unsubscribe link is a great way to get more spam from unethical spammers... but it's the only way to stop getting spam from a compling-to-the-letter-of-the-law spammer. He's untouchable, he'll plead guilty as charged to being scum... but he's breaking no laws.
Given how fuckingly clueless you are, you must be a judge, a lawyer, or a "lawmaker". In either case, you don't deserve the air you breathe any more than Snotty Scotty does.
As far as spyware goes, if it's in the Eula, then it's not the government's business to stop it. If Eula legalese ofusticates the existance of bundled spyware, then consumers will have to learn which 'brand names' put out software that comes spyware-free if they are too lazy to read each Eula.
Burying it within the EULA is obfuscation, and the State could make it illegal to obfuscate EULAs, or simply state once and for all that click-through EULAs cannot be binding.
But of course it won't happen, as the government has been throroughly subverted by business interests.
Interesting to note too that VW started out as the car maker for the "volk", ie the unwashed masses. Seems like they've lost their roots.
Their bean-counters have just realized that a "luxury" car costs half as much to build as a shitcan, yet will sell for more than 5 times the price.
This is why in North America, you only see high-end Mercedes while in Europe you'll see Mercedeses you'll mistake for a Yugo at first glance: they make far much more money on the luxury cars than on the cheap ones...
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... if they googled for the results...
Well, we all know that the "missing matter" is the styrofoam beans the Universe was packed with...
This is the price to pay for wanting to be a lawyer rather than an engineer.
This is the price of GREED.
Maybe it's the US who should be nuked...
How long before Bill Gates asks Rumsfeld to bomb-out the whole area???
Currently, the idea is that goods flow freely, no matter what.
What has to be done is simply a system of tariffs, whereas goods from a country with cheaper labour will get slapped with a tariff so the price of the goods gets more at par with the receiving country. This way, there is a strong incentive for the exporting country to raise it's standard of living.
But of course, it's not the case currently, where the companies want to have their cake and eat it, too...
Never mind that. Think how one could LART spammers!!!!
But with multi big-monitor layouts, going to the top of the window each time you need to click on a function is just plain insane. It's a tremenduous waste of time, and at times, it can be just what you need to lose your train of thought.
At one point, once you have passed the thrill of discovering the computer for the rest of them, and you start doing $eriou$ work with the computer, you need to turn pro and ditch the amateur computer, and move to one that doesn't have a crippled user-interface designed for brain-dead amateurs who get confused when the mouse has more than 1 button (and, heaven forbids, a scroll wheel!).
For that matter, once you learn it, Blender's user-interface is pretty efficient and puts things right where you need them.
But of course it won't happen, as the government has been throroughly subverted by business interests.
I dunno what I hated the most from the 1970's... The disco music, or the moustaches????
This is why in North America, you only see high-end Mercedes while in Europe you'll see Mercedeses you'll mistake for a Yugo at first glance: they make far much more money on the luxury cars than on the cheap ones...
As long as they won't thaw the telephone sanitizers...