The problem is not just that it's a tortured death.
After the rat starts lurching around, a cat will find and eat it. After the cat starts lurching around, a hawk will kill it. After the hawk, a coyote, then a mountain lion will ingest it. Repeat a few years, and pretty soon condors are on the brink of extinction.
Or maybe the local food chain will be spared and the rat will just die in some inaccessible cable run and decompose there for your olfactory enjoyment.
Exactly. At such time as "angry shareholders" produce their own useful technology, I'll listen. Until then, I thank Bell Labs, Google, and anyone else who has understood that the best technical innovations happen without micro-managerial bean counters.
> If something happens then it's either happening according to the > laws of nature or it's not... It can't be both... scientists believe > that the laws of nature govern EVERYTHING that happens
Horseshit. Or if you prefer, the fallacy of false dichotomy. When a baseball player hits a ball, is that "according to the laws of nature"? What about a geneticist who tinkers with DNA and makes a glow-in-the-dark tomato? Did you post to Slashdot "according to the laws of nature"? It's a meaningless phrase.
The phrase "scientists believe" makes my skin crawl. Scientists are fallible humans who use the scientific method to try to figure out what the laws of nature are. By bringing their "belief" into this you're committing exactly the kind of error the author complains of - framing the debate in a way that puts science and religion on linguistically equivalent footing.
Science has a pretty good track record of figuring out how things work. Organized religion has a pretty good track record of telling people what to think, say, and do. There are lots of scientists who like to go by some particular roadmap or code of conduct, yet still manage to theorize, conduct experiments, and publish findings.
> You never know what pranks I might find a way to pull on the show.
May I suggest:
- change the judges' score cards from decimal to hexadecimal
- redirect Denise Richards' votes to Lenny Goodman
- a performance art representation of big-endian vs little-endian
- surreptitiously replace NFL Linebacker Lawrence Taylor's musical selection with "Never Gonna Give You Up"
You have it sadly backwards. The Bloods were the activist wing of the Trekkie division of the Los Angeles Linux User Group.
In the Denver LUG, infiltrating convenience stores has provided a reliable supply of Mountain Dew. But I fear this infighting may unravel the whole sweet deal.
If you want to convince environmentalists, you just need to show it's cost/benefit (where cost includes environmental damage) is significantly better than fossil fuel combustion.
But you do yourself a disservice if you claim it is sustainable. If we harvest the fuel faster than nature makes it, it's a finite resource.
That's really interesting. I'd never heard that before.
Perhaps because it isn't true:
advertise
c.1430, "to take notice of," from M.Fr. advertiss-, prp. stem of a(d)vertir "warn," from L. advertere "turn toward," from ad- "toward" + vertere "to turn" see versus). Original sense remains in advert "to give attention to." Sense of advertise shifted to "give notice to others, warn" (1490) by influence of advertisement, which meant "public notice (of anything, but often of a sale)" by c.1460. The modern, commercial meaning was fully developed by 18c.
That's a great idea, and it's also true for many charities. Pick your favorite, call them up, and talk to them. I volunteered to do database stuff for the local Habitat for Humanity.
But oddly, Microsoft HR Chief Mike Murray cited religious beliefs for his decision to contribute $100,000 to 'Yes On 8', surprising coming from the guy who had been charged with diversity and sensitivity training during his ten-year Microsoft stint. "
What is so odd about a former "HR Chief" disagreeing with the official MicroSoft PR?
What's odd to me is that he could blow $100,000.00 on this. Damn. I should get into the Human Resources business.
If they are oil contacts, and POTUS initiates a baseless war in an oil-rich country, and then grants no-bid contracts to those oil contacts, I'd say the no-bid contracts smell real corrupt. But the smell of thousands of corpses would bother me much, much more.
I'm all for rooting out scandals and Truth, Justice, and The American Way, but when you run the government, you can either pick people who've done things, or who you really like. And people who have done things will have prior relationships with other people, organizations, and businesses.
Let's judge POTUS on what he does, not on what his contacts or their contacts might want.
Delaying the deadline is a dumb idea. We make deadlines so everybody can plan the switch. This transition has been planned for a long time. It's been heavily advertised. The switch will be painful for lots of poor folks who can't afford new equipment or who are bedridden and can't go shopping, but delaying the transition won't change that cold reality.
I think you nailed it. PDAs are great for those of us who don't have a staff. I think in the case of POTUS, Mr. Obama will soon discover he doesn't need to thumb around on a tiny keyboard when he is sitting in the most sophisticated communications centers on earth. And if he wants to know Toot's recipe for Chicken Noodle Soup, I'm sure he has only but to ask.
Obviously it qualifies as historic because it is "the nation's first purpose-built commercial spaceport".
Other upcoming historic moments include "the first purpose-built commercial Twinkie served at a spaceport," "the first spilled soda on the tarmac of a purpose-built commercial New Mexico spaceport" and "the first Rabbi, Pastor, and Bishop with too few parachutes on a SpaceShip".
With a proper seat belt-airbag system, they might have been encapsulated in a wind vortex which insulated them from the heat of re-entry and cushioned their impact as they bounced across several Texas counties. Just sayin'.
How hard is it to get disbarred? John Yoo, the lawyer who wrote the opinion saying it was fine [to] torture people, *he* hasn't been disbarred
Methinks your example proves only that the system is broken.
I'd personally prefer to keep the sleazy underhanded self-righteous crusaders against entertainment, and disbar the sleazy underhanded crusaders against the Constitution.
Something must be wrong with me. I can believe that this kid just revolutionized the PV industry.
But I can't believe any 7th grader would write this:
I came up with an innovative solar cell that absorbs both visible and UV light. My project focused on finding the optimum solar cell to further increase the light absorption and efficiency and design a nanotube for light-electricity conversion efficiency.
> I wish not to get any older Let me know how it goes, my friend.
Microsoft was and is an aggressive business. It has used unfriendly tactics. It has broken laws, as have you and I.
Perfection is the enemy of the good, in the sense that we're all fallible humans. If we demand sinlessness from every inventor, manufacturer, and vendor, we won't get much done, at least not on this planet.
That's not to say we should ignore malfeasance - by all means boycott, litigate, prosecute, and punish.
Now I'm curious - in judging people's character, do you tend to weigh more people's accomplishments for good, or their sins?
Put another way, would you rather take pride in your getting your job done, or in your unblemished record of not doing business with aggressive companies who have lawyers and ambitions of cornering their market?
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The problem is not just that it's a tortured death.
After the rat starts lurching around, a cat will find and eat it. After the cat starts lurching around, a hawk will kill it. After the hawk, a coyote, then a mountain lion will ingest it. Repeat a few years, and pretty soon condors are on the brink of extinction.
Or maybe the local food chain will be spared and the rat will just die in some inaccessible cable run and decompose there for your olfactory enjoyment.
Exactly. At such time as "angry shareholders" produce their own useful technology, I'll listen. Until then, I thank Bell Labs, Google, and anyone else who has understood that the best technical innovations happen without micro-managerial bean counters.
> If something happens then it's either happening according to the
> laws of nature or it's not... It can't be both... scientists believe
> that the laws of nature govern EVERYTHING that happens
Horseshit. Or if you prefer, the fallacy of false dichotomy. When a baseball player hits a ball, is that "according to the laws of nature"? What about a geneticist who tinkers with DNA and makes a glow-in-the-dark tomato? Did you post to Slashdot "according to the laws of nature"? It's a meaningless phrase.
The phrase "scientists believe" makes my skin crawl. Scientists are fallible humans who use the scientific method to try to figure out what the laws of nature are. By bringing their "belief" into this you're committing exactly the kind of error the author complains of - framing the debate in a way that puts science and religion on linguistically equivalent footing.
Science has a pretty good track record of figuring out how things work. Organized religion has a pretty good track record of telling people what to think, say, and do. There are lots of scientists who like to go by some particular roadmap or code of conduct, yet still manage to theorize, conduct experiments, and publish findings.
> You never know what pranks I might find a way to pull on the show.
May I suggest:
- change the judges' score cards from decimal to hexadecimal
- redirect Denise Richards' votes to Lenny Goodman
- a performance art representation of big-endian vs little-endian
- surreptitiously replace NFL Linebacker Lawrence Taylor's musical selection with "Never Gonna Give You Up"
ENIAC was orders of magnitude faster. These guys do 100 nanoseconds/nanotube -> 100 seconds/tube!
You have it sadly backwards. The Bloods were the activist wing of the Trekkie division of the Los Angeles Linux User Group.
In the Denver LUG, infiltrating convenience stores has provided a reliable supply of Mountain Dew. But I fear this infighting may unravel the whole sweet deal.
Bloodwine is for wimps. The drink of a true warrior comes from the juice of a prune.
If you want to convince environmentalists, you just need to show it's cost/benefit (where cost includes environmental damage) is significantly better than fossil fuel combustion.
But you do yourself a disservice if you claim it is sustainable. If we harvest the fuel faster than nature makes it, it's a finite resource.
Perhaps because it isn't true:
advertise
c.1430, "to take notice of," from M.Fr. advertiss-, prp. stem of a(d)vertir "warn," from L. advertere "turn toward," from ad- "toward" + vertere "to turn" see versus). Original sense remains in advert "to give attention to." Sense of advertise shifted to "give notice to others, warn" (1490) by influence of advertisement, which meant "public notice (of anything, but often of a sale)" by c.1460. The modern, commercial meaning was fully developed by 18c.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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The Audubon Society likes windfarms in general and this one in particular.
But thanks for playing.
That's a great idea, and it's also true for many charities. Pick your favorite, call them up, and talk to them. I volunteered to do database stuff for the local Habitat for Humanity.
But oddly, Microsoft HR Chief Mike Murray cited religious beliefs for his decision to contribute $100,000 to 'Yes On 8', surprising coming from the guy who had been charged with diversity and sensitivity training during his ten-year Microsoft stint. "
What is so odd about a former "HR Chief" disagreeing with the official MicroSoft PR?
What's odd to me is that he could blow $100,000.00 on this. Damn. I should get into the Human Resources business.
So the FISA court just ruled itself irrelevant?
If they are oil contacts, and POTUS initiates a baseless war in an oil-rich country, and then grants no-bid contracts to those oil contacts, I'd say the no-bid contracts smell real corrupt. But the smell of thousands of corpses would bother me much, much more.
Hypothetically speaking.
I'm all for rooting out scandals and Truth, Justice, and The American Way, but when you run the government, you can either pick people who've done things, or who you really like. And people who have done things will have prior relationships with other people, organizations, and businesses.
Let's judge POTUS on what he does, not on what his contacts or their contacts might want.
Delaying the deadline is a dumb idea. We make deadlines so everybody can plan the switch. This transition has been planned for a long time. It's been heavily advertised. The switch will be painful for lots of poor folks who can't afford new equipment or who are bedridden and can't go shopping, but delaying the transition won't change that cold reality.
Keep the train on schedule, Obama.
I think you nailed it. PDAs are great for those of us who don't have a staff. I think in the case of POTUS, Mr. Obama will soon discover he doesn't need to thumb around on a tiny keyboard when he is sitting in the most sophisticated communications centers on earth. And if he wants to know Toot's recipe for Chicken Noodle Soup, I'm sure he has only but to ask.
Obviously it qualifies as historic because it is "the nation's first purpose-built commercial spaceport".
Other upcoming historic moments include "the first purpose-built commercial Twinkie served at a spaceport," "the first spilled soda on the tarmac of a purpose-built commercial New Mexico spaceport" and "the first Rabbi, Pastor, and Bishop with too few parachutes on a SpaceShip".
With a proper seat belt-airbag system, they might have been encapsulated in a wind vortex which insulated them from the heat of re-entry and cushioned their impact as they bounced across several Texas counties. Just sayin'.
1) Legislation was flawed
2) Problem transcends US Jurisdiction
3) Enforcement is spotty at best
4) Idiots buy their stuff
"Zebulon" is just his alias.
Border Crossers
School Teachers
Bank Tellers
Law Enforcement
Foster Parents
Armored Car staff
Caregivers
Military
Medical Personnel
> Give us the code, let us host it locally, force user accounts if desired.
In addition, please come mow my lawn, give me some of your famous home-made myrtleberry pie, and a copy of your house keys.
How hard is it to get disbarred? John Yoo, the lawyer who wrote the opinion saying it was fine [to] torture people, *he* hasn't been disbarred
Methinks your example proves only that the system is broken.
I'd personally prefer to keep the sleazy underhanded self-righteous crusaders against entertainment, and disbar the sleazy underhanded crusaders against the Constitution.
I came up with an innovative solar cell that absorbs both visible and UV light. My project focused on finding the optimum solar cell to further increase the light absorption and efficiency and design a nanotube for light-electricity conversion efficiency.
> I wish not to get any older
Let me know how it goes, my friend.
Microsoft was and is an aggressive business. It has used unfriendly tactics. It has broken laws, as have you and I.
Perfection is the enemy of the good, in the sense that we're all fallible humans. If we demand sinlessness from every inventor, manufacturer, and vendor, we won't get much done, at least not on this planet.
That's not to say we should ignore malfeasance - by all means boycott, litigate, prosecute, and punish.
Now I'm curious - in judging people's character, do you tend to weigh more people's accomplishments for good, or their sins?
Put another way, would you rather take pride in your getting your job done, or in your unblemished record of not doing business with aggressive companies who have lawyers and ambitions of cornering their market?