I don't know about the rest of you, but I've been getting cold calls (ie., unsolicited calls from companies I don't see how I could have done business with) for discounted vacations or for giving me an invitation to a meeting for buying time share condos.
It's really tiring to go home at the end of the day having dealt with your email spam, to get human spam. Yeah, maybe it puts food on the marketdroid's table, but I already put my time in for the day, and the rest of my time is time for my family, to heck with everyone else. If my political representatives cannot vote accordingly, I will vote them out.
(There are over 950 responses to the OP, so forgive if this is a duplicate...)
Maybe MS won't flip out, but it will take credit for *enabling* (somehow) their OS to be patched by the community?? I mean, RedHat has basically claimed to enable the community with the Fedora project, though of course the SRPMS had always been available back in the RedHat-x.y days.
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Heh, unencumbered. Reminds me of the Car Talk guys who have a saying that IMO seems appropriate to Darl here:
Agreed, "brain activity" is more quantifiable than "being born" or "able to survive" outside (premie babies). For humans, we might consider the presence of certain brain wave patterns to be "life".
But then we can ask "What is life?";-) The brain/life notion doesn't apply to just everything. A bacterium is generally considered to be "life" but there's no brain per se. If we define life to be the working collection of self-sustaining biochemical reactions, then we have a definition that is not only consistent with the human/brain/life issue but also is completely fundamental.
I'd suppose then we may have people arguing whether you need a presently working set of reactions or simply the *potential* for there being a set of reactions, which sort of brings us back to the abortion issue.
I am uncertain it's as objective as you think. I believe there is "brain activity" evident even before the developing mass can survive outside the womb. It is analagous to a comatose patient dependent on life support.
In either case we currently have laws governing who can pull the plug.
Other examples in the U.S.: Panera, Borders bookstores, Cosi. Even Mcdonald's is chiming in, but they're hardly reknown for their coffee. IMO it's a great time to start your own cybercafe. National chain coffee places / restaurants haven't completely filled out. Plus, interest rates on loan are likely only to go up from here.
There's always room for the locally owned and run coffeehouse. I'd give preference to cozy, local shops over sterile national chains, particularly when I want to hang out a good portion of the day or meet friends. Chances are, people get hungry too.
This is all window dressing from a failed President eager for votes.
Your humor was enjoyed, but you've hit the nail on the head in at least two ways:
1. it's unlikely Bush will launch new movements into other countries before the November election (potential for public backlash, etc.) Talking about outer space is a "safe" subject. Humans on the moon is plausible short term; mars, longer term.
2. Bush is all for defense. Getting surveillance and armaments into space is the next major step ahead. Remember than Reagan, another republican, called for an orbital laser defense system. (I forgot the acronym at the mo').
3. Besides, this "public comment" request is a way to gauge what kind of mileage he is going to get. Depends in part on how much the media sways the sheeple.
Places like Dell could roll their own knoppix cd-roms. The customer can try linux and come up to speed before actually installing linux on their machine, which at that point would be at their own risk.
The only problem is lack of driver support. I wonder if Dell doing this would encourage companies to provide at least binary only drivers.
I thought this has been covered elsewhere...that $300 includes overhead costs. It's similar (in name, mind you) to how your charitable cash donation has a sizable fraction lopped off before getting spent on real charity. Same goes for research too. So if you cut costs, then you cut into the services support chain, thereby taking the people actually doing the charity/research/whatever away from what it was the money was meant to go towards in the first place. Granted, the pork should be cut in order to find the happy medium.
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What happens when you wear the same pair of shoes with different clotes?
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Dear National Football League,
I am writing to you today to express my joy over a recent shopping experience at your online warehouse. It was indeed a Super Sunday because I found natural fleece coats (NFC) with angora-free cuffs (AFC) in my size. I also finally found the natural floor lighting (NFL) I have long wanted but couldn't find anywhere else.
Call us a bunch of Cowboys, but now my family and I can enjoy watching the Super Bowl while we're out in the forest waiting to shoot some Bucs and maybe some Bears.
I think they are cool for showing they could overcome their physical impediment. Now contrast this with people who give up who don't have physical impediments.
On the one hand, couldn't Microsoft release a patch to filter out nasty characters and formatting in hyperlinks?
Then again, maybe it's not such a good idea since it sounds like it provides opportunity for a malicious party to intercept link addresses. More privacy concerns, I suppose.
I imagine this is what IRIX did for SGI supercomputers, no? I mention SGI only because it's the first shared memory computer i ever used. May Sun did it, too, but I'm not familiar with them.
OK, what's the *real* point of having greeters? (I see some grocery stores do that too. Grrr.) 1. The happier the customers, the more they buy. 2. If you are met by a person when entering the store, you will be less likely to shoplift. 3. It's good karma for the store to hire senior members of the community. 4. All of the above. ?
If it's true that the fossil-based economy will expire by 2040 (the number quoted by my college professor), then we're looking at a very violent game of hot potato over the remaining fuel.
I seem to remember hearing that the US stockpiles are of Middle Eastern oil and does not make as great use of its own Alaskan supply. (Maybe it's just more cost effective???) Anyhoo, it could very well be consisten with your prof's claim.
It would be nice, but I'd be skeptical that loopholes wouldn't somehow also get written into the law. I mean, look at the loophole for "companies with which you have an existing business relationship", among others, on the telemarketing do-not-call list.
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I don't know about the rest of you, but I've been getting cold calls (ie., unsolicited calls from companies I don't see how I could have done business with) for discounted vacations or for giving me an invitation to a meeting for buying time share condos.
It's really tiring to go home at the end of the day having dealt with your email spam, to get human spam. Yeah, maybe it puts food on the marketdroid's table, but I already put my time in for the day, and the rest of my time is time for my family, to heck with everyone else. If my political representatives cannot vote accordingly, I will vote them out.
(There are over 950 responses to the OP, so forgive if this is a duplicate...)
Maybe MS won't flip out, but it will take credit for *enabling* (somehow) their OS to be patched by the community?? I mean, RedHat has basically claimed to enable the community with the Fedora project, though of course the SRPMS had always been available back in the RedHat-x.y days.
Heh, unencumbered. Reminds me of the Car Talk guys who have a saying that IMO seems appropriate to Darl here:
"unencumbered by the thought process"
Agreed, "brain activity" is more quantifiable than "being born" or "able to survive" outside (premie babies). For humans, we might consider the presence of certain brain wave patterns to be "life".
;-) The brain/life notion doesn't apply to just everything. A bacterium is generally considered to be "life" but there's no brain per se. If we define life to be the working collection of self-sustaining biochemical reactions, then we have a definition that is not only consistent with the human/brain/life issue but also is completely fundamental.
But then we can ask "What is life?"
I'd suppose then we may have people arguing whether you need a presently working set of reactions or simply the *potential* for there being a set of reactions, which sort of brings us back to the abortion issue.
I am uncertain it's as objective as you think. I believe there is "brain activity" evident even before the developing mass can survive outside the womb. It is analagous to a comatose patient dependent on life support.
In either case we currently have laws governing who can pull the plug.
I would have thought 30 makes better sense since it has one less factor of 2.
Other examples in the U.S.: Panera, Borders bookstores, Cosi. Even Mcdonald's is chiming in, but they're hardly reknown for their coffee. IMO it's a great time to start your own cybercafe. National chain coffee places / restaurants haven't completely filled out. Plus, interest rates on loan are likely only to go up from here.
There's always room for the locally owned and run coffeehouse. I'd give preference to cozy, local shops over sterile national chains, particularly when I want to hang out a good portion of the day or meet friends. Chances are, people get hungry too.
This is all window dressing from a failed President eager for votes.
Your humor was enjoyed, but you've hit the nail on the head in at least two ways:
1. it's unlikely Bush will launch new movements into other countries before the November election (potential for public backlash, etc.) Talking about outer space is a "safe" subject. Humans on the moon is plausible short term; mars, longer term.
2. Bush is all for defense. Getting surveillance and armaments into space is the next major step ahead. Remember than Reagan, another republican, called for an orbital laser defense system. (I forgot the acronym at the mo').
3. Besides, this "public comment" request is a way to gauge what kind of mileage he is going to get. Depends in part on how much the media sways the sheeple.
my Penis Handheld just went open source!
so they can add the metadata for you.
;-)
YM, at Microsoft the metadata adds you.
Places like Dell could roll their own knoppix cd-roms. The customer can try linux and come up to speed before actually installing linux on their machine, which at that point would be at their own risk.
The only problem is lack of driver support. I wonder if Dell doing this would encourage companies to provide at least binary only drivers.
I thought this has been covered elsewhere...that $300 includes overhead costs. It's similar (in name, mind you) to how your charitable cash donation has a sizable fraction lopped off before getting spent on real charity. Same goes for research too.
So if you cut costs, then you cut into the services support chain, thereby taking the people actually doing the charity/research/whatever away from what it was the money was meant to go towards in the first place. Granted, the pork should be cut in order to find the happy medium.
What happens when you wear the same pair of shoes with different clotes?
The fashion police haul you away.
Opportune Imperialism Landgrab.
Dear National Football League,
I am writing to you today to express my joy over a recent shopping experience at your online warehouse. It was indeed a Super Sunday because I found natural fleece coats (NFC) with angora-free cuffs (AFC) in my size. I also finally found the natural floor lighting (NFL) I have long wanted but couldn't find anywhere else.
Call us a bunch of Cowboys, but now my family and I can enjoy watching the Super Bowl while we're out in the forest waiting to shoot some Bucs and maybe some Bears.
Sincerely yours,
An NFL fan
A slightly different spin on what you said.
I think they are cool for showing they could overcome their physical impediment. Now contrast this with people who give up who don't have physical impediments.
But phreaking the system...yeah, that's criminal.
On the one hand, couldn't Microsoft release a patch to filter out nasty characters and formatting in hyperlinks?
Then again, maybe it's not such a good idea since it sounds like it provides opportunity for a malicious party to intercept link addresses. More privacy concerns, I suppose.
I imagine this is what IRIX did for SGI supercomputers, no? I mention SGI only because it's the first shared memory computer i ever used. May Sun did it, too, but I'm not familiar with them.
There's a Microsoft ad on that page! Something about linux TCO.... Um, thanks. Don't need an ad for that.
Scarier yet is that his name, William Henry Gates III, fits the style of US presidential names :o
NOT that I am suggesting he sh/could be president, mind you.
Damn! Where's a Wal-Mart when you need one?
You haven't heard about the state of Florida voting results in the last US Presidental election, have you?
OK, what's the *real* point of having greeters? (I see some grocery stores do that too. Grrr.)
1. The happier the customers, the more they buy.
2. If you are met by a person when entering the store, you will be less likely to shoplift.
3. It's good karma for the store to hire senior members of the community.
4. All of the above.
?
If it's true that the fossil-based economy will expire by 2040 (the number quoted by my college professor), then we're looking at a very violent game of hot potato over the remaining fuel.
I seem to remember hearing that the US stockpiles are of Middle Eastern oil and does not make as great use of its own Alaskan supply. (Maybe it's just more cost effective???) Anyhoo, it could very well be consisten with your prof's claim.
It would be nice, but I'd be skeptical that loopholes wouldn't somehow also get written into the law. I mean, look at the loophole for "companies with which you have an existing business relationship", among others, on the telemarketing do-not-call list.