By all means, let us keep all our eggs in one basket and just wait patiently for some extinction event.
It would seem that neither patience nor waiting is necessary. Along with much of the rest of the animal kingdom, we seem in the middle of an extinction event, viz. the rise of Homo Sapiens.
The question of finding another basket or moving our eggs into it is non-trivial. Consider the immense and largely unexplored ecosystem in a square metre of soil outside your door. Try duplicating that in a lunar or Martian context. You can only conceive of it with a huge amount of hand waving. To carry it out, the hand has to be holding a magic wand.
According to law, corporations are "people". This bizarre theory produces some of the worst abuses of modern life. This is because at the same time, corporate law and social structures dictate that corporations must behave as psychopaths. (Can you say BP?)
Anyone who's ridden a tro-tro and listened to the patent medicine seller knows that if it doesn't cure hemorrhoids and "female diseases", it probably isn't worth buying.
I'm looking forward to when vehicles have collision avoidance systems in conjunction with mesh networking that avoid traffic stopping at lights altogether. It'll be a while, as we'll have to take the driver out of the loop.
When it happens, it'll save a lot on fuel costs and speed up travel times.
The transition will be difficult, as will pedestrians, cyclists and dogs.
Maybe if they had said "no" once in a while we'd have another year or so to work out how we'll get everyone over to IPv6.
The current shortage is a surprise to no-one. There's no reason to think that another year or so is any different if the year or so falls in 2012 or in 2011 (unless the world ends in 2012 and the extermination of the human race frees up all the IP addresses.)
maybe the US should outsource law-making for a day.
I wonder why this is modded Funny, it strikes me as quite Insightful. One of the great tragedies of today is the global reach of the American Empire matched with its lack of introspection. However, if you look at previous empires, you wouldn't be surprised.
So it's not illegle to to brake the copyright unless you break the copyright.
Firstly, there are so many things grammatically wrong with that statequestionment-sentence-rhetorical-grammarfuck. Secondly, what about accelerating it?
But even the summary mentions "downloadable content".
The fault is in the summary. If you are going to use an uncommon three letter abbreviation (TLA), for something you have already used in long form, put the TLA in parentheses first.
I am not a grammar Nazi, it just avoids discussions like this one.
Why they persist is an interesting historical question, but there were several strong movements to eliminate them for both Chinese and Japanese in the 1860-1960 period.
They persist for the same reason QWERTY keyboards and Windows OSs persist.
They are not the best, but they are the best known. The installed base of users is huge. It's difficult to become an accomplished user of a different interface, The infrastructure cost of changing is prohibitive.
After all, if the Health Care Bills were so wonderful, why would you need to bribe guys in your own Party to vote for them?
Anyone who has lived in a jurisdiction with corrupt officials will tell you that bribery occurs not because whatever you are being bribed to do is a bad idea, but because you have the power to withhold whatever the briber wants. Bribery is about power not goodness or badness of the behaviour you are being bribed to do.
Having by and large abandoned sexual taboos, we now have a whole new range of taboos having to do with our physical security.
"Don't ride your bicycle without a helmet"
"Don't smoke"
"Don't mention bombs in airports"
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Technology makes it easier to lie ... harder to get away with it.
We do live in a modern Panopticon
By all means, let us keep all our eggs in one basket and just wait patiently for some extinction event.
It would seem that neither patience nor waiting is necessary. Along with much of the rest of the animal kingdom, we seem in the middle of an extinction event, viz. the rise of Homo Sapiens.
The question of finding another basket or moving our eggs into it is non-trivial. Consider the immense and largely unexplored ecosystem in a square metre of soil outside your door. Try duplicating that in a lunar or Martian context. You can only conceive of it with a huge amount of hand waving. To carry it out, the hand has to be holding a magic wand.
And I thought the universe was expanding
According to law, corporations are "people". This bizarre theory produces some of the worst abuses of modern life. This is because at the same time, corporate law and social structures dictate that corporations must behave as psychopaths. (Can you say BP?)
Wait a few months and it'll go away. Consumers on the internet get used to any invasion of privacy really fast these days.
Anyone who's ridden a tro-tro and listened to the patent medicine seller knows that if it doesn't cure hemorrhoids and "female diseases", it probably isn't worth buying.
Those stripes are probably an artifact from the screen being rolled up. That should be ironed out if/when the screen goes into production.
So long as you don't have to iron out the screen after you roll it up.
When it happens, it'll save a lot on fuel costs and speed up travel times.
The transition will be difficult, as will pedestrians, cyclists and dogs.
Maybe when my flying car is ready.
Mod parent up. He is 100% correct.
Mod parent up. He is 98% correct.
Maybe if they had said "no" once in a while we'd have another year or so to work out how we'll get everyone over to IPv6.
The current shortage is a surprise to no-one. There's no reason to think that another year or so is any different if the year or so falls in 2012 or in 2011 (unless the world ends in 2012 and the extermination of the human race frees up all the IP addresses.)
maybe the US should outsource law-making for a day.
I wonder why this is modded Funny, it strikes me as quite Insightful. One of the great tragedies of today is the global reach of the American Empire matched with its lack of introspection. However, if you look at previous empires, you wouldn't be surprised.
So it's not illegle to to brake the copyright unless you break the copyright.
Firstly, there are so many things grammatically wrong with that statequestionment-sentence-rhetorical-grammarfuck. Secondly, what about accelerating it?
O.K.
Soit'snotillegletotobrakethecopyrightunlessyoubreakthecopyright.
I read one anecdote after another about terrible performance from Indian web designers, programmers, call center workers, etc.
One can prove anything by anecdote, even one after another.
"There is as much difference as between cat shit and dog shit. But I don't like the smell of either one or the other."
but then again I have the money to be able to do that.
There's just too many people like you, who are want to pay to play, and have that option.
But even the summary mentions "downloadable content".
The fault is in the summary. If you are going to use an uncommon three letter abbreviation (TLA), for something you have already used in long form, put the TLA in parentheses first.
I am not a grammar Nazi, it just avoids discussions like this one.
Perhaps the owner had a mental slip while trying to warn the world not to steal his wife?
That would be wifie.
Anyone that owns a handgun and does not keep it locked up is a disgrace to gun owners everywhere.
Unfortunately for this family, gracefulness doesn't seem to an attribute necessary to own a firearm in Tennessee.
Uploading is however illegal in Canada.
You miss the point. The point is not that slums are good for the people who live in them. Slums are good for people who don't live in them.
And old heads just don't retain as much as young ones.
Why they persist is an interesting historical question, but there were several strong movements to eliminate them for both Chinese and Japanese in the 1860-1960 period.
They persist for the same reason QWERTY keyboards and Windows OSs persist.
They are not the best, but they are the best known. The installed base of users is huge. It's difficult to become an accomplished user of a different interface, The infrastructure cost of changing is prohibitive.
After all, if the Health Care Bills were so wonderful, why would you need to bribe guys in your own Party to vote for them?
Anyone who has lived in a jurisdiction with corrupt officials will tell you that bribery occurs not because whatever you are being bribed to do is a bad idea, but because you have the power to withhold whatever the briber wants. Bribery is about power not goodness or badness of the behaviour you are being bribed to do.
Having by and large abandoned sexual taboos, we now have a whole new range of taboos having to do with our physical security.
"Don't ride your bicycle without a helmet"
"Don't smoke"
"Don't mention bombs in airports"
Plus, I heard that the climate was recently spotted in Yemen.
Furthermore, it's an indisputable fact that the climate spotted in Yemen is known to be warm! Far more than the mandated 2 C above the global average!