Actually, my point was about the people behind the defense - Fort Knox is defended by trained and armed soldiers, banks by unarmed rent-a-cops. A critical Linux server is defended by a paranoid and capable admin, a desktop PC by McAfee/Norton and a clueless user.
One critical server running linux is worth a lot more than 1000 XP desktop machines running solitaire.
And what's in Fort Knox is worth a lot more than what's in 1000 local banks. Yet nationwide robbers persist in the lower value targets... I wonder if it might have anything to do with the people defending the wealth.
People who do anything because it interests & fascinates them on a personal level do better than those who are only in it for the paycheck. Doesn't matter whether it's programming, auto repair, landscaping, or anything else.
Corporations are owned by people. To force certain "standards of behavior" on a corporation is to say to the owners of that corporation, "You do not have the same rights to do what you want with this particular property as you have with your other property. Instead you must accept limitations of use not according to infringements of other people's fundamental rights (as is the case for all other private property), but according to the property's value to the public." Unless of course, you believe that people have a fundamental right to use other people's private property with the same freedom that they use public property.
How valuable/powerful should a corporation be before it's controlled by the government "for the common good"? Is it the right (maybe you believe "duty") of government to punish those who have been successful enough to build a large corporation, by slowly removing the owner's property rights?
Give me a break! Everyone knows that Canada bought a house in Minnesota so that she could get quality health care on-demand. Whether or not she's technically a "resident" is up for debate...
Logic indicates with hundreds of billions of planets in the universe that water or other "basic building blocks of life" would be present on at least some other elements in the universe.
Logic also indicates that a heavier object would fall faster than a lighter one. Except, of course, that both your claim and my counter-example are based on a series of presumptions for which there is not appropriate evidence. Empirical science requires a balance of evidence/data and logic, and, in the end, evidence trumps logic (hence - the falsification of theories).
As a parent myself, I just tell my kids that fast food is unhealthy in that it has a lot of calories and fat in it.
Don't you see?! That's the point of this legislation - so parents won't have to be "the bad guy" with their kids - now they can say that The Government said "No more Happy Meals". Won't someone think of the parents!?!
As much as I hate to say it, this law does make some sense. The one being punished is the child not the parent when they get stuck with a stupid parent.
Actually, I believe the one being punished is McDonalds. Shame on them for offering options to their customers.
So unless you want to ban people from having kids if they can't pass a child raising class or you want to call child services on bad parents. One more option is that the gov't raises all of our kids for us by professional child raisers, why would trust amateurs raising our little leaders of tomorrow?
Or the other option: Government stays out of our lives, except to defend against the infringement of the liberties of the innocent. Yes, some children will have parents that contribute to their obesity. Just as some children will have parents that contribute to their chance of developing skin cancer (spending a day at the beach without SPF9000), shin splints (playing basketball on a concrete surface), ignorance (not teaching them about a given subject) or dying in a car accident (driving them to the park).
The idea of a society that thinks-of-the-children to the point of removing basic parenting decisions (like diet) from the purview of the parent seems a tad totalitarian for my tastes.
Seems, IMHO, to be retarding progress. If folks would just put the stupid anthropomorphism on the back burner, we could already have a wealth of useful robotics in the home. But, noooooooooo, they all gotta look like C3P0 or we're doomed....
Except for the fact that our entire infrastructure/civilization has been refined for millenia to efficiently accommodate the movement and activities of 1.5-2.0 meter tall bipeds with four digits and an opposable thumb on two articulating upper appendages. Unless you plan on redesigning 99% of all tools (in the generic sense of the word - i.e. doorknobs, systems of buttons/keypads, steering wheels, stairs, etc) there seems to be a significant advantage in replicating the human physical form.
Woah, woah woah, Woah woah woah, woah. Yes, this warrants 7 woahs, now 8. Everything you mentioned can easily be done with bread.
Its easy (water and flour) and damned rapid to deploy (Little while in the oven), reasonably scalable (just need a bigger bun-cake-pan), easy to modify and customize (dough!), flexible enough to build everything from a blog (bread-log, also known as a baguette) to an e-commerce system (ancient romans often bartered with wheat) to a social networking platform (http://www.breadtalk.com/ apply to join!) to a cloud-based RDBMS front end (okay what the hell is that? You can't just make stuff up you know) to a personal document and photos filing system (Sliced bread makes great seperators, see: Club sandwhich)
Don't get me wrong, Drupal is pretty amazing, but lets not go around belittling the great invention that is sliced bread.
All of your points but your last one only had to do with bread, not specifically sliced bread. Fortunately, the greatness of sliced bread is such that it still remains a greater invention than Drupal. For evidence I present this sandwich of Perfectly Normal Beast.
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This was their plan all along.
It's payback for Hiroshima.
Someone better tell them that it was Cow and Chicken that's been responsible for Hiroshima all along.
Yes. Star Trek:Voyager taught us many, many things - all dealing with how to kill a formerly great franchise.
There are some characterstics that some breads have in common with others (other than the obvious 4 legs etc) but they don't all overlap.
And this, my friends, is exactly why you should not use plutonium for baking.
Actually, my point was about the people behind the defense - Fort Knox is defended by trained and armed soldiers, banks by unarmed rent-a-cops. A critical Linux server is defended by a paranoid and capable admin, a desktop PC by McAfee/Norton and a clueless user.
One critical server running linux is worth a lot more than 1000 XP desktop machines running solitaire.
And what's in Fort Knox is worth a lot more than what's in 1000 local banks. Yet nationwide robbers persist in the lower value targets... I wonder if it might have anything to do with the people defending the wealth.
People who do anything because it interests & fascinates them on a personal level do better than those who are only in it for the paycheck. Doesn't matter whether it's programming, auto repair, landscaping, or anything else.
Except gambling/poker.
Corporations are owned by people. To force certain "standards of behavior" on a corporation is to say to the owners of that corporation, "You do not have the same rights to do what you want with this particular property as you have with your other property. Instead you must accept limitations of use not according to infringements of other people's fundamental rights (as is the case for all other private property), but according to the property's value to the public." Unless of course, you believe that people have a fundamental right to use other people's private property with the same freedom that they use public property.
How valuable/powerful should a corporation be before it's controlled by the government "for the common good"? Is it the right (maybe you believe "duty") of government to punish those who have been successful enough to build a large corporation, by slowly removing the owner's property rights?
Someone missed the day when we talked about diversification and risk....
Someone definitely missed something...
...let alone where Canada resides . . .
Give me a break! Everyone knows that Canada bought a house in Minnesota so that she could get quality health care on-demand. Whether or not she's technically a "resident" is up for debate...
"Kiss the sky" doesn't even make any sense unless you're on some kind of mind-altering substance
Umh, the song's called purple haze.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it's called "Sarcasm".
Logic indicates with hundreds of billions of planets in the universe that water or other "basic building blocks of life" would be present on at least some other elements in the universe.
Logic also indicates that a heavier object would fall faster than a lighter one. Except, of course, that both your claim and my counter-example are based on a series of presumptions for which there is not appropriate evidence. Empirical science requires a balance of evidence/data and logic, and, in the end, evidence trumps logic (hence - the falsification of theories).
But ... there' only one ocean.
And I'm willing to bet that one asteroid required made an epic whooshing sound as it plummeted to earth.
So sad, the obligatory "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these ARM-based devices" will not be funny in the future
Don't you say that! Don't you dare say that!!
How many worthwhile places have you gone in a single step?
AFK
As a parent myself, I just tell my kids that fast food is unhealthy in that it has a lot of calories and fat in it.
Don't you see?! That's the point of this legislation - so parents won't have to be "the bad guy" with their kids - now they can say that The Government said "No more Happy Meals". Won't someone think of the parents!?!
As much as I hate to say it, this law does make some sense. The one being punished is the child not the parent when they get stuck with a stupid parent.
Actually, I believe the one being punished is McDonalds. Shame on them for offering options to their customers.
So unless you want to ban people from having kids if they can't pass a child raising class or you want to call child services on bad parents. One more option is that the gov't raises all of our kids for us by professional child raisers, why would trust amateurs raising our little leaders of tomorrow?
Or the other option: Government stays out of our lives, except to defend against the infringement of the liberties of the innocent. Yes, some children will have parents that contribute to their obesity. Just as some children will have parents that contribute to their chance of developing skin cancer (spending a day at the beach without SPF9000), shin splints (playing basketball on a concrete surface), ignorance (not teaching them about a given subject) or dying in a car accident (driving them to the park).
The idea of a society that thinks-of-the-children to the point of removing basic parenting decisions (like diet) from the purview of the parent seems a tad totalitarian for my tastes.
Seems, IMHO, to be retarding progress. If folks would just put the stupid anthropomorphism on the back burner, we could already have a wealth of useful robotics in the home. But, noooooooooo, they all gotta look like C3P0 or we're doomed....
Except for the fact that our entire infrastructure/civilization has been refined for millenia to efficiently accommodate the movement and activities of 1.5-2.0 meter tall bipeds with four digits and an opposable thumb on two articulating upper appendages. Unless you plan on redesigning 99% of all tools (in the generic sense of the word - i.e. doorknobs, systems of buttons/keypads, steering wheels, stairs, etc) there seems to be a significant advantage in replicating the human physical form.
..that I left that sinking ship (Facebook) a long time ago. It wasn't easy (littorally), but worth it.
FTFY.
:-P
One can see the resemblance between Spock and Nimoy.
The mind boggles.
Subjective things are subjective.
Yeah, well - that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Unless, of course, this man really is a threat and the delay of his arrival to his intended destination saved thousands of lives
That sound you heard was 10,000 palms hitting 10,000 faces after reading your post.
That's a cynical and inaccurate view on the situation.
He also had a beard.
That's not strictly accurate. While there was no evidence of a beard, there was reliable intel indicating that he had been considering growing one.
Just to clarify,
Seth
I don't get it. Are we now calling into question whether or not Bruce Ivens was male? That would be a twist - especially to "his" widow and children!
Drupal is the greating thing since sliced bread.
Woah, woah woah, Woah woah woah, woah. Yes, this warrants 7 woahs, now 8. Everything you mentioned can easily be done with bread.
Its easy (water and flour) and damned rapid to deploy (Little while in the oven), reasonably scalable (just need a bigger bun-cake-pan), easy to modify and customize (dough!), flexible enough to build everything from a blog (bread-log, also known as a baguette) to an e-commerce system (ancient romans often bartered with wheat) to a social networking platform (http://www.breadtalk.com/ apply to join!) to a cloud-based RDBMS front end (okay what the hell is that? You can't just make stuff up you know) to a personal document and photos filing system (Sliced bread makes great seperators, see: Club sandwhich)
Don't get me wrong, Drupal is pretty amazing, but lets not go around belittling the great invention that is sliced bread.
All of your points but your last one only had to do with bread, not specifically sliced bread. Fortunately, the greatness of sliced bread is such that it still remains a greater invention than Drupal. For evidence I present this sandwich of Perfectly Normal Beast.
most laidback airline personnel I ever dealt with on a long flight.
Well the Germans are so well-known for being laidback...
I suspect Dutch outsourcing..