I know this is armchair archeology, but I thought that the evidence pointed at that island and the Minoan civilization in general to be the source of the Atlantis legend. The tsunami from that caldera eruption did wipe out Minoan coastal towns and opened the way for the Mycenaeans to expand.
Okay. Can you clarify something for me? How do you distinguish corporatism from capitalism? You imply that there is one, but you don't expand on that. Please do.
You know, up until your second paragraph you were making a pretty good argument, relating services rendered to customer charges. Then you had to add a political strawman at the end. Why? It didn't add anything to the point you were trying to make, which has merit, even to mild libertarians like myself.
Our resources are not unlimited. We can't bring down every dictatorship, every theocracy, or stop every charge of genocide. We have to choose our battles, and commit to them fully. The reason why Afghanistan is as bad as it is that we stupidly made war on two fronts without the money or manpower to back it up. I remember photojournalist Micheal Yon warning we were losing Afghanistan as far back as 2006.
The submitter seems to think that Apple somehow wields a monopoly over information sources. While they may have a degree of dominance in certain areas, there are far more choices of where to get your media than an iPhone/iPad. If you don't agree with Apple's "walled garden" approach, then you don't have to use their product. There's Blackberry and Android out there for you instead. Have fun.
The thing is, those logs have already survived decades on a medium that requires no special equipment to read. How many records have we lost over the past 40 years simply because of changing hardware and file formats? In that time we've gone from delay line/ferrite core memory to 2TB hard drives. To say nothing of thousands of different file formats.
Call it a digital dark age. Will someone be able to read this post in 50 years?
I think this just continues the trend that started with the PS2, which doubled as a DVD player way back when they were fairly new. I own a 360, and use it for DVDs and Netflix streaming video in addition to a gaming machine. Right now I'm considering replacing my Samsung BluRay player with a PS3 Slim.
I've taken to calling my iPhone a "DAD": Do Anything Device. I don't use it for gaming, but the number of things you can use it for grows daily.
There was an old stand up routine by Dana Gould that had a man walking down the street, talking to himself. Ten years ago this would be a crazy person. "You can't tell a Navy man when he's had enough to drink! Only a Navy man knows when he's had enough to drink!"
Now, you have to check his other ear to see if he has a Bluetooth earset.
I feel like we're in the "Slow Take Off" first chapter of Stross's _Accelerando._
Your comment makes me thinks of Boss Tweed, the notorious Tammany Hall politician in the 1860s and 70s who ended up taking the fall for the entire system. Even after he was put in prison, the system of corruption perpetuated by the Tammany Hall Machine lasted for another century. There may have been others, but I think the last major figure was Robert Moses in the 60s.
The current system of hedge funds and credit default swaps is almost entirely unregulated, and these financial instruments deal with such huge flows of (imaginary) cash it's staggering. Credit default swaps alone are worth about $55 trillion. And when that system goes--and it will--it'll make this Great Recession feel like good times.
You want them to develop a whole new vehicle in six months? Really? Do you realize that includes factory tooling, creating supply chains, training workers?
A friend of mine works for GM. In 2007 they had re-tooled the factory he worked in at a cost of $2.5 billion. The interest on the loan for that retooling is more per day than every employee in the plant combined.
What is lacking, and what Tesla and other startups (like Aptera) are trying to do, is create electric cars cheap enough and with competitive performance levels (longer ranges, short recharge times) with IC vehicles.
This reminds me of the "urban renewal" projects of the 50s and early 60s, when huge sections actually were razed in various major cities. Boston's West End was a victim of this.
It's widely considered to be one of the stupidest projects the government's ever done.
Here I thought we were supposed to encourage people to move back into cities so high population densities would make mass transit more viable. Silly me.
I thought that the idea of having 500 channels was that you could watch the kind of programming you liked. Instead what's happening is the cable networks are reforming into identical blobs.
In this case the price difference was far too great. The same TV at Fry's or Best Buy was $650 plus sales tax. I got the same TV at Amazon for $500, saving me about $200. It arrived with no flaws.
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I'd settle for being able to dock my bookmarks on the left edge of the window. The current menu-tree is cumbersome for me.
I know this is armchair archeology, but I thought that the evidence pointed at that island and the Minoan civilization in general to be the source of the Atlantis legend. The tsunami from that caldera eruption did wipe out Minoan coastal towns and opened the way for the Mycenaeans to expand.
Apple already raised e-book prices across the board when they opened the iBookstore, forcing Amazon to adopt a publisher-based pricing scheme.
Geek Hat On: They use "Mister" in Starfleet no matter the gender.
Okay. Can you clarify something for me? How do you distinguish corporatism from capitalism? You imply that there is one, but you don't expand on that. Please do.
And like so many other solar energy projects in California someone will sue to prevent it from being built because it's on "pristine desert habitat".
You know, up until your second paragraph you were making a pretty good argument, relating services rendered to customer charges. Then you had to add a political strawman at the end. Why? It didn't add anything to the point you were trying to make, which has merit, even to mild libertarians like myself.
Our resources are not unlimited. We can't bring down every dictatorship, every theocracy, or stop every charge of genocide. We have to choose our battles, and commit to them fully. The reason why Afghanistan is as bad as it is that we stupidly made war on two fronts without the money or manpower to back it up. I remember photojournalist Micheal Yon warning we were losing Afghanistan as far back as 2006.
The submitter seems to think that Apple somehow wields a monopoly over information sources. While they may have a degree of dominance in certain areas, there are far more choices of where to get your media than an iPhone/iPad. If you don't agree with Apple's "walled garden" approach, then you don't have to use their product. There's Blackberry and Android out there for you instead. Have fun.
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I've read estimates of 50 million barrels or so on NPR.
Didn't we already try it this past decade because of 9/11? The States said NO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Act#State_adoption_and_non-compliance
The thing is, those logs have already survived decades on a medium that requires no special equipment to read. How many records have we lost over the past 40 years simply because of changing hardware and file formats? In that time we've gone from delay line/ferrite core memory to 2TB hard drives. To say nothing of thousands of different file formats.
Call it a digital dark age. Will someone be able to read this post in 50 years?
I think this just continues the trend that started with the PS2, which doubled as a DVD player way back when they were fairly new. I own a 360, and use it for DVDs and Netflix streaming video in addition to a gaming machine. Right now I'm considering replacing my Samsung BluRay player with a PS3 Slim.
I've taken to calling my iPhone a "DAD": Do Anything Device. I don't use it for gaming, but the number of things you can use it for grows daily.
There was an old stand up routine by Dana Gould that had a man walking down the street, talking to himself. Ten years ago this would be a crazy person. "You can't tell a Navy man when he's had enough to drink! Only a Navy man knows when he's had enough to drink!"
Now, you have to check his other ear to see if he has a Bluetooth earset.
I feel like we're in the "Slow Take Off" first chapter of Stross's _Accelerando._
Because a sheep-like mentality is limited to the right wing only?
The absolute worst thing anybody can do is dehumanize their opposition by calling them sheep or assume that they're not intelligent.
Your comment makes me thinks of Boss Tweed, the notorious Tammany Hall politician in the 1860s and 70s who ended up taking the fall for the entire system. Even after he was put in prison, the system of corruption perpetuated by the Tammany Hall Machine lasted for another century. There may have been others, but I think the last major figure was Robert Moses in the 60s.
The current system of hedge funds and credit default swaps is almost entirely unregulated, and these financial instruments deal with such huge flows of (imaginary) cash it's staggering. Credit default swaps alone are worth about $55 trillion. And when that system goes--and it will--it'll make this Great Recession feel like good times.
You want them to develop a whole new vehicle in six months? Really? Do you realize that includes factory tooling, creating supply chains, training workers?
A friend of mine works for GM. In 2007 they had re-tooled the factory he worked in at a cost of $2.5 billion. The interest on the loan for that retooling is more per day than every employee in the plant combined.
What is lacking, and what Tesla and other startups (like Aptera) are trying to do, is create electric cars cheap enough and with competitive performance levels (longer ranges, short recharge times) with IC vehicles.
This makes about as much sense as the government taxing automobiles to keep buggy whip manufacturers alive.
When I first saw this I thought: "Great! A bunch of people are getting together to put the kibosh on this insane Big Brother scheme."
How wrong I was.
Instead we have a group of volunteers with dubious accountability and no public access to the video feeds.
This reminds me of the "urban renewal" projects of the 50s and early 60s, when huge sections actually were razed in various major cities. Boston's West End was a victim of this.
It's widely considered to be one of the stupidest projects the government's ever done.
Here I thought we were supposed to encourage people to move back into cities so high population densities would make mass transit more viable. Silly me.
I wish I had more to add than "right on". But you've put how I feel about modern environmentalism in a nutshell.
Believe it or not, Reagan was quoting JFK.
"Rising tide lifts all boats". 10/15/60, 8/17/62 (In Pueblo, Colorado following approval of the Frying Pan-Arkansas Project), 5/18/63 and 6/25/63
Gone from The Hitler Channel to The Armageddon Channel.
I mostly watch National Geographic HD these days. Or Netflix. Or even shows on Hulu.
The TV Tropes term is: Network Decay.
I thought that the idea of having 500 channels was that you could watch the kind of programming you liked. Instead what's happening is the cable networks are reforming into identical blobs.
In this case the price difference was far too great. The same TV at Fry's or Best Buy was $650 plus sales tax. I got the same TV at Amazon for $500, saving me about $200. It arrived with no flaws.
We have Fry's Electronics here also. But the Best Buy is three miles away, the Fry's is 16 miles.
I find I buy more and more electronics on Amazon anyway. With Prime, I can get it in a day for four bucks. Ordered a 26" Samsung HDTV that way.
I'm sad to see Circuit City go.