Your argument rings false. I mean, you say that these services (police- and firedepartment) aren't doing any prevention (which is wrong, the police- and firedepartments are up to their knees in prevention) and therefore don't compare with the medical industry (which is again wrong, since a lot of medical work only comes up when the bad thing has already happened). So which is it ?
Is it not more because of the increase in litigation that chemistry sets have become less and less hazardous ? I would wager that this is so - rather than because of fear of terrorism. You can rub all sorts of things in your eyes, get rashes, be slightly poisoned... Just one case and a lawsuit-happy parent is all it takes to bring down a toymaker, you know.
You must be a very popular person with an attitude like that. I bet you get invited to a lot of parties.
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Didn't RedHat package postgres as the RedHat Database Engine for a while ? Changing the name is easy - just fork the code, change the name of the executable in the Makefile, change the picture in the popup, change the window-title... Basically your average "find . -type f | grep -i 'gimp' | sed -e " job. Feed back to the original developers and upload into sourceforge. Done. Won't get you a lot of credit with the gimp-boys-and-girls, though.
That wasn't his point, was it ? His point wasn't that US soldiers didn't expect to be tortured - they MIGHT be. There were other captured US soldiers who'd been freed before Abu Ghraib that weren't. Only after Abu Ghraib did it become a certainty; it's tit for tat. But also before Abu Ghraib the US did a few no-no's; they paraded their Iraqi POWs on TV, for example.
Maybe they're implementing filesystem transactions in memory ? See what happens when you issue three or four copying commands at the same time with a third/fourth that size ?
A. There is a difference between spoken and written language. Spoken language can indeed mutate as we go along; written language changes by (written) decree. This is what the 'living language' apologists usually forget. B. - F. The rest of your points have no real bearing to the point at hand.
So this is why we had all those pdfs in the mail for a few months now. I think someone on/. even postulated at the time that it was because they were trying to get through spamfilters, but now we know - they were just expanding their botnets.
Well, what good has ever come out of your grandfather ? It isn't the purpose of a book to be good; it's the purpose of a book to convey ideas, no matter how repulsive you find them. In the same vein; it wasn't the purpose of your grandfather to be good, it was his purpose to procreate. Questions of purpose in a universal context are always in vain.
That is disingenious to say the least. You purposely mix up what's happening through either intent or technology in both systems. I'm no MS apologist, and I like Google very much, and I do realize there is a whole spectrum between 'parsing to make fit on screen' and 'passing onto the NSA', but MS' intent is to make the text be seen by you (which is nice, and has only my interest at heart), while Google's intent is also to use your text for other, commercial purposes (which clearly doesn't really have my interest at heart). To pretend that it's essentially the same thing is bad form, man. It doesn't add anything to the discussion.
It's all to do with the head honcho - if he (it's always a man) feels he can express his power better by terrorizing his subjects and using the doctrine of the faith to this end, you'll get a period of repression and no scientific progress. Think Savonerola's Florence, or Calvin's Geneva or the current state of affairs in Iran. Because scientific progress is all about freedom. If, on the other hand, the ruler is weak, or sympathetic, or has so much power that he doesn't even have to care about the freedom of those around him, then you'll get a period of progress. Break down the hierarchy so that scientists can work independently, and you can guarantee progress. That is, until somebody builds the hierarchy back up again and starts using his power again. It's something that has to be fought for continuously, because believe it or not, even in the Western world, people are constantly plotting against even the most basic freedoms of what is perceived as 'the other group'.
200K * 6% per year interest is 1000$ a month, plus a bit of paying off, say 1200$ a month; 60K income per year gives you 5000$ a month, taxed at perhaps 30% makes 3500$ - 1200$ = 2300$ a month free for food, gadgets, children and repairs. Maybe it's because I live in a relatively risk-free area, but if 6% is reasonable, then your calculations are way off.
]] Inflation just means an increase in the money supply, deflation means a decrease in the money supply.
Inflation is caused by an increase in money supply, or a decrease in the amount of goods produced/services delivered. Deflation is caused by a decrease in the money supply, or an increase in the amount of goods produced/services delivered. Leaving that part out conveniently loses the point: Gold may be mined at a 3% increase every year, which is managable enough as an inflation figure. However, goods and services have spikes in them that are caused by innovation, disaster and whatnot - capable of turning your humming little 3% economic motor into complete standstill. This is where a central overseer who can create and destroy money comes in real handy.
Some say the Western Roman Empire eventually came to a stand still (and was subsequently walked all over) because of a gold standard; those nasty army generals just kept minting new coins with their face on it to pay their soldiers. Inflation, of course, became rampant. In other parts of the empire, where they produced it, gold was a commodity as you say. The Romans' grasp of economics wasn't all that after all.
In mod_php (and mod_perl, and mod_whatever), the process is pre-forked: every apache child has it linked in, but requests are still serialized within one process. In java and.net webservers, you link the code into the webserver, and you run as a thread.
What is it with the UK and people with a lot of money from behind the former Iron Curtain ? Is it that there's a lot of British outreach in there, or is it that they all flock to Britland for the football or something ?
Apple overreaches with a very expensive experiment, and proceeds to knock itself out of a (or even THE) market. It's Newton-time all over again; the karma of Steve-o.
Your response is a philosophical excercise in futility, because it cannot be tested: a lawless country would 1) strive to become a lawful country (as that is human nature), and 2) have no companies in the sense that countries at the moment do have. A whole branch of government-assisting and regulation-assisting companies wouldn't exist. And there wouldn't be a single guarantee of survival - for people or companies.
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Your argument rings false. I mean, you say that these services (police- and firedepartment) aren't doing any prevention (which is wrong, the police- and firedepartments are up to their knees in prevention) and therefore don't compare with the medical industry (which is again wrong, since a lot of medical work only comes up when the bad thing has already happened). So which is it ?
Did they leave that segfaulting bug in awk in ? BSD users - replace awk with gawk as soon as you've installed it.
Is it not more because of the increase in litigation that chemistry sets have become less and less hazardous ? I would wager that this is so - rather than because of fear of terrorism. You can rub all sorts of things in your eyes, get rashes, be slightly poisoned... Just one case and a lawsuit-happy parent is all it takes to bring down a toymaker, you know.
You must be a very popular person with an attitude like that. I bet you get invited to a lot of parties.
Didn't RedHat package postgres as the RedHat Database Engine for a while ? Changing the name is easy - just fork the code, change the name of the executable in the Makefile, change the picture in the popup, change the window-title... Basically your average "find . -type f | grep -i 'gimp' | sed -e " job. Feed back to the original developers and upload into sourceforge. Done. Won't get you a lot of credit with the gimp-boys-and-girls, though.
Are you trolling, or do you have a rational motivation for this ? I cannot think of one.
That wasn't his point, was it ? His point wasn't that US soldiers didn't expect to be tortured - they MIGHT be. There were other captured US soldiers who'd been freed before Abu Ghraib that weren't. Only after Abu Ghraib did it become a certainty; it's tit for tat. But also before Abu Ghraib the US did a few no-no's; they paraded their Iraqi POWs on TV, for example.
Maybe they're implementing filesystem transactions in memory ? See what happens when you issue three or four copying commands at the same time with a third/fourth that size ?
It's 'a visum'. 'Visa' is plural.
It'll make drivers think that it's not happening to themselves. Sometimes, video-game interfaces are no good in real life.
A. There is a difference between spoken and written language. Spoken language can indeed mutate as we go along; written language changes by (written) decree. This is what the 'living language' apologists usually forget.
B. - F. The rest of your points have no real bearing to the point at hand.
So this is why we had all those pdfs in the mail for a few months now. I think someone on /. even postulated at the time that it was because they were trying to get through spamfilters, but now we know - they were just expanding their botnets.
Why thank you for your assumption, which is so flattering to my person. You must be very popular.
But I'm looking forward more to the Tintin movies than to the Hobbit-one.
Well, what good has ever come out of your grandfather ? It isn't the purpose of a book to be good; it's the purpose of a book to convey ideas, no matter how repulsive you find them. In the same vein; it wasn't the purpose of your grandfather to be good, it was his purpose to procreate. Questions of purpose in a universal context are always in vain.
That is disingenious to say the least. You purposely mix up what's happening through either intent or technology in both systems. I'm no MS apologist, and I like Google very much, and I do realize there is a whole spectrum between 'parsing to make fit on screen' and 'passing onto the NSA', but MS' intent is to make the text be seen by you (which is nice, and has only my interest at heart), while Google's intent is also to use your text for other, commercial purposes (which clearly doesn't really have my interest at heart). To pretend that it's essentially the same thing is bad form, man. It doesn't add anything to the discussion.
It's all to do with the head honcho - if he (it's always a man) feels he can express his power better by terrorizing his subjects and using the doctrine of the faith to this end, you'll get a period of repression and no scientific progress. Think Savonerola's Florence, or Calvin's Geneva or the current state of affairs in Iran. Because scientific progress is all about freedom. If, on the other hand, the ruler is weak, or sympathetic, or has so much power that he doesn't even have to care about the freedom of those around him, then you'll get a period of progress. Break down the hierarchy so that scientists can work independently, and you can guarantee progress. That is, until somebody builds the hierarchy back up again and starts using his power again. It's something that has to be fought for continuously, because believe it or not, even in the Western world, people are constantly plotting against even the most basic freedoms of what is perceived as 'the other group'.
200K * 6% per year interest is 1000$ a month, plus a bit of paying off, say 1200$ a month; 60K income per year gives you 5000$ a month, taxed at perhaps 30% makes 3500$ - 1200$ = 2300$ a month free for food, gadgets, children and repairs. Maybe it's because I live in a relatively risk-free area, but if 6% is reasonable, then your calculations are way off.
]] Inflation just means an increase in the money supply, deflation means a decrease in the money supply.
Inflation is caused by an increase in money supply, or a decrease in the amount of goods produced/services delivered. Deflation is caused by a decrease in the money supply, or an increase in the amount of goods produced/services delivered. Leaving that part out conveniently loses the point: Gold may be mined at a 3% increase every year, which is managable enough as an inflation figure. However, goods and services have spikes in them that are caused by innovation, disaster and whatnot - capable of turning your humming little 3% economic motor into complete standstill. This is where a central overseer who can create and destroy money comes in real handy.
Some say the Western Roman Empire eventually came to a stand still (and was subsequently walked all over) because of a gold standard; those nasty army generals just kept minting new coins with their face on it to pay their soldiers. Inflation, of course, became rampant. In other parts of the empire, where they produced it, gold was a commodity as you say. The Romans' grasp of economics wasn't all that after all.
In mod_php (and mod_perl, and mod_whatever), the process is pre-forked: every apache child has it linked in, but requests are still serialized within one process. In java and .net webservers, you link the code into the webserver, and you run as a thread.
What is it with the UK and people with a lot of money from behind the former Iron Curtain ? Is it that there's a lot of British outreach in there, or is it that they all flock to Britland for the football or something ?
Apple overreaches with a very expensive experiment, and proceeds to knock itself out of a (or even THE) market. It's Newton-time all over again; the karma of Steve-o.
How on earth are these guys ever going to move to 64 bit I don't know.. *shakes head*
Your response is a philosophical excercise in futility, because it cannot be tested: a lawless country would 1) strive to become a lawful country (as that is human nature), and 2) have no companies in the sense that countries at the moment do have. A whole branch of government-assisting and regulation-assisting companies wouldn't exist. And there wouldn't be a single guarantee of survival - for people or companies.