Since you couldn't be bothered to understand, let me rephrase:
The majority of American conservatives are in fact anti-science, and this is easily proven by the Republican Party's policies - they'd hardly pursue policies if a majority of their constituents ("conservatives") didn't like them. I can't help that you're in the minority and that you self-identify as a conservative.
I hope you can do better than that. As a friend of mine said, "The best propaganda trick of the moment is to tell you that you have two choices: unbridled, thousands-of-children-die-a-day capitalism, or rigid millions-sent-to-Siberia Stalinism."
Broadly speaking, American conservatives/are/ anti-science. It's not true of all of you, but it's true of the majority, and thus American conservative political policies are.
So because you're selfish you want webmasters to do extra work by setting up such a paywall, and it is extra work because nobody else is going to require that.
Because it wouldn't do any good. Obama's decided that nobody from the Bush Administration gets prosecuted. Not for torture, not for lying us into a war, not for extraordinary rendition, not for illegal wiretapping.
Clinton got impeached because he helped the Republicans make themselves look bad when they were having the government shutdowns. The BJ and perjury were merely excuses to hurt him back and thereby get more Republicans elected.
A BJ is certainly worse than torture, illegal wiretapping, and starting a war on false pretenses, gods know.
It was simply politics, as anyone with half a brain knows.
If I'm using up 90% of their bandwidth, that crowds out other people. Their upstream may charge them for that bandwidth usage, because there's only so much to go around at any one time.
If a site has ads but they're not obnoxious, the non-selfish thing to do is to allow their ads so they can make some money.
Yeah, I can't really understand people who are all about economic liberties but don't care so much about civil liberties, or think that maximizing the former will magically maximize the latter.
Wrong. Flash is failing because of that, and because of its crap implementation: poor speed, stability, and security, and the latter especially because of having a shit auto-updater.
That certainly was the perception of JavaShit at the time. The other thing is that the browsers back then had crap implementations of it and were themselves not terribly stable, and lastly that the computers of the day weren't fast enough to do much interesting in Javascript.
This was back when you could expect a computer to have a 486DX, Windows 95, and Netscape 4, remember.
JS implementations are better now and so is the language itself, computers are faster & so are JS interpreters, and browsers stabler. Whether those are good enough now is a different argument.
Boeings issue was that they wanted to not only produce a revolutionary aircraft, but they wanted to do it on a tight budget and completely change the way they both designed and built the aircraft. Not a good idea to switch all three critical parts of the journey on a brand new product...
There's actually historical precedence for why completely changing the build process at the same time you're coming up with a new design is a Bad Idea: during WWII the Germans designed a revolutionary new Type XXI U-boat, which was the first submarine to be faster underwater than on the surface, featured hydraulic reloading of torpedoes instead of having the crew manhandle them, etc.
Unfortunately for them (but fortunately for/us/) they had the bright idea to manufacture the new U-boats in sections and then assemble them at the dockyards, as opposed to the previous practice of building the whole thing at the factory then shipping it to the naval base. They couldn't get the tolerances tight enough so none of the Type XXI U-boats were able to sortie before the war ended, because they couldn't assemble the sections together properly.
If they'd stuck with the original build process for the XXI and perfected the new process on a new separate line of older-model U-boats, things would have been a bit more difficult for us during the late Battle of the Atlantic.
As to the pernicious lie that Valve has enslaved these translators: really? Are you claiming that Valve has stuck a gun to their collective heads and told them to work or face dire consequences up to and including torture or death?
This is certainly a volunteer effort to begin with, done so that the translators themselves can enjoy the games in their native languages.
Seriously, this article is a troll. Slavery, indeed.
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Och aye. Huntsman's the only Republican candidate I'd consider voting for, but unfortunately he's not extreme enough to survive the primary.
Just as unfortunately, there's no way to get someone else to run against Obama in the primaries and win.
Was that the type of diesel on the Ju 86 recon bomber?
It's free, it's cross-platform, and it's good enough for many tasks.
It certainly could use improvements in many areas, but it does OK.
Because simply put, you're being selfish and are rationalizing it away. There's no need to refute your rationalizing.
Since you couldn't be bothered to understand, let me rephrase:
The majority of American conservatives are in fact anti-science, and this is easily proven by the Republican Party's policies - they'd hardly pursue policies if a majority of their constituents ("conservatives") didn't like them. I can't help that you're in the minority and that you self-identify as a conservative.
SLIPPERY SLOPE FALLACY DETECTED.
I hope you can do better than that. As a friend of mine said, "The best propaganda trick of the moment is to tell you that you have two choices: unbridled, thousands-of-children-die-a-day capitalism, or rigid millions-sent-to-Siberia Stalinism."
Basically. I hear idiots from time to time engage in such lazy thinking: "The two parties are just the same! The same! Just different!"
because it's easier to deal with such false equivalence than realize that their party is very sick indeed.
Broadly speaking, American conservatives /are/ anti-science. It's not true of all of you, but it's true of the majority, and thus American conservative political policies are.
It's pining for the fjords!
So because you're selfish you want webmasters to do extra work by setting up such a paywall, and it is extra work because nobody else is going to require that.
Still: "I'm selfish!".
Because it wouldn't do any good. Obama's decided that nobody from the Bush Administration gets prosecuted. Not for torture, not for lying us into a war, not for extraordinary rendition, not for illegal wiretapping.
All I'm hearing is "I'm selfish". The non-selfish thing to do is to not visit those sites if you don't like that they're paid for by ads.
But no, you want it all, and the rest is simply rationalization. You could at least be intellectually honest with yourself and admit it.
It /is/ bad, but it's just good enough to get on e.g. Webscriptions and Project Gutenberg.
Clinton got impeached because he helped the Republicans make themselves look bad when they were having the government shutdowns. The BJ and perjury were merely excuses to hurt him back and thereby get more Republicans elected.
A BJ is certainly worse than torture, illegal wiretapping, and starting a war on false pretenses, gods know.
It was simply politics, as anyone with half a brain knows.
Wrong. He was impeached because he made the Republicans look bad during the government shutdowns, so they found an excuse to hurt him back.
It was never about whether Clinton broke the law or not, it was simply low politics.
Really?
If I'm using up 90% of their bandwidth, that crowds out other people. Their upstream may charge them for that bandwidth usage, because there's only so much to go around at any one time.
If a site has ads but they're not obnoxious, the non-selfish thing to do is to allow their ads so they can make some money.
Short version: you sound like a dick.
Yeah, I can't really understand people who are all about economic liberties but don't care so much about civil liberties, or think that maximizing the former will magically maximize the latter.
or are we losing general 3G as well?
Wrong. Flash is failing because of that, and because of its crap implementation: poor speed, stability, and security, and the latter especially because of having a shit auto-updater.
That certainly was the perception of JavaShit at the time. The other thing is that the browsers back then had crap implementations of it and were themselves not terribly stable, and lastly that the computers of the day weren't fast enough to do much interesting in Javascript.
This was back when you could expect a computer to have a 486DX, Windows 95, and Netscape 4, remember.
JS implementations are better now and so is the language itself, computers are faster & so are JS interpreters, and browsers stabler. Whether those are good enough now is a different argument.
The Republicans would never allow it. You'd have to raise taxes to pay for Medicare for all, and that goes against their religion.
Boeings issue was that they wanted to not only produce a revolutionary aircraft, but they wanted to do it on a tight budget and completely change the way they both designed and built the aircraft. Not a good idea to switch all three critical parts of the journey on a brand new product...
There's actually historical precedence for why completely changing the build process at the same time you're coming up with a new design is a Bad Idea: during WWII the Germans designed a revolutionary new Type XXI U-boat, which was the first submarine to be faster underwater than on the surface, featured hydraulic reloading of torpedoes instead of having the crew manhandle them, etc.
Unfortunately for them (but fortunately for /us/) they had the bright idea to manufacture the new U-boats in sections and then assemble them at the dockyards, as opposed to the previous practice of building the whole thing at the factory then shipping it to the naval base. They couldn't get the tolerances tight enough so none of the Type XXI U-boats were able to sortie before the war ended, because they couldn't assemble the sections together properly.
If they'd stuck with the original build process for the XXI and perfected the new process on a new separate line of older-model U-boats, things would have been a bit more difficult for us during the late Battle of the Atlantic.
As to the pernicious lie that Valve has enslaved these translators: really? Are you claiming that Valve has stuck a gun to their collective heads and told them to work or face dire consequences up to and including torture or death?
This is certainly a volunteer effort to begin with, done so that the translators themselves can enjoy the games in their native languages.
Seriously, this article is a troll. Slavery, indeed.
Scripting in csh is Considered Harmful and you shouldn't do it. It's really only good for interactive use.
One wonders if the price on the newer inhalers will come down, since there will be volume efficiencies when more of them are made.