When a student (who got loans) graduates, he typically has nothing to lose. If student loans were defaultable, he would be stupid NOT to declare bankruptcy and start fresh with an effectively free degree (after getting the biggest loans possible and living like a rock star for 4 years...).
A) The prime directive is imaginary. B) The prime directive only applies to sentient civilizations, yes? So even if there is life on mars, it still wouldn't be subject to the PM (assuming that we would have detected sentient life by now).
Furthermore, I should be able to call a company and be routed to any employee who has ever worked there.
But seriously, there is probably good money in providing a new form of completely non-personalized "email" addresses (a la phone numbers) that could be transfered to any ISP. Just imagine: Add a new layer of complexity to the internet to replicate the limitations of telcos, and then charge idiots extra for portability!
Hmmm... If only I had thought of that during the dot com boom:-)
The parent of my post you responded to (great-grandparent of this one?) claims the GM grain was engineered to be sterile after one generation.
I don't particularly believe this claim (and I seem to recall the grain was intended for eating, not growing), but it makes my point stronger for that particular case: It was idiotic for the governments involved to reject that grain.
Starving people are more important than the food source. (Unless the food source is Solyent Green?)
How would you quantify Firefox being faster than IE?
I use Firefox almost exclusively now*, but it never seemed as fast as IE to me (or as stable for that matter)...
*Due to fantastic web development tools, built in popup blocking, and invulnerability to the usual malware. It was actually the overwhelming number of popups using IE that finally convinced me to try FF.
From the "pink-boxes-not-needed dept"?
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But the article is about gamer girls and... Oh, you mean computer boxes!
If nobody else is looking at your screen, just who are you harassing? The nosy network admins sniffing your packets or the security guards with the cameras for catching nose-pickers on tape?
It's a sad, sad state of affairs when you can be legally charged for the crime of "potential-harassment"...
(Just to be clear, I am in favor of businesses being allowed to fire employees for almost any reason whatsoever.)
While I tend to assume that the administrators for the sites sending me incorrect "you are infected" messages are not very good at their job, I actually appreciate being told which IPs are forging my domain.
That way I can at least report the infection to the correct abuse address - I've found that ISPs take virus complaints a lot more seriously than SPAM complaints.
The end result is less virii ending up in my mailbox (those people know me too), and less damage to my company's reputation.
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And if we didn't have eyesight we would all be a lot less picky and get to have even more orgasms!
Well, the proportion of unassisted orgasms would decrease at least...
When a student (who got loans) graduates, he typically has nothing to lose. If student loans were defaultable, he would be stupid NOT to declare bankruptcy and start fresh with an effectively free degree (after getting the biggest loans possible and living like a rock star for 4 years...).
posting to kill a bad moderation I made...
Love to know why parent got modded insightful.
A) The prime directive is imaginary.
B) The prime directive only applies to sentient civilizations, yes? So even if there is life on mars, it still wouldn't be subject to the PM (assuming that we would have detected sentient life by now).
Furthermore, I should be able to call a company and be routed to any employee who has ever worked there.
:-)
But seriously, there is probably good money in providing a new form of completely non-personalized "email" addresses (a la phone numbers) that could be transfered to any ISP. Just imagine: Add a new layer of complexity to the internet to replicate the limitations of telcos, and then charge idiots extra for portability!
Hmmm... If only I had thought of that during the dot com boom
The parent of my post you responded to (great-grandparent of this one?) claims the GM grain was engineered to be sterile after one generation.
I don't particularly believe this claim (and I seem to recall the grain was intended for eating, not growing), but it makes my point stronger for that particular case: It was idiotic for the governments involved to reject that grain.
Starving people are more important than the food source. (Unless the food source is Solyent Green?)
Sooo... If I'm following you:
1) Significant portion of poor nation is starving to DEATH.
2) The US donates the most productive AND expensive grain available.
3) There is no risk of future lawsuits due to patent contamination.
4) There would be no extra cost in buying new non-patented stock later on, when nation is not starving.
5) Nation chooses to starve rather than sully hands with GM grain.
6) US IS EVIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!
I reiterate: Priorities, people!
What kind of irresponsible government would rather starve their population than risk future lawsuits?
Priorities, people!
How would you quantify Firefox being faster than IE?
I use Firefox almost exclusively now*, but it never seemed as fast as IE to me (or as stable for that matter)...
*Due to fantastic web development tools, built in popup blocking, and invulnerability to the usual malware. It was actually the overwhelming number of popups using IE that finally convinced me to try FF.
But the article is about gamer girls and... Oh, you mean computer boxes!
Heh.
If nobody else is looking at your screen, just who are you harassing? The nosy network admins sniffing your packets or the security guards with the cameras for catching nose-pickers on tape?
It's a sad, sad state of affairs when you can be legally charged for the crime of "potential-harassment"...
(Just to be clear, I am in favor of businesses being allowed to fire employees for almost any reason whatsoever.)
While I tend to assume that the administrators for the sites sending me incorrect "you are infected" messages are not very good at their job, I actually appreciate being told which IPs are forging my domain.
That way I can at least report the infection to the correct abuse address - I've found that ISPs take virus complaints a lot more seriously than SPAM complaints.
The end result is less virii ending up in my mailbox (those people know me too), and less damage to my company's reputation.
I can hardly wait for the sequel :)