Got it, so it looks like we're not just looking at misspellings, we're looking at things related to Amazon (for example, AutoAmazon.com is one of the entries, as is ZShop.com). That makes sense. It seems a little excessive to be spending thousands of dollars a year on this, but I suppose for them it's really not so much.
I just tried the first 7 entries on your list, and only 1 of them is registered to Amazon. One is actually MSN. So apparently that's not where the 4,000 domains are coming from. Anybody else got any ideas?
Killing someone who robs you is a criminal offense. The state will prosecute you, so it's much worse than if the "perp" is alive to sue. Killing is only considered self defense if you have reason to believe your life is in danger. This is clearly not the case if you pursue a fleeing thief.
I personally don't think this is right. I think you ought to be able to do whatever you want to someone who robs you (again, I wouldn't advise taking the risk, but if you choose to take the risk I think you should be given a free hand). However, the law sees it differently. I suppose the police don't want any competition...
As others have pointed out, often times voltage is not such a big determinate of what makes current dangerous.
I've actually heard that often times American current can be more dangerous because it runs at 60 hz. This causes your muscles to clench up more tightly than they do at 50 hz, so if you've grabbed something you didn't know was live, you've got a harder time letting go.
I know it's infuriating to get stuff stolen, but the risk of trying to recover it is simply not worth it. There have been incidents where purse snatchers and the like have guns or knives (one I remember hearing about involved the guy tripping over the curb, and when the woman hurried over to retrieve her purse, he rolled over and shot her). Even unarmed, of course, how many of us have had enough experience to be confident of our ability in a fistfight?
Also, if you do get the guy, you're likely to be pissed and may hurt him more than the law allows. A "lucky" blow could cripple the thief and land you in jail yourself. A $200 palm pilot simply isn't worth it. Try to get a good description of the guy for the police, and check with your credit card company as to whether your purchases are insured.
Are you sure that's the capacity of a DVD? CDs can store 700 mb (about 0.7 gb), I thought DVDs could store more like 4 gb. That would make it only 450 DVDs.
And given that my girlfriend is 5' (or so she claims; measuring tape pegs it at 4'11"), if they raised the ATMs, she wouldn't be able to reach it at all. Hell, even an average man is 5-6" taller than an average woman, and especially in Australia, you're going to have a sizable Asian population, which will tend to be shorter than those of African, Aborigine, or European descent. Clearly, this is not a good idea.
Usually these systems can distinguish from dead eyeballs because they look at blood vessels on the retinas, which look different on a dead eye. Where is the insecurity that they're trying to fix here anyway? To use an ATM as is, you need a card and a PIN. You may have your card stolen, but how does someone steal your PIN? Even if someone threatens you, and you're too scared to make something up, you can just call the bank and deactivate the card.
From what I could understand bacteriophage development is so simple, it would be impossible to make any money out of it.
Huh? If it's so "simple," then that implies cheap. If it's cheap, there's little R&D to recoup. If it's patentable (as you implied with your line about the Russians. I'm not sure why the USSR cared about American patents anyway, but I'll let that slide), one can make a profit, quickly recouping R&D costs.
Assuming the article you read wasn't just totally full of shit, there could be another reason why it's not profitable. There simply aren't that many antibiotic immune bacteria. Any new drug would almost certainly be orders of magnitude more expensive during the patent period than generic antibiotics, and there's very little that can't be cured with the right antibiotic at the right dosage. If antibiotic immune bacteria become more common, then people will pay a premium for bacteriophage based medicine, because there will be no alternative. Then it will become profitable.
At present, we have 3 types of medicine: we have treatments, we have vaccines, and we have antibiotics. Discovering antibiotics cured bacteria-related diseases all in one fell swoop (okay, some refinement had to be done, but it was a giant breakthrough, not some "two diseases a week for 20 years" nonsense). Treatments don't cure anything, they merely repress symptoms. Sometimes a treatment is so effective that it is tantamount to a cure, but they're still not the same. Vaccines don't cure anything either, they just help to prevent you from contracting something. Furthermore, vaccines for deadly diseases ususually have a mortality rate associated with them. It's often small, a mere fraction of a percentage point, but there's a price nevertheless.
Even if one accepts the argument that the pace of medical progress has slowed, that's not necessarily an argument against capitalism. Maybe the initial discoveries were easier? We've been working on cancer for most of this century, but most of the progress has been made recently, not back in the early days (when you believe things were done right). In fact, as the price of research becomes higher, it becomes all the more important that the medical companies have a way to make back their investment.
R&D is not free. Even if the government paid for it, people would still have to bear the cost. Instead of people who actually require the medicine having to pay, the entire taxpaying population would pay. It's up to you to decide which is more fair. Of course, another big downside of government sponsored R&D is that it would be politicized. Imagine all the fun if our elected officials had/got to decide which diseases were the important ones. We'd probably spend all our money on Alzheimer's, as the baby boomers get older.
You know, there are actually places to go when you need cheap books to fill out a bookcase (like upscale hotel rooms and the like). They sell the books "by the yard," and you usually get things like old editions of legal texts, or whatever else would be unsellable to anyone who was going to read it, but looks pretty on a bookshelf. Same idea, really.
Actually, he makes a reference to this in the back of the latest edition of "Three Books of Known Space." He said that what he meant was, imagine the stories, maybe even write and share them with friends. But DON'T attempt to publish them, online or otherwise. And yes, it's out of a desire for control.
Preach it! There is nothing more disgusting to me than protruding bones.
As for the silicon, I dunno, cyborg Buffy could be kind of cool. SiliCONE, on the other hand, is no good (granted, silicone does contain silicon, but I'll be pedantic anyway).
I always went bankrupt on the third or fourth turn. Clearly there was something critical that I was unable to figure out. I always seemed to have an income of 1 at the beginning, and so building one building would make my income equal my expenses. Blah, it was just not as good as Alpha Centauri.
I don't think many were proposing that Linus was attempting to manipulate us for his own ends. However, sometimes the work you do can influence your thinking.
Take my grandfather for example. He worked as a transportation lawyer, back in the bad old Interstate Commerce Commision days. The ICC was created to regulate railroad monopolies, but was eventually coopted by the railroads to keep out trucking competition. In order to establish a new shipping route, you needed to prove to the ICC that there was a "need" for this new shipping route. Clearly, it was an absurd, anti-competitive system. My grandfather retired shortly before the industry was deregulated. However, to this day, he still believes that the ICC was a good thing, because being dependant on its existance for a job made him a believer.
The point is, when you have an economic interest in something, it can start to affect how you think about things. The wealthy tend to want tax cuts, and the poor tend to want spending increases, but most of them are probably not conciously supporting those positions for their own selfish ends. They truly believe that what's good for them is the right thing for everyone, it's a natural justification process for humans, and I wouldn't think less of Linus for the tricks his subconcious might play on his mind
Well, it DID split, but I'm talking about the split adjusted price. Anyway, you can have a look at the chart yourself over here. Now if you'd bought back in '85, and then sold in early 2000, you could have made a pretty good profit. But yeah, the Switch ads do not seem to have had any positive effect. Nor, surprisingly, has OSX.
Maybe stock price? One of the things I find most amusing is how the stock always crashes within 6 months of a stock split. I guess I'm just a little bitter, since I bought in back in the 80's, and I STILL haven't made a profit...
2. Invest in Intel, Microsoft, Apple and Cisco - 100 bucks in each company
I actually did put a chunk in Apple when I was about 8. My father, using the monkey throwing darts technique, asked me which three companies he wanted me to put a little bit of money in. I chose ToysRus, McDonalds, and Apple. Apple was the same price back in 1987 as it is today. DON'T tell yourself to put money in Apple. Walgreens is a good one. That's gone up over 100x in the last 22 years (since I was born).
Says the man who intentionally let Pearl Harbor get bombed in order to draw America into WWII. I'll say this for FDR: he was a good public speaker.
Back to the subject at hand: you can't simulate disease or death in a game. Those are two of the primary things that make war bad for the soldiers. So, I think the most realistic war GAME possible would still be fun.
Well, it depended on the tax rate. If you had a low enough tax rate (normal or below if they started out happy) they would never revolt. So while it was a feature, I think it was a not terribly well thought out one.
If they're going through central London to get from one end of London to the other, then presumably that means that it is faster than any alternative route. Doesn't that mean the congestion is not as bad as they're saying then, if people prefer the congestion to going around? Or alternatively, there is no even remotely efficient way to get from one side of London to the other aside from through the center?
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Got it, so it looks like we're not just looking at misspellings, we're looking at things related to Amazon (for example, AutoAmazon.com is one of the entries, as is ZShop.com). That makes sense. It seems a little excessive to be spending thousands of dollars a year on this, but I suppose for them it's really not so much.
I just tried the first 7 entries on your list, and only 1 of them is registered to Amazon. One is actually MSN. So apparently that's not where the 4,000 domains are coming from. Anybody else got any ideas?
I personally don't think this is right. I think you ought to be able to do whatever you want to someone who robs you (again, I wouldn't advise taking the risk, but if you choose to take the risk I think you should be given a free hand). However, the law sees it differently. I suppose the police don't want any competition...
I've actually heard that often times American current can be more dangerous because it runs at 60 hz. This causes your muscles to clench up more tightly than they do at 50 hz, so if you've grabbed something you didn't know was live, you've got a harder time letting go.
Also, if you do get the guy, you're likely to be pissed and may hurt him more than the law allows. A "lucky" blow could cripple the thief and land you in jail yourself. A $200 palm pilot simply isn't worth it. Try to get a good description of the guy for the police, and check with your credit card company as to whether your purchases are insured.
Are you sure that's the capacity of a DVD? CDs can store 700 mb (about 0.7 gb), I thought DVDs could store more like 4 gb. That would make it only 450 DVDs.
Usually these systems can distinguish from dead eyeballs because they look at blood vessels on the retinas, which look different on a dead eye. Where is the insecurity that they're trying to fix here anyway? To use an ATM as is, you need a card and a PIN. You may have your card stolen, but how does someone steal your PIN? Even if someone threatens you, and you're too scared to make something up, you can just call the bank and deactivate the card.
Huh? If it's so "simple," then that implies cheap. If it's cheap, there's little R&D to recoup. If it's patentable (as you implied with your line about the Russians. I'm not sure why the USSR cared about American patents anyway, but I'll let that slide), one can make a profit, quickly recouping R&D costs.
Assuming the article you read wasn't just totally full of shit, there could be another reason why it's not profitable. There simply aren't that many antibiotic immune bacteria. Any new drug would almost certainly be orders of magnitude more expensive during the patent period than generic antibiotics, and there's very little that can't be cured with the right antibiotic at the right dosage. If antibiotic immune bacteria become more common, then people will pay a premium for bacteriophage based medicine, because there will be no alternative. Then it will become profitable.
Even if one accepts the argument that the pace of medical progress has slowed, that's not necessarily an argument against capitalism. Maybe the initial discoveries were easier? We've been working on cancer for most of this century, but most of the progress has been made recently, not back in the early days (when you believe things were done right). In fact, as the price of research becomes higher, it becomes all the more important that the medical companies have a way to make back their investment.
R&D is not free. Even if the government paid for it, people would still have to bear the cost. Instead of people who actually require the medicine having to pay, the entire taxpaying population would pay. It's up to you to decide which is more fair. Of course, another big downside of government sponsored R&D is that it would be politicized. Imagine all the fun if our elected officials had/got to decide which diseases were the important ones. We'd probably spend all our money on Alzheimer's, as the baby boomers get older.
In short, Chris Rock is full of shit.
You know, there are actually places to go when you need cheap books to fill out a bookcase (like upscale hotel rooms and the like). They sell the books "by the yard," and you usually get things like old editions of legal texts, or whatever else would be unsellable to anyone who was going to read it, but looks pretty on a bookshelf. Same idea, really.
Actually, honest to God, the ancient Chinese did have stone dildos. I wish I could remember the name of the book that discussed it.
Actually, he makes a reference to this in the back of the latest edition of "Three Books of Known Space." He said that what he meant was, imagine the stories, maybe even write and share them with friends. But DON'T attempt to publish them, online or otherwise. And yes, it's out of a desire for control.
As for the silicon, I dunno, cyborg Buffy could be kind of cool. SiliCONE, on the other hand, is no good (granted, silicone does contain silicon, but I'll be pedantic anyway).
I always went bankrupt on the third or fourth turn. Clearly there was something critical that I was unable to figure out. I always seemed to have an income of 1 at the beginning, and so building one building would make my income equal my expenses. Blah, it was just not as good as Alpha Centauri.
Extravagant, complex, or bizarre, especially in ornamentation
Take my grandfather for example. He worked as a transportation lawyer, back in the bad old Interstate Commerce Commision days. The ICC was created to regulate railroad monopolies, but was eventually coopted by the railroads to keep out trucking competition. In order to establish a new shipping route, you needed to prove to the ICC that there was a "need" for this new shipping route. Clearly, it was an absurd, anti-competitive system. My grandfather retired shortly before the industry was deregulated. However, to this day, he still believes that the ICC was a good thing, because being dependant on its existance for a job made him a believer.
The point is, when you have an economic interest in something, it can start to affect how you think about things. The wealthy tend to want tax cuts, and the poor tend to want spending increases, but most of them are probably not conciously supporting those positions for their own selfish ends. They truly believe that what's good for them is the right thing for everyone, it's a natural justification process for humans, and I wouldn't think less of Linus for the tricks his subconcious might play on his mind
You can see my robot here. That's me on the far right.
Well, it DID split, but I'm talking about the split adjusted price. Anyway, you can have a look at the chart yourself over here. Now if you'd bought back in '85, and then sold in early 2000, you could have made a pretty good profit. But yeah, the Switch ads do not seem to have had any positive effect. Nor, surprisingly, has OSX.
Maybe stock price? One of the things I find most amusing is how the stock always crashes within 6 months of a stock split. I guess I'm just a little bitter, since I bought in back in the 80's, and I STILL haven't made a profit...
Um, he already did. It was called the Special Edition, remember?
I actually did put a chunk in Apple when I was about 8. My father, using the monkey throwing darts technique, asked me which three companies he wanted me to put a little bit of money in. I chose ToysRus, McDonalds, and Apple. Apple was the same price back in 1987 as it is today. DON'T tell yourself to put money in Apple. Walgreens is a good one. That's gone up over 100x in the last 22 years (since I was born).
I read 8^) as "Eight to the power of parenthesis"
Back to the subject at hand: you can't simulate disease or death in a game. Those are two of the primary things that make war bad for the soldiers. So, I think the most realistic war GAME possible would still be fun.
Well, it depended on the tax rate. If you had a low enough tax rate (normal or below if they started out happy) they would never revolt. So while it was a feature, I think it was a not terribly well thought out one.
If they're going through central London to get from one end of London to the other, then presumably that means that it is faster than any alternative route. Doesn't that mean the congestion is not as bad as they're saying then, if people prefer the congestion to going around? Or alternatively, there is no even remotely efficient way to get from one side of London to the other aside from through the center?