I think he was referring to voucher systems, in which poor people would be compensated for the price of tuition. Since public schools spend more on average per pupil than private schools, giving parents this money in the form of a voucher for private schools, instead of requiring them to send their children to public schools, should result in a better quality of education.
The government has successfully brainwashed you into believing that driving is a privilege they may bestow or take away. In reality, with public transportation unservicable in much of the US, driving is an absolute necessity for one's day to day life. It is no more a "privilege" than the "privilege" of food and water.
Well, if memory serves, a meteor destroyed (or at least severely damaged) Italy, which is why there was a group with the ability to link up with Rama when it is detected. So, I could see how a combination of alterations to the plot for the movie, and a reporter garbling the summary could result in the above, even if the movie is reasonably faithful.
Why OS X on x86? Competition! Freedom! As it stands, if you want to switch to OS X, you have to buy a new computer, and lock yourself into a single hardware vendor. If Apple pulls some stunt down the road (like charging outrageous OS upgrade fees), you have to buy a new computer to switch back (or run some Free Unix variant). If the Mac OS ran on x86 hardware, we would finally have true competition in the OS arena, which can only mean good things for customers. If OS X for x86 made it easy to dual boot, I bet many people would give it a shot; they can always go back to windows if they don't like it.
There are no "official" licensing terms. You simply draft contracts with each party that wishes to license your patent. Changing those terms simply involves drafting a new contract.
As for losing patents if they're not defended, I'm afraid you're thinking of trademarks. Patents may be selectively enforced without the patent being invalidated.
Actually, abstinence isn't 100% either... there's always rape. In fact, I did some calculations a while back which suggested that a teenage girl not on any sort of birth control, practicing abstinence, is more likely to get pregnant from rape than a girl who is on norplant, and has sex whenever she feels like it.
Listen, if I'm not willing to tie myself down to a single OS vendor (Microsoft), why in God's name would I want to tie myself down to a single OS and hardware vendor? Sure, Apple may have technical merits, but until they run on x86, there's just no way you could ever convince me to switch.
Alright, if you're going for the bodybuilding look (without the steroids, so of course you'll never look like Arnold or anything), here's what you need to know:
Yes, of course you're right about weights vs. cardio. Weight training will make you ripped, running will not. Running will probably increase your life expectancy though, so it's a trade-off. My weight training program is a four day split (so I do my back on Monday, biceps and chest Tuesday, legs on Thursday, and triceps and shoulders on Friday), and I generally do somewhere in the neighborhood of four sets of decreasing numbers of repetitions, starting around 15 and ending around 6, working to failure each time.
Protein, protein, protein. This is what makes up your muscle fibers. If you want to gain muscle mass, at least a gram of protein per pound of body weight per day is a good target. The pros often recommend as much as 2.5 grams/lb, but that can cause liver failure and calcium loss, so some degree of moderation is called for. A protein shake right after working out is especially effective, as your body will make immediate use of whatever you ingest right after a workout, and liquids will digest more quickly than solids.
Creatine. Give it a try. Studies suggest that it is somewhat effective, but how effective is still in question. Either way, as long as you're not excessive, it's unlikely to be harmful.
Finally, be consistent. In my experience, nothing matters as much as just making sure I keep doing whatever I'm doing. Even if my strategy isn't perfect, I can't make improvements if I'm not doing anything at all.
Hmm, take two scenarios. In scenario 1, after months of aerial bombardment, your well equipped and trained force is sent in to deal with a small, disorganized local militia. Scenario 2 is the first half hour of Saving Private Ryan. In which of these are you likely to do your job, and in which are you likely to just find the nearest piece of cover and cower in mind-numbing fear? Since most recent military conflicts have been the former, and WW2 was filled with battles like the latter (not to mention times when soldiers went for months in the snow without cold weather gear, weeks with inadequate food, artillery bombardment, and so forth), I think it is hardly surprising that today's American Army kills far more readily, and flees the field of battle far more seldomly.
I suppose that would be okay... if there were something in the rental contract that said "you may not put drapes on the windows," and the pictures were processed by a computer (no person ever looked at them) for the sole purpose of determining if you had drapes or not.
Of course, that would be a stupid clause for them to put in a contract, so there'd be no reason for them to take pictures of your bedroom.
They are when you refuse to write them off, as Japan does. When it is obvious that a loan is unrecoverable, a company must account for it as a bad loan, take the expense, and move on. Japanese companies tend to keep these bad loans listed as assets.
Sure, it's not as important as writing your congressmen to stop the SSSCA, or what have you, but if the idea of the US going to Monopoly money pisses you off, they did helpfully give two contacts on the press release:
Federal Reserve - Susan Stawick - 202-452-2955
Bureau of Engraving and Printing - Dawn Haley - 202-874-3545
This is absolutely true. The main reason I'm responding to this is that the comment is so short I'm worried it will be overlooked. The one-two combo of Pricewatch and ResellerRatings virtually ensures that you will get the lowest prices on the web, from reputable dealers.
The only word of caution I'd add though is that you should read the ResellerRatings comments carefully, in addition to looking at the numbers. Often times the only people who bother to rate companies are those who are pissed off. So, see whether the reasons they're pissed off are likely to apply to you or not (is the person frustrated by the return policy someone who bought the wrong component, or somone who received a dead part?).
1x is always defined as the speed of the first drive commercially available. So a 32x cdrom drive is thirty-two times as fast as the first cdrom drives built. Likewise, a 4x DVD-rom drive is four times as fast as the first DVD-rom drives, which is much faster than four times as fast as the first cd rom drives.
Actually, even here in the states 16 is underage in fewer than half of the states. Some of the biggest (like California) have 18 as age of consent, but overall, 16 year olds are allowed to have sex in more states than gays (not that the laws on gays are ever enforced, but they are on the books).
Yep, according to their stock chart, 11:34 looks right. 36% decline in one day? Yikes! Well, it couldn't have happened to a more arrogant group of SOBs.
Pipe the radiation at the nads at those guys who feel the need to drive by your house at 2:30 AM with their base pounding loud enough to shake windows.
As one who spent a semester in a dorm near a motorcycle hangout, I'd like to add bikers to the list of people whose nads need to be irradiated. Motorcyles are much worse than car stereos.
Purchasing power parity is an inappropriate measure of wealth in this case. What Microsoft cares about is the size of the market in US dollars. PPP may be more fair in determining standard of living, but not the size of the software market.
Yes. Not because of what Napster IS, but because of what BMG might do with it. If BMG offers some sort of a legal mp3 service for a reasonable price, then that is very important. Even if it is less efficient, some degree of advantage should be bestowed on them because it's LEGAL. If they use copy protected media and charge an outrageous fee, then you're right, we'll all just keep using P2P.
The thing that always gets me is lack of a save button. "Okay, I've got a final in Financial Markets. I'll save before I go in, so that if I do badly I can reload and take it again."
Maybe I can put this another way. Suppose you live in Chicago. Now suppose the Ask Slashdot was about someone working for a Chicago-based company that wanted to hire a couple programmers in, say, Atlanta, because wages down there are cheaper. In theory, this should upset you even more, because the loss of a job in your home city is much more likely to adversely impact your job market than the loss of a job from an unspecified location somewhere in the USA.
I'm willing to bet though, that if the above scenario had been posed, not a single person here would have shouted "hire Chicago-ian!" What I'm trying to show you is that your definition of "your people" does not track as closely with your personal interests as you seem to think they do.
Actually, I'm a libertarian. I have no guilt, but neither do I think any country "should" work to do anything as a cohesive unit. If American companies can do better hiring domestically, great. If not, why should they consign themselves to being inefficient? In the long run, that hurts everyone.
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I think he was referring to voucher systems, in which poor people would be compensated for the price of tuition. Since public schools spend more on average per pupil than private schools, giving parents this money in the form of a voucher for private schools, instead of requiring them to send their children to public schools, should result in a better quality of education.
The government has successfully brainwashed you into believing that driving is a privilege they may bestow or take away. In reality, with public transportation unservicable in much of the US, driving is an absolute necessity for one's day to day life. It is no more a "privilege" than the "privilege" of food and water.
Well, if memory serves, a meteor destroyed (or at least severely damaged) Italy, which is why there was a group with the ability to link up with Rama when it is detected. So, I could see how a combination of alterations to the plot for the movie, and a reporter garbling the summary could result in the above, even if the movie is reasonably faithful.
Why OS X on x86? Competition! Freedom! As it stands, if you want to switch to OS X, you have to buy a new computer, and lock yourself into a single hardware vendor. If Apple pulls some stunt down the road (like charging outrageous OS upgrade fees), you have to buy a new computer to switch back (or run some Free Unix variant). If the Mac OS ran on x86 hardware, we would finally have true competition in the OS arena, which can only mean good things for customers. If OS X for x86 made it easy to dual boot, I bet many people would give it a shot; they can always go back to windows if they don't like it.
As for losing patents if they're not defended, I'm afraid you're thinking of trademarks. Patents may be selectively enforced without the patent being invalidated.
Actually, abstinence isn't 100% either... there's always rape. In fact, I did some calculations a while back which suggested that a teenage girl not on any sort of birth control, practicing abstinence, is more likely to get pregnant from rape than a girl who is on norplant, and has sex whenever she feels like it.
Listen, if I'm not willing to tie myself down to a single OS vendor (Microsoft), why in God's name would I want to tie myself down to a single OS and hardware vendor? Sure, Apple may have technical merits, but until they run on x86, there's just no way you could ever convince me to switch.
Yes, of course you're right about weights vs. cardio. Weight training will make you ripped, running will not. Running will probably increase your life expectancy though, so it's a trade-off. My weight training program is a four day split (so I do my back on Monday, biceps and chest Tuesday, legs on Thursday, and triceps and shoulders on Friday), and I generally do somewhere in the neighborhood of four sets of decreasing numbers of repetitions, starting around 15 and ending around 6, working to failure each time.
Protein, protein, protein. This is what makes up your muscle fibers. If you want to gain muscle mass, at least a gram of protein per pound of body weight per day is a good target. The pros often recommend as much as 2.5 grams/lb, but that can cause liver failure and calcium loss, so some degree of moderation is called for. A protein shake right after working out is especially effective, as your body will make immediate use of whatever you ingest right after a workout, and liquids will digest more quickly than solids.
Creatine. Give it a try. Studies suggest that it is somewhat effective, but how effective is still in question. Either way, as long as you're not excessive, it's unlikely to be harmful.
Finally, be consistent. In my experience, nothing matters as much as just making sure I keep doing whatever I'm doing. Even if my strategy isn't perfect, I can't make improvements if I'm not doing anything at all.
Hmm, take two scenarios. In scenario 1, after months of aerial bombardment, your well equipped and trained force is sent in to deal with a small, disorganized local militia. Scenario 2 is the first half hour of Saving Private Ryan. In which of these are you likely to do your job, and in which are you likely to just find the nearest piece of cover and cower in mind-numbing fear? Since most recent military conflicts have been the former, and WW2 was filled with battles like the latter (not to mention times when soldiers went for months in the snow without cold weather gear, weeks with inadequate food, artillery bombardment, and so forth), I think it is hardly surprising that today's American Army kills far more readily, and flees the field of battle far more seldomly.
Of course, that would be a stupid clause for them to put in a contract, so there'd be no reason for them to take pictures of your bedroom.
They are when you refuse to write them off, as Japan does. When it is obvious that a loan is unrecoverable, a company must account for it as a bad loan, take the expense, and move on. Japanese companies tend to keep these bad loans listed as assets.
Funny, same thing happens with me running Red Hat.
Federal Reserve - Susan Stawick - 202-452-2955
Bureau of Engraving and Printing - Dawn Haley - 202-874-3545
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The only word of caution I'd add though is that you should read the ResellerRatings comments carefully, in addition to looking at the numbers. Often times the only people who bother to rate companies are those who are pissed off. So, see whether the reasons they're pissed off are likely to apply to you or not (is the person frustrated by the return policy someone who bought the wrong component, or somone who received a dead part?).
1x is always defined as the speed of the first drive commercially available. So a 32x cdrom drive is thirty-two times as fast as the first cdrom drives built. Likewise, a 4x DVD-rom drive is four times as fast as the first DVD-rom drives, which is much faster than four times as fast as the first cd rom drives.
Actually, even here in the states 16 is underage in fewer than half of the states. Some of the biggest (like California) have 18 as age of consent, but overall, 16 year olds are allowed to have sex in more states than gays (not that the laws on gays are ever enforced, but they are on the books).
Yep, according to their stock chart, 11:34 looks right. 36% decline in one day? Yikes! Well, it couldn't have happened to a more arrogant group of SOBs.
As one who spent a semester in a dorm near a motorcycle hangout, I'd like to add bikers to the list of people whose nads need to be irradiated. Motorcyles are much worse than car stereos.
Because fewer languages makes communication easier, while fewer species threatens the continued existence of life on earth.
That being said, yes, Taiwan is a wealthy nation.
Yes. Not because of what Napster IS, but because of what BMG might do with it. If BMG offers some sort of a legal mp3 service for a reasonable price, then that is very important. Even if it is less efficient, some degree of advantage should be bestowed on them because it's LEGAL. If they use copy protected media and charge an outrageous fee, then you're right, we'll all just keep using P2P.
The thing that always gets me is lack of a save button. "Okay, I've got a final in Financial Markets. I'll save before I go in, so that if I do badly I can reload and take it again."
I'm willing to bet though, that if the above scenario had been posed, not a single person here would have shouted "hire Chicago-ian!" What I'm trying to show you is that your definition of "your people" does not track as closely with your personal interests as you seem to think they do.
Actually, I'm a libertarian. I have no guilt, but neither do I think any country "should" work to do anything as a cohesive unit. If American companies can do better hiring domestically, great. If not, why should they consign themselves to being inefficient? In the long run, that hurts everyone.
But then you'd find out in Ep 2 or 3, and it wouldn't be a surprise in ESB that Vader is Luke's father. Just trading one surprise for another.