Softcore may not be harmful, but look at some of the shit that's out there (for example, anything starring Rocco). I believe there is a lot of porn that children do not have the emotional maturity to deal with. Especially given how hesitant adults are to talk to children about sex, seeing hardcore porn is likely to give them warped views about how sex is supposed to be.
Yeah, this is one of the reasons Reagan cut taxes and expected revenues to rise. He remembered being an actor, and simply not bothering to act in more than one movie per year, because any additional pay would simply go to the government. If taxes were lower, he would have done more movies, and the government would have ended up getting more from him.
As it turned out, he was right, taxes on the highest income bracket were too high. Unfortunately, he was wrong about the other income brackets, so net tax revenues fell.
Athlons are so cheap, I never understood the point of having a "value" processor. Heading over to Pricewatch, I see that you can get a 950 mhz, 200 FSB Athlon for $53. Durons slower than 950 mhz sell for about $30. Who on earth is building a computer so cheap that spending an extra $23 on a cpu really matters?
When I was upgrading my P3 600 mhz, I thought about getting myself a new P3 chip to stick in the same mobo, but looking at the prices I found that it was the same price to get an Athlon XP 1700+ (that's about 1.4 ghz) with a new motherboard as it was to get a 1.2 ghz p3. It looks like Intel prices may have fallen a bit since then, but still, AMD chips are just absurdly cheap.
If the US really cared about being strategically strong (presuming that the administration wasn't in the oil company's pockets) they would impose a large tax (with proceeds going to alternative energy research) based upon energy efficiency, or rather lack thereof, in vehicles.
They do (well, I'm not sure it goes to alternative energy research, but the tax exists). This is why those ultra souped up sports cars cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Below a certain fuel efficiency level, there's something like a 100% tax. The problem is, if you eliminate the bottom half of vehicles in fuel efficiency, then the 25%-50% group will become the new bottom half. There will always be vehicles that seem fuel inefficient compared to their bretheren.
Who cares what they're excited about? Remember all the trouble the government had with the wealthy, powerful, monopolistic railroad companies? All their power and wealth still didn't stop the death of their industry. If hydrogen becomes cheaper, I have no doubt the same thing will happen here.
They do this already for baseball games. They digitally superimpose ads on the wall behind the batter, just like the yellow first down line superimposed in football games.
That's not the source to the driver. It's a source code wrapper around their binary-only drivers (try actually reading the code), so that they can be compiled into any kernel.
Well, we have found things like bodies frozen in glaciers, and they've all looked like hunters and gatherers. It's possible there were a few cities here or there, but it seems unlikely that civilization was widespread. Besides, there's plenty of areas the glaciers didn't roll over, around the equator for instance, where one would still expect to find ruins. There could, as you say, have been a few pre-industrial societies, but certainly nothing advanced.
Regarding the whole "what if future explorers blunder into a radioactive dumping ground?" I have to admit that the possibility of maybe half a dozen explorers in a post-apocolytic world dying from radiation does not seem like a compelling reason not to use nuclear power.
If you've got a mac, you're obviously not in the market for a Gateway, so why should they care about you? I agree, WMA's suck, but from their perspective, it makes perfect sense.
Well, I think he may be right that prohibition had some parallels. If I'm not mistaken, one of the main ideas behind prohibition was that booze causes illegal activity like spousal beatings (I don't think drunk driving was really a consideration yet). Hence, you outlaw booze, you end domestic violence.
Likewise, unrestricted computers "cause" piracy, so if you outlaw the open pc architecture, you end piracy. Neither one is very well thought out.
He didn't "rip it off." He took elements, certainly, which he freely admits. In fact, he, along with Coppola, FUNDED some of Kurosawa's later films! He was hardly ungrateful for the inspiration.
I hate how some people are always looking for some way to knock down good things, claiming they "ripped off" someone else. Is success so abhorrent a concept to you?
In Fiorina's dreams, perhaps. In case you folks didn't hear, Hewlett's lawsuit was NOT dismissed by the courts, and a court date has been set for late April. Furthermore, no legal document prepared by HP has actually denied Hewlett's claim, they have merely tried to say that what he's claiming is not actually illegal (it is).
I would say it's no more than 50/50 that this merger actually goes through. In the current post-Enron climate, all allegations of corporate wrongdoing are being taken VERY seriously.
Okay, first of all, you are way too fucking jovial. I count 3 smilies and one "hehe" in a three paragraph post.
Second of all, 5 weeks is not 7 weeks in mozilla development speak, because the releases have not been getting progressively later. Sure, if you count from one build's "ideal release" date to the next build's "actual release" date, you might come up with 7, but from one actual release to the next, 5 is accurate.
Finally, the point of going to a longer build cycle is to make sure that each build is more stable, with more or less all the bugs ironed out. This is, in fact, a good thing. If you preferred the less stable, more frequent releases, there's always the nightlies.
Except that the way contracts for porting games work is that they charge you an upfront fee, they don't take a percentage. So they might charge, say, $100,000, and after that you're on your own. That made Loki's business model even less likely to work.
Are you talking about the original Rollerball or the new one? I haven't seen the new one, but in the original, the sport of Rollerball was conciously designed to make people believe that they are merely cogs in a machine, that nothing they do can have an impact.
I'd stick with Red Hat if I were you. Despite how many people interpret that letter, it still sounds to me like they're walking a razor's edge, and you don't what to have to switch back in 6 months if Mandrake goes out of business.
Here's why it won't work: First of all, in a crisis situation, people will react. Just look at the absurd blood donation levels after Sept. 11th. Yet despite how well people react in a crisis, maintaining those levels is impossible (witness the perpetual blood shortages we have, and this is something that doesn't even cost the donors anything).
The second reason is that Mandrake exists in a competitive market. If Mandrake nags you to donate, but Red Hat is happy to have home users freeload, then all other things being equal Red Hat will come out on top.
"Go back, Tobor!" It sounds like this was named after the first robot ever shown on television. Tobor appeared on Captain Video. In one episode, apparently the mad scientist orders Tobor to "attack," to which Captain Video replies "go back, Tobor!" The two yell conflicting commands at the robot until finally it explodes or collaspes or somesuch.
All in all, not what I'd name my hospital robot after, but to each their own.
Actually, I don't think I'd even eliminate Jar Jar. I think that if I just dubbed him over with, whatever, the Japanese language track, or some other language that I wouldn't understand at all, and subtitled him, he'd be tolerable. I really don't get why every single alien in the original three movies gets subtitled, but in Episode 1, they just speak with stupid accents. Bring back the subtitles, I say!
You know, if someone with computer graphics or modeling talent were to redo the final space battle (without Anakin), we subtitled the aliens, and we cut the fart joke, the picking up apples with one's tongue, and anytime Anakin says "wizard," we could likely end up with a Star Wars movie we could be proud of!
On a side note, where does one FIND this Phantom edit? I've seen plenty of news articles, but no links to the actual thing. Where have people been picking this up from?
Sometimes they're really entertaining though. Like for Rush Hour, the director was a total nitwit, so listening to him talk about how people used to play practical jokes on him on the set, but he didn't think they were funny, was a riot.
Also, the best commentary track, hands down: Ghostbusters. Every bit as funny as the movie. Three guys (one was Harold Ramis, don't remember who the other two were), talking MST3K style.
It looks like the group linked to wants the Bering Straights tunnel to be rail-only, so no driving after all. In fact, it looks like it's intended for commercial traffic, not for the general public at all. Good thing too, because being rail-only, you'd have to get Amtrak running trains up there, which put bluntly, ain't gonna happen. They're actually seeking congressional approval to shut down juat about all their lines except the Northeast corridor from Boston to Philadelphia.
Industrialized nations are already down to simple replacement breeding (I believe the US runs a little high due to our continued agriculture, something like 2.4 kids/couple, but it's counterbalanced by countries like Sweden and Japan that run as low as 1.8. 2.1 is considered replacement). Population is continuing to grow because live expectancy continues rising, but we are definately headed towards a steady state within the next 20 years.
The problem is MENA and sub-Saharan Africa. The MENA countries are in some ways bigger problems, because they are by and large uppper-middle class countries (though they've slipped in recent years), so they have low infant mortality rates, but they have not experienced the drop in fertility that Asia did during its rise to industrialization. Sub-Saharan Africa is a different problem; they're still poor, so they have an abysmally low life expectancy, but they make up for it by having an absurdly high number of children (Nigeria has a fertility rate of over 8! Can you even imagine that, if the AVERAGE woman in America had 8 children, to say nothing of the statistical outliers).
So, all you folks who want us to breed less, you're preaching to the choir. Women in industrialized countries are just too busy to want to take care of a half dozen children. As the costs for having children rises (both real money spent for things like education, and the potential income sacrificed by women staying home to look after the kids), families will choose to have fewer kids. You can see it happening in the world today, and as incomes rise, it will just keep happening.
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He did the voice for Lyle Lanley, fuckwit.
Softcore may not be harmful, but look at some of the shit that's out there (for example, anything starring Rocco). I believe there is a lot of porn that children do not have the emotional maturity to deal with. Especially given how hesitant adults are to talk to children about sex, seeing hardcore porn is likely to give them warped views about how sex is supposed to be.
As it turned out, he was right, taxes on the highest income bracket were too high. Unfortunately, he was wrong about the other income brackets, so net tax revenues fell.
When I was upgrading my P3 600 mhz, I thought about getting myself a new P3 chip to stick in the same mobo, but looking at the prices I found that it was the same price to get an Athlon XP 1700+ (that's about 1.4 ghz) with a new motherboard as it was to get a 1.2 ghz p3. It looks like Intel prices may have fallen a bit since then, but still, AMD chips are just absurdly cheap.
They do (well, I'm not sure it goes to alternative energy research, but the tax exists). This is why those ultra souped up sports cars cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Below a certain fuel efficiency level, there's something like a 100% tax. The problem is, if you eliminate the bottom half of vehicles in fuel efficiency, then the 25%-50% group will become the new bottom half. There will always be vehicles that seem fuel inefficient compared to their bretheren.
Who cares what they're excited about? Remember all the trouble the government had with the wealthy, powerful, monopolistic railroad companies? All their power and wealth still didn't stop the death of their industry. If hydrogen becomes cheaper, I have no doubt the same thing will happen here.
They do this already for baseball games. They digitally superimpose ads on the wall behind the batter, just like the yellow first down line superimposed in football games.
So no, you can't get the source code.
Regarding the whole "what if future explorers blunder into a radioactive dumping ground?" I have to admit that the possibility of maybe half a dozen explorers in a post-apocolytic world dying from radiation does not seem like a compelling reason not to use nuclear power.
If you've got a mac, you're obviously not in the market for a Gateway, so why should they care about you? I agree, WMA's suck, but from their perspective, it makes perfect sense.
Likewise, unrestricted computers "cause" piracy, so if you outlaw the open pc architecture, you end piracy. Neither one is very well thought out.
I hate how some people are always looking for some way to knock down good things, claiming they "ripped off" someone else. Is success so abhorrent a concept to you?
I would say it's no more than 50/50 that this merger actually goes through. In the current post-Enron climate, all allegations of corporate wrongdoing are being taken VERY seriously.
Second of all, 5 weeks is not 7 weeks in mozilla development speak, because the releases have not been getting progressively later. Sure, if you count from one build's "ideal release" date to the next build's "actual release" date, you might come up with 7, but from one actual release to the next, 5 is accurate.
Finally, the point of going to a longer build cycle is to make sure that each build is more stable, with more or less all the bugs ironed out. This is, in fact, a good thing. If you preferred the less stable, more frequent releases, there's always the nightlies.
Except that the way contracts for porting games work is that they charge you an upfront fee, they don't take a percentage. So they might charge, say, $100,000, and after that you're on your own. That made Loki's business model even less likely to work.
It's come and gone, my friend. Presumably, it was absolute crap.
Are you talking about the original Rollerball or the new one? I haven't seen the new one, but in the original, the sport of Rollerball was conciously designed to make people believe that they are merely cogs in a machine, that nothing they do can have an impact.
I'd stick with Red Hat if I were you. Despite how many people interpret that letter, it still sounds to me like they're walking a razor's edge, and you don't what to have to switch back in 6 months if Mandrake goes out of business.
The second reason is that Mandrake exists in a competitive market. If Mandrake nags you to donate, but Red Hat is happy to have home users freeload, then all other things being equal Red Hat will come out on top.
All in all, not what I'd name my hospital robot after, but to each their own.
Comet Cursor was a popup download on many sites, most annoyingly doonesbury.com. I'm sorry to see that they didn't learn their lesson back then...
You know, if someone with computer graphics or modeling talent were to redo the final space battle (without Anakin), we subtitled the aliens, and we cut the fart joke, the picking up apples with one's tongue, and anytime Anakin says "wizard," we could likely end up with a Star Wars movie we could be proud of!
On a side note, where does one FIND this Phantom edit? I've seen plenty of news articles, but no links to the actual thing. Where have people been picking this up from?
Also, the best commentary track, hands down: Ghostbusters. Every bit as funny as the movie. Three guys (one was Harold Ramis, don't remember who the other two were), talking MST3K style.
It looks like the group linked to wants the Bering Straights tunnel to be rail-only, so no driving after all. In fact, it looks like it's intended for commercial traffic, not for the general public at all. Good thing too, because being rail-only, you'd have to get Amtrak running trains up there, which put bluntly, ain't gonna happen. They're actually seeking congressional approval to shut down juat about all their lines except the Northeast corridor from Boston to Philadelphia.
The problem is MENA and sub-Saharan Africa. The MENA countries are in some ways bigger problems, because they are by and large uppper-middle class countries (though they've slipped in recent years), so they have low infant mortality rates, but they have not experienced the drop in fertility that Asia did during its rise to industrialization. Sub-Saharan Africa is a different problem; they're still poor, so they have an abysmally low life expectancy, but they make up for it by having an absurdly high number of children (Nigeria has a fertility rate of over 8! Can you even imagine that, if the AVERAGE woman in America had 8 children, to say nothing of the statistical outliers).
So, all you folks who want us to breed less, you're preaching to the choir. Women in industrialized countries are just too busy to want to take care of a half dozen children. As the costs for having children rises (both real money spent for things like education, and the potential income sacrificed by women staying home to look after the kids), families will choose to have fewer kids. You can see it happening in the world today, and as incomes rise, it will just keep happening.