You're missing the point. We know that it would have been cost effective only because it already happened. Hindsight will always be 20/20.
Your insurance analogy is too simplistic. This is like reducing your collision coverage so that you can buy expensive terrorist insurance. While it's quite likely that there will be future terrorist attacks that will destroy peoples' cars, the odds that it will happen to you specifically are fairly small. And if it ends up not happening and you get into a run of the mill accident, you've screwed yourself.
Nothing productive will come of this. Right now everyone's gung-ho for watch sytems in the Indian and Atlantic oceans because this is still fresh in everyone's minds (because it's still on TV). But in 10 or 15 years people will be bitching about wasting money on something that will most likely not happen in our lifetimes.
And the thing is, they will have a point. Our resources are finite and there is no shortage of natural disasters. At some point you just have to roll the dice when allocating those resources, and sometimes it'll come up snakes eyes. That's life.
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He had a point, you just missed it. He was pointing out the sloppy writing by whoever wrote that article. Saying "busiest... in 10 years" implies that they were busier 10 years ago. If it was absolutely necessary to point out that Amazon has been in business for that long, they should have said something like "busiest... in their 10 year history".
First, as has been pointed out in earlier threads, it looks like this is going to be a privately funded, for-profit venture.
Second, who says this can't help children learn about plants and animals? Contrary to popular belief, there is more to the internet than porn and spam.
I've already seen the first Claudia Black episode, and I didn't catch any Farscape references. Of course, I haven't seen a whole lot of Farscape so I may have just missed them.
The rules no longer allow remote input from the pit, and a computer doesn't understand race strategy. A computer does the actual work, but it is in fact up to the driver to make the decision.
What Toyota don't seem to have figured out is that no amount of money can make up for high employee turnover. Ferrari are where they are because they were patient when they weren't doing so well and didn't go around firing everyone every time something bad happened.
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Citizens and governments in wealthy countries who want to make the drugs available to citizens of poor countries can likewise fund it.
The problem is that wealthy countries *don't* want to make drugs available to poor countries. Sure, we like the idea of poor people having the drugs they need, but not so much that we're willing to actually pay for it.
The first problem I see is your use of the term "vast". Europe is not "vast". At least not when you consider the "many countries, many cultures, many languages, and diverse history" you've got crammed in there.
When you've got so many countries in a relatively small space, it is rather tempting to group them together.
The creation of the European Union doesn't really work in your favor in this regard either.
Depends on your priorities. For me, the risk that I might scratch the disc and lose those 10k photos is far outweighed by the hassle and expense of storing and/or transporting 10k pieces of paper.
Anything that makes you property less attractive to prospective buyers lowers the value. This includes "weird" neighbors. In this case being weird can mean anything from having an overgrown lawn to having a different skin color than the rest of the neighborhood.
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he bought the UK versions from some grey-market website
You mean Amazon.co.uk? That's where I got mine. International orders even get a slight break because the VAT doesn't apply.
...only during the day. Kinda hard to read a book without light. Well, unless it's written in braille.
Doesn't mean he's wrong.
You're missing the point. We know that it would have been cost effective only because it already happened. Hindsight will always be 20/20.
Your insurance analogy is too simplistic. This is like reducing your collision coverage so that you can buy expensive terrorist insurance. While it's quite likely that there will be future terrorist attacks that will destroy peoples' cars, the odds that it will happen to you specifically are fairly small. And if it ends up not happening and you get into a run of the mill accident, you've screwed yourself.
Nothing productive will come of this. Right now everyone's gung-ho for watch sytems in the Indian and Atlantic oceans because this is still fresh in everyone's minds (because it's still on TV). But in 10 or 15 years people will be bitching about wasting money on something that will most likely not happen in our lifetimes.
And the thing is, they will have a point. Our resources are finite and there is no shortage of natural disasters. At some point you just have to roll the dice when allocating those resources, and sometimes it'll come up snakes eyes. That's life.
He had a point, you just missed it. He was pointing out the sloppy writing by whoever wrote that article. Saying "busiest... in 10 years" implies that they were busier 10 years ago. If it was absolutely necessary to point out that Amazon has been in business for that long, they should have said something like "busiest... in their 10 year history".
First, as has been pointed out in earlier threads, it looks like this is going to be a privately funded, for-profit venture.
Second, who says this can't help children learn about plants and animals? Contrary to popular belief, there is more to the internet than porn and spam.
my guess is "the first episode they appear in."
I've already seen the first Claudia Black episode, and I didn't catch any Farscape references. Of course, I haven't seen a whole lot of Farscape so I may have just missed them.
Firefox can do that too, and you don't even need a .Mac account. Any public ftp space will do.
The only thing you can reasonably conclude from that is that cops aren't in the habit of asking for warrants they know they won't get.
Come back when you have info about how many were later found to have been issued improperly.
The rules no longer allow remote input from the pit, and a computer doesn't understand race strategy. A computer does the actual work, but it is in fact up to the driver to make the decision.
Coulthard didn't win the 2004 Monaco GP, Jarno Trulli did. I assume you mean 2003.
What Toyota don't seem to have figured out is that no amount of money can make up for high employee turnover. Ferrari are where they are because they were patient when they weren't doing so well and didn't go around firing everyone every time something bad happened.
Citizens and governments in wealthy countries who want to make the drugs available to citizens of poor countries can likewise fund it.
The problem is that wealthy countries *don't* want to make drugs available to poor countries. Sure, we like the idea of poor people having the drugs they need, but not so much that we're willing to actually pay for it.
And surely you can see the difference between betting on yourself vs. betting on your opponent.
It's a lot easier to lose on purpose than to win on purpose.
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So that they cannot succeed where Fox failed. Can you imagine how dumb they'd look if the series was resurrected and became a hit?
I love it when people can't distinguish between "it sucks" and "I didn't like it". Or, as is more often the case, "I didn't understand it".
The first problem I see is your use of the term "vast". Europe is not "vast". At least not when you consider the "many countries, many cultures, many languages, and diverse history" you've got crammed in there.
When you've got so many countries in a relatively small space, it is rather tempting to group them together.
The creation of the European Union doesn't really work in your favor in this regard either.
it'll take forever to get the election results
It's pretty trivial to design a pen&paper ballot that is machine readable. And such a ballot has the added bonus of being human readable as well.
I wonder what it's like to live without a sense of humor. Would you tell me what it's like?
Depends on your priorities. For me, the risk that I might scratch the disc and lose those 10k photos is far outweighed by the hassle and expense of storing and/or transporting 10k pieces of paper.
Timing is everything. What may have been a good idea then isn't necessarily a good idea now.
Anything that makes you property less attractive to prospective buyers lowers the value. This includes "weird" neighbors. In this case being weird can mean anything from having an overgrown lawn to having a different skin color than the rest of the neighborhood.
Sad but true.
could not have a visible antenna of any kind
I believe FCC regulations forbid such restrictions.