Hollywood only accepted video cassettes once they became a roaring success. What kind of enterprising pioneers took the plunge and put their movies on video cassettes when that was risky and untried?
The "Fairness Doctrine" applied to outlets that were licensed by the FCC, using "public" airwaves. The thinking was that the airwaves were a limited resource, and that limitation shouldn't be used to shut out competing voices.
The Fairness Doctrine never applied to print. There, your only restrictions were the laws against slander.
The question is, is the internet more like a news stand or broadcast? Since you don't have to have a license to run a web site, I think the press model (say what ever you like short of slander) should apply to the internet.
The previous Republican majority called itself conservative. They were lauded by media folks who called themselves conservative.
There were no voices saying that the previous Republican majority wasn't conservative until after the government failed miserably at everything it tried to do.
Conservative politicians say they want smaller government, and then vote for big government surveillence. And big government defecits, because they know that smaller, less effective government is not popular with the voters.
I sold AAPL (and much of the rest of my stock holdings) in mid-2001 to come up with a 20% down payment for my house. The house has gone up 50K, says Zillow.com (yay leverage). The $1800 in AAPL would now be worth, what $18,000 today.
And using the same argument, I could claim that the universe was created, complete with the appearance of history, Last Thursday. By my cat, Sidney. He says so.
Science, at least the history of science, has a habit of reducing the value of "God Did It" as an explanation. As more and more of nature falls to the explanations of science, the realm of the gods is diminished. "God of the Gaps" is a way of describing this fallacy.
There is no positive evidence for the existence of the Greek, Roman, or Egyptian pantheons, nor for a supreme being with tri-omni powers.
The big bang and an expanding universe is not "just a theory", but rather an explanation for why Edwin Hubble observed that all galaxies are moving away from us, and the further away they are, the faster they are receding.
If you have a better account for the beginning of the universe that fits with observations, you're well on your way to an Astro-Physics PhD and a tenured position at a leading institution.
You can't get the sun to revolve around the earth in a non-accelerating reference frame.
Doing that certification takes more effort than the certified hardware is worth.
And you either (a) do the certification in a high-cost country, to keep from sending broken junk to Africa, or (b) ship the good and the bad, and have the receiving, low-wage country do the sorting and deal with the junk.
2007 US Military spending: $549.2 Billion. Domestic spending: $457.9 Billion. Welfare is a small fraction of domestic spending, so it cannot be 10x defense spending.
When I have to drive in a snowstorm, I make sure I know how things are going where the rubber is trying to get as close to the road as it can. I gauge how long it will take my vehicle to stop, and then drive appropriately. I've done 50-60 mph on snow-packed, long, straight stretch of the NJ turnpike. I was passing a lot of other traffic that was safely over to the right and going 25. Let the car ahead of you get out until you can just make out if its driver touches the brakes. Use the next pair of eyes to buy you more time to react.
Oh, and ABS helps. If you need to stop, you can still steer. So always have a plan where you're going to go if you can't stop in time.
OpenOffice on MacOS X requires you to have X installed.
NeoOffice is a Mac OS X port of OpenOffice to use the native Mac OS X GUI. I have NeoOffice and AppleWorks on my Mac Mini at home. And OpenOffice on my home Linux box. And MS Office on my windows work machine.
John Scully took over Apple from Steve Jobs; it's revenues were an astonishing $1 Billion per year. Ten years later, when he was forced out, Apple's revenues had fallen to a piddling $10 Billion per year.
Jobs knew enough to get Apple into the computer business, and then again into the GUI computer business (with expert help from Raskin et al). And then into the music player business, and then into the phone business. When he was young, he couldn't run the company. He seems to have matured.
I had a joystick exactly like the grandparent post describes on my Apple//e. Analog: it was supposed to read a value between 0 and 255 for each axis. And the "centering spring" could be activated or deactivated.
My college roommate had a C-64 (or maybe it was a C-128). It had much better graphics and sound for games like Archon than did the Apple edition of the game.
Nonononono! As long as the government "believes" that somebody is a bad person, that makes it OK to violate one of the foundational rights of western civilization and hold him without a trial indefinitely. Citizenship is irrelevent.
If this pans out, it's a major problem for the oil companies, but a major boon to consumers, many of whom are voters.
I don't anticipate many politicians standing in the way of $2/gallon gas with no net carbon emissions, no matter what happens to big oil. They'd get trampled in the stampede.
What's more, Rivera claims that products made from Vetroleum burn at near 100 percent efficiency, leaving behind neither heat nor pollution as proof of the chemical reactions taking place.
100% efficiency! With no leftover heat! Wow, what a fantastic fuel that would be!
Ahhh, but once you label a light in the sky "UFO" you've identified it. So it is no longer "unidentified". So it can't be a UFO; your identification was wrong. But now you don't know what it is, so it's unidentified, so you label it a "UFO", and the cycle goes on.
National security is the realm of the Commander-in-Chief - NOT congress, and broad military issues should be left with strong leadership, not with bureaucracy.
Which is why the framers of the constitution left declaration of war to the House of Representatives. And approving treaties to the Senate.
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Hollywood sued Sony for the Betamax.
Hollywood only accepted video cassettes once they became a roaring success. What kind of enterprising pioneers took the plunge and put their movies on video cassettes when that was risky and untried?
Duh! 500% _of_a_CPU_ on an 8-CPU machine...
The "Fairness Doctrine" applied to outlets that were licensed by the FCC, using "public" airwaves. The thinking was that the airwaves were a limited resource, and that limitation shouldn't be used to shut out competing voices.
The Fairness Doctrine never applied to print. There, your only restrictions were the laws against slander.
The question is, is the internet more like a news stand or broadcast? Since you don't have to have a license to run a web site, I think the press model (say what ever you like short of slander) should apply to the internet.
I call "no true scotsman" fallacy.
The previous Republican majority called itself conservative. They were lauded by media folks who called themselves conservative.
There were no voices saying that the previous Republican majority wasn't conservative until after the government failed miserably at everything it tried to do.
Conservative politicians say they want smaller government, and then vote for big government surveillence. And big government defecits, because they know that smaller, less effective government is not popular with the voters.
I sold AAPL (and much of the rest of my stock holdings) in mid-2001 to come up with a 20% down payment for my house. The house has gone up 50K, says Zillow.com (yay leverage). The $1800 in AAPL would now be worth, what $18,000 today.
And using the same argument, I could claim that the universe was created, complete with the appearance of history, Last Thursday. By my cat, Sidney. He says so.
Science, at least the history of science, has a habit of reducing the value of "God Did It" as an explanation. As more and more of nature falls to the explanations of science, the realm of the gods is diminished. "God of the Gaps" is a way of describing this fallacy.
There is no positive evidence for the existence of the Greek, Roman, or Egyptian pantheons, nor for a supreme being with tri-omni powers.
The big bang and an expanding universe is not "just a theory", but rather an explanation for why Edwin Hubble observed that all galaxies are moving away from us, and the further away they are, the faster they are receding.
If you have a better account for the beginning of the universe that fits with observations, you're well on your way to an Astro-Physics PhD and a tenured position at a leading institution.
You can't get the sun to revolve around the earth in a non-accelerating reference frame.
Doing that certification takes more effort than the certified hardware is worth.
And you either (a) do the certification in a high-cost country, to keep from sending broken junk to Africa, or (b) ship the good and the bad, and have the receiving, low-wage country do the sorting and deal with the junk.
Neither solution works very well...
2007 US Military spending: $549.2 Billion. Domestic spending: $457.9 Billion. Welfare is a small fraction of domestic spending, so it cannot be 10x defense spending.
When I have to drive in a snowstorm, I make sure I know how things are going where the rubber is trying to get as close to the road as it can. I gauge how long it will take my vehicle to stop, and then drive appropriately. I've done 50-60 mph on snow-packed, long, straight stretch of the NJ turnpike. I was passing a lot of other traffic that was safely over to the right and going 25. Let the car ahead of you get out until you can just make out if its driver touches the brakes. Use the next pair of eyes to buy you more time to react.
Oh, and ABS helps. If you need to stop, you can still steer. So always have a plan where you're going to go if you can't stop in time.
OpenOffice on MacOS X requires you to have X installed.
NeoOffice is a Mac OS X port of OpenOffice to use the native Mac OS X GUI. I have NeoOffice and AppleWorks on my Mac Mini at home. And OpenOffice on my home Linux box. And MS Office on my windows work machine.
My local theater (1 screen; 180 seats) often gets films opening weekend. Wall-E, opening weekend. $3 tickets, and cheap refreshments, too.
The theater is a family-friendly place; they only run G, PG, and occasionally PG-13 films.
John Scully took over Apple from Steve Jobs; it's revenues were an astonishing $1 Billion per year. Ten years later, when he was forced out, Apple's revenues had fallen to a piddling $10 Billion per year.
Jobs knew enough to get Apple into the computer business, and then again into the GUI computer business (with expert help from Raskin et al). And then into the music player business, and then into the phone business. When he was young, he couldn't run the company. He seems to have matured.
I had a joystick exactly like the grandparent post describes on my Apple //e. Analog: it was supposed to read a value between 0 and 255 for each axis. And the "centering spring" could be activated or deactivated.
My college roommate had a C-64 (or maybe it was a C-128). It had much better graphics and sound for games like Archon than did the Apple edition of the game.
I won a scholarship, partly by defending the BASIC programming language. It was the only one I knew, so I had to defend it.
Anyway, I started with BASIC on a DEC-10 at age 14, and then Applesoft BASIC on an Apple II. With graphics.
No, Wall-E used Eve's arm and its blaster. And then fired it the wrong way, which led to their escape.
I wouldn't want solid rocket motor exhausts to fly right past my cryogenic tank and reentry system.
Nonononono! As long as the government "believes" that somebody is a bad person, that makes it OK to violate one of the foundational rights of western civilization and hold him without a trial indefinitely. Citizenship is irrelevent.
See Padilla, Jose.
If this pans out, it's a major problem for the oil companies, but a major boon to consumers, many of whom are voters.
I don't anticipate many politicians standing in the way of $2/gallon gas with no net carbon emissions, no matter what happens to big oil. They'd get trampled in the stampede.
I loved this line in the article:
100% efficiency! With no leftover heat! Wow, what a fantastic fuel that would be!
The ones who voted for him: the Supreme Court. No other votes count.
Ahhh, but once you label a light in the sky "UFO" you've identified it. So it is no longer "unidentified". So it can't be a UFO; your identification was wrong. But now you don't know what it is, so it's unidentified, so you label it a "UFO", and the cycle goes on.
Which is why the framers of the constitution left declaration of war to the House of Representatives. And approving treaties to the Senate.