Here's the funny thing, this story is actually a pretty good anecdote about the follies of regulation. You see, imports and exports are HIGHLY regulated already. Very far from a hypothetical strawman free market. In this case, however, the specific uses of cadmium in jewelry and certain types of toys are not specifically regulated, so they pass through.
I suppose the alternative to this inevitable situation is a reversal of the rules: everything not specifically allowed is prohibited. The variety of problems that introduces I leave as an exercise for interested parties.
It's impossible to fix the system from the inside. The self-protections prevent it. No one who has any quibble with the party line makes it anywhere near the top. Effectively, attempting to fix the system and decrying it come out to exactly the same result, nothing changes.
But hey, keep dreaming. Particularly that being "progressive" will fix anything.
And pro-choice could be reasonable renamed pro-baby death. Why quibble over the semantics like a bunch of droolers? It's not like anyone changes their mind anyway, it's all masturbation.
For the record, I am in favor of mandatory abortions.
JavaScript is one of those things that is hated and misunderstood in equal measure, mostly by the same people. I think a lot of it is the inherent prejudice techies seem to have against providing UI. I couldn't tell you how many times I've listened to rants about how UI work is easy and boring, nothing to it, blah, blah, blah, by people who couldn't do the work to save their lives.
Just another instance of the general principle that people tend to deride as easy that which they cannot actually do.
In the end, I shrug. If a carpenter decides he has no need of a hammer, who am I to make fun of the nail marks on his screwdriver handle? The way I see it, that leaves more money for me to make.
Depositing infected semen into the rectum was the cause of a huge percentage of cases when the disease first came to light. Just pointing that out, not making a value judgment on unprotected anal sex. Obviously that's less of a problem now that people know about it.
Well, he did win the Nobel Prize For Not Being George Bush. That has to be worth something to you.
How about handing over some hundreds of billions of dollars to various speculators to cover their losses? That's pretty clearly not Bush's fault at all, and I'm shocked no one even cares about it anymore. The gov't mortgaged our children (well, not mine, I use condoms) even more heavily to subsidize people who made bad bets.
Face facts, Democrats. No one at the level of running this country has anything but the enrichment of themselves and their friends in mind. You can continue to bash Bush till the end of time, but he's not the one doing it now. If you were being honest, you'd be riding Obama just as hard.
3: Even if we accept the Athesist's candard that "atheism is not a religion", you're happily proving that Atheism does have not only a primary religious conviction, but also the unfortunately secondary conviction of bigotry. Well done!
And you just made the (extreme) logical error of applying a generality based on one specific incident.
To be complete, I should also point out that nothing in the coward's post indicates atheism. You added that in an unsupportable assumption. The coward could be Muslim, for instance, or Jewish. Or Hindu. Or the last unflagging follower of Zeus. There simply isn't enough information to decide, so any conclusion is made on the basis of faith.
I would feel bad if I didn't point out that making conclusions based on faith isn't a great way to demonstrate intelligence.
Come up with a model that supports your theory and doesn't contradict other things we've observed and you've made it as far as this story. Skip the part about not contradicting observations and you've made your new Genesis.
Please, don't kick the sleeping bear by breaking backward compatibility or removing essential features from the addon frameworks in Firefox; your users will punish you if you do.
Companies purchasing ads from Google will definitely not punish them for disabling AdBlock. Techie types who already block ads have already removed themselves from drastically affecting that bottom line anyway.
Hard to say since only Twitter is Twitter right now. I guess my actual point was that if Twitter gets superseded by a superior offering, it doesn't make Twitter a fad, it just makes it a poor implementation.
Compare that group to all games from any given slice of time (including their own) and you'd end up with the same result, and it would be just as meaningless.
MySpace itself may have been a fad, but obviously the concept is strong and will live on. Same for Twitter, most likely. It has definitely reached the critical mass.
Declaring popular things as useless is an ages-old nerd pastime, but it's compensatory behavior with no basis in reality.
Your argument only works if you ignore the very basic precepts of science. The foundation of science's success as an explanatory framework is the centralization of the "don't trust this at all" principle. Anything that can be shown to not work is discarded, anything that can be shown to work better is incorporated, and doctrine and dogma have no place in the long run.
But scientists are people, just like religious types, so sure, you'll have your smattering of assholes who protect what they believe as they would protect a child. The self-correction mechanisms in the system eliminate them, though.
That border pretty well tracks the gay friendly neighborhoods in the region. The 22111 anomaly chopped out of Arlington looks to be Ft Myer, so I would guess the people there who would like to watch Milk are probably scared of accidentally telling even though no one asked.
If the rumors of Apple's "advanced gestures" for iWorks are true, I can't imagine anything more user hostile. Sure, there will be a contingent of people who rabidly defend Steve's decision to throw gangsigns at the computer to open a file, but those people also praised him for only ever making mice that didn't fit human hands.
And no one has seen the Chrome OS in a finished state yet, because it's not finished. How can you dismiss something that doesn't exist?
I've had Firefox running for weeks on my little netbook and the memory consumption hasn't moved. This includes running AdBlock and YesScript (like NoScript, but trades paranoia for convenience) and using several JavaScript heavy sites (like Slashdot! I don't normally get caught up in bring back the old thinking, but damn. This new UI here is mostly awful. Only the inline posting is worthwhile to me.)
Really I'm just Fox News balancing your anecdote because why not... but just for kicks, are you running any extensions with poor memory behavior? I won't say the Mozilla team has grasped the handle of the memory consumption problem, specifically, but Firefox definitely doesn't leak like it used to.
Since you gave your conclusion first, I made the silly mistake of assuming you actually supported it somewhere in your post instead of undercutting it by demonstrating it isn't clear one way or the other.
You did make a populist plea, though. I'll give you points for excellent rabble rousing technique.
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Here's the funny thing, this story is actually a pretty good anecdote about the follies of regulation. You see, imports and exports are HIGHLY regulated already. Very far from a hypothetical strawman free market. In this case, however, the specific uses of cadmium in jewelry and certain types of toys are not specifically regulated, so they pass through.
I suppose the alternative to this inevitable situation is a reversal of the rules: everything not specifically allowed is prohibited. The variety of problems that introduces I leave as an exercise for interested parties.
It's impossible to fix the system from the inside. The self-protections prevent it. No one who has any quibble with the party line makes it anywhere near the top. Effectively, attempting to fix the system and decrying it come out to exactly the same result, nothing changes.
But hey, keep dreaming. Particularly that being "progressive" will fix anything.
And pro-choice could be reasonable renamed pro-baby death. Why quibble over the semantics like a bunch of droolers? It's not like anyone changes their mind anyway, it's all masturbation.
For the record, I am in favor of mandatory abortions.
JavaScript is one of those things that is hated and misunderstood in equal measure, mostly by the same people. I think a lot of it is the inherent prejudice techies seem to have against providing UI. I couldn't tell you how many times I've listened to rants about how UI work is easy and boring, nothing to it, blah, blah, blah, by people who couldn't do the work to save their lives.
Just another instance of the general principle that people tend to deride as easy that which they cannot actually do.
In the end, I shrug. If a carpenter decides he has no need of a hammer, who am I to make fun of the nail marks on his screwdriver handle? The way I see it, that leaves more money for me to make.
I wonder if that was Gorilla Glass.
28 years of computing on networks, zero instances of malware. I feel special.
I'm actually with you, and I'd like to thank you for clarifying. The dissonance just tickled me.
It's like my signature says...
Depositing infected semen into the rectum was the cause of a huge percentage of cases when the disease first came to light. Just pointing that out, not making a value judgment on unprotected anal sex. Obviously that's less of a problem now that people know about it.
Well, he did win the Nobel Prize For Not Being George Bush. That has to be worth something to you.
How about handing over some hundreds of billions of dollars to various speculators to cover their losses? That's pretty clearly not Bush's fault at all, and I'm shocked no one even cares about it anymore. The gov't mortgaged our children (well, not mine, I use condoms) even more heavily to subsidize people who made bad bets.
Face facts, Democrats. No one at the level of running this country has anything but the enrichment of themselves and their friends in mind. You can continue to bash Bush till the end of time, but he's not the one doing it now. If you were being honest, you'd be riding Obama just as hard.
3: Even if we accept the Athesist's candard that "atheism is not a religion", you're happily proving that Atheism does have not only a primary religious conviction, but also the unfortunately secondary conviction of bigotry. Well done!
And you just made the (extreme) logical error of applying a generality based on one specific incident.
To be complete, I should also point out that nothing in the coward's post indicates atheism. You added that in an unsupportable assumption. The coward could be Muslim, for instance, or Jewish. Or Hindu. Or the last unflagging follower of Zeus. There simply isn't enough information to decide, so any conclusion is made on the basis of faith.
I would feel bad if I didn't point out that making conclusions based on faith isn't a great way to demonstrate intelligence.
Come up with a model that supports your theory and doesn't contradict other things we've observed and you've made it as far as this story. Skip the part about not contradicting observations and you've made your new Genesis.
The difference isn't even subtle.
Please, don't kick the sleeping bear by breaking backward compatibility or removing essential features from the addon frameworks in Firefox; your users will punish you if you do.
Companies purchasing ads from Google will definitely not punish them for disabling AdBlock. Techie types who already block ads have already removed themselves from drastically affecting that bottom line anyway.
Hard to say since only Twitter is Twitter right now. I guess my actual point was that if Twitter gets superseded by a superior offering, it doesn't make Twitter a fad, it just makes it a poor implementation.
Compare that group to all games from any given slice of time (including their own) and you'd end up with the same result, and it would be just as meaningless.
That is a solveable problem. Become excellent at what you do, and you can reverse the demand structure.
Solving the "become excellent" problem is slightly more difficult, however.
MySpace itself may have been a fad, but obviously the concept is strong and will live on. Same for Twitter, most likely. It has definitely reached the critical mass.
Declaring popular things as useless is an ages-old nerd pastime, but it's compensatory behavior with no basis in reality.
You said you completely agree, and then you explained how you disagree. Are you trying to crossbreed poker bluffing techniques into public debate?
Your argument only works if you ignore the very basic precepts of science. The foundation of science's success as an explanatory framework is the centralization of the "don't trust this at all" principle. Anything that can be shown to not work is discarded, anything that can be shown to work better is incorporated, and doctrine and dogma have no place in the long run.
But scientists are people, just like religious types, so sure, you'll have your smattering of assholes who protect what they believe as they would protect a child. The self-correction mechanisms in the system eliminate them, though.
What's that, make sure there aren't any users so malware writers don't bother targeting you?
I am almost kidding....
That border pretty well tracks the gay friendly neighborhoods in the region. The 22111 anomaly chopped out of Arlington looks to be Ft Myer, so I would guess the people there who would like to watch Milk are probably scared of accidentally telling even though no one asked.
It is Pitch Black. You are likely to be beaten up by Vin Diesel.
Sorry for conflating Chromium and Chrome above. I still think the jury is out though.
If the rumors of Apple's "advanced gestures" for iWorks are true, I can't imagine anything more user hostile. Sure, there will be a contingent of people who rabidly defend Steve's decision to throw gangsigns at the computer to open a file, but those people also praised him for only ever making mice that didn't fit human hands.
And no one has seen the Chrome OS in a finished state yet, because it's not finished. How can you dismiss something that doesn't exist?
I've had Firefox running for weeks on my little netbook and the memory consumption hasn't moved. This includes running AdBlock and YesScript (like NoScript, but trades paranoia for convenience) and using several JavaScript heavy sites (like Slashdot! I don't normally get caught up in bring back the old thinking, but damn. This new UI here is mostly awful. Only the inline posting is worthwhile to me.)
Really I'm just Fox News balancing your anecdote because why not... but just for kicks, are you running any extensions with poor memory behavior? I won't say the Mozilla team has grasped the handle of the memory consumption problem, specifically, but Firefox definitely doesn't leak like it used to.
Since you gave your conclusion first, I made the silly mistake of assuming you actually supported it somewhere in your post instead of undercutting it by demonstrating it isn't clear one way or the other.
You did make a populist plea, though. I'll give you points for excellent rabble rousing technique.