If these were standardized, the cost would be lower.
- here is a question to you then, why should anyone be able to force a manufacturer into any particular 'standard' of an item they are producing?
AFAIC, as long as there is no misrepresentation of what is being sold (and that's the important part), I prefer that government stays the hell out, it's none of their business what kind of a plug is on a laptop.
oh, I can make the distinction, I was born someplace that was supposed to be socialistic and striving to being communistic. So I hate both, socialistic and communistic, trust I hate them, and ndp to me is as close as it gets to those concepts in Canada, so no way in hell, I'd rather die.
Fascist is really only corporatis, and as long as I can use that to my advantage, it's not a problem, of-course big corporations colluding together with any form of government has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with corruption, you can't argue that Canadian Liberals were not in bed with corporations any more than I can deny that Conservatives are.
You go ahead, and believe that a political system has any meaning in the world where the power wants money and money wants power, so any government will cater to corporations and corporations want to control the government. But I do not wish for socialism or communism, as I said, I'd rather live in corrupt hell than in socialist/communist heaven.
as a Libertarian I can never ever ever vote for ndp, I can't stand communists and AFAIC they are.
Liberals or Conservatives in Canada are not that much different, but I prefer Conservatives since they are supposed to be fiscally responsible at least in theory and I can't vote for a party that makes its stand based on opinion polls.
Green or Marijuana? No chance. Unfortunately in my riding there are no Libertarians to vote for and those in other ridings are quite pathetic candidates.
as a Libertarian at heart I could vote that way, but in my riding there were none.
Given a choice between liberals, ndp, conservatives and green, I had no choice but to go conservative. I don't care how much I am moded as a troll, I vote Conservative, that's my choice goddamit and the haters can suck it.
I am, on the other hand, happy with Harper being elected given who was in opposition. Who was better, the liberals with their 12 years of corruption? The ndp with their pro-union bs? Given those choices I vote Harper.
Don't use Huckabee as an example here, he let out a criminal based on this criminal's supposed turning into Huckabee's faith. This particular criminal was not eligible for parole, his every attempt failed and for a good reason. He was in jail for 95 years, this already has to mean something. At the very least this, Maurice character, had to be committed to a mental institution, he is insane. This is clear from the list of problem that he was associated with earlier. You can't let insane people, who are in jail for 95 year term out of prison like that. Huckabee is an idiot and should not be able to run for presidency or anything like that, he bases his decisions on faith.
Maybe someone should come up with an inkjet printer that would use distilled water to clean the heads. But then less ink would be wasted... I suppose the printermakers could sell distilled water cartridges for $50 a pop as a 'special cleaning solution'.
As I'm no math nerd, perhaps someone who is can explain why infinity is disallowed? I finally figured out why you can't divide by zero; 10/2=5, 5/2=2.5, but if you use numbers smaller than one it is reversed; 1/.5=2, 1/.05=20, so anything divided by zero would be infinity. Is the universe infinite? If so, how can it be studied mathematically?
- sorry, dude, you didn't figure out why you can't divide by zero.
It's simpler than that and it does not involve infinity.
In order to divide 5 by 0 it should be possible to add a number of 0s together to get 5. Unfortunately 0+0 is not greater than 0, so there is no infinite number of 0s that can be added together to get 5. There is no number of 0s that you can add together to make a number greater than 0. That is why you cannot divide by 0.
If God had meant us to live naked in a cave with no fire while hunter-gathering, he wouldn't have given us these big brains that can figure out how to make clothes and shoes and houses and fire and fridges and supermarkets and big screen TVs.
- prove that there is a god first. (though I think you used that just as a figure of speech).
The point is that US people have rejected the idea of Bush by electing Obama. They could have elected the republican, but they did not. Of-course Obama may not be what people thought he was either, but it's a good try.
Do you realize that the reason why Obama got this Peace Prize was because he was not Bush and yet he got elected?
It is a way to say to the US: we like the direction that you are going, we definitely prefer this direction to the direction the last guy in charge was taking.
I believe this is the case, it's not about Obama at all, it is about him not being Bush (and I agree with the Nobel Committee on this.)
Reading lists of 'the dead' from regions represented by the republican congressman who oppose the US health care reform and mainly the introduction of the public option, which means he is attacking the pharma companies, the insurance companies, the banks backing these and the politicians. AFAIC this is more gutsy and more important anyway.
Note, that he has balls and he is on a war against the republicans in congress, this means he is going against lobbyists and their underlying corporate masters, this is like going against 10000 CoSs at once.
Convert what you can to gold and hide it somewhere, hopefully some place that won't be discovered for the next 1000 years, I guess that would be the difficulty.
I predict that there will be a bank, maybe in Switzerland, maybe some place else, that will provide services helping the folks like that to hide their money, including from the law of other countries, for a percentage of annual interest perhaps.
I loved programming since a very young age and did it on paper before even having access to a computer, so when I applied to a few universities it was only because it probably was expected that I should do so. By the end of the first year I got a job putting bills online for a telco site, just a bit over minimum wage, but I only was able to land that position because I was at the university (there were about 60 people trying to get that position and the reason I got it was only because I came to the interview with a magazine, sharing my excitement over some new development in an Intel CPU with the interviewer).
Now I gave some thought - did it really matter, going to a university, would it have been different if I just took vocational training? The answer is yes. It was a correct decision going with a university even though it was so expensive (I paid for all tuition, living, books myself by working all the way through the 5 years, which I did instead of 4, because I decided to go slower but around the year, summer and all.)
It was better for me - I was already able to code in more than one language, I built my own software similar to lotus/excel without ever even seeing something like that before in my life. Built games, word processors, tools, drivers etc. for myself just because it was interesting. So from point of view of a trade I could do it without any further training.
However the university gave me something I didn't have: 1. Doing things I didn't like anyway while under stress (all of those extra courses that TFA is complaining about). 2. Finding out about the math of the subject, which I would not have otherwise done myself, because it's not that crazy fun (for me at least), but since I had to pay for my education I had no choice but to do what was needed or lose the money with nothing to show for it. 3. I got myself 2 educations to get the B.Sc. , a major and a minor, and my minor was actually interesting to me as well - astronomy. 4. I was forced to study all by myself, while my university has a good enough reputation, it's not a school where you are just given stuff to do and you are good as long as you do it. There we had to push ourselves, the profs really hated teaching and most were terrible at it, while the exams were a bitch.
It was worth it, would do again if given a choice but would definitely change a few things, like not trying to overload myself that much in the first year, there should be time for some fun while doing all that.
You probably do not speak Russian, I do, so the guy says that he was given a higher rank of a lieutenant last spring in exchange for a promise to accuse an innocent man and put him to jail, which he did.
From his messages it is apparent that his moral compass turned to the right side after he himself filled wronged. He says this:
For ten years he worked in the force with very little (truly impossibly little pay), his wife makes twice his salary actually.
He is expecting his first kid and he cannot get any promotion legally, the promotion he got was for putting an innocent person to jail.
He is forced to work 30 days a week, morning to dawn. He is expected to have a minimum number of 'crimes' solved and a minimum number of people accused to be allowed to leave home early, if he does not, he is forced to work weekends and extra hours.
Said he lost 2 wives this way so far.
Said that this year for the first time he got sick (sounded pretty bad actually), that he needs medical attention, but when he came to a clinic, the doctors turned him away, because for some reason they have an 'understanding' with his top brass that they are not supposed to treat the cops, I don't get it.
Said that he complained about the doctor, was told that the doctor was punished, but unofficially his commandment forced him to go apologize to the doctor, who has close personal ties to some of the higher ranks in the force.
Said that he is supposed to find himself 'kalym' (illegally obtained money from covering for crimes and just covering business against being destroyed) to supplement his miserly income....
Sounded to me like he was fine putting innocent people to jail and earning illegal income until it hit him too close to home.
I am not sure about 'ethics', I think it's just the guy is cornered.
Apparently now some more current and ex-cops are doing the same thing in Russia.
Person A buys a computer from person B. Person B is better off.
Person A writes a computer program that automates a task, which normally takes someone 4 hours to do without that program. 10,000 people buy the program, person A is better off for making the money, 10,000 people are better off for saving 4 hours of their life every time they need that task done, untold number of people is better off because they have access to those extra 4 hours of time to those 10,000 people.
Certainly computers take resources to build and to run, need those be subtracted from this equation, some of it probably does, but pretty much everyone in the line makes the money.
At the end, if computers help this species to get off this planet, is the species better off for spreading in space? If some price needs to be paid to achieve that, and the price is partially monetary, partially ecological, is the goal worth the costs? Probably yes.
Copyright is an exception to Fair Use. Copyright came last, Fair or any kind of use was there from the beginning, just ask cells sharing each others RNA/DNA.
A typical scam: users are offered in game currency in exchange for filling out an IQ survey. Four simple questions are asked. The answers are irrelevant. When the user gets to the last question they are told their results will be text messaged to them. They are asked to enter in their mobile phone number, and are texted a pin code to enter on the quiz. Once they've done that, they've just subscribed to a $9.99/month subscription.
- isn't this the best IQ test ever? If you get fooled and start paying the fee, you lose the test.
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If these were standardized, the cost would be lower.
- here is a question to you then, why should anyone be able to force a manufacturer into any particular 'standard' of an item they are producing?
AFAIC, as long as there is no misrepresentation of what is being sold (and that's the important part), I prefer that government stays the hell out, it's none of their business what kind of a plug is on a laptop.
oh, I can make the distinction, I was born someplace that was supposed to be socialistic and striving to being communistic. So I hate both, socialistic and communistic, trust I hate them, and ndp to me is as close as it gets to those concepts in Canada, so no way in hell, I'd rather die.
Fascist is really only corporatis, and as long as I can use that to my advantage, it's not a problem, of-course big corporations colluding together with any form of government has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with corruption, you can't argue that Canadian Liberals were not in bed with corporations any more than I can deny that Conservatives are.
You go ahead, and believe that a political system has any meaning in the world where the power wants money and money wants power, so any government will cater to corporations and corporations want to control the government. But I do not wish for socialism or communism, as I said, I'd rather live in corrupt hell than in socialist/communist heaven.
as a Libertarian I can never ever ever vote for ndp, I can't stand communists and AFAIC they are.
Liberals or Conservatives in Canada are not that much different, but I prefer Conservatives since they are supposed to be fiscally responsible at least in theory and I can't vote for a party that makes its stand based on opinion polls.
Green or Marijuana? No chance. Unfortunately in my riding there are no Libertarians to vote for and those in other ridings are quite pathetic candidates.
as a Libertarian at heart I could vote that way, but in my riding there were none.
Given a choice between liberals, ndp, conservatives and green, I had no choice but to go conservative. I don't care how much I am moded as a troll, I vote Conservative, that's my choice goddamit and the haters can suck it.
I am, on the other hand, happy with Harper being elected given who was in opposition. Who was better, the liberals with their 12 years of corruption? The ndp with their pro-union bs? Given those choices I vote Harper.
Don't use Huckabee as an example here, he let out a criminal based on this criminal's supposed turning into Huckabee's faith. This particular criminal was not eligible for parole, his every attempt failed and for a good reason. He was in jail for 95 years, this already has to mean something. At the very least this, Maurice character, had to be committed to a mental institution, he is insane. This is clear from the list of problem that he was associated with earlier. You can't let insane people, who are in jail for 95 year term out of prison like that. Huckabee is an idiot and should not be able to run for presidency or anything like that, he bases his decisions on faith.
While the Internet may cause 'prolonged death' of traditional journalism, in various countries of the world journalists are being actually killed. In Russia alone, during the years of Putin/Medvedev about 300 journalists died under various violent circumstances.
Maybe someone should come up with an inkjet printer that would use distilled water to clean the heads. But then less ink would be wasted... I suppose the printermakers could sell distilled water cartridges for $50 a pop as a 'special cleaning solution'.
But does it mean that they can sort tiny screws in space?
As I'm no math nerd, perhaps someone who is can explain why infinity is disallowed? I finally figured out why you can't divide by zero; 10/2=5, 5/2=2.5, but if you use numbers smaller than one it is reversed; 1/.5=2, 1/.05=20, so anything divided by zero would be infinity. Is the universe infinite? If so, how can it be studied mathematically?
- sorry, dude, you didn't figure out why you can't divide by zero.
It's simpler than that and it does not involve infinity.
In order to divide 5 by 0 it should be possible to add a number of 0s together to get 5. Unfortunately 0+0 is not greater than 0, so there is no infinite number of 0s that can be added together to get 5. There is no number of 0s that you can add together to make a number greater than 0. That is why you cannot divide by 0.
'a + b = b + a'
- commutativity is provable, this is a base, not an assumption, it has to be known, not believed in.
If God had meant us to live naked in a cave with no fire while hunter-gathering, he wouldn't have given us these big brains that can figure out how to make clothes and shoes and houses and fire and fridges and supermarkets and big screen TVs.
- prove that there is a god first. (though I think you used that just as a figure of speech).
The Internet doesn't weigh anything. Just ask the Elders of the Internet!
:) yes
The point is that US people have rejected the idea of Bush by electing Obama. They could have elected the republican, but they did not. Of-course Obama may not be what people thought he was either, but it's a good try.
Do you realize that the reason why Obama got this Peace Prize was because he was not Bush and yet he got elected?
It is a way to say to the US: we like the direction that you are going, we definitely prefer this direction to the direction the last guy in charge was taking.
I believe this is the case, it's not about Obama at all, it is about him not being Bush (and I agree with the Nobel Committee on this.)
He did better than that.
Reading lists of 'the dead' from regions represented by the republican congressman who oppose the US health care reform and mainly the introduction of the public option, which means he is attacking the pharma companies, the insurance companies, the banks backing these and the politicians. AFAIC this is more gutsy and more important anyway.
'Microsoft has not and will not put "backdoors" into Windows,' a company spokeswoman said, reacting to a Computerworld story Wednesday.
- of-course you wouldn't. MS is a stand up company, known for ethical behavior, fair treatment of its users, etc. I mean, it would never!
Alan Grayson
Republicans attempt to cut off Rep Grayson's speech
His Youtube channel: RepAlanGrayson
Note, that he has balls and he is on a war against the republicans in congress, this means he is going against lobbyists and their underlying corporate masters, this is like going against 10000 CoSs at once.
Convert what you can to gold and hide it somewhere, hopefully some place that won't be discovered for the next 1000 years, I guess that would be the difficulty.
I predict that there will be a bank, maybe in Switzerland, maybe some place else, that will provide services helping the folks like that to hide their money, including from the law of other countries, for a percentage of annual interest perhaps.
Amazingly evil stuff, I love it!
I also would never touch an item with such a 'feature', forget about buying something like that.
I loved programming since a very young age and did it on paper before even having access to a computer, so when I applied to a few universities it was only because it probably was expected that I should do so. By the end of the first year I got a job putting bills online for a telco site, just a bit over minimum wage, but I only was able to land that position because I was at the university (there were about 60 people trying to get that position and the reason I got it was only because I came to the interview with a magazine, sharing my excitement over some new development in an Intel CPU with the interviewer).
Now I gave some thought - did it really matter, going to a university, would it have been different if I just took vocational training? The answer is yes. It was a correct decision going with a university even though it was so expensive (I paid for all tuition, living, books myself by working all the way through the 5 years, which I did instead of 4, because I decided to go slower but around the year, summer and all.)
It was better for me - I was already able to code in more than one language, I built my own software similar to lotus/excel without ever even seeing something like that before in my life. Built games, word processors, tools, drivers etc. for myself just because it was interesting. So from point of view of a trade I could do it without any further training.
However the university gave me something I didn't have: 1. Doing things I didn't like anyway while under stress (all of those extra courses that TFA is complaining about). 2. Finding out about the math of the subject, which I would not have otherwise done myself, because it's not that crazy fun (for me at least), but since I had to pay for my education I had no choice but to do what was needed or lose the money with nothing to show for it. 3. I got myself 2 educations to get the B.Sc. , a major and a minor, and my minor was actually interesting to me as well - astronomy. 4. I was forced to study all by myself, while my university has a good enough reputation, it's not a school where you are just given stuff to do and you are good as long as you do it. There we had to push ourselves, the profs really hated teaching and most were terrible at it, while the exams were a bitch.
It was worth it, would do again if given a choice but would definitely change a few things, like not trying to overload myself that much in the first year, there should be time for some fun while doing all that.
You probably do not speak Russian, I do, so the guy says that he was given a higher rank of a lieutenant last spring in exchange for a promise to accuse an innocent man and put him to jail, which he did.
From his messages it is apparent that his moral compass turned to the right side after he himself filled wronged. He says this:
For ten years he worked in the force with very little (truly impossibly little pay), his wife makes twice his salary actually.
He is expecting his first kid and he cannot get any promotion legally, the promotion he got was for putting an innocent person to jail.
He is forced to work 30 days a week, morning to dawn. He is expected to have a minimum number of 'crimes' solved and a minimum number of people accused to be allowed to leave home early, if he does not, he is forced to work weekends and extra hours.
Said he lost 2 wives this way so far.
Said that this year for the first time he got sick (sounded pretty bad actually), that he needs medical attention, but when he came to a clinic, the doctors turned him away, because for some reason they have an 'understanding' with his top brass that they are not supposed to treat the cops, I don't get it.
Said that he complained about the doctor, was told that the doctor was punished, but unofficially his commandment forced him to go apologize to the doctor, who has close personal ties to some of the higher ranks in the force.
Said that he is supposed to find himself 'kalym' (illegally obtained money from covering for crimes and just covering business against being destroyed) to supplement his miserly income. ...
Sounded to me like he was fine putting innocent people to jail and earning illegal income until it hit him too close to home.
I am not sure about 'ethics', I think it's just the guy is cornered.
Apparently now some more current and ex-cops are doing the same thing in Russia.
Person A buys a computer from person B. Person B is better off.
Person A writes a computer program that automates a task, which normally takes someone 4 hours to do without that program. 10,000 people buy the program, person A is better off for making the money, 10,000 people are better off for saving 4 hours of their life every time they need that task done, untold number of people is better off because they have access to those extra 4 hours of time to those 10,000 people.
Certainly computers take resources to build and to run, need those be subtracted from this equation, some of it probably does, but pretty much everyone in the line makes the money.
At the end, if computers help this species to get off this planet, is the species better off for spreading in space? If some price needs to be paid to achieve that, and the price is partially monetary, partially ecological, is the goal worth the costs? Probably yes.
Fair Use is an exception to copyright
- wrong.
Copyright is an exception to Fair Use. Copyright came last, Fair or any kind of use was there from the beginning, just ask cells sharing each others RNA/DNA.
A typical scam: users are offered in game currency in exchange for filling out an IQ survey. Four simple questions are asked. The answers are irrelevant. When the user gets to the last question they are told their results will be text messaged to them. They are asked to enter in their mobile phone number, and are texted a pin code to enter on the quiz. Once they've done that, they've just subscribed to a $9.99/month subscription.
- isn't this the best IQ test ever? If you get fooled and start paying the fee, you lose the test.