I think planting trees, putting up windmills and building solar electric car charging stations would be good public works projects too. Create jobs and help the environment at the same time.
The headline is probably true. Microsoft is probably among one of the most ethical corporations. That only means that corporations are not very ethical. That is reasonable given the facts. Their main goal is short term monetary gain for the quarterly report, they have the rights of a person and legally have none of the responsibilities of a person.
The fans of nuclear power have been giving very interesting accounts of how this incident is just a paper cut. Right before the news keeps getting steadily worse and worse.
I don't buy it. Current U.S. power companies have known for decades that installing scrubbers on smoke stacks would dramatically reduce air pollution. Air, they also breathe. They haven't done it, because they don't want to spend the money.
Those same companies, or new ones with a similar mentality, are not going to build new nuclear plants when safer designs are developed.
If people as disciplined and conscientious as the Japanese can't do nuclear power safely, what chance do we have. Would you want a company like BP running a nuclear power plant or building one?
One thing about wind power. In the event of an earthquake, a terrorist attack, a greedy company cutting corners like BP, incompetence or human error nobody needs to worry about the breeze getting out.
The Japanese government just declared an atomic state of emergency. They are denying that any radiation is being leaked, but admitted that one reactor lost its cooling capacity. People are being evacuated.
In the event of an earthquake, nobody would need to worry about the wind getting lose.
I was a bit shocked myself. Archiving groklaw.net is one thing - but Twitter? That's got to meet the definition of government waste.
LOL, the understatement of 2011!:).
My intuition is that they pitched it as some sort of "counter terrorism" move, but beyond that *tired* poor excuse/invasion what a waste of government money, especially in these times to save so much fleeting trash.
They might as well archive all of the junk mail circulars I throw out.
I wish I was a trust fund baby with the financial resources and time to go after things like this.
If the OP wants a toy and has the cash, he should buy a toy. Nothing wrong with that.
I do question whether or not tablets have any practical use, or enough to justify the cost. It seems like their only niche is in letting you surf the web in a reclining position.
It is kind of hard for people to be motivated to post more when they aren't assured of their privacy and they don't know how their messages may come back to haunt them.
The problem is that we keep taking colloquial statements from non-scientific people we disagree with and pretending they are properly stated hypothesis to build a strawman so we can feel better about our intellectual superiority.
*This*
I see so many of these sophomoric types on the internet. I avoid "skeptics" and atheist groups because of it. These people discover no new knowledge. They just cut down some person's ridiculous view and then puff their chest out like they are Socrates.
What a tiresome bore.
Dude, I am so stealing your quote and not giving you credit for it:)
No disrespect to the original poster, but if there was something there to be scientific about, something to measure real researchers would have done so and wouldn't be leaving it up to curious people like yourself.
Having written that, no way you would get me into a haunted house:)
I think most people would agree that most people would have a different attitude about that in the same way they would feel differently about getting a bruise on their eye from walking into a door versus having someone accidentally elbow them in the eye.
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I think planting trees, putting up windmills and building solar electric car charging stations would be good public works projects too. Create jobs and help the environment at the same time.
This is one of the reasons why the U.S. has debt.
Everyone agrees that a balanced budget is a good thing, but they think their one thing deserves to be an exception.
You know times are tough. Usually when an election come near the politicians begin talking about missions to Mars.
The headline is probably true. Microsoft is probably among one of the most ethical corporations. That only means that corporations are not very ethical. That is reasonable given the facts. Their main goal is short term monetary gain for the quarterly report, they have the rights of a person and legally have none of the responsibilities of a person.
The fans of nuclear power have been giving very interesting accounts of how this incident is just a paper cut. Right before the news keeps getting steadily worse and worse.
Hah!
I don't buy it. Current U.S. power companies have known for decades that installing scrubbers on smoke stacks would dramatically reduce air pollution. Air, they also breathe. They haven't done it, because they don't want to spend the money.
Those same companies, or new ones with a similar mentality, are not going to build new nuclear plants when safer designs are developed.
If people as disciplined and conscientious as the Japanese can't do nuclear power safely, what chance do we have. Would you want a company like BP running a nuclear power plant or building one?
One thing about wind power. In the event of an earthquake, a terrorist attack, a greedy company cutting corners like BP, incompetence or human error nobody needs to worry about the breeze getting out.
The Japanese government just declared an atomic state of emergency. They are denying that any radiation is being leaked, but admitted that one reactor lost its cooling capacity. People are being evacuated.
In the event of an earthquake, nobody would need to worry about the wind getting lose.
Many people felt like SyFy was nothing but reruns with little original sci-fi content 11 years ago. This is not news.
I think it is a matter of sci-fi being expensive to make, so TV executives will inevitably sabotage such shows.
I would gladly watch streaming movies with my Netflix account, but Netflix doesn't support my operating system, Linux.
I was a bit shocked myself. Archiving groklaw.net is one thing - but Twitter? That's got to meet the definition of government waste.
LOL, the understatement of 2011! :).
My intuition is that they pitched it as some sort of "counter terrorism" move, but beyond that *tired* poor excuse/invasion what a waste of government money, especially in these times to save so much fleeting trash.
They might as well archive all of the junk mail circulars I throw out.
I wish I was a trust fund baby with the financial resources and time to go after things like this.
I hadn't heard about this, thank you.
What gives them the right? I wonder what their argument was for getting funding for this and doing this.
Oy.
If the OP wants a toy and has the cash, he should buy a toy. Nothing wrong with that.
I do question whether or not tablets have any practical use, or enough to justify the cost. It seems like their only niche is in letting you surf the web in a reclining position.
It is kind of hard for people to be motivated to post more when they aren't assured of their privacy and they don't know how their messages may come back to haunt them.
*This*
I see so many of these sophomoric types on the internet. I avoid "skeptics" and atheist groups because of it. These people discover no new knowledge. They just cut down some person's ridiculous view and then puff their chest out like they are Socrates.
What a tiresome bore.
Dude, I am so stealing your quote and not giving you credit for it :)
No disrespect to the original poster, but if there was something there to be scientific about, something to measure real researchers would have done so and wouldn't be leaving it up to curious people like yourself.
Having written that, no way you would get me into a haunted house :)
What do you expect from a country where slavery was legal until the late 60s?
Meh, the list is the most implausible sci-fi movies, not the worst sci-fi movies.
There are a few classics and some very good movies on that list.
Maybe they decided it was about time to invest in something successful
If you are catching shit when a bug happens and they refuse to set up formal testing get out of the job now.
If you aren't catching shit of any kind, then look at the bugs as helping you keep employed. If it annoys you, go find another job.
I've worked for similar cheapskates. They aren't likely to change.
I think most people would agree that most people would have a different attitude about that in the same way they would feel differently about getting a bruise on their eye from walking into a door versus having someone accidentally elbow them in the eye.
Same idea, you data is on someone else's machine is under their control and subject to their goofs.
And that boys and girls is why cloud computing sucks.