Mods: This is not a 'funny' post, this is an ignorant religious post. (Unless of course the guy is taking a shot at this silly religious idea. I don't see a hint of this being a joke,though)
Why not stay in and support the country that provided your education and well-being for 25 years? When you let money drive your decision making, you will make stupid decisions. It would be nice if people realized that most of what they are is a product of their culture and country; and if they would then have the integrity to give back selflessly. Money is not the answer.
If that were true, it wouldn't be an internet service provider, it would be a backbone service provider.
The ISP makes that claim and advertises their product. Nobody can guarantee that the newest firefox will download at my maximum speed, that is true. But what they SHOULD guarantee is that if you run enough downloads from various places, you can get what you are paying for.
After all, it is what is being advertised. If that is not what will be provided, the seller needs to be clear.
They also fail to recognize that obese people die earlier, and thus STOP EATING while fit people live on and in my estimation, probably end up eating more.
This is all a big attempt at sounding cool. It isn't obesity that causes global warming, it is the excessive emission of greenhouse gasses. The chain of responsibility between the emission and the obese person is so long that you can hardly even relate the two, let alone make such a bold statement.
Selling a specific accessible 'bandwidth' of internet access and then throttling it is not a fair business practice. Even if the terms of service include an allowance for such throttling, the provider should clearly and explicitly make sure the buyer understands such controls.
Otherwise, you have buyers like myself who pay for 6mbit wondering why we are not getting 6mbit 24/7, 365. Thats what I bought, just as it was advertised. 6mbit internet access. It didn't read an ad saying 'sometimes 6mbit, mostly 3, and if you use it a lot, then almost none'.
For an ISP to advertise a product one way, then provide the product differently is disingenuous and debateably illegal.
While this is an interesting concept it will most definitely fail at this time. Situations that would necessitate this kind of robot are so uncommon. Furthermoroe, the chance that any rescuing authority would purchase such a robot AHEAD of time is so unlikely.
Great idea, but if this buys bread and butter, consider a night job.
When I grew up watching Indiana Jones, I was into the adventure, the action, and RIPPING A GUYS HEART OUT OF HIS CHEST!
Then I saw the previews for this new one and it looks like a disney ride. It looks like a Scooby Doo episode! Its as if they took the adult-material and trimmed it down to "slappy's ghost house surprise" or something.
I am afraid to spend $9 on a movie ticket with the current implications of the movie. I think I will have to wait for a trusted friend to tell me what they think. I just can't convince myself to do it with the chance that I'd have to walk out pissed.
They didn't lose control. They gave it up willingly, for the sake of convenience. If they actually cared, they wouldn't keep on voting for the one who can flash the most cash. They would seek out and vote for candidates who aren't so allied with big business. But... it's more convenient to just vote for the guy that mass media presents to them. Then bitch about it till the next cycle, repeat. If they would admit it, they would be on the first step towards a cure. As it is, the 45 year decline will continue for at least four more. There is no end in sight. Australia doesn't really lookanybetter wow.. sounds like america
So a better example would be for me to protest your daughter playing with barbies because I don't agree with what you the parent do?
Drawing attention is a valuable tool, but protesting the olympics is not going to make anything better, especially when the olympics is pretty much the longest standing global gathering where representatives from around the world join IN PEACE to compete.
But.. then again.. Babies will cry. Why not protest China instead? Isn't that the point? Why not protest chinese products. Anything that is a bit more 'relative' to the purpose would make more sense.
Is like protesting farts on the moon. It makes no sense. It is the Olympics, not 'China'. It just happens to be in China. Silly protesters need to back off and grow some pubes.
Since when can a person be held directly responsible for activity that occurs on their IP address? The RIAA is throwing charges for crimes without sufficient evidence that the person they are charging committed the crime. There are a million ways an IP is shared or used by multiple persons. Without substantial evidence, the RIAA is merely throwing litigious paperwork around at tons of innocent people. When will our government establish a recourse for recurring wrongful litigious activity?
The ability to sue, blame, and then settle out of court is being so heavily exploited because lawyers know that most people would rather settle than pay the $$$ to prove themselves innocent.
We need to either:
1) Not allow settling, thus making false accusations apparent, and thus the obvious waste of our judicial resources. This would be the cause of an impending need to reform and disallow repeat false accusers.
or
2) Allow individual accusers or accusing bodies (such as the RIAA) a limited amount of legal cases, for which an appeal must be done to be allowed more.
No way. The vast population of the world is way to uneducated to understand genetics. And since our 'majority' usually makes decisions, they will make ignorant decisions.
Example? 90% of people polled in the US are against eating meat from a cloned cow. This is ignorant, as they do not even realize that most the fruit they are eating is cloned fruit. They also fail to realize that aside from the first moments of producing the clone, the life-form is as equally viable as its parent.
I'm starting to notice that education for the majority is failing to keep up with the minority of people actually doing progressive research. This is a problem, as our populous will not make educated decisions and will react wrongly simply due to not knowing what is actually going on.
Hell, most people in modern nations are not even aware of the physics that are applied to producing all their cool techno-goodies.
Time to start investing in schools or coming up with corrals for the sheeple, while the masters make progress.
www.m-w.com defines it as " the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought". True. And a zygote/embryo IS NOT a person. It is a human, but not a person. If you look up personhood, as described by current ethics, you will come to understand the difference between a human and a person. The same applies to humans in persistent vegetative states.
It is alive, it has life, it has human dna and is human. But it is not a person, nor is it aware of itself or that which arises (as described) in these experiments.
Ethics 101
There are a million more things you can do on a PC than a Mac.
If you don't know the difference you are either blind, or in a state of denial because you own a mac.
Yeah. I thought so. I'm not saying 'vista' is any good, but ANY PC (laptop or desktop) is better. Simply stating that you do not seem to realize the awesome variety of capabilities of a PC compared to a MAC.
Example? Do you have team fortress 2? lol. no. you just have e-mail.
So when he got it back.. Did he check his e-mail, browse slashdot, then realize there is nothing else to do?
I feel bad for the thief who was dumb enough to steal one, let alone the victim who was dumb enough to buy one (victim of apple, not thief).
The FDA is a pseudo-control mechanism for the government to appear to be protecting its citizens. The FDA, in reality, is a political tool used to provide citizens with a false sense of security and trust for drug companies that pay money hand over fist to get their drugs approved. The FDA reads, analyzes, and makes determinations largely based on research done by the company that produced the drug. Why is that a problem? When research is done by those that profit, and deciding members of the FDA also stand to profit, then it will be $$$ at the fore with safety at the aft.
Long story short. The FDA is a joke. Whats worse, is that your doctor quite likely will not be able to advise you well due to their own dependence on the system for answers. From this, doctors will regurgitate the findings of the drug company.
maybe you are right. I still have not seen a Mac that is worth HALF of what it costs, or a Mac that can run current video games at an enjoyable level of quality.
I don't think you can have an overly ergonomic, high profiting hardware (meaning it is crappy for what you pay), unpopular format, computer that is also good at running awesome video games. Maybe it can run wii quality games, but nothing notable by any standard of a true gamer.
Since 1994 I've said it and I'll say it again: "Crapintosh... Macintrash... Crapintrash!"
You mean "Fear World". Yeah, I know what we live in now. A world where america is now trying to prepare its citizens to INVADE IRAN based on fear of a SPECULATION.
yeah.. Fear World. The world of ignorant pussies.
(now this is flamebait)
Did they not have a posting that says "We are not responsible for the torrents we index" ??? From my understanding it is not illegal to refer instructions for things that may be illegal. For example, I can go buy books with instructions on producing illegal substances, bombs, and weapons. Does that make borders a criminal?
If the torrent indexing site was not directly providing illegal property, but only directions on how to get it, they should not be penalized.
Oh... And a thought I had today: Lawyers are adults that act like children; trained to help adults that act like children.
It is my assumption, which is very likely true, that zebra striping makes only a little increase in accuracy and speed WHEN THE PEOPLE BEING TESTED ARE ADAPTED TO AND EXPECTING SPECIFIC PRESENTATIONS OF DATA.
The research is most likely flawed in that the subjects were, in repetition, tested on zebra and non-zebra formats, not taking into account that the subjects are becoming adapted to the overall format of the data. Thus, subjects are experienced/trained in acquiring the data with or without the striping, which would then show very little difference.
Oh... and this whole research serves little to no purpose. What a waste of time. Why not focus research on something more important?
call me a flamer if you like, but this is worthless babble imho. You can play games on your phone, xbox, computer, and kitchen counter...
Post something worthwhile.
That is not evidence, that is speculation. You fail. Your speculation is a failure as well since loads of countries with established energy sources have opted to move towards nuclear energy.
You fail.
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Mods: This is not a 'funny' post, this is an ignorant religious post. (Unless of course the guy is taking a shot at this silly religious idea. I don't see a hint of this being a joke,though)
Join the service. I did, saw the world and loved it.
Why not stay in and support the country that provided your education and well-being for 25 years? When you let money drive your decision making, you will make stupid decisions. It would be nice if people realized that most of what they are is a product of their culture and country; and if they would then have the integrity to give back selflessly. Money is not the answer.
If that were true, it wouldn't be an internet service provider, it would be a backbone service provider. The ISP makes that claim and advertises their product. Nobody can guarantee that the newest firefox will download at my maximum speed, that is true. But what they SHOULD guarantee is that if you run enough downloads from various places, you can get what you are paying for. After all, it is what is being advertised. If that is not what will be provided, the seller needs to be clear.
They also fail to recognize that obese people die earlier, and thus STOP EATING while fit people live on and in my estimation, probably end up eating more. This is all a big attempt at sounding cool. It isn't obesity that causes global warming, it is the excessive emission of greenhouse gasses. The chain of responsibility between the emission and the obese person is so long that you can hardly even relate the two, let alone make such a bold statement.
Selling a specific accessible 'bandwidth' of internet access and then throttling it is not a fair business practice. Even if the terms of service include an allowance for such throttling, the provider should clearly and explicitly make sure the buyer understands such controls. Otherwise, you have buyers like myself who pay for 6mbit wondering why we are not getting 6mbit 24/7, 365. Thats what I bought, just as it was advertised. 6mbit internet access. It didn't read an ad saying 'sometimes 6mbit, mostly 3, and if you use it a lot, then almost none'. For an ISP to advertise a product one way, then provide the product differently is disingenuous and debateably illegal.
While this is an interesting concept it will most definitely fail at this time. Situations that would necessitate this kind of robot are so uncommon. Furthermoroe, the chance that any rescuing authority would purchase such a robot AHEAD of time is so unlikely. Great idea, but if this buys bread and butter, consider a night job.
When I grew up watching Indiana Jones, I was into the adventure, the action, and RIPPING A GUYS HEART OUT OF HIS CHEST! Then I saw the previews for this new one and it looks like a disney ride. It looks like a Scooby Doo episode! Its as if they took the adult-material and trimmed it down to "slappy's ghost house surprise" or something. I am afraid to spend $9 on a movie ticket with the current implications of the movie. I think I will have to wait for a trusted friend to tell me what they think. I just can't convince myself to do it with the chance that I'd have to walk out pissed.
So a better example would be for me to protest your daughter playing with barbies because I don't agree with what you the parent do? Drawing attention is a valuable tool, but protesting the olympics is not going to make anything better, especially when the olympics is pretty much the longest standing global gathering where representatives from around the world join IN PEACE to compete. But.. then again.. Babies will cry. Why not protest China instead? Isn't that the point? Why not protest chinese products. Anything that is a bit more 'relative' to the purpose would make more sense.
Is like protesting farts on the moon. It makes no sense. It is the Olympics, not 'China'. It just happens to be in China. Silly protesters need to back off and grow some pubes.
Since when can a person be held directly responsible for activity that occurs on their IP address? The RIAA is throwing charges for crimes without sufficient evidence that the person they are charging committed the crime. There are a million ways an IP is shared or used by multiple persons. Without substantial evidence, the RIAA is merely throwing litigious paperwork around at tons of innocent people. When will our government establish a recourse for recurring wrongful litigious activity? The ability to sue, blame, and then settle out of court is being so heavily exploited because lawyers know that most people would rather settle than pay the $$$ to prove themselves innocent. We need to either: 1) Not allow settling, thus making false accusations apparent, and thus the obvious waste of our judicial resources. This would be the cause of an impending need to reform and disallow repeat false accusers. or 2) Allow individual accusers or accusing bodies (such as the RIAA) a limited amount of legal cases, for which an appeal must be done to be allowed more.
No way. The vast population of the world is way to uneducated to understand genetics. And since our 'majority' usually makes decisions, they will make ignorant decisions. Example? 90% of people polled in the US are against eating meat from a cloned cow. This is ignorant, as they do not even realize that most the fruit they are eating is cloned fruit. They also fail to realize that aside from the first moments of producing the clone, the life-form is as equally viable as its parent. I'm starting to notice that education for the majority is failing to keep up with the minority of people actually doing progressive research. This is a problem, as our populous will not make educated decisions and will react wrongly simply due to not knowing what is actually going on. Hell, most people in modern nations are not even aware of the physics that are applied to producing all their cool techno-goodies. Time to start investing in schools or coming up with corrals for the sheeple, while the masters make progress.
There are a million more things you can do on a PC than a Mac. If you don't know the difference you are either blind, or in a state of denial because you own a mac. Yeah. I thought so. I'm not saying 'vista' is any good, but ANY PC (laptop or desktop) is better. Simply stating that you do not seem to realize the awesome variety of capabilities of a PC compared to a MAC. Example? Do you have team fortress 2? lol. no. you just have e-mail.
So when he got it back.. Did he check his e-mail, browse slashdot, then realize there is nothing else to do? I feel bad for the thief who was dumb enough to steal one, let alone the victim who was dumb enough to buy one (victim of apple, not thief).
The FDA is a pseudo-control mechanism for the government to appear to be protecting its citizens. The FDA, in reality, is a political tool used to provide citizens with a false sense of security and trust for drug companies that pay money hand over fist to get their drugs approved. The FDA reads, analyzes, and makes determinations largely based on research done by the company that produced the drug. Why is that a problem? When research is done by those that profit, and deciding members of the FDA also stand to profit, then it will be $$$ at the fore with safety at the aft. Long story short. The FDA is a joke. Whats worse, is that your doctor quite likely will not be able to advise you well due to their own dependence on the system for answers. From this, doctors will regurgitate the findings of the drug company.
maybe you are right. I still have not seen a Mac that is worth HALF of what it costs, or a Mac that can run current video games at an enjoyable level of quality. I don't think you can have an overly ergonomic, high profiting hardware (meaning it is crappy for what you pay), unpopular format, computer that is also good at running awesome video games. Maybe it can run wii quality games, but nothing notable by any standard of a true gamer. Since 1994 I've said it and I'll say it again: "Crapintosh... Macintrash... Crapintrash!"
Watch oil companies buy electric companies and then find a way to create a vise-like grip on our wallets all over again.
You mean "Fear World". Yeah, I know what we live in now. A world where america is now trying to prepare its citizens to INVADE IRAN based on fear of a SPECULATION. yeah.. Fear World. The world of ignorant pussies. (now this is flamebait)
So if you ask me where to buy a gun, I say "go to walmart". You go to walmart buy it, then kill someone.... That means I coordinated the murder?
Did they not have a posting that says "We are not responsible for the torrents we index" ??? From my understanding it is not illegal to refer instructions for things that may be illegal. For example, I can go buy books with instructions on producing illegal substances, bombs, and weapons. Does that make borders a criminal? If the torrent indexing site was not directly providing illegal property, but only directions on how to get it, they should not be penalized. Oh... And a thought I had today: Lawyers are adults that act like children; trained to help adults that act like children.
It is my assumption, which is very likely true, that zebra striping makes only a little increase in accuracy and speed WHEN THE PEOPLE BEING TESTED ARE ADAPTED TO AND EXPECTING SPECIFIC PRESENTATIONS OF DATA. The research is most likely flawed in that the subjects were, in repetition, tested on zebra and non-zebra formats, not taking into account that the subjects are becoming adapted to the overall format of the data. Thus, subjects are experienced/trained in acquiring the data with or without the striping, which would then show very little difference. Oh... and this whole research serves little to no purpose. What a waste of time. Why not focus research on something more important?
call me a flamer if you like, but this is worthless babble imho. You can play games on your phone, xbox, computer, and kitchen counter... Post something worthwhile.
That is not evidence, that is speculation. You fail. Your speculation is a failure as well since loads of countries with established energy sources have opted to move towards nuclear energy. You fail.