Perhaps I'm not a masochist who wants to use a tiny screen and tiny keyboard on an under-powered device that's much less convenient than the desktop I'm sitting at?
People in Hong Kong hold protests as well and openly advocate democracy. Hong Kong is not like the rest of China, it's a special administrative region with rules all its own. China itself likes to talk about Hong Kong as an example of "one country, two systems".
The theocrats didn't put Khatami in power. They were overconfident enough to allow a fairish election in which they were very disturbed to see him gain power, so the guardian council struck down every reform the reformists tried to pass and disqualified most of them from standing in the next parliamentary elections, and finally put the leaders under house arrest.
Oh please. The USA is one of the richest nations in the world. I'm in the poorest 20% of or so of Americans in a so-called recession and I still have luxuries like internet and a place of my own that most of the world would kill for. Forecasting widespread famine and death because you can't afford your netflix subscription is ludicrously stupid.
If you happen to live at altitude and don't care about most of the world, you can sit back and enjoy it. I think you'll find the economic impact of flooding low-altitude cities hits you pretty hard though.
Lightweight means that when I start koffice it opens in a second, whereas when I start Libre Office I'm waiting 10 seconds and the whole computer feels slowed down by it.
Russia and China oppose Iranian nukes -- obviously they prefer their nuclear club to remain exclusive and proliferation does not benefit them. They support Iranian nuclear energy, and oppose increasing sanctions on a country which has not even been proved to be perusing nuclear weapons, let alone actually built any yet. Russia and China prefer to wait until there's clear cause to apply punishment, perhaps realizing that a country which is punished because somebody thinks they're thinking about nukes has more to gain by actually making them so they can negotiate disarmament.
Mint requires a re-installation/import whenever there's a new release. Kubuntu, I installed once somewhere around '07 and the upgrades every 6 months are painless. You can make an argument that Mint's approach is safer, but isn't it good to have distros for both strategies so both strategies can develop further and people who prefer each have a choice?
And the reason it seems like people are getting cheated instead of gifted with the better accuracy is simple: when someone's bill goes down, they keep quiet and don't make a fuss. Even if the same number of people are getting lower bills as get higher bills, the people with the higher bills are the ones out saturating the media.
There are more than likely trillions of habitable planets. It's not a scarce resource, so there's no motivation for an invader to waste incredible resources invading us when they can go set up shop on other planets that don't have any species capable of self-defense.
The amount of radiation in the habitable zone around a red dwarf makes complex life as we know it unlikely. Not to say there couldn't be life, but the odds are better with friendlier conditions.
The lines between Asia and Africa or North and South America, would be a better comparison. There was a land connection before the canals, but so much smaller of a land connection than between Europe and Asia that it becomes obvious to draw a distinction.
But are the patents actually overbroad, or is the three line summary overview of the patent that the media latches onto in order to make a story the only thing that's overbroad? Nobody can patent the concept of an autonomous car, only specific implementations of it.
More to the point, the ability for the police to stop a car instead of chasing after it provides better safety for everyone without giving them any real new powers that flashing their lights didn't already entail. Unless you try to outrun the police when they flash their lights, it makes no difference to you as the person they're pulling over.
The majority of people live in cities ("more than three-quarters of the U.S. population shares just about three percent of the U.S. land area" according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States ). Where in a city is the average job going to be 30 miles away?
Most likely, CBS fears that licensing it for $1 will reduce the value of other unprocessed scripts they own that might be worth something someday. Though it probably wouldn't.
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Perhaps I'm not a masochist who wants to use a tiny screen and tiny keyboard on an under-powered device that's much less convenient than the desktop I'm sitting at?
China has been publicizing their space station plans for years though, with a timeline. The exact dates of launches isn't that important.
People in Hong Kong hold protests as well and openly advocate democracy. Hong Kong is not like the rest of China, it's a special administrative region with rules all its own. China itself likes to talk about Hong Kong as an example of "one country, two systems".
Self-updating, for one. A script can't patch itself if it can't write files, and users can't be expected to chmod.
The theocrats didn't put Khatami in power. They were overconfident enough to allow a fairish election in which they were very disturbed to see him gain power, so the guardian council struck down every reform the reformists tried to pass and disqualified most of them from standing in the next parliamentary elections, and finally put the leaders under house arrest.
Anyone know the green and libertarian party policies on these issues?
Oh please. The USA is one of the richest nations in the world. I'm in the poorest 20% of or so of Americans in a so-called recession and I still have luxuries like internet and a place of my own that most of the world would kill for. Forecasting widespread famine and death because you can't afford your netflix subscription is ludicrously stupid.
"Nearly two-thirds of urban settlements with more than 5 million inhabitants are at least partially in the 0 to 10 meter low elevation coastal zones" (source: http://www.earth.columbia.edu/news/2007/story03-29-07.php )
If you happen to live at altitude and don't care about most of the world, you can sit back and enjoy it. I think you'll find the economic impact of flooding low-altitude cities hits you pretty hard though.
All those things are much easier to survive with a "backup" bunker on earth than one anywhere else in the solar system.
Lightweight means that when I start koffice it opens in a second, whereas when I start Libre Office I'm waiting 10 seconds and the whole computer feels slowed down by it.
Russia and China oppose Iranian nukes -- obviously they prefer their nuclear club to remain exclusive and proliferation does not benefit them. They support Iranian nuclear energy, and oppose increasing sanctions on a country which has not even been proved to be perusing nuclear weapons, let alone actually built any yet. Russia and China prefer to wait until there's clear cause to apply punishment, perhaps realizing that a country which is punished because somebody thinks they're thinking about nukes has more to gain by actually making them so they can negotiate disarmament.
A phone is not worthless without a contract. I find my smartphone quite useful paying $3/month and using wi-fi for data.
Mint requires a re-installation/import whenever there's a new release. Kubuntu, I installed once somewhere around '07 and the upgrades every 6 months are painless. You can make an argument that Mint's approach is safer, but isn't it good to have distros for both strategies so both strategies can develop further and people who prefer each have a choice?
Take your meds.
And the reason it seems like people are getting cheated instead of gifted with the better accuracy is simple: when someone's bill goes down, they keep quiet and don't make a fuss. Even if the same number of people are getting lower bills as get higher bills, the people with the higher bills are the ones out saturating the media.
There are more than likely trillions of habitable planets. It's not a scarce resource, so there's no motivation for an invader to waste incredible resources invading us when they can go set up shop on other planets that don't have any species capable of self-defense.
The amount of radiation in the habitable zone around a red dwarf makes complex life as we know it unlikely. Not to say there couldn't be life, but the odds are better with friendlier conditions.
The lines between Asia and Africa or North and South America, would be a better comparison. There was a land connection before the canals, but so much smaller of a land connection than between Europe and Asia that it becomes obvious to draw a distinction.
But are the patents actually overbroad, or is the three line summary overview of the patent that the media latches onto in order to make a story the only thing that's overbroad? Nobody can patent the concept of an autonomous car, only specific implementations of it.
More to the point, the ability for the police to stop a car instead of chasing after it provides better safety for everyone without giving them any real new powers that flashing their lights didn't already entail. Unless you try to outrun the police when they flash their lights, it makes no difference to you as the person they're pulling over.
Some people live in cold climates.
The majority of people live in cities ("more than three-quarters of the U.S. population shares just about three percent of the U.S. land area" according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States ). Where in a city is the average job going to be 30 miles away?
If you're paying sticker price for a car, you're getting ripped off regardless.
I only go to the gas station about once a month, with a cheap '98 car. It's called not driving much.
Most likely, CBS fears that licensing it for $1 will reduce the value of other unprocessed scripts they own that might be worth something someday. Though it probably wouldn't.