Except that in communism and socialism the government ends up with all the power and all the money, whether or not that is the intention. In a capitalist society the government facilitates the free market in which we all participate. Yes, gone unchecked we eventually become slaves to corporations, but that is why we tolerate government to begin with. Outside of a rather narrow definition government is slow, costly, and greedy.
So you don't think the few hundred people running congress into the ground have anything to with our current situation? The actions of the president did not destabilize the markets. The actions of people - regular citizens, loan officers, accountants, etc. - are responsible to a far greater degree.
The climb didn't get easier. But perhaps it was acknowledged that new techniques - either training or climbing - made possible the ascent of the something that was before thought not possible. Also, it will put today's climbers into proper context with climber from 20 years from now. Someone in 2030 will wonder if Joe Climber from 2008 could have ascended a 5.20, the idea of which doesn't even make sense in the current context.
In an unusual parallel, world famous rock climber Chris Sharma wanted to downgrade a rating on a climb - one of the hardest climbs of its type in the world. From what I gather, the reason was that you reach a point where the rating system becomes meaningless as higher and higher ratings are made, and you lose the context in which the previous ratings were assigned, and the foundation on which the rating system is based.
So we are assuming that everyone working on open source projects is not otherwise employed? How many people do it in their free time, all the while gainfully employed?
We invented time travel, but some joker keeps traveling back in time and hiding the prototype, so we are continuously starting from scratch.
The rash on your hand is because you don't have a borg sexbot. We haven't yet worked out the bug where they eat their mate, so stick with the knuckle-children.
Warp drives and teleporters are, quite obviously, fiction.
Insightful? Yes, God says that in the OT, but I don't recall that from NT books. The whole point of the NT is that the ultimate sacrifice was made for us and we no longer have stone our children. Except maybe for file sharing, but the Bible is a little fuzzy on that topic.
I just wish everyone would get along. There is no good reason to think that a god would have created a universe with laws, but circumvented them in the actual creation with a snap of his fingers. OTOH, even if we definitively show the universe emanated outward from a big bang, or is made of superstrings or sillystrings or even silly putty, the fact is we will never know what the universe is outside of it, i.e., in what context it exists.
No one - other than mathematicians - has the complete answer, so both sides need to stop acting like they have all the answers.
I think you are using the Internet wrong. It is a tool for research, discovery, and much more. It should stimulate your desire to learn and exercise your ability to sort through the noise to find useful information. Crafting an Internet search on Google, for example, is far more than knowing a few terms. And that will continue to become more important as the noise outpaces the signal.
Unless you are using it as a surrogate for a real life, in which case it probably will dim your bulb. OTOH, perhaps that just means we need a different IQ test.
The fed actually gets 5% of the gross from M2Z, and presumably any other company offering free Wi-Fi. (M2Z makes money from ads and premium services to people who wish to use their Internet connection to whack off.)
Since September 2007, the FCC has conducted a rulemaking that would establish rules for the 2155 - 2175 MHz band. M2Z along with tens of thousands of Americans, over 400 state, local and federal officials and a coalition of national organizations have participated in the proceeding and have asked the FCC to establish a free nationwide wireless broadband network with protections against children viewing inappropriate content.
Price notwithstanding, I guess it won't be entirely free...
During the "companies screwing the people" part the companies do work their way into government via lobbies, donations, and out-right bribery. Eventually the government, through socialist agendas, take up profits and eventually subsidize everything, ergo, "companies bought by government." This seems good until the government stops letting anyone make money - a process which takes an indeterminate amount of time - at which point revolution frees the masses from the supposedly-socialist-but-ultimately-tyrannical hands of the government, and from the ashes arises a new free market-style system, designed by thinkers well-schooled in history.
But experiments eventually proved that he apparently does
This is the part I find interesting - "apparently." We still do not fully understand, like when we inherit someone else's spaghetti code and, modify some method and say, "yeah, looks like that fixed the problem." Only, we aren't 100% sure, and then we find out it didn't fix it or it caused another issue, and ultimately we realize it's time to rewrite the whole damn thing.
So the question is, how far will quantum [insert favorite flavor] go before we realize its something else entirely?
McCain isn't really against Net Neutrality (NN) per se, but rather against the idea of the government telling telcos what to do. Now, the consequence of that may be a temporary loss of NN, but that is where either an anti-trust case or a brave new provider (with $$ backing) steps in and suddenly we have choice again. Maybe. OTOH, regulate it now, and eventually we have government-controlled ISP. Wanna get taxed on your bandwidth usage? Personally, I don't know which is worse, but I don't either is better.
(off-topic wanring) Another approach to this issue is whether one thinks of Internet access as a right or a privilege. That's dissertation fodder right there. Access has become ubiquitous, so people expect it to remain that way. But that is a learned behavior. But given time some psychiatrist will find cause to label it genetic, and then they will be prescribing Internet access. Or 250kb of e-mail. twice daily until thoughts of cave-dwelling subside.
A lack of tech or automotive savvy does not a stupid person make. I suspect an increasing number of upper-level management people are less savvy about the technical aspects of the company they represent. They probably got the job because they know people, have connections, and are good at getting things done. A VP-level person at BMW isn't hired to design engines; they are hired to coordinate an effort to design an engine. Very different set of skills.
And like Homer Simpson said when indicating what a good employee he was, "my boss says everyone has to work harder when I'm around." I guess it's a matter of perspective.
I always assumed the pause/rewind/etc. stuff was a software layer (apparently it is not). I attributed Direct TVs lack of the few second jump back when pressing "play" from fast-forwarding as part a patent issue. I wonder...
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Except that in communism and socialism the government ends up with all the power and all the money, whether or not that is the intention. In a capitalist society the government facilitates the free market in which we all participate. Yes, gone unchecked we eventually become slaves to corporations, but that is why we tolerate government to begin with. Outside of a rather narrow definition government is slow, costly, and greedy.
So you don't think the few hundred people running congress into the ground have anything to with our current situation? The actions of the president did not destabilize the markets. The actions of people - regular citizens, loan officers, accountants, etc. - are responsible to a far greater degree.
The climb didn't get easier. But perhaps it was acknowledged that new techniques - either training or climbing - made possible the ascent of the something that was before thought not possible. Also, it will put today's climbers into proper context with climber from 20 years from now. Someone in 2030 will wonder if Joe Climber from 2008 could have ascended a 5.20, the idea of which doesn't even make sense in the current context.
Don't you remember multiple choice tests where the "...is always true" type of answers were always wrong.
No, used the ID of the real guy to whom she was digitally married.
In an unusual parallel, world famous rock climber Chris Sharma wanted to downgrade a rating on a climb - one of the hardest climbs of its type in the world. From what I gather, the reason was that you reach a point where the rating system becomes meaningless as higher and higher ratings are made, and you lose the context in which the previous ratings were assigned, and the foundation on which the rating system is based.
Since this hex is on its side it is just a glorified cube.
So we are assuming that everyone working on open source projects is not otherwise employed? How many people do it in their free time, all the while gainfully employed?
We invented time travel, but some joker keeps traveling back in time and hiding the prototype, so we are continuously starting from scratch.
The rash on your hand is because you don't have a borg sexbot. We haven't yet worked out the bug where they eat their mate, so stick with the knuckle-children.
Warp drives and teleporters are, quite obviously, fiction.
Insightful? Yes, God says that in the OT, but I don't recall that from NT books. The whole point of the NT is that the ultimate sacrifice was made for us and we no longer have stone our children. Except maybe for file sharing, but the Bible is a little fuzzy on that topic.
Are you sure God just doesn't really like Colt Firearms: Colt Peacemaker
I just wish everyone would get along. There is no good reason to think that a god would have created a universe with laws, but circumvented them in the actual creation with a snap of his fingers. OTOH, even if we definitively show the universe emanated outward from a big bang, or is made of superstrings or sillystrings or even silly putty, the fact is we will never know what the universe is outside of it, i.e., in what context it exists.
No one - other than mathematicians - has the complete answer, so both sides need to stop acting like they have all the answers.
If you couldn't guess, I studied math in college.
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And less than 10,000 years later we are blogging about it? Wow...
I think you are using the Internet wrong. It is a tool for research, discovery, and much more. It should stimulate your desire to learn and exercise your ability to sort through the noise to find useful information. Crafting an Internet search on Google, for example, is far more than knowing a few terms. And that will continue to become more important as the noise outpaces the signal.
Unless you are using it as a surrogate for a real life, in which case it probably will dim your bulb. OTOH, perhaps that just means we need a different IQ test.
The fed actually gets 5% of the gross from M2Z, and presumably any other company offering free Wi-Fi. (M2Z makes money from ads and premium services to people who wish to use their Internet connection to whack off.)
and here's a link:
http://www.m2znetworks.com/faqs/
Price notwithstanding, I guess it won't be entirely free...
Poop to food, closing the world hunger loop.
During the "companies screwing the people" part the companies do work their way into government via lobbies, donations, and out-right bribery. Eventually the government, through socialist agendas, take up profits and eventually subsidize everything, ergo, "companies bought by government." This seems good until the government stops letting anyone make money - a process which takes an indeterminate amount of time - at which point revolution frees the masses from the supposedly-socialist-but-ultimately-tyrannical hands of the government, and from the ashes arises a new free market-style system, designed by thinkers well-schooled in history.
Sort of like the Wal-Mart episode of South Park.
Free market, government regulation, companies screwing the people, companies bought by government, revolution, repeat. Always repeat.
This is the part I find interesting - "apparently." We still do not fully understand, like when we inherit someone else's spaghetti code and, modify some method and say, "yeah, looks like that fixed the problem." Only, we aren't 100% sure, and then we find out it didn't fix it or it caused another issue, and ultimately we realize it's time to rewrite the whole damn thing.
So the question is, how far will quantum [insert favorite flavor] go before we realize its something else entirely?
McCain isn't really against Net Neutrality (NN) per se, but rather against the idea of the government telling telcos what to do. Now, the consequence of that may be a temporary loss of NN, but that is where either an anti-trust case or a brave new provider (with $$ backing) steps in and suddenly we have choice again. Maybe. OTOH, regulate it now, and eventually we have government-controlled ISP. Wanna get taxed on your bandwidth usage? Personally, I don't know which is worse, but I don't either is better.
(off-topic wanring) Another approach to this issue is whether one thinks of Internet access as a right or a privilege. That's dissertation fodder right there. Access has become ubiquitous, so people expect it to remain that way. But that is a learned behavior. But given time some psychiatrist will find cause to label it genetic, and then they will be prescribing Internet access. Or 250kb of e-mail. twice daily until thoughts of cave-dwelling subside.
A lack of tech or automotive savvy does not a stupid person make. I suspect an increasing number of upper-level management people are less savvy about the technical aspects of the company they represent. They probably got the job because they know people, have connections, and are good at getting things done. A VP-level person at BMW isn't hired to design engines; they are hired to coordinate an effort to design an engine. Very different set of skills.
And like Homer Simpson said when indicating what a good employee he was, "my boss says everyone has to work harder when I'm around." I guess it's a matter of perspective.
I'll wager a BMW that there is at least one VP in BMW who cannot fix a carburetor.
It's not solid state; it's a hard drive.
I always assumed the pause/rewind/etc. stuff was a software layer (apparently it is not). I attributed Direct TVs lack of the few second jump back when pressing "play" from fast-forwarding as part a patent issue. I wonder...