Yesterday, I squandered mod points that were going to expire. Today - I wish I had some. Screw the beauracrats, sometimes you just gotta do what's gotta be done!
Perhaps you are unconsciously equating diesel fuel to gasoline? If a class alpha fire happened to break out somewhere enroute to the upstairs generator, they could likely have thrown the diesel fuel on the fire to put it out. Of course, that wouldn't be such a great idea for any other class of fire. Still - diesel fuel isn't so flammable as to cause any real hazard.
Isn't that part of what "jailbreaking" is all about? Deciding that you're going to do what Apple and/or your telco permit you to do? Don't ask them - TELL them what you're going to do.
Well, please excuse me. There are a handful of "words" used in my home town, which my teachers warned would always give our origins away. That was one of the non-words on the teacher's list. If I should ever get careless and use two or three of the others, you'll know where I grew up, within about 75 miles or so.
As pointed out by serviscope_minor - misuse of a word or non-word hardly negates my argument. I also note that you failed to refute my argument.
"I don't take issue with the shutdown since Megaupload"
Irregardless of the legalities or the morality of what MU was doing, or not doing, the shutdown was a miscarriage of justice. MPAA is saying here, that the end justified the means. In effect, it doesn't matter that all parties to the shutdown FAILED to prosecute MU for anything, and they FAILED to prove that MU was doing anything. It only matters that Hollywood is making money.
Step down a little, from huge international servers, to your own home town. Do you have a problem with the mayor sending a swat team to crash your door down, confiscate your computers, and haul you to court because - ohhhh - maybe you published an unflattering picture of the mayor? Or, your kid is a "terroristic bully who has hacked my child's facebook account"? Or, you published an editorial opposing the mayor's plans for an "emminent domain" project?
Quantum physics is pretty far over my head - and yours too.
Your friend doesn't need you to tell him which color marble he has. He has the other half of the quantum linked marble pair! What you know, he knows, and vicey-versey.
Now, the real question is, how do we use those marbles to communicate in real time? Can we make them dance and vibrate synchronously? One marble. Or, more accurately, one marble here, one marble there. Maybe we can cause them to switch from black to white and back again, in some manner? There we have it - binary!
Now, there's just the pesky little problem of getting the marbles to cooperate, right?
Perhaps, then, Microsoft shouldn't have tried to market crap products, so many times? If they hadn't served up shit sandwiches at the company picnic year after year, they might not have such a stigma, hmmmmm?
Face it - there are several proven choices for mobile hardware, why would anyone spend this much money on something that is unproven? I mean - it doesn't even have a turbocharger, or an FTL drive, or even an improbability drive. Phhhhtttt.
Now, that's an idea. I'm going to google for a turbocharged Linux powered tablet - as improbable as that is . . .
I have traveled literally millions of miles in my lifetime, just to see what lay over the horizon, as often as not. I was fortunate enough that other people paid for my traveling, so I was able to earn a living. But, the travel is what it has all been about.
So - tell me again about stupidity and suicide, please?
At age 56, and with bad knees, moving my carcass to a planet with lower gravity would be a nice thing. Throw in the new horizons, and it's a complete win-win situation for me. Suicide? Driving to work is a suicidal stunt, in and of itself, for most Americans.
They grow in the most inhospitable places on Earth. They may possibly adapt to some of the more hospitable places on Mars. Given the chance, they may thrive, and change the face of Mars. Just scatter a bunch around in the best looking places, give it a thousand years, and take another look!
Why, exactly, do we dispose of bodies, here on earth? Partly to make the survivors "feel good". But, mostly because those bodies pose a health hazard to the people who live around wherever they fall.
There is no one on Mars who will be put at risk when a few bodies fall over, and begin to decay. Maybe the fellow adventurers will find the first few bodies to be objectionable. But, with a little spacing between adventurers, (you cultivate your cultivars on this side of the hill, and I'll take that side of the hill) no one will be worried about aesthetics.
Let them bodies lie. They'll decay, and become one with the soil. The next wave of adventurers will find some nice fertile soil in which to cultivate their own - spinach, or whatever.
The military has something called "command presence", which I'm certain could be related to charisma. Like leadership, some people are just born with it, some people learn it, while most people never get close enough to it to even begin to understand it.
You seem to assume that a psychologist is a "normal person". And, that is where your scenario falls on it's face. Shrinks are, in fact, some very strange people, haunted by their own ghosts and harassed by their own demons.
Julian's problems epitomize the fact that NO ONE is secure in his home and person any longer. Julian's conduct offended those in power, primarily in the United States, and those in power have reached out to touch Julian.
It seems rather preposterous to me, that any "sexual misconduct" less serious than rape or child molestation merits an international crime case and extradition. And, the women involved in this scandal have BOTH stated quite clearly that Julian did NOT rape them. In fact, both women seduced Julian.
Sexual misconduct? The women wanted him, they got him, then they complain? Hello, World - there's something more to this "scandal" than meets the eye.
Behind the scenes politics? Yes? No? It will never be proven unless one of the conspirators admits to it, or disposes of a hard drive with sensitive data on it. But, a person has to be a fool to dismiss political motivation for Julian's legal problems, out of hand.
That's pretty stupid. Most females hide their gender, because they get tired of alternating responses, "Shut up, Bitch!" and "Want to fuck?" Things have gotten better in recent years, but not a whole lot better. So, no they don't get automagical max mods just for posting.
Stop being so cranky. Asimov has been dead for quite some time now - but I still read everything that I find published about him. Tolkein has been dead even longer, but I still follow what is happening with his works. We have presidents who have been dead for a couple of centuries, and the government still observes their birthdays. What about Columbus? That old relic has been dead for how long? We STILL have a Columbus Day!
I think you're just jealous, because there is no Taco Cowboy day.
Median tenure in the 50's probably was lower. But, you're getting your numbers mixed up. My father's generation fought World War 2, then came home, and STARTED GAINING THAT TENURE. I was born in the middle of the fifties. My dad ended his career in 1980, with a little over thirty years on the same job, when cancer killed him.
The fact is, huge portions of my dad's generation did indeed work one job, from the end of the war, until they retired or died.
Me? Graduated high school in 1974, therefore only ENTERED the work force in the mid 70's. Had I taken my Dad's advice, and taken a job at his plant, I would have been out of work in less than nine years.
I suppose I should emphasize that I'm not a baby-boomer, myself. The real boomers were born between '45 and '55, I believe. I came along a year after that, and I find myself pegged as a boomer sometimes, but I really don't think that I am one.
The real baby boomers fought VietNam. I graduated high school the year AFTER Saigon was evacuated.
Let's attempt to be honest here. Each and every presidency since I became aware of politics has left behind a debt greater than the presidency before it. The only exception was Clinton. As much as I despise the man, Clinton, and as much as I despise his "greatest" achievements, as much as I despise Clinton's politics (both of them, actually) his presidency did SOMETHING right.
But, yeah. Two wars. That put a huge freaking hole in what I'll laughingly refer to as a "budget". Tax cuts for the people who would have paid the lion's share of his wars? That was just adding insult to injury.
Uhhhh - I'm over fifty, and that working at a single factory for fifty years didn't happen. That was my FATHER's generation, not mine! Need I remind you that the steel industry was pretty much dismantled, and outsourced way back in the 1980's? Automotive industries followed suit soon after.
"There was little Kodak or Polaroid could do. Technology just made the mass market of what they where selling irrelevant."
I think that the discussion above implies that Kodak especially, was selling the wrong things. They forgot their technology, and got caught up in the bling that the technology was capable of producing. Research, engineering, and the advancement of technology will always sell. Bling resulting from all of that is ephemeral.
Polaroid? You may well be right about them. I'm not aware of anything that Polaroid ever did that several other companies couldn't have done.
If it's not free for use for non-commercial use, then it shouldn't have been put up there without at least password protection, preferably encrypted as well. Basically, it's "in the cloud", so it's mine to use. Before anyone attempts to use code on github for derivative works or anything, then they really need to check the licensing. But for personal use? Phhhttt - screw the "rights holders"!!!
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Yesterday, I squandered mod points that were going to expire. Today - I wish I had some. Screw the beauracrats, sometimes you just gotta do what's gotta be done!
Perhaps you are unconsciously equating diesel fuel to gasoline? If a class alpha fire happened to break out somewhere enroute to the upstairs generator, they could likely have thrown the diesel fuel on the fire to put it out. Of course, that wouldn't be such a great idea for any other class of fire. Still - diesel fuel isn't so flammable as to cause any real hazard.
Isn't that part of what "jailbreaking" is all about? Deciding that you're going to do what Apple and/or your telco permit you to do? Don't ask them - TELL them what you're going to do.
Well, please excuse me. There are a handful of "words" used in my home town, which my teachers warned would always give our origins away. That was one of the non-words on the teacher's list. If I should ever get careless and use two or three of the others, you'll know where I grew up, within about 75 miles or so.
As pointed out by serviscope_minor - misuse of a word or non-word hardly negates my argument. I also note that you failed to refute my argument.
Have a nice day now!!!
"I don't take issue with the shutdown since Megaupload"
Irregardless of the legalities or the morality of what MU was doing, or not doing, the shutdown was a miscarriage of justice. MPAA is saying here, that the end justified the means. In effect, it doesn't matter that all parties to the shutdown FAILED to prosecute MU for anything, and they FAILED to prove that MU was doing anything. It only matters that Hollywood is making money.
Step down a little, from huge international servers, to your own home town. Do you have a problem with the mayor sending a swat team to crash your door down, confiscate your computers, and haul you to court because - ohhhh - maybe you published an unflattering picture of the mayor? Or, your kid is a "terroristic bully who has hacked my child's facebook account"? Or, you published an editorial opposing the mayor's plans for an "emminent domain" project?
Remember, what goes around, comes around.
Quantum physics is pretty far over my head - and yours too.
Your friend doesn't need you to tell him which color marble he has. He has the other half of the quantum linked marble pair! What you know, he knows, and vicey-versey.
Now, the real question is, how do we use those marbles to communicate in real time? Can we make them dance and vibrate synchronously? One marble. Or, more accurately, one marble here, one marble there. Maybe we can cause them to switch from black to white and back again, in some manner? There we have it - binary!
Now, there's just the pesky little problem of getting the marbles to cooperate, right?
This is why I'm not an inventor - I always overlook some minor, but obvious detail. :^( You've GOT TO HAVE a touchy-feely BSOD!!
Perhaps, then, Microsoft shouldn't have tried to market crap products, so many times? If they hadn't served up shit sandwiches at the company picnic year after year, they might not have such a stigma, hmmmmm?
Face it - there are several proven choices for mobile hardware, why would anyone spend this much money on something that is unproven? I mean - it doesn't even have a turbocharger, or an FTL drive, or even an improbability drive. Phhhhtttt.
Now, that's an idea. I'm going to google for a turbocharged Linux powered tablet - as improbable as that is . . .
Read TFA for the market research?
I would have thought Microsoft had recovered all the expense of developing the BSOD by now.
That's not a bad idea - I think I like it!
Of course, Microsoft would probably do all they could to hinder the release of drivers to make full use of the hardware on Linux, or Android.
I have traveled literally millions of miles in my lifetime, just to see what lay over the horizon, as often as not. I was fortunate enough that other people paid for my traveling, so I was able to earn a living. But, the travel is what it has all been about.
So - tell me again about stupidity and suicide, please?
At age 56, and with bad knees, moving my carcass to a planet with lower gravity would be a nice thing. Throw in the new horizons, and it's a complete win-win situation for me. Suicide? Driving to work is a suicidal stunt, in and of itself, for most Americans.
How about lichens?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen
They grow in the most inhospitable places on Earth. They may possibly adapt to some of the more hospitable places on Mars. Given the chance, they may thrive, and change the face of Mars. Just scatter a bunch around in the best looking places, give it a thousand years, and take another look!
Body disposal? You're kidding me, right?
Why, exactly, do we dispose of bodies, here on earth? Partly to make the survivors "feel good". But, mostly because those bodies pose a health hazard to the people who live around wherever they fall.
There is no one on Mars who will be put at risk when a few bodies fall over, and begin to decay. Maybe the fellow adventurers will find the first few bodies to be objectionable. But, with a little spacing between adventurers, (you cultivate your cultivars on this side of the hill, and I'll take that side of the hill) no one will be worried about aesthetics.
Let them bodies lie. They'll decay, and become one with the soil. The next wave of adventurers will find some nice fertile soil in which to cultivate their own - spinach, or whatever.
The military has something called "command presence", which I'm certain could be related to charisma. Like leadership, some people are just born with it, some people learn it, while most people never get close enough to it to even begin to understand it.
"But in fundamentalist societies like Iran and some of the southern US states, intelligence is not a factor in getting into power."
Perhaps you can name some countries where intelligence is an important factor for gaining and holding power?
You seem to assume that a psychologist is a "normal person". And, that is where your scenario falls on it's face. Shrinks are, in fact, some very strange people, haunted by their own ghosts and harassed by their own demons.
Julian's problems epitomize the fact that NO ONE is secure in his home and person any longer. Julian's conduct offended those in power, primarily in the United States, and those in power have reached out to touch Julian.
It seems rather preposterous to me, that any "sexual misconduct" less serious than rape or child molestation merits an international crime case and extradition. And, the women involved in this scandal have BOTH stated quite clearly that Julian did NOT rape them. In fact, both women seduced Julian.
Sexual misconduct? The women wanted him, they got him, then they complain? Hello, World - there's something more to this "scandal" than meets the eye.
Behind the scenes politics? Yes? No? It will never be proven unless one of the conspirators admits to it, or disposes of a hard drive with sensitive data on it. But, a person has to be a fool to dismiss political motivation for Julian's legal problems, out of hand.
That's pretty stupid. Most females hide their gender, because they get tired of alternating responses, "Shut up, Bitch!" and "Want to fuck?" Things have gotten better in recent years, but not a whole lot better. So, no they don't get automagical max mods just for posting.
Stop being so cranky. Asimov has been dead for quite some time now - but I still read everything that I find published about him. Tolkein has been dead even longer, but I still follow what is happening with his works. We have presidents who have been dead for a couple of centuries, and the government still observes their birthdays. What about Columbus? That old relic has been dead for how long? We STILL have a Columbus Day!
I think you're just jealous, because there is no Taco Cowboy day.
Median tenure in the 50's probably was lower. But, you're getting your numbers mixed up. My father's generation fought World War 2, then came home, and STARTED GAINING THAT TENURE. I was born in the middle of the fifties. My dad ended his career in 1980, with a little over thirty years on the same job, when cancer killed him.
The fact is, huge portions of my dad's generation did indeed work one job, from the end of the war, until they retired or died.
Me? Graduated high school in 1974, therefore only ENTERED the work force in the mid 70's. Had I taken my Dad's advice, and taken a job at his plant, I would have been out of work in less than nine years.
I suppose I should emphasize that I'm not a baby-boomer, myself. The real boomers were born between '45 and '55, I believe. I came along a year after that, and I find myself pegged as a boomer sometimes, but I really don't think that I am one.
The real baby boomers fought VietNam. I graduated high school the year AFTER Saigon was evacuated.
Let's attempt to be honest here. Each and every presidency since I became aware of politics has left behind a debt greater than the presidency before it. The only exception was Clinton. As much as I despise the man, Clinton, and as much as I despise his "greatest" achievements, as much as I despise Clinton's politics (both of them, actually) his presidency did SOMETHING right.
But, yeah. Two wars. That put a huge freaking hole in what I'll laughingly refer to as a "budget". Tax cuts for the people who would have paid the lion's share of his wars? That was just adding insult to injury.
Uhhhh - I'm over fifty, and that working at a single factory for fifty years didn't happen. That was my FATHER's generation, not mine! Need I remind you that the steel industry was pretty much dismantled, and outsourced way back in the 1980's? Automotive industries followed suit soon after.
"There was little Kodak or Polaroid could do. Technology just made the mass market of what they where selling irrelevant."
I think that the discussion above implies that Kodak especially, was selling the wrong things. They forgot their technology, and got caught up in the bling that the technology was capable of producing. Research, engineering, and the advancement of technology will always sell. Bling resulting from all of that is ephemeral.
Polaroid? You may well be right about them. I'm not aware of anything that Polaroid ever did that several other companies couldn't have done.
"It's free so it SHOULD BE legal."
If it's not free for use for non-commercial use, then it shouldn't have been put up there without at least password protection, preferably encrypted as well. Basically, it's "in the cloud", so it's mine to use. Before anyone attempts to use code on github for derivative works or anything, then they really need to check the licensing. But for personal use? Phhhttt - screw the "rights holders"!!!