It's called "The June Fourth Incident" after the May Fourth Movement which was a protest in Tiananmen Square in 1919 that eventually lead to Chinese Communism.
There have been lots of protests in Tiananmen Square and lots of repression of protestors over its centuries of existence. We in the west generally only know about the latest one.
See! Canada does have a distinct culture. Your attitude wouldn't get very much traction up here. "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is a quote from the American Declaration of Independence. The Canada equivalent is "Peace, order and good government" from the British North America Act, the legislation that established Canadian independence.
Corporate political donations are banned in Canada and individual donations are limited, so it's not the money. It's just that the elected leaders happen to believe corporations should get whatever they want.
I haven't gone to a job interview in a long time and I never had a brain teaser during one. I meant brain teaser books and calenders I've gotten over the years.
If you want your Operating System tuned and customized to your hardware can't you just use Gentoo Linux? Then you won't lose the benefits of the better support that Linux has.
"The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet"
The U.S. government does have some evidence life exists on Mars. There are the fossils in the Martian meteorites, and the controversial results of the Viking life detection experiments plus our understanding of how quickly life appeared on Earth and its ability to adapt to conditions like Mars currently has, by living in the rocks.
While I won't claim there is enough evidence yet to concluded that there is life on Mars, there is more then "no evidence".
War is great for technological development, not so great for all the killing people. The nice thing about the Cold War was that we had all the technological development without that much killing (of course, millions died in the proxy wars). However, the risk of global nuclear war was worse then the benefits of technology.
In Arthur C. Clarke's 2010 (not 2011), which was written before the cold war ended, the cold war was still going on into 2010 and they where still pissing away.
With a government-owned operation the stakeholders (voters) have an incentive to fix the problem. In large companies the shareholders just sell leaving the company to wither.
If a government where as incompetent as the HP board, they would have be voted out by now.
That still leaves the problem that many large companies are badly run which hurts their employees, customers and the overall economy. It's a fundamental flaw in capitalism as implemented.
One problem with shareholder democracy is that if a shareholder doesn't like the management of the company it is far easier for them to sell the stock and forget about it then to work to elect better management.
A lot of people have been selling their HP stock recently.
"The idea of drinking pigeon milk may bring a shudder to every sane and rational person in the world"
There is nothing rational about that shudder. The disgust comes from our outdated and inaccurate instincts that come from a time before we understood infectious disease (like when we where Homo habilis).
Only sane and rational people can push past the shudder and have a drink. Unfortunately that significantly limits the market for this.
Fanboys is a movie, but presumably it was written by and for Star Wars fans in order to reflect, if only as a parody, their actual attitudes. Although I understand movie had a very troubled history.
I know of other nonfictional examples, like one of the people who I went to high school with.
One thing I've noticed is that most big Star Trek fan also enjoy Star Wars, while big Star Wars fans often strongly dislike and berate Star Trek. I guess the different philosophies attracts different types of fans.
An example can be seen in Fanboys where the Star Wars fan beat up some Star Trek fans for no reason.
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The more resources the FBI puts into find members of Anonymous, the easier it will be for Anonymous to know what they are doing.
It's called "The June Fourth Incident" after the May Fourth Movement which was a protest in Tiananmen Square in 1919 that eventually lead to Chinese Communism.
There have been lots of protests in Tiananmen Square and lots of repression of protestors over its centuries of existence. We in the west generally only know about the latest one.
I'm aware of this, but decided not to cover the entire history of Canada for a quick, snarky comment.
Of course, the American Declaration of Independence was also just one step in the process of American independence.
See! Canada does have a distinct culture. Your attitude wouldn't get very much traction up here. "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is a quote from the American Declaration of Independence. The Canada equivalent is "Peace, order and good government" from the British North America Act, the legislation that established Canadian independence.
Corporate political donations are banned in Canada and individual donations are limited, so it's not the money. It's just that the elected leaders happen to believe corporations should get whatever they want.
I haven't gone to a job interview in a long time and I never had a brain teaser during one. I meant brain teaser books and calenders I've gotten over the years.
I've never liked Brain Teasers. Every time I try one I keep thinking about how I would write a program to solve it.
Apparently total ignorance about what people who disagree with you are saying is also what the tea party is about.
There is nothing unusual about an application being bigger then the operating system it runs on.
Back in the days DOS, most non-trivial applications where bigger then the OS.
I don't think the cost of the raw material is significant compared to the cost to design and manufacture computer chips.
If you want your Operating System tuned and customized to your hardware can't you just use Gentoo Linux? Then you won't lose the benefits of the better support that Linux has.
"The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet"
The U.S. government does have some evidence life exists on Mars. There are the fossils in the Martian meteorites, and the controversial results of the Viking life detection experiments plus our understanding of how quickly life appeared on Earth and its ability to adapt to conditions like Mars currently has, by living in the rocks.
While I won't claim there is enough evidence yet to concluded that there is life on Mars, there is more then "no evidence".
Final Fantasy X2 is one of the many spin-off games with "Final Fantasy" in the title that aren't part of the main sequence.
It's pretty simple. Since the original Nintendo each game console generation had three Final Fantasy games.
Nintendo 1-3
Super Nintendo 4-6
PS1 7-9
PS2 10-12
PS3 13-15
Starting with FFX on the PS2 they started new tradition that the middle game on each console is a MMORPG.
The Time Zone Database lists the time zone for different places on Earth. If you are not on Earth the database is of little use to you.
War is great for technological development, not so great for all the killing people. The nice thing about the Cold War was that we had all the technological development without that much killing (of course, millions died in the proxy wars). However, the risk of global nuclear war was worse then the benefits of technology.
In Arthur C. Clarke's 2010 (not 2011), which was written before the cold war ended, the cold war was still going on into 2010 and they where still pissing away.
With a government-owned operation the stakeholders (voters) have an incentive to fix the problem. In large companies the shareholders just sell leaving the company to wither.
If a government where as incompetent as the HP board, they would have be voted out by now.
It relates back to my blog post, Why Should owners control companies?
However the board and the CEOs haven't been and it is likely the problem will continue and the employees and customers will start getting punished.
Good advise for investors.
That still leaves the problem that many large companies are badly run which hurts their employees, customers and the overall economy. It's a fundamental flaw in capitalism as implemented.
One problem with shareholder democracy is that if a shareholder doesn't like the management of the company it is far easier for them to sell the stock and forget about it then to work to elect better management.
A lot of people have been selling their HP stock recently.
"The idea of drinking pigeon milk may bring a shudder to every sane and rational person in the world"
There is nothing rational about that shudder. The disgust comes from our outdated and inaccurate instincts that come from a time before we understood infectious disease (like when we where Homo habilis).
Only sane and rational people can push past the shudder and have a drink. Unfortunately that significantly limits the market for this.
Fanboys is a movie, but presumably it was written by and for Star Wars fans in order to reflect, if only as a parody, their actual attitudes. Although I understand movie had a very troubled history.
I know of other nonfictional examples, like one of the people who I went to high school with.
One thing I've noticed is that most big Star Trek fan also enjoy Star Wars, while big Star Wars fans often strongly dislike and berate Star Trek. I guess the different philosophies attracts different types of fans.
An example can be seen in Fanboys where the Star Wars fan beat up some Star Trek fans for no reason.
According to Google, they use renewable energy where they can or buy carbon offsets where they can't.
Besides, that is an ad hominem attack.