Yeah. The safest place to live in the world used to be Romania. One in four people were thought to be secrete police informers. That means at least one person in *every* family. Is this the road the USA is heading with "homeland security" and all?
The computer industry defies the pattern of all previous technological revolutions, making little or no progress toward convenience.
So 20 years ago I would have had to pay more for an airline ticket than today, to fly to Washington, to by a copy of the WP, to read whatever this bozo has to say. Now I can do it sitting at my desk at the arse-end of the world withing seconds of him hitting the "publish" button. No progress or convenience there that I can see.
...in other news today and old bastard said "things ain't what they used to be.
"Whats to stop Unions from setting up there own Internet connected voting places where they can stand over peoples shoulders.
Nothing. What's to stop unions from sending a couple of goons to stand outside the polls and remind you about the union stance and imply they might be checking your results?"
One of the biggest battles of the 1980s was getting unions to hold secret ballots. Probably had much more to do with the reduction of strike action than any other legislation. Guess what, you can now vote for someone who does not have goons. This was also one of the biggest reforms of the Westminster system in the 19th centuary. Don't underestimate the power the guaranteed secret ballot gives to the people. Our ancestors recognise this and were prepeared to die for it.
I am working on a master's degree in Oceanography...and I have studied the subject a little bit.
My question to you is - when the sponge stops "absorbing" the fresh water will the fact that fresh water has a lower freezing temperature than salt water mean that it will convert more easily to ice and act as some sort of negative feedback mechanism to the scenario being described? Enquiring minds would like to know!
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Incidentally, I am both a licensed skydiver (A-38847, getting my B before too much longer) and an engineer.
"The real advantage to biodiesel, however, is that every pound of carbon put into the atmosphere via the tailpipe had been previously removed from the atmosphere by the plant. No increased CO2! (Petroleum-based diesel pumps carbon from the ground and puts it into the air.) And, because the plant pulls more carbon out of the air for itself (instead of just its seeds), each pound of biodiesel results in a net decrease of atmospheric CO2. "
Of course, you assume that they are not using synthetic fertilizers on the crop...I guess the refining process would use wsolar power too.
The average Chinese citizen does not want your revolution. They want orderly, nonviolent change. The US companies are just doing business, no more and no less, and that business helps along that change.
Not that that desire helped them much during the Cultural Revolution, the excesses of the "Gang of Four" or Tianeman Square...
"The preponderance of the evidence leads me to an obvious conclusion -- changes in individual living things occur from generation to generation. Enough time and changes occur, and you have this thing called evolution. In some ancient businesses, it's just called breeding"
The thing is that before Darwinthe "Church" generally accepted "evolution" as a phenomina which was explained by the presence of a god. What Darwin did was come up with a brilliant scientific explaination of evolution, based on detailed observation. This is called "Natural Selection". This may be nitpicky, but it is "Natural Selection" that is generally being debated, not evolution.
"First and foremost, Apple and Microsoft are two completely different companies. Apple sells computers, Microsoft doesn't. Microsoft sells services, for the most part Apple doesn't".
You are wrong:o MS' original mission statement was "A PC on every desk". May still be. They are in the business of selling computers, just not of manufacturing them.
Funny thing is - we do the opposite. Tell all sites we are using Mozilla (good trick is you control your web severs). So even when I connect to msn with IE5.5 I get the error message. Oh well, the only time I go there is when/. points to an artcle.
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Why? Is he going to be at the receiving end of a Nuke? How much *more* indescriminate is that going to be? Where is the moral high ground in being *worse* than terrorists? Let's "Pray Or Meditate Or Whatever" for the dead and their families.
for New Zealand's national elections. There seems to be a misguided but consistent calls for a technological fix to the problems being experienced in the US. In my opinion this is a big mistake.
Instead of looking at technology you should be looking at process, how does the system work? where is it weak? what are *appropriate* solutions (hint, not a gazzillion dollar IT system where 20 votes are likely to be cast)? A "quick" techie fix is only going to get you in deaper trouble next time - and there will be a next time.
It seems to me that there are a number of key problems, such as:
- the ballot papers are not well designed for the fall back position...the manual count;
- trying to vote for too many things at one time, this makes voting confusing, time consuming and increases the pressures on staff and voters alike;
- there is not an independent layer of goverment running the election. Because so much of executive government is elected everyone seems to be open to accusations of "partisanship". Whether they be the secretary of state or a local precinct election official. As a result there is no alternative but to seek independent review of process through the courts, hence the current litigeous situation.
I could go on but these issues *before* looking to technology to help with the resolution of the problems.
But can you understand Bush? With breathtaking disingenuity he described a scheme for internet censorship followed it right up with the statement that he "opposed censorship".
What I haven't been able to tell from their site is whether there are applications for people with visual impairments - even completely blind. Could this replace brail?
(who would have figured that both conservitives and radicals have issues with large multi-national power structures?).
The same "figuring" people bankrolling these so-called "radicals". The international financiers who are terrified that an international system of governance will be put in place to curb their more extreme activities (such as building up and dashing currencies). Who wants another "Asian" crisis? Not the poor sods in Asia, I'll bet. Look instead to the organisations and massively rich individuals who are benefiting from the lack of international institutions to manage and regulate the global financial markets, in the same way most national financial markets are regulated and managed.
The sooner that organisations such as the UN, WTO et al reach a consensus the better. These meaningless protestations do little to address the issues of world poverty and are a check to intelligent and reasoned debate on the issues of globality and free trade. Saner NGOs voices have been largely unheard in the public debate since Seattle, to the detriment of the poor.
"Gnutella, on the other hand, is not a business and is therefore exempt, IMHO."
Welllll...so if a corporate hunts whales for profit that is "a bad thing". But if I go out and blast away at them for the fun at it that's ok? The real debate ought to be whether Napster like products are good or bad for the music industry. I think they are good, they encourage people to listen to *more* music and the result (from my own observation) is that those people tend to *buy* more.
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Yeah. The safest place to live in the world used to be Romania. One in four people were thought to be secrete police informers. That means at least one person in *every* family. Is this the road the USA is heading with "homeland security" and all?
So 20 years ago I would have had to pay more for an airline ticket than today, to fly to Washington, to by a copy of the WP, to read whatever this bozo has to say. Now I can do it sitting at my desk at the arse-end of the world withing seconds of him hitting the "publish" button. No progress or convenience there that I can see.
they just built a stairway to heaven. Can the same technology not be re-used? I think the Japanese were working on something similar.
"Whats to stop Unions from setting up there own Internet connected voting places where they can stand over peoples shoulders.
Nothing. What's to stop unions from sending a couple of goons to stand outside the polls and remind you about the union stance and imply they might be checking your results?"
One of the biggest battles of the 1980s was getting unions to hold secret ballots. Probably had much more to do with the reduction of strike action than any other legislation. Guess what, you can now vote for someone who does not have goons. This was also one of the biggest reforms of the Westminster system in the 19th centuary. Don't underestimate the power the guaranteed secret ballot gives to the people. Our ancestors recognise this and were prepeared to die for it.
I am working on a master's degree in Oceanography...and I have studied the subject a little bit.
My question to you is - when the sponge stops "absorbing" the fresh water will the fact that fresh water has a lower freezing temperature than salt water mean that it will convert more easily to ice and act as some sort of negative feedback mechanism to the scenario being described? Enquiring minds would like to know!
Incidentally, I am both a licensed skydiver (A-38847, getting my B before too much longer) and an engineer.
IABALSAAE - I suppose that makes me IANBALSAAE.
Remember that? Only algorithm on my CS course I ever put into practical use. aka "No bracket required", (for Phil Collins fans).
"The real advantage to biodiesel, however, is that every pound of carbon put into the atmosphere via the tailpipe had been previously removed from the atmosphere by the plant. No increased CO2! (Petroleum-based diesel pumps carbon from the ground and puts it into the air.) And, because the plant pulls more carbon out of the air for itself (instead of just its seeds), each pound of biodiesel results in a net decrease of atmospheric CO2. "
Of course, you assume that they are not using synthetic fertilizers on the crop...I guess the refining process would use wsolar power too.
"To here an American say that. "
Here, hear matey.
These guys keep cropping up with alarming regularity. Take nothing at face, not even the 6 Pullitzers.
Not that that desire helped them much during the Cultural Revolution, the excesses of the "Gang of Four" or Tianeman Square...
"The preponderance of the evidence leads me to an obvious conclusion -- changes in individual living things occur from generation to generation. Enough time and changes occur, and you have this thing called evolution. In some ancient businesses, it's just called breeding"
The thing is that before Darwinthe "Church" generally accepted "evolution" as a phenomina which was explained by the presence of a god. What Darwin did was come up with a brilliant scientific explaination of evolution, based on detailed observation. This is called "Natural Selection". This may be nitpicky, but it is "Natural Selection" that is generally being debated, not evolution.
"First and foremost, Apple and Microsoft are two completely different companies. Apple sells computers, Microsoft doesn't. Microsoft sells services, for the most part Apple doesn't".
:o MS' original mission statement was "A PC on every desk". May still be. They are in the business of selling computers, just not of manufacturing them.
You are wrong
Funny thing is - we do the opposite. Tell all sites we are using Mozilla (good trick is you control your web severs). So even when I connect to msn with IE5.5 I get the error message. Oh well, the only time I go there is when /. points to an artcle.
Why? Is he going to be at the receiving end of a Nuke? How much *more* indescriminate is that going to be? Where is the moral high ground in being *worse* than terrorists? Let's "Pray Or Meditate Or Whatever" for the dead and their families.
Cool. Maybe /.'s in the US should not fuss so much about their government spying on them either.
Instead of looking at technology you should be looking at process, how does the system work? where is it weak? what are *appropriate* solutions (hint, not a gazzillion dollar IT system where 20 votes are likely to be cast)? A "quick" techie fix is only going to get you in deaper trouble next time - and there will be a next time.
It seems to me that there are a number of key problems, such as:
- the ballot papers are not well designed for the fall back position...the manual count;
- trying to vote for too many things at one time, this makes voting confusing, time consuming and increases the pressures on staff and voters alike;
- there is not an independent layer of goverment running the election. Because so much of executive government is elected everyone seems to be open to accusations of "partisanship". Whether they be the secretary of state or a local precinct election official. As a result there is no alternative but to seek independent review of process through the courts, hence the current litigeous situation.
I could go on but these issues *before* looking to technology to help with the resolution of the problems.
But can you understand Bush? With breathtaking disingenuity he described a scheme for internet censorship followed it right up with the statement that he "opposed censorship".
What I haven't been able to tell from their site is whether there are applications for people with visual impairments - even completely blind. Could this replace brail?
But I got this message...
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers
error '80040e07'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]
The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.
Is this yet another case of /. misrepresentation?
The same "figuring" people bankrolling these so-called "radicals". The international financiers who are terrified that an international system of governance will be put in place to curb their more extreme activities (such as building up and dashing currencies). Who wants another "Asian" crisis? Not the poor sods in Asia, I'll bet. Look instead to the organisations and massively rich individuals who are benefiting from the lack of international institutions to manage and regulate the global financial markets, in the same way most national financial markets are regulated and managed.
The sooner that organisations such as the UN, WTO et al reach a consensus the better. These meaningless protestations do little to address the issues of world poverty and are a check to intelligent and reasoned debate on the issues of globality and free trade. Saner NGOs voices have been largely unheard in the public debate since Seattle, to the detriment of the poor.
Welllll...so if a corporate hunts whales for profit that is "a bad thing". But if I go out and blast away at them for the fun at it that's ok? The real debate ought to be whether Napster like products are good or bad for the music industry. I think they are good, they encourage people to listen to *more* music and the result (from my own observation) is that those people tend to *buy* more.