Like England is? Last I looked, they were a pretty secular, post-xian society
Yet to this very day, England continues to have an official state religion. And interestingly enough, Connecticut & Massachusetts also had state religions.
In the meantime, Steve Ballmer is more than happy to play along with Murdoch because although a deal with News Corps would reduce the basic profitability of Microsoft's search business, it would inflict far more damage on Google than on Microsoft."
So how would a deal with News Corps reduce the basic profitability of Microsoft's search business?
Further emails from her office say it's part of Interstate Commerce and the general welfare clause. How long before it's challenged in court?
The "general welfare clause" is part of the preamble to the Constitution. It is not one of the enumerated powers of the U.S. Congress. To be Constitutional, Congress must only act from one of its enumerated powers. The United States of America is not a plenipotentiary Republic; that's the whole point of having enumerated powers.
The build seems to work well except for a few key differences with earlier Emacs versions.
Compiling a Carbon version for OS X from the/mac directory is no longer possible because that entire directory has been removed. Instead OS X users need to compile a Cocoa version for OS X by following the directions in the/nextstep directory. At first this seems like a major win: reduce old code-bloat and compile with the newer frameworks. But unfortunately this produces an executable that delivers a couple of annoying inconsistencies.
First off, the Global Menu items are no longer in the OSX Menu Bar. It just makes the newer Cocoa version look sloppy and unfinished compared to the Carbon version. The second, and far more annoying difference, is the reservation of the Command-key for OS X-style functions. Command-N (new window), Command-W (close window), Command-C (copy) now all work just like on the Mac. But the infinitely more useful Emacs Meta-key functionality is now relegated to the Alt/Option key.:(
Why don't you take your snide 'try reading a history book or two' remark and shove it up your ass? The Soviets and Chinese accounted for 88% (yes, eight-eight percent) of all Allied military casualties. It doesn't matter how important you think the US intervention was. The fact remains that many more Americans and Britons would have died fighting that war if it wasn't for the Soviets and Chinese bleeding the Axis powers.
To discount the importance of the Soviet and Chinese contribution to the war is to suggest to me that you are the idiot who needs to 'try reading a history book or two'
What "history" didn't teach you was that a good portion of those "Soviet" casualties were actually people from the areas the Soviets conveniently kept after WWII (e.g. Hungary, Poland, etc.). The Soviet army field-conscripted any men of military age and sent them to the front with no training and few weapons. This was actually part of a controlled genocide that made these nations easy to occupy after the war.
Sorry to rain on your fairy tale of the noble Soviet contributions to WWII. But them's the facts.
Apparently this "computer hacker" is also encoding his computer work in an obscure "binary code" of only 1's and 0's. It's obvious he has a lot to hide: his hard drive is filled with them!
So now we're almost ten years behind the rest of the world in discovering treatments with what amounts to a silver bullet that can actually replace dying tissues. That means that in the future, you'll have to import the treatments from other countries or fly there for treatment. Due to religion, America loses yet another manufacturing opportunity.
So we're ten years behind the rest of the world and we've yet to see the first American citizen flying to other countries for treatment? That sounds like 10 years of sound fiscal policy to me.
Bush's PR only took a dive when the facts got so out-of-hand that he couldn't cover them up with more Fox News.
He should have just told everyone fetal stem cell research was a long shot and that 10 years of worldwide research would likely turn up nothing. Hell, even you know that.
I was told that Bush prohibited all stem-cell science when fetal tissue was involved. The article seems to imply that he only limited federal funding for such science.
You were told incorrectly. Bush was the first President to allow Federal funding of fetal stem cell research ever. So the rancor is not about whether he "allowed" it, but that he didn't walk into a brand new, unproven field of research with a blank check and no strings attached.
It's difficult to prove something when you're not allowed to do it.
Yeah, our dirt-poor medical and pharmaceutical industries have neither the money nor the intelligence to fund and do their own research. Good thing we have a government that has saved its nickels and has lots of extra money to give away! </irony>
Chicken and egg problem, we know so little about stem cells that I do not know whether it is possible to make stem cells available by another route. If we discover that it is possible to remove this method of acquiring cells for research then the method can be stopped at a later date removing the religious objection.
That still leaves the political objection. Why is government betting on the future winners and losers of industry & research when that money should be going to its previous commitments, commitments it can barely fulfill.
On another front it is clear that religious intervention in science has severely limited the progress of some societies on Earth. Religion does change its interpretation of what the fundamental rules of living should be as societies change and science provides more accurate knowledge about the world but it often takes many lifetimes for this adjustment to occur.
Politics has severely limited the progress of "some societies" on Earth, but I have a feeling nobody will be disparaging politics at the conceptual level any time soon. And no matter how much more "more accurate knowledge" science provides, it provides no clue as to how to use it. This is why the same scientific breakthrough that brought us the nuclear bomb, also brought us nuclear energy.
All societies are facing severe threats from the overpopulation of the world, resource shortages, climate change and poverty. Scientific progress is the only source of solutions to these problems unless we are prepared to allow the problems to multiply to the point where a dramatic population crash occurs.
This is painting the problem with an extemely broad brush. Before science, the "solution" to all these problems was for people to live off the land and to deal with scarcity at the tribal level, often by moving around nomadically.
We are at a crossroads, the choice is in our hands, use our creativity and intelligence to take charge of our own destiny or allow our environment to expell us. 2000 year old books prefer the second solution, by default they select the lemmings fate of allowing the environment to kill us off.
Pick you side, I know which one I find more human.
This is a thread about stem cell research, research that's supposed to help people live longer and better lives in a world that by your own observation is rapidly becoming overpopulated. How does that square with anything you've said? And what does the Bible have to do with any of that?
You need to step down off the soap box and stop making murky pronouncements about the false science/religion dichotomy and start realizing what's really going on. 3rd world nations around the globe are coming out of the 12th century straight into the 20th century and they are growing like crazy because they've learned the miracle of modern markets. The older more modern states have virtually zero population growth, and in some instances even negative growth.
This is the government having nothing to do with it. Now decisions on what research is needed and is ethical will be taken by ethics committees and funding bodies and not by politicians who don't understand either the ethics or the science and are trying to grab votes. Its really impossible to argue for or against embryonic stem cell research as a whole - each piece of research should be judged on its own merits by the right people. Blanket bans are wrong.
Actually the true definition of government having nothing to do with this is for it hand out no money at all. But maybe we have different definitions of "nothing."
It's not just reignited interest in the Windows product line, but it's got users appreciating a fresh approach from Microsoft as well.
I love it when the scrappy little come-from-behind underdog is able to pull itself up by the bootstraps and get from a measly 89% market-share all the way back up to 95%. It renews my faith in the hope and outright tenacity of the little guy!
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Yet to this very day, England continues to have an official state religion. And interestingly enough, Connecticut & Massachusetts also had state religions.
Texas and Alaska however...
A big-wig at I.B.M. predicted the entire world market for computers would be restricted to about 5 units.
So how would a deal with News Corps reduce the basic profitability of Microsoft's search business?
Further emails from her office say it's part of Interstate Commerce and the general welfare clause. How long before it's challenged in court?
The "general welfare clause" is part of the preamble to the Constitution. It is not one of the enumerated powers of the U.S. Congress. To be Constitutional, Congress must only act from one of its enumerated powers. The United States of America is not a plenipotentiary Republic; that's the whole point of having enumerated powers.
Mod the parent up! This is the solution!
End of discussion.
Whoops. A little bit of reading and testing lead me to come up with this bit of code for my
(when (and (eq 'darwin system-type) (eq 23 emacs-major-version)) (setq ns-alternate-modifier 'super) (setq ns-command-modifier 'meta))
This solves the Emacs Meta-key functionality problem. Looks like I'm moving to the newest version of Emacs today!
The build seems to work well except for a few key differences with earlier Emacs versions.
Compiling a Carbon version for OS X from the
First off, the Global Menu items are no longer in the OSX Menu Bar. It just makes the newer Cocoa version look sloppy and unfinished compared to the Carbon version. The second, and far more annoying difference, is the reservation of the Command-key for OS X-style functions. Command-N (new window), Command-W (close window), Command-C (copy) now all work just like on the Mac. But the infinitely more useful Emacs Meta-key functionality is now relegated to the Alt/Option key.
This is less about distributing knowledge and more about increasing distribution of Microsoft's video/web-technology, Silverlight .
What "history" didn't teach you was that a good portion of those "Soviet" casualties were actually people from the areas the Soviets conveniently kept after WWII (e.g. Hungary, Poland, etc.). The Soviet army field-conscripted any men of military age and sent them to the front with no training and few weapons. This was actually part of a controlled genocide that made these nations easy to occupy after the war.
Sorry to rain on your fairy tale of the noble Soviet contributions to WWII. But them's the facts.
Apparently this "computer hacker" is also encoding his computer work in an obscure "binary code" of only 1's and 0's. It's obvious he has a lot to hide: his hard drive is filled with them!
Intellectual incuriosity, aisle 5. Watch out, this is the expensive aisle.
So we're ten years behind the rest of the world and we've yet to see the first American citizen flying to other countries for treatment? That sounds like 10 years of sound fiscal policy to me.
He should have just told everyone fetal stem cell research was a long shot and that 10 years of worldwide research would likely turn up nothing. Hell, even you know that.
You were told incorrectly. Bush was the first President to allow Federal funding of fetal stem cell research ever. So the rancor is not about whether he "allowed" it, but that he didn't walk into a brand new, unproven field of research with a blank check and no strings attached.
Literally.
Short answer:
Yeah, our dirt-poor medical and pharmaceutical industries have neither the money nor the intelligence to fund and do their own research. Good thing we have a government that has saved its nickels and has lots of extra money to give away! </irony>
That still leaves the political objection. Why is government betting on the future winners and losers of industry & research when that money should be going to its previous commitments, commitments it can barely fulfill.
Politics has severely limited the progress of "some societies" on Earth, but I have a feeling nobody will be disparaging politics at the conceptual level any time soon. And no matter how much more "more accurate knowledge" science provides, it provides no clue as to how to use it. This is why the same scientific breakthrough that brought us the nuclear bomb, also brought us nuclear energy.
This is painting the problem with an extemely broad brush. Before science, the "solution" to all these problems was for people to live off the land and to deal with scarcity at the tribal level, often by moving around nomadically.
This is a thread about stem cell research, research that's supposed to help people live longer and better lives in a world that by your own observation is rapidly becoming overpopulated. How does that square with anything you've said? And what does the Bible have to do with any of that?
You need to step down off the soap box and stop making murky pronouncements about the false science/religion dichotomy and start realizing what's really going on. 3rd world nations around the globe are coming out of the 12th century straight into the 20th century and they are growing like crazy because they've learned the miracle of modern markets. The older more modern states have virtually zero population growth, and in some instances even negative growth.
Kind of makes you wonder what else "most of the MSM" aren't telling you or have told you incorrectly, doesn't it?
Actually the true definition of government having nothing to do with this is for it hand out no money at all. But maybe we have different definitions of "nothing."
It's called dragging the program to the trash can, and the files really are "uninstalled," gone from the hard drive.
Bits are bits. There's no guarantee that a "low power" chip will only mess up the low-order bits of a number.
What is this guy smokin'?
I love it when the scrappy little come-from-behind underdog is able to pull itself up by the bootstraps and get from a measly 89% market-share all the way back up to 95%. It renews my faith in the hope and outright tenacity of the little guy!
C'mon now. I know hourly workers in the high tech industry can be a pain sometimes, but that's no reason to slander them!
Microsoft has a lot to worry about. When it has come to the big technology shifts, DOS and later Windows have always been trailing-edge technology.
What is up -- with that?