So why not have the doctors remove the spleen, tonsils and appendix from infants as well?
I'm pretty sure that anyone who had to have had those removed would have preferred having it done to them, at a time of their life they have no way of remembering.
Why not let your sons decide if they want to be circumcised? Why force what is essentially either plastic surgery or an amputation onto an infant?
I am a firm believer in personal freedom. If adults want to be circumcised, I see no reasons they shouldn't be allowed to be, whether they are male or female. But doing it to an infant... that's a line I'm very much against.
Why on Earth would you list Beck and Palin and ignore Keith Olberman, Jon Stewart, and Rachel Maddow?
The only one on that list I don't believe belongs there is Jon Stewart.
Stewart is a fake journalist, works on Comedy Central, has no qualms about calling out demagogues and idiots on all sides of the curtain, though I have to admit he pulls out the right wing more often than the left. That doesn't mean the left gets off easy.
I'm more interested in what you believe that you can do with the iPad, that you cannot do with any of the slates that were brought out at CES? From what I can tell, the only thing you get with the iPad is the app-store.
So... if someone has 20-year-old pictures of a 10-year-old being raped, it's okay because now the child in question is 30?
While I don't see the harm in cartoon-sex, you can't really expect the "but technically $person is over 18 today" defence to work or even be acceptable.
If you can, what's wrong with killing people? Technically they're already dead by the time you get to court over it, and there's no point in crying over spilt milk.
takeover from US company results in cars becoming Euro junk?
No. Takeover by a management that aims for the lowest common denominator and sees no point in anything but cosmetic difference between models results in cars becoming junk.
Trying to pawn off a 1,500 dollar product in a new wrapper as a 2,500 dollar product is silly, and apart from the prices, that pretty much what GM has been doing with Saab. Regular GM cars in a Saab wrapper.
Well, obviously the RIAA were breaking copyright law by copying this letter without permission. Thus the US$ 399,999 punitive damages on a US$ 1,000 letter.
2) Hard to reach buttons. Unfortunately, Knight Rider is the only example that comes to my mind right now, but it's true for far too many movies. Buttons located overhead, out of reach, sometimes requiring the user/pilot to stop doing whatever he is doing right now, move his hands and punch a minuscle button somewhere awkward. Yes, it looks cool, but it's about as sensible as putting the gear stick behind the driver's seat.
I count 6 rows of 26 dials and buttons above the heads of the pilots in just one bank. I'm sure you have a better idea for how to handle it? How about a modern air-liner instead?
The 787 Dreamliner has certainly moved/removed a LOT of the dials and switches compared to the 747, but there's still an awful lot of dials and switches that require you to move your focus and reach. But again, I'm sure those are completely crappy interface examples.
[...] I can tell you that as far as the CEO / corporate level management are concerned, they just want to see a game get done on time and on budget [...]
Well, that is rather easy to do if you can make your employees work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week and not pay overtime.
The labor laws exist because the unions were successful.
Very true
But like a bad politician, they don't go away when the job is done.
And what job is done, pray tell? As far as I can tell 12 hours a day, 6 days a week with no end in sight, sure as hell doesn't sound like "the job is done". Sounds more like "we own your ass" to me.
One of the reasons unions work so well in more socialist countries like most of Europe, is that when company A decides to fuck over its unionized employees, the union will step in. And if company A still won't behave, the union will talk to company A's 'colleagues', their suppliers and their customers (where possible), asking them to please tell company A to behave, because if they don't, then their employees will go on a sympathy strike.
Alternatively the union will be the ones leading the lawsuit against company A, leaving the workers without having to retain their own lawyers.
Granted, this does have side effects. I think the American worker has a higher monthly pay and lower expenses for consumable good. But then again, we also suffer from other horrible things like socialized health care, five weeks of paid vacation a year and the horror of 40 hour work weeks. Granted, this does depend on where in Europe you live.
Problem is that we don't have telescopes on Earth that can just point out to the sky and see all the amazing things that Hubble can. The light pollution is too high.
Light pollution is easy - go somewhere else. But it's a LOT harder to get ride of the opaque atmosphere...
There's something wrong there, and not just in the volume.
Volume of LTO: 231,142.2 mm^3 Volume of micro sd: 165 mm^3
Difference: 1,400 : 1.
So you need LTO tape to exceed 43.7 TB to match that 32 GB MicroSD card. And that's without looking at the upcomming SD-XC standard which will move towards 2 TB.
Will (eventually) go to 2 TB, have extremely fast random access, very high tolerances (drop it all you want, just don't break it), minute volume (11 x 15 x 1 mm) and no physical contact apart from insertion/removal.
Yes, break it and you're fucked, but you get reduce your storage volume by a factor 1,400 (231,142.2 mm^3 vs 165 mm^3) compared to LTO.
Currently the largest capacity micro-sd cards seem to be 16 GB. So you'd need tape in an LTO form factor to be at 21 TB just to compete by volume. Yes, LTO-5 is a lot faster at 180 MB/s, but the SD-XC standard is expected to go to 300 MB/s (but probably not random), nor do the SD-cards come with built in encryption that I know of. And I don't think the micro version can be set to read-only, but if you're worried about a single machine, there's nothing stopping you from using an adapter that does.
Much of the time the corporations aren't claiming they speak for the employees, they just want to grease the skids for business purposes.
"If we see this kind of legislation our industry will suffer and we will see tens or hundreds of thousands of people lose their jobs!"
Sound familiar? As far as I can tell, those kinds of comments ARE corporations claiming to speak for their employees. I doubt any of the large corporate CEOs would give a flying fuck about sacking a third of their employees, they only care about keeping their own bonuses and pays and possibly raise them.
Anyone downloading GBs of data at high priorities by hacking the default settings could be noticed quickly sanctioned appropriately for being a**holes.
Some of us live in countries where video conferencing at high-end blu-ray quality is entirely feasible (54 Mb/s).
This will gobble down gigabytes of data at high priorities, and if we're using software that isn't widely available or even custom built, you're saying "fuck off, you're being an asshole".
A teleconference at those bandwidths would take up more than 20 GB/hour, and you said it yourself, Skype (and similar) require low latency
I usually tell them that it is nobody else's business just how much of my porn collection consists of midget nuns dressed up as penguins peeing on each-other while singing 'I'm a little tea pot'.
All you have to do is bring up an example that is embarrassing enough that no-one wants to know about it, yet is still perfectly legal.
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I prefer ROT29, but then again Danish has three additional vowels: Æ, Ø and Å.
Sharks were cheaper.
Are you sure it isn't a very effective way of not only identifying your own fallen, but also ensuring that spies are easily spotted?
After all, if all the people you fight look like you do, them still having their foreskin makes it pretty easy to tell that they're your enemy.
So why not have the doctors remove the spleen, tonsils and appendix from infants as well?
I'm pretty sure that anyone who had to have had those removed would have preferred having it done to them, at a time of their life they have no way of remembering.
Why not let your sons decide if they want to be circumcised? Why force what is essentially either plastic surgery or an amputation onto an infant?
I am a firm believer in personal freedom. If adults want to be circumcised, I see no reasons they shouldn't be allowed to be, whether they are male or female. But doing it to an infant ... that's a line I'm very much against.
The only one on that list I don't believe belongs there is Jon Stewart.
Stewart is a fake journalist, works on Comedy Central, has no qualms about calling out demagogues and idiots on all sides of the curtain, though I have to admit he pulls out the right wing more often than the left. That doesn't mean the left gets off easy.
I'm more interested in what you believe that you can do with the iPad, that you cannot do with any of the slates that were brought out at CES? From what I can tell, the only thing you get with the iPad is the app-store.
Well, you know what they say ... once it goes black, it never grows back.
So ... if someone has 20-year-old pictures of a 10-year-old being raped, it's okay because now the child in question is 30?
While I don't see the harm in cartoon-sex, you can't really expect the "but technically $person is over 18 today " defence to work or even be acceptable.
If you can, what's wrong with killing people? Technically they're already dead by the time you get to court over it, and there's no point in crying over spilt milk.
And if he had removed a bag of talcum powder from her luggage, and she had said "it's cocaine", she would be thrown in prison.
If we aren't allowed to make jokes without going to jail for them, they shouldn't be allowed to either.
No. Takeover by a management that aims for the lowest common denominator and sees no point in anything but cosmetic difference between models results in cars becoming junk.
Trying to pawn off a 1,500 dollar product in a new wrapper as a 2,500 dollar product is silly, and apart from the prices, that pretty much what GM has been doing with Saab. Regular GM cars in a Saab wrapper.
Don't forget to ban "Snakes and Ladders" as well.
Well, obviously the RIAA were breaking copyright law by copying this letter without permission. Thus the US$ 399,999 punitive damages on a US$ 1,000 letter.
You should go into airplane cockpit design:
http://www.aviationsystemsdivision.arc.nasa.gov/multimedia/cvsrf/images/747_cockpit_hi.jpg
I count 6 rows of 26 dials and buttons above the heads of the pilots in just one bank. I'm sure you have a better idea for how to handle it? How about a modern air-liner instead?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/787-flight-deck.jpg
The 787 Dreamliner has certainly moved/removed a LOT of the dials and switches compared to the 747, but there's still an awful lot of dials and switches that require you to move your focus and reach. But again, I'm sure those are completely crappy interface examples.
Well, that is rather easy to do if you can make your employees work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week and not pay overtime.
I'm pretty sure you don't. Last I heard they canceled it.
Very true
And what job is done, pray tell? As far as I can tell 12 hours a day, 6 days a week with no end in sight, sure as hell doesn't sound like "the job is done". Sounds more like "we own your ass" to me.
One of the reasons unions work so well in more socialist countries like most of Europe, is that when company A decides to fuck over its unionized employees, the union will step in. And if company A still won't behave, the union will talk to company A's 'colleagues', their suppliers and their customers (where possible), asking them to please tell company A to behave, because if they don't, then their employees will go on a sympathy strike.
Alternatively the union will be the ones leading the lawsuit against company A, leaving the workers without having to retain their own lawyers.
Granted, this does have side effects. I think the American worker has a higher monthly pay and lower expenses for consumable good. But then again, we also suffer from other horrible things like socialized health care, five weeks of paid vacation a year and the horror of 40 hour work weeks. Granted, this does depend on where in Europe you live.
Fibre optics for communication between nodes and independent power supplies with independent batteries.
Or instead of batteries, use the engine to move a liquid around the car to power localized and insulated turbine generators.
Slightly overkill, but not entirely impossible
And the Hubble isn't used as a radio telescope ... read the portion I quoted.
Light pollution is easy - go somewhere else. But it's a LOT harder to get ride of the opaque atmosphere ...
There's something wrong there, and not just in the volume.
Volume of LTO: 231,142.2 mm^3
Volume of micro sd: 165 mm^3
Difference: 1,400 : 1.
So you need LTO tape to exceed 43.7 TB to match that 32 GB MicroSD card. And that's without looking at the upcomming SD-XC standard which will move towards 2 TB.
Micro SD-XC for the win.
Will (eventually) go to 2 TB, have extremely fast random access, very high tolerances (drop it all you want, just don't break it), minute volume (11 x 15 x 1 mm) and no physical contact apart from insertion/removal.
Yes, break it and you're fucked, but you get reduce your storage volume by a factor 1,400 (231,142.2 mm^3 vs 165 mm^3) compared to LTO.
Currently the largest capacity micro-sd cards seem to be 16 GB. So you'd need tape in an LTO form factor to be at 21 TB just to compete by volume. Yes, LTO-5 is a lot faster at 180 MB/s, but the SD-XC standard is expected to go to 300 MB/s (but probably not random), nor do the SD-cards come with built in encryption that I know of. And I don't think the micro version can be set to read-only, but if you're worried about a single machine, there's nothing stopping you from using an adapter that does.
"If we see this kind of legislation our industry will suffer and we will see tens or hundreds of thousands of people lose their jobs!"
Sound familiar? As far as I can tell, those kinds of comments ARE corporations claiming to speak for their employees. I doubt any of the large corporate CEOs would give a flying fuck about sacking a third of their employees, they only care about keeping their own bonuses and pays and possibly raise them.
Some of us live in countries where video conferencing at high-end blu-ray quality is entirely feasible (54 Mb/s).
This will gobble down gigabytes of data at high priorities, and if we're using software that isn't widely available or even custom built, you're saying "fuck off, you're being an asshole".
A teleconference at those bandwidths would take up more than 20 GB/hour, and you said it yourself, Skype (and similar) require low latency
I usually tell them that it is nobody else's business just how much of my porn collection consists of midget nuns dressed up as penguins peeing on each-other while singing 'I'm a little tea pot'.
All you have to do is bring up an example that is embarrassing enough that no-one wants to know about it, yet is still perfectly legal.