The healthcare system is not a living thing. You know that don't you? No, what nearly 'killed' the banking system was the US government pressuring banks to giving out home loans to people who couldn't pay them back. Bain capital is a private equity company, you need to do some research before you start making accusations because you sound like a loon. Corpses, death. Jesus.
So in your 1st paragraph you disprove the hypothesis and then you launch into the hypothetical, but to your credit a slashdot fairy gave you a four. Good work. Oh, and quoting Voltaire is a nice touch, that's got to make you feel better. For that I give you a five.
You must be confused, this is about some piece of shit software Romney was trying to use, the backward anti-freedom police state jack-wad party won the election.
Yes! God help anyone who doesn't bow at the alter of hipster political correctness. All the great things worth having are the result of capitalism and greed. Taking shit from people and giving it to others in the name of fairness can only end in the collapse of this civilization, but how hip is it to admit that?
No shit. The Democrats really only have a couple of plays, call the Republicans haters and give shit away to anyone who will vote for them.
And why is this a -1 Flamebait? Because Liberals really can't deal with anyone calling them out.
I distrust the common consensus found with avant-garde scientific community. No national now nor ever should ever support this hair brained project. The last thing you want is the fucking UN getting involved. If the UN can stop the fighting in Syria then maybe I'll listen.
For myself I am convinced that the leaders of Iran will use an atomic bomb if they were to possess one. So as far as I'm concerned any means used that will delay the day when Iran tests a bomb are morally justified. There seems to be no small amount of sanctimonious hand wringing here at Slashdot over this use of software to damage Iranian uranium enrichment hardware. So I am curious to know on a scale from 1 - 10 (1 being no threat and a 10 being we should be shitting ourselves) how members of this community view the threat of a nuclear armed Iran.
Making assumptions about what other people want out of life is a dangerous hobby. You say you believe you know what he wants and you ask all of slashdotdom for help. Mother Teresa meets highly opinionated technology forum. All I can say is be careful. As for your buddy, as the Moody Blues say just what you want to be you'll be in the end.
Now that I have your attention . . .
Read the article and it doesn't take too long to see this is all about growing government: 'The new divide is such a cause of concern for the Federal Communications Commission that it is considering a proposal to spend $200 million to create a digital literacy corps. This group of hundreds, even thousands, of trainers would fan out to schools and libraries to teach productive uses of computers for parents, students and job seekers.'
This is the NYTs version of the money shot. Find a social problem (real or perceived) and argue that the solution is government intervention, because history is fucking replete with examples where the federal government stopped in and fixed a social problem. Feel the release, Matt Richtel you are a sexy genius!
On a darker note computers represent communication - and why wouldn't a government not want to get involved and help the people with their strange little addiction?
Who really gives a rats ass if is has dawned on some federal grant parasites that they could extend their existence suckling on the US taxpayers teat by 'discovering' China and India pollute the atmosphere with their industry?.04C over the next 20 years (or whatever). People aren't going to stop buying this stuff and there isn't anything anyone can or will do to put a stop to it. There could be a fucking sticker on every apple ipad made reading 'Warning: Use of this product may cause your grandchildren to become blood-sucking zombies' and nobody would think twice about taking one home from the mall. These stories are essentially without the ability to have political consequences so I find them tiresome (for good reason). Sadly, it is also clear there is a significant industry supporting this kind of sensational environmental research so such horror story posting isn't going away any time soon.
This is a cliche. Mastodon-like technology company fights for survival caught in a world that just seems to be moving to fast for it to survive. What did IBM do? What will Amazon do in the future? Doesn't appear second guessing Whitman is extremely productive. If she asked for your advice what would you tell her? I don't believe the answer for the US is to become more like China, but what are the alternatives?
I'm not trying to slam you. Anyone who believes there are places that have never had any earthquakes needs to crack open a geology book. That's like saying there are stationary tectonic plates.
Let's be brutally honest. The only real solution is to shut these deniers up once and for all through a pogrom of state sponsored censorship. Once this is accomplished we can move on to more forceful measures. It is hardly practical to crucify all members of this 'heartland institute' - but the political upside of crucifying one or two can't be ignored. In the name of science (of course).
Okay. These are reusable. That will be nice if there is a shooting war with China. Nice and naive. But hell, if this nation is going to borrow money from China to prop up a crony socialistic faux capitalistic economy I say embrace the irony and build these high tech wonder weapons.
Herein lies the rub. You don't say what it is you want to do. Robotics? Web stuff? My advice. Find out what it is people are successfully using to do things that are like what you want to do.
That does seem to render the breakthrough without virtue, at least from an economic standpoint at this time. Seriously though, history is replete with innovation that cannot stand on its own initially that later becomes indispensable. Like sticky notes.
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Maybe somebody should have explained this to the poor before they voted for Obama. To bad, guess they'll learn the hard way.
The healthcare system is not a living thing. You know that don't you? No, what nearly 'killed' the banking system was the US government pressuring banks to giving out home loans to people who couldn't pay them back. Bain capital is a private equity company, you need to do some research before you start making accusations because you sound like a loon. Corpses, death. Jesus.
So in your 1st paragraph you disprove the hypothesis and then you launch into the hypothetical, but to your credit a slashdot fairy gave you a four. Good work. Oh, and quoting Voltaire is a nice touch, that's got to make you feel better. For that I give you a five.
Politics is religion? I guess that explains how some people vote. For me politics should be based on the real.
You must be confused, this is about some piece of shit software Romney was trying to use, the backward anti-freedom police state jack-wad party won the election.
Que the black helicopters. CIA death squads? And yet this putrid post is scored a 2. Slashdot is nothing if not predicable.
There was only one person on the radio who called one slut a slut. Don't blame the messenger. He did leave out dumb, which was an act of kindness.
You bet. You rejoice in driving the heretic away. Very copasetic.
Yes! God help anyone who doesn't bow at the alter of hipster political correctness. All the great things worth having are the result of capitalism and greed. Taking shit from people and giving it to others in the name of fairness can only end in the collapse of this civilization, but how hip is it to admit that?
No shit. The Democrats really only have a couple of plays, call the Republicans haters and give shit away to anyone who will vote for them. And why is this a -1 Flamebait? Because Liberals really can't deal with anyone calling them out.
I distrust the common consensus found with avant-garde scientific community. No national now nor ever should ever support this hair brained project. The last thing you want is the fucking UN getting involved. If the UN can stop the fighting in Syria then maybe I'll listen.
For myself I am convinced that the leaders of Iran will use an atomic bomb if they were to possess one. So as far as I'm concerned any means used that will delay the day when Iran tests a bomb are morally justified. There seems to be no small amount of sanctimonious hand wringing here at Slashdot over this use of software to damage Iranian uranium enrichment hardware. So I am curious to know on a scale from 1 - 10 (1 being no threat and a 10 being we should be shitting ourselves) how members of this community view the threat of a nuclear armed Iran.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Sv6dMFF_yts#!
Good idea. Very good idea.
Making assumptions about what other people want out of life is a dangerous hobby. You say you believe you know what he wants and you ask all of slashdotdom for help. Mother Teresa meets highly opinionated technology forum. All I can say is be careful. As for your buddy, as the Moody Blues say just what you want to be you'll be in the end.
Now that I have your attention . . . Read the article and it doesn't take too long to see this is all about growing government: 'The new divide is such a cause of concern for the Federal Communications Commission that it is considering a proposal to spend $200 million to create a digital literacy corps. This group of hundreds, even thousands, of trainers would fan out to schools and libraries to teach productive uses of computers for parents, students and job seekers.' This is the NYTs version of the money shot. Find a social problem (real or perceived) and argue that the solution is government intervention, because history is fucking replete with examples where the federal government stopped in and fixed a social problem. Feel the release, Matt Richtel you are a sexy genius! On a darker note computers represent communication - and why wouldn't a government not want to get involved and help the people with their strange little addiction?
Who really gives a rats ass if is has dawned on some federal grant parasites that they could extend their existence suckling on the US taxpayers teat by 'discovering' China and India pollute the atmosphere with their industry? .04C over the next 20 years (or whatever). People aren't going to stop buying this stuff and there isn't anything anyone can or will do to put a stop to it. There could be a fucking sticker on every apple ipad made reading 'Warning: Use of this product may cause your grandchildren to become blood-sucking zombies' and nobody would think twice about taking one home from the mall. These stories are essentially without the ability to have political consequences so I find them tiresome (for good reason). Sadly, it is also clear there is a significant industry supporting this kind of sensational environmental research so such horror story posting isn't going away any time soon.
This is a cliche. Mastodon-like technology company fights for survival caught in a world that just seems to be moving to fast for it to survive. What did IBM do? What will Amazon do in the future? Doesn't appear second guessing Whitman is extremely productive. If she asked for your advice what would you tell her? I don't believe the answer for the US is to become more like China, but what are the alternatives?
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/11/the-100-million-health-care-vote/
Now I'm sure they'll ban the importation of reasonably priced gas and oil that is available because of hydraulic fracturing.
I'm not trying to slam you. Anyone who believes there are places that have never had any earthquakes needs to crack open a geology book. That's like saying there are stationary tectonic plates.
Let's be brutally honest. The only real solution is to shut these deniers up once and for all through a pogrom of state sponsored censorship. Once this is accomplished we can move on to more forceful measures. It is hardly practical to crucify all members of this 'heartland institute' - but the political upside of crucifying one or two can't be ignored. In the name of science (of course).
Okay. These are reusable. That will be nice if there is a shooting war with China. Nice and naive. But hell, if this nation is going to borrow money from China to prop up a crony socialistic faux capitalistic economy I say embrace the irony and build these high tech wonder weapons.
Herein lies the rub. You don't say what it is you want to do. Robotics? Web stuff? My advice. Find out what it is people are successfully using to do things that are like what you want to do.
That does seem to render the breakthrough without virtue, at least from an economic standpoint at this time. Seriously though, history is replete with innovation that cannot stand on its own initially that later becomes indispensable. Like sticky notes.