I don't suppose you think that this *is* the reason for the EU making their own version, do you?
Think about that for a sec. The US invades Poland. The US turns off GPS for any Polish receivers. Clearly, Poland needs their own version of GPS for various things to work.
If anything, that was a feature of GPS since it was virst invented. Civilian receivers just didn't get the same accuracy that the military did.
A lot of their policy is guided by a desire to meet their citizens' growing demands for freedom without plunging the country into the state of mafia-ruled anarchy that plagues the former Soviet Union today.
Today's issue isn't about free-market freedom. It's about free-speech freedom. What kind of a despotic government bans publications because they criticize the government? What kind of actual harm would it do to the *people* if suddenly they were allowed to consider the concept of freedom?
No, the government banned Wikipedia because somewhere in Wikipedia there is some idea that's dangerous to the government, not the people. Like how the current scandals in the Canadian government are dangerous to the government. Chaos might very well ensue if the people found out that the current government was horribly corrupt and needed to be replaced about 8 years ago, but really, the solution to that isn't rewriting history books or shutting down newspapers. The solution is to allow the public to know as soon as possible, so the problem doesn't get worse, and then demonstratably remove the corrupt elements.
The Academy Awards are a grandiose pat on the back, given by the industry to itself. Why we care, I'm not sure.
Okay. Name an award that isn't a grandiose pat on the back, given by the industry to itself.
I don't mean in the film business, I mean any business.
If experts aren't the ones doing the judging, then you might as well just let Capitalism be the judge and let the richest one win. And well, that means that the richest one already got the prize.
Similarly, I hereby move that the awards for best Actor/Actress be renamed "Most over-done imitation of someone with a mental, physical, or emotional disability."
I thought all actors and actresses did indeed possess emotional disabilities. These days, we call that "Emo." Thus they aren't imitating when portraying people with emotional disabilities.
It seems that the editors like posting stories about comical IPO's and "scientific discoveries" that come from complete crackpots.
Is it that they're still pining for the late 90s and the days where madly scribbling down any kind of junk on a napkin, and acting like it's going to change the world would net you 100 million bucks to spend on party favours on New Year's day? Or is it that they like to cling to the belief that all the low-hanging fruit for solving the world's pressing problems hasn't already been picked?
This story shouldn't be marked with "Energy" and "Science", because it involves neither, except perhaps as a 3rd grade science project.
1. Give away information about how you got free stuff, and show off all the free stuff you got. 2. Next year, when you go, noone will be giving away free stuff. And not just to you, either.
It kind of makes one wonder what exactly was accomplished in 1989 when 100,000 protesters marched in Beijing. Appearantly not much.
Oh no, there was *lots* accomplished by this protest, and the massacre that ensued.
The Chinese government proved to its citizenry that There Are Certain Things You Will Not Talk About.
The Chinese government proved to the rest of the world that it doesn't give a rat's ass what anyone else thinks about how They Run Their Country.
The American (and Canadian, and probably others too) government proved that they will walk on eggshells around the issue of free speech and human rights with China in order to get lucrative trade deals.
The Chinese government basically proved that not only can they crush dissent in *their* country, but in others too.
Pirates Canada, also known as the PC party, has a long tradition in Canada, generally looting and pillaging the country on and off throughout the history of the country.
Oh, you mean software piracy? Well, maybe the Communist party might qualify. They don't just want to abolish intellectual property, they want to abolish all propterty. I can't say much about what they want to do to privacy though.
Sure, there were the great discoveries he made, but other men who made astounding contributions to science aren't nearly as well known. It's in no small part because of his ability to promote himself, and the causes he believed in. Especially since he was a pacifist during the two biggest wars in history, he was particularly vocal.
There's a box sitting in some closet somewhere that listens for calls on one phone number, then passes them on to whoever picks up the phone first. It makes sure that when someone types in an extension number, the call gets routed through to the person that the number belongs to. It lets you put people on hold where they can listen to the radio while they wait. It transfers calls between users, and lets you page someone.
As for using voip at home, generally you just need an adaptor that runs off a 5v wall wart, and ta-da, you've got long distance that's cheaper than dirt. It's really not complicated.
These sorts of ads aren't for anyone but the person they want to promote internally. It's just that they're required by some stupid law or beuraucratic bullshit to list it elsewhere.
Either that, or it's some headhunter collecting resumes to stuff their database with.
Suppose that instead of sending spam, your competitor posts paper notices in parts of the city where it's illegal. How do you prove that you DIDN'T do it, and how could you prove that it's not your fault?
I wish. Then the company I work for would actually get some advertising, and hopefully, some publicity out of it. And it's all free, except for fighting it in court. As it is, my boss doesn't advertise very much or very effectively.
I think that the problem with spam is that it's so cheap and so untracable, you *could* do this, get away with it, and it wouldn't cost you anything in comparison to a real ad campaign.
In the operating system arena, if you have a near monopoly, you may as well have a monopoly. Most people don't have any choice about which operating system they buy because the software they *need* only works on one. And the people that program for other operating systems (professionally anyway) typically do it dual-platform so that they can *also* support windows. Heck, even Apache does that.
When consumers don't have any choice but to buy something, then you effectively have a monopoly. And if you use that "monopoly" to screw people over, then you *definitely* have a monopoly in the eyes of the government, as they've already demonstrated.
The fact of the matter is, that in order to acheive the stupdendous feats that Santa pulls off every year, he has to have technology so advanced that it makes the US military look *really* bad.
The fact of the matter is, that in order to acheive the stupdendous feats that Santa pulls off every year, he has to have technology so advanced that it .
If, by "technology" you mean "anything man made", then approximately 100% of us would die, due to the fact that without tools, we're horrible at ripping open a rabbit to get at the tasty bits inside.
The wonderful thing about technology though, is that it exists in your mind. If there were a nuclear war, enough of us know how to generate electricity well enough to get by. Most of us know enough about simple machines and mechanics to be able to do a good many things that noone knew was even possible a thousand years ago. The things we could make without the specialized knowledge of engineers or scientists would be more crude, but we'd get better.
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I don't suppose you think that this *is* the reason for the EU making their own version, do you?
Think about that for a sec. The US invades Poland. The US turns off GPS for any Polish receivers. Clearly, Poland needs their own version of GPS for various things to work.
If anything, that was a feature of GPS since it was virst invented. Civilian receivers just didn't get the same accuracy that the military did.
"Shyeah, right, and I predict monkeys will fly out of my butt!"
I'm sure that it's just a matter of designing nanotechnology monkeys.
A lot of their policy is guided by a desire to meet their citizens' growing demands for freedom without plunging the country into the state of mafia-ruled anarchy that plagues the former Soviet Union today.
Today's issue isn't about free-market freedom. It's about free-speech freedom. What kind of a despotic government bans publications because they criticize the government? What kind of actual harm would it do to the *people* if suddenly they were allowed to consider the concept of freedom?
No, the government banned Wikipedia because somewhere in Wikipedia there is some idea that's dangerous to the government, not the people. Like how the current scandals in the Canadian government are dangerous to the government. Chaos might very well ensue if the people found out that the current government was horribly corrupt and needed to be replaced about 8 years ago, but really, the solution to that isn't rewriting history books or shutting down newspapers. The solution is to allow the public to know as soon as possible, so the problem doesn't get worse, and then demonstratably remove the corrupt elements.
The way Slashdot has been lately? Hell yeah.
The Academy Awards are a grandiose pat on the back, given by the industry to itself. Why we care, I'm not sure.
Okay. Name an award that isn't a grandiose pat on the back, given by the industry to itself.
I don't mean in the film business, I mean any business.
If experts aren't the ones doing the judging, then you might as well just let Capitalism be the judge and let the richest one win. And well, that means that the richest one already got the prize.
Similarly, I hereby move that the awards for best Actor/Actress be renamed "Most over-done imitation of someone with a mental, physical, or emotional disability."
I thought all actors and actresses did indeed possess emotional disabilities. These days, we call that "Emo." Thus they aren't imitating when portraying people with emotional disabilities.
It seems that the editors like posting stories about comical IPO's and "scientific discoveries" that come from complete crackpots.
Is it that they're still pining for the late 90s and the days where madly scribbling down any kind of junk on a napkin, and acting like it's going to change the world would net you 100 million bucks to spend on party favours on New Year's day? Or is it that they like to cling to the belief that all the low-hanging fruit for solving the world's pressing problems hasn't already been picked?
This story shouldn't be marked with "Energy" and "Science", because it involves neither, except perhaps as a 3rd grade science project.
1. Give away information about how you got free stuff, and show off all the free stuff you got.
2. Next year, when you go, noone will be giving away free stuff. And not just to you, either.
Um... money? :)
Ok, this one is difficult as it involves convincing the people with the PSP, that it is in fact an evil artifact that must be thrown into Mount Doom
That didn't usually work very well in the book. In fact, most were willing to kill any number of people to take it from you.
He makes us use a crummy encyclopedia that isn't checked for accuracy like Wikipedia is; such as Britanica
;)
Yeah, that's why they refer to it as "Canonical".
It kind of makes one wonder what exactly was accomplished in 1989 when 100,000 protesters marched in Beijing. Appearantly not much.
Oh no, there was *lots* accomplished by this protest, and the massacre that ensued.
The Chinese government proved to its citizenry that There Are Certain Things You Will Not Talk About.
The Chinese government proved to the rest of the world that it doesn't give a rat's ass what anyone else thinks about how They Run Their Country.
The American (and Canadian, and probably others too) government proved that they will walk on eggshells around the issue of free speech and human rights with China in order to get lucrative trade deals.
The Chinese government basically proved that not only can they crush dissent in *their* country, but in others too.
So in the future, the intarweb is gonna be like TV?
Cool!
Oh wait, don't we already have TV?
Pirates Canada, also known as the PC party, has a long tradition in Canada, generally looting and pillaging the country on and off throughout the history of the country.
Oh, you mean software piracy? Well, maybe the Communist party might qualify. They don't just want to abolish intellectual property, they want to abolish all propterty. I can't say much about what they want to do to privacy though.
Sure, there were the great discoveries he made, but other men who made astounding contributions to science aren't nearly as well known. It's in no small part because of his ability to promote himself, and the causes he believed in. Especially since he was a pacifist during the two biggest wars in history, he was particularly vocal.
How do you think your phone at work works?
There's a box sitting in some closet somewhere that listens for calls on one phone number, then passes them on to whoever picks up the phone first. It makes sure that when someone types in an extension number, the call gets routed through to the person that the number belongs to. It lets you put people on hold where they can listen to the radio while they wait. It transfers calls between users, and lets you page someone.
As for using voip at home, generally you just need an adaptor that runs off a 5v wall wart, and ta-da, you've got long distance that's cheaper than dirt. It's really not complicated.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk/index.html
These sorts of ads aren't for anyone but the person they want to promote internally. It's just that they're required by some stupid law or beuraucratic bullshit to list it elsewhere.
Either that, or it's some headhunter collecting resumes to stuff their database with.
Suppose that instead of sending spam, your competitor posts paper notices in parts of the city where it's illegal. How do you prove that you DIDN'T do it, and how could you prove that it's not your fault?
I wish. Then the company I work for would actually get some advertising, and hopefully, some publicity out of it. And it's all free, except for fighting it in court. As it is, my boss doesn't advertise very much or very effectively.
I think that the problem with spam is that it's so cheap and so untracable, you *could* do this, get away with it, and it wouldn't cost you anything in comparison to a real ad campaign.
Oh man, this should be under "Funny" rather than "Microsoft". The next story should be: "Public wants DRM, says Microsoft".
In the operating system arena, if you have a near monopoly, you may as well have a monopoly. Most people don't have any choice about which operating system they buy because the software they *need* only works on one. And the people that program for other operating systems (professionally anyway) typically do it dual-platform so that they can *also* support windows. Heck, even Apache does that.
When consumers don't have any choice but to buy something, then you effectively have a monopoly. And if you use that "monopoly" to screw people over, then you *definitely* have a monopoly in the eyes of the government, as they've already demonstrated.
The fact of the matter is, that in order to acheive the stupdendous feats that Santa pulls off every year, he has to have technology so advanced that it makes the US military look *really* bad.
The fact of the matter is, that in order to acheive the stupdendous feats that Santa pulls off every year, he has to have technology so advanced that it .
Rather than say, Japanese, who would do that as a matter of course and noone would even complain that they're addicted to the internet?
If, by "technology" you mean "anything man made", then approximately 100% of us would die, due to the fact that without tools, we're horrible at ripping open a rabbit to get at the tasty bits inside.
The wonderful thing about technology though, is that it exists in your mind. If there were a nuclear war, enough of us know how to generate electricity well enough to get by. Most of us know enough about simple machines and mechanics to be able to do a good many things that noone knew was even possible a thousand years ago. The things we could make without the specialized knowledge of engineers or scientists would be more crude, but we'd get better.