PDF has become a defacto standard like GIFs, so I think it's an okay idea to embrace their usage, but only if PDF is open-licensed to all. Otherwise tell Adobe "no"
Cars do produce a lot of carcinogens (~0.1 grams of NOx and particulates per mile), but it's still smokers who end-up with lung cancer or nose cancer or throat cancer most often. Smoking is far more deadly
You have been unfairly modded into invisibility as a "troll", which is completely ridiculous, so I'm reposting your message so people can see it. It's a good story about the Stupidity of the TSA.
I was at LAX..... Ahead of me there was a group of Arabs, kaffiyeh, long beard, the works. Behind them was a little white haired lady apparently on her way back to "Mizzurah" after seeing her grandkids in LA. Sweet as can be old lady.....
Guess who gets stopped by the TSA.
Needless to say, everyone in line was a bit pissed that the TSA was giving extra screening to the old lady when they just waved the Arab guys through without a second glance. That's when the guy behind me yelled out, "What the fuck are you morons searching her for? The towelheads are the ones flying shit into buildings!" Real American guy boarded last, about 15 minutes late. TSA had a word with him, I suppose.
I guess that little old lady was a real danger, as if she was about to yell out "Death to Americans" and blow up the terminal. (rolls eyes). They also stopped this guy who looks like an adult version of Harry Potter! With guy's photo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMB6L487LHM [youtube.com] unedited - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEJpzVPmih0 [youtube.com]
ALSO most people measure their wealth by how much paper they hold. When my grandfather was a teenager in the 1920s, he could buy a good-quality wool suit for 5 piece of paper (dollars). Today it costs 400-500 piece of paper. The paper dollar is about 1/100th its value when my grandpa was a young man. Even just since Bush created the bailout bill, the dollar has already lost ~10 cents of real value.
We borrow from China for projects like these, we print more paper on our presses to offload that debt, and that paper dollar loses value. China gets richer and we get poorer.
>>>to emphasize that OS X only has one version for everyone, unlike Microsoft, where they have all these different "flavors" at different price-points. >>>
Not true. Depending on when you hopped on the Apple Ferris Wheel, you could have OS 10.2 (like me), or 10.3, or 10.4, or 10.5, or 10.6..... all of which have different levels of support (I can't find a decent browser for 10.2). It's not as simple as saying "I have XP" and be done with it. You have to dig into the requirements and see if the program supports 10.2.
Or require expensive annual upgrades to keep up (in contrast I haven't spent a dime upgrading XP since 2001).
So much for liberty - maybe you should just start calling yourselves "serfs". Oh and remember to plan corn on Senator Conroy's back 40. We have to keep the manor looking nice.
(Every day, as I read report after report from down under, I feel sorry for the Aussies.)
Yes. I do. I don't vote for president (why bother? Maryland always goes D so my vote matters not), and Libertarian for everything else. I would love to get a libertarian in Congress. Actually I'd be happy to get *any* third party in Congress, simply to break the back of the D-R duopoly.
Mac Ad:
"Hi I'm a Mac. I am easy to use and just work."
"Hi I'm a PC."
"That's it?"
"I have nothing good to say about myself."
(shrug). "I'm a Mac. I am easy to use and just work."
>>>It's also pretty pathetic that the system designers implemented a broken design and did not foresee this problem. High-resolution timekeeping has been accomplished pretty successfully already...
I sorry.
j/k.
We had a similar problem with an Aegis design, and it was a major headache for us Hardware engineers to try to convince the Systems Engineers that counting in Binary time was more logical than counting in 0.1 second increments. The SEs kept insisting that their computers at home accurately count in seconds and we hardware engineers should be able too. The HE manager and the SE manager were butting heads for about a month over this issue, until finally an upper-level manager handed-down a decision in favor of the HE manager and binary-based counting/requirements documentation.
I guess in the Patriot situation, the decision went in the opposite direction. Hence errors we introduced.
Yes young brains learn fast. My 6-year-old niece surprised me when she lifted my T-shirt and said, "Your chest is hairy. That's because you're a MAN. And mommmy has boobs because she's a WOman." I just said, "Uhh... yep that's right." I don't know where she picked that up, but apparently her brain's developed enough to recognize the key differences between boys, girls, men, and women.
She's also really good at using the computer. She's learning faster than my adult brother, and I've been trying to teach him almost ten years now! "Which icon do I click to start internet?" "The one that says Internet Explorer." "Oh yeah." No I am not exaggerating.
In contrast my niece hops on my laptop, types disney.com, and then says, "You need a faster modum. This one takes too long downloading." She got that from me.
>>>There is not a fixed amount of wealth in the world.
Technically there is. The Earth is a fixed size, and no bigger. That is all the wealth that is available to mankind at this point-in-time.
And also since most people measure their wealth by how much paper they hold, which decreases in value, it's worthwhile to always be looking for ways to ameliorate that process, rather than encourage it. When my grandfather was a teenager in the 1920s, he could buy a good-quality wool suit for $5. Today it costs $400-500. Has the suit changed? No not really; wool is wool. What has changed is the devaluation of the paper dollar to about 1/100th its value when my grandpa was a young man.
Just since Bush created the bailout bill, the dollar has already lost ~10 cents. We borrow from China, we print more paper on our presses, and that paper loses value. If you had $100,000 in 2008 it's only worth about $90,000 in real value today.
>>>you don't get to sit around questioning the arrest
P.S. I suppose you also think we all should voluntarily walk into the gas chambers when the black-suited police tell us to. Enjoy your Zyklon B you stupid wimp. I'm not walking into a "shower room" voluntarily when I've done nothing wrong. I will pull-out my gun and kill every officer in sight.
Wimps == 1 dead Jew and 0 dead nazis because they walked into the deathroom without resisting. Patriot== 1 dead citizen and 4-5 dead Nazis. Go patriots.
Because an officer LIED and claimed the dog smelled drugs in the trunk. Those drugs were not there. First they committed an illegal search of his trunk, then they made a false claim of drugs that did not exist, and finally they arrested an innocent man without probable cause or warrant.
Furthermore he's a fucking church reverend! Might as well take Reverend Marlin Luther King Jr and start beating him just because he asked to end segregation.
>>>They used to build the tanks themselves. They were cheaper and better.
False. The U.S. Army has almost-never built its own equipment. All the way back to the early 1800s they subcontracted the weapons-making to private U.S. companies or individuals. .
>>>Umm, we don't have a postal monopoly. Ever heard of UPS? FedEx? DHL?
Yes and they all are forbidden from picking-up or delivering mail to your mailbox. So the Uncle Sam Postal Service has a monopoly over your mailbox.
>>>Sometimes something is of the collective interest of everybody, then, in general, there are no differences. When everbody agrees (more or less) is when you create a governmental postal system, fire dept., health care, roads, and in this case communication >>>
A private, but government-regulated corporation has an incentive to cut costs in order to maximize internal profits. A government has no such incentive, and oftentimes the government will misappropriate funds for other pet projects. This is what happened with the retirement monopoly (social security) where money was collected for the purpose of SSI, but instead was spent elsewhere.
Give me a regulated, private monopoly like Baltimore Gas & Electric any day. It's superior than if Uncle Sam ran the show.
You forgot option (c) - Keep the private company but regulate it via the People's government. This is how our electric and phone monopolies operate. It's a "third way" that provides the best of both worlds - a private company focused on cutting costs to maximize profit, but also responsible to the people.
If the government ran the local electric monopoly or phone monopoly, it would be MORE expensive not less, because politicians like to misappropriate funds. They'd suck money out of the electric company and use it to build a new rail line, or maybe their pet project - like "free laptops for children".
This is what happens with the government-run public roads monopoly, and also the government-run retirement program called Social Security. Politicians siphon off the funds to other programs, and that drives up the price for the consumer.
With a private company, which is not affiliated with the government, there's no way to siphon off those funds. Money collected from our electric bills *stays* inside the electric company. And the price is regulated such that price increases can only happen with permission.
>>>the european way is to set high standards of connectivity and making sure those standards are being followed, i.e. USING THE GOVERNMENT PROPERLY.
Apparently you've had your head stuck in the sand, because various EU governments are censoring the internet, the TV, and the newspapers. I would not use the word "proper" in that context.
Which word did I use? That's right: "homes". Not farms or businesses. I wish people would learn to fucking READ what people write. Words means what words mean. .
>>>If someone wants to go live in the country or retire there, why should I subsidize their broadband.
You shouldn't. Nor their electricity or phone. I've said that multiple time or many posts. - "I've heard the Greens/Environmentalists make the same argument - Stop subsidizing rural homes with cheap electricity and phone hookups (i.e. eliminate the Universal Service Fee)."
Sometimes when a politician handles a word, it loses it meaning. California politicians claimed they "deregulated" the electricity market, but that's isn't close to truth. All they did was create a central government-run market for electrical companies to trade, so it was even *more* strictly regulated than the previous system.
Same with cable tv which removed the price caps, but left the exclusive monopolies in place. A true deregulation would have revoked Comcast's monopoly over local neighborhoods.
Another funny thing is the "deregulation" of Satellite TV which ultimately forbids customers from receiving any other stations except their local market. So I can see Baltimore, but not Washington, even though I work there. So much for "freedom" in the market.
>>>Do you simply not live in the real world? There are physical limits here.
The pipe that runs under be street is 3 feet wide. There's plenty of room to run 5, 10, even 20 ISP's cables in parallel. And let the customer choose what he wants.
>>>Verizon owns the copper to my house (and happily provides crappy DSL service over it) but are legally required to allow anyone else (in my case, ATT through Covad) to hook up their stuff in the DSLAM. So my internet is Covad, and my router talks to them. >>>
False. Covad uses Verizon equipment and simply leases the lines, so really you are using Verizon's service. That's still a monopoly.
>>>No, it should read PS2/PS1 (in the more natural #1/#2 order, instead of the OP's Sony-diminishing reverse order)
(rolls eyes)
Kiddies, kiddies, stop fighting. It doesn't matter that was my whole point. And for those who wondered why I chose a PS2 and Gamecube instead of an Xbox, it's because the Cube and Box were essentially tied and there was little on the Xbox that interested me, but the Gamecube had Metroid and Mario Sunshine and Zelda, so I picked that one.
>>>PS2/PS1/NES/Wii/SNES
You can't compare across generations for two reasons: (1) The population today is bigger than it used to be. (2) Gaming was not as popular as in the past. The original Atari sold 30 million units which may not sound like a lot today, but was a bid deal in the 1970s/80s, such that people used to say Atari was the 3rd TV network.... ABC, CBS, Atari.
Same with the Super Nintendo which may have sold "only" 50 million but that's not bad considering the world population was only 4 billion back then, rather than 6 billion. Also gaming was not yet mainstream. It was still a niche market for kids or geeks.
The FCC performed a study which claimed a la carte would cost the average consumer More money, not less.
Of course the study was flawed because it assumed bundled channels (like 70-channel basic) would no longer exist, so customers would have to buy each channel separately (stupid). It also failed to acknowledge that some cable companies already offer a la carte at $5 flat fee plus $1 per channel, and it works just fine. If a La Carte was available I would get Sci-Fi Channel, FOX news, CNN, and that's about it. $5 + $2/channel == only $11... much much cheaper than the current $62 Comcast charges for basic.
Although I could choose Dish Satellite. Their family plan is only $20 for about 30 channels. Not bad.
It should say China is lending *another 1.5 billion on top of the 1400 billion they've already loaned us for bailouts - just like Mr. Potter did in It's A Wonderful Life. First loan the money, then raise the interest, then take over.
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PDF has become a defacto standard like GIFs, so I think it's an okay idea to embrace their usage, but only if PDF is open-licensed to all. Otherwise tell Adobe "no"
Cars do produce a lot of carcinogens (~0.1 grams of NOx and particulates per mile), but it's still smokers who end-up with lung cancer or nose cancer or throat cancer most often. Smoking is far more deadly
You have been unfairly modded into invisibility as a "troll", which is completely ridiculous, so I'm reposting your message so people can see it. It's a good story about the Stupidity of the TSA.
I was at LAX..... Ahead of me there was a group of Arabs, kaffiyeh, long beard, the works. Behind them was a little white haired lady apparently on her way back to "Mizzurah" after seeing her grandkids in LA. Sweet as can be old lady.....
Guess who gets stopped by the TSA.
Needless to say, everyone in line was a bit pissed that the TSA was giving extra screening to the old lady when they just waved the Arab guys through without a second glance. That's when the guy behind me yelled out, "What the fuck are you morons searching her for? The towelheads are the ones flying shit into buildings!" Real American guy boarded last, about 15 minutes late. TSA had a word with him, I suppose.
I guess that little old lady was a real danger, as if she was about to yell out "Death to Americans" and blow up the terminal. (rolls eyes). They also stopped this guy who looks like an adult version of Harry Potter! With guy's photo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMB6L487LHM [youtube.com]
unedited - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEJpzVPmih0 [youtube.com]
Okay.
ALSO most people measure their wealth by how much paper they hold. When my grandfather was a teenager in the 1920s, he could buy a good-quality wool suit for 5 piece of paper (dollars). Today it costs 400-500 piece of paper. The paper dollar is about 1/100th its value when my grandpa was a young man. Even just since Bush created the bailout bill, the dollar has already lost ~10 cents of real value.
We borrow from China for projects like these, we print more paper on our presses to offload that debt, and that paper dollar loses value. China gets richer and we get poorer.
>>>to emphasize that OS X only has one version for everyone, unlike Microsoft, where they have all these different "flavors" at different price-points.
>>>
Not true. Depending on when you hopped on the Apple Ferris Wheel, you could have OS 10.2 (like me), or 10.3, or 10.4, or 10.5, or 10.6..... all of which have different levels of support (I can't find a decent browser for 10.2). It's not as simple as saying "I have XP" and be done with it. You have to dig into the requirements and see if the program supports 10.2.
Or require expensive annual upgrades to keep up (in contrast I haven't spent a dime upgrading XP since 2001).
>>>voting is compulsory in Australia.
So much for liberty - maybe you should just start calling yourselves "serfs". Oh and remember to plan corn on Senator Conroy's back 40. We have to keep the manor looking nice.
(Every day, as I read report after report from down under, I feel sorry for the Aussies.)
Yes. I do. I don't vote for president (why bother? Maryland always goes D so my vote matters not), and Libertarian for everything else. I would love to get a libertarian in Congress. Actually I'd be happy to get *any* third party in Congress, simply to break the back of the D-R duopoly.
Mac Ad:
"Hi I'm a Mac. I am easy to use and just work."
"Hi I'm a PC."
"That's it?"
"I have nothing good to say about myself."
(shrug). "I'm a Mac. I am easy to use and just work."
>>>It's also pretty pathetic that the system designers implemented a broken design and did not foresee this problem. High-resolution timekeeping has been accomplished pretty successfully already...
I sorry.
j/k.
We had a similar problem with an Aegis design, and it was a major headache for us Hardware engineers to try to convince the Systems Engineers that counting in Binary time was more logical than counting in 0.1 second increments. The SEs kept insisting that their computers at home accurately count in seconds and we hardware engineers should be able too. The HE manager and the SE manager were butting heads for about a month over this issue, until finally an upper-level manager handed-down a decision in favor of the HE manager and binary-based counting/requirements documentation.
I guess in the Patriot situation, the decision went in the opposite direction. Hence errors we introduced.
Yes young brains learn fast. My 6-year-old niece surprised me when she lifted my T-shirt and said, "Your chest is hairy. That's because you're a MAN. And mommmy has boobs because she's a WOman." I just said, "Uhh... yep that's right." I don't know where she picked that up, but apparently her brain's developed enough to recognize the key differences between boys, girls, men, and women.
She's also really good at using the computer. She's learning faster than my adult brother, and I've been trying to teach him almost ten years now! "Which icon do I click to start internet?" "The one that says Internet Explorer." "Oh yeah." No I am not exaggerating.
In contrast my niece hops on my laptop, types disney.com, and then says, "You need a faster modum. This one takes too long downloading." She got that from me.
Their dumb parents didn't tell them about using condoms and birth-control pills to prevent the babies from happening.
>>>There is not a fixed amount of wealth in the world.
Technically there is. The Earth is a fixed size, and no bigger. That is all the wealth that is available to mankind at this point-in-time.
And also since most people measure their wealth by how much paper they hold, which decreases in value, it's worthwhile to always be looking for ways to ameliorate that process, rather than encourage it. When my grandfather was a teenager in the 1920s, he could buy a good-quality wool suit for $5. Today it costs $400-500. Has the suit changed? No not really; wool is wool. What has changed is the devaluation of the paper dollar to about 1/100th its value when my grandpa was a young man.
Just since Bush created the bailout bill, the dollar has already lost ~10 cents. We borrow from China, we print more paper on our presses, and that paper loses value. If you had $100,000 in 2008 it's only worth about $90,000 in real value today.
Yay?
>>>you don't get to sit around questioning the arrest
P.S. I suppose you also think we all should voluntarily walk into the gas chambers when the black-suited police tell us to. Enjoy your Zyklon B you stupid wimp. I'm not walking into a "shower room" voluntarily when I've done nothing wrong. I will pull-out my gun and kill every officer in sight.
Wimps == 1 dead Jew and 0 dead nazis because they walked into the deathroom without resisting.
Patriot== 1 dead citizen and 4-5 dead Nazis. Go patriots.
Resist tyranny.
>>>>>He was placed under arrest
Because an officer LIED and claimed the dog smelled drugs in the trunk. Those drugs were not there. First they committed an illegal search of his trunk, then they made a false claim of drugs that did not exist, and finally they arrested an innocent man without probable cause or warrant.
Furthermore he's a fucking church reverend!
Might as well take Reverend Marlin Luther King Jr and
start beating him just because he asked to end segregation.
>>>They used to build the tanks themselves. They were cheaper and better.
False. The U.S. Army has almost-never built its own equipment. All the way back to the early 1800s they subcontracted the weapons-making to private U.S. companies or individuals.
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>>>Umm, we don't have a postal monopoly. Ever heard of UPS? FedEx? DHL?
Yes and they all are forbidden from picking-up or delivering mail to your mailbox. So the Uncle Sam Postal Service has a monopoly over your mailbox.
>>>Sometimes something is of the collective interest of everybody, then, in general, there are no differences. When everbody agrees (more or less) is when you create a governmental postal system, fire dept., health care, roads, and in this case communication
>>>
A private, but government-regulated corporation has an incentive to cut costs in order to maximize internal profits. A government has no such incentive, and oftentimes the government will misappropriate funds for other pet projects. This is what happened with the retirement monopoly (social security) where money was collected for the purpose of SSI, but instead was spent elsewhere.
Give me a regulated, private monopoly like Baltimore Gas & Electric any day. It's superior than if Uncle Sam ran the show.
You forgot option (c) - Keep the private company but regulate it via the People's government. This is how our electric and phone monopolies operate. It's a "third way" that provides the best of both worlds - a private company focused on cutting costs to maximize profit, but also responsible to the people.
If the government ran the local electric monopoly or phone monopoly, it would be MORE expensive not less, because politicians like to misappropriate funds. They'd suck money out of the electric company and use it to build a new rail line, or maybe their pet project - like "free laptops for children".
This is what happens with the government-run public roads monopoly, and also the government-run retirement program called Social Security. Politicians siphon off the funds to other programs, and that drives up the price for the consumer.
With a private company, which is not affiliated with the government, there's no way to siphon off those funds. Money collected from our electric bills *stays* inside the electric company. And the price is regulated such that price increases can only happen with permission.
>>>the european way is to set high standards of connectivity and making sure those standards are being followed, i.e. USING THE GOVERNMENT PROPERLY.
Apparently you've had your head stuck in the sand, because various EU governments are censoring the internet, the TV, and the newspapers. I would not use the word "proper" in that context.
>>>Are you talking rural 'homes' or 'business'.
Which word did I use? That's right: "homes". Not farms or businesses. I wish people would learn to fucking READ what people write. Words means what words mean.
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>>>If someone wants to go live in the country or retire there, why should I subsidize their broadband.
You shouldn't. Nor their electricity or phone. I've said that multiple time or many posts. - "I've heard the Greens/Environmentalists make the same argument - Stop subsidizing rural homes with cheap electricity and phone hookups (i.e. eliminate the Universal Service Fee)."
Sometimes when a politician handles a word, it loses it meaning. California politicians claimed they "deregulated" the electricity market, but that's isn't close to truth. All they did was create a central government-run market for electrical companies to trade, so it was even *more* strictly regulated than the previous system.
Same with cable tv which removed the price caps, but left the exclusive monopolies in place. A true deregulation would have revoked Comcast's monopoly over local neighborhoods.
Another funny thing is the "deregulation" of Satellite TV which ultimately forbids customers from receiving any other stations except their local market. So I can see Baltimore, but not Washington, even though I work there. So much for "freedom" in the market.
>>>Do you simply not live in the real world? There are physical limits here.
The pipe that runs under be street is 3 feet wide. There's plenty of room to run 5, 10, even 20 ISP's cables in parallel. And let the customer choose what he wants.
>>>Verizon owns the copper to my house (and happily provides crappy DSL service over it) but are legally required to allow anyone else (in my case, ATT through Covad) to hook up their stuff in the DSLAM. So my internet is Covad, and my router talks to them.
>>>
False. Covad uses Verizon equipment and simply leases the lines, so really you are using Verizon's service. That's still a monopoly.
>>>No, it should read PS2/PS1 (in the more natural #1/#2 order, instead of the OP's Sony-diminishing reverse order)
(rolls eyes)
Kiddies, kiddies, stop fighting. It doesn't matter that was my whole point. And for those who wondered why I chose a PS2 and Gamecube instead of an Xbox, it's because the Cube and Box were essentially tied and there was little on the Xbox that interested me, but the Gamecube had Metroid and Mario Sunshine and Zelda, so I picked that one.
>>>PS2/PS1/NES/Wii/SNES
You can't compare across generations for two reasons: (1) The population today is bigger than it used to be. (2) Gaming was not as popular as in the past. The original Atari sold 30 million units which may not sound like a lot today, but was a bid deal in the 1970s/80s, such that people used to say Atari was the 3rd TV network.... ABC, CBS, Atari.
Same with the Super Nintendo which may have sold "only" 50 million but that's not bad considering the world population was only 4 billion back then, rather than 6 billion. Also gaming was not yet mainstream. It was still a niche market for kids or geeks.
The FCC performed a study which claimed a la carte would cost the average consumer More money, not less.
Of course the study was flawed because it assumed bundled channels (like 70-channel basic) would no longer exist, so customers would have to buy each channel separately (stupid). It also failed to acknowledge that some cable companies already offer a la carte at $5 flat fee plus $1 per channel, and it works just fine. If a La Carte was available I would get Sci-Fi Channel, FOX news, CNN, and that's about it. $5 + $2/channel == only $11... much much cheaper than the current $62 Comcast charges for basic.
Although I could choose Dish Satellite. Their family plan is only $20 for about 30 channels. Not bad.
>>>(particularly through abuse of "theft of electricity" rationales),
That reminds me, now that winter has arrived, I need to get a couple of those one of those "phone line lights" in case the electricity goes off.
The summary is wrong.
It should say China is lending *another 1.5 billion on top of the 1400 billion they've already loaned us for bailouts - just like Mr. Potter did in It's A Wonderful Life. First loan the money, then raise the interest, then take over.