Nope. The law forbids them from raising the prices in California to make up for said cost, so in reality the cost will be borne by oil users in all the US, not just CA. This actually subsidizes the cost for CA residents at the expense of everyone else, a smart move on their part.
Ha. That's funny.
And you don't think that the Federal Government won't step in and strike this law down? I'll bet even the Dems will join in.
It's not that I don't think it's not a good idea. I just think that there's no way in hell it will work in our present political climate. If Californians can't even get Pot legalized (a very clear and straightforward "State's Rights" issue that any true Conservative ought to support), and if Oregonians can't get "Right to Die" ratified - then there's no way in hell the citizens of the other 49 states are going to pay higher gas prices so that Californians can have their clean air (that most Americans in the other 49 states don't care about - because it doesn't concern them directly).
To be fair, it was "spacesuit cloth" - and the ship had a biological oxygen generator or something in it, so it could very well have been leaking the whole time, while the generator replenished the supply.
On the other hand, I thought it was completely unrealistic that she would have screwed Balthar. I just can't keep my suspension of disbelief while I'm watching that epispode.
Bet I could get your dead corpse to smack itself in the face and move it legs like it was walking just by cutting it up and pulling on stuff. Might take me a little while to do a whole 3 stooges routine though. Seeing as a Cylon fighters organic components would probably be far less complicated than a human body I see no reason why with lots of trial and error Starbuck wouldn't be able to get it to fly well enough to save her ass.
Yes. clearly the GP never saw "Weekend at Bernie's" (By the way, a VERY scientifically accurate movie!)
They're afraid that what they put up on line, any competitor can freely get up there, and undercut them on prices, because reproduction costs are zero.
As soon as Net Neutrality goes, and the content producers align themselves with the distributors in vertically integrated markets, then they'll put this stuff on line. They'll be able to control the marketing message, and competitors' content, and they'll be able to charge whatever people are willing to pay in a locked-in market segment.
This would not be the case if most large content companies weren't already largely vertically integrated (giving them a proof-of-concept). They're just waiting for the right regulatory environment; and they know that's coming, because they've already bought their politicians.
I'm pretty much the only hardcore Windows guy in a mostly Linux shop. Personally, I'm not a big fan of Microsoft or their business practices, or their technology. But my Linux co-workers are often AMAZED at the stuff I can do using Group Policy to lock down and configure an entire network of desktops.
Yeah, I wish we could put Open Office and Firefox on all our Windows desktops too. But you can't centrally manage security and configuration of those like you can with MS Office and IE. (Yeah, my customer is completely anal about this - I would hate to have to be a user on these systems, you can run the apps to do your job, and that's all. You can't even adjust the screensaver timeout).
American politicians are TERRIFIED right now of the abuse and character assassination that is going on in the mass media, and the massive network of lobbying organizations, think tanks, consulting groups, pundits and commentors, posing as "real news". From a media perspective, it's profitable, and it's good business. Give us dirty laundry. And Karl Rove and his minions are all too happy to dish it out.
If you think they're not above punishing disloyalty in their own ranks, just take a look at how they slimed McCain in 2000 in the SC primary.
The terror tactics of Hamas, Al Qaeda, and Hezbollah, use bombs. The terror tactics of the modern Republican machine uses Information Warfare. Some people call Karl Rove an evil genius - but he's just exploiting the market-driven and overconsolidated corporate media in the US. They make big money, and they cycle it all back through the propaganda system through folks like American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundataion, Aspen Group, Center for American Progress, Focus on the Family, etc. (this is the "vast right wing conspiracy" Hillary Clinton was talking about. Yes, Bill really DID get a blowjob, yes, he really did lie, by a plain-folks definition of the word, and yes, there really was a vast right wing conspiracy that was out to get him.)
It's BEEN all over since they killed the television/radio/newspaper equivalent of "net neutrality" - called the "fairness doctrine" back in the 1980's.
It's all over but the shouting, which is pretty much why shouting is all we've been able to do since then, because nobody's listening anymore.
Until that time, America was good shephards of capitalism. Now we've let it grow wild and feral. And this force of nature, the "free market" is going to roll right over this country like Katrina rolled through New Orleans.
if you lower demand enough by taxing enough, the price people can sell oil products for (before tax) goes down, so it becomes less profitable to seek out new sources of oil.
On the other hand, if you seek out (and find) new sources of oil, then supply goes up and the prices (and profit) drops.
In a true free market, I'd agree that competitors could gain advantage over eachother by exploring for more oil. But throughout this recent energy crisis from whwere oil started around $20/bbl in 2000, through last year's high of near $80/bbl, not one major western oil company is investing in infrastructure. Hell - even BP Amoco has let their infrastructure systematically rot to massive failure.
They know it's not a free market, because they collude to constrain supply. Then they tell us that they don't control prices. Just like the power generators told California that they didn't control plant outages.
I guess I should try getting the data cable (which no verizon store I have been to actually stocks). For some reason, my RAZR won't sync via bluetooth. It gets about halfway, then just dies. No useful messages, even in the "verbose" mode error log.
I'm all for emission controlls and regulation - But I wish they would have an exception for diesel autos.
I drive a Jetta TDI, and I get 46 miles per gallon. Why is my car a pariah status as if it were a big-rig? My car puts out less pollution per mile than most sedans, and probably all SUV's.
I was forced to go out of state to even FIND a Jetta TDI to purchase. Though they were gracious enough to let me register it, they're really not doing the environment any favors with this ban. California needs MORE diesel autos. Not less.
I'm not the only one who believes that it's creepy as hell to NAME a bill. They usually have numbers. They should be referred to only by their number. Slapping a name on a bill is a dishonest labelling for the purpose of marketing.
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...Also, governments have been engaging in infrastructure-development projects since probably the beginning of recorded history,....
It's probably the main thing that allowed history to ever be recorded in the first place.
If you're talking about the beginning of recorded history, you're talking about ancient Sumer, where the government controlled food production and distribution, and a system of writing (called cuneiform) was developed specifically to track food production and distribution.
I don't think that any amount of me telling people how important Net Neutrality is, is going to change a damn thing. The telcos have bought their congressmen, they own the airwaves, they have more money than me, or God.
Net Neutrality will go away.
And THEN people will realize what they have lost. And then, maybe then, they'll understand why our current system of legalized electoral bribery does not serve their interests.
Then again, I thought the same way about Napster.
I thought that; the Internet boom was largely fueled by Napster. I knew so many people who bought computers, got connected, and learned about computing, because they knew they could download all their music for free. I knew that as soon as they made Napster illegal, all those people would drop out. I'm not sure that internet growth statistics reflect that, in retrospect, I was wrong. But in that regard, the Internet sure is a lot less attractive than it was in 1996.
Killing Net Neutrality is going to have a sharp, negative impact on the overall health of the IT industry in general. In America. In other countries, not so much. In fact, that's a whole bunch of competitors that companies in other countries won't have to worry about anymore. The net is Global. No one controls it.
While I see pair programming's implicit code-review as better than NO code review at all, I believe that a formal review process is explicitly more trustworthy.
When two coders work very closely together, over time, they tend to accrue the same work habits, the same syntax, the same judgement, etc. This leads to a mini-groupthink mode, that can give both coders the same blind spots. (unless you mix-up the teams occasionally - and normal turnover should keep the larger group well-stocked with fresh people).
A formal review by a larger group can reveal these blind spots.
However - the "formal review" also has its flaws; that is, getting a larger group of reviewers to ACTUALLY review the code (rather than sit, yawn, and sign-off) is much more difficult than you'd think. This flaw is almost more dangerous than a single developer with no review at all. There's no consistency to how well a formal review board works, and there's a false sense of security.
Downtown Cincinatti smells very strongly of the urine of winos. It is by far, the dirtiest city I've ever visited. Spent a lot of time in Chicago - and there were times when it was dirty (under the Daleys, and Washington), times when it was clean (Jane Byrne).
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Nope. The law forbids them from raising the prices in California to make up for said cost, so in reality the cost will be borne by oil users in all the US, not just CA. This actually subsidizes the cost for CA residents at the expense of everyone else, a smart move on their part.
Ha.
That's funny.
And you don't think that the Federal Government won't step in and strike this law down? I'll bet even the Dems will join in.
It's not that I don't think it's not a good idea. I just think that there's no way in hell it will work in our present political climate. If Californians can't even get Pot legalized (a very clear and straightforward "State's Rights" issue that any true Conservative ought to support), and if Oregonians can't get "Right to Die" ratified - then there's no way in hell the citizens of the other 49 states are going to pay higher gas prices so that Californians can have their clean air (that most Americans in the other 49 states don't care about - because it doesn't concern them directly).
The OS in Office space was carefully crafted to mix elements from both MacOS and Windows.
. . . in other words, it was a mock-up pre-release of Vista?
With some cloth plugging a hole in the ship.
To be fair, it was "spacesuit cloth" - and the ship had a biological oxygen generator or something in it, so it could very well have been leaking the whole time, while the generator replenished the supply.
On the other hand, I thought it was completely unrealistic that she would have screwed Balthar. I just can't keep my suspension of disbelief while I'm watching that epispode.
Bet I could get your dead corpse to smack itself in the face and move it legs like it was walking just by cutting it up and pulling on stuff. Might take me a little while to do a whole 3 stooges routine though. Seeing as a Cylon fighters organic components would probably be far less complicated than a human body I see no reason why with lots of trial and error Starbuck wouldn't be able to get it to fly well enough to save her ass.
Yes. clearly the GP never saw "Weekend at Bernie's"
(By the way, a VERY scientifically accurate movie!)
In the UK, we tried an experiment called 'multiculturalism.'
. . . you mean 'cheap labor'.
, receiving data from the Mars rovers and transmitting it back to Earth (yes: they use the same communication protocol!).
/snark
No they don't.
The english units sent by the mars rovers are encapsulated in metric units, and converted back on earth.
Here's what they're afraid of:
Net Neutrality.
They're afraid that what they put up on line, any competitor can freely get up there, and undercut them on prices, because reproduction costs are zero.
As soon as Net Neutrality goes, and the content producers align themselves with the distributors in vertically integrated markets, then they'll put this stuff on line. They'll be able to control the marketing message, and competitors' content, and they'll be able to charge whatever people are willing to pay in a locked-in market segment.
This would not be the case if most large content companies weren't already largely vertically integrated (giving them a proof-of-concept). They're just waiting for the right regulatory environment; and they know that's coming, because they've already bought their politicians.
I'm pretty much the only hardcore Windows guy in a mostly Linux shop. Personally, I'm not a big fan of Microsoft or their business practices, or their technology. But my Linux co-workers are often AMAZED at the stuff I can do using Group Policy to lock down and configure an entire network of desktops.
Yeah, I wish we could put Open Office and Firefox on all our Windows desktops too. But you can't centrally manage security and configuration of those like you can with MS Office and IE. (Yeah, my customer is completely anal about this - I would hate to have to be a user on these systems, you can run the apps to do your job, and that's all. You can't even adjust the screensaver timeout).
I think you're underestimating quite how many votes diebold can flip with just a few regkeys, without any trace of evidence after the fact.
American politicians are TERRIFIED right now of the abuse and character assassination that is going on in the mass media, and the massive network of lobbying organizations, think tanks, consulting groups, pundits and commentors, posing as "real news". From a media perspective, it's profitable, and it's good business. Give us dirty laundry. And Karl Rove and his minions are all too happy to dish it out.
If you think they're not above punishing disloyalty in their own ranks, just take a look at how they slimed McCain in 2000 in the SC primary.
The terror tactics of Hamas, Al Qaeda, and Hezbollah, use bombs. The terror tactics of the modern Republican machine uses Information Warfare. Some people call Karl Rove an evil genius - but he's just exploiting the market-driven and overconsolidated corporate media in the US. They make big money, and they cycle it all back through the propaganda system through folks like American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundataion, Aspen Group, Center for American Progress, Focus on the Family, etc. (this is the "vast right wing conspiracy" Hillary Clinton was talking about. Yes, Bill really DID get a blowjob, yes, he really did lie, by a plain-folks definition of the word, and yes, there really was a vast right wing conspiracy that was out to get him.)
It's BEEN all over since they killed the television/radio/newspaper equivalent of "net neutrality" - called the "fairness doctrine" back in the 1980's.
It's all over but the shouting, which is pretty much why shouting is all we've been able to do since then, because nobody's listening anymore.
Until that time, America was good shephards of capitalism. Now we've let it grow wild and feral. And this force of nature, the "free market" is going to roll right over this country like Katrina rolled through New Orleans.
MBA's are the army of satan on this earth.
if you lower demand enough by taxing enough, the price people can sell oil products for (before tax) goes down, so it becomes less profitable to seek out new sources of oil.
On the other hand, if you seek out (and find) new sources of oil, then supply goes up and the prices (and profit) drops.
In a true free market, I'd agree that competitors could gain advantage over eachother by exploring for more oil. But throughout this recent energy crisis from whwere oil started around $20/bbl in 2000, through last year's high of near $80/bbl, not one major western oil company is investing in infrastructure. Hell - even BP Amoco has let their infrastructure systematically rot to massive failure.
They know it's not a free market, because they collude to constrain supply. Then they tell us that they don't control prices. Just like the power generators told California that they didn't control plant outages.
I guess I should try getting the data cable (which no verizon store I have been to actually stocks). For some reason, my RAZR won't sync via bluetooth. It gets about halfway, then just dies. No useful messages, even in the "verbose" mode error log.
I'm all for emission controlls and regulation -
But I wish they would have an exception for diesel autos.
I drive a Jetta TDI, and I get 46 miles per gallon. Why is my car a pariah status as if it were a big-rig? My car puts out less pollution per mile than most sedans, and probably all SUV's.
I was forced to go out of state to even FIND a Jetta TDI to purchase. Though they were gracious enough to let me register it, they're really not doing the environment any favors with this ban. California needs MORE diesel autos. Not less.
I blew off my homework and socialized and partied through college.
Let me tell you, the other extreme brings a lot of regrets with it too.
I'm not the only one who believes that it's creepy as hell to NAME a bill.
They usually have numbers. They should be referred to only by their number. Slapping a name on a bill is a dishonest labelling for the purpose of marketing.
This article sponsored by; ZipCo International.
Manufacturers of the worlds most reliable and most costly zip-ties!
Organize your wiring cabinet today! You can never use enough zip-ties!
...Also, governments have been engaging in infrastructure-development projects since probably the beginning of recorded history,....
It's probably the main thing that allowed history to ever be recorded in the first place.
If you're talking about the beginning of recorded history, you're talking about ancient Sumer, where the government controlled food production and distribution, and a system of writing (called cuneiform) was developed specifically to track food production and distribution.
Me?
I don't think that any amount of me telling people how important Net Neutrality is, is going to change a damn thing. The telcos have bought their congressmen, they own the airwaves, they have more money than me, or God.
Net Neutrality will go away.
And THEN people will realize what they have lost. And then, maybe then, they'll understand why our current system of legalized electoral bribery does not serve their interests.
Then again, I thought the same way about Napster.
I thought that; the Internet boom was largely fueled by Napster. I knew so many people who bought computers, got connected, and learned about computing, because they knew they could download all their music for free. I knew that as soon as they made Napster illegal, all those people would drop out. I'm not sure that internet growth statistics reflect that, in retrospect, I was wrong. But in that regard, the Internet sure is a lot less attractive than it was in 1996.
Killing Net Neutrality is going to have a sharp, negative impact on the overall health of the IT industry in general. In America. In other countries, not so much. In fact, that's a whole bunch of competitors that companies in other countries won't have to worry about anymore. The net is Global. No one controls it.
While I see pair programming's implicit code-review as better than NO code review at all, I believe that a formal review process is explicitly more trustworthy.
When two coders work very closely together, over time, they tend to accrue the same work habits, the same syntax, the same judgement, etc. This leads to a mini-groupthink mode, that can give both coders the same blind spots. (unless you mix-up the teams occasionally - and normal turnover should keep the larger group well-stocked with fresh people).
A formal review by a larger group can reveal these blind spots.
However - the "formal review" also has its flaws; that is, getting a larger group of reviewers to ACTUALLY review the code (rather than sit, yawn, and sign-off) is much more difficult than you'd think. This flaw is almost more dangerous than a single developer with no review at all. There's no consistency to how well a formal review board works, and there's a false sense of security.
Well, the first guy who cheated at "catch the antelope" by making a spear sure "won".
However, the first guy who won at "catch the antelope" by clubbing the fastest guy over the head with a rock, maybe had other issues.
Heh - that's pretty funny.
Canada. Crowded. Heh.
and none is necessarily dirtier than any other
Downtown Cincinatti smells very strongly of the urine of winos.
It is by far, the dirtiest city I've ever visited.
Spent a lot of time in Chicago - and there were times when it was dirty (under the Daleys, and Washington), times when it was clean (Jane Byrne).
I'm guessing, it involves a black magic marker. . .