Rail is not dead in the US. Passenger rail is pretty dead in the US. Freight rail in the US, which is a much, much better use of resources, on the other hand, is top of the world.
I'm sure some people will do that, and I'm sure Valve thinks so too. But adding a moderate hurdle like that will certainly cut abuse down, and I don't see it as being a real imposition at all on actual users, so I think this is a brilliant idea./been getting Steam Spam lately.
Couple additional reasons too: lead decreases the drying time of oil-based paints, and also produces relatively strong paint films. It's a fantastically useful pigment, actually, aside from that poisonous thing.
/professional oil painter
/currently has a pile of lead paint on his palette.
Steeling infrastructure today is like steeling horses in Wild West time
What, they made horses out of steel with just a thin cladding (of hide?) in order to deter thieves?
'course they did. Bon Jovi, who obviously doesn't get enough credit for his deep historical research, even wrote a song about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRvCvsRp5ho&ob=av3e
Re:Which would be worse...
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I don't think that "Kerplop" will have the latest batch of 8-12 yr old boys out doing "science" instead of trying to be wizards, but that's probably because our "post-post-modern" culture is more attuned to angels & witches than it is to the scientific method. I don't blame it on Bhopal, Three Mile Island, or Agent Orange, though. I blame it on LSD, fake mysticism & "I'm OK, You're OK."
Yeah, but the thing you're missing is that Rowling's presented probably the/least mystical wizards/ to ever appear throughout history. Now, I think there are all kinds of things wrong with "post-post-modern culture", I'm with you here, but honestly! Hogwarts has more to do with a rational, reasoned approach to problem-solving than most things I've seen lately. Just no mini-subs.::misses the mini-sub::
Tell me again how we are so correct, and they are so wrong? If they're guilty of violating human rights, then so are we. Indeed, we're no better than the dolts who went around burning people for heresy a few hundred years back.
Tell me again how the witch hunters were so wrong and you're so correct? I mean, really, are you so self-righteous that you think you can tell them they're wrong just because they don't live up to your expectations?
If people will ever accept peace they need to find a way of dealing with eachother other than through violence. I will pray for peace, just as I will pray for an end to the violence that is going on right now.
We gave peace a chance. Now we're giving explosives a shot.
>Everyone study the post above. It's symbolic of why the US is 'hated' by so many around the world. It's important to not only let other people air their views, but to listen and respond in kind.
Jackass. The US is, right now, responding in kind. Violence is a proper response to violence, and if the WTC wasn't violence, I don't know what is.
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You are evil. There's no other word for you.
If it's evil (and it is) to kill a man, how much crueler is it to tell that man that he must simply stand there and be killed?
It was a monument to men - men who loved life, and chose to create. Men who, with a strong back and stronger mind, chose to create something noble.
It was a monument to those men, in that it was a living, useful building - not dead, pointless marble. It was a monument to those people who believed in life.
It is still a monument.
It is now a monument to "men" - men who hate life, hate nobility, hate those who are good - because they're good.
It is a monument to those who try and hide their hatred of everything noble and true, by shoving it into some "greater good", be it the "greater good" of the "race", "proletariat", "people", "believers", "nation", and choose not to see that there are only men - precious, irreplacable, individual men, too precious to sacrifice to a fiction.
It was a monument to men - men who loved life, and chose to create. Men who, with a strong back and stronger mind, chose to create something noble.
It was a monument to those men, in that it was a living, useful building - not dead, pointless marble. It was a monument to those people who believed in life.
It is still a monument.
It is now a monument to "men" - men who hate life, hate nobility, hate those who are good - because they're good.
It is a monument to those who try and hide their hatred of everything noble and true, by shoving it into some "greater good", be it the "greater good" of the "race", "proletariat", "people", "believers", "nation", and choose not to see that there are only men - precious, irreplacable, individual men, too precious to sacrifice to a fiction.
BTW, the word 'otaku', used in Gibson's article, roughly translates into 'Single Male Living in his parent's basement'. Which describes Slashdot trolls pretty well, don't you think?
Actually, "Otaku" literally refers to a person's house who is not a member of your group. The word got its connotations referring to people who were so obsessed with a specific thing that they never left home.
. Letting the market decide has produced so many monopolies and cartels in the past 150 or so years that there has to be a balance
Actually, if you really examine history, free capitalism has only produced one long-standing monopoly: The DeBiires (Spelling? I really don't recall) diamond monopoly.
There have been harmful monopolies that came and stayed, but a closer examinination will generally show that they were produced by specific government mandate that cut competition - best example is probably mid 19th century railroads who were granted governmet favours.
You want competiton and good products? Allow competition, don't punish the winner.
Would the people benefit if they get split? I think so.
What difference does it make? MS doesn't belong to "the people". MS belongs to the owners of MS, and they can do whatever the hell they want with it.
To use "the good of the people" as a justification to dispose of some people's property... Is essentially to say that the rights of certain individuals can be sacrificed for the rights of certain other individuals.
Because they don't even know that other options exist, for the most part.
How insanely stupid do you think most people are? I mean, Jesus, I can be a bit arrogant at times, but that just takes the prize.
No one has ever had a gun put to their head and been told to use MS products.
Believe it or not, standardization is a perfectly viable benefit, and by your logic, it could be as easily argued that Linux is doing harm to you by being non-standard.
Since I have lived in Britain for a few years, I have come to think that in affairs like this expediency is often the best way. Idealogy should be left to students and High School pupils - there is no place for it in the grown up world, because it leads to a divorce from reality.
Ideology is divorced from reality. As in, men should have no coherent philosophy or framework in which to ground long-term goals and behavior, and should instead lurch from case to case on the "expedience" of the moment?
My wallet WAS looted today, but that was actually because someone decided to rifle through gym lockers and take what they found. I'm not aware of a businessman ever so looting my wallet. I've given most of the bills that have entered said wallet to businessmen in return for one service or another, and quite a few for music. My rights have never been violated, either... Only way that can happen is if I'm forced, unwilling, into a transaction.
The RIAA and the average Slashdotter have the same basic mistake - this has nothing to do with profits.
To elaborate - the fundamental moral issue is independent of money raked in. Music companies could be going bankrupt, or they could be worth 300% their current value, and the fundamental issue would remain unaltered.
The question is not profits, but property rights, and anything else is a totally extraneous question.
Slashdot Mirror
Rail is not dead in the US. Passenger rail is pretty dead in the US. Freight rail in the US, which is a much, much better use of resources, on the other hand, is top of the world.
That's such great news I just have to say YAHOO!
I'm sure some people will do that, and I'm sure Valve thinks so too. But adding a moderate hurdle like that will certainly cut abuse down, and I don't see it as being a real imposition at all on actual users, so I think this is a brilliant idea. /been getting Steam Spam lately.
"Controlling Brain Activity with Magnetic Monopoles", and thought that it didn't seem like a terribly practical technique.
Couple additional reasons too: lead decreases the drying time of oil-based paints, and also produces relatively strong paint films. It's a fantastically useful pigment, actually, aside from that poisonous thing.
Steeling infrastructure today is like steeling horses in Wild West time
What, they made horses out of steel with just a thin cladding (of hide?) in order to deter thieves?
'course they did. Bon Jovi, who obviously doesn't get enough credit for his deep historical research, even wrote a song about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRvCvsRp5ho&ob=av3e
I don't think that "Kerplop" will have the latest batch of 8-12 yr old boys out doing "science" instead of trying to be wizards, but that's probably because our "post-post-modern" culture is more attuned to angels & witches than it is to the scientific method. I don't blame it on Bhopal, Three Mile Island, or Agent Orange, though. I blame it on LSD, fake mysticism & "I'm OK, You're OK."
/least mystical wizards/ to ever appear throughout history. Now, I think there are all kinds of things wrong with "post-post-modern culture", I'm with you here, but honestly! Hogwarts has more to do with a rational, reasoned approach to problem-solving than most things I've seen lately. Just no mini-subs. ::misses the mini-sub::
Yeah, but the thing you're missing is that Rowling's presented probably the
Tell me again how we are so correct, and they are so wrong? If they're guilty of violating human rights, then so are we. Indeed, we're no better than the dolts who went around burning people for heresy a few hundred years back.
Tell me again how the witch hunters were so wrong and you're so correct? I mean, really, are you so self-righteous that you think you can tell them they're wrong just because they don't live up to your expectations?
that if such an "open monopoly" were to occur, the majority of folks on Slashdot would be wailing about how the government needs to step in...
So if you threaten me on the street, I'm free to turn around and punch you? Of course not. We
Matter a' fact, yes, in most areas, it is legally (and more importantly, morally proper) to respond to an actual threat with violence
Also, do you really that stating 'jackass' as your opening word is a civilised responce to my reasonable post?
Actually, yes, I do. You have no apparent grasp of logic, ethics, or reality.
If people will ever accept peace they need to find a way of dealing with eachother other than through violence. I will pray for peace, just as I will pray for an end to the violence that is going on right now.
We gave peace a chance. Now we're giving explosives a shot.
>Everyone study the post above. It's symbolic of why the US is 'hated' by so many around the world. It's important to not only let other people air their views, but to listen and respond in kind.
Jackass. The US is, right now, responding in kind. Violence is a proper response to violence, and if the WTC wasn't violence, I don't know what is.
You are evil. There's no other word for you.
If it's evil (and it is) to kill a man, how much crueler is it to tell that man that he must simply stand there and be killed?
According to the rules of the English language, "men" may, depending on context, refer to the totality of the human race.
Jackass.
It was a monument to men - men who loved life, and chose to create. Men who, with a strong back and stronger mind, chose to create something noble.
It was a monument to those men, in that it was a living, useful building - not dead, pointless marble. It was a monument to those people who believed in life.
It is still a monument.
It is now a monument to "men" - men who hate life, hate nobility, hate those who are good - because they're good.
It is a monument to those who try and hide their hatred of everything noble and true, by shoving it into some "greater good", be it the "greater good" of the "race", "proletariat", "people", "believers", "nation", and choose not to see that there are only men - precious, irreplacable, individual men, too precious to sacrifice to a fiction.
It was a monument to men - men who loved life, and chose to create. Men who, with a strong back and stronger mind, chose to create something noble.
It was a monument to those men, in that it was a living, useful building - not dead, pointless marble. It was a monument to those people who believed in life.
It is still a monument.
It is now a monument to "men" - men who hate life, hate nobility, hate those who are good - because they're good.
It is a monument to those who try and hide their hatred of everything noble and true, by shoving it into some "greater good", be it the "greater good" of the "race", "proletariat", "people", "believers", "nation", and choose not to see that there are only men - precious, irreplacable, individual men, too precious to sacrifice to a fiction.
BTW, the word 'otaku', used in Gibson's article, roughly translates into 'Single Male Living in his parent's basement'. Which describes Slashdot trolls pretty well, don't you think?
Actually, "Otaku" literally refers to a person's house who is not a member of your group. The word got its connotations referring to people who were so obsessed with a specific thing that they never left home.
This trial isn't about morals or ethics
The hell its not about morality. Life is the greatest morality play, and the fundamental question of law is a moral question of rights.
Force MS to support standard, open, and free file formats and interfaces.
Force. What a wonderful answer. Tell me, if you don't like the way a person dresses, do you threaten to hurt them?
. Letting the market decide has produced so many monopolies and cartels in the past 150 or so years that there has to be a balance
Actually, if you really examine history, free capitalism has only produced one long-standing monopoly: The DeBiires (Spelling? I really don't recall) diamond monopoly.
There have been harmful monopolies that came and stayed, but a closer examinination will generally show that they were produced by specific government mandate that cut competition - best example is probably mid 19th century railroads who were granted governmet favours.
You want competiton and good products? Allow competition, don't punish the winner.
Would the people benefit if they get split? I think so.
What difference does it make? MS doesn't belong to "the people". MS belongs to the owners of MS, and they can do whatever the hell they want with it.
To use "the good of the people" as a justification to dispose of some people's property... Is essentially to say that the rights of certain individuals can be sacrificed for the rights of certain other individuals.
Because they don't even know that other options exist, for the most part.
How insanely stupid do you think most people are? I mean, Jesus, I can be a bit arrogant at times, but that just takes the prize.
No one has ever had a gun put to their head and been told to use MS products.
Believe it or not, standardization is a perfectly viable benefit, and by your logic, it could be as easily argued that Linux is doing harm to you by being non-standard.
Since I have lived in Britain for a few years, I have come to think that in affairs like this expediency is often the best way. Idealogy should be left to students and High School pupils - there is no place for it in the grown up world, because it leads to a divorce from reality.
Ideology is divorced from reality. As in, men should have no coherent philosophy or framework in which to ground long-term goals and behavior, and should instead lurch from case to case on the "expedience" of the moment?
No thank you.
while they loot your wallet and strip your rights
My wallet WAS looted today, but that was actually because someone decided to rifle through gym lockers and take what they found. I'm not aware of a businessman ever so looting my wallet. I've given most of the bills that have entered said wallet to businessmen in return for one service or another, and quite a few for music. My rights have never been violated, either... Only way that can happen is if I'm forced, unwilling, into a transaction.
The RIAA and the average Slashdotter have the same basic mistake - this has nothing to do with profits.
To elaborate - the fundamental moral issue is independent of money raked in. Music companies could be going bankrupt, or they could be worth 300% their current value, and the fundamental issue would remain unaltered.
The question is not profits, but property rights, and anything else is a totally extraneous question.