The whole point of the "democractic" system in the west is that the voters don't have any direct say over specific topics, you choose a party which you somewhat agree with, but they usually also represent a lot of topics you don't agree with - you pick the least annoying part. Only a very strong reform could produce a system which was representativt of what the people really wanted. A party with just one item on the menu is dead, you would be "wasting" the one vote do you do. What they should have done is working on changing the minds of exsisting politicians.
One of my oldest friends is a professor of geology and geophysics at a University. Because most of what he has told me is off the record and unquotable, I can't give his name (I wish I could).
Did you ask him? Sounds like he has been trying to explain the scientific method to you and you are too stupid to understand it. He admits to me that geophysicists have no idea what is happening beneath the thinnest part of the earth's crust that we live on -- and that almost every theory they've created has been shut down by actual accounts of natural phenomena.
That's how it works! Only religious nuts occupy themselves with absolute knowledge. Scientists looks at things, and suggest an explanation if its can be proven wrong they try a new one - thats how it has worked for hundreds of years, that is what has brought us everything from computers to moon landings. ...and I am amazed at how often scientists are proven wrong. I know that it is heretical to say that on slashdot (I was blasted about it earlier this morning on this very forum),
No, you presumably get blasted because you are an idiot who doesn't know what he is blathering about.
What was negotiated was for the European system's frequency to be moved slightly, such that the US or Europe could jam each others signals without interfering with their own.
Of course we all know which country is mostly likely to do it first...
...and I was with you 100%, right up to the "compassionate Filipina" bit. Where the hell did that come from?
As they say around here RTFA. They are starting to need people since the japanese are not having enough children, and a lot of other countries would like to come in - like people from the philipines, but the Japanese don't want strangers in - which is why they prefer to build robots. They start by mentioning a filipina nurse (or something like that) but the old people don't feel comfortable with such a creature, they probably would with a robot.
Winners: People who don't want to pay for music or movies and would rather steal them.
Downloading isn't stealing.
Losers: Businesses who have a right to sell their products under the protection of copyright laws.
They have products nobody wants to buy, that's what makes them loosers.
Biggest Losers: The average consumer who has to deal with excessive DRM because of the "winners" above.
Naa, the industry is run by imoral people, they would do this anyyway. Especially since we see they just pick a number and random and say "this is how much we should have sold, and since we haven't IT MUST BE CRIMINALS WHO PREVENT IT!"
The young developers don't understand some of us can't read the tiny fonts - it wouldn't be that hard to make a scaleable interface, but usually they don't care. Even a game like world of warcraft, where the engine already can scale the interface doesn't allow people to actually scale the windows larger, only smaller! Totally brain dead.
Slashdot Mirror
Seen that - doesn't work.
When I close a tab I expect the one to left of the tab i just closed to be active, not for the damn browser to activate some other lame random tab...
The whole point of the "democractic" system in the west is that the voters don't have any direct say over specific topics, you choose a party which you somewhat agree with, but they usually also represent a lot of topics you don't agree with - you pick the least annoying part. Only a very strong reform could produce a system which was representativt of what the people really wanted. A party with just one item on the menu is dead, you would be "wasting" the one vote do you do. What they should have done is working on changing the minds of exsisting politicians.
So: do I take the word of some yahoo on Slashdot, or that of Dr. Nation, member of the AAPG? Not exactly a tough call
;)
Of course, technically *yoU* are the yahoo on Slashdot, since you didn't provide a link
Why does that suprise anybody?
One of my oldest friends is a professor of geology and geophysics at a University. Because most of what he has told me is off the record and unquotable, I can't give his name (I wish I could).
...and I am amazed at how often scientists are proven wrong. I know that it is heretical to say that on slashdot (I was blasted about it earlier this morning on this very forum),
Did you ask him? Sounds like he has been trying to explain the scientific method to you and you are too stupid to understand it.
He admits to me that geophysicists have no idea what is happening beneath the thinnest part of the earth's crust that we live on -- and that almost every theory they've created has been shut down by actual accounts of natural phenomena.
That's how it works! Only religious nuts occupy themselves with absolute knowledge. Scientists looks at things, and suggest an explanation if its can be proven wrong they try a new one - thats how it has worked for hundreds of years, that is what has brought us everything from computers to moon landings.
No, you presumably get blasted because you are an idiot who doesn't know what he is blathering about.
You state it as fact when it simply isn't; it's the best explanation we have for crude oil at this point.
And if you hadn't made that up on the spot, you could have linked to some proof.
Since they don't know what is going on it IS a mystery. Read a dictionary some time.
What was negotiated was for the European system's frequency to be moved slightly, such that the US or Europe could jam each others signals without interfering with their own.
Of course we all know which country is mostly likely to do it first...
This isn't because we hate them, or they hate us, or either of us expects to ever fight.
Don't bet on it.
...and, to my knowledge, the United States hasn't been messing with GPS much if any.
The reason they started devloping it was because the US degraded performance.
... the EU started working on this after the US started to reduce accuracy in certain areas...
Most Japanese laugh at their religions
Sensible people.
They could build massive robots and invade the world!
...and I was with you 100%, right up to the "compassionate Filipina" bit. Where the hell did that come from?
As they say around here RTFA. They are starting to need people since the japanese are not having enough children, and a lot of other countries would like to come in - like people from the philipines, but the Japanese don't want strangers in - which is why they prefer to build robots. They start by mentioning a filipina nurse (or something like that) but the old people don't feel comfortable with such a creature, they probably would with a robot.
While we're on the subject of pedanticism, I'd like to point out that there is no Santa,
Yes there is in stories and mythology, and as such there are rules for how you spell it.
Winners: People who don't want to pay for music or movies and would rather steal them.
Downloading isn't stealing.
Losers: Businesses who have a right to sell their products under the protection of copyright laws.
They have products nobody wants to buy, that's what makes them loosers.
Biggest Losers: The average consumer who has to deal with excessive DRM because of the "winners" above.
Naa, the industry is run by imoral people, they would do this anyyway. Especially since we see they just pick a number and random and say "this is how much we should have sold, and since we haven't IT MUST BE CRIMINALS WHO PREVENT IT!"
...if you rearrange the numbers in the correct way you get a binary pattern of the letters: SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH!
Financially, it's a good move.
Scaring people away from your services is a good move?
Make a note in your diaries.
is not a criminal offense in most countries
But still illegal in almost all countries.
Only the part about digital effect is wrong, the majority of the story is correct - they thought it was too big and "need" to cover it up.
The young developers don't understand some of us can't read the tiny fonts - it wouldn't be that hard to make a scaleable interface, but usually they don't care. Even a game like world of warcraft, where the engine already can scale the interface doesn't allow people to actually scale the windows larger, only smaller! Totally brain dead.
A lot of trouble?!
Just take your installation CD
Which is where 90% will say its a lot of trouble and put it away. Slipstreaming is for nerds, this is a place of nerds, but the world isn't.
*ONE* restart is a lot of trouble.