Asbestos doesn't even cause cancer, it gets in your lungs and doesn't leave (and does bad things to them, but doesn't cause cancer.).
Also, asbestos has gotten a much worse rap than it should have; certain kinds of it aren't harmful at all, but much like nuclear power, people are afraid of it based on a whole lot of FUD.
World War 2 was mostly a defensive move. We didn't go to Europe or the Pacific looking for something to destroy; we were defending ourselves and others. Germany, Italy, and Japan clearly made the offensive moves.
"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy." - John Quincy Adams.
Whatever happened to THAT foreign policy? It has never been the goal of the United States to spread democracy to all corners of the world. If you want our democracy, we'll gladly take you in (most of the time); but we have no business going to your country and forcing you and all your friends to join us.
Reminds me of the advertisement before a movie I just saw. It's one of the crew guys in Hollywood telling us how downloading movies doesn't hurt the millionaires, but it hurts him.
I might be wrong here, but aren't people in those sorts of positions paid an hourly wage which is independent of how many people watch the movie or buy it when it comes out on tape?
The price has nothing to do with the CD itself, the price has to do with the artist getting 5 cents, the label taking 17 dollars, the retailer taking another 5 cents, and the cd manufacturer taking 15 cents.
This isn't a fine that is being handed down by the government for a criminal offense; it is damages being awarded in a civil lawsuit. Thus, the burden of recovery of the money is on the plaintiff; not the government.
According to the article on astrobio.net it was Halley's: Observations have since been made of Comet Halley as it moves away from the Sun, documenting a steady decrease of activity. When it reached the distance of Saturn, the tail and coma had disappeared completely, leaving only the 5 x 5 x 15 km avocado-shaped "dirty snowball" nucleus. However, Halley was still good for a major surprise: in 1991, a gigantic explosion happened, providing it with an expanding, extensive cloud of dust for several months. It is not known whether this event was caused by a collision with an unknown piece of rock or by internal processes (a last "sigh" on the way out).
1. Backward compatibility is important; however, at some point in time it becomes too restrictive to further development and needs to be tossed out the window. This is more common in computer architecture than document formats. I would say that MS still has an obilgation to its customers to allow backward compatibility.
5. Unless they only allow you to save the document in this form, I don't see this happening. There is also the ability to save the document in another format; i.e. HTML, RTF, etc.
Most companies have rules regarding anything that you produce while working there. Therefore, more than likely that document would become the property of the company at the moment that you wrote it. If you were to assign an expiration date to it, and you were not supposed to, then you would get probably get canned and have the crap beat out of you. If you were instructed to set such an expiration, then who cares.
I really fail to see your argument. Does having an expiration date prevent any preservation of the document outside of that date? Could it not be printed/copied/photocopied/take a screenshot and save that, etc.?
I played with the calculator a little bit more, and on the whole it appears that rural cities in India are slightly less costly to live in than ours; and major cities in India are much more expensive to live in.
However, in most cases the same job will pay 1/3 in India what it will pay in the US.
A lot of people in India are on strike at the moment; they know they're not getting paid enough, and hopefully things will turn out for the best over there. Unions paved the way for better pay and working conditions here in the US and they will probably do the same there. All of the companies saving a few bucks by sending jobs there now will find soon enough that it's going to be costing the same as it would to keep the jobs here.
Solution: Don't live in areas with a high probability of a sever earthquake occuring in the near future; especially if the area is sitting on something other than solid rock. I.E. silt, mud, clay, sand, etc.
Same here, I used 1.1 for the longest time, just because it worked so well for me. I tried 1.2 and 1.3 but had a few quirky problems with them and stuck with 1.1 up until awhile after 1.4 came out. Unless some new release fixes some bugs that I have problems with or it adds some great new features; I will have no reason to upgrade.
While no one else really seems to care, this bookmarks bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146856 has really bothered me and still does. (You can't link to bugzilla from slashdot, so you will have to copy and paste the link anyway).
How can we expect people who can't figure out which hole to punch when there is a line going straight to it from the person's name to figure out a system like this?
It might sound simple to you, me, and most of the people here on slashdot, but remember "C" is average; most people are stupid.
It will also help to even further ensure that the two current reigning parties remain in power. Most people, when they see they have the option of ranking candidates, will then say "Well then, I can put the 3rd party guy down as #2 and then he'll get a little support." I don't think it really solves anything. It might make it appear that someone has over 50% of the votes, but what they probably really have is 25% of the people really liked them, and another 25% thought they were better than someone else, but definitely not good enough to be a first choice.
Voting should be as simple as possible, otherwise it may become prohibitive and unnecessarily complex so that the average voter will not have a clue what is really going on and how people are getting elected.
I think the New Jersey/Pittsburg game will definitely be worth watching. All the shouting, name-calling, and fighting will definitely make it worth while.
(for the utterly clueless -> New Jersey Devil's (BSD) vs. Pittsburg Penguins (Linux))
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Blaming guns for murder is like blaming blank cd manufacturers for piracy.
Asbestos doesn't even cause cancer, it gets in your lungs and doesn't leave (and does bad things to them, but doesn't cause cancer.).
Also, asbestos has gotten a much worse rap than it should have; certain kinds of it aren't harmful at all, but much like nuclear power, people are afraid of it based on a whole lot of FUD.
World War 2 was mostly a defensive move. We didn't go to Europe or the Pacific looking for something to destroy; we were defending ourselves and others. Germany, Italy, and Japan clearly made the offensive moves.
"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy." - John Quincy Adams.
Whatever happened to THAT foreign policy? It has never been the goal of the United States to spread democracy to all corners of the world. If you want our democracy, we'll gladly take you in (most of the time); but we have no business going to your country and forcing you and all your friends to join us.
Reminds me of the advertisement before a movie I just saw. It's one of the crew guys in Hollywood telling us how downloading movies doesn't hurt the millionaires, but it hurts him.
I might be wrong here, but aren't people in those sorts of positions paid an hourly wage which is independent of how many people watch the movie or buy it when it comes out on tape?
A luxury model would imply bloat.
The price has nothing to do with the CD itself, the price has to do with the artist getting 5 cents, the label taking 17 dollars, the retailer taking another 5 cents, and the cd manufacturer taking 15 cents.
Kinda like the people who buy a cd, copy it, then sell it to a used music store?
This isn't a fine that is being handed down by the government for a criminal offense; it is damages being awarded in a civil lawsuit. Thus, the burden of recovery of the money is on the plaintiff; not the government.
According to the article on astrobio.net it was Halley's: Observations have since been made of Comet Halley as it moves away from the Sun, documenting a steady decrease of activity. When it reached the distance of Saturn, the tail and coma had disappeared completely, leaving only the 5 x 5 x 15 km avocado-shaped "dirty snowball" nucleus. However, Halley was still good for a major surprise: in 1991, a gigantic explosion happened, providing it with an expanding, extensive cloud of dust for several months. It is not known whether this event was caused by a collision with an unknown piece of rock or by internal processes (a last "sigh" on the way out).
someday it will be.
1. Backward compatibility is important; however, at some point in time it becomes too restrictive to further development and needs to be tossed out the window. This is more common in computer architecture than document formats. I would say that MS still has an obilgation to its customers to allow backward compatibility.
5. Unless they only allow you to save the document in this form, I don't see this happening. There is also the ability to save the document in another format; i.e. HTML, RTF, etc.
Most companies have rules regarding anything that you produce while working there. Therefore, more than likely that document would become the property of the company at the moment that you wrote it. If you were to assign an expiration date to it, and you were not supposed to, then you would get probably get canned and have the crap beat out of you. If you were instructed to set such an expiration, then who cares.
I really fail to see your argument. Does having an expiration date prevent any preservation of the document outside of that date? Could it not be printed/copied/photocopied/take a screenshot and save that, etc.?
This is a pointless what if question.
Multiple breadwinners per household?
I played with the calculator a little bit more, and on the whole it appears that rural cities in India are slightly less costly to live in than ours; and major cities in India are much more expensive to live in.
However, in most cases the same job will pay 1/3 in India what it will pay in the US.
A lot of people in India are on strike at the moment; they know they're not getting paid enough, and hopefully things will turn out for the best over there. Unions paved the way for better pay and working conditions here in the US and they will probably do the same there. All of the companies saving a few bucks by sending jobs there now will find soon enough that it's going to be costing the same as it would to keep the jobs here.
Actually, the cost of living in many parts of India is higher than it is in most of the US. See for yourself.
Most of these numbers are already in phone books; so what's the difference?
Microsoft runs a very impressive database already.
Solution: Don't live in areas with a high probability of a sever earthquake occuring in the near future; especially if the area is sitting on something other than solid rock. I.E. silt, mud, clay, sand, etc.
Same here, I used 1.1 for the longest time, just because it worked so well for me. I tried 1.2 and 1.3 but had a few quirky problems with them and stuck with 1.1 up until awhile after 1.4 came out. Unless some new release fixes some bugs that I have problems with or it adds some great new features; I will have no reason to upgrade.
While no one else really seems to care, this bookmarks bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146856 has really bothered me and still does. (You can't link to bugzilla from slashdot, so you will have to copy and paste the link anyway).
It only takes a short time to add a bug report, etc.
How can we expect people who can't figure out which hole to punch when there is a line going straight to it from the person's name to figure out a system like this?
It might sound simple to you, me, and most of the people here on slashdot, but remember "C" is average; most people are stupid.
It will also help to even further ensure that the two current reigning parties remain in power. Most people, when they see they have the option of ranking candidates, will then say "Well then, I can put the 3rd party guy down as #2 and then he'll get a little support." I don't think it really solves anything. It might make it appear that someone has over 50% of the votes, but what they probably really have is 25% of the people really liked them, and another 25% thought they were better than someone else, but definitely not good enough to be a first choice.
Voting should be as simple as possible, otherwise it may become prohibitive and unnecessarily complex so that the average voter will not have a clue what is really going on and how people are getting elected.
(for the utterly clueless -> New Jersey Devil's (BSD) vs. Pittsburg Penguins (Linux))