I live in the Netherlands. We are now taking measures to prevent the flooding of my country. But, recent calculations show that we can manage the extra water that we will have to cope with.
Some people will only listen to violence. But that is a detail I wouldn't teach my children until they were old enough to realize that life is not black and white like they teach you at school.
To one degree or another and how choose to interpret things, you just described just about everyone in society.
American society maybe. America definitely is a fear-driven society. But there are other ways to live. Unfortunately, many politicians in Europe now also choose to frighten and bully their people. No wonder terrorist threats are up.
The funny part of this is, sometimes a gaame gets reasonable grades in the review, and then gets flamed to hell and back on the site's forums for being utter crap:) Hereis a nice example.
Also, if memory serves, there are still situations where an installer app is allowed to simply take root access for itself without asking.
Yes, I was really surprised to see Firefox upgrade itself with no problems. How does it do that? I installed it in Applications and I run it as a normal user with no extra rights.
Ballmer just defines ball game differently than you do. Lots of love, low sales is success for some. He would (obviously) prefer little love, high sales.
But if you calculate the amount of profit per employee Apple might be doing much better than MS.
Here is a good piece about the use of corn for fuel in Mexico. Both the positive and the negative effects for the local people and the economy are treated.
The question that has been bugging me for a long time is: Is it even possible for us to use only renewable energy sources? I'm almost convinced we will never get enough energy out of renewable sources. Even now there are stories in the newspapers about locals having not enough food and water because their resources are being used for the production of alcohol for car fuel. Only a tiny amount of the earth's car poulation uses alcohol as (constituent of) its fuel. What if every car on earth has to run on bio fuel? We won't have any land left for producing food. Covering the roof of your house in solar panels gives you just enough energy to power only your house, or maybe a bit more. Covering the roof of an appartment- or office building in solar panels will give nowhere near enough energy to power the building. We will have to start making energy-efficient appliances fast, and start to use our resources sparingly, or we will have big problems in the future.
A space elevator contains so much carben we should build it just to get rid of our pesky global warming problem. Grow plants to take the CO2 out of the air, turn them into space elevator, and Bob's your uncle!
OK, that's it. The RIAA can be seen as a criminal organization and should be made illegal. They do more harm than the Hells Angels, and the Hells Angels are banned in many countries, so why not the RIAA?
Just machines that make big decisions programmed by fellows with compassion and vision...
-- Donald Fagen, I.G.Y., from the marvellous LP 'The Nightfly' (1982)
You see the problem? You replace one human with another.
I'm in charge of $40MM of business a year, yet my employment contract (which I was "forced into" in the same sense that artists are "forced into" recording contracts) includes a salary that isn't one hundredth of that amount. I've probably been responsible for half a billion dollars of sales, yet I'm firmly in the middle class.
One hundredth of 40 million is 400000. Four hundred thousand dollars a year is NOT middle class. I guess you meant to say that you earn forty thousand a year, which is even less than I do in my scientist yob. I pity you.
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You're pretty smug for someone who can't even spell his signature right.
I live in the Netherlands. We are now taking measures to prevent the flooding of my country. But, recent calculations show that we can manage the extra water that we will have to cope with.
I like pushing boxes around!
Some people will only listen to violence. But that is a detail I wouldn't teach my children until they were old enough to realize that life is not black and white like they teach you at school.
To one degree or another and how choose to interpret things, you just described just about everyone in society.
American society maybe. America definitely is a fear-driven society. But there are other ways to live. Unfortunately, many politicians in Europe now also choose to frighten and bully their people. No wonder terrorist threats are up.
Drat, where DID I leave the damn thing?
Thanks!
From the blurb: ... there are currently over two million hits on Google for a certain oft-posted illegal number...
Tell me: how can a number be illegal? What if they had used a normal word as the key, would that word then suddenly be illegal?
I meant to say [rethorical] tags but the 'smaller than' and 'bigger than' get interpreted by the browser...
Well, I guess I have to use tags next time... :)
The funny part of this is, sometimes a gaame gets reasonable grades in the review, and then gets flamed to hell and back on the site's forums for being utter crap :) Here is a nice example.
Why the hell is this insightful? It's an opinion, not even backed by facts.
Do we really need firewalls?
I said in my post I run as a regular user. But, as mentioned in another post, since I am the one who installed it, I can modify it too. And indeed:
/Applications/Firefox.app /Applications/Firefox.app/
tsa@geike:~$ ls -ld
drwxr-xr-x 3 tsa admin 102 Oct 11 2006
tsa@geike:~$
Also, if memory serves, there are still situations where an installer app is allowed to simply take root access for itself without asking.
Yes, I was really surprised to see Firefox upgrade itself with no problems. How does it do that? I installed it in Applications and I run it as a normal user with no extra rights.
Ballmer just defines ball game differently than you do. Lots of love, low sales is success for some. He would (obviously) prefer little love, high sales.
But if you calculate the amount of profit per employee Apple might be doing much better than MS.
We get much of our food from abroad so we are guilty of this too.
Here's another one.
Here is a good piece about the use of corn for fuel in Mexico. Both the positive and the negative effects for the local people and the economy are treated.
The question that has been bugging me for a long time is: Is it even possible for us to use only renewable energy sources? I'm almost convinced we will never get enough energy out of renewable sources. Even now there are stories in the newspapers about locals having not enough food and water because their resources are being used for the production of alcohol for car fuel. Only a tiny amount of the earth's car poulation uses alcohol as (constituent of) its fuel. What if every car on earth has to run on bio fuel? We won't have any land left for producing food. Covering the roof of your house in solar panels gives you just enough energy to power only your house, or maybe a bit more. Covering the roof of an appartment- or office building in solar panels will give nowhere near enough energy to power the building. We will have to start making energy-efficient appliances fast, and start to use our resources sparingly, or we will have big problems in the future.
A space elevator contains so much carben we should build it just to get rid of our pesky global warming problem. Grow plants to take the CO2 out of the air, turn them into space elevator, and Bob's your uncle!
OK, that's it. The RIAA can be seen as a criminal organization and should be made illegal. They do more harm than the Hells Angels, and the Hells Angels are banned in many countries, so why not the RIAA?
Call the neuro-implant 'pensieve' and you have a business!
Just machines that make big decisions
programmed by fellows with compassion and vision...
-- Donald Fagen, I.G.Y., from the marvellous LP 'The Nightfly' (1982)
You see the problem? You replace one human with another.
I'm in charge of $40MM of business a year, yet my employment contract (which I was "forced into" in the same sense that artists are "forced into" recording contracts) includes a salary that isn't one hundredth of that amount. I've probably been responsible for half a billion dollars of sales, yet I'm firmly in the middle class.
One hundredth of 40 million is 400000. Four hundred thousand dollars a year is NOT middle class. I guess you meant to say that you earn forty thousand a year, which is even less than I do in my scientist yob. I pity you.