Conservation of energy can have its advantages; but laziness is not an external force. For instance, I would call the intellectual laziness of the unoriginal rejoinders to my comment to be more of a character flaw.
I don't think the saying is meant to be a universal principle, just a saying. In this case, it's perfectly applicable. Shutting off the internet (long enough to round up the perpetrators) may have killed the movement if it hadn't already reached critical mass; instead the organizers adapted and became stronger for it.
And once oppressive governments try to use such predictions to suppress revolutions, the people will learn to adapt and alter their public speech. For instance, after decades of government control of the media, Egyptians were able to use social networking to vent their frustrations. As governments try to suppress/infiltrate social networking, people will turn to other strategies.
There's no such thing as absolute time. What time is it on Mars?
Anyway, are you telling me that "4 hours from midday" is easier to communicate than "4PM" (or "1600")? So now if midday is 21:00 for me, I have to do clock arithmetic just to figure out what time someone's talking about?
Or... we could just continue to say "4PM" without a time-zone specifier, and let our big brains figure out if that means 4PM relative to where you are or 4PM in a particular time zone. Seems to work pretty well so far these past couple hundred years.
But why keep the antiquated 24-hour day at all? Why not decimalize all of our time units? 10 hours per day, I say, 1000 days per year. Who cares if none of it lines up what we observe in our daily lives? That's what we all have smartphones for!
BTW, the premise of the question is wrong: time zones were not introduced for when different parts of the world were isolated. When locations are isolated, they don't need to agree on a time. Time zones were introduced for when different parts of the world were getting connected... specifically by railroads.
You could have a debate about the wisdom of the government's involvement, but startups fail all the time. Highlighting one as a cautionary tale teaches nothing, other than "don't invest in a startup unless you're willing to lose your investment".
I dunno. I bet Goldman Sachs has a lot of really smart people that other companies would love to hire, "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity" though Goldman may be.
I wouldn't read too much into people's bad password habits to a site that didn't collect any sensitive personal data. Sharing passwords across sites would be more of a problem as it may lead to inadvertently revealig a password to another site that does have more importance; or losing access to a bunch of individually unimportant accounts may be more traumatic.
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Damn right... if our children grow up thinking that Greedo shot first, then the terrorists have already won.
I suppose, if you consider scapegoating to be reasonable...
Now *that's* what I call piracy!
According to the blurb, they expected to lose 1 million subscribers.
Can it test for the presence of levamisole? Just asking... for a friend.
Conservation of energy can have its advantages; but laziness is not an external force. For instance, I would call the intellectual laziness of the unoriginal rejoinders to my comment to be more of a character flaw.
Then for all intents and purposes, it killed you.
I don't think the saying is meant to be a universal principle, just a saying. In this case, it's perfectly applicable. Shutting off the internet (long enough to round up the perpetrators) may have killed the movement if it hadn't already reached critical mass; instead the organizers adapted and became stronger for it.
And once oppressive governments try to use such predictions to suppress revolutions, the people will learn to adapt and alter their public speech. For instance, after decades of government control of the media, Egyptians were able to use social networking to vent their frustrations. As governments try to suppress/infiltrate social networking, people will turn to other strategies.
Ah, but that means every single citizen will be able to afford a predator drone of their own!
...you know the rest.
There's no such thing as absolute time. What time is it on Mars?
Anyway, are you telling me that "4 hours from midday" is easier to communicate than "4PM" (or "1600")? So now if midday is 21:00 for me, I have to do clock arithmetic just to figure out what time someone's talking about?
Or... we could just continue to say "4PM" without a time-zone specifier, and let our big brains figure out if that means 4PM relative to where you are or 4PM in a particular time zone. Seems to work pretty well so far these past couple hundred years.
But why keep the antiquated 24-hour day at all? Why not decimalize all of our time units? 10 hours per day, I say, 1000 days per year. Who cares if none of it lines up what we observe in our daily lives? That's what we all have smartphones for!
BTW, the premise of the question is wrong: time zones were not introduced for when different parts of the world were isolated. When locations are isolated, they don't need to agree on a time. Time zones were introduced for when different parts of the world were getting connected... specifically by railroads.
You could have a debate about the wisdom of the government's involvement, but startups fail all the time. Highlighting one as a cautionary tale teaches nothing, other than "don't invest in a startup unless you're willing to lose your investment".
Relax, cowboy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoduck
I dunno. I bet Goldman Sachs has a lot of really smart people that other companies would love to hire, "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity" though Goldman may be.
Is that pronounced "gooey-hot"?
Yeah, sounds like the issue isn't so much about anti-competitive behavior, but an abuse of the email priority settings.
So, I'll get my coffee 20 minutes faster than usual?
Now, instead of having to restart Firefox twice a day, I get to restart my whole desktop shell.
I wouldn't read too much into people's bad password habits to a site that didn't collect any sensitive personal data. Sharing passwords across sites would be more of a problem as it may lead to inadvertently revealig a password to another site that does have more importance; or losing access to a bunch of individually unimportant accounts may be more traumatic.
Question is: how many tax nexus areas do you cross while being productive? Well, at least I have to wonder about such things where I work. ;-)
I want my mile-high entertainment the old fashioned way: sneaking in the lav.
I was being facetious, but thank you for admitting that the word you intended to use was, in fact, "winning".
Perhaps... but the fact that France Télécom controls most of the phone service in France makes mentioning them by name somewhat redundant.