HW was a weak showman but also a weak leader, so I think that counts. Clinton was always a showman, and quite a good one. W was pure PT Barnum, he actually had people believing that he was a Texas cowboy and not a Connecticut Yankee. "There's a sucker born every minute" is the only way to explain Bush's two terms.
Shells are free. Everyone should have access to a shell. Running your own SSH server has significant advantages over using Xmarks (no data mining), and it's far more secure than FTP (plain text passwords!).
I actually don't use bookmarks. Last I checked they were just stored in a simple HTML file. But, that shouldn't pose a problem. You can script sqlite from the command line. Still no reason to go full client/server.
You've got to ask yourself, when you do a cost/benefit analysis is spending tons of money keeping preemies alive really worth it? There's a point at which it's not cost effective to save them, and the right thing for the parents to do is try again next year, or choose adoption. While a personal tragedy, miscarriage isn't really a problem society needs to be spending lots of money on. Money spent on saving preemies could be better spent saving older children who have unique personalities and who society has already invested a lot in raising. Infants are fungible. If the repair cost is more than the replacement cost, it just doesn't make sense to care for them.
You might think this a callous viewpoint. But imagine if your daughters had died. It would be traumatic, but after you work through it you can try again. That child would be just as precious and loved as the children you have.
Either way you do it, you are sacrificing the existence of a precious child. Why not go the way that costs less?
It really makes you wonder what saving all these preemies is doing to the human gene pool. Will we someday be unable to breed without the help of medical technology?
Seems like an external server would be overkill for such a simple task. And think of the opportunities they for data mining. Xmarks can and should be replaced by a very small shell script.
we should be open to breaking the unions' monopoly on representing worker rights.
Collective bargaining is the only method of protecting workers rights that actually works. If it weren't for unions, we would have no worker rights. Now these specific unions may have outlived their usefulness, gotten corrupt, and in all likelihood should be replaced. That doesn't mean we should abandon unions entirely.
No, not in the least. You have to know where you are vulnerable to know what to protect. This is much like medical research, you have to know how to induce a disease in order to test new treatments.
I have CFLs in my basement. If I want enough light to see what's in the box I'm grabbing, I have to stand around and wait. Or more likely leave and come back later. I haven't stood there with a stopwatch or anything, but it's definitely long enough to be a pain in the ass.
Popular Mechanics runs through the numbers for you. BTW, this was the first result on google for "mg mercury in a cfl". There's another article here that was the first result for "mercury cfl coal". It's not like this information is hard to find.
And? I rather like that in the morning, easier for my eyes to adjust. I've never understood that knock on CFL's. It's not like it takes an hour and a half to go from dark to 20w brightness. If it takes a minute or two, BFD.
And if I need to pop into my basement and need light for 30 seconds to find something? Now I have to sit around for 5 minutes to let the light warm up.
What I never understood is why "daylight" CFLs are blue-white in color while daylight itself is yellow-white.
Waste disposal is actually not really an issue. The mercury in a CFL is a very small amount, just break it and let the wind carry it away. The mercury given off by a coal powered incandescent light dwarfs the amount in a CFL.
Lighting is a negligible expense on a single electric bill. It's only in aggregate where efficiency adds up to real savings. $0.10/kWh or free, we can all afford as much light as we want, even with incandescence. So lowering the cost should not affect how much light we actually use.
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I'm wondering what they can do if given some extra bytes."
If they use bankswitching, maybe they can pull off Asteroids
HW was a weak showman but also a weak leader, so I think that counts. Clinton was always a showman, and quite a good one. W was pure PT Barnum, he actually had people believing that he was a Texas cowboy and not a Connecticut Yankee. "There's a sucker born every minute" is the only way to explain Bush's two terms.
And every president since has been more showman than leader.
In that case you'll appreciate the meteorite putting you out of your misery.
Shells are free. Everyone should have access to a shell. Running your own SSH server has significant advantages over using Xmarks (no data mining), and it's far more secure than FTP (plain text passwords!).
Not really. If they chose not to have me, I wouldn't mind at all. Since I wouldn't have a mind.
That's what SSH is for. You act like people never ran shell scripts remotely before.
I actually don't use bookmarks. Last I checked they were just stored in a simple HTML file. But, that shouldn't pose a problem. You can script sqlite from the command line. Still no reason to go full client/server.
You've got to ask yourself, when you do a cost/benefit analysis is spending tons of money keeping preemies alive really worth it? There's a point at which it's not cost effective to save them, and the right thing for the parents to do is try again next year, or choose adoption. While a personal tragedy, miscarriage isn't really a problem society needs to be spending lots of money on. Money spent on saving preemies could be better spent saving older children who have unique personalities and who society has already invested a lot in raising. Infants are fungible. If the repair cost is more than the replacement cost, it just doesn't make sense to care for them.
You might think this a callous viewpoint. But imagine if your daughters had died. It would be traumatic, but after you work through it you can try again. That child would be just as precious and loved as the children you have.
Either way you do it, you are sacrificing the existence of a precious child. Why not go the way that costs less?
It really makes you wonder what saving all these preemies is doing to the human gene pool. Will we someday be unable to breed without the help of medical technology?
You're right. Parents lose their sense of humor awfully quick. Just one more reason not to be a parent.
Seems like an external server would be overkill for such a simple task. And think of the opportunities they for data mining. Xmarks can and should be replaced by a very small shell script.
This isn't for smart investors. This is for stupid people conned into thinking they are smart investors.
Why would they send it over HTTP, instead of having their server participate in the swarm as a seed? That seems the natural way to do it.
we should be open to breaking the unions' monopoly on representing worker rights.
Collective bargaining is the only method of protecting workers rights that actually works. If it weren't for unions, we would have no worker rights. Now these specific unions may have outlived their usefulness, gotten corrupt, and in all likelihood should be replaced. That doesn't mean we should abandon unions entirely.
It's not unwarranted. It wasn't too long ago when admitting that you were a socialist wasn't just political suicide, but would ruin your entire life.
No, not in the least. You have to know where you are vulnerable to know what to protect. This is much like medical research, you have to know how to induce a disease in order to test new treatments.
I have CFLs in my basement. If I want enough light to see what's in the box I'm grabbing, I have to stand around and wait. Or more likely leave and come back later. I haven't stood there with a stopwatch or anything, but it's definitely long enough to be a pain in the ass.
Popular Mechanics runs through the numbers for you. BTW, this was the first result on google for "mg mercury in a cfl". There's another article here that was the first result for "mercury cfl coal". It's not like this information is hard to find.
And? I rather like that in the morning, easier for my eyes to adjust. I've never understood that knock on CFL's. It's not like it takes an hour and a half to go from dark to 20w brightness. If it takes a minute or two, BFD.
And if I need to pop into my basement and need light for 30 seconds to find something? Now I have to sit around for 5 minutes to let the light warm up.
What I never understood is why "daylight" CFLs are blue-white in color while daylight itself is yellow-white.
Waste disposal is actually not really an issue. The mercury in a CFL is a very small amount, just break it and let the wind carry it away. The mercury given off by a coal powered incandescent light dwarfs the amount in a CFL.
Funny how I never bought a "bad light" before CFLs were around. Sure, you can get a good CFL if you spend $20 on it, but what's the point in that?
Lighting is a negligible expense on a single electric bill. It's only in aggregate where efficiency adds up to real savings. $0.10/kWh or free, we can all afford as much light as we want, even with incandescence. So lowering the cost should not affect how much light we actually use.
What makes you think a book publisher cares about getting information out?
Actually there's no language requiring that. There is however language requiring a good faith belief when filing a counter notice.