... We could spread the sacrifice across the board by raising taxes, but most of the US seems convinced that they are already overtaxed. It could be that many American citizens feel that the tax burden is not shared by the corporate interests and the "rich". Nonetheless, I agree with you, and always wonder why so many people wish to emigrate here if taxes really were all that draconian.
Hasn't this has been on the horizon since NBC started broadcasting in color? This is the slowest death of a particular medium since radio was supposedly doomed.
I think some people like to read something they can fold, is light and cheap. (Eco-/.er's: I'm thinking recycled paper) and best of all, doesn't need to be charged or plugged in.
...new automobile tires in the U.S. come with unique, tamper-proof RFID chips in them already. Genuinely curious about "tamper-proof" and the implications for sticking these things in people, which I should think would be the most-likely goal for such a Machavellian technology.
Besides seconding your sentiments regarding the annoyance factor, I suggest, in addition, that there is a simple economic argument to make: the cost of the promotion must be tacked onto the thing being sold. I never buy stuff I see advertised on TV (e.g. John Deere) and always hunt down the low profile reliables (e.g. Kubota).
My comment was made in ignorance; your English is better than most native speakers/writers of it. Idioms are challenging for anyone learning another tongue. Sorry for seeming so boorish.
Do you mean the store sells random stones, along with bricks? Or is it any random store that sells nonrandom rocks and (presumably) uniform bricks? Perhaps you meant "brick-and-mortar"?
Your point is clear, however, and I agree with you. Individuals make individual decisions. No need to get excited...
In your marvelously concise analysis of cost/benefit for e-voting, you seem to have left out the price and maintenance of the voting machines and the cost of their dismal track record in real life.
I don't think it costs very much to design a ballot, unless you're Really Padding. In my state of Vermont, we use recycled paper for ballots which are marked by pencil and placed in a slot-top box. If the power goes out, we could count by lantern light.
Perhaps you've overlooked how government actually does work. We get the best bang for the buck with our system. Can't say it'd work for everyone, but sweeping conclusions don't advance the discourse, either.
After re-reading the article, some things pop out that don't seem quite right about this story. For one, it is chockablock with generalizations, banalities, and has a ring of inauthenticity: No specific technologies are mentioned save firewalling and VPN.
The writer has spare time to teach after pulling "all-nighters"? Puh-leeze.
If anyone writes to mscjkelly@yahoo.com, please post your impression, 'kay? Women who worry that Anyone will "blow smoke up [her] skirt" are misguided. I think the brain is the region someone smart would protect...
Some of the mods lately match your description, only they are called Interesting or Insightful and have positive integers. How do we fix a blue-eyed idiot's up-mod of a well-intentioned stupid ramble?
But back to topic: I trust MS to separate me from my money at every turn, and to pull every legal low-down weaseling to advantage itself. That's their business. If we still use their stuff, we don't need to pretend they're being friendly...
I had no problem with the link. From TFA: "The prospect of blanket immunity for those who intentionally redistribute defamatory statements on the Internet has disturbing implications," Associate Justice Carol A. Corrigan wrote in the majority opinion. "Nevertheless... statutory immunity serves to protect online freedom of expression and to encourage self-regulation, as Congress intended."
Of course, folks could complain that this is Outrageous Judicial Restraint. =)
Quite right about a better technical rebuttal, but whose eyes will ever see it? The Sunday Telegraph speaks for the vested interests. Unless an unimpeachable authority finds the ear of those who don't want to hear it, we'll sail along over the waterfall still arguing about how to start the engine.
The author (Monbiot) seems to have garnered much criticism so far, but the final two paragraphs of TFA are well-crafted.
I just got my copy of the actual magazine yesterday, and I still haven't given it the time to do more than scan it in general. It IS much too long for a summary, even if only two or three were briefly highlighted.
Of course, if you wish to read the whole shebang online, it's there. I don't think it is the natural meat & potatoes of typical slashdot fare.
Maybe there are newsworthy items in the list, but many compilations of "things achieved" necessarily have that Yesterday's News feeling. And no, you aren't asking for too much; you don't want the camel's nose in the tent, though.
I can think of two somewhat trivial reasons why this could be bad medicine:
Latent Hypochondriacs will type in some general symptoms and find that they have the dreaded newest and hippest malady. I foresee needless worrying and driven-up-the-wall family members.
If Google Bombs are still extant, what's to stop a special interest group from planting links to "cures" for wildly improbable scenarios?
"Caveat, surf-or" is never out of style, I s'pose...
One problem, as I see it, is that not only the editorial staff, but the posters and moderators see most science articles as a chance to be funny by showing what sci-fi fantasy they cherish most.
However, if a poster were to agree with you, and seek to nurture such ideas, the comment would be labeled "offtopic" and not posting as an AC will burn one's karma unfairly, imo.
If there actually IS a place on/. for comments like these (insert lame joke here) that are not regarded as offtopic, flamebait, etc., would a kind dotter please point it out to this user.
As a fossil-sysop now retired, the list of complaints by IT sound depressingly similar to the ones we had, except that the acronyms and buzzwords got flashier.
But would a system such as you suggest be able to cope with "leap seconds" and the controversy over whether a year constitutes one exact orbit around the sun (with the earth slowing down by ~1.7 ms/century) versus the SI unit, which doesn't change over time. Just curious...
If you want to get even more depressed about the situation, I recommend James Lovelock's "The Revenge of Gaia" (Basic Books, 2006). The preface to the US edition is particularly poingnant. In short, the time frames in which we could remediate may have already, or soon shall have passed. Bummer...
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... We could spread the sacrifice across the board by raising taxes, but most of the US seems convinced that they are already overtaxed. It could be that many American citizens feel that the tax burden is not shared by the corporate interests and the "rich". Nonetheless, I agree with you, and always wonder why so many people wish to emigrate here if taxes really were all that draconian.Hasn't this has been on the horizon since NBC started broadcasting in color? This is the slowest death of a particular medium since radio was supposedly doomed.
I think some people like to read something they can fold, is light and cheap. (Eco-/.er's: I'm thinking recycled paper) and best of all, doesn't need to be charged or plugged in.
Nope, didn't read tfa.
...new automobile tires in the U.S. come with unique, tamper-proof RFID chips in them already. Genuinely curious about "tamper-proof" and the implications for sticking these things in people, which I should think would be the most-likely goal for such a Machavellian technology.Try to keep the tinfoil-hat jokes sparse, please.
said the crook. (Nixon, for you youngsters)
Suggestion for Rule #1 in LUO: No good deed shall go unpunished.
Besides seconding your sentiments regarding the annoyance factor, I suggest, in addition, that there is a simple economic argument to make: the cost of the promotion must be tacked onto the thing being sold. I never buy stuff I see advertised on TV (e.g. John Deere) and always hunt down the low profile reliables (e.g. Kubota).
Shoveling against the tide here, but that term is as ridiculous as this gem: The stock market skyrocketed downward today... (heard on TV recently)
My comment was made in ignorance; your English is better than most native speakers/writers of it. Idioms are challenging for anyone learning another tongue. Sorry for seeming so boorish.
Do you mean the store sells random stones, along with bricks? Or is it any random store that sells nonrandom rocks and (presumably) uniform bricks? Perhaps you meant "brick-and-mortar"?
Your point is clear, however, and I agree with you. Individuals make individual decisions. No need to get excited...
In your marvelously concise analysis of cost/benefit for e-voting, you seem to have left out the price and maintenance of the voting machines and the cost of their dismal track record in real life.
I don't think it costs very much to design a ballot, unless you're Really Padding. In my state of Vermont, we use recycled paper for ballots which are marked by pencil and placed in a slot-top box. If the power goes out, we could count by lantern light.
Perhaps you've overlooked how government actually does work. We get the best bang for the buck with our system. Can't say it'd work for everyone, but sweeping conclusions don't advance the discourse, either.
Of course, if you're just trolling, ya got me! =)
I heard that whyness is directly confronted by becauseness, which has a "no-pass-back" clause.
Funny. After reading your post, I searched Digg and found an entry made 4 seconds earlier!
r -e-mail-box-id-never-leave-the-house/
Is Digg duping or are you mistaken?
http://blog.o7c.net/2006/11/28/postal-mail-to-you
After re-reading the article, some things pop out that don't seem quite right about this story. For one, it is chockablock with generalizations, banalities, and has a ring of inauthenticity: No specific technologies are mentioned save firewalling and VPN.
The writer has spare time to teach after pulling "all-nighters"? Puh-leeze.
If anyone writes to mscjkelly@yahoo.com, please post your impression, 'kay?
Women who worry that Anyone will "blow smoke up [her] skirt" are misguided. I think the brain is the region someone smart would protect...
Or, maybe I'm just burnt out and jealous.
Some of the mods lately match your description, only they are called Interesting or Insightful and have positive integers. How do we fix a blue-eyed idiot's up-mod of a well-intentioned stupid ramble?
But back to topic: I trust MS to separate me from my money at every turn, and to pull every legal low-down weaseling to advantage itself. That's their business. If we still use their stuff, we don't need to pretend they're being friendly...
I had no problem with the link. From TFA: "The prospect of blanket immunity for those who intentionally redistribute defamatory statements on the Internet has disturbing implications," Associate Justice Carol A. Corrigan wrote in the majority opinion. "Nevertheless ... statutory immunity serves to protect online freedom of expression and to encourage self-regulation, as Congress intended."
Of course, folks could complain that this is Outrageous Judicial Restraint. =)
I haven't used Pine for 12 years or so, but this feels like the folks writing to say that old Rover is gone...
Quite right about a better technical rebuttal, but whose eyes will ever see it? The Sunday Telegraph speaks for the vested interests. Unless an unimpeachable authority finds the ear of those who don't want to hear it, we'll sail along over the waterfall still arguing about how to start the engine.
The author (Monbiot) seems to have garnered much criticism so far, but the final two paragraphs of TFA are well-crafted.
I just got my copy of the actual magazine yesterday, and I still haven't given it the time to do more than scan it in general. It IS much too long for a summary, even if only two or three were briefly highlighted.
Of course, if you wish to read the whole shebang online, it's there. I don't think it is the natural meat & potatoes of typical slashdot fare.
Maybe there are newsworthy items in the list, but many compilations of "things achieved" necessarily have that Yesterday's News feeling. And no, you aren't asking for too much; you don't want the camel's nose in the tent, though.
If the intention of the program is to rid the environment of dangerous/toxic material, I fail to see how adding hot lead to the mix solves anything...
I can think of two somewhat trivial reasons why this could be bad medicine:
Latent Hypochondriacs will type in some general symptoms and find that they have the dreaded newest and hippest malady. I foresee needless worrying and driven-up-the-wall family members.
If Google Bombs are still extant, what's to stop a special interest group from planting links to "cures" for wildly improbable scenarios?
"Caveat, surf-or" is never out of style, I s'pose...
One problem, as I see it, is that not only the editorial staff, but the posters and moderators see most science articles as a chance to be funny by showing what sci-fi fantasy they cherish most.
/. for comments like these (insert lame joke here) that are not regarded as offtopic, flamebait, etc., would a kind dotter please point it out to this user.
However, if a poster were to agree with you, and seek to nurture such ideas, the comment would be labeled "offtopic" and not posting as an AC will burn one's karma unfairly, imo.
If there actually IS a place on
So long, karma. Been nice to have ya...
As a fossil-sysop now retired, the list of complaints by IT sound depressingly similar to the ones we had, except that the acronyms and buzzwords got flashier.
But would a system such as you suggest be able to cope with "leap seconds" and the controversy over whether a year constitutes one exact orbit around the sun (with the earth slowing down by ~1.7 ms/century) versus the SI unit, which doesn't change over time. Just curious...
If you want to get even more depressed about the situation, I recommend James Lovelock's "The Revenge of Gaia" (Basic Books, 2006). The preface to the US edition is particularly poingnant. In short, the time frames in which we could remediate may have already, or soon shall have passed. Bummer...