I was trying to confirm what he was saying but by a more level headed source. My point is that Wikipedia at any given moment can be hijacked by a hothead. I'm sure the people at Britannica will cry when they learn you've said they're not bright and only publish what the TV tells them.
Someone is wrong here. You say the Crusades were "because muslims thought the "wrong" ideas" and Wikipedia states that it was because of Muslim aggression into the Byzantine empire. Hmmm. I wonder who's wrong?
The problem with your well researched and reasonable points is that just any nitwit can post to that wikipedia article as can post to slashdot. There are a variety of more reliable sources. For starters, try: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/144695/Crusades
These people are parasites. They provide nothing of value to the world; they just take. This crap should be illegal.
The computer you used to write that rant was made possible by many, many investors who never even met combining their capital through the stock market to hire the management, hire the engineers, hire the construction workers, buy land and material for the factories, hire people to work in the factories etc, etc.
The database itself is updated approximately twenty times per year, depending on the year, based on information these experts provide to the maintainer.
Governments of the world have too much time on their hands if they average fiddling with local time zones 20 times per year.
On behalf of the many gentoo, arch, and slackware users, I'd like to point out that "old school Linux" is alive and well and more capable than ever, thanks.
>> something that generates enough revenue to be self-sustaining
That sounds an awful lot like a business.
If the goal is to be "self sustaining" then it's a hobby or at most a nonprofit organization. A business must at least intend to return a profit to the investors/owners.
The only morally correct way to convince someone of your position is to present the evidence (and the rationale).
Any manipulation beyond that is a deliberate attempt to derail the other person's rationality and force them into making a decision that might not be in properly alignment with their loyalties and interests, and hence is potentially harmful to the person and hence morally wrong.
PsyOps is a weapon, and has the same moral status as any weapon. Firing weapons at our own senators is also morally wrong.
Yes, Mr. Spock, no one is persuaded by anything other than cold, hard facts. Ever listen to Randi Rhodes or Glenn Beck? The military personnel trained in persuasion are probably no more or less a weapon and about the same effectiveness as the professional lobbyists who lean on senators every day, except the lobbyists are better funded.
If Peter Stark ran for President as a Democrat I'd wager he has a better chance than the top Republican in the House, Ron Paul.
The top Republican in the House of Representatives is John Boehner as he is the Speaker. The second most top Republican would be the majority leader, Eric Cantor. The third top most is Kevin McCarthy, the majority whip. Ron Paul is on a couple of committees but chairman of none. His highest position is chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy. This makes him a long, long, long way from being the top Republican.
Now granted, I don't know if this entire area counts as "wellhead dives" as the language is a little vague but I'm confident we can believe her when she says the damage is extensive and widespread.
I'm not so quick to believe either the big company that says all is fine or the university professor who says all is gone to hell. Each has turf to protect and expand and can spin their research to bolster their position. 250 samples sounds like a good sample size but it's hard to tell how far spread apart they are when accompanied by such odd language as 'traveled across 2600 square miles'. What does that mean; how do you travel across a square mile? If your boat is 10 feet wide, do you have to zigzag a mile 528 times to cross a square mile? What's the point of that? It seems like a big number thrown in to try to impress people that they're doing a lot and that kind of thing makes me suspicious.
Overfishing is an example of the tragedy of the commons, not that they aren't supposed to be eaten. The problem is that no one uses the fish as a resource owns the fish as a resource.
"I didn't see a living (sea cucumber) around on any of the wellhead dives"
I'd like to see a larger survey, please. Of course right next to where the well broke there will be a significant problem with marine life. Please examine what exactly is the area impacted.
Why is this even being posted, it's 9 people who let me guess own 0.0000000% of the company?
Most big companies set the lower limit around 1,000 shares for anyone who wants to bring up any issue for a vote at the company shareholders' meeting. This can be anything from 'I nominate me to the board of directors' to 'presenters should not wear turtlenecks' to 'the company assets should be liquidated and the proceeds given to the homeless'. It then goes to a vote and since institutional investors who own a million shares at a time are there, anything frivolous or absurd gets immediately voted down.
Makes you wonder where the heck people get the money to spend on the courses.
You only need to make a penny a year and over the course of a billion year contract the fees are no problem with loads of cash left over.
But seriously, people who are in cults don't have normal expenses; you can rent a cheap room, live off instant noodles and pay $400K over 15 years if your day job's salary is only $40K.
My point was that if businesses hadn't bought the IBM PC for $5,000 to run VisiCalc then the price wouldn't have been in the mass market middle class affordable $1,500 range when the graphical web browser was introduced. The home market wouldn't have taken off at $5,000 each even with the best web browser imaginable. Business sales at 10% of sold to date was what it took to drive the prices down.
My TomTom doesn't do that... does that mean Garmin assumes their buyers are stupider or that TomTom isn't worried about being sued?
rtfa - tomtom sent one of their specialists to death valley to review and update the mapping data with the rangers. you don't need a warning message, so head on out!
As it turned-out the "killer app", the program that made computers attractive to billions of people so they'd run-out and buy one, was the Web Browser.
But before that the prices had come down enough because so many businesses bought computers. And businesses bought computers because Visicalc and its subsequent imitators were the killer app that made the computer a huge office productivity booster. If anything the web browser was second generation killer app.
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I was trying to confirm what he was saying but by a more level headed source. My point is that Wikipedia at any given moment can be hijacked by a hothead. I'm sure the people at Britannica will cry when they learn you've said they're not bright and only publish what the TV tells them.
Someone is wrong here. You say the Crusades were "because muslims thought the "wrong" ideas" and Wikipedia states that it was because of Muslim aggression into the Byzantine empire. Hmmm. I wonder who's wrong?
The problem with your well researched and reasonable points is that just any nitwit can post to that wikipedia article as can post to slashdot. There are a variety of more reliable sources. For starters, try: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/144695/Crusades
These people are parasites. They provide nothing of value to the world; they just take. This crap should be illegal.
The computer you used to write that rant was made possible by many, many investors who never even met combining their capital through the stock market to hire the management, hire the engineers, hire the construction workers, buy land and material for the factories, hire people to work in the factories etc, etc.
The database itself is updated approximately twenty times per year, depending on the year, based on information these experts provide to the maintainer.
Governments of the world have too much time on their hands if they average fiddling with local time zones 20 times per year.
That sounds easier than when I tried to train gangsta mice. Their little paws just weren't strong enough to hold their pistols sideways.
On behalf of the many gentoo, arch, and slackware users, I'd like to point out that "old school Linux" is alive and well and more capable than ever, thanks.
Slackware is old school. Gentoo is ricer.
>> something that generates enough revenue to be self-sustaining
That sounds an awful lot like a business.
If the goal is to be "self sustaining" then it's a hobby or at most a nonprofit organization. A business must at least intend to return a profit to the investors/owners.
With every new version of Windows since 95, I ask: did they get rid of the %^$#ing registry yet? If no, it's not much improved.
if ebay outlaws craigslist....?
Then only outlaws will list Craig.
The only morally correct way to convince someone of your position is to present the evidence (and the rationale).
Any manipulation beyond that is a deliberate attempt to derail the other person's rationality and force them into making a decision that might not be in properly alignment with their loyalties and interests, and hence is potentially harmful to the person and hence morally wrong.
PsyOps is a weapon, and has the same moral status as any weapon. Firing weapons at our own senators is also morally wrong.
Yes, Mr. Spock, no one is persuaded by anything other than cold, hard facts. Ever listen to Randi Rhodes or Glenn Beck? The military personnel trained in persuasion are probably no more or less a weapon and about the same effectiveness as the professional lobbyists who lean on senators every day, except the lobbyists are better funded.
If Peter Stark ran for President as a Democrat I'd wager he has a better chance than the top Republican in the House, Ron Paul.
The top Republican in the House of Representatives is John Boehner as he is the Speaker. The second most top Republican would be the majority leader, Eric Cantor. The third top most is Kevin McCarthy, the majority whip. Ron Paul is on a couple of committees but chairman of none. His highest position is chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy. This makes him a long, long, long way from being the top Republican.
At first I was thinking things were getting worse in the Middle East
That remains to be seen; will the (somewhat) secular tyrants be replaced by (at least a little bit) secular democracies or fundamentalist tyrants?
"wellhead dives" != dives on a single wellhead, numbnutz.
You can't prove that either way from context of the article, which is part of my point.
Double numbnutz to you.
Now granted, I don't know if this entire area counts as "wellhead dives" as the language is a little vague but I'm confident we can believe her when she says the damage is extensive and widespread.
I'm not so quick to believe either the big company that says all is fine or the university professor who says all is gone to hell. Each has turf to protect and expand and can spin their research to bolster their position. 250 samples sounds like a good sample size but it's hard to tell how far spread apart they are when accompanied by such odd language as 'traveled across 2600 square miles'. What does that mean; how do you travel across a square mile? If your boat is 10 feet wide, do you have to zigzag a mile 528 times to cross a square mile? What's the point of that? It seems like a big number thrown in to try to impress people that they're doing a lot and that kind of thing makes me suspicious.
Overfishing is an example of the tragedy of the commons, not that they aren't supposed to be eaten. The problem is that no one uses the fish as a resource owns the fish as a resource.
The people at Westover are just loudmouth jerks. It's the seriously fringe nutcases at Landover Baptist who worry me.
"I didn't see a living (sea cucumber) around on any of the wellhead dives"
I'd like to see a larger survey, please. Of course right next to where the well broke there will be a significant problem with marine life. Please examine what exactly is the area impacted.
Why is this even being posted, it's 9 people who let me guess own 0.0000000% of the company?
Most big companies set the lower limit around 1,000 shares for anyone who wants to bring up any issue for a vote at the company shareholders' meeting. This can be anything from 'I nominate me to the board of directors' to 'presenters should not wear turtlenecks' to 'the company assets should be liquidated and the proceeds given to the homeless'. It then goes to a vote and since institutional investors who own a million shares at a time are there, anything frivolous or absurd gets immediately voted down.
Makes you wonder where the heck people get the money to spend on the courses.
You only need to make a penny a year and over the course of a billion year contract the fees are no problem with loads of cash left over.
But seriously, people who are in cults don't have normal expenses; you can rent a cheap room, live off instant noodles and pay $400K over 15 years if your day job's salary is only $40K.
It STRONGLY correlates.
I see time and time again, the poorest dumbest citizens always have the latest, blingiest phones.
Hey now, they need it to check the state lottery's website to see if their investments have paid off.
Vegans are way to picky. I just want a sofa that eats cracker crumbs and drinks grape juice. It's not often the kids spill a steak on it.
Rule #1 after the first generation of EIDE drives: Don't do a low level format.
My point was that if businesses hadn't bought the IBM PC for $5,000 to run VisiCalc then the price wouldn't have been in the mass market middle class affordable $1,500 range when the graphical web browser was introduced. The home market wouldn't have taken off at $5,000 each even with the best web browser imaginable. Business sales at 10% of sold to date was what it took to drive the prices down.
My TomTom doesn't do that... does that mean Garmin assumes their buyers are stupider or that TomTom isn't worried about being sued?
rtfa - tomtom sent one of their specialists to death valley to review and update the mapping data with the rangers. you don't need a warning message, so head on out!
As it turned-out the "killer app", the program that made computers attractive to billions of people so they'd run-out and buy one, was the Web Browser.
But before that the prices had come down enough because so many businesses bought computers. And businesses bought computers because Visicalc and its subsequent imitators were the killer app that made the computer a huge office productivity booster. If anything the web browser was second generation killer app.