If it is discovered that dolphins possess the properties of consciousness that make human slavery wrong, then, yes, imprisoning dolphins and forcing them to entertain audiences is almost exactly like human slavery of the past.
Forcing them to do it would be, but I bet some dolphins who've become tired of the fish catching rat race might willingly contract to put on shows in exchange for safe shelter, reliable meals, and decent working conditions. What do you do?
Can you imagine being so happy with your current life that you felt no need to arbitrarily impose order and restriction upon your surroundings? Are you sure you are the more intelligent creature?
Think about it: dolphins don't have opposable thumbs with which they could arbitrarily impose upon their surroundings. Sounds pretty frustrating. If I were stuck in a dolphin's body with a human level intelligence it would drive me nuts that I couldn't make (or hold) something to ward off sharks.
"Creating jobs" is often a synonym for "wasting money".
Jobs that do not produce anything useful are 100% pure waste. Does this produce anything useful?
Yes, it provides satisfaction to the people who contribute. You miss the point that entertainment is a perfectly valid economic product. A concert, once finished, production no "thing" but the musicians provided a service and the audience was entertained. A concert (or play, or poetry recital) is 100% legit private sector economic activity, not wasting money. This project would fall in along the same lines.
Let's waste half a billion. Why not crowdfund for something meaningful and useful to the world? There are people dying and these jerks, anyone who supports this with effort or funding, are masturbating.
This sort of project would provide a fair number of jobs and is voluntarily financed, what's non-meaningful and useless about that? The government isn't confiscating the money from you so why are you complaining? Start your own crowd sourced project to halt death or whatever it is you think is more meaningful and useful.
Some Canadian Fan held up a sign they made that said something along the lines of "Canada vs Russia Ice Hockey: The original Cold War!" which got a small chuckle out of me.
It would be more realistic if it had said "Canada: The Cold War's Flyover Territory"
Nope, it is rather more like Orwells Nineteeneigthyfour, where the profession of the principal character is altering history: "We have always/never been in war with Eurasia."t.
No, ggp comment is definitely Brave New World. In 1984 they edited history to make everyone put up with wartime shortages and general uncomfortableness. In Brave New World they ignored history completely to make everyone get along.
...worked anywhere where someone actually swapped CPUs in a server from a real vendor (ie, not some BS whitebox)?
I *added* a CPU to an HP server once (single to dual CPUs) and it was super expensive and not all that easy to get the part..
I did and while the parts from HP were outrageously expensive we ordered it from a third party. HP does not have an exclusive market on Xeon chips or the plug-in voltage regulators they used to use (maybe still do?). The tricky part was the heatsink which needed to be a funky size to squeeze in the space allotted but that too was solved from a third party vendor. Total cost was about a third what HP wanted. We did it as a test case to make a single CPU machine with 6 total slots into a dual. It was eventually upgraded to all 6 and since HP's prices never changed over time except to go up a little, the third parties dropped prices so we saved even more.
Is there any browser that does pre-fetches like that though? I tried a couple different ones and none of them start pulling all the links on a random page. That would be a hell of a lot of wasted bandwidth.
There are a lot of "accelerator" plugins that do. And some anti-phishing/virus programs, for example AVG's free edition several versions back (I don't know if they stopped this by now) loaded every link on the current browser page to scan them.
Think if a majority of the people in this country were convinced by "2012" that the world would really end at that year. Their priorities for government spending would be dramatically different.
The federal government's budget between now and 2012 could subsidize a hell of a lot of hookers and blow!
It's hard to think how Microsoft can make the next Windows better from Windows 7.
No, it's very easy: object oriented UI, dammit! If I need to drag a folder containing a program to another subfolder or drive, then the shortcut link on the desktop should follow it! And that shortcut itself should have the properties of the thing to which it shortcuts! And the program should still run after it moves! Which brings me to my next "easy to make Windows better" item: DITCH THE $%#^ing REGISTRY!
Seems stupid to me to suggest that a 2 year development made the sequel good. I've never heard anyone rave about how Uncharted 2 was so good because they didn't have to wait very long after playing the first one to play it.
The article is concerned that the opposite happens for long release cycles. It's not that customers are extra happy with a short cycle but they become extra unhappy with a long one. Two years of improvements sets reasonable expectations whereas really long development sets unreasonable expectations.
It might help if the US got some sort of international support and helped the countries who most people believed needed helping, instead of unilaterally invading the ones with the most natural resources. Just saying.
When was the last time the US unilaterally invaded a country? Granada?
I don't understand why people have a problem with this. A government-run company eliminates the profit motive, is more efficient overall, and ensures everyone has service including those too poor to pay the bill. It's universal phone service for every one.
ChinaMobile and ChinaTelecom do not provide universal service; Chinese people who are too poor to pay do not get service.
As long as colleges are partially publicly funded (via both direct funding of public universities and colleges, and all the various federal grant and loan programs) there is a public interest here in doing everything we can to make sure students are making the most of the opportunity so that the public is getting its money's worth
That's easy to fix: stop using public money to fund universities and only give student loans, not grants.
Actually, I'd say that it IS proof of his manhood; after all, do you ever hear of women doing these stupid stunts?
I bet this first time is the last time he ever does it. Yet there are shelters all over the country full of battered women who voluntarily and repeatedly go back for more to abusive boyfriends/husbands.
Here's a clue: when people have insurance, they're more likely to go to the hospital for trivial problems, so more people with insurance means more expenses for insurance to pay
More like people who have insurance are more likely to go to their family practitioner. People who don't have insurance are more likely to go to the hospital emergency room because the hospitals are prohibited from turning anyone away for anything.
Sorry, douchebag. The new rules would ensure he has insurance so we don't pay for him in unpaid emergency room expenses which raise costs for the rest of us.
So does that mean hospital expenses will suddenly plummet as all the people who previously didn't have insurance no longer go to the emergency room for their kids' sniffles on the taxpayers' tab?
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If it is discovered that dolphins possess the properties of consciousness that make human slavery wrong, then, yes, imprisoning dolphins and forcing them to entertain audiences is almost exactly like human slavery of the past.
Forcing them to do it would be, but I bet some dolphins who've become tired of the fish catching rat race might willingly contract to put on shows in exchange for safe shelter, reliable meals, and decent working conditions. What do you do?
Can you imagine being so happy with your current life that you felt no need to arbitrarily impose order and restriction upon your surroundings? Are you sure you are the more intelligent creature?
Think about it: dolphins don't have opposable thumbs with which they could arbitrarily impose upon their surroundings. Sounds pretty frustrating. If I were stuck in a dolphin's body with a human level intelligence it would drive me nuts that I couldn't make (or hold) something to ward off sharks.
Why do we have to have laws against texting while driving?
So the dolphins should pass a law against swimming into fishing nets.
I rarely post on Slashdot, but I will for this.
What are you babbling about?? I see your posts all the time.
"Creating jobs" is often a synonym for "wasting money".
Jobs that do not produce anything useful are 100% pure waste. Does this produce anything useful?
Yes, it provides satisfaction to the people who contribute. You miss the point that entertainment is a perfectly valid economic product. A concert, once finished, production no "thing" but the musicians provided a service and the audience was entertained. A concert (or play, or poetry recital) is 100% legit private sector economic activity, not wasting money. This project would fall in along the same lines.
Let's waste half a billion. Why not crowdfund for something meaningful and useful to the world? There are people dying and these jerks, anyone who supports this with effort or funding, are masturbating.
This sort of project would provide a fair number of jobs and is voluntarily financed, what's non-meaningful and useless about that? The government isn't confiscating the money from you so why are you complaining? Start your own crowd sourced project to halt death or whatever it is you think is more meaningful and useful.
Maybe they'd have just changed it to "Democrat".
Hey now, there's no need for that kind of language.
Some Canadian Fan held up a sign they made that said something along the lines of "Canada vs Russia Ice Hockey: The original Cold War!" which got a small chuckle out of me.
It would be more realistic if it had said "Canada: The Cold War's Flyover Territory"
Nope, it is rather more like Orwells Nineteeneigthyfour, where the profession of the principal character is altering history: "We have always/never been in war with Eurasia."t.
No, ggp comment is definitely Brave New World. In 1984 they edited history to make everyone put up with wartime shortages and general uncomfortableness. In Brave New World they ignored history completely to make everyone get along.
...worked anywhere where someone actually swapped CPUs in a server from a real vendor (ie, not some BS whitebox)?
I *added* a CPU to an HP server once (single to dual CPUs) and it was super expensive and not all that easy to get the part..
I did and while the parts from HP were outrageously expensive we ordered it from a third party. HP does not have an exclusive market on Xeon chips or the plug-in voltage regulators they used to use (maybe still do?). The tricky part was the heatsink which needed to be a funky size to squeeze in the space allotted but that too was solved from a third party vendor. Total cost was about a third what HP wanted. We did it as a test case to make a single CPU machine with 6 total slots into a dual. It was eventually upgraded to all 6 and since HP's prices never changed over time except to go up a little, the third parties dropped prices so we saved even more.
I have to wonder what a "Cloud Based OS" even would mean
Sounds like it boots up via PXE from some cloud storage.
They live in the same house... do they have access to the same computer? Could this be suicide and she was hiding the method she would use?.
Or maybe it was a doomsday race between the two of them and he just got her first.
Is there any browser that does pre-fetches like that though? I tried a couple different ones and none of them start pulling all the links on a random page. That would be a hell of a lot of wasted bandwidth.
There are a lot of "accelerator" plugins that do. And some anti-phishing/virus programs, for example AVG's free edition several versions back (I don't know if they stopped this by now) loaded every link on the current browser page to scan them.
I don't begrudge popular artists their royalties but what's sad is how much they get compared to what fans pay.
They're not greedy - they just need to pay for their kids' college educations.
Think if a majority of the people in this country were convinced by "2012" that the world would really end at that year. Their priorities for government spending would be dramatically different.
The federal government's budget between now and 2012 could subsidize a hell of a lot of hookers and blow!
It's hard to think how Microsoft can make the next Windows better from Windows 7.
No, it's very easy: object oriented UI, dammit! If I need to drag a folder containing a program to another subfolder or drive, then the shortcut link on the desktop should follow it! And that shortcut itself should have the properties of the thing to which it shortcuts! And the program should still run after it moves! Which brings me to my next "easy to make Windows better" item: DITCH THE $%#^ing REGISTRY!
Seems stupid to me to suggest that a 2 year development made the sequel good. I've never heard anyone rave about how Uncharted 2 was so good because they didn't have to wait very long after playing the first one to play it.
The article is concerned that the opposite happens for long release cycles. It's not that customers are extra happy with a short cycle but they become extra unhappy with a long one. Two years of improvements sets reasonable expectations whereas really long development sets unreasonable expectations.
It might help if the US got some sort of international support and helped the countries who most people believed needed helping, instead of unilaterally invading the ones with the most natural resources. Just saying.
When was the last time the US unilaterally invaded a country? Granada?
Correct.
I don't understand why people have a problem with this. A government-run company eliminates the profit motive, is more efficient overall, and ensures everyone has service including those too poor to pay the bill. It's universal phone service for every one.
ChinaMobile and ChinaTelecom do not provide universal service; Chinese people who are too poor to pay do not get service.
So even "the commies" are really just tools for the telecom industry.
Umm, the telecom industry in China is state owned, so your comment should read: So even the telecom industry is really just a tool for "the commies".
As long as colleges are partially publicly funded (via both direct funding of public universities and colleges, and all the various federal grant and loan programs) there is a public interest here in doing everything we can to make sure students are making the most of the opportunity so that the public is getting its money's worth
That's easy to fix: stop using public money to fund universities and only give student loans, not grants.
Actually, I'd say that it IS proof of his manhood; after all, do you ever hear of women doing these stupid stunts?
I bet this first time is the last time he ever does it. Yet there are shelters all over the country full of battered women who voluntarily and repeatedly go back for more to abusive boyfriends/husbands.
Here's a clue: when people have insurance, they're more likely to go to the hospital for trivial problems, so more people with insurance means more expenses for insurance to pay
More like people who have insurance are more likely to go to their family practitioner. People who don't have insurance are more likely to go to the hospital emergency room because the hospitals are prohibited from turning anyone away for anything.
Sorry, douchebag. The new rules would ensure he has insurance so we don't pay for him in unpaid emergency room expenses which raise costs for the rest of us.
So does that mean hospital expenses will suddenly plummet as all the people who previously didn't have insurance no longer go to the emergency room for their kids' sniffles on the taxpayers' tab?