Umm... drivers licenses do an excellent job of what they are supposed to do. That's right, they are for seperating people who are allowed to drive from those who aren't. Works pretty well and definitely makes us safer (do you really want the people who _couldn't_ pass the test driving?). However, driver's licenses are not an effective national security measure any more than this card. The 9/11 hijackers weren't stopped for lack of driver's licenses. In fact, they had licenses which they obtained illegally. Do you really think that terrorists won't be able to obtain false national ids? Yeah, the only people this really hurts are american citizens.
That's because the fixed costs associated with a run of books (especially books in late editions) is relatively lower, so they don't have to adjust the contribution margin much to have an acceptible breakeven level.
The funny thing about libertarians is that they are dismissed by both sides of the political spectrum.
Libertarian: I think people ought to be able to do anything with their personal lives, just as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. Republican: OMG?! What if they smoke drugs and make gay-like? Libertarian: Companies are just lots of people. So they ought to be able to do just about anything that doesn't hurt anyone else. Democrat: OMG?! They'll enslave us all!!!!! (ignoring the important clause about do no evil)
I think it probably has to do with a combination of problems. Firstly, the requirements for electronics suitible for implant are fairly high. I mean, a digital camera ccd would probably just burn your face continously. Unpleasant. And, if this is powered by bioelectrics, then it as to meet low power requirements.
Issue two might be even bigger. I am no neuroscientist, but I bet the time it takes the brain to 'learn' the signal is a steeply positive function of resolution.
It doesn't matter what is in the law, the power of judicial review trumps it. In fact, that is exactly what judicial review is for. Just like you can make a law that says "Ok, America has a king now" and it will have no effect. The constitution would override it.
So, the peak of this 'peak oil' curve is on some kind of continous function, right? I mean, we aren't supposed to reach 0 production overnight, right? Hmm, in fact, I recall a slow drop off in production over the span of years. That should give plenty of time.
Left wing? Considering that most of the traditions and norms of university life, including tenure date at least back to the enlightenment (when conservatism was invented [though back then it was called 'liberalism' because it was liberal compared to the philosophy of the time] and our type of liberalism had not yet been invented) there is a strong argument that tenure is a right wing program. In fact, it exists partially to protect professors from those who would seek to silence their views (by firing them).
The three try lock thing reminds me of something. A couple of weeks ago my campus domain password got locked on a three attempt error. I called IT and politely asked them to unlock the account. The woman on the other end of the phone kept reiterating that 'this is for your own good; this is to protect YOU' to which I responded that I protect myself with a strong password and that they were actually opening up themselves to a massive DoS attack. Which was met with much argument and a very condescending tone (as all requests for our IT department are met with-- these guys are MCSEs, ok, not to be messed with;)). Two weeks later I go into the library, to public terminal and proceed to attempt three logins on every member of the IT staff, the school administration and all of the members of the student senate. By 8:30am the next day, the issue was fixed.
You are missing something. The parent poster isn't claiming Apple invented scripting languages, or local search or RSS. Nope. What he is saying is that Tiger includes improvements to search (it is system wide, content wide search which makes use of all the metadata it can find), instant messaging, etc and Longhorn happens to include very similar improvements. There could be any number of reasons, really. Parallel evolution or drawing from the same outside inspiration are possibilities as well.
Or how about this: everyone in this country, gay or straight pays taxes to help fund schools, provide necessities to children of poor families, underwrite the process of granting and tracking marriage licenses, etc. They pay for it too, why shouldn't they have _access_ to these services.
The difference, of course, is that the bible isn't the sole reason people say killing is wrong. There are a lot of very secular nations that still have laws against murder. I wonder why? Similarly, just because you could argue from a tradition about the cultural effects of the holocaust, that doesn't mean that it is the only argument, and therefore meritless.
You can make a flawed argument in support of anything. It doesn't mean that every argument is flawed. The parent was pointing out that he has never heard a nonflawed argument against gay marriage.
That's right, because a real company with a real legal department full of dozens of real lawyers looked at this and then gave it the OK. More than OK, they are making it a major part of their business.
Well, since Mono and the mono libraries are written from scratch, copyright of the code is not an issue. Since Mono is simply competition for MS's.Net package and not pretending to be.NET, they wouldn't have any trademark problems. Maybe you mean patents? The patents are required, because of their agreement with ECMA, to be availible for license in a no cost, reasonable (ECMA has a long technical definition of "reasonable") manner. Basically, MS can't do about Mono. That's the price they pay for having the industry accept their standard.
And contrary to popular belief, there is nothing wrong with having 24/7 access to tremendous volumes of information. You can do research on just about any subject from just about anywhere. That is an amazing gift that technology has given us. Just because it is different than the way it used to be done, doesn't make it bad.
Get back to increasing the GDP! Produce more! Consume more! *whip crack*
Part of the problem is that we don't believe in education as good in itself as a culture. Everything is about how much money you'll earn when you get out.
"regime also régime Audio pronunciation of "regime" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-zhm, r-) n.
1.
1. A form of government: a fascist regime.
2. A government in power; administration: suffered under the new regime.
2. A prevailing social system or pattern.
3. The period during which a particular administration or system prevails.
4. A regulated system, as of diet and exercise; a regimen. "
What matters is the elasticity of demand for your product. If the demand is elastic (the product is not a necessity, i.e. a DVD of television shows) then you generally make more money by cutting prices (the change in income from increased customer base outweighs the loss from reduction in price. $5 is probably too much of a drop (there are, believe it or not, costs to putting shows on a dvd).
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Umm... drivers licenses do an excellent job of what they are supposed to do. That's right, they are for seperating people who are allowed to drive from those who aren't. Works pretty well and definitely makes us safer (do you really want the people who _couldn't_ pass the test driving?). However, driver's licenses are not an effective national security measure any more than this card. The 9/11 hijackers weren't stopped for lack of driver's licenses. In fact, they had licenses which they obtained illegally. Do you really think that terrorists won't be able to obtain false national ids? Yeah, the only people this really hurts are american citizens.
How about this? It will cost money and will not make anyone safer.
It will, however, provide a false sense of security which is dangerous.
That's because the fixed costs associated with a run of books (especially books in late editions) is relatively lower, so they don't have to adjust the contribution margin much to have an acceptible breakeven level.
The funny thing about libertarians is that they are dismissed by both sides of the political spectrum.
Libertarian: I think people ought to be able to do anything with their personal lives, just as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.
Republican: OMG?! What if they smoke drugs and make gay-like?
Libertarian: Companies are just lots of people. So they ought to be able to do just about anything that doesn't hurt anyone else.
Democrat: OMG?! They'll enslave us all!!!!! (ignoring the important clause about do no evil)
I think it probably has to do with a combination of problems. Firstly, the requirements for electronics suitible for implant are fairly high. I mean, a digital camera ccd would probably just burn your face continously. Unpleasant. And, if this is powered by bioelectrics, then it as to meet low power requirements.
Issue two might be even bigger. I am no neuroscientist, but I bet the time it takes the brain to 'learn' the signal is a steeply positive function of resolution.
It doesn't matter what is in the law, the power of judicial review trumps it. In fact, that is exactly what judicial review is for. Just like you can make a law that says "Ok, America has a king now" and it will have no effect. The constitution would override it.
So, the peak of this 'peak oil' curve is on some kind of continous function, right? I mean, we aren't supposed to reach 0 production overnight, right? Hmm, in fact, I recall a slow drop off in production over the span of years. That should give plenty of time.
-1, naive.
When your company is liable for the one or two problematic phone calls to the tune of millions of pounds, it starts to seem slightly less silly.
Left wing? Considering that most of the traditions and norms of university life, including tenure date at least back to the enlightenment (when conservatism was invented [though back then it was called 'liberalism' because it was liberal compared to the philosophy of the time] and our type of liberalism had not yet been invented) there is a strong argument that tenure is a right wing program. In fact, it exists partially to protect professors from those who would seek to silence their views (by firing them).
The three try lock thing reminds me of something. A couple of weeks ago my campus domain password got locked on a three attempt error. I called IT and politely asked them to unlock the account. The woman on the other end of the phone kept reiterating that 'this is for your own good; this is to protect YOU' to which I responded that I protect myself with a strong password and that they were actually opening up themselves to a massive DoS attack. Which was met with much argument and a very condescending tone (as all requests for our IT department are met with-- these guys are MCSEs, ok, not to be messed with ;)). Two weeks later I go into the library, to public terminal and proceed to attempt three logins on every member of the IT staff, the school administration and all of the members of the student senate. By 8:30am the next day, the issue was fixed.
Fatal Event Rate Per Million Flights Model Rate Flights FLE*
Airbus A300 0.65 9.26M 5.99 9
Airbus A310 1.29 3.57M 4.62 5
Airbus A320/319/321 0.15 17.64M 2.61 5
ATR 42 and ATR 72 0.23 13.2M 3.00 3
Boeing 727** 0.50 74.50M 37.2 48
Boeing 737-100/200** 0.54 54.14M 29.29 41
Boeing 737-300/400/500 0.22 45.95M 9.99 13
Boeing 737 (all models) 0.39 100.09M 39.28 54
Boeing 747 0.88 15.67M 13.73 27
Boeing 757** 0.40 13.51M 5.4 7
Boeing 767 0.51 10.81M 5.50 6
Boeing 777 0.00 1.0M 0.00 0
Looks to me like both companies have safer and more unsafe models. http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm
Eh? The hell they don't.
You are missing something. The parent poster isn't claiming Apple invented scripting languages, or local search or RSS. Nope. What he is saying is that Tiger includes improvements to search (it is system wide, content wide search which makes use of all the metadata it can find), instant messaging, etc and Longhorn happens to include very similar improvements. There could be any number of reasons, really. Parallel evolution or drawing from the same outside inspiration are possibilities as well.
Or how about this: everyone in this country, gay or straight pays taxes to help fund schools, provide necessities to children of poor families, underwrite the process of granting and tracking marriage licenses, etc. They pay for it too, why shouldn't they have _access_ to these services.
The difference, of course, is that the bible isn't the sole reason people say killing is wrong. There are a lot of very secular nations that still have laws against murder. I wonder why? Similarly, just because you could argue from a tradition about the cultural effects of the holocaust, that doesn't mean that it is the only argument, and therefore meritless.
You can make a flawed argument in support of anything. It doesn't mean that every argument is flawed. The parent was pointing out that he has never heard a nonflawed argument against gay marriage.
Actually, the problem is not ending a sentence with a preposition, but including a preposition without an object: here and here.
Novell.
That's right, because a real company with a real legal department full of dozens of real lawyers looked at this and then gave it the OK. More than OK, they are making it a major part of their business.
Well, since Mono and the mono libraries are written from scratch, copyright of the code is not an issue. Since Mono is simply competition for MS's .Net package and not pretending to be .NET, they wouldn't have any trademark problems. Maybe you mean patents? The patents are required, because of their agreement with ECMA, to be availible for license in a no cost, reasonable (ECMA has a long technical definition of "reasonable") manner. Basically, MS can't do about Mono. That's the price they pay for having the industry accept their standard.
And contrary to popular belief, there is nothing wrong with having 24/7 access to tremendous volumes of information. You can do research on just about any subject from just about anywhere. That is an amazing gift that technology has given us. Just because it is different than the way it used to be done, doesn't make it bad.
Get back to increasing the GDP! Produce more! Consume more! *whip crack*
Part of the problem is that we don't believe in education as good in itself as a culture. Everything is about how much money you'll earn when you get out.
"regime also régime Audio pronunciation of "regime" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-zhm, r-)
n.
1.
1. A form of government: a fascist regime.
2. A government in power; administration: suffered under the new regime.
2. A prevailing social system or pattern.
3. The period during which a particular administration or system prevails.
4. A regulated system, as of diet and exercise; a regimen.
"
Here's the deal. None of "us" consider Liberman to be on "our" "side". He is DINO, big time.
What matters is the elasticity of demand for your product. If the demand is elastic (the product is not a necessity, i.e. a DVD of television shows) then you generally make more money by cutting prices (the change in income from increased customer base outweighs the loss from reduction in price. $5 is probably too much of a drop (there are, believe it or not, costs to putting shows on a dvd).
"As awful as it sounds, cracking down on the students may have been necessary. Russia broke down the old system, but with nothing to replace it,..."
I'm sure that is what the chinese government had in mind when they ordered the student revolts put down brutally.