Really? Are you kidding? Architecture and construction are NOT standardized. Parts of it are standardized, but people are using different materials, designs, etc all the time. Not everyone lives in row houses, mcmansions or big apartments.
Just because architects made big blocks of apartments that were the same does not mean you can't make a little house made of foam and popsicle sticks that no one else has ever thought of.
The analogy to software is a good one, as you have very different projects in size and scope. The main difference that everyone points out is that you can sort of see how much more a building needs, but software can be "99% done" forever and you can't really know when you will be ready until you are.
No, the lowest bracket =- (welfare/ss/medicare/ other fed subsidies)/income
and that is much worse than a 0% tax rate for the people who do pay taxes.
Anyway though, I have generally been considered a liberal, although not when I go to Europe (they have egregiously high taxes!) but one thing I always liked about the Republicans in the US was that they didn't like deficit spending. I am all in favor of tax cuts, but let's not go into debt to do it. Money is not free, as in beer. You either cut spending or you raise or maintain taxes to pay for the spending. Eventually the bill comes due.
The GOP prefers the term "Climate Change" not global warming. Regardless what is the MAIN cause of global warming, the reality is that the results could be very bad. Maybe not, scientists gotta eat too, and doom and gloom has always been a popular item in their repretoire, but the downside if they are right is too big to risk.
To use an over-simplified analogy, say you are in a car heading towards a sharp corner and you are already going a bit too fast, do you step on the gas or on the brake?
War of the Worlds, not TV, the original radio show by Orson Wells. People stopped pretending to be real news outlets after that due to the confusion the show caused. Seems we have gotten over that.
Yes, I know there were disclaimers during the original broadcast.
I am not a Biblical scholar, but I believe Abel (Cain's brother, son of Adam and Eve) was a hunter. One would presume that hunters ate the animals they hunted and killed.
Buy what you need, plus a little bit more for random clutter. Do you have a huge (legal?) music collection? Do you edit video? Then buy a boatload of storage. If you have a normal size music/video collection and want to back up mail, office docs, pics, etc, then just buy whatever the sweet spot is for external/internal storage.
I just picked up a 160gb firewire/usb 2.0 external for $129. An 80gb would have been fine, but those are actually MORE expensive now.
Exactly, sort of like how C.S Lewis and his pals came up with the idea that "If some of the stuff in the Bible (New Testament) is true and varifiable, it ALL must be true."
BTW, faith is by definition something that can't be proven by fact.
Congratulations, I think the MOST selfless thing is to recognize that you don't want children and then not have them. Having a child "just because there was nothing else to do" is incredibly selfish. However, if by accident, you do become a parent, you HAVE to give as much as possible to your child, or risk life-long problems for them (and for you, too).
so true. I have a box at home that everyone else in the house uses (5 year old, wife, guests, etc). It was running WinME (yes, I know...) and the IE app got horribly corrupted. The microsoft site wouldn't even allow me to download the latest IE as part of the update program because I was using Mozilla. Stupid. Luckily I got the important data off it and now I think I'll put on a Free OS (recomendations? It is a Celeron 756mhz Dell). Basically, okay, I can understand wanting people to use your software to get OS updates, but this actually prevents people who want to switch from Mozilla to IE from doing so.
I didn't bother spoofing. Now everyone in the house is using the PowerBook which so far has avoided being too messed up by Spyware, etc.
Ultimately, you could be better off in the USA, even if it does depress wages by moving jobs overseas as long as the cost of living goes down more than the wages get depressed. That could be a net good.
Basically the argument comes down to that of altruism. If you think that helping everyone helps you, then globalization is good, if you think you will be better off by hoarding or protecting your assets from others, then it is a threat.
IANAE(conomist), so I may have missed some of Samuelson's nuances. But he is just seeming to point out to some of the rah-rah outsourcers that there may be some negative consequnces to the one doing the outsourcing.
Maybe. I taught English Composition at Southern Vermont College for a year, and I tried to allow my students to grab onto a topic and really explore it. However, for someone to really convey their ideas well they need to present them in as straightforward a manner as possible. Writing without lots of grammatical, spelling or mechanical mistakes is easier to understand than poorly contructed prose.
Anyway, presentation is not a substitute for substance, but it sure makes it easier to wade through. Not every email or post I make to Slashdot is error free, but I DO know how to write with minimal errors and you really should know the rules before you decide to ignore or break them.
For bonus fun, find the errors in the above text!
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I have a Compaq laptop new in Dec 2003 running XP Pro, a Dell Desktop running WinME (poorly, as it is a sorry excuse for an OS) and a 667 G4 Powerbook running 10.1 . Only the PowerBook NEVER hangs when waking up. I reboot the PowerBook every 4 months or so, whether it needs it or not.
All 3 machines have their uses and upsides, but in terms of power management and ability to wake up, the PBook rules in my small sample. -Anson
Good point. However, I think we aren't really the scavenger model. We are more hunter-gatherer, which places plenty of emphasis on the stealth factor, which you brought up, but we still needed some muscle to do it effectively. Hence the fact that we are near the top end of size for most animals. Certainly not the biggest, but still decent size. Coyotes run from us. Rancid meat makes us sick, though, so we aren't really true scavengers.
Being incrdibly large was less important than have a smart brain that made hunting and gathering more productive.
One very interesting aspect of the mutation is that almost EVERYONE else MAKES myostatin. This is not a mutation where someone is producing something thast no one else does. This little boy is NOT making it. My guess is that we need it for some as yet unexplained reason, as most living things make very few things that they don't really need.
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I would say a one quarter delay doesn't really make it vaporware, just a bit late. We'll see if it transitions to true vapor status though.
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10-4 Rubber Duck! Where's Little Beaver?
Did you get permission to serve up the images in your review? Just wondering.
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Really? Are you kidding? Architecture and construction are NOT standardized. Parts of it are standardized, but people are using different materials, designs, etc all the time. Not everyone lives in row houses, mcmansions or big apartments.
Just because architects made big blocks of apartments that were the same does not mean you can't make a little house made of foam and popsicle sticks that no one else has ever thought of.
The analogy to software is a good one, as you have very different projects in size and scope. The main difference that everyone points out is that you can sort of see how much more a building needs, but software can be "99% done" forever and you can't really know when you will be ready until you are.
Anyway, my 2 cents.
No, the lowest bracket =- (welfare/ss/medicare/ other fed subsidies)/income
and that is much worse than a 0% tax rate for the people who do pay taxes.
Anyway though, I have generally been considered a liberal, although not when I go to Europe (they have egregiously high taxes!) but one thing I always liked about the Republicans in the US was that they didn't like deficit spending. I am all in favor of tax cuts, but let's not go into debt to do it. Money is not free, as in beer. You either cut spending or you raise or maintain taxes to pay for the spending. Eventually the bill comes due.
The GOP prefers the term "Climate Change" not global warming. Regardless what is the MAIN cause of global warming, the reality is that the results could be very bad. Maybe not, scientists gotta eat too, and doom and gloom has always been a popular item in their repretoire, but the downside if they are right is too big to risk.
To use an over-simplified analogy, say you are in a car heading towards a sharp corner and you are already going a bit too fast, do you step on the gas or on the brake?
War of the Worlds, not TV, the original radio show by Orson Wells. People stopped pretending to be real news outlets after that due to the confusion the show caused. Seems we have gotten over that.
Yes, I know there were disclaimers during the original broadcast.
I am not a Biblical scholar, but I believe Abel (Cain's brother, son of Adam and Eve) was a hunter. One would presume that hunters ate the animals they hunted and killed.
Buy what you need, plus a little bit more for random clutter. Do you have a huge (legal?) music collection? Do you edit video? Then buy a boatload of storage. If you have a normal size music/video collection and want to back up mail, office docs, pics, etc, then just buy whatever the sweet spot is for external/internal storage.
I just picked up a 160gb firewire/usb 2.0 external for $129. An 80gb would have been fine, but those are actually MORE expensive now.
Exactly, sort of like how C.S Lewis and his pals came up with the idea that "If some of the stuff in the Bible (New Testament) is true and varifiable, it ALL must be true."
BTW, faith is by definition something that can't be proven by fact.
While the average Libertarian would GET stoned WITH the prostitutes!
Actually, you do remember his real name.
Congratulations, I think the MOST selfless thing is to recognize that you don't want children and then not have them. Having a child "just because there was nothing else to do" is incredibly selfish. However, if by accident, you do become a parent, you HAVE to give as much as possible to your child, or risk life-long problems for them (and for you, too).
You had a babysitter at age 14? How long were your parents gone?
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Imagine a painting of a BeoWolf cluster of Poker Bots playing cards....
so true. I have a box at home that everyone else in the house uses (5 year old, wife, guests, etc). It was running WinME (yes, I know...) and the IE app got horribly corrupted. The microsoft site wouldn't even allow me to download the latest IE as part of the update program because I was using Mozilla. Stupid. Luckily I got the important data off it and now I think I'll put on a Free OS (recomendations? It is a Celeron 756mhz Dell). Basically, okay, I can understand wanting people to use your software to get OS updates, but this actually prevents people who want to switch from Mozilla to IE from doing so.
I didn't bother spoofing. Now everyone in the house is using the PowerBook which so far has avoided being too messed up by Spyware, etc.
Ultimately, you could be better off in the USA, even if it does depress wages by moving jobs overseas as long as the cost of living goes down more than the wages get depressed. That could be a net good.
Basically the argument comes down to that of altruism. If you think that helping everyone helps you, then globalization is good, if you think you will be better off by hoarding or protecting your assets from others, then it is a threat.
IANAE(conomist), so I may have missed some of Samuelson's nuances. But he is just seeming to point out to some of the rah-rah outsourcers that there may be some negative consequnces to the one doing the outsourcing.
Can someone just mod this whole "story" a Troll?
Maybe. I taught English Composition at Southern Vermont College for a year, and I tried to allow my students to grab onto a topic and really explore it. However, for someone to really convey their ideas well they need to present them in as straightforward a manner as possible. Writing without lots of grammatical, spelling or mechanical mistakes is easier to understand than poorly contructed prose.
Anyway, presentation is not a substitute for substance, but it sure makes it easier to wade through. Not every email or post I make to Slashdot is error free, but I DO know how to write with minimal errors and you really should know the rules before you decide to ignore or break them.
For bonus fun, find the errors in the above text!
Uh, maybe just sleep with the lights on?
That would be Bob Davis. He is still a very rich man because of it.
Small point, but Donkey Kong IS a Mario game.
I don't know about that.
I have a Compaq laptop new in Dec 2003 running XP Pro, a Dell Desktop running WinME (poorly, as it is a sorry excuse for an OS) and a 667 G4 Powerbook running 10.1 . Only the PowerBook NEVER hangs when waking up. I reboot the PowerBook every 4 months or so, whether it needs it or not.
All 3 machines have their uses and upsides, but in terms of power management and ability to wake up, the PBook rules in my small sample.
-Anson
Good point. However, I think we aren't really the scavenger model. We are more hunter-gatherer, which places plenty of emphasis on the stealth factor, which you brought up, but we still needed some muscle to do it effectively. Hence the fact that we are near the top end of size for most animals. Certainly not the biggest, but still decent size. Coyotes run from us. Rancid meat makes us sick, though, so we aren't really true scavengers.
Being incrdibly large was less important than have a smart brain that made hunting and gathering more productive.
One very interesting aspect of the mutation is that almost EVERYONE else MAKES myostatin. This is not a mutation where someone is producing something thast no one else does. This little boy is NOT making it. My guess is that we need it for some as yet unexplained reason, as most living things make very few things that they don't really need.