anti-trust wouldn't be an issue since Google doesn't have an illegal monopoly. Yeah almost everyone uses their search, but thats browser agnostic, and people use their search because they choose to. There is no barrier to people using another search engine.
But you don't need to worry about mozilla. Google will keep giving them money to keep google as the default search engine in firefox. If google stopped giving them money, Bing would gladly pay them to make them the default search.
Personally I prefer to live somewhere where I don't have to spend most of my income on a perpetual arms race against my neighbours.
Also bear in mind no matter how many weapons a single man may have, he is no much for a dozen men even if they have much more modest weapons. And a dozen men are no match for a hundred men... well you can see what the eventual outcome of of your libertarian utopia is.
you can provide bikes that you can borrow throughout the city. Many cities are doing this now. That takes care of the problem of having to take your bike everywhere you go at least.
But yeah its still a bit of a pain in the ass. People just have to learn some patience and walk.
the problem I had with it was obi wan just walked away, leaving someone who was supposedly his friend to burn to death. He had no reason to do this. If he cared about his friend he would have killed him to end his pain. If he was just being pragmatic, he would have killed him just to be sure the galaxy had one less sith in it.
Either way you look at it, it was stupid for him to walk away.
but the problem with the prequels is that the stuff that occurs off-camera is some of the most important things in the story line.
The prequels had to establish that obi-wan and anakin were good friends. Apparently the were good friends off-screen as indicated by a line of dialog in ep2 and a line of dialog in ep3. On screen we see them constantly bickering when they're together and when they're apart anakin is always complaining about how obi-wan is holding him back and doesn't understand, and obi wan is telling the jedi council that anakin is too dangerous to be trusted. So what the prequels show is these two guys that never liked each other from the beginning end up fighting to the death.
Anakin was supposed to be a good man that turned to the dark side. But in the prequels he seemed obnoxious and power hungry all along. And why did he turn to the dark side? because the Jedis lied to him? OMG they lied to me... now off I go to kill a bunch of children. And Palpatine tells him he can bring back the dead... and it never occurs to anakin that he may be lying? Palpatine never gave any proof that he had this ability. Anakin just took him on his word. So he's an evil master of dark powers.... but I'm sure he'd never LIE to anyone to benefit himself. Even though thats what he was doing all through the movies to gain power.
And the love story between Anakin and padme.... "No anakin we can't be together... What you killed a bunch of sand people, including women and children? I'm all yours baby!"
Sorry dude nothing about these movies makes any sense. They're just crap.
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the little light on mine doesn't seem to work properly, and I'm on my second adaptor. A lot of times its plugged in and working fine, but the light is off. If I unplug it and plug it back in it comes on, but I've gotten used to ignoring it.
ummmm scientists are examining the data. That is how they found out about the errors.
They are basically gathering together all the information they can about climate change and putting into a single report for people to reference. When they find something wrong with it they make adjustments.
Gathering evidence and discarding stuff found to be false is totally not scientific! Scientists should never publish anything unless they are absolutely certain of their findings! That Newton guy was a total fraud because we later found that nuclear reactions don't fit into his laws of thermodynamics!
Dude this is exactly why scientists publish stuff. So other people can review their findings and expose any flaws. Finding a flaw in a theory doesn't necessarily negate it, it likely means adjustments have to be made. Finding three points that are wrong among thousands isn't a cause for concern. In fact I'd be more concerned if nothing in the report was questionable. That would indicate that they weren't being thorough.
The default Ubuntu UI (which includes compiz) is better designed than MacOSX.
Have you ever used it? I have tried both MacOS X and Ubuntu, and Ubuntu is far more user friendly than MacOS. They just don't have the hype machine that Apple has.
They are telling the truth about lying to us all along. Their phones have always been exaggerating signal strength to make themselves look good. Now its come back and bit them in the ass.
Similarly MacOS shows full strength on my wifi signal while linux shows 70% strength on the same hardware. The reliability is the same, download/upload speeds are the same. Just MacOS reports a stronger signal.
I think you need a browser extension to make it show chinese characters, otherwise it just shows ascii characters. Not even sure why ICANN needs to be involved. Thailand does this without any ICANN involvement.
Putting money in the bank does not necessarily create more jobs. That money could be invested overseas. Horray for the world economy I guess, but its not gonna get a job for your neighbour.
Also a company may use that money to automate some of their production. Automation means more capital and less labour, ie. less jobs.
And of course we can get into the situation we were in a couple of years ago where there was so much money available to the banks but too few good investments. So what do they do with money when there's no good investments left? The start making bad investments. I suppose lending money to people who aren't able to pay it back does stimulate the economomy. But when people start defaulting, the whole thing comes crashing down.
So yeah it does make a big difference to the economy if people are spending their money instead of saving it. The banks can't create jobs, they can only create bubbles. The bubbles temporarily create jobs, I suppose. But the jobs created by bubbles are very unproductive. When the cycle is finished you just end up with a lot of expensive chairs and surplus obsolete networking equipment (dot com bubble) or houses that no one can afford (mortgage bubble). All paid for from people's lost retirement funds. Economically its the same as if the government taxed people's savings and paid a lot of people to make stuff that no one will use.
the problem is the intellectuals have abandoned christianity. Back in the middle ages there was a guy called Martin Luther saw a lot of problems with christianity, so he tired to change it, got excommunicated, then started a new branch of christianity.
Today when the intellectuals instead of making an effort to enlighten the christians that have strayed from what christianity should be about (forgiveness, helping others) have instead just become atheists and spend all there time mocking christians on the internet.
The problem isn't the people who are intellectually lazy, the real problem is lazy intellectuals. There are always going to be people who are unable or unwilling to think about religion and the effects of it. Its up to the intellectuals to guide those people so they get the right message from religion. This is why we have images of God being this guy with a beard living in the clouds. No one who has thought about religion in any depth actually thinks that that is what God is. Thats just the dumbed down version for those that don't want to bother thinking about religion.
So now we have a whole branch of christianity that is going out of control. The people running things don't have any real understanding of theology and are simply giving the audience what they want. Pandering to their base instincts. And we end up with "GOD HATES FAGS".
And the atheists have formed their own religion. Like all religions it makes its members feel good by telling them they're better than everyone else. But unlike protestantism, its completely incompatible with the existing christianity. So while the excesses of the catholic church had to be toned down after people started changing over to protestantism, atheism will have no effect on christianity.
Actually the problem with the linux desktop is lack of hype and the fact that you can easily reconfigure it.
MacOS has lots of hype and you can reconfigure it very much. This forces people to use MacOS more or less with the default settings. And because of the hype people are willing to use it long enough to get used to it.
There is no hype for the linux desktop. And since its not what people are used to, they start spending lots of time reconfiguring it to make it more like windows. The end result is that many users end up with a desktop OS thats a poor approximation of windows which took a lot of configuration to get that way.
Its a shame. If people just installed it and didn't go messing with the configuration too much and instead just got used to the interface, they'd have a really good experience with it. But it goes against the philosophy of linux to forbid users from configuring things the way apple does. So people will continue to move the applications menu to the lower left corner, get rid of the top panel, etc, throwing away all the hard work people did on UI design. And after they make the UI hard to use, they complain that the UI is hard to use.
The biggest problem with getting used to the linux desktop interface is that when you have to use windows or macOS it feels like a big step backwards.
generally politicians look at demographics of the people who may be swayed to vote for them. Then try to talk like them, and get photo-ops of doing things those people like. Get pictures of going to church on sunday, having a beer, watching "the game", etc.
Then there are the cases where they put up a "front man" to get the votes, while the people with the real power operates behind the scenes. In those cases its a total crapshoot because the person that got the most votes isn't the one making decisions, its the people behind the scenes.
You you're either getting a guy who can act like "the common man" or you get a real common man that is just there for photo ops, but isn't actually making decisions.
problem is they aren't choosing randomly. They're choosing the person they think is most like themselves. So the stupid population will vote for someone stupid.
its says on the device that it accepts all interference or words to that effect. Meaning that if the device is getting interfered with you have to accept that.
Just doing business where ever they can. This isn't some kind of war against apple, where they have to blockade them in every area possible. Should they not allow the iPhone to do searches on google, throwing away money, just to spite apple?
HTML5 is the future, and google wants to be a head of the curve. But for now, the best way to send video over the internet is by using flash. So yeah, they're still going to make flash work as well as they can.
This is how businesses are supposed to operate. Maybe you've been watching microsoft's dealings too much and have gotten used to seeing corporations do everything they can to screw over everyone else.
yeah but I've seen digital cameras advertise they can make videos that are "ready for youtube". Google can require that devices need to support VP8 before they can say they are "youtube compatible".
Of course other devices would still work with youtube, but people using those devices would have to wait while their videos are transcoded (with the loss of quality that comes with transcoding), while users of "youtube compatible" marked devices that support VP8 can have their videos uploaded faster and at full quality.
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anti-trust wouldn't be an issue since Google doesn't have an illegal monopoly. Yeah almost everyone uses their search, but thats browser agnostic, and people use their search because they choose to. There is no barrier to people using another search engine.
But you don't need to worry about mozilla. Google will keep giving them money to keep google as the default search engine in firefox. If google stopped giving them money, Bing would gladly pay them to make them the default search.
Personally I prefer to live somewhere where I don't have to spend most of my income on a perpetual arms race against my neighbours.
Also bear in mind no matter how many weapons a single man may have, he is no much for a dozen men even if they have much more modest weapons. And a dozen men are no match for a hundred men... well you can see what the eventual outcome of of your libertarian utopia is.
if you make your definition more stringent than that, then very few invasions in history have ever been successful.
The Mongols were pretty successful in invading Afghanistan.
you can provide bikes that you can borrow throughout the city. Many cities are doing this now. That takes care of the problem of having to take your bike everywhere you go at least.
But yeah its still a bit of a pain in the ass. People just have to learn some patience and walk.
I'm almost certain it is stand on the right and walk on the left side in Japan. Little details like that are hard to remember though.
the problem I had with it was obi wan just walked away, leaving someone who was supposedly his friend to burn to death. He had no reason to do this. If he cared about his friend he would have killed him to end his pain. If he was just being pragmatic, he would have killed him just to be sure the galaxy had one less sith in it.
Either way you look at it, it was stupid for him to walk away.
but the problem with the prequels is that the stuff that occurs off-camera is some of the most important things in the story line.
The prequels had to establish that obi-wan and anakin were good friends. Apparently the were good friends off-screen as indicated by a line of dialog in ep2 and a line of dialog in ep3. On screen we see them constantly bickering when they're together and when they're apart anakin is always complaining about how obi-wan is holding him back and doesn't understand, and obi wan is telling the jedi council that anakin is too dangerous to be trusted. So what the prequels show is these two guys that never liked each other from the beginning end up fighting to the death.
Anakin was supposed to be a good man that turned to the dark side. But in the prequels he seemed obnoxious and power hungry all along. And why did he turn to the dark side? because the Jedis lied to him? OMG they lied to me... now off I go to kill a bunch of children. And Palpatine tells him he can bring back the dead... and it never occurs to anakin that he may be lying? Palpatine never gave any proof that he had this ability. Anakin just took him on his word. So he's an evil master of dark powers.... but I'm sure he'd never LIE to anyone to benefit himself. Even though thats what he was doing all through the movies to gain power.
And the love story between Anakin and padme.... "No anakin we can't be together... What you killed a bunch of sand people, including women and children? I'm all yours baby!"
Sorry dude nothing about these movies makes any sense. They're just crap.
I thought it was a rip-off of Dune. No wait... Flash Gordon. No wait... Samurai flicks.
Actually he combined a lot of stuff. Thats pretty much what most writers do.
Although Episode 3 is pretty much Dune Messiah. But it made less sense.
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YHBT. She loses a couple of points laughing a little, but she nailed that dude. And you and a bunch of other people too.
the little light on mine doesn't seem to work properly, and I'm on my second adaptor. A lot of times its plugged in and working fine, but the light is off. If I unplug it and plug it back in it comes on, but I've gotten used to ignoring it.
ummmm scientists are examining the data. That is how they found out about the errors.
They are basically gathering together all the information they can about climate change and putting into a single report for people to reference. When they find something wrong with it they make adjustments.
Gathering evidence and discarding stuff found to be false is totally not scientific! Scientists should never publish anything unless they are absolutely certain of their findings! That Newton guy was a total fraud because we later found that nuclear reactions don't fit into his laws of thermodynamics!
Dude this is exactly why scientists publish stuff. So other people can review their findings and expose any flaws. Finding a flaw in a theory doesn't necessarily negate it, it likely means adjustments have to be made. Finding three points that are wrong among thousands isn't a cause for concern. In fact I'd be more concerned if nothing in the report was questionable. That would indicate that they weren't being thorough.
The default Ubuntu UI (which includes compiz) is better designed than MacOSX.
Have you ever used it? I have tried both MacOS X and Ubuntu, and Ubuntu is far more user friendly than MacOS. They just don't have the hype machine that Apple has.
They are telling the truth about lying to us all along. Their phones have always been exaggerating signal strength to make themselves look good. Now its come back and bit them in the ass.
Similarly MacOS shows full strength on my wifi signal while linux shows 70% strength on the same hardware. The reliability is the same, download/upload speeds are the same. Just MacOS reports a stronger signal.
I think you need a browser extension to make it show chinese characters, otherwise it just shows ascii characters. Not even sure why ICANN needs to be involved. Thailand does this without any ICANN involvement.
Putting money in the bank does not necessarily create more jobs. That money could be invested overseas. Horray for the world economy I guess, but its not gonna get a job for your neighbour.
Also a company may use that money to automate some of their production. Automation means more capital and less labour, ie. less jobs.
And of course we can get into the situation we were in a couple of years ago where there was so much money available to the banks but too few good investments. So what do they do with money when there's no good investments left? The start making bad investments. I suppose lending money to people who aren't able to pay it back does stimulate the economomy. But when people start defaulting, the whole thing comes crashing down.
So yeah it does make a big difference to the economy if people are spending their money instead of saving it. The banks can't create jobs, they can only create bubbles. The bubbles temporarily create jobs, I suppose. But the jobs created by bubbles are very unproductive. When the cycle is finished you just end up with a lot of expensive chairs and surplus obsolete networking equipment (dot com bubble) or houses that no one can afford (mortgage bubble). All paid for from people's lost retirement funds. Economically its the same as if the government taxed people's savings and paid a lot of people to make stuff that no one will use.
the problem is the intellectuals have abandoned christianity. Back in the middle ages there was a guy called Martin Luther saw a lot of problems with christianity, so he tired to change it, got excommunicated, then started a new branch of christianity.
Today when the intellectuals instead of making an effort to enlighten the christians that have strayed from what christianity should be about (forgiveness, helping others) have instead just become atheists and spend all there time mocking christians on the internet.
The problem isn't the people who are intellectually lazy, the real problem is lazy intellectuals. There are always going to be people who are unable or unwilling to think about religion and the effects of it. Its up to the intellectuals to guide those people so they get the right message from religion. This is why we have images of God being this guy with a beard living in the clouds. No one who has thought about religion in any depth actually thinks that that is what God is. Thats just the dumbed down version for those that don't want to bother thinking about religion.
So now we have a whole branch of christianity that is going out of control. The people running things don't have any real understanding of theology and are simply giving the audience what they want. Pandering to their base instincts. And we end up with "GOD HATES FAGS".
And the atheists have formed their own religion. Like all religions it makes its members feel good by telling them they're better than everyone else. But unlike protestantism, its completely incompatible with the existing christianity. So while the excesses of the catholic church had to be toned down after people started changing over to protestantism, atheism will have no effect on christianity.
Actually the problem with the linux desktop is lack of hype and the fact that you can easily reconfigure it.
MacOS has lots of hype and you can reconfigure it very much. This forces people to use MacOS more or less with the default settings. And because of the hype people are willing to use it long enough to get used to it.
There is no hype for the linux desktop. And since its not what people are used to, they start spending lots of time reconfiguring it to make it more like windows. The end result is that many users end up with a desktop OS thats a poor approximation of windows which took a lot of configuration to get that way.
Its a shame. If people just installed it and didn't go messing with the configuration too much and instead just got used to the interface, they'd have a really good experience with it. But it goes against the philosophy of linux to forbid users from configuring things the way apple does. So people will continue to move the applications menu to the lower left corner, get rid of the top panel, etc, throwing away all the hard work people did on UI design. And after they make the UI hard to use, they complain that the UI is hard to use.
The biggest problem with getting used to the linux desktop interface is that when you have to use windows or macOS it feels like a big step backwards.
generally politicians look at demographics of the people who may be swayed to vote for them. Then try to talk like them, and get photo-ops of doing things those people like. Get pictures of going to church on sunday, having a beer, watching "the game", etc.
Then there are the cases where they put up a "front man" to get the votes, while the people with the real power operates behind the scenes. In those cases its a total crapshoot because the person that got the most votes isn't the one making decisions, its the people behind the scenes.
You you're either getting a guy who can act like "the common man" or you get a real common man that is just there for photo ops, but isn't actually making decisions.
problem is they aren't choosing randomly. They're choosing the person they think is most like themselves. So the stupid population will vote for someone stupid.
its says on the device that it accepts all interference or words to that effect. Meaning that if the device is getting interfered with you have to accept that.
maybe we should clue him about buray? or just let him transition to the 90's first.
Just doing business where ever they can. This isn't some kind of war against apple, where they have to blockade them in every area possible. Should they not allow the iPhone to do searches on google, throwing away money, just to spite apple?
HTML5 is the future, and google wants to be a head of the curve. But for now, the best way to send video over the internet is by using flash. So yeah, they're still going to make flash work as well as they can.
This is how businesses are supposed to operate. Maybe you've been watching microsoft's dealings too much and have gotten used to seeing corporations do everything they can to screw over everyone else.
yeah but I've seen digital cameras advertise they can make videos that are "ready for youtube". Google can require that devices need to support VP8 before they can say they are "youtube compatible".
Of course other devices would still work with youtube, but people using those devices would have to wait while their videos are transcoded (with the loss of quality that comes with transcoding), while users of "youtube compatible" marked devices that support VP8 can have their videos uploaded faster and at full quality.