A blob of cells, which is what most fetus's are when abortions are performed, can't be a victum of anything. Third trimester abortions are a different study, but good luck finding anyone who actually wants those to be performed.
Yes they do, but basing public policy on anecdotes is not a good idea. I do agree on putting them under the same rules governing other social services, however.
As far as mixing politics and religion, even making a serious threat to revoke the tax-exempt status of a church could have a big impact. Like how prosecuting a farmer for saftey violations made others start taking it seriously, going after organizations like the Southern Baptists or the Christian Coalition could change the political landscape very quickly, even if they don't actually lose their tax-exempt status.
They instated a smoking ban basically to legislate behavior.
Smoking bans have nothing whatsoever to do with "behavior". It's a public health issue. If you want an example of a real "behavior & smoking" rule, you probably heard about the 18 year old girl who was banned from her senior prom for smoking, even though she was off school grounds when she was spotted.
Completely irrelevant Apples to oranges comparison. For starters, with IBM, we're not just talking about missed roadmaps, but also broken promises. Secondly, Intel missing their roadmpas hurts mostly Intel. Whereas IBM missing the boat with the 970 mostly hurts Apple.
There was the guy who was living in the Toys "R" Us, but I'm sure he was not allowed to live "anywhere he damn well pleased" which was *inside the store*....
If they guy could afford to buy the store, sure he could live there. This was the parent posters point, so don't be an asshat.
That's what they're doing already. Do you know what "blatantly" means? As in "obviously" and "in full view of everybody, including the cop with the radar gun/timing device"? As opposed to "stealthily"? Really, now. Think before you type.
Get a grip. There is a world of difference in driving 40 mph in a 30 zone twenty feet after a change in the limit, and a mile later.
Now you've just gone too far. The speeders present a clear and present danger to the other drivers on the road, and you're going to blame the 5-0 for keeping the streets safe?
Nonsense. Sometimes the posted limit has something to do with how safe it is to actually drive, but that's rarely the case, and I'll give you some examples. I live in a town of about 100,000 people, and whenever there's construction on the interstate that goes through town, they drop the speed limit from 55 to 40. Whereas in Minneapolis, for the same sort of construction they drop the limit from 65 to 55, and they easily have ten times as much traffic during any given day. Now tell me why it's safer to drive 10-15 mph faster in a city with millions of people than in a town of 100,000?
Another example: my parents live a few miles out side of town, surrounded by farms. The famers are graudally selling their land to developers who are turning the land into subdivisions. There is a two lane highway that is near my parent's place and the speed limit used to be 50. Now that the farms have been sold, and the land rezoned from agriculture to residential, the speed limit was dropped to 40, despite the fact that isn't a house closer than a mile away from this highway, and the amount of traffic hasn't increaed. Three years from now a change might make sense once the houses are built and occupied, but now it's merely arbitrary and capricious.
You own a dry cleaning business, you follow all the rules, laws, etc. A female employee gets pregnant. She can't work around the toxic cleaning solutions. Fine. OSHA comes in and orders the business closed until changes are made, fines them, and orders them to pay temporary lost wages.
If you were following all the "rules, laws etc" they wouldn't have made you close your business because you were, well, following all the "rules, laws etc".
Everyone is clambering to report that they don't know more than ysterday, but that they're the first to report it.
They copied this from the regular press, who perfected the method during the O.J. trial. "The top story of the hour is the O.J. Simpson trial, in which nothing has changed in two months...."
but so should the users and admins who don't patch their systems, don't use firewalls, and click on every stupid shiny link just to turn their mouse cursor into a smily face. Seriously, how sympathatic can you be to the user who does unsafe things.
Seriously, why do you think it's your job to fix cronic flaws in someone elses product?
Sorry, not a good analogy to a locked/unlocked door.
Yes, it is.
Does wearing (or not) the seatbelt have any bearing on whether the accident would happen or not?
Does it have any bearing on what happens to you during the accident? A robber comes up to your front door. Does it being locked have any bearing on the robber's chance of success?
Now, suppose your house as been robbed 50 times and you've gotten in 50 car crashes. How much responsiblity do you have for leaving your door unlocked or your selt belt unfastened, knowing full well that people will attempt to enter your house and you will crash your car?
Why? In what way does leaving your front door unlocked cause someone to walk off the street and attempt to enter your home without an invitation?
Because you keep leaving your door unlocked despite knowing that your house and your neighbors houses have been broken into repeatedly. Dozens of times every year, in fact. So it's July 2005, and your house gets robbed again, because you left your door unlocked, again. Now, what do you think the cops and your insurance company are going to have to say now that you've gone 10+ years with your house being robbed every week because you refuse to lock your door?
No, the external damage is caused solely by the virus/worm writers.
And the ones who made that possible in the first place are the negligent software companies. Worms and viruses were hardly new when Win2k was released, and yet with XP Microsoft still left ports and services running all over the place by default. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
And your source for that is....? Every statistic I've seen has shown that life imprisonment is cheaper than execution by several million dollars, once you factor in all the appeals.
Basically we have corporations _whining_ because they can't figure out how to hire the right folks to protect their networkers
Microsoft's negligence is just as much to blame as the crackers for debacles like Sasser. Of course the reason they continue to get away with having shitty security policies is because people keep placing the blame on end users rather than where it belongs.
Shipping a gold master game is more work than anyone who writes some open source game engine can imagine.
Yeah, and the employees get paid good money to do so. What are you going to put more effort into - an open source project in your free time as a hobby, or a job that puts food on your table and puts your kids through college?
Having tested almost every major open source game engine and having been exposed to more commercial game engines then probably 95% of real world game developers out there
Suuuure you have.
every open source engine I've personally been exposed to I would estimate at roughly %10 the way to a what would be a GM shrinkwrapped game.
And how many games that are released as GM actually should be GM? There have been many games like Sin and Myst III that weren't at all playable until a few months after their release because they shipped with so many bugs.
Much farther behind than they are now over the next few years, until home computer game programmers get their hands on Cell based systems.
Pfft. With every new generation of consoles, this crap about "leaving PC's in the dust" get's trotted out, and each and every time it's turned out to be just that - crap.
The whole developers vs distributers argument would have gained some sympathy with me if Valve wasn't every bit as greedy as Vivendi. Of the sale of a $50 game at Best Buy, the developer might see seven bucks out of the purchase. It's great the Valve can cut out the middleman now and sell directly to the consumer, but it's ludicrous to pay the same price for the same game when you get no book or media with it. Digital-only purchases should have been priced at $40 or less - as it was I said to hell with Valve and bought the retail box at Sams Club. So greedy Valve got 7 bucks instead of 40.
In addition to all the technical issues that you mentioned, the other thing that didn't do it for me was how much HL2 felt like a rat tunnel. The first one was like this as well of course, but that made sense because almost all of the game took place in an underground base, so some claustrophobia was to be expected. The sequel, however, takes place almost entirely above ground, so the rat tunnel effect stands out a lot more, and not in a good way. They could have at least had a few levels where you were presented with more than one way to accomplish your goal/get to your desitnation.
And that was a good rational for them - in 1985 when most computer purchases were going to first time buyers. Now it's just dumb, when the vast majortiy of people buying computers are NOT first time buyers. Go ahead and offer a 1 button mouse as an option - but for the love of god it is way past time to ship two button wheel mice by default. Apple had no qualms in shipping only USB cables with new iPods, even though there are millions of Macs out there that do have Firewire but do not have USB 2. Same with Tiger being shipped on DVD's, depsite Apple selling iBooks with CDROM drives as late as last year.
how exactly would that make your dead, beaten horse comments any more interesting?
And if people complained about the sex/violence contradiction more often, maybe something would change. So why don't you find something more poductive to do with your time than merely bitching about people who bitch?
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A blob of cells, which is what most fetus's are when abortions are performed, can't be a victum of anything. Third trimester abortions are a different study, but good luck finding anyone who actually wants those to be performed.
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Yes they do, but basing public policy on anecdotes is not a good idea. I do agree on putting them under the same rules governing other social services, however.
As far as mixing politics and religion, even making a serious threat to revoke the tax-exempt status of a church could have a big impact. Like how prosecuting a farmer for saftey violations made others start taking it seriously, going after organizations like the Southern Baptists or the Christian Coalition could change the political landscape very quickly, even if they don't actually lose their tax-exempt status.
As if the two have anything in common.
"I'll get the government out of your bedroom, when you get the government out of my wallet"
Anarchy is fine in a villiage with a few people. Anarchy in a country of 250 million would be a bit of a mess.
They instated a smoking ban basically to legislate behavior.
Smoking bans have nothing whatsoever to do with "behavior". It's a public health issue. If you want an example of a real "behavior & smoking" rule, you probably heard about the 18 year old girl who was banned from her senior prom for smoking, even though she was off school grounds when she was spotted.
If it wasn't worth their time they shouldn't have promised Apple they would have X speed by Y date.
Which Intel never did. Not once.
Completely irrelevant Apples to oranges comparison. For starters, with IBM, we're not just talking about missed roadmaps, but also broken promises. Secondly, Intel missing their roadmpas hurts mostly Intel. Whereas IBM missing the boat with the 970 mostly hurts Apple.
You really missed the forest for the trees on that one.
Speak for yourself, sparky. He was talking about evil in government, not printers.
There was the guy who was living in the Toys "R" Us, but I'm sure he was not allowed to live "anywhere he damn well pleased" which was *inside the store*....
If they guy could afford to buy the store, sure he could live there. This was the parent posters point, so don't be an asshat.
That's what they're doing already. Do you know what "blatantly" means? As in "obviously" and "in full view of everybody, including the cop with the radar gun/timing device"? As opposed to "stealthily"? Really, now. Think before you type.
Get a grip. There is a world of difference in driving 40 mph in a 30 zone twenty feet after a change in the limit, and a mile later.
Now you've just gone too far. The speeders present a clear and present danger to the other drivers on the road, and you're going to blame the 5-0 for keeping the streets safe?
Nonsense. Sometimes the posted limit has something to do with how safe it is to actually drive, but that's rarely the case, and I'll give you some examples. I live in a town of about 100,000 people, and whenever there's construction on the interstate that goes through town, they drop the speed limit from 55 to 40. Whereas in Minneapolis, for the same sort of construction they drop the limit from 65 to 55, and they easily have ten times as much traffic during any given day. Now tell me why it's safer to drive 10-15 mph faster in a city with millions of people than in a town of 100,000?
Another example: my parents live a few miles out side of town, surrounded by farms. The famers are graudally selling their land to developers who are turning the land into subdivisions. There is a two lane highway that is near my parent's place and the speed limit used to be 50. Now that the farms have been sold, and the land rezoned from agriculture to residential, the speed limit was dropped to 40, despite the fact that isn't a house closer than a mile away from this highway, and the amount of traffic hasn't increaed. Three years from now a change might make sense once the houses are built and occupied, but now it's merely arbitrary and capricious.
You own a dry cleaning business, you follow all the rules, laws, etc. A female employee gets pregnant. She can't work around the toxic cleaning solutions. Fine. OSHA comes in and orders the business closed until changes are made, fines them, and orders them to pay temporary lost wages.
If you were following all the "rules, laws etc" they wouldn't have made you close your business because you were, well, following all the "rules, laws etc".
Ummm the PS2 has USB ports so it DOES have inputs for keyboard and mouse. Where have you been since Oct of 2000?
Ummm useless unless the games support them. If you know some FPS's/RTS's that do, by all means list them.
Good news! It's a suppository!
Did it just get warmer in here?
Everyone is clambering to report that they don't know more than ysterday, but that they're the first to report it.
They copied this from the regular press, who perfected the method during the O.J. trial. "The top story of the hour is the O.J. Simpson trial, in which nothing has changed in two months...."
but so should the users and admins who don't patch their systems, don't use firewalls, and click on every stupid shiny link just to turn their mouse cursor into a smily face. Seriously, how sympathatic can you be to the user who does unsafe things.
Seriously, why do you think it's your job to fix cronic flaws in someone elses product?
Sorry, not a good analogy to a locked/unlocked door.
Yes, it is.
Does wearing (or not) the seatbelt have any bearing on whether the accident would happen or not?
Does it have any bearing on what happens to you during the accident? A robber comes up to your front door. Does it being locked have any bearing on the robber's chance of success?
Now, suppose your house as been robbed 50 times and you've gotten in 50 car crashes. How much responsiblity do you have for leaving your door unlocked or your selt belt unfastened, knowing full well that people will attempt to enter your house and you will crash your car?
Why? In what way does leaving your front door unlocked cause someone to walk off the street and attempt to enter your home without an invitation?
Because you keep leaving your door unlocked despite knowing that your house and your neighbors houses have been broken into repeatedly. Dozens of times every year, in fact. So it's July 2005, and your house gets robbed again, because you left your door unlocked, again. Now, what do you think the cops and your insurance company are going to have to say now that you've gone 10+ years with your house being robbed every week because you refuse to lock your door?
No, the external damage is caused solely by the virus/worm writers.
And the ones who made that possible in the first place are the negligent software companies. Worms and viruses were hardly new when Win2k was released, and yet with XP Microsoft still left ports and services running all over the place by default. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
And your source for that is....? Every statistic I've seen has shown that life imprisonment is cheaper than execution by several million dollars, once you factor in all the appeals.
Basically we have corporations _whining_ because they can't figure out how to hire the right folks to protect their networkers
Microsoft's negligence is just as much to blame as the crackers for debacles like Sasser. Of course the reason they continue to get away with having shitty security policies is because people keep placing the blame on end users rather than where it belongs.
Except Snopes doesn't seem to disprove it either. i.e. no autopsy, burial, cremation date etc.
Shipping a gold master game is more work than anyone who writes some open source game engine can imagine.
Yeah, and the employees get paid good money to do so. What are you going to put more effort into - an open source project in your free time as a hobby, or a job that puts food on your table and puts your kids through college?
Having tested almost every major open source game engine and having been exposed to more commercial game engines then probably 95% of real world game developers out there
Suuuure you have.
every open source engine I've personally been exposed to I would estimate at roughly %10 the way to a what would be a GM shrinkwrapped game.
And how many games that are released as GM actually should be GM? There have been many games like Sin and Myst III that weren't at all playable until a few months after their release because they shipped with so many bugs.
Much farther behind than they are now over the next few years, until home computer game programmers get their hands on Cell based systems.
Pfft. With every new generation of consoles, this crap about "leaving PC's in the dust" get's trotted out, and each and every time it's turned out to be just that - crap.
The whole developers vs distributers argument would have gained some sympathy with me if Valve wasn't every bit as greedy as Vivendi. Of the sale of a $50 game at Best Buy, the developer might see seven bucks out of the purchase. It's great the Valve can cut out the middleman now and sell directly to the consumer, but it's ludicrous to pay the same price for the same game when you get no book or media with it. Digital-only purchases should have been priced at $40 or less - as it was I said to hell with Valve and bought the retail box at Sams Club. So greedy Valve got 7 bucks instead of 40.
In addition to all the technical issues that you mentioned, the other thing that didn't do it for me was how much HL2 felt like a rat tunnel. The first one was like this as well of course, but that made sense because almost all of the game took place in an underground base, so some claustrophobia was to be expected. The sequel, however, takes place almost entirely above ground, so the rat tunnel effect stands out a lot more, and not in a good way. They could have at least had a few levels where you were presented with more than one way to accomplish your goal/get to your desitnation.
And that was a good rational for them - in 1985 when most computer purchases were going to first time buyers. Now it's just dumb, when the vast majortiy of people buying computers are NOT first time buyers. Go ahead and offer a 1 button mouse as an option - but for the love of god it is way past time to ship two button wheel mice by default. Apple had no qualms in shipping only USB cables with new iPods, even though there are millions of Macs out there that do have Firewire but do not have USB 2. Same with Tiger being shipped on DVD's, depsite Apple selling iBooks with CDROM drives as late as last year.
how exactly would that make your dead, beaten horse comments any more interesting?
And if people complained about the sex/violence contradiction more often, maybe something would change. So why don't you find something more poductive to do with your time than merely bitching about people who bitch?
One of those liberals that thought patriotism was tacky
Only in the tacky way that some Republicans had hijacked the word. Their attitude would more appropriatly be termed "jingoism".