What if your boss at work is a hardcore republican and threatens you for your political opinions? Is this still freedom? Sure, its illegal, on the other hand, unemployement is at its highest, and being right doesn't always win the case in court (nor gives you back a job).
To some extent, these are one and the same. DOE, Darpa and DoD budgets are massive contributors to science funding in general, even in pure academia (aka outside national labs).
Another possibility is to have import taxes. Since import taxes have been suppressed, we have endured a long period of salary deflation, resulting in morose growth, chronic overproduction, commercial deficit, private debt explosion (much worst than the often reviled public sector debt actually), etc. There is just not much sense making a single market from geographic areas that are so different in term of incomes. We would all be better off if we stopped that fallacy and returned to salary growth with strict border controls. No cheap Chinese goods anymore on the shelf, but more manufacture jobs and higher salaries means that we could still afford a proper way of living, even buying more expensive products.
Stopped buying any EA games years ago, after being burned with a similar story. The DRM from EA broke my windows install, with crashes etc. It would prevent me ((completely) from burning any CD, related or not to EA products, it would just prevent the laser from working correctly (cost me real money in failed bare disks, at the time these were expensive, and my time is not free either). Never, ever, bought (or played, for what it matters) an EA game again. Looks like the same is happening to Ubisoft.
I am very wary of buying games. I have the money, I could enjoy playing, but I cannot stand the idea of paying to get the stick. I had enough bad feedback from bought games (and DVDs) that I just don't bother anymore. I don't even "pirate", I just don't care anymore, found something else to do. If I could get a warranty that installing a game will not turn my computer in a steaming piece of junk, and that I would not have to spend 4 hours of my own valuable time fixing it, I may revise, until then, my money is used on other entertainments that don't waste my time and do all they can to turn me sour.
I lived in Paris near CDG airport and never ever heard a sonic boom. They had Concorde taking off and landing everyday there, and its pretty much inland (closest sea is about 200 miles away). Fuel guzzling, sure, noise seems to be BS stirred by Boeing, from first person witnessing.
It happened to me. One of the numerous MacBook I had over the years would just not connect to channel 11. Worked flawlessly with other channels, but not with 11. The "genius" fix was to set my access point to another channel. Too bad the airport authorities were not so keen on doing the same. Anyway, hardware and/or software issues that are never resolved are very common on mac models, if you are unlucky, and don't hope on the genius to help you if it is expensive.
You are delusional. A car with such high mileage is a maintenance money pit. A car is always a very high expense. I have one and don't plan on ditching it, but just do some proper accounting, you'll see.
That is true and great, but lets consider the other option: complete, voluntary disposal of all weapons. This is not credible either. The famous Oppenheimer quote summarizes: "the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose."
You can never stop having nuclear arsenal, just in case the other has secretly built one. First strike advantage is overwhelming, if second strike is to take 2 years.
If it is pictures of real kids being molested, real harm has been done to the kids. If you let consumer pay for watching kids being molested, you can bet that more kids will be molested to feed that "market".
Can you please stop rewriting history in all of your posts? The historical parallel you stir are so stupid and wrong it is painful to read.
Somalia was a imperial kingdom, before intervention from european powers and the ensuing destabilization. Meanwhile your personal eden of invisible hand jerking in the us was supposedly responsible for a period of prosperity and growth, in europe, heavy handed centralized planning and rampant socialism lead to... unrivaled prosperity and growth, and the emergence of a strong middle class...
The modding is your problem. Appropriate software management can decuple battery life (or said otherwise, doing nonsense can drain a battery in a tenth of rated life).
Her behavior cost these 2 persons their legs. It might not be legal matter, for good reasons, but the moral responsibility is quite clear to me, and I won't cry for the loss of 200 bucks for this girl that was part of the loss of two legs. Please review your priorities when distributing empathy.
If you have the occasion, go taste European coke. Corn is not as heavily subsidized there, but beet is. As a consequence, european Coke is made with real sugar, not HFCS. It taste significantly different, less sweet, lighter on the tongue, and more citrussy.
Coke taste changes with regions, time, and price of commodities, as the formula is far from invariant, especially when it comes to juicing one more dime a gallon by replacing something expensive with something cheap (or local to the target market, hence cheap).
Should I remember you of Guatanamo ? There are been people, maybe innocent, maybe not, who knows they have never seen a judge, that have been abducted and detained for years, and subjected to torture.
I do not feel that insecure about living in the US, but it is also clear that the possibility of being mistaken for somebody else and suddenly taken to a torture prison is possible when visiting the US. That is a little scary, even if only a remote possibility. It is a possibility that does not exist when visiting France, Germany, or Switzerland. In that respect, yes, visiting the US is more akin to visiting Iran, where there is a low but real risk of being subjected to arbitrary treatments from the state.
I have somewhere a Toshiba laptop with a 25Mhz 386, that runs Slackware 4.0 with X and stuffs. It worked surprisingly well and was very usable as a devel machine (not for browsing the web though).
"All the women and children were locked in the church while the village was looted. Meanwhile, the men were led to six barns and sheds where machine-gun nests were already in place. [...] The soldiers proceeded to the church and placed an incendiary device there. After it was ignited, women and children tried to escape through the doors and windows of the church, but they were met with machine-gun fire. A total of 247 women and 205 children died in the carnage. Only two women and one child survived;"
"The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane involved men, women and children, some as young as one week, and some as old as ninety. Oradour-sur-Glane was not the only collective punishment reprisal action committed by the Waffen SS: other well-documented examples include the French towns of Tulle, Ascq, Maillé, Robert-Espagne, and Clermont-en-Argonne; the Soviet village of Kortelisy (in what is now Ukraine); Lithuanian village of Piriupiai; the Czechoslovakian villages of Leáky and Lidice (in what is now the Czech Republic); the Greek towns of Kalavryta and Distomo; the Dutch town of Putten; Serbian towns of Kragujevac and Kraljevo; Norwegian village of Telavåg; and the Italian villages of Sant'Anna di Stazzema and Marzabotto. "
There is a technical solution to this. Let the voters have a secret, but have the voting system "apparently" registering votes casted with the wrong secret. The voter can then cast the real vote using the right secret later (or before, whatever, anytime you vote again, it "appears" as if you voted and it counted).
This is effectively as good to protect voters from intimidation/coercion and discourage vote buyers as a ballot room, as they can never know if you indeed voted for them, or just sent their ballot to the trash and replaced it at the last moment with something else.
It still doesn't solve the main issue: You have voted into the computer. You know have to trust that the computer is not corrupted and that your vote will be counted correctly. You have to trust, because you cannot verify it yourself. If you have to trust some "system", set up by the already in power officials, I'm telling you that mistrust is going to be widespread. Mistrust in democratic results in the seed of civil war.
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What if your boss at work is a hardcore republican and threatens you for your political opinions? Is this still freedom? Sure, its illegal, on the other hand, unemployement is at its highest, and being right doesn't always win the case in court (nor gives you back a job).
To some extent, these are one and the same. DOE, Darpa and DoD budgets are massive contributors to science funding in general, even in pure academia (aka outside national labs).
Another possibility is to have import taxes. Since import taxes have been suppressed, we have endured a long period of salary deflation, resulting in morose growth, chronic overproduction, commercial deficit, private debt explosion (much worst than the often reviled public sector debt actually), etc. There is just not much sense making a single market from geographic areas that are so different in term of incomes. We would all be better off if we stopped that fallacy and returned to salary growth with strict border controls. No cheap Chinese goods anymore on the shelf, but more manufacture jobs and higher salaries means that we could still afford a proper way of living, even buying more expensive products.
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Possibilities are endless, and that is just for "internet" activities.
This is Taiwan, not PRC China. Situation is very different there.
Stopped buying any EA games years ago, after being burned with a similar story. The DRM from EA broke my windows install, with crashes etc. It would prevent me ((completely) from burning any CD, related or not to EA products, it would just prevent the laser from working correctly (cost me real money in failed bare disks, at the time these were expensive, and my time is not free either). Never, ever, bought (or played, for what it matters) an EA game again. Looks like the same is happening to Ubisoft.
I am very wary of buying games. I have the money, I could enjoy playing, but I cannot stand the idea of paying to get the stick. I had enough bad feedback from bought games (and DVDs) that I just don't bother anymore. I don't even "pirate", I just don't care anymore, found something else to do. If I could get a warranty that installing a game will not turn my computer in a steaming piece of junk, and that I would not have to spend 4 hours of my own valuable time fixing it, I may revise, until then, my money is used on other entertainments that don't waste my time and do all they can to turn me sour.
I lived in Paris near CDG airport and never ever heard a sonic boom. They had Concorde taking off and landing everyday there, and its pretty much inland (closest sea is about 200 miles away). Fuel guzzling, sure, noise seems to be BS stirred by Boeing, from first person witnessing.
And do something with the way keyboard shortcuts are handled. The inconsistent behavior that is the mark of OS-X is ruining productivity.
It happened to me. One of the numerous MacBook I had over the years would just not connect to channel 11. Worked flawlessly with other channels, but not with 11. The "genius" fix was to set my access point to another channel. Too bad the airport authorities were not so keen on doing the same. Anyway, hardware and/or software issues that are never resolved are very common on mac models, if you are unlucky, and don't hope on the genius to help you if it is expensive.
You are delusional. A car with such high mileage is a maintenance money pit. A car is always a very high expense. I have one and don't plan on ditching it, but just do some proper accounting, you'll see.
That is true and great, but lets consider the other option: complete, voluntary disposal of all weapons. This is not credible either. The famous Oppenheimer quote summarizes: "the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose."
You can never stop having nuclear arsenal, just in case the other has secretly built one. First strike advantage is overwhelming, if second strike is to take 2 years.
If it is pictures of real kids being molested, real harm has been done to the kids. If you let consumer pay for watching kids being molested, you can bet that more kids will be molested to feed that "market".
Can you please stop rewriting history in all of your posts? The historical parallel you stir are so stupid and wrong it is painful to read.
Somalia was a imperial kingdom, before intervention from european powers and the ensuing destabilization. Meanwhile your personal eden of invisible hand jerking in the us was supposedly responsible for a period of prosperity and growth, in europe, heavy handed centralized planning and rampant socialism lead to... unrivaled prosperity and growth, and the emergence of a strong middle class...
The modding is your problem. Appropriate software management can decuple battery life (or said otherwise, doing nonsense can drain a battery in a tenth of rated life).
Her behavior cost these 2 persons their legs. It might not be legal matter, for good reasons, but the moral responsibility is quite clear to me, and I won't cry for the loss of 200 bucks for this girl that was part of the loss of two legs. Please review your priorities when distributing empathy.
breathe. If we can gain conscious control over that kind of functionality, we'd be formidable.
You have to go past your children tantrums, they never worked with Mom, they won't work with Slashdot...
Some are both. Yes, life is unfair.
If you have the occasion, go taste European coke. Corn is not as heavily subsidized there, but beet is. As a consequence, european Coke is made with real sugar, not HFCS. It taste significantly different, less sweet, lighter on the tongue, and more citrussy.
Coke taste changes with regions, time, and price of commodities, as the formula is far from invariant, especially when it comes to juicing one more dime a gallon by replacing something expensive with something cheap (or local to the target market, hence cheap).
Because without gvmt intervention, research stalls and the country flushes down the toilet bowl of past superpowers.
Should I remember you of Guatanamo ? There are been people, maybe innocent, maybe not, who knows they have never seen a judge, that have been abducted and detained for years, and subjected to torture.
I do not feel that insecure about living in the US, but it is also clear that the possibility of being mistaken for somebody else and suddenly taken to a torture prison is possible when visiting the US. That is a little scary, even if only a remote possibility. It is a possibility that does not exist when visiting France, Germany, or Switzerland. In that respect, yes, visiting the US is more akin to visiting Iran, where there is a low but real risk of being subjected to arbitrary treatments from the state.
Or a lunatic could cough at you with the flu and kill you. Stop the paranoia.
I have somewhere a Toshiba laptop with a 25Mhz 386, that runs Slackware 4.0 with X and stuffs. It worked surprisingly well and was very usable as a devel machine (not for browsing the web though).
Herm...
"All the women and children were locked in the church while the village was looted. Meanwhile, the men were led to six barns and sheds where machine-gun nests were already in place.
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The soldiers proceeded to the church and placed an incendiary device there. After it was ignited, women and children tried to escape through the doors and windows of the church, but they were met with machine-gun fire. A total of 247 women and 205 children died in the carnage. Only two women and one child survived;"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane
"The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane involved men, women and children, some as young as one week, and some as old as ninety. Oradour-sur-Glane was not the only collective punishment reprisal action committed by the Waffen SS: other well-documented examples include the French towns of Tulle, Ascq, Maillé, Robert-Espagne, and Clermont-en-Argonne; the Soviet village of Kortelisy (in what is now Ukraine); Lithuanian village of Piriupiai; the Czechoslovakian villages of Leáky and Lidice (in what is now the Czech Republic); the Greek towns of Kalavryta and Distomo; the Dutch town of Putten; Serbian towns of Kragujevac and Kraljevo; Norwegian village of Telavåg; and the Italian villages of Sant'Anna di Stazzema and Marzabotto. "
Yeah, the finest of the finest......
There is a technical solution to this. Let the voters have a secret, but have the voting system "apparently" registering votes casted with the wrong secret. The voter can then cast the real vote using the right secret later (or before, whatever, anytime you vote again, it "appears" as if you voted and it counted).
This is effectively as good to protect voters from intimidation/coercion and discourage vote buyers as a ballot room, as they can never know if you indeed voted for them, or just sent their ballot to the trash and replaced it at the last moment with something else.
It still doesn't solve the main issue:
You have voted into the computer. You know have to trust that the computer is not corrupted and that your vote will be counted correctly. You have to trust, because you cannot verify it yourself. If you have to trust some "system", set up by the already in power officials, I'm telling you that mistrust is going to be widespread. Mistrust in democratic results in the seed of civil war.