And, don't forget, reducing our dependency on fossil based energy sources to some degree. To me, that factor alone makes some level of subsidy for solar, wind, and water power worth it.
What eye witnesses? In most cases the only witnesses to a car crash are the participants. Everyone else is long gone by the time the cops show up to take statements.
Personally, I have a lot more faith that an impact analysis than either of the other two options. It's going to have a lot more basis in reality than a magic black box that has gone through 10 years plus of weather extremes with no maintenance check whatsoever or any (notoriously inaccurate) eye witness account.
So let me clarify a bit. My best friend, his wife, his sons are all lifetime members of the NRA. One uncle, two cousins, and I don't know how many neighbors when I was growing up were members. Most of us who weren't members of the NRA were either too cheap or too poor to join. We certainly were fully behind the NRA's agenda. And yet, many of us were and are fully behind the legalization of marijuana.
Another example: Take a look at the two states that have legalized pot first; Washington and Colorado. Both states have concealed carry permits available, which leads me to believe that both states have strong pro gun lobbies. And who leads those lobbies nationwide? Oh, yes, the NRA.
Your thesis just doesn't hold water. THAT's the point I was trying to make.
Well, that's the problem with stereotypes, isn't it? They have such little basis in reality.
While I'm not a member of the NRA, I've been around guns and owned guns all my life. My dad gave me my first shotgun when I was 12. Over the past 40-some years I've managed to collect a couple of pistols, 5 shotguns and 3 rifles without really thinking about it. I think I'm pretty typical of any guy who grew up in a rural area in a country with halfway sane gun laws.
I was also taught that the War on Drugs was a joke. My dad was a member of the Minnesota branch of the National Education Association (teacher's union for those outside the U.S.) and his district's perennial delegate to the annual state convention. He spoke in favor of a resolution backing the legalization of marijuana in the early or mid '70s. (The motion passed, by the way.)
He said then that the war on drugs (which was just heating up at the time) was a waste of resources. He didn't see the point in criminalizing an activity with such a demonstrably small impact on society. Instead, he advocated legalizing it and treating it the same as alcohol or tobacco.
His attitude was a fairly common one then, and I think still is up here in Upper Midwest. We like to party and we like our guns. Those of us who have been raised around guns know the two don't mix.;-)
There is no doubt that e-readers have made carrying large quantities of documentation around with you much, MUCH easier. What is tougher to do is manage your library. Fortunately, someone has already made tremendous strides to resolve that issue.
calibre provides a great way to organize your library of e-books and online periodicals in conjunction with the tablet or e-reader of your choice. The website has a highlights video which does a good job of covering what calibre is capable of. At this point, calibre provides automatic download scheduling for almost 1,400 online magazines. More are added by users of calibre all the time. A sampling that might be of interest to academics include "Journal of Hospital Medicine", "Journal of Nephrology", "Microwaves and RF", "Scientific American", etc.
Once you've added a book (or collection of books) to your library, calibre provides plenty of tools to categorize it by subject, author, publisher, and just about anything else you care to name.
So, once you've got your papers and periodicals organized in calibre, pulling them into your e-reader is simply a matter of plugging into a USB port on your desktop or laptop. If you want to grab something when you're away from your desk, there's a Web front end that's pretty serviceable, too.
calibre is licensed under GPLv3 and is supported under MS Windows, OS/X, and Linux. There's even a portable version for loading on a USB stick to make your library truly portable.:-)
BTW, the Grand Tour video was created when the current version of calibre was 0.8.0. Kovid Goyal has been conscientously providing updates every Friday for as long as I've been using his app. The current version is 0.9.8. I think he went from 0.8.0 to 0.8.78 before making the leap to 0.9.0.:-)
As to which e-reader to use? There are a huge number of tablets and dedicated devices out there these days, although even the dedicated ones have all pretty much morphed into tablets. My personal favorite is the Nook Color but I've found that it's underpowered to handle large PDFs with a lot of graphics. However, calibre provides a pretty decent conversion utility for PDF to EPUB. The Nook does a much better job of managing memory for the EPUB format, so the large PDFs aren't even that big a deal for me.
I'll bet the Linux based offerings are priced far below Office 365. I've seen the prices for the latter and a smattering of the former. Microsoft's prices were much higher. Personally, I think their pricing model is going to come back to bite them.
Unfortunately, I can't cite any specifics because the firewalls at work block all gaming related stuff. (Gee, I wonder why?;-) )
Still, it isn't too hard to use your Google-fu to find plenty of copies of the list of games that will be available at launch. The last list that I saw said 50. That was up from 36 two weeks earlier, and 24 two weeks before that.
Valve reps have said on several occasions that many publishers, both large and small, have at least inquired as to the feasibility of porting their games to Linux. Apparently, some number of them have moved beyond simply asking to actively working to make their catalog of games viable on Linux.
Realistically, I think it's safe to say that the initial implementations will be all over the map in terms of code quality because cross platform development is foreign territory for many of these companies. It'll be interesting to see (1) how well they execute, and (2) if they stay the course for the long haul.
There's a very persuasive argument to be made that the Compaq acquisition is what really finished HP as an engineering company. Apparently there was some ferocious in-fighting after it. Sadly, the Compaq guys won for the most part and took the company to an almost entirely sales and marketing based strategy.
Those of us who cut our teeth on HP test equipment, early HP/UX workstations and servers, HP LaserJet printers, and HP calculators still mourn the death of Bill and Dave's dream.:-(
The College Republicans regret the controversy surrounding our planned lecture featuring Ann Coulter. The size and severity of opposition to this event have caught us by surprise and caused us to question our decision to welcome her to Rose Hill. Looking at the concerns raised about Ms. Coulter, many of them reasonable, we have determined that some of her comments do not represent the ideals of the College Republicans and are inconsistent with both our organizationâ(TM)s mission and the Universityâ(TM)s. We regret that we failed to thoroughly research her before announcing; that is our error and we do not excuse ourselves for it. Consistent with our strong disagreement with certain comments by Ms. Coulter, we have chosen to cancel the event and rescind Ms. Coulterâ(TM)s invitation to speak at Fordham. We made this choice freely before Father McShaneâ(TM)s email was sent out and we became aware of his feelings â" had the President simply reached out to us before releasing his statement, he would have learned that the event was being cancelled. We hope the University community will forgive the College Republicans for our error and continue to allow us to serve as its main voice of the sensible, compassionate, and conservative political movement that we strive to be. We fell short of that standard this time, and we offer our sincere apologies.
Ted Conrad, President
Emily Harman, Vice President
Joe Campagna, Treasurer
John Mantia, Secretary
(emphasis added)
IOW, some kids made a mistake, realized it, owned up to it, and dealt with it appropriately in a mature fashion. In the meantime, a spiteful, mean woman was told exactly what she was. THAT's the real story here.
(Looks around the cube farm at all the gray and white hair in one of the largest financial institutions in the U.S.) Wow, looks like we gotta fire a whole bunch of people with 30+ years of experience then.
Clearly, this clown has never had to maintain a complex application with 4 or 5 9s uptime requirements. Nor has this idiot ever had to keep said application in compliance with a dozen different regulatory regimes. Or tried to figure out how he was going to interface his brand new, spiffy mobile Web 3.0 application with other complex applications that may have been written before he was born!
Trust me. There isn't a large bank anywhere in the world that doesn't value its experienced people. When you have to protect your customers' life savings, you absolutely do NOT want a team of nothing but young hard chargers. You need us old timers to look out for the pot-holes we stepped in a long time ago so you don't see your company's name splashed all over the 5:30 national news.
You also need us old timers around to teach the youngsters that working 60+ hours a week needs to be the exception, not the rule. It's been shown time and again that at that point, you're beyond the point of diminishing returns. The mistakes made when people are exhausted from overwork will require so much re-work that the pace simply isn't worth it at least 80% of the time.
I can echo some of what this former soldier says, but disagree with some.
I served in the Navy from '77-'83. I got out as a petty officer first class so I wasn't exactly at the top of the heap.
From a financial standpoint, this was just about the worst possible time to be in the U.S. military for about a hundred years. We had just moved back to an all volunteer force after years of a very unpopular draft. Vietnam had created a public perception that only baby killers and drunks wanted to enlist in the first place so the overall quality of people enlisting was all over the map. People really did join up because they had to (sometimes because the judge ordered them to), or because they felt an obligation as a citizen to do so. Not much in between. (BTW, some of the best sailors and Marines knew started out with some judge telling them, "Four years in uniform or prison. Your choice.")
Standards were pretty low because all of the branches were desperate to fill slots. High school diploma? Boy, you were an ace recruit!
It was common practice for recruiters to pull all kinds of tricks to fill quotas; lying on enlistment forms, taking qualifying tests for recruits, etc. I can't say that I blame them, though. If they didn't, they were subject to all kinds of judicial abuse. (Court martials for not filling quotas? Really??)
While I was in boot camp, I worked in the chow hall's storage locker. I personally saw huge stacks of canned beef with expiration dates from the late '50s. The cooler broke down and we were still told to put the spoiled milk on the line. When I finished with Service Week, just about the only things I would take off the line was bread and water. At least I knew that was fresh.
I knew married chiefs and senior chiefs with 20+ years in who qualified for food stamps. Year long deployments with 2 week turnarounds, while rare, weren't unheard of.
One year, 3 ships were declared unfit for sea the day they were scheduled to deploy due to lack of funds for proper maintenance.
The Iran hostage crisis exposed fundamental flaws in our communications network, logistical support, and inter-service doctrine. Thankfully, that was all largely addressed before the Gulf War.
In spite of all that, it wasn't all bad. My electronics training was pretty good considering the lack of resources. I had an opportunity to work with a really broad range of communications gear with people who really knew their stuff. I was way ahead of my civilian colleagues when I got out and hit the market.
Once I got out to the fleet I found out that Navy chow was actually pretty good most of the time, especially at shore stations. From an enlisted man's point of view, it's one major advantage that the Navy has traditionally had over the Army, after all.;-)
I worked a swing shift schedule at one base for several years. We covered electronic maintenance on communications gear all over Oahu. Our command was responsible for supporting not just Navy, but Marine, Army, and Air Force equipment too. It gave us the chance to sample chow at a lot of different bases during our midnight runs.
I'd have to say that the best midnight breakfasts to be had were at Hickam Air Force Base. The cook behind the grill served up a mean Western omelet.
Wheeler Army Airfield had a pretty good chow hall, too. I was partial to their steak sandwiches.
The chow hall at the submarine base at Pearl Harber was run by a Filipino master chief who injected a lot of his native dishes into the menu. It's where I was introduced to lumpia. My mouth is watering just thinking about it now, 30+ years later.:-)
Given the same circumstances and what I know now, would I still enlist? Absolutely. My Navy electronics training got me started in IT with both the skills and the experience to put me head and shoulders above the competition. As a junior sailor I had more responsibility in my early 20s that most civilians don't get until they're
Are you referring to the German court decision? The one that the UK judge noted should never have gone forward because the UK court was sitting as a European Court in accordance with EU law? THAT "other courts (sic) decision"?
Or the US jury decision that is very likely to be overturned based upon what looks very much like one juror's illegal actions? THAT "other courts (sic) decision"?
No, all they have to do is (a) take a biology class from a competent teacher who presents the facts fairly, (b) accept that the teacher is honestly teaching the whole truth, (c) decide that the message either (c.a) doesn't conflict with their understanding of God (c.b) they are atheists and don't believe in God (c.c) are simply irreligious (NOT the same thing as atheists although there are similarities), (d) agree with your analysis of the lesson and finally, (e) recognize the implications.
Not quite as simple as you would believe. Similar decision chains need to be followed for every one of your position statements, btw.
Says the Slashdotter whose tag says he ignores anonymous commentary. So, what? You ignore those who have something to say who fear reprisals if they are found out?
Actually, this isn't just a Linux problem. For example, I have become a HUGE fan of Good Old Games. I've been playing through a few classics that I never got around to back in the day, plus revisiting some old favorites. One thing that GOG has to deal with with every game is how to make them work at modern resolutions. The way that they do it is to reset the resolution for the entire system, let you play the game, then reset back to the original resolution once you're done. I have no idea how they do it, but I've seen it plenty of times. A good example of this can be found with their implementation of Lord of the Realms 2.
If someone can solve this problem for Linux, it removes one more barrier for GOG to create a Linux client. That gets me one step closer to removing my Windows gaming partition.:-)
Seriously, it's this simple - if you have to drop down to the command line for anything, you have failed "ease of use". I'm not saying you never have to open the CLI on Windows, just that you have to do it a lot less often than on *nix.
I've been running vanilla Debian stable for about a year and a half after finally giving up on Ubuntu. Before Ubuntu, I was running Gentoo. Before that, Mandrake before it became Mandriva. Before that, Red Hat. Suffice it to say, I've got some experience with a few varieties of Linux that date back about 15 years.
I haven't had to drop to the command line for anything for a long, LONG time. Not a single admin task, application, or quick function. Not once. Virtually every capability has been available as a solid, dependable GUI app for close to 5 years. The last couple of laggards were probably audio and video driver management. Even those had decent GUI alternatives about 3 years ago. Heck, Debian's graphical installer worked just fine for a newbie that I introduced to it.
Like you do on Windows, I still go to the command line for some stuff. It can be faster to do so in some circumstances, for one. For another, I happen to like some of the console based apps a lot more than their GUI counterparts, but that's at least partly due to my familiarity with the CLI version than it is the GUI interface itself. Also, automating stuff is a heck of a lot easier and more flexible with a shell or Python script than it is through a GUI.
The point is, if you still think you need to drop to the command line to do anything on a Linux box, you are seriously out of touch with the current state of affairs. (Of course, if you've only tried Ubuntu I don't blame you for being confused. It's a lousy distro for a lot of reasons.)
...asking if the Office of Higher Education was correctly interpreteting the 1980s era law in question. If they are, I requested information as to how they plan to address the issue. One sits on the Education Reform committee, so I'm hoping to hear that it gets placed on their agenda for debate.
Just a sampling from U.S. history found by Googling "Panic of " plus the obvious reference to the start of the Great Depression since you referenced it first:
* The Great Depression kicked off well before the gold standard was dropped in 1933.
* According to Wikipedia, the Panic of 1893 lasted about 5 years. Unemployment was 4 times higher than it was in 1892.
* Panic of 1873 lasted more than 6 years.
* Panic of 1837, 5 years.
Every example saw massive unemployment. All lasted far longer than any recession we've seen since. All were accompanied by massive suffering due to completely inadequate coping mechanisms for dealing with this kind of economic trauma.
The Federal Reserve (not really a central bank as that term is understood in other countries) was created in 1913 specifically as a way to prevent the periodic shocks to the economy that bank panics created.
Now, are we in financial trouble today? Absolutely. But we're in trouble precisely BECAUSE banking deregulation was passed 20+ years ago and the culprits who took full advantage of it were not only not punished, they were rewarded! IOW, we're in trouble because we failed to continue solid governance of a critical industry, NOT because the central bank exists and was doing its job!
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And, don't forget, reducing our dependency on fossil based energy sources to some degree. To me, that factor alone makes some level of subsidy for solar, wind, and water power worth it.
I'm amazed that such a beautiful piece of parody was modded into oblivion.
What eye witnesses? In most cases the only witnesses to a car crash are the participants. Everyone else is long gone by the time the cops show up to take statements.
Personally, I have a lot more faith that an impact analysis than either of the other two options. It's going to have a lot more basis in reality than a magic black box that has gone through 10 years plus of weather extremes with no maintenance check whatsoever or any (notoriously inaccurate) eye witness account.
So let me clarify a bit. My best friend, his wife, his sons are all lifetime members of the NRA. One uncle, two cousins, and I don't know how many neighbors when I was growing up were members. Most of us who weren't members of the NRA were either too cheap or too poor to join. We certainly were fully behind the NRA's agenda. And yet, many of us were and are fully behind the legalization of marijuana.
Another example: Take a look at the two states that have legalized pot first; Washington and Colorado. Both states have concealed carry permits available, which leads me to believe that both states have strong pro gun lobbies. And who leads those lobbies nationwide? Oh, yes, the NRA.
Your thesis just doesn't hold water. THAT's the point I was trying to make.
Well, that's the problem with stereotypes, isn't it? They have such little basis in reality.
While I'm not a member of the NRA, I've been around guns and owned guns all my life. My dad gave me my first shotgun when I was 12. Over the past 40-some years I've managed to collect a couple of pistols, 5 shotguns and 3 rifles without really thinking about it. I think I'm pretty typical of any guy who grew up in a rural area in a country with halfway sane gun laws.
I was also taught that the War on Drugs was a joke. My dad was a member of the Minnesota branch of the National Education Association (teacher's union for those outside the U.S.) and his district's perennial delegate to the annual state convention. He spoke in favor of a resolution backing the legalization of marijuana in the early or mid '70s. (The motion passed, by the way.)
He said then that the war on drugs (which was just heating up at the time) was a waste of resources. He didn't see the point in criminalizing an activity with such a demonstrably small impact on society. Instead, he advocated legalizing it and treating it the same as alcohol or tobacco.
His attitude was a fairly common one then, and I think still is up here in Upper Midwest. We like to party and we like our guns. Those of us who have been raised around guns know the two don't mix. ;-)
There is no doubt that e-readers have made carrying large quantities of documentation around with you much, MUCH easier. What is tougher to do is manage your library. Fortunately, someone has already made tremendous strides to resolve that issue.
calibre provides a great way to organize your library of e-books and online periodicals in conjunction with the tablet or e-reader of your choice. The website has a highlights video which does a good job of covering what calibre is capable of.
At this point, calibre provides automatic download scheduling for almost 1,400 online magazines. More are added by users of calibre all the time. A sampling that might be of interest to academics include "Journal of Hospital Medicine", "Journal of Nephrology", "Microwaves and RF", "Scientific American", etc.
Once you've added a book (or collection of books) to your library, calibre provides plenty of tools to categorize it by subject, author, publisher, and just about anything else you care to name.
So, once you've got your papers and periodicals organized in calibre, pulling them into your e-reader is simply a matter of plugging into a USB port on your desktop or laptop. If you want to grab something when you're away from your desk, there's a Web front end that's pretty serviceable, too.
calibre is licensed under GPLv3 and is supported under MS Windows, OS/X, and Linux. There's even a portable version for loading on a USB stick to make your library truly portable. :-)
BTW, the Grand Tour video was created when the current version of calibre was 0.8.0. Kovid Goyal has been conscientously providing updates every Friday for as long as I've been using his app. The current version is 0.9.8. I think he went from 0.8.0 to 0.8.78 before making the leap to 0.9.0. :-)
As to which e-reader to use? There are a huge number of tablets and dedicated devices out there these days, although even the dedicated ones have all pretty much morphed into tablets. My personal favorite is the Nook Color but I've found that it's underpowered to handle large PDFs with a lot of graphics. However, calibre provides a pretty decent conversion utility for PDF to EPUB. The Nook does a much better job of managing memory for the EPUB format, so the large PDFs aren't even that big a deal for me.
I'll bet the Linux based offerings are priced far below Office 365. I've seen the prices for the latter and a smattering of the former. Microsoft's prices were much higher. Personally, I think their pricing model is going to come back to bite them.
Unfortunately, I can't cite any specifics because the firewalls at work block all gaming related stuff. (Gee, I wonder why? ;-) )
Still, it isn't too hard to use your Google-fu to find plenty of copies of the list of games that will be available at launch. The last list that I saw said 50. That was up from 36 two weeks earlier, and 24 two weeks before that.
Valve reps have said on several occasions that many publishers, both large and small, have at least inquired as to the feasibility of porting their games to Linux. Apparently, some number of them have moved beyond simply asking to actively working to make their catalog of games viable on Linux.
Realistically, I think it's safe to say that the initial implementations will be all over the map in terms of code quality because cross platform development is foreign territory for many of these companies. It'll be interesting to see (1) how well they execute, and (2) if they stay the course for the long haul.
There's a very persuasive argument to be made that the Compaq acquisition is what really finished HP as an engineering company. Apparently there was some ferocious in-fighting after it. Sadly, the Compaq guys won for the most part and took the company to an almost entirely sales and marketing based strategy.
Those of us who cut our teeth on HP test equipment, early HP/UX workstations and servers, HP LaserJet printers, and HP calculators still mourn the death of Bill and Dave's dream. :-(
Tomi Ahonen makes a very persuasive case that the title for worst CEO of all time should probably go to one of Ballmer's protoges, Stephen Elop.
(emphasis added)
IOW, some kids made a mistake, realized it, owned up to it, and dealt with it appropriately in a mature fashion. In the meantime, a spiteful, mean woman was told exactly what she was. THAT's the real story here.
(Looks around the cube farm at all the gray and white hair in one of the largest financial institutions in the U.S.) Wow, looks like we gotta fire a whole bunch of people with 30+ years of experience then.
Clearly, this clown has never had to maintain a complex application with 4 or 5 9s uptime requirements. Nor has this idiot ever had to keep said application in compliance with a dozen different regulatory regimes. Or tried to figure out how he was going to interface his brand new, spiffy mobile Web 3.0 application with other complex applications that may have been written before he was born!
Trust me. There isn't a large bank anywhere in the world that doesn't value its experienced people. When you have to protect your customers' life savings, you absolutely do NOT want a team of nothing but young hard chargers. You need us old timers to look out for the pot-holes we stepped in a long time ago so you don't see your company's name splashed all over the 5:30 national news.
You also need us old timers around to teach the youngsters that working 60+ hours a week needs to be the exception, not the rule. It's been shown time and again that at that point, you're beyond the point of diminishing returns. The mistakes made when people are exhausted from overwork will require so much re-work that the pace simply isn't worth it at least 80% of the time.
Don't forget the TRS-80 Model 100 from Radio Shack. :-)
I can echo some of what this former soldier says, but disagree with some.
I served in the Navy from '77-'83. I got out as a petty officer first class so I wasn't exactly at the top of the heap.
From a financial standpoint, this was just about the worst possible time to be in the U.S. military for about a hundred years. We had just moved back to an all volunteer force after years of a very unpopular draft. Vietnam had created a public perception that only baby killers and drunks wanted to enlist in the first place so the overall quality of people enlisting was all over the map. People really did join up because they had to (sometimes because the judge ordered them to), or because they felt an obligation as a citizen to do so. Not much in between. (BTW, some of the best sailors and Marines knew started out with some judge telling them, "Four years in uniform or prison. Your choice.")
Standards were pretty low because all of the branches were desperate to fill slots. High school diploma? Boy, you were an ace recruit!
It was common practice for recruiters to pull all kinds of tricks to fill quotas; lying on enlistment forms, taking qualifying tests for recruits, etc. I can't say that I blame them, though. If they didn't, they were subject to all kinds of judicial abuse. (Court martials for not filling quotas? Really??)
While I was in boot camp, I worked in the chow hall's storage locker. I personally saw huge stacks of canned beef with expiration dates from the late '50s. The cooler broke down and we were still told to put the spoiled milk on the line. When I finished with Service Week, just about the only things I would take off the line was bread and water. At least I knew that was fresh.
I knew married chiefs and senior chiefs with 20+ years in who qualified for food stamps. Year long deployments with 2 week turnarounds, while rare, weren't unheard of.
One year, 3 ships were declared unfit for sea the day they were scheduled to deploy due to lack of funds for proper maintenance.
The Iran hostage crisis exposed fundamental flaws in our communications network, logistical support, and inter-service doctrine. Thankfully, that was all largely addressed before the Gulf War.
In spite of all that, it wasn't all bad. My electronics training was pretty good considering the lack of resources. I had an opportunity to work with a really broad range of communications gear with people who really knew their stuff. I was way ahead of my civilian colleagues when I got out and hit the market.
Once I got out to the fleet I found out that Navy chow was actually pretty good most of the time, especially at shore stations. From an enlisted man's point of view, it's one major advantage that the Navy has traditionally had over the Army, after all. ;-)
I worked a swing shift schedule at one base for several years. We covered electronic maintenance on communications gear all over Oahu. Our command was responsible for supporting not just Navy, but Marine, Army, and Air Force equipment too. It gave us the chance to sample chow at a lot of different bases during our midnight runs.
I'd have to say that the best midnight breakfasts to be had were at Hickam Air Force Base. The cook behind the grill served up a mean Western omelet.
Wheeler Army Airfield had a pretty good chow hall, too. I was partial to their steak sandwiches.
The chow hall at the submarine base at Pearl Harber was run by a Filipino master chief who injected a lot of his native dishes into the menu. It's where I was introduced to lumpia. My mouth is watering just thinking about it now, 30+ years later. :-)
Given the same circumstances and what I know now, would I still enlist? Absolutely. My Navy electronics training got me started in IT with both the skills and the experience to put me head and shoulders above the competition. As a junior sailor I had more responsibility in my early 20s that most civilians don't get until they're
What? You can't follow the news when the candidates are out of state? /sarcasm
I suggest you read this before making such incredibly inaccurate statements.
Are you referring to the German court decision? The one that the UK judge noted should never have gone forward because the UK court was sitting as a European Court in accordance with EU law? THAT "other courts (sic) decision"?
Or the US jury decision that is very likely to be overturned based upon what looks very much like one juror's illegal actions? THAT "other courts (sic) decision"?
No, all they have to do is (a) take a biology class from a competent teacher who presents the facts fairly, (b) accept that the teacher is honestly teaching the whole truth, (c) decide that the message either (c.a) doesn't conflict with their understanding of God (c.b) they are atheists and don't believe in God (c.c) are simply irreligious (NOT the same thing as atheists although there are similarities), (d) agree with your analysis of the lesson and finally, (e) recognize the implications.
Not quite as simple as you would believe. Similar decision chains need to be followed for every one of your position statements, btw.
Says the Slashdotter whose tag says he ignores anonymous commentary. So, what? You ignore those who have something to say who fear reprisals if they are found out?
Actually, this isn't just a Linux problem. For example, I have become a HUGE fan of Good Old Games. I've been playing through a few classics that I never got around to back in the day, plus revisiting some old favorites. One thing that GOG has to deal with with every game is how to make them work at modern resolutions. The way that they do it is to reset the resolution for the entire system, let you play the game, then reset back to the original resolution once you're done. I have no idea how they do it, but I've seen it plenty of times. A good example of this can be found with their implementation of Lord of the Realms 2.
If someone can solve this problem for Linux, it removes one more barrier for GOG to create a Linux client. That gets me one step closer to removing my Windows gaming partition. :-)
According to Wired, that mine dates back to the 1980s.
I've been running vanilla Debian stable for about a year and a half after finally giving up on Ubuntu. Before Ubuntu, I was running Gentoo. Before that, Mandrake before it became Mandriva. Before that, Red Hat. Suffice it to say, I've got some experience with a few varieties of Linux that date back about 15 years.
I haven't had to drop to the command line for anything for a long, LONG time. Not a single admin task, application, or quick function. Not once. Virtually every capability has been available as a solid, dependable GUI app for close to 5 years. The last couple of laggards were probably audio and video driver management. Even those had decent GUI alternatives about 3 years ago. Heck, Debian's graphical installer worked just fine for a newbie that I introduced to it.
Like you do on Windows, I still go to the command line for some stuff. It can be faster to do so in some circumstances, for one. For another, I happen to like some of the console based apps a lot more than their GUI counterparts, but that's at least partly due to my familiarity with the CLI version than it is the GUI interface itself. Also, automating stuff is a heck of a lot easier and more flexible with a shell or Python script than it is through a GUI.
The point is, if you still think you need to drop to the command line to do anything on a Linux box, you are seriously out of touch with the current state of affairs. (Of course, if you've only tried Ubuntu I don't blame you for being confused. It's a lousy distro for a lot of reasons.)
Logitec? When did they finally set up their own factory?
...asking if the Office of Higher Education was correctly interpreteting the 1980s era law in question. If they are, I requested information as to how they plan to address the issue. One sits on the Education Reform committee, so I'm hoping to hear that it gets placed on their agenda for debate.
Just a sampling from U.S. history found by Googling "Panic of " plus the obvious reference to the start of the Great Depression since you referenced it first:
* The Great Depression kicked off well before the gold standard was dropped in 1933.
* According to Wikipedia, the Panic of 1893 lasted about 5 years. Unemployment was 4 times higher than it was in 1892.
* Panic of 1873 lasted more than 6 years.
* Panic of 1837, 5 years.
Every example saw massive unemployment. All lasted far longer than any recession we've seen since. All were accompanied by massive suffering due to completely inadequate coping mechanisms for dealing with this kind of economic trauma.
The Federal Reserve (not really a central bank as that term is understood in other countries) was created in 1913 specifically as a way to prevent the periodic shocks to the economy that bank panics created.
Now, are we in financial trouble today? Absolutely. But we're in trouble precisely BECAUSE banking deregulation was passed 20+ years ago and the culprits who took full advantage of it were not only not punished, they were rewarded! IOW, we're in trouble because we failed to continue solid governance of a critical industry, NOT because the central bank exists and was doing its job!