...then perhaps we have a misunderstanding of terms. You seem to value the freedoms of expression and association, cite examples of when those freedoms were taken(by liberal administrations) then mention that you want a more liberal govt. ?!?!?
Canada being more liberal is attractive?
I don't follow. Without using the terms "conservative" or "liberal", please describe the features that you would prefer that a govt. have, and those that you would rather not have.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
...what I think is simply the natural order of things.
>Global Corporate Administration (GCA = New World Order)
Ever since the first trade routes between "territorial entities" were established, the economy of trade has had a steadily increasing influence on the governments of those territorial entities. People talk about the "New World Order", "World Trade Org", "United Nations", etc. but don't realize that even the WTO is a farce. It is natural for "economic entities" to grow, merge, takeover, split and so forth in much the same way as the "territorial entities" do. With rapidly expanding trade, increased information flow and so forth happening without concern for territorial boundaries, those "mapped nations" are becoming less and less important.
In this one point Buchanan was truly enlightened. If you want to stop this new world order from developing, you must stop the flow of information and resources that traverse our mapped borders in greater amounts each day. In this respect his isolationist policies are dead on.
OTOH, I don't agree with you or him that this evolution is a de-facto "Bad Thing". Eventually all of the territorial entities will coalesce into a relatively common set of rights, laws, etc. simply because they will have to do so if they want to be involved in the global economy. The laws will not overly burden, threaten, or restrict the common citizens since they ultimately are the producers and consumers that make the economic world go 'round.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Who was pres. then?
He was a member of what party?
> locking-up of Japanese citizens during WWII
Who was pres. then?
He was a member of what party?
>National Guard shootings of the '60s
Who was pres. then?
He was a member of what party?
I'll add Ruby Ridge, Waco, and a cuban boy to the list.
Now tell me who was pres. when these occurred and what was his party affiliation?
And you fear Bush?
Sounds to me like those government schools have really done a number on your head. They're probably smiling as they read your post, "Success! the sucker can't even recognize contradictions in his own thoughts".
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Get a decent pair of binos, 7x35, 10x50 or so and head out of town!
Any mountain tops nearby that are out of sight of the local metropolitan skyglow? Go there and just look up. The beauty of the night sky is completely lost in the pollution of the cities.
Easy targets:
Jupiter: blue color, cloud bands, moons
Saturn: yellow! plus the rings
Mars: a red dot
Venus: bright, easy, changes shape as weeks go by.
Orion: easy to identify, good myth, good stuff to see as you get more/better gear.
Finally, get a usnet reader and subsribe to sci.astro.amateur
Enjoy!
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
...but consider me a naive American, at least where Canada is concerned. I don't know any Canadians. The gag order seems to be completely idiotic. Look, here is the data, but you can't report it until later. Huh? Why not just deliver the data later rather than make a law against it and/or trust someone who has an interest in reporting it ASAP? The Canadians(some, perhaps most) seem to accept it as reasonable. Some other news that manages to trickle down here supports this. So...what else am I to think? At least I asked about it.
BTW, like your.sig
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
There's no way to effectively have the polls open all at the same time and be fair to all the Americans (most open before 7am and close after 6pm local times to allow commuters to vote)
Open the polls everywhere at 0000UTC and close at 2359UTC. The only twist to this is that according to the constitution, the electorate is supposed to cast all votes on the same day. I guess it depends on your definition of "a day". Yes it will cost more to pay another shift or two of election judges. So choose to withhold the data if that is not palatable.
If you want to get radical, dump the timezones alltogether. It's about time this country got its act together and simply decided to dump the TZs and operate under one TZ, not to mention the idiocy that is Daylight Saving Time.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
...election judges or whatever you call them up there should simply withold the results until *all* the polls are closed. That way there's no need for a gag law, no need for the expense of enforcement and they still don't influence the voters in later time zones.
Duh.
Another alternative would be to simply open and close the polls AT THE SAME TIME all across the country.
Duh.
Ah...but both of those choices require brains capable of logical thought and a little bit of common sense which are features rarely found in the brains of political types. Or is it lacking in Canadians altogether?
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Consider the different meanings of pussy, fanny, bangs, and fringe.
Combine this with such American phrases as "I need to trim my bangs" or "He put it in my fanny pack" and watch the expressions on the Brit's faces! Outrageous!
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
There seems to be a growing disinterest in politics everywhere.
As more people have better lives/fewer problems, fewer need help and fewer are looking to the gov as a solution. That is why the ones that still consider themselves to be opressed in some way(AKA special interests) are always the most strident in political campaigns. It is just that these noise makers are now very much in the minority. When more are starving, freezing, suffering, you will see more interest.
Other than that, only those that have a real, deep conviction about some principle or other(AKA special interests) will be interested or in some way motivated to make the effort to participate.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
you come off here as thinking like these profits shouldn't be taxed simply because they're yours.
The point being that they ARE mine, and I already get taxed on capital gains, so tax me. Any loss of revenues by the corp reduces the value of my stock. IOW, it costs me. So while the corp is taxed, the shareholders are the ones that ultimately pay, always.
Only if the corporation is publicly held. A great many corporations (like my employer) are privately held, so your argument doesn't wash
I think that you probably want to retract that one. Every corp has shareholders, whether the shares are traded publicly or not. The same rules of reduced corporate profits = reduced shareholder profits apply.
Okay, I'm confused.
You do seem to have a mixed up idea of what a corp is, why it exists, and how it works.
I still think that if Congress has the right to create life, they can tax it
Never heard that line, but I like it.;-)
taxes should be spent on yourself (what's in it for me?), I think that taxes should be spent on the country as a whole. The striking thing is how often these intersect (public education, interstate highway system, etc.)
We're getting into semantics here, but really, why shouldn't they be spent on me? Afterall, I am the taxpayer. What am I buying for my money? Your particular examples are quite poor. As far as education goes, I prefer to take care of my educational responsibilities myself. I'll spend that money, or the time that would be spent making that money, on my daughter's education directly. No bureacratic salaries are required and the quality of her education greatly improved. As far as the highway system goes, I seem to recall some license fees and fuel taxes that are supposed to cover the costs directly associated with the users of those systems. What else? National defense, OK I'll spend 10% of my annual income on that. What else? We've still got 20% of my income yet to spend before we reach my current billing level.
What do I get for that missing 20%? Believe me, we're not even talking about SocSick and Mediscam here. I'm taking care of my own retirement and health insurance. You think I'll trust my life, health, and general welfare to some 'crats in DC? No thank you.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Cracking down on M$ and Cisco won't help anything. I own Cisco and you'd be cracking down on my profits. Go buy some stocks yourself. You'll soon understand how corporate taxes are entirely bogus. They are all actually secondary taxes on shareholders. Call it double taxation since I've already paid the IRS the tax on the money that I spent buying Cisco. Now you want to tax me again?
What frightens me most is how much popular support there is for regressive taxing schemes (like a flat tax)
The reason this is happening is that there are more people, making more money and they look at their paychecks and think "I didn't used to see 1/3 of my pay disappear before I even got my check. This sucks!". They also took at their tax returns and think "Damn, what did I get for the $20,000 that I sent to the IRS this year?"
Finally, how exactly is a flat tax rate regressive?
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
The bits that you can read from an FPGA, or EPROM constitute "the code" and as we all know, code is copyrightable whether it be source, object, or machine code.
If you want to analyze the signals generated by a device in order to build something compatible, or to build a "workalike" that is what "we" at/. consider to be reverse engineering. If you want to copy the internals of a device in order to sell a "clone" that is theft. There has been much discussion in the courts over "clean room" implementations of workalikes, just ask intel and AMD. Their court cases clarified what you can and cannot copy and resell, and what you must build yourself from scratch(without looking inside) long ago.
if I open up the hood of my car and figure out how it works and build another car, there is no legal recourse against me unless something in there is patented
This is correct unless something is copyrighted or trademarked. For instance, you can't make a perfect copy of a Cadillac, including the trademarked name and hood ornament and then turn around, call it a Cadillac and sell it as such. Nor can you copy the owner's manual and sell it. It is afterall, a book. OTOH, you can look at a car, see how it rolls, its doors open and so on, then build something with 4 wheels, engine, seats, and so forth and call it a car, and sell them all day long.
Just as with a CD which contains copyrighted bit patterns that are essential for its proper operation, you can make a personal copy or replica for your own use, so long as that "use" does not include selling or giving the copy to someone else.
Taking something apart in order to find out how to connect to it is what the/. folks would generally regard as rev-eng. That's not what this article is about.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
This whole story should be modded down as "Troll". Quit stirring up trouble with inflamatory headlines and out of context quotes. Hemos, you and several other/. "editors" need to go and read the Linux-PR HOWTO again. Behave yourselves as decent and responsible members of the community or you find yourselves with the level of community respect that currently reserved for your very own/. trolls.
What this guy is talking about, translated to/. speak, is copyright violation, and that is theft. It is not what we call reverse-engineering.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
however there are also no statistically valid studies which support the 'being punched in the nose hurts' proposition either
Actually, there are many. In addition to anecdotal evidence which abounds rather than the third-fourth-fifth person urban legends referencing cell phone hazards, I can demonstrate. Place your nose right there, that's it, just an arms length away from my shoulder. If such a demo is unsatisfactory, I can show you direct evidence that blunt objects impacting your face can cause damage. Let's go to the emergency room at the nearest hospital.
All this is irrelevant since you chose a poor example. The problem is, as you put it, the keyword "evidence". There is none, anecdotal or otherwise supporting this cell phone hazard claim.
We have never subjected large quantities of people to close up microwave transmitters
Actually, we have. The devices in question are often called ovens. They put out much more power than a cell phone and their effects are well documented.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
What about those women that wear so much perfume that it makes your eyes water? Forget the simple non-smoking section of the restaurant, I want a section of the place set aside where ALL of the aromas in air come from the food and NOT the customers!
Better yet, how about a perfume free elevator?
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
The basic reason is because the market is still young and immature. We used to talk about the number of barrels in a carb, cubic inches, rear end ratio, quarter-mile/0-60 times/speeds and so forth. These things are easy to measure, easy to quantify. Now we talk about handling qualities, anti-lock brakes, cubic-feet of cargo, etc. What happened was we got to the point where we actually knew how fast was fast enough and suddenly realized that there was more to making a good car than simply straight line accelleration.
So...for now we talk about MHz, MIPs, MBs, GBs, bits in a bus, bandwidth, frame rates and so forth because they are easy to measure, easy to quantify, and we really don't know what it takes to make a good computer.
In some places, mostly the embedded world, you hardly ever hear of MHz. Who cares how many MHz the proc inside your camera is? Unless of course you want to build a Beowolf cluster of cameras;-)
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
That's what any junk mailer does and especially Digital Convergence does with a Cue:Cat(TM). They send it to you without your having to do any clicks. Then you just point it at the bar code and Whoop! there it is! No click shopping.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
...that you can't "use" the minimum, then drop the LD carrier completely and just use one of those 10-10-220-* style services.
Hell, since everyone in my family has gotten email access, LD usage has dropped to nearly zero. I dropped ALL LD service last year. Got "re-acquired" as a customer by AT&T and promptly called the service number to shut it off. They credited me for all the charges.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
...when exchanges, commerce, contracts, etc between two private parties are concerned.
The US Constitution was afterall a set of laws that were intended to describe the purpose and structure of and restrict the behavior and the authority of the federal government, and not much anything else.
So, if you were offered a job and the HR gnome informed you that the company's communications gear is to be used for job oriented communications only, and that the corp reserves the authority to monitor the activities of its employees, as in timesheets, schedules, ID badges, etc. you've really got no place to complain. Ask for more money to compensate for inconvenience, or go somewhere else rather than sign the contract.
It would be nice if the legislators would do their jobs & protect the rights of individual Americans, wouldn't it?
In order to succeed in protecting the rights of individuals, the legislative bodies basically have to do nothing at all because those rights exist a priori. Which is of course, the problem. They have been doing stuff that they should not have done and thus the individual's rights have been reduced.
Unfortunately, it appears that we, the people, have no choice but to take matters into our own hands & litigate
Here is the core of the problem. It is not at all unfortunate that we the people have to take matters into our own hands. It is by design! You are supposed to take care of yourself, friends, family and neighbors. Those responsibilities do not reside on any gov in the USA according to the Constitution. OTOH, litigation is not the only alternative, why not just get a better job?
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
And finally, pal, why don't you shove your "stupid comment of the week" crack straight up your dumb ass. When you have something to say that isn't just you trying to prove that you've been reading the "Scientific American" subscription your mom got for you, you come try again
Ooooh some big and some nasty words. Doing your best to make a good impression on all the kids here, I guess. Hey, at least he reads. I imagine his mom taught him rather than some nameless NEA member. It's really amazing what a good family can do for manners. Well color me stubborn, but I'll still bet that you'll complain when the wind stops blowing and your lights go out.
Hmm, perhaps not, as you seem to like sitting in the dark.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
...then perhaps do a trial run on another customer's hardware? Does either vendor have any demo hardware? They must! Get HP and/or SGI to arrange for you to run a benchmark processing job on an equivalent system. As tolan said, on a purchase this size they should at least offer to run your code and *show*you*how*well*it*really*works.
Definitely pursue competitive bids from IBM and Compaq.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
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...then perhaps we have a misunderstanding of terms. You seem to value the freedoms of expression and association, cite examples of when those freedoms were taken(by liberal administrations) then mention that you want a more liberal govt. ?!?!?
Canada being more liberal is attractive?
I don't follow. Without using the terms "conservative" or "liberal", please describe the features that you would prefer that a govt. have, and those that you would rather not have.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
...what I think is simply the natural order of things.
>Global Corporate Administration (GCA = New World Order)
Ever since the first trade routes between "territorial entities" were established, the economy of trade has had a steadily increasing influence on the governments of those territorial entities. People talk about the "New World Order", "World Trade Org", "United Nations", etc. but don't realize that even the WTO is a farce. It is natural for "economic entities" to grow, merge, takeover, split and so forth in much the same way as the "territorial entities" do. With rapidly expanding trade, increased information flow and so forth happening without concern for territorial boundaries, those "mapped nations" are becoming less and less important.
In this one point Buchanan was truly enlightened. If you want to stop this new world order from developing, you must stop the flow of information and resources that traverse our mapped borders in greater amounts each day. In this respect his isolationist policies are dead on.
OTOH, I don't agree with you or him that this evolution is a de-facto "Bad Thing". Eventually all of the territorial entities will coalesce into a relatively common set of rights, laws, etc. simply because they will have to do so if they want to be involved in the global economy. The laws will not overly burden, threaten, or restrict the common citizens since they ultimately are the producers and consumers that make the economic world go 'round.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
>the witch hunts for pacifists during WWI
Who was pres. then?
He was a member of what party?
> locking-up of Japanese citizens during WWII
Who was pres. then?
He was a member of what party?
>National Guard shootings of the '60s
Who was pres. then?
He was a member of what party?
I'll add Ruby Ridge, Waco, and a cuban boy to the list.
Now tell me who was pres. when these occurred and what was his party affiliation?
And you fear Bush?
Sounds to me like those government schools have really done a number on your head. They're probably smiling as they read your post, "Success! the sucker can't even recognize contradictions in his own thoughts".
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Get a decent pair of binos, 7x35, 10x50 or so and head out of town!
Any mountain tops nearby that are out of sight of the local metropolitan skyglow? Go there and just look up. The beauty of the night sky is completely lost in the pollution of the cities.
Easy targets:
Jupiter: blue color, cloud bands, moons
Saturn: yellow! plus the rings
Mars: a red dot
Venus: bright, easy, changes shape as weeks go by.
Orion: easy to identify, good myth, good stuff to see as you get more/better gear.
Finally, get a usnet reader and subsribe to sci.astro.amateur
Enjoy!
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Just asking. ;-)
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
...but consider me a naive American, at least where Canada is concerned. I don't know any Canadians. The gag order seems to be completely idiotic. Look, here is the data, but you can't report it until later. Huh? Why not just deliver the data later rather than make a law against it and/or trust someone who has an interest in reporting it ASAP? The Canadians(some, perhaps most) seem to accept it as reasonable. Some other news that manages to trickle down here supports this. So...what else am I to think? At least I asked about it.
.sig
BTW, like your
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
There's no way to effectively have the polls open all at the same time and be fair to all the Americans (most open before 7am and close after 6pm local times to allow commuters to vote)
Open the polls everywhere at 0000UTC and close at 2359UTC. The only twist to this is that according to the constitution, the electorate is supposed to cast all votes on the same day. I guess it depends on your definition of "a day". Yes it will cost more to pay another shift or two of election judges. So choose to withhold the data if that is not palatable.
If you want to get radical, dump the timezones alltogether. It's about time this country got its act together and simply decided to dump the TZs and operate under one TZ, not to mention the idiocy that is Daylight Saving Time.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
...election judges or whatever you call them up there should simply withold the results until *all* the polls are closed. That way there's no need for a gag law, no need for the expense of enforcement and they still don't influence the voters in later time zones.
Duh.
Another alternative would be to simply open and close the polls AT THE SAME TIME all across the country.
Duh.
Ah...but both of those choices require brains capable of logical thought and a little bit of common sense which are features rarely found in the brains of political types. Or is it lacking in Canadians altogether?
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Consider the different meanings of pussy, fanny, bangs, and fringe.
Combine this with such American phrases as "I need to trim my bangs" or "He put it in my fanny pack" and watch the expressions on the Brit's faces! Outrageous!
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
There seems to be a growing disinterest in politics everywhere.
As more people have better lives/fewer problems, fewer need help and fewer are looking to the gov as a solution. That is why the ones that still consider themselves to be opressed in some way(AKA special interests) are always the most strident in political campaigns. It is just that these noise makers are now very much in the minority. When more are starving, freezing, suffering, you will see more interest.
Other than that, only those that have a real, deep conviction about some principle or other(AKA special interests) will be interested or in some way motivated to make the effort to participate.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Try this and see what you get.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Visit www.taxclarity.org plug in your data and see what comes out. You might be surprised at what you get from which candidate.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
you come off here as thinking like these profits shouldn't be taxed simply because they're yours.
;-)
The point being that they ARE mine, and I already get taxed on capital gains, so tax me. Any loss of revenues by the corp reduces the value of my stock. IOW, it costs me. So while the corp is taxed, the shareholders are the ones that ultimately pay, always.
Only if the corporation is publicly held. A great many corporations (like my employer) are privately held, so your argument doesn't wash
I think that you probably want to retract that one. Every corp has shareholders, whether the shares are traded publicly or not. The same rules of reduced corporate profits = reduced shareholder profits apply.
Okay, I'm confused.
You do seem to have a mixed up idea of what a corp is, why it exists, and how it works.
I still think that if Congress has the right to create life, they can tax it
Never heard that line, but I like it.
taxes should be spent on yourself (what's in it for me?), I think that taxes should be spent on the country as a whole. The striking thing is how often these intersect (public education, interstate highway system, etc.)
We're getting into semantics here, but really, why shouldn't they be spent on me? Afterall, I am the taxpayer. What am I buying for my money? Your particular examples are quite poor. As far as education goes, I prefer to take care of my educational responsibilities myself. I'll spend that money, or the time that would be spent making that money, on my daughter's education directly. No bureacratic salaries are required and the quality of her education greatly improved. As far as the highway system goes, I seem to recall some license fees and fuel taxes that are supposed to cover the costs directly associated with the users of those systems. What else? National defense, OK I'll spend 10% of my annual income on that. What else? We've still got 20% of my income yet to spend before we reach my current billing level.
What do I get for that missing 20%? Believe me, we're not even talking about SocSick and Mediscam here. I'm taking care of my own retirement and health insurance. You think I'll trust my life, health, and general welfare to some 'crats in DC? No thank you.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Cracking down on M$ and Cisco won't help anything. I own Cisco and you'd be cracking down on my profits. Go buy some stocks yourself. You'll soon understand how corporate taxes are entirely bogus. They are all actually secondary taxes on shareholders. Call it double taxation since I've already paid the IRS the tax on the money that I spent buying Cisco. Now you want to tax me again?
What frightens me most is how much popular support there is for regressive taxing schemes (like a flat tax)
The reason this is happening is that there are more people, making more money and they look at their paychecks and think "I didn't used to see 1/3 of my pay disappear before I even got my check. This sucks!". They also took at their tax returns and think "Damn, what did I get for the $20,000 that I sent to the IRS this year?"
Finally, how exactly is a flat tax rate regressive?
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
The bits that you can read from an FPGA, or EPROM constitute "the code" and as we all know, code is copyrightable whether it be source, object, or machine code.
/. consider to be reverse engineering. If you want to copy the internals of a device in order to sell a "clone" that is theft. There has been much discussion in the courts over "clean room" implementations of workalikes, just ask intel and AMD. Their court cases clarified what you can and cannot copy and resell, and what you must build yourself from scratch(without looking inside) long ago.
/. folks would generally regard as rev-eng. That's not what this article is about.
If you want to analyze the signals generated by a device in order to build something compatible, or to build a "workalike" that is what "we" at
if I open up the hood of my car and figure out how it works and build another car, there is no legal recourse against me unless something in there is patented
This is correct unless something is copyrighted or trademarked. For instance, you can't make a perfect copy of a Cadillac, including the trademarked name and hood ornament and then turn around, call it a Cadillac and sell it as such. Nor can you copy the owner's manual and sell it. It is afterall, a book. OTOH, you can look at a car, see how it rolls, its doors open and so on, then build something with 4 wheels, engine, seats, and so forth and call it a car, and sell them all day long.
Just as with a CD which contains copyrighted bit patterns that are essential for its proper operation, you can make a personal copy or replica for your own use, so long as that "use" does not include selling or giving the copy to someone else.
Taking something apart in order to find out how to connect to it is what the
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
This whole story should be modded down as "Troll". Quit stirring up trouble with inflamatory headlines and out of context quotes. Hemos, you and several other /. "editors" need to go and read the Linux-PR HOWTO again. Behave yourselves as decent and responsible members of the community or you find yourselves with the level of community respect that currently reserved for your very own /. trolls.
/. speak, is copyright violation, and that is theft. It is not what we call reverse-engineering.
What this guy is talking about, translated to
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
however there are also no statistically valid studies which support the 'being punched in the nose hurts' proposition either
Actually, there are many. In addition to anecdotal evidence which abounds rather than the third-fourth-fifth person urban legends referencing cell phone hazards, I can demonstrate. Place your nose right there, that's it, just an arms length away from my shoulder. If such a demo is unsatisfactory, I can show you direct evidence that blunt objects impacting your face can cause damage. Let's go to the emergency room at the nearest hospital.
All this is irrelevant since you chose a poor example. The problem is, as you put it, the keyword "evidence". There is none, anecdotal or otherwise supporting this cell phone hazard claim.
We have never subjected large quantities of people to close up microwave transmitters
Actually, we have. The devices in question are often called ovens. They put out much more power than a cell phone and their effects are well documented.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
What about those women that wear so much perfume that it makes your eyes water? Forget the simple non-smoking section of the restaurant, I want a section of the place set aside where ALL of the aromas in air come from the food and NOT the customers!
Better yet, how about a perfume free elevator?
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
The basic reason is because the market is still young and immature. We used to talk about the number of barrels in a carb, cubic inches, rear end ratio, quarter-mile/0-60 times/speeds and so forth. These things are easy to measure, easy to quantify. Now we talk about handling qualities, anti-lock brakes, cubic-feet of cargo, etc. What happened was we got to the point where we actually knew how fast was fast enough and suddenly realized that there was more to making a good car than simply straight line accelleration.
;-)
So...for now we talk about MHz, MIPs, MBs, GBs, bits in a bus, bandwidth, frame rates and so forth because they are easy to measure, easy to quantify, and we really don't know what it takes to make a good computer.
In some places, mostly the embedded world, you hardly ever hear of MHz. Who cares how many MHz the proc inside your camera is? Unless of course you want to build a Beowolf cluster of cameras
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
That's what any junk mailer does and especially Digital Convergence does with a Cue:Cat(TM). They send it to you without your having to do any clicks. Then you just point it at the bar code and Whoop! there it is! No click shopping.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
SWBell doesn't charge for lack of services, at least not by tariff ;-)
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
...that you can't "use" the minimum, then drop the LD carrier completely and just use one of those 10-10-220-* style services.
Hell, since everyone in my family has gotten email access, LD usage has dropped to nearly zero. I dropped ALL LD service last year. Got "re-acquired" as a customer by AT&T and promptly called the service number to shut it off. They credited me for all the charges.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
...when exchanges, commerce, contracts, etc between two private parties are concerned.
The US Constitution was afterall a set of laws that were intended to describe the purpose and structure of and restrict the behavior and the authority of the federal government, and not much anything else.
So, if you were offered a job and the HR gnome informed you that the company's communications gear is to be used for job oriented communications only, and that the corp reserves the authority to monitor the activities of its employees, as in timesheets, schedules, ID badges, etc. you've really got no place to complain. Ask for more money to compensate for inconvenience, or go somewhere else rather than sign the contract.
It would be nice if the legislators would do their jobs & protect the rights of individual Americans, wouldn't it?
In order to succeed in protecting the rights of individuals, the legislative bodies basically have to do nothing at all because those rights exist a priori. Which is of course, the problem. They have been doing stuff that they should not have done and thus the individual's rights have been reduced.
Unfortunately, it appears that we, the people, have no choice but to take matters into our own hands & litigate
Here is the core of the problem. It is not at all unfortunate that we the people have to take matters into our own hands. It is by design! You are supposed to take care of yourself, friends, family and neighbors. Those responsibilities do not reside on any gov in the USA according to the Constitution. OTOH, litigation is not the only alternative, why not just get a better job?
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
And finally, pal, why don't you shove your "stupid comment of the week" crack straight up your dumb ass. When you have something to say that isn't just you trying to prove that you've been reading the "Scientific American" subscription your mom got for you, you come try again
Ooooh some big and some nasty words. Doing your best to make a good impression on all the kids here, I guess. Hey, at least he reads. I imagine his mom taught him rather than some nameless NEA member. It's really amazing what a good family can do for manners. Well color me stubborn, but I'll still bet that you'll complain when the wind stops blowing and your lights go out.
Hmm, perhaps not, as you seem to like sitting in the dark.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
...then perhaps do a trial run on another customer's hardware? Does either vendor have any demo hardware? They must! Get HP and/or SGI to arrange for you to run a benchmark processing job on an equivalent system. As tolan said, on a purchase this size they should at least offer to run your code and *show*you*how*well*it*really*works.
Definitely pursue competitive bids from IBM and Compaq.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.