I'm serious. This is completely ridiculous -- ever since JonKatz stopped posting, Michael has taken the reins of the "Putting Inane Bullshit On The Front Page" carriage and run with it.
In the name of everything that's holy, someone fire Michael. NOW.
Not familiar with semantics and linguistics, are we? "Perfectly valid" words are often divorced from their meaning -- if I yell "Shit!" am I thinking of feces as I do it?
The parent poster's little diatribe about "corporate hegemony" is a perfect example of the typical leftist tactic of taking fifty-cent words they don't really understand and putting them together to sound mean and nasty, without any regard for the facts of the actual situation they're purporting to describe.
Of course, that's assuming by "free trade" you really mean, "fair and mutually beneficial commercial relations that do not result in the exploitation of one party by another," and not "corporate imporialism/hegemony."
When rational arguments fail, there's always over-hyped meaningless buzzwords, right?
No, the latter would like to think they "may threaten middle-class-consumer-america," but that's because they're deluded. The only people they're going to actually hurt are the Third World poor their laughably misguided policies are so desperately trying (and failing miserably) to help.
Don't let the fact that there are ignorant people all over the world, including the US, discourage you. The vast majority of Americans are tolerant, decent people. I have a friend who is a Turkish immigrant, and when one idiot tried to start shit with him in a bar, both my friends and complete strangers jumped to his defense. The most ignorant are also often the loudest -- don't let them drown out the majority.
I just looked through this entire thread, and the worst thing anyone could come up with is longer searches at customs. So who's being hysterical here? Not/. posters, no sir, definitely not them...
Do you not find it strange that a 2-hour DVD, with commentary, subtitles, and extra scenes, can be sold for less than $10, while few audio CDs are that low priced?
This argument is pointless. Do you not find it strange that record companies don't make hundreds of millions of dollars from people coming to listen to albums before they can buy them on CD? There's no comparison between DVDs and CDs because (successful) movies have already made back the cost of production before they ever get to DVD.
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I'm doing basically the same thing. I vote GOP if the race is close and the Democratic challenger is particularly odious, but I vote almost exclusively Libertarian otherwise.
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How can you miss it? It looks just like Nebraska!
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Here's a question? Why is it that Europeans think they know what gets taught in American schools? And even though they don't have a clue, they feel qualified to pass judgment on it?
We know freedom wasn't invented here, Eurosnob. Every high school teaches its history back through ancient Greece.
So can we please drop this idea that you know what you're talking about? Go stereotype some other group of 300 million people.
To add to that, I'd ask why go with AS/400 when for similar cost and much better interface/usability, you could do a Linux or Sun cluster? Could the reliability of an AS/400 box really match a 10-box failover cluster on Intel or Sparc?
In my case, at least, it's not the salary that keeps me from teaching. I could do well enough to support myself as a teacher. It's the bureaucracy -- I have parents and friends who are teachers, and there's no way in hell I'm putting myself through that.
It doesn't hurt anything, except for a few hours for the census department to remove the figures from there total.
Which is, I suppose, the point -- do Australians want their tax dollars being spent on having the census bureau go through and remove all the joke answers (not just religion -> Jedi) from census forms?
Actually, it's not totally random. You can't use the x-hundred option when it's a multiple of ten, i.e., you would never say "twenty hundred," though you can say "twenty-one hundred."
Basically, in casual conversation, you say whichever is shorter and easier.
Two thousand is shorter than twenty hundred. Twenty-one hundred is shorter than two thousand one hundred.
O'Reilly seems to be promoting the agenda of Microsoft's Software Choice campaign. He's a business man; perhaps there's a reason we don't know about. But whatever his motives, his lame arguments are no reason to stop pushing for governments to use Free or Open Source software wherever possible.
Seriously, Michael, this is really childish. Tim O'Reilly has done fantastic work for the community, including even publishing some of his company's books for free on the internet, and all you can think to do is make sly accusations about his "motives."
Grow up, Michael. People can disagree with each other without having to resort to implicit "He's bought off!" accusations. It happens all the time in the real world.
But while you get 1,000,000 total, the fact that there are category assignments mean that you get 10 categories of 100,000 each. So while you may only have 50,000 clothing producers, you might have 95,000 food producers, which would be trouble.
I set up the UPCs for my company, and basically you get a unique 6-digit number from a registrar (the first digit of which corresponds (loosely) to the category of goods you produce, and the next 5 are yours to use however you see fit (the last number is a checksum). So either one of the categories is getting close to 100,000 registrants, or some registrants are getting close to 100,000 products.
1 and 6) Viticulture. Yes, I will fully grant you that the american wines are damn fine. But I'll counter with american beer. Yes, #6 you have Microbreweries, but those are the exception, not the rule. Find me someone discerning who likes BUD LIGHT, or even *shudder* Milwaukee's Best.
So your point is that there are crappy, mass-produced beers in America? Well, duh. But America may be the finest beer-brewing nation in the world right now. Don't take my word for it, ask famous British beer reviewer Michael Jackson.
2) Not sure where you live. I live in Cincinnati, a generic midwestern city. I can get all of those things too, but not at my grocery store. I'd have to make special trips to specialty stores. I've spent time in Manhattan and San Francisco where you CAN get those things easily. Again, that's the exception, not the rule.
And I live in Harrisburg, a generic Mideast city, where these things are often available at the grocery store (in far greater quantity than even two years ago), but I also have to go to specialty stores for some of it. The thing is, there are now specialty stores, whereas they didn't exist 5 years ago. Beautiful!
3) True, Asian Cuisine is more realistic these days. You can say the same things about other cuisines. Real Mexican, not nacho cheese laden tex-mex. Real Italian, not pizza and americanized pasta. Though all of the bad sides of those cuisines is here too. How many people in the US truly believe that Taco Bell is mexican?
I still don't see your point -- that not everyone in America has discerning taste? True. But also true for the entire world.
My question was not so much a query as to the sad state of food in America (Why Can't Johnny Saute?) but more of a question about the split in our culture. There are foodies (Hi there) and there are junkfoodies. McDonalds, Taco Bell, and their ilk are a poor legacy for america to foist upon the world. You don't see "Supercrepes" stands in the mall food court, nor do you see a worldwide chain of Charlie Trotter's.
There's a serious dichotomy in American cuisine between good food and fast food.
There's a serious dichotomy everywhere between those two things. There are crappy fast-food type places the world over. And there are good fast-food type places the world over -- fantastic taco stands in Mexico, panini in Italy, etc., just like there are great delis and pizza places in the US.
There's nothing wrong with food in America -- if anything, it's in a far greater state than the rest of the world because it doesn't have the reliance on tradition and authenticity that can sometimes stifle development.
Well, you've changed your tune, but you're still wrong.
Why is it wrong for someone to only watch part of something? Am I allowed to skip a song on an album if I just don't like it? Yes? Would I be allowed to skip it if I objected to its content?
Intolerance, eh? You're the one with reactionary insults for everyone who dares to disagree with your concept of morality. These people don't want to watch sex scenes, who are you to say they have to? Oh, right, the tolerant and enlightened one...
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I'm serious. This is completely ridiculous -- ever since JonKatz stopped posting, Michael has taken the reins of the "Putting Inane Bullshit On The Front Page" carriage and run with it.
In the name of everything that's holy, someone fire Michael. NOW.
Every April 15.
Not familiar with semantics and linguistics, are we? "Perfectly valid" words are often divorced from their meaning -- if I yell "Shit!" am I thinking of feces as I do it?
The parent poster's little diatribe about "corporate hegemony" is a perfect example of the typical leftist tactic of taking fifty-cent words they don't really understand and putting them together to sound mean and nasty, without any regard for the facts of the actual situation they're purporting to describe.
Maybe your delusions of grandeur could teach them how.
When rational arguments fail, there's always over-hyped meaningless buzzwords, right?
No, the latter would like to think they "may threaten middle-class-consumer-america," but that's because they're deluded. The only people they're going to actually hurt are the Third World poor their laughably misguided policies are so desperately trying (and failing miserably) to help.
Don't let the fact that there are ignorant people all over the world, including the US, discourage you. The vast majority of Americans are tolerant, decent people. I have a friend who is a Turkish immigrant, and when one idiot tried to start shit with him in a bar, both my friends and complete strangers jumped to his defense. The most ignorant are also often the loudest -- don't let them drown out the majority.
Yeah Michael, better barricade the door, the thought police are certainly on their way.
Dude, even the most ignorant 13-year-old on Slashdot knows you're an idiot. Think about it.
I just looked through this entire thread, and the worst thing anyone could come up with is longer searches at customs. So who's being hysterical here? Not /. posters, no sir, definitely not them...
This argument is pointless. Do you not find it strange that record companies don't make hundreds of millions of dollars from people coming to listen to albums before they can buy them on CD? There's no comparison between DVDs and CDs because (successful) movies have already made back the cost of production before they ever get to DVD.
I'm doing basically the same thing. I vote GOP if the race is close and the Democratic challenger is particularly odious, but I vote almost exclusively Libertarian otherwise.
How can you miss it? It looks just like Nebraska!
*ducks*
Here's a question? Why is it that Europeans think they know what gets taught in American schools? And even though they don't have a clue, they feel qualified to pass judgment on it?
We know freedom wasn't invented here, Eurosnob. Every high school teaches its history back through ancient Greece.
So can we please drop this idea that you know what you're talking about? Go stereotype some other group of 300 million people.
You can choose to program at a small business that doesn't have thousands of bureaucrats above you. You can't choose to teach at a school like that.
To add to that, I'd ask why go with AS/400 when for similar cost and much better interface/usability, you could do a Linux or Sun cluster? Could the reliability of an AS/400 box really match a 10-box failover cluster on Intel or Sparc?
In my case, at least, it's not the salary that keeps me from teaching. I could do well enough to support myself as a teacher. It's the bureaucracy -- I have parents and friends who are teachers, and there's no way in hell I'm putting myself through that.
Which is, I suppose, the point -- do Australians want their tax dollars being spent on having the census bureau go through and remove all the joke answers (not just religion -> Jedi) from census forms?
Actually, it's not totally random. You can't use the x-hundred option when it's a multiple of ten, i.e., you would never say "twenty hundred," though you can say "twenty-one hundred."
Basically, in casual conversation, you say whichever is shorter and easier.
Two thousand is shorter than twenty hundred.
Twenty-one hundred is shorter than two thousand one hundred.
Seriously, Michael, this is really childish. Tim O'Reilly has done fantastic work for the community, including even publishing some of his company's books for free on the internet, and all you can think to do is make sly accusations about his "motives."
Grow up, Michael. People can disagree with each other without having to resort to implicit "He's bought off!" accusations. It happens all the time in the real world.
But while you get 1,000,000 total, the fact that there are category assignments mean that you get 10 categories of 100,000 each. So while you may only have 50,000 clothing producers, you might have 95,000 food producers, which would be trouble.
(Just speculating, BTW)
I set up the UPCs for my company, and basically you get a unique 6-digit number from a registrar (the first digit of which corresponds (loosely) to the category of goods you produce, and the next 5 are yours to use however you see fit (the last number is a checksum). So either one of the categories is getting close to 100,000 registrants, or some registrants are getting close to 100,000 products.
So your point is that there are crappy, mass-produced beers in America? Well, duh. But America may be the finest beer-brewing nation in the world right now. Don't take my word for it, ask famous British beer reviewer Michael Jackson.
And I live in Harrisburg, a generic Mideast city, where these things are often available at the grocery store (in far greater quantity than even two years ago), but I also have to go to specialty stores for some of it. The thing is, there are now specialty stores, whereas they didn't exist 5 years ago. Beautiful!
I still don't see your point -- that not everyone in America has discerning taste? True. But also true for the entire world.
There's a serious dichotomy everywhere between those two things. There are crappy fast-food type places the world over. And there are good fast-food type places the world over -- fantastic taco stands in Mexico, panini in Italy, etc., just like there are great delis and pizza places in the US.
There's nothing wrong with food in America -- if anything, it's in a far greater state than the rest of the world because it doesn't have the reliance on tradition and authenticity that can sometimes stifle development.
The two things my mother always did were stir constantly and use corn starch instead of flour.
Well, you've changed your tune, but you're still wrong.
Why is it wrong for someone to only watch part of something? Am I allowed to skip a song on an album if I just don't like it? Yes? Would I be allowed to skip it if I objected to its content?
Intolerance, eh? You're the one with reactionary insults for everyone who dares to disagree with your concept of morality. These people don't want to watch sex scenes, who are you to say they have to? Oh, right, the tolerant and enlightened one...