I thought Firefox 10 ESR was good for one whole year? So I'd not need to upgrade until April 2013?
As for other browsers, I recommend Opera for speed & minimal memory usage though compatibility is an issue (web developers routinely block anything not IE or Firefox). I wish there was a global "Mask as Firefox" or "Mask as IE" setting instead of having to do each webpage one at a time.
Well the TARP bailout bill went to the Senate first, and then the House. Rules change whenever politicians decide to ignore the constitution with comments like "Are you serious? Are you serious???" (That was Nancy Pelosi when asked where the insurance purchase mandate was constitutional.)
Now Obama signed the ACTA but is just sitting on it rather than giving it to the Senate for acceptance or rejection. His copyright czar probably intends to enact ACTA through executive rules, rather than laws.
>>> expressing your view could cause issues because of your religion / country of residence / association with others etc.
Future employment. "Hmmm this guy posts a lot of anti-Bush, anti-Obama, and anti-Romney stuff. My god and he says he voted for that nutjob Ron Paul. Time to trash his resume." ----- Or just plain embarassment. It's bad enough I have posts back to 1988 following me around ~3 decades later, and popping-up when people search my name.
I refuse to link facebook or twitter or any other account that has my real name. If I can't login under an Email handle/alias then I simply don't post on that website.
>>> If you make a false claim, that's an opportunity for someone else to make their name by proving you wrong.
Unless that person is censored from publishing. As happens to scientists who propose alternate reasons the globe is warming (we're moving from an ice age to a tropical age... i.e. natural longterm cycle). Or if you want to look way back: When scientists like Planck suggested there is no ether between the planets carrying waves of light, but instead it travels through a vacuum as a particle with wavelike properties. He too had a hard time getting his theories published, because he met stern opposition from those invested in the Ether Theory of the universe.
Basically non-accepted theories get censored by those who are currently dominant. You can't publish. Hence why Kahn talked about "scientific revolutions". The younger crowd are blocked by those in power, until the old guard dies off. A revolution in thought.
>>>adding MTBE actually increases the cost of producing gasoline, why would the oil companies want to do that?
I think your question is self-answering. Oil companies get to sell TWO products.... the actual gasoline plus the additive MTBE (which otherwise they'd have to store in tanks & find a way to dispose of in a safe manner). Convincing the EPA that MTBE should not be junked, but instead added to gasoline == $profit.
It's equivalent to if I convinced the govenrment to buy my urine and add it to gasoline because it "burns cleaner". (1) I don't have to figure out how to dispose of the biohazard safely and (2) the government is stupid enough to pay me for it. It's a win-win.
This isn't the first time either. The oil companies did the same BS science with their "ethyl" additive to make leaded gasoline from the 1920s to 70s. They claimed it made cars run better, when in reality it just clogged the components.
MTBE and gasoline don't mix. MTBE doesn't oxidize anything. It's bullshit science created by external oil corporations to get rid of the MTBE. (Just the same way they lied and said gasoline needed to be "leaded" to make cars run better.) And the EPA and CARB bought into it like fools. Hence why people like me are skeptical of the science coming from these people.
Like how Congress removed SOPA from the table due to opposition, but then immediately proposed a new bill with a new name, but same effects.
And ACTA is still floating around. It's already signed by our lovely president Obama. All it needs now is ratification or rejection by the Senators, but the White House has tabled it. Maybe they plan to enforce it through executive order, instead of through legal means.
Ahhh. What you did was equivalent to if I said the speed limit is 65 miles. Then it should be Mb/s (megabit per second). Or MB/s (megabyte per second).
>>> Is the new standard for ads now to be that only the largest print claims count?
That's why ISPs are getting sued for claiming "unlimited" internet, even if the 1-point-size print clarifies that it is only 5 gigabytes.
BTW Sony got in trouble in the EU for advertising PS3s as supporting "other OSes" like Linux and then turning-off that feature. They had to refund money to customers, even if the purchase had occurred two years earlier. You don't false-advertise in the EU and get away with it.
>>>Ultra-fast 4G. Full speed ahead..... the new iPad with Wi-Fi + 4G connects to fast data networks around the world.
Except 4G only works in North america. I didn't realize the U.S. and Canada were now considered "the world". Wow. Did the Congress bomb everyone else into oblivion?
Twitter and facebook are not really private (unless you specifically block viewing by strangers). It's a public venue and what you post can be seen by your school (as this article shows). Or google.
BTW the school that was spying on students stripping naked in their bedrooms through laptop cameras never got punished. Nor the school with cameras in the boys/girls shower rooms. Hiring the ACLU to sue this school is like a waste; looking at public tweets is a far lesser crime.
>>>The Rockefellers and Carnegies did exactly that back in the robber baron days
How about we stop living in the distant past, and provide some examples from the PRESENT.
>>>The Chinese did the exact same thing to the US rare-earth mining industry only a decade ago.
Name the companies that did this supposed dumping. And were they cheaper in price because of illicit practices, or because of the same reason Macs are cheaper to build in China than the U.S.? You shouldn't be buying into the "dumping is killing us" propaganda put out by GM, Ford, and other companies trying to seek government protectionism (or handouts).
You don't really believe OS X is impervious to viruses do you? If they can hack Android linux and Apple iOS to install malware, then they can do the same to their big brothers on the desktop.
I guess I could mimic the Apple fans and proclaim, "My Commodore Amiga's OS 4 is awesome. It has no viruses!" Of course that's only because nobody wants to target such a small userbase. Ditto linux. Ditto OS X.
>>>scientific evidence is used more frequently in the work of government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency
It's difficult to not become skeptical when the EPA's research claims MTBE "oxidizes" gasoline. That's a load of BS; that was just a way for oil corporationsto sell a deadly chemical (like they did with leaded gasoline). Or the FDA's claims that genetically-modified plants and hormone-injected cows are "safe". These government agencies are perverting science.
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I thought Firefox 10 ESR was good for one whole year? So I'd not need to upgrade until April 2013?
As for other browsers, I recommend Opera for speed & minimal memory usage though compatibility is an issue (web developers routinely block anything not IE or Firefox). I wish there was a global "Mask as Firefox" or "Mask as IE" setting instead of having to do each webpage one at a time.
The non-google Chromium is also an option. (executable link) http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Internet/Browsers/Portable-Google-Chrome-Chromium.shtml
Well the TARP bailout bill went to the Senate first, and then the House. Rules change whenever politicians decide to ignore the constitution with comments like "Are you serious? Are you serious???" (That was Nancy Pelosi when asked where the insurance purchase mandate was constitutional.)
Now Obama signed the ACTA but is just sitting on it rather than giving it to the Senate for acceptance or rejection. His copyright czar probably intends to enact ACTA through executive rules, rather than laws.
>>> expressing your view could cause issues because of your religion / country of residence / association with others etc.
Future employment. "Hmmm this guy posts a lot of anti-Bush, anti-Obama, and anti-Romney stuff. My god and he says he voted for that nutjob Ron Paul. Time to trash his resume." ----- Or just plain embarassment. It's bad enough I have posts back to 1988 following me around ~3 decades later, and popping-up when people search my name.
I refuse to link facebook or twitter or any other account that has my real name. If I can't login under an Email handle/alias then I simply don't post on that website.
Sorry gawker. You lost my business/ad views.
>>> If you make a false claim, that's an opportunity for someone else to make their name by proving you wrong.
Unless that person is censored from publishing. As happens to scientists who propose alternate reasons the globe is warming (we're moving from an ice age to a tropical age... i.e. natural longterm cycle). Or if you want to look way back: When scientists like Planck suggested there is no ether between the planets carrying waves of light, but instead it travels through a vacuum as a particle with wavelike properties. He too had a hard time getting his theories published, because he met stern opposition from those invested in the Ether Theory of the universe.
Basically non-accepted theories get censored by those who are currently dominant. You can't publish. Hence why Kahn talked about "scientific revolutions". The younger crowd are blocked by those in power, until the old guard dies off. A revolution in thought.
>>>adding MTBE actually increases the cost of producing gasoline, why would the oil companies want to do that?
I think your question is self-answering. Oil companies get to sell TWO products.... the actual gasoline plus the additive MTBE (which otherwise they'd have to store in tanks & find a way to dispose of in a safe manner). Convincing the EPA that MTBE should not be junked, but instead added to gasoline == $profit.
It's equivalent to if I convinced the govenrment to buy my urine and add it to gasoline because it "burns cleaner". (1) I don't have to figure out how to dispose of the biohazard safely and (2) the government is stupid enough to pay me for it. It's a win-win.
This isn't the first time either. The oil companies did the same BS science with their "ethyl" additive to make leaded gasoline from the 1920s to 70s. They claimed it made cars run better, when in reality it just clogged the components.
>>>What is BS?
MTBE and gasoline don't mix. MTBE doesn't oxidize anything. It's bullshit science created by external oil corporations to get rid of the MTBE. (Just the same way they lied and said gasoline needed to be "leaded" to make cars run better.) And the EPA and CARB bought into it like fools. Hence why people like me are skeptical of the science coming from these people.
I should have added "Stupid advertisers" to this post. I was criticizing them.
Isn't the EU Commission the executive branch? Can't the government function without an executive?
Like how Congress removed SOPA from the table due to opposition, but then immediately proposed a new bill with a new name, but same effects.
And ACTA is still floating around. It's already signed by our lovely president Obama. All it needs now is ratification or rejection by the Senators, but the White House has tabled it. Maybe they plan to enforce it through executive order, instead of through legal means.
Ahhh. What you did was equivalent to if I said the speed limit is 65 miles. Then it should be Mb/s (megabit per second). Or MB/s (megabyte per second).
>>>HSPA+ network was 5MB, the slowest LTE I;ve seen was 10MB
It sucks that they cap these at just 5 and 10 megabytes respectively. That's worse than my 12GB cap on dialup.
>>> Is the new standard for ads now to be that only the largest print claims count?
That's why ISPs are getting sued for claiming "unlimited" internet, even if the 1-point-size print clarifies that it is only 5 gigabytes.
BTW Sony got in trouble in the EU for advertising PS3s as supporting "other OSes" like Linux and then turning-off that feature. They had to refund money to customers, even if the purchase had occurred two years earlier. You don't false-advertise in the EU and get away with it.
>>>Ultra-fast 4G. Full speed ahead..... the new iPad with Wi-Fi + 4G connects to fast data networks around the world.
Except 4G only works in North america. I didn't realize the U.S. and Canada were now considered "the world". Wow. Did the Congress bomb everyone else into oblivion?
Twitter and facebook are not really private (unless you specifically block viewing by strangers). It's a public venue and what you post can be seen by your school (as this article shows). Or google.
BTW the school that was spying on students stripping naked in their bedrooms through laptop cameras never got punished. Nor the school with cameras in the boys/girls shower rooms. Hiring the ACLU to sue this school is like a waste; looking at public tweets is a far lesser crime.
Apple did nothing wrong.
The EU says FU to its member states. - MEP Daneil Hannan. (I hope I got the right link.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WObI5m5CXVQ
What can I say? My fucking work computer if fucking blocked from the fucking article. ;-)
No I RTFS - "He did use a school computer".
Yes a student should know not to use profanity on the school network, just as he knows not to use it in the school building. (IMHO)
They can enforce the rules as they wish (just like employers). Student should have used a private ISP, instead of the government-owned school network.
>>>Japan, VCRs, 80s
That makes zero sense. There were no U.S. VCR manufacturers to be undercut through dumping. Poor example.
>>>The Rockefellers and Carnegies did exactly that back in the robber baron days
How about we stop living in the distant past, and provide some examples from the PRESENT.
>>>The Chinese did the exact same thing to the US rare-earth mining industry only a decade ago.
Name the companies that did this supposed dumping. And were they cheaper in price because of illicit practices, or because of the same reason Macs are cheaper to build in China than the U.S.? You shouldn't be buying into the "dumping is killing us" propaganda put out by GM, Ford, and other companies trying to seek government protectionism (or handouts).
You don't really believe OS X is impervious to viruses do you? If they can hack Android linux and Apple iOS to install malware, then they can do the same to their big brothers on the desktop.
I guess I could mimic the Apple fans and proclaim, "My Commodore Amiga's OS 4 is awesome. It has no viruses!" Of course that's only because nobody wants to target such a small userbase. Ditto linux. Ditto OS X.
>>>scientific evidence is used more frequently in the work of government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency
It's difficult to not become skeptical when the EPA's research claims MTBE "oxidizes" gasoline. That's a load of BS; that was just a way for oil corporationsto sell a deadly chemical (like they did with leaded gasoline). Or the FDA's claims that genetically-modified plants and hormone-injected cows are "safe". These government agencies are perverting science.
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