I think they have it backwards then. They could start by showing proper stewardship of their own animals. PETA putting down 90% of the animals they take in is rank hypocrisy especially when that's triple the rate of a non-PETA shelter. "Do as I say and not as I do" is just not the way to run an advocacy program. If they trail the industry in pet treatment, why should anyone listen to them on the treatment of any other kind of animal?
I'd say scratch the press conference and send out a press release of the alleged news. I'm interested, but this attempt to whip up suspense can't be good, the last time they did this, it was a dud. It better be good, and I want it to be big, but somehow, I doubt it.
I don't know if free market is intertwined with the concept that censorship only happens with governments, there's some overlap and some orthogonality too. I do think that free market means that you don't have to let your resources be used in the promotion of a product that competes with your own. Would Wal*mart stock a book that's positive about Target? Would it really be censorship if Wal*mart chose not to stock that book?
It's largely an unnecessary app, especially being an app whose only purpose is to deal with a competitor's product, so why let a competitor use your resources, even if it is indirectly?
Someone that's interested in Android to the point of subscribing to the magazine probably has an Android device. Also, Apple has no restrictions on PDF files or web sites, so anyone can produce content compatible with iOS without approval from Apple.
Huh? Scientists usually hold very little political power, they rarely hold office, when they do, they're legislators outnumbered by peers that are lawyers. It's the religious extremists or extreme nationalists that are dangerous because it's that kind of person that's actually in an executive office and tends to use whatever they have in their power.
Seems to me it's an internal problem within Ford that they trusted untrustworthy people.
I suppose you have a magic solution that tells who is trustworthy and who is not? Are you selling any such snake oil? There are several different ways to reduce the problem, but until there is some kind of deep brain scan that can learn the thoughts and motivations of a person, I don't think there is even a shot at eliminating the risk of hiring untrustworthy people. And even then, an employer that uses that is probably not an employer that many people would want to work for.
Thanks for replying like a jerk, that really helps us all out. Nobody is going to simply transition to a new way of doing things just because it's new, they need to know what they'll get from the new way that makes the transition worthwhile.
Barter is an option even when there is cash, it's been a form of trade before there was any kind of currency. The problem is, in order to be reasonably convenient, each party has to have something the other wants. If that's not true, then one of the parties is going to have to trade with other parties to get what the other party wants. That problem is a reason why currency was adopted in the first place, it made trade so much easier, since one side of the trade is always in something everybody wants because it's easily exchangeable with everything else, that allowed for much more efficient commerce.
Estonian commerce giving up paper money doesn't mean it can't be traded, Euros are still printed. It would be a little harder to move as you'd have to leave the country to really spend it above the table.
That's best, among other things, but particularly given how the US government already has a track record of wholesale tapping of internet communications.
I don't think PDF was ever intended to be an editable format, that's trying to pound a square peg in a round hole. It's supposed to be a distribution format. The fact that the format offers script execution is pretty baffling.
Really? This is your response to my comment on ethanol? I wonder if you're trolling. But anyways, I'll bite in case you aren't. For instance, the main reason corn ethanol is even financially palatable is because of US government subsidies.
Corn ethanol's environmental benefits are shaky at best if you're interested in reduction of CO2 emissions.
When you factor in all the energy needed to raise the corn and make the ethanol, it makes very little new energy, some estimates suggest that there is no new energy being made, basically as little as one gallon's equivalent being made from one gallon's equivalent burned to make that gallon.
Other plants can be used to make ethanol, but it's not being done widely. When cellulosic ethanol is workable on a mass scale, then the value of ethanol production might change to something that's of a net benefit to society.
It's a special use, being more like a very powerful microcontroller, it only needs so much power, and it has to last. While the average life of a car is nearly 10 years, it's not so terribly uncommon to keep a car going for almost 20 years, in contrast very few 20 year old PCs are still in regular use, I think a lot of people would be very hard pressed to find a ten year old computer being used daily, and PCs don't have to worry much about environmental factors.
If the system is flex-fuel, it has to be able to take any range from 0% (occasional exemption from ethanol) to 85% ethanol. There is no control over what what the next tank will have, and you'll have some residual, making your ratio almost constantly varying.
I thought most of ethanol's benefits were pretty reasonably debunked, at least corn ethanol anyway.
Both sides of that argument had a lot of wrong impressions and misunderstandings. Using embryonic stem cells wan't directly about treatment, it was about research, there were properties that they wanted to understand. The biomedical community needed to learn how they work so that that knowledge can be used as a baseline to compare treatments. Interviewees on Science Friday did a pretty good job of explaining what they were looking for and why embryonic stem cells were desired for research. As for treatment though, I don't think ESC were ever going to be used in treatments except for very limited trials.
It looks like Facebook wasn't suing all sites with the word book it, it was *social networking* sites that have book in them. And frankly, "Teachbook" is a poor name for a social networking site, even if it is just a specialty one focusing on teachers. The naming plainly sounds like they're trying to ride the coattails of the Facebook trademark.
The networks are trying to protect their money. To them, letting people watch their shows on computers broadens their market. Letting people watch their shows on GoogleTV or similar set top devices on a TV undermines their higher paying conventional TV market, they generally get a lot more money from ads on TV and carriage agreements than they do with Hulu.
Deformed fonts, I can understand why you'd say that, but too sharp? I really don't buy that argument at all. Laser printers can print much sharper text than most current screens, and I've yet to hear anyone complain that laser text prints are too sharp.
A lot of people seem to block ads because they're too pushy and annoying. This goes too far. If it was just an image ad, then it wouldn't be so bad. I tend to block ads because they're video (on a largely static site), ugly, offensive, make noise or are otherwise excessively distracting. The site owners might not be in much position to make demands to advertisers, but it seems like they shouldn't be going along with these schemes that really dilute the quality of their content.
In my opinion, Chinese isn't really so bad, though it understandably looks intimidating to the uninitiated. There are problems, in my opinion the biggest is using a keyboard paradigm designed around Latin languages, but the rest of it is about trade-offs. There are a lot of problems learning English too. Witness how many people take a dozen years of English classes and can't articulate themselves halfway decently. English is an amalgam of three or four languages, plus a ridiculous number of loan words, and then there are all the idioms.
Anyways, the numerous characters may seem daunting, but there's a method to the madness, it's often possible to derive the meaning and pronunciation of a character based on its sub-glyphs. I don't pretend to have that term right, it's been a while since I covered it. I don't know how they handle the character input into computers though.
Did they bother to fix the fact that the scanner sends images to the home office? Interesting they have to intimidate people into using them anyway. All this BS is a deterrence to air travel. Even with terrorists, flying is a lot safer than driving, but if you make it too inconvenient, then people that have a choice might choose something else.
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I should say that I checked by visiting someone using the updated profile type.
Chrome might not be listed, but it works just fine for the new profile. Opera works fine so far too. Both are up to date versions.
I think they have it backwards then. They could start by showing proper stewardship of their own animals. PETA putting down 90% of the animals they take in is rank hypocrisy especially when that's triple the rate of a non-PETA shelter. "Do as I say and not as I do" is just not the way to run an advocacy program. If they trail the industry in pet treatment, why should anyone listen to them on the treatment of any other kind of animal?
I'd say scratch the press conference and send out a press release of the alleged news. I'm interested, but this attempt to whip up suspense can't be good, the last time they did this, it was a dud. It better be good, and I want it to be big, but somehow, I doubt it.
I don't know if free market is intertwined with the concept that censorship only happens with governments, there's some overlap and some orthogonality too. I do think that free market means that you don't have to let your resources be used in the promotion of a product that competes with your own. Would Wal*mart stock a book that's positive about Target? Would it really be censorship if Wal*mart chose not to stock that book?
It's largely an unnecessary app, especially being an app whose only purpose is to deal with a competitor's product, so why let a competitor use your resources, even if it is indirectly?
Someone that's interested in Android to the point of subscribing to the magazine probably has an Android device. Also, Apple has no restrictions on PDF files or web sites, so anyone can produce content compatible with iOS without approval from Apple.
not really, for example twins have the same DNA
Don't even identical twins both have single bit errors that the other doesn't?
Huh? Scientists usually hold very little political power, they rarely hold office, when they do, they're legislators outnumbered by peers that are lawyers. It's the religious extremists or extreme nationalists that are dangerous because it's that kind of person that's actually in an executive office and tends to use whatever they have in their power.
Seems to me it's an internal problem within Ford that they trusted untrustworthy people.
I suppose you have a magic solution that tells who is trustworthy and who is not? Are you selling any such snake oil? There are several different ways to reduce the problem, but until there is some kind of deep brain scan that can learn the thoughts and motivations of a person, I don't think there is even a shot at eliminating the risk of hiring untrustworthy people. And even then, an employer that uses that is probably not an employer that many people would want to work for.
Thanks for replying like a jerk, that really helps us all out. Nobody is going to simply transition to a new way of doing things just because it's new, they need to know what they'll get from the new way that makes the transition worthwhile.
Barter is an option even when there is cash, it's been a form of trade before there was any kind of currency. The problem is, in order to be reasonably convenient, each party has to have something the other wants. If that's not true, then one of the parties is going to have to trade with other parties to get what the other party wants. That problem is a reason why currency was adopted in the first place, it made trade so much easier, since one side of the trade is always in something everybody wants because it's easily exchangeable with everything else, that allowed for much more efficient commerce.
Estonian commerce giving up paper money doesn't mean it can't be traded, Euros are still printed. It would be a little harder to move as you'd have to leave the country to really spend it above the table.
One antiidiot can only neutralize one idiot.
That's best, among other things, but particularly given how the US government already has a track record of wholesale tapping of internet communications.
The Wikipedia article said it's based on the MD-90 / DC-9, not the 717. Or is the MD-90 supposed to be a 717 clone?
I don't think PDF was ever intended to be an editable format, that's trying to pound a square peg in a round hole. It's supposed to be a distribution format. The fact that the format offers script execution is pretty baffling.
Sorry, I meant in the US. And yes, I disagree with the protectionist tariffs that we have in the US.
Really? This is your response to my comment on ethanol? I wonder if you're trolling. But anyways, I'll bite in case you aren't. For instance, the main reason corn ethanol is even financially palatable is because of US government subsidies.
Corn ethanol's environmental benefits are shaky at best if you're interested in reduction of CO2 emissions.
When you factor in all the energy needed to raise the corn and make the ethanol, it makes very little new energy, some estimates suggest that there is no new energy being made, basically as little as one gallon's equivalent being made from one gallon's equivalent burned to make that gallon.
Other plants can be used to make ethanol, but it's not being done widely. When cellulosic ethanol is workable on a mass scale, then the value of ethanol production might change to something that's of a net benefit to society.
It's a special use, being more like a very powerful microcontroller, it only needs so much power, and it has to last. While the average life of a car is nearly 10 years, it's not so terribly uncommon to keep a car going for almost 20 years, in contrast very few 20 year old PCs are still in regular use, I think a lot of people would be very hard pressed to find a ten year old computer being used daily, and PCs don't have to worry much about environmental factors.
If the system is flex-fuel, it has to be able to take any range from 0% (occasional exemption from ethanol) to 85% ethanol. There is no control over what what the next tank will have, and you'll have some residual, making your ratio almost constantly varying.
I thought most of ethanol's benefits were pretty reasonably debunked, at least corn ethanol anyway.
Both sides of that argument had a lot of wrong impressions and misunderstandings. Using embryonic stem cells wan't directly about treatment, it was about research, there were properties that they wanted to understand. The biomedical community needed to learn how they work so that that knowledge can be used as a baseline to compare treatments. Interviewees on Science Friday did a pretty good job of explaining what they were looking for and why embryonic stem cells were desired for research. As for treatment though, I don't think ESC were ever going to be used in treatments except for very limited trials.
It looks like Facebook wasn't suing all sites with the word book it, it was *social networking* sites that have book in them. And frankly, "Teachbook" is a poor name for a social networking site, even if it is just a specialty one focusing on teachers. The naming plainly sounds like they're trying to ride the coattails of the Facebook trademark.
The networks are trying to protect their money. To them, letting people watch their shows on computers broadens their market. Letting people watch their shows on GoogleTV or similar set top devices on a TV undermines their higher paying conventional TV market, they generally get a lot more money from ads on TV and carriage agreements than they do with Hulu.
I thought region broken DVD players can be easily found in Japan. You might need to ask around.
Deformed fonts, I can understand why you'd say that, but too sharp? I really don't buy that argument at all. Laser printers can print much sharper text than most current screens, and I've yet to hear anyone complain that laser text prints are too sharp.
A lot of people seem to block ads because they're too pushy and annoying. This goes too far. If it was just an image ad, then it wouldn't be so bad. I tend to block ads because they're video (on a largely static site), ugly, offensive, make noise or are otherwise excessively distracting. The site owners might not be in much position to make demands to advertisers, but it seems like they shouldn't be going along with these schemes that really dilute the quality of their content.
In my opinion, Chinese isn't really so bad, though it understandably looks intimidating to the uninitiated. There are problems, in my opinion the biggest is using a keyboard paradigm designed around Latin languages, but the rest of it is about trade-offs. There are a lot of problems learning English too. Witness how many people take a dozen years of English classes and can't articulate themselves halfway decently. English is an amalgam of three or four languages, plus a ridiculous number of loan words, and then there are all the idioms.
Anyways, the numerous characters may seem daunting, but there's a method to the madness, it's often possible to derive the meaning and pronunciation of a character based on its sub-glyphs. I don't pretend to have that term right, it's been a while since I covered it. I don't know how they handle the character input into computers though.
Did they bother to fix the fact that the scanner sends images to the home office? Interesting they have to intimidate people into using them anyway. All this BS is a deterrence to air travel. Even with terrorists, flying is a lot safer than driving, but if you make it too inconvenient, then people that have a choice might choose something else.