Just as well, Blockbuster as a corporation was pretty bad.
They required expensive hair-based drug tests that could detect previous drug use for 3 months back. Even one joint in the last 3 months. Such hair tests were also more likely to false positive on african hair than caucasian.
While that's within their rights to choose who they want to employ, I think it's a pretty shitty practice to invade the private life of your employees like that. I have always boycotted Blockbuster since I found out about this practice.
I doubt it... Not unless there's something like allofmp3 for movies that will let you download an unrestricted version at a quality you choose for maybe a dollar or so.
Really I just don't want to dick with piracy. It's too much hassle for something thats generally low quality, has editing machine timestamps, foriegn language subtitles, or is filmed off a theater screen... Why would I waste hours and hours getting movies that way when I can get 5-10 movies a month for $15 from netflix, with perfect quality and no hassle?
Global warming (or cooling or whatever) I think reflects a deep psychological need that humans have. We want to think that we have some free will, some control over our fate.
The idea of the planet just randomly cooling down or warming up in life-disrupting ways is just too much for many to accept, no matter that historical geology shows it happening many times in the past.
In a way it's very similar to the objections religious people have to certain scientific theories. It's too much to accept that the world is just careening around with no one at the helm, human or otherwise.
Granted I'm not familiar with the incident in question, but I was under the impression we generally detect nuclear testing by detecting seismic shocks and gamma ray/EMP burst emissions with satellites, not optical techniques!
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I remember the Cold War. A bunch of the video games and movies in the 80s were about it in one way or another.
I don't know what megaton bombs you are talking about, we have very little that is over 1MT, and we don't have 100,000 of anything, even if you count individual warheads and not missiles.
The only thing we have potentially over 1MT is the B83 Bomb, but it's "dial a yield", it can be set.
Everything else we have is under 500kt, many around 150kt We have 8300 warheads not in storage (deployed), about about 1000 more in storage.
Russia has less than 1000 warheads. They are also under 1MT each.
That's no where near 100,000 1MT bombs. This is exactly the kind of myth that should be dispelled.
The entire world stockpile is something more like 10,000 warheads, with the average running about 300kt.
If all were detonated, with absolutely no overlap, it would take out about 325,000 square kilometers. That's about the same land area of the state of New Mexico.
Not huge parts of the world. It could deal a big blow to many major cities though.
Fallout and "nuclear winter" possibilities are not a big thing. Fallout decays quickly to safe levels (measured in weeks), and low yield bombs do not loft dust into the stratosphere, and thus can't create a nuclear winter scenario, as the dust is rained out quickly.
Ahh I did make a mistake. Yahoo has a forward PE of 50.11 for FY06 but for some reason I thought Google's FY end was March, when in fact it is December 06 that was used in the Yahoo numbers. That's still a drop from nearly 100 PE to 50 in one year.
Using the same methodology as my first post gives it 2 years factored in price.
I'd consider it a public service, since most people are under the misconception that modern nuclear arms would take out wide swaths of the entire country, when in reality all modern warhead yields are under 1 megaton.
They don't really have much information about DEFCON up yet. But do check out Uplink if DEFCON sounds interesting to you.. It's a cheap game and it works equally well on Linux as Windows.
If one finds happiness in slavery, is he still a slave?
That's one of the fundamental questions of philosophy. I'd venture to say that's nearly the only question that matters, touching on fate/free will, epistemology, empiricism.
You propose it here as a reductio ad absurdum, but it's not a question with an easy answer.
What I'm trying to ask is, is GOOG still a buy at $431?
They do have pretty strong cash flow, and their forward P/E looks excellent.
I'd say that they are priced for at least 2 more quarters of growth at the same pace as the last 4. If they fail to meet expectations there then the repercussions would be severe. If they make them then it's likely the market will continue to price them 2 quarters out.
When looking at a growth stock it's often useful to see how far ahead the market is to evaluate the risk.
If they split before missing expectations I expect the fall to be less severe. That's a purely psychological result, splits don't affect equity in any way whatsoever.
Disclosure: I don't own any shares GOOG. Just my opinion.
There's no reason you can't write large maintainable apps in PHP. I maintain a 14,000 line PHP application, and I've never felt like the language had some fundamental flaw that made it hard to maintain.
Like you said, bad design and bad implementations are the reason for lack of maintainability, the language makes little difference.
I see no reason why the criminal suit against Sony needs to be mutually exclusive with individual civil suits against retailers for selling defective and damaging products.
I wouldn't call blocking most of MCI "rare" or "inadvertent". Ask on NANAE if SPEWS considers the blocking of most of MCI "inadvertant". All the people that "aren't SPEWS" will set you straight.
PEWS stated goal is a political one, to create some thus-far nonexistant grassroots movement made of former customers of certain ISPs, that are suing for breech of contract because their email service was "incomplete" because they couldn't send mail to SPEWS-using hosts.
Really, by arguging what you are arguing, you are arguing against SPEWS as a valid means to achieve this.
Either you can sue an ISP successfully for providing you an incomplete email service, in which case SPEWS stands a chance at accomplishing their goals, and SPEWS-using hosts themselves are liable to be sued, or you can't, and SPEWS can never accomplish their goal.
Because sysadmins implementing blocklists need to be aware of what SPEWS is, and why they shouldn't use it.
As an ISP or email host, you could easily get sued for using SPEWS, such a negligent disregard for false positives would likely cause you to lose the case.
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You get an panic report if it doesn't hang hard (which is often hardware anyway).
If you are in X though, it's hard to see the panic report.
That would be much harder if it were federal laws.
Abortion was never federally illegal. At some point "just move to another state" breaks down.
Just as well, Blockbuster as a corporation was pretty bad.
They required expensive hair-based drug tests that could detect previous drug use for 3 months back. Even one joint in the last 3 months. Such hair tests were also more likely to false positive on african hair than caucasian.
While that's within their rights to choose who they want to employ, I think it's a pretty shitty practice to invade the private life of your employees like that. I have always boycotted Blockbuster since I found out about this practice.
I doubt it... Not unless there's something like allofmp3 for movies that will let you download an unrestricted version at a quality you choose for maybe a dollar or so.
Really I just don't want to dick with piracy. It's too much hassle for something thats generally low quality, has editing machine timestamps, foriegn language subtitles, or is filmed off a theater screen... Why would I waste hours and hours getting movies that way when I can get 5-10 movies a month for $15 from netflix, with perfect quality and no hassle?
Global warming (or cooling or whatever) I think reflects a deep psychological need that humans have. We want to think that we have some free will, some control over our fate.
The idea of the planet just randomly cooling down or warming up in life-disrupting ways is just too much for many to accept, no matter that historical geology shows it happening many times in the past.
In a way it's very similar to the objections religious people have to certain scientific theories. It's too much to accept that the world is just careening around with no one at the helm, human or otherwise.
How successful could it be?
Granted I'm not familiar with the incident in question, but I was under the impression we generally detect nuclear testing by detecting seismic shocks and gamma ray/EMP burst emissions with satellites, not optical techniques!
I remember the Cold War. A bunch of the video games and movies in the 80s were about it in one way or another.
I don't know what megaton bombs you are talking about, we have very little that is over 1MT, and we don't have 100,000 of anything, even if you count individual warheads and not missiles.
From the Nuclear Weapons FAQ
The only thing we have potentially over 1MT is the B83 Bomb, but it's "dial a yield", it can be set.
Everything else we have is under 500kt, many around 150kt We have 8300 warheads not in storage (deployed), about about 1000 more in storage.
Russia has less than 1000 warheads. They are also under 1MT each.
That's no where near 100,000 1MT bombs. This is exactly the kind of myth that should be dispelled.
The entire world stockpile is something more like 10,000 warheads, with the average running about 300kt.
If all were detonated, with absolutely no overlap, it would take out about 325,000 square kilometers. That's about the same land area of the state of New Mexico.
Not huge parts of the world. It could deal a big blow to many major cities though.
Fallout and "nuclear winter" possibilities are not a big thing. Fallout decays quickly to safe levels (measured in weeks), and low yield bombs do not loft dust into the stratosphere, and thus can't create a nuclear winter scenario, as the dust is rained out quickly.
Ahh I did make a mistake. Yahoo has a forward PE of 50.11 for FY06 but for some reason I thought Google's FY end was March, when in fact it is December 06 that was used in the Yahoo numbers. That's still a drop from nearly 100 PE to 50 in one year.
Using the same methodology as my first post gives it 2 years factored in price.
Where do you get 6 years from?
Easy enough to rewrite.
Grab google maps API and this javascript atomic yield calculator.
I'd consider it a public service, since most people are under the misconception that modern nuclear arms would take out wide swaths of the entire country, when in reality all modern warhead yields are under 1 megaton.
In any case since the summary sucked, the anonymous "maker" is Introversion software.
They don't really have much information about DEFCON up yet. But do check out Uplink if DEFCON sounds interesting to you.. It's a cheap game and it works equally well on Linux as Windows.
The forward PE is 50. If they keep cutting the PE in half each quarter, that's a hell of a growth stock!
Sounds similar to uplink. I think it would be cool to see this genre expanded, the whole "fantasy/simulator" type.
If one finds happiness in slavery, is he still a slave?
That's one of the fundamental questions of philosophy. I'd venture to say that's nearly the only question that matters, touching on fate/free will, epistemology, empiricism.
You propose it here as a reductio ad absurdum, but it's not a question with an easy answer.
What I'm trying to ask is, is GOOG still a buy at $431?
They do have pretty strong cash flow, and their forward P/E looks excellent.
I'd say that they are priced for at least 2 more quarters of growth at the same pace as the last 4. If they fail to meet expectations there then the repercussions would be severe. If they make them then it's likely the market will continue to price them 2 quarters out.
When looking at a growth stock it's often useful to see how far ahead the market is to evaluate the risk.
If they split before missing expectations I expect the fall to be less severe. That's a purely psychological result, splits don't affect equity in any way whatsoever.
Disclosure: I don't own any shares GOOG. Just my opinion.
Yeah, I imagine it went something like this:
"How can we get the proprietary vendor lock-in that Apple has without alienating our extremely profitable base of commodity PC users?"
I don't know how much conceptual learning you can get at any class at DeVry. I think it's pretty much a vo-tech school.
There's no reason you can't write large maintainable apps in PHP. I maintain a 14,000 line PHP application, and I've never felt like the language had some fundamental flaw that made it hard to maintain.
Like you said, bad design and bad implementations are the reason for lack of maintainability, the language makes little difference.
perhaps we can find a discrete settlement
Yeah, no one likes settlements that include an odd number of cents.
I see no reason why the criminal suit against Sony needs to be mutually exclusive with individual civil suits against retailers for selling defective and damaging products.
You maybe part of the rare "inadvertent blocking"
I wouldn't call blocking most of MCI "rare" or "inadvertent". Ask on NANAE if SPEWS considers the blocking of most of MCI "inadvertant". All the people that "aren't SPEWS" will set you straight.
PEWS stated goal is a political one, to create some thus-far nonexistant grassroots movement made of former customers of certain ISPs, that are suing for breech of contract because their email service was "incomplete" because they couldn't send mail to SPEWS-using hosts.
Really, by arguging what you are arguing, you are arguing against SPEWS as a valid means to achieve this.
Either you can sue an ISP successfully for providing you an incomplete email service, in which case SPEWS stands a chance at accomplishing their goals, and SPEWS-using hosts themselves are liable to be sued, or you can't, and SPEWS can never accomplish their goal.
Or are you seriously suggesting you can do a better job than the current maintainers?
What kind of crappy attitude is that?
One doesn't have to be an expert in the design of a product to be able to recognize flaws in a product.
Because sysadmins implementing blocklists need to be aware of what SPEWS is, and why they shouldn't use it.
As an ISP or email host, you could easily get sued for using SPEWS, such a negligent disregard for false positives would likely cause you to lose the case.
Beware, that link in that guy's sig slows firefox way down.
Is that supposed to be some DoS?
At any rate, I don't really care about SPEWS, they can do things as they like,
This is the important thing. No matter how much noise SPEWS supporters make, almost no one actually uses SPEWS, so it doesn't much matter.