Statistical Probabilities = 1 Actual Cold, Hard Evidence = 0
Math Nerds REJOICE!
Science Geeks LAUGH!
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A revamping and rethinking of strategies to help welfare recipients rather than simply handing them a check would be far better than tossing the baby out with the bathwater and relying on private charities who are simply not equipped to help at this time
The only reason charities are not equipped at this time is because everyone is paying exorbitant taxes. If people were able to keep more of THEIR money, they would be able to give more to the charities they prefer, rather than the U. S. Government Forced Charity.
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Yah, I can see how you can have scorn for some lady whose husband just left her and her special needs child running at ~1k a month in treatments is being threatened to taken away to a publicly ran 'institution'.
Please tell me you're not so naive as to think that anywhere near the majority of people on welfare are as deserving of help as the example lady above?
Welfare is a piece of shit. This lady would be much better off if we all kept our tax money, and helped her out through a well-organized charity, not a government run bureaucracy that rewards those that are good at cheating the system.
Of course Left-wing media are a financial failure!
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(For the record, I'm libertarian, and don't associate myself with either the left or right wing.)
Practically speaking, the liberal mentality fits the poor to lower-middle class income group, because (in the USA anyway) the left focuses on taking your money away from you forcibly, and giving it to "the needy," such as all those DESERVING people on welfare.
So of course the poorer people in the country are going to be left wing... they want my tax money.
The right wing tends to be the richer side of things, they work to allow me to keep my money, and donate it to those organizations I wish, as I see fit. (Except I have to trade in control over my body for this financial luxury.)
So, to me, it makes perfect sense that leftist media have a hard time surviving, while right wing media thrive. Just look at the audiences' incomes. I'm sure there are studies out there showing average incoming levels of the two sides.
Maybe I don't understand business as much as I think I do, but whatever happened to growing a business. All these (especially internet) business that take a boatload of cash and thy to "hatch themselves into the world" fully grown keep going bust.
The company I work for (and helped build from the ground up) has been slowly but steadily growing for six years on the Internet. We started out by my boss maxing out a couple credit cards. Within a couple years, we were profitable. Did we then go buck wild with marketing campaigns and new ways to spend money? No, we just kept doing what we'd been doing, finding new ways to save our time using automation (and thus saving money). Our staff is still extremely small, but we have no bullshit politics in the office, and it's laid back.
Our favorite joke leading up to 2001 was that we were making more money than Amazon.com! *
I predict buy.com will be the next "big" internet company to go bust. As soon as I read that they were going to undercut amazon.com by 10% on all books, and do free shipping on ALL orders, I nearly fell out of my chair... shades of "Internet 1999"-style marketing tactics. It smells like desparation!
* Of course we were talking about net income, not actual revenue, but it's a valid point. Our business model is sound and we continue to grow and lead in our niche.
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As one of those "foreigners" who now lives in the US, I've often wondered how blind people operate here? All the bills are the same size. If you can't see what's written on the bill, how do you know if you've just offered a $1 bill or a $100 bill to the checkout clerk? How can you check your change?
Blind people can use a money reader which speaks out the bills' values.
Its not just the blind. Imagine being able to put your hand in your pocket and know how much cash you have just by feel
Even if our money was all different sizes, I wouldn't be able to do that!
Virtually every other country has different sizes for notes of different amount. This seems like such an obvious and useful thing, I'm amazed that the US hasn't adopted it? Is this the ultimate Not Invented Here syndrome?
It's easier to straighten a pile of bills if they're all the same size. Things that hold money can be used with any bill denomination if they're all the same size. Things that take bills electronically can be less complex, if they're all the same size (just update the firmware to read the newer bills). Money fits in your wallet easier if they're all the same size. You can hide your bigger bills inside a stack of smaller bills if you're carrying money in your wallet (people nearby won't know you've got a couple $100's if they're packed inside), if they're all the same size.
Sorry, don't feel like giving that up for the meager benefits you claim.
My point was it was not clear from the question what ELSE was going to be on this library network. The way it was described, it was just going to be an internet connection with a LAN that anyone can connect into using DHCP to get online. If that's the case, nothing needs to be done. Just post a sign telling everyone that they need to make sure their machines are secured, or they risk having an intruder connect to their machine. Recommend ZoneAlarm or something similar.
In fact, I believe the newer linksys routers can actually be enabled so that they check new systems to make sure they have zonealarm installed... maybe you could use that.
What I want to know from all of the network gurus out there is what we can do, short of creating a separate network, to minimize risk without limiting internet access
This is clearly a case of freedom of speech. Let's see NPR try to bring charges against someone for linking to their site. It'll be laughed out of court. It's a basic right for someone to be able to publish publically available information, such as a universal resource locator.
So here's what I don't get...is the smaller profile of the device worth the extra $220?
Kind of a simplification of the features, eh?
- Smaller profile - No swapping of 8 CDR - No burning of CDR... just copy over and go - New hard drives will be made with larger capacities. - These hard drives are PC Cards, so they can be used for other things as well as this device.
This slashdot article isn't about how CNN is biased towards pro-AOL material. This story is about an article written by the AP on the browser wars. Deal with it.
because IE renders most Mozilla pages fine, but mozilla doesn't render all IE pages fine.
Ohmygod this is funny!
Another way to write your sentence above is:
"because Mozilla renders most IE pages fine, but IE doesn't render all Mozilla pages fine."
Since Mozilla is the 'better browser' but doesn't accept sloppy coding, IE has an advantage.
The only reason there is sloppy (i.e. broken) code out there is because MSIE dutifully rendered it without generating any errors that a web designer could address.
On top of that, Mozilla does have a quirks mode which is enabled unless a site specifically specifies the browser is HTML compliant with a DTD.
I'm starting a new war. It's called the War on War. If you're sick of all these Wars, please join my war.
Seriously, who really wants to read about browser wars any more? The market will dictate which browser "wins." The rest of the browsers will have to be happy with less than a majority of users.
Big friggin whoopty-do!
I use mozilla because I like it. If MSIE comes out with something better, I might use it instead.
I see some people complaining that this story is old, how is it newsworthy. Well let's put it into context with what is going on in the world today. There is a looming threat of dirty bombs being used in the USA. Previously I wasn't too worried, because although I knew the terrorists were good at making bombs, I had assumed it was fairly tough to generate radioactive material that could make them radioactive.
Then I read a story about a 17-year old kid with not much money and a lot of time generating a heap of radiation.
Now add hundreds of thousands or even millions in funding, [at least slightly] better equipment, and you might want to wake up.
But as that lady riding on a New York subway said in a CNN article I read, "If I were really nervous about these terrorists, I'd probably be underground somewhere."
"Boy I remember back in the old days when we had rotary phones and you DIALed a number, and your call was routed to a real, live operator, and she transferred your call by hand over the WiFi network."
Slashdot Mirror
What if your girlfriend IS John Carmack?
(Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
Statistical Probabilities = 1
Actual Cold, Hard Evidence = 0
Math Nerds REJOICE!
Science Geeks LAUGH!
A revamping and rethinking of strategies to help welfare recipients rather than simply handing them a check would be far better than tossing the baby out with the bathwater and relying on private charities who are simply not equipped to help at this time
The only reason charities are not equipped at this time is because everyone is paying exorbitant taxes. If people were able to keep more of THEIR money, they would be able to give more to the charities they prefer, rather than the U. S. Government Forced Charity.
Yah, I can see how you can have scorn for some lady whose husband just left her and her special needs child running at ~1k a month in treatments is being threatened to taken away to a publicly ran 'institution'.
Please tell me you're not so naive as to think that anywhere near the majority of people on welfare are as deserving of help as the example lady above?
Welfare is a piece of shit. This lady would be much better off if we all kept our tax money, and helped her out through a well-organized charity, not a government run bureaucracy that rewards those that are good at cheating the system.
(For the record, I'm libertarian, and don't associate myself with either the left or right wing.)
Practically speaking, the liberal mentality fits the poor to lower-middle class income group, because (in the USA anyway) the left focuses on taking your money away from you forcibly, and giving it to "the needy," such as all those DESERVING people on welfare.
So of course the poorer people in the country are going to be left wing... they want my tax money.
The right wing tends to be the richer side of things, they work to allow me to keep my money, and donate it to those organizations I wish, as I see fit. (Except I have to trade in control over my body for this financial luxury.)
So, to me, it makes perfect sense that leftist media have a hard time surviving, while right wing media thrive. Just look at the audiences' incomes. I'm sure there are studies out there showing average incoming levels of the two sides.
Maybe I don't understand business as much as I think I do, but whatever happened to growing a business. All these (especially internet) business that take a boatload of cash and thy to "hatch themselves into the world" fully grown keep going bust.
The company I work for (and helped build from the ground up) has been slowly but steadily growing for six years on the Internet. We started out by my boss maxing out a couple credit cards. Within a couple years, we were profitable. Did we then go buck wild with marketing campaigns and new ways to spend money? No, we just kept doing what we'd been doing, finding new ways to save our time using automation (and thus saving money). Our staff is still extremely small, but we have no bullshit politics in the office, and it's laid back.
Our favorite joke leading up to 2001 was that we were making more money than Amazon.com! *
I predict buy.com will be the next "big" internet company to go bust. As soon as I read that they were going to undercut amazon.com by 10% on all books, and do free shipping on ALL orders, I nearly fell out of my chair... shades of "Internet 1999"-style marketing tactics. It smells like desparation!
* Of course we were talking about net income, not actual revenue, but it's a valid point. Our business model is sound and we continue to grow and lead in our niche.
You're supposed to be professional journalists, for crying out loud!
Since when?
And if they had access would you even want to drive your car knowing that "Big Joe" from down at Jiffy Lube reworked some of the brake logic?
That's insulting to smart automotive technicians everywhere, and there are plenty.
It's like saying all programmers are dumb, just because there are some dumb programmers in the world.
So it will only "draw" on unused parts of the disk, basically taking up space... crap.
0 622/image/nya2.html
Don't they mean literally the unused part -- the space in between the pits that the laser writes?
Look at this picture here:
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotline/2002
As one of those "foreigners" who now lives in the US, I've often wondered how blind people operate here? All the bills are the same size. If you can't see what's written on the bill, how do you know if you've just offered a $1 bill or a $100 bill to the checkout clerk? How can you check your change?
Blind people can use a money reader which speaks out the bills' values.
Its not just the blind. Imagine being able to put your hand in your pocket and know how much cash you have just by feel
Even if our money was all different sizes, I wouldn't be able to do that!
Virtually every other country has different sizes for notes of different amount. This seems like such an obvious and useful thing, I'm amazed that the US hasn't adopted it? Is this the ultimate Not Invented Here syndrome?
It's easier to straighten a pile of bills if they're all the same size. Things that hold money can be used with any bill denomination if they're all the same size. Things that take bills electronically can be less complex, if they're all the same size (just update the firmware to read the newer bills). Money fits in your wallet easier if they're all the same size. You can hide your bigger bills inside a stack of smaller bills if you're carrying money in your wallet (people nearby won't know you've got a couple $100's if they're packed inside), if they're all the same size.
Sorry, don't feel like giving that up for the meager benefits you claim.
My point was it was not clear from the question what ELSE was going to be on this library network. The way it was described, it was just going to be an internet connection with a LAN that anyone can connect into using DHCP to get online. If that's the case, nothing needs to be done. Just post a sign telling everyone that they need to make sure their machines are secured, or they risk having an intruder connect to their machine. Recommend ZoneAlarm or something similar.
In fact, I believe the newer linksys routers can actually be enabled so that they check new systems to make sure they have zonealarm installed... maybe you could use that.
... they'll be filled with Hydrogen.
What I want to know from all of the network gurus out there is what we can do, short of creating a separate network, to minimize risk without limiting internet access
What do you want to limit the risk of, exactly?
(e.g. ketchup not coming out of the bottle easily)
They have to do an experiment to find out that ketchup is THICK?
It'll come out when it's good and ready.
This is clearly a case of freedom of speech. Let's see NPR try to bring charges against someone for linking to their site. It'll be laughed out of court. It's a basic right for someone to be able to publish publically available information, such as a universal resource locator.
Just ask 2600.
whoops
So here's what I don't get...is the smaller profile of the device worth the extra $220?
Kind of a simplification of the features, eh?
- Smaller profile
- No swapping of 8 CDR
- No burning of CDR... just copy over and go
- New hard drives will be made with larger capacities.
- These hard drives are PC Cards, so they can be used for other things as well as this device.
Yeah, I think that makes it worth an extra $220!
Actually the original sentence was:
:)
"We think the Open Source business model is more than just valid, it is fucking cool!"
He wasn't kidding when he said, These were edited by management, but they mostly corrected our spelling mistakes and cleaned up our dirty language
So the earth is sort of like a giant shed in your mother's backyard?
This slashdot article isn't about how CNN is biased towards pro-AOL material. This story is about an article written by the AP on the browser wars. Deal with it.
because IE renders most Mozilla pages fine, but mozilla doesn't render all IE pages fine.
Ohmygod this is funny!
Another way to write your sentence above is:
"because Mozilla renders most IE pages fine, but IE doesn't render all Mozilla pages fine."
Since Mozilla is the 'better browser' but doesn't accept sloppy coding, IE has an advantage.
The only reason there is sloppy (i.e. broken) code out there is because MSIE dutifully rendered it without generating any errors that a web designer could address.
On top of that, Mozilla does have a quirks mode which is enabled unless a site specifically specifies the browser is HTML compliant with a DTD.
But mostly I liked your circular logic.
I'm starting a new war. It's called the War on War. If you're sick of all these Wars, please join my war.
Seriously, who really wants to read about browser wars any more? The market will dictate which browser "wins." The rest of the browsers will have to be happy with less than a majority of users.
Big friggin whoopty-do!
I use mozilla because I like it. If MSIE comes out with something better, I might use it instead.
Keep in mind that it's an AP article, not written by CNN.
I see some people complaining that this story is old, how is it newsworthy. Well let's put it into context with what is going on in the world today. There is a looming threat of dirty bombs being used in the USA. Previously I wasn't too worried, because although I knew the terrorists were good at making bombs, I had assumed it was fairly tough to generate radioactive material that could make them radioactive.
Then I read a story about a 17-year old kid with not much money and a lot of time generating a heap of radiation.
Now add hundreds of thousands or even millions in funding, [at least slightly] better equipment, and you might want to wake up.
But as that lady riding on a New York subway said in a CNN article I read, "If I were really nervous about these terrorists, I'd probably be underground somewhere."
Ahem.
"Boy I remember back in the old days when we had rotary phones and you DIALed a number, and your call was routed to a real, live operator, and she transferred your call by hand over the WiFi network."
"Yeah, those were the days..."
Solving a maze is a good example of recursion.
So is solving a maze.
Unless it starts to get boring; then stop.