I buy most beverages in 2 litre, 1 litre or.5 litre sizes now. With the exception of can beverages, my experience is that most are already metric in the US.
I do believe that all products in the USA are legally obligated to show weights, etc. using the metric system, and with few small town exceptions, in fact do so. All medical and scientific systems are 100% metric. All cars have "standard" and metric options for displays Celsius is problematic because the degrees are too large, thus not really a better system, and is actually separate from the metric system anyway, so I wouldn't count that fact.
Day to day commerce and every day users in the USA just don't use it. The US could pass a law tomorrow requiring every business use metric for products, and it would actually cause very little disruption, we are already doing it, but putting the metric data in the fine print. Of course, if you DID make it the law, there is a particular political group that would go ape shit and call it socialist. In reality, we need to go cold turkey into the metric system, if only so we have a better position in the global market.
Insurance isn't something you buy the day before you need it. Either you have good practices, or you don't. If their practices were so weak that they would even consider this, then they deserve what they get, and the management needs replacing.
That is the theory. Patents are for devices, or at the very least, methods of achieving a goal. If you figure a different way to achieve the same goal, theoretically, you are not infringing.
Of course, the US legal and patent system is currently so gamed as to make the original intent of the patents meaningless. Now the system is primarily a method of enriching trolls and lawyers.
Look at Cherokee Casino if you want to see hypocritical attitudes. First, gambling was wrong, but then it was ok if it was only "games of skill" not "games of chance", so they installed "lock and roll" slots, which are still not exactly games of skill. Ok, that made money, so they just put in real slots. Then they put in digital 21 and poker. Finally, they now serve "firewater". My ancestors were native to America (Cherokee and Apache). That doesn't change the fact that most of the governments of the tribes are just as fucking greedy and hypocritical as our US representatives. Anyone who thinks there is something "natural" or "spiritual" or "better" about "the native american way" is an idiot. It is good old fashioned American greed, with a different accent.
Actually, the Pentium Pro was a GREAT chip, assuming you were running 32 bit software, and there was no reason to not run 32 bit software if you were going to run the Pentium Pro. Cache on die running at cpu core speeds, true SMP performance up to 4 cpus, Linux ran incredible on these processors, even if NT/2000 didn't. If you used them for what they were designed for, they were amazing.
I had several IBM dual PPro system that we finally trashed the other day. Not because they failed, but because they were from the 90s and can't justify the performance/watt. Itanium was never in the same class as the PPro when it comes to usability and utility, no matter how much faster they were.
The 14th Amendment covers actions by the State, not by the individual. It is very specific about this, and mentions "the State" many times as a qualifier. As an individual, you have the right to discriminate all you want. As an employer, there are other laws that cover this, but not the Constitution itself. The whole purpose of the Constitution is to limit the power the Government, not the people.
Exactly how many pirates really care about "forgiveness"? While greater than 0,/me thinks they are overestimating the crushing guilt caused by pirating music from Sony and others.
I use pico (yes, I really still install pine) or notepad. I still have an old copy of FrontPage 98 as well, which makes really ugly markup, but is adequate to create a tabled template if you then go and hand edit it in text mode. Now that I am using CSS for most everything, well, I still use notepad, pico and a little FP98. This includes a couple of ecommerce sites and a dozen "misc" sites, which means many hundreds of pages that get updated from time to time but rarely replaced. I just add pages as I need. We manage to do millions in sales this way. Again, ecommerce, so the goal is KISS and we don't add but maybe 100 pages a year, but these are still decent looking sites and take very little to create. Even less to change the look of all of them through CSS.
I never understood why an IDE was "required", nor have I ever found one that was less hassle than just doing it by hand. Would love to find one that was truly simple and fast, instead of all the bloated crap I've tried over the years.
You have led a sheltered life if you have to ask that question. As phucked up as US foreign policy is, the US is still the lesser of all the available evils. At least here in the US, we can (and do) speak out about our policies. Try that in China.
You do consume cigarettes, they enter your body, much of it stays. This is one of the reasons I get my snus from Sweden, where it is considered a "food" product and they have to use only food grade ingredients, and list them. They don't in the US, so I don't buy here. Oh, and the fact that American snus tastes like ass crack sprinkled with sugar.
They list the ingredients on sunblock (finally) and the FDA (finally) now regulates what goes in them. Since your skin absorbs the ingredients and is your largest organ, that would make sense. Anything that you use that is either ingested, absorbed or otherwise says inside your body should have proper labeling that tells you what is inside it. It isn't about telling them what to use, it is about your rights and mine, as consumers.
what would be needed is to require health insurance to cover inpatient addiction treatment like we do with other drug treatment.
I don't think anyone has ever shown (or even suggested) that in-patient addiction treatment for tobacco addiction is better than anything else. Does anyone even OFFER an in-patient program?
I used snus to stop smoking. And now I've cut my snus use down by about half, and working toward being tobacco free in a year or two. Snus isn't nearly as dangerous as cigarettes or snuff, buy many factors. (ie: 99% safer than smoking, 90% safer than American snuff). It would be better to switch to snus for the rest of your life than smoke for 5 more years, for example. No in-patient care needed.
But when that isn't the case, the results are worthwhile. I work for a small manufacturer/direct seller and my duties cover both managing IT and marketing. From photography, to naming products, to deciding on the OS for the servers (Linux, obviously), and final decision on the ecommerce sites. Because we are a dot.com, this works very well, and I can see where some integration would be a very good thing for a very large company. The two ARE related, in that this affects how every single customer will see your product.
Technology empowers marketing. Marketing can give technology a long term direction to grow in. If they are on equal ground, everyone wins.
In this instance, the "kid" is 18. He is an adult in the eyes of the law. That is what makes this extra messed up. They can't even use the "he has limited rights because he is a minor" argument.
He is old enough to sign contracts, join the military, and vote. Just not old enough to express himself, apparently.
I have the mod points, but will instead counter with reality. Monsanto crops will fertilize, they will produce seeds. If you try to keep seeds from one year to the next, you will be sued into oblivion. Ask the guys who used to get paid to help farmers gather seeds for the next year (from the best plants, obviously). They are out of business, either by lack of demand or by being sued.
It is easy to "steal" Monsanto's IP. It is also easy to prove that you have stolen it. They "own" that gene, according to our lovely US patent system. Plus, they have more lawyers than geneticists, so pitty you if you try.
NASA might not like it, because it would lower the value of the moon rocks that they possessed...
Not true. The marketplace isn't a zero sum place. Adding some more moon rocks to the market would actually increase demand, as right now, no one is allowed to own any. As long as you didn't flood the market with it, introducing it would create more demand for the product, ie: more people would want it than currently do now, raising the total average price per unit. As long as demand is a multiple of supply, the prices will remain very high. Right now, demand is infinitely higher than supply, so the concept of "value" is meaningless: there is none on any market. You can't put an honest price on something that has never been nor never will be for sale.
The value of any given object is exactly equal to the amount that the highest bidder is willing to pay you at any given time: nothing more, nothing less. THAT is the definition of the market itself.
Not that interesting of an article, by someone I've not heard of, explaining why Penrose is wrong yet again, as well as others. No real substance. The concept that physics might explain consciousness is much more interesting than this short (in length and in content) article.
It simply debunks the idea but offers no alternative or reason why. It was like reading a movie review from a small town movie reviewer....who didn't really see the movie but a friend told them about it.
Interstate commerce clause trumps the 9th and 10th. At least that is what the courts will say, and they may be correct. That said, I support states telling the feds to fuck off, as that is the only thing that gets them to reconsider stupid regulations that do NOT make flying safer.
There is a big difference in seeking justice in an American court, and an international court. I would think that attempting to seek justice in any way in an American court would make it look like we are imposing our laws on them. An international court, however, would be a proper venue under the current situation, if their courts could not handle the case for whatever reason.
Except that in 3rd world countries, they simply pirated Encarta or other CD based encyclopedias well before before Wikipedia existed. And they had a better chance of being accurate.
Wikipedia is a noble experiment, run by egomaniacs, administered by people with chips on their shoulders,and most frequently edited by people with a profit motive or complete lack of any clue. I have well over 10k edits, trust me, I know them too well. Wikipedia is a good thing. It isn't one of the greatest things in the world, however.
Unless Google or someone else buys them, I don't expect it to be around in 10 years. Again, an interesting experiment, but too little vetting of information by people who actually know something about the topics for it ever to be a serious source of information.
This is slashdot, please form your comments in a rant against America, or against Arabs, or at the very least, against the American legal system.;)
That said, it would seem that the Egyptians can and should handle their problems in their own courts. They are, after all, trying to create a new system of government. If they can't obtain justice with their own judicial system, there is no hope for a democratic government there.
Have you ever thought of just running ssh on a port other than 22? I haven't use 22 in many years. We get tons of garbage attacks on the webserver, but I haven't had a single attempt on my ssh server in years. Not one. I still check the logs, but now it takes seconds instead of an hour. One less thing to have to worry about.
Putting ftp on a different port(s) is much more problematic, but changing sshd is trivial.
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I buy most beverages in 2 litre, 1 litre or .5 litre sizes now. With the exception of can beverages, my experience is that most are already metric in the US.
I do believe that all products in the USA are legally obligated to show weights, etc. using the metric system, and with few small town exceptions, in fact do so. All medical and scientific systems are 100% metric. All cars have "standard" and metric options for displays Celsius is problematic because the degrees are too large, thus not really a better system, and is actually separate from the metric system anyway, so I wouldn't count that fact.
Day to day commerce and every day users in the USA just don't use it. The US could pass a law tomorrow requiring every business use metric for products, and it would actually cause very little disruption, we are already doing it, but putting the metric data in the fine print. Of course, if you DID make it the law, there is a particular political group that would go ape shit and call it socialist. In reality, we need to go cold turkey into the metric system, if only so we have a better position in the global market.
Theory and practice may be the same in theory, but they seldom are in practice.
Insurance isn't something you buy the day before you need it. Either you have good practices, or you don't. If their practices were so weak that they would even consider this, then they deserve what they get, and the management needs replacing.
That is the theory. Patents are for devices, or at the very least, methods of achieving a goal. If you figure a different way to achieve the same goal, theoretically, you are not infringing.
Of course, the US legal and patent system is currently so gamed as to make the original intent of the patents meaningless. Now the system is primarily a method of enriching trolls and lawyers.
Look at Cherokee Casino if you want to see hypocritical attitudes. First, gambling was wrong, but then it was ok if it was only "games of skill" not "games of chance", so they installed "lock and roll" slots, which are still not exactly games of skill. Ok, that made money, so they just put in real slots. Then they put in digital 21 and poker. Finally, they now serve "firewater". My ancestors were native to America (Cherokee and Apache). That doesn't change the fact that most of the governments of the tribes are just as fucking greedy and hypocritical as our US representatives. Anyone who thinks there is something "natural" or "spiritual" or "better" about "the native american way" is an idiot. It is good old fashioned American greed, with a different accent.
Actually, the Pentium Pro was a GREAT chip, assuming you were running 32 bit software, and there was no reason to not run 32 bit software if you were going to run the Pentium Pro. Cache on die running at cpu core speeds, true SMP performance up to 4 cpus, Linux ran incredible on these processors, even if NT/2000 didn't. If you used them for what they were designed for, they were amazing.
I had several IBM dual PPro system that we finally trashed the other day. Not because they failed, but because they were from the 90s and can't justify the performance/watt. Itanium was never in the same class as the PPro when it comes to usability and utility, no matter how much faster they were.
The 14th Amendment covers actions by the State, not by the individual. It is very specific about this, and mentions "the State" many times as a qualifier. As an individual, you have the right to discriminate all you want. As an employer, there are other laws that cover this, but not the Constitution itself. The whole purpose of the Constitution is to limit the power the Government, not the people.
Exactly how many pirates really care about "forgiveness"? While greater than 0, /me thinks they are overestimating the crushing guilt caused by pirating music from Sony and others.
I use pico (yes, I really still install pine) or notepad. I still have an old copy of FrontPage 98 as well, which makes really ugly markup, but is adequate to create a tabled template if you then go and hand edit it in text mode. Now that I am using CSS for most everything, well, I still use notepad, pico and a little FP98. This includes a couple of ecommerce sites and a dozen "misc" sites, which means many hundreds of pages that get updated from time to time but rarely replaced. I just add pages as I need. We manage to do millions in sales this way. Again, ecommerce, so the goal is KISS and we don't add but maybe 100 pages a year, but these are still decent looking sites and take very little to create. Even less to change the look of all of them through CSS.
I never understood why an IDE was "required", nor have I ever found one that was less hassle than just doing it by hand. Would love to find one that was truly simple and fast, instead of all the bloated crap I've tried over the years.
You have led a sheltered life if you have to ask that question. As phucked up as US foreign policy is, the US is still the lesser of all the available evils. At least here in the US, we can (and do) speak out about our policies. Try that in China.
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You do consume cigarettes, they enter your body, much of it stays. This is one of the reasons I get my snus from Sweden, where it is considered a "food" product and they have to use only food grade ingredients, and list them. They don't in the US, so I don't buy here. Oh, and the fact that American snus tastes like ass crack sprinkled with sugar.
They list the ingredients on sunblock (finally) and the FDA (finally) now regulates what goes in them. Since your skin absorbs the ingredients and is your largest organ, that would make sense. Anything that you use that is either ingested, absorbed or otherwise says inside your body should have proper labeling that tells you what is inside it. It isn't about telling them what to use, it is about your rights and mine, as consumers.
what would be needed is to require health insurance to cover inpatient addiction treatment like we do with other drug treatment.
I don't think anyone has ever shown (or even suggested) that in-patient addiction treatment for tobacco addiction is better than anything else. Does anyone even OFFER an in-patient program?
I used snus to stop smoking. And now I've cut my snus use down by about half, and working toward being tobacco free in a year or two. Snus isn't nearly as dangerous as cigarettes or snuff, buy many factors. (ie: 99% safer than smoking, 90% safer than American snuff). It would be better to switch to snus for the rest of your life than smoke for 5 more years, for example. No in-patient care needed.
But when that isn't the case, the results are worthwhile. I work for a small manufacturer/direct seller and my duties cover both managing IT and marketing. From photography, to naming products, to deciding on the OS for the servers (Linux, obviously), and final decision on the ecommerce sites. Because we are a dot.com, this works very well, and I can see where some integration would be a very good thing for a very large company. The two ARE related, in that this affects how every single customer will see your product.
Technology empowers marketing. Marketing can give technology a long term direction to grow in. If they are on equal ground, everyone wins.
Very, very nicely done work. Thank you for the break, and the demonstration of why art and science aren't always two different things.
In this instance, the "kid" is 18. He is an adult in the eyes of the law. That is what makes this extra messed up. They can't even use the "he has limited rights because he is a minor" argument.
He is old enough to sign contracts, join the military, and vote. Just not old enough to express himself, apparently.
I have the mod points, but will instead counter with reality. Monsanto crops will fertilize, they will produce seeds. If you try to keep seeds from one year to the next, you will be sued into oblivion. Ask the guys who used to get paid to help farmers gather seeds for the next year (from the best plants, obviously). They are out of business, either by lack of demand or by being sued.
It is easy to "steal" Monsanto's IP. It is also easy to prove that you have stolen it. They "own" that gene, according to our lovely US patent system. Plus, they have more lawyers than geneticists, so pitty you if you try.
NASA might not like it, because it would lower the value of the moon rocks that they possessed...
Not true. The marketplace isn't a zero sum place. Adding some more moon rocks to the market would actually increase demand, as right now, no one is allowed to own any. As long as you didn't flood the market with it, introducing it would create more demand for the product, ie: more people would want it than currently do now, raising the total average price per unit. As long as demand is a multiple of supply, the prices will remain very high. Right now, demand is infinitely higher than supply, so the concept of "value" is meaningless: there is none on any market. You can't put an honest price on something that has never been nor never will be for sale.
The value of any given object is exactly equal to the amount that the highest bidder is willing to pay you at any given time: nothing more, nothing less. THAT is the definition of the market itself.
Not that interesting of an article, by someone I've not heard of, explaining why Penrose is wrong yet again, as well as others. No real substance. The concept that physics might explain consciousness is much more interesting than this short (in length and in content) article.
It simply debunks the idea but offers no alternative or reason why. It was like reading a movie review from a small town movie reviewer....who didn't really see the movie but a friend told them about it.
Interstate commerce clause trumps the 9th and 10th. At least that is what the courts will say, and they may be correct. That said, I support states telling the feds to fuck off, as that is the only thing that gets them to reconsider stupid regulations that do NOT make flying safer.
There is a big difference in seeking justice in an American court, and an international court. I would think that attempting to seek justice in any way in an American court would make it look like we are imposing our laws on them. An international court, however, would be a proper venue under the current situation, if their courts could not handle the case for whatever reason.
But it has in almost every third world country.
Except that in 3rd world countries, they simply pirated Encarta or other CD based encyclopedias well before before Wikipedia existed. And they had a better chance of being accurate.
Wikipedia is a noble experiment, run by egomaniacs, administered by people with chips on their shoulders,and most frequently edited by people with a profit motive or complete lack of any clue. I have well over 10k edits, trust me, I know them too well. Wikipedia is a good thing. It isn't one of the greatest things in the world, however.
Unless Google or someone else buys them, I don't expect it to be around in 10 years. Again, an interesting experiment, but too little vetting of information by people who actually know something about the topics for it ever to be a serious source of information.
This is slashdot, please form your comments in a rant against America, or against Arabs, or at the very least, against the American legal system. ;)
That said, it would seem that the Egyptians can and should handle their problems in their own courts. They are, after all, trying to create a new system of government. If they can't obtain justice with their own judicial system, there is no hope for a democratic government there.
Have you ever thought of just running ssh on a port other than 22? I haven't use 22 in many years. We get tons of garbage attacks on the webserver, but I haven't had a single attempt on my ssh server in years. Not one. I still check the logs, but now it takes seconds instead of an hour. One less thing to have to worry about.
Putting ftp on a different port(s) is much more problematic, but changing sshd is trivial.