You're right. They are entitled to shoot themselves in the collective foot by driving customers away. It's a free market, after all. Why yes! I see by the news accounts that there has been a ground-swell and NetFlix has announced bankruptcy... Since shooting one's self in the foot regularly results in death. Huh?
There's a continuum between fatal self-injury and no damage whatsoever. Feel free to jump to the far extreme.
they should do it. They are in business to make money, it's not the public library. You're right. They are entitled to shoot themselves in the collective foot by driving customers away. It's a free market, after all.
Email communications isn't necessarily spam. A well constructed and targeted email says alot. Your grammar and spelling are consistent with the "targeted emails" that regularly end up in my junk folder.
Special Atomic Demolition Munitions are very much real. In 2001, someone happened to mention these in the wrong meeting, and ever since, Bush was convinced that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
Plus, I assume they'll be using hundreds or thousands of photons over the coarse of the experiment An experiment involving entangled photons is hardly likely to be coarse.
I think what they miss about FOSS is that at least some of the developers in the community do it as a hobby or for practice (or even resume padding so they can get a paid development job); compensation isn't that much of a sticking point for them. Many do it because they're already paid to write different software and choose to leverage those FOSS projects in their own work. When a feature needs adding, sometimes it's easier to write it yourself. At that point, why not contribute it back to the project so someone else can use it? At that point, you're already getting paid to write it, and you already received "compensation" from the FOSS project in the form of free software.
The bronze-age myths persist because religions are ideological rootkits, most of your brethren have been rooted, and the rootkits all include strong imperatives to infect one's offspring. Anyone intrigued by this idea who hasn't read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, go read it.
It's not so much "important parts were missing" (Tom Bombadil was entertaining but IMO not an important part of the story) so much as "story was changed strangely", such as
- Arwen's part substantially changed - Faramir, instead of being noble, was more like his brother - The elves (above and beyond Legolas) participated in the Battle of the Hornburg. - Merry and Pippin tricked Treebeard and the other Ents into attacking Saruman.
In fact, history is beginning to show that democracy is just as likely to result in totalitarianism as any other political process. Quite a claim. I eagerly await your support of this statement.
After all, the promise of democracy has given us the most expensive, most powerful government AND world empire in human history. The one that, in an instant, murdered over 200,000 human beings with the only use of nuclear weapons this world has ever seen. The one that's been involved in some war, somewhere around the world, for every single year of the past 100 years. The one whose business is worth trillions of dollars per year. The one whose empire is now falling under it's own weight. FAIL
That's not totalitarian behavior. That may be militaristic and overly-aggressive, but you don't say anything about how that government treats its own citizens.
Real democracy could BY DEFINITION not occur in a totalitarian state because the people would be exercising control over the government, rather than the other way around.
Truth is, the debate over net neutrality has glossed over the fact that we never really had it. You pay to play and for cost, FIOS>cable>dsl>dialup. How fast do you want your data? Pay up. Netzero offered free dialup for years.
We need to stop ranting and instead start discussing ways to protect freedom of information and privacy. ISP's have a very real problem in that bandwidth is not free and a small percentage of users do in fact use the majority of bandwidth. The real problem is more about truth in advertising. We share bandwidth and the routers can only handle so much traffic. You seem to mistake "network neutrality" with a call for cheap, all-you-can-consume bandwidth. The rates they charge for the bits are their own concern as long as they don't inspect your packets and charge you based on what they see.
The one granted the patent was a 7-year-old boy in St. Paul, Minnesota, aided by his legal counsel, his father. From the St. Paul Pioneer Press:
YOUNGSTER GETS INTO THE SWING OF THE PATENT PROCESS Maybe it wasn't such a trivial patent after all -- at least if you're a kid. When a 7-year-old St. Paul boy was granted a patent a few weeks ago for a new method of swinging on a swing, intellectual-property experts told the press it was a dubious invention and an example of the kind of mistake being made by an overworked and underfunded U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. So yes, this was a stunt to illustrate the problems with the USPTO.
You should stop doing that. Instead, stuff all the spam back into the postage-paid business reply cards envelopes they send. With a little tape, you can really fit a lot of paper into one of those. They look like balloons when I mail them back. And the mail-spammer gets to pay the postage for the trash back to them! Free for me, helps the post office with a little revenue, and financially penalizes the mail spammers -- that's win/win/win! If you have a free source of bricks or stone around, you could also send them some samples.
Recently, my English professor friend asked me to introduce him to my favorite sci-fi books. I gave him some Heinlein, Card, and Rendezvous with Rama. He got about halfway through Rendezvous and asked me when the aliens were going to wake up and start killing people. Ah, I see he's familiar with the work of Michael Chrichton.
Because, amazingly enough, doctors and other clinic staff might want to examine them without my physical presence. Curiously, to not waste my time, I want to allow them to do that.
Also, what do you do if someone steals them? Sure, they may be encrypted well-enough, but then you no longer have possession of them. Do you start over?
Amazingly, there's this Internet thing that might allow us all to look at it. Ensuring that only authorized people have appropriate access to it is the tricky bit, of course, but carrying the official medical records around with me at all times is not a great plan.
It's as if the company paid no attention to existing standards, and decided to implement a [something] however they damn well pleased. Aside from things acquired through their "embrace and extend" doctrine, you've pretty much hit on Microsoft's development model.
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There's a continuum between fatal self-injury and no damage whatsoever. Feel free to jump to the far extreme.
SOULLL-DER This is about as pointless as starting an argument about "aluminium" versus "aluminum". Move beyond it.
Sanford "Spamford" Wallace and Walter "Pickle Jar" Rines, together again, still spamming.
For some reason this picture just popped into my head.
Aha, the next AI micro-X-Prize has been announced!
- Arwen's part substantially changed
- Faramir, instead of being noble, was more like his brother - The elves (above and beyond Legolas) participated in the Battle of the Hornburg.
- Merry and Pippin tricked Treebeard and the other Ents into attacking Saruman.
That's not totalitarian behavior. That may be militaristic and overly-aggressive, but you don't say anything about how that government treats its own citizens.
Real democracy could BY DEFINITION not occur in a totalitarian state because the people would be exercising control over the government, rather than the other way around.
We need to stop ranting and instead start discussing ways to protect freedom of information and privacy. ISP's have a very real problem in that bandwidth is not free and a small percentage of users do in fact use the majority of bandwidth. The real problem is more about truth in advertising. We share bandwidth and the routers can only handle so much traffic. You seem to mistake "network neutrality" with a call for cheap, all-you-can-consume bandwidth. The rates they charge for the bits are their own concern as long as they don't inspect your packets and charge you based on what they see.
Maybe it wasn't such a trivial patent after all -- at least if you're a kid. When a 7-year-old St. Paul boy was granted a patent a few weeks ago for a new method of swinging on a swing, intellectual-property experts told the press it was a dubious invention and an example of the kind of mistake being made by an overworked and underfunded U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. So yes, this was a stunt to illustrate the problems with the USPTO.
This is one of those +1 Funny ones that really should be +1 Insightful.
I'm GLaD I wasn't the only one this immediately occurred to.
Because, amazingly enough, doctors and other clinic staff might want to examine them without my physical presence. Curiously, to not waste my time, I want to allow them to do that.
Also, what do you do if someone steals them? Sure, they may be encrypted well-enough, but then you no longer have possession of them. Do you start over?
Amazingly, there's this Internet thing that might allow us all to look at it. Ensuring that only authorized people have appropriate access to it is the tricky bit, of course, but carrying the official medical records around with me at all times is not a great plan.
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