How the hell do I get to be a major shareholder in every corporation I believe is acting contrary to public interest? Do you have the faintest idea how much money you're talking about? A million dollars is couch-bait for a sizeable corp.
The majority of shareholders are a) indifferent to the corporation's actions or b) actively endorse anything which increases the stock price. How is one person, or any small group of people, going to change this attitude? The system is corrupt and broken, and too entrenched to be changed from the inside. Hopefully, the fraud coming out of corporate America these days will wake up enough people to Do Something, but it's not very likely.
The purpose of a corporation is to protect its members from the consequences of their actions. Therefore, they are able to take risks and do things that they would not do were they acting independently. Corporations are chartered to do one thing, and one thing only: Make money for stockholders. The fact that the corporation has only this goal, and no responsibility to the society it inhabits, makes them very dangerous entities.
If they were just containers for assets, it wouldn't be a problem, but calling a corporation (particularly a large one) a "container for assets" is like calling an M1A2 Abrams main battle tank a "container for soldiers".
But, to bring you back on topic, winXP is NOT designed to do PDA things well or quickly. Like the Newton owner, I wouldn't give up my PalmOS PDA for a portable PC. When I want to jot down a note, I poke one button on the thing and start writing. Want to add a contact, I push one button, tap the "new" soft-button on the screen, and start entering data. It's fast, reliable, and responsive. I don't want to wait while the contact managment app comes up. I don't want to wait while the thing launches notepad.
I think people who like this device do not understand what a PDA is for. Microsoft sure as hell doesn't. Is it an interesting and useful device? You bet! It's really cool! But it's NOT a PDA.
Well, let's see...except for the facts that the surgery in the article was to repair a damaged tendon, and was not performed using arthroscopic techniques, and was not related to osteoarthritis, you're right on the money.
Free software? Sure. Free web services? Days are numbered. You can't find good, free, POP email anymore. So I'll settle for good, reasonably priced email.
Or get a good friend who will give me good, free POP email, which is what I do. Aren't I clever?
I guess you slept through that whole LCD thing where displays magically grew 2". That is, a 15" LCD is the same effective size as a 17" monitor. And I'm really curious as to where you found a fuzzy-screened iMac. The only ones I've ever seen have smooth plastics...fuzzy might be an interesting switch...
Nice thing about a service, though, is that you can stop using it. Any time you "start relying" on something that is not controlled by you, you're in trouble. And if you've "started relying" on something that was a) free and b) not controlled by you, I think you made a poor decision.
And please don't start crying about Apple losing customers over this. For people who need it, it's a convenient service at a reasonable price. For people who don't, they won't buy it. Simple.
You forgot to factor in the technical support albatross they would have to string around their neck.
"Uh, hi. I've got a P4 overclocked to 3GHZ with 512MB of DDR SDRAM. My sound card is a ProAudio Spectrum 16, and I got my NIC and my modem out of a box of Cracker Jack. I've got an NEC 2x SCSI CDROM, which is wired to an Adaptec ISA card that I dug out of a dumpster. It's a jumper-set card, but all the paint's sorta scraped off. I can't figure out how to install OSX."
The FTC is chartered to decide what constitutes fair trade practices in the United States. Since it has been determined that stealth advertising in searches is unfair and deceptive, the FTC is stepping in and making that go away. System is working as designed. (for a change.)
No. The "sonic" (also known as "trans-sonic") flight regime is the one in which there exist both subsonic and supersonic flows on different parts of the airframe. This is well-accepted terminology in aerodynamics. Interestingly, many current commercial jets fly at "sonic" speeds fairly regularly...they're just not awfully efficient at it.
Although The Tu-144 never carried a single fare-paying passenger. Guess if you want to get into stupid "who was first?" penis-measuring contests, you'd have to pick your criteria carefully depending on which aircraft you wanted to win.
The one, and only, thing I think is good about Microsoft is that they don't kill themselves to be the first on the market. They try to learn from others' mistakes.
I've always wanted to have the balls to buy a VW Thing, paint it sand colored, and have that Nazi swastika-and-palm-tree logo on the side. But then again, I'm kind of an asshole, so maybe it's just me.
Huh? What kind of a stupid idea is that? Japan's factories have been building F-15J's for years under license from McDonnell Douglas. How the hell are they supposed to GET aerospace experience if they don't design airplanes? How the hell are they supposed to know what works if they don't have failures to analyze?
Building airplanes is complicated. If you don't have failures (DURING TESTING), you're not trying hard enough. If you still have failures in production, you're incompetent and need to find a less dangerous job.
Because I won't under any circumstances buy a Microsoft product?
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True enough, but modern air war can make the Army's job several orders of magnitude easier. In Desert Storm, the Army faced a completely demoralized, hungry, uncoordinated foe. That's because the Coalition air forces had systematically destroyed every command and control target in the region, along with psychologically devastating bombing raids. Many Iraqi prisoners professed to being absolutely horrified of the B-52 attacks, although the Buffs did not account for a large number of casualties or materiel kills. The reason the Iraqui tanks were totally ineffective is largely because the crews were frightened to sleep in their tanks. This was quite a rational fear, because the F-111's were absolutely demolishing emplaced tank lines across the battle front.
Air power is a force multiplier. Stealth is a force multiplier. Drone combat will be a force multiplier. Currently, systems are in place to allow soldiers, at the squad level (or even at the individual grunt level) use a GPS-equipped laser designator to call in a precision-guided munition, on demand. The idea is an extension of the Push-CAS (Close Air Support) concept demonstrated to brilliant effect in Desert Storm. CAS aircraft will be available, orbiting immediately behind the front lines of the battle, minutes away from any soldiers' position. They'll be able to get an automatic targeting hack from the soldier's laser, and then drop a bomb in the bad guy's back pocket. Think of a 2000lb hand grenade.
Integrating drones into that scenario is a no-brainer, and it will dramatically increase the lethality of ground combat.
The question in my mind is, can we trust our leaders with weapons that make going to war that much easier and less costly (in terms of human life)? Should we, and can we, deter our OWN military?
No, no they don't. The individual humans who work for corporations can and should be represented, but the corporation has no business being represented at all. Of course, that proceeds from my firmly-held belief that awarding corporations personhood, without making them responsible for their actions, is going a very long way towards destroying our country and our economy.
Each individual decision maker does have a responsibility to Do The Right Thing. Corporations may SEEM like seamless wholes, but there are always individual humans calling the shots. Those people still have ethical and moral (and legal!) responsibilities beyond chasing money.
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How the hell do I get to be a major shareholder in every corporation I believe is acting contrary to public interest? Do you have the faintest idea how much money you're talking about? A million dollars is couch-bait for a sizeable corp.
The majority of shareholders are a) indifferent to the corporation's actions or b) actively endorse anything which increases the stock price. How is one person, or any small group of people, going to change this attitude? The system is corrupt and broken, and too entrenched to be changed from the inside. Hopefully, the fraud coming out of corporate America these days will wake up enough people to Do Something, but it's not very likely.
No.
The purpose of a corporation is to protect its members from the consequences of their actions. Therefore, they are able to take risks and do things that they would not do were they acting independently. Corporations are chartered to do one thing, and one thing only: Make money for stockholders. The fact that the corporation has only this goal, and no responsibility to the society it inhabits, makes them very dangerous entities.
If they were just containers for assets, it wouldn't be a problem, but calling a corporation (particularly a large one) a "container for assets" is like calling an M1A2 Abrams main battle tank a "container for soldiers".
But, to bring you back on topic, winXP is NOT designed to do PDA things well or quickly. Like the Newton owner, I wouldn't give up my PalmOS PDA for a portable PC. When I want to jot down a note, I poke one button on the thing and start writing. Want to add a contact, I push one button, tap the "new" soft-button on the screen, and start entering data. It's fast, reliable, and responsive. I don't want to wait while the contact managment app comes up. I don't want to wait while the thing launches notepad.
I think people who like this device do not understand what a PDA is for. Microsoft sure as hell doesn't. Is it an interesting and useful device? You bet! It's really cool! But it's NOT a PDA.
Well, let's see...except for the facts that the surgery in the article was to repair a damaged tendon, and was not performed using arthroscopic techniques, and was not related to osteoarthritis, you're right on the money.
Oh wait, no you're not.
Free software? Sure. Free web services? Days are numbered. You can't find good, free, POP email anymore. So I'll settle for good, reasonably priced email.
Or get a good friend who will give me good, free POP email, which is what I do. Aren't I clever?
TANSTAAFL.
(there ain't so such thing as a free lunch)
And, if you're not paying them money, you're not a customer, and they don't have to listen to you. Get over it.
I guess you slept through that whole LCD thing where displays magically grew 2". That is, a 15" LCD is the same effective size as a 17" monitor. And I'm really curious as to where you found a fuzzy-screened iMac. The only ones I've ever seen have smooth plastics...fuzzy might be an interesting switch...
Or were you trolling? My bad, dude.
Nice thing about a service, though, is that you can stop using it. Any time you "start relying" on something that is not controlled by you, you're in trouble. And if you've "started relying" on something that was a) free and b) not controlled by you, I think you made a poor decision.
And please don't start crying about Apple losing customers over this. For people who need it, it's a convenient service at a reasonable price. For people who don't, they won't buy it. Simple.
You forgot to factor in the technical support albatross they would have to string around their neck.
"Uh, hi. I've got a P4 overclocked to 3GHZ with 512MB of DDR SDRAM. My sound card is a ProAudio Spectrum 16, and I got my NIC and my modem out of a box of Cracker Jack. I've got an NEC 2x SCSI CDROM, which is wired to an Adaptec ISA card that I dug out of a dumpster. It's a jumper-set card, but all the paint's sorta scraped off. I can't figure out how to install OSX."
Yeah. Right. I want to take THAT call.
Wow. Unions bad. I'd give good money to see ol' Dell dude say "Dude, you union guys can suck my kiss."
The FTC is chartered to decide what constitutes fair trade practices in the United States. Since it has been determined that stealth advertising in searches is unfair and deceptive, the FTC is stepping in and making that go away. System is working as designed. (for a change.)
Nothing, except for airliners that are actually profitable. Unlike Concorde. : )
No. The "sonic" (also known as "trans-sonic") flight regime is the one in which there exist both subsonic and supersonic flows on different parts of the airframe. This is well-accepted terminology in aerodynamics. Interestingly, many current commercial jets fly at "sonic" speeds fairly regularly...they're just not awfully efficient at it.
Although The Tu-144 never carried a single fare-paying passenger. Guess if you want to get into stupid "who was first?" penis-measuring contests, you'd have to pick your criteria carefully depending on which aircraft you wanted to win.
The one, and only, thing I think is good about Microsoft is that they don't kill themselves to be the first on the market. They try to learn from others' mistakes.
I've always wanted to have the balls to buy a VW Thing, paint it sand colored, and have that Nazi swastika-and-palm-tree logo on the side. But then again, I'm kind of an asshole, so maybe it's just me.
Heil Kupfelwagen!
Huh? What kind of a stupid idea is that? Japan's factories have been building F-15J's for years under license from McDonnell Douglas. How the hell are they supposed to GET aerospace experience if they don't design airplanes? How the hell are they supposed to know what works if they don't have failures to analyze?
Building airplanes is complicated. If you don't have failures (DURING TESTING), you're not trying hard enough. If you still have failures in production, you're incompetent and need to find a less dangerous job.
Because I won't under any circumstances buy a Microsoft product?
True enough, but modern air war can make the Army's job several orders of magnitude easier. In Desert Storm, the Army faced a completely demoralized, hungry, uncoordinated foe. That's because the Coalition air forces had systematically destroyed every command and control target in the region, along with psychologically devastating bombing raids. Many Iraqi prisoners professed to being absolutely horrified of the B-52 attacks, although the Buffs did not account for a large number of casualties or materiel kills. The reason the Iraqui tanks were totally ineffective is largely because the crews were frightened to sleep in their tanks. This was quite a rational fear, because the F-111's were absolutely demolishing emplaced tank lines across the battle front.
Air power is a force multiplier. Stealth is a force multiplier. Drone combat will be a force multiplier. Currently, systems are in place to allow soldiers, at the squad level (or even at the individual grunt level) use a GPS-equipped laser designator to call in a precision-guided munition, on demand. The idea is an extension of the Push-CAS (Close Air Support) concept demonstrated to brilliant effect in Desert Storm. CAS aircraft will be available, orbiting immediately behind the front lines of the battle, minutes away from any soldiers' position. They'll be able to get an automatic targeting hack from the soldier's laser, and then drop a bomb in the bad guy's back pocket. Think of a 2000lb hand grenade.
Integrating drones into that scenario is a no-brainer, and it will dramatically increase the lethality of ground combat.
The question in my mind is, can we trust our leaders with weapons that make going to war that much easier and less costly (in terms of human life)? Should we, and can we, deter our OWN military?
Makes perfect sense when the Microsoft/Disney/TW merger goes through.
No, no they don't. The individual humans who work for corporations can and should be represented, but the corporation has no business being represented at all. Of course, that proceeds from my firmly-held belief that awarding corporations personhood, without making them responsible for their actions, is going a very long way towards destroying our country and our economy.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
No, you have a mature sense of legal vs. illegal. It's not the same thing.
Let /. do your thinking for you! It's MUCH easier that way. Baaaa!
Hence my major objection to the idea of a corporation. The creation of an entity that is not responsible for its actions is a Bad Idea.
Mid-sized moving van!=shaped charge armor piercing weapon.
Each individual decision maker does have a responsibility to Do The Right Thing. Corporations may SEEM like seamless wholes, but there are always individual humans calling the shots. Those people still have ethical and moral (and legal!) responsibilities beyond chasing money.
They just never remember that fact.