Maybe I'm just not clued into what Ralph Nader is thinking. He may cost Gore the election, his response to this scenario is that there is no difference between the Democratic and Republican party. Which is like saying there's no difference between James Watt and Bruce Babbit or Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas. I think part of the problem is that Nader appeals to a lot of younger voters who may not remeber how bad a job the Republicans did the last time they had the White House (more than tripled the National Debt).
A lot of attention has been paid to the economy in this election. An important principle of economics is "opportunity cost." The opportunity cost of voting for the liberal Ralph Nader is that the conservative George W. Bush could win the presidency. It's not worth it!
Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
I heard this incredible story on NPR a day or two ago, I don't know if the NYT article mentions this, but the couple in question wanted to have more children. This left them with a choice, have a baby the old fashioned way, and there would be a 1 in 5 chance that the new child's blood would be an HLA match with the six year old, and that the new child didn't also have the disease, or they could do what they did, and dramatically increase the chance of saving the six year old's life.
This seems incredibly obvious...
BTW, it wouldn't go down the way you said, the second child would be valued because he saved his sister's life.
Kinko's got out of the copying of copyrighted materials(without permission) game a long time ago. They were sued, and lost over a million(which seems trivial now).
The poster refers to the web as a place for kids to buy stuff. I'm not convinced this is true,at least some merchants on the web (Amazon for one) don't allow children to buy stuff without the interaction of an adult. This isn't because Amazon traffics in violent materials, it's because people under 18 can't consent to most contracts without their parents permission.
Remembering Moore's Law, that computer speeds will double every 18 months, should we be impressed by this 20% improvement over IEEE 1394(Apple's FireWire)? No! It's ironic, the only reason anyone uses USB is that Apple made a line of computers that required it. I can't imagine they'll make the same mistake twice.
He doesn't claim he found the Unabomber, only that he was asked to help. I heard an interview with this guy on NPR, sounded really interesting. Another interesting application of this methodology is determining if someone who claims to be an author of a work actually is. I guess there is some controversy as to who actually wrote "A visit from St Nicholas" (Twas the night before XMas). FOster contends that it is very unlikely that the author who took credit for this work(Clarence Clark Moore?) is the actual author, since the tone and style of the poem is a complete departure from the author's earlier work. There's more evidence than just that, but it is nonetheless an interesting tool.
Regarding using BabelFish, or other tools, I don't think that's a good countermeasure, clearly no one could tell who wrote the article, nor would they care, since the final presentation would lack style, and readability. In arguing against translating works of literature, Mark Twain demonstrated the folly of such an enterprise by translating one of his short stories to French and then back to English. The resulting text lacked Twain's style, and was unreadable.
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Maybe I'm just not clued into what Ralph Nader is thinking. He may cost Gore the election, his response to this scenario is that there is no difference between the Democratic and Republican party. Which is like saying there's no difference between James Watt and Bruce Babbit or Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas. I think part of the problem is that Nader appeals to a lot of younger voters who may not remeber how bad a job the Republicans did the last time they had the White House (more than tripled the National Debt).
A lot of attention has been paid to the economy in this election. An important principle of economics is "opportunity cost." The opportunity cost of voting for the liberal Ralph Nader is that the conservative George W. Bush could win the presidency. It's not worth it!
Apple doesn't sell a one-button mouse anymore.
Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
I heard this incredible story on NPR a day or two ago, I don't know if the NYT article mentions this, but the couple in question wanted to have more children. This left them with a choice, have a baby the old fashioned way, and there would be a 1 in 5 chance that the new child's blood would be an HLA match with the six year old, and that the new child didn't also have the disease, or they could do what they did, and dramatically increase the chance of saving the six year old's life.
This seems incredibly obvious...
BTW, it wouldn't go down the way you said, the second child would be valued because he saved his sister's life.
This too seems incredibly obvious...
Kinko's got out of the copying of copyrighted materials(without permission) game a long time ago. They were sued, and lost over a million(which seems trivial now).
The poster refers to the web as a place for kids to buy stuff. I'm not convinced this is true,at least some merchants on the web (Amazon for one) don't allow children to buy stuff without the interaction of an adult. This isn't because Amazon traffics in violent materials, it's because people under 18 can't consent to most contracts without their parents permission.
Remembering Moore's Law, that computer speeds will double every 18 months, should we be impressed by this 20% improvement over IEEE 1394(Apple's FireWire)? No! It's ironic, the only reason anyone uses USB is that Apple made a line of computers that required it. I can't imagine they'll make the same mistake twice.
Aren't we talking about OS X, not OS X Server? The former is unreleased, the latter has been around a while.
D'uh!
Regarding using BabelFish, or other tools, I don't think that's a good countermeasure, clearly no one could tell who wrote the article, nor would they care, since the final presentation would lack style, and readability. In arguing against translating works of literature, Mark Twain demonstrated the folly of such an enterprise by translating one of his short stories to French and then back to English. The resulting text lacked Twain's style, and was unreadable.