You are giving an awful lot of credit to a presidential speech.
Prices fell because supply and demand are starting to actually respond to high prices (that is, people are freaking out and buying less gasoline, and other people are freaking out and looking for oil in their basement).
By traditional measures (percent of revenue), the software industry is vastly more profitable than big oil. Exxon makes a shitton of money because the U.S. consumes a shitton of oil, not because they are making enormous profits on each and every gallon (Exxon makes less than 10% profit).
(I don't think offshore drilling is going to accomplish much, as far as I can tell, Boon Pickens has invested smartly and LNG cars are the best energy policy from a practicality/impact standpoint, but I find slamming the big oil companies, who make about the same profit on a gallon of gasoline as the federal government, tiresome).
I get the feeling that they would be much more successful if they provided a binary runtime platform that commercial-ware could run against. They could even release new versions on a somewhat time based schedule.
Sure, it is ugly as hell to need to download 500 MB every time there are some updates, but it is a different kind of hassle than making sure compilation can happen, and it is a hassle that a lot of people are used to dealing with.
There is middle ground, the law could be changed to allow "life, with no possibility of release".
Prisons are complicated things to come to an agreement on; incarceration should theoretically benefit society more than it costs society (I see this as being required by 'sanity'), but measuring the costs and benefits is very difficult. A prison also needs to balance the goals of punishment and rehabilitation (if the legal system includes the notion of sentences with limited terms, helping the prisoners fit into society upon release is simply a practical matter), which is difficult when many people sit wholly on one side of the fence or the other.
No, it means that once you drop it in a mailbox they need a court order to have any hope of presenting the evidence obtained by opening it in court. I doubt putting a stamp on it places it 'in' the postal system. Also, they can go ahead and open it and examine it without a court order, good luck bringing any consequences to bear (other than getting the evidence excluded).
Among people who have done nothing wrong, I find myself caring the least about people who feel the need to stitch a little piece of glass under their skin so that they can be a 'cyborg'.
"Yeah, the lights come on whenever I walk into the room, customized to the way I like them."
Have there been any major advancements? I'm don't know, because I have no idea what major means to you, but the costs have come way, way, way, way down, and they continue to get lower.
Google, as a publicly traded company, has obligations to three people. The stock is structured such that Sergei, Larry and Eric have complete control over every single shareholder vote.
Sure, they have to toe the line and generally act in the interests of other shareholders for publicity reasons, but they aren't beholden to other people when it comes to setting the mission of the company, or electing the board, or whatever.
Here cars are way better than there cars. In a here car, you get in and then somebody says "We're here". In a there car, you get in and then somebody says "Are we there?".
So the studies that show a restricted calorie diet does not lead to weight loss are somehow a reason not to exercise?
Exercise will increase a persons metabolism. There are medical reasons that some people cannot exercise. There are dozens of fat people that are fat because they eat too much and don't exercise for each and every person that has a real metabolic or other health issue.
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I can't recall a shortage ever being an issue, so apparently, yes, I do.
You are giving an awful lot of credit to a presidential speech.
Prices fell because supply and demand are starting to actually respond to high prices (that is, people are freaking out and buying less gasoline, and other people are freaking out and looking for oil in their basement).
By traditional measures (percent of revenue), the software industry is vastly more profitable than big oil. Exxon makes a shitton of money because the U.S. consumes a shitton of oil, not because they are making enormous profits on each and every gallon (Exxon makes less than 10% profit).
(I don't think offshore drilling is going to accomplish much, as far as I can tell, Boon Pickens has invested smartly and LNG cars are the best energy policy from a practicality/impact standpoint, but I find slamming the big oil companies, who make about the same profit on a gallon of gasoline as the federal government, tiresome).
I get the feeling that they would be much more successful if they provided a binary runtime platform that commercial-ware could run against. They could even release new versions on a somewhat time based schedule.
Sure, it is ugly as hell to need to download 500 MB every time there are some updates, but it is a different kind of hassle than making sure compilation can happen, and it is a hassle that a lot of people are used to dealing with.
I'm not the OP...
Maybe he works for the gub'mint.
There is middle ground, the law could be changed to allow "life, with no possibility of release".
Prisons are complicated things to come to an agreement on; incarceration should theoretically benefit society more than it costs society (I see this as being required by 'sanity'), but measuring the costs and benefits is very difficult. A prison also needs to balance the goals of punishment and rehabilitation (if the legal system includes the notion of sentences with limited terms, helping the prisoners fit into society upon release is simply a practical matter), which is difficult when many people sit wholly on one side of the fence or the other.
Are you suggesting that Australian Aborigines, Native Americans and none of the mentally handicapped are civilized?
100,000, eventually.
Only for a couple of decades. Then it is open season.
Also, other companies can develop compounds that work against the same mechanism.
No, it means that once you drop it in a mailbox they need a court order to have any hope of presenting the evidence obtained by opening it in court. I doubt putting a stamp on it places it 'in' the postal system. Also, they can go ahead and open it and examine it without a court order, good luck bringing any consequences to bear (other than getting the evidence excluded).
Among people who have done nothing wrong, I find myself caring the least about people who feel the need to stitch a little piece of glass under their skin so that they can be a 'cyborg'.
"Yeah, the lights come on whenever I walk into the room, customized to the way I like them."
"..."
Also, most people end up just walking through customs, so the number of people who get shat on directly is even smaller.
They were notified in January.
WHAT IS INGENIOUS ABOUT IT?
Have there been any major advancements? I'm don't know, because I have no idea what major means to you, but the costs have come way, way, way, way down, and they continue to get lower.
Hell, solar panels even net energy these days.
The patent office provides that as a service. Just check the appropriate box!
Did you intentionally imply that no one ever learns or changes?
I misread your post and had "most puritan country" in my head.
The U.S. is, at least in several ways, quite a lot more liberal about sex than several Islamic countries.
Google, as a publicly traded company, has obligations to three people. The stock is structured such that Sergei, Larry and Eric have complete control over every single shareholder vote.
Sure, they have to toe the line and generally act in the interests of other shareholders for publicity reasons, but they aren't beholden to other people when it comes to setting the mission of the company, or electing the board, or whatever.
Here cars are way better than there cars. In a here car, you get in and then somebody says "We're here". In a there car, you get in and then somebody says "Are we there?".
This will not end well.
So the studies that show a restricted calorie diet does not lead to weight loss are somehow a reason not to exercise?
Exercise will increase a persons metabolism. There are medical reasons that some people cannot exercise. There are dozens of fat people that are fat because they eat too much and don't exercise for each and every person that has a real metabolic or other health issue.
Is reprocution an English (U.K.) word, or is it not a word that anyone with common sense would use?