And you find arachnids everywhere. Even in deserts and savannas the quadrupeds far outnumber the bipeds. Bipedalism is an evolutionary accident, not a necessarily superior solution to efficient movement.
I don't see any indication here that the White House doesn't care that Boeing dropped the ball, and isn't holding their feet to the fire. Do you? Is that what you're saying?
Boeing just got another big chunk of my tax dollars to fix the problem of using the incorrect software in their initial system. That hardly sounds like holding feet to the fire. When they are required to refund some of their initial payment, or the process is opened to their competitors, get back to me, m'kay?
And remember, copying isn't theft, as you still have use of the data afterwards. And since information wants to be free, they are only helping it along its natural path.
Corporations are forcing people to overextend themselves and buy things they cannot afford?
You miss the point. No one is forced, but they are rewarded. Our current model does not encourage or reward long term thinking: everyone is to worried about the next quarter's numbers. You can't ignore the short term either, but we might try to find a way to reward those who plan for the long haul occasionally.
A case in point would be someone who purchased a house within in their means in order to live there for many years who sees their property values and quality of life utterly destroyed when their neighborhood collapses into foreclosure. You can't research all of your neighbor's credit ratings, so saying that they should have seen it coming is nothing but hindsight justification.
No, no. Sony should be all over this. They are the present masters of "failure by fire and explosion" in portable power sources, and they don't usually like to lose their lead in any field.
It isn't that simple, alas. You own no Senators or Representatives and therefore your ability to present this an option is non-existent. The ISPs own plenty. They get what they want and the majority still votes for the whores who let them get away with it.
Too late for that: if the court needs to know what they were doing, they can subpoena them, particularly if this turns into a fraud investigation, which I see no signs of as yet.
Of course, the paradox is that hardware is offtimes cheaper than talented programmers, particularly if the code they develop is so goddam clever that only they can maintain it. Managing clusters ain't simple either, but sometimes more powerful hardware is the answer. I've seen too much "light code" that is under-tested and riddled with security holes because all of that checking makes the code inelegant. I've also seen heavy code that suffers from the same problem. All I'm saying is that there is no panacea and you need to evaluate each potential fix on its merits and stop hurling insults.
No, you wait for the bankruptcy court to finish with the carcass before you do that. This is way too soon with the Novell and IBM judgments not yet paid. You need those liabilities off the books first, then you walk in with a prepackaged bankruptcy deal and take it private. All depending on the "fact" that there is something of value here, which I am somewhat skeptical about.
It isn't, unless you consider the government of Australia to be a parody of a real one. Even if you do, you'd have to argue that Howard's role model is doing a far more effective job of it.
I think the inquiring about a hit man and asking someone to take photos of a cooperating witness' children is probably what really did him in. Witness tampering and death threats should mean a long sentence in the big house.
Hell it takes a day to fuel the thing and the cryogenic propellants aren't storable. While NASA went for high performance liquid engines because they were going to the fucking moon, not downtown Moscow, the USAF went for solid motors on the Minutemen.
Even if you can not make it impossible for your enemies to obtain a secret, you can still make it harder -- every step of the way. And making it harder for America's enemies (such as Iran and North Korea) to build their own ICBMs is a good goal.
And so it goes. Once a great nation was told "we have nothing to fear but fear itself." Now a small one is sold the message of "be afraid, be very afraid, and let the good God-fearing leaders take care of you sheep."
What happened to my country, and will you cowards please give it back?
You misunderstand. The crime I was refering to was the fraud. I was presupposing all of the required permits were in place for said burning. Sorry for the confusion.
Yes, but it appears that the Cheney/Bush method of clutter elimination is to burn down the house and blame the neighbors for the fire. We call that fraud where I'm from. In fact, one might argue that it is at the very least a misdemeanor, if not a high crime.
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And you find arachnids everywhere. Even in deserts and savannas the quadrupeds far outnumber the bipeds. Bipedalism is an evolutionary accident, not a necessarily superior solution to efficient movement.
Look up "high center of gravity" and get back to me on why Mechs are a colossally stupid idea.
Boeing just got another big chunk of my tax dollars to fix the problem of using the incorrect software in their initial system. That hardly sounds like holding feet to the fire. When they are required to refund some of their initial payment, or the process is opened to their competitors, get back to me, m'kay?
And remember, copying isn't theft, as you still have use of the data afterwards. And since information wants to be free, they are only helping it along its natural path.
Because work is the one sole measure of our value, right? Opportunity cost cannot be computed using such a moronic formula, I'm afraid.
Corporations are forcing people to overextend themselves and buy things they cannot afford? You miss the point. No one is forced, but they are rewarded. Our current model does not encourage or reward long term thinking: everyone is to worried about the next quarter's numbers. You can't ignore the short term either, but we might try to find a way to reward those who plan for the long haul occasionally. A case in point would be someone who purchased a house within in their means in order to live there for many years who sees their property values and quality of life utterly destroyed when their neighborhood collapses into foreclosure. You can't research all of your neighbor's credit ratings, so saying that they should have seen it coming is nothing but hindsight justification.
Or pay off a couple of months of Iraq.
As long as they are all turned to stone, permanently. I'd put up with more than three making it into the movie.
No, no. Sony should be all over this. They are the present masters of "failure by fire and explosion" in portable power sources, and they don't usually like to lose their lead in any field.
It isn't that simple, alas. You own no Senators or Representatives and therefore your ability to present this an option is non-existent. The ISPs own plenty. They get what they want and the majority still votes for the whores who let them get away with it.
White Star was merged with Cunnard, which I believe still exists.
Mine is wholly positive. Ain't anecdotal argumentation worthless?
Too late for that: if the court needs to know what they were doing, they can subpoena them, particularly if this turns into a fraud investigation, which I see no signs of as yet.
Of course, the paradox is that hardware is offtimes cheaper than talented programmers, particularly if the code they develop is so goddam clever that only they can maintain it. Managing clusters ain't simple either, but sometimes more powerful hardware is the answer. I've seen too much "light code" that is under-tested and riddled with security holes because all of that checking makes the code inelegant. I've also seen heavy code that suffers from the same problem. All I'm saying is that there is no panacea and you need to evaluate each potential fix on its merits and stop hurling insults.
No, you wait for the bankruptcy court to finish with the carcass before you do that. This is way too soon with the Novell and IBM judgments not yet paid. You need those liabilities off the books first, then you walk in with a prepackaged bankruptcy deal and take it private. All depending on the "fact" that there is something of value here, which I am somewhat skeptical about.
It isn't, unless you consider the government of Australia to be a parody of a real one. Even if you do, you'd have to argue that Howard's role model is doing a far more effective job of it.
I think the inquiring about a hit man and asking someone to take photos of a cooperating witness' children is probably what really did him in. Witness tampering and death threats should mean a long sentence in the big house.
Not true. The J-2s in both the upper stages were LOH/LOX engines.
Hell it takes a day to fuel the thing and the cryogenic propellants aren't storable. While NASA went for high performance liquid engines because they were going to the fucking moon, not downtown Moscow, the USAF went for solid motors on the Minutemen.
And we all know how well Junior did when he got a hold of whiskey (and the coke spoon.) No wonder we're in such a fine mess.
Thank you for putting it so succinctly. I get a little wordy sometimes.
What happened to my country, and will you cowards please give it back?
You misunderstand. The crime I was refering to was the fraud. I was presupposing all of the required permits were in place for said burning. Sorry for the confusion.
Yes, but it appears that the Cheney/Bush method of clutter elimination is to burn down the house and blame the neighbors for the fire. We call that fraud where I'm from. In fact, one might argue that it is at the very least a misdemeanor, if not a high crime.
"It is well war is so terrible, else we become too fond of it." Robert E. Lee