You seem so sure of your info, and yet a quick Google for 'automotive "black boxes"' show that you are the one who is incorrect. In fact, not only are the black-boxes already deployed, they have already been used against people in court. They are not yet required by law, but they are out there and in growing numbers.
If the game did not cause the fool to lose it, please explain to me exactly how a gun did. Personal responsibility can't be legislated into people. And I resent the implication that because SOME people are emotional retards who cannot handle the responsibility of owning a firearm, NOBODY should be allowed to. Australia disarmed their population, check out their crime stats before and after. (Here's a start: http://www.ssaa.org.au/buybackindex.html)
Have some quotes to think on:
"Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men." -St. Augustine
"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." -The Dalai Lama, (May 15, 2001, The Seattle Times)
"......Certainly, the intrinsic value of life and the duty to love oneself no less than others are the basis of a true right to self-defense... legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for someone responsible for another's life, the common good of the family or of the State. Unfortunately, it happens that the need to render the aggressor incapable of causing harm sometimes involves taking his life. In this case, the fatal outcome is attributable to the aggressor whose actions brought it about, even though he may not be morally responsible because of a lack of the use of reason." -Pope John Paul II, Encyclical Letter from 1995, EVANGELIUM VITAE
"When the strong man fully armed guardeth his own court, his goods are in peace." -Jesus Christ [Luke 11:21.6]
"But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one." -Jesus Christ [Luke 22:36]
"Where the choice is between only violence and cowardice, I would advise violence." -Mohatma Gandhi
I'm still trying to install Red Flag Linux - Drunken Master Edition. I keep waking up at Denny's, bruised and unable to remember the root login, so I have to start over...
You are ignoring the fact that by outsourcing major sections of the economy, there will be far fewer consumers with the purchasing power to afford the very lifestyle the companies doing the outsourcing depend on. It's called 'eating your children' and is a very stupid thing to do.
Also, unless the tools are strictly in-house, proprietary and kept under lock and key, in almost no time at all your competition is going to be using the same tools. Quite a bit easier to keep the workings of a physical machine secret a hundred years ago.
Dollar Tumbles as International Investors Flee U.S. Assets http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=1 0000103& sid=a5A7bcTBC9Io&refer=news_index Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar had its biggest decline against the euro in about a month in New York trading after a government report showed net foreign purchases of U.S. securities in September fell to the lowest in five years.
A drop in the amount of stocks and bonds bought by international investors makes it harder for the U.S. to finance the deficit in its current account, the broadest measure of trade and investment. The Treasury Department said foreigners bought a net $4.19 billion in September, down from $49.9 billion in August and the smallest since $1.17 billion in September 1998.
``It's the hardest evidence yet the U.S. current account deficit has finally become unsustainable and the foreign appetite for U.S. securities has finally fallen short,'' said Michael Woolfolk, a currency strategist at the Bank of New York, the third-largest New York-based bank. There is ``a dependence on increasing inflows just to keep the dollar steady.''
"We have SO MUCH to learn about the universe, and to a degree anyway already have the means to learn it, that it's extremely counterproductive to forego that knowledge until we figure out how to keep an animal(us) alive and healthy in the environments we wish to study, which are themselves incredibly hostile."
Actually, if you are still paying attention to this thread, I'd be interested in hearing your rebuttal of the above thinking.
Society can benefit from gadgets, but cannot be improved by them. Society can benefit from further expansion space, but not be improved by it. We have no real shortage of space now, except that which is self-imposed by historical politcal and ethnic tradition. If you really define human progress and growth in strictly material terms, hold a so what attitude toward human suffering, and see no point in trying to improve our entire outlook on life and how we conduct ourselves through it, then I'm glad to be weak minded and quite separate from you in my beliefs.
"All the knowledge we gain (scientific or otherwise) is ultimately tied to the fact that we must eventually leave this world if we are to grow as a species."
And "growth as a species" is defined as...? It seems man has a long, long way to go right here on Earth before worrying too much about spreading the mayhem across the stars. Our leaders act like children on a playground bullying, lying to and cheating one another and it is considered normal. Not to mention the horrors they sometimes inflict on their own people. Real growth would be maturing our behavior as a species, not simply enhancing our reproductive capabilities and material wealth through technology, and I'm not convinced space travel is a prerequisite for doing that. We have SO MUCH to learn about the universe, and to a degree anyway already have the means to learn it, that it's extremely counterproductive to forego that knowledge until we figure out how to keep an animal(us) alive and healthy in the environments we wish to study, which are themselves incredibly hostile. I really hope deep-sea research hasn't suffered as much as our space program has from this 'must send living being' line of thinking.
You may not like Vidal, but Caligula is shaky foundation upon which to base the feeling. Vidal wrote the screenplay for Caligula and wasn't very happy when he saw the film. Bob Guccione had more than a little to do with it sucking (hehe couldn't resist). From 50FootDVD:
"One of the more transparent attempts to introduce more sex into the film is the hardcore scene between two Penthouse Pets who are ostensibly spying on Caligula from the next room. In reality, Guccione sneaked onto the set at night to film these sequences and smuggled the negative out of Italy to thwart the country's laws giving the director authority over a movie's final cut.
The end result? Two and a half hours of badly edited and occasionally intelligible dialogue punctuated by random acts of violence, sex, and a lot of background nudity. Also, a lot of hurt feelings and lawsuits as the people associated with the film tried to back out. Vidal withdrew his name from the film, although he is still credited as writer of the screenplay from which the film is "adapted," and Tinto Brass, who directed most of the film, is touted as the principal photographer."
"A CEO that manages to put 50 billion dollars away for emergences is a damn good CEO."
Well, how about:
"A general that manages to wipe out the enemy with only a few men is a damn good general."
Which leads to the obvious question of, how did he do it? Nuking or gassing mass numbers of people, even if they are the enemy, is not looked upon highly. Neither, in my mind, should a CEO be considered great that achieves $50B in the bank by repeatedly breaking the law.
It's not that black and white. If it were, I should run to the tv every time Anne Coulter opens her maw and starts braying. I have better things to do with my blood pressure than listen to every idiot with an opinion.
Summarized: "We're trying to shake the 'enterprise' image in favor of 'cool'"
Meaning: "We're still trying to be taken seriously at the enterprise level and are going to start speaking and acting as though we already were in order to help the illusion."
Classical psych warfare tactics. It's win-win for them no matter what with this. Either you buy the enterprise thing and through further marketing maybe actually begin to perceive them as cool, or you simply buy the enterprise statement and are thrown off of examining it by the 'Microsoft, cool?!' cognitive dissonance overriding it. Fucking masterful.
But don't mind me, I also sell foil hats at the flea market...;)
A friend was once writing a fairly lengthy document with pen and paper while sitting on my couch during one of his stays in town. He had brought his laptop with him, so I asked why he wasn't using it. He explained that it was too easy to spend a lot of time editing and second-guessing instead of writing. So he did his initial drafts and main revisions on paper first, then put it into a wp for final tweaking and output.
To me, this is the crux of the problem. There is no such thing as a "weight-loss diet", only a healthy diet and at least _some_ exercise. 2000 calories, 50% carb, 30% protien, 20% fats and a Centrum before bed is a start. You don't have to start off with push-ups and bicycling. But you have to MOVE your body. Even just basic standing, low-impact aerobics would be a good start if you are really overweight. If your metabolism is slow and you are prone to putting on weight, reduce the fat percentage a little and exercise more. Oh, and nature may simply not have designed you to _ever_ look like Arnold or Kate Moss. Get over it, get healthy and get happy with being yourself. However all that takes actual willpower and intelligent, independent application of thought to your food intake and activity. Our society is bred for quick-fix, baby-bird-with-open-maw consumer 'products' that try to eliminate those bothersome things. Thus, we have the Atkins diet and all the other leeches on people who should be being encouraged to be both physically and _mentally_ fit, rather than pandered to, ripped off or endangered with fringe science.
OK, rant off. Please someone tell me how out-of-touch, uneducated, ignorant, insensitive, generalizing and just plain wrong I am now.
"Make a product that's better than Windows on *all* counts"
Yeah, and the auto manufacturers should just stop making all those similar models that compete with one another and just give up until they can each release a model that is better than any other on *all* counts. Uh-huh.
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"The CPI is calculated over a rather large shopping bag of goods."
That has things magically disappear from it when they start making the numbers look bad.
You seem so sure of your info, and yet a quick Google for 'automotive "black boxes"' show that you are the one who is incorrect. In fact, not only are the black-boxes already deployed, they have already been used against people in court. They are not yet required by law, but they are out there and in growing numbers.
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If the game did not cause the fool to lose it, please explain to me exactly how a gun did. Personal responsibility can't be legislated into people. And I resent the implication that because SOME people are emotional retards who cannot handle the responsibility of owning a firearm, NOBODY should be allowed to. Australia disarmed their population, check out their crime stats before and after. (Here's a start: http://www.ssaa.org.au/buybackindex.html)
... legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for someone responsible for another's life, the common good of the family or of the State. Unfortunately, it happens that the need to render the aggressor incapable of causing harm sometimes involves taking his life. In this case, the fatal outcome is attributable to the aggressor whose actions brought it about, even though he may not be morally responsible because of a lack of the use of reason." -Pope John Paul II, Encyclical Letter from 1995, EVANGELIUM VITAE
Have some quotes to think on:
"Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men." -St. Augustine
"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." -The Dalai Lama, (May 15, 2001, The Seattle Times)
"......Certainly, the intrinsic value of life and the duty to love oneself no less than others are the basis of a true right to self-defense
"When the strong man fully armed guardeth his own court, his goods are in peace." -Jesus Christ [Luke 11:21.6]
"But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one." -Jesus Christ [Luke 22:36]
"Where the choice is between only violence and cowardice, I would advise violence." -Mohatma Gandhi
I'm still trying to install Red Flag Linux - Drunken Master Edition. I keep waking up at Denny's, bruised and unable to remember the root login, so I have to start over...
You are ignoring the fact that by outsourcing major sections of the economy, there will be far fewer consumers with the purchasing power to afford the very lifestyle the companies doing the outsourcing depend on. It's called 'eating your children' and is a very stupid thing to do.
Also, unless the tools are strictly in-house, proprietary and kept under lock and key, in almost no time at all your competition is going to be using the same tools. Quite a bit easier to keep the workings of a physical machine secret a hundred years ago.
Yeah, and the name of the biggest hippie peacenik is Ariel Sharon right? You either have an agenda or are a fool.
Eventually just became right now:
1 0000103& sid=a5A7bcTBC9Io&refer=news_index
Dollar Tumbles as International Investors Flee U.S. Assets
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar had its biggest decline against the euro in about a month in New York trading after a government report showed net foreign purchases of U.S. securities in September fell to the lowest in five years.
A drop in the amount of stocks and bonds bought by international investors makes it harder for the U.S. to finance the deficit in its current account, the broadest measure of trade and investment. The Treasury Department said foreigners bought a net $4.19 billion in September, down from $49.9 billion in August and the smallest since $1.17 billion in September 1998.
``It's the hardest evidence yet the U.S. current account deficit has finally become unsustainable and the foreign appetite for U.S. securities has finally fallen short,'' said Michael Woolfolk, a currency strategist at the Bank of New York, the third-largest New York-based bank. There is ``a dependence on increasing inflows just to keep the dollar steady.''
Which reminds me of a saying about choppers: "Helicopters don't fly. They are so ugly the earth itself repels them." Or something to that effect!
"We have SO MUCH to learn about the universe, and to a degree anyway already have the means to learn it, that it's extremely counterproductive to forego that knowledge until we figure out how to keep an animal(us) alive and healthy in the environments we wish to study, which are themselves incredibly hostile."
Actually, if you are still paying attention to this thread, I'd be interested in hearing your rebuttal of the above thinking.
Society can benefit from gadgets, but cannot be improved by them. Society can benefit from further expansion space, but not be improved by it. We have no real shortage of space now, except that which is self-imposed by historical politcal and ethnic tradition. If you really define human progress and growth in strictly material terms, hold a so what attitude toward human suffering, and see no point in trying to improve our entire outlook on life and how we conduct ourselves through it, then I'm glad to be weak minded and quite separate from you in my beliefs.
"All the knowledge we gain (scientific or otherwise) is ultimately tied to the fact that we must eventually leave this world if we are to grow as a species."
And "growth as a species" is defined as...? It seems man has a long, long way to go right here on Earth before worrying too much about spreading the mayhem across the stars. Our leaders act like children on a playground bullying, lying to and cheating one another and it is considered normal. Not to mention the horrors they sometimes inflict on their own people. Real growth would be maturing our behavior as a species, not simply enhancing our reproductive capabilities and material wealth through technology, and I'm not convinced space travel is a prerequisite for doing that. We have SO MUCH to learn about the universe, and to a degree anyway already have the means to learn it, that it's extremely counterproductive to forego that knowledge until we figure out how to keep an animal(us) alive and healthy in the environments we wish to study, which are themselves incredibly hostile. I really hope deep-sea research hasn't suffered as much as our space program has from this 'must send living being' line of thinking.
Nowhere else will you hear, "You, my friend, are a leaking boil on the anus of a cancerous rodent, squeaking from a damp corner of oblivion!"
Stanley? Is that you?
You may not like Vidal, but Caligula is shaky foundation upon which to base the feeling. Vidal wrote the screenplay for Caligula and wasn't very happy when he saw the film. Bob Guccione had more than a little to do with it sucking (hehe couldn't resist). From 50FootDVD:
"One of the more transparent attempts to introduce more sex into the film is the hardcore scene between two Penthouse Pets who are ostensibly spying on Caligula from the next room. In reality, Guccione sneaked onto the set at night to film these sequences and smuggled the negative out of Italy to thwart the country's laws giving the director authority over a movie's final cut.
The end result? Two and a half hours of badly edited and occasionally intelligible dialogue punctuated by random acts of violence, sex, and a lot of background nudity. Also, a lot of hurt feelings and lawsuits as the people associated with the film tried to back out. Vidal withdrew his name from the film, although he is still credited as writer of the screenplay from which the film is "adapted," and Tinto Brass, who directed most of the film, is touted as the principal photographer."
"Do you really think the only reason why MSFT is successful is because they cheat?"
If you mean successful at all, no. Inordinately 'successful', yes.
"A CEO that manages to put 50 billion dollars away for emergences is a damn good CEO."
Well, how about:
"A general that manages to wipe out the enemy with only a few men is a damn good general."
Which leads to the obvious question of, how did he do it? Nuking or gassing mass numbers of people, even if they are the enemy, is not looked upon highly. Neither, in my mind, should a CEO be considered great that achieves $50B in the bank by repeatedly breaking the law.
The Battle of Thermopylae, the Trojan War, the Peloponnesian War and the Punic Wars spring instantly to mind.
Hehe, good point. Gotta get yer kicks _somewhere_ though!
It's not that black and white. If it were, I should run to the tv every time Anne Coulter opens her maw and starts braying. I have better things to do with my blood pressure than listen to every idiot with an opinion.
"Allchin wants to engender a hip, consumer brand image for the company which is largely perceived as an enterprise software company"
;)
Flying reverse backthrash marketing double speak bullshit.
Summarized: "We're trying to shake the 'enterprise' image in favor of 'cool'"
Meaning: "We're still trying to be taken seriously at the enterprise level and are going to start speaking and acting as though we already were in order to help the illusion."
Classical psych warfare tactics. It's win-win for them no matter what with this. Either you buy the enterprise thing and through further marketing maybe actually begin to perceive them as cool, or you simply buy the enterprise statement and are thrown off of examining it by the 'Microsoft, cool?!' cognitive dissonance overriding it. Fucking masterful.
But don't mind me, I also sell foil hats at the flea market...
Troll. Inane jabs at Java and Borland aside, Nicklaus Wirth invented Pascal and has never worked for Microsoft.
A friend was once writing a fairly lengthy document with pen and paper while sitting on my couch during one of his stays in town. He had brought his laptop with him, so I asked why he wasn't using it. He explained that it was too easy to spend a lot of time editing and second-guessing instead of writing. So he did his initial drafts and main revisions on paper first, then put it into a wp for final tweaking and output.
"weight loss diet"
To me, this is the crux of the problem. There is no such thing as a "weight-loss diet", only a healthy diet and at least _some_ exercise. 2000 calories, 50% carb, 30% protien, 20% fats and a Centrum before bed is a start. You don't have to start off with push-ups and bicycling. But you have to MOVE your body. Even just basic standing, low-impact aerobics would be a good start if you are really overweight. If your metabolism is slow and you are prone to putting on weight, reduce the fat percentage a little and exercise more. Oh, and nature may simply not have designed you to _ever_ look like Arnold or Kate Moss. Get over it, get healthy and get happy with being yourself. However all that takes actual willpower and intelligent, independent application of thought to your food intake and activity. Our society is bred for quick-fix, baby-bird-with-open-maw consumer 'products' that try to eliminate those bothersome things. Thus, we have the Atkins diet and all the other leeches on people who should be being encouraged to be both physically and _mentally_ fit, rather than pandered to, ripped off or endangered with fringe science.
OK, rant off. Please someone tell me how out-of-touch, uneducated, ignorant, insensitive, generalizing and just plain wrong I am now.
"Make a product that's better than Windows on *all* counts"
Yeah, and the auto manufacturers should just stop making all those similar models that compete with one another and just give up until they can each release a model that is better than any other on *all* counts. Uh-huh.