If anyone can come up with a way to marry power generation equipment to human exercise, it's Google.
Imagine a big line of exercise bikes, loosely and efficiently coupled to a turbine...
I was leaving the Malibu Grill yesterday, and noting they had one of the wider revolving doors I've seen.
Considering the potential for gluttony at MG, they probably bring in some of the heavier members of society, justifying the door.
Harvesting energy from those carcasses would have a variety of personal, societal, environmental, and industrial benefits...
GP wasn't endorsing her thought. Specifically, I allowed that her ideas hold together well enough within the context of her writings.
How is it that the name alone has assumed Godwinian stature?
Concur. I would by no means accuse the KJV of being flawless. The use of the word 'unsurpassed' was deliberate. Some of the modern translations handle the material far more clearly (I John comes to mind as particularly tortuous in the KJV). Overall, though, the bulk of the modern work doesn't do much beyond sell additional copies and give the academics something to squak about.;)
always comes at the expense of freedom, because it forces the other to do something that they otherwise would not, or to not do something that they otherwise would.
It seems to me there is a hidden assertion of a constant personhood here, as well as another one that all exercises of power are always negative.
People change, often at the expense of exercise of power, in ways that enhance, rather than diminish freedom. Think of it as "pruning".
Parents exert power over children: "No, you cannot hang out with that drug dealer."
Which is not to say that power of all kinds isn't massively abused.
Possibly you're going to contend that this is 'influence', but I don't think that there is much support at the dictionary level for such a differentiation.
Paraphrasing Gump, "Power is as power does." Like property, it lacks any intrinsic good/evil character. Such good/evil attributes are firmly planted in the hearts of people.
In summary, I'm lukewarm on what I see as your negative read on power, sir.
(Feel free to run this through a Sean Connery voice)
King James Version, Ecclesiastes 1:1-7
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
You can argue (and I won't) some technical points on other translations: the KJV remains unsurpassed in English.:)
Aye, and after we've hit a 1,000 times or so, we can effectively convince these vendors that a market exists, and we do care.
Understood: licensing issues. Understand: market demand.
If ATI produces more enlightened products, your market goes by way of Soviet Russia.
I dunno.
This essay http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/free_for_all.peter_wayn er/13.html
falls well short of saying RMS is a Marxist. He prominently espouses Green Party candidates on his political notes page, and some Socialist ideas; hanging a "Marxist" label on the fellow seems and exercise in hanging a label.
My strictly personal take, having read bits and pieces of Marx, is that, like Ayn Rand, his ideas hold together well enough within the laboratory of his writings, but have had problematic implementations in history. Marx, in particluar (at the risk of getting tagged 'flamebait') partially cribbed some old ideas filed under "The Kingdom of Heaven" that really don't work unless consumed in their entirety.;)
http://www.classicshaving.com/Home.html
I've instructed the frau to get me a kit for the holidays.
It's in keeping with my bowties, manual transmission, KJV, and gentoo: gotta stay in character.
Aw, c'mon.
While I pretty much disagree with everything on http://stallman.org/archives/2006-jul-oct.html,
I will say that if you drop RMS a dispassionate, sincere note discussing most anything, he will eventually respond in kind.
Two points in particular he has made, privately (which I shall paraphrase here) that I'm still chewing on are:
Don't place blind faith in Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" to guide the marketplace.
Don't confuse power and freedom
The second one is still rather Yoda-ish to me.
Wishing out loud, I'd like to see RMS publish a fully-worked philosophical system. I'm still trying to puzzle out the foundations of his thought. But, based on experience thus far, "gentleman" fits.
Does it pass the 'so, what?' test?
If the loyal opposition thinks that correlating "miserable failure" with Bush or anyone else somehow a) matters and b) has appreciable effect on the thought process of a voter, then this is a sad thing.
Not shilling for Bush here, but what a sophomoric use of talent!
How about some dispassionate critiques of the current world political situation, followed by some fresh, well-researched suggestions for where policy should go, and some non-establishment faces to implement the ideas on the ballot?
Please?
"He hasn't hacked much new code in a decade or more."
This, at least, represents a questionable assertion.
A glance at http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel indicates that the gentleman stays fully engaged in emacs development, though one could contend that he does more managing than hacking, I suppose.
One could probably derive a text metric based on the number of gratuitous negative adjectives used in a piece against a target.
Past a certain limit, the author is wasting the reader's time.
This Forbes author broad-jumped past that limit, and deserves to be ignored.
1. Some kind of hybrid approach might be interesting; start with the actors and a character profile for each, then throw the plot events at them sequentially, and record what they say.
2. Editing follows, tweaking the dialogue to be more "in character". You could just record a good RPG session, and then make a script.
3. Can I get a business model patent on this?
4....
5. Profit!!!
Thank you for your concern regarding my bodily functions.
Meanwhile, your line of thinking is dooming an entire generation of tech support workers to continue putting up with the bullshit that is a 98 box trying to get networking running.
Trying to kickstart a little circulation above the neck, there are bootable ISOs aplenty, many of which target that old Packard Bell just fine.
Assuming tech support also stands to piss, they will know enough to tell people to run dhclient or whatever the distro uses to score an IP address, and all will be well.
Dunno whether it's cartel-like behavior, or lack of poddy-trained tech support, but any upstream tech-support wounds are basically self-inflicted.
And yeah, I'll agree that the footnote thing looks "pretenious" in retrospect.
Do I need more vulgarity?
MicroSoft has historically, and cleverly, built the market by putting out, shall we say "minimalist" interfaces and then let third parties do the grunt work of establishing the product category.
If the category becomes profitable, Mr. Softy can "find the principle, and buy him[1]"
You see this in tools, as Redmond pushes a Visual Studio release, and little third-party vendors groan as thier value-added kits have their coolness reduced by new chrome and tailfin on the library widgets.
I'm guessing that there will be suffiecient room to put some polish on 'Doze.
Too, there are going to be plenty of people that puke at the odious licensing policies, and stick with the tools that have helped them limp along thus far.
[1] To quote my personal favorite Redmond Sales drone, on the consumption of Groove Networks.
There is a substantial delta between telling someone frivolously to spend their own money[1]
on a new set of shackles, and parting with your own time and treasure to liberate them from said shackles.
Begone, androgynous blowhard.
[1]presumably to extend the grip of the fifth branch of government, Redmond
Yeah, but "salesmen" are less prone to horrifying technical glitches.
McNealy accidentally opens the copy intended for Steve Jobs, featuring a concert shot of Soundgarden doing "Black Hole Sun".
And, should a salesman do something of that magnitude, you can retaliate much better.
The inatimate object abuse in "Office Space", over the long haul, just isn't satisfying.
And when Larry Ellison re-launches the Network Computer for the third time or so, that will be recycled news.
Go, Larry!
Seriously, I can't see why Oracle wouldn't just make sure their product is highly portable across major distros. The Highlander play really only seems to work when you're cast with Sean Connnery.
None of the symbols we use to communicate are immutable.
The opinions of the dudes who wrote the Bill of Rights were not constant, either.
Why is this dark vision so resonant?
Because the increasingly complex legal system, far from being a means to the end of regulating society, is more a means unto itself.
One wonders what a graph against time of the legal costs spent on software by all companies would be. Frightening, I'd expect.
Your wish for an immortal law doesn't fit the legal business model and, ultimately, is just not quite real.;)
Came to the US in 2004. She says that she told the authorities she was ejecting.
They replied that, while changing continents was all very interesting, it didn't disprove her ownership of a TV or radio in Germany. (When she was a student in Ulm, she reports that they came by almost monthly, demanding entrance to inspect for gadgets).
She eventually had to cancel the bank account the authorities were tapping to stop the pain, after she had left the country.
My sister-in-law, still in Old Europe, is currently forced to prove that she doesn't own any of these gadgets.
Probably a libertarian argument in here somewhere...
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If anyone can come up with a way to marry power generation equipment to human exercise, it's Google.
Imagine a big line of exercise bikes, loosely and efficiently coupled to a turbine...
I was leaving the Malibu Grill yesterday, and noting they had one of the wider revolving doors I've seen.
Considering the potential for gluttony at MG, they probably bring in some of the heavier members of society, justifying the door.
Harvesting energy from those carcasses would have a variety of personal, societal, environmental, and industrial benefits...
GP wasn't endorsing her thought. Specifically, I allowed that her ideas hold together well enough within the context of her writings.
How is it that the name alone has assumed Godwinian stature?
"Brilliant!" said pointer-to-array-of-unsigned-long (paul).
Concur. I would by no means accuse the KJV of being flawless. The use of the word 'unsurpassed' was deliberate. Some of the modern translations handle the material far more clearly (I John comes to mind as particularly tortuous in the KJV). Overall, though, the bulk of the modern work doesn't do much beyond sell additional copies and give the academics something to squak about. ;)
People change, often at the expense of exercise of power, in ways that enhance, rather than diminish freedom. Think of it as "pruning".
Parents exert power over children: "No, you cannot hang out with that drug dealer."
Which is not to say that power of all kinds isn't massively abused.
Possibly you're going to contend that this is 'influence', but I don't think that there is much support at the dictionary level for such a differentiation.
Paraphrasing Gump, "Power is as power does." Like property, it lacks any intrinsic good/evil character. Such good/evil attributes are firmly planted in the hearts of people.
In summary, I'm lukewarm on what I see as your negative read on power, sir.
(Feel free to run this through a Sean Connery voice)
:)
King James Version, Ecclesiastes 1:1-7
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
You can argue (and I won't) some technical points on other translations: the KJV remains unsurpassed in English.
Aye, and after we've hit a 1,000 times or so, we can effectively convince these vendors that a market exists, and we do care.
Understood: licensing issues.
Understand: market demand.
If ATI produces more enlightened products, your market goes by way of Soviet Russia.
I dunno.n er/13.html ;)
This essay http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/free_for_all.peter_way
falls well short of saying RMS is a Marxist. He prominently espouses Green Party candidates on his political notes page, and some Socialist ideas; hanging a "Marxist" label on the fellow seems and exercise in hanging a label.
My strictly personal take, having read bits and pieces of Marx, is that, like Ayn Rand, his ideas hold together well enough within the laboratory of his writings, but have had problematic implementations in history. Marx, in particluar (at the risk of getting tagged 'flamebait') partially cribbed some old ideas filed under "The Kingdom of Heaven" that really don't work unless consumed in their entirety.
http://www.classicshaving.com/Home.html
I've instructed the frau to get me a kit for the holidays.
It's in keeping with my bowties, manual transmission, KJV, and gentoo: gotta stay in character.
What good are balls in the air, when they've insufficient balls to release the specs and/or the driver source?
Nothing like cutting off the video card to spite the monitor, no? ;)
While I pretty much disagree with everything on http://stallman.org/archives/2006-jul-oct.html,
I will say that if you drop RMS a dispassionate, sincere note discussing most anything, he will eventually respond in kind.
Two points in particular he has made, privately (which I shall paraphrase here) that I'm still chewing on are:
- Don't place blind faith in Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" to guide the marketplace.
- Don't confuse power and freedom
The second one is still rather Yoda-ish to me.Wishing out loud, I'd like to see RMS publish a fully-worked philosophical system. I'm still trying to puzzle out the foundations of his thought.
But, based on experience thus far, "gentleman" fits.
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsAndXEma cs
Does it pass the 'so, what?' test?
If the loyal opposition thinks that correlating "miserable failure" with Bush or anyone else somehow a) matters and b) has appreciable effect on the thought process of a voter, then this is a sad thing.
Not shilling for Bush here, but what a sophomoric use of talent!
How about some dispassionate critiques of the current world political situation, followed by some fresh, well-researched suggestions for where policy should go, and some non-establishment faces to implement the ideas on the ballot?
Please?
A glance at http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel indicates that the gentleman stays fully engaged in emacs development, though one could contend that he does more managing than hacking, I suppose.
One could probably derive a text metric based on the number of gratuitous negative adjectives used in a piece against a target.
Past a certain limit, the author is wasting the reader's time.
This Forbes author broad-jumped past that limit, and deserves to be ignored.
"The distro's just fantastic, that is really what I thinks, oh, by the way: Vista stinks..."
1. Some kind of hybrid approach might be interesting; start with the actors and a character profile for each, then throw the plot events at them sequentially, and record what they say. ...
2. Editing follows, tweaking the dialogue to be more "in character". You could just record a good RPG session, and then make a script.
3. Can I get a business model patent on this?
4.
5. Profit!!!
Assuming tech support also stands to piss, they will know enough to tell people to run dhclient or whatever the distro uses to score an IP address, and all will be well.
Dunno whether it's cartel-like behavior, or lack of poddy-trained tech support, but any upstream tech-support wounds are basically self-inflicted.
And yeah, I'll agree that the footnote thing looks "pretenious" in retrospect.
Do I need more vulgarity?
MicroSoft has historically, and cleverly, built the market by putting out, shall we say "minimalist" interfaces and then let third parties do the grunt work of establishing the product category.
If the category becomes profitable, Mr. Softy can "find the principle, and buy him[1]"
You see this in tools, as Redmond pushes a Visual Studio release, and little third-party vendors groan as thier value-added kits have their coolness reduced by new chrome and tailfin on the library widgets. I'm guessing that there will be suffiecient room to put some polish on 'Doze.
Too, there are going to be plenty of people that puke at the odious licensing policies, and stick with the tools that have helped them limp along thus far.
[1] To quote my personal favorite Redmond Sales drone, on the consumption of Groove Networks.
There is a substantial delta between telling someone frivolously to spend their own money[1] on a new set of shackles, and parting with your own time and treasure to liberate them from said shackles.
Begone, androgynous blowhard.
[1]presumably to extend the grip of the fifth branch of government, Redmond
Cue Bryan Adams "Cuts Like a Knife"
Yeah, but "salesmen" are less prone to horrifying technical glitches.
McNealy accidentally opens the copy intended for Steve Jobs, featuring a concert shot of Soundgarden doing "Black Hole Sun".
And, should a salesman do something of that magnitude, you can retaliate much better.
The inatimate object abuse in "Office Space", over the long haul, just isn't satisfying.
And when Larry Ellison re-launches the Network Computer for the third time or so, that will be recycled news.
Go, Larry!
Seriously, I can't see why Oracle wouldn't just make sure their product is highly portable across major distros. The Highlander play really only seems to work when you're cast with Sean Connnery.
None of the symbols we use to communicate are immutable. ;)
The opinions of the dudes who wrote the Bill of Rights were not constant, either.
Why is this dark vision so resonant?
Because the increasingly complex legal system, far from being a means to the end of regulating society, is more a means unto itself.
One wonders what a graph against time of the legal costs spent on software by all companies would be. Frightening, I'd expect.
Your wish for an immortal law doesn't fit the legal business model and, ultimately, is just not quite real.
Came to the US in 2004. She says that she told the authorities she was ejecting.
They replied that, while changing continents was all very interesting, it didn't disprove her ownership of a TV or radio in Germany. (When she was a student in Ulm, she reports that they came by almost monthly, demanding entrance to inspect for gadgets).
She eventually had to cancel the bank account the authorities were tapping to stop the pain, after she had left the country.
My sister-in-law, still in Old Europe, is currently forced to prove that she doesn't own any of these gadgets.
Probably a libertarian argument in here somewhere...