One nit to pick: I really couldn't care less about "why" it's happening. You're not going to be able to make enough dent in the day-to-day lives of productive humans to eliminate carbon emissions. Just not going to happen. Therefore, if it's human-caused - tough noogies.
The real question to me is what, if any, changes do we plan for ahead of time? If we believe X is going to happen and we really don't like X, what can we do to mitigate it?
I've been running servers on Gentoo for a couple years now, no problems like the ones people are having currently. I only update a few bits at a time, none of that emerge world silliness. My desktops at work and home are ~x86 and they run fine, except I can't figure out why my X cursor theme is ignored inside the gecko rendering area in firefox on one of them and not the other......
Okay, Gentoo has some sorting out of leadership personalities to do, and there will be some shakeout, no big deal.
"You're obviously not a business owner. The purpose of a business is to make a profit. Period. Anything else is extra. There is no room on the bottom line for "social needs" of the employees."
I think you've missed the whole point of this article. Fact is, making a profit ofttimes/depends/ on the employer addressing the "social needs" of employees. If you're unable to hire good workers (labor is a supply/demand 'good', of course) because your policies are draconian, you can expect your bottom line to be hurt.
I was going to moderate, but this is more interesting: Why not drop the federal insanity towards currently illegal drugs and leave it as a state matter (as it ought to be)? Vast differences in the attitudes and treatment of drugs would spring forth, and the people would have the opportunity to decide which policies work best. I can easily envision a place like New Hampshire legalizing nearly everything while Mississippi retains most of the draconian laws currently on the federal books.
But why not give it a shot, when the trillions spent already have done nothing to stem the demand?
"But the societal problems of alcohol use remained."
Yes, and they'll remain unless you eradicate every possible way for a human to mess with his brain in a psychologically addictive way. Since that's highly unlikely to ever happen, why not try a more reasonable approach?
Just out of curiosity, how long does "an industry" have to stick around before your "prediction of doom" is proven the bullshit that it is? What the hell can you possibly mean with the "writing on the wall" nonsense if people have been making money at it for a few decades, and continue to do so??
Seriously, Palladium is "screwed"? They've been in business for 15 years at least! In a tiny little industry like paper and pencil games! How in the world does that equal "screwed" given any possibly definition of the word??
Interesting points, really. My only thing would be to assume it'll be essentially a self-contained community - and that might be enough, of course, given the volume of users.
I can, for instance, tell you that I will never be a fan of a reality show that comes out of there, nor will I buy a CD from "MySpace Records", etc. MySpace is the new AOL - very popular, but not at all interesting to those of us who've been here all along.
I might be too late to get an answer to this, but can you explain how your last paragraph (effects stack example of a drop-shadow) is implemented incorrectly in GIMP? For years you've been able to select a single layer, hit "drop shadow" and get a new layer, right underneath the one you're editing, with the drop shadow in it. Sounds exactly like what you're describing.
It's off by 20 meters and you're fucking complaining?
Don't know much about the realities of digital mapping, do you?
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In an ideal world, you wouldn't need Federal Agencies to counterbalance anything because the Federal gov't wouldn't have the power to impose laws like DMCA at the whim of big business.
Whenever you have enough power to give one group something at the expense of another, you'll have maggots working to make it happen. And the "special" interests will always win out over the "general". Always. The only solution is to not have the power available to be corrupted.
Seems to me to be a flaw in the idea of "income tax". Oh well, throw a few hundred more pages in the tax code, no big deal, right? As long as the gov't gets theirs and we can stick it to rich guys....
You mistake what I'm saying. "Best" is exactly what I mean. But the definition of "best" is utterly relative. What's "best" for you might be 100% broadband penetration, damn the tax cost! To me, "best" is certainly not that.
Unfortunately for socialists, the free market is usually the most successful method for maximizing "best" interests among all parties involved. Of course, there's no moral quotient to the expression, so occasionally the free market appears cruel and heartless.
It doesn't really matter since the JSF is the last manned fighter aircraft we'll bother to produce. WIll the SU37/47/whatever dream might show up be able to compete with a few dozen "predator-like" systems run by teenagers with itchy joystick fingers?
They were amazed by the slide-down ladder to get in and out of the B-1.
No, I'm not worried about them any more.
That said, I'm in total agreement about the sole engine provider. But I blame Lockheed 100%. "We never forget who we're working _over_..." The US taxpayer.
It's entirely bullshit. It's entirely political posturing so the Brits can get as much US tech as possible. They will be getting plenty from us, they're just bitching because they want it all. You know the way it goes: Beg for $20 from dad when you only really want $10...
Disclaimer: I know wayyyy too much about the JSF program.
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Thank you for pointing this out. Incredibly vital, yet missing entirely from most minds.
One nit to pick: I really couldn't care less about "why" it's happening. You're not going to be able to make enough dent in the day-to-day lives of productive humans to eliminate carbon emissions. Just not going to happen. Therefore, if it's human-caused - tough noogies.
The real question to me is what, if any, changes do we plan for ahead of time? If we believe X is going to happen and we really don't like X, what can we do to mitigate it?
I've been running servers on Gentoo for a couple years now, no problems like the ones people are having currently. I only update a few bits at a time, none of that emerge world silliness. My desktops at work and home are ~x86 and they run fine, except I can't figure out why my X cursor theme is ignored inside the gecko rendering area in firefox on one of them and not the other......
Okay, Gentoo has some sorting out of leadership personalities to do, and there will be some shakeout, no big deal.
"You're obviously not a business owner. The purpose of a business is to make a profit. Period. Anything else is extra. There is no room on the bottom line for "social needs" of the employees."
/depends/ on the employer addressing the "social needs" of employees. If you're unable to hire good workers (labor is a supply/demand 'good', of course) because your policies are draconian, you can expect your bottom line to be hurt.
I think you've missed the whole point of this article. Fact is, making a profit ofttimes
I was going to moderate, but this is more interesting: Why not drop the federal insanity towards currently illegal drugs and leave it as a state matter (as it ought to be)? Vast differences in the attitudes and treatment of drugs would spring forth, and the people would have the opportunity to decide which policies work best. I can easily envision a place like New Hampshire legalizing nearly everything while Mississippi retains most of the draconian laws currently on the federal books.
But why not give it a shot, when the trillions spent already have done nothing to stem the demand?
"But the societal problems of alcohol use remained."
Yes, and they'll remain unless you eradicate every possible way for a human to mess with his brain in a psychologically addictive way. Since that's highly unlikely to ever happen, why not try a more reasonable approach?
Just out of curiosity, how long does "an industry" have to stick around before your "prediction of doom" is proven the bullshit that it is? What the hell can you possibly mean with the "writing on the wall" nonsense if people have been making money at it for a few decades, and continue to do so??
Seriously, Palladium is "screwed"? They've been in business for 15 years at least! In a tiny little industry like paper and pencil games! How in the world does that equal "screwed" given any possibly definition of the word??
Interesting points, really. My only thing would be to assume it'll be essentially a self-contained community - and that might be enough, of course, given the volume of users.
I can, for instance, tell you that I will never be a fan of a reality show that comes out of there, nor will I buy a CD from "MySpace Records", etc. MySpace is the new AOL - very popular, but not at all interesting to those of us who've been here all along.
Sunlight and visibility = good.
Sarbanes-Oxley = bad.
Fraud = already illegal.
Accounting practices = different for every company, every state, every nation.
I might be too late to get an answer to this, but can you explain how your last paragraph (effects stack example of a drop-shadow) is implemented incorrectly in GIMP? For years you've been able to select a single layer, hit "drop shadow" and get a new layer, right underneath the one you're editing, with the drop shadow in it. Sounds exactly like what you're describing.
You're a contracts guy and you're receiving contracts all day long, sometimes from addresses you're unfamiliar with.
You're a recruiter (a not very savvy one) and you receive attachments from people you don't know all day long.
You get "fun stuff" from your friends all the time, and this one just happens to look like some of the others that were okay.......
Just throwing a few out there. Personally I dislike the entire existance of attachments in emails.
It's off by 20 meters and you're fucking complaining?
Don't know much about the realities of digital mapping, do you?
In an ideal world, you wouldn't need Federal Agencies to counterbalance anything because the Federal gov't wouldn't have the power to impose laws like DMCA at the whim of big business.
Whenever you have enough power to give one group something at the expense of another, you'll have maggots working to make it happen. And the "special" interests will always win out over the "general". Always. The only solution is to not have the power available to be corrupted.
Title says it all. Why anyone gets all a-twitter about anything MS comes up with is beyond me.
No, to make the text fucking tiny by default.
I HATE THAT. Web designers who purposely code tiny text should be lined up and drowned in pig vomit.
That's exactly the attitude that leaves us with the giant mess of a gov't we have now.
"Oh, it's all okay until it happens to me, then I want my guarantees."
Screw that. The shrugging stops when people stop handing stuff to you, like a free raise every year just because you're a part of a stupid union.
Please.
Price gougers!! They should be subject to a windfall profits tax!! :D
"Hint: England spends nothing whatsoever on its citizens. The NHS in England is run by the UK government."
Um. Tell us how much you pay in taxes every year and then try to write these two sentences again.
Well, you certainly lived up to your /. account name......
I don't know about you, but I stopped calling piss "wee" when I was about 4.
Seems to me to be a flaw in the idea of "income tax". Oh well, throw a few hundred more pages in the tax code, no big deal, right? As long as the gov't gets theirs and we can stick it to rich guys....
You mistake what I'm saying. "Best" is exactly what I mean. But the definition of "best" is utterly relative. What's "best" for you might be 100% broadband penetration, damn the tax cost! To me, "best" is certainly not that.
Unfortunately for socialists, the free market is usually the most successful method for maximizing "best" interests among all parties involved. Of course, there's no moral quotient to the expression, so occasionally the free market appears cruel and heartless.
It doesn't really matter since the JSF is the last manned fighter aircraft we'll bother to produce. WIll the SU37/47/whatever dream might show up be able to compete with a few dozen "predator-like" systems run by teenagers with itchy joystick fingers?
The Brits are already getting (or will get with agreements already in place) more than we wanted to give 'em.
This is like any major deal - you try to work the other side to get as much as you can, then settle for somewhat less. No big deal.
The Ruskies? HAHAHAHAHAHA
They were amazed by the slide-down ladder to get in and out of the B-1.
No, I'm not worried about them any more.
That said, I'm in total agreement about the sole engine provider. But I blame Lockheed 100%. "We never forget who we're working _over_..." The US taxpayer.
It's entirely bullshit. It's entirely political posturing so the Brits can get as much US tech as possible. They will be getting plenty from us, they're just bitching because they want it all. You know the way it goes: Beg for $20 from dad when you only really want $10...
Disclaimer: I know wayyyy too much about the JSF program.