They were sold here originally, but they did not sell well.
What the parent meant (I'd guess) is that BMW re-introduced the brand recently to give it a boost in average fuel consumption.
It's interesting to note that Americans drive what they feel like they need, and the rest of the world does as well. If you've ever had the opportunity to drive around an actual countryside and USE an SUV for what it's meant for, you'd understand.
If Mozilla happens to crash on your personal "professional" machine, so be it, don't use it. On my "professional" machine, it had run flawlessly for months (as did IE).
Then I installed Redhat (more "professional" I guess) and I use it all the time, and no errors here either.
It occurs to me that no software is going to be solid on every machine, in every instance. It's obvious that some people have IE crashing all the time, while others (like that Josh guy above who just 'installed' Mozilla and had problems) have the same crashing nonsense with Mozilla... Use what works and quite bitching.:)
The only reason to bother is to continually reinforce what we already know (as an affirmation that yes, this spamming guy really is a dick!).
Also, there's no reason to assume that/. is a closed community. There will always be newcomers checking the site out for the first time, who might not realize that spam is the scourge that it is.
Besides, as a regular/. reader, there's nothing to force you to read this story. Just ignore it and move on.
On one hand, I agree, but I think it's the market that can make this happen: If enough people demand that GM foods are labeled, the companies will label them as such.
However, a much better solution, IMO, would be to buy food from local growers and whole food markets who make sure to tell you what is in their foods. In other words, instead of forcing companies who don't want to into labeling things, buy from those who do so willingly! Buy only from organic farmers, and they'll grow bigger and better over time. Get your friends to do so as well, maybe you can start a movement.
But don't lean back and say "woe is me, those evil corporations are making me eat GM food." Because they're not.
> I'm glad that you're so all knowing that you couldn't _possibly_ eat something thats bad for you without being aware of it. I mean, you're too smart for that, right?
Of course I'm not that smart. But if I really care that my food has GM elements in it, I'd surely be smart enough to check it out on my own.
My point about the free market is this: A fuckup made by a company certainly should be reported, I have no problem with that. I have a problem with people who demand that the gov't tell us what we should eat every step of the way. See my other reply to the other guy for more.
I should have come back to this sooner, I always forget. Anyway, let me respond to this now in the hopes that maybe you'll see it...
You do have a choice. Demand that the company label its food. If you don't get the answer you want, go to a different company. Now, you might say, "all the companies are too big!" And in a sense you're right, but there are a number of smaller, 'organic' growers that you could buy from. Go to local farmer's markets. Go to "whole foods" stores.
It might cost you a little more, but if you're in a position to care about the genes in your food, you likely have enough money to selective buy your food.
For instance, most of the time, I don't care what I eat, but when I do, I'm lucky enough to have a Fresh Fields grocery store near me. They are all over the 'wholesome living' thing.
My point is: The market CAN make labeling useful. If you can't find stuff that IS labeled GM, find stuff that is proudly labeled as NOT GM. If enough consumers really truly care about it, the market will respond.
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Let's see, a "brand new" tech for aviation, at least for those of us who haven't heard of it before. Hmm.... let's think about this for a little bit.
Oh wait. You're probably not a nerd. Okay, that explains your confusion then.
Please, federal government / UN: Tell us what to eat! Tell us what is safe! We will eat turds if you tell us they'll prevent cancer!
No one forces you to eat this stuff, if you don't like it, dont' eat it.
This article is total FUD for the anti-capitalist left. I don't disagree with all their arguments, but stuff like this brings out the free-marketer in me.
Your 'gardener' sig takes the cake in this case. Where should we stop? At what point is selective breeding okay and genetic modification by other means not okay? Is there a fine line we should be walking? Please enlighten us.
Thank you for your voice of reason. I'm glad you got modded up to 5.
Where I've been living in Northen VA, which is admitted on the outskirts of the busier areas, I've had the opportunity to choose between two cable companies.
One was the 'normal' choice for people in the neighborhood, and I was shocked to be getting ad's for another in the mail. Since the first was incredibly inept at setting up cable modem access, I switched to the other, and life was wonderful (better service, the modem, less expense long term).
No idea whether you'll see this or not (forgot to check to post a reply), but the way I'm using it, PEAR Cache saves results as files (in a script-specified directory).
File access is much much quicker that parsing large XML files every time. It's the difference between waiting for PHP to load the XMl file, load the XSL file, parse the two so you get one HTML file, vs. just loading the pregenerated HTML results.
The trick is to use a Cache ID value that takes into account the file modification time of the XML and XSL files, so that when they change, you refresh your cache...
No 'ability' to cache parsed XML? Perhaps not as a native, built-in, C-written function, but you can do it with the PEAR Cache library. It's really trivial once you get the hang of it.
Keep your weird morals regarding taxation out of my wallet.
Sales tax is NOT regressive. Do you actually think rich people don't buy things? Do you have any idea how much sales tax there is on a yacht?
Do you think somehow that necessities are taxed with a sales tax? Food, etc? Don't you think that places with higher sales tax and no income tax would be smart enough to make sure that the poor aren't hammered by it?
You apparently haven't heard the concept of small businesses. There are TONS of them around the U.S. Look for 'em under rocks and in small office spaces...
I happen to enjoy someone taking some shots when they find something that looks good. What I can't understand is why someone would take the time to rip on the entire community... while he's a part of the community. Go away.
We should not worry overmuch about using "all the oil" because we don't know how much there really is (except to know that it's a real big number), and as technology continues its inexorable march, there will come a time in our lifetimes (unless you're real old:)) that oil will not be the basis of all our energy needs.
Yet if you want to practice hard-core green lifestyles, don't let me stand in the way. To each their own.
1. This is just not true. Design of flash stuff for web sites is always more expensive than design on nice, clean and simple HTML. Because the graphics guys can demand more $$. Also, have you looked at the W3C guidelines? It's really very simple to meet them, particularly if you are any good as using CSS.
2. I can't disagree with this one, and I certainly think the ADA should butt out of private business. However, if the gov't (all levels of it) wants to have ADA guidelines apply to their sites, go for it!
And the browser comment at the end is just a strawman...
I agree with you in principle, that the gov't should not mandate this... but the gov't IS making it relatively easy.
You can design your pages to do whatever you want. Any possible horrid flash stuff can go in there. But if it's a gov't sponsored / paid for page, you have to have that same content in another form that is easy for the disabled to use.
I don't have a problem with that, for the most part...
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They were sold here originally, but they did not sell well.
What the parent meant (I'd guess) is that BMW re-introduced the brand recently to give it a boost in average fuel consumption.
It's interesting to note that Americans drive what they feel like they need, and the rest of the world does as well. If you've ever had the opportunity to drive around an actual countryside and USE an SUV for what it's meant for, you'd understand.
It was funny. Ha ha. I'm surprised you didn't see it.
They should call it Adult Red Dragon. Why not, pick a suitably fun creature from an old Monster Manual and have fun.
If Mozilla happens to crash on your personal "professional" machine, so be it, don't use it. On my "professional" machine, it had run flawlessly for months (as did IE).
:)
Then I installed Redhat (more "professional" I guess) and I use it all the time, and no errors here either.
It occurs to me that no software is going to be solid on every machine, in every instance. It's obvious that some people have IE crashing all the time, while others (like that Josh guy above who just 'installed' Mozilla and had problems) have the same crashing nonsense with Mozilla... Use what works and quite bitching.
The only reason to bother is to continually reinforce what we already know (as an affirmation that yes, this spamming guy really is a dick!).
/. is a closed community. There will always be newcomers checking the site out for the first time, who might not realize that spam is the scourge that it is.
/. reader, there's nothing to force you to read this story. Just ignore it and move on.
Also, there's no reason to assume that
Besides, as a regular
On one hand, I agree, but I think it's the market that can make this happen: If enough people demand that GM foods are labeled, the companies will label them as such.
However, a much better solution, IMO, would be to buy food from local growers and whole food markets who make sure to tell you what is in their foods. In other words, instead of forcing companies who don't want to into labeling things, buy from those who do so willingly! Buy only from organic farmers, and they'll grow bigger and better over time. Get your friends to do so as well, maybe you can start a movement.
But don't lean back and say "woe is me, those evil corporations are making me eat GM food." Because they're not.
> > Tell us what is safe!
> I'm glad that you're so all knowing that you couldn't _possibly_ eat something thats bad for you without being aware of it. I mean, you're too smart for that, right?
Of course I'm not that smart. But if I really care that my food has GM elements in it, I'd surely be smart enough to check it out on my own.
My point about the free market is this: A fuckup made by a company certainly should be reported, I have no problem with that. I have a problem with people who demand that the gov't tell us what we should eat every step of the way. See my other reply to the other guy for more.
I should have come back to this sooner, I always forget. Anyway, let me respond to this now in the hopes that maybe you'll see it...
You do have a choice. Demand that the company label its food. If you don't get the answer you want, go to a different company. Now, you might say, "all the companies are too big!" And in a sense you're right, but there are a number of smaller, 'organic' growers that you could buy from. Go to local farmer's markets. Go to "whole foods" stores.
It might cost you a little more, but if you're in a position to care about the genes in your food, you likely have enough money to selective buy your food.
For instance, most of the time, I don't care what I eat, but when I do, I'm lucky enough to have a Fresh Fields grocery store near me. They are all over the 'wholesome living' thing.
My point is: The market CAN make labeling useful. If you can't find stuff that IS labeled GM, find stuff that is proudly labeled as NOT GM. If enough consumers really truly care about it, the market will respond.
Let's see, a "brand new" tech for aviation, at least for those of us who haven't heard of it before. Hmm.... let's think about this for a little bit.
Oh wait. You're probably not a nerd. Okay, that explains your confusion then.
Agreed.
Please, federal government / UN: Tell us what to eat! Tell us what is safe! We will eat turds if you tell us they'll prevent cancer!
No one forces you to eat this stuff, if you don't like it, dont' eat it.
This article is total FUD for the anti-capitalist left. I don't disagree with all their arguments, but stuff like this brings out the free-marketer in me.
Oh please.
Your 'gardener' sig takes the cake in this case. Where should we stop? At what point is selective breeding okay and genetic modification by other means not okay? Is there a fine line we should be walking? Please enlighten us.
73 is untrue as written, but if the list maker had happened to use the word "translucent" instead of "transparent" he'd have been absolutely correct.
/STILL/ cannot handle alpha channel, partially-transparent PNGs. It's retarded just on that alone.
IE
Sorry to hear you don't like the constitution. Sorry we don't have a more European style of gov't. Maybe next time.
High priority voting weight?
Count the electoral college votes in Montana compared with Florida, NY, Texas, California... places with much higher populations.
Then tell me how Montana gets a bigger share, somehow.
Thank you for your voice of reason. I'm glad you got modded up to 5.
Where I've been living in Northen VA, which is admitted on the outskirts of the busier areas, I've had the opportunity to choose between two cable companies.
One was the 'normal' choice for people in the neighborhood, and I was shocked to be getting ad's for another in the mail. Since the first was incredibly inept at setting up cable modem access, I switched to the other, and life was wonderful (better service, the modem, less expense long term).
So I guess it all depends on where you live...
No idea whether you'll see this or not (forgot to check to post a reply), but the way I'm using it, PEAR Cache saves results as files (in a script-specified directory).
File access is much much quicker that parsing large XML files every time. It's the difference between waiting for PHP to load the XMl file, load the XSL file, parse the two so you get one HTML file, vs. just loading the pregenerated HTML results.
The trick is to use a Cache ID value that takes into account the file modification time of the XML and XSL files, so that when they change, you refresh your cache...
No 'ability' to cache parsed XML? Perhaps not as a native, built-in, C-written function, but you can do it with the PEAR Cache library. It's really trivial once you get the hang of it.
(I'm doing it all the time)
Keep your weird morals regarding taxation out of my wallet.
Sales tax is NOT regressive. Do you actually think rich people don't buy things? Do you have any idea how much sales tax there is on a yacht?
Do you think somehow that necessities are taxed with a sales tax? Food, etc? Don't you think that places with higher sales tax and no income tax would be smart enough to make sure that the poor aren't hammered by it?
Ah, still in college I see. That explains a lot.
Well, the story is long gone, but....
You apparently haven't heard the concept of small businesses. There are TONS of them around the U.S. Look for 'em under rocks and in small office spaces...
If it's so horrid why don't you just leave?
I happen to enjoy someone taking some shots when they find something that looks good. What I can't understand is why someone would take the time to rip on the entire community... while he's a part of the community. Go away.
Oh shut up and quit crying. MAN, I never heard a bigger bunch of crybabies than you people who get all weepy when the /. editors choose to bash MS.
/. It's not exactly an unbiased source...
I dont' know why it surprises anyone, either.
Uh, this is bad?
Outsourcing = someone is working at another company! The trick is, get hired by the outsourcee, not the outsourcer...
Damn, someone refuses to buy into the worrywort mindset and keeps an (admittedly idealistic) positive view of the future, and you just can't take it.
Don't be such a pessimist, and quit the self-aggrandizing "I must be smarter than you" nonsense.
Yep, absolutely correct. :)
:)) that oil will not be the basis of all our energy needs.
We should not worry overmuch about using "all the oil" because we don't know how much there really is (except to know that it's a real big number), and as technology continues its inexorable march, there will come a time in our lifetimes (unless you're real old
Yet if you want to practice hard-core green lifestyles, don't let me stand in the way. To each their own.
Pretty well thought out, but....
1. This is just not true. Design of flash stuff for web sites is always more expensive than design on nice, clean and simple HTML. Because the graphics guys can demand more $$. Also, have you looked at the W3C guidelines? It's really very simple to meet them, particularly if you are any good as using CSS.
2. I can't disagree with this one, and I certainly think the ADA should butt out of private business. However, if the gov't (all levels of it) wants to have ADA guidelines apply to their sites, go for it!
And the browser comment at the end is just a strawman...
I agree with you in principle, that the gov't should not mandate this... but the gov't IS making it relatively easy.
You can design your pages to do whatever you want. Any possible horrid flash stuff can go in there. But if it's a gov't sponsored / paid for page, you have to have that same content in another form that is easy for the disabled to use.
I don't have a problem with that, for the most part...