There are already varying degrees of "public," for example a kid's artwork hanging on the wall in the school hallway is only semi-public, because access to the school is semi-controlled. But if something can be seen from the sidewalk, literally anyone in the entire world could walk by at any time and look at it, same as if it's on the Internet. I don't think your distinction between "public" and "on the Internet" makes sense.
The sane solution would be a single and final clear/bounce, where the bank eats any loss
That would require personal responsibility on the part of the bank, and as we all know, personal responsibility in the finance world is a customer-only kind of thing.
What? Come on, folks, Alien stopped being interesting or even scary after the creature erupted from the guy's chest and the characters started wandering off alone to get killed. You can tick them off one by one the moment they walk away from the safety of the group. You know be dead in a couple minutes. Scott even used the B-movie cliche of having a character enter a scary room and slowly turn around while looking up at the ceiling until he walks backwards into the creature [facepalm]. Alien was well acted and was certainly a great technical production, but how it ever became "a masterpiece of horror" is a huge mystery.
Are you mainly looking for software to catalog your family history or software to search out your ancestry?
My wife is a long-time user of Family Tree Maker (which is sold by Ancestry.com) to compile her mother's voluminous genealogical research. From what I've seen of the Family Tree Maker software it seems pretty robust. I know it can generate Word docs and interact with other software. Sorry to hear that Ancestry.com's research feature seems like a ripoff, but I don't think you should judge Family Tree Maker by that. The idea of most genealogy software is to organize and display your family history, not to discover it for you. That kind of research tends to involve using a wide variety of resources that haven't been digitized yet.
Since the American prosperity boom ended sometime in the mid-to-late 60s business in the U.S. has been mostly about cutting corners. Outside of the digital industry, innovation has been overwhelmingly about making things cheaper to produce rather than inventing new or better things. For a trivial example, in my lifetime store-bought pies have gotten smaller and flatter and the bases have been flared inward so far that a 9-inch pie you buy today contains as much actual pie as maybe a 7-inch pie 30 years ago.
Competition can improve things, but there's a Moore's Law type of limit on this when competition is based almost entirely on improving efficiency. When costs have been trimmed as low as they can be, businesses are making the least profit they can operate on, and customers are paying the highest tolerable price for the lowest tolerable value, where do things go from there? I have no idea, but the Internet is accelerating us toward that point, as free flowing information gives everybody access to everybody else's best deal.
There's a site called Slashdot.com where if you have good karma you can disable ads, so from a user experience point of view it doesn't have a subscription or ads. But seriously, what the poster obviously meant by "free" was that people can use it without paying for it, like over-the-air television or radio.
If we see this reported at all in the Rupert Murdoch sector of the media, I predict it will be misinterpreted as a claim by anti-business liberal alarmist scientists that cellphones are bad for you.
I remember back in the early 90s when a guy showed me an 8Gb backup tape he had in his shirt pocket and I thought, Holy Crap, 8 GIGA-bytes fits in your pocket now? That's Awesome! And now, years later, you can carry many times that much data on a keychain. Equally Awesome. And this, this translator thing... totally and completely Awesome and Amazing. If you picture yourself as someone from say 100 years ago looking at today's world, some things we take for granted are pretty much like magic.
If the woman reads an article about rape trauma syndrome she can bring in her own imperfect memory of the information inside her own head, but she can't bring it in physical form. That seems pretty arbitrary, and dangerously similar to the rule that the umpire is always right in baseball regardless of what the instant replay shows. Judges have no control over what information sources jurors have used prior to a trial, when they may or may not have randomly acquired relevant expertise.
That's a pretty interesting idea. I wonder if Amazon would go for it. But I wouldn't want them to become dependent on an advertiser for free hosting. That would be like running your home business out of the spare bedroom in your friend's house.
I agree if it's a survival issue, but I don't think they should make such a major policy decision based on some highly vocal people being annoyed. If begging for money works, it works. It doesn't have to be wildly successful, it just has to work barely enough.
Exactly. The requirement to buy insurance is simply in lieu of the government taking your money and doing it for you. This point is so obvious it's hard to believe opponents are truly missing it. I think they are just desperate to make any kind of argument, no matter how weak. Seeing how violently incensed people get over this one particular clause in the plan makes me shake my head and wonder, but then I think of how audiences react to pro wrestling and it's really not a mystery. America has become the land of the dumbed-down.
But every citizen is required to pay taxes which are then paid to the small set of private companies that build the roads. The only difference I can see between that and the health care clause is that individuals get to choose which insurance company gets their money. We don't have that degree of control over how our highway taxes and other taxes are spent.
I gather from comments that a big portion of the current Irish budget problem is debt for bailing out banks.
It's easy to gather that from comments anywhere, because the general public has been convinced by political pundits that these bailouts consist of the government handing out free money. In reality, business bailouts mostly take the form of loans which governments expect to be paid back at a profit. Yes this does increase the national debt, but not in the same way as when the government simply spends money to provide some kind of service that returns nothing.
Zoning regulations already prohibit heavy industry in residential areas -- this prevents excess stress on local roads, power supplies, water supplies, sewage systems, etc. Seems to me that car chargers shouldn't be approved for residential use unless the power grid can handle them, for the same reason you wouldn't build an aluminum factory in a neighborhood.
Slashdot Mirror
Just scrawl "Liberal Socialists Doing Scary Bad Stuff!" on the screen in permanent marker and look at it every five minutes.
Anybody know where the article went? The linked blog entry is tagged "leather case" and "crash" but says nothing about either.
There are already varying degrees of "public," for example a kid's artwork hanging on the wall in the school hallway is only semi-public, because access to the school is semi-controlled. But if something can be seen from the sidewalk, literally anyone in the entire world could walk by at any time and look at it, same as if it's on the Internet. I don't think your distinction between "public" and "on the Internet" makes sense.
Actually some pretty good music comes out of Nigeria. Especially if you like jazz.
It's all about Freedom! Because how can we be free if the people with a compulsive need to own everything aren't free to own everything?
1. Invite the authors of that dress code to visit where I work.
2. Their heads asplode.
3. Profit!!
The sane solution would be a single and final clear/bounce, where the bank eats any loss
That would require personal responsibility on the part of the bank, and as we all know, personal responsibility in the finance world is a customer-only kind of thing.
... Ridley Scott's SF horror masterpiece ...
What? Come on, folks, Alien stopped being interesting or even scary after the creature erupted from the guy's chest and the characters started wandering off alone to get killed. You can tick them off one by one the moment they walk away from the safety of the group. You know be dead in a couple minutes. Scott even used the B-movie cliche of having a character enter a scary room and slowly turn around while looking up at the ceiling until he walks backwards into the creature [facepalm]. Alien was well acted and was certainly a great technical production, but how it ever became "a masterpiece of horror" is a huge mystery.
Are you mainly looking for software to catalog your family history or software to search out your ancestry?
My wife is a long-time user of Family Tree Maker (which is sold by Ancestry.com) to compile her mother's voluminous genealogical research. From what I've seen of the Family Tree Maker software it seems pretty robust. I know it can generate Word docs and interact with other software. Sorry to hear that Ancestry.com's research feature seems like a ripoff, but I don't think you should judge Family Tree Maker by that. The idea of most genealogy software is to organize and display your family history, not to discover it for you. That kind of research tends to involve using a wide variety of resources that haven't been digitized yet.
Since the American prosperity boom ended sometime in the mid-to-late 60s business in the U.S. has been mostly about cutting corners. Outside of the digital industry, innovation has been overwhelmingly about making things cheaper to produce rather than inventing new or better things. For a trivial example, in my lifetime store-bought pies have gotten smaller and flatter and the bases have been flared inward so far that a 9-inch pie you buy today contains as much actual pie as maybe a 7-inch pie 30 years ago.
Competition can improve things, but there's a Moore's Law type of limit on this when competition is based almost entirely on improving efficiency. When costs have been trimmed as low as they can be, businesses are making the least profit they can operate on, and customers are paying the highest tolerable price for the lowest tolerable value, where do things go from there? I have no idea, but the Internet is accelerating us toward that point, as free flowing information gives everybody access to everybody else's best deal.
There's a site called Slashdot.com where if you have good karma you can disable ads, so from a user experience point of view it doesn't have a subscription or ads. But seriously, what the poster obviously meant by "free" was that people can use it without paying for it, like over-the-air television or radio.
If we see this reported at all in the Rupert Murdoch sector of the media, I predict it will be misinterpreted as a claim by anti-business liberal alarmist scientists that cellphones are bad for you.
I downloaded the latest edition from GalactiNet and got all the way up to building a time machine.
Wait, I shouldn't have said that.
I remember back in the early 90s when a guy showed me an 8Gb backup tape he had in his shirt pocket and I thought, Holy Crap, 8 GIGA-bytes fits in your pocket now? That's Awesome! And now, years later, you can carry many times that much data on a keychain. Equally Awesome. And this, this translator thing... totally and completely Awesome and Amazing. If you picture yourself as someone from say 100 years ago looking at today's world, some things we take for granted are pretty much like magic.
If the woman reads an article about rape trauma syndrome she can bring in her own imperfect memory of the information inside her own head, but she can't bring it in physical form. That seems pretty arbitrary, and dangerously similar to the rule that the umpire is always right in baseball regardless of what the instant replay shows. Judges have no control over what information sources jurors have used prior to a trial, when they may or may not have randomly acquired relevant expertise.
That's a pretty interesting idea. I wonder if Amazon would go for it. But I wouldn't want them to become dependent on an advertiser for free hosting. That would be like running your home business out of the spare bedroom in your friend's house.
I agree if it's a survival issue, but I don't think they should make such a major policy decision based on some highly vocal people being annoyed. If begging for money works, it works. It doesn't have to be wildly successful, it just has to work barely enough.
The term "technology" nowadays means "a few trivial lines of code."
Exactly. The requirement to buy insurance is simply in lieu of the government taking your money and doing it for you. This point is so obvious it's hard to believe opponents are truly missing it. I think they are just desperate to make any kind of argument, no matter how weak. Seeing how violently incensed people get over this one particular clause in the plan makes me shake my head and wonder, but then I think of how audiences react to pro wrestling and it's really not a mystery. America has become the land of the dumbed-down.
But every citizen is required to pay taxes which are then paid to the small set of private companies that build the roads. The only difference I can see between that and the health care clause is that individuals get to choose which insurance company gets their money. We don't have that degree of control over how our highway taxes and other taxes are spent.
Chernobyl as a tourist attraction sounds like an episode of Futurama.
I think SAGA used to serve this when I was in college. Or it might have been meatloaf. I was never sure.
Whats the difference between your car sucking power hour after hour and your air conditioner along with many other devices running all summer/winter?
There's no difference. The problem is adding electric car chargers on top of all that other stuff that's already running.
I gather from comments that a big portion of the current Irish budget problem is debt for bailing out banks.
It's easy to gather that from comments anywhere, because the general public has been convinced by political pundits that these bailouts consist of the government handing out free money. In reality, business bailouts mostly take the form of loans which governments expect to be paid back at a profit. Yes this does increase the national debt, but not in the same way as when the government simply spends money to provide some kind of service that returns nothing.
Zoning regulations already prohibit heavy industry in residential areas -- this prevents excess stress on local roads, power supplies, water supplies, sewage systems, etc. Seems to me that car chargers shouldn't be approved for residential use unless the power grid can handle them, for the same reason you wouldn't build an aluminum factory in a neighborhood.