even as the U.S. endures its warmest year on record (the 13 warmest years for the entire planet have all occurred since 1998)
Now see, statements like this are what make me so wary of trusting anything out of the mouths of the more fanatical members of the environmental movement. Really? So it's hotter today that it was during the Mesozoic era, when Antarctica was a desert (or even during the Paleozoic era, when it was a swamp)? Hotter than when earth's surface was made of *molten lava*? Really?
I have no doubt that global warming is happening, and am willing to accept that the cause is, at least in part, caused by man pumping shit-tons of crap into the atmosphere. But I've grown more than a little sick of Chicken Little, crazy-eyed alarmists preaching apocalyptic sermons with utterly ridiculous language that makes it sound like the fucking end is nigh if mankind doesn't abolish all industry NOW NOW NOW RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!! And spouting off laughably ridiculous "facts" like "the 13 warmest years for the entire planet have all occurred since 1998" only makes them sound even more like a bunch of religious zealots than they already do.
The sad thing is that most reporters don't even question this patently obvious bullshit anymore, lest someone label them a GW denier.
It would be nice to think that everyone would all do it, making it basically impossible to harass individual exit nodes. That's certainly the theory behind Tor. And it's a noble idea.
But then again, let's face it, most people are leechers. And unless you could find a way to encourage mass adoption of Tor, combined with a default (perhaps even mandatory) setting of "allow exit node", it's probably not going to work.
Maybe they could bundle it in with some really popular apps or games. Offer "This game $10 for the regular version/free with Tor" specials.
Anyone could also see that Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs (it's unrealistic to expect that of ANYONE). Why everyone just assumed that Apple could continue on without taking at least some hit with the loss of Steve Jobs that is beyond me. Love him or hate him, you have to admit that there are very few leaders capable of inspiring and leading Apple staff (or bullying/conning them, if you want to take that view) quite like Steve Jobs.
The small screen comes with smaller budgets (and even smaller when you divide it out over the number of episodes) which means that a lot of the super powers look hokey.
Exactly. This is a what a lot of comic book fans don't understand. TV shows simply can't afford the kind of FX you have in movies. That's why comic book shows tend to focus on romantic relationships (i.e., Lois and Clark) and all the other non-superhero stuff. It's also why every fight scene in Smallville can be summarized by the following:
1) Fight with this awesome supervillian is hyped all season 2) Everyone in series says this will be the fight Superboy can't win 3) Actual fight lasts 1-2 minutes and consists of supervillian throwing Superboy around a couple of times and then Superboy tackling them and winning.
From Jelly Bean and forward, paid apps in Google Play are encrypted with a device-specific key before they are delivered and stored on the device. We know you work hard building your apps. We work hard to protect your investment.
Well in about 5+ years, when developers can abandon earlier versions, that should really help out a lot.
And they wonder why iOS stays on top. It's not just because of numbers of hipness, you know. It's also because, for developers, it means not having to deal with Google's sloppy, haphazard approach in Android to everything the Apple does so professionally in iOS (especially when it comes to the App Store vs. the Android Marketplace). This is just another example.
If you want to get an idea of what this looks like in practice, just look at Brazil. The rich live in heavily-secured opulence, the poor live in abysmal poverty.
People will be freed up for creative jobs, jobs that involve human intelligence which can't be done by machines.
And what are the non-creative idiots going to do for a living? Working in the environments that most of us/.ers work in, it's easy to forget that they're still the majority, you know.
or years, the U.S. has been hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs to China because of the vastly cheaper labor pool. But now, several different technologies have ripened to the point where U.S. companies are bringing some operations back home.
These two sentences don't mesh in the way I think you meant them to. The new technologies may allow companies to bring the OPERATIONS back home, but not the JOBS. If anything, they will allow many manufacturing operations still in the U.S. to cut even more jobs (though not send them overseas).
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Considering how few games there are for Linux on Steam right now, how about you stop talking and start porting?
How about a ban on stupid trailer-park dumbass kids who ruin it for the rest of us?
even as the U.S. endures its warmest year on record (the 13 warmest years for the entire planet have all occurred since 1998)
Now see, statements like this are what make me so wary of trusting anything out of the mouths of the more fanatical members of the environmental movement. Really? So it's hotter today that it was during the Mesozoic era, when Antarctica was a desert (or even during the Paleozoic era, when it was a swamp)? Hotter than when earth's surface was made of *molten lava*? Really?
I have no doubt that global warming is happening, and am willing to accept that the cause is, at least in part, caused by man pumping shit-tons of crap into the atmosphere. But I've grown more than a little sick of Chicken Little, crazy-eyed alarmists preaching apocalyptic sermons with utterly ridiculous language that makes it sound like the fucking end is nigh if mankind doesn't abolish all industry NOW NOW NOW RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!! And spouting off laughably ridiculous "facts" like "the 13 warmest years for the entire planet have all occurred since 1998" only makes them sound even more like a bunch of religious zealots than they already do.
The sad thing is that most reporters don't even question this patently obvious bullshit anymore, lest someone label them a GW denier.
It just goes on, and on, and on, and on....
MMO's, tic-tac-toe, and thermonuclear war...they're the games you can NEVER WIN.
Great news for the budget-minded vacationer looking for a hotel bargain.
It would be nice to think that everyone would all do it, making it basically impossible to harass individual exit nodes. That's certainly the theory behind Tor. And it's a noble idea.
But then again, let's face it, most people are leechers. And unless you could find a way to encourage mass adoption of Tor, combined with a default (perhaps even mandatory) setting of "allow exit node", it's probably not going to work.
Maybe they could bundle it in with some really popular apps or games. Offer "This game $10 for the regular version/free with Tor" specials.
This new version also features 2-3 times more harassment from the government.
Anyone could also see that Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs (it's unrealistic to expect that of ANYONE). Why everyone just assumed that Apple could continue on without taking at least some hit with the loss of Steve Jobs that is beyond me. Love him or hate him, you have to admit that there are very few leaders capable of inspiring and leading Apple staff (or bullying/conning them, if you want to take that view) quite like Steve Jobs.
The budget doesn't include the promotion, which, on a tentpole movie, can easily run into the $100 million range just by itself. It was a flop.
No way will it top the TV series.
They tried that with Watchmen and it flopped.
The small screen comes with smaller budgets (and even smaller when you divide it out over the number of episodes) which means that a lot of the super powers look hokey.
Exactly. This is a what a lot of comic book fans don't understand. TV shows simply can't afford the kind of FX you have in movies. That's why comic book shows tend to focus on romantic relationships (i.e., Lois and Clark) and all the other non-superhero stuff. It's also why every fight scene in Smallville can be summarized by the following:
1) Fight with this awesome supervillian is hyped all season
2) Everyone in series says this will be the fight Superboy can't win
3) Actual fight lasts 1-2 minutes and consists of supervillian throwing Superboy around a couple of times and then Superboy tackling them and winning.
Yeah, but my example is a real place--not a work of speculative fiction.
Is it evil to defend your intellectual property?
If your intellectual property includes stuff like "a rectangle with rounded corners" the, yes--yes it is.
Looks like Apple has a new business model.
From Google:
From Jelly Bean and forward, paid apps in Google Play are encrypted with a device-specific key before they are delivered and stored on the device. We know you work hard building your apps. We work hard to protect your investment.
Well in about 5+ years, when developers can abandon earlier versions, that should really help out a lot.
And they wonder why iOS stays on top. It's not just because of numbers of hipness, you know. It's also because, for developers, it means not having to deal with Google's sloppy, haphazard approach in Android to everything the Apple does so professionally in iOS (especially when it comes to the App Store vs. the Android Marketplace). This is just another example.
If you want to get an idea of what this looks like in practice, just look at Brazil. The rich live in heavily-secured opulence, the poor live in abysmal poverty.
Are you saying we should become Oompa Loompas? Because they don't look very happy to me.
People will be freed up for creative jobs, jobs that involve human intelligence which can't be done by machines.
And what are the non-creative idiots going to do for a living? Working in the environments that most of us /.ers work in, it's easy to forget that they're still the majority, you know.
eliminating the need to work and rising the quality of life
To get that, you would need a permanent state-provided income for the entire population. And that's very unlikely to happen in the U.S.
But what is the cost of a large unemployed population ?
Historically, this has led to political instability and social unrest.
I wonder what will happen to all those Chinese hoping to get into the middle class
The same thing that's already happening to the U.S. middle class, I imagine.
or years, the U.S. has been hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs to China because of the vastly cheaper labor pool. But now, several different technologies have ripened to the point where U.S. companies are bringing some operations back home.
These two sentences don't mesh in the way I think you meant them to. The new technologies may allow companies to bring the OPERATIONS back home, but not the JOBS. If anything, they will allow many manufacturing operations still in the U.S. to cut even more jobs (though not send them overseas).
Seems like just yesterday it was just immature. Soon even the word "sexist" will be sexist.
Yeah man, you're obviously not hip enough to hang out in our record store. You probably don't even listen to vinyl.