No, to read his post it certainly looks like he's bought into the whole FSM thing, hook, line and pasta-fork. Of course, now you've gone and attacked something he holds so dear, I can feel the flames licking at my heels already.
Actually, that's a pot of boiling water.
Have you never cooked pasta before?
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Sounds like a bug. Given that it's a first beta, I'd file a report.
I don't like making statements like this, but my gut instinct says that it's a really bad idea to fuck around with the Environment to the degree that it's noticeable on a global scale, even if there are some positive effects.
It's pretty much assumed that the high diesel standards was a play by the US automakers to keep European diesel technology out of consumer vehicles.
Several years later, VW and Mercedes have actually improved their diesels to the point where they actually meet the emissions requirements (and then some). The first models are just now going on sale, and Detroit are shitting themselves (fuel economy is almost as good as a hybrid, with none of the drawbacks).
Chicago has rail in the highway medians. The stations are in the air over a narrow platform. They connect to overpasses. Branches could be in the same place as highway interchanges, and either the highway would need to be elevated briefly.
In most places where I've seen this done, it's been on the side. Highway bridges and overpasses tend to be fairly modular, and therefore easy to extend, should the need ever arise.
Also, note that trains cannot climb as steep of a grade as a car. The interstate "standards" maintain a maximum slope, but it's still far beyond what a standard traction railway can achieve. Trains also need a much wider turning radius.
Branch lines are still a problem, due to the climb and wider turning radius. It's far easier to put it to the side, where it's very easy to turn in one direction, and still moderately simple to turn in the other, provided you've got enough room.
Public transportation is percieved as being rather left-wing in the US (as it infringes on our freedoms in a way that I'm not remotely smart enough to adequately explain or understand)
For Christ sake, we don't even have buses, let alone trains in most cities. There are a few decent commuter rail systems (NJTransit, MBTA, DC Metro, Metro-North), but not much else, and they don't use the same ticketing system as Amtrak, limiting their usefulness on long-distance journeys. Amtrak is also too slow, expensive, and unreliable to be even worth considering at the moment.
Clinton actually had a decent transportation plan laid out. What Obama has is certainly an improvement, but falls a bit short (Biden is a heavy Amtrak user, which should help). John McCain wants to stop funding all forms of public transportation, and has indeed tried to kill Amtrak on numerous occasions.
The Libertarian party in the US runs on a platform of "states rights" these days, rather than true small government. Their primary concern is downsizing the federal government, and giving more power to the states.
I think this scheme is more intended for the "My neighbour hasn't taken out the trash in weeks, and it smells terrible" sort of thing.
I don't feel that the slippery slope argument is applicable in this case. Sounds like it's more intended to let citizens know that they can report jackass neighbours to the police, and have something done about it.
Although I'll agree with you for a large part, the British politicians do still seem to have the country's best interests at heart.
Some things aren't too bad. CCTV in public places honestly doesn't bother me, and the speed cameras allow police to focus on more important issues than patrolling the motorways.
In America, those "good interests" were lost to corporate interests many years ago. Hell, we're involved in a war that virtually everyone agrees will harm the country as a whole.
So, as long as Britain stops passing tiny bits of legislated social engineering, as you call it, I think you'll be OK in the long run. Britain & Ireland keeping the EU in check is certainly a good thing for all parties involved, and I honestly haven't noticed a great deal of destructive nationalism (the SNP, in particular, may be the most innocuous group to ever have labeled themselves as "nationalists").
This is, of course funny to me, because I'd very much like to get out of the US, and back into the UK. Sadly, the economics of being a grad student in another country don't work out favorably at all.
Americans have a pretty bizarre idea of freedom (not to mention, a complete lack of awareness and/or understanding of the world around them)
Even the libertarians seem to have absolutely no problem outlawing abortion, regulating marriage, or giving state and local governments as much power as they please.
Technologies developed at NASA have had a remarkable tendency to reappear in the civilian sector several years later.
These days, it's composite materials that seem most heavily poised to become an integral part of our daily lives if the costs can be sufficiently reduced.
Before NASA started sourcing out every aspect of its operation to private contractors, a ton of general-purpose science got done there that made its way down to civilian applications.
All that included, NASA is a great morale-booster for the population, and also for the scientific community. After the moon landing, America took (and kept) the title of being the most scientifically-advanced nation for 30 years, despite the fact that the Saturn V was a german design, and that most scientific disciplines had nothing to do with space exploration.
Keeping NASA active also ensures that the country's top minds remain here, and also have a reliable source of work. If NASA goes away, you will likely see Physics departments slowly disappear from universities, as the demand for physicists and engineers drops below the "critical mass" necessary to sustain those programs.
Look at the reasons Russia has to keep its space program alive. Given their economic and security woes, they're almost certainly not doing it solely for the science.
The problem with justifying funding for the space program is that, frankly, the shuttle didn't justify funding. It did virtually nothing of merit in its entire lifespan.
The Hubble disagrees with you. It is unequivocally one of the most important scientific instruments of the past 20 years.
Granted, the hubble didn't *NEED* the Shuttle, but it was certainly instrumental in its launch, and vital to its repairs and servicing missions.
Considering just how monumentally important the Hubble is/was, you could almost justify the entire program based on that. Unfortunately, the rest of the shuttle missions weren't quite as productive...
Yes, yes it would. You see photographers actually care about their prints lasting (or at least they have since Wilhelm started doing permanence testing on color materials and discovered they all sucked at the time). A pigment inkjet print on acid-free paper or a good B&W silver halide print will probably outlast most digital media you can easily come up with. And the print is it's own reader.
I'll go a step further.
Any halfway-decent print, even if it's moderately neglected, should outlast the photographer, if not his grandchildren as well.
(And, no, this isn't just in the case of the guy who develops his prints with a radioactive emulsion, or the one who used AIDS-tainted blood as his Red #25 filter)
I wouldn't call it "user-hostile". More like "user-condescending". It seems more like one huge misunderstanding of what people wanted in an operating system.
If you want examples of "user-hostile" apps, I'd turn to the Unix world first, despite being a fervent Linux supporter myself. vi, Pre-X.org-X, and sendmail's configuration file all come to mind.
If the federal government is that bad at basic management, there are some pretty glaring issues that need to be addressed at that level as well, given that there are some extremely important things that only the government is capable of doing.
The bungled response to Hurricane Katrina comes immediately to mind. (People also seem to like roads quite a bit)
For the past 20 years, we've been voting for politicians who have campaigned on the platform of "The Government Can't Do Anything Right," who give themselves even more power once in office, and manage to screw things up even more badly. If you admit defeat from the get-go, it's no huge surprise that things are going to go pretty badly.
Look at Europe right now. Their governments are pretty efficient and effective (at least by American standards), and their people don't seem to have sacrificed a great portion of their individual liberties for it to get that way. For every American politician that says "it can never work", there's a European country that already has made it work.
The UK tried a privatization experiment under Thatcher. Some of these made sense (eg. the airlines), though for most, it's been a disaster. After privatizing the mail delivery system and post office (under separate entities), the Post Office operated for a few years independently, before determining that there was no way in hell that a post office can operate profitably in anything but a large city, and subsequently sold most of its assets, closed most of its locations, pocketed the cash, and called it a day.
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You had me until you got there.
The last Writers' strike put thousands of low-paid non-union workers out of work for 6+ months, and some of them permanently.
I simply can't condone crap like that.
No, to read his post it certainly looks like he's bought into the whole FSM thing, hook, line and pasta-fork. Of course, now you've gone and attacked something he holds so dear, I can feel the flames licking at my heels already.
Actually, that's a pot of boiling water.
Have you never cooked pasta before?
Sounds like a bug. Given that it's a first beta, I'd file a report.
I don't like making statements like this, but my gut instinct says that it's a really bad idea to fuck around with the Environment to the degree that it's noticeable on a global scale, even if there are some positive effects.
Diesel standards are also ridiculously high.
It's pretty much assumed that the high diesel standards was a play by the US automakers to keep European diesel technology out of consumer vehicles.
Several years later, VW and Mercedes have actually improved their diesels to the point where they actually meet the emissions requirements (and then some). The first models are just now going on sale, and Detroit are shitting themselves (fuel economy is almost as good as a hybrid, with none of the drawbacks).
Chicago has rail in the highway medians. The stations are in the air over a narrow platform. They connect to overpasses. Branches could be in the same place as highway interchanges, and either the highway would need to be elevated briefly.
In most places where I've seen this done, it's been on the side. Highway bridges and overpasses tend to be fairly modular, and therefore easy to extend, should the need ever arise.
Also, note that trains cannot climb as steep of a grade as a car. The interstate "standards" maintain a maximum slope, but it's still far beyond what a standard traction railway can achieve. Trains also need a much wider turning radius.
Branch lines are still a problem, due to the climb and wider turning radius. It's far easier to put it to the side, where it's very easy to turn in one direction, and still moderately simple to turn in the other, provided you've got enough room.
but it seems to be a stuck project!
So you're saying that it's possibly been...... terminated?
Public transportation is percieved as being rather left-wing in the US (as it infringes on our freedoms in a way that I'm not remotely smart enough to adequately explain or understand)
For Christ sake, we don't even have buses, let alone trains in most cities. There are a few decent commuter rail systems (NJTransit, MBTA, DC Metro, Metro-North), but not much else, and they don't use the same ticketing system as Amtrak, limiting their usefulness on long-distance journeys. Amtrak is also too slow, expensive, and unreliable to be even worth considering at the moment.
Clinton actually had a decent transportation plan laid out. What Obama has is certainly an improvement, but falls a bit short (Biden is a heavy Amtrak user, which should help). John McCain wants to stop funding all forms of public transportation, and has indeed tried to kill Amtrak on numerous occasions.
Considering that details are so scarce, perhaps this is simply a component of Android?
Either that, or it's intended to be a proof of concept, rather than something to be used by end-users.
It simply doesn't make sense for Google to want to compete with Mozilla.
At the very least, it's almost certain to have KHTML/WebKit or Gecko on the backend. It's a *lot* of work to make a new browser from scratch.
Ron Paul did.
The Libertarian party in the US runs on a platform of "states rights" these days, rather than true small government. Their primary concern is downsizing the federal government, and giving more power to the states.
I think this scheme is more intended for the "My neighbour hasn't taken out the trash in weeks, and it smells terrible" sort of thing.
I don't feel that the slippery slope argument is applicable in this case. Sounds like it's more intended to let citizens know that they can report jackass neighbours to the police, and have something done about it.
Although I'll agree with you for a large part, the British politicians do still seem to have the country's best interests at heart.
Some things aren't too bad. CCTV in public places honestly doesn't bother me, and the speed cameras allow police to focus on more important issues than patrolling the motorways.
In America, those "good interests" were lost to corporate interests many years ago. Hell, we're involved in a war that virtually everyone agrees will harm the country as a whole.
So, as long as Britain stops passing tiny bits of legislated social engineering, as you call it, I think you'll be OK in the long run. Britain & Ireland keeping the EU in check is certainly a good thing for all parties involved, and I honestly haven't noticed a great deal of destructive nationalism (the SNP, in particular, may be the most innocuous group to ever have labeled themselves as "nationalists").
This is, of course funny to me, because I'd very much like to get out of the US, and back into the UK. Sadly, the economics of being a grad student in another country don't work out favorably at all.
Funny?
That's bloody insightful.
Americans have a pretty bizarre idea of freedom (not to mention, a complete lack of awareness and/or understanding of the world around them)
Even the libertarians seem to have absolutely no problem outlawing abortion, regulating marriage, or giving state and local governments as much power as they please.
Yes. Typically into a space-gutter.
4) Technology transfer.
Technologies developed at NASA have had a remarkable tendency to reappear in the civilian sector several years later.
These days, it's composite materials that seem most heavily poised to become an integral part of our daily lives if the costs can be sufficiently reduced.
Before NASA started sourcing out every aspect of its operation to private contractors, a ton of general-purpose science got done there that made its way down to civilian applications.
All that included, NASA is a great morale-booster for the population, and also for the scientific community. After the moon landing, America took (and kept) the title of being the most scientifically-advanced nation for 30 years, despite the fact that the Saturn V was a german design, and that most scientific disciplines had nothing to do with space exploration.
Keeping NASA active also ensures that the country's top minds remain here, and also have a reliable source of work. If NASA goes away, you will likely see Physics departments slowly disappear from universities, as the demand for physicists and engineers drops below the "critical mass" necessary to sustain those programs.
Look at the reasons Russia has to keep its space program alive. Given their economic and security woes, they're almost certainly not doing it solely for the science.
The problem with justifying funding for the space program is that, frankly, the shuttle didn't justify funding. It did virtually nothing of merit in its entire lifespan.
The Hubble disagrees with you. It is unequivocally one of the most important scientific instruments of the past 20 years.
Granted, the hubble didn't *NEED* the Shuttle, but it was certainly instrumental in its launch, and vital to its repairs and servicing missions.
Considering just how monumentally important the Hubble is/was, you could almost justify the entire program based on that. Unfortunately, the rest of the shuttle missions weren't quite as productive...
The best way to learn the rules is to observe a game in progress.
I'll start out (this game, we'll be using the Duke of Edinburgh's rules, Welsh form third or higher).
My move is:
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Many people defended him, because it was obvious that he wasn't getting a fair trial at first.
had her child at age 44 even though she knew he would have down syndrome
Some would call this compassion.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with refusing to have an abortion. I personally think it's a highly admirable choice.
However, denying other women the right to make that same choice is something that I simply cannot tolerate.
Creationists tried to outlaw evolution.
Now, that one would be interesting to try to enforce ;-)
Yes, yes it would. You see photographers actually care about their prints lasting (or at least they have since Wilhelm started doing permanence testing on color materials and discovered they all sucked at the time). A pigment inkjet print on acid-free paper or a good B&W silver halide print will probably outlast most digital media you can easily come up with. And the print is it's own reader.
I'll go a step further.
Any halfway-decent print, even if it's moderately neglected, should outlast the photographer, if not his grandchildren as well.
(And, no, this isn't just in the case of the guy who develops his prints with a radioactive emulsion, or the one who used AIDS-tainted blood as his Red #25 filter)
I wouldn't call it "user-hostile". More like "user-condescending". It seems more like one huge misunderstanding of what people wanted in an operating system.
If you want examples of "user-hostile" apps, I'd turn to the Unix world first, despite being a fervent Linux supporter myself. vi, Pre-X.org-X, and sendmail's configuration file all come to mind.
If the federal government is that bad at basic management, there are some pretty glaring issues that need to be addressed at that level as well, given that there are some extremely important things that only the government is capable of doing.
The bungled response to Hurricane Katrina comes immediately to mind. (People also seem to like roads quite a bit)
For the past 20 years, we've been voting for politicians who have campaigned on the platform of "The Government Can't Do Anything Right," who give themselves even more power once in office, and manage to screw things up even more badly. If you admit defeat from the get-go, it's no huge surprise that things are going to go pretty badly.
Look at Europe right now. Their governments are pretty efficient and effective (at least by American standards), and their people don't seem to have sacrificed a great portion of their individual liberties for it to get that way. For every American politician that says "it can never work", there's a European country that already has made it work.
The UK tried a privatization experiment under Thatcher. Some of these made sense (eg. the airlines), though for most, it's been a disaster. After privatizing the mail delivery system and post office (under separate entities), the Post Office operated for a few years independently, before determining that there was no way in hell that a post office can operate profitably in anything but a large city, and subsequently sold most of its assets, closed most of its locations, pocketed the cash, and called it a day.
Well, a AA battery will be pretty damn easy to emulate from any DC power source.
Still, I'd worry about the LCD. I say print 'em, even if you do choose to put a digital copy (of some form) in there.