Remember the consolidation wars? The FCC got thousands and thousands of letters opposing the action, and micheal powell actualy basicaly said "Well, if the NRA and the ACLU are both opposed then obviously there's nothing wrong with it." Bush is as pro-bussness as they come.
What a jerk, what a fucking bottem feeder. I wish I could have seen the look on his face when the cops walked in. Probably didn't even realize he was breaking the law untill they cuffed him.
It's one thing to say "We should do this with French lit as well." but it's entirely another to say complain about someone doing it with English works. Given Google's efforts in other languages, it seems strange to me that they'd not continue their project in other languages.
Besides what is a French person doing complaining about things like this? The French are the biggest language snobs on the planet.
If I were a criminal I'd much rather be GPS'd then in jail. Someone who's being contantly monitored is going to have no choice but to at least become somewhat of a productive citizen, whereas putting them in jail is just going to turn them into a hardened criminal.
When slashdot was purchased by andover networks (which was then purchased by VALinux) CmdrTaco got a contract stating that they would have control over it.
All wikipedia needs to do get a contract stating that google is not allowed to change the access system for the content. Google obviously has an intrest in getting at the worlds more organized datasources, since the internet is turning to crap thanks to spammers.
1) block French people from using Google, blame government 2) Wait for people to overthrow said government 3) sell advertising indiscriminately, and profit.
Even if global warming were true for example (which it's not)
It's not? It's been conclusively proven that global warming isn't true? Wow, I totally didn't get the memo. Either that or I just missed it because it came with all the creationist memos I throw out every morning.
We can't live on it now, if we scre up, we've lost nothing.
Anyway, why does anyone care about mars so much? What about cooling down venus? Same size and gravity as earth (almost) it would make a much better second planet.
All they have to do is take out the help icon and replace it with a menuitem. I'd hardly call that "destruction" (unless they meant the destruction of inventory).
I hardly think a company would really give up a product like this, most people arn't as lazy as CmdrTaco (who took downhis JavaInvaders game rather then change the name to JInvaders or something to avoid infringing Sun's trademark.)
This dosn't take into account how much time and effort they put in to filtering out spam, and doing all this crap. I've had to abandon email address and spammers have made an entire domain of mine almost useless for sending email because they started jojobbing (forging headers to look like the mail came from my box, with random addresses so I get tons and tons of bounce messages) it when sending spam.
Microsoft never got any good marketshare with IE untill version 4, which supported frames. If netscape had a good product, they would have stayed on top. But they didn't. Netscape 4 was an unmitigated pile of crap. Hell, their buggy implementation of CSS held back web design for years.
If netscape had produced something like Firefox when IE four came out, things would be very diffrent.
letting people run grep, sed, awk, etc on the entire text of the internet would be imposible due to time constraints, and not only that, it would return you a bunch of garbage
is that a 0.08 BAC level is not very dangerous at all. Prettymuch anything is more dangerous then that, including actualy drinking, a regular beverage.
It's not so different to alcohol - some people may be able to drive OK with high levels, but is it really worth taking the chance? Would you trust someone who claims to be able to drive OK even after a load of drinks?
Alchohol will make you a worse driver, because it will lower your reaction time. Even if you can drive 'fine' drunk you still won't react the same way if something unexpected comes up.
A cellphone user, on the other hand has perfictly fine reaction time, and can train themselves to do both at the same time.
You don't have competency testing for the elderly in the states? It's standard practice here in Finland. If the doctor says you're not fit to drive your licence is taken away. There are periodic checkups, and they are mandatory.
Your doctor can report you to the authorities if he thinks you're incompitant to drive, but there are no manditory medical checkups. Actualy people have lost their licenses simply by telling doctors that they often drink alchohol, even if there is no evidence that they've ever driven drunk.
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Remember the consolidation wars? The FCC got thousands and thousands of letters opposing the action, and micheal powell actualy basicaly said "Well, if the NRA and the ACLU are both opposed then obviously there's nothing wrong with it." Bush is as pro-bussness as they come.
What a jerk, what a fucking bottem feeder. I wish I could have seen the look on his face when the cops walked in. Probably didn't even realize he was breaking the law untill they cuffed him.
Hope he spends a long time in the can.
It's one thing to say "We should do this with French lit as well." but it's entirely another to say complain about someone doing it with English works. Given Google's efforts in other languages, it seems strange to me that they'd not continue their project in other languages.
Besides what is a French person doing complaining about things like this? The French are the biggest language snobs on the planet.
Someone in the city starts an ISP, and the city gives them a huge contract for something trivial, and the ISP uses the money for community broadband.
I didn't even know they made laptops with PCI slots.
Well, most records I've seen only had one groove... What records had two grooves?
If I were a criminal I'd much rather be GPS'd then in jail. Someone who's being contantly monitored is going to have no choice but to at least become somewhat of a productive citizen, whereas putting them in jail is just going to turn them into a hardened criminal.
If you didn't type the query into google, you would have missed out on this helarious blond joke!
When slashdot was purchased by andover networks (which was then purchased by VALinux) CmdrTaco got a contract stating that they would have control over it.
All wikipedia needs to do get a contract stating that google is not allowed to change the access system for the content. Google obviously has an intrest in getting at the worlds more organized datasources, since the internet is turning to crap thanks to spammers.
1) block French people from using Google, blame government
2) Wait for people to overthrow said government
3) sell advertising indiscriminately, and profit.
Even if global warming were true for example (which it's not)
It's not? It's been conclusively proven that global warming isn't true? Wow, I totally didn't get the memo. Either that or I just missed it because it came with all the creationist memos I throw out every morning.
We can't live on it now, if we scre up, we've lost nothing.
Anyway, why does anyone care about mars so much? What about cooling down venus? Same size and gravity as earth (almost) it would make a much better second planet.
All they have to do is take out the help icon and replace it with a menuitem. I'd hardly call that "destruction" (unless they meant the destruction of inventory).
I hardly think a company would really give up a product like this, most people arn't as lazy as CmdrTaco (who took downhis JavaInvaders game rather then change the name to JInvaders or something to avoid infringing Sun's trademark.)
I think what you mean is every modern browser other then IE. Us lynx users are safe!
This dosn't take into account how much time and effort they put in to filtering out spam, and doing all this crap. I've had to abandon email address and spammers have made an entire domain of mine almost useless for sending email because they started jojobbing (forging headers to look like the mail came from my box, with random addresses so I get tons and tons of bounce messages) it when sending spam.
Microsoft never got any good marketshare with IE untill version 4, which supported frames. If netscape had a good product, they would have stayed on top. But they didn't. Netscape 4 was an unmitigated pile of crap. Hell, their buggy implementation of CSS held back web design for years.
If netscape had produced something like Firefox when IE four came out, things would be very diffrent.
was it this guy?
letting people run grep, sed, awk, etc on the entire text of the internet would be imposible due to time constraints, and not only that, it would return you a bunch of garbage
Original Mac vis IBM PC/XT/AT?
Was the original Mac better then the IBM PC at the time? A sealed, un-upgradeable box with no games, and a small monochrome screen? Puhleez.
"Which search engine would you like to use, the boring one, or the one that gives you the chance to win tons of free money!?"
Remember that? That was the ad campaign for iWon.com. Apparently people actually wanted good search results, not free money.
But anyway, Google needs to drop it's elitist attitude about advertising if they want to succeed.
is that a 0.08 BAC level is not very dangerous at all. Prettymuch anything is more dangerous then that, including actualy drinking, a regular beverage.
It's not so different to alcohol - some people may be able to drive OK with high levels, but is it really worth taking the chance? Would you trust someone who claims to be able to drive OK even after a load of drinks?
Alchohol will make you a worse driver, because it will lower your reaction time. Even if you can drive 'fine' drunk you still won't react the same way if something unexpected comes up.
A cellphone user, on the other hand has perfictly fine reaction time, and can train themselves to do both at the same time.
Increased audio bandwidth in meatspace relative to cellphonespace: When I'm talking to someone in meatspace...
Will someone please mod this guy down for not only using the word meatspace but using it more then once.
and you are aware of each other's body language
Not if you're looking at the road. Anyway, you can't reason your way around imperical data, moron.
You don't have competency testing for the elderly in the states? It's standard practice here in Finland. If the doctor says you're not fit to drive your licence is taken away. There are periodic checkups, and they are mandatory.
Your doctor can report you to the authorities if he thinks you're incompitant to drive, but there are no manditory medical checkups. Actualy people have lost their licenses simply by telling doctors that they often drink alchohol, even if there is no evidence that they've ever driven drunk.