Could I get some clarification? I was trolling wildly. Quite successfully I might add.
Religion is for the intellectually challenged, believers deserve to be pitied as the deluded fools they are, or despised when they attempt to foist their bizarre views on the rest of us, not locked up as a danger to society.
To compete in professional sports should not require everyone to burn the candle at both ends. Bollocks. That's exactly what a professional athlete should be doing if they want to win. They get paid millions for their performance.
Come up with performance enhancing drugs that don't have long term side-effects, then we can talk about allowing them in sports. It's up to the individual. If they want to risk their health for money and glory that's their choice. As long as they understand the risks they should be allowed to do as they wish.
Or at least build some bridges for the Bible folks and the Science folks to agree to something that makes a little more sense? WTF?
Bible thumpers: Big imaginary fairy created the world 4,000 years ago. Science folk: You're insane, it's all in your head, and I have proof.
You think those two views can be reconciled?
What I find bizarre is that religion is not considered a form of mental illness in the US. The thought of one such mentally ill leader having access to the largest stock of nuclear weapons in the world is... disturbing.
The thing was - the ATM transactions didn't cost either party more than the marginal cost of having the system in place. With the Visa (or Mastercard, etc) direct-check, my bank and Visa get to cut each other in on the deal. It is all a big racket. Oh come on, that's nothing. The banks have us renting our money from them, at 5% (or whatever) every year. 95% of money is credit. Think about that for a second. The banks are earning 5% per year on 95% of all the money which exists.
The credit card companies simply saw that we were dumb enough to rent said money from the banks and wondered if we would be so dumb that we'd pay them a fee on every single transaction, and basically they were right, we are. We go out every day and work our arses off for 8 hours and then hand the money we've earned over to the banks and credit card companies, quite happily. You see, the average person is as dumb as a post.
I can't honestly blame them, the stupid largely deserve what they get.
We may choose to ignore some things or develop sets of rules to explain the reality, but is there anyone on this planet or anywhere that has even the slightest idea what the reality is? Reality is what you experience. There's no point trying to make it any more complicated than that.
Now if big media become even more highly concentrated, then big election funds become secondary to being blessed by those who tell mainstream America what to think. Awww. How cute. Someone who thinks that how they vote matters.
The largest contributors to... the Clinton, Obama and Romney campaigns are...
Goldman Sachs... They must want something quite badly...
Tell yourself that the next time that it's ESPN or ESPN2 or The NFL channel or any other number of sports channels that guys gladly pay money to see people playing a game. It's a big business. Indeed. It's an opportunity to sell the slackjawed masses vast quantities of cheap plastic crap at truly mindbending markups.
So maybe you are too intelligent if you keep asking "why";-) No, you've simply misinterpreted the question. The question is "Why are YOU spending MY money to achieve YOUR ends."
"Exactly what areas of "personal computing" are requiring this horsepower?"
That's like saying what part of a horseless carriage requires a V8 with a turbo? Our computing infrastructure isn't the right shape to require it yet, it will at some point. I'd guess artificial intelligence.
Indeed; I'm somewhat amused that this is described as a "minor" security flaw in the summary and blamed on the user interface. If it was a Microsoft web site it would be described as a major flaw and the foaming at the mouth would begin. Macs make up about 3% of the computer using population. This means all flaws are minor.
"So you don't mind the government saying gas will now be $8 a gallon as in Europe to cover the impact on the environment"
With gas included in carbon trading, the cost will be determined by the carbon market, not the government. In Europe the governments add flat taxes to fuel.
but you do mind the government saying that the average fuel consumption across a range of new vehicles must improve? It's a typical governmental arse backwards way of not solving the problem. The problem is CO2? So limit CO2.
I work in Healthcare IT, and as much as I like Linux, it is my experience that Linux is not yet reliable for mission critical stuff. Might be more to do with you or your I.T. staff than Linux. 5 nines Linux systems have been around for years.
The article could be summarised as so: It's an application of catastrophe theory. It applies to many things, explains why change rarely happens slowly. Games like EVE allow sociologists to watch what causes the change...
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Religion is for the intellectually challenged, believers deserve to be pitied as the deluded fools they are, or despised when they attempt to foist their bizarre views on the rest of us, not locked up as a danger to society.
Bible thumpers: Big imaginary fairy created the world 4,000 years ago.
Science folk: You're insane, it's all in your head, and I have proof.
You think those two views can be reconciled?
What I find bizarre is that religion is not considered a form of mental illness in the US. The thought of one such mentally ill leader having access to the largest stock of nuclear weapons in the world is... disturbing.
The credit card companies simply saw that we were dumb enough to rent said money from the banks and wondered if we would be so dumb that we'd pay them a fee on every single transaction, and basically they were right, we are. We go out every day and work our arses off for 8 hours and then hand the money we've earned over to the banks and credit card companies, quite happily. You see, the average person is as dumb as a post.
I can't honestly blame them, the stupid largely deserve what they get.
Oh and while I'm at it... The US Army, US Navy and US Airforce are some of the largest contributors to Ron Paul's campaign...
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.asp?id=N00005906&cycle=2008
Interesting point of view on the policy towards Iraq.
It's all in the money. A monetary system which gives politicians infinite money, gives them infinite power.
You put a rack of 25 servers, running virtualisation software with an FC array of disk storage.
Welcome to the modern mainframe.
The largest contributors to... the Clinton, Obama and Romney campaigns are
Goldman Sachs... They must want something quite badly...
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.asp?id=N00000019&cycle=2008
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.asp?id=N00009638&cycle=2008
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.asp?id=N00000286&cycle=2008
Giuliani's top contributor is Ernst & Young, but the banks are up there too.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.asp?id=N00009908&cycle=2008
The same people giving money to both sides... Almost as if they don't care who wins. Funny that, eh...
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So maybe you are too intelligent if you keep asking "why"
"Exactly what areas of "personal computing" are requiring this horsepower?"
That's like saying what part of a horseless carriage requires a V8 with a turbo? Our computing infrastructure isn't the right shape to require it yet, it will at some point. I'd guess artificial intelligence.
"Very expensive" "Rip you off" "90% profit margin" "Unreliable"
Etc etc.
FUD works wonders.
With gas included in carbon trading, the cost will be determined by the carbon market, not the government. In Europe the governments add flat taxes to fuel. but you do mind the government saying that the average fuel consumption across a range of new vehicles must improve? It's a typical governmental arse backwards way of not solving the problem. The problem is CO2? So limit CO2.
The English have gallons. Europeans have litres.
Or
Life, as shallow as you like.