I'm not sure where the rumor that civilians can't purchase bullet proof vests came from. There could be some that are 100% allocated to government orders, but http://www.bulletproofbodyarmo... seems to have choices.
I am a MENSA member but I hardly consider myself very smart. I mean, I'm kinda smart but I see lots of people that blow me away when it comes to various mental abilities. And none of them are MENSA members.
As a Mensan, you should know that it's not an acronym and should not by typed in all caps.
I thought the patent system was supposed to provide a company with a legally protected monopoly for a period of time in exchange with the invention being published so others could benefit from it and advance the state of the art.
Gateway had the same vendor. I was working in one of their shops and anything with an AMD processor was likely to show up a couple times.
That's one advantage Dell had over GW. GW had built up a reputation that if there's a problem come in and we'll fix it under warranty, then these motherboards hit and there was no way to keep up with volume.
As a project, Debian is most interested in Freedom and stability. Although someone coming from a *nix back ground shouldn't have much trouble, someone new to computers or coming over from one of the dark sides is likely to.
Enter Ubuntu. Their primary interest is getting Linux on the desktop. Debian is an ideal base because it has everything, so you just need to keep current on the unstable version and put some chrome on it.
Grey beards keep their Debian and the whipper snappers stay off the lawn.
Most of us haven't the time nor resources to go through all the data on global warming. Kudos to you for making the effort.
To your question:
Why is it, when this topic comes up, so many people that are on the side that says human centric global warming is a fact; tend to use the argument that anyone who does not agree with them is a right-wing gun toting SUV driving mentally crippled slack jawed idiot?
Experience. Since very few people can become experts in ever field, we rely on other experts. Just as I do not expect my users to know much about how a Unix server works and they don't expect me to know much about how account management works, they do their job and I do mine. When the only climate scientists that argue against AGW are nut jobs and those that highlight them are gun toting right wing nuts, we extrapolate.
Of course there are exceptions. Some right wing nuts don't own any weapons and some drive sedans.
Why would a headline be looking at area instead of volume? They give us some numbers (in statues of libertys). Do we not have any estimates?
It's like people that harp on Antarctic ice increasing, when most of that's because it's warm enough to snow and that new ice coverage is not very thick.
However, blocking political sites on a corporate network is perfectly reasonable.
When a corporation decides to block certain content, that is _not_ censorship. That is a corporate policy that likely includes blocking other political sites.
Try going to http://www.antiwar.com/ when you're next on a large corporation's network and see what the response is. Very likely the content will be blocked because it's catagorized as a political website. Then try xkcd.org and it'll likely be blocked because it's a humour site. The arguement for both those sites is that there is no company business that will be served by visiting them.
Now, if the government was blocking the site to private individuals, we could have a censorship discussion.
That's exactly how a republic works. If we were to allow federal law to override state and local laws like this we may as well toss out the constitution, form a parliament, and join the commonwealth.
There's not enough evidence of harm to warrant a ban, but some people will have concern.
To touch on the related GMO food issue. I avoid where possible get buy GMO food because I think it leads to a healthier food ecosystem, not because I'm afraid that I'll turn into a mutant.
Dell tech support found that many people did not know what "Ubuntu" is when ordering their laptops. If you've ever worked a consumer helpdesk, this will not surprise you. Keeping the option available over the phone will improve the chance that people ordering Linux computers understand that Windows is not included.
In an obvious effort to belittle the contributions of fighters in WWI and WWII, some polititians and commentators have decided to call the cold war WWIII and the War on Terror WWIV.
The WWIII designation has gained enough use to be in Wikipedia. WoT as WWIV is still limited to the lunitic fringe.
Texas buys the most textbooks, and thus has undue influence on the industry.
Don't think that's entirely accurate. Texas buys a lot of text books and they buy the same ones for all the schools, so they may be the largest purchaser of a single volume.
California buys the most text books (has the largest population). California stating they won't buy any TX tainted text books is therefore a big deal.
Many years ago when I was in TX by population it was 4th or 5th. A bunch of people have moved there (plus abstinence only in place of sex ex), but CA still has them beat.
I can't resist a good car analogy.
You invent the electric car that will be the game changer. It would be legitimate to sell or license that to a manufacturer to produce something.
But selling it to a third party that sells it to Exxon, who then sues me because the engines I'm putting into golf carts are similar to your idea is where you get to the behaviour of a real patent troll.
One major miss in your assessment is that deflation is related to the local currency. Most of the raw materials are imported. So if the yuan falls against the Australian dollar, copper becomes more expensive to the Chinese in real terms. Deflation continues to make the finished product less valuable.
I put in my time at Circuit City many years ago. Around the end of that time they had just started moving some departments from commission to hourly. I say this is the #1 reason they eventually tanked. Commisioned people are more motivated. Good commissioned people are more interested in repeat business than the immediate sale.
I haven't paid any attention to CE retailers and I'm not one to really go to the big box stores as a consumer too often. I do know that when I started working for CC beating a competitor's price by 10% of the difference was new in the industry and we did shop and match competitor's prices (We'd go in with hidden mics and record model prices).
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I'm not sure where the rumor that civilians can't purchase bullet proof vests came from. There could be some that are 100% allocated to government orders, but http://www.bulletproofbodyarmo... seems to have choices.
I'd look forward to buying one sold anywhere else.
I am a MENSA member but I hardly consider myself very smart. I mean, I'm kinda smart but I see lots of people that blow me away when it comes to various mental abilities. And none of them are MENSA members.
As a Mensan, you should know that it's not an acronym and should not by typed in all caps.
I thought the patent system was supposed to provide a company with a legally protected monopoly for a period of time in exchange with the invention being published so others could benefit from it and advance the state of the art.
GHW Bush moved there for political reasons. GW Bush was a product of that move.
GW may have spent as much time growing up in Maine and DC as Texas, but he's a Texan. That is not a compliment.
Yes, I'm one of those that can't read too well and would never RTFA before posting.
This comment is being composed on a Nexus S purchased last year. A couple days ago an official release was of 4.0 was installed.
I can't believe no one else got it. Was this what prompted the announcement?
"...our allies and friends. It's only natural that we should ask for certain things in return for these benefits."
You realize a "Friend with benefits" is someone you're fucking, right?
That's one advantage Dell had over GW. GW had built up a reputation that if there's a problem come in and we'll fix it under warranty, then these motherboards hit and there was no way to keep up with volume.
I think you summed it up fairly well.
As a project, Debian is most interested in Freedom and stability. Although someone coming from a *nix back ground shouldn't have much trouble, someone new to computers or coming over from one of the dark sides is likely to.
Enter Ubuntu. Their primary interest is getting Linux on the desktop. Debian is an ideal base because it has everything, so you just need to keep current on the unstable version and put some chrome on it.
Grey beards keep their Debian and the whipper snappers stay off the lawn.
To your question:
Experience.
Since very few people can become experts in ever field, we rely on other experts. Just as I do not expect my users to know much about how a Unix server works and they don't expect me to know much about how account management works, they do their job and I do mine. When the only climate scientists that argue against AGW are nut jobs and those that highlight them are gun toting right wing nuts, we extrapolate.
Of course there are exceptions. Some right wing nuts don't own any weapons and some drive sedans.
Why would a headline be looking at area instead of volume? They give us some numbers (in statues of libertys). Do we not have any estimates?
It's like people that harp on Antarctic ice increasing, when most of that's because it's warm enough to snow and that new ice coverage is not very thick.
However, blocking political sites on a corporate network is perfectly reasonable.
When a corporation decides to block certain content, that is _not_ censorship. That is a corporate policy that likely includes blocking other political sites.
Try going to http://www.antiwar.com/ when you're next on a large corporation's network and see what the response is. Very likely the content will be blocked because it's catagorized as a political website. Then try xkcd.org and it'll likely be blocked because it's a humour site. The arguement for both those sites is that there is no company business that will be served by visiting them.
Now, if the government was blocking the site to private individuals, we could have a censorship discussion.
That's exactly how a republic works. If we were to allow federal law to override state and local laws like this we may as well toss out the constitution, form a parliament, and join the commonwealth.
There's not enough evidence of harm to warrant a ban, but some people will have concern.
To touch on the related GMO food issue. I avoid where possible get buy GMO food because I think it leads to a healthier food ecosystem, not because I'm afraid that I'll turn into a mutant.
Dell tech support found that many people did not know what "Ubuntu" is when ordering their laptops. If you've ever worked a consumer helpdesk, this will not surprise you. Keeping the option available over the phone will improve the chance that people ordering Linux computers understand that Windows is not included.
In an obvious effort to belittle the contributions of fighters in WWI and WWII, some polititians and commentators have decided to call the cold war WWIII and the War on Terror WWIV.
The WWIII designation has gained enough use to be in Wikipedia. WoT as WWIV is still limited to the lunitic fringe.
Don't think that's entirely accurate. Texas buys a lot of text books and they buy the same ones for all the schools, so they may be the largest purchaser of a single volume.
California buys the most text books (has the largest population). California stating they won't buy any TX tainted text books is therefore a big deal.
Many years ago when I was in TX by population it was 4th or 5th. A bunch of people have moved there (plus abstinence only in place of sex ex), but CA still has them beat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population
I can't resist a good car analogy. You invent the electric car that will be the game changer. It would be legitimate to sell or license that to a manufacturer to produce something. But selling it to a third party that sells it to Exxon, who then sues me because the engines I'm putting into golf carts are similar to your idea is where you get to the behaviour of a real patent troll.
Requiring premarket approval does not mean it is banned, just that you need approval. Before you market it.
This was figured out 40 years ago. Send couples, the come back for the next generation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Did you save the graph?
One major miss in your assessment is that deflation is related to the local currency. Most of the raw materials are imported. So if the yuan falls against the Australian dollar, copper becomes more expensive to the Chinese in real terms. Deflation continues to make the finished product less valuable.
A founding principle of our republic is minority rights and majority rule. I think that gets overlooked at times.
I put in my time at Circuit City many years ago. Around the end of that time they had just started moving some departments from commission to hourly. I say this is the #1 reason they eventually tanked. Commisioned people are more motivated. Good commissioned people are more interested in repeat business than the immediate sale.
I haven't paid any attention to CE retailers and I'm not one to really go to the big box stores as a consumer too often. I do know that when I started working for CC beating a competitor's price by 10% of the difference was new in the industry and we did shop and match competitor's prices (We'd go in with hidden mics and record model prices).
And I would _really_ like to see major software companies arguing that software patents are invalid.