Not only do they think he is a socialist, but they think he's a muslim agent who wasn't born in the US and hangs out with terrorists (remember the Ayers nonsense)? But then most of these people also think that the government should keep its grubby hands off their Medicare, that there's a part of America that is "the other unpatriotic America", that the USA was founded as a Christian nation, and such assorted bilge.
But to get back to NASA and privatization, how long would we have had to wait for private companies to take up the initiative and put us on the moon?
You say: "The fraction doesn't have to be 50%, much less 100%. Most corporations are in fact governed by the opinions of a few dozen people that have bonuses dependent on a variation in the corporate income a few percent per year."
Hmmm... looks like there's an equal protection argument that can be made against this ruling.
People can borrow books without violating laws. This is what libraries facilitate. Without a way to read books without paying for every one of them, people would either not read as many books, or make a bazillion copies as a matter of course, rendering copyrights useless.
So libraries are not taking away profits (aside from imaginary money that will never be realized). In fact, they facilitate the money that the publishers make now.
How exactly did Israel suffer and how exactly are they accountable, any more than Iran? They weren't accountable when they got nukes, and once they did, they became even less so. They ensure Palestine is essentially a ghetto without real blowback. Nukes gave them the same non-accountability and irresponsibility than Pakistan got with their nukes.
I'm no fan of the Iranian govt, but neither am I of the Israeli one. Instead of teetering on edge all the time about when Israel is going to attack Iran's wannabe nuke facilities with rockets, I'd rather they have MAD. Actually I'd rather there were a regulated peace, but no one (and I mean the US govt here) wants that, apparently.
By the way, it's irrelevant how many allies it has "in that part" of the world. They have the only ally that counts.
Hence the latter part of my post, which states that there will always be an economy, and then the transportation will become an economic resource. Meaning something will trade and whatever is grown or caught will be transported from wherever it is.
This is a simplistic argument made often by non-city folk. In anarchy, the populations that will win out first are those that are better organized. Better organized in terms of food distribution, against mobs, the weather elements, division of labor - you know, like city folk. And for every animal out there that the "self-sustainable" folk can go and hunt to eat, the city is that much closer to transportation that can handle heavy loads, like tons of grain, or pickled herring, or whatever.
Because make no mistake, after a brief period of panic, an economy will be put into place. There are economies in slums, in primitive societies, in war-torn and disaster-ravaged areas, there are economies upon economies and co-existing underground economies. The ones who have access to the best economic resources can put back their economy the soonest, and are the ones who will be self-sustainable.
Firstly, the WSJ editorial pages are propaganda tools, so I assume you mean the news and analysis pages. As far as those go, I have come across people who will name drop it during discussions, but I work in finance, and these are probably people who decided early on they were going into finance and read it religiously since 4th grade or something. Anyhow, they are a minority of the people I know. In general however, nobody goes around quoting WSJ, if they can quote the BBC ad (although less so), NPR. I know NPR is affected by cutbacks, and is quite shoddy compared to the BBC; but to say that the WSJ has more credibility than the BBC? Not in my world. Do they even have correspondents in 25% of the places the BBC does? Do people in far off countries gather around a radio and tune in to the WSJ?
Hey, I can be a quack evolutionary biologist too! The mind is constantly trying to cast objects and phenomena into patterns, so that it can identify similar patterns of events that happen in the future. That way, it'll have some idea of how a certain decision turned out in a situation patterned a certain way. So naturally, it doesn't just describe or identify patterns, it also constructs them. So by trying to construct the coherences described in the TFA, it is trying to construct a world in which it has an advantage, because it has a tool (pattern matching) that works quite well in it.
Well no, I know the general inadvisability of relying on the summaries, but I was wondering why there isn't some indication that there were edits. After all, regular postings can't even be edited. So is it necessary to preserve an illusion of infallibility of the editors?
I see they've fixed it now. Without making a note of it either. In most forums, you edit your post, and it'll say "Edited on xxx. Reason:...". Perhaps the editors should be held to a higher standard?
First the summary says Mozilla have unblocked the ".Net Assistant" add-on. Then it says Mozilla is working on a way to block a "Windows Presentation Framework" add-on _AS WELL_. As well (meaning "in addition to") what? The first item mentioned was unblocked, not blocked. Typo, or incorrect sentence construction, or what? It's 2 lines, can't we get it right?
"Who will police the police?" that's what they used to ask, in the old days.
The whole anti-virus ecosystem is amazing, come to think of it. It represents a point in our civilization where we started thinking nothing of fixing a manufacturer's product for them at our expense. When I re-image an old piece of hardware and give it to someone who can't afford a new one, I tell them to be sure and put an anti-virus on it, and they accept that as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. And having used Linux ever since my first computer, I'm the one left feeling that I was being Captain Obvious.
So how long before people accept that they have to install anti-anti-malware on their machines too?
MID may stand for "mobile internet device", but is understood to be a different and larger form factor (4"+ screens) than smartphones. Something being competitive for a MID, isn't necessarily so for a smartphone.
In fact, Intel and Nokia were palling around just the other day (http://www.h-online.com/open/What-does-the-Intel-Nokia-mobile-Internet-deal-mean-for-open-source--/features/113612), talking about splitting the market - Moblin for MID, Maemo for smartphones. Of course, now they're muddying the waters a bit, keeping the competition guessing, perhaps?
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Not only do they think he is a socialist, but they think he's a muslim agent who wasn't born in the US and hangs out with terrorists (remember the Ayers nonsense)? But then most of these people also think that the government should keep its grubby hands off their Medicare, that there's a part of America that is "the other unpatriotic America", that the USA was founded as a Christian nation, and such assorted bilge.
But to get back to NASA and privatization, how long would we have had to wait for private companies to take up the initiative and put us on the moon?
Hear hear...
In 1969, the US government/NASA put a man on the moon with less computing power than today's phones. And they brought them back too.
And we get all excited when a private company has a successful test launch into orbit?
You say:
"The fraction doesn't have to be 50%, much less 100%. Most corporations are in fact governed by the opinions of a few dozen people that have bonuses dependent on a variation in the corporate income a few percent per year."
Hmmm... looks like there's an equal protection argument that can be made against this ruling.
Oh, the constitution also says these rights are stackable, not just collective?
No, it doesn't. The rights are not production rules that can be manipulated to manufacture new rights, as the court has done.
People can borrow books without violating laws. This is what libraries facilitate. Without a way to read books without paying for every one of them, people would either not read as many books, or make a bazillion copies as a matter of course, rendering copyrights useless.
So libraries are not taking away profits (aside from imaginary money that will never be realized). In fact, they facilitate the money that the publishers make now.
Did they send a joke arrest tweet, or did they arrest him in meat-space?
BTW, tweet, or twit?
> Now it seems like all this country really produces is debt.
But, boy, do we package it well!
CDO, CDS, CDS on CDOs, mortgage-baced securities, leverage, T-bills and friends...
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Oh, those have programmed death.
Damn lawyers.
Don't bother suing me, I've got nothing.
How exactly did Israel suffer and how exactly are they accountable, any more than Iran? They weren't accountable when they got nukes, and once they did, they became even less so. They ensure Palestine is essentially a ghetto without real blowback. Nukes gave them the same non-accountability and irresponsibility than Pakistan got with their nukes.
I'm no fan of the Iranian govt, but neither am I of the Israeli one. Instead of teetering on edge all the time about when Israel is going to attack Iran's wannabe nuke facilities with rockets, I'd rather they have MAD. Actually I'd rather there were a regulated peace, but no one (and I mean the US govt here) wants that, apparently.
By the way, it's irrelevant how many allies it has "in that part" of the world. They have the only ally that counts.
Sorta explains the whole school-burning and teacher-stoning mentality fashionable in Afghanistan.
Hence the latter part of my post, which states that there will always be an economy, and then the transportation will become an economic resource. Meaning something will trade and whatever is grown or caught will be transported from wherever it is.
This is a simplistic argument made often by non-city folk. In anarchy, the populations that will win out first are those that are better organized. Better organized in terms of food distribution, against mobs, the weather elements, division of labor - you know, like city folk. And for every animal out there that the "self-sustainable" folk can go and hunt to eat, the city is that much closer to transportation that can handle heavy loads, like tons of grain, or pickled herring, or whatever.
Because make no mistake, after a brief period of panic, an economy will be put into place. There are economies in slums, in primitive societies, in war-torn and disaster-ravaged areas, there are economies upon economies and co-existing underground economies. The ones who have access to the best economic resources can put back their economy the soonest, and are the ones who will be self-sustainable.
Firstly, the WSJ editorial pages are propaganda tools, so I assume you mean the news and analysis pages. As far as those go, I have come across people who will name drop it during discussions, but I work in finance, and these are probably people who decided early on they were going into finance and read it religiously since 4th grade or something. Anyhow, they are a minority of the people I know. In general however, nobody goes around quoting WSJ, if they can quote the BBC ad (although less so), NPR. I know NPR is affected by cutbacks, and is quite shoddy compared to the BBC; but to say that the WSJ has more credibility than the BBC? Not in my world. Do they even have correspondents in 25% of the places the BBC does? Do people in far off countries gather around a radio and tune in to the WSJ?
So they have this video surveillance fiber optic loop thing all over the city, huh? Then hook up some hardware to it and give us free wi-fi!
Hey, I can be a quack evolutionary biologist too! The mind is constantly trying to cast objects and phenomena into patterns, so that it can identify similar patterns of events that happen in the future. That way, it'll have some idea of how a certain decision turned out in a situation patterned a certain way. So naturally, it doesn't just describe or identify patterns, it also constructs them. So by trying to construct the coherences described in the TFA, it is trying to construct a world in which it has an advantage, because it has a tool (pattern matching) that works quite well in it.
Well no, I know the general inadvisability of relying on the summaries, but I was wondering why there isn't some indication that there were edits. After all, regular postings can't even be edited. So is it necessary to preserve an illusion of infallibility of the editors?
I see they've fixed it now. Without making a note of it either. In most forums, you edit your post, and it'll say "Edited on xxx. Reason:...". Perhaps the editors should be held to a higher standard?
First the summary says Mozilla have unblocked the ".Net Assistant" add-on. Then it says Mozilla is working on a way to block a "Windows Presentation Framework" add-on _AS WELL_. As well (meaning "in addition to") what? The first item mentioned was unblocked, not blocked. Typo, or incorrect sentence construction, or what? It's 2 lines, can't we get it right?
Or is this a way to make readers RTFA?
"Who will police the police?" that's what they used to ask, in the old days.
The whole anti-virus ecosystem is amazing, come to think of it. It represents a point in our civilization where we started thinking nothing of fixing a manufacturer's product for them at our expense. When I re-image an old piece of hardware and give it to someone who can't afford a new one, I tell them to be sure and put an anti-virus on it, and they accept that as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. And having used Linux ever since my first computer, I'm the one left feeling that I was being Captain Obvious.
So how long before people accept that they have to install anti-anti-malware on their machines too?
You know,
piston engine go boing boing boing... rotary go mmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
MID may stand for "mobile internet device", but is understood to be a different and larger form factor (4"+ screens) than smartphones. Something being competitive for a MID, isn't necessarily so for a smartphone.
In fact, Intel and Nokia were palling around just the other day (http://www.h-online.com/open/What-does-the-Intel-Nokia-mobile-Internet-deal-mean-for-open-source--/features/113612), talking about splitting the market - Moblin for MID, Maemo for smartphones. Of course, now they're muddying the waters a bit, keeping the competition guessing, perhaps?
Damn it, moderation undone, even if I posted anonymously.