They just weren't socially accepted institutions for the ruling white Europeans, and therefore were outlawed.
Hehehe. That's cute. You might want to consider where the term 'anatomical snuff box' came from, and what all those rich Europeans were putting there (it also explains the blue-blood's sniff). Then see if you can get a copy of a Sear's catologue from the early 1900's. You could get a can of cocaine for an American nickle. The original Coca-Cola formulation contained....wait for it.... COCAINE.
You are correct that racism was used to push the ban on marijuana, but your arguments fall rather flat after that. Well, one for three ain't completely terrible.
Really, in the best writing classes that I've ever taken, the instructed always made the point that a writer should always be first concerned with why would the reader care about the subject matter.
I looked all over KDE's website. About all I could find was "Here's a new beta. Try it and tell us what you think." But, nowhere did it give me any reason to want to try it. I use KDE on a production basis, but there's no reason for me to go poking around and messing with stuff that ain't broken unless there is some benefit to realize.
Hey, guys and gals. I know ya'll've been working on something. What have you fixed/upgraded/added?
Yes. They were declared a monopoly which opened the doors to a whole lot of civil lawsuits. The Feds didn't do much, but the civil lawsuits just keep coming. A move like this would cost them dearly.
If they have enough information (IE the web), they can hone it by feeding it past events to "predict" other past events and then comparing their prediction to what actually occurred. If it's able to predict events that have occurred given what came before those events, then there's a good chance that it will work with current data to predict future events.
Do you think it could predict that someone would invent a machine that could make predictions, and then that people can use the predictions to completely change what is supposed to happen, thereby ruining the accuracy of any future predictions. Would it be able to predict its future inaccuracy? Would it be able to predict its own predictions?
too bad my kids probably wont be able to do anything like that.
Contact your local EAA chapter. Not only will your child be able to talk to the pilot, the pilot will explain how the airplane works and walk the child through a preflight before takeoff. Once in the air, the child MAY be allowed to hold and manipulate the controls. If you live close to the airport (and there aren't to many people waiting) the pilot MAY point out the child's house. Do a web search on 'Young Eagles'.
I must be off in the woods someplace. I went home pissed as hell a couple days ago. Listening to the news, first they report that Connecticut is going to pay middle schoolers for doing their homework. They follow that up with a report of what all the tobacco farmers (ie, drug pushers) are doing with their 'tobacco allotment buyouts' (new businesses and real estate speculation).
People were bitching about DOS 4.0 LONG before DR-DOS came on the scene. People bitched about all the security problems in Win95 that got transferred to WinME and then WinXP.
And for years the train rolled on.
That is, for YEARS the train rolled on. One shitty release after another, with little improvement beyond enough unremovable eyecandy to force everyone to buy a new system to handle the bloat.
You are correct in that you "do what we think will make customers buy our stuff." Unfortunately, that is usually limited to using underhanded tactics like per-processor licensing to force the competition out of the market, so your customer has not other choice...relieving you of the need to actually improve your product.
I relish the thought of Microsoft being pushed into the irrelevancy they have so rightfully earned.
Thank you very much for the inside perspective that Microsoft management doesn't really give a rat's ass about the problems their products cause for their customers. That is very informative.
DOS 4.0, by all accounts a god-awful slow, bloated POS, was marketed for 4 yrs. It was only with the introduction of DR-DOS that gave you undelete, colored directory listing, unfragment, and disk compression that MS decided to get off their duff and actually do some development.
I can only hope that people will learn the lesson and not give any more money to a convicted monopoly that will lay down and quit as soon as the competition goes away.
Look at the entire economic situation, and you get a different picture.
What is the cost of otherwise disposing of the waste you are converting to fuel? You're taking a product that cost money to dispose of, and making it a valuable commodity.
How much money does the average small community spend on sewage treatment chemical? How much do they spend to run the school busses every day? Are those chemicals an environmental disaster waiting to happen? Locally, we have schools announcing that they might have to shut down due to fuel shortages caused by Katrina. Now, what is the economics if removing the infrastructure for handling those dangerous chemical and getting enough fuel to run the school busses to boot? How about when you add in the cost of maintaining the county dump?
I'm not an environmentalist by any stretch of the imagination. I couldn't care less if a flower that only grows in one small patch in California goes extinct, but I don't defecate in my bed or throw trash out my back door, either. Our modern society produces mountains of trash that need disposal. Our modern society has a nearly insatiable thirst for transportable fuel. A device that would assuage both problems at the same time is a clear way to profit. Of course, then the question is, "Are we making money selling diesel fuel, or are we making money as a trash disposal company?"
A loose gas cap will cause the check engine light to flash (EPA requirement). Joe Motorist would lug his ass to the back of the car and tighten the gas cap.
There is a seemingly endless list of problems that can be fixed with a pair of plier on a vehicle if you just know what they are. GM chooses to treat people like sheep instead of providing a product (onboard diagnostics) that would make me consider buying their junk again.
Isn't it equally likely that in the ebb and flow of occupation of the area humans eventually exhausted the resources that the Neanderthal relied upon, while being able to exploit other resources that the Neanderthal couldn't?
Everyone assumes that OUR ancestors had the 'superior abilities and traits' but, other than the fact that we're here instead of them, there's no reason to think that.
That's a silly statement, akin to "We were last in the conference standing, and they were first, but, other than the score, there is no reason to assume they had the better team."
their brains were even larger than ours
And a cow's brain is much bigger than either. Size matters, but not all that much.
You might want to actually know what IBM does before spouting such drivel. IBM makes no more money selling Linux than Windows. IBM doesn't even have their own distribution.
IBM makes money delivering whatever the customer says they want. IBM has been slowly divulging all their inovative research division for years, and has slowly been settling into a services organization, ie. we'll come in and setup whatever system you like. If you don't know what you want, we'll help you design a system. Their biggest development projects are either high end servers or their Webshere products which are nothing but enterprise computer management software. They try to make that software run on as many platforms as possible. I did a gig testing Websphere a couple years ago, and it was heavily tested on several flavors of Windows, RedHat, Suse, Netware and OS/2.
IBM wants to sell a system that works for the customer, and at the lowest possible cost. They don't care which OS you use.
There are new suckers being born every minute, and Doom 3 is NEW to them.
And Doom 3 is just an extension of what we call "Cowboys and Indians" when I was a child. The difference was that we actually had to run and make our own sound effects.
As a pilot, and an airplane homebuilder, I can confidently say that any unsupported position more than a few feet above the ground is inherently dangerous. 8*)
I don't think you've quite thought out what you're saying. Landing...supersonic. Takeoff...supersonic. Quick now, what is the problem with your argument.
you'd have been equally stuffed when the 5 year license key had expired
FINALLY! Someone with a clue.
I started the drawings on a lark, just to learn how to do 3D CAD. The program was "free", and I had a lot of time on my hands. After a while, they sort of took on a life of their own. It was only later that I said, "Heh, this is a nice piece of work that I'd like to keep indefinitely."
At that point, ProEngineer changes their mind and changes the rules...which was their right under the EULA. I still have the data. Hell, I even have the program. BUT I do not have ACCESS TO THE DATA.
You've gotten my point, but I think I need to spell it out for the clueless...
IF YOU SIGN AWAY THE RIGHTS TO THE CASTLE KEYS, YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF LOCKED OUT ONE DAY. THE GOVERNMENT SHOULDN'T BE SUBJECTING THE PEOPLE'S PROPERTY TO THE WHIMS OF ANY PARTICULAR BUSINESS.
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Recent wars? As opposed to less recent wars, such as Bosnia?
They just weren't socially accepted institutions for the ruling white Europeans, and therefore were outlawed.
Hehehe. That's cute. You might want to consider where the term 'anatomical snuff box' came from, and what all those rich Europeans were putting there (it also explains the blue-blood's sniff). Then see if you can get a copy of a Sear's catologue from the early 1900's. You could get a can of cocaine for an American nickle. The original Coca-Cola formulation contained....wait for it.... COCAINE.
You are correct that racism was used to push the ban on marijuana, but your arguments fall rather flat after that. Well, one for three ain't completely terrible.
Why should I care?
Really, in the best writing classes that I've ever taken, the instructed always made the point that a writer should always be first concerned with why would the reader care about the subject matter.
I looked all over KDE's website. About all I could find was "Here's a new beta. Try it and tell us what you think." But, nowhere did it give me any reason to want to try it. I use KDE on a production basis, but there's no reason for me to go poking around and messing with stuff that ain't broken unless there is some benefit to realize.
Hey, guys and gals. I know ya'll've been working on something. What have you fixed/upgraded/added?
Yes. They were declared a monopoly which opened the doors to a whole lot of civil lawsuits. The Feds didn't do much, but the civil lawsuits just keep coming. A move like this would cost them dearly.
If they have enough information (IE the web), they can hone it by feeding it past events to "predict" other past events and then comparing their prediction to what actually occurred. If it's able to predict events that have occurred given what came before those events, then there's a good chance that it will work with current data to predict future events.
Do you think it could predict that someone would invent a machine that could make predictions, and then that people can use the predictions to completely change what is supposed to happen, thereby ruining the accuracy of any future predictions. Would it be able to predict its future inaccuracy? Would it be able to predict its own predictions?
too bad my kids probably wont be able to do anything like that.
Contact your local EAA chapter. Not only will your child be able to talk to the pilot, the pilot will explain how the airplane works and walk the child through a preflight before takeoff. Once in the air, the child MAY be allowed to hold and manipulate the controls. If you live close to the airport (and there aren't to many people waiting) the pilot MAY point out the child's house. Do a web search on 'Young Eagles'.
I must be off in the woods someplace. I went home pissed as hell a couple days ago. Listening to the news, first they report that Connecticut is going to pay middle schoolers for doing their homework. They follow that up with a report of what all the tobacco farmers (ie, drug pushers) are doing with their 'tobacco allotment buyouts' (new businesses and real estate speculation).
No! I'm Spartacus.
You'd think that....unless you were married.
People were bitching about DOS 4.0 LONG before DR-DOS came on the scene. People bitched about all the security problems in Win95 that got transferred to WinME and then WinXP.
And for years the train rolled on.
That is, for YEARS the train rolled on. One shitty release after another, with little improvement beyond enough unremovable eyecandy to force everyone to buy a new system to handle the bloat.
You are correct in that you "do what we think will make customers buy our stuff." Unfortunately, that is usually limited to using underhanded tactics like per-processor licensing to force the competition out of the market, so your customer has not other choice...relieving you of the need to actually improve your product.
I relish the thought of Microsoft being pushed into the irrelevancy they have so rightfully earned.
Oh, and one more thing.
Thank you very much for the inside perspective that Microsoft management doesn't really give a rat's ass about the problems their products cause for their customers. That is very informative.
This is nothing new.
DOS 4.0, by all accounts a god-awful slow, bloated POS, was marketed for 4 yrs. It was only with the introduction of DR-DOS that gave you undelete, colored directory listing, unfragment, and disk compression that MS decided to get off their duff and actually do some development.
I can only hope that people will learn the lesson and not give any more money to a convicted monopoly that will lay down and quit as soon as the competition goes away.
Look at the entire economic situation, and you get a different picture.
What is the cost of otherwise disposing of the waste you are converting to fuel? You're taking a product that cost money to dispose of, and making it a valuable commodity.
How much money does the average small community spend on sewage treatment chemical? How much do they spend to run the school busses every day? Are those chemicals an environmental disaster waiting to happen? Locally, we have schools announcing that they might have to shut down due to fuel shortages caused by Katrina. Now, what is the economics if removing the infrastructure for handling those dangerous chemical and getting enough fuel to run the school busses to boot? How about when you add in the cost of maintaining the county dump?
I'm not an environmentalist by any stretch of the imagination. I couldn't care less if a flower that only grows in one small patch in California goes extinct, but I don't defecate in my bed or throw trash out my back door, either. Our modern society produces mountains of trash that need disposal. Our modern society has a nearly insatiable thirst for transportable fuel. A device that would assuage both problems at the same time is a clear way to profit. Of course, then the question is, "Are we making money selling diesel fuel, or are we making money as a trash disposal company?"
A loose gas cap will cause the check engine light to flash (EPA requirement). Joe Motorist would lug his ass to the back of the car and tighten the gas cap.
There is a seemingly endless list of problems that can be fixed with a pair of plier on a vehicle if you just know what they are. GM chooses to treat people like sheep instead of providing a product (onboard diagnostics) that would make me consider buying their junk again.
Go get 'em, Jah-Wren. Besides, if they've got the ability to remotely analyze your vehicle, why the hell don't they just display it to you.
"Free service" my ass. This ain't nothin' but a hook.
And just how much performance does the mailman need when they're stopping every 50ft or so?
My apologies to whoever it was who first said it, but creativity is nothing but a measure of how well one hides their sources.
So, by that measure, yes. The Web will increase creativity.
Isn't it equally likely that in the ebb and flow of occupation of the area humans eventually exhausted the resources that the Neanderthal relied upon, while being able to exploit other resources that the Neanderthal couldn't?
You just defined "crushed or ousted".
Everyone assumes that OUR ancestors had the 'superior abilities and traits' but, other than the fact that we're here instead of them, there's no reason to think that.
That's a silly statement, akin to "We were last in the conference standing, and they were first, but, other than the score, there is no reason to assume they had the better team."
their brains were even larger than ours
And a cow's brain is much bigger than either. Size matters, but not all that much.
You might want to actually know what IBM does before spouting such drivel. IBM makes no more money selling Linux than Windows. IBM doesn't even have their own distribution.
IBM makes money delivering whatever the customer says they want. IBM has been slowly divulging all their inovative research division for years, and has slowly been settling into a services organization, ie. we'll come in and setup whatever system you like. If you don't know what you want, we'll help you design a system. Their biggest development projects are either high end servers or their Webshere products which are nothing but enterprise computer management software. They try to make that software run on as many platforms as possible. I did a gig testing Websphere a couple years ago, and it was heavily tested on several flavors of Windows, RedHat, Suse, Netware and OS/2.
IBM wants to sell a system that works for the customer, and at the lowest possible cost. They don't care which OS you use.
There are new suckers being born every minute, and Doom 3 is NEW to them.
And Doom 3 is just an extension of what we call "Cowboys and Indians" when I was a child. The difference was that we actually had to run and make our own sound effects.
for the sake of our souls
Somebody REALLY needs to go outside every now and again.
Supersonic is not inherently dangerous
As a pilot, and an airplane homebuilder, I can confidently say that any unsupported position more than a few feet above the ground is inherently dangerous. 8*)
I don't think you've quite thought out what you're saying. Landing...supersonic. Takeoff...supersonic. Quick now, what is the problem with your argument.
you'd have been equally stuffed when the 5 year license key had expired
FINALLY! Someone with a clue.
I started the drawings on a lark, just to learn how to do 3D CAD. The program was "free", and I had a lot of time on my hands. After a while, they sort of took on a life of their own. It was only later that I said, "Heh, this is a nice piece of work that I'd like to keep indefinitely."
At that point, ProEngineer changes their mind and changes the rules...which was their right under the EULA. I still have the data. Hell, I even have the program. BUT I do not have ACCESS TO THE DATA.
You've gotten my point, but I think I need to spell it out for the clueless...
IF YOU SIGN AWAY THE RIGHTS TO THE CASTLE KEYS, YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF LOCKED OUT ONE DAY. THE GOVERNMENT SHOULDN'T BE SUBJECTING THE PEOPLE'S PROPERTY TO THE WHIMS OF ANY PARTICULAR BUSINESS.