1% of 53 million dollars = 530,000 66% of 530,000 = 331,980 after tax
That's enough to buy a house, but hardly more than that.
That $331,980 would still take roughly 7 years to earn if you make the median household income of $46,326 (pre-tax I believe). Not a trivial amount if you look at it that way.
Or, another way, if you make the median household income (from the 2005 U.S. Census), in just 7 or 8 years, you too could make 66% of 1% of Lloyd's $53M bonus.
No, I don't know specifics. AFAIK, The power toy just builds a little on what already exists (XP supports CD writing out of the box), so unless MS decides to update XP to support native DVD writing (ha ha ha), I would think no DVD Power Toy for XP.
Nope, works just fine on XP. Seriously even.
Now, if you're referring to DVD iso, then you'd be correct, but the post I'm responding to specifically refers to CDs. Quoth flyingfsck a couple of posts up: You won't believe how many geeks(!) I had to help to burn an ISO file on their Windoze PC. Most Windoze CD burning programs make that simple process very difficult/impossible.
Freedom from proprietary software and forced, expensive upgrades.
The average home user generally couldn't care less. Most of the home-users I run into want to browse the web, and not a whole lot more. They check their email on yahoo, msn, or (shudder) AOL. They use Internet Explorer because it's there, and that's about it.
Freedom from ignorance.
Yeah, there's a selling point.....
You: "Use this, or else I'll think you're ignorant".
User: "Bugger off nerd".
They don't care. They don't consider this kind of information important, or even interesting, and they probably don't consider themselves ignorant for not knowing about it.
Freedom from the same cookie-cutter applications and nagware with annoying splash screens from hell.
Splash Screens? That's got to be the weirdest reason I've ever seen to switch to Linux.
Freedom to know what the heck all this Ubuntu buzz is their reading on Digg and Slashdot all the time
The average home-user type is not reading Slashdot. "News for Nerds", remember? These people are reading MSNBC, or AOL, or any of thousands of other sites where you are really not likely to encounter the word Ubuntu.
As a number of people have pointed out, The Lexus and the Olive Tree refers to a book on globalization by Thomas Friedman. While I actually like your interpretation of Sterling's metaphor, perhaps more than what he actually seemed to mean, it's still wrong.....
We should also forcefully accept and recognize marriage between people and cattle, because it's like such a none-of-our-business sort of thing, right?
So, just for the record, do you believe that cattle can make an informed decision to consent to marriage, or do you think that homosexuals are beasts with the intellectual capacity of cattle?
The summary says "By using several layers, this technique will increase the storage capacity of a standard DVD to more than a terabyte.", yet UFC's website offers the following description:
"Depending on the color (wavelength) of the light, information is written onto a disk. The information is highly compacted, so the disk isn't much thicker. It's like a typical DVD."
A disk that "isn't much thicker" than a standard DVD isn't a standard DVD.
For one, it cannot be the sole qualifying factor: something like Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, taken as a genuine religion, is internally consistent (AFAIK, anyway) but is obviously not attracting adherents on this basis. There must be some other qualifying factor for a religion, otherwise any true statement (e.g. "the sky is blue") could be taken as the basis for a religion.
Beer Volcano.
Stripper Factory.
What else could you need?
Good point. However, saying that this will not create a market for aborted children (yes, I called them children), is equally silly. Maybe Betty won't see the benefits, but the clinics, the scientist, or whoever does the collection/harvesting will.
See what benefits? There are thousands of blastocysts destroyed every year as "leftovers" from fertility clinics. Why would it benefit researchers to pay someone to have an abortion when there are plenty of viable alternatives sitting in freezers waiting to be disposed of?
You are correct that this is an abortion issue. I consider a growing baby (call it whatever you want) an honest to goodness human being. Having a two month old at home changes your perspective. I have no reason to love my daughter. Honestly, all she does it eat, shit cry, and not occasionally enough, sleep. She can do little more than she could as a "blastocyst" (as I've heard it called). She barely discovered her hands, I'd hardly call her sentient. I love her because of the person she will become. I love her because of her potential.
Wow. Were do you even start with this one?
Okay, no, it's not an abortion issue, or at least it shouldn't be. People are not getting pregnant specifically to create stem cell lines. Secondly, having a two month old at home changed your perspective, not everyone else's. Third, if you "hardly call her sentient", I feel bad for your daughter. Mine did things that I found fascinating every day (even at two months), which I doubt a cluster of cells could have managed. Fourth, you've heard it called a blastocyst because that's what it's called. Take a look at the link, still want to compare your daughter at 2 months to that?
I see this stem cell debate being pushed by those "pro-choice" people who are looking for benefits to abortion. It serves their agenda to have unborn children made into something other than humans. They call them "blastocysts, fetuses, genetic material, but never unborn children.
And what agenda do you think this serves? Do "those pro-choice people" wake up in the morning, twisting the ends of their handlebar moustaches saying "How can we cause more abortions today?". The real issue is, you want to force your point of view on others. The pro-choice people say "it's your decision, make it for yourself". The other side says "we know what's best, do as we say". If you don't like abortion, convince people not to have them, but removing the option, which seems to be the anti-abortion agenda is not a solution.
All that aside, when it comes to stem cells, they have yet to give me an decent, honest answer to these questions:
What's wrong with the stem cell lines we already have?
People who know far more about them, namely stem cell researchers, say they're inadequate to their needs. Are you qualified to dispute this?
Why the push to create endless stem cell lines when a stem cell will reproduce to more and more stem cells forever?
See above.
Why are we wasting money, time and energy creating more stem cell lines when those resources could be spent on the actual research?
What's wrong with adult stem cell research?
Why do you think you're qualified to decide that we're wasting anything by doing this? Stem Cell researchers probably don't come to your place of employment and tell you how to do your job, why should you be trying to tell them how to do theirs?
Taken to the extreme the London orbital M25 has variable speed limits, so as the traffic volume goes up the speed limit is reduced to keep the traffic flowing.
Ah, but is that the real reason?
"...the very shape of the M25 forms the sign odegra in the language of the Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu, and means 'Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds.' The thousands of motorists who daily fume their way around its serpentine lengths have the same effect as water on a prayer wheel, grinding out an endless fog of low-grade evil to pollute the metaphysical atmosphere for scores of miles around. It was one of Crowley's better achievements... and had involved three computer hacks, two break-ins, one minor bribery and, when all else had failed, two hours in a squelchy field shifting the marker pegs a few but occultly incredibley significant meters" -- Good Omens
Can't you read?
In August 2005,...
This is OVER a year old, and was posted then, too (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/11/2 14250 [slashdot.org]).
Okay, now lets see the rest of that:
In August 2005, the Illinois State Legislature enacted the Sexually Explicit Video Game Law
The point of the article is the new ruling, and not the legislation itself, so I'd say the submitter reads just fine.
Snail mail is the ONLY private form of communications we have left.
Until of course someone steals your mail, reads through it all, and steals your identity. But hey, at least it keeps the crystal meth users busy. If someone wants to steal your mail, they'll find a way.
Also, Doubleplusgood? How do you equate the police of the Ministry of Love reading messages specifically looking for "crimes" against Big Brother, with automated document scanning by a private company that you hire? There are plenty of times when 1984 references are on target, but this doesn't seem to be one of them.....
One, you're going to die and any pleasure you can gain for yourself while you're here is all you're going to get so maximize it and then die.
Why do you assume that gaining pleasure for yourself must mean it comes with some moral expense? [Normal] Humans have a sense of empathy towards those around them, which partly means that by and large, people don't enjoy causing pain to others. I've never understood the position of "Without God I might as well go out and kill people in the streets and rape babies". Unless your idea of a thrill is causing pain to others, I can't imagine why you'd want to do this. If that's the case, you may be a psychopath.
Two, moral norms are constraints that have been formed by society. You are only bound to them by your fear of being caught and punished.
As are religious teachings. Notice how religion is not static, how it's practiced differently in different places over periods of time. Did God command the change, or is this process dictated by the social pressures of the religion's practitioners? As for the fear of being caught and being punished, isn't that a basic tenet of many religions and secular societies alike? "Do as I say, or you won't get into paradise, and you may even be tortured for all eternity!" vs "Don't break the law or you'll spend you life in prison". Jail time is no more attractive to the non-religious than hell is to the religious.
Without a higher power, strength and power are what makes one "right".
The higher power is irrelevant. Religions rise through the acquisition of power. If there was one universal, incontrovertible true way, your "higher power", why are there and why have there been so many unrelated and incompatible religions? They all just duke it out from time to time, and the one with the most power declares itself "right".
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That $331,980 would still take roughly 7 years to earn if you make the median household income of $46,326 (pre-tax I believe). Not a trivial amount if you look at it that way.
Or, another way, if you make the median household income (from the 2005 U.S. Census), in just 7 or 8 years, you too could make 66% of 1% of Lloyd's $53M bonus.
Lloyd must be doing some *very* good work.
A girl, on Slashdot, who talks about watching porn.........
Somebody's "fans" list is about to get much longer.
(Cue jokes about the use of the word longer. )
Funny, I thought it was "Confusion Oriented Business Obfuscation Language" :)
It'd be a long, wet drive home.....flying or maybe a nice cruise sounds more appealing.
While you're right about it being set in Oceania, it was specifically set in (on?) Airstrip One, which was definitely Great Britain.
You! Yes, you behind the grandstand! Stand still, laddie!
Ah, now I got ya....and no worries :)
No, I don't know specifics. AFAIK, The power toy just builds a little on what already exists (XP supports CD writing out of the box), so unless MS decides to update XP to support native DVD writing (ha ha ha), I would think no DVD Power Toy for XP.
Nope, works just fine on XP. Seriously even.
Now, if you're referring to DVD iso, then you'd be correct, but the post I'm responding to specifically refers to CDs. Quoth flyingfsck a couple of posts up:
You won't believe how many geeks(!) I had to help to burn an ISO file on their Windoze PC. Most Windoze CD burning programs make that simple process very difficult/impossible.
Yeah, there's a selling point.....
You: "Use this, or else I'll think you're ignorant".
User: "Bugger off nerd".
They don't care. They don't consider this kind of information important, or even interesting, and they probably don't consider themselves ignorant for not knowing about it.
Splash Screens? That's got to be the weirdest reason I've ever seen to switch to Linux.
The average home-user type is not reading Slashdot. "News for Nerds", remember? These people are reading MSNBC, or AOL, or any of thousands of other sites where you are really not likely to encounter the word Ubuntu.
1. Download and install the ISO Recorder Power Toy. .iso file, select "Copy Image to CD"
2. Right click on the
Didn't seem all that difficult to me.....
That'll be real nice, once we get some steagles to nest there......
I figured that, and I really wasn't criticizing you. The mod points just struck me as odd....
As a number of people have pointed out, The Lexus and the Olive Tree refers to a book on globalization by Thomas Friedman. While I actually like your interpretation of Sterling's metaphor, perhaps more than what he actually seemed to mean, it's still wrong.....
Not really, he can probably hear just as much traffic noise as the people who put in stereos that rattle the windows in buildings half a block away.
So, just for the record, do you believe that cattle can make an informed decision to consent to marriage, or do you think that homosexuals are beasts with the intellectual capacity of cattle?
The summary says "By using several layers, this technique will increase the storage capacity of a standard DVD to more than a terabyte.", yet UFC's website offers the following description:
"Depending on the color (wavelength) of the light, information is written onto a disk. The information is highly compacted, so the disk isn't much thicker. It's like a typical DVD."
A disk that "isn't much thicker" than a standard DVD isn't a standard DVD.
Stripper Factory.
What else could you need?
That may be my new favourite saying.
If that's your test for sentience, most of the population of the planet would fail.
Well that's a matter of opinion, isn't it. For that matter, who's to say all animals (other than humans) are non-sentient?
See what benefits? There are thousands of blastocysts destroyed every year as "leftovers" from fertility clinics. Why would it benefit researchers to pay someone to have an abortion when there are plenty of viable alternatives sitting in freezers waiting to be disposed of?
Wow. Were do you even start with this one?
Okay, no, it's not an abortion issue, or at least it shouldn't be. People are not getting pregnant specifically to create stem cell lines. Secondly, having a two month old at home changed your perspective, not everyone else's. Third, if you "hardly call her sentient", I feel bad for your daughter. Mine did things that I found fascinating every day (even at two months), which I doubt a cluster of cells could have managed. Fourth, you've heard it called a blastocyst because that's what it's called. Take a look at the link, still want to compare your daughter at 2 months to that?
And what agenda do you think this serves? Do "those pro-choice people" wake up in the morning, twisting the ends of their handlebar moustaches saying "How can we cause more abortions today?". The real issue is, you want to force your point of view on others. The pro-choice people say "it's your decision, make it for yourself". The other side says "we know what's best, do as we say". If you don't like abortion, convince people not to have them, but removing the option, which seems to be the anti-abortion agenda is not a solution.
People who know far more about them, namely stem cell researchers, say they're inadequate to their needs. Are you qualified to dispute this?
See above.
Why do you think you're qualified to decide that we're wasting anything by doing this? Stem Cell researchers probably don't come to your place of employment and tell you how to do your job, why should you be trying to tell them how to do theirs?
Ah, but is that the real reason?
"...the very shape of the M25 forms the sign odegra in the language of the Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu, and means 'Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds.' The thousands of motorists who daily fume their way around its serpentine lengths have the same effect as water on a prayer wheel, grinding out an endless fog of low-grade evil to pollute the metaphysical atmosphere for scores of miles around. It was one of Crowley's better achievements... and had involved three computer hacks, two break-ins, one minor bribery and, when all else had failed, two hours in a squelchy field shifting the marker pegs a few but occultly incredibley significant meters" -- Good Omens
Okay, now lets see the rest of that:
In August 2005, the Illinois State Legislature enacted the Sexually Explicit Video Game Law
The point of the article is the new ruling, and not the legislation itself, so I'd say the submitter reads just fine.
Until of course someone steals your mail, reads through it all, and steals your identity. But hey, at least it keeps the crystal meth users busy. If someone wants to steal your mail, they'll find a way.
Also, Doubleplusgood? How do you equate the police of the Ministry of Love reading messages specifically looking for "crimes" against Big Brother, with automated document scanning by a private company that you hire? There are plenty of times when 1984 references are on target, but this doesn't seem to be one of them.....
Not an unreasonable assumption, given that you got into that state by taking drugs....
Why do you assume that gaining pleasure for yourself must mean it comes with some moral expense? [Normal] Humans have a sense of empathy towards those around them, which partly means that by and large, people don't enjoy causing pain to others. I've never understood the position of "Without God I might as well go out and kill people in the streets and rape babies". Unless your idea of a thrill is causing pain to others, I can't imagine why you'd want to do this. If that's the case, you may be a psychopath.
As are religious teachings. Notice how religion is not static, how it's practiced differently in different places over periods of time. Did God command the change, or is this process dictated by the social pressures of the religion's practitioners? As for the fear of being caught and being punished, isn't that a basic tenet of many religions and secular societies alike? "Do as I say, or you won't get into paradise, and you may even be tortured for all eternity!" vs "Don't break the law or you'll spend you life in prison". Jail time is no more attractive to the non-religious than hell is to the religious.
The higher power is irrelevant. Religions rise through the acquisition of power. If there was one universal, incontrovertible true way, your "higher power", why are there and why have there been so many unrelated and incompatible religions? They all just duke it out from time to time, and the one with the most power declares itself "right".