But wait, if we have a new economic model, then Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman, haughty, almost-french-looking not-Enron advisor, might not afford his palace any more. http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/1673.html
The "unambiguous computer records" at issue here are the supposed times and codes of door openings and times of closings. It's unambiguously useless for telling apart situation (a) the attempted rapist guest closes the door and (b) the maid interested in extracurricular activities closes the door.
If you read the entire court decision, you'll see that they point to this Spockian utilitarianism as something to be wary of. Their decision was actually to reverse just such legislation.
> Which will spur economic and scientific growth [...]
Perhaps one should cast this as a falsifiable prediction, tested before the whole $40B is actually spent. Like rolling out the network a few places, and seeing what if anything happens to the disease and ignorance of these "dark ages".
> You criticise the government for not fixing problems it can do little > about by criticising the government when it does do something to fix a > problem it can do something about. Jesus H Christ, Australia doesn't > need any more people like you.
It's not about what a government can vs. cannot do. It's about what problems are important, and what issues should be in their jurisdiction.
> Lets break down the numbers, out of that 43 billion, 16 billion is > being contributed by private entities.
And they are donating this, or investing, expecting a rate of return?
> So that's 27 billion. Divide that by 11 million households and thats > less then A$2500 per household. Amortise that over a 20 year lifespan > (20 year minimum, 40 more likely) and its $125 per year, per household. > A bloody bargain at twice the price.
Is your claim that said households will pay nothing for their internet service over those 20 years, save taxes?
Brilliant: not only does this scheme consume the metals making up the electrodes, but as a bonus, requires extra heat of boiling the taters. Hilarious.
> [...] What exactly the researchers achieved, and what they claim, can only be determined at this point by subscribers to Nature.
In other words, TFA is described by its very proponent as empty, and taunts that ordinary slashdot geeks can't get at the underlying paper anyway. So what's the point of posting?
> The US did not sign Kyoto. George Bush did not believe in global warming, so heh > reneged on the agreement made by Clinton to sign the protocol.
How ignorant of real history! Clinton signed the agreement, but never submitted it for senate ratification, since every senator (even Kerry and others so pro-kyoto now) preemptively blocked it. So Clinton's signature was purely figurative (as in, a PR gimmick) and the treaty was never active, thus never needed to be "reneged".
>> a family using the glow from the laptop's screen as the only source of light in their hut. > I wonder if this writer has ever been to the third world.
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But wait, if we have a new economic model, then Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman, haughty, almost-french-looking not-Enron advisor, might not afford his palace any more. http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/1673.html
The "unambiguous computer records" at issue here are the supposed times and codes of door openings and times of closings. It's unambiguously useless for telling apart situation (a) the attempted rapist guest closes the door and (b) the maid interested in extracurricular activities closes the door.
... and thank GOD for that.
Broadband = Wide Band.
Wide = Large Width.
Ergo, broadband = high bandwidth.
If you read the entire court decision, you'll see that they point to this Spockian utilitarianism as something to be wary of. Their decision was actually to reverse just such legislation.
> Which will spur economic and scientific growth [...]
Perhaps one should cast this as a falsifiable prediction, tested
before the whole $40B is actually spent. Like rolling out the
network a few places, and seeing what if anything happens to the
disease and ignorance of these "dark ages".
> You criticise the government for not fixing problems it can do little
> about by criticising the government when it does do something to fix a
> problem it can do something about. Jesus H Christ, Australia doesn't
> need any more people like you.
It's not about what a government can vs. cannot do. It's about what
problems are important, and what issues should be in their jurisdiction.
> Lets break down the numbers, out of that 43 billion, 16 billion is
> being contributed by private entities.
And they are donating this, or investing, expecting a rate of return?
> So that's 27 billion. Divide that by 11 million households and thats
> less then A$2500 per household. Amortise that over a 20 year lifespan
> (20 year minimum, 40 more likely) and its $125 per year, per household.
> A bloody bargain at twice the price.
Is your claim that said households will pay nothing for their internet
service over those 20 years, save taxes?
giving tax breaks and subsidies are supposed to be good because it "harnesses market forces" and is therefore "capitalist".
"tax breaks" are good because governments rob citizens less.
"subsidies" are not good.
I am a capitalist and I approve this message.
"...Even if it's an accurate quote..."
Dude, see the first two minutes of the posted video.
Brilliant: not only does this scheme consume the metals making up the electrodes, but as a bonus, requires extra heat of boiling the taters. Hilarious.
I really thoughts the democrats would be different.
I bet a majority of children who recieve a tablet will go to town and sell it so that they might be able to one day buy a goat.
Certainly, it should help their private, er, social life.
And since the submitter admits to his misbehavior, what she means is "whitewash" or "pardon".
Why, from "unspent agricultural subsidies", of course.
http://www.spacetoday.net/Summary/3994
So since you're happy with the BBC, you're happy to insist that all of your neighbours and countrymen also continue being forced to pay for it?
Token slashdot "involve your audience" question: isn't there some news worth writing about today? This isn't it.
First off, we know that NK does NOT have nuclear weapons.
It must be comforting to believe that the nuclear baby bomb they blew up a few years ago was the only one they had or produced since.
As usual, TFA is over a year old.
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Blizzard didn't produce evidence that Vota was an Intel employee, only
that the Geekcorps organization may or may not have some Intel funding.
Otherwise, usual quality news here at
> I'm 50 years old and my Social Security depends on them.
No, your Social Security depends on taxpayers, which the illegals generally are not.
Yes, this sounds as "predictive" as climate models.
Some of their software is at http://www.deri.ie/publications/tools/
but not the "yars2" world-record-busting supergadget.
It gets better:
> [...] What exactly the researchers achieved, and what they claim, can only be determined at this point by subscribers to Nature.
In other words, TFA is described by its very proponent as empty, and taunts that ordinary slashdot geeks can't get at the underlying paper anyway. So what's the point of posting?
I'm Pamela Jones. And so is my wife.
> The US did not sign Kyoto. George Bush did not believe in global warming, so heh
> reneged on the agreement made by Clinton to sign the protocol.
How ignorant of real history!
Clinton signed the agreement, but never submitted it for senate ratification,
since every senator (even Kerry and others so pro-kyoto now) preemptively
blocked it. So Clinton's signature was purely figurative (as in, a PR gimmick)
and the treaty was never active, thus never needed to be "reneged".
> [...] Staying with imperial measurements has only served to handicap American industry and economy. [...]
Imagine how much stronger the world's *biggest economy* would be, were it not so tragically "handicapped".
>> a family using the glow from the laptop's screen as the only source of light in their hut.
> I wonder if this writer has ever been to the third world.
Er, the quote above came from the OLPC web site itself.
http://www.laptop.org/faq.en_US.html