That's when the rig hit a pocket of "shallow gas" and ruptured it or disturbed it, sending massive quantities of gas to the surface at once. The gas bubbles reduce the density of water and the rig sinks. The water is so foamy you can't swim in it, either.
Not to mention that most people drive every day, twice a day if they have a day job. They probably program their VCR less than once a week or maybe even once a year.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were shipyards. During WWII, they didn't have the capability to surgically strick targets so they blew up everything in the vicinity. The nuclear bombs were hardly precisino weapons, but they did hit military targets (and the surrounding civilian areas just like all other bombing raids). They were also intended to demonstrate to the Japanese government that we had the ability to utterly destroy Japan unless they stopped fighting. The goal was to prevent the enormous loss of life that would have resulted from an island-by-island invasion of Japan. That death toll would have dwarfed the deaths in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Bombing the World Trade Center will accomplish no strategic goals. It won't end a war, it won't affect our ability to make war, it won't convince America to back off anywhere. If anything, it will have the opposite effect. Right now, we spend a relatively small amount of our resources on the military. If we mobilized the country on a war-footing, we could produce a lot of military hardware and do a lot of damage. Hopefully, we won't need to...
It used to be 14 years. The 14 years with a 14 year renewal. Then 28 years (automatic renewal). Then it's only increased (every time Mickey Mouse comes near to coming into public domain).
The current term is pretty clearly in violation of the Constitution.
Odd... I can't think of a single inalienable right. I know that some pieces of paper have words on them that say that there are rights that can't be taken away, but just about all of them can be... it's just that they shouldn't.
The original intent behind copyright and patent law was to encourage the creation of works and to allow them to become public domain. The compromise was to allow the creator (person) a monopoly long enough to give him incentives to create and then let it become public after that. There is no benefit to society to let heirs or corporations keep copyrights and patents forever. There is actually a good reason for them to expire... to encourage the continual creation of new works.
Again, the purpose of copyright and patent law was to benefit society as a whole, not authors or inventors except just enough to encourage them to create. We've gone way overboard with this... far beyond any benefit to creators (beyond their deaths) and into an area that harms society by adding restrictions.
Why should I pay for someone else's convenience? They guy with te cell phone should pay for the cell phone. I have local and long distance service to pay for my phone usage. If I call someone who has a cell phone, I shouldn't have to pay a premium because he wanted the convenience of having a phone he could carry with him.
Ironically, my Linux box was hacked last week and I'm now planning on tossing it in the garbage since I don't have time to unahack it or reinstall. I did not make any heroic efforts to secure it and it didn't stay up all the time but apparently disabling services I wasn't using wasn't enough.
My Mac and Windows boxes are just fine. I'll be keeping them.
When I have more time and money (I just has a daughter), I'll consider getting another Linux box. I'm disappointed since I liked my Linux box.
Actually, you're wrong. If you outlaw something, you don't affect criminals who already have shown that laws won't influence their behavior, but you do have a strong influence on law-abiding citizens and those who don't follow the law then become criminals and are one step closer to other crimes.
One interesting statistic is that very few home burglaries in the US happen while the family is home while most in Britain happen while the family is home. Prisoners will state flat out that they fear that someone at home might be armed.
The most commonly quoted statistic about home-owners defending themselves with a gun being more likely to be shot with their own gun is a complete and utter fabrication.
Personally, I agree that all data should be open. I strongly support companies publishing all salary information, for example. That way, you'd know where you stood. If the company wanted to pay one guy more than others, then it is quite reasonable that it justify that pay.
Actualy, "Censor YOURSELF" doesn't mean to close your eyes when you see something you don't like. It means that you should think about what you say and not say something you shouldn't.
You should be responsible for what you say. This is a very important part of having the freedom to say whatever you want.
All freedom brings with it the responsibility to use it appropriately.
Skins and the like are evil. If you are writing the application, write a good interface and leave it at that.
It seems like the ability to change the interface should not be considered a vital part of an Internet telephony application.
Just the opinion of a user who would prefer to let experts design user interfaces so he can use them and be amazed at how intuitive and easy to use they are.
Well, it may surprise you to learn that the level of violent crimes in schools has been decreasing in spite of the news coverage. News organizations rarely go find crime statistics, they just report on how common reports are. According to the FBI, crime has been decreasing in all categories every year since 1995 (the last year on the 1999 preliminary Uniform Crime Report). A lot of the measures being taken in schools are hysterical reactions to reported events without any real effort to determine the real risks. Bolie IV
Uhm... Microsoft sold DOS to IBM because IBM was looking for something to put on their new PCs to sell. IBM did not choose DOS because it was the best thing out there. Look into the history some and you'll find that Microsoft was at the right place at the right time and has done some good marketing. Technical quality has not really been a reason for any of Microsoft's successes. And when it was, the technical quality was bought outright from a company which developed it.
No one has ever forced me to buy a new computer. Sure, for work I need the latest version of Word and AutoCAD so I can communicate with other companies that are also using the latest versions, but at home, I can use whatever I want. My old software (a five-year-old, at least copy of Word 5.1 and Excel 4.0 for Mac) still works like it did when I bought it. And I've gone through several versions of Mac OS. Some of my old software doesn't work, but I usually can find alternatives. I have paid for some upgrades, but it's usually because I want new features.
While I agree that upgrades seem unfairly priced, I usually can choose not to buy them.
Only one software company? I assume you're referring to Microsoft... In the last five years, the only software I've bought from Microsoft is the Windows 95 that came on my wife's computer. She uses Outlook and IE, sometimes, and I use an OLD copy of Word 5.1 for Mac. Other than that, we use software from a number of other companies, shareware, etc...
Oh, and I don't think the article was only about desktop office software, but even so, there are alternatives, but I've actually found that Office is better than most of them even though I use Star Office when I can. I'd try some of the other Linux Office suites, but I need more power in my Linux box...
Spot.cc is advertising here in Houston and are still saying that Houstonians have a first chance at the new domain names. No one has mentioned why anyone would want a Cocos Island domain, yet, though.:)
I have to second this question and the question another poster asked about why you have an entry page in the first place. I couldn't get past that so I can't comment on anything else... Bolie IV
I really wish the Judicial branch would avoid doing Executive or Legislative type work. Now that Microsoft has been found guilty of crimes, they should simply send those responsible to jail. I bet that prison sentences would do a lot more to discourage such actions than any financial or business penalty.
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If you break microsoft up into several companies, each with its own stock and its own president, each is going to be interested in maximizing its own profit. Each will have different shareholders to answer to and will have an incentive to compete against the others. There may be some working together, but they'd have to be very careful as the DoJ would be watching very carefully for that sort of thing.
Measuring the value of the outstanding stock doesn't tell you anything about the company except that people who buy and sell stock think the company is worth buying. That doesn't mean the company is actually growing or doing well, just that a bunch of people think it will be doing better in the future.
Did you notice that the sales of some of the so-called smaller companies dwarfed Cisco? GM, GE, and many other companies are much larger, they just don't have as much outstanding stock.
Also remember that a lot of Internet companies are currently overvalued by the market.
Heh. While I'm sure that software designed to drive cars would be designed with more care than game software, it would still be written in a very tight time-frame and budget to solve the particular problem. Every industry works as fast as they can to make as much money as possible. The standard would be higher but no higher than absolutely necessary.
You have a lot more faith than I do in the gaming industry's ability to directly link an ad with how many games it sells. Companies make a lot of decisions without very much real information. They do this for several reasons... information is expensive and sometimes hard to come by. Also, personality and ego have a lot of impact on corporate decisions. The ads that run in gaming magazines are probably as much targeted at the magazine staff as the readers. After all, the magazine has to agree to run the ad.
Again, the reason the ads are sexist and target teenage boys is that some gaming industry marketing guys think that that will sell more games.
The impression I got was that she was pointing out that gaming magazines are blatantly sexist *IN SPITE OF* complaints from their readers. Towards the end of her article, she pointed out that gaming magazines also alienated a completely different, though most likely overlapping, segment of gamers who aren't interested in violent, bloody games. She was very careful not to say that girls like the non-violent games.
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That's when the rig hit a pocket of "shallow gas" and ruptured it or disturbed it, sending massive quantities of gas to the surface at once. The gas bubbles reduce the density of water and the rig sinks. The water is so foamy you can't swim in it, either.
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Uh... for the last several years, there has been one. Check out www.irs.gov for an online version. I think the 1040 instructions come with one, too.
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Not to mention that most people drive every day, twice a day if they have a day job. They probably program their VCR less than once a week or maybe even once a year.
Bolie IV
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were shipyards. During WWII, they didn't have the capability to surgically strick targets so they blew up everything in the vicinity. The nuclear bombs were hardly precisino weapons, but they did hit military targets (and the surrounding civilian areas just like all other bombing raids). They were also intended to demonstrate to the Japanese government that we had the ability to utterly destroy Japan unless they stopped fighting. The goal was to prevent the enormous loss of life that would have resulted from an island-by-island invasion of Japan. That death toll would have dwarfed the deaths in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Bombing the World Trade Center will accomplish no strategic goals. It won't end a war, it won't affect our ability to make war, it won't convince America to back off anywhere. If anything, it will have the opposite effect. Right now, we spend a relatively small amount of our resources on the military. If we mobilized the country on a war-footing, we could produce a lot of military hardware and do a lot of damage. Hopefully, we won't need to...
Bolie IV
It used to be 14 years. The 14 years with a 14 year renewal. Then 28 years (automatic renewal). Then it's only increased (every time Mickey Mouse comes near to coming into public domain).
The current term is pretty clearly in violation of the Constitution.
Bolie IV
Odd... I can't think of a single inalienable right. I know that some pieces of paper have words on them that say that there are rights that can't be taken away, but just about all of them can be... it's just that they shouldn't.
Bolie IV
The original intent behind copyright and patent law was to encourage the creation of works and to allow them to become public domain. The compromise was to allow the creator (person) a monopoly long enough to give him incentives to create and then let it become public after that. There is no benefit to society to let heirs or corporations keep copyrights and patents forever. There is actually a good reason for them to expire... to encourage the continual creation of new works.
Again, the purpose of copyright and patent law was to benefit society as a whole, not authors or inventors except just enough to encourage them to create. We've gone way overboard with this... far beyond any benefit to creators (beyond their deaths) and into an area that harms society by adding restrictions.
Bolie IV
Why should I pay for someone else's convenience? They guy with te cell phone should pay for the cell phone. I have local and long distance service to pay for my phone usage. If I call someone who has a cell phone, I shouldn't have to pay a premium because he wanted the convenience of having a phone he could carry with him.
Bolie IV
Ironically, my Linux box was hacked last week and I'm now planning on tossing it in the garbage since I don't have time to unahack it or reinstall. I did not make any heroic efforts to secure it and it didn't stay up all the time but apparently disabling services I wasn't using wasn't enough.
My Mac and Windows boxes are just fine. I'll be keeping them.
When I have more time and money (I just has a daughter), I'll consider getting another Linux box. I'm disappointed since I liked my Linux box.
Bolie IV
Actually, you're wrong. If you outlaw something, you don't affect criminals who already have shown that laws won't influence their behavior, but you do have a strong influence on law-abiding citizens and those who don't follow the law then become criminals and are one step closer to other crimes.
One interesting statistic is that very few home burglaries in the US happen while the family is home while most in Britain happen while the family is home. Prisoners will state flat out that they fear that someone at home might be armed.
The most commonly quoted statistic about home-owners defending themselves with a gun being more likely to be shot with their own gun is a complete and utter fabrication.
Personally, I agree that all data should be open. I strongly support companies publishing all salary information, for example. That way, you'd know where you stood. If the company wanted to pay one guy more than others, then it is quite reasonable that it justify that pay.
Actualy, "Censor YOURSELF" doesn't mean to close your eyes when you see something you don't like. It means that you should think about what you say and not say something you shouldn't.
You should be responsible for what you say. This is a very important part of having the freedom to say whatever you want.
All freedom brings with it the responsibility to use it appropriately.
Bolie IV
Skins and the like are evil. If you are writing the application, write a good interface and leave it at that.
It seems like the ability to change the interface should not be considered a vital part of an Internet telephony application.
Just the opinion of a user who would prefer to let experts design user interfaces so he can use them and be amazed at how intuitive and easy to use they are.
Bolie IV
Well, it may surprise you to learn that the level of violent crimes in schools has been decreasing in spite of the news coverage. News organizations rarely go find crime statistics, they just report on how common reports are. According to the FBI, crime has been decreasing in all categories every year since 1995 (the last year on the 1999 preliminary Uniform Crime Report). A lot of the measures being taken in schools are hysterical reactions to reported events without any real effort to determine the real risks. Bolie IV
Uhm... Microsoft sold DOS to IBM because IBM was looking for something to put on their new PCs to sell. IBM did not choose DOS because it was the best thing out there. Look into the history some and you'll find that Microsoft was at the right place at the right time and has done some good marketing. Technical quality has not really been a reason for any of Microsoft's successes. And when it was, the technical quality was bought outright from a company which developed it.
Bolie IV
No one has ever forced me to buy a new computer. Sure, for work I need the latest version of Word and AutoCAD so I can communicate with other companies that are also using the latest versions, but at home, I can use whatever I want. My old software (a five-year-old, at least copy of Word 5.1 and Excel 4.0 for Mac) still works like it did when I bought it. And I've gone through several versions of Mac OS. Some of my old software doesn't work, but I usually can find alternatives. I have paid for some upgrades, but it's usually because I want new features.
While I agree that upgrades seem unfairly priced, I usually can choose not to buy them.
Bolie IV
Only one software company? I assume you're referring to Microsoft... In the last five years, the only software I've bought from Microsoft is the Windows 95 that came on my wife's computer. She uses Outlook and IE, sometimes, and I use an OLD copy of Word 5.1 for Mac. Other than that, we use software from a number of other companies, shareware, etc...
Oh, and I don't think the article was only about desktop office software, but even so, there are alternatives, but I've actually found that Office is better than most of them even though I use Star Office when I can. I'd try some of the other Linux Office suites, but I need more power in my Linux box...
Bolie IV
Spot.cc is advertising here in Houston and are still saying that Houstonians have a first chance at the new domain names. No one has mentioned why anyone would want a Cocos Island domain, yet, though. :)
Bolie IV
I have to second this question and the question another poster asked about why you have an entry page in the first place. I couldn't get past that so I can't comment on anything else... Bolie IV
I really wish the Judicial branch would avoid doing Executive or Legislative type work. Now that Microsoft has been found guilty of crimes, they should simply send those responsible to jail. I bet that prison sentences would do a lot more to discourage such actions than any financial or business penalty.
Bolie IV
If you break microsoft up into several companies, each with its own stock and its own president, each is going to be interested in maximizing its own profit. Each will have different shareholders to answer to and will have an incentive to compete against the others. There may be some working together, but they'd have to be very careful as the DoJ would be watching very carefully for that sort of thing.
Bolie IV
Measuring the value of the outstanding stock doesn't tell you anything about the company except that people who buy and sell stock think the company is worth buying. That doesn't mean the company is actually growing or doing well, just that a bunch of people think it will be doing better in the future.
Did you notice that the sales of some of the so-called smaller companies dwarfed Cisco? GM, GE, and many other companies are much larger, they just don't have as much outstanding stock.
Also remember that a lot of Internet companies are currently overvalued by the market.
This is essentially a fluff piece.
Bolie IV
Heh. While I'm sure that software designed to drive cars would be designed with more care than game software, it would still be written in a very tight time-frame and budget to solve the particular problem. Every industry works as fast as they can to make as much money as possible. The standard would be higher but no higher than absolutely necessary.
Bolie IV
And, of course, 87% of all statistics are made up.
Bolie IV
You have a lot more faith than I do in the gaming industry's ability to directly link an ad with how many games it sells. Companies make a lot of decisions without very much real information. They do this for several reasons... information is expensive and sometimes hard to come by. Also, personality and ego have a lot of impact on corporate decisions. The ads that run in gaming magazines are probably as much targeted at the magazine staff as the readers. After all, the magazine has to agree to run the ad.
Again, the reason the ads are sexist and target teenage boys is that some gaming industry marketing guys think that that will sell more games.
Bolie IV
The impression I got was that she was pointing out that gaming magazines are blatantly sexist *IN SPITE OF* complaints from their readers. Towards the end of her article, she pointed out that gaming magazines also alienated a completely different, though most likely overlapping, segment of gamers who aren't interested in violent, bloody games. She was very careful not to say that girls like the non-violent games.
Bolie IV