[breathes in] Funny, I don't recall paying for that hydrogen.
You are absolutely wrong and dada is absolutely right. In classic economic theory, as supply of a commodity approaches infinity the cost must drop to zero. If one decides to make ones intellectual 'property' available in an easily reproducible format, one must expect exactly this price (0) to happen; unless one distorts the free market with government intervention.
What you are (by implication) advocating is a have-cake-and-eat-it-too world - where the costs of production approach zero, but some price is artifically 'fixed' by government intervention. What's next - will you suggest the government force the intellectual property on an unwilling public to secure the cartel's revenue stream? Your choice of words 'should not be $0.00' makes me wonder.
I'd suggest that everyone who has ranted in this thread about stuff 'just working' should try installing Windows XP on a PowerBook or OSX on a Vaio and see how far they get.
Question: which OS at least attempts to support both? I have Ubuntu happily chugging away on each.
Or, should I say, 'Apple and IBM' - completely different organziations. One had (at the time of Sculley's tenure, at least) only one main business focus; the other had (and has) its fingers in all sorts of pies.
How about a comparison of Jack Welch at GE (PhD in Chemical Engineering) vs. Louis Gerstner at IBM (Harvard MBA)?
Technically, SCOTUS handed down an opinion based upon a legally unsound equal protection argument. (That same argument is about to bite them in the ass in Ohio, I hope and pray.) The decision allowed the actual 'election' (which is performed by the electors, not the public) to commence on schedule in January 2001.
So yeah, to nitpick, Our Dear Leader was "elected" in January 2001. Fraudulently.
At the Children's Hospitals I have visited (4 of them), each of those 'cellophane balloons' represents a child that died in the hospital during the previous year. It's an annual event, for the parents and families who lost a child in the previous year. Kool and the Gang is not (to my knowledge) an integral part of the ceremony. Sorry it doesn't meet your 'tribute' standard. Harsh? Try asenine.
What about GOP 'crossover' rallies held in Wisconsin and Minnesota - supposedly intended to invite Democrats to cross over and vote GOP, but you had to take a Bush loyalty pledge to attend? Only one alleged Democrat - Zell - was there. That's not bubble reality?
It was a superior groundgame that won the election. Push-polling on gay rights issues was sheer evil genius.
Both parties are guilty of creating 'bubble realities', they are a necessary fact of a modern media. Too much cognitive dissonance and the base stays home. Why do you think that Bush contunally avoided the 'What have you done wrong' question?
Writen by humorist James Thurber for the New Yorker back in the late 50's or early 60s. The essay is in this book.
He writes of his drawer-full of cheap Japanese knockoffs that worked for a few days, then began to each emit a strange and unique sound - his fond reminiscing about 'Old Squeem' still makes me laugh.
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Windows 2000 was an overly of 98 on NT.
No. Windows 2000 introduced Active Directory, which was a significant departure from the NT 3/4 domain model. It was much more than the 98 GUI on NT.
I think 2000 was the real high-water mark for Windows and Office both.
Since Greg Mankiw believes uninformed is worse than not at all, I wonder what he would make of GOP efforts to intentionally dis-inform prospective voters.
Google Canada Free Press and read the description; the 'paper' refers to itself as a:
"conservative media alternative"
making fun of Al Gore's statement is funny and it always will be
Congratulations!
You, sir/maam, could get a job at any major US Newspaper with that attitude, today. In fact, Kudos to you for remembering what's really important.
When does the patent expire?
Here in the US, effectively never.
I live in your typical urban Northeastern environment, so let's see what I inhale in addition to the Nitrogen, Oxygen and the 'others':
Water Vapor
Polycyclic Unburnt Hydrocarbons
Traces of Benzene and Formaldehyde
Shall I go on?
(and what's methane made of, after all?)
the price is not and should not be $0.00
[breathes in] Funny, I don't recall paying for that hydrogen.
You are absolutely wrong and dada is absolutely right. In classic economic theory, as supply of a commodity approaches infinity the cost must drop to zero. If one decides to make ones intellectual 'property' available in an easily reproducible format, one must expect exactly this price (0) to happen; unless one distorts the free market with government intervention.
What you are (by implication) advocating is a have-cake-and-eat-it-too world - where the costs of production approach zero, but some price is artifically 'fixed' by government intervention. What's next - will you suggest the government force the intellectual property on an unwilling public to secure the cartel's revenue stream? Your choice of words 'should not be $0.00' makes me wonder.
If Toonces is driving the car!
http://www.catass.com/toonces/
I'd suggest that everyone who has ranted in this thread about stuff 'just working' should try installing Windows XP on a PowerBook or OSX on a Vaio and see how far they get.
Question: which OS at least attempts to support both? I have Ubuntu happily chugging away on each.
The robot chases around the room - and tries to choke - anyone who requests 'Stairway to Heaven'.
Allow me to quote Miller from Repo Man:
...as he feeds another air freshener into the oil drum fire.
"The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."
Or, should I say, 'Apple and IBM' - completely different organziations. One had (at the time of Sculley's tenure, at least) only one main business focus; the other had (and has) its fingers in all sorts of pies.
How about a comparison of Jack Welch at GE (PhD in Chemical Engineering) vs. Louis Gerstner at IBM (Harvard MBA)?
Absolutely no Beowulf Clusters.
ATF = Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; i.e., three things that almost always get special legal treatment on the Federal level.
...hence my answer to the "when will they subpoena Amazon?" question: apples and oranges.
Turion sounds like some person or place from The Silmarillion.
When they renamed 'Entropia' to Slashdotted.
Technically, SCOTUS handed down an opinion based upon a legally unsound equal protection argument. (That same argument is about to bite them in the ass in Ohio, I hope and pray.) The decision allowed the actual 'election' (which is performed by the electors, not the public) to commence on schedule in January 2001.
So yeah, to nitpick, Our Dear Leader was "elected" in January 2001. Fraudulently.
Our newly re-elected Dear Leader will find a good 'reason' to take it away.
The difference? One was a faith-based initiative.
"OK, perhaps that's harsh."
At the Children's Hospitals I have visited (4 of them), each of those 'cellophane balloons' represents a child that died in the hospital during the previous year. It's an annual event, for the parents and families who lost a child in the previous year. Kool and the Gang is not (to my knowledge) an integral part of the ceremony. Sorry it doesn't meet your 'tribute' standard. Harsh? Try asenine.
Most of those items are on The Open CD, with a really nice installer on the front end. ISO available here.
Bah. For every New York taxi driver, there is an Alabama youth pastor sending the kids out to violate the Eighth Commandment.
And don't forget the prime bipartisan example of supressing cognitive dissonance.
The illusions are on both sides. Equally. By design.
Like I said - it's all cognitive dissonance. Both sides do it.
What about GOP 'crossover' rallies held in Wisconsin and Minnesota - supposedly intended to invite Democrats to cross over and vote GOP, but you had to take a Bush loyalty pledge to attend? Only one alleged Democrat - Zell - was there. That's not bubble reality?
It was a superior groundgame that won the election. Push-polling on gay rights issues was sheer evil genius.
Both parties are guilty of creating 'bubble realities', they are a necessary fact of a modern media. Too much cognitive dissonance and the base stays home. Why do you think that Bush contunally avoided the 'What have you done wrong' question?
Writen by humorist James Thurber for the New Yorker back in the late 50's or early 60s. The essay is in this book.
He writes of his drawer-full of cheap Japanese knockoffs that worked for a few days, then began to each emit a strange and unique sound - his fond reminiscing about 'Old Squeem' still makes me laugh.