Military jobs work against an economy of production. In fact, that's their only point. They produce weapons and actions that destroy capital, either dead-end unused (preferable) or maximized destruction (last resort). Calling those jobs "productive" means Typhoid Mary was productive, a medical services marketer. While accurate, that view ignores the vast calamity in the economy of the plague she caused. The military is not a viable jobs program, although it is often cynically abused as such, for its short-term and immediate optical illusion.
Mod up for "insightful". Just like the broken window fallacy (explained so well by Henry Hazlitt in _Economics in One Lesson_), so the military diverts resources (especially people) from productive use into non-productive or destructive use. You _could_ argue that the environment for productive use is protected by that military, sometimes.
Here's to hoping he decided to put a little more thought into dialogue and less into the special effects.
That would give us Beavis and Butthead.
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Quicktime hits me up for bucks every time I run it too.
The fix for Quicktime is: shut down quicktime. Set your clock ahead several years. Start quicktime. On the update thingie, say "later". Somewhere in its bowels, it sets the time for the next check. Stop quicktime. Set clock back to current year. The time for the next check for updates is sometime in the distant future.
Yeah, it's a hack, but a doable one.
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What are you smoking? Chopsticks have been used in Asia for thousands of years. Their 'invention' in American mining communities is completely false.
That is true, but they were also invented recently in Redmond, WA.
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I wouldn't be so sure that the factory wants your car to last forever.
But they did enter into a legal agreement didn't they with the iTMS?
Agreements? What are agreements to me? I am a John Galt, a colossus standing astride this paltry earth, a demi-god of my own making, far above the agreements I make to placate the noisy RIAA prole rabble.
If it's on my hard drive, which is a physical platter that I purchased at retail, then it's a physical thing that exists in the real world and it's mine.
Trying to refine my thoughts on property here...There are lots of things that may be physically in my house, but I don't own. Library books, movies. I don't claim that possession is ownership there, because there were conditions placed on my getting possession, and I agreed to those conditions. How is a piece of music different from those?
you could at least make up that fortran was cultural somehow...what kind of jerk would name their kid in l33t speak is beyond me, but it sounds like a guarantee of therapy down the road for a multitude of reasons.
Yeah, but I'm talking about real grammatical errors...broken english in stories...and facts (or lack of) that leave me feeling that something's missing from the story.
9/11 would not be stopped by making the world liek us.
A lesson all/.ers can understand: the US is to the world as Microsoft is to the computing industry. Both hated by the outsiders, loved fanatically by the insiders who wonder witlessly, "why do they hate us?"
Jonah Goldberg, one time editor of National Review Online: "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country
and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business."
BTW, don't shoot me, I am not a neocon.
As an outsider it's rather touching to see claims like this being made. What might simply be seen as devil-may-care arrogance is arguably not that at all - it looks more like a genuine delusion concerning the extent to which US values are shared by others.
As an insider it's maddening to see the relentless chest-thumping about the greatness of America. I mean, I love my home country, warts and all, but the Nationalism is a bit revolting. We're in the state of Hubris. Next comes Nemesis.
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No, it does not. Crashes, those kill. People speed all the time and live to talk about it.
Mod up for "insightful". Just like the broken window fallacy (explained so well by Henry Hazlitt in _Economics in One Lesson_), so the military diverts resources (especially people) from productive use into non-productive or destructive use. You _could_ argue that the environment for productive use is protected by that military, sometimes.
Yes, and as Nixon said: "if two wrongs don't make a right, try three." No, he didn't really say that.
That would give us Beavis and Butthead.
The fix for Quicktime is: shut down quicktime. Set your clock ahead several years. Start quicktime. On the update thingie, say "later". Somewhere in its bowels, it sets the time for the next check. Stop quicktime. Set clock back to current year. The time for the next check for updates is sometime in the distant future.
Yeah, it's a hack, but a doable one.
That is true, but they were also invented recently in Redmond, WA.
Exactly, it's called "planned obsolescence."
I just use a Tesla coil. Voila! Instantly recharged.
Agreements? What are agreements to me? I am a John Galt, a colossus standing astride this paltry earth, a demi-god of my own making, far above the agreements I make to placate the noisy RIAA prole rabble.
Trying to refine my thoughts on property here...There are lots of things that may be physically in my house, but I don't own. Library books, movies. I don't claim that possession is ownership there, because there were conditions placed on my getting possession, and I agreed to those conditions. How is a piece of music different from those?
There's a hidden signature on every /. post: "I am not a lawyer, but I play one on /."
Well, I should hope so. I do have an address that anyone can use to get there.
Because once enough Grandmas are lured to Linux, the game ports start coming. We want all the games on Linux, period.
And his /. handle would be "John Smith."
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The Massachusetts Department of Revenue.
OTOH, Wal-Mart is great to go to when you want to feel thin.
You mean, there's a print version of /.?
And you're right back where you started from: 50% of your employees are below average. What are you to do?
A lesson all /.ers can understand: the US is to the world as Microsoft is to the computing industry. Both hated by the outsiders, loved fanatically by the insiders who wonder witlessly, "why do they hate us?"
Jonah Goldberg, one time editor of National Review Online: "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business." BTW, don't shoot me, I am not a neocon.
As an insider it's maddening to see the relentless chest-thumping about the greatness of America. I mean, I love my home country, warts and all, but the Nationalism is a bit revolting. We're in the state of Hubris. Next comes Nemesis.
My indoctrination in the government schools prevents its possibility.
Kinda like bachelor's degrees in Psychology, Anthropology, Biology....You only get to work in the field with advanced degrees.
Maybe you should find the top two things you like to do. The top one you don't do for a living, the second you make money with.