Here in Norway a lot of ATMs have a small jack to plug standard earphones into. You'd have to carry the phones yourself, but that shouldn't be a big deal, and it offers better privacy. Somehow they seem to have forgotten to put braille on the keys, though. Duh.
Just put a flat tax on oil and coal. Problem solved.
If you could impose and enforce a tax in all other countries, yes. But since there are still some countries left that the US haven't invaded, you need additional schemes to make sure you achieve more than just give imported goods advantages over domestic production and encourage lots of unnecessary long-haul transportation to boot.
I remember a thread a while back here on slashdot where the idea of using the bed for anything else but sleeping (or more with the wife) was wrong. But I guess I know have Scottish researchers to 'back me up' instead of just my pillows.
Get two beds, and everything will be perfect.
I'm just saying that they would probably support any kind of film or propoganda that will help bring in research money.
Just about any state of affairs can be used to argue that more research is necessary.
It never ceases to amaze me that there are poeple who will take the output of fora owned by corporations (whose leaders are legally obliged to maximise shareholder interest in all legal ways) at face value, and yet consider the output of independent scientists inherently suspect, i.e. they are all lying and faking their research in a concerted effort and never being ratted out by their bitterest rivals.
Sure, it can be fun to play with exotic conspiracy theories, but at the same time ignoring the influence of oil companies that we know are conspiring to support thier own agenda and unlike independent researchers have enormous financial clout to do it with, that is just plain silly.
'In his new book, "A Good Dog: The Story of Orson," Katz chronicles the life and death of the lovable but troubled border collie that transformed his life. It continues the story begun in Katz's last book, "A Dog Year,"
The next book is rumored to be called just "Katz and dogs"
*bad-da-bissshhhh*
Thank you, you're wonderful.
Because Americans love their big, glitzy, technical or formal-sounding words. Nowhere else, for example, do people say "vehicle" in everyday talk when they obviously just mean "car". I presume this is because they actually find them impressive, or hope that others will. Most other places it just makes people cringe.
i dont care wtf trendy name you give it, im still going to call it a cell phone.
Damn right. And don't even get me started on all those new-fangled names for horseless carriages those you whippersnappers are trying to get us to these days.
Well, since it's already been shortened to just "mobile" (or the local version of taht) in most countries, I doubt that very much.
But it might very well become just "mob" or "mobe" in those languages where that works phonetically and fits the language. I've heard it a bit in Norwegian, although it doesn't seem to be quite taking over just yet.
Well, there will often be a business dependent on the copyrighted materials. Sometimes a big organization with many rights and which we do not need to feel too sorry about. But in many other cases it will a small business, often founded by the author, but still with other employees depending on it. Sudden loss of major assets because of unexpected death of the author would not be a very nice, or deserved, experience for anyone involved. Better with a fixed, predictable copyright term so the business can know exactly when things expire, when they will need new to acquire content to survive, or when they should pack up shop in an orderly way.
Now, whether the term should be 50 or 95 years, or something in between, I don't really have a strong opinion. But it sure as hell shouldn't last much longer than any author is likely to live. So barring radical changes in life expectancy and people creating protected works shortly after birth, 95years from origin might be a reasonable absolute maximum.
If the copyright vanishes if their artist dies, as the parent suggests, then it would be in the music industry's best interest to keep him alive for as long as possible.
Only for the one company that owns the rights. To all the others, the death of a well-selling artist would be a tempting opportunity.
Does this black metal have any special properties aside from being black?
What do you mean? With a simple swipe of a laser we can change sucky Cristian Metal into Black Metal. Isn't that enough? I'm still abit confused though: is this something to use on the actual band to change the poeple in it, or is it just a mod for your CD player?
Buy the boss a copy of the book "Peopleware" for christmas. It goes into great detail in documenting how stressful environments do not make economic sense, in a way that is believable for business people too.
That said, private offices are not necessarily the best solution. People who work together on the same thing can get great benefits from sitting together. The tragedy of the cube farms and open plan offoces is that they are almost never used for what the whole point was: to rearrange frequently according to needs.
My ideal office has "project rooms" that can house a handful of people working together, and shielded them fom disturbance from other groups. Enhances communication, less disturbance overall, and the noise there is is less of a problem, because noise from someone working on the same thing as you is much less distrubing than noise from unrelated activities.
But a good and often more realistic runner-up is to just lobby for the opportunity to use the capabilities that cube systems and open office plans offer: arrange your project group togeter. Use a lagoon layout (sit back-to back) so you get a "safe" and cohesive "inside" area, a good perimiter to shield against the rest of the world, and easy access to scoot over to your coworker when you want to show or discuss something. Avoid the more obvious island arrangement (face-to-face), where monitors act as walls betweeen project partners, and you ahve to take a walk to see someone else's screen, the outside world stresses you out behind your back, anf the feng shui is just generally destructive.
Underpants gnomes and FSM are just artificial creations that mock thousands of years of human insight, intuition, art, and culture.
You really ought to have been able to do this exercise on your own impulse if you had any intention at all of understanding the point the poster was getting at, but since you insist on being spoon-fed, here comes the big choochoo: replace FSM and Underpants gnomes with Allah, Krishna, Odin, Zeus, etc. etc. If your agument doesn't work as well for them as for the christian God, you really need to provide an explenation why.
And thus, the company never publishes the things they discovered and society has to keep reinventing them, since everyone who discovers them keeps them secret.
And yet, just about everything important in software was invented under just those circumstances, before patents had any power over software.
The book of Job describes a creature called a 'behemoth' whose description can be interpreted as that of a dinosaur.
It also describes a particularly nasty version of a creature called "God" that I don't think very many Christians would feel comfortable about idefending as the one they worship. If they actually read the damn book. Not the best place in the bible to nominate for a literal reading unless one has no problem worshipping a thoroughly cruel and evil god and admitting to it.
Given the size of the book it was inveitable he'd have to emit large chunks of it
Sorry, I don't mean to be a spelling nazi, but I just can't get over the mental image of Peter Jackson emitting large chunks of books. My day is ruined.
The question presupposes too many things. Namely that muslims are either praying or plotting terror 24/7 and that no athiest ever plans to hurt anyone else.
Nope, it only presupposess that the christian neigbour harbours such feelings (with or without conscious support of those ideas)
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what is the world coming to' To a very hot and uncomfortable end, apparently.
Here in Norway a lot of ATMs have a small jack to plug standard earphones into. You'd have to carry the phones yourself, but that shouldn't be a big deal, and it offers better privacy. Somehow they seem to have forgotten to put braille on the keys, though. Duh.
Just put a flat tax on oil and coal. Problem solved. If you could impose and enforce a tax in all other countries, yes. But since there are still some countries left that the US haven't invaded, you need additional schemes to make sure you achieve more than just give imported goods advantages over domestic production and encourage lots of unnecessary long-haul transportation to boot.
Buzzwords always have been: they can never have both high buzz and a precise meaning.
I remember a thread a while back here on slashdot where the idea of using the bed for anything else but sleeping (or more with the wife) was wrong. But I guess I know have Scottish researchers to 'back me up' instead of just my pillows. Get two beds, and everything will be perfect.
Nothing is ever apolitical, and neither should it. If it has no impact on politics, it probably doesn't matter at all.
OK, so let's hear your non-silly explanation of why the same thing is happening in Iraq? Or are you denying that it is happening?
I'm just saying that they would probably support any kind of film or propoganda that will help bring in research money. Just about any state of affairs can be used to argue that more research is necessary. It never ceases to amaze me that there are poeple who will take the output of fora owned by corporations (whose leaders are legally obliged to maximise shareholder interest in all legal ways) at face value, and yet consider the output of independent scientists inherently suspect, i.e. they are all lying and faking their research in a concerted effort and never being ratted out by their bitterest rivals. Sure, it can be fun to play with exotic conspiracy theories, but at the same time ignoring the influence of oil companies that we know are conspiring to support thier own agenda and unlike independent researchers have enormous financial clout to do it with, that is just plain silly.
'In his new book, "A Good Dog: The Story of Orson," Katz chronicles the life and death of the lovable but troubled border collie that transformed his life. It continues the story begun in Katz's last book, "A Dog Year," The next book is rumored to be called just "Katz and dogs" *bad-da-bissshhhh* Thank you, you're wonderful.
I was talking about "when they obviously just mean car".
It will be a sad day when the POTS stops accepting pulse dialing.
On the bright side, the dolphins might then finally develop proper speech in stead of that annoying clicking.
So why did cellphone catch on?
Because Americans love their big, glitzy, technical or formal-sounding words. Nowhere else, for example, do people say "vehicle" in everyday talk when they obviously just mean "car". I presume this is because they actually find them impressive, or hope that others will. Most other places it just makes people cringe.
i dont care wtf trendy name you give it, im still going to call it a cell phone.
Damn right. And don't even get me started on all those new-fangled names for horseless carriages those you whippersnappers are trying to get us to these days.
Just call it a phone.
It's not like landlines have a spectacular future or anything.
I am sure your Mobile Phone will become Mone.
Well, since it's already been shortened to just "mobile" (or the local version of taht) in most countries, I doubt that very much.
But it might very well become just "mob" or "mobe" in those languages where that works phonetically and fits the language. I've heard it a bit in Norwegian, although it doesn't
seem to be quite taking over just yet.
Well, there will often be a business dependent on the copyrighted materials. Sometimes a big organization with many rights and which we do not need to feel too sorry about. But in many other cases it will a small business, often founded by the author, but still with other employees depending on it. Sudden loss of major assets because of unexpected death of the author would not be a very nice, or deserved, experience for anyone involved. Better with a fixed, predictable copyright term so the business can know exactly when things expire, when they will need new to acquire content to survive, or when they should pack up shop in an orderly way.
Now, whether the term should be 50 or 95 years, or something in between, I don't really have a strong opinion. But it sure as hell shouldn't last much longer than any author is likely to live. So barring radical changes in life expectancy and people creating protected works shortly after birth, 95years from origin might be a reasonable absolute maximum.
If the copyright vanishes if their artist dies, as the parent suggests, then it would be in the music industry's best interest to keep him alive for as long as possible.
Only for the one company that owns the rights. To all the others, the death of a well-selling artist would be a tempting opportunity.
Does this black metal have any special properties aside from being black?
What do you mean? With a simple swipe of a laser we can change sucky Cristian Metal into Black Metal. Isn't that enough? I'm still abit confused though: is this something to use on the actual band to change the poeple in it, or is it just a mod for your CD player?
Buy the boss a copy of the book "Peopleware" for christmas. It goes into great detail in documenting how stressful environments do not make economic sense, in a way that is believable for business people too.
That said, private offices are not necessarily the best solution. People who work together on the same thing can get great benefits from sitting together. The tragedy of the cube farms and open plan offoces is that they are almost never used for what the whole point was: to rearrange frequently according to needs.
My ideal office has "project rooms" that can house a handful of people working together, and shielded them fom disturbance from other groups. Enhances communication, less disturbance overall, and the noise there is is less of a problem, because noise from someone working on the same thing as you is much less distrubing than noise from unrelated activities.
But a good and often more realistic runner-up is to just lobby for the opportunity to use the capabilities that cube systems and open office plans offer: arrange your project group togeter. Use a lagoon layout (sit back-to back) so you get a "safe" and cohesive "inside" area, a good perimiter to shield against the rest of the world, and easy access to scoot over to your coworker when you want to show or discuss something. Avoid the more obvious island arrangement (face-to-face), where monitors act as walls betweeen project partners, and you ahve to take a walk to see someone else's screen, the outside world stresses you out behind your back, anf the feng shui is just generally destructive.
Underpants gnomes and FSM are just artificial creations that mock thousands of years of human insight, intuition, art, and culture.
You really ought to have been able to do this exercise on your own impulse if you had any intention at all of understanding the point the poster was getting at, but since you insist on being spoon-fed, here comes the big choochoo: replace FSM and Underpants gnomes with Allah, Krishna, Odin, Zeus, etc. etc. If your agument doesn't work as well for them as for the christian God, you really need to provide an explenation why.
And thus, the company never publishes the things they discovered and society has to keep reinventing them, since everyone who discovers them keeps them secret.
And yet, just about everything important in software was invented under just those circumstances, before patents had any power over software.
The book of Job describes a creature called a 'behemoth' whose description can be interpreted as that of a dinosaur.
It also describes a particularly nasty version of a creature called "God" that I don't think very many Christians would feel comfortable about idefending as the one they worship. If they actually read the damn book. Not the best place in the bible to nominate for a literal reading unless one has no problem worshipping a thoroughly cruel and evil god and admitting to it.
Given the size of the book it was inveitable he'd have to emit large chunks of it
Sorry, I don't mean to be a spelling nazi, but I just can't get over the mental image of Peter Jackson emitting large chunks of books. My day is ruined.
The question presupposes too many things. Namely that muslims are either praying or plotting terror 24/7 and that no athiest ever plans to hurt anyone else.
Nope, it only presupposess that the christian neigbour harbours such feelings (with or without conscious support of those ideas)
Well I'll be damned. Looks a bit rough still (I need bi-directional sync if there's to be any point), but good to see someone is working on it.