Imagine how short movies would be if they all followed the laws of physics...Hero fires a handgun at enemy, ducks under a table, gets shot at, runs and jumps off a ledge to the ground below, twists an ankle because the fall was about 5 feet, limps away, and gets killed by gunfire. End of movie.
Oh common do have the facts "straight". HPV is one of the few viruses that is transmissible through condomns..which is why ~80% of the population has been exposed at some point. Most of the time, your immune system clears the virus on its own. Sometimes it doesn't, and then problems appear such as genital warts or abnormal pap smears. I'm a gay man, so it's my job to know this stuff. i wish everyone else would wise up also.
I used to think it was lack of education and general ignorance (such as in the US) that caused modern governments to deteriorate into police-states due to fear. Clearly the british as a society are highly educated, yet are leading the way. I guess i was wrong.
But does your right to light your house the way you want trump my right to breathe clean air and have clean water? Government has an interest in protecting the people from threats, be that military or enviornmental. I think it is reasonable to think that the government does have a viable interest to control enviornmental damages that private industries would otherwise introduce to the people. This is why we limit carbon emissions from vehicles, and other pollutants from manufacturers. Taxing the bulbs themselves is not necessary. Just tax the manufacturers when they make a polluting bulb.
Did you even read the damn thing? There's a lot of metrics in the report, not just one, and RIGHT BELOW the metric you are referring to is a comparison between %population living in urban areas vs. broadband adoption. It found no significant coorelation. Therefore you're wrong, and there must be another reason. There is simply **no excuxse** for the US. Our system is broken.
Try gov't sanctioned monopolies and you may be looking in the right place.
And to take it a step further, you can still maintain the "anyone can author" philosophy, to allow new users to create articles that don't exist, but not edit articles built by someone with higher karma. I'm sure there are plenty of feedback-loops that can be built in the system to ensure that the more visible or popular the article becomes, higher quality becomes more and more gauranteed.
For example, karma could be split into categories: science, education, technology, politics & world events, history, etc. Then joe-shmo who has achieved karma by authoring good technology articles couldn't necessarily go off and vandalize a George W Bush article written by a political science professor.
I dont get it..dont you understand that the US govt a long time ago made monopolies (supposedly) illegal? Our forefathers knew that if the market is reduced to a single player, then the free market is no longer free.
It's absolutely absurd to think consumers "demand" competition, that's not how it works. (what planet are you on?) What consumers demand is a product from whoever makes it the best quality for the cheapest price, whether that be from one company or 100. Competition occurs when someone comes along and thinks they can produce the same thing at a higher quality or for less cost or both.
In a monopoly, that can't happen for obvious reasons.
I am not a financial expert but I have enough working knowledge to know this is unlikely. At the current price, $460, GOOG has a market cap of 140B and reported revenue of 6B. Compare that to microsoft, whose market cap is double, about $280B, and income is 44B. A doubling of google's stock price would make google as valuable as microsoft, with only a fraction of the income. Google is simply not as valuable as microsoft, yet.
No doubt GOOG would hit $600 or $700 this year, but not $1000, it's too high too soon. The psycology and initial "wowwing" of wall street is over. GOOG must bring in the money for the stock to see prices that high.
And that's my extremely nutty prediction for 2007.
How can something be wrong that I cannot control? Because, FYI, I can't make the choice. I am simply not attracted to women and cannot force it anymore than you can force yourself to be attracted to . It's really that simple.
It goes back to the level of user again. Why should I have to be a mechanic to figure out how to operate my car? (why do cars still have gears exposed to the driver? Just go dammit. i dont care how) Why should I have to be a computer expert to use the computer? Less is more is far more often the case. If people cannot figure out how to use "it" (whatever it is) in 10 minutes, do you really think it will sell? Only if you're an expert would you really want complexity. Since i am a csc person, I perfer my apps to show me most of their implementation, since I can figure it out. Good luck passing that arguement to my grandma.
If she is so motivated, perhaps a better use of her time is to organize a political group to put pressure on her representatives and bring the troops home...but that wouldnt' make the news now would it.
So what? You're saying that just because we dont have "enough" information that we should do nothing? Must we have every last ounce of irrefutable evidence before we act? The WHOLE POINT is that it will be (get this) **TOO LATE** to act by the time we collect "enough" irrefutable evidence.
I agree, we are uncertain if Koyoto is enough to avoid disaster. But what is certain is that doing nothing will indeed lead to disaster. I'd rather place my bets on Koyoto than nothing. That's just me.
It's kind of like waiting until some buildings are blown up before doing something about the terrorists.
Absolutely true; While you basically can get auto-banned for making a racial slur on a public channel, the use of anti-gay remarks (which i find highly offensive) is widespread and goes unpunished. I've written many letters to the WOW admins only to get the same canned auto-reply, yet it still goes unpunished.
That must be true, because in cushy civilian jobs, companies dont fire you for doing poor work or being undercut and outsourced by cheaper labor overseas. Nope. Quite secure over here. The mediocre survive./sarcasm
Exactally. For some people with cancer and on chemotherapy, they can lose the majority of their 'killer' white cells. (They have "AIDS".) Some used to die from infection until the invention of Neupogen.
I'm sure they have plenty of faith in the concept of community. Community, however, is not what they're talking about. There's a difference between community support and widespread adoption. The whole point is, you will never have widespread adoption if it's not easy to use and works out of the box.
To put it in perspective: If for example, you had to be a mechanical engineer to figure out how to operate a car, there would be no cars.
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Yes, you should. I hear ipv6 is not IBM compatable.
Imagine how short movies would be if they all followed the laws of physics...Hero fires a handgun at enemy, ducks under a table, gets shot at, runs and jumps off a ledge to the ground below, twists an ankle because the fall was about 5 feet, limps away, and gets killed by gunfire. End of movie.
Oh common do have the facts "straight". HPV is one of the few viruses that is transmissible through condomns..which is why ~80% of the population has been exposed at some point. Most of the time, your immune system clears the virus on its own. Sometimes it doesn't, and then problems appear such as genital warts or abnormal pap smears.
I'm a gay man, so it's my job to know this stuff. i wish everyone else would wise up also.
I used to think it was lack of education and general ignorance (such as in the US) that caused modern governments to deteriorate into police-states due to fear. Clearly the british as a society are highly educated, yet are leading the way. I guess i was wrong.
But does your right to light your house the way you want trump my right to breathe clean air and have clean water? Government has an interest in protecting the people from threats, be that military or enviornmental. I think it is reasonable to think that the government does have a viable interest to control enviornmental damages that private industries would otherwise introduce to the people. This is why we limit carbon emissions from vehicles, and other pollutants from manufacturers. Taxing the bulbs themselves is not necessary. Just tax the manufacturers when they make a polluting bulb.
The market will work out the rest.
..because we're America, and by god-given virute, we're supposed to be better than you. kthxluvubye
I agree with you, but be careful what you wish for. These days, a federally provided internet also would mean a federally monitored internet.
Did you even read the damn thing? There's a lot of metrics in the report, not just one, and RIGHT BELOW the metric you are referring to is a comparison between
%population living in urban areas vs. broadband adoption. It found no significant coorelation. Therefore you're wrong, and there must be another reason. There is simply **no excuxse** for the US. Our system is broken.
Try gov't sanctioned monopolies and you may be looking in the right place.
And to take it a step further, you can still maintain the "anyone can author" philosophy, to allow new users to create articles that don't exist, but not edit articles built by someone with higher karma. I'm sure there are plenty of feedback-loops that can be built in the system to ensure that the more visible or popular the article becomes, higher quality becomes more and more gauranteed.
For example, karma could be split into categories: science, education, technology, politics & world events, history, etc. Then joe-shmo who has achieved karma by authoring good technology articles couldn't necessarily go off and vandalize a George W Bush article written by a political science professor.
Just tossing out ideas..
-Joe
last i checked the other side has the right to examine any evidence used in arguements.
I dont get it..dont you understand that the US govt a long time ago made monopolies (supposedly) illegal? Our forefathers knew that if the market is reduced to a single player, then the free market is no longer free.
It's absolutely absurd to think consumers "demand" competition, that's not how it works. (what planet are you on?) What consumers demand is a product from whoever makes it the best quality for the cheapest price, whether that be from one company or 100. Competition occurs when someone comes along and thinks they can produce the same thing at a higher quality or for less cost or both.
In a monopoly, that can't happen for obvious reasons.
That's why i play. I love it when straight guys flirt with me. :)
Hogwash. If you ban weapons from law-abiding people, then only criminals will have weapons.
I am not a financial expert but I have enough working knowledge to know this is unlikely. At the current price, $460, GOOG has a market cap of 140B and reported revenue of 6B. Compare that to microsoft, whose market cap is double, about $280B, and income is 44B. A doubling of google's stock price would make google as valuable as microsoft, with only a fraction of the income. Google is simply not as valuable as microsoft, yet.
No doubt GOOG would hit $600 or $700 this year, but not $1000, it's too high too soon. The psycology and initial "wowwing" of wall street is over. GOOG must bring in the money for the stock to see prices that high.
And that's my extremely nutty prediction for 2007.
How can something be wrong that I cannot control? Because, FYI, I can't make the choice. I am simply not attracted to women and cannot force it anymore than you can force yourself to be attracted to . It's really that simple.
It goes back to the level of user again. Why should I have to be a mechanic to figure out how to operate my car? (why do cars still have gears exposed to the driver? Just go dammit. i dont care how)
Why should I have to be a computer expert to use the computer? Less is more is far more often the case. If people cannot figure out how to use "it" (whatever it is) in 10 minutes, do you really think it will sell? Only if you're an expert would you really want complexity. Since i am a csc person, I perfer my apps to show me most of their implementation, since I can figure it out. Good luck passing that arguement to my grandma.
If she is so motivated, perhaps a better use of her time is to organize a political group to put pressure on her representatives and bring the troops home...but that wouldnt' make the news now would it.
All your lego's are belong to us.
I didn't know it took much training to push a mop around. I better get trained the next time i decide to clean the house or i might do it wrong!
So what? You're saying that just because we dont have "enough" information that we should do nothing? Must we have every last ounce of irrefutable evidence before we act? The WHOLE POINT is that it will be (get this) **TOO LATE** to act by the time we collect "enough" irrefutable evidence.
I agree, we are uncertain if Koyoto is enough to avoid disaster. But what is certain is that doing nothing will indeed lead to disaster. I'd rather place my bets on Koyoto than nothing. That's just me.
It's kind of like waiting until some buildings are blown up before doing something about the terrorists.
oh wait...
-J
Absolutely true; While you basically can get auto-banned for making a racial slur on a public channel, the use of anti-gay remarks (which i find highly offensive) is widespread and goes unpunished. I've written many letters to the WOW admins only to get the same canned auto-reply, yet it still goes unpunished.
Oh please..you actually believe that weasel talk? You need to read more dilbert.
He phrased it that way so he could appear sure of himself in public while at the same time avoiding the flip-flop assertion when he fired him.
The plain fact is he has not accepted Rumsfeld's resignation twice before. This time he did.
That must be true, because in cushy civilian jobs, companies dont fire you for doing poor work or being undercut and outsourced by cheaper labor overseas. Nope. Quite secure over here. The mediocre survive. /sarcasm
Exactally. For some people with cancer and on chemotherapy, they can lose the majority of their 'killer' white cells. (They have "AIDS".) Some used to die from infection until the invention of Neupogen.
I'm sure they have plenty of faith in the concept of community. Community, however, is not what they're talking about. There's a difference between community support and widespread adoption. The whole point is, you will never have widespread adoption if it's not easy to use and works out of the box.
To put it in perspective: If for example, you had to be a mechanical engineer to figure out how to operate a car, there would be no cars.