I don't understand the people that come out of the woodwork as apologists for the Chinese government here. The Chinese government IS EVIL and that knee-jerk reaction isn't a "knee-jerk" reaction, it's as simple and logical a reaction to the totalitarian brutality they've demonstrates as the "knee-jerk" reaction to Nazi Germany, Stalinist USSR, Khmer Rouge Cambodia, ad nauseum.
I don't think anyone is apologizing for the Chinese government. Yes, the Chinese government is "evil". That doesn't automatically imply that every single thing the Chinese government does is necessarily evil. The "evil" Chinese government is sending an expedition to Antarctica; are we to infer that exploration of Antarctica is evil? Whether an act is evil or not should be evaluated on the merits of the act itself, not the actor.
And now Pentium2/3 - started at 233 and climbed until around 1300, which is higher than 4/5x. But maybe there's been some really notable arch changes since P2? What're your thoughts?
The P-II is largely based on the Pentium Pro, and so is the Pentium M, so the speed range really should 133 MHz (first PPros) to 2000 Mhz (latest Dothan - or is it 2100 MHz now?), a factor of 15, and with some unknown amount of life still remaining (3 GHz? Higher?). There's no doubt in my mind that the Pentium Pro (and all its successors, from 1990 through today) was one of Intel's Truly Great Achievements. If they would have come down off the Northwood/Prescott hobby horse sooner, no one would even be talking about AMD today. (At least not in the x86 PC market.)
All right. Sorry. Didn't mean to be nasty. But really, when you call anyone on the left a socialist, and talk about "hive/pack mentality", do you really expect those people not to be insulted?
Yeah, it stings, don't it? I was doing it to make a point. Which you, apparently, missed.
The point of these few snips is simple: "Lefties" get as much abuse as anyone else. You have every right to complain about being insulted if you wish, but please drop this nonsense about how your side hardly ever stoops so low. It's crap. It only seems like "lefties are more apt/willing" because that's clearly what you want to believe.
It's not "my" side. I ain't no damned conservative - that's another insult in itself. But I can say, that as a libertarian (i.e. neither conservative nor liberal, 'cause you guys are both wrong) I've personally received a lot more vitriol in my life from libs than from cons. This doesn't mean that cons are any less vocal in their disagreements with me, but they don't get so personal and nasty and vicious about it as the liberals sometimes do.
One thing I've never understood about people with your point of view is that you claim to be anti-regulation and free-market, but it always translates into "pro-business".
Where do you get the idea that I am "pro-business"? All I'm saying is that businesses don't exist to provide people with cushy jobs.
Another thing to poke holes in your argument about the parity between the employee and the employer is political clout. Large companies wield more political power than individuals do.
You're right. And they shouldn't. I'm all for campaign finance reform and tight restrictions on lobbying. Mostly, I'm in favor of limiting the power of government so that such abuses of power can't happen in the first place. Corporations have way too much power in this country. And I'm not the only libertarian who thinks so.
At this point personal responsibility should play it's biggest role because the only way employees can match the political force of the company is to organize.
And they have every right to do so. I never said that people shouldn't be allowed to unionize. I'm not sure it's really in their long-term best interest, but that's another story.
However, the company can just leave the country if that becomes burdensome - and the left-over American workers are now completely "responsible" for their own livelihoods.
True. Maybe they could start new businesses.
I am sick of the hive/pack mentality of large corporations that I find totally antithetical to individualism.
Me too.
How is the enrichment of a tiny few oligarchs like Ken Lay and his ilk beneficial to the concepts of individualism?
Beats me.
If you don't like being called an animal - then I suggest you stop behaving like them.
Your repeated assertion that taking responsibility for one's own life is "animalistic" doesn't make it so. Could you explain a little further, or do you just want to go on hurling insults?
To the authors of Excuse me sir, but could you please evolve?, Libertarianism at its worst, and the post beginning with uhm... you realize that not everyone has the luxuary of quitting a job.:
Do you expect to have the right to decide who you want to work for, and to leave one employer for another if, for instance, they offer more money or more desirable conditions?
If so, then why do you think that a business should not be able to choose who it will employ, and for what salary and under what conditions?
The freedom to choose your means of livelihood brings with it responsbility for your livelihood. No one is responsible for you but you.
Actually, I have another question: Why does it seem that lefties are more apt/willing to resort to really nasty, personal insults when characterizing their enemies? I don't see people calling you folks "animals" just because you espouse a hive/pack mentality rather than believing in individualism. Why is the reverse OK?
Tell that to people who work in oil refineries. At one refinery my father used to work at, before he got there, to track down hydrogen leaks in the equipment, they would wave a broomstick along the sides of the pipes (hydrogen burns with a clear flame). Where the broomstick suddenly got cut in half, that was their hydrogen leak.
Anything under enough pressure can do that. I know a few people in the power plant industry, and they've told me similar stories about steam leaks. High pressure gas plus tiny pinhole equals flesh-cutting jet.
I'm pretty sure if we had massive solar panels all over the place, that'd effect the temperature by taking sunlight that would have heated the ground and diverting it.
All that electricity would eventually have to be re-released as some form of heat, unless we were using it to fire a giant laser beam into space or something.
BTW: Over here in the UK it's illegal to use the word "British" or similar indications in a company or business name without getting official permission first. Does America not have a similar restriction?
No, wait, its not. Its a load of stupid "America is teh best!" crap. He really doesn't give a shit about making life better for humanity, just his own little country. Heres hoping China and India's space programmes kick the flying bastard shit out of Burt and NASA alike.
Or maybe he has perceived that the US is losing ground to India and China, and needs a little boost.
Suppose a contest like this were to start up in, say, China. Do you think American teams would be invited to play? I kinda doubt it, don't you?
Just _why_ would someone want to introduce such GM/GEd stuff?
Put yourself in the shoes of a cartel member, and ask that question again. "Hmm, gee, why would I want to grow coke that is resistant to the herbicides that are being sprayed?" Duh.
The reason that Colombia is Columbia in English is so that people will say the name correctly. If we spelled it Colombia then people would pronounce it Co-lohm-bia, which would sound terrible.
To think we can know everything through science (in the macro or the microscopic) about our universe is just plain stupid.
Perhaps, perhaps not. But even if it is true, that does not imply that there exists any other means by which this knowledge is possible. Just because there is something that science cannot (yet) explain, that does not constitute proof of God. It just means that we don't know.
china's population is approx. 1.3 billion... 1.8 million internet bars means approx. 1 internet bar per 721 population... to put that in perspective, a city of 30,000 would have 41 internet bars...
Keep in mind that fewer Chinese own their own computers, much less have broadband connections, than do Americans, Europeans, or (non-communist) Asians.
Which Wiki engines can be secured with per-user logins for read and/or edit? We actually use a couple of Wikis in the office, but the IT guy won't open any up to the outside until a login is required to access the content. (I don't blame him.) Preferably something with simple requirements, like PHP and MySQL...?
"Why don't the music publishers price music a little more closely to a country's economy?"...Cos then you could buy the stuff cheap over there and ship it back home saving a bundle...Course that practice has been made illegal in the UK, the free market is wonderful, no?...Guess what makes it illegal...Copyright designs and patents act 1988 and the Trade Marks Act 1994. It is illegal to import/distribute into the UK without the opyright or trade mark owner's consent. There's a bunch of additional stuff which makes it even more illegal to import software.
Well, if the situation you're complaining about is created by government fiat, then you can hardly blame the free market, now, can you? Maybe you should be blaming your government for creating an un-free market?
No need to repeat others mistakes, learn from theirs then go on to make you own unique mistakes.
I'm not so sure about this. Not that I would consider The Matrix to be a good source for philosphical truth, but it did contain at least one nugget: "Knowing the path is not the same as walking the path." In many cases, you can't really understand, in your guts, why a mistake is a mistake until you make that mistake yourself, and experience the consequences yourself.
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And Canada. Small, densely-populated places like Canada.
Over 75% of Canadians live in a 100-mile-wide strip along the US border.
The incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome is on the rise.
If it gives you carpal tunnel syndrome, you're not doing it right!
I don't understand the people that come out of the woodwork as apologists for the Chinese government here. The Chinese government IS EVIL and that knee-jerk reaction isn't a "knee-jerk" reaction, it's as simple and logical a reaction to the totalitarian brutality they've demonstrates as the "knee-jerk" reaction to Nazi Germany, Stalinist USSR, Khmer Rouge Cambodia, ad nauseum.
I don't think anyone is apologizing for the Chinese government. Yes, the Chinese government is "evil". That doesn't automatically imply that every single thing the Chinese government does is necessarily evil. The "evil" Chinese government is sending an expedition to Antarctica; are we to infer that exploration of Antarctica is evil? Whether an act is evil or not should be evaluated on the merits of the act itself, not the actor.
I haven't heard of any 1.22 GW vacuum tubes, but they certainly could be built.
Well, that's all right - as I recall, Dr. Brown only needed one point twenty-one jigawatts!
And now Pentium2/3 - started at 233 and climbed until around 1300, which is higher than 4/5x. But maybe there's been some really notable arch changes since P2? What're your thoughts?
The P-II is largely based on the Pentium Pro, and so is the Pentium M, so the speed range really should 133 MHz (first PPros) to 2000 Mhz (latest Dothan - or is it 2100 MHz now?), a factor of 15, and with some unknown amount of life still remaining (3 GHz? Higher?). There's no doubt in my mind that the Pentium Pro (and all its successors, from 1990 through today) was one of Intel's Truly Great Achievements. If they would have come down off the Northwood/Prescott hobby horse sooner, no one would even be talking about AMD today. (At least not in the x86 PC market.)
All right. Sorry. Didn't mean to be nasty. But really, when you call anyone on the left a socialist, and talk about "hive/pack mentality", do you really expect those people not to be insulted?
Yeah, it stings, don't it? I was doing it to make a point. Which you, apparently, missed.
The point of these few snips is simple: "Lefties" get as much abuse as anyone else. You have every right to complain about being insulted if you wish, but please drop this nonsense about how your side hardly ever stoops so low. It's crap. It only seems like "lefties are more apt/willing" because that's clearly what you want to believe.
It's not "my" side. I ain't no damned conservative - that's another insult in itself. But I can say, that as a libertarian (i.e. neither conservative nor liberal, 'cause you guys are both wrong) I've personally received a lot more vitriol in my life from libs than from cons. This doesn't mean that cons are any less vocal in their disagreements with me, but they don't get so personal and nasty and vicious about it as the liberals sometimes do.
One thing I've never understood about people with your point of view is that you claim to be anti-regulation and free-market, but it always translates into "pro-business".
Where do you get the idea that I am "pro-business"? All I'm saying is that businesses don't exist to provide people with cushy jobs.
Another thing to poke holes in your argument about the parity between the employee and the employer is political clout. Large companies wield more political power than individuals do.
You're right. And they shouldn't. I'm all for campaign finance reform and tight restrictions on lobbying. Mostly, I'm in favor of limiting the power of government so that such abuses of power can't happen in the first place. Corporations have way too much power in this country. And I'm not the only libertarian who thinks so.
At this point personal responsibility should play it's biggest role because the only way employees can match the political force of the company is to organize.
And they have every right to do so. I never said that people shouldn't be allowed to unionize. I'm not sure it's really in their long-term best interest, but that's another story.
However, the company can just leave the country if that becomes burdensome - and the left-over American workers are now completely "responsible" for their own livelihoods.
True. Maybe they could start new businesses.
I am sick of the hive/pack mentality of large corporations that I find totally antithetical to individualism.
Me too.
How is the enrichment of a tiny few oligarchs like Ken Lay and his ilk beneficial to the concepts of individualism?
Beats me.
If you don't like being called an animal - then I suggest you stop behaving like them.
Your repeated assertion that taking responsibility for one's own life is "animalistic" doesn't make it so. Could you explain a little further, or do you just want to go on hurling insults?
To the authors of Excuse me sir, but could you please evolve?, Libertarianism at its worst, and the post beginning with uhm... you realize that not everyone has the luxuary of quitting a job.:
Do you expect to have the right to decide who you want to work for, and to leave one employer for another if, for instance, they offer more money or more desirable conditions?
If so, then why do you think that a business should not be able to choose who it will employ, and for what salary and under what conditions?
The freedom to choose your means of livelihood brings with it responsbility for your livelihood. No one is responsible for you but you.
Actually, I have another question: Why does it seem that lefties are more apt/willing to resort to really nasty, personal insults when characterizing their enemies? I don't see people calling you folks "animals" just because you espouse a hive/pack mentality rather than believing in individualism. Why is the reverse OK?
Why not just cut out the middle man and go direct to electric power?
Two words: battery technology?
Tell that to people who work in oil refineries. At one refinery my father used to work at, before he got there, to track down hydrogen leaks in the equipment, they would wave a broomstick along the sides of the pipes (hydrogen burns with a clear flame). Where the broomstick suddenly got cut in half, that was their hydrogen leak.
Anything under enough pressure can do that. I know a few people in the power plant industry, and they've told me similar stories about steam leaks. High pressure gas plus tiny pinhole equals flesh-cutting jet.
I'm pretty sure if we had massive solar panels all over the place, that'd effect the temperature by taking sunlight that would have heated the ground and diverting it.
All that electricity would eventually have to be re-released as some form of heat, unless we were using it to fire a giant laser beam into space or something.
Of course, Planet Earth is constantly gaining energy on a daily basis thanks to the generosity of The Sun.
And losing that energy on a daily basis thanks to the greed of Nighttime.
BTW: Over here in the UK it's illegal to use the word "British" or similar indications in a company or business name without getting official permission first. Does America not have a similar restriction?
No, we have the First Amendment instead.
No, wait, its not. Its a load of stupid "America is teh best!" crap. He really doesn't give a shit about making life better for humanity, just his own little country. Heres hoping China and India's space programmes kick the flying bastard shit out of Burt and NASA alike.
Or maybe he has perceived that the US is losing ground to India and China, and needs a little boost.
Suppose a contest like this were to start up in, say, China. Do you think American teams would be invited to play? I kinda doubt it, don't you?
Just _why_ would someone want to introduce such GM/GEd stuff?
Put yourself in the shoes of a cartel member, and ask that question again. "Hmm, gee, why would I want to grow coke that is resistant to the herbicides that are being sprayed?" Duh.
The reason that Colombia is Columbia in English is so that people will say the name correctly. If we spelled it Colombia then people would pronounce it Co-lohm-bia, which would sound terrible.
Um... that is how it's pronounced.
It means we must use napalm to destroy coca instead of herbiside [sic].
Better yet, why don't we just kill all extant specimens of H. Sapiens, then there won't be any demand for cocaine, right?
To think we can know everything through science (in the macro or the microscopic) about our universe is just plain stupid.
Perhaps, perhaps not. But even if it is true, that does not imply that there exists any other means by which this knowledge is possible. Just because there is something that science cannot (yet) explain, that does not constitute proof of God. It just means that we don't know.
china's population is approx. 1.3 billion... 1.8 million internet bars means approx. 1 internet bar per 721 population... to put that in perspective, a city of 30,000 would have 41 internet bars...
Keep in mind that fewer Chinese own their own computers, much less have broadband connections, than do Americans, Europeans, or (non-communist) Asians.
Which Wiki engines can be secured with per-user logins for read and/or edit? We actually use a couple of Wikis in the office, but the IT guy won't open any up to the outside until a login is required to access the content. (I don't blame him.) Preferably something with simple requirements, like PHP and MySQL...?
So what's the libertarian position for when two radio stations want to broadcast on the same frequency?
Let 'em use CDMA encoding?
Potty humor, vulgarity, and crudeness is of now public value. Likewise, about 75% of the other garbage on the airwaves is not of value.
And you consider yourself qualified to state what is and is not of value to 300 million individuals?
Everyone needs to remember that the purpose of the airwaves is to serve society and the public at large.
Gee, I wonder if anyone has bothered to tell the electromagnetic spectrum about its lofty social purpose?
Broadcasting something that 70-80% of the public at large finds patently offensive
Utter nonsense. I'll bet that not even 70% of the public has ever even heard Stern's show, and therefore have no basis whatsoever to hold an opinion.
"Why don't the music publishers price music a little more closely to a country's economy?"...Cos then you could buy the stuff cheap over there and ship it back home saving a bundle...Course that practice has been made illegal in the UK, the free market is wonderful, no?...Guess what makes it illegal...Copyright designs and patents act 1988 and the Trade Marks Act 1994. It is illegal to import/distribute into the UK without the opyright or trade mark owner's consent. There's a bunch of additional stuff which makes it even more illegal to import software.
Well, if the situation you're complaining about is created by government fiat, then you can hardly blame the free market, now, can you? Maybe you should be blaming your government for creating an un-free market?
No need to repeat others mistakes, learn from theirs then go on to make you own unique mistakes.
I'm not so sure about this. Not that I would consider The Matrix to be a good source for philosphical truth, but it did contain at least one nugget: "Knowing the path is not the same as walking the path." In many cases, you can't really understand, in your guts, why a mistake is a mistake until you make that mistake yourself, and experience the consequences yourself.