Still sometimes I think the government puts out these rumors on purpose to make everyone scared and think they are more powerful than they really are. I mean if the government "knows all" they when did Sept. 11th happen? Why do Mexican drug cartels ship billions of dollars of Cocaine across the border every year?
You do realize that a lot of people ask these very same questions and come up with reasons that fly in the face of what you propose?
Personally I think that they may have access to and much of it stored, but that doesn't mean it's all analyzed anywhere near real time. And a lot of this has really ramped up since 9/11 - so that example doesn't support what you are saying as much. As for the drug trade - it's incredibly profitable for government, law enforcement and a number of other parties that it continues as is.
If this is your point - let me just whoosh myself right now.
With the amount of mail that now exists in the cloud - couldn't access be the same as "having"? They don't need to actually have own and maintain all the storage for much of it.
I think the whole Bush/Obama thing is a total distraction - and it works for too many people. It's unfortunate it is in the summary because as I see it what is happening is the that the government is travelling further down the same path - regardless of which party controls which branch. The idea that Obama is better or worse is meaningless, by and large they are exactly the same. And if somehow Romney were to beat Obama in the next election, the largest difference would be the switch in which group was defending and which was attacking the administration -- over the very same actions.
What they've done wrong - removing all morality from the issue - is what I've mentioned above. They've publicly declared that anyone can keep any other person (or people) from using their service. They've made it unworkable. Just think, if I was a nut-case and your reply right here put me off the deep end, I could keep you from ever being able to use kickstarter.
I disagree with your framing this as a fight. Being stalked is not a fight. She says she's gone to law enforcement and they are unwilling or unable to stop this person.
There could be more to this from either side obviously. And more information might change how I feel about this case - but beyond this specific instance victims of crime should not be further punished by others because they fear the criminal. That may be an instinctual response but it is ultimately more harmful. Handing the criminal all the power is not going to make them go away, it will just make things worse.
People who avoid victims because they don't want to deal with the fallout are the worst kind of cowards. And in your hypothetical situation the answer is easy - just like in this situation with kickstarter.
What the people running the service have done is send a world wide message that anyone can control their service by destroying projects at will.
Of course they will back track very soon. They'll have to, but the mind reels trying to figure out how they did not see this correctly in the first place.
I lost a ton of weight after I read the Hacker's Diet. (Found out about it here from a slashdot friend) I gained it all back later when I took my finger off the button and reverted to old eating habits. I have other friends that have done better.
The big eye opener there for me was realizing that I couldn't lose weight through exercise alone. Exercise isn't pointless, especially when counting calories. I would look at a run as a beer or an extra glass of milk. But before I read it I had been under the impression I could totally ignore what I eat and just run my way back to thin. When I realized that wasn't going to happen it really helped me out. It's a good book.
You are right that activism leads to a lean - and that shows up in the book, though the author fights hard to avoid it. He does a pretty good job I think and is incredibly transparent. I appreciate that approach because I don't expect people to become passive, impartial observers - I want people to be able to engage if that is their desire, but in a more sane process than what seems to be the dominant mode in use today.
They aren't moderating if they comment. Though I am unaware of a way to mod that isn't based on opinion as the categories are all highly subjective.
I wouldn't call your response trolling. I'm just not sure why you felt the need to pad your opinion with cut and pastes of reviews from Amazon. It doesn't really support your case. You don't indicate who the reviewers are or where to find the reviews - that would be helpful, if nothing else to see if what you've posted actually matches what was said.
The cops I've ridden with stayed very busy dealing with a constant queue of calls that had been dispatched to them. I'd imagine that 99% number is a touch lower. A better candidate would be the fire department. Get them off the lazy boys, out of the station and doing some work.
nah- there's lots of positive and exciting stuff going on - you just need to find out about it. I read about 2 or 3 cool things a week that get me excited about the future. Lately a lot of it has to do with the advances in e-learning and how mobile phones are improving lives in developing countries.
I think there is more to it than one simple good idea. It's a number of good simple ideas plus education on how the way many of our information sources act to help in teaching how to be a more conscious consumer. So it's not some earth-shattering, amazing, never before thought of idea - no. But I do think it rises above twattery.
The scale is in the guidelines for submitting reviews. 8 is "Very Good". Usually what I do is start mentally with a 10 and as I see issues I'll knock down the score. I can't remember if I've ever rated a book I've reviewed a 10. I'd have to go back and look and I'm too tired to do that now. I know I've read some 9s.
I didn't mean to be ambiguous. Sorry about that. I think that it's a good book with potential to have an impact. But the issues I mentioned do exist and so I wouldn't feel right if I didn't mention them. For future reviews I'll try to be more clear in how I feel about the book and if I recommend it.
Though as a rule of thumb if I really don't like a book I don't finish it and I don't review it. Though there was an exception a while back - a sci-fi novel, Space Vulture (The same review ran here at slashdot - but it's easier to find at my own site where I keep all my reviews - though I haven't kept it up to date.) That was a stinker but I finished it, but now I feel bad for having reviewed it with a low score. Just my personality. I'd rather focus on promoting what I think is good rather than bashing what I think is bad.
I don't think that having an excessive quantity of books would really fit into the problem he describes. The people of walmart folks probably may not read a lot of books (though they may - especially if you count Harlequin Romances or the Twilight series as books) but I bet they have a constant flow of information coming in via TV, Radio, email and the web. It's the electronic media that gets the most attention and so I don't think fluff vs real literature was a topic that was discussed so much.
I don't remember anything about meditation, zen or otherwise.
I've reviewed at least one Packt book in the past for slashdot. I review whatever I'm interested in, I don't really worry so much about who publishes it. I'm not sure why it bothers people so much. They publish some decent books, and feed some of the proceeds back into open source projects. Seems o.k. to me.
That's interesting - I didn't really notice because I read it on my kindle. (The review copy I got came as a pdf and I used calibre to convert it and put it on my device.) I felt like it all flowed pretty well though. There can't be a literal diet because what will work for one person wont work for another at all. I think that the principles he describes help one to become more conscious in the decisions made about where information is found and how it is consumed. To me that had some value.
I think your last sentence will be thought and acted upon by a lot of people. So you'd better be quick.
Probably not - but listening to 50 gigs of Justin Bieber probably would.
Though it's an interesting thought, not activities your machine carries out that don't involve you but how listening to music fits into information consumption.
Gated communities are different from non-gated communities in only one way - they have to pay for taking care of the gate. They have zero impact on access to the neighborhood, crime, etc.
For most hand tools a lifetime warranty is pretty easy because if the tools are used as intended it is almost impossible to break them. If you only use a screw driver as intended, you can't break it. If you use it as a pry bar, a chisel, etc. Then you can break it but no warranty. Look at a steel combo wrench and figure out how to break that turning a nut by hand.
What makes high end tools more valuable is not that they will last longer, but that they are manufactured to tighter tolerances.
yes - hacker news - I could have linked but the post I replied to mentioned it and I just assumed people would know. Of course assuming rarely works out.
Having an account will allow you to join and get out of subreddits - which will get you a long way. To me though it just got to be too much work for too little return but part of this was due to my own ability to avoid getting sucked into stuff that wasted my time - which is my problem - not the site.
I'm running Fedora too - but haven't had any problems. Chrome and Firefox have played the videos well - so I wonder what the difference is. My plugins for Firefox list Shockwave Flash 11.0 r1
Works fine on both my machines - Fedora 16, one is 32 bit the other 64. So it's possible.
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Still sometimes I think the government puts out these rumors on purpose to make everyone scared and think they are more powerful than they really are. I mean if the government "knows all" they when did Sept. 11th happen? Why do Mexican drug cartels ship billions of dollars of Cocaine across the border every year?
You do realize that a lot of people ask these very same questions and come up with reasons that fly in the face of what you propose?
Personally I think that they may have access to and much of it stored, but that doesn't mean it's all analyzed anywhere near real time. And a lot of this has really ramped up since 9/11 - so that example doesn't support what you are saying as much. As for the drug trade - it's incredibly profitable for government, law enforcement and a number of other parties that it continues as is.
If this is your point - let me just whoosh myself right now.
With the amount of mail that now exists in the cloud - couldn't access be the same as "having"? They don't need to actually have own and maintain all the storage for much of it.
wish I had mod points - very well played.
I think the whole Bush/Obama thing is a total distraction - and it works for too many people. It's unfortunate it is in the summary because as I see it what is happening is the that the government is travelling further down the same path - regardless of which party controls which branch. The idea that Obama is better or worse is meaningless, by and large they are exactly the same. And if somehow Romney were to beat Obama in the next election, the largest difference would be the switch in which group was defending and which was attacking the administration -- over the very same actions.
if someone is - that would be shocking.
What they've done wrong - removing all morality from the issue - is what I've mentioned above. They've publicly declared that anyone can keep any other person (or people) from using their service. They've made it unworkable. Just think, if I was a nut-case and your reply right here put me off the deep end, I could keep you from ever being able to use kickstarter.
I disagree with your framing this as a fight. Being stalked is not a fight. She says she's gone to law enforcement and they are unwilling or unable to stop this person.
There could be more to this from either side obviously. And more information might change how I feel about this case - but beyond this specific instance victims of crime should not be further punished by others because they fear the criminal. That may be an instinctual response but it is ultimately more harmful. Handing the criminal all the power is not going to make them go away, it will just make things worse.
People who avoid victims because they don't want to deal with the fallout are the worst kind of cowards. And in your hypothetical situation the answer is easy - just like in this situation with kickstarter.
What the people running the service have done is send a world wide message that anyone can control their service by destroying projects at will.
Of course they will back track very soon. They'll have to, but the mind reels trying to figure out how they did not see this correctly in the first place.
I lost a ton of weight after I read the Hacker's Diet. (Found out about it here from a slashdot friend) I gained it all back later when I took my finger off the button and reverted to old eating habits. I have other friends that have done better.
The big eye opener there for me was realizing that I couldn't lose weight through exercise alone. Exercise isn't pointless, especially when counting calories. I would look at a run as a beer or an extra glass of milk. But before I read it I had been under the impression I could totally ignore what I eat and just run my way back to thin. When I realized that wasn't going to happen it really helped me out. It's a good book.
You are right that activism leads to a lean - and that shows up in the book, though the author fights hard to avoid it. He does a pretty good job I think and is incredibly transparent. I appreciate that approach because I don't expect people to become passive, impartial observers - I want people to be able to engage if that is their desire, but in a more sane process than what seems to be the dominant mode in use today.
They aren't moderating if they comment. Though I am unaware of a way to mod that isn't based on opinion as the categories are all highly subjective.
I wouldn't call your response trolling. I'm just not sure why you felt the need to pad your opinion with cut and pastes of reviews from Amazon. It doesn't really support your case. You don't indicate who the reviewers are or where to find the reviews - that would be helpful, if nothing else to see if what you've posted actually matches what was said.
wouldn't be the first time and I'm sure it wont be the last either.
The cops I've ridden with stayed very busy dealing with a constant queue of calls that had been dispatched to them. I'd imagine that 99% number is a touch lower. A better candidate would be the fire department. Get them off the lazy boys, out of the station and doing some work.
nah- there's lots of positive and exciting stuff going on - you just need to find out about it. I read about 2 or 3 cool things a week that get me excited about the future. Lately a lot of it has to do with the advances in e-learning and how mobile phones are improving lives in developing countries.
I think there is more to it than one simple good idea. It's a number of good simple ideas plus education on how the way many of our information sources act to help in teaching how to be a more conscious consumer. So it's not some earth-shattering, amazing, never before thought of idea - no. But I do think it rises above twattery.
The scale is in the guidelines for submitting reviews. 8 is "Very Good". Usually what I do is start mentally with a 10 and as I see issues I'll knock down the score. I can't remember if I've ever rated a book I've reviewed a 10. I'd have to go back and look and I'm too tired to do that now. I know I've read some 9s.
I didn't mean to be ambiguous. Sorry about that. I think that it's a good book with potential to have an impact. But the issues I mentioned do exist and so I wouldn't feel right if I didn't mention them. For future reviews I'll try to be more clear in how I feel about the book and if I recommend it.
Though as a rule of thumb if I really don't like a book I don't finish it and I don't review it. Though there was an exception a while back - a sci-fi novel, Space Vulture (The same review ran here at slashdot - but it's easier to find at my own site where I keep all my reviews - though I haven't kept it up to date.) That was a stinker but I finished it, but now I feel bad for having reviewed it with a low score. Just my personality. I'd rather focus on promoting what I think is good rather than bashing what I think is bad.
I don't think that having an excessive quantity of books would really fit into the problem he describes. The people of walmart folks probably may not read a lot of books (though they may - especially if you count Harlequin Romances or the Twilight series as books) but I bet they have a constant flow of information coming in via TV, Radio, email and the web. It's the electronic media that gets the most attention and so I don't think fluff vs real literature was a topic that was discussed so much.
I don't remember anything about meditation, zen or otherwise.
I've reviewed at least one Packt book in the past for slashdot. I review whatever I'm interested in, I don't really worry so much about who publishes it. I'm not sure why it bothers people so much. They publish some decent books, and feed some of the proceeds back into open source projects. Seems o.k. to me.
That's interesting - I didn't really notice because I read it on my kindle. (The review copy I got came as a pdf and I used calibre to convert it and put it on my device.) I felt like it all flowed pretty well though. There can't be a literal diet because what will work for one person wont work for another at all. I think that the principles he describes help one to become more conscious in the decisions made about where information is found and how it is consumed. To me that had some value.
I think your last sentence will be thought and acted upon by a lot of people. So you'd better be quick.
No - I don't think so. I'll stick with what I said.
Probably not - but listening to 50 gigs of Justin Bieber probably would.
Though it's an interesting thought, not activities your machine carries out that don't involve you but how listening to music fits into information consumption.
Gated communities are different from non-gated communities in only one way - they have to pay for taking care of the gate. They have zero impact on access to the neighborhood, crime, etc.
You are correct - and it's not a car. It's a two seater trike.
For most hand tools a lifetime warranty is pretty easy because if the tools are used as intended it is almost impossible to break them. If you only use a screw driver as intended, you can't break it. If you use it as a pry bar, a chisel, etc. Then you can break it but no warranty. Look at a steel combo wrench and figure out how to break that turning a nut by hand.
What makes high end tools more valuable is not that they will last longer, but that they are manufactured to tighter tolerances.
yes - hacker news - I could have linked but the post I replied to mentioned it and I just assumed people would know. Of course assuming rarely works out.
Having an account will allow you to join and get out of subreddits - which will get you a long way. To me though it just got to be too much work for too little return but part of this was due to my own ability to avoid getting sucked into stuff that wasted my time - which is my problem - not the site.
I'm running Fedora too - but haven't had any problems. Chrome and Firefox have played the videos well - so I wonder what the difference is. My plugins for Firefox list Shockwave Flash 11.0 r1
Works fine on both my machines - Fedora 16, one is 32 bit the other 64. So it's possible.