Could I set something out to filter this kind of content? Do these crap-ads have a particular extension? Perhaps they're hosted on a particular server?
That's so not true. Dark matter and dark energy account for roughly 95% of what's in our universe. The other 5%--stars, planets, etc.--comprise the minority of things that we can empirically study. Neutrinos fall into that group, too. We've been studying them for years now.
This discovery will change those percentages. Better still, knowing the mass of dark matter (which we can now *see* instead of just see evidence of..) allows us to do really cool things like estimate the total mass of the universe and even determine if the universe has a finite end, just as it had a finite beginning roughly 14 billion years ago. This is big--really big.
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"Globalism"??? What a curiously inappropriate word to use in describing the reasons behind the 9/11 fundamentalist backlash, as well as broader anti-American sentiment. I think the word you want is "imperialism", Katz. And Webster, the small, lovable black child from 1980's sitcom fame, told me that it is a far more descriptive term in describing U.S. foreign economic policy. You see, the people of many, many nations tend to resent the way that the United States hijacks the economies and governments of developing nations in an effort to maintain it's hegemony. Have you ever heard of the World Bank? "Papa Doc"? No?
And surely "globalism" is the wrong term to use when we speak of the U.S.-run puppet government that will supplant the Taliban once it has been bombed back to the stone age. For less-public examples of hegemonial hijacking, we need only look to the puppet governments of Haiti, Chile, El Salvador, and a host of other nations. See if you can do a "Google" search on "Papa Doc" or "Baby Doc", and then try to infer how this father and son tag-team could have received American sponsorship while they robbed, raped, and executed their alleged constituents--the people of Haiti.
This recent military action has absolutely nothing to do with opposing viewpoints, a dichotomy awaiting union. Also, this recent American military action has nothing to do with poppy plants and the morphine and heroin trade in the same way that the Gulf War had nothing to do with American corporate oil interests.
Research Afghanistan and you will find that it has no real agricultural infrastructure--regardless of it's governments "laws" against it, Afghanistan's people grow poppy plants meant to be processed into substances for eager American and European veins. They do not grow corn, rice, or wheat to feed the people who live there. In fact, Afghanistan is the world's largest exporter of heroin. Think of it as a business opportunity awaiting American investment! Maybe *that's* what you mean by globalization!
You ignorant, ignorant man. I think you should cuddle up with some genuine historical fact and some practical knowledge of American governmental and economic processes before you presume to guess why it is fundamentalists hate America.
I couldn't agree more with you. Here at NC State University, many if not most of our Computer Science graduates are, in fact, functionally illiterate. Gifted C++ and Java programmers, they nonetheless lack even the most rudimentary writing and networking abilities. I personally would not employ a single one of them, no matter the project. Why would I want a Big Dumb Cracker from the Carolina foothills who couldn't write an intelligent, cogent email to save his or her life, when I can get a polished individual with the same skill set, who also knows how to communicate with people?
I believe that this hints at the (unfortunately) changing role of many higher learning institutions. At many colleges, there has always traditionally been this dichotomy between the information one learns which can turn one into a more worldy, knowledgeable individual, and what sneaks its way into the curriculum because it can prepare you for a certain occupation. I personally don't feel that colleges should be methodically turned into white collar trade schools, although that is inarguably the current trend.
When we're left with nothing but skilled, IT professionals who can't answer the first 4 questions on "Who Want's to Be a Millionaire?", then we'll know that our colleges have failed us.
I second that emotion. That phrase really bothered me, too. The fact is, most people aren't so freaking geeky and fashionably counter-culturalistic as to value an independent information source that publishes all of its material online over the tried and true sources that deliver information in traditional ways, namely television, radio, and newspapers.
Its not somehow "Big Media's" fault that there is an almost insurmountable barrier to entry in the television and newspaper markets in the form of prohibitive startup costs. It's the way things are, Katz. Transmitters and printing machines cost a lot more money than a web server and underpaid staff, even though you argue(?) something to the contrary.
Another thing that struck me as the writing of an uninformed madman was this phrase:
"As 'Feed' and 'Suck', two of the smarter, more attitudinal publications of the Net's first generation, vanish, they will not be replaced by similar kinds of publications."
Obviously, the people who are not you, that is, those people who influence markets based on their browsing habits rather than their ability to invent and then spin a story, decided that 'Feed' and 'Suck' (an amusing description of the evolutionary path that many information startups seem to follow) just weren't "smart" and "attitudinal" enough to warrant their attention. Ceteris Paribus, 'Feed' and 'Suck' don't get the hits, advertising revenue, and acclaim afforded other dot.com information sources in a competing marketplace. Again, this is not a conspiracy perpetrated by Big Media. It's simply the way things are.
Same as usual, this cat(z) produces a story from his posterior that's designed to play into the collective Brave New World monopoly fear of the Slashdot crowd.
Sorry Katz, but you will not pursuade me with blatant attempts at rhetoric used to buttress unfounded opinion. Take it from another writer, that's the sign of a bad one.
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Could I set something out to filter this kind of content? Do these crap-ads have a particular extension? Perhaps they're hosted on a particular server?
I don't know why Microsoft ported IE5 to Solaris, but they did. I run it all the time.
Oh, wait. I didn't mean to ruin your sarcastic joke.
That's so not true. Dark matter and dark energy account for roughly 95% of what's in our universe. The other 5%--stars, planets, etc.--comprise the minority of things that we can empirically study. Neutrinos fall into that group, too. We've been studying them for years now.
This discovery will change those percentages. Better still, knowing the mass of dark matter (which we can now *see* instead of just see evidence of..) allows us to do really cool things like estimate the total mass of the universe and even determine if the universe has a finite end, just as it had a finite beginning roughly 14 billion years ago. This is big--really big.
"Globalism"??? What a curiously inappropriate word to use in describing the reasons behind the 9/11 fundamentalist backlash, as well as broader anti-American sentiment. I think the word you want is "imperialism", Katz. And Webster, the small, lovable black child from 1980's sitcom fame, told me that it is a far more descriptive term in describing U.S. foreign economic policy. You see, the people of many, many nations tend to resent the way that the United States hijacks the economies and governments of developing nations in an effort to maintain it's hegemony. Have you ever heard of the World Bank? "Papa Doc"? No?
And surely "globalism" is the wrong term to use when we speak of the U.S.-run puppet government that will supplant the Taliban once it has been bombed back to the stone age. For less-public examples of hegemonial hijacking, we need only look to the puppet governments of Haiti, Chile, El Salvador, and a host of other nations. See if you can do a "Google" search on "Papa Doc" or "Baby Doc", and then try to infer how this father and son tag-team could have received American sponsorship while they robbed, raped, and executed their alleged constituents--the people of Haiti.
This recent military action has absolutely nothing to do with opposing viewpoints, a dichotomy awaiting union. Also, this recent American military action has nothing to do with poppy plants and the morphine and heroin trade in the same way that the Gulf War had nothing to do with American corporate oil interests.
Research Afghanistan and you will find that it has no real agricultural infrastructure--regardless of it's governments "laws" against it, Afghanistan's people grow poppy plants meant to be processed into substances for eager American and European veins. They do not grow corn, rice, or wheat to feed the people who live there. In fact, Afghanistan is the world's largest exporter of heroin. Think of it as a business opportunity awaiting American investment! Maybe *that's* what you mean by globalization!
You ignorant, ignorant man. I think you should cuddle up with some genuine historical fact and some practical knowledge of American governmental and economic processes before you presume to guess why it is fundamentalists hate America.
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I couldn't agree more with you. Here at NC State University, many if not most of our Computer Science graduates are, in fact, functionally illiterate. Gifted C++ and Java programmers, they nonetheless lack even the most rudimentary writing and networking abilities. I personally would not employ a single one of them, no matter the project. Why would I want a Big Dumb Cracker from the Carolina foothills who couldn't write an intelligent, cogent email to save his or her life, when I can get a polished individual with the same skill set, who also knows how to communicate with people?
I believe that this hints at the (unfortunately) changing role of many higher learning institutions. At many colleges, there has always traditionally been this dichotomy between the information one learns which can turn one into a more worldy, knowledgeable individual, and what sneaks its way into the curriculum because it can prepare you for a certain occupation. I personally don't feel that colleges should be methodically turned into white collar trade schools, although that is inarguably the current trend.
When we're left with nothing but skilled, IT professionals who can't answer the first 4 questions on "Who Want's to Be a Millionaire?", then we'll know that our colleges have failed us.
I second that emotion. That phrase really bothered me, too. The fact is, most people aren't so freaking geeky and fashionably counter-culturalistic as to value an independent information source that publishes all of its material online over the tried and true sources that deliver information in traditional ways, namely television, radio, and newspapers.
Its not somehow "Big Media's" fault that there is an almost insurmountable barrier to entry in the television and newspaper markets in the form of prohibitive startup costs. It's the way things are, Katz. Transmitters and printing machines cost a lot more money than a web server and underpaid staff, even though you argue(?) something to the contrary.
Another thing that struck me as the writing of an uninformed madman was this phrase:
"As 'Feed' and 'Suck', two of the smarter, more attitudinal publications of the Net's first generation, vanish, they will not be replaced by similar kinds of publications."
Obviously, the people who are not you, that is, those people who influence markets based on their browsing habits rather than their ability to invent and then spin a story, decided that 'Feed' and 'Suck' (an amusing description of the evolutionary path that many information startups seem to follow) just weren't "smart" and "attitudinal" enough to warrant their attention. Ceteris Paribus, 'Feed' and 'Suck' don't get the hits, advertising revenue, and acclaim afforded other dot.com information sources in a competing marketplace. Again, this is not a conspiracy perpetrated by Big Media. It's simply the way things are.
Same as usual, this cat(z) produces a story from his posterior that's designed to play into the collective Brave New World monopoly fear of the Slashdot crowd.
Sorry Katz, but you will not pursuade me with blatant attempts at rhetoric used to buttress unfounded opinion. Take it from another writer, that's the sign of a bad one.