Although the guy who invented dynamite did make a noble effort to make amends.
I think Gates is more generally blamed for retarding technology through abuse of markets, conspiracies to destroy upstarts, etc. Now, this is all alleged, I ain't making no claims. I do give Gates credit for realizing that what the poor in developing countries need first is food and clean water, Wintel later. (Yes, I realize Idaho is not third world, I've been there!)
"In an effort to boost the economy, the state of Idaho legislated tax credit for companies (no comma) who were investing in broadband Internet infrastructure."
Actually: "In an effort to boost the economy, the state of Idaho legislated a tax credit for companies that are investing in broadband Internet infrastructure."
I'm not wild about this use of "legislate," either. Suggest "enacted." Style book: is "Internet" still capitalized?
I'm still not sure I know what that word means. I am sure it doesn't make one's speech more impressive.
I take it you're cross about the substitution of Lautenberg for Torricelli. I guess that you think its "wrongfulness" cancels out the 2000 debacle is an argument that "two wrongs make a right." Interesting concession regarding 2000!:)
The later recounts that the Supreme Court did not allow were in fact ambiguous, the counts varying with the standards used. If Gore had gotten the recounts in just the counties he identified, he would have probably lost; had the recounts been statewide, as Bush demanded, Bush would have lost.
If the SC was wrong to interfere, it was wrong regardless of whether its decision changed the outcome of the election.
Anyway, the way I made the comment should have made clear I was kidding around. Inasmuch.
Not that many years ago the federal gov't undertook to guarantee to rural customers telephone service, and electricity, and in the very early days postal service. The idea is that while these services are more expensive to provide and won't develop from market pressures alone, providing them at equal prices to rural areas is both just and, in the long run, good for the country.
Would a National Internet Access Initiative be a good thing? Or is internet access is some way frivolous, other than for people who work directly in the field? (In other words, its easy to picture why Ma and Pa Kettle need mail, electricity, maybe even cable TV -- but internet?)
My tentative answer is yes, that it's really just an expansion of telephony. But how ironic that it may result in a "brain drain" from rural areas (NYT article).
True, but I think the theorists would think of themselves as skeptics. No, I don't think they do this in an intellectually disciplined or honest way, nor do they have the sophistication that to realize it would have been easier to go to the Moon than to fake it, so I said "run amok." And, geez, they defy the prime directive of Occam's Razor!
There are certainly plenty of instances of brave souls going against the accepted wisdom only to be proved right. A recent example was going against what "everyone knew," that hormone replacement therapy was an automatic benefit for all women. (The conspiracy one might suspect there is Wyeth, mfr of Premarin, the #1 drug in U.S.) No, I don't think there was any explicit conspiracy here, but I do appreciate the questions being raised, and this is the only example that comes to mind.
Please, someone mention John Edward now. His show is less probably than man landin on Pluto yet SciFi dumps GOOD admittedly fake shows like Farscape, shows that don't exploit the bereaved, to make room for it.
People eat this stuff up. Next thing you know they'll be believe that crap about President Bush stealing the election. Wait a second, I believe that crap... ?
Simpson was in Capricorn One?? Yeah, now I think I remember that vaguely. Now, there's a joke in here somewhere, but unfortunately he just doesn't seem as funny anymore. Is his acting career gone forever? (Say yes.)
Good flick, though. Especially when the biplane fakes out the (black, naturally) helicopter, my favorite.
...there is absolutely NO chance of winning with the conspiracy crowd. They have everything to lose by conceding. (And I was pretending to be one of them. I'm not! Really!)
However, a book aimed at the general public might make sense -- there is a lot of bad science out there in general acceptance. A book targeting these problems, and not framed as a response to the conspiracy theorists, might make a lot of sense.
For all the fun folks make of conspiracy theorists, the term itself is a condemnation of skeptics run amok. I like the undercurrent of skepticism, of criticizing the accepted wisdom, but not with the disregard of the facts and, worse, dishonest hidden agenda of getting rich or getting on TV.
I dunno -- I kind of like this new "kindler, gentler" customer relations that calls it like it. This is way better than the more typical "Duh, I'm not sure what you mean?" or "Please hold while we transfer your call. Your call will be served in the order received. We value your business and thank you for calling. (click) (dial tone)" or "Thank you for your letter on BMI products! Enclose please find coupons good towards your next purchase!"
Please, there is no Supreme Court ruling re MS. Not even close. The case was settled, so if you want to blame someone, blames the Bush Administration Justice Department for the weak terms it sought, or more importantly the portions of the case it simply dropped after winning on them (e.g., tying).
Yes, of course they are, but it's not one vast cesspool out there, nor is the U.S. all Disneyland, was my point.
I like living here. I want to improve it. I don't think nationalism will help us much, and the knee-jerk xenophobic crap I'm seeing now is a big step backwards to an age of immigrant/foreigner-bashing.
And, as our posts have pointed out, plenty of our terrorists and criminals have been home-grown. The sniper, the Unabomber, McVeigh/Nichols, the list goes on.
Sheesh, where do folks get goofy ideas like this? Travel, see the world! There are a thousand places I'd rather be than one of the scarier parts of Boston, Chicago, New York, DC (and yes I've often been to or lived in these places). It says something about how the rest of the world is mostly OK, and much of our world sadly is not.
And, anyway, "security" here includes security from one's own gov't -- one of the fundsmental concepts the Revolutionary War was fought over, and the Bill of Right designed to address.
Now, many readers are not Americans and may not recognize the allusion to green. I believe the poster refers to iron-rich leafy green vegetables such as spinach, which research has show grow wonderfully in a unnaturally hot, stinking, polluted environment where all the humans have been reduced to compost.
Just thought I'd set that straight.
What's that -- our money is green, too? No, I think these industrialists find currency denominations too small and trade only in gold, platinum, diamonds, and the occasional dab of strontium-90. Out government is committed to the environment, one in which oil and gas are plentiful and burned inefficiently.
I'd grin but my teeth seem to be loose today.:-P/SARCASM
Sorry, I'm grumpy since Tuesday, but I don't take all this too seriously. Besides, how much electricity is it that I read these Internet nodes consume? Logging off now...
Check out the RIAA's official line on CD costs. There's a lot of overhead, much of it advertising. Like many other products, the consumer pays for a lot in products that don't at all improve the product, but make it popular (which ironically makes it cheaper).
The costs of producing the music are nearly beside the point, as are the media costs. The other stuff sets the price.
Emphatically, I think a more efficient model can be created, but as with books the transition to the internet has been slow. But eventually I am certain will be plenty of $1 songs, and that the artists will be better off -- esp. the small-market ones not blessed by the marketing focus of a major label. In fact, it may be the big names that produce mediocre music who suffer.
Upper Austrian... oh Gawd that's one of the most arrogant, and among Germans at that! It amazes me that a country so small could have so many dialects. But it's good to have someone somewhere who makes Americans look modest.;-)
Yes, along with a thousand others we've absorbed schadenfreude -- a uniquely wonderful word -- although I doubt 95% of English-speakers could tell you what it meant. At least we had the good sense not to name a company "Fokker." People here were always uncomfortable with that one.
Oh well, gotta go plan the destruction of the world -- you know, being American and all. And watch what you say on the cellphone, eh?:)
He's psychic! Or psycho? Well, socially challenged or "troll".
Seriously, a significant amount of 9/11 planning took place in Germany (Hamburg?)... and in England... in that hotbed of insurrection, Florida... and my neighbor's garage (oops, shouldn't've said that). Remember how they used public internet terminals in libraries to communicate godknowswhat? Communication is so easy now that location barely matters.
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Although the guy who invented dynamite did make a noble effort to make amends.
I think Gates is more generally blamed for retarding technology through abuse of markets, conspiracies to destroy upstarts, etc. Now, this is all alleged, I ain't making no claims. I do give Gates credit for realizing that what the poor in developing countries need first is food and clean water, Wintel later. (Yes, I realize Idaho is not third world, I've been there!)
"In an effort to boost the economy, the state of Idaho legislated tax credit for companies (no comma) who were investing in broadband Internet infrastructure."
:)
Actually: "In an effort to boost the economy, the state of Idaho legislated a tax credit for companies that are investing in broadband Internet infrastructure."
I'm not wild about this use of "legislate," either. Suggest "enacted." Style book: is "Internet" still capitalized?
(Are we charging for are time?
Very helpful details.
I'm still not sure I know what that word means. I am sure it doesn't make one's speech more impressive.
:)
I take it you're cross about the substitution of Lautenberg for Torricelli. I guess that you think its "wrongfulness" cancels out the 2000 debacle is an argument that "two wrongs make a right." Interesting concession regarding 2000!
The later recounts that the Supreme Court did not allow were in fact ambiguous, the counts varying with the standards used. If Gore had gotten the recounts in just the counties he identified, he would have probably lost; had the recounts been statewide, as Bush demanded, Bush would have lost.
If the SC was wrong to interfere, it was wrong regardless of whether its decision changed the outcome of the election.
Anyway, the way I made the comment should have made clear I was kidding around. Inasmuch.
Not that many years ago the federal gov't undertook to guarantee to rural customers telephone service, and electricity, and in the very early days postal service. The idea is that while these services are more expensive to provide and won't develop from market pressures alone, providing them at equal prices to rural areas is both just and, in the long run, good for the country.
Would a National Internet Access Initiative be a good thing? Or is internet access is some way frivolous, other than for people who work directly in the field? (In other words, its easy to picture why Ma and Pa Kettle need mail, electricity, maybe even cable TV -- but internet?)
My tentative answer is yes, that it's really just an expansion of telephony. But how ironic that it may result in a "brain drain" from rural areas (NYT article).
True, but I think the theorists would think of themselves as skeptics. No, I don't think they do this in an intellectually disciplined or honest way, nor do they have the sophistication that to realize it would have been easier to go to the Moon than to fake it, so I said "run amok." And, geez, they defy the prime directive of Occam's Razor!
There are certainly plenty of instances of brave souls going against the accepted wisdom only to be proved right. A recent example was going against what "everyone knew," that hormone replacement therapy was an automatic benefit for all women. (The conspiracy one might suspect there is Wyeth, mfr of Premarin, the #1 drug in U.S.) No, I don't think there was any explicit conspiracy here, but I do appreciate the questions being raised, and this is the only example that comes to mind.
Please, someone mention John Edward now. His show is less probably than man landin on Pluto yet SciFi dumps GOOD admittedly fake shows like Farscape, shows that don't exploit the bereaved, to make room for it.
People eat this stuff up. Next thing you know they'll be believe that crap about President Bush stealing the election. Wait a second, I believe that crap... ?
Simpson was in Capricorn One?? Yeah, now I think I remember that vaguely. Now, there's a joke in here somewhere, but unfortunately he just doesn't seem as funny anymore. Is his acting career gone forever? (Say yes.)
Good flick, though. Especially when the biplane fakes out the (black, naturally) helicopter, my favorite.
...and rancid, dusty cheese at that.
Now, imagine the size of the cow!
...there is absolutely NO chance of winning with the conspiracy crowd. They have everything to lose by conceding. (And I was pretending to be one of them. I'm not! Really!)
However, a book aimed at the general public might make sense -- there is a lot of bad science out there in general acceptance. A book targeting these problems, and not framed as a response to the conspiracy theorists, might make a lot of sense.
For all the fun folks make of conspiracy theorists, the term itself is a condemnation of skeptics run amok. I like the undercurrent of skepticism, of criticizing the accepted wisdom, but not with the disregard of the facts and, worse, dishonest hidden agenda of getting rich or getting on TV.
This "proves" the conspiracy!!!
I dunno -- I kind of like this new "kindler, gentler" customer relations that calls it like it. This is way better than the more typical "Duh, I'm not sure what you mean?" or "Please hold while we transfer your call. Your call will be served in the order received. We value your business and thank you for calling. (click) (dial tone)" or "Thank you for your letter on BMI products! Enclose please find coupons good towards your next purchase!"
No, they'd say something like, "Then I said, 'Hey, I wonder what THAT button's for?'"
Pretty scary for the folks on the ground, who have to worry maybe the CIA guy's got bad TV reception, or didn't sleep well last night.
Please, there is no Supreme Court ruling re MS. Not even close. The case was settled, so if you want to blame someone, blames the Bush Administration Justice Department for the weak terms it sought, or more importantly the portions of the case it simply dropped after winning on them (e.g., tying).
But, anyway, NOT insightful.
Yes, of course they are, but it's not one vast cesspool out there, nor is the U.S. all Disneyland, was my point.
I like living here. I want to improve it. I don't think nationalism will help us much, and the knee-jerk xenophobic crap I'm seeing now is a big step backwards to an age of immigrant/foreigner-bashing.
And, as our posts have pointed out, plenty of our terrorists and criminals have been home-grown. The sniper, the Unabomber, McVeigh/Nichols, the list goes on.
Well, yes, and don't terrorists essentially have a big dispute with the U.S.? More arguers.
... I do it all the time ... :)
Imagine a world with arguers
Sheesh, where do folks get goofy ideas like this? Travel, see the world! There are a thousand places I'd rather be than one of the scarier parts of Boston, Chicago, New York, DC (and yes I've often been to or lived in these places). It says something about how the rest of the world is mostly OK, and much of our world sadly is not.
And, anyway, "security" here includes security from one's own gov't -- one of the fundsmental concepts the Revolutionary War was fought over, and the Bill of Right designed to address.
Before you listen to Zathrus about worker safety, consider what he looked like at his last physical.
...ZathrAs? Are they related?
Oh, wait
If Dickens were alive today, he'd probably use a "shitty fab plant" as a setting for a novel!
Now, many readers are not Americans and may not recognize the allusion to green. I believe the poster refers to iron-rich leafy green vegetables such as spinach, which research has show grow wonderfully in a unnaturally hot, stinking, polluted environment where all the humans have been reduced to compost.
:-P /SARCASM
Just thought I'd set that straight.
What's that -- our money is green, too? No, I think these industrialists find currency denominations too small and trade only in gold, platinum, diamonds, and the occasional dab of strontium-90. Out government is committed to the environment, one in which oil and gas are plentiful and burned inefficiently.
I'd grin but my teeth seem to be loose today.
Sorry, I'm grumpy since Tuesday, but I don't take all this too seriously. Besides, how much electricity is it that I read these Internet nodes consume? Logging off now...
Check out the RIAA's official line on CD costs. There's a lot of overhead, much of it advertising. Like many other products, the consumer pays for a lot in products that don't at all improve the product, but make it popular (which ironically makes it cheaper).
The costs of producing the music are nearly beside the point, as are the media costs. The other stuff sets the price.
Emphatically, I think a more efficient model can be created, but as with books the transition to the internet has been slow. But eventually I am certain will be plenty of $1 songs, and that the artists will be better off -- esp. the small-market ones not blessed by the marketing focus of a major label. In fact, it may be the big names that produce mediocre music who suffer.
Upper Austrian ... oh Gawd that's one of the most arrogant, and among Germans at that! It amazes me that a country so small could have so many dialects. But it's good to have someone somewhere who makes Americans look modest. ;-)
:)
Yes, along with a thousand others we've absorbed schadenfreude -- a uniquely wonderful word -- although I doubt 95% of English-speakers could tell you what it meant. At least we had the good sense not to name a company "Fokker." People here were always uncomfortable with that one.
Oh well, gotta go plan the destruction of the world -- you know, being American and all. And watch what you say on the cellphone, eh?
Warum so viel Slashdotters Deutsch sprechen?
Don't bother to correct grammar/spelling -- I know I haven't done this since high school. Didn't know I'd face situations like this.
Better yet, bounce them to 900 numbers or obscure Carribean ones that charge you an arm and a leg before you figure out what's going on.
After all, these are just terrorists, right?
I had no idea a cellphone tap was this easy, or this easy to screw up.
Nein, nein -- wir sollen EIN Wort finden!
Perhaps schadenfreude is close enough?
Uh-oh, here comes the moderator who speaks German. Hide!
He's psychic! Or psycho? Well, socially challenged or "troll".
... and in England ... in that hotbed of insurrection, Florida ... and my neighbor's garage (oops, shouldn't've said that). Remember how they used public internet terminals in libraries to communicate godknowswhat? Communication is so easy now that location barely matters.
Seriously, a significant amount of 9/11 planning took place in Germany (Hamburg?)