You probably read that in Scientific American the other month too? If I remember, the Innuit not only eat raw meat, they sort of eat the _whole_ animal too like other carnivores.
Which I guess means we have too many burger joints here and should be eating more hot dogs?
Yeah, that'll help a lot. Even Saint Wellstone voted for the DMCA and was happy to from the response I got to a letter. If anything, I suspect Hollywood lobbyists are more represented by Democrats.
It's unlikely he would try to charge someone else who appeared in a press photo with him. It is only when he is milling with the "little people" that he charges them. So there is an inherently seamy side to the practice that lurks around it whether it is a good cause or not.
Someone I think gets it right (with a link to Robby the Robot) is Anne Francis because the karma works out. She sells her autograph with photos or her book. For bothering a little old lady in tennis shoes, you are getting a product and she gets some pocket change. Some of it gets donated to charity. And, what is quite cool, she's a senior citizen with a blog.
> outside of 2001, fewer people have died in America from >international terrorism than have drowned in toilets.
There you go being soft on terrorism by excluding 9/11.
I like to say 9/11 was about a year-and-a-half of pedestrian deaths in the U.S. Being a frequent pedestrian myself, I think we should have a war on drivers.
We can't just go and exclude incidents from the total figures or who knows what we might come up with. Saddam may have killed 1/2 a million Kurds but in the 90s the estimate was that he was killing about 2,000 people/year in his prisons. If the figure that we killed 100,000 Iraqi civilians by 2004 was accurate, it would have taken Saddam 50 years to do that himself. People might start wondering whether our freedom-loving occupation has worked out so well.
Sure, we see the TV ads about illiteracy. Where are the ads about the social dangers of innumeracy?
The rep, who asked that her name not be used, said it was only a bit better than her previous job--delivering pizzas
Maybe sexual harrassment? I remember a guy on a metro bus in Lancaster, PA once telling his friend, and the rest of us, how much he liked delivering pizzas -- particularly the tips. He said $50 was his record for a single tip.
So if you are toying with the idea of entering a life of tech support don't just offhand discount an honest living delivering pizzas.
So, basically, this is a feel-good wank by the Congress that passes some vague and relatively innoxious wording that gives the FCC the final power to determine broad overpowering details. Looks like a poster child for why there has to be some oversight on legislation by bureaucracy.
I personally think Wal-Mart is one of the best corporations out there. A company that provides value and offers cheap products to everybody? The horror!
Troll? Dunno. Don't ever underestimate a person's ability to be uninformed. My stepfather is a lifetime Democrat and retired union blue collar worker. He'll drive 70 miles one-way in a rural area to a WalMart for the selection and prices. As far as I can tell, he doesn't spend a lot of time connecting the stuff on the shelves with teenage Asians working in factory conditions he wouldn't have tolerated.
Win-Win for the legislature. Even if the law had a legal problem the legislators could say it was those liberal activist judges ruling against God's moral compass.
Works for me. I thought the Resident Evil movies were "OK" without playing the game. Much could probably be learned about maintaining a certain level of quality by watching one of those side-by-side with Doom.
I think before this could be applied to America, you'd either need to significantly increase the size of your House of Representatives (so that states like South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming had at least three or four Representatives), or abandon voting by state (which might not actually be any harder to abandon than the first-past-the-post system you have).
I vote for abandoning voting by state for federal positions.
If anything, the sparsely-populated and usually "red" states already have far more power than they should. A handful of midwestern "red" states together have fewer people than New York City yet they get two senators each.
Oh, I'm not so sure. In our area, we've had a high school teacher order from a decoy site for delivery to his school mailbox and a tenured religion professor at the local U resign after students complained about his office porn cruising.
The U.S. is very good at withholding information. Not to unload too big a can of postmodernist wupp-ass on anyone, but it does so by creating whatever reality it wants. There STILL ARE/WERE WMDs in Iraq in the minds of many people because a chain of The New York Times, Judy Miller, Scooter Liddy, Dick Cheney SAID there were. Why _withhold_ information when you are the country with the Madison Avenue/Hollywood expertise to _create_ whole realities? When you have the mass seeing your reality, any "truths" are just insignificant background chatter.
I guess it was the comparison between apartheid South Africa and the U.S. where this first became glaringly apparent to me. Generally, South Africa dealt with dissent by "slips in the jail shower" and "suicides out the third floor window" -- excuses which are themselves shapings of reality, but crude post-incident excuses. It was only in the very latest years that they discovered the proactive power of advertising. If you aren't sipping KWV brandy in your decorated 10 room split-level in Soweto like the commercial shows you, it's because you're a LOSER. Doesn't have anything to do with politics.
It was their own fault it took them so long to discover advertising as a weapon. They only allowed TV in the '70s. In the U.S., we were born swimming in media and generally don't even recognize its inherent unreality.
It was quite a few years ago but I remember it as Besy Buy. A computer repair guy at our college was moonlighting. He told me they had him on a headset. While he was fixing people's computers in-store he was simultaneously answering help line calls. So I guess personality would be a factor -- in several ways.
I don't see how using open source would help the economy. In order to boost an economy, people need to buy things
Pretty common viewpoint though, isn't it? If it weren't, people in the U.S. would have -- oh, let's just speculate wildly -- something like national health care because healthier people can be more productive to the economy. Instead, it's more common to think that preventive health isn't sexy. The big money is in crisis care and long term care products for heart disease and diabetes, for example, after they develop. If there was less disease, where would the economy be?
So, in current practice, producing inexpensive tools for a _subsequent_ healthy and productive economy could be seen as going again standard operating procedure.
As someone who moved from five years with one fringe OS (OS/2) to linux in 2001, the contrast was impressive.
It could be maturity. Toward the end of OS/2's life cycle one survey had the typical OS/2 user pegged as a 45 year old Russian.
It's also true that documentation and support aren't exactly the sexy parts of a project.
But I've always wondered whether it is an element of the open source process. You're getting the creator's treasure for free. The least you can do is be "worthy" to receive it. Unfortunately, a counterproductive attitude.
realizing that media should be free, it's risible that in the U.S. you have companies like this that can launch a video-on-demand service knowing that people are actually going to pay for stuff.
It will be interesting to see how long the "sock the Americans, they're all rich" business plan will hold up. It should be clear from what the waters of Katrina scared up that universal American richness is very, very relative.
My wife is importing European nicotine patches from New Zealand via an internet pharmacy. When she switched from prescription in the U.S. inhalers to non-prescription in the U.S. patches I demanded that we compare prices. No, it was still about $170 vs. $250 locally for the same quantity even after international four-day express and a credit card charge for daring to buy something "ferrin'".
$80 buys some meaningful groceries. It seems like everything is leveraged that way. Except gasoline. We have wars to subsidize that.
They say AMD stresses other components. It has been my experience for a couple years that if it says PC2700, for example, I better get PC3200 if I don't want lockups.
The best way to be a team player and maximize personal empowerment is to keep your nose to the grindstone and your ducks in a row -- and learn not to snicker or roll your eyes.
I'm sure Real doesn't believe in or care about the casual user but my experience is that if I can't run it, I'll run something else. When I could run a Windows 3.1 RealPlayer under WinOS/2, I listened to Real stations. When that was no longer possible because they moved on to a different format and Windows players only on the PC, I moved to streaming mp3. Now, under linux, my regular RealPlayer use has never bounced back and is limited to one stream -- but I still listen to streaming mp3.
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Haggis _will_ kill you? Or haggis is good for you?
Guinness we already know is good for you.
You probably read that in Scientific American the other month too? If I remember, the Innuit not only eat raw meat, they sort of eat the _whole_ animal too like other carnivores.
Which I guess means we have too many burger joints here and should be eating more hot dogs?
Vote in a Democratic Congress this fall.
Yeah, that'll help a lot. Even Saint Wellstone voted for the DMCA and was happy to from the response I got to a letter. If anything, I suspect Hollywood lobbyists are more represented by Democrats.
It's unlikely he would try to charge someone else who appeared in a press photo with him. It is only when he is milling with the "little people" that he charges them. So there is an inherently seamy side to the practice that lurks around it whether it is a good cause or not.
Someone I think gets it right (with a link to Robby the Robot) is Anne Francis because the karma works out. She sells her autograph with photos or her book. For bothering a little old lady in tennis shoes, you are getting a product and she gets some pocket change. Some of it gets donated to charity. And, what is quite cool, she's a senior citizen with a blog.
> outside of 2001, fewer people have died in America from
>international terrorism than have drowned in toilets.
There you go being soft on terrorism by excluding 9/11.
I like to say 9/11 was about a year-and-a-half of pedestrian deaths in the U.S. Being a frequent pedestrian myself, I think we should have a war on drivers.
We can't just go and exclude incidents from the total figures or who knows what we might come up with. Saddam may have killed 1/2 a million Kurds but in the 90s the estimate was that he was killing about 2,000 people/year in his prisons. If the figure that we killed 100,000 Iraqi civilians by 2004 was accurate, it would have taken Saddam 50 years to do that himself. People might start wondering whether our freedom-loving occupation has worked out so well.
Sure, we see the TV ads about illiteracy. Where are the ads about the social dangers of innumeracy?
The rep, who asked that her name not be used, said it was only a bit better than her previous job--delivering pizzas
Maybe sexual harrassment? I remember a guy on a metro bus in Lancaster, PA once telling his friend, and the rest of us, how much he liked delivering pizzas -- particularly the tips. He said $50 was his record for a single tip.
So if you are toying with the idea of entering a life of tech support don't just offhand discount an honest living delivering pizzas.
So, basically, this is a feel-good wank by the Congress that passes some vague and relatively innoxious wording that gives the FCC the final power to determine broad overpowering details. Looks like a poster child for why there has to be some oversight on legislation by bureaucracy.
"Windows Vista To Make Dual-Boot A Challenge?"
Tip of the hat to the understated humour. When has Microsoft _not_ made dual-booting a challenge?
I personally think Wal-Mart is one of the best corporations out there. A company that provides value and offers cheap products to everybody? The horror!
Troll? Dunno. Don't ever underestimate a person's ability to be uninformed. My stepfather is a lifetime Democrat and retired union blue collar worker. He'll drive 70 miles one-way in a rural area to a WalMart for the selection and prices. As far as I can tell, he doesn't spend a lot of time connecting the stuff on the shelves with teenage Asians working in factory conditions he wouldn't have tolerated.
the "clever car" looks like it was designed by a nerd on a friday night?
Where does a guy's date sit?
safety - sex? clever car - motorcycle? Which to choose, which to choose.
Win-Win for the legislature. Even if the law had a legal problem the legislators could say it was those liberal activist judges ruling against God's moral compass.
Works for me. I thought the Resident Evil movies were "OK" without playing the game. Much could probably be learned about maintaining a certain level of quality by watching one of those side-by-side with Doom.
Mac users would particularly hate it, especially considering Microsoft's recent statements regarding IE on OSX.
Yup. More like "The Redmond company believes that..." freezing Apple out of colleges (and schools in general) is a pivotal attack point.
One way to tell which universities don't value freedom and diversity in practice.
I think before this could be applied to America, you'd either need to significantly increase the size of your House of Representatives (so that states like South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming had at least three or four Representatives), or abandon voting by state (which might not actually be any harder to abandon than the first-past-the-post system you have).
I vote for abandoning voting by state for federal positions.
If anything, the sparsely-populated and usually "red" states already have far more power than they should. A handful of midwestern "red" states together have fewer people than New York City yet they get two senators each.
I wonder if Gonzoles is one of those people who says "Quite frankly," when he knows he is lying.
If this bill is 10 times more unpopular than the DMCA, it should only pass with about a 90% vote, so get used to it.
Will attempting to acquire a copy of PartEd apply because I could use it to back up a PC's Windows install and recovery partition?
I mean, the child porn people are smart.
Oh, I'm not so sure. In our area, we've had a high school teacher order from a decoy site for delivery to his school mailbox and a tenured religion professor at the local U resign after students complained about his office porn cruising.
Flamebait because he doesn't elaborate?
The U.S. is very good at withholding information. Not to unload too big a can of postmodernist wupp-ass on anyone, but it does so by creating whatever reality it wants. There STILL ARE/WERE WMDs in Iraq in the minds of many people because a chain of The New York Times, Judy Miller, Scooter Liddy, Dick Cheney SAID there were. Why _withhold_ information when you are the country with the Madison Avenue/Hollywood expertise to _create_ whole realities? When you have the mass seeing your reality, any "truths" are just insignificant background chatter.
I guess it was the comparison between apartheid South Africa and the U.S. where this first became glaringly apparent to me. Generally, South Africa dealt with dissent by "slips in the jail shower" and "suicides out the third floor window" -- excuses which are themselves shapings of reality, but crude post-incident excuses. It was only in the very latest years that they discovered the proactive power of advertising. If you aren't sipping KWV brandy in your decorated 10 room split-level in Soweto like the commercial shows you, it's because you're a LOSER. Doesn't have anything to do with politics.
It was their own fault it took them so long to discover advertising as a weapon. They only allowed TV in the '70s. In the U.S., we were born swimming in media and generally don't even recognize its inherent unreality.
It was quite a few years ago but I remember it as Besy Buy. A computer repair guy at our college was moonlighting. He told me they had him on a headset. While he was fixing people's computers in-store he was simultaneously answering help line calls. So I guess personality would be a factor -- in several ways.
I don't see how using open source would help the economy. In order to boost an economy, people need to buy things
Pretty common viewpoint though, isn't it? If it weren't, people in the U.S. would have -- oh, let's just speculate wildly -- something like national health care because healthier people can be more productive to the economy. Instead, it's more common to think that preventive health isn't sexy. The big money is in crisis care and long term care products for heart disease and diabetes, for example, after they develop. If there was less disease, where would the economy be?
So, in current practice, producing inexpensive tools for a _subsequent_ healthy and productive economy could be seen as going again standard operating procedure.
As someone who moved from five years with one fringe OS (OS/2) to linux in 2001, the contrast was impressive.
It could be maturity. Toward the end of OS/2's life cycle one survey had the typical OS/2 user pegged as a 45 year old Russian.
It's also true that documentation and support aren't exactly the sexy parts of a project.
But I've always wondered whether it is an element of the open source process. You're getting the creator's treasure for free. The least you can do is be "worthy" to receive it. Unfortunately, a counterproductive attitude.
realizing that media should be free, it's risible that in the U.S. you have companies like this that can launch a video-on-demand service knowing that people are actually going to pay for stuff.
It will be interesting to see how long the "sock the Americans, they're all rich" business plan will hold up. It should be clear from what the waters of Katrina scared up that universal American richness is very, very relative.
My wife is importing European nicotine patches from New Zealand via an internet pharmacy. When she switched from prescription in the U.S. inhalers to non-prescription in the U.S. patches I demanded that we compare prices. No, it was still about $170 vs. $250 locally for the same quantity even after international four-day express and a credit card charge for daring to buy something "ferrin'".
$80 buys some meaningful groceries. It seems like everything is leveraged that way. Except gasoline. We have wars to subsidize that.
They say AMD stresses other components. It has been my experience for a couple years that if it says PC2700, for example, I better get PC3200 if I don't want lockups.
This would clarify a few things.
DoD is getting tired of arguing that land-based Stars Wars can so work.
So you put the lasers on planes where you will be closer to the missiles and they will be moving relatively slower to you as they pass by.
Now all we need are several thousand 747s running ellipses over Canada, the Pacific and the Atlantic 24/7 and we'll be safe!
Makes sense! Er, sort of. It isn't like we have a deficit or fuel shortage or anything.
[Realistically, it might be a way to save face and find some product that actually works from all that Star Wars research?]
"When in Rome...."
The best way to be a team player and maximize personal empowerment is to keep your nose to the grindstone and your ducks in a row -- and learn not to snicker or roll your eyes.
I'm sure Real doesn't believe in or care about the casual user but my experience is that if I can't run it, I'll run something else. When I could run a Windows 3.1 RealPlayer under WinOS/2, I listened to Real stations. When that was no longer possible because they moved on to a different format and Windows players only on the PC, I moved to streaming mp3. Now, under linux, my regular RealPlayer use has never bounced back and is limited to one stream -- but I still listen to streaming mp3.