Although the actual device... cannot even light up an LED..., the energy that might be stored in this way could potentially run a car for miles.
Although the actual pig... cannot even jump more than one foot from the earth..., [if someday equipped with wings,] one might have a fine personal aerial transport system!
It doesn't hurt that the SM57 can be had for under $100 and is nearly indestructible.
Plus, it takes high SPLs really well, making it good for a direct mike in front of a speaker driven by a 100 W head or a "singer" who screams a lot. If you use a condenser microphone in these situations, you have real problems with overload. And don't even try doing this with a ribbon mike.
Adam Smith, the rational economic man, the invisible hand, the free market, the virtue of self-interest - all promise the greater benefit. So why the fuck have we not seen these jokers apologize publicly when it's obvious that the self-interested, rational actions of homeowners and lenders in the US have led to a global bloody recession where people from Stockholm to Brisbane are being laid off?
Well, in the case of Adam Smith, you're probably not getting an apology because he's dead. Everyone else in your "Hall of Shame" is still spouting "the real problem is still too much government interference" kinds of crap (notwithstanding the fact that not interfering at this point would probably plunge the world economy into a multi-year deflationary cycle that would make the Great Depression look like a cakewalk).
We're talking about the aggregate effect of every day investors that see the potential of making literally an extra penny per share by taking a course of action.
Which is why you need an external entity to channel those actions and put up dams where they can be controlled before they wipe out an entire global economy. Perhaps if we had an entity that could do something like that... I know, we can call it a government and they could monitor monetary flows and use regulating mechanisms to lessen the chance that the economy might get out of control! What a concept!
Of course the real question (that no one seems to be asking) is how to break up the mega-banks and keep future mergers down to a reasonable level so that all of them are not engaged in the same lines of business (and thus structuring their risks in the same way). Doing so would ensure that the failure of one or two of them would not bring about the demise of the American/World economy.
If your kid is in trouble...no ER in the country will refuse you service.
Yes, for acute care. However, for chronic illnesses, the ER won't touch you until damage is severe, perhaps irreversibly. Of course, there's always Medicaid, if you're willing to go into penury to accept it and you can find a doctor to take you in.
Will you send men with guns to my house? What if I say no to them too? Do you advocate killing me?
Why, yes, but only because I tire of Libertarian anti-government nuttery that equates any enforcement of a public good over a private choice with death. So, if you don't annoy us too much, we'll let you live. How magnanimous is that?
As someone once said, the media probably isn't biased as much left or right as much as it is biased towards conflict. Because of this, they have a tendency toward inflating a minority view until it's strong enough to make a "good story" by becoming equal to the majority view. In some cases, this is a good thing (one whistle blower can be enough to bring down an entire governmental agency), but usually it distorts more than clarifies. Throw into the mix an adversarial philosophy taken from the courts (i.e., by having two sides fight it out, the truth will be known - and don't worry if there's a third, fourth, or fifth side) and it's a wonder that this sort (Autism scare) of thing doesn't happen more often.
Some people just don't want the government to dictate the shots that go into their children.
Ah, so a parent's fringe political leanings should trump the right of his child to a life (and, potentially, the lives of other children with whom he associates)? And before you say that I exaggerate, many of the diseases that are immunized against in childhood can cause death in both childhood and adulthood. The hubris of some people is astonishing (as is the stupidity of their knee-jerk rejection of any governmental action).
Xerox is a good example of this. However, the other two are less good. You mention that 3M doesn't have a particularly large research arm separate from their manufacturing R&D. As for Bell Labs, remember that at the time it was truly ferocious, it wasn't allowed to do much with their technology because of the company's regulated monopoly status. They could develop UNIX for internal use all they wanted (and transistors and routing algorithms and...), but they couldn't actually sell it outside the Bell System. And by the time they could sell it externally, it wasn't like they had anyone left who could have productized or sold it for them.
In reality, corporate R&D has been dying for the last thirty years, except in the military space. It's a shame because the investors are simply eating the seed corn from which new products could have sprung.
And do you know what conservatives were saying in the days following the depression, up to and including the second World War? That if only the people of that time had the same moral rectitude and fortitude of those who lived during the aftermath of the Civil War, that governmental measures would work but, failing that, these governmental actions were doomed to fail.
Every generation seems to decry the moral turpitude of the next and most of them also decry the moral shortcomings of their fellow citizens. Thus it has been since Plutarch and thus is it ever likely to be. The bottom line is that, physically, intellectually, and morally, we don't change very quickly, either for better or worse. And the percentage of the truly venal seem to be about constant, as is the percentage of people who just want to make it though their day and go home to their families. As such, the functioning of government isn't that much worse (or better) than it ever has been. This is ultimately because we are the government and we're not much better (or worse) than we ever have been.
So, if you need a reason to argue against the stimulus bill, you'd be better advised to focus on economic models and actual figures, rather than some vague, dyspeptic moral argument. In fact, so would the WSJ, though I don't see either them or you taking this advice anytime soon.
There are project management tools for Linux but they are nowhere close to MSProject, unfortunatly.
Well, to be fair, MS Project isn't close to MS Project's reputation. As far as actual interesting parts past a Gannt chart or simple task list, it fairly sucks.
That's because it sucked. It worked only to the letter of the standard and looked unlike any other POSIX implementation. As such, one still had to be acutely aware of coding only to the barest minimum and the applications that one could make from Microsoft's POSIX really sucked, too. They made the implementation only so that they could compete for various government contracts and it shows.
For those of you who have been using POSIX-compliant plaforms for a long time, think of the OpenVMS implementation... Microsoft's implementation was something almost entirely unlike that. Or maybe you could imagine how a UNIVAC mainframe running a POSIX subsystem would look. It's about that painful.
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Although the actual device... cannot even light up an LED..., the energy that might be stored in this way could potentially run a car for miles.
Although the actual pig... cannot even jump more than one foot from the earth..., [if someday equipped with wings,] one might have a fine personal aerial transport system!
It doesn't hurt that the SM57 can be had for under $100 and is nearly indestructible.
Plus, it takes high SPLs really well, making it good for a direct mike in front of a speaker driven by a 100 W head or a "singer" who screams a lot. If you use a condenser microphone in these situations, you have real problems with overload. And don't even try doing this with a ribbon mike.
I just want someone to bake erotic cakes in the nude.
Just don't try to fry erotic bacon.
Win-win. I got to hang up on a butthead and received no punishment for it. (I quit that company not long after that) :)
But you should have know better than to take the job with the RNC if you didn't expect that sort of thing.
... just stupid.
He's a Republican, so this part of your statement is redundant.
And, yes, feel free to mod this Flamebait or Troll. I'm pretty sure my Karma can handle it (and, in this case, it's actually justified).
Why people continue to fork money over to this guy is beyond me.
Because his books are written in a much more entertaining style than your five word synopsis? See also "Infotainment".
Oh... that was a rhetorical question? Nevermind.
Adam Smith, the rational economic man, the invisible hand, the free market, the virtue of self-interest - all promise the greater benefit. So why the fuck have we not seen these jokers apologize publicly when it's obvious that the self-interested, rational actions of homeowners and lenders in the US have led to a global bloody recession where people from Stockholm to Brisbane are being laid off?
Well, in the case of Adam Smith, you're probably not getting an apology because he's dead. Everyone else in your "Hall of Shame" is still spouting "the real problem is still too much government interference" kinds of crap (notwithstanding the fact that not interfering at this point would probably plunge the world economy into a multi-year deflationary cycle that would make the Great Depression look like a cakewalk).
We're talking about the aggregate effect of every day investors that see the potential of making literally an extra penny per share by taking a course of action.
Which is why you need an external entity to channel those actions and put up dams where they can be controlled before they wipe out an entire global economy. Perhaps if we had an entity that could do something like that... I know, we can call it a government and they could monitor monetary flows and use regulating mechanisms to lessen the chance that the economy might get out of control! What a concept!
Of course the real question (that no one seems to be asking) is how to break up the mega-banks and keep future mergers down to a reasonable level so that all of them are not engaged in the same lines of business (and thus structuring their risks in the same way). Doing so would ensure that the failure of one or two of them would not bring about the demise of the American/World economy.
But we can't use the most effective method.
Which is, obviously, having them subscribe to Slashdot.
If your kid is in trouble...no ER in the country will refuse you service.
Yes, for acute care. However, for chronic illnesses, the ER won't touch you until damage is severe, perhaps irreversibly. Of course, there's always Medicaid, if you're willing to go into penury to accept it and you can find a doctor to take you in.
If you want to beat them you got to play them at their own game.
No, if you want to beat them, you grab a bat.
Did you win all the debates in high school with your fists? ;)
Only when I had to.
tylenol I think its called in the US
Tylenol is the brand name. The American generic name is acetaminophen.
Do I need to spell out the sloppy thinking ?
Yeah! Those damned Amish! If they drove cars like the rest of us, there would never be any automobile accidents!
Will you send men with guns to my house? What if I say no to them too? Do you advocate killing me?
Why, yes, but only because I tire of Libertarian anti-government nuttery that equates any enforcement of a public good over a private choice with death. So, if you don't annoy us too much, we'll let you live. How magnanimous is that?
As someone once said, the media probably isn't biased as much left or right as much as it is biased towards conflict. Because of this, they have a tendency toward inflating a minority view until it's strong enough to make a "good story" by becoming equal to the majority view. In some cases, this is a good thing (one whistle blower can be enough to bring down an entire governmental agency), but usually it distorts more than clarifies. Throw into the mix an adversarial philosophy taken from the courts (i.e., by having two sides fight it out, the truth will be known - and don't worry if there's a third, fourth, or fifth side) and it's a wonder that this sort (Autism scare) of thing doesn't happen more often.
And you've got 5 points!!Yeah, but it's "+5 Stupid".
Some people just don't want the government to dictate the shots that go into their children.
Ah, so a parent's fringe political leanings should trump the right of his child to a life (and, potentially, the lives of other children with whom he associates)? And before you say that I exaggerate, many of the diseases that are immunized against in childhood can cause death in both childhood and adulthood. The hubris of some people is astonishing (as is the stupidity of their knee-jerk rejection of any governmental action).
Xerox is a good example of this. However, the other two are less good. You mention that 3M doesn't have a particularly large research arm separate from their manufacturing R&D. As for Bell Labs, remember that at the time it was truly ferocious, it wasn't allowed to do much with their technology because of the company's regulated monopoly status. They could develop UNIX for internal use all they wanted (and transistors and routing algorithms and...), but they couldn't actually sell it outside the Bell System. And by the time they could sell it externally, it wasn't like they had anyone left who could have productized or sold it for them.
In reality, corporate R&D has been dying for the last thirty years, except in the military space. It's a shame because the investors are simply eating the seed corn from which new products could have sprung.
And do you know what conservatives were saying in the days following the depression, up to and including the second World War? That if only the people of that time had the same moral rectitude and fortitude of those who lived during the aftermath of the Civil War, that governmental measures would work but, failing that, these governmental actions were doomed to fail.
Every generation seems to decry the moral turpitude of the next and most of them also decry the moral shortcomings of their fellow citizens. Thus it has been since Plutarch and thus is it ever likely to be. The bottom line is that, physically, intellectually, and morally, we don't change very quickly, either for better or worse. And the percentage of the truly venal seem to be about constant, as is the percentage of people who just want to make it though their day and go home to their families. As such, the functioning of government isn't that much worse (or better) than it ever has been. This is ultimately because we are the government and we're not much better (or worse) than we ever have been.
So, if you need a reason to argue against the stimulus bill, you'd be better advised to focus on economic models and actual figures, rather than some vague, dyspeptic moral argument. In fact, so would the WSJ, though I don't see either them or you taking this advice anytime soon.
There are project management tools for Linux but they are nowhere close to MSProject, unfortunatly.
Well, to be fair, MS Project isn't close to MS Project's reputation. As far as actual interesting parts past a Gannt chart or simple task list, it fairly sucks.
It's just contradiction.
Nobody really used it.
That's because it sucked. It worked only to the letter of the standard and looked unlike any other POSIX implementation. As such, one still had to be acutely aware of coding only to the barest minimum and the applications that one could make from Microsoft's POSIX really sucked, too. They made the implementation only so that they could compete for various government contracts and it shows.
For those of you who have been using POSIX-compliant plaforms for a long time, think of the OpenVMS implementation... Microsoft's implementation was something almost entirely unlike that. Or maybe you could imagine how a UNIVAC mainframe running a POSIX subsystem would look. It's about that painful.
Give the terminators wings. Then we'll be all ready for SkyNet.
I for one welcome our new robotic (literally) overlords.
Geeze, yeah, what's with this concept of expanding the use of powerful known tools to new areas and problems?
I'm glad you concur...