We could argue the merits of the secret bombing till we're blue in the face, but it's pretty clear that the international community didn't give a flying fuck about it.
That's why you should never take your moral stance from the international community without examining it first. Nor should you take domestic opinion as a moral stance without examining it first. Most people don't even know that Ronald Reagan was a sponsor of terrorism and that thousands of civilians died at the hands of death squads because of him, yet you'll see lots of people grinning and telling you he was the greatest president ever. Did you know that he had the first George Bush deal with Iran to get them to hold onto the American hostages just long enough for them to be released after he took office? Yep, he's a real hero.
No, successs and being the best isn't wrong. Using your success and money to oppress others through unethical business practices is. There is a huge difference. Staying on top because you have a great product is one thing. Staying on top because you can quash others unfairly is another.
I know a guy who is allergic to cats, so they got a couple of sphynx cats. Hairless, so no dander problems. Look a bit like Yoda. In fact, kind of repulsive. And I'm a cat lover.
That's the easiest and simplest course of action, and is a goal we should all be working toward, rather than trying to unseat established enterprise equipment vendors.
I don't think those two things are mutually exclusive. When a manufacturer sells enterprise equipment that helps subvert our constitution/constitutional rights we should work toward a voter-verifialbe paper trail, which at the same time should put those companies out of business. I'm talking about simple paper ballots, possibly not even scantrons. I don't know about you but I'm willing to wait a couple of days to get the result if it's the least prone to fraud.
As others have posted, if you use Flip4Mac you get better performance through QT than with the MS supplied viewer for Mac. Plus, you can save the movie into a truly usable format.
See this page at VenLogic for a discussion of H.264 v. WMV. There are more things to consider when thinking about video, such as how it scales (from DVD quality to handheld), what it's primary use is (movies or just video conferencing) and how well it compresses.
It's not necessarily that $5.15 an hour is too little, it's that you can't really live on that. $5.15 an hour is fine if you're a high school kid or college student with some kind of future but not otherwise. You can whine all you want about your free market head in the clouds idealism but I'd like to know where you get the 15% laid off number. And that whole free market bromide is a joke that lives on in spite of evidence that what really matters is political influence and purchased advantages. It makes a joke of Democracy at the same time.
I'm guessing that a more likely scenario is that some people might lose jobs but what would really happen is that businesses will do what they always do, pass the cost along. And yes, I'm willing to pay.
Or try this: Pay CEOs what they're really worth and minimum wage can easily be increased.
Possibly. But it's a good thing that not all human beings only act out of a desire to avoid the logical consequences, but rather do the decent and human thing.
I guess it's easy to pick on a government funded research facility and call it overly bureaucratic, but doing the kinds of things they do involves thousands of engineers, quite often solving problems for the very first time. After they do this they hand off the results of their research to the private sector. Maybe even companies like Scaled Composites, the Spaceship One people.
Here is an interesting comment from MacSlash poster who noticed what he says is a rootkit potential in the Linux client of Parallels. I'd be interested in hearing from some knowledgable people whether they think this might be a problem in the OS X client as well.
Yes, you are missing something. People who have achieved celebrity status or are influential are always more newsworthy, even for the small stuff. It's because lots of people are interested in their lives. If I have an operation for a hernia nobody cares. If Bill Gates has one you can bet it will make the news.
Plus, we get an insight into human behavior when we see supposedly brilliant, rich people bickering about idiotic stuff.
The free market would never adopt a new alternative that is not technically or functionally superior...
I suppose a free market wouldn't, but it's hard to say, given how we don't really have a working model of a free market to study. Except perhaps the truly lawless places on the planet.
And that GDP growth you're talking about? It's gone mostly to the people who are already wealthy. To the average American that statistic is a lie.
Regarding job creation:
Private-sector jobs created by defense spending, 2001-2006: 1.5 million (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Private-sector jobs created by other government spending, 2001-2006: 1.3 million (Department of Defense)
Private-sector jobs lost, 2001-2006: 1 million (Economic Policy Institute)
So you see, the jobs created are actually just government spending, not "free market" economics.
This story belongs with the Million Dollar Home Page and other stupid ideas that people went along with because it was getting a lot of publicity.
Well, just about everything in pop culture is like that, not just the paperclip guy and the million dollar home page ideas. Why do you think people drink Budweiser? Because it's a great beer? They drink it because it's popular and everybody else is drinking it and because it's hyped.
These guys are nothing new, just clever additions in a long line of marketeers.
That said, I think we're going to see a turn around with the generation in college right now, less divorces, less stupidity because it seems that more and more young people are sick and tied of the bullshit.
I can say from experience that this is not going to happen. When I was in high school in the late 70s I was generally appalled by the way the "adult" world behaved. I was excited by the prospect of my generation growing up and setting things straight. It was a slow realization that my generation was just as greedy, dim-witted and insensistive as the previous one.
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We could argue the merits of the secret bombing till we're blue in the face, but it's pretty clear that the international community didn't give a flying fuck about it.
That's why you should never take your moral stance from the international community without examining it first. Nor should you take domestic opinion as a moral stance without examining it first. Most people don't even know that Ronald Reagan was a sponsor of terrorism and that thousands of civilians died at the hands of death squads because of him, yet you'll see lots of people grinning and telling you he was the greatest president ever. Did you know that he had the first George Bush deal with Iran to get them to hold onto the American hostages just long enough for them to be released after he took office? Yep, he's a real hero.
How do you cope with ocean levels that rise to inundate most coastal cities?
That's easy! Just get the Army Corps of engineers to build a levy.
No, successs and being the best isn't wrong. Using your success and money to oppress others through unethical business practices is. There is a huge difference. Staying on top because you have a great product is one thing. Staying on top because you can quash others unfairly is another.
Please don't post anonymously. It makes it impossible to add you to my friends list. :-)
I know a guy who is allergic to cats, so they got a couple of sphynx cats. Hairless, so no dander problems. Look a bit like Yoda. In fact, kind of repulsive. And I'm a cat lover.
I don't think those two things are mutually exclusive. When a manufacturer sells enterprise equipment that helps subvert our constitution/constitutional rights we should work toward a voter-verifialbe paper trail, which at the same time should put those companies out of business. I'm talking about simple paper ballots, possibly not even scantrons. I don't know about you but I'm willing to wait a couple of days to get the result if it's the least prone to fraud.
It's called "Katherine Harris."
As others have posted, if you use Flip4Mac you get better performance through QT than with the MS supplied viewer for Mac. Plus, you can save the movie into a truly usable format.
See this page at VenLogic for a discussion of H.264 v. WMV. There are more things to consider when thinking about video, such as how it scales (from DVD quality to handheld), what it's primary use is (movies or just video conferencing) and how well it compresses.
I know statistics are no comfort when it's you that has the defective unit, but here's a page that has some hard numbers on Mac Book reliability.
It's not necessarily that $5.15 an hour is too little, it's that you can't really live on that. $5.15 an hour is fine if you're a high school kid or college student with some kind of future but not otherwise. You can whine all you want about your free market head in the clouds idealism but I'd like to know where you get the 15% laid off number. And that whole free market bromide is a joke that lives on in spite of evidence that what really matters is political influence and purchased advantages. It makes a joke of Democracy at the same time.
I'm guessing that a more likely scenario is that some people might lose jobs but what would really happen is that businesses will do what they always do, pass the cost along. And yes, I'm willing to pay.
Or try this: Pay CEOs what they're really worth and minimum wage can easily be increased.
Clearly there is no need for explanation. Or perhaps you've never had to defend yourself from a man armed with a bowl of fresh fruit?
Speach.
OK, as long as you don't try to impose your ideals of spelling on us.
Possibly. But it's a good thing that not all human beings only act out of a desire to avoid the logical consequences, but rather do the decent and human thing.
I guess it's easy to pick on a government funded research facility and call it overly bureaucratic, but doing the kinds of things they do involves thousands of engineers, quite often solving problems for the very first time. After they do this they hand off the results of their research to the private sector. Maybe even companies like Scaled Composites, the Spaceship One people.
And to think, all this time the secret was lying right behind the television.
I suppose the other hand would feel left out.
Here is an interesting comment from MacSlash poster who noticed what he says is a rootkit potential in the Linux client of Parallels. I'd be interested in hearing from some knowledgable people whether they think this might be a problem in the OS X client as well.
Yes, you are missing something. People who have achieved celebrity status or are influential are always more newsworthy, even for the small stuff. It's because lots of people are interested in their lives. If I have an operation for a hernia nobody cares. If Bill Gates has one you can bet it will make the news.
Plus, we get an insight into human behavior when we see supposedly brilliant, rich people bickering about idiotic stuff.
I suppose a free market wouldn't, but it's hard to say, given how we don't really have a working model of a free market to study. Except perhaps the truly lawless places on the planet.
And that GDP growth you're talking about? It's gone mostly to the people who are already wealthy. To the average American that statistic is a lie.
Regarding job creation:
- Private-sector jobs created by defense spending, 2001-2006: 1.5 million (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Private-sector jobs created by other government spending, 2001-2006: 1.3 million (Department of Defense)
- Private-sector jobs lost, 2001-2006: 1 million (Economic Policy Institute)
So you see, the jobs created are actually just government spending, not "free market" economics.This story belongs with the Million Dollar Home Page and other stupid ideas that people went along with because it was getting a lot of publicity.
Well, just about everything in pop culture is like that, not just the paperclip guy and the million dollar home page ideas. Why do you think people drink Budweiser? Because it's a great beer? They drink it because it's popular and everybody else is drinking it and because it's hyped. These guys are nothing new, just clever additions in a long line of marketeers.
Spend a few months with ColdFusion and you'll love PHP.
It's amazing how the scum always seems to rise back to the top. Sociopaths run the world.
That said, I think we're going to see a turn around with the generation in college right now, less divorces, less stupidity because it seems that more and more young people are sick and tied of the bullshit.
I can say from experience that this is not going to happen. When I was in high school in the late 70s I was generally appalled by the way the "adult" world behaved. I was excited by the prospect of my generation growing up and setting things straight. It was a slow realization that my generation was just as greedy, dim-witted and insensistive as the previous one.
Points well taken. I'd like to be happier about humanity so I'll try to keep those thoughts in mind.