There's two reasons one hour photos are virtually non-existent anymore...
What are you talking about? Every CVS, Walgreens, Kinkos, Walmart, etc., has photo printing. You take in a memory card rather than film, but it's the same business model and for the same reason: most people don't find it worth the bother and expense to have print making capability (whether that be a darkroom or a photo printer) at home.
Is that why the more economic classes you take the more likely you are to be a libertarian?
You've got the causality reversed. Those smart and informed enough to see through capitalism know that what's taught in the typical economics class is as disconnected from the reality of human labor and natural resources being used to meet human wants and needs as an astrology class is from the reality of cosmology; while those naive enough to subscribe to the inherently contradictory theory of "libertarian capitalism" line up to become more deeply indoctrinated in the Holy Doctrine.
My favorite part of the SPDY is server push: now advertisers can clog my internet channel and hog the browser with ads long before the AdBlock kicks in.
Seriously. Didn't we learn from the failure of "server push" back in the late 90s?
Taking into account my long-ago high school experience, plus what I hear that the kids are studying these days, besides math, geography, and Latin (none of the schools here seems to offer Greek) students might be studying English literature, creative writing, history, cultural anthropology, archeology, economics, civics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, biology, chemistry, physics, Spanish, German, Japanese, French, Chinese, Italian, Arabic, drafting, carpentry, auto repair, construction, electronics, first aid, health and fitness, cooking, computer programming, dance, theatre, music, studio art, or photography. I'm sure I'm missing a few options.
Consider this: if they had just let Twitter move somewhere else, lots of jobs would be terminated.
So don't let it move. Leash the damn corporations already and stop this race to the bottom. The existence of a corporation is supposed to be contingent on the public good.
The company did not pay, but the company executives foot their shares via personal income tax.
So what? The company executives are not the company, they are employees. Is it ok for me to not pay my taxes on the theory that the guy I hire to cut my lawn will pay his share? Of course not.
A company receives certain benefits from the government quite apart from any benefits that accrue to employees or stockholders. Indeed, for anything other than a simple sole proprietorship, the company's very existence as a corporation or partnership or LLC is a government benefit. The idea that it's ok, legally or socially, or a company to not pay for those benefits, is part of what destroyed the U.S. economy.
A state cannot require a retailer in another state to collect taxes for it.
Unless, of course, the retailer has a presence in that other state. Which Amazon does, have affiliates all over the place.
That's besides the point, though. Quite aside from their tax strategy, given that Amazon is a bunch of patent-abusing censoring bastards, no sane and informed person can call them "reputable".
Some of it's in the database, but because these slides will often be referred to in perpetuity, without consulting the author, there need to be lots of words to make sure the message is clear.
Anyone who attempts to substitute a set of slides for documentation needs to be taken out and horsewhipped. Any project manager or team leader who asks for a set of slides instead of real documentation needs to be horsewhipped and then put in the stocks for a week for public shaming.
* trying to ban "junk food" in schools and restaurants either through direct bans or by mandating expensive analysis and labeling
Labeling is not a ban; and I'm unaware of any proposal to ban kids from bringing potato chips in with theit bag lunches, only for the government to improve the quality of the food it provides in school cafeterias.
* saying that end-of-life decisions should be at least partially based on the costs to the health system as a whole
It's called medical ethics. If for $X you can either save 1,000 kids, or drag out the death of a 95-year-old for one painful week, yes, that should be a consideration in making end-of-life decisions.
* have spent billions per year decrying the evils of Big Tobacco(tm) and its effects on the health care system
What are you talking about? Are you somehow referring to health education and anti-smoking campaigns? Fates forfend that we educate people about how to take care of their health.
* spend billions per year investigating trace elements and how they affect public health in order to (among other things) reduce health care costs.
OMG you mean they're spending money on health science research? Those bastards!
I mean, I'm all in favor of removing the warning labels on life and letting Darwinian evolution take its course
It's funny how often I hear that sentiment from those who would be first up against the wall of natural selection if such a revolution came.
Um, even if they'd seen his blog post and decided to write an article about the same thing, they have no obligation to credit him or defer to him.
It's not just that the saw his post and decided to write an article about the same thing, it's that they used specific facts that he had worked to uncover in their story.
Does that create a legal, copyright obligation? No, facts are not copyrightable. Does it create an ethical obligation, in an journalistic or academic context where citing sources of information is important? Yep.
Of course the difference between fascism and socialism is just one of degree. Both believe that some policy wonk knows better than you what is best for you.
Fascism: an authoritarian, nationalistic, anti-intellectual political theory in which individuals are subservient to the nation. Under fascism, your role as an individual human is meaningless -- you find your glory in action, usually violent, to glorify the Motherland under the strong leadership of your beloved dictator.
Socialism: an economic system based on the exchange of labor. Contrasts with capitalism, an economic system based on the state-backed private ownership of capital. Variants of socialism range from anarchism, which seeks to do away with the state and empower workers directly, to Marxism, which seeks to establish a powerful state which will be (in its theory) the agent of the workers and will (in its theory) eventually wither away. Marxism, as history shows, was easily perverted into authoritarian systems like Stalinism or Maoism. However, all forms of socialism are international to some degree, seeing the meaningful struggle as working people against the aristocracy, rather than as nation against nation.
Fascism and socialism are in no way degrees of one another.
Uh, like the Republic of Rome, which was an aristocracy? Or the Republic of Sparta? (Those are, of course, also two counters to the GP's suggestion that republic don't devolve.)
How, exactly does one have "corporate socialism"? A system meant to be in the interests of corporations is inherently opposed to a system meant to be in the interests of workers.
Unless, perhaps, you've confused "socialism" with "government regulation" or "government support". A little Proudhon and might clear that up.
as soon as the Government ordered them to standardize & allow third-party phones/modems, the speed skyrocketed from 1200 to 33,000 in ten years time.
I'm sure that had nothing to do with the fact that prior to 1980, nobody outside a handful of hobbyists had computers at home to hook up to their phone lines.
The truth is that we did, but in the more subtile and perniciously nuanced form of political correctness.
Gibberish. 99% of cries of "pollitical correctness" are more accurately phrased, "OMG, people expect me not to behave like an ass! That's Orwellian! Censorship!"
I've found the current legal system is actually pretty good at this. Do you have experience otherwise?
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world, a massive problem with violent crime, is one of only a handful of developed nations that executes its own citizens, and has a racist prison-industrial complex. Are you seriously suggesting that our legal system is "pretty good"?
book reading and reference material are opposite ends of the spectrum of book use.
1) I didn't say anything about "reference material"; 2) Reading a reference book is still reading a book.
Now, if you want to argue that ebooks are great if all you do is "light reading", fine. But there are many forms of reading that are not light reading and are not the use of reference works. For example, some editions of Shakespeare's plays have notes on facing pages. Many technical books have code listing and explanations on facing pages. It is advantageous to not have to flip back and forth, to just move your eyes.
blockquote>Personally, until it approaches the risk of myself drinking about a litre of Coke a day (which I've done for years), I'm very unlikely to start worrying.
Indeed, the bone-destroying effects of Coke are likely to dwarf any bone-destroying effects of your cell phone; and if you're heedless enough of your health to drink a liter of soda a day, probably no health warnings at all matter to you. Odds are good that the extra 400 empty kcal a day of sugar is doing enough to usher you to an early grave that osteoporosis is not a big concern.
For those of us who'd like to maintain our health and enjoy life for an extended period of time, however, and would like to avoid the hip fractures that are common in the elderly, this news is quite interesting. It's incentive to not always carry my phone in the same place when it's on my person, and to leave it in my bag or otherwise at hand but not on me.
In a study focussed on radiation adsorption, I would think the people who spend a considerable amount of time near a mix of X-Rays and MRI machines might be worth considering as a substantially unique group.
X-rays are a different sort of beast altogether. As for any stray EM exposure from MRIs, why would this affect the right hip more than the left?
to back this thought up, consider how you use books that are spirally bound. When holding in hand and reading, you flip the page all the way around and look at a single sheet.
No, I don't, unless I'm in a very cramped environment. Often, I will want to refer back to something on the previous page -- a table or diagram, for example.
In one case, the federal Drug Enforcement Agency subpoenaed purchase records to see if a suspected drug dealer had bought a lot of plastic bags, which are used to package drugs. Another example is an alimony dispute where a woman used her ex-husband's purchasing records to show he had a good income because he bought expensive wine, Albrecht said.
Beyond that, their objective in collecting data about me is to more effectively influence my decisions. Why in the world would I want to make it easier for someone to apply mind control tactics to me?
I've been introducing one of my girlfriends to Doctor Who, via Netflix. I filled her in with some background (read the wik entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(Doctor_Who) and you'll be set), showed her an early Tom Baker ep (The Ark in Space) to give her a sense of the old show, and then started off with the reboot.
If you want to watch more of the old series for background, seek out the first ep, "An Unearthly Child", and "The Three Doctors" and "The Five Doctors", to get quick exposure to the early incarnations.
Of the "original" Doctors, the Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee, and some of the Sylvester McCoy, eps are probably the most enjoyable, IMHO.
And is much bulkier and more expensive than my Eee.
Also, not all creative endeavors rely on a lot of typing.
Yes, if you're drawing pictures or manipulating photos all day a tablet might be great. Want to guess what percentage of tablet users that covers?
I'm a writer and a hacker. Anything without a keyboard is next to fscking useless to me.
(What I really want is an updated version of my Sharp Zaurus SLC-3000, a pocket-sized convertible "clamshell" style device with a tiny-but-usable keyboard. Bigger than a cellphone, smaller than a netbook.)
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What are you talking about? Every CVS, Walgreens, Kinkos, Walmart, etc., has photo printing. You take in a memory card rather than film, but it's the same business model and for the same reason: most people don't find it worth the bother and expense to have print making capability (whether that be a darkroom or a photo printer) at home.
You've got the causality reversed. Those smart and informed enough to see through capitalism know that what's taught in the typical economics class is as disconnected from the reality of human labor and natural resources being used to meet human wants and needs as an astrology class is from the reality of cosmology; while those naive enough to subscribe to the inherently contradictory theory of "libertarian capitalism" line up to become more deeply indoctrinated in the Holy Doctrine.
Call me when economists learn to subtract.
Seriously. Didn't we learn from the failure of "server push" back in the late 90s?
In Baltimore County, 3 years of math are required for high school graduation, and that must include algebra and geometry. YMMV; the greatest myth about the American public school system is that there is one. In fact there are probably thousands, when each county or city with some degree of local control is accounted for.
Taking into account my long-ago high school experience, plus what I hear that the kids are studying these days, besides math, geography, and Latin (none of the schools here seems to offer Greek) students might be studying English literature, creative writing, history, cultural anthropology, archeology, economics, civics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, biology, chemistry, physics, Spanish, German, Japanese, French, Chinese, Italian, Arabic, drafting, carpentry, auto repair, construction, electronics, first aid, health and fitness, cooking, computer programming, dance, theatre, music, studio art, or photography. I'm sure I'm missing a few options.
So don't let it move. Leash the damn corporations already and stop this race to the bottom. The existence of a corporation is supposed to be contingent on the public good.
So what? The company executives are not the company, they are employees. Is it ok for me to not pay my taxes on the theory that the guy I hire to cut my lawn will pay his share? Of course not.
A company receives certain benefits from the government quite apart from any benefits that accrue to employees or stockholders. Indeed, for anything other than a simple sole proprietorship, the company's very existence as a corporation or partnership or LLC is a government benefit. The idea that it's ok, legally or socially, or a company to not pay for those benefits, is part of what destroyed the U.S. economy.
Unless, of course, the retailer has a presence in that other state. Which Amazon does, have affiliates all over the place.
That's besides the point, though. Quite aside from their tax strategy, given that Amazon is a bunch of patent-abusing censoring bastards, no sane and informed person can call them "reputable".
You've hit it on the head: 99% of presentations are a waste of time, and could be avoided if people were willing to read.
Anyone who attempts to substitute a set of slides for documentation needs to be taken out and horsewhipped. Any project manager or team leader who asks for a set of slides instead of real documentation needs to be horsewhipped and then put in the stocks for a week for public shaming.
Labeling is not a ban; and I'm unaware of any proposal to ban kids from bringing potato chips in with theit bag lunches, only for the government to improve the quality of the food it provides in school cafeterias.
It's called medical ethics. If for $X you can either save 1,000 kids, or drag out the death of a 95-year-old for one painful week, yes, that should be a consideration in making end-of-life decisions.
What are you talking about? Are you somehow referring to health education and anti-smoking campaigns? Fates forfend that we educate people about how to take care of their health.
OMG you mean they're spending money on health science research? Those bastards!
It's funny how often I hear that sentiment from those who would be first up against the wall of natural selection if such a revolution came.
It's not just that the saw his post and decided to write an article about the same thing, it's that they used specific facts that he had worked to uncover in their story.
Does that create a legal, copyright obligation? No, facts are not copyrightable. Does it create an ethical obligation, in an journalistic or academic context where citing sources of information is important? Yep.
Fascism: an authoritarian, nationalistic, anti-intellectual political theory in which individuals are subservient to the nation. Under fascism, your role as an individual human is meaningless -- you find your glory in action, usually violent, to glorify the Motherland under the strong leadership of your beloved dictator.
Socialism: an economic system based on the exchange of labor. Contrasts with capitalism, an economic system based on the state-backed private ownership of capital. Variants of socialism range from anarchism, which seeks to do away with the state and empower workers directly, to Marxism, which seeks to establish a powerful state which will be (in its theory) the agent of the workers and will (in its theory) eventually wither away. Marxism, as history shows, was easily perverted into authoritarian systems like Stalinism or Maoism. However, all forms of socialism are international to some degree, seeing the meaningful struggle as working people against the aristocracy, rather than as nation against nation.
Fascism and socialism are in no way degrees of one another.
Uh, like the Republic of Rome, which was an aristocracy? Or the Republic of Sparta? (Those are, of course, also two counters to the GP's suggestion that republic don't devolve.)
How, exactly does one have "corporate socialism"? A system meant to be in the interests of corporations is inherently opposed to a system meant to be in the interests of workers.
Unless, perhaps, you've confused "socialism" with "government regulation" or "government support". A little Proudhon and might clear that up.
I'm sure that had nothing to do with the fact that prior to 1980, nobody outside a handful of hobbyists had computers at home to hook up to their phone lines.
Gibberish. 99% of cries of "pollitical correctness" are more accurately phrased, "OMG, people expect me not to behave like an ass! That's Orwellian! Censorship!"
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world, a massive problem with violent crime, is one of only a handful of developed nations that executes its own citizens, and has a racist prison-industrial complex. Are you seriously suggesting that our legal system is "pretty good"?
1) I didn't say anything about "reference material"; 2) Reading a reference book is still reading a book.
Now, if you want to argue that ebooks are great if all you do is "light reading", fine. But there are many forms of reading that are not light reading and are not the use of reference works. For example, some editions of Shakespeare's plays have notes on facing pages. Many technical books have code listing and explanations on facing pages. It is advantageous to not have to flip back and forth, to just move your eyes.
Indeed, the bone-destroying effects of Coke are likely to dwarf any bone-destroying effects of your cell phone; and if you're heedless enough of your health to drink a liter of soda a day, probably no health warnings at all matter to you. Odds are good that the extra 400 empty kcal a day of sugar is doing enough to usher you to an early grave that osteoporosis is not a big concern.
For those of us who'd like to maintain our health and enjoy life for an extended period of time, however, and would like to avoid the hip fractures that are common in the elderly, this news is quite interesting. It's incentive to not always carry my phone in the same place when it's on my person, and to leave it in my bag or otherwise at hand but not on me.
X-rays are a different sort of beast altogether. As for any stray EM exposure from MRIs, why would this affect the right hip more than the left?
No, I don't, unless I'm in a very cramped environment. Often, I will want to refer back to something on the previous page -- a table or diagram, for example.
People's grocery "loyalty card" records have already been subpoenaed:
Beyond that, their objective in collecting data about me is to more effectively influence my decisions. Why in the world would I want to make it easier for someone to apply mind control tactics to me?
I've been introducing one of my girlfriends to Doctor Who, via Netflix. I filled her in with some background (read the wik entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(Doctor_Who) and you'll be set), showed her an early Tom Baker ep (The Ark in Space) to give her a sense of the old show, and then started off with the reboot.
If you want to watch more of the old series for background, seek out the first ep, "An Unearthly Child", and "The Three Doctors" and "The Five Doctors", to get quick exposure to the early incarnations.
Of the "original" Doctors, the Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee, and some of the Sylvester McCoy, eps are probably the most enjoyable, IMHO.
Right here. I've called Apple a bunch of censoring bastards before, and this doesn't change that.
And is much bulkier and more expensive than my Eee.
Yes, if you're drawing pictures or manipulating photos all day a tablet might be great. Want to guess what percentage of tablet users that covers?
I'm a writer and a hacker. Anything without a keyboard is next to fscking useless to me.
(What I really want is an updated version of my Sharp Zaurus SLC-3000, a pocket-sized convertible "clamshell" style device with a tiny-but-usable keyboard. Bigger than a cellphone, smaller than a netbook.)