"Respect. No nation treats countries without nukes with the same kind of respect as they do otherwise."
Fixed.
This isn't a phenomenon that only occurs with the bad, big, evil United States. Look at India and Pakistan after obtaining nuclear weapons. Kashmir doesn't seem to be worth more than a few sappers these days. For all of its drawbacks, M.A.D. has, at least for the time, worked.
Generally I find it funny, even enjoyable when a movie flat out gets it wrong. The only occasions where I've felt like throwing my drink at the screen are when the movie almost gets it right and then at the last second screws the whole thing up. Thankfully this almost never happened.
I know better than responding to flame-bait, but I can't count the number of proprietary projects (and to that effect start-up companies) that die before they even begin. This is a nature of software and everything else. People start dumb projects, half-finish idiotic sentences and waste money on power tools that rust in their garages. So long as they learn while they are spinning their wheels and don't waste a ton of cash in the process everything is fine.
CD purchases, the listening public will bestow on ungrateful addicts, oops record execs...
Fixed. The real problems are/were record companies who were addicted to printing their own money and a market that thinks/thought that making 200%+ profit is/was piss poor performance. Fortunately, the recording industry is finally coming around to the notion that lawyers are only good for collecting sort-term, high-gain revenue, not suing grandma for her Dale Jr. poster.
Just name the time. If they can waste their time with this stupid crap, no, shit, then count me. We can have a big, multi-lateral "fuck-off" on Gervais.
While I can certainly understand your sentiment, I can't exactly give it an Amen.
The boingboing mentality of adding "punk" to the end of everything does seem like a pointless pursuit and it does annoy me that Make tends to follow boingboing's trend too closely, but I view it as more of a trip and stumble than a downfall. Make simply needs maturation not reprehension.
For many young Americans, Make is filling a gap that Popular Science and Popular Mechanics haven't filled for them. Some of these people have never even owned cars or at least changed their oil, so for many the idea of reaching for 1/4 ratchet is somehow foreign. They are simply making their way the best way they can. So, I'm glad that O'Reilly has been there to providing some instruction for a generation who were raised to believe that everything is dangerous or illegal. Granted they still have a long way to go.
Now on the subject of a Make television show, well, I'm 50/50 on it. It should either be focused on younger audiences or have deeper subject matter for adults.
Yes, because the educated and experienced spend every moment of their free time reading technical manuals and obtaining certs. Also networking is completely and totally unprofessional.
Not looking right or fitting in has nothing do to with this unless fitting in means that you are incapable of being friendly and lack basic social skills. If that is the case you have bigger problems than jack-asses in bars.
Though I've never messed with any of them, there are plenty of freelance, contractor type sites out there.
Also, and I know it must sound seedy, but sitting around in a (fairly upscale) bar that has frequent business travelers works pretty well. I know it is kind of "red-lighting" it, but I've scored a few software jobs just from sitting in front of a beer and chatting it up with complete strangers on Wed or Thurs nights (often, their free night before their flight the next day).
Like a previous poster said, don't quit your day job. It isn't worth losing your insurance because of boredom.
The solution is pretty simply, make judges and prosecutors responsible for budgeting in the prison system. If they opponents get use, "District Attorney X spent $500 Million on inmate pillows!" it will make them think twice before rejecting a cheaper, (more proactive) solution.
Oddly enough, I can't think of any judges who were elected, at least not in my state, that is more of an appointment here.
With GameStop pulling in something $3 billion in'06 and $7.1 billion in '07, it makes more sense to go after them than chase the potential revenue lost to piracy.
I don't have any numbers, but I can't help but wonder who spends more in health care, the healthy or unhealthy?
The unhealthy often don't go in for checkups or spend money on preventative medication. So who ends up spending more money? The relatively healthy person who goes in for regular checkups (dental, physical) and is given a steady diet of preventative drugs or the obese smoker who doesn't go to the doctor until 6 months before he dies (and spends a mint on heart-bypass/chemo).
Of course this is accounting that both parties are privately insured, but I can't help but wonder.
The reset on coins every "year" really sucks out any enthusiasm I'd have for this. Not sure if it is fear of the resale market (register games I'd paid $10 for instead of $60) or simply another inducement for kids to buy the next copy of Pokemon garnet-spiral ham, but as a long time consumer of the Big N's products this comes off as kind of dickish.
Today, there's a paradigm shift: You touch the screen instead. The computing world hasn't caught up to the banking, grocery, and casino markets quite yet, but that's about to change.
When the touch pads at the bank, grocery store and casino have the equivalent of a shift, ctrl and alt keys give me a ring. This isn't new tech, just rearrangements of old tech since it is now cheaper and easier to deal with due to expired patents, cheaper manufacturing and public acceptance.
Telling PC users that they are behind the times with touchscreens is like chiding aircraft manufacturers for not building wings out of teak wood and canvas.
Here's the thing. The economy ain't so hot (I gno, rite!) so how does it make sense to employ a relatively small number of people at a relatively high salary when that money (one BILLION dollars!) could go to some other project that could influence thousands more workers?
Easy, pull troops out of Iraq. Amazing, I just increased NASA's budget by well, well over 100 fold per year.
In other news where is the rival Jupiter delivery system that scientist and engineers were working on after-hours?
I know it sounds arrogant, but in the age to automobiles you aren't going to have has many injuries in a buggy whip factory.
There is also something else. The reporter whose stories are going up on the paper's website is going to have a greater range of stories because printing is expensive and database storage is cheap. More stories lead to less stringent editing ("its just going up on the website") and it leads to more trouble.
Of course, it's basically impossible to argue that violating the author's copyright is ethical, and it certainly isn't legal.
Just pulling it out of the air, but what about medical textbooks where they wouldn't normally be available or affordable? You may be violating the author's copyright, but you could also use it to save lives.
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"Respect. No nation treats countries without nukes with the same kind of respect as they do otherwise."
Fixed.
This isn't a phenomenon that only occurs with the bad, big, evil United States. Look at India and Pakistan after obtaining nuclear weapons. Kashmir doesn't seem to be worth more than a few sappers these days. For all of its drawbacks, M.A.D. has, at least for the time, worked.
Gotta agree with the parent. What galls me is that this is an outright act of collusion disguised as a movement to uphold the law.
Awesome, you'll be the first against the wall.
Generally I find it funny, even enjoyable when a movie flat out gets it wrong. The only occasions where I've felt like throwing my drink at the screen are when the movie almost gets it right and then at the last second screws the whole thing up. Thankfully this almost never happened.
If I had to points I'd mod you insightful.
I know better than responding to flame-bait, but I can't count the number of proprietary projects (and to that effect start-up companies) that die before they even begin. This is a nature of software and everything else. People start dumb projects, half-finish idiotic sentences and waste money on power tools that rust in their garages. So long as they learn while they are spinning their wheels and don't waste a ton of cash in the process everything is fine.
CD purchases, the listening public will bestow on ungrateful addicts, oops record execs...
Fixed. The real problems are/were record companies who were addicted to printing their own money and a market that thinks/thought that making 200%+ profit is/was piss poor performance. Fortunately, the recording industry is finally coming around to the notion that lawyers are only good for collecting sort-term, high-gain revenue, not suing grandma for her Dale Jr. poster.
Just name the time. If they can waste their time with this stupid crap, no, shit, then count me. We can have a big, multi-lateral "fuck-off" on Gervais.
Will gold farmers be taxed by the bushel, pixel or click?
While I can certainly understand your sentiment, I can't exactly give it an Amen.
The boingboing mentality of adding "punk" to the end of everything does seem like a pointless pursuit and it does annoy me that Make tends to follow boingboing's trend too closely, but I view it as more of a trip and stumble than a downfall. Make simply needs maturation not reprehension.
For many young Americans, Make is filling a gap that Popular Science and Popular Mechanics haven't filled for them. Some of these people have never even owned cars or at least changed their oil, so for many the idea of reaching for 1/4 ratchet is somehow foreign. They are simply making their way the best way they can. So, I'm glad that O'Reilly has been there to providing some instruction for a generation who were raised to believe that everything is dangerous or illegal. Granted they still have a long way to go.
Now on the subject of a Make television show, well, I'm 50/50 on it. It should either be focused on younger audiences or have deeper subject matter for adults.
Yes, because the educated and experienced spend every moment of their free time reading technical manuals and obtaining certs. Also networking is completely and totally unprofessional.
Not looking right or fitting in has nothing do to with this unless fitting in means that you are incapable of being friendly and lack basic social skills. If that is the case you have bigger problems than jack-asses in bars.
Buy me a Guinness and I'll ponder that one.
Though I've never messed with any of them, there are plenty of freelance, contractor type sites out there.
Also, and I know it must sound seedy, but sitting around in a (fairly upscale) bar that has frequent business travelers works pretty well. I know it is kind of "red-lighting" it, but I've scored a few software jobs just from sitting in front of a beer and chatting it up with complete strangers on Wed or Thurs nights (often, their free night before their flight the next day).
Like a previous poster said, don't quit your day job. It isn't worth losing your insurance because of boredom.
My God, how far can this go? Google has the audacity to listen to its customer and actually use the better ideas?
The solution is pretty simply, make judges and prosecutors responsible for budgeting in the prison system. If they opponents get use, "District Attorney X spent $500 Million on inmate pillows!" it will make them think twice before rejecting a cheaper, (more proactive) solution.
Oddly enough, I can't think of any judges who were elected, at least not in my state, that is more of an appointment here.
I couldn't agree with the parent more.
With GameStop pulling in something $3 billion in'06 and $7.1 billion in '07, it makes more sense to go after them than chase the potential revenue lost to piracy.
I don't have any numbers, but I can't help but wonder who spends more in health care, the healthy or unhealthy?
The unhealthy often don't go in for checkups or spend money on preventative medication. So who ends up spending more money? The relatively healthy person who goes in for regular checkups (dental, physical) and is given a steady diet of preventative drugs or the obese smoker who doesn't go to the doctor until 6 months before he dies (and spends a mint on heart-bypass/chemo).
Of course this is accounting that both parties are privately insured, but I can't help but wonder.
The reset on coins every "year" really sucks out any enthusiasm I'd have for this. Not sure if it is fear of the resale market (register games I'd paid $10 for instead of $60) or simply another inducement for kids to buy the next copy of Pokemon garnet-spiral ham, but as a long time consumer of the Big N's products this comes off as kind of dickish.
Today, there's a paradigm shift: You touch the screen instead. The computing world hasn't caught up to the banking, grocery, and casino markets quite yet, but that's about to change.
When the touch pads at the bank, grocery store and casino have the equivalent of a shift, ctrl and alt keys give me a ring. This isn't new tech, just rearrangements of old tech since it is now cheaper and easier to deal with due to expired patents, cheaper manufacturing and public acceptance.
Telling PC users that they are behind the times with touchscreens is like chiding aircraft manufacturers for not building wings out of teak wood and canvas.
Here's the thing. The economy ain't so hot (I gno, rite!) so how does it make sense to employ a relatively small number of people at a relatively high salary when that money (one BILLION dollars!) could go to some other project that could influence thousands more workers?
Easy, pull troops out of Iraq. Amazing, I just increased NASA's budget by well, well over 100 fold per year.
In other news where is the rival Jupiter delivery system that scientist and engineers were working on after-hours?
Books, CDs, movies... these are all forms of entertainment that lose a lot of their value once they've been viewed once.
I think the public library would argue you on that one.
I think the answer is armed kids in knock-off Versace.
I know it sounds arrogant, but in the age to automobiles you aren't going to have has many injuries in a buggy whip factory.
There is also something else. The reporter whose stories are going up on the paper's website is going to have a greater range of stories because printing is expensive and database storage is cheap. More stories lead to less stringent editing ("its just going up on the website") and it leads to more trouble.
Remember that vaccine for crack addition? Well just get rid of the number of people who need a quick buck for a quick fix.
Just pulling it out of the air, but what about medical textbooks where they wouldn't normally be available or affordable? You may be violating the author's copyright, but you could also use it to save lives.