Shut up, TROLL. Get over gay being a bad thing. It is only because of something Joan Rivers said in recent years I discovered my sexuality. Maybe you should take time to reflect on yours and learn you aren't exactly straight either and then won't joke about such things.
Exactly this. If you like the environment, vote for things like this. Take down things like dikes and dames and allow Nature to return to itself. Humans can be redisplaced from rural places where they are tearing up the enivronment and moved back into cities where they belong and can be managed. Earth gets to heal Herself and people become less of a plague on Earth. In the long run concentrations of populations is a good thing for efficiency of people, management of people (no one is X miles away from an administrative body), and biodiversity can regain its roots (no pun intended) throughout the rest of the lands and waters.
Sleep is one of my favorite things to do. My wife thinks I'm crazy because I always insist on a very expensive mattress and sheets and stuff. Duvet covers, stuff like that. But man, when I hit her rack at night, I sleep like a little baby boy. Still wake up with a boner, even at my advanced age.
Seriously, listen up you younger Slashdotters: Do not neglect your sleep. Sleep long enough to get dreams, because dreams, even nightmares, are really good for you. In fact, I've noticed that when I have one of those nightmares where you jump straight off the bed gasping, I go on to have a really good day. I don't know about the science of all that, but you want dreams. Unfortunately, the dreams you want seem to come at the end of your sleep, but you have to have had a long enough uninterrupted sleep.
The law is written by politicians and it's backed by force. Just because you don't think it's right doesn't mean squat. Run afoul of it and you will likely be sanctioned, especially when money is at stake and your opponents have deep pockets. Aaron Swartz realized this too late, when the law credibly threatened to put him in jail for decades, and he decided end his existence on his own terms instead.
Until you can convince a politician that you can personally benefit him, those that can (lobbyists - professional persuaders), and those that can bring money and votes to his benefit, he's not going to pay you a lick of attention. And seriously, how many outside of the academic community care about this? A handful of angry post-baccalaureates sure isn't going to persuade any pol to switch sides.
It's absurd that taxpayer funded research, done ostensibly for the advancement of society, is not available publicly. But it's the law. And until you can change the law, you're pissing into the dark. And somewhere in the dark is an electrified fence.
Try and change the law. But follow it until you can change it, cause brother, it got teeth. And it don't care what you think of it.
The only people making it an Apple vs. Samsung competition are the Apple advocates. For everybody else, the smartphone business is a whole bunch of suppliers, and weird Apple off in their own headgame.
It's the same deal as the historical PC clone era. If you hung out in the Apple 'scene' you carried on about "Mac vs. IBM". For everybody else, it was a matter of chosing a system from almost any other PC maker running DOS and/or Windows. Again, Apple off being weird off in their own corner.
Part of the cult-marketing at Apple seems to involve choosing an over-the-top expensive brand to pusture against. In the PC clone era, IBM made obscenely expensive boxes- a 'real' PC/XT or AT cost thousands- we all bought beige box clones usually at half the cost. So for Apple fans* it was always 'Mac vs. IBM' even years after IBM has for the most part left the PC market.
Apple can't compete against a broad and open market. They always narrow the comparison to themselves and the most expensive choice 'The Rest of Us' could choose.
[*One of the ways to identify the really old and really weird Apple enthusiasts is if they still call non-Mac hardware 'IBM'. You're seeing one of the deep cult members. The people who used to rant and rave about 'resource forks' in the filesystem. I remember Macheads who would ridicule ethernet and call TCP/IP dead old technology. I remember Mac people back in the mid 90's who thought that Linux/Unix was dead technology because it wasn't Apples. The weird arcanery of the Apple cult isn't anything new. ]
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It is a blog post hosted on economist.com that did not appear particularly coherent to me.
Shut up. How about YOU do something like write a new blog post that is "coherent" and submit it along with your pHd in economics.
Shut up, TROLL. Get over gay being a bad thing. It is only because of something Joan Rivers said in recent years I discovered my sexuality. Maybe you should take time to reflect on yours and learn you aren't exactly straight either and then won't joke about such things.
And to add to this, whenever the People In Power get elected, they get control of the media.
Russiagate? Just look at how Donald TRUMP buried this terrible travesty against America!
Exactly this. If you like the environment, vote for things like this. Take down things like dikes and dames and allow Nature to return to itself. Humans can be redisplaced from rural places where they are tearing up the enivronment and moved back into cities where they belong and can be managed. Earth gets to heal Herself and people become less of a plague on Earth. In the long run concentrations of populations is a good thing for efficiency of people, management of people (no one is X miles away from an administrative body), and biodiversity can regain its roots (no pun intended) throughout the rest of the lands and waters.
-=Beau=-
Sleep is one of my favorite things to do. My wife thinks I'm crazy because I always insist on a very expensive mattress and sheets and stuff. Duvet covers, stuff like that. But man, when I hit her rack at night, I sleep like a little baby boy. Still wake up with a boner, even at my advanced age.
Seriously, listen up you younger Slashdotters: Do not neglect your sleep. Sleep long enough to get dreams, because dreams, even nightmares, are really good for you. In fact, I've noticed that when I have one of those nightmares where you jump straight off the bed gasping, I go on to have a really good day. I don't know about the science of all that, but you want dreams. Unfortunately, the dreams you want seem to come at the end of your sleep, but you have to have had a long enough uninterrupted sleep.
Go to bed a little early tonight and enjoy.
The law is written by politicians and it's backed by force. Just because you don't think it's right doesn't mean squat. Run afoul of it and you will likely be sanctioned, especially when money is at stake and your opponents have deep pockets. Aaron Swartz realized this too late, when the law credibly threatened to put him in jail for decades, and he decided end his existence on his own terms instead.
Until you can convince a politician that you can personally benefit him, those that can (lobbyists - professional persuaders), and those that can bring money and votes to his benefit, he's not going to pay you a lick of attention. And seriously, how many outside of the academic community care about this? A handful of angry post-baccalaureates sure isn't going to persuade any pol to switch sides.
It's absurd that taxpayer funded research, done ostensibly for the advancement of society, is not available publicly. But it's the law. And until you can change the law, you're pissing into the dark. And somewhere in the dark is an electrified fence.
Try and change the law. But follow it until you can change it, cause brother, it got teeth. And it don't care what you think of it.
The only people making it an Apple vs. Samsung competition are the Apple advocates. For everybody else, the smartphone business is a whole bunch of suppliers, and weird Apple off in their own headgame.
It's the same deal as the historical PC clone era. If you hung out in the Apple 'scene' you carried on about "Mac vs. IBM". For everybody else, it was a matter of chosing a system from almost any other PC maker running DOS and/or Windows. Again, Apple off being weird off in their own corner.
Part of the cult-marketing at Apple seems to involve choosing an over-the-top expensive brand to pusture against. In the PC clone era, IBM made obscenely expensive boxes- a 'real' PC/XT or AT cost thousands- we all bought beige box clones usually at half the cost. So for Apple fans* it was always 'Mac vs. IBM' even years after IBM has for the most part left the PC market.
Apple can't compete against a broad and open market. They always narrow the comparison to themselves and the most expensive choice 'The Rest of Us' could choose.
[*One of the ways to identify the really old and really weird Apple enthusiasts is if they still call non-Mac hardware 'IBM'. You're seeing one of the deep cult members. The people who used to rant and rave about 'resource forks' in the filesystem. I remember Macheads who would ridicule ethernet and call TCP/IP dead old technology. I remember Mac people back in the mid 90's who thought that Linux/Unix was dead technology because it wasn't Apples. The weird arcanery of the Apple cult isn't anything new. ]