The USSR was doing this 30+ years ago. They collapsed 13 years ago (1991). Total span of 17+ years.
The U.S started doing this 20 years ago. We only found out now. So, by the USSR model, it should be collapsing anytime now. Now take a look around and ask yourself, "Is this the America I grew up reading about?"
Flash back a few thousand years, or maybe even one. Here we had a bunch of sailing vessels, with no real purpose other than exploration, naval defense, and the shipping of goods. Most goods shipped had a high profit density (and therefore not available to the masses) due to the risks and relatively small size of the ships used. On the face of it, these ships only helped the relatively wealthy. But they did increase the wealth of nations, the trasmission of ideas, and provide work for some segment of the unwashed masses, which improved the welfare of society as a whole. And although trickle-down theories don't work well in economics, they do in technology. for example, it's hard to find a house without indoor plumbing, and the sanitation improvements that entails, in most industrialized countries.
And back to ships. Now that they've been around for so long, they've connected the world's markets, and allowed food to be shipped to where the people are, further increasing the quality of life and helping mankind (which still hasn't improved mankind's nature, nor is it likely to). But not bad for a thing whose biggest initial contribution was war medals and scurvey.
I disagree with you, and agree more with the grandparent's post. Even Windows has setup options, just not necessarily everything I would want. I can choose to not install Address Book (no ice in my drink, thanks), but I'm stuck with IE (sorry, bacon is pre-mixed with our caesar salad). And of course, at home, I can do anything I want, once I get the ingredients.
It's very much like a restaurant vs. kitchen. Like many analogies, it's not perfect. Restaurants don't force you to eat something, while Windows clearly forces you to use IE (without real work). Maybe that way it's like eating at home vs. eating at your old-world aunt's place. You know she'll stand over your shoulder and tell you to eat your veggies.
Although MSN is part of Microsoft, it acts much more like a seperate company, another example of this is MSN Messenger vs. Windows Messenger.
And what a clusterfuck that turned out to be. Here you have two clients, with different capabilities (MSN has logging, Win has Remote Assistance), running over one network, and requiring that you only be logged into one client at a time. And if that wasn't enough, their default behaviour has them fighting to see which one will log in last (and kick the other client off). It would be funny if it wasn't so frustrating, watching two apps that are supposed to do the same thing fight it out for your network access.
And yes, I know MSN Messenger is supposed to have remote assistance, but if you've ever used it, the first thing it seems to do is log you out of MSN and start Win. And when you're finished with RA, you're left in Win Messenger, since that's clearly where you wanted to be in the first place.
Microsoft. Where do you want to go today? Well, let us tell you.
You make the assumption that the next leader will be better than Saddam. Given that the U.S. endorsed and supported him, and has done so poorly in so many other countries, that would be a poor assumption. Hopefully for their sake, the new leader is better.
So skipping something you've seen is hardly costing anyone money.
You've clearly underestimated the power of repitition. You've clearly underestimated the power of repitition. YOU'VE CLEARLY UNDERESTIMATED THE POWER OF REPITITION!
Sure, it may not work on everyone, but it works on a lot of people. It's just like memorization, but they want us to remember that truck, not someone else's.
But they're still talking about the stations being a mile apart. Which means an average of a one-mile hike and a max of a two mile hike if your starting location and destination are exactly between stations.
Nope. If the stations were all exactly a mile apart, the farthest I could ever be from a station is half a mile (exactly between two stations). This is true for any two points, so the maximum hike would be 1 mile, and the average would be half a mile (assuming no intelligent placement could be found to reduce the average walk).
And I think even my lazy ass can cope with having to walk half a mile per trip.
It's worth noting that your teeth get their strength from the same technique. Short story, your teeth are made from the same material as bone, but it's woven, leaving them stronger than bones.
I heard someone on/. say once that true security is based on three things: Something you have (smartcard, etc.), something you know (password, etc.), and something you are (biometrics, DNA, etc.). I think the separation of have and are, as listed in your post, is significant.
Or perhaps evolution took so sharp a turn that even the female dinosaurs looked like male dinosaurs, and given dinosaurs didn't know how to make beer, they just stopped mating and invented violent sports, like rugby. Baseball wasn't a consideration, again due to the lack of beer.
Clearly, this occurred before the stargate was built. After all, with the exception of the pyramids (which the aliens built, duh), nothing interesting was happening here, and the one thing that topped off having an infinitely regenerative host body was the opportunity to vicariously experience the pleasure of sweet, sweet honey.
Assuming, of course, that O'Neil is played by Kurt Russel, and not Richard Dean Anderson, otherwise those aliens would have had far more interesting things to do than bee husbandry.
In Canada, we have two (yes, it's bigger than one) lists. One is who voted, where I'm marked off of a registered voter list, or which I'm added to (by swearing an oath or presenting ID or both, not sure, I registered first) and then marked off. The other is the ballot. The two don't ever meet. All they know for sure is that my vote is one of the hundreds (or maybe higher) included with a particular station.
It would be difficult to buy a vote when you'd have to buy out an entire station to be sure people were voting the way you wanted (especially without being caught), and if you try to vote multiple times, your name will show up more than once on different polling station lists, which seems like a good way to get arrested. And yes, multiple ID's is the biggest risk of fraud at the polling booth. Vote tampering after the fact is next, but has a number of risk-reducing elements that I won't bother covering again (see previous paragraph).
So, there you have it, a simple set of paper lists, giving you privacy and a deterrent to fraud, used for a century or more in one place or another, which meets somewhere on the balance of your criteria.
I personally would refuse to vote on a machine that registered who I was first. If I was registered on a separate machine, that I could verify was not interconnected, that would be fine. And if I couldn't verify my vote in some manner that could also be verified by a third party, then I would correctly feel that my voting system was broken. Having the machine tell you what the totals are, twice, doesn't look like a recount to me.
why the hell are they asking for money to see a teaser? that will get the word out for sure
Who said they're trying to get the word out? George had a meeting with his market droids and they came to the conclusion they could make just as much money if they charged people to see 5 minutes as they would if they waited for it to come out in theatres.
Easy answer: Monsanto is worse. Drug cartels don't try to bury their shit in everything I eat, and lobby to keep that knowledge from me. And they'll both send you to oblivion if you fuck with them.
Not saying I'm against GMO, but I believe in free choice, and if I want to be paranoid and not ingest GMOs, that should be my right.
While he may still want to buy the clients rather than the CAL (don't know if the license counts if you don't install the OS), that won't solve his hardware requirements/restrictions. I can't imagine that WinXP will run on a P133 with 32MB RAM, or that I would survive the experience (heh, punny).
Unlike you, I hold the officers as responsible as the politicians who voted for the PATRIOT Act. If people fight bad laws every step of the way (from legislators, to "law-abiding" citizens, to police, to judges), they will fall. The officers in question might say, "Well, if I do that, I'll lose my job," that is a consideration, but at least realize what you're selling out for.
It inspires hope to see a committee that had greater collective intelligence than even the most stupid person, which I'm not saying the grandparent is. It boggles the mind to think that any individuals who signed that document were wealthy, aristocracy, or politicians. Hopefully, one day, modern politicians will realize that, just like embassies, this applies to military bases, as well.
I don't consider any task that warns that doing it incorrectly may require me to reinstall my system to be easy. Note that of all the options listed, only one (local security of Active Directory for WinXP and later) can be done through a dialog. Neither easy, nor clean, although it's not something I haven't done before. Granted, modifying many Linux settings is no easier.
Yes, but have you seen cephalopod males? I doubt the females are putting out more, unless they have bad eyesight, and we've already determined that's not the case.
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The USSR was doing this 30+ years ago. They collapsed 13 years ago (1991). Total span of 17+ years.
The U.S started doing this 20 years ago. We only found out now. So, by the USSR model, it should be collapsing anytime now. Now take a look around and ask yourself, "Is this the America I grew up reading about?"
Google is your friend. Apparently, some negative side effects, but not to the degree of asbestos.
Flash back a few thousand years, or maybe even one. Here we had a bunch of sailing vessels, with no real purpose other than exploration, naval defense, and the shipping of goods. Most goods shipped had a high profit density (and therefore not available to the masses) due to the risks and relatively small size of the ships used. On the face of it, these ships only helped the relatively wealthy. But they did increase the wealth of nations, the trasmission of ideas, and provide work for some segment of the unwashed masses, which improved the welfare of society as a whole. And although trickle-down theories don't work well in economics, they do in technology. for example, it's hard to find a house without indoor plumbing, and the sanitation improvements that entails, in most industrialized countries.
And back to ships. Now that they've been around for so long, they've connected the world's markets, and allowed food to be shipped to where the people are, further increasing the quality of life and helping mankind (which still hasn't improved mankind's nature, nor is it likely to). But not bad for a thing whose biggest initial contribution was war medals and scurvey.
Yeah, but what if it's electrified?
I disagree with you, and agree more with the grandparent's post. Even Windows has setup options, just not necessarily everything I would want. I can choose to not install Address Book (no ice in my drink, thanks), but I'm stuck with IE (sorry, bacon is pre-mixed with our caesar salad). And of course, at home, I can do anything I want, once I get the ingredients.
It's very much like a restaurant vs. kitchen. Like many analogies, it's not perfect. Restaurants don't force you to eat something, while Windows clearly forces you to use IE (without real work). Maybe that way it's like eating at home vs. eating at your old-world aunt's place. You know she'll stand over your shoulder and tell you to eat your veggies.
Although MSN is part of Microsoft, it acts much more like a seperate company, another example of this is MSN Messenger vs. Windows Messenger.
And what a clusterfuck that turned out to be. Here you have two clients, with different capabilities (MSN has logging, Win has Remote Assistance), running over one network, and requiring that you only be logged into one client at a time. And if that wasn't enough, their default behaviour has them fighting to see which one will log in last (and kick the other client off). It would be funny if it wasn't so frustrating, watching two apps that are supposed to do the same thing fight it out for your network access.
And yes, I know MSN Messenger is supposed to have remote assistance, but if you've ever used it, the first thing it seems to do is log you out of MSN and start Win. And when you're finished with RA, you're left in Win Messenger, since that's clearly where you wanted to be in the first place.
Microsoft. Where do you want to go today? Well, let us tell you.
You make the assumption that the next leader will be better than Saddam. Given that the U.S. endorsed and supported him, and has done so poorly in so many other countries, that would be a poor assumption. Hopefully for their sake, the new leader is better.
So skipping something you've seen is hardly costing anyone money.
You've clearly underestimated the power of repitition.
You've clearly underestimated the power of repitition.
YOU'VE CLEARLY UNDERESTIMATED THE POWER OF REPITITION!
Sure, it may not work on everyone, but it works on a lot of people. It's just like memorization, but they want us to remember that truck, not someone else's.
But they're still talking about the stations being a mile apart. Which means an average of a one-mile hike and a max of a two mile hike if your starting location and destination are exactly between stations.
Nope. If the stations were all exactly a mile apart, the farthest I could ever be from a station is half a mile (exactly between two stations). This is true for any two points, so the maximum hike would be 1 mile, and the average would be half a mile (assuming no intelligent placement could be found to reduce the average walk).
And I think even my lazy ass can cope with having to walk half a mile per trip.
Yes, home fashion pundits are claiming that the new living room furniture (in the U.S., anyway) will be procelain and include plumbing.
It's worth noting that your teeth get their strength from the same technique. Short story, your teeth are made from the same material as bone, but it's woven, leaving them stronger than bones.
I heard someone on /. say once that true security is based on three things: Something you have (smartcard, etc.), something you know (password, etc.), and something you are (biometrics, DNA, etc.). I think the separation of have and are, as listed in your post, is significant.
Day 1: Our web browser doesn't have tabbed browsing, our users don't want tabbed browsing, and we won't add tabbed browsing.
Day 1+n: Our web browser always had tabbed browsing, our users always wanted tabbed browsing, and we will always have tabbed browsing.
This is known as propaganda, folks. Those who recognize it take it for what it is, and the sheep accept it as gospel.
(Ironically, submitted from an IE browser.)
Or perhaps evolution took so sharp a turn that even the female dinosaurs looked like male dinosaurs, and given dinosaurs didn't know how to make beer, they just stopped mating and invented violent sports, like rugby. Baseball wasn't a consideration, again due to the lack of beer.
Clearly, this occurred before the stargate was built. After all, with the exception of the pyramids (which the aliens built, duh), nothing interesting was happening here, and the one thing that topped off having an infinitely regenerative host body was the opportunity to vicariously experience the pleasure of sweet, sweet honey.
Assuming, of course, that O'Neil is played by Kurt Russel, and not Richard Dean Anderson, otherwise those aliens would have had far more interesting things to do than bee husbandry.
Wow, that's more delusional than normal...
In Canada, we have two (yes, it's bigger than one) lists. One is who voted, where I'm marked off of a registered voter list, or which I'm added to (by swearing an oath or presenting ID or both, not sure, I registered first) and then marked off. The other is the ballot. The two don't ever meet. All they know for sure is that my vote is one of the hundreds (or maybe higher) included with a particular station.
It would be difficult to buy a vote when you'd have to buy out an entire station to be sure people were voting the way you wanted (especially without being caught), and if you try to vote multiple times, your name will show up more than once on different polling station lists, which seems like a good way to get arrested. And yes, multiple ID's is the biggest risk of fraud at the polling booth. Vote tampering after the fact is next, but has a number of risk-reducing elements that I won't bother covering again (see previous paragraph).
So, there you have it, a simple set of paper lists, giving you privacy and a deterrent to fraud, used for a century or more in one place or another, which meets somewhere on the balance of your criteria.
I personally would refuse to vote on a machine that registered who I was first. If I was registered on a separate machine, that I could verify was not interconnected, that would be fine. And if I couldn't verify my vote in some manner that could also be verified by a third party, then I would correctly feel that my voting system was broken. Having the machine tell you what the totals are, twice, doesn't look like a recount to me.
Wow, Amazon must have the Bush Administration's official dictionary. They are using the same definition of defense!
Given the chronology, I suspect Bush bought his official dictionary from Amazon.
why the hell are they asking for money to see a teaser? that will get the word out for sure
Who said they're trying to get the word out? George had a meeting with his market droids and they came to the conclusion they could make just as much money if they charged people to see 5 minutes as they would if they waited for it to come out in theatres.
Easy answer: Monsanto is worse. Drug cartels don't try to bury their shit in everything I eat, and lobby to keep that knowledge from me. And they'll both send you to oblivion if you fuck with them.
Not saying I'm against GMO, but I believe in free choice, and if I want to be paranoid and not ingest GMOs, that should be my right.
While he may still want to buy the clients rather than the CAL (don't know if the license counts if you don't install the OS), that won't solve his hardware requirements/restrictions. I can't imagine that WinXP will run on a P133 with 32MB RAM, or that I would survive the experience (heh, punny).
Unlike you, I hold the officers as responsible as the politicians who voted for the PATRIOT Act. If people fight bad laws every step of the way (from legislators, to "law-abiding" citizens, to police, to judges), they will fall. The officers in question might say, "Well, if I do that, I'll lose my job," that is a consideration, but at least realize what you're selling out for.
It inspires hope to see a committee that had greater collective intelligence than even the most stupid person, which I'm not saying the grandparent is. It boggles the mind to think that any individuals who signed that document were wealthy, aristocracy, or politicians. Hopefully, one day, modern politicians will realize that, just like embassies, this applies to military bases, as well.
I don't consider any task that warns that doing it incorrectly may require me to reinstall my system to be easy. Note that of all the options listed, only one (local security of Active Directory for WinXP and later) can be done through a dialog. Neither easy, nor clean, although it's not something I haven't done before. Granted, modifying many Linux settings is no easier.
Yes, but have you seen cephalopod males? I doubt the females are putting out more, unless they have bad eyesight, and we've already determined that's not the case.
After all, George W Bush is 57, and he's still trying to learn English.
Pretty much kiboshes the "brain still empty" theory, too.