Given the disproportionately high amount of power that corporations have, I wouldn't be surprised if the oil companies succeed in putting the brakes on research funding for alternative fuels. No the govt isn't going to haul you away for building a solar car, but Exxon can get quite a bit of funding shifted from, say, solar cell development to alaskan oil exploration with a bit of funding (and yelling "terrorist" a few times)
The point is not to get *a* manual transmission car, but the specific car you want. And that is a lot harder with a manual than automatic if you're in the US. Thats the point I was making.
Fortunately there are enough die-hard manual transmission fans out there that most manufacturers at least still offer a manual option.
If you are silly enough to be driving an automatic
If you're in the US you may not have a choice. If you're looking for a used car, you'll have almost no choice. Even when I bought my Honda Civic new, I had to go to practically every dealer on long island before I found one that had a manual in the color/configuration I wanted. And Civics are relatively low-end cars with high volumes where the dealers can afford to keep a large inventory. It must be even harder if you're looking for a less popular model.
It doesn't necessarily have to be a bigger boom. Its hard to make a nuke smaller than a kiloton or so. Maybe you could use a few micrograms of the stuff and have a missile that is small enough that you can carry thousands of it in a plane instead of 5 or 10 but still produce an explosion just as large.
Kerry said something along the lines of "what we decide to do has to pass the 'global test,'" which I thought is indeed very true. As soon as he said that, Bush got pissed.
I wish Kerry had said "Universal Test" instead.... it would have been fun to see Bush harping to uncomprehending audiences about how Kerry wants to give control american self-defense to aliens
I'm not saying everything the RIAA produces is high quality, nor am I saying that every piece of high-quality music was made with RIAA backing. You may not like Avril Lavigne, but there are millions of people out there that do. Why do you assume that your taste is somehow more "correct" than theirs?
The Internet doesn't make anything irrelevant. You write and article and put it on your website. How many people are going to see it. Get the same thing posted on CNN.com. See the difference?
Just because some things are taken to an extreme right now doesn't mean we need to take things to the other extreme and abolish them altogether. Just because some advertisers get awfully intrusive doesn't mean all advertising should be abolished. Just because the RIAA and MPAA overstep their bounds doesn't mean that the whole recodring/motion picture industry needs to be nixed. All it means is that their wings need to be clipped a little.
Except that there's a lot of evidence that the earth is getting warmer, and elementary physics tells you what will happen if huge blocks of permanent ice that are close to 0degC start the warm up by a few degrees.
Your "preventing ice age" theory is something you just made up, with little or no scientific corroboration.
How many artists would be able to afford to produce quality music without the recording industries willing to take the plunge and invest in them based on a tape of an amateur recording? It might be a good way for a weekend band to make a few extra bucks, but someone who wants to make a career in music would have a much harder time.
The same goes for getting their music played on the radio and stuff... small artists would be at a great disadvantage when it comes to negotiating contracts and stuff without a label's backing.
Sure, we don't need an überpowerful, evil RIAA, but some kind of recording industry still has a place.
Neither Windows, Linux nor MacOS are designed for that level of reliablity. Other people have reported that it says so right there in XPs EULA (I don't have Windoze, so can't check)
Only a fool would say otherwise, and whatever else you may say, Bill Gates is no fool.
I don't see your point... what he said is completely reasonable IMHO. If you publish online and someone cracks your protection you get some sales and some piracy online. On the other hand if you don't publish online all online copies are piarated. Therefore, as he points out its better to take the risk and publish online.
You guys are all still using >64k of RAM right? I think that is quite a safe assumption. Not too many PCs ship with 32kb of RAM these days. Heck many pocket calculators probably have >64k RAM.
The earth will be fine. Comet strikes earth, we are history, and a few million years of erosion later all that would have changed is some little circular ridge that the next sentient species will only be able to detect once they invent satellites.
The earth per se couldn't care less what we do... but it may change enough to make it uninhabitable for us and we have a vested interest in preventing that from happening.
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Honestly, I strongly doubt that anyone who knows that much would really want to go out of their way to run IE rather than Firefox.
I didn't know that. Maybe I'm just biased agains the oil companies then :)
Given the disproportionately high amount of power that corporations have, I wouldn't be surprised if the oil companies succeed in putting the brakes on research funding for alternative fuels. No the govt isn't going to haul you away for building a solar car, but Exxon can get quite a bit of funding shifted from, say, solar cell development to alaskan oil exploration with a bit of funding (and yelling "terrorist" a few times)
Wow looks like the Republicans are getting all the mod points today!
Its actually TO/GA... Takeoff/Go Around
The point is not to get *a* manual transmission car, but the specific car you want. And that is a lot harder with a manual than automatic if you're in the US. Thats the point I was making.
Fortunately there are enough die-hard manual transmission fans out there that most manufacturers at least still offer a manual option.
Its because most people won't even bother mentioning it if its automatic. Drop the keyword and you get 246 results.
If you are silly enough to be driving an automatic
If you're in the US you may not have a choice. If you're looking for a used car, you'll have almost no choice. Even when I bought my Honda Civic new, I had to go to practically every dealer on long island before I found one that had a manual in the color/configuration I wanted. And Civics are relatively low-end cars with high volumes where the dealers can afford to keep a large inventory. It must be even harder if you're looking for a less popular model.
He did say market clout not a small, but vocal group of followers :)
It doesn't necessarily have to be a bigger boom. Its hard to make a nuke smaller than a kiloton or so. Maybe you could use a few micrograms of the stuff and have a missile that is small enough that you can carry thousands of it in a plane instead of 5 or 10 but still produce an explosion just as large.
Or maybe you're being to negative? Why don't you look at it as Paul Allen's attonement for his sins instead?
Kerry said something along the lines of "what we decide to do has to pass the 'global test,'" which I thought is indeed very true. As soon as he said that, Bush got pissed.
I wish Kerry had said "Universal Test" instead.... it would have been fun to see Bush harping to uncomprehending audiences about how Kerry wants to give control american self-defense to aliens
You need to stare at it for a bit for it to work... a casual glance won't do it. Now maybe if it was on the front of a girl's tshirt...
:) Guy stares... 5 seconds later... epileptic seisure!
Actually that might be a good protection for girls that don't like guys staring at their chests
Hopefully soon a judge and the judges above them will get a clue
That isn't their job. Unless you meant they quit the bench and run for congress.
I'm not saying everything the RIAA produces is high quality, nor am I saying that every piece of high-quality music was made with RIAA backing. You may not like Avril Lavigne, but there are millions of people out there that do. Why do you assume that your taste is somehow more "correct" than theirs?
The Internet doesn't make anything irrelevant. You write and article and put it on your website. How many people are going to see it. Get the same thing posted on CNN.com. See the difference?
Just because some things are taken to an extreme right now doesn't mean we need to take things to the other extreme and abolish them altogether. Just because some advertisers get awfully intrusive doesn't mean all advertising should be abolished. Just because the RIAA and MPAA overstep their bounds doesn't mean that the whole recodring/motion picture industry needs to be nixed. All it means is that their wings need to be clipped a little.
Except that there's a lot of evidence that the earth is getting warmer, and elementary physics tells you what will happen if huge blocks of permanent ice that are close to 0degC start the warm up by a few degrees.
Your "preventing ice age" theory is something you just made up, with little or no scientific corroboration.
How many artists would be able to afford to produce quality music without the recording industries willing to take the plunge and invest in them based on a tape of an amateur recording? It might be a good way for a weekend band to make a few extra bucks, but someone who wants to make a career in music would have a much harder time.
The same goes for getting their music played on the radio and stuff... small artists would be at a great disadvantage when it comes to negotiating contracts and stuff without a label's backing.
Sure, we don't need an überpowerful, evil RIAA, but some kind of recording industry still has a place.
You meant you meant 640k right?
building up the OS to do everything short of singing and dancing for you
True. You have to install not just the OS, but MS Office to get clippy.
Neither Windows, Linux nor MacOS are designed for that level of reliablity. Other people have reported that it says so right there in XPs EULA (I don't have Windoze, so can't check)
Only a fool would say otherwise, and whatever else you may say, Bill Gates is no fool.
I don't see your point... what he said is completely reasonable IMHO. If you publish online and someone cracks your protection you get some sales and some piracy online. On the other hand if you don't publish online all online copies are piarated. Therefore, as he points out its better to take the risk and publish online.
You guys are all still using >64k of RAM right?
I think that is quite a safe assumption. Not too many PCs ship with 32kb of RAM these days. Heck many pocket calculators probably have >64k RAM.
We'd be using FreeBSD instead. Nothing catastrophic
The earth will be fine. Comet strikes earth, we are history, and a few million years of erosion later all that would have changed is some little circular ridge that the next sentient species will only be able to detect once they invent satellites.
The earth per se couldn't care less what we do... but it may change enough to make it uninhabitable for us and we have a vested interest in preventing that from happening.
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