This is funny, why look at what you have in terms of wht the next guy has?
Everybody in the world does. And practically, if "the other guy" makes a lot more, the cost of living -- housing, food, education, transport, etc -- will reflect that, leaving you to "be happy" living a subsistence lifestyle, no hope of retirement, and going to an early grave because you can't afford healthcare.
Communism doesn't fail horribly in practice. It's being successfully used by a large portion of the human race even as we speak.
I guess you're talking about China, as that's the only "large portion" of humanity that professes to be communist. However, since about 1983, China has been communist in name only. It's capitalism all the way now. Just one example: the emergency departments at many Chinese hospitals won't admit patients without a guarantee of payment, and preferably a cash advance.
The guys on the factor floor make peanuts because they are easily replaced, not because anyone is exploiting them.
Alternatively, I would say the guys on the factor floor are exploited because they are easily replaced. In fact, this is the usual mechanism of exploitation since actual slavery was outlawed.
Generally speaking, people are paid exactly what they're worth (by definition)
By definition of some social Darwinists, perhaps. In a job I had a few years ago I wasn't paid at all for some months. The boss knew I needed the job, so he thought he could get away with paying me late, and late got later every month. Finally I secured another job, and so I could quit and take him to court. Others are less fortunate and are exploited even more. Don't expect market forces to pay anyone what they're worth. Look at the other end where CEOs get multi-millions while they drive companies into bankruptcy. There's a lot more than the actual value your work creates going on, which is why sucking up to your boss produces better results than spending the same effort at being productive in many situations.
Maybe they should be worried about these new fangled photocopier thingymajigs.
To be fair, TFA talked about people scanning magazines in bookshops without buying the magazines. This sounds a rather unlikely scenario to me, but it is theoretically possible. People can already just spend a few minutes reading the story at the shop for that matter, and shops can bag or otherwise seal magazines if it is really a problem.
This isn't new; I've seen James Bond copy pages by photographing them with one of those tiny cameras. This is only different in that it's digital, and built into a cellphone
Those differences are prety significant
this would be a part of a cellphone, not an expensive spy camera,
the software corrects for distortion and stitches together 20 or so images to make a whole page,
don't see how it has any bearing on the theory of panspermia.
It doesn't. According to TFA:
Comets have played a relatively minor role in inner solar system impacts, Strom, Malhotra and Kring also conclude from their work. Contrary to popular belief, probably no more than 10 percent of Earth's water has come from comets, Strom said.
10% of Earth's water is a FUCK of a lot of water (137 million km3); and in that you only need one living cell to colonise the whole planet in a very short time geologically. It seems the submitter either had an agenda, or thought he had to sex up the story to have it posted; sadly the Slashdot editors went along for the ride and even quote irrelevant TV science into the bargain. Since Slashdot earns money by the hit, any pretext to stir up yet another Creationism flame war is good business.
(we use as much oil as you can pump out of the ground,
Not true, Saudi Arabia could pump rather more (a big percentage, but I can't recall) more than it usually does, but it limits its output to stabilise prices.
As usual Slashdot prints the bogus sensationalist version. The whole "cat" angle was made up by a reporter.
Bild on Tuesday wrote a headline: "German inventor can turn cats into fuel -- for a tank he needs 20 pussies." The paper on Wednesday followed up with a story entitled: "Can you really make fuel out of cats?"
A spokesman for Bild told Reuters the story was meant to show that cat remains could "in theory" be used to make fuel with Koch's patented method.
The author of the story said Koch had never told him directly that he had used dead cats as the story implied.
This is exactly what is wrong in (Dutch) politics these days. When a problem rises, and the existing institutions fail.. a new system is invented, which will probably fail also.
Not just Dutch. Former NY Mayor Giuliani wrote about this in his book. The NY child protection bureaucracies would have a scandal every few years when an obviously at-risk child was ignored until it was too late. The response was always to create a new organisation with a different name. But the system and most of the people were the same.
imagine that theres a paid hitman that is coming to get you... he could have lots of difficulties questioning people to find out where you live who your grandparents are, where did you last time cross the border etc. now we are saving his time by making it available to him with 1 sql query...
Yes, thank God they didn't have this in LA in 1984, the Terminator could have killed the right Sarah Connor and we'd all be fucked.
There might develop a movement to make the language fit the technology. If it doesn't, then the message will be ignored.
Actually, quite a lot of typographic distinctions have been lost since the use of keyboards (starting with typewriters) became the usual way to produce text. For instance, the decimal point is not the same as a full stop (period for Americans), it should be raised to about half the height of a figure. The correct use and distinction between em and en dashes and hyphens is rare. Straight instead of typographic (left and right) quote marks are often used ("smart quote" functions try to change these to the correct ones from context, but often fail). Faux italics (slanted roman instead of distinct font) are often generated, causing teeth grinding with those who notice. There's more...
Brown was stupid. He shouldn't have allowed the machine to be accessed from the outside; he shouldn't have allowed it to be indexed by google! Possibly he wasn't aware of the risks but that is no excuse.
It wasn't Brown's computer, it belonged to the telescope.
also
Hackers Forced Announcement of 10th Planet Find
Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 02, @04:12AM
from the well-that-was-nice-of-them dept.
JCY2K writes "According to The Inquirer, hackers gained access to the secure server where the data about the new planet was being held and threatened to reveal it. Evidently the discoverers have been withholding this information from the public since 2003 while they waited for full analysis."
Following the links, one finds this is actually the same story, though now the "hackers" are named as the Spanish astronomers.
It sounds like you are making a lot of assumptions in that, "As these shows are 'old', they're probably not going to be reviewed at all again".
An assumption, based on my observation that none of the shows I'm interested in have any reviews (beyond the worthless one-liners people do now) at all in the several months since TV.com took over.
Let's take 24 for instance, that show started in 2001 (old enough for you?).
It's easy to find out stuff about big shows like 24; it's the less popular ones that TVtome was the only source of any critiques at all for that I miss.
No. They analyse the clicks by comparing them with English letter frequencies. So it doesn't matter what the key is marked as, it's what you're using it for that is recorded.
or every mb over 3mb, add another minute onto your print job. I've got faculty printing 300 page research papers in pdf format, yet only the first two pages will come out before the job dies.
Most of the PDF file size must be artwork, hundreds of pages of text can be in 1 MB of PDF. Look at the quality settings in Distiller, possibly set too high for office printing (use "print" rather than "press" default settings).
For me it is. I'm not in the US, and many of the US series are shown here a year or two later. So I could read the reviews and such about episodes immediately after watching. However, TV.com apparently didn't carry over these reviews, written by editors who knew the shows and added to the experience with their insights. As these shows are "old", they're probably not going to be reviewed at all again, and unlikely to be of the same quality; in any case they have none when I want to read them. Unfortunately, the Wayback Archive doesn't help, every time I try after I get a few pages in I get bounced to the new TV.com site with nothing but ads.
Plus there's a whole 'dismantling large-scale weapons permanently requires a few thousand dollars apiece and a guy with ten years of training' thing. Click-boom > 40 hours toa solid week of work.
So spend 40 manhours of hard work, or nuke it? A hard choice, I know what GWB would do. Anyway, this seems an unlikely scenario to me.
Slashdot Mirror
Everybody in the world does. And practically, if "the other guy" makes a lot more, the cost of living -- housing, food, education, transport, etc -- will reflect that, leaving you to "be happy" living a subsistence lifestyle, no hope of retirement, and going to an early grave because you can't afford healthcare.
I guess you're talking about China, as that's the only "large portion" of humanity that professes to be communist. However, since about 1983, China has been communist in name only. It's capitalism all the way now. Just one example: the emergency departments at many Chinese hospitals won't admit patients without a guarantee of payment, and preferably a cash advance.
Alternatively, I would say the guys on the factor floor are exploited because they are easily replaced. In fact, this is the usual mechanism of exploitation since actual slavery was outlawed.
By definition of some social Darwinists, perhaps. In a job I had a few years ago I wasn't paid at all for some months. The boss knew I needed the job, so he thought he could get away with paying me late, and late got later every month. Finally I secured another job, and so I could quit and take him to court. Others are less fortunate and are exploited even more. Don't expect market forces to pay anyone what they're worth. Look at the other end where CEOs get multi-millions while they drive companies into bankruptcy. There's a lot more than the actual value your work creates going on, which is why sucking up to your boss produces better results than spending the same effort at being productive in many situations.
To be fair, TFA talked about people scanning magazines in bookshops without buying the magazines. This sounds a rather unlikely scenario to me, but it is theoretically possible. People can already just spend a few minutes reading the story at the shop for that matter, and shops can bag or otherwise seal magazines if it is really a problem.
Those differences are prety significant
It doesn't. According to TFA:
10% of Earth's water is a FUCK of a lot of water (137 million km3); and in that you only need one living cell to colonise the whole planet in a very short time geologically. It seems the submitter either had an agenda, or thought he had to sex up the story to have it posted; sadly the Slashdot editors went along for the ride and even quote irrelevant TV science into the bargain. Since Slashdot earns money by the hit, any pretext to stir up yet another Creationism flame war is good business.Not true, Saudi Arabia could pump rather more (a big percentage, but I can't recall) more than it usually does, but it limits its output to stabilise prices.
I suppose an new innovation is better than an old one, speaking tautologically and repetitively again.
The whole fucking story is a troll, let alone the spelling.
Useless Use of Cat Award.
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... file
Useless Use of Cat Award form letter
(Quote abomination)
And of course, if you've been following along for a week or two, you know
that this (BING!) is a Useless Use of Cat!
Remember, nearly all cases where you have:
cat file | some_command and its args
you can rewrite it as:
<file some_command and its args
and in some cases, such as this one, you can move the filename
to the arglist as in:
some_command and its args
Just another Useless Use of Usenet
Next you'll be trying to tell us that The Matrix couldn't be powered by the body heat of pod humans.
Not just Dutch. Former NY Mayor Giuliani wrote about this in his book. The NY child protection bureaucracies would have a scandal every few years when an obviously at-risk child was ignored until it was too late. The response was always to create a new organisation with a different name. But the system and most of the people were the same.
Yes, thank God they didn't have this in LA in 1984, the Terminator could have killed the right Sarah Connor and we'd all be fucked.
Actually, quite a lot of typographic distinctions have been lost since the use of keyboards (starting with typewriters) became the usual way to produce text. For instance, the decimal point is not the same as a full stop (period for Americans), it should be raised to about half the height of a figure. The correct use and distinction between em and en dashes and hyphens is rare. Straight instead of typographic (left and right) quote marks are often used ("smart quote" functions try to change these to the correct ones from context, but often fail). Faux italics (slanted roman instead of distinct font) are often generated, causing teeth grinding with those who notice. There's more...
cell phones and instant messaging mediums
note: plural of medium is media.
It wasn't Brown's computer, it belonged to the telescope.
They were working together, in the sense that both groups were searching at the same time.
Why does it take so long to announce these discoveries?
also Hackers Forced Announcement of 10th Planet Find
Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 02, @04:12AM from the well-that-was-nice-of-them dept. JCY2K writes "According to The Inquirer, hackers gained access to the secure server where the data about the new planet was being held and threatened to reveal it. Evidently the discoverers have been withholding this information from the public since 2003 while they waited for full analysis."
Following the links, one finds this is actually the same story, though now the "hackers" are named as the Spanish astronomers.
An assumption, based on my observation that none of the shows I'm interested in have any reviews (beyond the worthless one-liners people do now) at all in the several months since TV.com took over.
Let's take 24 for instance, that show started in 2001 (old enough for you?).
It's easy to find out stuff about big shows like 24; it's the less popular ones that TVtome was the only source of any critiques at all for that I miss.
No. They analyse the clicks by comparing them with English letter frequencies. So it doesn't matter what the key is marked as, it's what you're using it for that is recorded.
Most of the PDF file size must be artwork, hundreds of pages of text can be in 1 MB of PDF. Look at the quality settings in Distiller, possibly set too high for office printing (use "print" rather than "press" default settings).
For me it is. I'm not in the US, and many of the US series are shown here a year or two later. So I could read the reviews and such about episodes immediately after watching. However, TV.com apparently didn't carry over these reviews, written by editors who knew the shows and added to the experience with their insights. As these shows are "old", they're probably not going to be reviewed at all again, and unlikely to be of the same quality; in any case they have none when I want to read them. Unfortunately, the Wayback Archive doesn't help, every time I try after I get a few pages in I get bounced to the new TV.com site with nothing but ads.
So spend 40 manhours of hard work, or nuke it? A hard choice, I know what GWB would do. Anyway, this seems an unlikely scenario to me.