When did Hillary Clinton ever champion human rights?
That's not what the Main Stream Media is portraying Hillary Clinton
Almost every other day she will appear on the TV screen screaming about "Sufferings of Human Rights Abuses" of people in Syria, people in Cuba, people in Iran, people in China, and so on....
That might well still detect your scenario though, a palm plantation is unlikely to be anywhere near as green as virgin forest, especially in the first few years. You'll have an awful lot of ground visible between trees and through the fronds, where before you'd be seeing solid canopy.
I am afraid you may have proper information
Oil palm plantations do not plant seedlings
The palm oil industry is a very well established and organized industry, made up of upstream breeders that breed new varieties of palm trees, all the way to the oleo industry vendors who produce specialized oleo chemicals such as glycerine for the cosmetic industry.
Oil palm plantation themselves do not plant seedlings. They buy trees 12 to 18 months old palm trees, sometimes already 10 feet in height, from nurseries, and plant them.
In other words, if you are to look for "awful lot of ground visible between trees" you may not find them
Sorry? Have you been asleep for the last 10 years?
I've been observing a big irony in progress...
The more Hillary Clinton championing "Human Rights" for people outside of USA, the less "Human Rights" was left for people staying INSIDE the United States of America
What if they destroy virgin tropical forest and replace it with oil palm plantations?
Satellite looking down will still see trees, it's just different kinds of trees, but the virgin forest, with all its original flora and fauna, wiped out forever
Like what happened in Sumatra, Indonesia, where 4 very rare Sumatran Elephants were killed recently because their habitat were destroyed
Is this USA where the RULE OF LAW takes precedence ?
Is this the one and only USA where Liberty is everything?
How come the Americans just sit there and do nothing when some nefarious 3-letter-agencies get to do whatever they want, whenever they want, where-ever they want?
If you guys in America are really concern of human rights, start to fight for your own human rights !!
Maybe Google and Apple being the most visible players in the cloud competition, but I do not think they will be the only major players
Other firm that have already enter the fray, or will enter in a big way are firms that already have an online presence, such as Amazon or Facebook, or firms that have traditionally offer corporate services, such as IBM, or firms such as Microsoft; Major ISPs and Telcos may also want to branch out in this field
Even major datacenter operators may see cloud computing as an extension to their existing businesses
In fact, Digitimes reported that NTT, a Japanese Telco, has placed an order of 100,000 cloud computing servers to Quanta Computer of Taiwan
I mean, why do the governments want to interfere with the Net, a medium whereby people from all corners of the world can share information, and discuss, and plan, and scheme?
You give any tool to those who want to better themselves and they will use the tool to make themselves better
You give the same tool to those who do not have any urge to better themselves and they will put the tool into entertainment purposes
For example:
When those with entrepreneurial inclination get their hands on vehicles (cars, trucks, motorcycles), they will use the vehicles for delivery, or they will learn to repair those vehicles, or they will find ways to improve on those vehicles, et cetera
Give the same vehicles to those who do not really want to do anything and they will use the vehicles to cruise around, to rob banks, and so on
How can a threat to bomb an airport be considered as a joke?
People might be saying that it's "free speech", but even free speech has its limit
While I get to enjoy the freedom of speech of saying anything that I want to say, I must be responsible for any word that comes out of my mouth (and also the words that I typed onto my keyboard)
If I say I want to kill somebody, it's a threat, and should not be considered as "free speech" anymore
And of course, I have to be responsible for what I said
Everyone can edit anything and they are often built using unreliable hardware and software... this can lead to serious problems. Imagine if some of those 'self-driving cars' would use them
There you go, jumping from one assumption to another !
While the open-map itself might not be 100% accurate, how sure are you that the map from Tom-Tom is?
And about those "Self-Driving Cars" - if those cars got into accident due to errors in Tom-Tom's map, then what?
"Today's big news is that researchers have found proof of Chinese manufacturers putting backdoors in American chips that the military uses. This is false. While they did find a backdoor in a popular FPGA chip, there is no evidence the Chinese put it there, or even that it was intentionally malicious.
Furthermore, the Actel ProAsic3 FPGA chip isn't fabricated in China at all !!
I hope for the day when we can get mobile kits that can be used for sequencing genome of all types of fauna / flora that are on this planet
At the way of the degradation of our planet's ecology, more and more species are dying out
If only someone can come out with el-cheapo gene sequence kits that are mobile, that can sequence genes of all types of flora / fauna, then, perhaps, we can collect the genetic sequence of as many species as we can possibly gather, before they disappear all together
Not at all, we just had a politician who committed what might, to the untrained eye, look like fraud, but she's been held to account and it turns out it wasn't fraud at all, it was an "oversight"
In Malaysia, corruption is so rampant that they actually spent 250 Million local currency (about 100 Million USD) to raise 3,000 cows
When that matter was exposed, that female politician, the one who got the generous 250 Million gift, insisted that she's not guilty of anything
And in deed, she was NOT guilty of anything - for in Malaysia, as long as you are a part of the ruling elite, you can corrupt away and the authority will use the word "oversight" to explain away how the money was lost
I know many people at the company, and they are some of the most creative, energetic programmers that I have met.
You mean creativity in killing projects that made sense ?
Mind you, Livestand is not the only project that made a lot of sense that Yahoo has decided to kill, "Delicious" is another thing that Yahoo has killed
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I've bought Android phones as cheap as $29 off-contract.
Can you give us some recommendation as to what brand of Android phone you got for $29, off contract, and where you got it?
Thank you !
When did Hillary Clinton ever champion human rights?
That's not what the Main Stream Media is portraying Hillary Clinton
Almost every other day she will appear on the TV screen screaming about "Sufferings of Human Rights Abuses" of people in Syria, people in Cuba, people in Iran, people in China, and so on ....
That might well still detect your scenario though, a palm plantation is unlikely to be anywhere near as green as virgin forest, especially in the first few years. You'll have an awful lot of ground visible between trees and through the fronds, where before you'd be seeing solid canopy.
I am afraid you may have proper information
Oil palm plantations do not plant seedlings
The palm oil industry is a very well established and organized industry, made up of upstream breeders that breed new varieties of palm trees, all the way to the oleo industry vendors who produce specialized oleo chemicals such as glycerine for the cosmetic industry.
Oil palm plantation themselves do not plant seedlings. They buy trees 12 to 18 months old palm trees, sometimes already 10 feet in height, from nurseries, and plant them.
In other words, if you are to look for "awful lot of ground visible between trees" you may not find them
Sorry? Have you been asleep for the last 10 years?
I've been observing a big irony in progress ...
The more Hillary Clinton championing "Human Rights" for people outside of USA, the less "Human Rights" was left for people staying INSIDE the United States of America
What if they destroy virgin tropical forest and replace it with oil palm plantations?
Satellite looking down will still see trees, it's just different kinds of trees, but the virgin forest, with all its original flora and fauna, wiped out forever
Like what happened in Sumatra, Indonesia, where 4 very rare Sumatran Elephants were killed recently because their habitat were destroyed
As the "Fat Bastard" or "BOFH" of old, I would like to remind you that I and my brethren (sysadmins/sysops) have LARD to wreak upon you LUSERS!
TFTFY
Is Light Table going to be an open source project or a close source project?
Is this USA that we are talking about?
Is this USA where the RULE OF LAW takes precedence ?
Is this the one and only USA where Liberty is everything?
How come the Americans just sit there and do nothing when some nefarious 3-letter-agencies get to do whatever they want, whenever they want, where-ever they want?
If you guys in America are really concern of human rights, start to fight for your own human rights !!
Maybe Google and Apple being the most visible players in the cloud competition, but I do not think they will be the only major players
Other firm that have already enter the fray, or will enter in a big way are firms that already have an online presence, such as Amazon or Facebook, or firms that have traditionally offer corporate services, such as IBM, or firms such as Microsoft; Major ISPs and Telcos may also want to branch out in this field
Even major datacenter operators may see cloud computing as an extension to their existing businesses
In fact, Digitimes reported that NTT, a Japanese Telco, has placed an order of 100,000 cloud computing servers to Quanta Computer of Taiwan
URL is at http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120529PB200.html [paywall, sorry]
Why can't they just leave us alone?
I mean, why do the governments want to interfere with the Net, a medium whereby people from all corners of the world can share information, and discuss, and plan, and scheme?
Oh, wai ...
"No Headphone"
I do not wear headphone, and in my office and in my home I do not turn on the radio either
When I surf online, I do not stream any music
I carry out my work without having to listen to any "background noise", and I find that I can focus better without hearing anything that's annoying
You give any tool to those who want to better themselves and they will use the tool to make themselves better
You give the same tool to those who do not have any urge to better themselves and they will put the tool into entertainment purposes
For example:
When those with entrepreneurial inclination get their hands on vehicles (cars, trucks, motorcycles), they will use the vehicles for delivery, or they will learn to repair those vehicles, or they will find ways to improve on those vehicles, et cetera
Give the same vehicles to those who do not really want to do anything and they will use the vehicles to cruise around, to rob banks, and so on
If two black holes happens to be near each others, will they collide?
Or will one of the black hole swallow the other?
Will the bigger black hole swallowing up the smaller one, or will it be the reverse, the little guy biting chunks out of its bigger counterpart?
And when two black holes interact with each others, what will happen to the dimensions?
Will it create enough disruptions to the dimensions in the vicinity that temporary additional dimensions pop up here and there?
I always wonder how they manage to locate ore buried deep underground
There are mines that are like hundreds of feet underground
How they manage to pinpoint the ore in the first place?
Do you want to know what the Patent Trolls really think of themselves?
BBC happens to interview Paul Ryan, top dog of Acacia Research Corp, a very well known patent troll
Podcast available at http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/bizdaily/bizdaily_20120530-1006a.mp3
You tube carries another interview on the same guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwpGWT_LdDw
How can a threat to bomb an airport be considered as a joke?
People might be saying that it's "free speech", but even free speech has its limit
While I get to enjoy the freedom of speech of saying anything that I want to say, I must be responsible for any word that comes out of my mouth (and also the words that I typed onto my keyboard)
If I say I want to kill somebody, it's a threat, and should not be considered as "free speech" anymore
And of course, I have to be responsible for what I said
Everyone can edit anything and they are often built using unreliable hardware and software... this can lead to serious problems. Imagine if some of those 'self-driving cars' would use them
There you go, jumping from one assumption to another !
While the open-map itself might not be 100% accurate, how sure are you that the map from Tom-Tom is?
And about those "Self-Driving Cars" - if those cars got into accident due to errors in Tom-Tom's map, then what?
http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2012/05/bogus-story-no-chinese-backdoor-in.html
Bogus story: no Chinese backdoor in military chip
"Today's big news is that researchers have found proof of Chinese manufacturers putting backdoors in American chips that the military uses. This is false. While they did find a backdoor in a popular FPGA chip, there is no evidence the Chinese put it there, or even that it was intentionally malicious.
Furthermore, the Actel ProAsic3 FPGA chip isn't fabricated in China at all !!
I hope for the day when we can get mobile kits that can be used for sequencing genome of all types of fauna / flora that are on this planet
At the way of the degradation of our planet's ecology, more and more species are dying out
If only someone can come out with el-cheapo gene sequence kits that are mobile, that can sequence genes of all types of flora / fauna, then, perhaps, we can collect the genetic sequence of as many species as we can possibly gather, before they disappear all together
You said:
The point is that claiming a quota system "always" leads to degradation of standards
You also said:
The original Taco Cowboy point is based on an over-simplified view of reality (that the "default" lacks any sort of biases).
I have but one very simple request:
Can you help us by identifying that word "ALWAYS" in my original comment, please?
If you can find even one instance of the word "ALWAYS", I will eat my word
If you can NOT find even one instance of that word "ALWAYS" in my original comment, would you mind telling us why you want to tell such a lousy lie?
Thank you, and have a nice day !
When quota system is imposed on anything you will see the effect - end product is almost guaranteed to be inferior
No matter how the quota is applied - by race, gender, nationality, religion or whatever - when quota system is enforced, competition stops
The IT industry is the very last place where quota system should be enforced - too much is riding on the robustness and stability of IT products
America is claiming that pollution from Asia (China and India) is affecting America
What about the pollution that had been spewing off the chimneys / smokestacks in America and Europe since the industrial revolution?
When America points a finger at Asia, 4 fingers are pointing back towards US of A
Not at all, we just had a politician who committed what might, to the untrained eye, look like fraud, but she's been held to account and it turns out it wasn't fraud at all, it was an "oversight"
In Malaysia, corruption is so rampant that they actually spent 250 Million local currency (about 100 Million USD) to raise 3,000 cows
When that matter was exposed, that female politician, the one who got the generous 250 Million gift, insisted that she's not guilty of anything
And in deed, she was NOT guilty of anything - for in Malaysia, as long as you are a part of the ruling elite, you can corrupt away and the authority will use the word "oversight" to explain away how the money was lost
After that, case closed !
True story, it happened in Malaysia:
A Mongolia female was blown to smithereens with C4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Shaariibuugiin_Altantuyaa
The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, is linked to the murder
That murder occurred in 2006
6 years have passed. Najib Razak is still not charged with the murder
In other words, in Malaysia, whether or not you are charged for a crime has nothing to do with whether or not you have committed that criminal act
If the authority says that you are guilty, even if you are truly innocent, you are still guilty.
That's the Malaysian way of "justice"
Just in case you wonder, in this respect, Malaysia is actually worse than China
I know many people at the company, and they are some of the most creative, energetic programmers that I have met.
You mean creativity in killing projects that made sense ?
Mind you, Livestand is not the only project that made a lot of sense that Yahoo has decided to kill, "Delicious" is another thing that Yahoo has killed