The deregulation of the phone lines that led to multiple phone providers was an absolute success. You have and still have multiple options, each one vying for your services by pricing and value-add. And each one of them alone is miles away better than the old status quo of Big Bell charging you whatever the hell it felt like and ramming you up the ass on long distance charges.
The market-driven model always fails on big markets (oil, telcos, banks, etc). Free-market economists quickly realized that there is a tendency for monopolies and oligopolies.
Please describe how utilities and cable fit in a "market-driven model." As I said; there is not and never was a market. The government picked a winner and banned the rest from operation.
More robust competition at the local level will raise speeds and lower prices. And one day, one bright, glorious day, I can tell Comcast to take a hike.
Since we all know II, IV, VI, and First Contact were awesome, you are clearly implying that ST:TMP is awful, and Insurrection is awesome. On these two counts you must be burned at the stake as a heretic.
IMHO, the best versions of Windows are (in order): 7, XP, and 95 OSR2. Note that each of these was a significant performance enhancement over both their respective predecessor and successor. Microsoft just can't let good enough be good enough; they always gotta screw up a winning formula. I do give them props for the longevity of XP; I coasted through Vista without ever touching it once.
It is NOT pretty tough to find a violent Buddhist. Many places in southeast Asia are a seething cauldron of religious antagonism between Buddhism and Islam, with atrocities on both sides, such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
Hell, if it's actually funny, we'll laugh along. I live in the Bible Belt, and no one I knows is offended by God telling King Arthur to stop grovelling. "It's like those miserable psalms. They're so depressing. Now knock it off." It's hilarious. Imagine Mohammed saying something like that on Arab TV. People would die, and not the laughing sort.
When you learn the skills needed for this level of hacking, you get to keep those skills. It's like asking a chef why he bothers preparing food when it's just going to get eaten. There are a lot of good reasons: it's fun, it hones skill, and if you're really good you advance your entire profession, and when you've done it enough you pass on your knowledge to your sous chef.
I think the goal here is to try to make more women and minorities "the best person for the job" via education, which I find far more laudable than quota-driven diversity-by-fiat that degrades team and product quality.
The majority of readers on this site are scientifically minded.
No, the majority are acquainted (or even experts) about a narrow set of topics, and merely believe the "correct" things outside their field of expertise. All believe in evolution, few are actual evolutionary biologists. Almost all believe in anthropogenic climate change, but few understand the climate models they discuss. Slashdot is a place to come feel smart, and and have other people tell us how smart we are, too. It's not science, it's tribalism.
The nature of God is such that it cannot be proven. Otherwise, we lose the choice to believe.
I am sitting in a chair. The chair is observable, provable, and I know for certainty that is it holding me up. It requires no faith, and in fact my consideration of the chair is nothing more than an afterthought. I take this chair for granted, and it is thus not quite so important to me as the things I cannot see but fear: my bank balance, flu strains, how my puppy is doing at home when I am not watching her. A god who is observable and provable, with enumerable powers, isn't really a god at all, is he? It seems to me that Christian pseudo-science is misguided by both scientific and religious principles.
This is completely irrelevant to the discussion of slavery and civil rights, or the argument that "republicans have always been for slavery", which is in fact and in spirit false. In the 1860's, democrats railed against bible-thumping abolitionists and "black republicans", and sought a federally imposed recognition of slavery "rights" in every states, including the mandatory extradition of escaped slaves. Republicans sought a states-rights solution: every state could decide for itself if they wanted slavery or even honor another state's slavery status. This prompted the pre-civil war "slavery wars" in newly formed western territories. The south was NOT for limited federal government intrusion, and the southern democrats were NOT fighting for state or individual rights. The northern republicans were.
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The deregulation of the phone lines that led to multiple phone providers was an absolute success. You have and still have multiple options, each one vying for your services by pricing and value-add. And each one of them alone is miles away better than the old status quo of Big Bell charging you whatever the hell it felt like and ramming you up the ass on long distance charges.
The market-driven model always fails on big markets (oil, telcos, banks, etc). Free-market economists quickly realized that there is a tendency for monopolies and oligopolies.
Please describe how utilities and cable fit in a "market-driven model." As I said; there is not and never was a market. The government picked a winner and banned the rest from operation.
The market is not failing us; there is no market. This is a step towards creating one.
More robust competition at the local level will raise speeds and lower prices. And one day, one bright, glorious day, I can tell Comcast to take a hike.
Uh, 1. TMP was awful
NOOOOO! That is the one thing we must not heeeaaaaar!!!
Since we all know II, IV, VI, and First Contact were awesome, you are clearly implying that ST:TMP is awful, and Insurrection is awesome. On these two counts you must be burned at the stake as a heretic.
IMHO, the best versions of Windows are (in order): 7, XP, and 95 OSR2. Note that each of these was a significant performance enhancement over both their respective predecessor and successor. Microsoft just can't let good enough be good enough; they always gotta screw up a winning formula. I do give them props for the longevity of XP; I coasted through Vista without ever touching it once.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *pop*
Orbital explosive decompression?
I am not an Admiral, and my name is not Aspergers.
It is NOT pretty tough to find a violent Buddhist. Many places in southeast Asia are a seething cauldron of religious antagonism between Buddhism and Islam, with atrocities on both sides, such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
Hell, if it's actually funny, we'll laugh along. I live in the Bible Belt, and no one I knows is offended by God telling King Arthur to stop grovelling. "It's like those miserable psalms. They're so depressing. Now knock it off." It's hilarious. Imagine Mohammed saying something like that on Arab TV. People would die, and not the laughing sort.
When you learn the skills needed for this level of hacking, you get to keep those skills. It's like asking a chef why he bothers preparing food when it's just going to get eaten. There are a lot of good reasons: it's fun, it hones skill, and if you're really good you advance your entire profession, and when you've done it enough you pass on your knowledge to your sous chef.
As one female acquaintance said of the dating scene at GA Tech: "The odds are good... but the goods are odd."
UGA has 15,000 male college students. I think they can use it.
I think the goal here is to try to make more women and minorities "the best person for the job" via education, which I find far more laudable than quota-driven diversity-by-fiat that degrades team and product quality.
That's what you get for self-hosting on a DuinoKit.
A dustball? Luxury! We had to scrape our skin with Brillo pads for a week to collect enough dust for a whole ball.
What's worse, that, or putting Honey Boo Boo on The "Learning" Channel?
Well, when we approach the heat death of the universe, physics will kill everyone.
But then you won't click. And the clicks are precioussss yesssss...
He should be tarred and feathered.
I think Quantum Mechanics dictates that your puppy may not actually exist when you're not watching her - don't know if that helps. :-)
God placed you on this earth to give people brand new anxieties. Well done.
The majority of readers on this site are scientifically minded.
No, the majority are acquainted (or even experts) about a narrow set of topics, and merely believe the "correct" things outside their field of expertise. All believe in evolution, few are actual evolutionary biologists. Almost all believe in anthropogenic climate change, but few understand the climate models they discuss. Slashdot is a place to come feel smart, and and have other people tell us how smart we are, too. It's not science, it's tribalism.
But still, the original article was silly.
The nature of God is such that it cannot be proven. Otherwise, we lose the choice to believe.
I am sitting in a chair. The chair is observable, provable, and I know for certainty that is it holding me up. It requires no faith, and in fact my consideration of the chair is nothing more than an afterthought. I take this chair for granted, and it is thus not quite so important to me as the things I cannot see but fear: my bank balance, flu strains, how my puppy is doing at home when I am not watching her. A god who is observable and provable, with enumerable powers, isn't really a god at all, is he? It seems to me that Christian pseudo-science is misguided by both scientific and religious principles.
This is completely irrelevant to the discussion of slavery and civil rights, or the argument that "republicans have always been for slavery", which is in fact and in spirit false. In the 1860's, democrats railed against bible-thumping abolitionists and "black republicans", and sought a federally imposed recognition of slavery "rights" in every states, including the mandatory extradition of escaped slaves. Republicans sought a states-rights solution: every state could decide for itself if they wanted slavery or even honor another state's slavery status. This prompted the pre-civil war "slavery wars" in newly formed western territories. The south was NOT for limited federal government intrusion, and the southern democrats were NOT fighting for state or individual rights. The northern republicans were.