Since it's clear that you are opposed to the use of any energy produced by fossil fuels or nuclear reactors, what are you doing using a computer? I mean, all you're doing is subsidising the energy industry, aka Evil Incarnate.
Or is your power source solar/wind/gerbils on treadmill/other?
Also, as long as you're bashing Enron political donations, don't forget about Clinton and many Democrat congress people. Enron was an equal opportunity influence peddler!
Let's say dropping all restrictions on use again doubles the usage. Finally, let's say them quintupling their collection to include everything ever recorded doubles their revenues again. It looks like they stand to make about $625 Million a year from this service.
Or let's say Apple drops the DRM, and the music labels immediately pull their entire catalogs. It looks like they stand to make about $0 for this service!
I underatand why Microsoft's operating systems and word processors and stuff might be buggy: they have to provide legacy support and the hardware configurations can be complex.
I think that's the problem. They're trying to create the illusion that WinCE shares a legacy with Win* to attract developers, thus introducing the problems of legacy support as well.
So, if everybody looted, commerce would crumble, and everybody would be unable to purchase what they needed. OK, put a check in the 'Bad' column next to looting - it's not a scalable behavior.
So why is a world where commerce crumbles bad? If you say that, you're imposing a particular set of values arbitrarily. And to decide that one value is objectively better that another requires something akin to faith.
So we all have some kind of religion. We just disagree about which one is best or most true.
it has always been my view that a "liberal" was a person who tried to protect the values of the country.
where as the "conservatives" IMHO have always striven to protect the assests of the country.
I would say that in America protecting your assets is definitely one of the values of the country.
Don't fool yourself. No one frets more about staying relevant than Christians. Check out the huge Christian music scene and VeggieTales, for two examples.
The irony is that a faith with a history and a tradition behind it is very appealing in a day and age when the culture becomes more commercial, vulgar and meaningless every day.
Christianity and Islam are probably the best two examples of marketing in the history of the world. Both are still going strong, with no signs of abating (especially in the rapidly growing, less developed parts of the world).
Favorite Kennywood moment: my friend almost standing up out of his seat to grab a leaf off a tree hanging over the track on the main downhill of the Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt is also the best date coaster I've ever been on; it's impossible not to smash up against your date and for her(/him) to smash up against you as you whip through the turns.
The Jackrabbit's great because you always lift up off of your seat on the "double-bounce" downhill.
So if your thing is rickety, old-school wooden coasters, you must visit Kennywood.
There was nothing at all 'deep' to it, unless your normal fare of this stuff consists of the questions Seinfeld asks during his stand-up routine at the end of his horrid show.
If you consider Seinfeld horrid, I don't think your opinion on art and entertainment should be given much weight. You clearly have no taste.
The one legitimate complaint was that humans could fiddle with the computer between games. That would be like Kasparov getting new moves piped into his brain like Neo. (Whoa. I know chess judo!)
In the stories, the Mule played this role. He was an individual with an outsized effect that could not be taken into account ahead of time, so the Second Foundation had to deal with him.
I'm guessing Seldon might say most of the situations you listed may have thrown things off in the short term, but long term trends would have brought things back to the predicted outcome eventually.
Both the Foundation and Second Foundation were affecting things in subtle and not so subtle ways to keep the long term trends going the way Seldon wanted them.
We haven't really reached the finish line until CG can effectively fool us into thinking we are looking at a photograph.
How do you know? Maybe is really a CG creation? Have you ever met him/her in the flesh?
More seriously, a lot of movies that aren't sci fi are using digital techniques in ways that the audience is completely oblivious to. So maybe it's closer than you think.
As human DNA differs somewhat from individual to individual, what does it mean to decipher the human genome? Isn't it a human genome that they're working on?
The only problems with Laser weapons are that they are illegial under the Geneva conventions, as are any weapons that are designed to permanently blind a person.
A bullet in the eye would probably blind someone, too. Or a piece of shrapnel, or...
It's worth noting that France, Germany, and Russia have world class intelligence services as well. They didn't seem to think Iraq was a big enough threat to override their national interests.
Of course not. Keeping Saddam Hussein in power is very much in their national interests, as seen in all the lucrative trading they've engaged in with his regime.
And what's with your racial "Stupid White Men" comment?
Uh, Wraithlyn, that's the name of Moore's book (check the link in previous post).
I'm not saying he isn't talented. I'm just saying that he makes a very good living making provocative comments, and I don't see anything brave in that. Unless you consider Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, etc. to be brave, too.
Peace be with you, -jimbo
ps More on Moore's Best Documentary of All Time here
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Since it's clear that you are opposed to the use of any energy produced by fossil fuels or nuclear reactors, what are you doing using a computer? I mean, all you're doing is subsidising the energy industry, aka Evil Incarnate.
Or is your power source solar/wind/gerbils on treadmill/other?
Also, as long as you're bashing Enron political donations, don't forget about Clinton and many Democrat congress people. Enron was an equal opportunity influence peddler!
Best,
-jimbo
The funniest part of the article was the kid who decided to give up CompSci and study advertising.
Best,
-jimbo
Let's say dropping all restrictions on use again doubles the usage. Finally, let's say them quintupling their collection to include everything ever recorded doubles their revenues again. It looks like they stand to make about $625 Million a year from this service.
Or let's say Apple drops the DRM, and the music labels immediately pull their entire catalogs. It looks like they stand to make about $0 for this service!
Best,
-jimbo
So what's a neocon, anyway? This term is being overused to the point that for many it means nothing more than "bad person".
Best,
-jimbo
I underatand why Microsoft's operating systems and word processors and stuff might be buggy: they have to provide legacy support and the hardware configurations can be complex.
I think that's the problem. They're trying to create the illusion that WinCE shares a legacy with Win* to attract developers, thus introducing the problems of legacy support as well.
Best,
-jimbo
The most serious problem however is that it restricts the amount of memory available to a DLL to 16 MB.
"No one will ever need more than 16MB for DLL's in a cell phone." - Bill Gates, 2003
Best,
-jimbo
So, if everybody looted, commerce would crumble, and everybody would be unable to purchase what they needed. OK, put a check in the 'Bad' column next to looting - it's not a scalable behavior.
So why is a world where commerce crumbles bad? If you say that, you're imposing a particular set of values arbitrarily. And to decide that one value is objectively better that another requires something akin to faith.
So we all have some kind of religion. We just disagree about which one is best or most true.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
it has always been my view that a "liberal" was a person who tried to protect the values of the country. where as the "conservatives" IMHO have always striven to protect the assests of the country.
I would say that in America protecting your assets is definitely one of the values of the country.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Who says LotR is Christian allegory? They must be daft.
It does, though, strongly reflect Christian values. Most notably, humility.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Don't fool yourself. No one frets more about staying relevant than Christians. Check out the huge Christian music scene and VeggieTales, for two examples.
The irony is that a faith with a history and a tradition behind it is very appealing in a day and age when the culture becomes more commercial, vulgar and meaningless every day.
Christianity and Islam are probably the best two examples of marketing in the history of the world. Both are still going strong, with no signs of abating (especially in the rapidly growing, less developed parts of the world).
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Favorite Kennywood moment: my friend almost standing up out of his seat to grab a leaf off a tree hanging over the track on the main downhill of the Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt is also the best date coaster I've ever been on; it's impossible not to smash up against your date and for her(/him) to smash up against you as you whip through the turns.
The Jackrabbit's great because you always lift up off of your seat on the "double-bounce" downhill.
So if your thing is rickety, old-school wooden coasters, you must visit Kennywood.
Best,
-jimbo
I think your definition of geek is too narrow.
Best,
-jimbo
There was nothing at all 'deep' to it, unless your normal fare of this stuff consists of the questions Seinfeld asks during his stand-up routine at the end of his horrid show.
If you consider Seinfeld horrid, I don't think your opinion on art and entertainment should be given much weight. You clearly have no taste.
IMHO, of course.
Best,
-jimbo
The one legitimate complaint was that humans could fiddle with the computer between games. That would be like Kasparov getting new moves piped into his brain like Neo. (Whoa. I know chess judo!)
Best,
-jimbo
Best,
-jimbo
We haven't really reached the finish line until CG can effectively fool us into thinking we are looking at a photograph.
How do you know? Maybe is really a CG creation? Have you ever met him/her in the flesh?
More seriously, a lot of movies that aren't sci fi are using digital techniques in ways that the audience is completely oblivious to. So maybe it's closer than you think.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
I genuinely feel that Apple is out to make good stuff and change things for the better, while Microsoft seems more purely capitalist.
This statement is an affront to capitalism. No company tries harder to avoid capitalism than Microsoft.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
As human DNA differs somewhat from individual to individual, what does it mean to decipher the human genome? Isn't it a human genome that they're working on?
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
The only problems with Laser weapons are that they are illegial under the Geneva conventions, as are any weapons that are designed to permanently blind a person.
A bullet in the eye would probably blind someone, too. Or a piece of shrapnel, or...
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
This is NOT the opinion of the American government! It's just the idiotic comment of one U.S. congressperson!
So try to chill just a little on this issue. There's a lot more important things to be passionate about right now, mkay?
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
From the first link:
"It was a horrible mistake then, but we have got it right now," says Kenneth M. Pollack, a former CIA military analyst
What we did then was unquestionably wrong. It's now our responsibility to try to put it right.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
It's worth noting that France, Germany, and Russia have world class intelligence services as well. They didn't seem to think Iraq was a big enough threat to override their national interests.
Of course not. Keeping Saddam Hussein in power is very much in their national interests, as seen in all the lucrative trading they've engaged in with his regime.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
And what's with your racial "Stupid White Men" comment?
Uh, Wraithlyn, that's the name of Moore's book (check the link in previous post).
I'm not saying he isn't talented. I'm just saying that he makes a very good living making provocative comments, and I don't see anything brave in that. Unless you consider Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, etc. to be brave, too.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
ps More on Moore's Best Documentary of All Time here
Stupid White Men. 49 consecutive weeks on the NYT best seller list (many at number one).
Yes, Michael Moore is getting rich of the left the same way Rush Limbaugh has been getting rich off the right for a while now.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
If I thought it would sell more of my books and movies, sure.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo