Unless both parties are signing their messages, either side can edit them to their hearts content, and there's no way to prove who (if either) is being honest. Even if they are signing them, they can simply ignore your message and claim it was never sent.
Provide Little Johnny (and Little Joany and Little Aleem et cetera) with the resources to learn, and let them make the choice. Don't arbitrarily segment children into "gifted" and "not-gifted", let them sort themselves by their interests.
Microsoft is entirely capable of hiding secret, protected paths to and from hardware in it's closed code. In an open source OS, you can just redirect those paths.
Americans can be made to participate in an international carbon trading scheme by including it as a tariff on goods they buy or sell. If they refuse to buy the credits themselves, obligate anyone they do business with to buy them on their behalf, and pass the cost along.
There's a difference between The scientific consensus, and science in general. There's nothing wrong with coming up with "heretical" hypotheses, and Dyson is quite right that it's necessary to the process. The problem only comes when the unproven or even uninvestigated hypotheses are spouted as truth.
The scientific consensus is that global warming is occurring, and it's most likely due to human factors. It's great to have people challenging this and looking for alternate explanations of the available data, and that's vital to the scientific process. Just don't take them as anything but wild ideas under investigation.
Governments issue carbon allotments, which can be bought or bid on for cash. The total value of all a country's allotments equal what they agreed to under Kyoto.
If you don't sign on to Kyoto, you don't get any allotments. Thus your domestic economy must buy them from other countries, or your customers/clients will be obligated to buy them for you and pass the cost on.
Assume the major book publishers produced high quality full length readable books with no DRM whatsoever at a reasonable prices. (You define what is reasonable.) Any DRM-less format you prefer.
How many of you would "share" then with your friends? (By "share" I don't mean read the books to friends. I mean lend copies of the books to friends.) If so, how many friends?
Would you see anything wrong with posting your copy to a library or the equivalent?
Would you see anything wrong letting your closest 100 friends read it?
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Hopefully for us all (even those who'll never buy from them) they'll pull out of it. Not today, though.
You can forge your own headers and logs. It's just text.
People would adjust their benchmarks to reflect reality. Since they have not, you are wrong.
No, it's $230 (Canadian, so maybe a bit more expensive for Yanks with your weak dollar.)
And wine :P
Unless both parties are signing their messages, either side can edit them to their hearts content, and there's no way to prove who (if either) is being honest. Even if they are signing them, they can simply ignore your message and claim it was never sent.
Provide Little Johnny (and Little Joany and Little Aleem et cetera) with the resources to learn, and let them make the choice. Don't arbitrarily segment children into "gifted" and "not-gifted", let them sort themselves by their interests.
You then end up with a "passes a standardized test" class, located in a magical fairy land where discrimination doesn't happen.
Here you go.
Gets pretty bitchy about the subject.
That is exactly what I said.
WoTC got its start with Magic, the object of which is to purchase as much printed matter from WoTC as possible.
Microsoft is entirely capable of hiding secret, protected paths to and from hardware in it's closed code. In an open source OS, you can just redirect those paths.
You could just write a kernel module to grab whatever is being "protected".
So how can I buy a Mac OS license for my hardware?
Americans can be made to participate in an international carbon trading scheme by including it as a tariff on goods they buy or sell. If they refuse to buy the credits themselves, obligate anyone they do business with to buy them on their behalf, and pass the cost along.
National carbon trading systems won't reduce carbon output. They'll just move it.
Is that national carbon trading systems are asinine and pointless.
*Where* CO2 is emitted?
TFA wasn't really about global warming.
There's a difference between The scientific consensus, and science in general. There's nothing wrong with coming up with "heretical" hypotheses, and Dyson is quite right that it's necessary to the process. The problem only comes when the unproven or even uninvestigated hypotheses are spouted as truth.
The scientific consensus is that global warming is occurring, and it's most likely due to human factors. It's great to have people challenging this and looking for alternate explanations of the available data, and that's vital to the scientific process. Just don't take them as anything but wild ideas under investigation.
Libertarians are, by definition, either dim-witted or immature. The vast majority of them are under 15 years old and living with their parents.
Governments issue carbon allotments, which can be bought or bid on for cash. The total value of all a country's allotments equal what they agreed to under Kyoto.
If you don't sign on to Kyoto, you don't get any allotments. Thus your domestic economy must buy them from other countries, or your customers/clients will be obligated to buy them for you and pass the cost on.
It's a science vs. anti-science issue.
Assume the major book publishers produced high quality full length readable books with no DRM whatsoever at a reasonable prices. (You define what is reasonable.) Any DRM-less format you prefer.
How many of you would "share" then with your friends? (By "share" I don't mean read the books to friends. I mean lend copies of the books to friends.) If so, how many friends?
Would you see anything wrong with posting your copy to a library or the equivalent?
Would you see anything wrong letting your closest 100 friends read it?
Just curious.
I've taken quite a few, and done quite well in them. Your post indicates you have not.
I'll let you stew on why.