Well, I'm glad to see the US CIA is as efficient as always. {NOT!} But then again, I'm very uncertain I want them to be efficient. They'll just get bigger.
Overall, I'm very pleased they want to reclassify. I expect errors in declassification, and more of these beta errors help convince me there are fewer alpha errors.
Or maybe that's what they wanted me to think all along:) But that would be crediting them with competence, which is nowhere in evidence.
It is so facile for people to compare opponents to Nazis that Godwin's Law was created. But please look at the facts as they happened, not with the benefit of hindsight:
Many Americans, companies and even the US Congress supported Nazi Germany prior to 1941. It was widely admired, particularly the fast recovery in the 30s. The work camps for jews and other undesireables made some people a bit queasy, but internment camps were hardly new and both the US and Canada had them. It was only in 1945 after the liberation of the death camps that the horror of the Nazi's "Final Solution" was discovered. The world (including Germany) was shocked and very surprised.
If the US truly believes that China has horrors on such a scale hidden (nevermind that we tolerated Stalin's horrors), then it should embargo them immediately. Since this congresscritter isn't even asking for that, he's just playing rhetorical games. Godwin his @$$. Recently, a suprising number of public figures need it.
I've run simulations. The decline rate of a series of wells/fields adds up as previous "at capacity" fields start their decline curves. Very slow decline near the global peak, then inexorably accelerating before long, slow tailing. Inflection around 2012 in my simplified model.
Whether you know it or not, or like it or not, the United States as always asserted the power to control any export (including intellectual property). It started with forbidding the export of long pine logs that the new states feared would be used in Royal Navy ships against them.
Now it a huge bureaucracy with myriad legislation that rivals the IRS Tax Code. I'm not at all surprised that some congresscritters are trying to get Googletech listed, and I'm fairly sure they'll succeed.
The USA is not the country you think it is. There have been many ugly compromises -- slavery being the most obvious.
This is similar to looking at addresses on postal envelopes. Probably considered a minimal invasion of privacy. Where none was reasonably expected. Next down the slippery slope is comparing keyword sniffers to drug dogs. Very limited detection on both, and no possibility of other (private) information leakage. But an alert _is_ probable cause.
Contradiction? What contradiction? AFAIK, the ICRC's mission is to _relieve_ suffering. Not prevent suffering. Big difference, and the goals are sometimes contrdictory. They cannot relieve suffering when one of the protagonists won't let them in because of an anti-war stance. The ICRC is _very_ careful not to take sides or push for peace (which often is the same thing).
M*A*S*H is fine because it's a historical fiction and the use is consistant with armed forces medical personnel. But many other uses, like on civilian ambulances and medical equipments would most likely be in violation. Games probably _aren't_ because they're depictions of armed forces and war.
The irony is a battlefield medic is probably best *NOT* to wear the red cross because many adversaries blatantly violate the Conventions and will target medics to demoralize units.
If it's that thin, it'd better be flexible (capable of operating when flexed). Otherwise, if it's made of silicon, it'll just break unless attached to a solid surface. A credit card may not be stiff enough unless it's small sized (~2mm sq).
It's easy enough to build an ITX inside some bottles. Just cut the bottom off & reglue. A bigger problem is funnelling all the cabling through the neck. Worst of all is the heat. How do you get rid of all the CPU heat. You probably need a headpipe and underpowered CPU.
'Scuse me, but is the OP somehow in favor of the RIAA? Why complain about their inanities and injustice? It hurts them enormously, and accelerates their demise. Yes, there is some collateral damage, but citizens _do_ have a civic duty. Being sued so unjustifiably isn't so onerous.
If the RIAA were even modestly cautious (and I'm not gonna mention how), they'd be far less defective. Then their suits would be far less ridiculous, better received and they'd win. Judges may not be able to acknowledge they read the newspapers, but they sure as H3ll can pay close attention to all court rulings. They don't like paperhangers.
Are these execs morons? Do they not know their demand curves? The used market exists because they price too high for too long. So they lose revenue.
Vidgames are not prestige goods (perfume) where people equate higher price with greater quality.
They ought to drop prices quarterly rather than annually.
IANAL, but parent is right: it is highly illegal to bundle or leverage one monopoly position (adjudged) into another.
What suprises me is that Microsoft would blatantly say so in exactly those words. Their lawyers must be asleep at the switch. Or muzzled.
It would have been very easy for MS just to charge the fee as a cost-of-service, and proving leverage would be very difficult. Instead, they've handed in a confession! Without any water torture:)
Very seriously, you don't get your work done. There is no sense in covering up for other's incompetence by being super-competant yourself. They call that co-dependant facilitating.
Don't! When management complains about productivity, calmly give them detailed chapter and verse written during your "on call" downtime. Then management can make informed decisions. Which they cannot if you keep covering for IT.
Many things are not available at WalMart simply because the producers cannot make the minimum quantity required. Likewise for heatpipes. IMHO, Intel still sells more boxed CPUs than AMD (although the difference is much smaller than total retail systems). I suspect Intel has trouble finding suppliers who can sell them enough.
Many thing are similarly affected by unseen factors. What appears irrational is usually just ignorance of factors.
In IP deals, is is not unusual to have all sorts of "outs" if the IP is ruled invalid, held by others, or already in the public domain. For NTP not to accept such an "out" is tantmount to admitting the ir IP is invalid. Presumably, they think it's valid. And it may well be, or RIM would have got a stay on the injunction.
Rewards are uncontroversially used to catch criminals. So why not use them here? Oh, being radical isn't criminal yet? Dear me:)
Rewards are often effective. I suspect the objection is to the aims advanced by the rewards. I don't think the opponents are saying "We like busting radical profs, but rewards are inherently bad and going too far."
The swarms of voracious backhoes are perhaps the main reason we don't have fiber to the NID (user buildings). Backhoes eat copper just as easily as fiber, but copper is much easier to patch. Fiber is hard to terminate and needs cleanliness not usually present at excavations.
It is most decidedly not a literary work, but rather a different method of arguing his case. Sometimes the plain expository discussion is dry, and a little dystopian prognostication is clearer.
Well, yes. Creative people have a right to reward for their efforts. The question is: How? What is fair? Should copyrights last 100 years? How does that significantly influence creation? Should books be licenceable (repeal "first sale") and public libraries outlawed?
When I write, it is principly to spread my ideas. Monetary compensation is secondary, if present at all. And I very much dislike reading those who write for lucre. It shows. Have you never seen an author "go bad" after early success? Clancey and Rowlings are obvious examples.
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Overall, I'm very pleased they want to reclassify. I expect errors in declassification, and more of these beta errors help convince me there are fewer alpha errors.
Or maybe that's what they wanted me to think all along :) But that would be crediting them with competence, which is nowhere in evidence.
Many Americans, companies and even the US Congress supported Nazi Germany prior to 1941. It was widely admired, particularly the fast recovery in the 30s. The work camps for jews and other undesireables made some people a bit queasy, but internment camps were hardly new and both the US and Canada had them. It was only in 1945 after the liberation of the death camps that the horror of the Nazi's "Final Solution" was discovered. The world (including Germany) was shocked and very surprised.
If the US truly believes that China has horrors on such a scale hidden (nevermind that we tolerated Stalin's horrors), then it should embargo them immediately. Since this congresscritter isn't even asking for that, he's just playing rhetorical games. Godwin his @$$. Recently, a suprising number of public figures need it.
Google Hubbert linearization.
Now it a huge bureaucracy with myriad legislation that rivals the IRS Tax Code. I'm not at all surprised that some congresscritters are trying to get Googletech listed, and I'm fairly sure they'll succeed.
The USA is not the country you think it is. There have been many ugly compromises -- slavery being the most obvious.
The irony is a battlefield medic is probably best *NOT* to wear the red cross because many adversaries blatantly violate the Conventions and will target medics to demoralize units.
If this were true, a naked magentron would be a great cellphone jammer. Even if not, it still might be!
If the RIAA were even modestly cautious (and I'm not gonna mention how), they'd be far less defective. Then their suits would be far less ridiculous, better received and they'd win. Judges may not be able to acknowledge they read the newspapers, but they sure as H3ll can pay close attention to all court rulings. They don't like paperhangers.
Vidgames are not prestige goods (perfume) where people equate higher price with greater quality. They ought to drop prices quarterly rather than annually.
What suprises me is that Microsoft would blatantly say so in exactly those words. Their lawyers must be asleep at the switch. Or muzzled.
It would have been very easy for MS just to charge the fee as a cost-of-service, and proving leverage would be very difficult. Instead, they've handed in a confession! Without any water torture :)
Don't! When management complains about productivity, calmly give them detailed chapter and verse written during your "on call" downtime. Then management can make informed decisions. Which they cannot if you keep covering for IT.
Many thing are similarly affected by unseen factors. What appears irrational is usually just ignorance of factors.
Rewards are often effective. I suspect the objection is to the aims advanced by the rewards. I don't think the opponents are saying "We like busting radical profs, but rewards are inherently bad and going too far."
The same can be done for all the system components, although I'd just guess many will simply name RedHat.
It is most decidedly not a literary work, but rather a different method of arguing his case. Sometimes the plain expository discussion is dry, and a little dystopian prognostication is clearer.