Me.
One of the bastards responsible for one of these bullshit packages that takes over and disables Microsoft Forefront and forces me to break out the rkill thumb drive. Dark alley.
If one is to believe that our world is interconnected, then it only provides a model where liberty is granted only to the few who have the cash to purchase it - instead of providing it to all who seek it.
China is a case of why you don't simply just go for business friendliness, but freedom for all citizens without regard to involvement in commerce.
You must have missed the memo. Fascism is back in a big way - it's just that the government and industry traded places.
While hunting one day with director Howard Hawks and William Faulkner, the acclaimed actor Clark Gable asked Faulkner to enumerate the five best authors of the day.
"Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, John Dos Passos," Faulkner replied, "and myself." "Oh," Gable maliciously replied, "do you write for a living?" "Yes," Faulkner retorted, "and what do you do?"
On the other hand, they also collected information on what kind of music people did NOT like, which included things like children's choirs, opera, bagpipes, and so on, in an effort to make the world's "worst" song. And again as you might expect, the "worst" song ended up being far more fascinating and creative. Imagine the efforts the human composers went to in order to make all these things mesh. I remember hearing a clip and it was interesting, for sure.
Tunes that catch your imagination are often like that. Think of The Smith's How Soon Is Now, Tom Tom Club's Genius of Love, etc.
Only? Humans have been putting junk into earth orbit for half a century. That a one-time event now accounts for 17% of all trackable debris is actually kind of shocking.
Sure, it would come up with a solution pretty quickly, but then that solution would get edited, then the edit would be attacked by the supercomputer's moderating subroutine, then there would be a flame war on the discussion page occupying a large percentage of the total cycles. Then the solution would be locked and you couldn't see it or see a graph of it because there was no graph of it in the public domain.
I try to stay within sight of the cutting edge of tech, but I will not buy a smartphone. I don't need the constant worry of staying under a cap, knowing that $/MB of going over is usurous.
How well would online businesses be doing if we were all still paying for our interned access by the minute?
Tornado Alley is in the Bible Belt. Citizens of those states should just go outside and stand with head bowed as a tornado approaches. Jesus will save you if you are worthy.
Flamebait? Really? What, then, is the point of following some allegedly omnipresent and omnipotent diety if they are not going to protect your from a lousy tornado that they allegedly made in the first place?
Tornado Alley is in the Bible Belt. Citizens of those states should just go outside and stand with head bowed as a tornado approaches. Jesus will save you if you are worthy.
Subsidies spur production and research, as well as making a product more competitive internationally. They can keep a threatened industry that is desirable to keep around (say, one that is expected to be useful later but which might die in the meantime and be hard to start back up, or one that needs a push to get off the ground but will provide lots of jobs and tax money once it's going, or one critical to defense, even in an indirect sense) from being lost to foreign competition or simple changing demand. They can also be used to keep staples in the reach of the poor (though that happens more often in other countries, I think). Those are just the uses/justifications I can think of off the top of my head at 7:30 in the morning local time.
They're not as nonsensical as you imply, though I happen not to support this particular one myself.
The corn subsidy has very little to do with actual economies and a whole lot to do with the Iowa primaries.
So long as Fox News is the first to go, I fail to see a problem here.
Except that outlets like Fox News - which are essentially company newsletters, not put out to make a profit but to support an ideology - will be the only survivors.
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Why do people think Gates knows anything about anything?
Me. One of the bastards responsible for one of these bullshit packages that takes over and disables Microsoft Forefront and forces me to break out the rkill thumb drive. Dark alley.
I can clearly hear the talking doll saying, "I don't like you. I'm going to kill you."
Whatever geekery one might apply to the stationary bike, there is nothing that can be done about the fact that they are just plain boring to use.
Not with the chainsaw option.
If one is to believe that our world is interconnected, then it only provides a model where liberty is granted only to the few who have the cash to purchase it - instead of providing it to all who seek it.
China is a case of why you don't simply just go for business friendliness, but freedom for all citizens without regard to involvement in commerce.
You must have missed the memo. Fascism is back in a big way - it's just that the government and industry traded places.
Now the Ministry of Plenty only has to do one find on "decreased rations" and one replace with "increased rations".
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While hunting one day with director Howard Hawks and William Faulkner, the acclaimed actor Clark Gable asked Faulkner to enumerate the five best authors of the day. "Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, John Dos Passos," Faulkner replied, "and myself." "Oh," Gable maliciously replied, "do you write for a living?" "Yes," Faulkner retorted, "and what do you do?"
This is an absolutely crystal clear case of activist judges legislating from the bench.
Silly rabbi - only liberal judges can be activist.
On the other hand, they also collected information on what kind of music people did NOT like, which included things like children's choirs, opera, bagpipes, and so on, in an effort to make the world's "worst" song. And again as you might expect, the "worst" song ended up being far more fascinating and creative. Imagine the efforts the human composers went to in order to make all these things mesh. I remember hearing a clip and it was interesting, for sure.
Tunes that catch your imagination are often like that. Think of The Smith's How Soon Is Now, Tom Tom Club's Genius of Love, etc.
Unfortunately for the plaintiffs. the State of Missouri just announced that the case will be heard by their new AutoCourt software.
You mean, "maybe now the Chinese will stop blowing up their own satellites as a show of strength"?
the debris cloud of Fengyun 1-C was only 17% of the trackable debris in Aug 2007 :)
Only? Humans have been putting junk into earth orbit for half a century. That a one-time event now accounts for 17% of all trackable debris is actually kind of shocking.
Sure, it would come up with a solution pretty quickly, but then that solution would get edited, then the edit would be attacked by the supercomputer's moderating subroutine, then there would be a flame war on the discussion page occupying a large percentage of the total cycles. Then the solution would be locked and you couldn't see it or see a graph of it because there was no graph of it in the public domain.
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When someone is injured by a self-driving car, who is liable?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
You're not even trying anymore. At least link to the goatse picture with the rickroll video pasted into the hole.
No, I don't have the link.
"...does the RIAA seriously expect me to sift through 60 GB of music, remember which are pirated, and delete them by hand?"
No, Mr. Bond, the RIAA expects you to die.
I try to stay within sight of the cutting edge of tech, but I will not buy a smartphone. I don't need the constant worry of staying under a cap, knowing that $/MB of going over is usurous.
How well would online businesses be doing if we were all still paying for our interned access by the minute?
Tornado Alley is in the Bible Belt. Citizens of those states should just go outside and stand with head bowed as a tornado approaches. Jesus will save you if you are worthy.
Flamebait? Really? What, then, is the point of following some allegedly omnipresent and omnipotent diety if they are not going to protect your from a lousy tornado that they allegedly made in the first place?
Tornado Alley is in the Bible Belt. Citizens of those states should just go outside and stand with head bowed as a tornado approaches. Jesus will save you if you are worthy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_Gone_to_Heaven
Subsidies spur production and research, as well as making a product more competitive internationally. They can keep a threatened industry that is desirable to keep around (say, one that is expected to be useful later but which might die in the meantime and be hard to start back up, or one that needs a push to get off the ground but will provide lots of jobs and tax money once it's going, or one critical to defense, even in an indirect sense) from being lost to foreign competition or simple changing demand. They can also be used to keep staples in the reach of the poor (though that happens more often in other countries, I think). Those are just the uses/justifications I can think of off the top of my head at 7:30 in the morning local time.
They're not as nonsensical as you imply, though I happen not to support this particular one myself.
The corn subsidy has very little to do with actual economies and a whole lot to do with the Iowa primaries.
Well, *that*.
And the udder ting.
So long as Fox News is the first to go, I fail to see a problem here.
Except that outlets like Fox News - which are essentially company newsletters, not put out to make a profit but to support an ideology - will be the only survivors.