They both resolve to the same ip address and my ISP reports host unreachable:
robert@milo:~> nslookup www.riaa.com
Server: bobbie
Address: 192.168.1.1
Name: www.riaa.com
Address: 65.244.101.224
robert@milo:~> nslookup www.riaa.org
Server: bobbie
Address: 192.168.1.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.riaa.org
Address: 65.244.101.224
History isn't a science.
The scientific method is to produce a hypothesis, test it by experiment and demonstrate the truth of your hypothesis by telling people what you did so that they can do it themselves and get the same result.
You can't do that with historical theses.
It is wrong to think that people with dark skin have done less well than the lighter-skinned for 99% of human history.
People have been around for 100,000 years or so, when the Portugese discovered West Africa around 450 years ago, the people they met were at a similar technological level as them in metalworking and commerce. The Aztecs in Mexico weren't that far behind the Spaniards, they didn't have iron or the wheel but they could do some quite impressive stuff with stone.
The Eurasian "supremacy" is comparatively recent.
I ouldn't spend cash on infrastructure in the hope of attracting call-centres anywhere in the developed world.
UK based call-centres are being re-located to India 'cos warm English-speaking bodies there are cheaper than they are in northern England, prolly cheaper than they are in Wilkes-Barre too.
I was a bit surprised to find that www.guardian.co.uk (liberal British newspaper) was allowed by the Gt Firewall but the test failed for www.telegraph.co.uk (right-wing British newspaper which one would expect George Bush the Younger to think just fine) was not accessible from the USA!
I don't know about languages other than Chinese, but my impression after three years of learning it at evening classes (so I'm far from fluent) is that Chinese is far simpler than English (it hasn't got any tenses, for example - read some Damon Runyon to get an idea of how it gets round that) - in Chinese you only need an ideograph for 'go' - in English you would need them for 'go', 'going' 'gone' 'went' 'been' . . . I can't see it catching on myself.
"I have CDRs right now that are over 5 years old and they are still as good as new, and I don't see any reason why they will go bad in 5 more years"
The nice thing about digital information is that it either works or it doesn't, analogue information degrades over time. You can't be certain that the CD you can read today will still be readable tomorrow
"I'd be a bit concerned to hear they're getting into accounting in a big way"
Consultants don't do accounting: they interview your staff and then put what they are told into a nice report. The consultants' clients end up paying them megabucks for stuff their employees' could have told them for free.
That's how it works when the UK Government employs consultants, anyway.
A couple of weeks ago it was reported that the UK government was considering abandoning censuses. They reckon that most of the information it gathers can already be got from tax, social security and other records and that the cost of the census isn't justified by the results.
There's also a recognition that the UK population isn't as docile as it used to be and there's a suspicion that the number of people refusing to complete it is going up every ten years - the Poll Tax put off some folks back in 1991, in 2001 they didn't realise that other people would object to there not being an "English" box to tick when they asked us our ethnic origin for the first time.
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They both resolve to the same ip address and my ISP reports host unreachable: robert@milo:~> nslookup www.riaa.com Server: bobbie Address: 192.168.1.1 Name: www.riaa.com Address: 65.244.101.224 robert@milo:~> nslookup www.riaa.org Server: bobbie Address: 192.168.1.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name: www.riaa.org Address: 65.244.101.224
I wouldn't give you a French franc for any number of mp3s - audio CDs are bad enough, mp3 sound dreadful to anyone with a half decent gramophone.
History isn't a science. The scientific method is to produce a hypothesis, test it by experiment and demonstrate the truth of your hypothesis by telling people what you did so that they can do it themselves and get the same result. You can't do that with historical theses.
It is wrong to think that people with dark skin have done less well than the lighter-skinned for 99% of human history. People have been around for 100,000 years or so, when the Portugese discovered West Africa around 450 years ago, the people they met were at a similar technological level as them in metalworking and commerce. The Aztecs in Mexico weren't that far behind the Spaniards, they didn't have iron or the wheel but they could do some quite impressive stuff with stone. The Eurasian "supremacy" is comparatively recent.
I ouldn't spend cash on infrastructure in the hope of attracting call-centres anywhere in the developed world. UK based call-centres are being re-located to India 'cos warm English-speaking bodies there are cheaper than they are in northern England, prolly cheaper than they are in Wilkes-Barre too.
But Israel is not "another country", it is an American colony, so there's nothing strange in there being a load of "Israelis" with US passports.
You may be a son of God, I'm not.
I was a bit surprised to find that www.guardian.co.uk (liberal British newspaper) was allowed by the Gt Firewall but the test failed for www.telegraph.co.uk (right-wing British newspaper which one would expect George Bush the Younger to think just fine) was not accessible from the USA!
I don't know about languages other than Chinese, but my impression after three years of learning it at evening classes (so I'm far from fluent) is that Chinese is far simpler than English (it hasn't got any tenses, for example - read some Damon Runyon to get an idea of how it gets round that) - in Chinese you only need an ideograph for 'go' - in English you would need them for 'go', 'going' 'gone' 'went' 'been' . . . I can't see it catching on myself.
"I have CDRs right now that are over 5 years old and they are still as good as new, and I don't see any reason why they will go bad in 5 more years"
The nice thing about digital information is that it either works or it doesn't, analogue information degrades over time. You can't be certain that the CD you can read today will still be readable tomorrow
"I'd be a bit concerned to hear they're getting into accounting in a big way" Consultants don't do accounting: they interview your staff and then put what they are told into a nice report. The consultants' clients end up paying them megabucks for stuff their employees' could have told them for free. That's how it works when the UK Government employs consultants, anyway.
Since your superintelligent president decided to bomb the Taleban to buggery and may or may not have blown O-b-L to bits, you'll never know, will you?
A couple of weeks ago it was reported that the UK government was considering abandoning censuses. They reckon that most of the information it gathers can already be got from tax, social security and other records and that the cost of the census isn't justified by the results.
There's also a recognition that the UK population isn't as docile as it used to be and there's a suspicion that the number of people refusing to complete it is going up every ten years - the Poll Tax put off some folks back in 1991, in 2001 they didn't realise that other people would object to there not being an "English" box to tick when they asked us our ethnic origin for the first time.