We could argue all day about whether Bush or Kerry is the "lesser evil." The fact is that they both support the war in Iraq.
I might've voted for him if he didn't lie like that.
Just a cursory look at the two candidate's views on the war show that their support differs quite a bit. Such a smart man as Badnarik, as evidenced by his other answers, should see that. Too bad he chose to lie.
I knew there had to be a catch. I first saw one of these about 15 years ago. If they were any good they'd have caught on by now. I'm just a karma whore.:)
Well, since they didn't bother to test the machines, then the state shares in some of the blame.
Lawyer: The victim was walking down an empty street at night. Judge: I guess he shares the blame in his brutal cold blooded murder. Probation for the defendant. Next case!
Regarding Plutonium toxicity, it is way overblown.
OK, hold on there sparky. IANANC (nuclear chemist) but my grandfather was, at ORNL after WWII. When he handled plutonium it was at the end of a ten foot pole. If he carried it through the hallways he was required to yell to his coworkers what he was doing and they gave him a wide berth.
Plutonium is very toxic.
I'm a great advocate of nuclear power. I think it's our only viable energy source. But we need to be smart about our advocacy. Saying "plutonium is not as toxic as people say" is just plain stupid.
This is one place where I want to beat the snot out of all the left-wingers who won't be happy with anything that doesn't run on fairy dust and pot.
I agree with you there, and I'm fairly liberal myself.
I'm voting for Kerry in the election, but if Bush wins the only silver lining for me would be if he pushes for more nuclear power. (Even though he can't even say the word...) Unfortunately he seems too preoccupied with keeping our fossil fuel supply lines open. I think it's a lose/lose situation for nuclear power in the next administration, no matter who wins.
Another way automatic meter reading saves money is in power use profiling. Basically, the meter can report back the power usage is short intervals. (In new meters, as short as 6 minutes.) This allows the power company to identify users who consume in peak / nonpeak hours and bill accordingly. This also lets the power company identify high peak users and help them transfer usage to nonpeak hours. This can result in huge cost savings for businesses (nonpeak usage) and for the power company. (flatter usage curve, less need for high peak capacity.)
This is the death knell for IT development and innovation in the United States.
Let me paint you a picture:
1) Microsoft patents as much technology as it can under US jurisdiction. 2) If you want to make something new, and retain control over it, you must do it outside the US. The rest of the world will make IT innovation more attractive to the masses by championing open source and open standards. 3) All non-Microsoft IT development goes overseas. (Heck, the labor is already being offshored. Just offshore the whole shebang.) 4) US loses much of it's ability to innovate in the IT market. 5) US becomes a technology consumer instead of a technology creator.
This process is inevitable when so much greed is involved. Witness the US energy industry. By and large it is addicted to foreign sources. This is because of greed and an unwillingness to change the status quo. (i.e. moving to alternative sources other than oil.) Is being addicted to foreign oil a benefit to the US economy? Absolutely not. Is the control of all IT innovation by a central source a benefit to the US economy? Again, no. Does it matter to the short sighted corporations pushing these agendas? Nope. Not one bit.
Statistically speaking you are more likely to get malaria in Arizona than experience a random MD5 collision.
Actually, it's closer to the chance of getting malaria in Arizona while fucking Natalie Portman in a vat of hot grits electrified by a lightning strike.
I'll meet you, if you e-mail me and we chat a bit. Or I could look at your post history and get to know your opinions and expression style, and you could do likewise.
Note the bit of cognitive dissonance here. The poster talks of Java being big and slow, then says it's "strong" running on mobile phones, a small low power platform.
Anti Java bigots think quite illogically at times.
Just the opposite, I'd say. It takes either arrogance or ignorance to set aside reason. Arrogance for a willful disregard, ignorance for an unintensional disregard.
I'm not making a judgement about arrogance here, just pointing out that it is necessary to willfully set aside reason when one understands the reasonable alternative.
A mousetrap has five essential pieces - and if any one of them is missing (i.e., the spring, the hammer, the catch, the platform or the holding bar), the trap will not function.
After Nemesis I won't go see a trek movie in the theaters until I see a good review. It just won't be worth the trip. I might rent it when it comes out of DVD, even if it's panned, but it won't get my box office buck.
You can give it all up, check out of the system, dissapear. If you have balls.
Right. Let's say that happens. Everyone who dislikes the system drops out. Then the only people left in the system are those who either A) want to spy on and/or control others, B) don't mind being spyed on or controlled, or C) are unaware.
So what happens? The system becomes stronger, better able to control it's populace. But now there's this annoying group of "off the grid" people. What does the system do? What it's made to do, of course, it tries to control them! But now, having been left to perfect it's methods of control (remember, all of the rebels left) it's developed some rather effective ways to control and track a populace. There's not much those poor lotechs can do to stop it. Welcome to the new low cost labor force, boys!
The moral of the story? You can never hide from the world. It will always intrude on you. And if you ignore a problem it will only become worse.
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As the saying goes, stand for nothing and you will fall for anything.
Apparently you can fall for anything even if you stand for something.
We could argue all day about whether Bush or Kerry is the "lesser evil." The fact is that they both support the war in Iraq.
I might've voted for him if he didn't lie like that.
Just a cursory look at the two candidate's views on the war show that their support differs quite a bit. Such a smart man as Badnarik, as evidenced by his other answers, should see that. Too bad he chose to lie.
I am so proud to be a UTD alum right now.
NOT!
I knew there had to be a catch. I first saw one of these about 15 years ago. If they were any good they'd have caught on by now. I'm just a karma whore. :)
Just use a magnetic lock.
...how many re-releases do you think it will take before it contains no shred of the original...
Kinda like Darth Vader himself, eh?
Well, since they didn't bother to test the machines, then the state shares in some of the blame.
Lawyer: The victim was walking down an empty street at night.
Judge: I guess he shares the blame in his brutal cold blooded murder. Probation for the defendant. Next case!
Regarding Plutonium toxicity, it is way overblown.
OK, hold on there sparky. IANANC (nuclear chemist) but my grandfather was, at ORNL after WWII. When he handled plutonium it was at the end of a ten foot pole. If he carried it through the hallways he was required to yell to his coworkers what he was doing and they gave him a wide berth.
Plutonium is very toxic.
I'm a great advocate of nuclear power. I think it's our only viable energy source. But we need to be smart about our advocacy. Saying "plutonium is not as toxic as people say" is just plain stupid.
This is one place where I want to beat the snot out of all the left-wingers who won't be happy with anything that doesn't run on fairy dust and pot.
I agree with you there, and I'm fairly liberal myself.
I'm voting for Kerry in the election, but if Bush wins the only silver lining for me would be if he pushes for more nuclear power. (Even though he can't even say the word...) Unfortunately he seems too preoccupied with keeping our fossil fuel supply lines open. I think it's a lose/lose situation for nuclear power in the next administration, no matter who wins.
Another way automatic meter reading saves money is in power use profiling. Basically, the meter can report back the power usage is short intervals. (In new meters, as short as 6 minutes.) This allows the power company to identify users who consume in peak / nonpeak hours and bill accordingly. This also lets the power company identify high peak users and help them transfer usage to nonpeak hours. This can result in huge cost savings for businesses (nonpeak usage) and for the power company. (flatter usage curve, less need for high peak capacity.)
I saw one of those in the mouse/keyboard aisle at Frys last week. It rated about a ten second look and the word "lame" muttered under my breath.
Ah, but the question is...would she still teach Lolita?
We can learn from this. If you could beat up rude people in real life, there would be a lot fewer of them.
I should kick your ass for thinking that.
I don't have kids yet, but when I do I hope they're as level headed and intelligent as you. Rock on, d00d.
This is the death knell for IT development and innovation in the United States.
Let me paint you a picture:
1) Microsoft patents as much technology as it can under US jurisdiction.
2) If you want to make something new, and retain control over it, you must do it outside the US. The rest of the world will make IT innovation more attractive to the masses by championing open source and open standards.
3) All non-Microsoft IT development goes overseas. (Heck, the labor is already being offshored. Just offshore the whole shebang.)
4) US loses much of it's ability to innovate in the IT market.
5) US becomes a technology consumer instead of a technology creator.
This process is inevitable when so much greed is involved. Witness the US energy industry. By and large it is addicted to foreign sources. This is because of greed and an unwillingness to change the status quo. (i.e. moving to alternative sources other than oil.) Is being addicted to foreign oil a benefit to the US economy? Absolutely not. Is the control of all IT innovation by a central source a benefit to the US economy? Again, no. Does it matter to the short sighted corporations pushing these agendas? Nope. Not one bit.
Statistically speaking you are more likely to get malaria in Arizona than experience a random MD5 collision.
Actually, it's closer to the chance of getting malaria in Arizona while fucking Natalie Portman in a vat of hot grits electrified by a lightning strike.
I've just got to poke my nose in here, as this is a pet peave of mine.
Yeah, I know what you mean. A pet peeve of mine is when an arrogant prick judges an entire study after only reading the abstract.
In the physical world, you meet new people.
In the virtual world I meet many new people.
I'll meet you, if you e-mail me and we chat a bit. Or I could look at your post history and get to know your opinions and expression style, and you could do likewise.
See? Isn't that easy?
But you just can NOT get the same social dynamics online as you do in the real world.
I think that's the point. Maybe some people don't WANT the same social dynamics you get in the real world.
Note the bit of cognitive dissonance here. The poster talks of Java being big and slow, then says it's "strong" running on mobile phones, a small low power platform.
Anti Java bigots think quite illogically at times.
That's not arrogance, it's just a belief.
Arrogance and belief are not mutually exclusive.
Just the opposite, I'd say. It takes either arrogance or ignorance to set aside reason. Arrogance for a willful disregard, ignorance for an unintensional disregard.
I'm not making a judgement about arrogance here, just pointing out that it is necessary to willfully set aside reason when one understands the reasonable alternative.
So, well, if you want to use it, you need to license it from me. If you don't pay me enough, I'll sell it to your competitors.
Hmmmmmmm.... That sounds like capitalism to me. Are you a socialist or something?
A mousetrap has five essential pieces - and if any one of them is missing (i.e., the spring, the hammer, the catch, the platform or the holding bar), the trap will not function.
And yet we have the Venus Flytrap.
After Nemesis I won't go see a trek movie in the theaters until I see a good review. It just won't be worth the trip. I might rent it when it comes out of DVD, even if it's panned, but it won't get my box office buck.
You can give it all up, check out of the system, dissapear. If you have balls.
Right. Let's say that happens. Everyone who dislikes the system drops out. Then the only people left in the system are those who either A) want to spy on and/or control others, B) don't mind being spyed on or controlled, or C) are unaware.
So what happens? The system becomes stronger, better able to control it's populace. But now there's this annoying group of "off the grid" people. What does the system do? What it's made to do, of course, it tries to control them! But now, having been left to perfect it's methods of control (remember, all of the rebels left) it's developed some rather effective ways to control and track a populace. There's not much those poor lotechs can do to stop it. Welcome to the new low cost labor force, boys!
The moral of the story? You can never hide from the world. It will always intrude on you. And if you ignore a problem it will only become worse.