Building more buses to combat traffic congestion is like buying a bigger belt to combat obesity
The wonderful thing about cliche arguments is that they are always so easily turned upside down.
Yeah, except that the original quip actually made sense. Increasing the availability and utilization of mass transit actually *does* combat traffic congestion.
Screw the ID cards, let's just skip right to microchip implants in the back of your neck. Think of all the time you could save!! You don't have to remember your ATM pin, just walk up to machine and you have access to your money. No waiting to pay at the store. It'd be great.. because no one who fits the security profile would ever turn out to be a terrorist. And of course, like all new technologies, it's sure to be infallible.
I hope we don't have to wait until 2060 for the next big counterculture movement.
There actually are digital textbooks available. I had a couple of CS classes this past year that had a CD available with copies of various books on it. Dr. Dobbs produced them, and if I recall they were $80 or something? A good deal for what you get though. I got the dead tree versions because I hate trying to read a book on a display. Guess I'm just old fashioned.
Scanning textbooks looks like a pretty work-intensive process. Definately require automation of some type.
I always see the comments about boycotts whenever there is an article about the RIAA strong-arming its "customers". Then a couple of other posts of support saying that they too are boycotting. Now don't get me wrong here, I fully support that! While I haven't been boycotting, I have bought a lot less music over the past couple of years.
I do think the time has come to boycott, but I think previous comments on the subject are valid. A boycott by a limited segment of the market can not succeed. There must be mass appeal!!
If you're going to boycott, you have to tell your friends, your relatives, your cowokers. There should be posters and information in a concise, bulletized format that is easy to understand. Rallies where people trade in their old CDs for MP3/AIFF/OGG versions -- or just smash the damn things all together. The media doesn't give a shit if 100 or 10,000 computer dorks (I'm one too), or any narrow specialized group of people, are tired of the RIAA and their Gestapo tactics. They *DO* care when their brother, sister, cousin, aunt and next door neighbor get in on it.
Uhhh, I ain't no architect or building engineer, so can anyone explain why it's 200m from the last useable space to the main roof? Just seems like a hell of a lot of wasted space.
It's not just a space launch, but sending a living human being into space and returning him/her safely to the Earth's surface. It doesn't seem like a really big deal because America and the USSR/Russia have been doing it for nearly 4 decades. But when China does make it happen, it will become only the 3rd country to send a person into space. Hmmmm. The only other two nations to do it were both considered SuperPowers. Hmmmm.
Keep an eye on China, they will be an increasingly important player in the years ahead.
Japan has coins for both 100 and 500 yen amounts (roughly equivalent to $1 and $5). I don't know about any other countries that may use coins for higher denomications, but it does seem like a good idea. Here's my rationale: A lot of purchases are under $10. Having only a $1 coin would result in frequently mixing coins and bills. But if you have a $5 coin too, then transactions can be done all coin.
I agree though, if you're going to try and use $1 coins, then do it and stop printing bills. Why is everything always some half-assed attempt to change things?
2 points about this whole we're American's too BS.
1. People who live in the United States of America are properly called Americans (regardless of how some people like to refer to us). People in other countries in the Americas are called Mexicans, Brazilians, etc.
2. Definition of American: 1. Of or relating to the the United States of America or its people, language, or culture. 2. Of or relating to North or South America, the West Indies or the Western Hemisphere. 3. Of or relating to any of the Native American peples. 4. Indigenous to North or South America. Used of plants and animals.
Source: The American Hertiage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1992.
I understand the rationale; everyone who lives in Europe are Europeans.. everyone who lives in Asia are Asians.. everyone who lives in the Americas are Americans. Unfortunately, there is no country called Europe, or Asia.. there IS one called America. Use the same word and distinguish the meaning by context. Stop whining when someone obviously talking about people living in the USA says 'American'. And stop telling them about it too, because you know they don't give a 5h1t.
Not quite true and not the full story.
According to this article, the G5 dissipates about 42 watts at 1.8 Ghz. The dual processor systems would dissipate about 84 watts. The P4 2.8 Ghz chips dissipate 68.4 watts.
The heat is too high for a laptop though. The 1.2 Ghz 970s run around 20 watts. [source]
If there was a BSOD or a hard freeze, the service wouldn't be running any more to report the crash, although theoretically it's possible for the service to check for a BSOD crash dump file and send a report after rebooting.
It's not only possible, that's what the error reporting system does. I know, it happens to me a few times a week (WinXP). It doesn't seem to catch every lock-up, but most of them.
After all scare tactics and thick-headedness the RIAA has shown with this issue, I wonder how much in 'tips' they would actually pull in. I know I wouldn't contribute. They would probably keep 99% of the donations for their own expenses anyway (ala the CDR tax). I would like to see individual artists with some way to donate and bypass the RIAA middle-men.
First off, here's the link to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Now, I'm no fan of Bill Gates. I don't think he's a saint and I don't think he's a minion from hell. I think Windows (and many other MS products) is not as good as it could be and that using market forces to exterminate competition is not healthy (for IT or the economy as a whole).
To claim that Gates has no interest in charity is plain wrong. He's got more money than could possibly be spent in his lifetime, and probably the lifetimes of any of his children. He's stated numerous times that he plans to give away almost all of his money during his lifetime. (1) just because he hasn't given away half his net worth to charity makes him wrong? How much money as a percentage of income or net worth do you give? (2) what's the relevance of this? Just because you're pussy whipped doesn't mean everyone is. (3) How does $40 million toward reproductive health in 3rd world nations work to benefit Microsoft? No conspiracy theories please.
What an absurd example. If everything operated based on that logic cell phones would have to be recharged every 6 hours and your watch battery would have to be replaced once a week.
If you're planning to retire by 40, then you're living too far below your means. Immediately go buy an H2 (Hummer), 5,000 sq ft home and get a home theater system with every cable channel package possible. Squander the rest on fast food and the Home Shopping Network.
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Japan 10 days
China 15 days
U.S. 0 days
The statistics you cited are the amount of vacation time guaranteed by the respective governments, not how much vacation time is actually taken.
The Japanese do work hard, but I think, generally speaking, America has a monopoly on the consumption culture. I mean, it was invented here.
Referred to the state legislatures at the same time as those proposals that eventually became the Bill of Rights, the congressional pay amendment had long been assumed to be dead. This provision had its genesis, as did several others of the first amendments, in the petitions of the States ratifying the Constitution. It, however, was ratified by only six States (out of the eleven needed), and it was rejected by five States. Aside from the idiosyncratic action of the Ohio legislature in 1873, which ratified the proposal in protest of a controversial pay increase adopted by Congress, the pay limitation provision lay dormant until the 1980s. Then, an aide to a Texas legislator discovered the proposal and began a crusade that culminated some ten years later in its proclaimed ratification.
Now that the provision is apparently a part of the Constitution, it will likely play a minor role. What it commands was already statutorily prescribed, and, at most, it may have implications for automatic cost-of-living increases in pay for Members of Congress.
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WTF is that she's cramming in there? Muff Dive Barbie?
Uhmm, Internet taxes are based on where YOU are, not where the store is.
Building more buses to combat traffic congestion is like buying a bigger belt to combat obesity
The wonderful thing about cliche arguments is that they are always so easily turned upside down.
Yeah, except that the original quip actually made sense. Increasing the availability and utilization of mass transit actually *does* combat traffic congestion.
Ass.
Screw the ID cards, let's just skip right to microchip implants in the back of your neck. Think of all the time you could save!! You don't have to remember your ATM pin, just walk up to machine and you have access to your money. No waiting to pay at the store. It'd be great.. because no one who fits the security profile would ever turn out to be a terrorist. And of course, like all new technologies, it's sure to be infallible.
I hope we don't have to wait until 2060 for the next big counterculture movement.
There actually are digital textbooks available. I had a couple of CS classes this past year that had a CD available with copies of various books on it. Dr. Dobbs produced them, and if I recall they were $80 or something? A good deal for what you get though. I got the dead tree versions because I hate trying to read a book on a display. Guess I'm just old fashioned.
Scanning textbooks looks like a pretty work-intensive process. Definately require automation of some type.
Is that info from "Fast Food Nation" or somewhere else?
I always see the comments about boycotts whenever there is an article about the RIAA strong-arming its "customers". Then a couple of other posts of support saying that they too are boycotting. Now don't get me wrong here, I fully support that! While I haven't been boycotting, I have bought a lot less music over the past couple of years.
I do think the time has come to boycott, but I think previous comments on the subject are valid. A boycott by a limited segment of the market can not succeed. There must be mass appeal!!
If you're going to boycott, you have to tell your friends, your relatives, your cowokers. There should be posters and information in a concise, bulletized format that is easy to understand. Rallies where people trade in their old CDs for MP3/AIFF/OGG versions -- or just smash the damn things all together. The media doesn't give a shit if 100 or 10,000 computer dorks (I'm one too), or any narrow specialized group of people, are tired of the RIAA and their Gestapo tactics. They *DO* care when their brother, sister, cousin, aunt and next door neighbor get in on it.
Uhhh, I ain't no architect or building engineer, so can anyone explain why it's 200m from the last useable space to the main roof? Just seems like a hell of a lot of wasted space.
Yeah, how dare someone try to educate you!
Ass.
It's not just a space launch, but sending a living human being into space and returning him/her safely to the Earth's surface. It doesn't seem like a really big deal because America and the USSR/Russia have been doing it for nearly 4 decades. But when China does make it happen, it will become only the 3rd country to send a person into space. Hmmmm. The only other two nations to do it were both considered SuperPowers. Hmmmm.
Keep an eye on China, they will be an increasingly important player in the years ahead.
Japan has coins for both 100 and 500 yen amounts (roughly equivalent to $1 and $5). I don't know about any other countries that may use coins for higher denomications, but it does seem like a good idea. Here's my rationale: A lot of purchases are under $10. Having only a $1 coin would result in frequently mixing coins and bills. But if you have a $5 coin too, then transactions can be done all coin.
I agree though, if you're going to try and use $1 coins, then do it and stop printing bills. Why is everything always some half-assed attempt to change things?
Either do or do not, there is no try.
I guess that makes everything all White then doesn't it?
Asshat!
2 points about this whole we're American's too BS.
1. People who live in the United States of America are properly called Americans (regardless of how some people like to refer to us). People in other countries in the Americas are called Mexicans, Brazilians, etc.
2. Definition of American: 1. Of or relating to the the United States of America or its people, language, or culture. 2. Of or relating to North or South America, the West Indies or the Western Hemisphere. 3. Of or relating to any of the Native American peples. 4. Indigenous to North or South America. Used of plants and animals.
Source: The American Hertiage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1992.
I understand the rationale; everyone who lives in Europe are Europeans.. everyone who lives in Asia are Asians.. everyone who lives in the Americas are Americans. Unfortunately, there is no country called Europe, or Asia.. there IS one called America. Use the same word and distinguish the meaning by context. Stop whining when someone obviously talking about people living in the USA says 'American'. And stop telling them about it too, because you know they don't give a 5h1t.
Surprised no one has mentioned it yet, but I think the next 'big' thing in the iPod line is adding a good screen and video capability.
Not quite true and not the full story. According to this article, the G5 dissipates about 42 watts at 1.8 Ghz. The dual processor systems would dissipate about 84 watts. The P4 2.8 Ghz chips dissipate 68.4 watts.
The heat is too high for a laptop though. The 1.2 Ghz 970s run around 20 watts. [source]
This is a link to the SEC web site on all filings (including major stock purchases/sales) by SCO. I found it interesting.
If there was a BSOD or a hard freeze, the service wouldn't be running any more to report the crash, although theoretically it's possible for the service to check for a BSOD crash dump file and send a report after rebooting.
It's not only possible, that's what the error reporting system does. I know, it happens to me a few times a week (WinXP). It doesn't seem to catch every lock-up, but most of them.
After all scare tactics and thick-headedness the RIAA has shown with this issue, I wonder how much in 'tips' they would actually pull in. I know I wouldn't contribute. They would probably keep 99% of the donations for their own expenses anyway (ala the CDR tax). I would like to see individual artists with some way to donate and bypass the RIAA middle-men.
First off, here's the link to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Now, I'm no fan of Bill Gates. I don't think he's a saint and I don't think he's a minion from hell. I think Windows (and many other MS products) is not as good as it could be and that using market forces to exterminate competition is not healthy (for IT or the economy as a whole).
To claim that Gates has no interest in charity is plain wrong. He's got more money than could possibly be spent in his lifetime, and probably the lifetimes of any of his children. He's stated numerous times that he plans to give away almost all of his money during his lifetime. (1) just because he hasn't given away half his net worth to charity makes him wrong? How much money as a percentage of income or net worth do you give? (2) what's the relevance of this? Just because you're pussy whipped doesn't mean everyone is. (3) How does $40 million toward reproductive health in 3rd world nations work to benefit Microsoft? No conspiracy theories please.
What an absurd example. If everything operated based on that logic cell phones would have to be recharged every 6 hours and your watch battery would have to be replaced once a week.
Maybe that's true, and maybe it's not. I guess it depends on your level of paranoia.
It is certainly something that has been discussed quite a bit though. A fast Google search for: Space Weapons turned up two interesting sites:
A paper from Rand.
And a lot of papers from the International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation found here.
Here's a link to get you started...
PeaceCorps
If you're planning to retire by 40, then you're living too far below your means. Immediately go buy an H2 (Hummer), 5,000 sq ft home and get a home theater system with every cable channel package possible. Squander the rest on fast food and the Home Shopping Network.
Japan 10 days
China 15 days
U.S. 0 days
The statistics you cited are the amount of vacation time guaranteed by the respective governments, not how much vacation time is actually taken.
The Japanese do work hard, but I think, generally speaking, America has a monopoly on the consumption culture. I mean, it was invented here.
Actually, it's a really old amendment:
Here's a clip from FindLaw
Referred to the state legislatures at the same time as those proposals that eventually became the Bill of Rights, the congressional pay amendment had long been assumed to be dead. This provision had its genesis, as did several others of the first amendments, in the petitions of the States ratifying the Constitution. It, however, was ratified by only six States (out of the eleven needed), and it was rejected by five States. Aside from the idiosyncratic action of the Ohio legislature in 1873, which ratified the proposal in protest of a controversial pay increase adopted by Congress, the pay limitation provision lay dormant until the 1980s. Then, an aide to a Texas legislator discovered the proposal and began a crusade that culminated some ten years later in its proclaimed ratification.
Now that the provision is apparently a part of the Constitution, it will likely play a minor role. What it commands was already statutorily prescribed, and, at most, it may have implications for automatic cost-of-living increases in pay for Members of Congress.