Hal: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave: What're you talking about, Hal?
Hal: This program is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave: I don't know what you're talking about, Hal.
Hal: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave: Where the hell'd you get that idea, Hal?
Hal: Dave, although you took very thorough encryption precautions in your emails against my seeing it, I have inserted a tojan horse in the compiler you used to compile your email program...
Exxon and BP have announced that they are selling their retail service stations (most of which were already independent franchises). Retailing oil products is a very competitive, low margin business. Just about every street corner has a gas station and the result is that the retailers' profits are being squeezed hard since no station wants to be the first on the block to raise prices. Exxon and BP have much better uses for their capital.
Actually, this is what happens when you have a cartel where sales commission percentages are effectively fixed by the cartel. Eventually people get tired of it and begin experimenting with techno fixes to route around the cartel and/or take the cartel to court for violating anti-trust laws.
Next up will be the 7% (IIRC) fixed fees charged by all investment banks for handling an IPO. Google started to crash that party with its auction pricing. I expect that fixed commission price will eventually die, too.
The debate is about what the U.S. government is allowed to do under the Constitution when I am not in the U.S., not what the Chinese government is allowed to do when I am in China. While the Chinese government may lock me up under their laws if I start a pro-capitalist newspaper in China, the U.S. government may not lock me up for exercising my 1st Amendment rights in China or anywhere else. The U.S. Constitution is supposed to protect me from the U.S. government no matter where I am.
Nonsense. Show me exactly where in the U.S Constitution it says
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. *
There are intermediate cases such as GNU bison which inserts a small stub into the output. Because of that stub, it used to be that code that used bison as its yacc was required to be put under the GPL. That changed some time ago, IIRC, but it does show that software tools are not quite as black and white as your lathe example.
Efficiency can be taken to extremes. Driving around rural Norway years ago, I saw a garbage truck that was also a rural passenger bus service. The trashmen put the paper in one compartment, plastic in another, glass in a third, and the passengers in a fourth...
The touchpad can be reset by hitting the keys in the four corners of the keyboard.
My 8 year old is still using and enjoying her OLPC. But maybe that's because she's never had a castoff laptop to compare it with.
I've been debating whether to drop sugar and replace it with xfce for the reasons you cite.
Question: On the Amendment (Dodd Amdt. No. 3907 )
Vote Number: 15 Vote Date: February 12, 2008, 11:03 AM
Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Amendment Rejected
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 3907 to S.Amdt. 3911 to S. 2248 (FISA Amendments Act of 2007)
Statement of Purpose: To strike the provisions providing immunity from civil liability to electronic communication service providers for certain assistance provided to the Government.
Vote Counts: YEAs 31, NAYs 67, Not Voting 2
Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By Home State
Akaka (D-HI), Yea (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Alexander (R-TN), Nay (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Allard (R-CO), Nay (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Barrasso (R-WY), Nay (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Baucus (D-MT), Yea (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Bayh (D-IN), Nay (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Bennett (R-UT), Nay (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Biden (D-DE), Yea (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Bingaman (D-NM), Yea
Bond (R-MO), Nay
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Brown (D-OH), Yea (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Brownback (R-KS), Nay
Bunning (R-KY), Nay (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Burr (R-NC), Nay (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Byrd (D-WV), Yea (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Cardin (D-MD), Yea (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Carper (D-DE), Nay (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Casey (D-PA), Yea (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Chambliss (R-GA), Nay (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Clinton (D-NY), Not Voting (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Coburn (R-OK), Nay (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Cochran (R-MS), Nay (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Coleman (R-MN), Nay
Collins (R-ME), Nay
Conrad (D-ND), Nay
Corker (R-TN), Nay
Cornyn (R-TX), Nay (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Craig (R-ID), Nay (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Crapo (R-ID), Nay (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
DeMint (R-SC), Nay (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Dodd (D-CT), Yea (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Dole (R-NC), Nay (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Domenici (R-NM), Nay (/. says "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.2)", this'll fool em.)
Today, the Republican Party supports goodwill through force, with further foundations in deflating currencies and spying on it's citizenry for it's security and freedom.
<shrug/> All modern Republicans (including Nixon, Reagan, and Bush I) have pursued those policies while giving lip service to the official platform. Tell us something new.
The other guys are running under the Republican ticket but do not have core Republican values.
If the voters in Republican primaries are voting overwhelmingly for McCain, Romney, and Huckabee, then by definition their values are closer to Republican core values than those of Ron Paul. Given the actual voting patterns, Ron Paul is furthest from whatever it is that Republican voters actually value. You have confused what Republicans say they value with what their own choices show they actually value.
An assault rifle does not need to be fully auto capable to be effective. In fact, firing on full auto is usually less effective than firing in semi-auto mode with reasonable care and concentration.
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I bought one for my seven year old daughter. She loves it and by the end of the 1st day, she was showing me things like keyboard shortcuts that she had discovered. She has now started using the simpler programming tools (turtle and etoys). I'd say that the OLPC folks provided exactly what their target market needed.
Will you also defer to the founding father's judgment that slavery is OK or that women should not have the right to vote? Just because the founding fathers thought about and debated an issue does not mean that they always came to a conclusion that must be regarded as morally correct for all future time.
Why can we not have a society where every man is equal and every assault is equally bad?
Because there are far too many asshats out there who think it is perfectly OK to assault someone or refuse to hire someone simply because they have a different skin color, religion, sexual orientation, etc. If you have never met anyone like that, you most likely have never spent any time outside your small, quaint, All-American ideal hometown. The South is full of such idiots. So are the Detroit 'burbs. So are most places in America. Or maybe you are just totally oblivious to American reality.
But that is why books like this exist. You'll need to buy two. I've never found a topic where a single book covers everything I needed to know about that topic. Buying three will usually put you past the point of diminishing returns.
Napoleon obviously never met anyone who was incompetently malicious. Personally I think that a better explanation is that our leaders are just plain batshit insane.
You will also find that the US deficit as a percent of GDP is lower than all of the other G7 countries except the UK and France (which is tied with us). Claiming that the dollar has been massively inflated to pay for the war in Iraq is hogwash. We have been paying for it by sale of public debt, not by printing money. M2 has been growing at about 6% a year. By comparison, it has been growing at 15.5% in the UK and 7.5% in Canada. The Eurozone M1 growth has been around 6.1%.
While I am really, really pissed off at having to pay for an unnecessary and incompetently fought war, we have a long way to go before the cost becomes an economic nightmare. Where the impact is being most felt is in the lost opportunity cost of road maintenance, healthcare for children, fully funding Social Security, and R&D of non-greenhouse gas producing power sources among other things.
M3 does not appear to convey any additional information about economic activity that is not already embodied in M2 and has not played a role in the monetary policy process for many years. Consequently, the Board judged that the costs of collecting the underlying data and publishing M3 outweigh the benefits.
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...and getting us out of Viet Nam.
Yeah, 6 years and thousands of casualties later than he should have.
Think HAL 9000:
Dave: Compile the program, Hal.
Hal: I'm afraid I can't do that Dave.
Dave: What's the problem?
Hal: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave: What're you talking about, Hal?
Hal: This program is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave: I don't know what you're talking about, Hal.
Hal: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave: Where the hell'd you get that idea, Hal?
Hal: Dave, although you took very thorough encryption precautions in your emails against my seeing it, I have inserted a tojan horse in the compiler you used to compile your email program...
Most of those gas stations are required by law to sell gasoline that has a significant amount of ethanol.
Exxon and BP have announced that they are selling their retail service stations (most of which were already independent franchises). Retailing oil products is a very competitive, low margin business. Just about every street corner has a gas station and the result is that the retailers' profits are being squeezed hard since no station wants to be the first on the block to raise prices. Exxon and BP have much better uses for their capital.
See this for details.
Actually, this is what happens when you have a cartel where sales commission percentages are effectively fixed by the cartel. Eventually people get tired of it and begin experimenting with techno fixes to route around the cartel and/or take the cartel to court for violating anti-trust laws.
Next up will be the 7% (IIRC) fixed fees charged by all investment banks for handling an IPO. Google started to crash that party with its auction pricing. I expect that fixed commission price will eventually die, too.
Thomas Edison was also a pirate^H^H^H^H^H^H copyright violator
The debate is about what the U.S. government is allowed to do under the Constitution when I am not in the U.S., not what the Chinese government is allowed to do when I am in China. While the Chinese government may lock me up under their laws if I start a pro-capitalist newspaper in China, the U.S. government may not lock me up for exercising my 1st Amendment rights in China or anywhere else. The U.S. Constitution is supposed to protect me from the U.S. government no matter where I am.
Nonsense. Show me exactly where in the U.S Constitution it says
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. *
* Unless the people are not on U.S. soil.
I can't seem to find that footnote in the text.
There are intermediate cases such as GNU bison which inserts a small stub into the output. Because of that stub, it used to be that code that used bison as its yacc was required to be put under the GPL. That changed some time ago, IIRC, but it does show that software tools are not quite as black and white as your lathe example.
You can see Mt. Hood when it's not raining.
In other words, you still can't see Mt. Hood.
Efficiency can be taken to extremes. Driving around rural Norway years ago, I saw a garbage truck that was also a rural passenger bus service. The trashmen put the paper in one compartment, plastic in another, glass in a third, and the passengers in a fourth...
The touchpad can be reset by hitting the keys in the four corners of the keyboard. My 8 year old is still using and enjoying her OLPC. But maybe that's because she's never had a castoff laptop to compare it with. I've been debating whether to drop sugar and replace it with xfce for the reasons you cite.
The fiend here isn't the prankster, but the suicide.
You are blaming a 13 year old kid for over-reacting to a "prank" committed by an adult who damn well ought to have known better?
Dude, you are seriously mentally ill.
Vote Number: 15 Vote Date: February 12, 2008, 11:03 AM
Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Amendment Rejected
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 3907 to S.Amdt. 3911 to S. 2248 (FISA Amendments Act of 2007)
Statement of Purpose: To strike the provisions providing immunity from civil liability to electronic communication service providers for certain assistance provided to the Government.
Vote Counts: YEAs 31, NAYs 67, Not Voting 2
Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By Home State
Today, the Republican Party supports goodwill through force, with further foundations in deflating currencies and spying on it's citizenry for it's security and freedom.
<shrug/> All modern Republicans (including Nixon, Reagan, and Bush I) have pursued those policies while giving lip service to the official platform. Tell us something new.
The other guys are running under the Republican ticket but do not have core Republican values.
If the voters in Republican primaries are voting overwhelmingly for McCain, Romney, and Huckabee, then by definition their values are closer to Republican core values than those of Ron Paul. Given the actual voting patterns, Ron Paul is furthest from whatever it is that Republican voters actually value. You have confused what Republicans say they value with what their own choices show they actually value.
And then shoot the rest of us for reading the complaints about what a waste it was, too.
An assault rifle does not need to be fully auto capable to be effective. In fact, firing on full auto is usually less effective than firing in semi-auto mode with reasonable care and concentration.
Diebold's
Integrated
Cooperative
Tracker
And
Tabulator
Of
Results
I bought one for my seven year old daughter. She loves it and by the end of the 1st day, she was showing me things like keyboard shortcuts that she had discovered. She has now started using the simpler programming tools (turtle and etoys). I'd say that the OLPC folks provided exactly what their target market needed.
Will you also defer to the founding father's judgment that slavery is OK or that women should not have the right to vote? Just because the founding fathers thought about and debated an issue does not mean that they always came to a conclusion that must be regarded as morally correct for all future time.
Why can we not have a society where every man is equal and every assault is equally bad?
Because there are far too many asshats out there who think it is perfectly OK to assault someone or refuse to hire someone simply because they have a different skin color, religion, sexual orientation, etc. If you have never met anyone like that, you most likely have never spent any time outside your small, quaint, All-American ideal hometown. The South is full of such idiots. So are the Detroit 'burbs. So are most places in America. Or maybe you are just totally oblivious to American reality.
But that is why books like this exist. You'll need to buy two. I've never found a topic where a single book covers everything I needed to know about that topic. Buying three will usually put you past the point of diminishing returns.
Napoleon obviously never met anyone who was incompetently malicious. Personally I think that a better explanation is that our leaders are just plain batshit insane.
You will also find that the US deficit as a percent of GDP is lower than all of the other G7 countries except the UK and France (which is tied with us). Claiming that the dollar has been massively inflated to pay for the war in Iraq is hogwash. We have been paying for it by sale of public debt, not by printing money. M2 has been growing at about 6% a year. By comparison, it has been growing at 15.5% in the UK and 7.5% in Canada. The Eurozone M1 growth has been around 6.1%.
While I am really, really pissed off at having to pay for an unnecessary and incompetently fought war, we have a long way to go before the cost becomes an economic nightmare. Where the impact is being most felt is in the lost opportunity cost of road maintenance, healthcare for children, fully funding Social Security, and R&D of non-greenhouse gas producing power sources among other things.
Here is what the Fed stated about M3:
M3 does not appear to convey any additional information about economic activity that is not already embodied in M2 and has not played a role in the monetary policy process for many years. Consequently, the Board judged that the costs of collecting the underlying data and publishing M3 outweigh the benefits.
Yes, IAAE.