I do it where I work because we have a deeply shitty IT staff that can't maintain equivalent versions of software across machines (or perform software upgrades unless they cause immediate havoc - we're still running Firefox 1.5).
Ignore him. He's what passes for a conservative in America, which essentially equates to an inability to accept the possibility of being wrong and sufficient energy to weary people into not arguing with him anymore.
Heh. Republicans believe that government doesn't work, so unsurprisingly, when they run the government, it doesn't. Democrats believe that government can work, and may not always do it perfectly, but at least aren't ideologically dedicated to doing a shitty job.
Sure, those are true but they didn't just magically happen either. It wasn't just because these countries are 'small' - much as Americans are so very fond of thinking of Europe (while they themselves tend to move very small distances from where they were born, as a statistic) - it's because the governments of Europe imposed tax penalties on fuel.
Oh, I agree, these things didn't crop up magically.
But when I say America is bigger, I mean, our cities are more spread out and our suburbs (and exurbs, and beyond) are further from population centers; and whereas you have a way of doing a 50 mile commute via public transportation in most of Europe, that's not the case for most of the US. And a lot of us commute from suburb to suburb, which presents a problem since most of the public transit we do have is of a wheel-spoke design. Just in terms of convenience and practicality, a lot of Americans are in a living situation where driving is their best option. I'm not endorsing this, but it is the way things are.
America retained the love of huge fuel inefficient cars, SUVs etc while the lobby-driven politics ensured it was political suicide for anyone to grow a spin and impose fuel taxation or indeed any other significant measures to break the American love affair with burning oil.
I completely agree. Americans love cars that are unnecessarily large, and have myriad justifications for why they're better (leg room, lots of children, safety, etc.). And it's a combination of that love and the fact that our development has been such that it encourages dependence on cars that's led to the pain we're having now WRT oil prices. You do have to keep in mind the double whammy we have here - it's not just we have a love of SUVs, it's that we love them and we also have gotten our society into the position of "having" do drive a lot.
So baring this in mind, it's pretty unfair to suggest that Europe just got handed all of these advantages. They were hard fought and hard won. We've been paying decades of tax on fuel.
I didn't say that, and if it seemed that I did, that certainly wasn't what I meant. I know you guys worked at it - you had the minor advantage of a smaller and more established population setup, but you didn't go hog wild for driving and you controlled the situation very well through gas taxes. Kudos, believe me - we didn't have the discipline to enforce sane development practices or gas efficiency, and we are and will continue to pay the price for that.
And, for what it's worth, I don't own a car. I live two miles from where I work, and I walk there, or take a bus if it's raining. I chose this living situation, and rearranged my life around it. You'll hear Americans bitching that they can't do that - it's a lie. They can. It might be expensive, or inconvenient, or different - a lot of them don't want to live in cities because of crime or whatever. But a lot of Americans are living an unsustainable lifestyle, and that's going to have to change, whether or not they like it. If nothing else, the cost of maintaining that will shoot up dramatically for the foreseeable future.
I don't trust McCain or anyone in the Republican party to properly run regulatory regime required to safely operate nuclear power plants.
Look what happened to mining inspections over the last 8 years, and the concomitant increase in accidents. Bush appointed mining industry executives to positions of safety enforcement.
GOP crony capitalism is the thing to fear about nuclear power, not the technology itself.
1) Your country is far smaller than the US, so you need to do less in terms of commuting,etc, 2) you've had the benefit of years of rational development and land use planning, and 3) you've got extensive and well funded public transportation systems. (yeah, I know NS has been having issues in the last few years - it's light years ahead of the way things are in the US. Most cities here have nothing nearly as good as the trams, busses, and metros of various European cities).
We built up our country stupidly, particularly after WWII. We put extensive, relatively sparse tracts of housing far outside of places where people work and provide only highways for transportation. And we're going to pay the price for that, but we're still in the kicking and screaming tantrum stage, and won't start to deal realistically with the issues till the situation is far worse. Expect our politicians to do nothing to get us to grow the fuck up, either.
It's not just the last 8 years. DARPA has long used external corporations to do research and development on projects while providing the management and funding.
ARPANET (which, as you likely knew, grew into the series of tubes we know today as the Internet) was built to connect DARPA sites, and was conceived and originally built by BBN (still one of the major DARPA contractors). One of the first sites connected to ARPANET was SRI, which is still pretty big in the DARPA contracting world.
You fail for citing an Ayn Rand book - objectivisim == immediate fail.
Apart from that, I too would love it if Microsoft decided to deliberately commit suicide and bow out of the future of computing. They'd be replaced in a matter of two years, if that.
The versions distributed at WWDC already require an Intel machine; not a 64-bit one, though, apparently, since it says "any Intel processor" (presumably making some of the earlier Core based ones ok).
You really can't be that naive. Assuming that's the case, he'd still kiss their fucking asses for 4 years to get a second term.
I think what actually happened, was, that the "old, genuinely conservative McCain" that you remember was a fiction and that fiction was disposed of when it became necessary for him to kiss the rings of the extremists who wield power in the party these days. I think the arguments he had with other Republicans in the past were more the product of fits of temper, than any actual set of beliefs.
Oh, man. Really, I didn't know. I just assumed you were a random slashdot jackass - but this paranoia, these psychic scars you let leak out in your comments, it's just so... I don't know. Sad?
I feel for you, really. Now I see you're an emotional wreck, that you're barely holding on, fighting for a tiny bit of sanity against the slings and arrows of outrageous cruelty at the hands of humanity. There's a lump of sadness in my throat for you, and a barely suppressed tear. Fight on, brave little person! Fight on!
I'll make you my Slashdot friend, just so you can know the feeling that there's at least one sympathetic soul out there for you.
Is there even a known case of a tobacco user accidently getting a fatal overdose of nicotine from comercially produced tobacco?
Yes, actually, there is, though you might quibble with the method of dosing.
My father's a doctor at a state hospital, and he's had several patients that needed to be put under special watch because they eat cigarette butts and get nicotine poisoning. I believe they've actually had patients die this way. Of course, they also have patients that need to be watched around water, because they compulsively drink water, and will die of cardiac failure; they need to be monitored in the bathrooms, at meals, when it's raining, etc.
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I do it where I work because we have a deeply shitty IT staff that can't maintain equivalent versions of software across machines (or perform software upgrades unless they cause immediate havoc - we're still running Firefox 1.5).
Ignore him. He's what passes for a conservative in America, which essentially equates to an inability to accept the possibility of being wrong and sufficient energy to weary people into not arguing with him anymore.
Blah blah.
Heh. Republicans believe that government doesn't work, so unsurprisingly, when they run the government, it doesn't. Democrats believe that government can work, and may not always do it perfectly, but at least aren't ideologically dedicated to doing a shitty job.
Sorry, kid. The GOP f'd it up bad.
Oh, I agree, these things didn't crop up magically.
But when I say America is bigger, I mean, our cities are more spread out and our suburbs (and exurbs, and beyond) are further from population centers; and whereas you have a way of doing a 50 mile commute via public transportation in most of Europe, that's not the case for most of the US. And a lot of us commute from suburb to suburb, which presents a problem since most of the public transit we do have is of a wheel-spoke design. Just in terms of convenience and practicality, a lot of Americans are in a living situation where driving is their best option. I'm not endorsing this, but it is the way things are.
I completely agree. Americans love cars that are unnecessarily large, and have myriad justifications for why they're better (leg room, lots of children, safety, etc.). And it's a combination of that love and the fact that our development has been such that it encourages dependence on cars that's led to the pain we're having now WRT oil prices. You do have to keep in mind the double whammy we have here - it's not just we have a love of SUVs, it's that we love them and we also have gotten our society into the position of "having" do drive a lot.
I didn't say that, and if it seemed that I did, that certainly wasn't what I meant. I know you guys worked at it - you had the minor advantage of a smaller and more established population setup, but you didn't go hog wild for driving and you controlled the situation very well through gas taxes. Kudos, believe me - we didn't have the discipline to enforce sane development practices or gas efficiency, and we are and will continue to pay the price for that.
And, for what it's worth, I don't own a car. I live two miles from where I work, and I walk there, or take a bus if it's raining. I chose this living situation, and rearranged my life around it. You'll hear Americans bitching that they can't do that - it's a lie. They can. It might be expensive, or inconvenient, or different - a lot of them don't want to live in cities because of crime or whatever. But a lot of Americans are living an unsustainable lifestyle, and that's going to have to change, whether or not they like it. If nothing else, the cost of maintaining that will shoot up dramatically for the foreseeable future.
I don't trust McCain or anyone in the Republican party to properly run regulatory regime required to safely operate nuclear power plants.
Look what happened to mining inspections over the last 8 years, and the concomitant increase in accidents. Bush appointed mining industry executives to positions of safety enforcement.
GOP crony capitalism is the thing to fear about nuclear power, not the technology itself.
1) Your country is far smaller than the US, so you need to do less in terms of commuting ,etc,
2) you've had the benefit of years of rational development and land use planning, and
3) you've got extensive and well funded public transportation systems. (yeah, I know NS has been having issues in the last few years - it's light years ahead of the way things are in the US. Most cities here have nothing nearly as good as the trams, busses, and metros of various European cities).
We built up our country stupidly, particularly after WWII. We put extensive, relatively sparse tracts of housing far outside of places where people work and provide only highways for transportation. And we're going to pay the price for that, but we're still in the kicking and screaming tantrum stage, and won't start to deal realistically with the issues till the situation is far worse. Expect our politicians to do nothing to get us to grow the fuck up, either.
It's not just the last 8 years. DARPA has long used external corporations to do research and development on projects while providing the management and funding.
ARPANET (which, as you likely knew, grew into the series of tubes we know today as the Internet) was built to connect DARPA sites, and was conceived and originally built by BBN (still one of the major DARPA contractors). One of the first sites connected to ARPANET was SRI, which is still pretty big in the DARPA contracting world.
It's not new.
You fail for citing an Ayn Rand book - objectivisim == immediate fail.
Apart from that, I too would love it if Microsoft decided to deliberately commit suicide and bow out of the future of computing. They'd be replaced in a matter of two years, if that.
Pity I don't have mod points (and have already commented) or I'd mod you up for the best chuckle I've had today.
Rewriting 14,000 lines of the project in [obscure language] as ~2000 lines of Java, and that the product ran on high end Unix servers.
You don't know anything at all about mainframes, do you?
Get congress to "fix" the law so that they can send promo copies which are not presumed to be gifts.
Yay!
There goes promotional copies of CDs that reviewers keep, I guess.
The versions distributed at WWDC already require an Intel machine; not a 64-bit one, though, apparently, since it says "any Intel processor" (presumably making some of the earlier Core based ones ok).
For your answer, I refer you to part of your own comment. The key term is in in bold:
Supposed to be, yes.
Completely and totally fair.
Seriously, if they're gaming the system this way, they deserve to lose their licenses. This is clearly unethical and deceptive.
Or, if you chose to think that they just forgot about the second suit, they're clearly so fucking incompetent that they deserve disbarment anyway.
Jeez, that's some scummy shit.
You really can't be that naive. Assuming that's the case, he'd still kiss their fucking asses for 4 years to get a second term.
I think what actually happened, was, that the "old, genuinely conservative McCain" that you remember was a fiction and that fiction was disposed of when it became necessary for him to kiss the rings of the extremists who wield power in the party these days. I think the arguments he had with other Republicans in the past were more the product of fits of temper, than any actual set of beliefs.
Oh, man. Really, I didn't know. I just assumed you were a random slashdot jackass - but this paranoia, these psychic scars you let leak out in your comments, it's just so... I don't know. Sad?
I feel for you, really. Now I see you're an emotional wreck, that you're barely holding on, fighting for a tiny bit of sanity against the slings and arrows of outrageous cruelty at the hands of humanity. There's a lump of sadness in my throat for you, and a barely suppressed tear. Fight on, brave little person! Fight on!
I'll make you my Slashdot friend, just so you can know the feeling that there's at least one sympathetic soul out there for you.
Godspeed!
Yeowtch - must've really hurt your feelings if you're playing that game.
Dude, I'm sorry, really. Not everyone catches stuff, and I shouldn't have picked on you for it.
Yes, actually, there is, though you might quibble with the method of dosing.
My father's a doctor at a state hospital, and he's had several patients that needed to be put under special watch because they eat cigarette butts and get nicotine poisoning. I believe they've actually had patients die this way. Of course, they also have patients that need to be watched around water, because they compulsively drink water, and will die of cardiac failure; they need to be monitored in the bathrooms, at meals, when it's raining, etc.
Oh, I'm sorry; I didn't mean to hurt your feelings.
Yeah, you completely missed it. Don't feel bad.
It's a sad commentary on the stupidity of our drug laws that heroin and marijuana get lumped into the same category.
Wow. The whole point right past you, didn't it?