Or look at Israel - a Jewish state which is facing the very real possibility that within a generation they may become majority Muslim. At which point they have the option of either ceasing to be a Jewish state, or ceasing to be a democracy.
Or maybe they can make the transition from "Jewish state" to a secular democracy regardless of who is the majority. Remember, through most of its history Christianity = theocracy. Turkey seems to be on the path of a secular government with a Muslim majority.
I exercise to stay healthy, but I'm not sure it helps you eat less energy than you expend. It just makes you that much hungrier. And you can replace the calories from an hour of running in about 3 minutes of eating. So you really have to stay hungry even if you are exercising.
What matters is whether genetic traits passed on to your offspring enable them to reach maturity and reproduce.
Actually the timescale for evolutionary "success" is entirely arbitrary. Different strategies look good depending on where you put the finish line. (Similar to investment strategies). What if a species becomes highly optimized for the current climate, does great for 10,000 years, then becomes extinct because it's too specialized to adapt? Is that success? My point is, there is no right answer to this.
What am I supposed to be seeing in that first link? It looks like the US has TWICE the rate of obesity as Canada (and 4x Norway). And about 30% more obesity than the first tier of fat countries after us, like UK and Australia. That chart does *not* make the US obesity problem look small IMHO.
If they think he has an unfair advantage, why don't they get their legs amputated, too?
Why not just ride a bicycle against the other runners instead? What if I call them "circle legs"? I don't think I should be disqualified from winning a gold medal in running just because my body can't run fast enough.
"it may require a whole new infrastructure to distribute it."
So? Seriously. There is PLENTY of cash in energy to build new infrastructure. Go to Dubai and see where your hard-earned gas money is going right now - it's building lots of new infrastructure, just not here. And at some point, even if expensive, building infrastructure is cheaper than repeatedly destroying and rebuilding other nations in the hopes of keeping their oil flowing. Switch over to nuclear and relocate Israel to the depopulated US rustbelt and we could achieve world peace:)
I would check ebay prices (final selling prices, not mid-auction bids) because I'm surprised you don't think they'd be worth the price of shipping. My experience is that used working laptops have surprisingly high prices because many people know they just need something simple for doing schoolwork etc. I mean, look at this (then again maybe those guys are just crazy - $930!!??). Linux should run great on those laptops. P3's in particular really are not bad computers and might even have a DVD reader.
From everything I have seen lately, the vast majority of Chinese are very happy with their government at the moment, so I question the likelihood of any mass protests during the Olympics. I disagree they are all silently cowering in fear; rather, my impression is they're very happy with all their newfound wealth and growing power.
The problem with finding and removing rootkits (and other forms of malware) is that the vendor of the OS does not provide any means of identifying what the LEGITIMATE files are.
It's unrealistically limiting to imagine that you can know ahead of time what every file on a computer should be.
For decades, NASA kept a tight fist around the construction and operation of the spacecraft that ferried its astronauts and hardware into orbit. Sure, an army of private contractors actually built the vehicles, but NASA oversaw the designs--and always kept the pink slips. Now, however, the agency seems to be shifting course, as NASA officials insist that the budding commercial spacecraft fleet represents the only way the United States can realize its dreams of solar-system conquest on schedule and at an affordable cost.
NASA not owning the successor to the shuttle does seem like a significant change to me.
Who would have ever guessed that Shareholders would be more concerned with their investments than with changing the domestic policy of a foreign government?
Its not the shareholders' job to decide what the Chinese govt will do, but it is the shareholders' job to decide what google will do.
PS, I've also carried laptops in the same backpacks for years and never had a problem. A laptop can sit against seepage in a backpack without problems, while a book gets so crinkly it can't even shut.
My luck spilling even a few drops onto the keyboard has been much worse (twice). But at least my files weren't hurt, didn't even have to revert to backups.
It's a safe bet that those paper books will last far longer than any hard drive that you store files on
If you use those books much, it's a safe bet they'll eventually be damaged. Carry a book in a backpack regularly, and it WILL get water-stained and dog-eared, if not ripped. That's my experience.
I will always prefer to read a "dead tree" book....
There is a sense of achievement when sitting in the living room surrounded by bookshelves full of varied book.
"Always" is a long time! I can understand the collector's mentality. I used to feel that way about tapes and CD's. But now I feel close enough to the same thing as I flip through the albums on my livingroom PC using a remote control. Or maybe I don't, but the overwhelming advantages (convenience, cost, ability to make backups...) are just too much.
So, you problem is that programmers make use of undocumented API calls. While "undocumented" does not always equal "unsupported", using them is just plain stupid.
OK, it's stupid. So what? Stupid happens. Often. And now it's Microsoft's burden to bear, because customers demand compatibility (including bug-for-bug compatibility) with old versions of Windows. Feel free to blame whomever you want; it's irrelevant - when it comes down to a decision about whether to upgrade, many people won't do it if it breaks their apps. Apple manages to force people to rewrite or go without, Microsoft does not. Where this becomes relevant to the rest of us is because the cruft comes through when you try to write for Windows.
That said, taking on a maintenance task too herculean for anybody else is why Microsoft still makes the big bucks. Its also why Wine is a failure.
I used Debian for a number of years. I still think it's good for servers, but it's simply too outdated as a desktop OS - or more specifically a laptop OS. IME laptops often require cutting-edge drivers just to function at all. It's certainly a tricky issue, and I would admit gentoo is better compared to debian unstable than debian stable.
If they had tested a beta and encountered hiccups, people would have complained that evaluating a beta against a production release isn't fair. And between 7 distros, I'd guess at least one has an upcoming release at any given time.
Tagging still requires everybody to have a consistent ontology (i.e. to want to use the same set of labels, and to interpret them consistently) which in practice they won't. I would choose something with a good search facility instead. Throw it all in a huge pile and just search it later.
(Actually I agree with other posters who say this is just a normal application for an email list, let people do whatever they want, but the OP ruled that out?)
As someone who work regularly with new filmmakers in the UK, let me assure you that none of these funding bodies will help anyone they don't know, or have a relationship with in some way. It's jobs for the boys -- just like any local government or NGO organization.
I really, really don't see how you think private patronage is the solution to this? The American system: you let rich people write all the laws so they end up with the vast bulk of the wealth, then they fund whoever they feel like. Even if the government system is 100% corrupt, it only amounts to the same thing - commissioned art at the whim of a few.
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So trust the great leader, for he is wise and benevolent. (Even though he can't form a coherent sentence.)
I exercise to stay healthy, but I'm not sure it helps you eat less energy than you expend. It just makes you that much hungrier. And you can replace the calories from an hour of running in about 3 minutes of eating. So you really have to stay hungry even if you are exercising.
What am I supposed to be seeing in that first link? It looks like the US has TWICE the rate of obesity as Canada (and 4x Norway). And about 30% more obesity than the first tier of fat countries after us, like UK and Australia. That chart does *not* make the US obesity problem look small IMHO.
Sometimes people are killed for their life insurance.
So? Seriously. There is PLENTY of cash in energy to build new infrastructure. Go to Dubai and see where your hard-earned gas money is going right now - it's building lots of new infrastructure, just not here. And at some point, even if expensive, building infrastructure is cheaper than repeatedly destroying and rebuilding other nations in the hopes of keeping their oil flowing. Switch over to nuclear and relocate Israel to the depopulated US rustbelt and we could achieve world peace :)
I would check ebay prices (final selling prices, not mid-auction bids) because I'm surprised you don't think they'd be worth the price of shipping. My experience is that used working laptops have surprisingly high prices because many people know they just need something simple for doing schoolwork etc. I mean, look at this (then again maybe those guys are just crazy - $930!!??). Linux should run great on those laptops. P3's in particular really are not bad computers and might even have a DVD reader.
I think you just did!
From everything I have seen lately, the vast majority of Chinese are very happy with their government at the moment, so I question the likelihood of any mass protests during the Olympics. I disagree they are all silently cowering in fear; rather, my impression is they're very happy with all their newfound wealth and growing power.
Also, rootkits can lie about checksums.
My luck spilling even a few drops onto the keyboard has been much worse (twice). But at least my files weren't hurt, didn't even have to revert to backups.
That said, taking on a maintenance task too herculean for anybody else is why Microsoft still makes the big bucks. Its also why Wine is a failure.
I used Debian for a number of years. I still think it's good for servers, but it's simply too outdated as a desktop OS - or more specifically a laptop OS. IME laptops often require cutting-edge drivers just to function at all. It's certainly a tricky issue, and I would admit gentoo is better compared to debian unstable than debian stable.
If they had tested a beta and encountered hiccups, people would have complained that evaluating a beta against a production release isn't fair. And between 7 distros, I'd guess at least one has an upcoming release at any given time.
(Actually I agree with other posters who say this is just a normal application for an email list, let people do whatever they want, but the OP ruled that out?)