Examples of hidden or structural subsidies include "thou shalt not kill" and "thou shalt not steal" (as rewritten first into English Common Law and then subsequently in local statutes. A society depends on its hidden and structural subsidies, but there's no use in pretending that the playing field is level, something knee jerk libertarians do all too often.
Mind you, I'm functionally libertarian about all sorts of things that the government has no business regulating, such as the nature of my sex life or what chemistry I use to alter my mental functioning.
Wait - so you don't trust your government to provide you things? What if we were invaded by Canada, would you trust our military to defend you? What if you bit into a piece of meat, would you trust what the USDA had said about it? What if you wanted to drive to work and it had snowed outside, would you trust them to plow the highway? What if you had a kid and wanted him or her to be educated? So you only believe in homeschooling? The government does all sorts of things, and it does a lot of things better than a free market responding to financial incentives, particularly in cases where long term planning, ubiquitous service, or social justice are at issue.
These laws make about as much sense as a law that prohibits a government from maintaining a highway system. A government, with its existing rights of way and networks, is in a prime position to build out computer networks, particulary in places where corporations don't feel they can make a profit.
I'm really really tired of libertarian arguments that don't take into account all the hidden and structural subsidies that alter the landscape of the supposedly Utopian Adam Smithian Capitalist Marketplace that they claim to want to protect. True capitalism of this sort means that only the strong survive - your next door neighbor with a gun.
So it's not communism when a government decides to do something - we're a community, we live together, and if our governments want to build infrastructure that benefits everyone, let them!
It sounds like you're mistaking trees grown on farms for "forest" - which it most certainly is not. Trees in straight rows of one species provide little habitat for native creatures and don't look especially good, particularly since they are only allowed to live 20-30 years.
One has to wonder in all of this what incentive the European Union has to pay any attention to Microsoft. MS is a corporation based in the United States, a competitor. Microsoft has a functional monopoly on several forms of essential software. One of only a few possible leverages against Microsoft is the establishment of requirements of the data allowed by your political entity. I can't understand why the EU would think twice about this matter. What possible benefit could there be to caving to Microsoft's demands? For a small political entity like Massachusetts it might make sense (at least in the short term) to cave, since such a small government market couldn't expect to have any leverage. But the EU can make all sorts of demands. They can kick this bully all over the playground if they want to.
the difference between a swastika and satan, of course, is that 12 million people (half of them jews) were killed in a short period by an organized effort whose symbol was the swastika. but as far as anyone can demonstrate, no one has ever been killed by satan (or the tooth fairy for that matter). furthermore, no one has ever been killed by someone who did so in homage to the freebsd banner.
I say those who care about keeping the devil mascot should fork Free BSD into a special "devil may care" version that maintains the soul-selling culture that has allowed Free BSD to blossom into what it is today.
Just get one of those DWL 800AP+ routers for $20, reprogram it with the bridge firmware, attach it to a router, and bingo, you have internet access through someone else's AP without having to change any of the settings on your local network. Trust me, this is easy and very cheap. I can pick from two different neighborhood aps for access this way.
I hand it to the guy for doing what he did, but it's been awhile since I've seen something so aesthetically unappealing. I wonder what the queer eyes for the straight guy would have to say about this geek monstrosity.
Nordic countries, like all of Northern Europe, need to be concerned about the failure of the Gulf Stream and the instant commencing of an iceage due to (ironically) global warming. That wouldn't kill you if you moved, but it would certainly devalue your property in a hurry. No place is safe.
The funderator has too few wires connected to the plasma petulicator, and the quazimemotron could never generate enough jouls of gudzja through 30 gauge copper. But it's a good concept!
my netpassage 26G delivers config pasges with a.ASP extension - i'm very curious about its OS. it runs really hot, which makes me suspect it uses a powerful CPU - the kind you'd need to run IIS in an embedded device.
I use them to hold stuff to my walls - they're attracted to the steel in the heads of drywall screws. It's also a great way to find where your studs are - because that's where the drywall screws are.
i suppose you are one of those Cool Aid drinkers who thinks condoms are useless and that abstinance can really be taught. pray tell, do you abstain?
it always amuses me that none of the people who want to impose abstinance on others never really tried it themselves.
And abstinence AIDS prevention. I mean - the guys appointed to policy-making positions in this administration are all radical flatworlders and creation "scientists" - everyone in physics research thinks of cold fusion as an embarrassment on the order of the Piltdown Man.
Okay, here's what I think is wrong with this experiment to "determine" the limit.
1. They're firing one type of particle, an electron, at medium that is supposedly like today's media.
A. Who's to say that media is what we'll be using in the future.
B. Who's to say we'll ever collect data using fired electrons? That process is utterly different from the electromagnetic process used to read modern magnetic media.
C. I see no indication that electrons fired at magnetic media represents an "edg-defining" experiment. Electrons are bulky and slow compared to photons, for example. Wait, do photons even exist?
I have a computer named Badger. In fact, the naming convention here at my house is to name computers after furry animals, with marsupials reserved for Macintoshes. Printers have women's names, wireless access points have insect species names, hard drives are birds, and mobile devices are named after flying mammals. Badger has always been a Windows XP box, though Hedgehog recently went from being Windows NT 4.0 to being Mandrake 9.2.
If you read the article, they go on and on about trying to fix bugs known to crash 1.7 before releasing it. I'm curious: what exactly does it tak e to crash Mozilla these days? I know it still has subtle memory leaks that crash it eventually, but what can a QA person do to crash it? It's at least as stable as any mainstream application I use, crashing much less often than Photoshop or Flash MX, which I use considerably less.
I've often wondered why hardware reviewers can't provide us a simple computational-power/watt value for every CPU, motherboard, or graphics card they review. This would be especially useful for laptops, cell phones, and palm devices. I know that they often give battery life values, but that is subject to too many variables to be useful. These values might actually cause some positive Darwinian effects in the marketplace.
Seriously, I used to check my email at Gateway stores all the time. Now it's going to be hard to find a place. Try checking your email at a Radio Shack to see what I mean. They freak the moment you navigate off the Radio Shack website, screaming that they "hear about it" from the main office whenever this happens.
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I believe that the wisdom Confucius actually provided was as follows, "He who denied it supplied it."
Mind you, I'm functionally libertarian about all sorts of things that the government has no business regulating, such as the nature of my sex life or what chemistry I use to alter my mental functioning.
Sarah Vowell says "a Libertarian is a Republican who doesn't believe in God." Knowing that, I wouldn't want to be trapped in an elevator with one.
Wait - so you don't trust your government to provide you things? What if we were invaded by Canada, would you trust our military to defend you? What if you bit into a piece of meat, would you trust what the USDA had said about it? What if you wanted to drive to work and it had snowed outside, would you trust them to plow the highway? What if you had a kid and wanted him or her to be educated? So you only believe in homeschooling? The government does all sorts of things, and it does a lot of things better than a free market responding to financial incentives, particularly in cases where long term planning, ubiquitous service, or social justice are at issue.
These laws make about as much sense as a law that prohibits a government from maintaining a highway system. A government, with its existing rights of way and networks, is in a prime position to build out computer networks, particulary in places where corporations don't feel they can make a profit. I'm really really tired of libertarian arguments that don't take into account all the hidden and structural subsidies that alter the landscape of the supposedly Utopian Adam Smithian Capitalist Marketplace that they claim to want to protect. True capitalism of this sort means that only the strong survive - your next door neighbor with a gun. So it's not communism when a government decides to do something - we're a community, we live together, and if our governments want to build infrastructure that benefits everyone, let them!
It sounds like you're mistaking trees grown on farms for "forest" - which it most certainly is not. Trees in straight rows of one species provide little habitat for native creatures and don't look especially good, particularly since they are only allowed to live 20-30 years.
One has to wonder in all of this what incentive the European Union has to pay any attention to Microsoft. MS is a corporation based in the United States, a competitor. Microsoft has a functional monopoly on several forms of essential software. One of only a few possible leverages against Microsoft is the establishment of requirements of the data allowed by your political entity. I can't understand why the EU would think twice about this matter. What possible benefit could there be to caving to Microsoft's demands? For a small political entity like Massachusetts it might make sense (at least in the short term) to cave, since such a small government market couldn't expect to have any leverage. But the EU can make all sorts of demands. They can kick this bully all over the playground if they want to.
the difference between a swastika and satan, of course, is that 12 million people (half of them jews) were killed in a short period by an organized effort whose symbol was the swastika. but as far as anyone can demonstrate, no one has ever been killed by satan (or the tooth fairy for that matter). furthermore, no one has ever been killed by someone who did so in homage to the freebsd banner.
I say those who care about keeping the devil mascot should fork Free BSD into a special "devil may care" version that maintains the soul-selling culture that has allowed Free BSD to blossom into what it is today.
Just get one of those DWL 800AP+ routers for $20, reprogram it with the bridge firmware, attach it to a router, and bingo, you have internet access through someone else's AP without having to change any of the settings on your local network. Trust me, this is easy and very cheap. I can pick from two different neighborhood aps for access this way.
I hand it to the guy for doing what he did, but it's been awhile since I've seen something so aesthetically unappealing. I wonder what the queer eyes for the straight guy would have to say about this geek monstrosity.
Nordic countries, like all of Northern Europe, need to be concerned about the failure of the Gulf Stream and the instant commencing of an iceage due to (ironically) global warming. That wouldn't kill you if you moved, but it would certainly devalue your property in a hurry. No place is safe.
The funderator has too few wires connected to the plasma petulicator, and the quazimemotron could never generate enough jouls of gudzja through 30 gauge copper. But it's a good concept!
my netpassage 26G delivers config pasges with a .ASP extension - i'm very curious about its OS. it runs really hot, which makes me suspect it uses a powerful CPU - the kind you'd need to run IIS in an embedded device.
I use them to hold stuff to my walls - they're attracted to the steel in the heads of drywall screws. It's also a great way to find where your studs are - because that's where the drywall screws are.
i suppose you are one of those Cool Aid drinkers who thinks condoms are useless and that abstinance can really be taught. pray tell, do you abstain? it always amuses me that none of the people who want to impose abstinance on others never really tried it themselves.
And abstinence AIDS prevention. I mean - the guys appointed to policy-making positions in this administration are all radical flatworlders and creation "scientists" - everyone in physics research thinks of cold fusion as an embarrassment on the order of the Piltdown Man.
Okay, here's what I think is wrong with this experiment to "determine" the limit. 1. They're firing one type of particle, an electron, at medium that is supposedly like today's media. A. Who's to say that media is what we'll be using in the future. B. Who's to say we'll ever collect data using fired electrons? That process is utterly different from the electromagnetic process used to read modern magnetic media. C. I see no indication that electrons fired at magnetic media represents an "edg-defining" experiment. Electrons are bulky and slow compared to photons, for example. Wait, do photons even exist?
I have a computer named Badger. In fact, the naming convention here at my house is to name computers after furry animals, with marsupials reserved for Macintoshes. Printers have women's names, wireless access points have insect species names, hard drives are birds, and mobile devices are named after flying mammals. Badger has always been a Windows XP box, though Hedgehog recently went from being Windows NT 4.0 to being Mandrake 9.2.
If you read the article, they go on and on about trying to fix bugs known to crash 1.7 before releasing it. I'm curious: what exactly does it tak e to crash Mozilla these days? I know it still has subtle memory leaks that crash it eventually, but what can a QA person do to crash it? It's at least as stable as any mainstream application I use, crashing much less often than Photoshop or Flash MX, which I use considerably less.
I've often wondered why hardware reviewers can't provide us a simple computational-power/watt value for every CPU, motherboard, or graphics card they review. This would be especially useful for laptops, cell phones, and palm devices. I know that they often give battery life values, but that is subject to too many variables to be useful. These values might actually cause some positive Darwinian effects in the marketplace.
No, we're talking about Radio Shack here. I love their jumbo-bright LEDs though - especially in the new "please shoplift me" roll out trays.
Seriously, I used to check my email at Gateway stores all the time. Now it's going to be hard to find a place. Try checking your email at a Radio Shack to see what I mean. They freak the moment you navigate off the Radio Shack website, screaming that they "hear about it" from the main office whenever this happens.
considering that none of that $699 pays for an OS
Based on the co-ordinated nature of the attack, I have to suspect that Al Quaeda had something to do with this.