...ooh its so bad nasty de beers mining in africa , its against my ethics blah blah effin blah...
Right , so in that case none of you own a mobile phone, computer, TV or 101 non essential electronic gadgets then? You do? Well who knew!
In that case you might want to go find out where a lot of minerals for them get mined and what the conditions are like for the workers, particularly coltan.
So I suggest you all get yourselves out of that hypocritical liberal glass house you're all standing in because you're just as guilty of exploiting african workers as some up market bimbo wearing a lot of De Beers ice.
And another home truth you might not want to hear is that most of that continent is run by warlords in one form or another - its just that some of then killed enough people to get the title of President. There are a few exceptions such as South Africa, Botswana & Kenya, but most of the countries there are about as democratic as Stalinist Russia. Any country that does business there has to accept that fact or simply not bother and given the rest of the worlds need for minerals the latter option ain't gonna happen.
... to do any serious auto rotating. Or at least enough to prevent you hitting the ground without leaving a small crater. To me this machine looks like a death trap if the motors fail - wings too small to glide , little auto rotate from props , and thats assuming you could even get it vertical to achieve auto rotating while its plummeting to the ground nose first.
If I was a pilot of one of these I'd make damn sure I had a parachute!
"As a comparision, to set up a Linksys phone you can have it download an xml file using a variety of protocols, or use its web-based UI to enter the SIP information it needs,"
Alternatively you could just use a POTS phone at home. You plug it into the wall and , oh look , it just works!
Ever since our company fell for all the marketdroid hype from Cisco for VOIP and dumped our old but reliable PBX system we've had one problem after another. The new system has been as unreliable as its possible to be whether its large data loads being done over the network causing the voice quality to go through the floor or a network outage killing the system dead or SIP server bugs or just bugs in the IP phones themselves.
VOIP for the office is hype - all it does is save on some cabling and wall sockets which had already been installed and paid for anyway! Well whoop de fucking do. Talk about Emporers new clothes.
Its mechanically very simple and robust (which is why its used in railway and shipping applications) but its very inefficient compared to attaching the engine direct to the wheels. I wonder why GM have chosen to do it this way? Cost? To me it rather defeats some of the enviromental benefits of this vehicle as it will probablt use more fuel when in this mode than a normal car.
"although many of the most rabid anti-drug advocates like to pretend that the drugs were the cause of the mental illness and not the other way around"
I suggest you go reasd up the medical evidence of what various drugs do to the brain before you spout that standard apologist excuse for the mental state of loads of drug users.
"I could pull up horror stories of Linux / Unix issues caused by dependencies, or app conflicts, or unavailable drivers, or updates breaking the system"
Go ahead. I'm come across a few in my time but compared to the DLL hell on Windows they pale into insignificance. Certainly some toy linux distributions do dick around with libraries a bit too much but if you know what you're doing its not an issue.
"unless you're using SBS " or run unix/linux " most organizations will only run Exchange or SQL or one major app on a server"
There, fixed it for you. Curiously unix can generally cope with running more than one app/DB without falling over or having one app screw up the other.
"we even put all the third party database drivers on a separate server so as not to cause any potential issues."
Well that sums up running a Windows server doesn't it.
Physicists keep telling everyone this but the knuckle draggers and pig ignorant arts graduates just keep on whining away anyway.
Though its the usual story - anything scientific that isn't commonplace and they don't understand they automatically don't like whether it be GM crops, MMR vaccines, stem cell research etc etc.
Though personally I'd sooner be on the earth and be sucked into a black hole than be left orbiting in a tin can wondering whether to just open the airlock and end it all or wait until the orbit decays and you're swallowed up anyway.
That is supply and demand. The motives for people buying the goods at a given price is irrelevant - it could be mind control from the planet Zog , it makes no difference. The fact that they are willing to do so is all that matters.
"Once it's digital the costs to the manufacturer drop and profit soars yet the consumer doesn't see any of that. We're still paying $10 bucks for a CD (sans the CD) how many years later?"
So? Its whats on the CD you're paying for and always has been. The CD itself is worth pennies. Its pretty naive to think that just because the format changes there'll be a serious shift in the price.
"The whole economics of today seems like it's paying only for exorbitant CEO profits and studio whoring."
It may well be overpriced , but at the end of the day media isn't one of lifes necessities. If you don't like the price don't buy the goods. If everyone did that then they'd soon get the message. They only get away with charging high prices because theres enough people willing to pay them. Thats what capitalism is all about isn't it? Supply and demand?
If an antibiotic doesn't do its job then its useless even if it'll still kill some bugs of no consequence. Its what it now fails to kill thats important. Go look up MRSA.
More often than not these resistance genes are switched off and stay off. The bugs that survive are the small number where the genes happen to be switched on anyway by chance. And so you end up with a population of resistant bugs and one more useless antibiotic if its used carelessly.
"No it doesn't. Other selection pressures completely overwhelm it."
No they don't. Antibiotics upset the balance of biological flora in the enviroment and in the human gut potentially allowing resitent pathogens to do better at the expense of non resistant types of their own and other species. It doesn't take much to tip the balance in nature where a small edge can make all the difference.
"Antibiotics originated from the ecosystem."
So what? So did the oil making up the plastics in that computer you're typing on. That doesn't mean theres anything natural about any of the antibiotics being used now than have been artificially designed.
Why is his post a troll? I think the retarted like ignorance applies more to the drooling idiots who are incapable of doing simple arithmetic and understand that more going out than is coming in means they'll eventually go overdrawn. I've never been overdrawn in my life and you want to know why? Because I can add an subtract. Perhaps you and your idiot friends should learn those rather useful skills.
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Why do you need a computer? Presumably your company will supply you with one if you need it. You don't need to go and buy one yourself.
...ooh its so bad nasty de beers mining in africa , its against my ethics blah blah effin blah...
Right , so in that case none of you own a mobile phone, computer, TV or 101 non essential electronic gadgets then? You do? Well who knew!
In that case you might want to go find out where a lot of minerals for them get mined and what the conditions are like for the workers, particularly coltan.
So I suggest you all get yourselves out of that hypocritical liberal glass house you're all standing in because you're just as guilty of exploiting african workers as some up market bimbo wearing a lot of De Beers ice.
And another home truth you might not want to hear is that most of that continent is run by warlords in one form or another - its just that some of then killed enough people to get the title of President. There are a few exceptions such as South Africa, Botswana & Kenya, but most of the countries there are about as democratic as Stalinist Russia. Any country that does business there has to accept that fact or simply not bother and given the rest of the worlds need for minerals the latter option ain't gonna happen.
... to do any serious auto rotating. Or at least enough to prevent you hitting the ground without leaving a small crater. To me this machine looks like a death trap if the motors fail - wings too small to glide , little auto rotate from props , and thats assuming you could even get it vertical to achieve auto rotating while its plummeting to the ground nose first.
If I was a pilot of one of these I'd make damn sure I had a parachute!
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"As a comparision, to set up a Linksys phone you can have it download an xml file using a variety of protocols, or use its web-based UI to enter the SIP information it needs,"
Alternatively you could just use a POTS phone at home. You plug it into the wall and , oh look , it just works!
VOIP is technology for its own sake.
"We geeks have a hard time with sports"
Speak for yourself mate. I'm as geeky as the next nerd when it comes to computers but I still go to the gym 4 times a week and run.
Its not an either or thing with brain vs body - you can have both fit and healthy you know.
"we could have created a separate VoIP VLAN on the IT room switches"
Doesn't that rather defeat the whole point of voip which is to use the same network cabling as everything else?
Ever since our company fell for all the marketdroid hype from Cisco for VOIP and dumped our old but reliable PBX system we've had one problem after another. The new system has been as unreliable as its possible to be whether its large data loads being done over the network causing the voice quality to go through the floor or a network outage killing the system dead or SIP server bugs or just bugs in the IP phones themselves.
VOIP for the office is hype - all it does is save on some cabling and wall sockets which had already been installed and paid for anyway! Well whoop de fucking do. Talk about Emporers new clothes.
50mpg? Big deal. Ordinary diesel cars have been managing that for years.
Its mechanically very simple and robust (which is why its used in railway and shipping applications) but its very inefficient compared to attaching the engine direct to the wheels. I wonder why GM have chosen to do it this way? Cost? To me it rather defeats some of the enviromental benefits of this vehicle as it will probablt use more fuel when in this mode than a normal car.
A couple of seconds of googling? Thats impressive given you have to be a member to view it.
And a lifetime of substance abuse is likely to lead to mental illness. And we're back where we started.
"various other risk factors (e.g. schizophrenia or other mental ilnesses) that are very likely to lead to addiction."
If mental illness led to addiction you'd see a much greater proportion of the mentally ill becoming alcoholics or chain
smokers. You don't.
Thats what sad about this situation. We're too afraid to treat them like children any more.
"although many of the most rabid anti-drug advocates like to pretend that the drugs were the cause of the mental illness and not the other way around"
I suggest you go reasd up the medical evidence of what various drugs do to the brain before you spout that standard apologist excuse for the mental state of loads of drug users.
"I could pull up horror stories of Linux / Unix issues caused by dependencies, or app conflicts, or unavailable drivers, or updates breaking the system"
Go ahead. I'm come across a few in my time but compared to the DLL hell on Windows they pale into insignificance. Certainly some toy linux distributions do dick around with libraries a bit too much but if you know what you're doing its not an issue.
"unless you're using SBS " or run unix/linux " most organizations will only run Exchange or SQL or one major app on a server"
There, fixed it for you. Curiously unix can generally cope with running more than one app/DB without falling over or having one app
screw up the other.
"we even put all the third party database drivers on a separate server so as not to cause any potential issues."
Well that sums up running a Windows server doesn't it.
Physicists keep telling everyone this but the knuckle draggers and pig ignorant arts graduates just keep on whining away anyway.
Though its the usual story - anything scientific that isn't commonplace and they don't understand they automatically don't like whether it be GM crops, MMR vaccines, stem cell research etc etc.
Morons , the lot of them.
Will it , won't it they'd be wondering...
Though personally I'd sooner be on the earth and be sucked into a black hole than be left orbiting in a tin can wondering whether to just open the airlock and end it all or wait until the orbit decays and you're swallowed up anyway.
Lots of prices are fixed, you're just not aware of it. Thats life.
That is supply and demand. The motives for people buying the goods at a given price is irrelevant - it could be mind control from the planet Zog , it makes no difference. The fact that they are willing to do so is all that matters.
"Once it's digital the costs to the manufacturer drop and profit soars yet the consumer doesn't see any of that. We're still paying $10 bucks for a CD (sans the CD) how many years later?"
So? Its whats on the CD you're paying for and always has been. The CD itself is worth pennies. Its pretty naive to think that just because the format changes there'll be a serious shift in the price.
"The whole economics of today seems like it's paying only for exorbitant CEO profits and studio whoring."
It may well be overpriced , but at the end of the day media isn't one of lifes necessities. If you don't like the price don't buy the goods. If everyone did that then they'd soon get the message. They only get away with charging high prices because theres enough people willing to pay them. Thats what capitalism is all about isn't it? Supply and demand?
If an antibiotic doesn't do its job then its useless even if it'll still kill some bugs of no consequence. Its what it now fails to kill thats important. Go look up MRSA.
More often than not these resistance genes are switched off and stay off. The bugs that survive are the small number where the genes happen to be switched on anyway by chance. And so you end up with a population of resistant bugs and one more useless antibiotic if its used carelessly.
"No it doesn't. Other selection pressures completely overwhelm it."
No they don't. Antibiotics upset the balance of biological flora in the enviroment and in the human gut potentially allowing resitent pathogens to do better at the expense of non resistant types of their own and other species. It doesn't take much to tip the balance in nature where a small edge can make all the difference.
"Antibiotics originated from the ecosystem."
So what? So did the oil making up the plastics in that computer you're typing on. That doesn't mean theres anything natural about any of the antibiotics being used now than have been artificially designed.
Why is his post a troll? I think the retarted like ignorance applies more to the drooling idiots who are incapable of doing simple arithmetic and understand that more going out than is coming in means they'll eventually go overdrawn. I've never been overdrawn in my life and you want to know why? Because I can add an subtract. Perhaps you and your idiot friends should learn those rather useful skills.