Sorry, I stopped reading half way into the first line when you realised you were unable to spell something and decided you could not be bothered to look it up. Anyone who is that lazy cannot expect to have their opinion taken seriously.
More likely is that someone has offered him a few quid to throw a spanner in the works for a while.
Funny how alot of US companies (Microsoft for one) were against this program from the very beginning. Certainly from the MS point of view one of the reasons their monopoly is doing so well is because everybody now learns windows by default so are comfortable with the interface.
If a large proportion of kids were learning another OS one of the main obstacles to more widespread Linux adoption would evaporate when those kids entered the job market. This is one of the main reasons why Microsoft and Apple both have such a generous discount scheme for both students and teachers.
I bet it is a whole lot cheaper to buy a Thai politician than to buy a US of A politician.
In a head to head fight that is absolutely true. USA vs The Rest Of the World would still see the US winning by a factor of 10 to one.
No, in a head to head fight the nuclear weapons would come out and everyone would lose. Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) means just that. Any country with nuclear armed submarines can be farily sure they will wipe out whoever takes a crack at them.
Ok read it, now the reason they donate more money to charity is not because they give a shit, it is because of the following:
1) They can write it off against tax. 2) It makes them feel better about screwing people. 3) It makes them look better to people too stupid to read between the lines.
And by the way, my posts to this discussion are sounding more and more troll like as every humanist sounding post I read has been moderated as a troll already. So I might as well make clear that this is just as stupid as the loonies in the US govt supressing the teaching of creationism just because the thought of the US population throwing off the chains of religion scares the shit out of them.
Eventually the US will either drag itself out of the dark ages, or be overtaken by every other nation on earth economically as the value of knowledge surpasses the value of raw materials. (Ok - maybe not every nation, but all the ones with a decent education system which is available to all regardless of financial status or skin colour)
This museum devoted to creationism causes me to recall a bit of insight by Karl Marx. He once said, "Religion... is the opium of the people." [quotationspage.com]
The opium that is creationism is some damned powerful stuff. --...from a reporter [geocities.com]
I am reposting the above as some moron has moderated it as a troll which it blatently is not.
This is proof to me that there are alot of very small minded nitwits out there who moderate down posts just because they don't aggree with the point being made. This is not what the moderation system is for, hence it does not have an option "-1 Disagree". So please stop using it as if it does.
Oh and by the way, anyone stupid enough to believe in creationism over evolution must have skipped too many science classes in school.
Actually, that's not all they are: they are also barriers to entry, because small, commercial, closed-source competitors find it hard to enter a market in this situation. That's not what the patent system was supposed to do. And, sooner or later, it may lead to some serious scrutiny by the DOJ.
Are you really that niave? Not while the Big guns are based in the US and lobby the senate throwing money at the thoroughly corrupt political system that exists there.
If anyone happens to read this very late reply I thought I would let you know that on the Physics degree I did we did one double module of Maths each semester. Out of 240 total credits (over two years that counted towards finals) at 10 credits per class, 80 were Pure Maths.
I remember asking the final year Maths student who lived next door to me for help in my second year and she told me we were covering things they would not cover until their final semester.
And as for all the people going on about Newtonian Phsyics, that was pretty much ignored on my degree apart from the first semester. The rest of the time we spent learning about Special Relativity, Crystalography, Quantum Theory, Advanced Optics and Thermodynamics. Lest face it, you should know Newtons laws backwards as a pre-requisite to starting a Physics degree (in UK).
From what I remember the main skills you need are huge amounts of 3D vector geometry to a level that is mainly taught only in the Physics field.
But who wants to work in games software anyway. As a general rule in the real world - the more rewarding a job is the less you can expect to earn for it.
Considering how much atmospheric oxygen interferes with plants carbon fixation, it seems like some plants should thrive in a manmade high-CO2 atmosphere.
Huge industrial CO2 scrubbers along the same lines they have on the Space Shuttle.
With a few issues:
1) What you do with the carbon you have just scrubbed. Originally this was trapped under the ground in the form of oil (also contains Hydrogen for those who cant remember basic chemistry). The quantities of carbon involved are astronomical (think about total weight of oil used by entire planet every year) so this is actually a serious problem as trapping it back in oil is currently not technologicaly possible on a large enough scale. (is it possible to form long carbon-hydrogen chains on any scale?)
2)Actually waiting for the reduced carbon in the atmosphere to allow enough heat to escape into space so that the earth cools and the ice caps dont melt. (incidentally this is a real problem for anyone living in Florida as a large part of the state will be under a metre of water if the sealevels rise too much more, think New Orleans * 100. New Orleans is also probably in real trouble as they are already below sea level).
Of course, none of this will bother China as most of their country is higher up and fucking the largest other super power on the planet will certainly not do them any harm, economically or militarily. Russia is equally protected as most of their largest cities are miles inland. I wonder why those two countries aren't keen on commiting to Kyoto.
I particularly aggree with your point about religious intolerance. Any government that pushes one religion is probably doing it to further there own ends and is certainly morally corrupt if they try and prevent you from learning about other points of view.
Hang on a minute, though. President Bush seems to be spouting an awful lot of stuff about Christian values (Think - Creationism vs Darwinian Theory) and the US openly support Israel which is a country based on a single religion and total intolerance toward any other.
You might have had a point if you weren't blatantly ignoring all the pro-creationism shite your own govt is forcing on its population through the education system.
My personal opinion is that all religions are made up to maniplulate the people daft enough to believe in them.
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
Probably badly quoted but the same sentiment expressed by both Jesus Christ and Karl Marx.
And incidentally as a British citizen I still resent the fact that the US govt used to ignore people and companies in their country funding the IRA in their quest to blow us Brits up. The american M16 (aka Armalite) killed plenty of British sqauddies in Northern Ireland until Clinton finally made funding the IRA a criminal offence.
In short - History and most of our News is biased towards those who write it.
The problem with quoting the UK as an example is that before our current prime minister came into power he made an election commitment to forcing our monopoly (BT) to offer cheap broadband to every home. In return for this they recieved a promise that they would not be on his shit list for being attacked by extra legislation and that they would be protected from being taken over by AT & T.
The result was that BT put in the equiptment to give every home broadband down existing phone lines (copper) via the existing BT exchanges. They also then allowed other companies to resell this broadband for the same price as BT were selling it if they took on the support and customer service side of the deal. This let other companies as well as BT make a profit from the explosion of broadband, some of them small business startups. These companies could bundle other services with the connection to add value to their service while still using BT infrastructure and paying BT for it.
If the US did something similar it would cause a massive explosion in broadband take up and the profit would be spread amongst many small companies as well as the big telcos. The only problem is whether you could force the telcos to go along with this when they have different ideas that do not involve suddenly having to compete with a large number of small companies offering your service as resellers, especially when their profit margins from reselling are dictated by a government watchdog (ie - very slim, when this was launched in UK price was £40 per month to end users across the board).
In fact the more I think about this there is no way the US govt would go along with this as it goes against all the principles of leaving business to make whatever profit they see fit, even if it does put your population at a disadvantage.
I was reffering to the offers from Carphone Warehouse, Orange, SKY, NTL and a few others. They are usually free if you sign up to whatever other service they offer for the same price they used to charge for that on its own.
Personally I know a few people using the talktalk offer from Carphoneware House.
By the way, I live in Manchester (Moss Side) and we have 24 megabit ADSL here. Not exactly the most expensive area but it is close to the city centre though, albieit on a different exchange.
And how come you are still on 512K? I didn't think anyone sold those accounts anymore as even the crappy old BT network supports 1Meg ADSL. Try speaking to you ISP and they might give a you a free upgrade if you threaten to switch.
The reason it is so slow on Janet (UK Accademic Network) is because of all the other students downloading Pr0n
The thing to remember is that most of the rest of the world have better internet connections than the US do now so pages load quicker for us.
Here in the UK slashdot is near instantaneous over 24 Megabit ADSL. 2 Megabit ADSL accounts are given away for free in the UK now with most phone connections. The slowest account people actually pay money for is 8 Megabit ADSL.
As for all the people saying they still use dialup, why? Here you can get better net connections than 56kbit using a mobile phone (3G - UMTS).
To me the idea of waiting 4 seconds for a page to load is monsterous, expecially if the next page I clicked took just as long even though half the images were already cached.
For many years I have never voted in elections on a national level. The entire system is designed so that the only candidates who get to run are the ones the politcal elite approve of. The political elite is swayed by the money put in their pockets by big business.
After watching the last few elections I think that the result was decided before the election, otherwise Kerry would have adopted a standpoint on Iraq more akin to that of the american people. If he had said what a bad thing war was and that he would never have got invaded but once there we had to stay he probably would have been elected.
What I have been doing instead of voting is turning up and spoiling a ballot paper, usually by writing something asking for a better choice of candidates.
Nice post, shame it was not based on any facts tho.
DDT is only banned in the states, the rest of the world still uses it. I actually have some sitting around from when I had headlice a few years ago. I think it is also acceptable to use it on crops in Europe too. The rest of the world still has Malaria though, even thought they are alowed to use DDT.
The real reason DDT was not completely effective against Malaria is that eventually the mosquitos become immune to DDT.
Actually google can track the links you click on the search results page.
I just verified this by going to google and doing a random search then right clicking on one of the results and selecting properties. All the search results link are actually links back to google that redirect you on the website in question.
Please check your info before you post, it has taken me longer to post this email than it would have taken you to make sure you weren't posting factually inaccurate drivel.
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Sorry, I stopped reading half way into the first line when you realised you were unable to spell something and decided you could not be bothered to look it up. Anyone who is that lazy cannot expect to have their opinion taken seriously.
More likely is that someone has offered him a few quid to throw a spanner in the works for a while.
Funny how alot of US companies (Microsoft for one) were against this program from the very beginning. Certainly from the MS point of view one of the reasons their monopoly is doing so well is because everybody now learns windows by default so are comfortable with the interface.
If a large proportion of kids were learning another OS one of the main obstacles to more widespread Linux adoption would evaporate when those kids entered the job market. This is one of the main reasons why Microsoft and Apple both have such a generous discount scheme for both students and teachers.
I bet it is a whole lot cheaper to buy a Thai politician than to buy a US of A politician.
In a head to head fight that is absolutely true. USA vs The Rest Of the World would still see the US winning by a factor of 10 to one.
No, in a head to head fight the nuclear weapons would come out and everyone would lose. Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) means just that. Any country with nuclear armed submarines can be farily sure they will wipe out whoever takes a crack at them.
Here in Britain we have the Science Museum and a seperate Museum of Natural History.
Ok read it, now the reason they donate more money to charity is not because they give a shit, it is because of the following:
1) They can write it off against tax.
2) It makes them feel better about screwing people.
3) It makes them look better to people too stupid to read between the lines.
And by the way, my posts to this discussion are sounding more and more troll like as every humanist sounding post I read has been moderated as a troll already. So I might as well make clear that this is just as stupid as the loonies in the US govt supressing the teaching of creationism just because the thought of the US population throwing off the chains of religion scares the shit out of them.
Eventually the US will either drag itself out of the dark ages, or be overtaken by every other nation on earth economically as the value of knowledge surpasses the value of raw materials. (Ok - maybe not every nation, but all the ones with a decent education system which is available to all regardless of financial status or skin colour)
This museum devoted to creationism causes me to recall a bit of insight by Karl Marx. He once said, "Religion
The opium that is creationism is some damned powerful stuff.
--
I am reposting the above as some moron has moderated it as a troll which it blatently is not.
This is proof to me that there are alot of very small minded nitwits out there who moderate down posts just because they don't aggree with the point being made. This is not what the moderation system is for, hence it does not have an option "-1 Disagree". So please stop using it as if it does.
Oh and by the way, anyone stupid enough to believe in creationism over evolution must have skipped too many science classes in school.
Actually, that's not all they are: they are also barriers to entry, because small, commercial, closed-source competitors find it hard to enter a market in this situation. That's not what the patent system was supposed to do. And, sooner or later, it may lead to some serious scrutiny by the DOJ.
Are you really that niave? Not while the Big guns are based in the US and lobby the senate throwing money at the thoroughly corrupt political system that exists there.
If anyone happens to read this very late reply I thought I would let you know that on the Physics degree I did we did one double module of Maths each semester. Out of 240 total credits (over two years that counted towards finals) at 10 credits per class, 80 were Pure Maths.
:)
I remember asking the final year Maths student who lived next door to me for help in my second year and she told me we were covering things they would not cover until their final semester.
And as for all the people going on about Newtonian Phsyics, that was pretty much ignored on my degree apart from the first semester. The rest of the time we spent learning about Special Relativity, Crystalography, Quantum Theory, Advanced Optics and Thermodynamics. Lest face it, you should know Newtons laws backwards as a pre-requisite to starting a Physics degree (in UK).
Disclaimer - I failed as I hate Maths
Anyone thinking of designing a nanotech weapon of this kind needs to go and read the short story by Philip K Dick called Second Variety.
And the reason for the US invasion of Iraq or Afganistan was US citizens genuinely fearing for their lives?
Please be serious, every ruling class has their own agenda and they very rarely tell the people they rule.
From what I remember the main skills you need are huge amounts of 3D vector geometry to a level that is mainly taught only in the Physics field.
But who wants to work in games software anyway. As a general rule in the real world - the more rewarding a job is the less you can expect to earn for it.
Considering how much atmospheric oxygen interferes with plants carbon fixation, it seems like some plants should thrive in a manmade high-CO2 atmosphere.
Unfortunately we wont.
Huge industrial CO2 scrubbers along the same lines they have on the Space Shuttle.
With a few issues:
1) What you do with the carbon you have just scrubbed. Originally this was trapped under the ground in the form of oil (also contains Hydrogen for those who cant remember basic chemistry). The quantities of carbon involved are astronomical (think about total weight of oil used by entire planet every year) so this is actually a serious problem as trapping it back in oil is currently not technologicaly possible on a large enough scale. (is it possible to form long carbon-hydrogen chains on any scale?)
2)Actually waiting for the reduced carbon in the atmosphere to allow enough heat to escape into space so that the earth cools and the ice caps dont melt. (incidentally this is a real problem for anyone living in Florida as a large part of the state will be under a metre of water if the sealevels rise too much more, think New Orleans * 100. New Orleans is also probably in real trouble as they are already below sea level).
Of course, none of this will bother China as most of their country is higher up and fucking the largest other super power on the planet will certainly not do them any harm, economically or militarily. Russia is equally protected as most of their largest cities are miles inland. I wonder why those two countries aren't keen on commiting to Kyoto.
I particularly aggree with your point about religious intolerance. Any government that pushes one religion is probably doing it to further there own ends and is certainly morally corrupt if they try and prevent you from learning about other points of view.
Hang on a minute, though. President Bush seems to be spouting an awful lot of stuff about Christian values (Think - Creationism vs Darwinian Theory) and the US openly support Israel which is a country based on a single religion and total intolerance toward any other.
You might have had a point if you weren't blatantly ignoring all the pro-creationism shite your own govt is forcing on its population through the education system.
My personal opinion is that all religions are made up to maniplulate the people daft enough to believe in them.
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
Probably badly quoted but the same sentiment expressed by both Jesus Christ and Karl Marx.
And incidentally as a British citizen I still resent the fact that the US govt used to ignore people and companies in their country funding the IRA in their quest to blow us Brits up. The american M16 (aka Armalite) killed plenty of British sqauddies in Northern Ireland until Clinton finally made funding the IRA a criminal offence.
In short - History and most of our News is biased towards those who write it.
English is probably not the posters first langauge, but if you cannot understand the point he is trying to make you are clearly very stupid.
Were you just trying to criticise his grammar because you could not come up with a decent counter argument?
Agreed. But there is a difference between short-term money and long-term money.
Not as far as most fund managers are concerned, and they have the most power in real investment world.
They want short term ROI, or they sell.
The problem with quoting the UK as an example is that before our current prime minister came into power he made an election commitment to forcing our monopoly (BT) to offer cheap broadband to every home. In return for this they recieved a promise that they would not be on his shit list for being attacked by extra legislation and that they would be protected from being taken over by AT & T.
The result was that BT put in the equiptment to give every home broadband down existing phone lines (copper) via the existing BT exchanges. They also then allowed other companies to resell this broadband for the same price as BT were selling it if they took on the support and customer service side of the deal. This let other companies as well as BT make a profit from the explosion of broadband, some of them small business startups. These companies could bundle other services with the connection to add value to their service while still using BT infrastructure and paying BT for it.
If the US did something similar it would cause a massive explosion in broadband take up and the profit would be spread amongst many small companies as well as the big telcos. The only problem is whether you could force the telcos to go along with this when they have different ideas that do not involve suddenly having to compete with a large number of small companies offering your service as resellers, especially when their profit margins from reselling are dictated by a government watchdog (ie - very slim, when this was launched in UK price was £40 per month to end users across the board).
In fact the more I think about this there is no way the US govt would go along with this as it goes against all the principles of leaving business to make whatever profit they see fit, even if it does put your population at a disadvantage.
I was reffering to the offers from Carphone Warehouse, Orange, SKY, NTL and a few others. They are usually free if you sign up to whatever other service they offer for the same price they used to charge for that on its own.
Personally I know a few people using the talktalk offer from Carphoneware House.
By the way, I live in Manchester (Moss Side) and we have 24 megabit ADSL here. Not exactly the most expensive area but it is close to the city centre though, albieit on a different exchange.
And how come you are still on 512K? I didn't think anyone sold those accounts anymore as even the crappy old BT network supports 1Meg ADSL. Try speaking to you ISP and they might give a you a free upgrade if you threaten to switch.
The reason it is so slow on Janet (UK Accademic Network) is because of all the other students downloading Pr0n
More likely is that they were looking for something illegal (MP3's, etc) on his hard disk they could use to make him drop the case.
The thing to remember is that most of the rest of the world have better internet connections than the US do now so pages load quicker for us.
Here in the UK slashdot is near instantaneous over 24 Megabit ADSL. 2 Megabit ADSL accounts are given away for free in the UK now with most phone connections. The slowest account people actually pay money for is 8 Megabit ADSL.
As for all the people saying they still use dialup, why? Here you can get better net connections than 56kbit using a mobile phone (3G - UMTS).
To me the idea of waiting 4 seconds for a page to load is monsterous, expecially if the next page I clicked took just as long even though half the images were already cached.
Eliminate paranoids and cynics?
I have better idea, lets eliminate gullible morons instead.
Oh wait, were talking about America so we would have to get rid of the whole goddamn country.
For many years I have never voted in elections on a national level. The entire system is designed so that the only candidates who get to run are the ones the politcal elite approve of. The political elite is swayed by the money put in their pockets by big business.
After watching the last few elections I think that the result was decided before the election, otherwise Kerry would have adopted a standpoint on Iraq more akin to that of the american people. If he had said what a bad thing war was and that he would never have got invaded but once there we had to stay he probably would have been elected.
What I have been doing instead of voting is turning up and spoiling a ballot paper, usually by writing something asking for a better choice of candidates.
Nice post, shame it was not based on any facts tho.
DDT is only banned in the states, the rest of the world still uses it. I actually have some sitting around from when I had headlice a few years ago. I think it is also acceptable to use it on crops in Europe too. The rest of the world still has Malaria though, even thought they are alowed to use DDT.
The real reason DDT was not completely effective against Malaria is that eventually the mosquitos become immune to DDT.
Actually google can track the links you click on the search results page.
I just verified this by going to google and doing a random search then right clicking on one of the results and selecting properties. All the search results link are actually links back to google that redirect you on the website in question.
Please check your info before you post, it has taken me longer to post this email than it would have taken you to make sure you weren't posting factually inaccurate drivel.
Off topic but I love the fact the linuxformats website has died as a result of being slashdotted.