Sun's failures have less to do with linux and probably more to do with marketing taking over the company and messing with the expensive, but rock solid, hardware their clients came to trust -- and replacing them with cheaper variants.
How could they really have done this without Linux providing Unix on those cheap hardware replacements?
If we can't live in the Cornucopia called Earth without overpopulating and eating up all of our resources, there's no way in hell we can survive anywhere else in the galaxy -- at least, not without routine shipments of *everything* from our Garden of Eden homeworld.
The problem isn't that there isn't an atmosphere, but that it's 1/100 of the pressure of earth's. This isn't a problem. Humans have had air compressor technology for hundreds of years. We can easily compress the atmosphere of Mars to earth standard pressure.
In order to compression Martian atmosphere, wouldn't we need to build a dome that covered all of Mars? Isn't it Earth's gravity that keeps our atmosphere compressed?
I'm glad modern medicine has saved your life. However, I'm sorry you've fallen victim to Big Pharma's propaganda. The fact is, some 60% of new drug research is taxpayer funded, done in research universities. A lot of the "research" Big Pharma is doing is slightly changing the molecular structure of a drug, so they can say it's a new drug, and then get a patent on it. So it doesn't really advance the cause of medicine that much, but it does promote the profitability of company.
The question you might be asking yourself at this point is, if Big Pharma isn't spending all this money on research like they say they are, what *are* they spending it on? A: Marketing. They're spending 30-40% of their budget on marketing the drugs. Something that doctors should be doing all by themselves, without any help.
If you care to base your opinion on facts, here's a good article to start with.
When I bring this up with current military folks, they say they think rules of engagement will keep it from going that far. I can see that in situations where one side has complete air superiority - but if it comes to evenly matched sides, I think ROE will be out the window when sticking to it means losing. The whole thing is rather disconcerting as we seem to be developing better ways to kill just as quickly as all our other tech is advancing but I don't see leaps in our ability to live peacefully or get along keeping up with it all.
Do you think the world will see serious war against major powers in the near future? When was the last time we had real out-and-out dog fights? Gulf War I? I keep thinking that the future of warfare is basically going to be these anti-terrorism wars, where global powers are fighting villagers getting financed by someone.
I have heard it's because it's a smaller molecule and therefore escapes easier. More of it just aspirates through the skin of the bag, so to speak, than does helium. IANAChemist.
Does one black person really confuse people that much?
It's not so much confusion but identification that they're worried about. You're supposed to *identify* with the people in the ad, either consciously or unconsciously, and that makes you think you should buy it.
It's like when I see an ad for a mini-van, and there's a soccer mom hauling her kids around, I think "I don't need that, that's for suburban moms" -- even at a subconscious level.
Read through the comments on this story. Look at the posts from the New Zealander who thinks ads with black people are target towards the US. Or how in France they don't have blond haired, blue-eyed people because they would be though of as Dutch. Or how those same blond-haired, blue-eyed people aren't in ads in Italy. Or how the token minority in German ads is a Turkish or otherwise middle-eastern person.
The mix people people is more about how a nation, and the individual of that nation, identifies their society, than about "Blacks in Poland? Huh?". In the US, we have white people, some blacks, and some Asians. That's how we perceive ourselves, so that's how ads are made ( it is a feedback loop -- we do percieve ourselves in the way we are presented in ads, also ). Same goes for other countries -- they just percieve themselves in different ways.
Outrage over a picture like this? People in Hungary should get out more often.
Well, that's kind of the point. You walk outside in Poland, and you don't see any black people.
What would be the reaction if this were marketed in Europe, and all three people were Asian? "Is this a Japanese board room?" Or if all three people were very dark-skinned black: "Where's this taking place? Kenya?" It's sort of the same thing.
Convenience stores of ghettos and hoods, which is one of the few places to buy food there. Also, if you live in the country, it's not unlikely you might have to drive an hour to buy fresh produce.
So, it's not like there aren't areas where you *can't* buy vegetables; they're just way out of your way. Or 'uneconomical' is another way of putting it.
Doug: Uh question for Ms. Bellamy. In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a... [the nerds chuckle] a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
Sarlaac: It's just an ant-lion magnified to a colossal scale. The ant-lions around my place seem to be doing fine. If you're going to nitpick it, ask why being digested over a thousand years is such a big deal. Shouldn't you suffocate upon ingestion? Doesn't make much difference to you what your corpse is doing after that.
Maybe it evolved some way to keep its prey alive, like parasitic wasps, in order to lay eggs in it, or slowly feed of something its prey produces.
Yeah, think of it, how do sarlaacs reproduce? "Man, being stuck in that Sarlaac sucked! How long was I in there for? Can't believe I ever made it out. Gosh, I hope I can make it back to town... feeling woozy... suns are *so* hot... Overwhelming urge to dig a pit and crawl in...."
4. Deathstar Escape Scene - Troopers miss every shot at the group of rebels who are going to lead them to the rebellion base...hmm, could it be they were ordered to miss?
The problem with the kind of thinking that your outlining above is that it's not like the problem hasn't already been solved. Almost every other industrialized country has either outright socialized medicine, where the government owns the hospitals and employs doctors and nurses, to government reimbursed health care, which is more or less what you find everywhere else. ( BTW, Canadians and Britons are overwhelmingly satisfied with their health care systems; the only people who don't like them are American conservatives ). It works, in every country in the world, and it certainly would work here, unless Republicans intentionally break the system, like they did with Medicare Part B, which disallows the government from negotiating prices for medicines with drug companies. Now taxpayers pay retail price, the most expensive price in the world, for their medicare prescription drugs. It was welfare for the wildly profitable drug companies, and now Republicans can validly claim that the monkey-wrench they threw in the system will drive Medicare broke.
The problem is we've let for-profit medicine -- specialist doctors owning labs as business ventures, and then over-prescribing scans and test just to rack up bucks, and health insurers that deny care to increase profit, and for profit drug companies, which development treatment medications, so that they have you as an annuity into your old age, rather than cures -- take control, which is contrary to the goals of medicine, curing and healing.
The real solution is to throw these parasites out of the system. Yes, it will be a disruption, but it needs to be done if we want things to improve. They are powerful because they have money, and because they have power and money, they will always work ceaselessly for their own survival and benefit. They way they improve their own profitability is to make health care more expensive for the consumer. The bottom line is that they are hampering, not promoting, health care. There real solution is already out there and working; we just need to eat some humble pie and do it the right way, like the rest of the world has shown us.
"American exceptionalism (def. "exceptionalism") refers to the theory that the United States occupies a special niche among developed nations[1] in terms of its national credo, historical evolution, political and religious institutions and unique origins. The roots of the term are attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville,[2] who claimed that the then-50-year-old United States held a special place among nations, because it was a country of immigrants and the first modern democracy.[citation needed] The term itself did not emerge until after World War II[3] when it was embraced by neoconservative[4] pundits in what was described in the International Herald Tribune as "an ugly twist of late".[5] More recently, President Barack Obama noted that "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."[6] He also said that "there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive."[7] Research shows that "there is some indication for American exceptionalism among the [U.S.] public, but very little evidence of unilateral attitudes".[2]
The theory of American exceptionalism has a number of opponents, especially from the Left.[8][9] The U.S. Democratic Party in particular is said to be "fundamentally opposed to" American exceptionalism.[10] They argue that the belief is "self-serving and jingoistic" (see slavery and civil rights issues, Western betrayal, and the failure to aid Jews fleeing the Nazis),[1] that it is based on a myth,[11] and that "[t]here is a growing refusal to accept" the idea of exceptionalism both nationally and internationally.[12] "
Slashdot Mirror
Sun's failures have less to do with linux and probably more to do with marketing taking over the company and messing with the expensive, but rock solid, hardware their clients came to trust -- and replacing them with cheaper variants.
How could they really have done this without Linux providing Unix on those cheap hardware replacements?
I always thought that ionizing radiation damaged the body on a molecular level beyond any healing ability that it may have.
They made a drug. That fixes it. Duh! It's a drug/
If we can't live in the Cornucopia called Earth without overpopulating and eating up all of our resources, there's no way in hell we can survive anywhere else in the galaxy -- at least, not without routine shipments of *everything* from our Garden of Eden homeworld.
The problem isn't that there isn't an atmosphere, but that it's 1/100 of the pressure of earth's. This isn't a problem. Humans have had air compressor technology for hundreds of years. We can easily compress the atmosphere of Mars to earth standard pressure.
In order to compression Martian atmosphere, wouldn't we need to build a dome that covered all of Mars? Isn't it Earth's gravity that keeps our atmosphere compressed?
We already have death panels -- they're the health insurance companies, who routinely reward agents for *denying* health care claims.
I'm glad modern medicine has saved your life. However, I'm sorry you've fallen victim to Big Pharma's propaganda. The fact is, some 60% of new drug research is taxpayer funded, done in research universities. A lot of the "research" Big Pharma is doing is slightly changing the molecular structure of a drug, so they can say it's a new drug, and then get a patent on it. So it doesn't really advance the cause of medicine that much, but it does promote the profitability of company.
The question you might be asking yourself at this point is, if Big Pharma isn't spending all this money on research like they say they are, what *are* they spending it on? A: Marketing. They're spending 30-40% of their budget on marketing the drugs. Something that doctors should be doing all by themselves, without any help.
If you care to base your opinion on facts, here's a good article to start with.
If there really were trips, would 1/3rd be trips, 1/3d be dupes, and the rest, originals?
When I bring this up with current military folks, they say they think rules of engagement will keep it from going that far. I can see that in situations where one side has complete air superiority - but if it comes to evenly matched sides, I think ROE will be out the window when sticking to it means losing. The whole thing is rather disconcerting as we seem to be developing better ways to kill just as quickly as all our other tech is advancing but I don't see leaps in our ability to live peacefully or get along keeping up with it all.
Do you think the world will see serious war against major powers in the near future? When was the last time we had real out-and-out dog fights? Gulf War I? I keep thinking that the future of warfare is basically going to be these anti-terrorism wars, where global powers are fighting villagers getting financed by someone.
I have heard it's because it's a smaller molecule and therefore escapes easier. More of it just aspirates through the skin of the bag, so to speak, than does helium. IANAChemist.
Does one black person really confuse people that much?
It's not so much confusion but identification that they're worried about. You're supposed to *identify* with the people in the ad, either consciously or unconsciously, and that makes you think you should buy it.
It's like when I see an ad for a mini-van, and there's a soccer mom hauling her kids around, I think "I don't need that, that's for suburban moms" -- even at a subconscious level.
Read through the comments on this story. Look at the posts from the New Zealander who thinks ads with black people are target towards the US. Or how in France they don't have blond haired, blue-eyed people because they would be though of as Dutch. Or how those same blond-haired, blue-eyed people aren't in ads in Italy. Or how the token minority in German ads is a Turkish or otherwise middle-eastern person.
The mix people people is more about how a nation, and the individual of that nation, identifies their society, than about "Blacks in Poland? Huh?". In the US, we have white people, some blacks, and some Asians. That's how we perceive ourselves, so that's how ads are made ( it is a feedback loop -- we do percieve ourselves in the way we are presented in ads, also ). Same goes for other countries -- they just percieve themselves in different ways.
support is a huge thing if you are using adobe in your career.
What particular problems have you encountered that having support was able to dig you out of?
I'm in Columbus, Ohio, and that photo doesn't look anywhere out of the norm for here. In fact, I would say that I identify with it.
Wouldn't it be even stranger if, in this day and age, all photos of corporate meeting were of middle-aged white guys?
Outrage over a picture like this? People in Hungary should get out more often.
Well, that's kind of the point. You walk outside in Poland, and you don't see any black people.
What would be the reaction if this were marketed in Europe, and all three people were Asian? "Is this a Japanese board room?" Or if all three people were very dark-skinned black: "Where's this taking place? Kenya?" It's sort of the same thing.
The AMA artificially limits the number of doctors and nurses available,
The AMA limits nurses too? I was unaware of this.
. but wouldn't all saber battles melt down into a concentration battle for who could switch their damn weapon on?
How about all that concentration when someone is coming at you with a light saber? How's that for a all-out assault?
Convenience stores of ghettos and hoods, which is one of the few places to buy food there. Also, if you live in the country, it's not unlikely you might have to drive an hour to buy fresh produce.
So, it's not like there aren't areas where you *can't* buy vegetables; they're just way out of your way. Or 'uneconomical' is another way of putting it.
Doug: Uh question for Ms. Bellamy. In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a... [the nerds chuckle] a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
Wizard.
Can someone clue me in here?
Sarlaac: It's just an ant-lion magnified to a colossal scale. The ant-lions around my place seem to be doing fine. If you're going to nitpick it, ask why being digested over a thousand years is such a big deal. Shouldn't you suffocate upon ingestion? Doesn't make much difference to you what your corpse is doing after that.
Maybe it evolved some way to keep its prey alive, like parasitic wasps, in order to lay eggs in it, or slowly feed of something its prey produces.
Yeah, think of it, how do sarlaacs reproduce? "Man, being stuck in that Sarlaac sucked! How long was I in there for? Can't believe I ever made it out. Gosh, I hope I can make it back to town... feeling woozy... suns are *so* hot... Overwhelming urge to dig a pit and crawl in...."
4. Deathstar Escape Scene - Troopers miss every shot at the group of rebels who are going to lead them to the rebellion base...hmm, could it be they were ordered to miss?
Deathstar Destruction was an inside job!
Everything that every living thing does is thermodynamically a huge waste.
Whereas the other, non-living phenomena are oh-so-efficient? In fact, they use only as much energy as they need to do what they do.
Clearly I need to drink the coffee in front of me. I read that as "tomatoes are acts of god". I mean, they're pretty good, but... Oh.
Well, if you take the Bible literally, isn't it true? Tomatoes, along with the rest of the universe, are an act of God.
You great-grandfather was Dennis Leary?
The problem with the kind of thinking that your outlining above is that it's not like the problem hasn't already been solved. Almost every other industrialized country has either outright socialized medicine, where the government owns the hospitals and employs doctors and nurses, to government reimbursed health care, which is more or less what you find everywhere else. ( BTW, Canadians and Britons are overwhelmingly satisfied with their health care systems; the only people who don't like them are American conservatives ). It works, in every country in the world, and it certainly would work here, unless Republicans intentionally break the system, like they did with Medicare Part B, which disallows the government from negotiating prices for medicines with drug companies. Now taxpayers pay retail price, the most expensive price in the world, for their medicare prescription drugs. It was welfare for the wildly profitable drug companies, and now Republicans can validly claim that the monkey-wrench they threw in the system will drive Medicare broke.
The problem is we've let for-profit medicine -- specialist doctors owning labs as business ventures, and then over-prescribing scans and test just to rack up bucks, and health insurers that deny care to increase profit, and for profit drug companies, which development treatment medications, so that they have you as an annuity into your old age, rather than cures -- take control, which is contrary to the goals of medicine, curing and healing.
The real solution is to throw these parasites out of the system. Yes, it will be a disruption, but it needs to be done if we want things to improve. They are powerful because they have money, and because they have power and money, they will always work ceaselessly for their own survival and benefit. They way they improve their own profitability is to make health care more expensive for the consumer. The bottom line is that they are hampering, not promoting, health care. There real solution is already out there and working; we just need to eat some humble pie and do it the right way, like the rest of the world has shown us.
Just remember, the USA is better at everything. Why? Because!
The technical term for this idea is American Exceptionalism.
"American exceptionalism (def. "exceptionalism") refers to the theory that the United States occupies a special niche among developed nations[1] in terms of its national credo, historical evolution, political and religious institutions and unique origins. The roots of the term are attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville,[2] who claimed that the then-50-year-old United States held a special place among nations, because it was a country of immigrants and the first modern democracy.[citation needed] The term itself did not emerge until after World War II[3] when it was embraced by neoconservative[4] pundits in what was described in the International Herald Tribune as "an ugly twist of late".[5] More recently, President Barack Obama noted that "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."[6] He also said that "there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive."[7] Research shows that "there is some indication for American exceptionalism among the [U.S.] public, but very little evidence of unilateral attitudes".[2]
The theory of American exceptionalism has a number of opponents, especially from the Left.[8][9] The U.S. Democratic Party in particular is said to be "fundamentally opposed to" American exceptionalism.[10] They argue that the belief is "self-serving and jingoistic" (see slavery and civil rights issues, Western betrayal, and the failure to aid Jews fleeing the Nazis),[1] that it is based on a myth,[11] and that "[t]here is a growing refusal to accept" the idea of exceptionalism both nationally and internationally.[12] "