There's plenty of eyes already on the road who see these reckless drivers in action, and could catch them red-handed. How about we "crowdsource" it and put all those people to good use? They're already pissed-off by these reckless drivers and possibly motivated enough to actually volunteer.
I'll be genuinely impressed - and eager to put myself under the magnet - if it can reliably distinguish between autism spectrum disorders and highly sensitive people (http://www.hsperson.com/pages/2Aug09.htm).
Startups exist to either (a) do something wonderful or (b) begin a process of concentrating vast wealth and material resources.
Corporations AKA "behemoths", OTOH, exist to cement and maintain a successful concentration of wealth (for the execs and shareholders, not so much the rank and file).
Of course it's possible that Kennedy also didn't really give a rat's fuck [hey, can they do that?] about it either, and that his public position was motivated by nothing more than the Cold War. Nevertheless, regardless what he did or didn't think personally, publicly he did in fact make a determined effort to set that as a goal for the nation. Obama, as you said, has certainly done nothing similar. Did Kennedy foresee the need for diversifying and decentralizing Homo sapiens and finding new resources for us to exploit when we had fully exploited this planet, while Obama has his feathered head planted firmly in the sand? Maybe. Whatever the reason, Kennedy acted and Obama hasn't.
I don't think you understood the intent of his remark at all. Clearly in hindsight, after seeing your explanation, you thought he was drawing a parallel between Kennedy and Obama and implying that someone should put a bullet to the head of Obama in order to get the space program going again... is that about right?
Well, you misunderstood. Kennedy was noteworthy for the public statements he made about space exploration and his apparent commitment to it, so the OP was suggesting that the success of the space program after Kennedy's death was a nation's attempt to honor his public dream posthumously. Get it?
Obama has no similar dreams of space exploration to my knowledge, no equivalent public commitment, so putting a bullet to his head doesn't create another martyr for NASA.
"Careful there", my ass. He's quite possibly right in spite of being so refreshingly blunt and transparent... unlike certain creatures who get chosen and paid to make decisions for the rest of us.
Further, I find this lazy-days-of-summer spacefaring timetable ridiculous, if not downright suspicious. THIRTEEN YEARS to plan a mission to an asteroid? It sounds suspiciously like plausible deniability, if you ask me: set a date so far in the future, so many administrations hence, that it's virtually certain to get killed or watered-down before that date arrives.
I was merely pointing out that it's sometimes a rather fine line of distinction between the two, if the method/process is the same for both. I note a similar fine line between what Big Pharma sells and the offerings of street corner drug pushers, who both use the same tactics (now, at least) to win customers, yet we carry on a "war" against one and allow the other to advertise every hour on TV. I would argue the danger isn't in the products, it's in the methods. No manipulation is good manipulation.
... if you find yourself, say, in a post-Apocalyptic predicament and need to return to hunting and gathering and living less protected. Being able to wake up when something goes bump in the night could be the difference between seeing another sunrise or not.
And what will they do with just the domain name, then? If they use it themselves for the exact same purpose, then it's still monetizing the hard work of the fans through abuse of the familiarity and goodwill created, even in the absence of specific "content". Of course it might backfire, as such nefarious plans sometimes do. Sometimes.
This was undoubtedly the nefarious plan all along: let the fans do all the hard work creating a social site with valuable content, even encourage them to do it, then (ab)use IP law to cash in and monetize all their hard work.
This just in: indoctrination really seems to work.
Of course we don't call it indoctrination if there's no dissent. Everyone agrees that getting children to eat veggies is a Good Thing, so it's not indoctrination, it's something else. What's the difference between indoctrination and learning exactly, again...?
This behavior is merely yet another expression of the very dubious benefit provided by groupthink, AKA tribalism. You cannot and will not solve problems like this until you solve the problem of groupthink itself. Like pollution and species extinction, this DIGG business is merely a symptom of a problem caused by an 800-pound gorilla (overpopulation, groupthink) that no one knows how to cage.
What I described are not core (Gecko?) issues. They are unique to Thunderbird and perhaps SeaMonkey. Also, these aren't unreported bugs; they have been reported, confirmed by multiple reports, and acknowledged by Mozilla. They have no excuse for leaving bugs like it running loose for years except that their priorities lie elsewhere. Rather than fix a broken new-status system, for instance, they add a completely new indexing system.
There is most definitely a performance problem and resource abuse issue with Thunderbird 3. The Portable version can't even run correctly at all from any but the fastest external Flash/SSD media, instead it must be run from an external HDD; otherwise the user interface takes extended sabbaticals for ten seconds at a time when even the mouse is ignored. It isn't simply the indexing feature, because explicitly disabling it in the configuration did nothing to relieve the above symptoms. I can't claim to know the exact nature of the cause, but running the Portable version from typical Flash media is a deal-breaker. It works well enough from even a slow 4200 RPM external HDD on both my desktop and laptop systems, but every piece of Flash media I tried made it unusable.
Thunderbird has other major usability bugs that aren't being addressed as well, things that would easily qualify for "papercut" status. An example: the "new" status assigned to retrieved messages disappears from all messages in accounts seemingly randomly at the drop of a hat: when opening and closing messages in a new window, deleting messages, compacting folders, or even just clicking from one account (folder) to another without doing anything else.
Basically I think all of Mozilla's energy is focused on Firefox, and Thunderbird isn't seeing much attention.
I still insist on TYPING two spaces, though of course in many instances (as here) the second one winds up being stripped away against my will. I also insist on using doubled consonants in certain words when terminated with "-ing" and such, even though the spelling conventions seem to have changed to eliminate the exceptions (if the Mozilla spell-checker is any indication).
... Brian May arguably pretty much is one, likely better laid than the both of us, and at least as musical as Bon Jovi. I don't know of a single genius in the NBA, though, so ya got me there. Our not-so-fair city does have a former basketball star as a mayor now, but I don't think anyone is claiming he's a genius, not even himself.
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There's plenty of eyes already on the road who see these reckless drivers in action, and could catch them red-handed. How about we "crowdsource" it and put all those people to good use? They're already pissed-off by these reckless drivers and possibly motivated enough to actually volunteer.
I'll be genuinely impressed - and eager to put myself under the magnet - if it can reliably distinguish between autism spectrum disorders and highly sensitive people (http://www.hsperson.com/pages/2Aug09.htm).
Would you mind going out and buying a few hundred this week, so that when I'm ready to buy one I can actually afford it? Thanks so much!
Startups exist to either (a) do something wonderful or (b) begin a process of concentrating vast wealth and material resources.
Corporations AKA "behemoths", OTOH, exist to cement and maintain a successful concentration of wealth (for the execs and shareholders, not so much the rank and file).
Chew, dammit!
Did you double up on the lines of coke this morning?
This reminds me of perpendicular recording but for meatspace. Cool! When do we get the option to screw them in three deep?
Of course it's possible that Kennedy also didn't really give a rat's fuck [hey, can they do that?] about it either, and that his public position was motivated by nothing more than the Cold War. Nevertheless, regardless what he did or didn't think personally, publicly he did in fact make a determined effort to set that as a goal for the nation. Obama, as you said, has certainly done nothing similar. Did Kennedy foresee the need for diversifying and decentralizing Homo sapiens and finding new resources for us to exploit when we had fully exploited this planet, while Obama has his feathered head planted firmly in the sand? Maybe. Whatever the reason, Kennedy acted and Obama hasn't.
I don't think you understood the intent of his remark at all. Clearly in hindsight, after seeing your explanation, you thought he was drawing a parallel between Kennedy and Obama and implying that someone should put a bullet to the head of Obama in order to get the space program going again... is that about right?
Well, you misunderstood. Kennedy was noteworthy for the public statements he made about space exploration and his apparent commitment to it, so the OP was suggesting that the success of the space program after Kennedy's death was a nation's attempt to honor his public dream posthumously. Get it?
Obama has no similar dreams of space exploration to my knowledge, no equivalent public commitment, so putting a bullet to his head doesn't create another martyr for NASA.
Now back to the drawing board with ya....
"Careful there", my ass. He's quite possibly right in spite of being so refreshingly blunt and transparent... unlike certain creatures who get chosen and paid to make decisions for the rest of us.
Further, I find this lazy-days-of-summer spacefaring timetable ridiculous, if not downright suspicious. THIRTEEN YEARS to plan a mission to an asteroid? It sounds suspiciously like plausible deniability, if you ask me: set a date so far in the future, so many administrations hence, that it's virtually certain to get killed or watered-down before that date arrives.
I was merely pointing out that it's sometimes a rather fine line of distinction between the two, if the method/process is the same for both. I note a similar fine line between what Big Pharma sells and the offerings of street corner drug pushers, who both use the same tactics (now, at least) to win customers, yet we carry on a "war" against one and allow the other to advertise every hour on TV. I would argue the danger isn't in the products, it's in the methods. No manipulation is good manipulation.
... if you find yourself, say, in a post-Apocalyptic predicament and need to return to hunting and gathering and living less protected. Being able to wake up when something goes bump in the night could be the difference between seeing another sunrise or not.
And what will they do with just the domain name, then? If they use it themselves for the exact same purpose, then it's still monetizing the hard work of the fans through abuse of the familiarity and goodwill created, even in the absence of specific "content". Of course it might backfire, as such nefarious plans sometimes do. Sometimes.
This was undoubtedly the nefarious plan all along: let the fans do all the hard work creating a social site with valuable content, even encourage them to do it, then (ab)use IP law to cash in and monetize all their hard work.
This just in: indoctrination really seems to work.
Of course we don't call it indoctrination if there's no dissent. Everyone agrees that getting children to eat veggies is a Good Thing, so it's not indoctrination, it's something else. What's the difference between indoctrination and learning exactly, again...?
This behavior is merely yet another expression of the very dubious benefit provided by groupthink, AKA tribalism. You cannot and will not solve problems like this until you solve the problem of groupthink itself. Like pollution and species extinction, this DIGG business is merely a symptom of a problem caused by an 800-pound gorilla (overpopulation, groupthink) that no one knows how to cage.
What I described are not core (Gecko?) issues. They are unique to Thunderbird and perhaps SeaMonkey. Also, these aren't unreported bugs; they have been reported, confirmed by multiple reports, and acknowledged by Mozilla. They have no excuse for leaving bugs like it running loose for years except that their priorities lie elsewhere. Rather than fix a broken new-status system, for instance, they add a completely new indexing system.
There is most definitely a performance problem and resource abuse issue with Thunderbird 3. The Portable version can't even run correctly at all from any but the fastest external Flash/SSD media, instead it must be run from an external HDD; otherwise the user interface takes extended sabbaticals for ten seconds at a time when even the mouse is ignored. It isn't simply the indexing feature, because explicitly disabling it in the configuration did nothing to relieve the above symptoms. I can't claim to know the exact nature of the cause, but running the Portable version from typical Flash media is a deal-breaker. It works well enough from even a slow 4200 RPM external HDD on both my desktop and laptop systems, but every piece of Flash media I tried made it unusable.
Thunderbird has other major usability bugs that aren't being addressed as well, things that would easily qualify for "papercut" status. An example: the "new" status assigned to retrieved messages disappears from all messages in accounts seemingly randomly at the drop of a hat: when opening and closing messages in a new window, deleting messages, compacting folders, or even just clicking from one account (folder) to another without doing anything else.
Basically I think all of Mozilla's energy is focused on Firefox, and Thunderbird isn't seeing much attention.
tribalism == groupthink == Weapons of Mass Delusion
Biggest threat to civilization, ever.
How to fix most of the world's problems, in one step:
1. Replace tribalism/groupthink with globalism/egalitarianism
2. Profit!
I won't live to see it. Roddenberry didn't.
I still insist on TYPING two spaces, though of course in many instances (as here) the second one winds up being stripped away against my will. I also insist on using doubled consonants in certain words when terminated with "-ing" and such, even though the spelling conventions seem to have changed to eliminate the exceptions (if the Mozilla spell-checker is any indication).
Wait, so there might be something profitable down here with me in Mom's basement? *rummage*
It seems that the FBI is falling a bit short of its historical Integrity quality, as proclaimed on the seal, these days.
So instead of a monorail system, they simply built the rail(s) into the vehicle itself. What could possibly go wrong?
... Brian May arguably pretty much is one, likely better laid than the both of us, and at least as musical as Bon Jovi. I don't know of a single genius in the NBA, though, so ya got me there. Our not-so-fair city does have a former basketball star as a mayor now, but I don't think anyone is claiming he's a genius, not even himself.
I know... that's funnier than my attempted joke. I'm going back to pulling the wings offa bees now and leave the humor to the experts.