If you believe in democracy and free speech then you totally DO want them to participate in a global communications treaty. If democracy really is the best ideaology on offer then surely it will pass the test of refusing to censor it's own enemies?
Librarians have worked toward a similar goal for centuries and are trully the unsung heros of free speech. They have a strong code of ethics and present a united and publically respectable front. Pity the world's sysadmins and coders can't get their shit togther ethics-wise because we are going to be fighting each other until doomsday over who controls the wires.
How old do you have to be? I'm 53 next week, I was also an IBM contractor for a few years in the 90's, and guess what, I've even done some work on IBM mainframes. I agree people should be wary of vendor lock in, particularly with IT infrastructure but I'm highly skeptical of claims that this is an anti-competitive move. Now to the actual point of my post, hyperbolic speculation about what could happen just makes the person who posted it look like a fool when everything is still humming along a decade or so later. Every one of those foolish reactions is a paraphrase of one or more posts in this thread, many which are rated +5 insightful. I think they are silly and childish now, if you can't see that now come back and review their dire predictions in 2020.
Yes, hanging a fridge from your neck can be a little uncomfortable and downright dangerous while swimming, but I agree it is more noticable than a pendant, bracelet, or sticker. The idea in TFA just inserts a middleman between the victim and the paramedic who expects payment for inconvienencing both. I predict that once this slashvesrtiment is off the front page we will hear no more of it (discounting the obligatory dupes).
BTW: The compressors found in fridges have a bad habit of exploding in a fire, often with enough force to blow a hole in the back and rip the door off it's hinges.
He doesn't 'program for a hooby' he went to programming classes specifically to learn more about the subject for this specific trial. It really isn't that uncommon for a judge to decide they need some independent "briefing" on the subject at hand before hearing the arguments.
If I'd been 10 years younger I'd have been all indignant and worried, but these things have a habit of sorting themselves out.
What, the summary doesn't scare you? You don't think installing linux will become a felony? You don't believe this is a slippery slope into 1984? You don't think that MS keeps the CEOs of major OEMs in it's dungeon? You can't find a way to blame the government, your parents, or baby boomers? It's not part of the scary NWO we've been hearing about since the 1930's? You can see why people might actually want this trivial change to their office furniture?
"Virtual telepathy" is my explaination as to why we can't find any advanced aliens, as soon as it's invented they start punching each other, glasses or no glasses.
My 14yo blue healer cross wants some of that towel biting action, she's also into chasing light planes across the padock despite the metal pins in her hind leg.
We now have evidence that gamma rays influence climate
Speaking of incomplete data - No, we have evidence that gamma rays leave a vapour trail in a cloud chamber since that's how we detect them in an atom smasher. A few people have taken this fact and speculated that gamma rays affect the climate by seeding clouds, there are even a couple of books about the idea. Only problem is, their speculation does not not fit everyone else's observations. However you will find the 'Iris theory' presented as fact in the opinion pages of the wall street journal. Why? - Because on top of their complete lack of evidence, the people pushing this idea just happen to think it 'proves' Earth's climate is self regulating so we don't have to worry about regulating our emmissions.
There are 25 people at the software house where I work, (which is part of a much larger corporation), we all have communicator active when we boot up, and we all totally ignore it. I also want it to automatically translate my missives to Japan into their native tounge and vica-versa. I also want to be able to log on to my email from outside the office without So sure, you can kill my email if you have a faster and simpler way to systematically sort through a hundred or so technical points and questions every day, and if you or I had one we would be snorting coke of a hooker's breasts right now..
Strange title, I don't see an ounce of skeptisisim in your post, but I do see a ton of bitterness and ad-homieniem. Maybe a bit of pycological projection too? - Are you angry at yourself because you tried to cheat science and it ended badly for you?
Jobs was not a scientific genius, more of an organisational genius (re: Edison), so 'not a real genius' to some nerds. Geniuses are human, I know, it was a shock to me too when I first dicovered it! I'm 'smart' and I'm a nice person, so by inference geniuses are nice people, right?
To see the same phenomena in a scientific genius just pick up any bio of Issac Newton, he was widely recognised in his own lifetime as genius of the highest caliber by the public, and a common arsehole by his collegues and relatives. "American idol" style fawning over an arsehole who happens to also be a genius is definitely not something new.
Like him or not
I don't go out of my way to read about Jobs, Woz, BillG, et al, but I I like Woz as a person from what I've seen of him, Jobs I'm still undecided. None of that detracts from their status as modern day geniuses.
there is a 90 percent chance of a large earthquake in the minimum three year...[snip]...magical thinking
So your saying that specific area is levelled by a major earthquake and a tsunami every 3yrs or so? Doesn't it strike you as odd that the Japs would have to rebuild every 3yrs or so with the full knowledge that they will have to do it all over again in another 3yrs? It is not remarkable that Fukushima Daiichi was built 41yrs ago, so by your calculations had already survived a dozen such events before it fell apart?
The incident was a catastrophe, with or without the nuclear reactors, there's no need for hyperbolic "what ifs" based on what are clearly dubious claims.
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If you believe in democracy and free speech then you totally DO want them to participate in a global communications treaty. If democracy really is the best ideaology on offer then surely it will pass the test of refusing to censor it's own enemies?
Posting due to lack of a +1-hypocritical option.
Librarians have worked toward a similar goal for centuries and are trully the unsung heros of free speech. They have a strong code of ethics and present a united and publically respectable front. Pity the world's sysadmins and coders can't get their shit togther ethics-wise because we are going to be fighting each other until doomsday over who controls the wires.
People older than you remember the way IBM
How old do you have to be? I'm 53 next week, I was also an IBM contractor for a few years in the 90's, and guess what, I've even done some work on IBM mainframes. I agree people should be wary of vendor lock in, particularly with IT infrastructure but I'm highly skeptical of claims that this is an anti-competitive move. Now to the actual point of my post, hyperbolic speculation about what could happen just makes the person who posted it look like a fool when everything is still humming along a decade or so later. Every one of those foolish reactions is a paraphrase of one or more posts in this thread, many which are rated +5 insightful. I think they are silly and childish now, if you can't see that now come back and review their dire predictions in 2020.
Yes, hanging a fridge from your neck can be a little uncomfortable and downright dangerous while swimming, but I agree it is more noticable than a pendant, bracelet, or sticker. The idea in TFA just inserts a middleman between the victim and the paramedic who expects payment for inconvienencing both. I predict that once this slashvesrtiment is off the front page we will hear no more of it (discounting the obligatory dupes).
BTW: The compressors found in fridges have a bad habit of exploding in a fire, often with enough force to blow a hole in the back and rip the door off it's hinges.
He doesn't 'program for a hooby' he went to programming classes specifically to learn more about the subject for this specific trial. It really isn't that uncommon for a judge to decide they need some independent "briefing" on the subject at hand before hearing the arguments.
perhaps Google just temporarily amended "Don't Be Evil" to "The End Justifies The Means" and bribed the everloving fuck out of this particular judge?
Or perhaps 99 times out of 100 the justice system just works like it's supposed to?
If I'd been 10 years younger I'd have been all indignant and worried, but these things have a habit of sorting themselves out.
What, the summary doesn't scare you? You don't think installing linux will become a felony? You don't believe this is a slippery slope into 1984? You don't think that MS keeps the CEOs of major OEMs in it's dungeon? You can't find a way to blame the government, your parents, or baby boomers? It's not part of the scary NWO we've been hearing about since the 1930's? You can see why people might actually want this trivial change to their office furniture?
Congratulations, you are now a 'grown up'.
"Virtual telepathy" is my explaination as to why we can't find any advanced aliens, as soon as it's invented they start punching each other, glasses or no glasses.
where you can set a threshold for events to be displayed
Great idea, in the future when I ask "where are my glasses" out loud they could SMS "on top of your head you silly old fart" to my phone.
My 14yo blue healer cross wants some of that towel biting action, she's also into chasing light planes across the padock despite the metal pins in her hind leg.
"willing to give everybody a chance" - Wow, where do I send the cheque?
what would stop someone else from offering a Foxconn like working environment along with a much cheaper service?
The RSPCA?
Yes, it's also possible that it's the answer to the age old question "why are we hear?" - to build a Dyson sphere data center around the Sun!
Surely he would have un-invented chads while he was there?
We now have evidence that gamma rays influence climate
Speaking of incomplete data - No, we have evidence that gamma rays leave a vapour trail in a cloud chamber since that's how we detect them in an atom smasher. A few people have taken this fact and speculated that gamma rays affect the climate by seeding clouds, there are even a couple of books about the idea. Only problem is, their speculation does not not fit everyone else's observations. However you will find the 'Iris theory' presented as fact in the opinion pages of the wall street journal. Why? - Because on top of their complete lack of evidence, the people pushing this idea just happen to think it 'proves' Earth's climate is self regulating so we don't have to worry about regulating our emmissions.
Your 'wisdom' makes me glad the fools are running the planet.
There are 25 people at the software house where I work, (which is part of a much larger corporation), we all have communicator active when we boot up, and we all totally ignore it. I also want it to automatically translate my missives to Japan into their native tounge and vica-versa. I also want to be able to log on to my email from outside the office without So sure, you can kill my email if you have a faster and simpler way to systematically sort through a hundred or so technical points and questions every day, and if you or I had one we would be snorting coke of a hooker's breasts right now..
Zero complaints = empty array
......
Complaint #1 = array[0]
Complaint #64 = array[63].
Not sure how you spell it, but a 'murkin' is a pubic hair wig used by actors.
Yuh dickhead, that ain't ow yuh spell Oz-stray-lee-ah.
Strange title, I don't see an ounce of skeptisisim in your post, but I do see a ton of bitterness and ad-homieniem.
Maybe a bit of pycological projection too? - Are you angry at yourself because you tried to cheat science and it ended badly for you?
To see the same phenomena in a scientific genius just pick up any bio of Issac Newton, he was widely recognised in his own lifetime as genius of the highest caliber by the public, and a common arsehole by his collegues and relatives. "American idol" style fawning over an arsehole who happens to also be a genius is definitely not something new.
Like him or not
I don't go out of my way to read about Jobs, Woz, BillG, et al, but I I like Woz as a person from what I've seen of him, Jobs I'm still undecided. None of that detracts from their status as modern day geniuses.
temporary idiocy
Temporary? - Don't be such a tease.
"Shunned Isreal" - This is an attempt at humour, right?
there is a 90 percent chance of a large earthquake in the minimum three year...[snip]...magical thinking
So your saying that specific area is levelled by a major earthquake and a tsunami every 3yrs or so? Doesn't it strike you as odd that the Japs would have to rebuild every 3yrs or so with the full knowledge that they will have to do it all over again in another 3yrs? It is not remarkable that Fukushima Daiichi was built 41yrs ago, so by your calculations had already survived a dozen such events before it fell apart?
The incident was a catastrophe, with or without the nuclear reactors, there's no need for hyperbolic "what ifs" based on what are clearly dubious claims.