I cannot dispute that this guy is a complete asshole and should certainly be punished in someway. Deported at a minimum. Not so sure about prison though. I have a hard time believing he envisioned the room mate killing himself. Either way, he gets to live with that.
For me, the real question is fundamental. Why, in the modern "free" world does being outed as a homosexual cause one to prefer suicide rather than live with the shame? As a society, would it not be better to address such a fundamental social problem than to simply treat the symptoms?
I find it amusing how my folks here complain about Microsoft being a Monopoly in arguments related to Microsoft, yet at the same time, they will rant and rave about how much market share Apple has now. Which is it? It is possible to buy a computer and install the OS you want. It is harder of course on a notebook, but for a desktop machine you can even but the bits by themselves and install and OS you want! Hell, I even installed mac OS X over the weekend via iboot mulitbeast.
This is exactly correct. Consider Lanchester's laws. He uses mathematical formulas for calculating the relative strengths of a predator/prey pair. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanchester's_laws
No doubt this can be applied in this situation as well.
There are several online services which offer loads of pirated TV shows and even movies. For example, my wife uses a streaming program called funsion to watch HIMYM, Big Bang and other popular American TV shows. As of yesterday, those show are no longer available. This was also the case on the two other alternative services. Granted, one can use a VPN tunnel, but most people will not be willing to pay money for a VPN which is fast enough to stream. I do happen to pay for premium VPN services, but as I was last in China, it was impressively slow. Enough for real google results and such, but not enough for netflix.
For me, that is like saying, the automobile is responsible for 70% of divorces because it enables a spouse to drive to the house of their lover. PEOPLE are responsible for infidelity, not their tools.
How is this modded as insightful? What have Linux driver to do with this card? How are Linux users in any way the target market for a high end enthusiast GAMING graphics card?
Perhaps once you can purchase BF3 or the like for Linux, then ATI and NV will spend more time writing drivers for Linux.
I cannot imagine that anything more than an older HD48xx series will help you in any way.
After years of giving his lunch money to and getting atomic wedgies from the local bully, Johan has finally developed the gene therapy which will enable him to finally kick some ass.
Which part is not ture? I do not think that anyone is saying that big pharma has a cure already and that they hold it back to make more money. I am reasonable sure they don’t have a cure. I am also reasonably sure they would not make much profit on a cure. After all, you can only cure someone once.
I sat next to a very interesting woman who was responcible for certifications at one of the big pharma companies. Until that day, I had always imagined it was expensive to bring a drug to market, but I never imagined to could be getting close to 1 billion by the time the trials were finally over. A cure is no cheaper to produce than a treatment. Think about some of the rare diseases. Lets say only 100k people in the world have it. If big pharma invented a drug to cure it, but it cost them 500 million to develop and approve it, how could they sell it? It would be 5000 bucks a bill just to break even. If you could “manage” the disease however, where you need to take pills for years, you could sell the pills for much less money and still make tons more in the long run. Of course, there are loads of people with cancer so you would still make a lot of money. Just imagine how much more you make though when the patients, all however many hundred million of them needs pills for a few years to manage it.
Now, I do not really like to be a cynic, but I just cannot imagine that big pharma will put up the money to actually cure something. There just is not the same profit margin as there is for treatments. Perhaps, you say, a small company could put this on the market. I say, no chance. Not for lack of want, but for lack of money. The way that the FDA is setup, it costs hundreds of millions to bring a new medication onto the market. No small company could foot the bill.
Perhaps someone else knows of a way for a small firm to do it, but I cannot think of it. Still, I hope I am wrong.
It is clear that this is not a "first" strike weapon. The summation is correct, it is simply a "surprise" strike weapon. Which is OK, because, hey, who does not like surprises!?
Actually, you can never buy the good fakes on the street. You have to "order" them. Normally it takes like 40 min to get the good stuff. Some times, you come with them through a maze of houses and go into one. I dont do this though unless I am with a bigger group. Best to go to one of the markets and discreetly inquire about a higher quality product. Really, you cant tell the difference. All marks which should be there, all the tell tails. Everything is at it should be.
Personally I would like to see MS become more like Apple and encourage healthy competition, whilst not participating in anti competitive behavior. wait...
I think this plan will not work and I think that China does not want it to work. I do not want it to work either! Fake hand bags, watches, and so on are a huge tourist draw for China. I have been all over China, heck my wife is from China. One thing I notices, ALL her girl friends have expensive hand bags. LV, coach, execrate and none of them have fake bags. They spends tons on the real deal. When ever we go back to China, we normally will buy two are three fakes for our German friends or friends back in the US. I
If you look at the numbers, China is currently the number one buyer of luxury goods in the world. Putting 1 million people to work as IP cops will not change it. The only thing it will do is hurt so many of the low income folks who make their living selling to people like me, who, to be honest would NEVER allow the purchase of a real 1000 dollar hand bag. So, they will not gain any sales.
I get that China wants to change their image, but China is China and I think it will always have it's own values, which are different than the corporate west.
Is it great news because I support the entertainment industry? No, of course not. It great news because things need to continue to get much worse before people will finally get off there collective asses to do something about it. You can already see more and more common folks starting to make noise. What we need is that extra push to get the common man to say, "OK, enough is enough" and actually stand up. The western governments are out of control in general and they need to be taken back. News like this just brings the day closer....I hope.
I do not sort emails because I like to do it, though like another poster mentioned, most is done with rules in outlook. I do it because I work on normally between 20-30 projects at a time. Other people are also involved in my project and need to see the history. How shall they know what is what, when there are 6000 emails in one network folder. Plus, dont you need to know what you are searching for? Sometimes you just need to read an email trail before you know what to search for.
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I cannot dispute that this guy is a complete asshole and should certainly be punished in someway. Deported at a minimum. Not so sure about prison though. I have a hard time believing he envisioned the room mate killing himself. Either way, he gets to live with that.
For me, the real question is fundamental. Why, in the modern "free" world does being outed as a homosexual cause one to prefer suicide rather than live with the shame?
As a society, would it not be better to address such a fundamental social problem than to simply treat the symptoms?
or any other "free" cloud services in which you are storing your companies files because you are not able to easily store files locally.
where you are posting from.
I find it amusing how my folks here complain about Microsoft being a Monopoly in arguments related to Microsoft, yet at the same time, they will rant and rave about how much market share Apple has now. Which is it?
It is possible to buy a computer and install the OS you want. It is harder of course on a notebook, but for a desktop machine you can even but the bits by themselves and install and OS you want! Hell, I even installed mac OS X over the weekend via iboot mulitbeast.
This is exactly correct.
Consider Lanchester's laws. He uses mathematical formulas for calculating the relative strengths of a predator/prey pair.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanchester's_laws
No doubt this can be applied in this situation as well.
Are they saying that these satellites are 1 billionth of a normal satellite?
Why do they always want to apply nano to everything?
There are several online services which offer loads of pirated TV shows and even movies. For example, my wife uses a streaming program called funsion to watch HIMYM, Big Bang and other popular American TV shows.
As of yesterday, those show are no longer available. This was also the case on the two other alternative services.
Granted, one can use a VPN tunnel, but most people will not be willing to pay money for a VPN which is fast enough to stream.
I do happen to pay for premium VPN services, but as I was last in China, it was impressively slow. Enough for real google results and such, but not enough for netflix.
For me, that is like saying, the automobile is responsible for 70% of divorces because it enables a spouse to drive to the house of their lover.
PEOPLE are responsible for infidelity, not their tools.
"Almost every single congressman's mailbox/e-mail server will be flooded with messages, it would be like a legal DoS."
Or rather would be, had google not shut down gmail.
Seems to me that China is well out their way to out innovate the US.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/21/us-china-patents-idUSTRE7BK0LQ20111221
How is this modded as insightful?
What have Linux driver to do with this card? How are Linux users in any way the target market for a high end enthusiast GAMING graphics card?
Perhaps once you can purchase BF3 or the like for Linux, then ATI and NV will spend more time writing drivers for Linux.
I cannot imagine that anything more than an older HD48xx series will help you in any way.
After years of giving his lunch money to and getting atomic wedgies from the local bully, Johan has finally developed the gene therapy which will enable him to finally kick some ass.
Which part is not ture?
I do not think that anyone is saying that big pharma has a cure already and that they hold it back to make more money. I am reasonable sure they don’t have a cure.
I am also reasonably sure they would not make much profit on a cure. After all, you can only cure someone once.
I sat next to a very interesting woman who was responcible for certifications at one of the big pharma companies. Until that day, I had always imagined it was expensive to bring a drug to market, but I never imagined to could be getting close to 1 billion by the time the trials were finally over.
A cure is no cheaper to produce than a treatment.
Think about some of the rare diseases. Lets say only 100k people in the world have it. If big pharma invented a drug to cure it, but it cost them 500 million to develop and approve it, how could they sell it? It would be 5000 bucks a bill just to break even.
If you could “manage” the disease however, where you need to take pills for years, you could sell the pills for much less money and still make tons more in the long run.
Of course, there are loads of people with cancer so you would still make a lot of money. Just imagine how much more you make though when the patients, all however many hundred million of them needs pills for a few years to manage it.
Now, I do not really like to be a cynic, but I just cannot imagine that big pharma will put up the money to actually cure something. There just is not the same profit margin as there is for treatments.
Perhaps, you say, a small company could put this on the market. I say, no chance. Not for lack of want, but for lack of money.
The way that the FDA is setup, it costs hundreds of millions to bring a new medication onto the market. No small company could foot the bill.
Perhaps someone else knows of a way for a small firm to do it, but I cannot think of it. Still, I hope I am wrong.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114616-Miyamoto-is-Not-Stepping-Down
either way, would not that cause a rethink? After all, neutrinos should not be interacting with matter no?
It is clear that this is not a "first" strike weapon. The summation is correct, it is simply a "surprise" strike weapon. Which is OK, because, hey, who does not like surprises!?
Actually, you can never buy the good fakes on the street. You have to "order" them. Normally it takes like 40 min to get the good stuff. Some times, you come with them through a maze of houses and go into one. I dont do this though unless I am with a bigger group.
Best to go to one of the markets and discreetly inquire about a higher quality product. Really, you cant tell the difference. All marks which should be there, all the tell tails. Everything is at it should be.
Is that not what Fascism it?
Personally I would like to see MS become more like Apple and encourage healthy competition, whilst not participating in anti competitive behavior. wait...
I think this plan will not work and I think that China does not want it to work. I do not want it to work either! Fake hand bags, watches, and so on are a huge tourist draw for China.
I have been all over China, heck my wife is from China. One thing I notices, ALL her girl friends have expensive hand bags. LV, coach, execrate and none of them have fake bags. They spends tons on the real deal.
When ever we go back to China, we normally will buy two are three fakes for our German friends or friends back in the US. I
If you look at the numbers, China is currently the number one buyer of luxury goods in the world. Putting 1 million people to work as IP cops will not change it. The only thing it will do is hurt so many of the low income folks who make their living selling to people like me, who, to be honest would NEVER allow the purchase of a real 1000 dollar hand bag. So, they will not gain any sales.
I get that China wants to change their image, but China is China and I think it will always have it's own values, which are different than the corporate west.
Is it great news because I support the entertainment industry? No, of course not. It great news because things need to continue to get much worse before people will finally get off there collective asses to do something about it.
You can already see more and more common folks starting to make noise. What we need is that extra push to get the common man to say, "OK, enough is enough" and actually stand up.
The western governments are out of control in general and they need to be taken back. News like this just brings the day closer....I hope.
I am asking for such powers. Just because I asked for it, does not mean I will get it.
I do not sort emails because I like to do it, though like another poster mentioned, most is done with rules in outlook. I do it because I work on normally between 20-30 projects at a time. Other people are also involved in my project and need to see the history. How shall they know what is what, when there are 6000 emails in one network folder.
Plus, dont you need to know what you are searching for? Sometimes you just need to read an email trail before you know what to search for.
He says "'It can't any longer be dismissed as something on the far distant horizon.'".. ;)
I agree, it is more like 20 years away