True, but no one government has lasted long enough for early governmental records to be transmitted across such a long span of time via means that don't involve digging and struggling to decipher dead languages. The Egyptian government of today, for example, is not a modern incarnation of the dynasties that built the pyramids. Had the Bronze Age Egyptians been in the habit of burying radioactive waste in the tombs of their kings, the modern Egyptian government would have no record of it beyond what may have been accidentally recovered by some hapless Egyptologists on an archeological dig.
Amen to that. I still have fond memories of a SPARC 30 I had the pleasure of using on a regular basis back in '95. That box would run for months on end without a hickup; we only ever shut it down to move it.
Dunno about that. Class diagramming and the UML are object-oriented design methodologies. They aren't of much use when working on structured, C-based projects like an OS kernel.
Oh yes, the mythical liberal media. Last time I checked, the vast majority of the media outlets in the U.S. belong to a decreasing number of large corporate conglomerates--not known for their liberal viewpoints. Ask yourself this: what happened to the end-game coverage of the Florida voting scandal and subsequent recounts? Why isn't there any real coverage about the nasty environmental depredations brought on by large American corporate concerns? Why are there endless television commercials from auto manucturers and yet none from the consumerist groups who would love (and have tried on multiple occasions) to purchse ad time for opposing viewpoints? Why is talk radio largely dominated by ultra right-wingers?
Education? Again, American education is rapidly being infiltrated by American corporate concerns such as McDonalds, Pepsi and Coco Cola in the form of donations in exchange for in-school advertising, distribution and the infamous, mandatory and comercial-ridden propoganda engine known as Channel One. Then of course there's the constant attack on modern science from the right-wing Creationist camp.
So where's all this liberal influence?
I sometimes wonder, given all the tech layoffs in the last two years, if half the 'net was left running on autopilot. Keeping the filters up to date with current practices would be a lot more likely if there was an adequate number of admins left to man the guns.
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True, but no one government has lasted long enough for early governmental records to be transmitted across such a long span of time via means that don't involve digging and struggling to decipher dead languages. The Egyptian government of today, for example, is not a modern incarnation of the dynasties that built the pyramids. Had the Bronze Age Egyptians been in the habit of burying radioactive waste in the tombs of their kings, the modern Egyptian government would have no record of it beyond what may have been accidentally recovered by some hapless Egyptologists on an archeological dig.
Amen to that. I still have fond memories of a SPARC 30 I had the pleasure of using on a regular basis back in '95. That box would run for months on end without a hickup; we only ever shut it down to move it.
Nah, he's cool. GarageBand.com and Apple signed an agreement to share the name back in '03.
Dunno about that. Class diagramming and the UML are object-oriented design methodologies. They aren't of much use when working on structured, C-based projects like an OS kernel.
Oh yes, the mythical liberal media. Last time I checked, the vast majority of the media outlets in the U.S. belong to a decreasing number of large corporate conglomerates--not known for their liberal viewpoints. Ask yourself this: what happened to the end-game coverage of the Florida voting scandal and subsequent recounts? Why isn't there any real coverage about the nasty environmental depredations brought on by large American corporate concerns? Why are there endless television commercials from auto manucturers and yet none from the consumerist groups who would love (and have tried on multiple occasions) to purchse ad time for opposing viewpoints? Why is talk radio largely dominated by ultra right-wingers? Education? Again, American education is rapidly being infiltrated by American corporate concerns such as McDonalds, Pepsi and Coco Cola in the form of donations in exchange for in-school advertising, distribution and the infamous, mandatory and comercial-ridden propoganda engine known as Channel One. Then of course there's the constant attack on modern science from the right-wing Creationist camp. So where's all this liberal influence?
I sometimes wonder, given all the tech layoffs in the last two years, if half the 'net was left running on autopilot. Keeping the filters up to date with current practices would be a lot more likely if there was an adequate number of admins left to man the guns.