What ever happened to them using Bit Torrent? They get burned by the release of their hi-res vids or something? As a slashdot subscriber I couldn't even download the video's during the "Mysterious Future" period.
I knew there was going to be at least on naysayer about Child's Play. Here is a clue bat... kids who are sick and dying is sad no matter where they live. The charity of this cause is no less because there are others out there that may be more "important". It's not like this charity takes away from other ones. It simply adds to the general prosperisty. Please remove yourself from your elevated cavalry.
I see where you are coming from Bill and I have a lot of sympathies with Libertarianism as I used to be registered as one. Please don't think that I am in any way a socialist, I can't stand the very idea. I just find it ironic that a government that is supposedly "for all the people" allows private industry to trounce on the public land/air so much.
There are a few reasons I'm now registered as a Democrat.
I wanted to vote in the DNC primaries and I live in CA
The extreme nuts that the party seems to pull together like the ones you mentioned and the gun nuts.
Issues that server a public a larger good like: The Enviornment
The enviornmental issue was really the final thing that pushed me away from Libertarianism. While I believe that the market has the capability to do a better job at protecting the enviornment I feel that we have some very large hurdles to overcome before that will happen. First and foremost people have to be educated as to the economic viability of protecting our enviornment (I believe this applies to helping the poor as well). Westerners need to borrow from some of the eastern philosophy of looking more than 5 years out and apply that to things like the enviornment.(And so do some eastern countries;-)
For example... I enjoy camping in the woods quite a bit but the amount I pay for a campsite (and subsequent use of the many miles that surround that campsite) is probably far less than the shorterm economic opportunities available in the same area. I mean just simple logging would probably generate far more revenue from a national park in 1 year than the camping fees generate in 20.
The problem I find with issues like this is that you get into an area where it takes a very long time for the economic advantage of say preserving a national forest to be realized. The advantages are subtle too, like a healthier more productive work force, cleaner air etc. There are things that benefit our society as a whole and in the long run the economy that are hard for short sighted individual companies to realize. It's very easy to fall prey to the "there is always more" mentality that has really started to plague us.
Btw, the last thing I want is for some company to buy up the land and charge incredibly high rates to experience it. I firmly beleive in public beaches and public land. Everyone should have an equal right to the beauty in America.
My girlfriend is currently doing a study abroad program in Jinan, China right now and the pollution is rediculous. She was there for a week before a rain storm came in and revealed the mountains a couple miles from her hotel. She is also suffering from chronic headaches as a result of not getting enough oxygen. The sickness rates in parts of china are around 50% because of what pollution does to the immune system. What is particularly sad is that this is not simply issolated to the metropolitan/industrial area's. Factories dump chemicals in rivers which of course effects all the farmers and villages that live off of the water.
There was an interesting article in the NY Times a few months ago (since archived) talking about complete lack of enviornmental regulation in China. Seems to me they have taken the worst of communism (complete political and social control) and combined it with the worst of capitalism (completely un-regulated private sector). Though I do believe in less government regulation, I simply can't sign onto the Libertarian ticket because of the enviornment. I firmly believe that left to it's own will the private sector would obliterate the enviornment.
Of course they are going to charge you to forward your email. Otherwise you could use their great spam filter and bandwidth without having to see their adds. And what do you expect from a Free email service. At least you can have some confidence that they won't sell your email address.
As a web developer who has to use quite a bit of javascript I contantly find myself having to tweak it to work in IE. I have to hack test all my scripts in IE before deployment which really sucks.
Of course. I was referring more to personal privacy than anything else. Conversations with my girlfriend that I'd rather not have used for advertising purposes;-). PGP is what I use for true privacy.
If you expect privacy in a free email account then you are nuts. For privacy I use my own domain. If the price I have to pay for a great free webmail client is a little targeted advertising (which I frankly haven't noticed) then so be it.
I love my gmail account. Makes searching through old emails painless. Not to mention the awesome spam filter. I mean, it's a free webmail, you have to expect ads, and the google ads are not intrusive at all. It's not like they turn words in your emails into links or something. In fact, I'm suprised hotmail hasn't started doing that already.
Oh, and don't even get me started about the ease of use. Would you like a gmail invite to try it out?
IANAL but here is my guess... Vivendi may try to get an injunction (?) to stop Valve from releasing HL2 on steam. Now lets assume for the sake of argument that this fails. Valve will then release the game on Steam despite the lawsuit. If Vivendi then wins the lawsuit Valve will have to hand them a fat check for rolaties unpaid which would really suck for Valve for numerous reasons.
Personally, I think Vivendi is cutting of their nose to spite their face much like Disney did with Pixar. It wasn't mentioned in the/. summary but part of the lawsuit is to compel Valve to produce one final engine as part of their contract with Vivendi. This is all incredible short sited of Vivendi IMO. They are taking Valve to court for the short run profits of HL2 and are certainly going to loose them as a developer once the contract is up.
I hope that China can help show the world what a viable source of clean energy nuclear power really is. The "danger" stigmatism that is attached to it is rediculous. The worst nuclear disaster in history, Cherynobl, killed a total of 3,000 people. That includes long term deaths attributed to radiation poisoning and increased cancer rates. Coal mining on the other hand kills around 30,000 people every year in mining accidents alone. Not to mention the pollution and enviromental damage that coal power plants generate. As for the nuclear waste generated aftewards there are a number of clever idea's about how to deal with it including one which disposes of it in the giant fusion reaction that is our Sun.
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I'm glad that the creative designers behind the firefox look finally got a crack at the homepage. IMO it gives the browser much better more credibility if it has a professional looking website. Not just like some hodge-podge browser.
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I understand what you are saying. As far as moderates go though it doesn't matter. Anything "liberal" (even if it's from crackpots) that hits mainstream media will make us all looks like crack pots. Much like Senator McCain must be ashamed of the "Swift boat vetarns for Man/Boy love" ads, I'm ashamed that these people are "categorized" as Democrats.
Except that they don't have to pay anything so they don't really get screwed per se. If they don't know enough people, they don't get an iPod, but I would imagine that there are enough people out there who don't actually want an ipod (parents, computer illiterates, etc) that most people should be able to get one.
This sounds like a great tool. I know we have a lot of problems with getting our data into a report form for corporate. We are thinking about bringing someone on to write such reports full time because their nature and specs are constantly changing. If this tool can allow someone with limited technical ability to mine our data for marketing information we could save a lot of money with it.
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What ever happened to them using Bit Torrent? They get burned by the release of their hi-res vids or something? As a slashdot subscriber I couldn't even download the video's during the "Mysterious Future" period.
I knew there was going to be at least on naysayer about Child's Play. Here is a clue bat ... kids who are sick and dying is sad no matter where they live. The charity of this cause is no less because there are others out there that may be more "important". It's not like this charity takes away from other ones. It simply adds to the general prosperisty. Please remove yourself from your elevated cavalry.
There are a few reasons I'm now registered as a Democrat.
- I wanted to vote in the DNC primaries and I live in CA
- The extreme nuts that the party seems to pull together like the ones you mentioned and the gun nuts.
- Issues that server a public a larger good like: The Enviornment
The enviornmental issue was really the final thing that pushed me away from Libertarianism. While I believe that the market has the capability to do a better job at protecting the enviornment I feel that we have some very large hurdles to overcome before that will happen. First and foremost people have to be educated as to the economic viability of protecting our enviornment (I believe this applies to helping the poor as well). Westerners need to borrow from some of the eastern philosophy of looking more than 5 years out and apply that to things like the enviornment.(And so do some eastern countriesFor example
The problem I find with issues like this is that you get into an area where it takes a very long time for the economic advantage of say preserving a national forest to be realized. The advantages are subtle too, like a healthier more productive work force, cleaner air etc. There are things that benefit our society as a whole and in the long run the economy that are hard for short sighted individual companies to realize. It's very easy to fall prey to the "there is always more" mentality that has really started to plague us.
Btw, the last thing I want is for some company to buy up the land and charge incredibly high rates to experience it. I firmly beleive in public beaches and public land. Everyone should have an equal right to the beauty in America.
Hopefully Diamond Manufacturing (instead of mining) will alleviate the cost
My girlfriend is currently doing a study abroad program in Jinan, China right now and the pollution is rediculous. She was there for a week before a rain storm came in and revealed the mountains a couple miles from her hotel. She is also suffering from chronic headaches as a result of not getting enough oxygen. The sickness rates in parts of china are around 50% because of what pollution does to the immune system. What is particularly sad is that this is not simply issolated to the metropolitan/industrial area's. Factories dump chemicals in rivers which of course effects all the farmers and villages that live off of the water.
There was an interesting article in the NY Times a few months ago (since archived) talking about complete lack of enviornmental regulation in China. Seems to me they have taken the worst of communism (complete political and social control) and combined it with the worst of capitalism (completely un-regulated private sector). Though I do believe in less government regulation, I simply can't sign onto the Libertarian ticket because of the enviornment. I firmly believe that left to it's own will the private sector would obliterate the enviornment.
I'm sure it is real. In fact I've heard of television shows putting character names through thorough research to avoid lawsuits.
Why do people do private auctions anyway? I never understood that.
Of course they are going to charge you to forward your email. Otherwise you could use their great spam filter and bandwidth without having to see their adds. And what do you expect from a Free email service. At least you can have some confidence that they won't sell your email address.
Queue bitching about targeted advertising.....
As a web developer who has to use quite a bit of javascript I contantly find myself having to tweak it to work in IE. I have to hack test all my scripts in IE before deployment which really sucks.
Of course. I was referring more to personal privacy than anything else. Conversations with my girlfriend that I'd rather not have used for advertising purposes ;-). PGP is what I use for true privacy.
If you expect privacy in a free email account then you are nuts. For privacy I use my own domain. If the price I have to pay for a great free webmail client is a little targeted advertising (which I frankly haven't noticed) then so be it.
send me an email to my gmail address (listed) and I'll send you one.
I love my gmail account. Makes searching through old emails painless. Not to mention the awesome spam filter. I mean, it's a free webmail, you have to expect ads, and the google ads are not intrusive at all. It's not like they turn words in your emails into links or something. In fact, I'm suprised hotmail hasn't started doing that already.
Oh, and don't even get me started about the ease of use. Would you like a gmail invite to try it out?
IANAL but here is my guess...
/. summary but part of the lawsuit is to compel Valve to produce one final engine as part of their contract with Vivendi. This is all incredible short sited of Vivendi IMO. They are taking Valve to court for the short run profits of HL2 and are certainly going to loose them as a developer once the contract is up.
Vivendi may try to get an injunction (?) to stop Valve from releasing HL2 on steam. Now lets assume for the sake of argument that this fails. Valve will then release the game on Steam despite the lawsuit. If Vivendi then wins the lawsuit Valve will have to hand them a fat check for rolaties unpaid which would really suck for Valve for numerous reasons.
Personally, I think Vivendi is cutting of their nose to spite their face much like Disney did with Pixar. It wasn't mentioned in the
There already is ... though they called it "float", don't ask me why.
It's not to hard to imagine a container that could be impervious to such an explosion and would land in the ocean harmlessly.
I hope that China can help show the world what a viable source of clean energy nuclear power really is. The "danger" stigmatism that is attached to it is rediculous. The worst nuclear disaster in history, Cherynobl, killed a total of 3,000 people. That includes long term deaths attributed to radiation poisoning and increased cancer rates. Coal mining on the other hand kills around 30,000 people every year in mining accidents alone. Not to mention the pollution and enviromental damage that coal power plants generate. As for the nuclear waste generated aftewards there are a number of clever idea's about how to deal with it including one which disposes of it in the giant fusion reaction that is our Sun.
;-)
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I'll give you a gmail if you signup with my link & complete the offer.
Usually there isn't press about the legitimacy of scams.
I'm glad that the creative designers behind the firefox look finally got a crack at the homepage. IMO it gives the browser much better more credibility if it has a professional looking website. Not just like some hodge-podge browser. *warning ... blatant plug to get me free stuff following
I'll do the same ;-)
I understand what you are saying. As far as moderates go though it doesn't matter. Anything "liberal" (even if it's from crackpots) that hits mainstream media will make us all looks like crack pots. Much like Senator McCain must be ashamed of the "Swift boat vetarns for Man/Boy love" ads, I'm ashamed that these people are "categorized" as Democrats.
Except that they don't have to pay anything so they don't really get screwed per se. If they don't know enough people, they don't get an iPod, but I would imagine that there are enough people out there who don't actually want an ipod (parents, computer illiterates, etc) that most people should be able to get one.
This sounds like a great tool. I know we have a lot of problems with getting our data into a report form for corporate. We are thinking about bringing someone on to write such reports full time because their nature and specs are constantly changing. If this tool can allow someone with limited technical ability to mine our data for marketing information we could save a lot of money with it.
... shameless plug to get myself a free ipod follows (yes it's legit)
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