You know, before spending trillions of dollars of other people's money, they should at least give us some real hard evidence that global warming even exists. Aside from a minority in the scientific community, the environmentalist fringe, and the unquestioning mainstream media and elites, this isn't even a hypothesis that has much support.
Uninformed, hysterical fringies, you may now commence flaming.
Could this open some eyes and increase interest in alternative (Linux, Mac) offerings?
How in the world can you come to this conclusion? If the OEMs won't bother shipping an OS that asks the consumer to select a media player and download it for the net, how in the world are you going to get the OEMs to push select your own OS, never mind media player? Someone is high again.
'...and goes on to quote a member of the LA Times editorial staff as saying, "Slashdot has a tech-savvy audience that, to be kind, is mischievous and to be not so kind, is malicious".'
I say the crap and disinformation that the LA Times puts out, combined with its total lack of perspective (Editor: Hrm...black gay man wants others to pay for sex reassignment surgery, Russia launches nukes on US...let's put the sex reassignment story on top, front-page, nuclear Armageddon page 10, 2 lines of copy.) is malacious to anyone who reads the thing. Of course, LA Times is just the bastard inbred offspring of the NYT, no prize itself.
You don't understand the Libertarian mindset. Libertarians think they're smarter and more capable than the average man, and thus will be in the upper classes were a Libertarian form of government instituted. Thus they'll personally benefit from it, and they don't give a fuck about anyone else.
Absolutely not. Your FUD is so ludicrous as to not even be worth consideration. You're speaking of yourself and what would happen if youwere the State. Libetarians don't think they are superor or better than anyone else at all, which is why we don't want people like youorus in a position to control everyone else. I suggest reading up on political science instead of blathering nonsensical propoganda from god knows where.
The whole mess of taxpayer money being used to fund private research, at which point competitors demand access to that research, would be resolved if property rights in the US were respected. The State would cease its protection racket against those living under its control, the State would stop using extorted funds in an attempt to prop up pet interests and buy votes, and there would be no question on the right-to-access information, as it would be justly privately owned.
That isn't actually a link to Toaplan's website. Toaplan went out of business in 1995, so what you have there is a fansite. Which is why the last published games were in 1994.
...my unpatched Windows not getting spyware/viruses...
Without actually using AV software, you'd verify this how? Don't pretend that the tasklist command from the CLI (just a text version of the Task Manager) is going to save your ass. Most viri don't tend to show up in such a perfunctory fashion. I'd be willing to bet your box is in alot worse shape than you think it is. Don't be like those guys who have sex with random people wihtout protection because they have a false sense of immunity from what affects everyone else. Your Windows isn't special.
If you have heavy body modification, you're saying to anyone else that you don't care about yourself, and you certainly won't care about your work. Hiring circus freaks outside of the circus just isn't done.
...due to growing concern over sensitive information leaving the enterprise through email.
While there's some truth to this, one has to ask the question why employees would leak sensitive info. Could it be because the employees are maltreated, the company isn't doing a good job in selecting hires, or a combination of both? Besides, wouldn't it make more sense to copy sensitive info to a flash drive or CD-R, and just e-mail it from home in the first place?
This story is inaccurate in several parts. Firstly, the US is far from the world's largest energy consumer when one recognizes the fact that per unit of energy used, the US is the most efficient in extracting the most economic value from it. The US is the most energy efficient consumer in the world when it comes to energy used and wealth created.
Japan and others must be careful that the march to higher fuel efficient devices does not lead them to spend such a large amount of wealth, wealth created through energy consumption, that the net effect is that more energy is consumed than would have been if they had simply kept their older devices, used them closer to the point where the repair cost would be excessive, and then purchased more energy efficient devices once prices have been reduced through a longer period of market competition. While increased energy efficiency is a laudable goal, the Japanese, as well as everyone else, must look beyond the hype and ensure that they are not making a shortsighted mistake and working against their stated goals, but ensuring that their goals indeed are being achieved through introspection and economic analysis. It may indeed make more sense to hold onto a servicable 10 year old fridge than purchase a new model, but perhaps the case with a 15 year old fridge the case would be reversed. Businesses have much to gain from a large uptake in appliance sales, and the buyer must ask himself if his interests always coincide with what a business is asking of him. Japanese, as well as all consumers, must not look at energy efficiency through a religious-mania tinged prism, but do the math to ensure that the net benefits are indeed larger than the net drawbacks.
"There once was a seriously real need for labour unions folks, and that time could easily come again. Maybe it is already here."
Keep in mind labor unions work for the labor bosses, not the worker, raise the barrier to entry for those trying to enter the industry, drive up the cost of select minority groups of workers at the disproportionate expense of jobs in others, have reduced the size of the US economy by 30%-40%, and because of a particularly onerous SC ruling, can (and have) quite literally get away with murder if it can in any way be linked to "legimate union goals." So if you want to screw everyone else over for your own short-term benefit, only to see heavily unionized workplaces (and your paycheck) fossilize and eventually implode, unions are definitely the way to go.
I have an IQ of 134. Please find me a secure job with big bucks. Cuz so far, I've just been tossed around by callous temp agencies, worked nasty retail jobs, and struggled to get through life in general.
How about cheap shots from SnapShot? Ah, yes, FUD from those who seek to rob you to give to someone else and restrict trade are always able to find some nice way to put things into perspective. Hrm, I guess even though I'm not white and I'm gay, I still encourage racism and homophobia. Hmm...
I find it hard to take seriously any article which takes on capitalist bashing tendencies while at the same time offering zero evidence that PC-DOS was "as the least robust, the most temperamental, and arguably not very compatible with the IBM hardware and BIOS it was sold to work on" or that better alternatives for the IBM PC would have been available. People become wealthy through commerce, at which point they can divert a chosen sum of their own choosing to philanthropic ends. Whining that corporation X doesn't give as much of its shareholder's value away as you'd like is rather undemocratic, as I doubt you'd be a majority shareholder. I'd be very curious if anyone has evidence that backs up the 3 major shortcomings he asserts in PC-DOS though.
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Uninformed, hysterical fringies, you may now commence flaming.
How in the world can you come to this conclusion? If the OEMs won't bother shipping an OS that asks the consumer to select a media player and download it for the net, how in the world are you going to get the OEMs to push select your own OS, never mind media player? Someone is high again.
I say the crap and disinformation that the LA Times puts out, combined with its total lack of perspective (Editor: Hrm...black gay man wants others to pay for sex reassignment surgery, Russia launches nukes on US...let's put the sex reassignment story on top, front-page, nuclear Armageddon page 10, 2 lines of copy.) is malacious to anyone who reads the thing. Of course, LA Times is just the bastard inbred offspring of the NYT, no prize itself.
No; you have to have prior work and/or previous selling or patenting/copyright/trademark (or be in the process of).
Absolutely not. Your FUD is so ludicrous as to not even be worth consideration. You're speaking of yourself and what would happen if you were the State. Libetarians don't think they are superor or better than anyone else at all, which is why we don't want people like you or us in a position to control everyone else. I suggest reading up on political science instead of blathering nonsensical propoganda from god knows where.
The whole mess of taxpayer money being used to fund private research, at which point competitors demand access to that research, would be resolved if property rights in the US were respected. The State would cease its protection racket against those living under its control, the State would stop using extorted funds in an attempt to prop up pet interests and buy votes, and there would be no question on the right-to-access information, as it would be justly privately owned.
In other news, Pravda staff found running Slashdot...
That isn't actually a link to Toaplan's website. Toaplan went out of business in 1995, so what you have there is a fansite. Which is why the last published games were in 1994.
Without actually using AV software, you'd verify this how? Don't pretend that the tasklist command from the CLI (just a text version of the Task Manager) is going to save your ass. Most viri don't tend to show up in such a perfunctory fashion. I'd be willing to bet your box is in alot worse shape than you think it is. Don't be like those guys who have sex with random people wihtout protection because they have a false sense of immunity from what affects everyone else. Your Windows isn't special.
If you have heavy body modification, you're saying to anyone else that you don't care about yourself, and you certainly won't care about your work. Hiring circus freaks outside of the circus just isn't done.
Yes, as they break down the door with their augmented fists and we hide in vain in the bathroom from the robotic onslaught of death.
While there's some truth to this, one has to ask the question why employees would leak sensitive info. Could it be because the employees are maltreated, the company isn't doing a good job in selecting hires, or a combination of both? Besides, wouldn't it make more sense to copy sensitive info to a flash drive or CD-R, and just e-mail it from home in the first place?
Japan and others must be careful that the march to higher fuel efficient devices does not lead them to spend such a large amount of wealth, wealth created through energy consumption, that the net effect is that more energy is consumed than would have been if they had simply kept their older devices, used them closer to the point where the repair cost would be excessive, and then purchased more energy efficient devices once prices have been reduced through a longer period of market competition. While increased energy efficiency is a laudable goal, the Japanese, as well as everyone else, must look beyond the hype and ensure that they are not making a shortsighted mistake and working against their stated goals, but ensuring that their goals indeed are being achieved through introspection and economic analysis. It may indeed make more sense to hold onto a servicable 10 year old fridge than purchase a new model, but perhaps the case with a 15 year old fridge the case would be reversed. Businesses have much to gain from a large uptake in appliance sales, and the buyer must ask himself if his interests always coincide with what a business is asking of him. Japanese, as well as all consumers, must not look at energy efficiency through a religious-mania tinged prism, but do the math to ensure that the net benefits are indeed larger than the net drawbacks.
The purpose of the judges is to rule on current law, not make up law as they go along. We have the legislators to make up laws. And I do mean make up.
You know, I have sources for everything I say, but if you're going to be rude and juvenile, I'm not going to waste more of my time with you.
Well, one can be quite persistent and also a genius and still be screwed over, mind you. Calvin Coolidge is one of my favorite Presidents though.
So you're basing a hypothetical on a premise in which in nearly a century has not proven to be true. Not good.
I'm intrigued. What unions require that the leadership must earn money from honest work and not union fees?
Keep in mind labor unions work for the labor bosses, not the worker, raise the barrier to entry for those trying to enter the industry, drive up the cost of select minority groups of workers at the disproportionate expense of jobs in others, have reduced the size of the US economy by 30%-40%, and because of a particularly onerous SC ruling, can (and have) quite literally get away with murder if it can in any way be linked to "legimate union goals." So if you want to screw everyone else over for your own short-term benefit, only to see heavily unionized workplaces (and your paycheck) fossilize and eventually implode, unions are definitely the way to go.
I have an IQ of 134. Please find me a secure job with big bucks. Cuz so far, I've just been tossed around by callous temp agencies, worked nasty retail jobs, and struggled to get through life in general.
How about cheap shots from SnapShot? Ah, yes, FUD from those who seek to rob you to give to someone else and restrict trade are always able to find some nice way to put things into perspective. Hrm, I guess even though I'm not white and I'm gay, I still encourage racism and homophobia. Hmm...
I find it hard to take seriously any article which takes on capitalist bashing tendencies while at the same time offering zero evidence that PC-DOS was "as the least robust, the most temperamental, and arguably not very compatible with the IBM hardware and BIOS it was sold to work on" or that better alternatives for the IBM PC would have been available. People become wealthy through commerce, at which point they can divert a chosen sum of their own choosing to philanthropic ends. Whining that corporation X doesn't give as much of its shareholder's value away as you'd like is rather undemocratic, as I doubt you'd be a majority shareholder. I'd be very curious if anyone has evidence that backs up the 3 major shortcomings he asserts in PC-DOS though.
I've installed the thing, and under Preferences, you can select domains to be unaccelerated.
Right, and the Boston Globe, LA and New York Times are such great sources of facts too. *snicker*
No, I voted against them. And why should I be under the thumb of some legislator for California or Arkansas, when I can't even vote for them!