Maybe, unlike you, we don't just roll over and take it when murdering savages attack us. Of course, the new kid on the block knows best.
Newsflash: you're never going to catch them all. You can decrease the percentage that escapes the nets, but there is a point where putting more effort in it has no return on investment.
What you are committing is the fallacy of false dilemma, by implying that we can either try to reduce traffic deaths, OR try to reduce terrorist deaths, but not both. Oh, sorry, I was not aware of the fact that the US government has an unlimited amount of money and personel to spend on these issues, how silly of me.
Stop being so dramatic, there has been 1 terrorist attack on the US, Boo-fucking-Hoo, now it's suddenly the biggest problem in the world ?
I'm european by the way, terrorism has been here for decades, just like in the rest of the world, go ask the israeli's, the Irish, the Spanish, the South Africans... the list goes on. Welcome to the club.
Sure a suitcase nuke may kill 50k people, but when you do a risk assesment, you have two factors you have to take into account: the impact if it goes wrong and the chance it will go wrong. When evaluating risk prevention measures, the same two factors are important: does the measure reduce the impact and/or does the measure reduce the chance of it happening. If you look at it objectively, the US government is WAY off, the measures are very ineffective, the 9/11 terrorists would have been captured if the existing measures at the time had been executed correctly, go fix that, instead of adding more privacy invading measures that won't actually reduce impact or chance of another attack.
I really get tired of simple minded folks who think the solution is to do nothing simply because doing something might make them a tiny bit uncomfortable in some way. It's all a question of priorities, is it worth taking freedom away from ALL americans to possibly save a few ? Mostly it is not, some freedoms are too important to give up, for whatever reason. If you want to save lives, you'd have to look at how do I save the most lives with the least cost (cost in money and impact on people's lives) I'm not saying there should be no terrorism prevention, but the amount of money and effort going to preventing terrorism is disproportionate to the actual risk. More lives could be saved by correctly prioritizing the risks that exist in our world.
Yes, you do, because that's way more important to the US than the impact of a terrorist attack. You need to have friends if you want a healthy economy, and a healthy economy is of much bigger importance on the average person's life than preventing terrorism.
Unfortunately, people have a really skewed perception of risk.
On 9/11 , about 2800 people (exact number is still unclear) suffered a terrible death in the terrorist attacks. Yes it was horrible. No, we don't want it to happen again.
However, the current measures taken by the US government are going way too far, it's not worth reducing freedom for in any way whatsoever, the risk of being killed in a terrorist attack is extremely small. Yet, somehow, the perception of this risk is inflated enormously.
To put things in perspective, last year there were 41,600 traffic deaths in the U.S. (15,700 alcohol related). It seems clear to me that unsafe driving and DUI is a MUCH bigger risk to the US people than a 9/11 style terrorist attack.
The amount of money and effort spent on "the war on terrorism" is way out of proportion in relation to the risk involved. At the same time, I hear nothing about a "war on unsafe driving" or a "war on DUI", on the contrary, the government even seems to be promoting the use of SUV's which are proven to be more unsafe then 'regular' cars.
The american people should wake up, kick the idiot out of the Big Chair(tm), and put someone there who has his/her priorities straight.
Point one: enter about:config into the adres bar, filter on "plugin" , play around with the plugin.default_plugin_disabled and application.use_ns_plugin_finder settings
"Drugs (...) have strong dependencies and ruin lives. They are dangerous for those who take them and for those who live around them." Not by default, it depends entirely on the drug and the person using it.
One of the most dangerous and most addictive hard drugs is legal in most countries all over the world, the US president has even been been addicted to it in the past. I'm talking about alcohol. Yet, something completely harmless as marijuana is outlawed and posession can result in serious punishment.
Why is that ?
You live in a country where it's perfectly legal to own a gun, a device specifically designed to hurt or even kill people. Yet, you're not allowed to enjoy yourself with some friends and a bag of weed because then you're somehow a 'danger to society'.
Some drugs are highly addictive and should be banned, but there's lots of drugs that can be enjoyed safely, and the world would be a far better place if more people did. I'm not saying you should use drugs, but I am saying it should be your own choice, not the governments.
Really, I have to use Lotus at my current job and have had to use it at previous ones too. I never thought I'd say it, but I miss MS Exchange Server.
How exactly does Notes/Domino compare with Exchange ? Outlook/Exchange is a groupware suite, Notes/Domino is a platform, which happens to come bundled with a groupware suite.
Who needs Lotus when you have pop3 and a text file every can edit...at least it would work most of the time.
If all you need is a mail and agenda, but how exactly do build products like QuickPlace and LearningSpace with just pop3 and a text file ?
Aprox 10 minutes to drive to the store, a collegue of mine just bought himself a brand new athlon64 for Eur. 599,- off the shelf (ok, more than $500 but still way cheaper than the 1.8 Ghz G5, plus the g5 is more expensive in.eu too), he went out on lunch break and was back an hour later with a big smile on his face as he had the machine up and running at home, he even installed the 64 bit version of SuSE in that time.
Specs: Athlon64 3000+ Geforce FX 5500, 128MB (G-FX5200, 64MB in the G5) 512MB DDR (256MB in the G5) 120GB 8MB cache HD (80GB in the G5) 8x DVD+RW (8x DVD-RW in the G5)
Sure, the G5 has a better design and it has SATA, but you can buy almost three of these babies for the price of 1 G5. (g5 1.8Ghz is Eur. 1659,0)
I'd love to run OS X as much as the next guy, but with prices like this ?
I'd love a cheap Boring Grey Box apple, doesn't need to have the latest and greatest technology, and please no integrated monitor.
I understand "Currently this site experiences heavy traffic. Please try again at a later time."
But what's up with the geeky asian dude with the weird shoes and is his name really George ? He doesn't look like a George. If your site is experiencing heavy traffic, why include an almost 21 KB graphic on the error page, which adds absolutely nothing to the informativeness of the error, adds to the traffic and looks just creepy.
Are they trying to scare potential visitors away ?
Now, all the other PDA I saw hardly have more than a working day autonomy
Try the Clié TH-55 , battery life is just insane. Too bad Sony pulled them off the market, they just made the best PalmOS PDA ever with the TH-55 and then they decide stop selling them outside of Japan.
There things have been available in europe for a few years, and I've observed that their true reason for being is to be given away as the first prize in all kinds of stupid contests and quiz shows.
It's more predictably sunny here, so people can bike or walk more, I guess. I live in the Netherlands, the weather sucks all the time, it's either raining and/or cold, or it's too warm/humid (happens a few days each year, rest of the time it's cold and raining), still we have more bicycles than people here, and no one wears a helmet. ofcourse, it's as flat as a pancake out here, so no crazy downhill speeds. I think the reason bikes are so popular down here is that it's just too crowded for cars, and the distances are relatively short. It's also probably the only country where it's perfectly normal to pick up your date on a bike.
More importantly, the financial folk from respected institutions.
Most importantly: the people with Lots Of Money who own Big Businesses who actually run the US and have no intention of letting go of their patent cash cows.
I see this as an insult to America. They're basically saying our process of electing a president is a sham and that we're incapable of being democratic. Where I live (the netherlands) all elections are monitored, not because we're not capable of having a fair election, but because it shows how confident we are in our capability of being democratic, it says something like: "Sure you can come monitor, we've got nothing to hide". Also, it serves as an example to other, less democratic, countries on how elections should work, the observers aren't just there to monitor, they are also there to learn.
Too bad atari (the old atari, not the current owner of the brand) had an image as game console company, they made a great desktop system, the Atari ST. Man I loved that machine, I still have my Mega ST 1 lying around somewhere. While my friends where fooling around with DOS, I had a system with a GUI (in 128KB rom) a nice high-res 640x480 monochrome monitor. I used WYSIWYG dtp and word processing software (great for school papers) while the rest still used WordPerfect for DOS. It was cheaper than an IBM PC too.
Too bad their marketing department sucked ass, everybody assumed an Atari was a game system, and I had to explain over and over again they make desktops too.
true, however, we have evolved to a point where there is no longer a strong selection pressure on being smart, since everyone is 'smart enough'. If I look around me, the number of offspring seems inversely proportional to the intelligence of the parents.
If you have a TV antenna here and you're receiving TV signals, you will be asked to pay 'kijk en luistergeld'.
No you don't 'kijk en luistergeld' (TV/Radio license) has been abolished for some time now, since almost everyone owns a radio or TV now, it's being payed through taxes nowadays.
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Maybe, unlike you, we don't just roll over and take it when murdering savages attack us.
Of course, the new kid on the block knows best.
Newsflash: you're never going to catch them all.
You can decrease the percentage that escapes the nets, but there is a point where putting more effort in it has no return on investment.
What you are committing is the fallacy of false dilemma, by implying that we can either try to reduce traffic deaths, OR try to reduce terrorist deaths, but not both.
Oh, sorry, I was not aware of the fact that the US government has an unlimited amount of money and personel to spend on these issues, how silly of me.
Stop being so dramatic, there has been 1 terrorist attack on the US, Boo-fucking-Hoo, now it's suddenly the biggest problem in the world ?
... the list goes on.
I'm european by the way, terrorism has been here for decades, just like in the rest of the world, go ask the israeli's, the Irish, the Spanish, the South Africans
Welcome to the club.
Sure a suitcase nuke may kill 50k people, but when you do a risk assesment, you have two factors you have to take into account: the impact if it goes wrong and the chance it will go wrong.
When evaluating risk prevention measures, the same two factors are important: does the measure reduce the impact and/or does the measure reduce the chance of it happening.
If you look at it objectively, the US government is WAY off, the measures are very ineffective, the 9/11 terrorists would have been captured if the existing measures at the time had been executed correctly, go fix that, instead of adding more privacy invading measures that won't actually reduce impact or chance of another attack.
I really get tired of simple minded folks who think the solution is to do nothing simply because doing something might make them a tiny bit uncomfortable in some way.
It's all a question of priorities, is it worth taking freedom away from ALL americans to possibly save a few ? Mostly it is not, some freedoms are too important to give up, for whatever reason.
If you want to save lives, you'd have to look at how do I save the most lives with the least cost (cost in money and impact on people's lives)
I'm not saying there should be no terrorism prevention, but the amount of money and effort going to preventing terrorism is disproportionate to the actual risk. More lives could be saved by correctly prioritizing the risks that exist in our world.
No. We'll see IE, the leading web browser in the world with 80+ percent of the market.
Funny, how that used to be 90+ percent of the market.
In a few months you'll be repeating the same joke with "70+ percent"
Yes, you do, because that's way more important to the US than the impact of a terrorist attack. You need to have friends if you want a healthy economy, and a healthy economy is of much bigger importance on the average person's life than preventing terrorism.
Unfortunately, people have a really skewed perception of risk.
On 9/11 , about 2800 people (exact number is still unclear) suffered a terrible death in the terrorist attacks. Yes it was horrible. No, we don't want it to happen again.
However, the current measures taken by the US government are going way too far, it's not worth reducing freedom for in any way whatsoever, the risk of being killed in a terrorist attack is extremely small. Yet, somehow, the perception of this risk is inflated enormously.
To put things in perspective, last year there were 41,600 traffic deaths in the U.S. (15,700 alcohol related).
It seems clear to me that unsafe driving and DUI is a MUCH bigger risk to the US people than a 9/11 style terrorist attack.
The amount of money and effort spent on "the war on terrorism" is way out of proportion in relation to the risk involved. At the same time, I hear nothing about a "war on unsafe driving" or a "war on DUI", on the contrary, the government even seems to be promoting the use of SUV's which are proven to be more unsafe then 'regular' cars.
The american people should wake up, kick the idiot out of the Big Chair(tm), and put someone there who has his/her priorities straight.
the characters are all cookie cutter type-casts
Go watch season 1 of SG-1 again, you'll see the same thing.
New series need time to deepen the characters, that's why every season has at least a few 'character building' episodes.
Point one: enter about:config into the adres bar, filter on "plugin" , play around with the plugin.default_plugin_disabled and application.use_ns_plugin_finder settings
"Drugs (...) have strong dependencies and ruin lives. They are dangerous for those who take them and for those who live around them."
Not by default, it depends entirely on the drug and the person using it.
One of the most dangerous and most addictive hard drugs is legal in most countries all over the world, the US president has even been been addicted to it in the past. I'm talking about alcohol.
Yet, something completely harmless as marijuana is outlawed and posession can result in serious punishment.
Why is that ?
You live in a country where it's perfectly legal to own a gun, a device specifically designed to hurt or even kill people. Yet, you're not allowed to enjoy yourself with some friends and a bag of weed because then you're somehow a 'danger to society'.
Some drugs are highly addictive and should be banned, but there's lots of drugs that can be enjoyed safely, and the world would be a far better place if more people did.
I'm not saying you should use drugs, but I am saying it should be your own choice, not the governments.
Really, I have to use Lotus at my current job and have had to use it at previous ones too. I never thought I'd say it, but I miss MS Exchange Server.
How exactly does Notes/Domino compare with Exchange ?
Outlook/Exchange is a groupware suite, Notes/Domino is a platform, which happens to come bundled with a groupware suite.
Who needs Lotus when you have pop3 and a text file every can edit...at least it would work most of the time.
If all you need is a mail and agenda, but how exactly do build products like QuickPlace and LearningSpace with just pop3 and a text file ?
How long would it take
.eu too), he went out on lunch break and was back an hour later with a big smile on his face as he had the machine up and running at home, he even installed the 64 bit version of SuSE in that time.
Aprox 10 minutes to drive to the store, a collegue of mine just bought himself a brand new athlon64 for Eur. 599,- off the shelf (ok, more than $500 but still way cheaper than the 1.8 Ghz G5, plus the g5 is more expensive in
Here's the site of the store that sells it: athlon64 (dutch)
Specs:
Athlon64 3000+
Geforce FX 5500, 128MB (G-FX5200, 64MB in the G5)
512MB DDR (256MB in the G5)
120GB 8MB cache HD (80GB in the G5)
8x DVD+RW (8x DVD-RW in the G5)
Sure, the G5 has a better design and it has SATA, but you can buy almost three of these babies for the price of 1 G5. (g5 1.8Ghz is Eur. 1659,0)
I'd love to run OS X as much as the next guy, but with prices like this ?
I'd love a cheap Boring Grey Box apple, doesn't need to have the latest and greatest technology, and please no integrated monitor.
And yet, this attitude magically disappears in an MP3 or movie piracy article? Suddenly, THAT kind of piracy isn't "theft?"
The difference is, if I rip the newest britney spears CD (purely hypothetical example) and put it on the internet, I don't claim I was the artist.
I understand "Currently this site experiences heavy traffic. Please try again at a later time."
But what's up with the geeky asian dude with the weird shoes and is his name really George ? He doesn't look like a George.
If your site is experiencing heavy traffic, why include an almost 21 KB graphic on the error page, which adds absolutely nothing to the informativeness of the error, adds to the traffic and looks just creepy.
Are they trying to scare potential visitors away ?
Now, all the other PDA I saw hardly have more than a working day autonomy
Try the Clié TH-55 , battery life is just insane.
Too bad Sony pulled them off the market, they just made the best PalmOS PDA ever with the TH-55 and then they decide stop selling them outside of Japan.
There things have been available in europe for a few years, and I've observed that their true reason for being is to be given away as the first prize in all kinds of stupid contests and quiz shows.
Greate, Halo 2 is released, but the big question is: does it include a playable demo of duke nukem forever on the CD ?
Bluetooth and WiFi are not competitors, but aim at a completely different market.
I'm very pleased with my TH-55, which has Bluetooth AND WiFi, both of which I use, bluetooth + my T610 on the road, WiFi @ the office.
Oh, and the TH-55 has a voice recorder too, can't believe PalmOne left that one out of the T5.
Too bad Sony stopped selling Clié's in US/europe.
It's more predictably sunny here, so people can bike or walk more, I guess.
I live in the Netherlands, the weather sucks all the time, it's either raining and/or cold, or it's too warm/humid (happens a few days each year, rest of the time it's cold and raining), still we have more bicycles than people here, and no one wears a helmet. ofcourse, it's as flat as a pancake out here, so no crazy downhill speeds.
I think the reason bikes are so popular down here is that it's just too crowded for cars, and the distances are relatively short.
It's also probably the only country where it's perfectly normal to pick up your date on a bike.
More importantly, the financial folk from respected institutions.
Most importantly: the people with Lots Of Money who own Big Businesses who actually run the US and have no intention of letting go of their patent cash cows.
I see this as an insult to America. They're basically saying our process of electing a president is a sham and that we're incapable of being democratic.
Where I live (the netherlands) all elections are monitored, not because we're not capable of having a fair election, but because it shows how confident we are in our capability of being democratic, it says something like: "Sure you can come monitor, we've got nothing to hide".
Also, it serves as an example to other, less democratic, countries on how elections should work, the observers aren't just there to monitor, they are also there to learn.
Too bad atari (the old atari, not the current owner of the brand) had an image as game console company, they made a great desktop system, the Atari ST. Man I loved that machine, I still have my Mega ST 1 lying around somewhere.
While my friends where fooling around with DOS, I had a system with a GUI (in 128KB rom) a nice high-res 640x480 monochrome monitor. I used WYSIWYG dtp and word processing software (great for school papers) while the rest still used WordPerfect for DOS.
It was cheaper than an IBM PC too.
Too bad their marketing department sucked ass, everybody assumed an Atari was a game system, and I had to explain over and over again they make desktops too.
When are we going to get a music store with LOSSLESS files (e.g. Apple Lossless or WMA Pro)?
You mean like allofmp3.com ?
true, however, we have evolved to a point where there is no longer a strong selection pressure on being smart, since everyone is 'smart enough'.
If I look around me, the number of offspring seems inversely proportional to the intelligence of the parents.
Evolution is about being *good enough*, not the best.
Agreed, and to further narrow it down, it's being *good enough* at only 1 thing: reproduction.
Unfortunately, this doesn't usually have a lot to do with intelligence.
No you don't 'kijk en luistergeld' (TV/Radio license) has been abolished for some time now, since almost everyone owns a radio or TV now, it's being payed through taxes nowadays.