what is the justification for using public money for research that tens of millions of people consider murder
Frankly, I think we should do it just out of spite... for people who would spout the kind of self-important ignorant garbage that just evacuated itself from the barren environment of your skull.
but I've seen russian aircraft that are more reliable!
Depends whether you're referring to the civilian or military ones. Russian fighter jets are the equivalent of the Kalashnikov rifles - by the time they break down, the Western counterparts would have been replaced a dozen times.
I saw a BBC interview with a British cleric. According to the introduction he was one of the most powerful and influential ones.
At one point he was asked a question as to whether he envisions that there could be long-standing peace between the secular Britain and the Muslims.
He answered (I am quoting as well as I can remember):
"There will be peace when the flag of Islam will be raised above the Buckingham palace".
How many US schools teach the full history of the US army genocide of native american indians? Do they talk about how the cavilry would ride in to an indian village and shoot anyone they saw, women and children preferably? Burn whole villages?
We don't just teach it, we have films about it. And while some may say that it's not taught enough or in enough detail, I am not aware of any circumstances under which it was sidelined.
If anything like that did happen, it would be equally as wrong. But unlike you, I do not believe that "prior art" for doing something wrong entitles you to continue doing it.
What about protesting outside jewish Temple? The only way to be God's of chosen people is to be born of a jewish mother. That is what we call racism.
Really? Cause last time I checked, anyone was free to convert to Judaism. It is a difficult trek, but the option is open. The major difference is that Jews are generally prohibited from actively recruiting new people into the religion.
So next time you're going to make generalizations, please educate yourself first.
Islam itself is not the problem. Yes, the Quran is violent and intolerant, but same is the case for the Bible, so the other two religions of the "holy trinity" are not exempt from the same judgment.
However, you know what they say - it's not what's in your holy book, it's how you use it.
Yeah, god forbid an underpaid teacher decides to concentrate on education and makes a hard to swallow decision to promote a little equilibrium.
Equilibrium?!
This is called appeasement... or better yet - catering to the demands of terrorists. Yes, you heard me. If a teacher is afraid to teach the [i]history[/i] of the Holocaust (and let us not kid ourselves - it's not a P.C. kind of fear, but fear of disruptive behaviour and violence), then this is terrorism by definition.
Remember - "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
I believe it was Bill Maher who said a couple of years ago:
"Let us not become so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance".
I think this is that kind of a scenario. And, as always, complacency will only lead further into oblivion. If this is what is happening, then it really is time for the UK to wake up. Really, that time has already come and gone, but if they finally do realize what is happening, we can forget that they're late to the party, and embrace the fact that they showed up at all.
However, the hard question is what is there to be done about this. Frankly, I am hard-pressed to see a solution to this crisis. As the percentage of the people who espouse these beliefs rises within the UK population, they are going to feel increasingly empowered, both by the virtue of their numbers, as well as due to the apparent utter impotence of the British in the face of their assault.
I have an Inspiron 1505 and I had no problem with the wireless on Ubuntu 6.10 or now on 7.04.
The wireless/bluetooth combo I got worked out of the box with no tinkering and no ndiswrapper required. Not only that, but the wireless killswitch keyboard shortcut works perfectly as well.
The only thing I had to tinker with were video drivers to get direct rendering to work. I had to install the closed-source fglrx driver, set up an XGL session, and start beryl with the -noforcewindowmanager option. Everything except the last one I did directly off a wiki, and the -noforcewindowmanager option was required when I got a white screen upon launching beryl-manager. The solution was the first link in my google search, so altogether I spent far less time setting up this laptop on Linux than if I had installed Windows.
This is not just reinventing the wheel, but also making it square.
There are real issues with the execution of this procedure, but we also have to consider the ridiculousness of the premise in the first place. For something like the avian flu, the major damage is done on epithelial surfaces, not in the bloodstream. I don't think systemic effects of the flu have anything to do with it being in the blood either.
The majority of replicating virus will be within the cells of the respiratory epithelium. "Filtering" the blood would do virtually nothing for the course of the disease. Maybe this would be feasible as a first-line treatment for a Hepatitis or HIV needle-stick, where the virus is strictly in the bloodstream, and hasn't established viral reservoirs yet. But for that we might as well use an antibody-coupled column.
So in summary - the technology is interesting, but this doesn't seem to be the appropriate application for it, at least not in the described context.
The answer to your question is simple - it's greed. Unadulterated, foaming-at-the-mouth greed.
The media executives have for so long held onto their positions of power, privilege and wealth, that they have lost any notions of reality. As far as they are concerned, they are gods, and the consumers are the worshipers.
When they get a whiff of even a minute challenge to this doctrine, they are engulfed in rage, because it is something they cannot control, regardless of how much money they throw at the issue. After all, as far as they're concerned, the consumers are the commodity - they own your eyes, and sell them as they please (not quite that simple in the case of HBO, but you get the idea). So they get angrier and angrier, until this rage spills over as utter stupidity.
P.S. They might as well call executions a "happy express to heaven".
Mod parent up... Beryl has changed the way I do work, and is the primary reason why most people would switch to Linux, whether the main attraction is based on aesthetics, or usability.
Is it just me or is it the business strategists at the major labels that are that dumb?
What other industry responds to dropping demand and alienated customers by raising prices? Maybe it's just me, but I do not understand the kind of thinking that goes into making these decisions...
Because it costs many millions of dollars to develop a pharmaceutical, and many more millions to hold numerous clinical trials to verify its effectiveness and safety.
Most basic research is conducted using public money anyway, but applied research is something else. Unless the U.S. government is willing to finance ALL stages of drug discovery via NIH, they can't expect private companies to undertake fantastic risks and expenses, if their profits are not guaranteed.
I am not saying that what pharmaceutical companies do to maximize profits and control their monopolies is entirely kosher, but same can be said for most other industries that are vital. So while we may push for reform and institute tight regulations over this industry (very logical things to do when talking about something that directly affects lives), let's not call them names for manufacturing the drugs that keep us alive.
Maybe next time they'll lose the hard drive with the war-protester-based no-fly lists, and it'll turn out to be the only copy...
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Aside from the ridiculousness of your proposal, I'd suggest that you actually read the NDA in the TFA:
4. Participant agrees not to do the following, except with the advanced review and written approval of Google: (a) issue or release any articles, advertising, publicity, or other matter relating to this Agreement (including the fact that a meeting or discussion has taken place between the parties) or mentioning or implying the name of Google."
They aren't saying you can't talk about Google, just that you can't talk about the negotiations and the NDA itself. I don't know about you, but that doesn't seem altogether unreasonable to me.
Or maybe the stations can negotiate the deals directly with whatever artists are not signed up with major labels. Frankly, I no longer see the need for the labels altogether. It would costs the artist a few % to have a professional negotiate with the radio stations that want to play their music, but now they'd get at least the majority of the profit, versus virtually nothing, which is what they get right now.
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Frankly, I think we should do it just out of spite... for people who would spout the kind of self-important ignorant garbage that just evacuated itself from the barren environment of your skull.
Next announcement will come about 6 months before the release date:
This feature will not be included in the upcoming release of Windows.
Depends whether you're referring to the civilian or military ones. Russian fighter jets are the equivalent of the Kalashnikov rifles - by the time they break down, the Western counterparts would have been replaced a dozen times.
I'm sorry, but anyone who puts "Das Kapital" into the same stack as "Dianetics" might as well have a "idiot, and proud" tatoo on his forehead.
I saw a BBC interview with a British cleric. According to the introduction he was one of the most powerful and influential ones.
At one point he was asked a question as to whether he envisions that there could be long-standing peace between the secular Britain and the Muslims.
He answered (I am quoting as well as I can remember):
"There will be peace when the flag of Islam will be raised above the Buckingham palace".
Yes, it is an assault.
Exactly.
Islam itself is not the problem. Yes, the Quran is violent and intolerant, but same is the case for the Bible, so the other two religions of the "holy trinity" are not exempt from the same judgment.
However, you know what they say - it's not what's in your holy book, it's how you use it.
Equilibrium?!
This is called appeasement... or better yet - catering to the demands of terrorists. Yes, you heard me. If a teacher is afraid to teach the [i]history[/i] of the Holocaust (and let us not kid ourselves - it's not a P.C. kind of fear, but fear of disruptive behaviour and violence), then this is terrorism by definition.
Remember - "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
I believe it was Bill Maher who said a couple of years ago:
"Let us not become so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance".
I think this is that kind of a scenario. And, as always, complacency will only lead further into oblivion. If this is what is happening, then it really is time for the UK to wake up. Really, that time has already come and gone, but if they finally do realize what is happening, we can forget that they're late to the party, and embrace the fact that they showed up at all.
However, the hard question is what is there to be done about this. Frankly, I am hard-pressed to see a solution to this crisis. As the percentage of the people who espouse these beliefs rises within the UK population, they are going to feel increasingly empowered, both by the virtue of their numbers, as well as due to the apparent utter impotence of the British in the face of their assault.
I don't know why parent was modded Funny, when Insightful would've been a much more appropriate label.
I have an Inspiron 1505 and I had no problem with the wireless on Ubuntu 6.10 or now on 7.04.
The wireless/bluetooth combo I got worked out of the box with no tinkering and no ndiswrapper required. Not only that, but the wireless killswitch keyboard shortcut works perfectly as well.
The only thing I had to tinker with were video drivers to get direct rendering to work. I had to install the closed-source fglrx driver, set up an XGL session, and start beryl with the -noforcewindowmanager option. Everything except the last one I did directly off a wiki, and the -noforcewindowmanager option was required when I got a white screen upon launching beryl-manager. The solution was the first link in my google search, so altogether I spent far less time setting up this laptop on Linux than if I had installed Windows.
Exactly - can't have them selling their vote for hotdog and fries when selling it for the safety of their eternal soul is much more sexy.
You're absolutely right. Being philosophically pacifistic only gets you eaten in the wild world.
How exactly are you struggling with it?
In 7.04 you're given a choice to install the fglrx driver when you first boot up!
Exactly.
This is not just reinventing the wheel, but also making it square.
There are real issues with the execution of this procedure, but we also have to consider the ridiculousness of the premise in the first place. For something like the avian flu, the major damage is done on epithelial surfaces, not in the bloodstream. I don't think systemic effects of the flu have anything to do with it being in the blood either.
The majority of replicating virus will be within the cells of the respiratory epithelium. "Filtering" the blood would do virtually nothing for the course of the disease. Maybe this would be feasible as a first-line treatment for a Hepatitis or HIV needle-stick, where the virus is strictly in the bloodstream, and hasn't established viral reservoirs yet. But for that we might as well use an antibody-coupled column.
So in summary - the technology is interesting, but this doesn't seem to be the appropriate application for it, at least not in the described context.
The answer to your question is simple - it's greed. Unadulterated, foaming-at-the-mouth greed.
The media executives have for so long held onto their positions of power, privilege and wealth, that they have lost any notions of reality. As far as they are concerned, they are gods, and the consumers are the worshipers.
When they get a whiff of even a minute challenge to this doctrine, they are engulfed in rage, because it is something they cannot control, regardless of how much money they throw at the issue. After all, as far as they're concerned, the consumers are the commodity - they own your eyes, and sell them as they please (not quite that simple in the case of HBO, but you get the idea). So they get angrier and angrier, until this rage spills over as utter stupidity.
P.S. They might as well call executions a "happy express to heaven".
Mod parent up... Beryl has changed the way I do work, and is the primary reason why most people would switch to Linux, whether the main attraction is based on aesthetics, or usability.
Is it just me or is it the business strategists at the major labels that are that dumb?
What other industry responds to dropping demand and alienated customers by raising prices? Maybe it's just me, but I do not understand the kind of thinking that goes into making these decisions...
Because it costs many millions of dollars to develop a pharmaceutical, and many more millions to hold numerous clinical trials to verify its effectiveness and safety.
Most basic research is conducted using public money anyway, but applied research is something else. Unless the U.S. government is willing to finance ALL stages of drug discovery via NIH, they can't expect private companies to undertake fantastic risks and expenses, if their profits are not guaranteed.
I am not saying that what pharmaceutical companies do to maximize profits and control their monopolies is entirely kosher, but same can be said for most other industries that are vital. So while we may push for reform and institute tight regulations over this industry (very logical things to do when talking about something that directly affects lives), let's not call them names for manufacturing the drugs that keep us alive.
Maybe next time they'll lose the hard drive with the war-protester-based no-fly lists, and it'll turn out to be the only copy...
Or maybe the stations can negotiate the deals directly with whatever artists are not signed up with major labels. Frankly, I no longer see the need for the labels altogether. It would costs the artist a few % to have a professional negotiate with the radio stations that want to play their music, but now they'd get at least the majority of the profit, versus virtually nothing, which is what they get right now.
Something tells me that the people that the program is targeting are not going to be doing many spreadsheets for a Fortune500 company.
Not for publicity?
The author of the original email BCC'd the Consumerist. Somehow I do not think that was overlooked by whoever read the email at Apple.