Gmail is probably staying invitation-only for this long because they're steeling themselves for gigantic server loads when it goes public. It's not because they don't want to be "accountable".
Of course. It's easy to provide 1GB of space when you have just a few users.
THAT'S why when Israeli "Defense" Force rockets a "terrorist" palestine leader, it also kills 15 more people living in the same neighbourhood, right?
Man, i owe an apology to Sharon...
You're REALLY ignorant about venezuelan facts, aren't you?
Since 1998, Chavez won 8 (yes, EIGHT) elections internationally observed, always with a MAJORITY.
He supports North Korean dictator? They have a common enemy. That's politics.
Do you know how many dictators did USA support in the last 100 years?
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So what? They go because there is demand. As long as there is people willing to hire them, they'll keep going.
See both side of the coins, dude...
Come on, admit that you WANT this to become a meme to live forever as the author of it. And yet, disguise it as "i fear we may have..."
But hey, memes are not created just when YOU decide it, are they.
"...that is how all industrial nations (except britain, who had the first mover disadvantage...go read your economics books) started."
I wouldn't dismiss the case against England so fast...
Once upon a time, you know, there were these rich countries heading big Empires with colonies worldwide (Spain, Portugal, Netherlands) and this other island-country just putting itself together after centuries of internal struggle and war with his neighbors the French. Yep, that'd be England.
What did they do? Foster and Support THIEVERY (aka piracy) as an elevated institution. For decades they just stoled what they wanted from their rich neighbors. I mean, that fully qualifies for, in today's words, a "rogue nation", doesn't it.
Not that i have anything against the brits. It's only that EVERYONE has these things he'd like to delete from their past.
Of course!! Being an astronaut is a RISKY profession, and no one is forced into it. They know they could die in a mission.
Come on people, be REALISTIC, life is not a movie. These RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE NO-ASTRONAUTS-WILL-EVER-DIE missions are a chimera.
...I wouldn't wait till it becomes proper-full-just-like-in-movies slavery to begin demanding my dignity not to be taken away.
I mean, Free Market Believers, just think of this:
A Corporation is, abstractly a Person. Only a BIG, POWERFUL person. In the free market game, this BIG POWERFUL UGLY person just have no problem to do pretty much whatever it wants when "competing" against single human persons.
So what's wrong about these individuals forming a stronger person (say, a UNION) to play the market game vs. the Corporation? Or, why not,maybe another BIG, STRONG person (say, the STATE) could play a little of the game in favour of the less powered individuals rights.
My point is: it's just not FAIR to let Corporations do whatever they want, humiliating individuals, in the HOPE that GodFreeMarket will eventually put them in place. Actually, is a little something between naive and evil.
It's not about putting one person in charge of everybody else's life, but about making sure that the STATE (run, of course, by persons) takes care of those aspects of community organization usually left behind by self-improvement-seeking individuals. E.g. health care, education, human rights watch.
"First and foremost it's about punishment."
And why exactly is punishment a GOAL? What good does it do to society/individual/victims? Because if you mean REVENGE well, i think that's not what justice is about (although your second "purpose" goes that direction too).
"The estimates are that we'd have a ~100 year supply of Uranium if all power was switched to nuclear power today. This figure does not take reprocessing and non-uranium fission into account."
Of course, that's WITHOUT counting all your uranium supplies in, say, Niger, SouthAfrica, Kazakhstan, Namibia, Uzbekistan, and some other countries waiting to be liberated by US Marines.
"With proper care, it's safe and a quiet way to cool your machine."
The thing is, i don't wanna HAVE to be careful. When these things ain't need no proper care nor love nor sissy feelings at all, THEN they will be ready to hit the masses.
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Come on, can we go back to the "news that matters"?
This site is becoming a long and boring infomercial.
Gmail is probably staying invitation-only for this long because they're steeling themselves for gigantic server loads when it goes public. It's not because they don't want to be "accountable".
Of course. It's easy to provide 1GB of space when you have just a few users.
k = m * v^2
So size (et mass) DOES matter.
THAT'S why when Israeli "Defense" Force rockets a "terrorist" palestine leader, it also kills 15 more people living in the same neighbourhood, right?
Man, i owe an apology to Sharon...
You're REALLY ignorant about venezuelan facts, aren't you?
Since 1998, Chavez won 8 (yes, EIGHT) elections internationally observed, always with a MAJORITY.
He supports North Korean dictator? They have a common enemy. That's politics.
Do you know how many dictators did USA support in the last 100 years?
So what? They go because there is demand. As long as there is people willing to hire them, they'll keep going.
See both side of the coins, dude...
Netcraft confirms: Russian ICBMs are dead.
Oh yeah? And why did you bomb the ones that DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO YOU?
Is there some kind of policy for hiring only funny-looking people?
No, it actually means people wanted to find a reason to vote for GWB. They didn't find any, but didn't care.
Come on, admit that you WANT this to become a meme to live forever as the author of it. And yet, disguise it as "i fear we may have..." But hey, memes are not created just when YOU decide it, are they.
Yeah, but... do you get laid?
D'uh! Because it's mispelled!
"...that is how all industrial nations (except britain, who had the first mover disadvantage...go read your economics books) started."
I wouldn't dismiss the case against England so fast...
Once upon a time, you know, there were these rich countries heading big Empires with colonies worldwide (Spain, Portugal, Netherlands) and this other island-country just putting itself together after centuries of internal struggle and war with his neighbors the French. Yep, that'd be England.
What did they do? Foster and Support THIEVERY (aka piracy) as an elevated institution. For decades they just stoled what they wanted from their rich neighbors. I mean, that fully qualifies for, in today's words, a "rogue nation", doesn't it.
Not that i have anything against the brits. It's only that EVERYONE has these things he'd like to delete from their past.
"Capitol punishment"? You know, some of them do deserve it...
I thought Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming.
Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine
YOU knew it. BBC audience didn't.
Of course!! Being an astronaut is a RISKY profession, and no one is forced into it. They know they could die in a mission.
Come on people, be REALISTIC, life is not a movie. These RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE NO-ASTRONAUTS-WILL-EVER-DIE missions are a chimera.
Curbita = Curitiba, right?
I mean, Free Market Believers, just think of this: A Corporation is, abstractly a Person. Only a BIG, POWERFUL person. In the free market game, this BIG POWERFUL UGLY person just have no problem to do pretty much whatever it wants when "competing" against single human persons.
So what's wrong about these individuals forming a stronger person (say, a UNION) to play the market game vs. the Corporation? Or, why not
My point is: it's just not FAIR to let Corporations do whatever they want, humiliating individuals, in the HOPE that GodFreeMarket will eventually put them in place. Actually, is a little something between naive and evil.
It's not about putting one person in charge of everybody else's life, but about making sure that the STATE (run, of course, by persons) takes care of those aspects of community organization usually left behind by self-improvement-seeking individuals. E.g. health care, education, human rights watch.
"First and foremost it's about punishment."
And why exactly is punishment a GOAL? What good does it do to society/individual/victims? Because if you mean REVENGE well, i think that's not what justice is about (although your second "purpose" goes that direction too).
It's not the about the accent... it's about being, you know... DUMB.
"The estimates are that we'd have a ~100 year supply of Uranium if all power was switched to nuclear power today. This figure does not take reprocessing and non-uranium fission into account."
Of course, that's WITHOUT counting all your uranium supplies in, say, Niger, SouthAfrica, Kazakhstan, Namibia, Uzbekistan, and some other countries waiting to be liberated by US Marines.
"With proper care, it's safe and a quiet way to cool your machine."
The thing is, i don't wanna HAVE to be careful. When these things ain't need no proper care nor love nor sissy feelings at all, THEN they will be ready to hit the masses.