In the appropriate world, we all are properly educated to higher levels. Our dirty or repetitive jobs get shipped to the third world and we get better jobs. 200 year ago we were selling agrarian and textile goods to the world. We industrialized and made better products. 100 years ago we were selling manufactured goods to the world.
And today? Our current account deficit grows every day. Instead of coming up with new products and ideas, we buy them from Japan, China and Europe. Instead of educating, we complain about the loss of jobs we don't really want.
Why does America cry the loudest about globalization? Because we're the furthest behind. We refuse to do stem cell research or build particle accelerators.
Well, making people rich (or getting lots of people a little money back, as in class action suits) isn't the point of lawsuits.
The point is to punish corporations for using illegal practices on their customers, and make others wary of following suit . If this is true, and the companies lose, how many online dating services will try this? Lawsuits are one way the public citizenry can fight back. Individuals (and by individuals I mean lawyers) getting rich is an unintended side effect.
And of course like everything, it's prone to mis-use.
Perhaps I'm being cynical here, but it seems our education system is designed primarily to teach the bulk of the population for a life of boring repetition. In the bulk of jobs today, creativity and critical thinking aren't considered an asset. However, the ability to do the same thing for 8 hours is.
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I think what is implied in this offer, which none of the khtml dev's are going to admit, is that khtml development is walking and WebCore development is sprinting.
Would the khtml team have enough man-hours to integrate patches if they got them nice and discrete like they wanted? I'm skeptical, considering from what I understand, it's the side project of a bunch of people and the primary project of no one.
Your "world" seems to be an autistic one, in particular your privileging of objects over people. Obviously I don't know you and this is just from reading your post on movies, so a grain of salt is served on the side of course.
I'm not sure about Australia, but I believe this is valid here in the US too. If a merchant accepts an unsigned credit card, and the purchase is fraudulent, than the merchant accepts liability, as opposed to the CC company usually does.
But obviously businesses can't be bothered to even check for signatures, let alone learn the rules about "Check ID".
While watching child pornography is definitely a sign that maybe you have a problem with sex, should it be illegal? Should it really be censored?
There is no doubt that the creation of child porn is illegal, (although some could argue 18 is a bit harsh. Not even a century ago women started having sex when they started having periods.) but I don't see what watching it does to harm anyone but yourself.
It's yet another time our society is treating the symptoms of a problem instead of the problem.
As a member of three member household who doesn't have cable, spends 5+ hours a week gaming together, goes to the Comic book store on new comic book day, and generally geeks out everyday, I think you're dismissing The OC prematurely.
We have someone tape it for us every week and we all love it. It generally has material relevant to geeks in every show, and it's a great way to start conversations with those women you so easily disdain. It may in fact not be for you, but I think more geeks than you realize are regulars.
Now, as for the Spiderman-inspired kiss... *groan*
Say what you will about capitalism, but it is almost the sole reason that the standard of living has risen so much in many countries over the last three centuries or so.
There is no finer systerm for taking a society from an agrain to a post-industrial culture. However, I think most of the ills we are suffering these days arise from capitalism. Whether it's corporate conservatism (RIAA, DMCA, etc), monopoly and consolidation (Microsoft, mergers), or the rollarcoaster ride that is our economy (How many of you went poor ->millionaire->poor in a a year or two? How many of you have houses that have inflated 400% in the last year or two, and will likely loose all that and more in the next couple?), captalism is failing us every day.
I'm sure the European Aristocracy that the cultural and industrial revolutions of 1700's replaced were congratulating themselves how much they had improved their standard of living over the old days. But they couldn't see outside the limits of their (*gasp*) class, or how their own system had become rotten and evil. It's funny how despite what High School history teachers tell you, learning history never stops us from repeating it. Life is shifty and will disguise itself. Maybe it's time to revolt again.
Maybe I'm just a dirty Marxist(but not a communist/stalinist) but this just seems one more aspect of the commodification of our culture.
The primary factor for motivation in our society is competition. Learning theory and high level thought will probably allow a graduate to make significant contributions to society for the next twenty years, but the person learning the practice will make a much bigger impact this year, which will directly effect stock markets (a.k.a. competitive markets).
Capitalism is probably the premier force in moving a society from an agrarian culture to a post-industrial one. However, maybe it's time to stop worshiping it and reevaluate where it's taking us today?
Without having read the book, this sounds like they are talking about the work of Dr. Gottman.
Although, the sumation seems disingenious. It was never a system, it was a study of interaction in married couples. He never offered to predict someones chances of success, but rather studied their interaction, and then kept track of their marriage. He then analyzed the data and published novel ideas on the importance of how the way we communicate affects our relationships. Third parties then plumbed the data to get media bytes like the one quoted.
Although, now he has written 2 or 3 books. *shrug*
Retail special orders in 2 days, with no commitment to purchase.
Stores don't use this sort of thing to make money, they use it to earn customer loyalty. The customer knows they can get books of the internet. The store's there to let them touch and feel, and hopefully offer someone who has read it to talk to.
They get all their books in one place, and if they decide they don't like the book once it's in there hands, they can refuse. The store has a wider selection, and can always restock refused orders.
Sometimes the long term dollar is better than the short term....
It's illegal? They're coming after you? What they really mean is if you try and join the army, the future will look like this.
And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's
where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after
committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly
looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father
rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And
they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the
bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest
father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly
'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me
and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I just got a temp ban from the official servers." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?"
And I said, "Wallhacking." And they all moved away from me on the bench
there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I
said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,
father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the
bench.
Make sure you know your state's rules on organ donation too! In New York State, that little card means nothing. Your next-of-kin gets to make the final say, and usually they have to make this decision at a very difficult time, so make sure they know your choice!
As for other states or countries, it's up to you to find out the procedure.
It's even easier in MS Office v. X ( and we are talking about OS X, right?), it's in the freaking status bar, right next to page count and line count. I don't even have to use the mouse or the keyboard.
Um, Didn't IBM just release the 970FX, which uses the the new (.09nm ?) process and significantly less watt's of power consumption, along with PowerTune, a speedstep-like technology that would further reduce power consumption?
Why yes, yes they did. Maybe that's how they will fix the heat issue.
Licensing linux code from SCO invalidates the GPL on the rest of the kernel code. The licenses are not compatible. You will never get hundreds of kernel developers to re-license the code for your use. If you really think you need to buy this, give up. Install FreeBSD.
There's one thing I never understood about the whole "You have to license parts of the kernel from us!" If you did this, wouldn't all the GPL code in the kernel be linked to a non-compatible license?
If so, this would mean, you lose the right to use everything but the SCO code, and you would have to negotiate with each individual person and group that holds a linux copyright.
So, if SCO is right, who would actually buy a license? A switch to *BSD would be painful, but surely easier than trying to negotiate terms with Linus and Alan that would allow their code to link with SCO licensed code.
Or maybe SCO can come up with a GPL compatible license. Sure worked for X Windows!
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This is not the way it should have worked.
In the appropriate world, we all are properly educated to higher levels. Our dirty or repetitive jobs get shipped to the third world and we get better jobs. 200 year ago we were selling agrarian and textile goods to the world. We industrialized and made better products. 100 years ago we were selling manufactured goods to the world.
And today? Our current account deficit grows every day. Instead of coming up with new products and ideas, we buy them from Japan, China and Europe. Instead of educating, we complain about the loss of jobs we don't really want.
Why does America cry the loudest about globalization? Because we're the furthest behind. We refuse to do stem cell research or build particle accelerators.
It didn't have to be this way....
Well, making people rich (or getting lots of people a little money back, as in class action suits) isn't the point of lawsuits.
The point is to punish corporations for using illegal practices on their customers, and make others wary of following suit . If this is true, and the companies lose, how many online dating services will try this? Lawsuits are one way the public citizenry can fight back. Individuals (and by individuals I mean lawyers) getting rich is an unintended side effect.
And of course like everything, it's prone to mis-use.
Perhaps I'm being cynical here, but it seems our education system is designed primarily to teach the bulk of the population for a life of boring repetition. In the bulk of jobs today, creativity and critical thinking aren't considered an asset. However, the ability to do the same thing for 8 hours is.
Like $-50 dollars more?
Would the khtml team have enough man-hours to integrate patches if they got them nice and discrete like they wanted? I'm skeptical, considering from what I understand, it's the side project of a bunch of people and the primary project of no one.
It's no wonder the diff's are overwhelming....
(Remember, subscribers get an * after their username....)
But obviously businesses can't be bothered to even check for signatures, let alone learn the rules about "Check ID".
There is no doubt that the creation of child porn is illegal, (although some could argue 18 is a bit harsh. Not even a century ago women started having sex when they started having periods.) but I don't see what watching it does to harm anyone but yourself.
It's yet another time our society is treating the symptoms of a problem instead of the problem.
As a member of three member household who doesn't have cable, spends 5+ hours a week gaming together, goes to the Comic book store on new comic book day, and generally geeks out everyday, I think you're dismissing The OC prematurely.
We have someone tape it for us every week and we all love it. It generally has material relevant to geeks in every show, and it's a great way to start conversations with those women you so easily disdain. It may in fact not be for you, but I think more geeks than you realize are regulars.
Now, as for the Spiderman-inspired kiss... *groan*
Shhhh! No one has told him yet, but he's the first little piggy.
Hey, be fair now.
They have at least 300 customers!
Say what you will about capitalism, but it is almost the sole reason that the standard of living has risen so much in many countries over the last three centuries or so.
There is no finer systerm for taking a society from an agrain to a post-industrial culture. However, I think most of the ills we are suffering these days arise from capitalism. Whether it's corporate conservatism (RIAA, DMCA, etc), monopoly and consolidation (Microsoft, mergers), or the rollarcoaster ride that is our economy (How many of you went poor ->millionaire->poor in a a year or two? How many of you have houses that have inflated 400% in the last year or two, and will likely loose all that and more in the next couple?), captalism is failing us every day.
I'm sure the European Aristocracy that the cultural and industrial revolutions of 1700's replaced were congratulating themselves how much they had improved their standard of living over the old days. But they couldn't see outside the limits of their (*gasp*) class, or how their own system had become rotten and evil. It's funny how despite what High School history teachers tell you, learning history never stops us from repeating it. Life is shifty and will disguise itself. Maybe it's time to revolt again.
Well, someone needs to advertise for them, because they are about to fall of all search engines. Google, who needs 'em?
Maybe I'm just a dirty Marxist(but not a communist/stalinist) but this just seems one more aspect of the commodification of our culture.
The primary factor for motivation in our society is competition. Learning theory and high level thought will probably allow a graduate to make significant contributions to society for the next twenty years, but the person learning the practice will make a much bigger impact this year, which will directly effect stock markets (a.k.a. competitive markets).
Capitalism is probably the premier force in moving a society from an agrarian culture to a post-industrial one. However, maybe it's time to stop worshiping it and reevaluate where it's taking us today?
Without having read the book, this sounds like they are talking about the work of Dr. Gottman.
Although, the sumation seems disingenious. It was never a system, it was a study of interaction in married couples. He never offered to predict someones chances of success, but rather studied their interaction, and then kept track of their marriage. He then analyzed the data and published novel ideas on the importance of how the way we communicate affects our relationships. Third parties then plumbed the data to get media bytes like the one quoted.
Although, now he has written 2 or 3 books. *shrug*
Wholesale stock.
Retail special orders in 2 days, with no commitment to purchase.
Stores don't use this sort of thing to make money, they use it to earn customer loyalty. The customer knows they can get books of the internet. The store's there to let them touch and feel, and hopefully offer someone who has read it to talk to.
They get all their books in one place, and if they decide they don't like the book once it's in there hands, they can refuse. The store has a wider selection, and can always restock refused orders.
Sometimes the long term dollar is better than the short term....
It's illegal? They're coming after you? What they really mean is if you try and join the army, the future will look like this.
And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly 'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I just got a temp ban from the official servers." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" And I said, "Wallhacking." And they all moved away from me on the bench there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench.
Make sure you know your state's rules on organ donation too! In New York State, that little card means nothing. Your next-of-kin gets to make the final say, and usually they have to make this decision at a very difficult time, so make sure they know your choice!
As for other states or countries, it's up to you to find out the procedure.
It's even easier in MS Office v. X ( and we are talking about OS X, right?), it's in the freaking status bar, right next to page count and line count. I don't even have to use the mouse or the keyboard.
This is embarrassing.
Yes, lets forget all proactive measures. Sure, fatal accidents might sky rocket, but you can be 1 minute earlier to work!
Speed limits exists for the good of the community. We need protection from people like you.
Oops! Thanks, I meant .09 micron :)
Um, Didn't IBM just release the 970FX, which uses the the new (.09nm ?) process and significantly less watt's of power consumption, along with PowerTune, a speedstep-like technology that would further reduce power consumption?
Why yes, yes they did. Maybe that's how they will fix the heat issue.
Licensing linux code from SCO invalidates the GPL on the rest of the kernel code. The licenses are not compatible. You will never get hundreds of kernel developers to re-license the code for your use. If you really think you need to buy this, give up. Install FreeBSD.
There's one thing I never understood about the whole "You have to license parts of the kernel from us!" If you did this, wouldn't all the GPL code in the kernel be linked to a non-compatible license?
If so, this would mean, you lose the right to use everything but the SCO code, and you would have to negotiate with each individual person and group that holds a linux copyright.
So, if SCO is right, who would actually buy a license? A switch to *BSD would be painful, but surely easier than trying to negotiate terms with Linus and Alan that would allow their code to link with SCO licensed code.
Or maybe SCO can come up with a GPL compatible license. Sure worked for X Windows!