Because those genes are taken from natively Brazilian plants and animals
Most likely exported legally, from the laws of that country.
So, if a local small industry decides they want to use that plant for something (a native plant) they must pay royalties
Well small local industries are usually not worth the time/money to sue. And if they did use a local native plant with traditional applications there is always prior art. I don't much like drug patents. But going against them because 'it was developed from a local plant' is a poor way, especially when the government, i.e. the country, allowed export for whatever use. The fact that it's a foreign country doesn't bother me. What if it was a plant that grew in Argentina on the border with Chile, would it matter that it was developed within Argentina's borders even if the Argentinan owned research plant were far far away, rather than a start up a couple of miles into Chila? Even more so, what about ethnic nationality claims to items within a country?
Steal native elements from a country Nothing has been stolen. It has been exported with the country's consent. If it was barred from export then the country could resist patents bases upon it.
This entire point is moot, however. Google offer a way of searching what is presently available, would one prefer that knowledge to be stuck further in the hands of an oligopoly of drug manufacturers?
The Chinese communist government with nuclear missiles pointed at Japan, Taiwan, and the US do not have %10 share ownership of Dell. The Chinese communist government that is routinely caught spying on Japan, Taiwan, and the US does not have %10 share ownership of HP. The Chinese communist government that frequently trades with Iran, Libya and has been responsible for the dissemination of nuclear plans to Pakistan and North Korea does not have 10% share ownership of Toshiba.
Please forgive me:
The US government, based on as reliable sources as yours, has nuclear missiles pointed at China. It is often caught spying on foreign governments, including NATO allies. The US government cited as an example of capitalism is truely capitalist with corporate pressure groups influencing law making procedures. The US government that traded with Iraq and countless other despot regeimes, and continues to do so, not least in South America.
That you think the Chinese government 'diseminated' nuclear plans to India, Pakistan and North Korea is laughable. The first is a country economic relationships are only now being strengthened with after a long and cold relationship, the second is a largely muslim country (and China isn't too hot on religion), the third is a crackpot crazy place China is struggling to keep contained, be that refugees or a leader who thinks China is their only friend (and friend used loosely in the term of non explicit enemy).
It is a problem in terms of human rights, and in terms of foreign policy.
Absolutely there are human rights problems in China. More so than the US, IMHO. In terms of foreign policy I'm not so sure. What foreign policy does China exhibit a problem with? Invading Middle Eastern states, or objecting to invasions then doing nothing when they take place?
But lastly, And if you think that the PRC is not hostile to the US and is actively promoting anti-Americanism for the purpose of pan-Chinese nationalism, spend some time over there. Well that's the crux. I live in China, and have done for the past 6 months or so, and in my work and personal life I have predominantly Chinese friends. It certainly has sone rough edges, but the US is regarded by most people as a successful country with extensive personal freedom (this is interpreted in one of 2 ways - the first being that 'Westerners' are more 'free with expression' the second that a richer economy allows one greater personal space, for example children can move out of home before marriage quite easily), good businesses (in a very admiring way), but has a somewhat autocratic government - ask a CEO, a student or a taxi driver, this is their usual reply. How about you spend some time over here (and check out some of my other posts for statements also stating that I live in China, if you don't believe it)?
Interesting point this. If these PCs were ordered from Dell which Levono purchased and which I'd reason was in part a basis for this deal, would an investigation have been ordered.
IMHO, it is good practice to have standing procedures to investigate all contracts/purchases, be them government, business or personal. And it would be extremely bad procedure for a foreign government to attempt such a poor spying procedure, but no harm in checking, which I doubt would be very hard.
But I think this is a very valid threat from a community like China who has been known to have spies in the US at all times. Well, the same is true of almost all countries I'm sure. And I'd also hazard a guess that social networking, for example having an operative in place for years only to pop in a USB key (or even manually scribe) and get what they want, is a much greater threat.
I would disagree with use use of 'threat from a community like China' in your statement: China is booming because of free trade, they have a declining population (young people, infact the population is projected to increase for a while as life expectancy from the incumbant increases), and virtually everything to lose from any kind of hostile activity - its not as if a communist ideal exists in China today to peddle to the rest of the world.
The story seems a bit of a non-entity. US government check out foreign contractor, probably a few man hours work. More important are the day-to-day checks. At least this doesn't seem to be a farce as the blocked Dubai-funded purchase of ports were.
I can understand the meaning of pirate as in someone who sails the seas and acts in piracy - stealing others' belongs by force.
I recognise the notion of piracy as in copying material which has been copyrighted, conducted by a 'pirate'. But I prefer the term
copyright infringement.
But what the heck is 'Bio-piracy'? Because privacy and piracy sound vaguely familiar isn't reason enough, IMHO. Naming the awards 'the Captain
Hook awards' seems even more facetious.
From TFA, "Google, in cooperation with Craig Venter, are developing plans to make all of our genomes Googlable to facilitate the brave new world of private genetically-tailored medicines"
does not equal piracy, IMHO.
And to tackle their argument, they have not outlined why genetically tailored medicines are bad, not why holding them in private
hands is wrong. And private means exactly what? The copyright to GNU/Linux is held in private hands. And Google giving
public access to work done by the human genome sequence project seems a lot better than letting all research in the hands of a
very small amount of drug companies, those that are most interested in profiting from keeping information 'secret'.
Its capability for rapid-fire, pinpoint 155mm shell attacks from up to 100 miles away may
While standard shells are cheap, at around $100-$150 each, I understand guided shells necessary for accurate strikes are not cheap, at a little under $100k each. Plus aircraft carriers are used for a whole lot more than bombing stuff. Infact its only good for one scenario: bombing stuff not too far away that you already know is there.
If you're interested in good quality economic analysis, yes a niche but its also an easy way to get some understanding of the economy from top sources, try the Bloomberg Economic podcast. They have a knowledgable host who interviews a range of economists about economic and finance stories of the week, updated around 3 times per week. Learning curve isn't too steep, and it surpasses most newspaper columns IMHO (as they should - interviews with leading names by the leading economic and financial data analysis company).
repeatedly called him a jackass for his deviating from the legal issues and trying to argue from "the social norm"
Laws are created by societies. Laws are acceptable to the majority of societies otherwise, with time, they would be overthrown. Laws are mechanisms to enforce social norms, necessary as social norms exist, if there were no social norms at all we'd have anarchy which has no laws. Please go back to sleep.
OK. I put orange juice in my shop window. Someone walks in and says they'd like some orange juice. I say there is no orange juice, its just apple juice. I shuffle the bottles around, empty them and refill them with the exact same contents plus what ever else came to mind over a fraction of a minute making absolutely no pereeived difference to the consumption of the orange juice, but not I put a sign in the winder. The same customer comes in and says "so what's the difference of the sign being in the window, can I now buy orange juice" and I reply "of course, not I have fully exercised my ego". The customer says "why did you shout at me before about buying orange juice" and I reply "because I'm a cliquey arsehole - the fact I put a sign in the window with a product description was not reason enough to expect the product".
Oh, and as I understand it is an alpha build, so "tens or hundreds of thousands of users download a build with a serious problem" is not taken as a given? Millions of Firefox versions have been downloaded with a serious problem so far.
Must weigh in here, and somewhat play Devil's Advocate.
The pro-life crowd frames the issue as a murder/homocide/life issue, and the pro-choice side frames it as a woman's-choice-woman's-body. Repeating your preferential wording of the issue in order to support your point is fallacious logic and doesn't make you right. There are important questions on this issue, it's not simple, at all..
A foetus is a cellular organism, as we humans are, as trees and grass around us are. As adult humans (note the adult) we do not run around killing each other freely, we usually need a reason to do it, that reason usually based on something (perceived revenge, spite, defense, whatever). It is my opinion that this is a social norm, and without some kind of social norm to stop each other from doing it we wouldn't be here today - pick that social norm from wherever you like, but I'm talking in the vast majority as a species so please don't have a knee-jerk reaction "but my friend knew this guy... SO YOU MUST BE WRONG."
Adults do not usually kill adults. So what stops adults from killing children... well its usually not because the children will rise in some Max Max 3 form with Tina Turner as their queen, but rather the children fall under the protection of other adults, be that parents, guardians, or empethatic onlookers.
So should adults kill feotuses? Well maybe, and maybe not, regarding the above. It is clear mob rule, ahem, social norms prevail, and so far there is no wide spread mob rule against people who kill feotuses, unborn children, whatever you want to call them. Likewise there is no mob rule against people who kill trees: trees have a limited amount of revenge they can directly inflict as revenge, punishment, whatever.
So I am brought on to human rights which I always find a courious phrase. As a human do I have certain rights? Well, I like to think in a meritocratic way, and how well I act as a person should reflect how successful (in whatever form I like) I am. So as a serial killer who has been caught and is being subjected to mob rule/social norms I am in the mercy of whatever the society can give me - note the serial killer being punished is a result of society's view on serial killers rather than lightening from the water hydrant deciding some absolute rights - how society reaches its conclusions, in that they're acting in a 'civilised consensus' or that they're following the wishes of a diety is moot, I have been captured and am being punished. Perhaps the society would choose to stone me to death, or perhaps they would like me to be locked up making sure I can harm no one more and that killing me is hypocritical so they give me 48 channel cable TV and my choice of whore for the rest of my living days.
Now I am a child. What rights have I earned? Well, I've been born and consumed a lot of food, perhaps been to school and watched TV in the evenings. On the rare occassion I may have contributed a comment to the linux kernal forum. Do I have as great a right to life as and adult who has saved many people because he has cured cancer? If we accept that all people are equal then perhaps so, but Marx suggested that and his system of mob rule hasn't been so successful. In Western societies I would actually be given some extra leniency, should I stab someone because they looked badly at me.
Now I am a 2 year old. I have probably given less to society than the teenager. More is unknown about my future path, and more is ambivilous. If I suddenly ceased to exist because of a tragic accident with a pair of reigns and a passing car, a few people would likely be upset but what has the world lost?
Now I am a foetus. I see the tongs coming, well I don't because I have no eyes. I am utterly dependent and at present have no impact on the world. Why should I be permitted to live - I have not proved myself, the only situation in which I could flourish would be in a society that expended energy into me so I wouldn't become a se
It was released. That was the point. And then all the excuses came because the big and aspiring names in the Mozilla foundation did not get the credit of first post. Surely the credit of the browser is more important than ego stroking?
On this one I guess they won't get their knickers in a twist because the announcement is 'official'. Witness the comments in the last story a couple of days ago:
"Are we really about to release an alpha where adding a bookmark silently fails (330052), bookmarking all tabs doesn't work (330929), and autocomplete is useless (330125, 330126)?"
Or my personal favourite
"The nightlies are now branded 2.0 alpha because... well, for some odd reason they like to brand their CVS builds before things get released, to make sure the act of rebranding breaks nothing. IIRC that actually hit them way back and they got scared."
Nice. So call it something, release it into the public (as is required by the license) and insist it doesn't exist. For a product to bear a new name means it is newly branded product, thus a nerly branded product has been released.
Of course it could be a genuine name trick or list of genuine problems, but I don't know why so many people went bitching in the previous story when the 'official release' is so soon after. Both were headlined Alpha. Cliques wanted to restrict the glory I guess.
Needs more features. Exactly. My wish list for a site:
Index data, not stock data. And not dodgy price return indices like the DJIA, but total return indices preferably MSCI Global series
Bond and property markets included in the index data, not only stock markets. Indiced quoted by maturity bucket and credit spread. Property indices quoted by total yield
Fundamental stock market index indices, such as a time series of P/Es, dividend yields, forward earnings, variation of earnings estimates
Commodity indices, including generic futures
Economic data such as inflation, RPIX, GDP, unemployment - somewhat slower moving but essential
The data of the last price on a quote. Markets are usually not 24 hours - so I would like to know the date of the mid price or last price quote. Returns over X months would be good too
Index volume and implied volatility data is essential.
Only after the above would I consider stock by stock data. Basics like understanding the economy, different ways to look at returns and prices, and fundamental stock data all are essential in part or in whole for any method of investment be it day trading, long term portfolio construction, technical trading, whatever. Without this basic data, having a stream of individual stock prices is next to worthless. So for now I'll stick to me Bloomberg computer, but from what I understand most of my wish list above is freely available data with a short delay (20 mins depending on exchange) - premium features of Bloomberg, Reuters or Datastream have far more depth.
You may want to check your source. Gmail, Google Groups, and Froogle (and probably others that I haven't bothered to check) are all technically beta, and all have ads.
He/she may indeed like to check their source. I believe only Google News cannot display ads (due to legal threats), probably including Google's personalised home page as it has Google News contents.
One2One were bought by T-Mobile, not the other way around.
But more importantly, I believe the UK has cometition regulations allowing resale of airtime to wholesale customers, who then resell to retail customers. Results in a tiered service too - the providers with the infrastrucute can provide a premium service and sell lower quality service at lower prices (under different brands without the headache of non business customers).
If I wanted to find some information on what they do it would be tough navigating through that. Good website design skills: provide information as quickly as possible, seem to have been misplaced.
But they don't really do anything, other than linking other sites. They're a link site, plain and simple. Probably harvesting click through revenue and add little value to the internet. And on a wild guess here, since a year ago, using the same search parameters, I have had many less 'link sites' coming up in Google searches which I see as only a good thing. Ironically they may well find the sites they link to through Google.
Subtle language and empathy combined with unabatadly poor analogies/examples, and eventually turning the arguments made on their head and reaching the same conclusion anyone with a grasp of intelligenced would make, no matter what perspective they came at it from. This is so good! TROLL MASTER!
I think that they don't care if they get coverage be western media when that does happen.
To me, this suggests caring very much, about the quality of reporting. In this case, a knee jerk reaction was prompoted without seeking to even partially clarify facts. Western media don't so much care for these sources of information, rather than making a quick story possibly already draft written/outlined.
My field is finance/economics, but I'd say this is the exact same way Western media reports financial affaris - make some widely perpetuated assumptions from afar no matter how much missing the point (or reaching any basic level of understanding) - and end up in a catcxhy but wholly inaccurate article. And I'm talking 'serious' press here, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal. Having a little basis in fact (which is not so easy to obtain in the PRC due to many data quality issues) is often overlooked by Western media. Extrapolation of 10 year old fact heavily mixed with opinion makes front pages oh so easily.
Posted from within the PRC by someone quite amazed by the differences of actuality and his prior supposition.
Well, the site in the first link (http://www.mi2.hr/) is presently promoting "HotAsian...Movies:: Shurayukihime:: 18.03. u 19.15h posted by: Petar Milat @ 2006-03-13 11:05:30" so I assume it is a good site for views, what kind of views I'm not sure...
OK, but taking the wider definition, these downloads are not part of a feed, they are two downloads, very interesting, but in isolation from other things. So why not call them audio downloads?
Sorry, very pedantic. I just dislike throwing around buzzwords and prefer accurate, succinct and dependable descriptions; whether or not they've entered the OED.
I have to be honest- even if there was a program twice as good (however you measure twice as good) I would be hard pressed to give up a program I have used for a decade (Photoshop) and am used to.
Exactly, and this was recently cited as one of the reasons users will not switch to Lunix or other OSes, because their favourite app had not been ported. IMHO its bad news that MS have paused work on this, because it reduces the chance of Adobe getting annoyed and porting Photoshop to Lunix.
With every ubuntu installation the first thing I did was setting a root password, even if you don't have any intention of using it, in my opinion having a password you don't know about is worse than having a password only you know.
Make sure you remove permissions for users to change the root password though. On a default Ubuntu install all a user need do is sudo passwd and enter root's new password (no need to enter the old one).
That's the proposition behind Mandlebrot's recent book, as well as others before that. It has been demonstrated that they're sometimes better indicators than simple (and not so simple) random analysis, but it has not been shown generally, though I personally think this is a rich avenue of exploration and know of several hedge funds persuing this effort.
My main point somewhat oversimply expressed was that over the long term stock markets have trended upwards, which is different from daily observations, in which they may not on average, depending on factors over which the variations were taken (for example in a trending market, a neutral market, or an exponential market - somewhat similar to what Mandlebrot talked about in his book in reference to power laws scaling with different exponents (0.5). But that depends on other factors to be understood fully, namely volume if sticking with the stock market.
I all, the stock market can ex-post be shown to be random and can be shown to be non-random, and much of this depends on the period chosen. As to the 'music' in the story, we're all ignorant to their sampling methodology and cannot make a judgement either way.
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Because those genes are taken from natively Brazilian plants and animals
Most likely exported legally, from the laws of that country.
So, if a local small industry decides they want to use that plant for something (a native plant) they must pay royalties
Well small local industries are usually not worth the time/money to sue. And if they did use a local native plant with traditional applications there is always prior art. I don't much like drug patents. But going against them because 'it was developed from a local plant' is a poor way, especially when the government, i.e. the country, allowed export for whatever use. The fact that it's a foreign country doesn't bother me. What if it was a plant that grew in Argentina on the border with Chile, would it matter that it was developed within Argentina's borders even if the Argentinan owned research plant were far far away, rather than a start up a couple of miles into Chila? Even more so, what about ethnic nationality claims to items within a country?
Steal native elements from a country Nothing has been stolen. It has been exported with the country's consent. If it was barred from export then the country could resist patents bases upon it.
This entire point is moot, however. Google offer a way of searching what is presently available, would one prefer that knowledge to be stuck further in the hands of an oligopoly of drug manufacturers?
The Chinese communist government with nuclear missiles pointed at Japan, Taiwan, and the US do not have %10 share ownership of Dell. The Chinese communist government that is routinely caught spying on Japan, Taiwan, and the US does not have %10 share ownership of HP. The Chinese communist government that frequently trades with Iran, Libya and has been responsible for the dissemination of nuclear plans to Pakistan and North Korea does not have 10% share ownership of Toshiba.
Please forgive me:
The US government, based on as reliable sources as yours, has nuclear missiles pointed at China. It is often caught spying on foreign governments, including NATO allies. The US government cited as an example of capitalism is truely capitalist with corporate pressure groups influencing law making procedures. The US government that traded with Iraq and countless other despot regeimes, and continues to do so, not least in South America.
That you think the Chinese government 'diseminated' nuclear plans to India, Pakistan and North Korea is laughable. The first is a country economic relationships are only now being strengthened with after a long and cold relationship, the second is a largely muslim country (and China isn't too hot on religion), the third is a crackpot crazy place China is struggling to keep contained, be that refugees or a leader who thinks China is their only friend (and friend used loosely in the term of non explicit enemy).
It is a problem in terms of human rights, and in terms of foreign policy.
Absolutely there are human rights problems in China. More so than the US, IMHO. In terms of foreign policy I'm not so sure. What foreign policy does China exhibit a problem with? Invading Middle Eastern states, or objecting to invasions then doing nothing when they take place?
But lastly, And if you think that the PRC is not hostile to the US and is actively promoting anti-Americanism for the purpose of pan-Chinese nationalism, spend some time over there. Well that's the crux. I live in China, and have done for the past 6 months or so, and in my work and personal life I have predominantly Chinese friends. It certainly has sone rough edges, but the US is regarded by most people as a successful country with extensive personal freedom (this is interpreted in one of 2 ways - the first being that 'Westerners' are more 'free with expression' the second that a richer economy allows one greater personal space, for example children can move out of home before marriage quite easily), good businesses (in a very admiring way), but has a somewhat autocratic government - ask a CEO, a student or a taxi driver, this is their usual reply. How about you spend some time over here (and check out some of my other posts for statements also stating that I live in China, if you don't believe it)?
Interesting point this. If these PCs were ordered from Dell which Levono purchased and which I'd reason was in part a basis for this deal, would an investigation have been ordered.
IMHO, it is good practice to have standing procedures to investigate all contracts/purchases, be them government, business or personal. And it would be extremely bad procedure for a foreign government to attempt such a poor spying procedure, but no harm in checking, which I doubt would be very hard.
But I think this is a very valid threat from a community like China who has been known to have spies in the US at all times. Well, the same is true of almost all countries I'm sure. And I'd also hazard a guess that social networking, for example having an operative in place for years only to pop in a USB key (or even manually scribe) and get what they want, is a much greater threat.
I would disagree with use use of 'threat from a community like China' in your statement: China is booming because of free trade, they have a declining population (young people, infact the population is projected to increase for a while as life expectancy from the incumbant increases), and virtually everything to lose from any kind of hostile activity - its not as if a communist ideal exists in China today to peddle to the rest of the world.
The story seems a bit of a non-entity. US government check out foreign contractor, probably a few man hours work. More important are the day-to-day checks. At least this doesn't seem to be a farce as the blocked Dubai-funded purchase of ports were.
I can understand the meaning of pirate as in someone who sails the seas and acts in piracy - stealing others' belongs by force.
I recognise the notion of piracy as in copying material which has been copyrighted, conducted by a 'pirate'. But I prefer the term copyright infringement.
But what the heck is 'Bio-piracy'? Because privacy and piracy sound vaguely familiar isn't reason enough, IMHO. Naming the awards 'the Captain Hook awards' seems even more facetious.
From TFA, "Google, in cooperation with Craig Venter, are developing plans to make all of our genomes Googlable to facilitate the brave new world of private genetically-tailored medicines" does not equal piracy, IMHO.
And to tackle their argument, they have not outlined why genetically tailored medicines are bad, not why holding them in private hands is wrong. And private means exactly what? The copyright to GNU/Linux is held in private hands. And Google giving public access to work done by the human genome sequence project seems a lot better than letting all research in the hands of a very small amount of drug companies, those that are most interested in profiting from keeping information 'secret'.
Define "free".
Free as in beer which can only be poured into a glass one maintains a subscription on. Agreed.
Its capability for rapid-fire, pinpoint 155mm shell attacks from up to 100 miles away may
While standard shells are cheap, at around $100-$150 each, I understand guided shells necessary for accurate strikes are not cheap, at a little under $100k each. Plus aircraft carriers are used for a whole lot more than bombing stuff. Infact its only good for one scenario: bombing stuff not too far away that you already know is there.
If you're interested in good quality economic analysis, yes a niche but its also an easy way to get some understanding of the economy from top sources, try the Bloomberg Economic podcast. They have a knowledgable host who interviews a range of economists about economic and finance stories of the week, updated around 3 times per week. Learning curve isn't too steep, and it surpasses most newspaper columns IMHO (as they should - interviews with leading names by the leading economic and financial data analysis company).
repeatedly called him a jackass for his deviating from the legal issues and trying to argue from "the social norm"
Laws are created by societies. Laws are acceptable to the majority of societies otherwise, with time, they would be overthrown. Laws are mechanisms to enforce social norms, necessary as social norms exist, if there were no social norms at all we'd have anarchy which has no laws. Please go back to sleep.
OK. I put orange juice in my shop window. Someone walks in and says they'd like some orange juice. I say there is no orange juice, its just apple juice. I shuffle the bottles around, empty them and refill them with the exact same contents plus what ever else came to mind over a fraction of a minute making absolutely no pereeived difference to the consumption of the orange juice, but not I put a sign in the winder. The same customer comes in and says "so what's the difference of the sign being in the window, can I now buy orange juice" and I reply "of course, not I have fully exercised my ego". The customer says "why did you shout at me before about buying orange juice" and I reply "because I'm a cliquey arsehole - the fact I put a sign in the window with a product description was not reason enough to expect the product".
Oh, and as I understand it is an alpha build, so "tens or hundreds of thousands of users download a build with a serious problem" is not taken as a given? Millions of Firefox versions have been downloaded with a serious problem so far.
Must weigh in here, and somewhat play Devil's Advocate.
The pro-life crowd frames the issue as a murder/homocide/life issue, and the pro-choice side frames it as a woman's-choice-woman's-body. Repeating your preferential wording of the issue in order to support your point is fallacious logic and doesn't make you right. There are important questions on this issue, it's not simple, at all..
A foetus is a cellular organism, as we humans are, as trees and grass around us are. As adult humans (note the adult) we do not run around killing each other freely, we usually need a reason to do it, that reason usually based on something (perceived revenge, spite, defense, whatever). It is my opinion that this is a social norm, and without some kind of social norm to stop each other from doing it we wouldn't be here today - pick that social norm from wherever you like, but I'm talking in the vast majority as a species so please don't have a knee-jerk reaction "but my friend knew this guy... SO YOU MUST BE WRONG."
Adults do not usually kill adults. So what stops adults from killing children... well its usually not because the children will rise in some Max Max 3 form with Tina Turner as their queen, but rather the children fall under the protection of other adults, be that parents, guardians, or empethatic onlookers.
So should adults kill feotuses? Well maybe, and maybe not, regarding the above. It is clear mob rule, ahem, social norms prevail, and so far there is no wide spread mob rule against people who kill feotuses, unborn children, whatever you want to call them. Likewise there is no mob rule against people who kill trees: trees have a limited amount of revenge they can directly inflict as revenge, punishment, whatever.
So I am brought on to human rights which I always find a courious phrase. As a human do I have certain rights? Well, I like to think in a meritocratic way, and how well I act as a person should reflect how successful (in whatever form I like) I am. So as a serial killer who has been caught and is being subjected to mob rule/social norms I am in the mercy of whatever the society can give me - note the serial killer being punished is a result of society's view on serial killers rather than lightening from the water hydrant deciding some absolute rights - how society reaches its conclusions, in that they're acting in a 'civilised consensus' or that they're following the wishes of a diety is moot, I have been captured and am being punished. Perhaps the society would choose to stone me to death, or perhaps they would like me to be locked up making sure I can harm no one more and that killing me is hypocritical so they give me 48 channel cable TV and my choice of whore for the rest of my living days.
Now I am a child. What rights have I earned? Well, I've been born and consumed a lot of food, perhaps been to school and watched TV in the evenings. On the rare occassion I may have contributed a comment to the linux kernal forum. Do I have as great a right to life as and adult who has saved many people because he has cured cancer? If we accept that all people are equal then perhaps so, but Marx suggested that and his system of mob rule hasn't been so successful. In Western societies I would actually be given some extra leniency, should I stab someone because they looked badly at me.
Now I am a 2 year old. I have probably given less to society than the teenager. More is unknown about my future path, and more is ambivilous. If I suddenly ceased to exist because of a tragic accident with a pair of reigns and a passing car, a few people would likely be upset but what has the world lost?
Now I am a foetus. I see the tongs coming, well I don't because I have no eyes. I am utterly dependent and at present have no impact on the world. Why should I be permitted to live - I have not proved myself, the only situation in which I could flourish would be in a society that expended energy into me so I wouldn't become a se
It was released. That was the point. And then all the excuses came because the big and aspiring names in the Mozilla foundation did not get the credit of first post. Surely the credit of the browser is more important than ego stroking?
On this one I guess they won't get their knickers in a twist because the announcement is 'official'. Witness the comments in the last story a couple of days ago:
"Are we really about to release an alpha where adding a bookmark silently fails (330052), bookmarking all tabs doesn't work (330929), and autocomplete is useless (330125, 330126)?"
Or my personal favourite
"The nightlies are now branded 2.0 alpha because... well, for some odd reason they like to brand their CVS builds before things get released, to make sure the act of rebranding breaks nothing. IIRC that actually hit them way back and they got scared."
Nice. So call it something, release it into the public (as is required by the license) and insist it doesn't exist. For a product to bear a new name means it is newly branded product, thus a nerly branded product has been released.
Of course it could be a genuine name trick or list of genuine problems, but I don't know why so many people went bitching in the previous story when the 'official release' is so soon after. Both were headlined Alpha. Cliques wanted to restrict the glory I guess.
Only after the above would I consider stock by stock data. Basics like understanding the economy, different ways to look at returns and prices, and fundamental stock data all are essential in part or in whole for any method of investment be it day trading, long term portfolio construction, technical trading, whatever. Without this basic data, having a stream of individual stock prices is next to worthless. So for now I'll stick to me Bloomberg computer, but from what I understand most of my wish list above is freely available data with a short delay (20 mins depending on exchange) - premium features of Bloomberg, Reuters or Datastream have far more depth.
You may want to check your source. Gmail, Google Groups, and Froogle (and probably others that I haven't bothered to check) are all technically beta, and all have ads.
He/she may indeed like to check their source. I believe only Google News cannot display ads (due to legal threats), probably including Google's personalised home page as it has Google News contents.
One2One were bought by T-Mobile, not the other way around.
But more importantly, I believe the UK has cometition regulations allowing resale of airtime to wholesale customers, who then resell to retail customers. Results in a tiered service too - the providers with the infrastrucute can provide a premium service and sell lower quality service at lower prices (under different brands without the headache of non business customers).
For the lazy, the link to the website whose design truely sucks.
If I wanted to find some information on what they do it would be tough navigating through that. Good website design skills: provide information as quickly as possible, seem to have been misplaced.
But they don't really do anything, other than linking other sites. They're a link site, plain and simple. Probably harvesting click through revenue and add little value to the internet. And on a wild guess here, since a year ago, using the same search parameters, I have had many less 'link sites' coming up in Google searches which I see as only a good thing. Ironically they may well find the sites they link to through Google.
Subtle language and empathy combined with unabatadly poor analogies/examples, and eventually turning the arguments made on their head and reaching the same conclusion anyone with a grasp of intelligenced would make, no matter what perspective they came at it from. This is so good! TROLL MASTER!
I think that they don't care if they get coverage be western media when that does happen.
To me, this suggests caring very much, about the quality of reporting. In this case, a knee jerk reaction was prompoted without seeking to even partially clarify facts. Western media don't so much care for these sources of information, rather than making a quick story possibly already draft written/outlined.
My field is finance/economics, but I'd say this is the exact same way Western media reports financial affaris - make some widely perpetuated assumptions from afar no matter how much missing the point (or reaching any basic level of understanding) - and end up in a catcxhy but wholly inaccurate article. And I'm talking 'serious' press here, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal. Having a little basis in fact (which is not so easy to obtain in the PRC due to many data quality issues) is often overlooked by Western media. Extrapolation of 10 year old fact heavily mixed with opinion makes front pages oh so easily.
Posted from within the PRC by someone quite amazed by the differences of actuality and his prior supposition.
Well, the site in the first link (http://www.mi2.hr/) is presently promoting "HotAsian...Movies :: Shurayukihime :: 18.03. u 19.15h posted by: Petar Milat @ 2006-03-13 11:05:30" so I assume it is a good site for views, what kind of views I'm not sure...
OK, but taking the wider definition, these downloads are not part of a feed, they are two downloads, very interesting, but in isolation from other things. So why not call them audio downloads?
Sorry, very pedantic. I just dislike throwing around buzzwords and prefer accurate, succinct and dependable descriptions; whether or not they've entered the OED.
...proud of straight, male, caucasian heritage... and were achieved by straight, white, Christian males
I dispute your casual assumption of causasian and Christian being equivalent.
Why are they called 'podcasts' if they're in OGG format and therefore not playable on an iPod?
I have to be honest- even if there was a program twice as good (however you measure twice as good) I would be hard pressed to give up a program I have used for a decade (Photoshop) and am used to.
Exactly, and this was recently cited as one of the reasons users will not switch to Lunix or other OSes, because their favourite app had not been ported. IMHO its bad news that MS have paused work on this, because it reduces the chance of Adobe getting annoyed and porting Photoshop to Lunix.
With every ubuntu installation the first thing I did was setting a root password, even if you don't have any intention of using it, in my opinion having a password you don't know about is worse than having a password only you know.
Make sure you remove permissions for users to change the root password though. On a default Ubuntu install all a user need do is sudo passwd and enter root's new password (no need to enter the old one).
That's the proposition behind Mandlebrot's recent book, as well as others before that. It has been demonstrated that they're sometimes better indicators than simple (and not so simple) random analysis, but it has not been shown generally, though I personally think this is a rich avenue of exploration and know of several hedge funds persuing this effort.
My main point somewhat oversimply expressed was that over the long term stock markets have trended upwards, which is different from daily observations, in which they may not on average, depending on factors over which the variations were taken (for example in a trending market, a neutral market, or an exponential market - somewhat similar to what Mandlebrot talked about in his book in reference to power laws scaling with different exponents (0.5). But that depends on other factors to be understood fully, namely volume if sticking with the stock market.
I all, the stock market can ex-post be shown to be random and can be shown to be non-random, and much of this depends on the period chosen. As to the 'music' in the story, we're all ignorant to their sampling methodology and cannot make a judgement either way.