I believe the basic idea is that some rights are the natural result of how the world works (e.g. privacy comes because you live in a closed, opaque house, free speech comes because it would require someone else to devote considerable resources to prevent it, etc.) and others are created by government fiat in some attempt to improve the natural state of things (e.g., copyrights, patents, and trademarks, all of which are impossible to enforce in the absence of a whole government to back them up).
Amen. But remember to include the outrageous price of writable Blu-ray disks. $10 per, minimum. No way in hell I'm opening the Pandora's Box till that comes down to $2 or less.
Call me paranoid if you like, but implementing all the efforts we can to stop global warming may indeed have detrimental effects on the climate as a whole. Until we know *MUCH* more about global climate control knee jerk reactions should be kept to a minimum.
And yet, somehow, digging up massive quantities of sequestered carbon (coal, gas, oil) that got there over millions of years, and burning it all in the open atmosphere in a couple hundred years, is perfectly fine?
If you're wanting everyone not to touch the machine till we know how it works, you're about 150 years too late.
(C) Keep your money, and spend it on health care when and where you choose.
Strangely enough, people keep choosing (A) and (B), under the amazing delusion that somehow if you make all the transactions really complicated -- shuffle the dollar bills around fast enough -- we can receive more value in health care than we pay out in actual money. Proof that the bitter lesson of TANSTAAFL has not been learned by most adults.
And what if you haven't managed to lock up enough of your money to cover the cost when that catastrophic medical event finally happens to you? Oh well, I guess, you didn't tighten your belt enough. Sorry, sucker, guess all that saving was for nothing. You're worm food now. See you in hell!
Or, hey, about about we all pool our money and pool our risks? Then maybe we can all benefit from not having to worry about it? Nah, that would be filthy Red Communism, and we can't have that label hanging over our heads. Labels trump actual results, don'tchanknow.
And we have the answer to how so many educated Supremes can fail to agree with me. They understand perfectly, but being $IMAGINED_EPITHET they simply don't give a damn what it says.
On the upside, Obama has expressed a lot of "we need to work together on things" and "this is all about you, not me", rather than Dubya's "I know what's best and I'm sticking to it no matter what". So at least you may have a shot at getting him to straighten up and fly right when he screws up. Not to mention his stated positions are largely 180 degrees away from the Bush/McCain let's-drive-the-bus-off-the-cliff direction.
I'm not saying the guy is flawless or anything -- far from it, I was a Kucinich man, and after he dropped out, an Edwards man (for like five minutes, before he dropped out too). But let's face it, till we go to a Parliamentary system or change from First Past The Post to Approval Voting, it's either going to be Obama or McCain. And I don't think I need to tell you which would simply continue the current disaster.
As they say, let's don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Their problem is that they are comparing the total power used by the VIA system only while "active" on the task, and not looking at the power that the VIA uses on idle while the Intel is still completing the task. This is like saying that as soon as you finish that task, you immediately power off (or drop to standby).
Or you go on to another task. And you continue till you finish all your tasks, then you power off. Which is essentially the same thing.
Destroying e-mail - something that used to be a good idea - can now be a crime even absent an active criminal investigation. [snip] this is what happens when the government pokes its nose into regulating business; they don't just make Microsoft's life miserable. All aspects of life and business will be intruded upon. That's just how Big Nanny works.
Well, gosh and golly gee willikers, we wouldn't want the poor, poor corporations intruded upon! To keep them from hiding their own misdeeds -- a perfectly legitimate activity, mind you -- these Big Sister Nanny State Fascists would actually impose rules by which business must be conducted! Why, the arrogance! How dare they sully the pure Rule Of The Jungle with their silly "rule of law"? And furthermore, thOJEF&#HHF(FH#(*H#(H
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I believe the basic idea is that some rights are the natural result of how the world works (e.g. privacy comes because you live in a closed, opaque house, free speech comes because it would require someone else to devote considerable resources to prevent it, etc.) and others are created by government fiat in some attempt to improve the natural state of things (e.g., copyrights, patents, and trademarks, all of which are impossible to enforce in the absence of a whole government to back them up).
Amen. But remember to include the outrageous price of writable Blu-ray disks. $10 per, minimum. No way in hell I'm opening the Pandora's Box till that comes down to $2 or less.
Why not? The UK long ago defined everyone's longitude.
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Where does anything say Google Earth is predicting anything? All I see is "...used to predict...".
Don't let that stop you from ostentatiously acting bored, though.
And yet, somehow, digging up massive quantities of sequestered carbon (coal, gas, oil) that got there over millions of years, and burning it all in the open atmosphere in a couple hundred years, is perfectly fine?
If you're wanting everyone not to touch the machine till we know how it works, you're about 150 years too late.
There's no such thing as a single-use plastic bottle, only heavily reusable ones that people nonetheless throw in the trash.
I was thinking more along the lines of industrial agriculture and timber-framed construction.
Maybe stuff like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
I loved their second album.
I can only assume that's because we don't yet have the Max Headroom technology needed to make multiple backups of yourself.
(You do periodically make multiple backups of each of those irreplaceable discs, right?)
Jebus, you guys are thick.
Haven't you ever told a Project Manger something you didn't want to to simply couldn't be done, for some mumbo-jumbo technical hand-waving reason?
I can code in COBOL too. And California probably could afford my fee for that. But they probably couldn't afford the Sacrifice Of Sanity surcharge.
And what if you haven't managed to lock up enough of your money to cover the cost when that catastrophic medical event finally happens to you? Oh well, I guess, you didn't tighten your belt enough. Sorry, sucker, guess all that saving was for nothing. You're worm food now. See you in hell!
Or, hey, about about we all pool our money and pool our risks? Then maybe we can all benefit from not having to worry about it? Nah, that would be filthy Red Communism, and we can't have that label hanging over our heads. Labels trump actual results, don'tchanknow.
Fixed that for future reuse.
On the upside, Obama has expressed a lot of "we need to work together on things" and "this is all about you, not me", rather than Dubya's "I know what's best and I'm sticking to it no matter what". So at least you may have a shot at getting him to straighten up and fly right when he screws up. Not to mention his stated positions are largely 180 degrees away from the Bush/McCain let's-drive-the-bus-off-the-cliff direction.
I'm not saying the guy is flawless or anything -- far from it, I was a Kucinich man, and after he dropped out, an Edwards man (for like five minutes, before he dropped out too). But let's face it, till we go to a Parliamentary system or change from First Past The Post to Approval Voting, it's either going to be Obama or McCain. And I don't think I need to tell you which would simply continue the current disaster.
As they say, let's don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I'm guessing, no, not the same wingnuts. Different ones.
What's your point?
And our technologically-dependent civilization has been through which of those big changes? Oh, right, none.
"Superior to your box", English-language n00b.
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Or you go on to another task. And you continue till you finish all your tasks, then you power off. Which is essentially the same thing.
My impulse is to pronounce it "quill". Which actually strikes me as a much cooler name than "cool".
Someone else already responded to this idea eloquently and succinctly.
So you see Slashdot as a source of things to get outraged about? You may be Slashdotting wrong.
Except that pot is not a narcotic.
Why don't you all just get it over with and say "drugs as in drugs 'r' bad, mmkay?"?
Well, gosh and golly gee willikers, we wouldn't want the poor, poor corporations intruded upon! To keep them from hiding their own misdeeds -- a perfectly legitimate activity, mind you -- these Big Sister Nanny State Fascists would actually impose rules by which business must be conducted! Why, the arrogance! How dare they sully the pure Rule Of The Jungle with their silly "rule of law"? And furthermore, thOJEF&#HHF(FH#(*H#(H
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