When people sell virtual stuff for real money, that's when it becomes an issue. Clearly the bots are designed to generate virtual wealth so that they can be sold for real wealth. The defendant didn't earn the wealth, virtual or real. Case closed, IMHO.
Despite the fact that a glossy screen on a Mac makes me gag, I think Apple should acquire an OLED company like Universal Display. They have enough cash to do it and they could set up a plant to produce the displays on a reasonable scale.
How the eff do they know that people haven't switched over? Seems to me that if you're still working off rabbit ears, you probably don't have a whole lot of contact with the outside world. Besides, it's not like these rumored slackers haven't had YEARS to deal with it. And then there's the issue of the recovered whitespace which a lot of companies are itching to build devices for. Is this a ploy by the new administration to shout "Do Over!" and then auction off the whitespace to make money for the bailout?
If the core OS sucks moose-balls, a souped up task bar ain't gonna help. If goofy crap like the registry is still there (etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum) Windows 7 will still suck.
I'll tell you what, Mr. SEC Investigator, you do a really good job sniffing out wrong-doing in the Mortgage Crisis (and that means severely pointing fingers at Congress) as well as demanding transparency in the oil trade business and I'll let you bitch about Apple.
People rise to their own level of incompetence. In my experience, I've witnessed far too many technically incompetent people come through round after round of layoffs and reorganizations unscathed while the really intelligent people get the axe. Why? Charisma. In my experience, the more charismatic a person is the more incompetent they are. They can't do jack squat but they are able to bullsh*t their way through most things, deftly blame-shift their mistakes, and claim credit for other people's hard work.
The casinos on the Calif/Nevada border will build colossal Best Buy and Fry's selling the good stuff. It would be just like those mammoth liquor stores and sales-tax-free malls on the New Hampshire border.
Actually I live in Arizona and not Phoenix or Tucson. Regardless, I wasn't attempting to correlate what people vote on with their geographic location. Rather that if it's true that city life hurts your brain, the relationship between that and voting results (and not just of this most recent election but of a whole lot of recent elections) is interesting and warrants further study. And, FYI, I grew up in what was conservative farm country just outside of New York City, went to college and grad school in Boston, and ran a business in Los Angeles so it's safe to say I have a wide range of geographic experience.
Correlate this with presidential voting results maps broken down by county. Urban counties generally voted Democrat whereas rural counties voted Republican.
Maybe if the news actually stuck to REPORTING the news instead of inventing it or choosing to be policeman, judge, & jury, people would read it. I got some REAL news for all you so-called reporters. None of you are Woodward or Bernstein. You have NO RIGHT to investigate sh*t. You have one job. Report the news and LEAVE YOUR GODDAMN OPINIONS OUT OF IT!!!
At least in Arizona, a ticket must be hand-delivered in order to be valid. It's a bit like jury duty notices that aren't sent registered mail. They have no way of proving that you got it.
IMHO, this is nothing more than a money-making scheme for the camera companies. In some places, the city gets $2 of a $50 ticket. WTF?
The reason Tesla was forced to drop the project what because J.P. Morgan pulled funding because he realized he couldn't stick a meter on it and thus charge people for it.
But, IMHO, wireless power has a lot of potential when it comes to electric vehicles. The battery is the limiting factor so if the car doesn't need one and is able to pull power out of the ether, that would be a great reason to do it. You'd probably still want the battery as a backup for when you venture outside the range of the transmission system.
Then if you take it a step further, trucking is a big reason why electric vehicles aren't going to be a big deal. But if you can set up a transmission system on all Interstates and designated truck routes and augment the local travel with traditional diesel power. That make a lot of sense
Of course you HAVE to use nuclear power to make it work. Passive power generation ain't going to cut it.
If the U.S. lifts drug prohibition, you wouldn't be able to control people's use of it in critical situations such as an E.R. nurse, air-traffic controller, pilot, railroad engineer, etc. etc. etc. Clearly you wouldn't want someone completely doped up performing surgery on you. Okay, so as an employer would you be able to legally say "I won't hire you because your drug use would impair job performance." or "You're fired because you slammed your train into the back of another one because you were stoned." Who then is liable for the harm a drug-user imposes on another person perhaps hundreds of other people? Clearly the concept of Personal Responsibility is unheard of among a great many people these days. And how long would it be before drug-use discrimination lawsuits arise saying you can't not hire or fire someone simply because they use drugs?
Given that one must apply the 90% Bullsh*t Rule of the Internet before buying into anything you read on there, I'd say this doesn't surprise me. The problem I have with these so-called journalists on the internet especially those of the blogger ilk is that they are not required to back up their drivel with actual corroborated facts which are then submitted to an editorial board for verification. What's worse is that so many morons believe this crap. That's not to say that traditional media outlets are blameless as well. The simple fact that traditional media survives on advertising dollars means that they don't give a rat's ass about getting the story right as long as it's scandalous and inflammatory because those kind of stories sell and simple just-the-facts-ma'am reporting does not. If the New York Times gets it wrong today, they don't give a damn because they can sell a followup article tomorrow. Why is it that the TV news teases you with clips like "It's one of the deadliest substances known to man and you might be eating it for dinner...the story AFTER the movie........Ummmmmm....is it peas?" But they got you to keep watching their precious advertising. Even DURING the news broadcast they tease you to keep you watching. And what the hell is up with reporters constantly INJECTING OPINION, THEORY, and CONJECTURE into the report? What makes them qualified to do that? I'd bet good money that the so-called investigative journalists haven't the tiniest bit of factual knowledge of what they're blathering about.
Sounds to me it's more likely only genetic factors since most of the old people I know who are starting to lose it had parents with Alzheimers. Besides, there have been studies that prove that vegetarians are severely deprived of nutrients vital to brain function....as if we needed a study to prove this. I look at it this way. Cow spends its life eating grass. Cow absorbs nutrients from grass. Cow gets slaughtered. I buy cow. I eat cow for a few days. I get the nutrients. It's just a more efficient delivery medium.
I call bullsh*t on this one. There have been so many damn acorns around that the javelina are making a hell of a mess. Oh, wait, did you mean those ballot stuffing morons?
How about going on an uber crusade against the obscene waste of money on athletics as opposed to spending it on, oh, call me crazy, TEACHING?!
Beyond that, talk to the FIRST Robotics people. And if you manage to pull that off, try to get the airhead cheerleaders to cheer for those competitors.
Is the fact that the media favored McCain over Romney who was a VASTLY better candidate. I remember hearing them all say how great McCain was. What a crock! They were only saying this because they knew he was the easiest to beat. And don't give me that baloney about Romney's Mormonism when NBC runs a special entitled "Who cares if Obama is a muslim?" If you don't care about that then you should care less about Mormonism. At least they're not the ones convincing their zealot followers to go blow themselves up.
The president can no more control the price of gas than he can control the course of a hurricane. The price tanked because the speculators made their pile in anticipation of a new left-wing windfall profit grabbing administration. Couple that with excessive production levels and lower demand and the price comes down.
Every paper I've read and every talk I've been to has been nearly useless for reproducing the results. The author/speaker always glosses over some crucial component as though it were common knowledge. "Here we used a 4th Order Adaptive Runge-Kutta solver to integrate the following equations for fluid dynamics." "Um, excuse me, but do you have any source code for that solver?" "That's left as an exercise to the reader." Last time I checked, professors would give you a much lower grade if you didn't show your work.
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When people sell virtual stuff for real money, that's when it becomes an issue. Clearly the bots are designed to generate virtual wealth so that they can be sold for real wealth. The defendant didn't earn the wealth, virtual or real. Case closed, IMHO.
Despite the fact that a glossy screen on a Mac makes me gag, I think Apple should acquire an OLED company like Universal Display. They have enough cash to do it and they could set up a plant to produce the displays on a reasonable scale.
How the eff do they know that people haven't switched over? Seems to me that if you're still working off rabbit ears, you probably don't have a whole lot of contact with the outside world. Besides, it's not like these rumored slackers haven't had YEARS to deal with it. And then there's the issue of the recovered whitespace which a lot of companies are itching to build devices for. Is this a ploy by the new administration to shout "Do Over!" and then auction off the whitespace to make money for the bailout?
If the core OS sucks moose-balls, a souped up task bar ain't gonna help. If goofy crap like the registry is still there (etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum) Windows 7 will still suck.
I'll tell you what, Mr. SEC Investigator, you do a really good job sniffing out wrong-doing in the Mortgage Crisis (and that means severely pointing fingers at Congress) as well as demanding transparency in the oil trade business and I'll let you bitch about Apple.
People rise to their own level of incompetence. In my experience, I've witnessed far too many technically incompetent people come through round after round of layoffs and reorganizations unscathed while the really intelligent people get the axe. Why? Charisma. In my experience, the more charismatic a person is the more incompetent they are. They can't do jack squat but they are able to bullsh*t their way through most things, deftly blame-shift their mistakes, and claim credit for other people's hard work.
The casinos on the Calif/Nevada border will build colossal Best Buy and Fry's selling the good stuff. It would be just like those mammoth liquor stores and sales-tax-free malls on the New Hampshire border.
Actually I live in Arizona and not Phoenix or Tucson. Regardless, I wasn't attempting to correlate what people vote on with their geographic location. Rather that if it's true that city life hurts your brain, the relationship between that and voting results (and not just of this most recent election but of a whole lot of recent elections) is interesting and warrants further study. And, FYI, I grew up in what was conservative farm country just outside of New York City, went to college and grad school in Boston, and ran a business in Los Angeles so it's safe to say I have a wide range of geographic experience.
Jerks always seem to get the girl too. Bastards.
Correlate this with presidential voting results maps broken down by county. Urban counties generally voted Democrat whereas rural counties voted Republican.
Maybe if the news actually stuck to REPORTING the news instead of inventing it or choosing to be policeman, judge, & jury, people would read it. I got some REAL news for all you so-called reporters. None of you are Woodward or Bernstein. You have NO RIGHT to investigate sh*t. You have one job. Report the news and LEAVE YOUR GODDAMN OPINIONS OUT OF IT!!!
At least in Arizona, a ticket must be hand-delivered in order to be valid. It's a bit like jury duty notices that aren't sent registered mail. They have no way of proving that you got it.
IMHO, this is nothing more than a money-making scheme for the camera companies. In some places, the city gets $2 of a $50 ticket. WTF?
The reason Tesla was forced to drop the project what because J.P. Morgan pulled funding because he realized he couldn't stick a meter on it and thus charge people for it.
But, IMHO, wireless power has a lot of potential when it comes to electric vehicles. The battery is the limiting factor so if the car doesn't need one and is able to pull power out of the ether, that would be a great reason to do it. You'd probably still want the battery as a backup for when you venture outside the range of the transmission system.
Then if you take it a step further, trucking is a big reason why electric vehicles aren't going to be a big deal. But if you can set up a transmission system on all Interstates and designated truck routes and augment the local travel with traditional diesel power. That make a lot of sense
Of course you HAVE to use nuclear power to make it work. Passive power generation ain't going to cut it.
If the U.S. lifts drug prohibition, you wouldn't be able to control people's use of it in critical situations such as an E.R. nurse, air-traffic controller, pilot, railroad engineer, etc. etc. etc. Clearly you wouldn't want someone completely doped up performing surgery on you. Okay, so as an employer would you be able to legally say "I won't hire you because your drug use would impair job performance." or "You're fired because you slammed your train into the back of another one because you were stoned." Who then is liable for the harm a drug-user imposes on another person perhaps hundreds of other people? Clearly the concept of Personal Responsibility is unheard of among a great many people these days. And how long would it be before drug-use discrimination lawsuits arise saying you can't not hire or fire someone simply because they use drugs?
Given that one must apply the 90% Bullsh*t Rule of the Internet before buying into anything you read on there, I'd say this doesn't surprise me. The problem I have with these so-called journalists on the internet especially those of the blogger ilk is that they are not required to back up their drivel with actual corroborated facts which are then submitted to an editorial board for verification. What's worse is that so many morons believe this crap. That's not to say that traditional media outlets are blameless as well. The simple fact that traditional media survives on advertising dollars means that they don't give a rat's ass about getting the story right as long as it's scandalous and inflammatory because those kind of stories sell and simple just-the-facts-ma'am reporting does not. If the New York Times gets it wrong today, they don't give a damn because they can sell a followup article tomorrow. Why is it that the TV news teases you with clips like "It's one of the deadliest substances known to man and you might be eating it for dinner...the story AFTER the movie........Ummmmmm....is it peas?" But they got you to keep watching their precious advertising. Even DURING the news broadcast they tease you to keep you watching. And what the hell is up with reporters constantly INJECTING OPINION, THEORY, and CONJECTURE into the report? What makes them qualified to do that? I'd bet good money that the so-called investigative journalists haven't the tiniest bit of factual knowledge of what they're blathering about.
Sounds to me it's more likely only genetic factors since most of the old people I know who are starting to lose it had parents with Alzheimers. Besides, there have been studies that prove that vegetarians are severely deprived of nutrients vital to brain function....as if we needed a study to prove this. I look at it this way. Cow spends its life eating grass. Cow absorbs nutrients from grass. Cow gets slaughtered. I buy cow. I eat cow for a few days. I get the nutrients. It's just a more efficient delivery medium.
I call bullsh*t on this one. There have been so many damn acorns around that the javelina are making a hell of a mess. Oh, wait, did you mean those ballot stuffing morons?
How about going on an uber crusade against the obscene waste of money on athletics as opposed to spending it on, oh, call me crazy, TEACHING?!
Beyond that, talk to the FIRST Robotics people. And if you manage to pull that off, try to get the airhead cheerleaders to cheer for those competitors.
Only a white man would believe that cutting a foot off the top of a blanket and sewing on to the bottom would make a longer blanket.
Is the fact that the media favored McCain over Romney who was a VASTLY better candidate. I remember hearing them all say how great McCain was. What a crock! They were only saying this because they knew he was the easiest to beat. And don't give me that baloney about Romney's Mormonism when NBC runs a special entitled "Who cares if Obama is a muslim?" If you don't care about that then you should care less about Mormonism. At least they're not the ones convincing their zealot followers to go blow themselves up.
No killin' what can't be killed... You can't see the eyes of the demon...until he come callin'
The president can no more control the price of gas than he can control the course of a hurricane. The price tanked because the speculators made their pile in anticipation of a new left-wing windfall profit grabbing administration. Couple that with excessive production levels and lower demand and the price comes down.
Every paper I've read and every talk I've been to has been nearly useless for reproducing the results. The author/speaker always glosses over some crucial component as though it were common knowledge. "Here we used a 4th Order Adaptive Runge-Kutta solver to integrate the following equations for fluid dynamics." "Um, excuse me, but do you have any source code for that solver?" "That's left as an exercise to the reader." Last time I checked, professors would give you a much lower grade if you didn't show your work.
"Only a white man would think that cutting off the top foot of a blanket and sewing onto the bottom would result in a longer blanket."