LOL, I agree. Only ignorant Americans would find this unfamiliar. If an American knows anything about corporations and his government (not to mention foreign lobbyists), he would find this all to familiar.
Um, if it actually looks like the picture above, and was found in the manner described, how thorough a job of it does one need to do?
Now, conceivably everything in the world could be a cleverly disguised bomb, the Holy Hand-grenade could simply have been a distraction to keep the police from finding the real bomb in the fire hydrant itself. But in order to treat something as a bomb that, on the face of it, obviously is not, wouldn't we need at least a scintilla of evidence that it presented some actual danger?
This was stupidity, pure and simple. The bomb squad guys probably don't get any real action, so they like to play at it. After all, they do have to justify their salaries.
Let us pray that Obama can wipe public references to deities into oblivion.
There isn't a chance in hell your prayers will be answered because a) there is no god b) Barak Obama isn't him either, and c) Obama panders to the religious nonsense more than most presidents we have had with the possible exception of George W, but Obama has only been in 3 weeks. Give him time and he will beat Bush.
Just a technical question. Doesn't running multiple instances of programs, one on each instance of your virtual desktop, kind of defeat the purpose of having multiple virtual desktops?
Google on the other hand is defended like a religion.
Thanks for saying this. It is nice to see that I am not alone in recognizing that Google gets a pass of far worse actions than we would put up with out of any other companies.
I was just remembering yesterday how I used to hear my clients say that they needed new computers because their old ones were full. This woman is in this category.
There are people out there who have no idea how computers work and they are prey to all sorts of disingenuous marketing and out and out disinformation.
Instead of running a news story on this, they would have done her more good by just telling her she was ignorant and pointing her in the right direction to get information so she can stop being a victim. The skills she would gain in learning about the computer and sorting the BS from the truth might even translate to other aspects of her life, like car and house buying, or job hunting.
Frankly, in a choice between buying stock in a company with good numbers like Citibank or Enron and buying a stock in a company with Warren Buffet at the helm, like Berkshire-Hathaway, I would take Warren Buffet.
Then, unless you are an American Indian, you can probably thank Thomas Harriot.
Let's see, Galileo worked out some obscure mathematical equations, worked on optics, but didn't invent bifocals, and, apparently, drew a rough map of the Moon. Everyone has heard of him.
On the other hand, Thomas Harriot introduced a plant to Europeans that fed millions or people cheaply and has become the staple food for much of the planet's population. No one knows who he is.
In conclusion, we are to gather that Galileo's contributions were more important and history is just.
I would think that faced with a massive recession and a country with essentially no material economic base, that money could be spent more profitably creating new technologies and funding new enterprises that actually create products (and therefore new jobs well into the future) than in scanning old medical records which by their very nature can't be sold or exported.
Look at it this way. By mandating the scanning of old medical records, the government is essentially creating a tax without calling it that and using the revenue to give temporary jobs which will disappear after 5 years. The medical offices aren't going to eat the cost of this, they are going to pass it on which means that everyone will pay more for healthcare and everyone who has it will pay more for insurance premiums.
I should have said "virtual Zionists" instead of "virtual Jews" since a lot of Jews, including Israeli ones, have courageously condemned Israel's actions.
Israel, the Jewish state, wants to conflate itself with all Jews, and obfuscate the reality, but the fact is, it doesn't speak for all Jews anymore than Saudi Arabia speaks for all Muslims.
yeah, and the virtual Jews can bewail their virtual victimhood while carpet bombing virtual UN safe houses and virtual civilian populations with virtual US supplied advanced weapons.
Let's think about this, Nicholas Negroponte wants to sell cheap laptops to Venezuela, but seems not to realize that his older brother, John, has served as a sleaze-bag and all around go-to hatchet man for republican administrations all the way back to Reagan, at least.
Good ol' Johnny was instrumental in making sure the U.S. aided and abetted human rights abuses in Honduras, and backed the contras against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Surely, even an MIT professor realizes the Sandinistas were the legitimately elected, albeit socialist and indiginist, government.
Socialist and Indiginist, now what other country in Latin America has a government like that. Let me think. No, no, don't tell me. Yeah, I got it Venezuela!
If Nick can't connect the dots on that one, he needs to get another job.
these false positives really begin to add up. Couple this will all the lame-brained terrorist detection schemes that create millions of false positives and we can see the plan to get America out of recession is to have every single citizen working for the government hunting snipe.
You could be right, but I rather suspect there was never a market for a kludgy, 14 lb., steel notebook, but back in the days of the Macintosh Portable and the IBM 5155 Portable there weren't a whole lot of alternatives; now there are.
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Ah yes, that damned Ultima Online worm-farming. :-)
LOL, I agree. Only ignorant Americans would find this unfamiliar. If an American knows anything about corporations and his government (not to mention foreign lobbyists), he would find this all to familiar.
Damn. I can't add anything meaningful to that. You said it all and said it very well.
Um, if it actually looks like the picture above, and was found in the manner described, how thorough a job of it does one need to do?
Now, conceivably everything in the world could be a cleverly disguised bomb, the Holy Hand-grenade could simply have been a distraction to keep the police from finding the real bomb in the fire hydrant itself. But in order to treat something as a bomb that, on the face of it, obviously is not, wouldn't we need at least a scintilla of evidence that it presented some actual danger?
This was stupidity, pure and simple. The bomb squad guys probably don't get any real action, so they like to play at it. After all, they do have to justify their salaries.
Are they Phenom II's or Phenom IIs's?
Tom was able to stretch this worthless article to 26 pages by putting microscopic pictures on each page along with about a paragraph of text.
Tom is the new king of AdSense manipulation. I guess we can call it AdSenseless now.
Are the top quarks rarer than the sub bottom quarks?
Geez, that alone should disqualify them from any job that doesn't involve flipping burgers.
Let us pray that Obama can wipe public references to deities into oblivion.
There isn't a chance in hell your prayers will be answered because a) there is no god b) Barak Obama isn't him either, and c) Obama panders to the religious nonsense more than most presidents we have had with the possible exception of George W, but Obama has only been in 3 weeks. Give him time and he will beat Bush.
Just a technical question. Doesn't running multiple instances of programs, one on each instance of your virtual desktop, kind of defeat the purpose of having multiple virtual desktops?
Google on the other hand is defended like a religion.
Thanks for saying this. It is nice to see that I am not alone in recognizing that Google gets a pass of far worse actions than we would put up with out of any other companies.
Why in hell does it take over a minute to boot these systems? OSX on my older Mac Pro takes about 25 seconds. Shutdown takes like 4-5 seconds.
Although XP on the same machine boots slower, it took less than a minute.
"Before humans, was there ever an atomic explosion on the surface of this planet?"
Volcano's and Asteroids have put *way* more heat out than the atomic explosions we humans have set off.
"Before humans, was there a way for animals on the opposite end of the planet to communicate with each other?"
thats like saying Before flying animals could creatures go higher in the atmosphere to breath out their CO2?
I could be wrong, but I don't think he was saying these things contributed to global warming. I think he was making an analogy.
You must be from Cincinnati. the geography is familiar, as are the experiences.
I was just remembering yesterday how I used to hear my clients say that they needed new computers because their old ones were full. This woman is in this category.
There are people out there who have no idea how computers work and they are prey to all sorts of disingenuous marketing and out and out disinformation.
Instead of running a news story on this, they would have done her more good by just telling her she was ignorant and pointing her in the right direction to get information so she can stop being a victim. The skills she would gain in learning about the computer and sorting the BS from the truth might even translate to other aspects of her life, like car and house buying, or job hunting.
Frankly, in a choice between buying stock in a company with good numbers like Citibank or Enron and buying a stock in a company with Warren Buffet at the helm, like Berkshire-Hathaway, I would take Warren Buffet.
But that's just me.
Let's see, Galileo worked out some obscure mathematical equations, worked on optics, but didn't invent bifocals, and, apparently, drew a rough map of the Moon. Everyone has heard of him.
On the other hand, Thomas Harriot introduced a plant to Europeans that fed millions or people cheaply and has become the staple food for much of the planet's population. No one knows who he is.
In conclusion, we are to gather that Galileo's contributions were more important and history is just.
How does this make America economically viable?
I would think that faced with a massive recession and a country with essentially no material economic base, that money could be spent more profitably creating new technologies and funding new enterprises that actually create products (and therefore new jobs well into the future) than in scanning old medical records which by their very nature can't be sold or exported.
Look at it this way. By mandating the scanning of old medical records, the government is essentially creating a tax without calling it that and using the revenue to give temporary jobs which will disappear after 5 years. The medical offices aren't going to eat the cost of this, they are going to pass it on which means that everyone will pay more for healthcare and everyone who has it will pay more for insurance premiums.
I should have said "virtual Zionists" instead of "virtual Jews" since a lot of Jews, including Israeli ones, have courageously condemned Israel's actions.
Israel, the Jewish state, wants to conflate itself with all Jews, and obfuscate the reality, but the fact is, it doesn't speak for all Jews anymore than Saudi Arabia speaks for all Muslims.
yeah, and the virtual Jews can bewail their virtual victimhood while carpet bombing virtual UN safe houses and virtual civilian populations with virtual US supplied advanced weapons.
Let's think about this: Toyota's engineers think drivers want to be spammed. Toyota loses money for the first time in 50 years. Connection?
Let's think about this, Nicholas Negroponte wants to sell cheap laptops to Venezuela, but seems not to realize that his older brother, John, has served as a sleaze-bag and all around go-to hatchet man for republican administrations all the way back to Reagan, at least.
Good ol' Johnny was instrumental in making sure the U.S. aided and abetted human rights abuses in Honduras, and backed the contras against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Surely, even an MIT professor realizes the Sandinistas were the legitimately elected, albeit socialist and indiginist, government.
Socialist and Indiginist, now what other country in Latin America has a government like that. Let me think. No, no, don't tell me. Yeah, I got it Venezuela!
If Nick can't connect the dots on that one, he needs to get another job.
why don't they know enough to select better servers that can handle the load.
these false positives really begin to add up. Couple this will all the lame-brained terrorist detection schemes that create millions of false positives and we can see the plan to get America out of recession is to have every single citizen working for the government hunting snipe.
there's clearly a market here
You could be right, but I rather suspect there was never a market for a kludgy, 14 lb., steel notebook, but back in the days of the Macintosh Portable and the IBM 5155 Portable there weren't a whole lot of alternatives; now there are.