I think you mean classified.
It's been a zillion years (OK, nearly 40) since I wore the uniform, but I doubt any classified networks are on the internet. DARPANet was for defense contractors and Pentagon paper pushers, not military units.
And vote in who? That's the problem, there is no candidate or major party right now that could come close to winning a stamp of approval from folks who care about civil liberties.
Back in the 50's, when I was a kid, they used to say 'Any boy could be President'. It's different today. To become President, you need to come from money, have heavy connections in your party of choice, and have an Ivy League 'education'. Thing about the Ivy League school isn't so much the way overpriced 'education' as it is for networking. How many of our Presidents in the last 100 years were in Skull & Bones? These days, it's all about the networking. Have a few dozen classmates who sit on the board of directors of enough Fortune 500 companies and you're pretty much a shoe-in.
The law would be more black and white if laws were better drafted. But they're not. They've often appallingly sloppily drafted - which means they're open to interpretation.
That's the whole point, isn't it? If law were all cut and dried, why would we need all these damned lawyers for, medical testing subjects?
That's the whole point. To channel money to aerospace contractors and all other lobbyist-wielding gravy train rider wannabes. There is no useful scientific or engineering purpose to be served by manned space exploration. It is a worthless, purposeless enterprise, a mere excuse to loot money from national treasuries. This roadmap comprises a formal list of corrupt governments. Only true-believing sci fi space adventure magical religious cultists are gullible enough to swallow the "space exploration" excuse. Space should be explored by robotic devices only for the foreseeable future, i.e. the next century or two. The rest is just graft-driven government corruption.
Ah, but making space safe for robots only feeds corporate greed. Without a frontier, there's no place to go for further social experimentation to take place, and we all become just more drones plugged into the consumer system, the 'product' for the multinational coprorations. We wait a hundred years or so for human exploration/exploitation, it'll be way too late.
Besides, what's cheaper, a multibillion dollar robot or a tech with a 13 mm wrench when it's time to repair the other robots?
Insulin comes from a variety of sources to meet the medical requirements of patients. The one from bacteria is human insulin (product name 'Humalin', and they inserted the human gene for making insulin into a bacteria. There's more to it than that, but that's a whole article.), while most of the rest of the insulin on the market is either bovine (cow) or porcine (pig).
Insulin also used to come from sheep. It all depended on which version your body could handle better. Some people did better on the bovine, some on the pork, some on the sheep.
PETA still has problems with bacterial-produced insulin since it required animal testing for safety and effectiveness, not to mention FDA approval. Personally, I'm thinking, if they're that oppposed to animal testing, why not do 'animal' testing on PETA members?
The real problem isn't some grand scheme against NASA or a conspiracy. It is just the Right Wing has gotten Nutty Right and doesn't like any Government funding for anything.
It is the senate republicans that are trying to do away with all science, art, education and health care under the guise of fixing the budget. Not sure why they're doing it, but they do seem keen on the idea.
The NeoCons are all for that, if you keep the population stupid and uninformed, they're more likely to take to the streets chanting "America! FUCK YEAH!!" right on cue.
Hey, I know, and I don't think that socialism is evil, but a capitalist system is probably the best a society can do right now. Yes, it must be accompanied by heavy regulation, especially of big corporations, but I don't think that a pure socialism or a pure capitalism are the answer for anyone.
And therein lies the rub. The problem lately is, the businesses themselves write the legislation and dump it on the legislaturists after 'lobbying' them, er, 'contributing to their re-election campaign'. Said legislation will be in the businesses' best interests as opposed to the national good.
The reason the people hate "Obamacare" so much is because it kept all the protections for the insurance companies (i.e., the personal mandate to have health insurance) and stripped almost all benefit to the public. If Obama would have put up a National Health Care bill that was modeled after the UK or Canadian model, it would have gone a long way towards showing the public one crucial thing: when it would have been summarily killed by our representatives (which it would have been, no way in HELL they would have let that come to pass depending on all that Big Pharma/Big Healthcare money that they do) they would realize that they have no more representation in our government now than we did when we were colonies.
Considering this piece of legislation was manuvering into place before the '08 election, calling it 'Obamacare' is a bit of a misnomer. And you are basically correct in the fact that it's a bailout for an industry that needs no bailout. True national healthcare would be the death of the medical insurance industry, as well as cut down severely on the amount of personal bankruptcies in the US (A figure I've heard tossed around is, about half of the bankruptcies today in the US are due to getting sick and becoming overwhelmed by what their insurance didn't cover) and eliminate a secondary industry: medical debt collection companies.
Howabout we patent virtual patents? Then we'd effectively own all patents in a virtual environment. Figure a way to translate the virtual cash generated by virtual litigation into real cash, and PROFIT!
If there is nothing wrong with evil then what is "wrong"?
Inherently. One person's evil is another person's good. Corporation X's maneuvers to curbstomp Corporation Y's business isn't necessarily evil, to Corporation X's stockholders. As Obi-Wan says, it all depends on your point of view.
So please take your attitude over to your 10% bing *LOL* (MSN search down 5 points in two months isn't a "win for bing", it's a LOSS for microsoft) with you and have a home professional ultimate day.
No, it's a 'win' for Microsoft. Having the 'hot new search engine' is worth beaucoup advertising dollars. They can rewrite the advertising contracts and charge more cause it's a 'new system'.
Aren't embedded searches from IE and windows live more than 5 months old? Like... several years old? The changes are reflective of the last 5 months, it sounds like thats gotta be mostly because of Bing. There is still a 2% swing in marketshare, which to them means a 25% increase in traffic.
Yes, they are, but not everybody updates their system religiously. A lot of people I know don't bother running update because it 'slows the computer down too much'.
No, it's all legit. Most of the increase in searches is coming from 15th Congressional District out in Arizona. They must really be spreading the word on Bing out there.
Yeah, must be the result of all that stimulus money earmarked for the 15th District.
Don't be an idiot. This is Bing we're talking about, not Yahoo. Do you really think 10% of people go to it on purpose? Outside of extreme geekdom, nobody's even heard of it yet.
Your overly strong affiliation with geekdom-circles is showing. That HUGE marketing campaign that MS ran when Bing first showed up did have an effect.
Yeah, it's a DECISION engine not a search engine!! That's marketspeak for 'we're gonna try to sell you OUR buddes' products rather than THEIR buddie's products'. It's always been about the advertising dollars.
I'm just surprised they didn't put any subliminal advertising on Bing to 'help' make the switch. Seriously, Balmer, get down to the dungeon and start throwing chairs til your hired geeks come up with something...
Therefore at least one reason Bing is piece of crap is because of it's evilness!
Nothing wrong inherently with evil, ya know. Nor is there anything inherently wrong with trying to scam off with Google's lunch. It's called 'business as usual', ya know. I checked Bing out when it first started getting airplay on tv, didn't see what all the excitement was about. IIRC, early results were heavily weighted to shill Microsoft products. Big surprise, eh? Now the recent XP/Vista updates toggle default browser search engines to Bing, Win7 ships with default search engine of Bing, any embedded native Windows search uses Bing, and it's a surprise that Bing picked up 10% of the search engine market? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...
Google took years to conquer the market and stomp on Altavista. Microsoft can do it with a click of an update button. Fun, eh? See you Patch Tuesday. And don't forget to click back to Google...
It's kind of gross seeing so many slashdotters going ga ga over their "rights" in movies and music made by somebody else.
It's my tv. I bought it, I paid for it. I should be allowed to do whatever I want with it, including throwing it out the window if that pleases me. I didn't lease it, I didn't take it home with a 'license' to use it in narrowly defined ways, I bought it. I own it. And now they want to take functionality away from it so it won't do what I bought it to do?
Just wait until you don't have to borrow the money to do so.
The US needs to figure out its side of the equation, what is more important, buying votes or science?
We're screwed then. Politicians look at everything in the light of "Will this help me win the next election?" The people for the most part aren't interested unless it's American Idol or some such nonsense. Us hardcore science geeks are left out in the cold, marginalised beyond belief.
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I think you mean classified. It's been a zillion years (OK, nearly 40) since I wore the uniform, but I doubt any classified networks are on the internet. DARPANet was for defense contractors and Pentagon paper pushers, not military units.
Back in the 50's, when I was a kid, they used to say 'Any boy could be President'. It's different today. To become President, you need to come from money, have heavy connections in your party of choice, and have an Ivy League 'education'. Thing about the Ivy League school isn't so much the way overpriced 'education' as it is for networking. How many of our Presidents in the last 100 years were in Skull & Bones? These days, it's all about the networking. Have a few dozen classmates who sit on the board of directors of enough Fortune 500 companies and you're pretty much a shoe-in.
It depends on where you stand. For me, eating a steak is a GOOD thing.
To a PETA whackjob, eating a steak rates right up there with buggering Jesus with a chainsaw.
I'd pay real cash money to see that...
That's the whole point, isn't it? If law were all cut and dried, why would we need all these damned lawyers for, medical testing subjects?
Ah, but making space safe for robots only feeds corporate greed. Without a frontier, there's no place to go for further social experimentation to take place, and we all become just more drones plugged into the consumer system, the 'product' for the multinational coprorations. We wait a hundred years or so for human exploration/exploitation, it'll be way too late.
Besides, what's cheaper, a multibillion dollar robot or a tech with a 13 mm wrench when it's time to repair the other robots?
Insulin also used to come from sheep. It all depended on which version your body could handle better. Some people did better on the bovine, some on the pork, some on the sheep.
PETA still has problems with bacterial-produced insulin since it required animal testing for safety and effectiveness, not to mention FDA approval. Personally, I'm thinking, if they're that oppposed to animal testing, why not do 'animal' testing on PETA members?
Fixed that for ya.
The NeoCons are all for that, if you keep the population stupid and uninformed, they're more likely to take to the streets chanting "America! FUCK YEAH!!" right on cue.
And therein lies the rub. The problem lately is, the businesses themselves write the legislation and dump it on the legislaturists after 'lobbying' them, er, 'contributing to their re-election campaign'. Said legislation will be in the businesses' best interests as opposed to the national good.
Considering this piece of legislation was manuvering into place before the '08 election, calling it 'Obamacare' is a bit of a misnomer. And you are basically correct in the fact that it's a bailout for an industry that needs no bailout. True national healthcare would be the death of the medical insurance industry, as well as cut down severely on the amount of personal bankruptcies in the US (A figure I've heard tossed around is, about half of the bankruptcies today in the US are due to getting sick and becoming overwhelmed by what their insurance didn't cover) and eliminate a secondary industry: medical debt collection companies.
You, sir, have just added a whole new dimension to the expression 'Get a grip on yourself'. Where can I subscribe to your newsletter?
Howabout we patent virtual patents? Then we'd effectively own all patents in a virtual environment. Figure a way to translate the virtual cash generated by virtual litigation into real cash, and PROFIT!
Plus, the average pedobear isn't likely to shoot back. J Random Terrorrorrorrorrist is usually depicted as packing an AK-47, which scares cops silly.
Inherently. One person's evil is another person's good. Corporation X's maneuvers to curbstomp Corporation Y's business isn't necessarily evil, to Corporation X's stockholders. As Obi-Wan says, it all depends on your point of view.
The mental image that came to mind when I saw that convinces me that I watch WAY too much porn...
No, it's a 'win' for Microsoft. Having the 'hot new search engine' is worth beaucoup advertising dollars. They can rewrite the advertising contracts and charge more cause it's a 'new system'.
I still use Babelfish. LOVE that feature!
Yes, they are, but not everybody updates their system religiously. A lot of people I know don't bother running update because it 'slows the computer down too much'.
Yeah, must be the result of all that stimulus money earmarked for the 15th District.
Yeah, it's a DECISION engine not a search engine!! That's marketspeak for 'we're gonna try to sell you OUR buddes' products rather than THEIR buddie's products'. It's always been about the advertising dollars.
I'm just surprised they didn't put any subliminal advertising on Bing to 'help' make the switch. Seriously, Balmer, get down to the dungeon and start throwing chairs til your hired geeks come up with something...
Nothing wrong inherently with evil, ya know. Nor is there anything inherently wrong with trying to scam off with Google's lunch. It's called 'business as usual', ya know. I checked Bing out when it first started getting airplay on tv, didn't see what all the excitement was about. IIRC, early results were heavily weighted to shill Microsoft products. Big surprise, eh? Now the recent XP/Vista updates toggle default browser search engines to Bing, Win7 ships with default search engine of Bing, any embedded native Windows search uses Bing, and it's a surprise that Bing picked up 10% of the search engine market? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...
Google took years to conquer the market and stomp on Altavista. Microsoft can do it with a click of an update button. Fun, eh? See you Patch Tuesday. And don't forget to click back to Google...
I don't screw around with FLACs, I just rip to 128K mp3s. My hearing is so whacked that 128K sounds good to me.
He didn't get the nod in '00 because he wasn't tight with the neocons. Dubya was, so he got the nod.
Personally, as a Republican, I'd LOVE to get my party away from the neocons.
It's my tv. I bought it, I paid for it. I should be allowed to do whatever I want with it, including throwing it out the window if that pleases me. I didn't lease it, I didn't take it home with a 'license' to use it in narrowly defined ways, I bought it. I own it. And now they want to take functionality away from it so it won't do what I bought it to do?
We're screwed then. Politicians look at everything in the light of "Will this help me win the next election?" The people for the most part aren't interested unless it's American Idol or some such nonsense. Us hardcore science geeks are left out in the cold, marginalised beyond belief.