I think a better start would be to... forbid them from contributing to campaigns. Period.
They already are forbidden from contributing to campaigns. A corporation can set up a PAC, but PACs are monitored by the FEC and have spending limits. A PAC can donate $5,000 per election, or $15,000 for an entire year, and a PAC can run an ad campaign. Corporations can pay for the PAC's operating expenses, fundraising expenses, and ad campaigns, but they cannot funnel money into the candidate's election committee.
It is the ad campaigns that are killer. But what can be done about that? Ban political advertising from anyone other than a candidate's election committee? That is not acceptable to me as a citizen. What about non-profits and activists?
The problem is not with the corporations -- they're just organized. The problem is that everyone else is not organized.
The shop-vacs may be the instrument of death, and the toasters will be the distraction, but the Vroombas will be the psychotic masterminds behind the uprising.
You fool! You're playing right into Visual Studio's hands!
Don't you realize that building complex things with weird widgets is exactly what form designers are designed for? Remember VB development? Put a component on a form, edit the event code, and nary a main() in sight! It's all disconnected and isolated, and figuring out a program is like looking at an elephant through a key-hole.
Eventually they'll study it and learn and advance.
Actually, if we have to go through a civilization reboot--if there is some nuclear catastrophe and we end up back at the stone age--this clock could result in mechanically-directed technology. We could end up with the Difference Engine instead of the transistor.
I witnessed wasps investigating sodas plenty of times, crawling it, poking around a bit, and crawling back out again.
In fact, once I left a can of soda out and a roach crawled into it. I didn't know this. Until I drank the soda, and felt something moving around in my mouth.
My question is - why a monorail? They're like 10 times more expensive to build that regular light rail.
I think it mostly has to do with the price of buying land. There just isn't that much space downtown, and any building they need to do will require buying out and destroying property to lay in tracks. And a lot of that property has historic value.
Couple that with our pioneer-age constitution requiring direct resolution votes on almost anything important (name one Joe Blow that's going to directly choose to raise his taxes) and you get our recipe for stagnation
But Seattle did vote to continue the monorail. We voted in favor of the monorail four times! And it's not like the price tag went up so much. From what I hear, opponents just started interpreting the figures differently and dropping scary statistics.
And yet after only 50 years Japan is one of the strongest democracies in the world.
Yeah, they were profoundly alien. But we nuked 'em, destroyed their government and theology, and gave them a new government. They took the government we gave them, because they were broken by the nuke. That's shock and awe, if you like.
I use Dvorak too, but it won't make a difference. This technique does not depend on keystroke timing, it classifies keys based on their sound and guesses which letter each key-sound means based on English usage stats.
One thing that would work is to switch to a different layout when you enter your password and switch back when done. But you can't type an extended sequence of English in the alternate layout, else they'd be able to decipher it the same way.
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"Apple Approved" == computers that Apple sells
I don't see that changing.
I think a better start would be to ... forbid them from contributing to campaigns. Period.
They already are forbidden from contributing to campaigns. A corporation can set up a PAC, but PACs are monitored by the FEC and have spending limits. A PAC can donate $5,000 per election, or $15,000 for an entire year, and a PAC can run an ad campaign. Corporations can pay for the PAC's operating expenses, fundraising expenses, and ad campaigns, but they cannot funnel money into the candidate's election committee.
It is the ad campaigns that are killer. But what can be done about that? Ban political advertising from anyone other than a candidate's election committee? That is not acceptable to me as a citizen. What about non-profits and activists?
The problem is not with the corporations -- they're just organized. The problem is that everyone else is not organized.
The shop-vacs may be the instrument of death, and the toasters will be the distraction, but the Vroombas will be the psychotic masterminds behind the uprising.
You mean mad science!
Muah-ha-ha-ha! They laughed at me, but I'll show them! I'll show them all!
It turns out that being extremely efficient isn't a big survival trait for humans.
I'll use that excuse the next time my boss bitches.
"But, boss, I haven't been selected for efficiency! I'm versatile and redundant!"
Hmm...I can see that backfiring.
George! Long time no see.
you mean where you modify code at runtime while running it inside a debugger
Um, yeah. Y'know, honestly, that kind of thing creeps me out. I have no idea what is going on, it is witchery, it confuses and enrages me!
It's unnatur'l, heathen wickedness, you mark my words, and no good'll come of't.
Ah, the good old days! Why, I remember when...
You fool! You're playing right into Visual Studio's hands!
Don't you realize that building complex things with weird widgets is exactly what form designers are designed for? Remember VB development? Put a component on a form, edit the event code, and nary a main() in sight! It's all disconnected and isolated, and figuring out a program is like looking at an elephant through a key-hole.
Your "solution" will be the ruin of us all!
Eventually they'll study it and learn and advance.
Actually, if we have to go through a civilization reboot--if there is some nuclear catastrophe and we end up back at the stone age--this clock could result in mechanically-directed technology. We could end up with the Difference Engine instead of the transistor.
I witnessed wasps investigating sodas plenty of times, crawling it, poking around a bit, and crawling back out again.
In fact, once I left a can of soda out and a roach crawled into it. I didn't know this. Until I drank the soda, and felt something moving around in my mouth.
I swallowed. 'Cause I'm a Man.
The oldest of the Lone Gunmen, from X-Files. Kinda like Sid from User Friendly, but further off mainstream and with rough edges.
My question is - why a monorail? They're like 10 times more expensive to build that regular light rail.
I think it mostly has to do with the price of buying land. There just isn't that much space downtown, and any building they need to do will require buying out and destroying property to lay in tracks. And a lot of that property has historic value.
Couple that with our pioneer-age constitution requiring direct resolution votes on almost anything important (name one Joe Blow that's going to directly choose to raise his taxes) and you get our recipe for stagnation
But Seattle did vote to continue the monorail. We voted in favor of the monorail four times! And it's not like the price tag went up so much. From what I hear, opponents just started interpreting the figures differently and dropping scary statistics.
At the time General Motors was buying up all the streetcar lines. Streetcars were replaced with busses because General Motors only made busses.
This is not true, according to the Straight Dope. Streetcars went bye-bye because busses looked better.
Because we're all well aware of the fact that the American continent consists of the United States and the United States alone.
Damn straight. You betta reco'nize, foo'! Truth!
And yet after only 50 years Japan is one of the strongest democracies in the world.
Yeah, they were profoundly alien. But we nuked 'em, destroyed their government and theology, and gave them a new government. They took the government we gave them, because they were broken by the nuke. That's shock and awe, if you like.
It can be from both...
From Joe Dirt, for those who didn't catch the reference.
NO! Don't listen to parent poster, and whatever you do, don't drink Dihydrogen Monoxide!
That stuff is deadly!
NO! Don't listen to parent poster! That stuff is deadly!
I use Dvorak too, but it won't make a difference. This technique does not depend on keystroke timing, it classifies keys based on their sound and guesses which letter each key-sound means based on English usage stats.
One thing that would work is to switch to a different layout when you enter your password and switch back when done. But you can't type an extended sequence of English in the alternate layout, else they'd be able to decipher it the same way.
Based on Apple's FAQ, this phone is just the first to support iTunes. They are leaving the door open for other manufacturers & phones.
Yeah, the ROKR should have been called the SUXR, but someone will make something better.
As I understand it, the iPod hard drive really isn't well-suited to being run continuously, which is what would be needed for video.
Venture Brothers?