And then, we get all frightened and refuse to build large-scale particle colliders because we're afraid that black hole monsters will crawl out from under our beds and suck us into the fifth dimension.
Chavez also claimed that the earthquake was caused by a secret weapon launched by the US Navy, that Haiti was being used as a drill, and that our ultimate goal is to deploy this tectonic weapon before an invasion of his best buddies in the whole wide world, Iran.
It's obvious that the government can be better at certain goals taken in isolation (like spaceflight). The question then becomes whether those massive things are better than the sum total of everything that doesn't get done because people were taxed and made to spend money on that instead of something else, or the government raised the cost of borrowing by competing for debt, or even because the government was spending money on spaceflight instead of a bunch of small infrastructure projects.
That's a really hard assessment to make. It would be naive to say that it's clearly not the case (in light of the wasteful excesses and destruction of capital in our last housing crisis), but it would be hubris to say that you/the government can do better job deciding what's an important use of society's resources than the individual members of that society.
Interesting capability; I wasn't very impressed with the TomTom when trying it in stores, myself. I asked it to find a route from San Jose to New York City and it sat there with a progress bar that looked like it would take half an hour to complete. The Garmin unit next door had something in two or three seconds, tops.
My team just bought an iMac with a nice display and put it on one conference room, while the guy on the other end has a little MacBook. You can do 2 or 3-way videoconferences with iChat over Jabber.
That doesn't sound like a complaint against corporations, it sounds like a complaint against the Republican and Democrat political parties. Especially the incumbents.
And there's a reason that the thing was nicknamed the McCain-Feingold Incumbent Protection Act.
When they ratified an amendment protecting the free press, next to Speech, you don't think that any corporation had ever spent any money to publish a newspaper to push a political opinion?
I got a copy of MOO3 used from a friend (for free). The funny part, I thought, was that because of the font in the manual, every time they said "Orion" it looked like "Onion".
An apt description of the game. It's got layers. Lotsa layers. And no cake-layers or parfait-layers, either. Layers that make you cry.
I blame the fact that Windows has a lousy terminal. The shell isn't irredeemably bad - definitely no Bash, but it certainly sufficed for me in my pre-Windows days - but if it were just more like PuTTY it'd be almost usable for random tasks.
James Cameron connected the funding to the people who assembled a team of programmers. That's an important step. All sorts of projects sit around there and just don't get done because someone doesn't have six-figure salaries handy to pay the programmers.
Jay Gould didn't actually physically build any railways, either.
- Not pissing the fucking world off such that they *want* to do this shit. (Yeah, cliche, whatever.)
So what got Al-Quaeda all interested in blowing up US buildings to begin with? It's not about Afghanistan or Iraq (those were post-911, after all). How was the US pissing off the Arab world? Oh! It's because the US was friendly with the Israel. Israelis are obviously deplorable monsters, as you can tell from their religion and their tendency to shoot back when you launch a bunch of rockets at them from across the border.
The answer is simple, and doable: if the US wants to be immune from terrorist Muslim extremists, we just need to nuke Israel. A fairly modest proposal, and with many benefits! Just think what that would do for world peace!
Google couldn't really tell if there was sniffing going on in their users' connections. They could, however, figure out exactly what sort of activities someone using POP or IMAP or the web UI (or some compromised internal Google tool) ended up doing, based on logs.
Hey, the LOL translator is useful! You haven't worked at IBM, have you? You'll get messages and emails about integrating your project with WCTME (Workplace Client Technologies Micro Edition) and WSBE and WBESEP and WSMQE and WIRTS and WSDSEACS and... I mean, with names like these...
That's IBM, through and through. They finally come up with a good short pronouncable brand name like "WebSphere" and proceed to adorn it with products like "WebSphere ILOG Rule Solutions for Office" and "WebSphere Development Studio Client Advanced Edition for System i" and "WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation for z/OS" and... yeah.
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And then, we get all frightened and refuse to build large-scale particle colliders because we're afraid that black hole monsters will crawl out from under our beds and suck us into the fifth dimension.
Chavez also claimed that the earthquake was caused by a secret weapon launched by the US Navy, that Haiti was being used as a drill, and that our ultimate goal is to deploy this tectonic weapon before an invasion of his best buddies in the whole wide world, Iran.
Google news links about the matter here.
Like putting vitamin D into milk?
That's a really hard assessment to make. It would be naive to say that it's clearly not the case (in light of the wasteful excesses and destruction of capital in our last housing crisis), but it would be hubris to say that you/the government can do better job deciding what's an important use of society's resources than the individual members of that society.
Dude. It's a slime mold, not a banana slug.
Interesting capability; I wasn't very impressed with the TomTom when trying it in stores, myself. I asked it to find a route from San Jose to New York City and it sat there with a progress bar that looked like it would take half an hour to complete. The Garmin unit next door had something in two or three seconds, tops.
My team just bought an iMac with a nice display and put it on one conference room, while the guy on the other end has a little MacBook. You can do 2 or 3-way videoconferences with iChat over Jabber.
Fancy new cars are self-parallel-parking.
We have to kill our Free Speech in order to save it!
That doesn't sound like a complaint against corporations, it sounds like a complaint against the Republican and Democrat political parties. Especially the incumbents.
And there's a reason that the thing was nicknamed the McCain-Feingold Incumbent Protection Act.
When they ratified an amendment protecting the free press, next to Speech, you don't think that any corporation had ever spent any money to publish a newspaper to push a political opinion?
Then perhaps we should amend it! In the meantime, free speech (and a free press) isn't just a good idea: it's the law.
My password is https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id.
Pilots? Pffffft. Think of the drones!
An apt description of the game. It's got layers. Lotsa layers. And no cake-layers or parfait-layers, either. Layers that make you cry.
I blame the fact that Windows has a lousy terminal. The shell isn't irredeemably bad - definitely no Bash, but it certainly sufficed for me in my pre-Windows days - but if it were just more like PuTTY it'd be almost usable for random tasks.
The US already has significant sugar tariffs, largely as a concession to Hawaii. This is one reason people substitute in corn syrup.
Sounds like Cisco wants to sell you more expensive equipment.
Who knows? It might be worth the six-figure price tag. :)
Or malpractice lawsuits are completely out of control.
Jay Gould didn't actually physically build any railways, either.
So what got Al-Quaeda all interested in blowing up US buildings to begin with? It's not about Afghanistan or Iraq (those were post-911, after all). How was the US pissing off the Arab world? Oh! It's because the US was friendly with the Israel. Israelis are obviously deplorable monsters, as you can tell from their religion and their tendency to shoot back when you launch a bunch of rockets at them from across the border.
The answer is simple, and doable: if the US wants to be immune from terrorist Muslim extremists, we just need to nuke Israel. A fairly modest proposal, and with many benefits! Just think what that would do for world peace!
Echo!
Google couldn't really tell if there was sniffing going on in their users' connections. They could, however, figure out exactly what sort of activities someone using POP or IMAP or the web UI (or some compromised internal Google tool) ended up doing, based on logs.
(I tell you, when I was about 1-2, that was the big treat: rice cakes. mmmm. we couldn't afford much else.)
That's IBM, through and through. They finally come up with a good short pronouncable brand name like "WebSphere" and proceed to adorn it with products like "WebSphere ILOG Rule Solutions for Office" and "WebSphere Development Studio Client Advanced Edition for System i" and "WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation for z/OS" and... yeah.