Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner. All of the goofball's talk about the 13th or 12th Imam in hiding and how his actions will bring him out is a little scary.
Fortunately, we have a very large military presence on Iran's flanks, as well as fleet of ships in the gulf.
Go ahead punk, make my day.
Careful what you wish for, you might get it. Look what happened to the last guy who said 'Bring it on.'
I'm sure you're absolutely right, but let's not forget the democratic tradition in Iran that was interrupted by the US and UK when they went in and toppled Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq in '53 and put the Shah in his place. How to fix this mess is anyone's guess, but a lesson needs to be learned by a certain Western superpower that it's a bad idea to go around the world toppling democratic governments and installing pro-Western but unpopular dictators in their place.
On the other hand, I haven't seen such unanimous disdain for a series of slashdot articles since Jon Katz. Is it still ungrateful whining if *everyone* is doing it?
All the angry/. people posting angry rants about white text on green (which I quite like) and how oppressed they are by an item appearing on the front page of/. that they don't want to read. If I were you I'd just tell them 'We must pick up our crosses daily."
I was going to disagree with you there, but then most legislation passed at Westminster either applies to England and Wales, or Scotland, or Northern Ireland separately. Anyone know if legislation is ever passed that applies UK-wide?
The author of that website doesn't know what he's talking about. Cycling is one of the toughest sports out there, lycra or no lycra. It's very much a sport for real men.
I disagree. The GP makes a valid point about how the police need to be policed more rigorously than other citizens. When a 'normal' citizen steps out of line, that's one thing. When someone with the power of arrest and considerable other powers steps out of line, that's a very serious matter. Nothing undermines society more than corrupt officials who should be enforcing the rules.
I remember reading this somewhere, hence my question. Someone may have it in their country even if you don't have it in yours. A more helpful answer would have been "I live in _______ and we don't have it in our patent laws."
You can thank our patent system for the reason there are no EV cars on the market.
Chevron, a large petroleum company, owns the patent [google.com] on NiMH battery technology that is critical for EVs.
Toyota produced the RAV4 EV starting in 1997 using NiMH technology. Chevron sued on patent infringement and got Toyota's NiMH production line shut down. Now there are no replacement NiMH batteries anywhere, yet many of the RAV4s are still operating on the original batteries.
IANAL but isn't there something in patent law that says that if a patent isn't being exploited by the holder, you're free to use their idea?
EVs give you the possibility of getting your energy from some source other than crude. Petrol/Diesel-powered cars don't. It's not the whole solution, but it's part of it. It's also nice to remove the immediate pollution from city streets to out-of-town locations where it can disperse. And the smaller amount of noise is nice too. There's something peaceful about the cafe-lined neighbourhoods in San Francisco that have trolleybuses purring along instead of their louder (and smokier) diesel equivalents.
My employment contract says I'm exempt. My employer insists that if you need an hour or two off here and there, you have to either make the time up later or fill a form stating the number of hours you take off and your pay is docked at an hourly rate. However if you work over your hours you don't get any overtime pay. I wonder how legal that is.
I do not think we will survive this proud-to-be-stupid anti-intellectualism now so widespread in our ailing society.
Spot on. Reminds me of a great article in yesterday's NYT:
Know-Nothing Politics
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: August 7, 2008
So the G.O.P. has found its issue for the 2008 election. For the next three months the party plans to keep chanting: "Drill here! Drill now! Drill here! Drill now! Four legs good, two legs bad!" O.K., I added that last part.
And the debate on energy policy has helped me find the words for something I've been thinking about for a while. Republicans, once hailed as the "party of ideas," have become the party of stupid.
Now, I don't mean that G.O.P. politicians are, on average, any dumber than their Democratic counterparts. And I certainly don't mean to question the often frightening smarts of Republican political operatives.
What I mean, instead, is that know-nothingism â" the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there's something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise â" has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The party's de facto slogan has become: "Real men don't think things through."
In the case of oil, this takes the form of pretending that more drilling would produce fast relief at the gas pump. In fact, earlier this week Republicans in Congress actually claimed credit for the recent fall in oil prices: "The market is responding to the fact that we are here talking," said Representative John Shadegg.
What about the experts at the Department of Energy who say that it would take years before offshore drilling would yield any oil at all, and that even then the effect on prices at the pump would be "insignificant"? Presumably they're just a bunch of wimps, probably Democrats. And the Democrats, as Representative Michele Bachmann assures us, "want Americans to move to the urban core, live in tenements, take light rail to their government jobs."
Is this political pitch too dumb to succeed? Don't count on it.
Remember how the Iraq war was sold. The stuff about aluminum tubes and mushroom clouds was just window dressing. The main political argument was, "They attacked us, and we're going to strike back" â" and anyone who tried to point out that Saddam and Osama weren't the same person was an effete snob who hated America, and probably looked French.
Let's also not forget that for years President Bush was the center of a cult of personality that lionized him as a real-world Forrest Gump, a simple man who prevails through his gut instincts and moral superiority. "Mr. Bush is the triumph of the seemingly average American man," declared Peggy Noonan, writing in The Wall Street Journal in 2004. "He's not an intellectual. Intellectuals start all the trouble in the world."
It wasn't until Hurricane Katrina â" when the heckuva job done by the man of whom Ms. Noonan said, "if there's a fire on the block, he'll run out and help" revealed the true costs of obliviousness â" that the cult began to fade.
What's more, the politics of stupidity didn't just appeal to the poorly informed. Bear in mind that members of the political and media elites were more pro-war than the public at large in the fall of 2002, even though the flimsiness of the case for invading Iraq should have been even more obvious to those paying close attention to the issue than it was to the average voter.
Why were the elite so hawkish? Well, I heard a number of people express privately the argument that some influential commentators made publicly â" that the war was a good idea, not because Iraq posed a real threat, but because beating up someone in the Middle East, never mind who, would show Muslims that we mean business. In other words, even alleged wise men bought into the idea of macho posturing as policy.
Can we please allow people to express alternative opinions about US foreign policy without having them modded as 'Troll' or 'Flamebait?' As long as someone's not being abusive I see no reason to censor someone expressing an opinion that's probably a lot more widespread than those with mod points would think. If you disagree with him, engage him in debate and challenge his ideas, don't shut him down.
...is optimize the plasma conduits, although they'd better make sure not to divert too much power away from the main deflector array, I'd hate to have to reconfigure that thing yet again.
I hate government intervention in any market, but I don't see any way around it.
Only if you consider healthcare a 'market.' All the problems with the US healthcare system can be traced back to this idea that you can run it like a business. Maybe it comes from the McCarthy era when anything remotely resembling socialism was attacked as the 'reds under the bed,' but this hysterical aversion to providing essential public services funded by taxation has got to stop.
TFA doesn't say Usenet is dead, just that it's past its best. It says:
It's hard to completely kill off something as totally decentralized as Usenet; as long as two servers agree to share the NNTP protocol, it'll continue on in some fashion. But the Usenet I mourn is long gone, anyway, or long-transformed into interlocking comments on LiveJournals and the forums boards on tech-support Web sites.
If it was as simple as doing a single install off a CD I wouldn't have called it an ordeal. But since you're an intelligent man you knew that anyway, didn't you?
Lecture model is a bit outdated in today's world, although it still has some use. Structures of the past don't scale up very well to the modern phenomenon of third-level education for the masses. Research brings money into the school, improves its ties with the outside world, keeps faculty staff up to date with the latest developments in the real world, but it also places new demands on staff that academics of old didn't have to deal with. There's now better understanding of how people learn science, so we need methods that emphasize participation and experimentation and assessment of such, as opposed to just testing memorization of facts and problem-solving recipes as traditional exams do. Opportunities to tap into IT to improve learning processes remain largely untapped except for a relatively small number of spectacular examples.
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Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner. All of the goofball's talk about the 13th or 12th Imam in hiding and how his actions will bring him out is a little scary. Fortunately, we have a very large military presence on Iran's flanks, as well as fleet of ships in the gulf. Go ahead punk, make my day.
Careful what you wish for, you might get it. Look what happened to the last guy who said 'Bring it on.'
I'm sure you're absolutely right, but let's not forget the democratic tradition in Iran that was interrupted by the US and UK when they went in and toppled Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq in '53 and put the Shah in his place. How to fix this mess is anyone's guess, but a lesson needs to be learned by a certain Western superpower that it's a bad idea to go around the world toppling democratic governments and installing pro-Western but unpopular dictators in their place.
On the other hand, I haven't seen such unanimous disdain for a series of slashdot articles since Jon Katz. Is it still ungrateful whining if *everyone* is doing it?
Yup.
All the angry /. people posting angry rants about white text on green (which I quite like) and how oppressed they are by an item appearing on the front page of /. that they don't want to read. If I were you I'd just tell them 'We must pick up our crosses daily."
OK, someone's gonna have to explain that to me.
Not even a first. Anybody remember Windows ME? Redmond is forgetting their history apparently....
Nonsense. Redmond was always at war with East Asia.
I quite like the white on teal.
I was going to disagree with you there, but then most legislation passed at Westminster either applies to England and Wales, or Scotland, or Northern Ireland separately. Anyone know if legislation is ever passed that applies UK-wide?
The author of that website doesn't know what he's talking about. Cycling is one of the toughest sports out there, lycra or no lycra. It's very much a sport for real men.
I disagree. The GP makes a valid point about how the police need to be policed more rigorously than other citizens. When a 'normal' citizen steps out of line, that's one thing. When someone with the power of arrest and considerable other powers steps out of line, that's a very serious matter. Nothing undermines society more than corrupt officials who should be enforcing the rules.
The question is still open. Anyone...?
IANAL but isn't there something in patent law that says that if a patent isn't being exploited by the holder, you're free to use their idea?
EVs give you the possibility of getting your energy from some source other than crude. Petrol/Diesel-powered cars don't. It's not the whole solution, but it's part of it. It's also nice to remove the immediate pollution from city streets to out-of-town locations where it can disperse. And the smaller amount of noise is nice too. There's something peaceful about the cafe-lined neighbourhoods in San Francisco that have trolleybuses purring along instead of their louder (and smokier) diesel equivalents.
My employment contract says I'm exempt. My employer insists that if you need an hour or two off here and there, you have to either make the time up later or fill a form stating the number of hours you take off and your pay is docked at an hourly rate. However if you work over your hours you don't get any overtime pay. I wonder how legal that is.
Spot on. Reminds me of a great article in yesterday's NYT:
(remember these horses are livestock not pets).
Sorry for the pedantry, but horses are 'bloodstock.' Livestock is usually something that produces food. Unless it's different in America.
What if all airlines take up a similar policy? What are you going to do then, hm?
Use videoconferencing.
Can we please allow people to express alternative opinions about US foreign policy without having them modded as 'Troll' or 'Flamebait?' As long as someone's not being abusive I see no reason to censor someone expressing an opinion that's probably a lot more widespread than those with mod points would think. If you disagree with him, engage him in debate and challenge his ideas, don't shut him down.
...is optimize the plasma conduits, although they'd better make sure not to divert too much power away from the main deflector array, I'd hate to have to reconfigure that thing yet again.
Only if you consider healthcare a 'market.' All the problems with the US healthcare system can be traced back to this idea that you can run it like a business. Maybe it comes from the McCarthy era when anything remotely resembling socialism was attacked as the 'reds under the bed,' but this hysterical aversion to providing essential public services funded by taxation has got to stop.
Pardon my ignorance but isn't that extortion?
What? A rotary dial on a phone? It'll never happen.
If it was as simple as doing a single install off a CD I wouldn't have called it an ordeal. But since you're an intelligent man you knew that anyway, didn't you?
Lecture model is a bit outdated in today's world, although it still has some use. Structures of the past don't scale up very well to the modern phenomenon of third-level education for the masses. Research brings money into the school, improves its ties with the outside world, keeps faculty staff up to date with the latest developments in the real world, but it also places new demands on staff that academics of old didn't have to deal with. There's now better understanding of how people learn science, so we need methods that emphasize participation and experimentation and assessment of such, as opposed to just testing memorization of facts and problem-solving recipes as traditional exams do. Opportunities to tap into IT to improve learning processes remain largely untapped except for a relatively small number of spectacular examples.