"But as well as being one of Microsoft's few new billion-dollar hits"
huh? who says?
im not even going to bother googling the stats on that one, but since ive never heard of SharePoint before, sounds like a bad marketing ploy to me..
With the privatization of energy companies, nuclear energy is a disaster waiting to happen.
It's a matter of how the core-values of for-profit organisations manifest themselves in the market, which is essentially to maximize profits.
All companies attempting to maximize profits will reduce costs as much as possible. The only way a company is able to reduce their costs as much as possible when dealing with nuclear waste, is to overstep the line and then adjust their cost-cutting techniques so that it borders on that line.
Government regulation won't work, since governments core values are to maximize their own survival, and this is primarily faciliated by aligning themselves with profit-maximizing legislation for for-profit organizations.
You could argue that they don't have to walk the line, and can avoid mistakes, but considering what a wonderful service I'm getting from British Gas right now, I definitely do not want nuclear energy in their "competent" hands.
Install NFS/Samba or whatever, mount a network drive from a NAS to it and then install Logitech's SqueezeCentre software so that the Logitech Duet can play tracks from your NAS rather than a PC.
Nice one, I like it:)
Since they're married, then it's okay. Damn, so all this time, the largest demographic of people I thought were actually commiting rape, weren't actually carrying out rape, they were just forcing the other person to have sex with them. Ohhhh..
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r159.pdf
Women are most likely to be sexually attacked by men they know in some way, most
often partners (32%) or acquaintances (22%). Current partners (at the time of the attack)
were responsible for 45% of rapes reported
I'm not really sure how well you're paraphrasing my statement when you say:
I'm not so certain that these people are the, to paraphrase from your statement, "useless, mentally disturbed" individuals that you seem convinced that are. If you check the background of the term mental health (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_health) you'll find that within medical circles mental health problems are very common and also is something that needs to be addressed in all areas of society.
Also I specifically argued that they should not be locked up:
Now, while I agree that those that abuse children SHOULD be caught and punished for their crimes. But to counter-argue your main point, being that as men, we're programmed to find the youngest females, I would have to disagree. Impregnating girls under the age of 16 (maybe 15 depending on where you are) I should think will significantly reduce the chances of my offspring's survival, simply because I don't think girls that young are physically or emotionally mature enough to bear, raise and support children and provide them with higher chances of survival than a woman who is more in her prime.
I'm not necessarily saying that it's alright to provide personal information of its users, but how bad are paedophiles comparitively really?
To be honest, I think paedophiles are the worst offender, far worse than terrorists. At leasts terrorists can be looked at in a positive light, i.e. freedom fighters. What good have paedophiles ever done? You can't even play devil's advocate and say that they're doing anything good.
Yes I know my argument is ignoring all specifics of the two types of people. Let me address that, I believe paedophiles have mental health problems, meaning they need medical treatment and not imprisonment. However, the number of paedophiles and rapists who live in our society and never get caught, I reckon, is far far higher than most believe. I do believe something needs to be done to address the issue.
Well, I ain't moving to the scum-sucking monopoly, BT- and I'm willing to drop Virgin since they don't even provide broadband in my area.
I'm gonna get a 3G subscription and stick with that. Might get slower speeds, but I don't mind not downloading ridiculous amounts of media, and at least 3G promotes competition, and is a way out of getting tied into these infrastructure-based monopolies.
See, I like this one. From what you've just said, it's already quite safe to assume that you don't have kids.
As ANY parent will tell you, you don't base decisions on where you live by how much time you save by reducing your commute. You choose where you live on things like where the best opportunity for schools are. Also, the closer to school, the closer your kids are to their friends and the easier it is for them to get there.
Not to mention, you don't want to be living in the corporate centre of a city with your family, which is most likely where an IT company would set-up. It's bloody expensive, and not usually a safe environment for your kids to grow up in.
So, the original poster's argument is right on. Anyone a bit older will more often than not, have their non-work time open-source contributions go straight out the window, even if it is something they would really like to do.
Ok mr. fallacy- exactly where you get your statistics from, I don't know, but let's take one example from wikipedia:
For the fourth quarter of 2004, according to OECD, (source Employment Outlook 2005 ISBN 92-64-01045-9), normalized unemployment for men aged 25 to 54 was 4.6% in the USA and 7.4% in France. At the same time and for the same population the employment rate (number of workers divided by population) was 86.3% in the USA and 86.7% in France.
This example shows that the unemployment rate is 60% higher in France than in the USA, yet more people in this demographic are working in France than in the USA, which is counterintuitive if it is expected that the unemployment rate reflects the health of the labor market.
This is because the definition of unemployment relies on the distinction between inactive and unemployed, a quite subjective measure which can be easily manipulated by policies that do not change the situation of the labor market, but decrease unemployment by shifting people from unemployed to inactive status. Not to mention:
- Did it ever occur to you that we're taking in the refugees and un-skilled workers that are fleeing their homes because of the US's war-mongering drive to use other people's resources to facilitate their own economic growth.
- Add to that a far better welfare service in the EU and the argument above suddenly starts to make sense.
Let's not even go into inflation, or whatever else you were implying.
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And so proponents of nuclear energy are seriously considering trusting companies like BP with nuclear power?
Nuts..
And for UK buyers but with Linux-preinstalled: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167153
lol
:P
actually dontzap doesn't work in 9.10 any more.. they've moved it to System->Preferences->Keyboard!
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/DontZap
kinda funny.. or ironic..
cool, can we now have ctrl+alt+backspace to restart the xserver back in x.org please?
one of the main arguments was that we could use the never-working sysrq+blahblha combination to do the same thing..
Men are the testing area :P Y chromosome is the development brach, X is the stable?
first thing that popped into my head was that chrome os could default to google's dns for lookups
this could be just another way to market chrome os netbooks as faster for web surfing
any Limewire-like apps out there which support encryption?
The number of times I've "borrowed" wi-fi from a neighbour, I felt obliged to leave mine open for everyone to use.
:)
I did however install the Tomato firmware on my router, and use it's brilliant QoS to limit all machines but my own to 56k connections
"But as well as being one of Microsoft's few new billion-dollar hits" huh? who says? im not even going to bother googling the stats on that one, but since ive never heard of SharePoint before, sounds like a bad marketing ploy to me..
Man, nuclear energy is bad.
With the privatization of energy companies, nuclear energy is a disaster waiting to happen.
It's a matter of how the core-values of for-profit organisations manifest themselves in the market, which is essentially to maximize profits.
All companies attempting to maximize profits will reduce costs as much as possible. The only way a company is able to reduce their costs as much as possible when dealing with nuclear waste, is to overstep the line and then adjust their cost-cutting techniques so that it borders on that line.
Government regulation won't work, since governments core values are to maximize their own survival, and this is primarily faciliated by aligning themselves with profit-maximizing legislation for for-profit organizations.
You could argue that they don't have to walk the line, and can avoid mistakes, but considering what a wonderful service I'm getting from British Gas right now, I definitely do not want nuclear energy in their "competent" hands.
I take it this is for Symbian on Nokia devices, not Symbian on other devices (i.e. Samsung). Hm?
Install NFS/Samba or whatever, mount a network drive from a NAS to it and then install Logitech's SqueezeCentre software so that the Logitech Duet can play tracks from your NAS rather than a PC.
I'm not necessarily saying that it's alright to provide personal information of its users, but how bad are paedophiles comparitively really? To be honest, I think paedophiles are the worst offender, far worse than terrorists. At leasts terrorists can be looked at in a positive light, i.e. freedom fighters. What good have paedophiles ever done? You can't even play devil's advocate and say that they're doing anything good. Yes I know my argument is ignoring all specifics of the two types of people. Let me address that, I believe paedophiles have mental health problems, meaning they need medical treatment and not imprisonment. However, the number of paedophiles and rapists who live in our society and never get caught, I reckon, is far far higher than most believe. I do believe something needs to be done to address the issue.
Well, I ain't moving to the scum-sucking monopoly, BT- and I'm willing to drop Virgin since they don't even provide broadband in my area. I'm gonna get a 3G subscription and stick with that. Might get slower speeds, but I don't mind not downloading ridiculous amounts of media, and at least 3G promotes competition, and is a way out of getting tied into these infrastructure-based monopolies.
ping bbc.co.uk
See, I like this one. From what you've just said, it's already quite safe to assume that you don't have kids. As ANY parent will tell you, you don't base decisions on where you live by how much time you save by reducing your commute. You choose where you live on things like where the best opportunity for schools are. Also, the closer to school, the closer your kids are to their friends and the easier it is for them to get there. Not to mention, you don't want to be living in the corporate centre of a city with your family, which is most likely where an IT company would set-up. It's bloody expensive, and not usually a safe environment for your kids to grow up in. So, the original poster's argument is right on. Anyone a bit older will more often than not, have their non-work time open-source contributions go straight out the window, even if it is something they would really like to do.