Merit is absolutely useless. All that matters is whether you look good.
Of course this is not true, merit is very useful. If it weren't for the people who actually knew what they were doing, the world wouldn't be what it is today. Perhaps it is also true that lying, cheating, and other unethical practices are useful for an individual to advance oneself within a corporation, however it is very useful for a corporation to have employees that actually work.
Enron had a surplus of unethical board members/employees, and it destroyed them. Other corporations survive with many unethical employees because they still get the job done--take any oil company for example. And then there are all of the smaller companies that succeed on merit and merit alone.
For example: "The consensus sneered at continental drift for fifty years. The theory was most vigorously denied by the great names of geology-until 1961, when it began to seem as if the sea floors were spreading. The result: it took the consensus fifty years to acknowledge what any schoolchild sees."
What the school children saw was not evidence enough of continental drift. Only once we found substantial evidence of such did the consensus agree that continents were spreading.
Everyone used to think the Earth was flat. But before you had evidence showing otherwise, why wouldn't the consensus agree?
It's a fallacy to assume that just because something you believed beforehand turned out to be true meant that you knew it was true all along. If you didn't have evidence beforehand, then whether or not you thought it was true was irrelevent.
A Chinese research institution demonstrated the safety of their test reactor against meltdown by shutting off the coolant.
Similar in concept to inventor of the pistol who put a gun to his head, flipped the "safety" switch, and pulled the trigger. He survived, but sadly, many of those who followed him did not.
What about superior support for CSS3, XHTML2, XForms, etc.? Or is that a part of "Gecko" so it's not Firefox's concern?
I might be a web designer, but I also realize how much these features would benefit users. CSS3 makes me crap my pants. If Firefox was the only browser to support it, without a doubt I'd make my personal site give Firefox users a better experience. And the same way I do with CSS2, give all the sites I make look a little bit more refined with a good browser.
In addition, I want Firefox to index every page I visit until I clear it, by default. If information is downloaded to my computer, there is no reason why my 250gb hard drive shouldn't use 1% of its storage to remember it. If I want to find a site I've visited recently, it should be easy. Browsing through history is next to impossible when you visit upwards of hundreds of sites a day.
If I want a site not to be indexed, it should hash the URL, so no one can tell what sites I'm hiding.
I once tried to find a site I had visited recently. I wasn't sure if it was a few days before, or a week before. I searched my history endlessly, and I finally gave up. Google couldn't help me since I remembered so little about the page (it was a photoblog). It sucked because I knew the technology existed to let me find the site I was looking for, but it wasn't implemented.
Also, Firefox should keep recent pages in active memory the same way Opera does, so when you hit the back button, the switch happens instantaneously. This is something I never would have thought about until I used Opera.
Firefox is the best browser, and it's rightfully winning the battle, finally. It makes me happy that it's only going to get better.
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But not transcendental. After all, Jesus can make a stone that even he couldn't move.
I won't believe this site works as claimed until I see it on vdash.org.
A 2 am post about a drug to replace sleep, now isn't that appropriate!
Merit is absolutely useless. All that matters is whether you look good.
Of course this is not true, merit is very useful. If it weren't for the people who actually knew what they were doing, the world wouldn't be what it is today. Perhaps it is also true that lying, cheating, and other unethical practices are useful for an individual to advance oneself within a corporation, however it is very useful for a corporation to have employees that actually work.
Enron had a surplus of unethical board members/employees, and it destroyed them. Other corporations survive with many unethical employees because they still get the job done--take any oil company for example. And then there are all of the smaller companies that succeed on merit and merit alone.
you mean MyFace?
So Greenland will become green after all.
The illogic of this hurts my mind.
For example: "The consensus sneered at continental drift for fifty years. The theory was most vigorously denied by the great names of geology-until 1961, when it began to seem as if the sea floors were spreading. The result: it took the consensus fifty years to acknowledge what any schoolchild sees."
What the school children saw was not evidence enough of continental drift. Only once we found substantial evidence of such did the consensus agree that continents were spreading.
Everyone used to think the Earth was flat. But before you had evidence showing otherwise, why wouldn't the consensus agree?
It's a fallacy to assume that just because something you believed beforehand turned out to be true meant that you knew it was true all along. If you didn't have evidence beforehand, then whether or not you thought it was true was irrelevent.
Yes, but it's a BS degree
Come now, critics. Truth is subjective. Wikipedia is as good as it gets (to me).
A Chinese research institution demonstrated the safety of their test reactor against meltdown by shutting off the coolant.
Similar in concept to inventor of the pistol who put a gun to his head, flipped the "safety" switch, and pulled the trigger. He survived, but sadly, many of those who followed him did not.
Why don't they just use a PDA equipped with wireless network-clogging ability to disable all wireless networks?
What about superior support for CSS3, XHTML2, XForms, etc.? Or is that a part of "Gecko" so it's not Firefox's concern? I might be a web designer, but I also realize how much these features would benefit users. CSS3 makes me crap my pants. If Firefox was the only browser to support it, without a doubt I'd make my personal site give Firefox users a better experience. And the same way I do with CSS2, give all the sites I make look a little bit more refined with a good browser. In addition, I want Firefox to index every page I visit until I clear it, by default. If information is downloaded to my computer, there is no reason why my 250gb hard drive shouldn't use 1% of its storage to remember it. If I want to find a site I've visited recently, it should be easy. Browsing through history is next to impossible when you visit upwards of hundreds of sites a day. If I want a site not to be indexed, it should hash the URL, so no one can tell what sites I'm hiding. I once tried to find a site I had visited recently. I wasn't sure if it was a few days before, or a week before. I searched my history endlessly, and I finally gave up. Google couldn't help me since I remembered so little about the page (it was a photoblog). It sucked because I knew the technology existed to let me find the site I was looking for, but it wasn't implemented. Also, Firefox should keep recent pages in active memory the same way Opera does, so when you hit the back button, the switch happens instantaneously. This is something I never would have thought about until I used Opera. Firefox is the best browser, and it's rightfully winning the battle, finally. It makes me happy that it's only going to get better.
Use AIM.