More efficient commerce isn't an acceptable answer.
A free people don't have to verify themselves to their government and the government has no intrinsic right to demand that of a person.
Sure they do, they need to make sure you're not some sort of psycho child molester who is walking the streets. Clearly you don't advocate keeping such criminally insane people like child molesters off the street, don't you? I mean, think of the children.
If even communism is still around after 160 years, I'd imagine that Twitter might last for a long time. It might be useless, but at least it isn't actively evil.
Yeah, that Marx was a real spawn of Satan.
Lookit - unless they actually find some way to make real money off of Twitter (actual profit not just venture marketing), those servers are going to be consistently overloaded.
Is it just me or does Twitter seem to be the most unreliable of all social networking sites? I mean, between these outages and the "fail whale" that appears every day or so, can't they get some decent servers? I mean, even Facebook which has way more people consuming way more bandwidth doesn't go down near this often.
Probably because they realize as soon as this fad passes, pretty much the only value they'll have are those upgraded servers.
Lets all take a cue from Woodward and Bernstein, who all these J school grads aspire to emulate - follow the money. These groups are being funded by people with agendas, just like the media they purport to study/critique.
Indeed, though that doesn't necessarily mean the investigation isn't true; a classic example is Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' where an avowed socialist wrote about the exploitation committed in Chicago's meat-packing district and how adopting a socialist philosophy was the only way help the working man in the US.
The latter was pretty roundly dismissed but there were a good number of regulations implemented because of that initial investigation and publication.
And you do this how, exactly? Last few places I've lived you have your choice between any one of one company for broadband service.
Exactly. Unless you like growing your own crops, milking your own cows, smelting your own iron, you'll unavoidably have to deal with the monetary economy and do your part to finance those CEOs - though, really, that's how it always worked and you'd be a fool to think that anything would change it.
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Process:
Build PC using CPU, motherboard, heatsink, and case. Attach bike pedals to hand crank generator. Attach generator to UPS. Pedal your way to "greener" computing and a healthier life.
PS) I fscking HATE the term "green." Meh.
Here's the materials list for an actual Green PC:
1 slab of wood 8-12 marbles 1 chisel
Process:
Cut several parallel grooves into the slab of wood with the chisel. Places marbles in grooves. Use your "green computer" without worrying about power consumption or danger to the environment.
Anecdotes are not data, but I've never seen an airplane crash, and yet I've seen two fireball meteors (those are the ones that are big enough to make it well into the atmosphere and leave smoke trails), one daytime, one nighttime, both in the LA basin. And I've never seen a bomb explode (that I didn't make as a kid, I mean). Bombs are pretty rare. Meteors are quite common. How common? You can buy them on eBay for some dollars per ounce. The vast majority burn up in the atmosphere, but the larger ones do hit the earth pretty frequently. Most of the meteorites (the ones that hit the earth) are too small to do any damage upon impact. However, I would speculate that there's serious aerodynamic breaking that happens below 30,000 ft, so that even small ones might pack a punch at cruising altitude.
You may want to check this out (a report for the NTSB on TWA 800, I believe):
The conclusion is a little different from TFA, as it surmises that there should be a 'hit' every 50,000 years or so.
Really, if you think about it one would think there'd be a good amount of anecdotal evidence of pilots seeing meteorites shooting by in-flight (as they have pretty amazing visibility up there), if that last bit of atmosphere made such a difference.
I am also an astronomer. On any given day, many tens of thousands of meteors enter our atmosphere. These were extensively studied using radio scatter off of meteor trains, and they have been used for meteor burst communications. Nearly all of these burn up in the atmosphere before hitting the earth. Common sense tells you that if thousands of these fell to earth each hour, then we'd all have holes in our roofs.
I agree that a meteor could have hit flight 447, but it is extremely unlikely. What much more likely event could have caused the 6 second burst of light? The same thing that brought down Flight 800: an explosion. The two most likely sources of an explosion? The fuel tank (as in flight 800), or a bomb.
Most people who fit in that previous category I mentioned don't use graphics-intensive games. Or use photoshop (which costs how much to purchase now, anyway?) - and, really, my suspicion is that google docs probably ought to suffice for most of the needs people have of word processors.
The number of people that want to do only those things is so small its a moot point.
Uh, you sure about that?
I know a great deal of people who use their computers only for pretty much just IM, web, and *maybe* at the most extreme, viewing photos from a digital camera or playing music.
Most likely if you switched them from Windows to MacOS/Ubuntu/Solaris/Android/Whatever, they probably wouldn't notice a difference if still mostly everything worked the same in those realms.
With Ubuntu now in a "just works" state on most hardware
Not really true, unfortunately. I know this is just anecdotal but I've a few friends who were just getting into linux and they had nothing but trouble with installing on recent laptops. They're pretty smart folks and somewhat tech-savvy, so I can't imagine someone's mom or grandmother trying to do the same.
The individual can take direct action - he can organize, push his agenda forward. The same methods that the individual can use to push agendas for corporations (boycotts, PR, etc.) are applicable to governmental bodies in western-style republics.
As a citizen of the USSR, they did indeed have influence - minuscule, perhaps, but certainly more than the average Hungarian.
If one does nothing, he is still complicit; the leaders of a nation are accountable to those being governed no matter what the government - if that popular base is entirely eroded, the regime cannot last.
So you were BOTH innocents, and we have no evidence that HE hated YOU, but evidence that YOU hated HIM. Yup, still a jerk.
Reply when you get a clue, AC. Unless you've lived under a true totalitarian regime you've really no place to talk - and I'm afraid Obamanation doesn't count.
It's completely understandable that someone would loathe the citizens of the country that invaded and controlled his own, as a puppet state.
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Sure they do, they need to make sure you're not some sort of psycho child molester who is walking the streets. Clearly you don't advocate keeping such criminally insane people like child molesters off the street, don't you? I mean, think of the children.
So a wiki that's actually reliable and trustworthy? Unpossible; clearly you're a liar, AC.
Yeah, that Marx was a real spawn of Satan.
Lookit - unless they actually find some way to make real money off of Twitter (actual profit not just venture marketing), those servers are going to be consistently overloaded.
Ah... classic example of "-1 Shut up, I don't agree with you"
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That's what you get for bringing up politics on
Possibly, if you were busy coding for them at the time and a bus owned by the company smashed through your cube, rendering them liable. ;)
Because it's part of new media and as such also part of the new economy; that is, for the cynical, selling hype with grade A marketing. ;)
Probably because they realize as soon as this fad passes, pretty much the only value they'll have are those upgraded servers.
Indeed, though that doesn't necessarily mean the investigation isn't true; a classic example is Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' where an avowed socialist wrote about the exploitation committed in Chicago's meat-packing district and how adopting a socialist philosophy was the only way help the working man in the US.
The latter was pretty roundly dismissed but there were a good number of regulations implemented because of that initial investigation and publication.
But the company that gives you that paycheck does, and that's all that really matters. :)
Exactly. Unless you like growing your own crops, milking your own cows, smelting your own iron, you'll unavoidably have to deal with the monetary economy and do your part to finance those CEOs - though, really, that's how it always worked and you'd be a fool to think that anything would change it.
Sadly, telnet isn't installed by default in windows 7.
So kind of like freshmeat?
Here's the materials list for an actual Green PC:
1 slab of wood
8-12 marbles
1 chisel
Process:
Cut several parallel grooves into the slab of wood with the chisel. Places marbles in grooves. Use your "green computer" without worrying about power consumption or danger to the environment.
You may want to check this out (a report for the NTSB on TWA 800, I believe):
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/Cassidy.pdf
The conclusion is a little different from TFA, as it surmises that there should be a 'hit' every 50,000 years or so.
Really, if you think about it one would think there'd be a good amount of anecdotal evidence of pilots seeing meteorites shooting by in-flight (as they have pretty amazing visibility up there), if that last bit of atmosphere made such a difference.
Or just paint your box neon green with blinky green LEDs!!!
That is to say, if you view that the proving of string theory to be true a positive step.
So they're pretty much like everywhere else, then.
Most people who fit in that previous category I mentioned don't use graphics-intensive games. Or use photoshop (which costs how much to purchase now, anyway?) - and, really, my suspicion is that google docs probably ought to suffice for most of the needs people have of word processors.
Uh, you sure about that?
I know a great deal of people who use their computers only for pretty much just IM, web, and *maybe* at the most extreme, viewing photos from a digital camera or playing music.
Most likely if you switched them from Windows to MacOS/Ubuntu/Solaris/Android/Whatever, they probably wouldn't notice a difference if still mostly everything worked the same in those realms.
Not really true, unfortunately. I know this is just anecdotal but I've a few friends who were just getting into linux and they had nothing but trouble with installing on recent laptops.
They're pretty smart folks and somewhat tech-savvy, so I can't imagine someone's mom or grandmother trying to do the same.
The individual can take direct action - he can organize, push his agenda forward. The same methods that the individual can use to push agendas for corporations (boycotts, PR, etc.) are applicable to governmental bodies in western-style republics.
As a citizen of the USSR, they did indeed have influence - minuscule, perhaps, but certainly more than the average Hungarian.
If one does nothing, he is still complicit; the leaders of a nation are accountable to those being governed no matter what the government - if that popular base is entirely eroded, the regime cannot last.
Reply when you get a clue, AC. Unless you've lived under a true totalitarian regime you've really no place to talk - and I'm afraid Obamanation doesn't count.
It's completely understandable that someone would loathe the citizens of the country that invaded and controlled his own, as a puppet state.
Oh no! How am I going to get my take out delivered now? :(