Re:When do we start terraforming?
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We've already got the how to turn your atmosphere into a greenhouse technology down pat. We should have no trouble at all warming Mars up to liquid water temperatures in no time at all.
I'll take your statement at face value, but what are the contractual terms with OEMs in 2005? MS' practices in 1988 are not relevent to their practices today.
If he knowingly set up his site with links to copyrighted material, then he obviously facilitated the copyright infringement
Using this logic, anyone who has ever published instructions on how to build a bomb can be held liable for last week's subway bombings in London. After all, it is obvious that they are facilitating terrorism.
You must feel like Microsoft: everyone else is running faster, more powerful and reliable technology, while you're stuck on your sluggish, unresponsive junk.
True, we 56k users are stuck, but unlike MS, we are not under the delusion that our connections are superior to the various broadband options out there.
Be thankful that you even have DSL. Real rural Americans have no broadband options available at all. To us, hopping in the car, going into work, downloading to CD/Flash, and driving back home is the closest we get to broadband.
The obvious answer is that it is an order of magnitude easier to port legacy, core business applications from Unix to Linux. This wasn't some startup with no existing infrastructure.
When making a decision to change OS platforms, you must consider the cost in moving legacy applications over.
Of course we all know that European corporations would never even consider aiding repressive regimes in censoring the internet or other forms of speech. After all, they have no experience in such things.
Given the stellar record the Soviets had in managing their share of 'liberated' Europe post-WWII, it can still be argued that fewer Japanese civilians died as a result of Nagasaki than had the SU been involved in the 'peace'.
There are two ways in which people typically are motivated to change the government over them.
One is when the people are so oppressed and/or starving that they have nothing to lose by starting a revolution (peaceful or otherwise). You can't take away something from someone who has nothing.
The other way is to raise the standard of living for the average person. When the overall standard of living raises to some level above "where is my next meal coming from?", the people have more time/energy to expend on ousting the oppressive government.
By trading with China, the latter is the goal.
Note: there is the 3rd option of "find an excuse for the worlds only superpower to liberate you", but that does not apply to nations that control nuclear weapons.
I think part of the problem is that even if not dropping the bombs resulted in more casualties, they would (presumably) have been mostly *military* casualties.
In WWII, Germany sustained roughly 3.25 million military and 2.5 million civilian casualties. About 550,000 of the civilian casualties were attributed to air raids. Meaning 2 million Germans died in the crossfire or starvation during the Allied invasion of Germany.
An invasion of the Japanese mainland almost certainly would have produced a silimar ratio of civilian to military casualties. In the end, more civilians likely would have died as a result of a more civilized invasion than by using the Bombs.
MS need not strong arm in this case. Assuming that Standard XP and XP N are offered by MS at the same price. It is a simple economic decision for the PC manufacturers.
One platform to install/support is cheaper than two.
Odds are that the warranty will expire long before something breaks on the printer. At that point, it will be far cheaper to buy a new printer than to have a repair performed.
<insert any type of product here> manufacturers seek to produce their products at the lowest possible cost. They outsource to overseas contractors who in-turn outsource to even lower cost labor in the emerging manufacturing economies of Asia.
You ever seen John Daly play a round of golf? The true definition of a sport follows:
Scoring is objective (none of this averaging judges scores crap)
There must be a ball involved.
It must always be played with a team.
Wheels cannot be used by any part of normal game equipment.
So, what this guy is saying is that being politically correct is more important than good scientific procedure & argument.
If the researcher wants the funding to continue for his/her research, then yes, being politically correct is more important. Publish one politically incorrect study, and the funding for the next research project suddenly becomes very scarce.
I'm not saying it's right, but that is the reality of most research in this day and age.
You've seen anonymous cash cards already; you may even have received them before. They're better known as gift cards
They're also known as cash, money, coins, etc and predate magnetic stripes on pieces of platic by thousands of years. And they aren't subject to expiration dates and can be used at any retailer.
Why does anyone believe that the powers-that-be simply will nat pass a law (or issue executive order) that requires libraries to turn over the identity of the anonymous card holder?
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We've already got the how to turn your atmosphere into a greenhouse technology down pat. We should have no trouble at all warming Mars up to liquid water temperatures in no time at all.
I'll take your statement at face value, but what are the contractual terms with OEMs in 2005? MS' practices in 1988 are not relevent to their practices today.
Using this logic, anyone who has ever published instructions on how to build a bomb can be held liable for last week's subway bombings in London. After all, it is obvious that they are facilitating terrorism.
True, we 56k users are stuck, but unlike MS, we are not under the delusion that our connections are superior to the various broadband options out there.
Be thankful that you even have DSL. Real rural Americans have no broadband options available at all. To us, hopping in the car, going into work, downloading to CD/Flash, and driving back home is the closest we get to broadband.
The typical blog already reads like it was wriiten by a 3 year old Neanderthal. Why should this one be any different?
When you wrote to the MEPs involved, you obviously forgot to include the number of the well-funded Swiss account that you should have set up for them.
When making a decision to change OS platforms, you must consider the cost in moving legacy applications over.
Dude, get a girlfriend. We all know what causes hairly palms.
It's the main weapon of a space station.
After all, Intel is going to be in Apple's soon (good), but their trade practices are Microsoft-like (bad).
I long of the good ole days when we could easily tell the good guys from the bad.
Of course we all know that European corporations would never even consider aiding repressive regimes in censoring the internet or other forms of speech. After all, they have no experience in such things.
Pot, meet the Kettle
In 1978 everyone had to have a CB radio. In 2000 everyone had to be in an IRC chatroom. In 2005 everyone has to have a blog. Same sh*t, different box.
Given the stellar record the Soviets had in managing their share of 'liberated' Europe post-WWII, it can still be argued that fewer Japanese civilians died as a result of Nagasaki than had the SU been involved in the 'peace'.
There are two ways in which people typically are motivated to change the government over them.
One is when the people are so oppressed and/or starving that they have nothing to lose by starting a revolution (peaceful or otherwise). You can't take away something from someone who has nothing.
The other way is to raise the standard of living for the average person. When the overall standard of living raises to some level above "where is my next meal coming from?", the people have more time/energy to expend on ousting the oppressive government.
By trading with China, the latter is the goal.
Note: there is the 3rd option of "find an excuse for the worlds only superpower to liberate you", but that does not apply to nations that control nuclear weapons.
In WWII, Germany sustained roughly 3.25 million military and 2.5 million civilian casualties. About 550,000 of the civilian casualties were attributed to air raids. Meaning 2 million Germans died in the crossfire or starvation during the Allied invasion of Germany.
An invasion of the Japanese mainland almost certainly would have produced a silimar ratio of civilian to military casualties. In the end, more civilians likely would have died as a result of a more civilized invasion than by using the Bombs.
Would 1.00 Euro be cheaper enough? You can't have any semblence of a free economy with the government arbitrarily setting prices.
One platform to install/support is cheaper than two.
All the blogs on the web could go away tomorrow and
a) very few people would notice
b) even fewer would care
Odds are that the warranty will expire long before something breaks on the printer. At that point, it will be far cheaper to buy a new printer than to have a repair performed.
<insert any type of product here> manufacturers seek to produce their products at the lowest possible cost. They outsource to overseas contractors who in-turn outsource to even lower cost labor in the emerging manufacturing economies of Asia.
You ever seen John Daly play a round of golf? The true definition of a sport follows:
Scoring is objective (none of this averaging judges scores crap)
There must be a ball involved.
It must always be played with a team.
Wheels cannot be used by any part of normal game equipment.
If the researcher wants the funding to continue for his/her research, then yes, being politically correct is more important. Publish one politically incorrect study, and the funding for the next research project suddenly becomes very scarce.
I'm not saying it's right, but that is the reality of most research in this day and age.
They're also known as cash, money, coins, etc and predate magnetic stripes on pieces of platic by thousands of years. And they aren't subject to expiration dates and can be used at any retailer.
Why does anyone believe that the powers-that-be simply will nat pass a law (or issue executive order) that requires libraries to turn over the identity of the anonymous card holder?