But It had to happen because nobody in their right mind thinks that some people are less then human.
Who said the people running the world are in their right mind?:-) History has shown more than one or two maniacs that were in briefly in charge of things. And yes there is plenty of talk of "barbarians" and "savages" to this day. Anyway the real issue is purely economic. The subject of humanity doesn't come up in the boardroom.
Shipping in food at the expense of others isn't fixing this problem, it is making the people dependent on others.
Very much the intentions of the overseas (for them) merchants. I believe they would be quite self sufficient...if so much of the money simply wasn't being stolen.
Now...Back to the subject at hand. I would use the computers to figure out the next World Series win for the Cubs. Whaddya think? Do we have enough power on the grid? Or will it just cause another Northeast blackout?
Sorry 'bout the mods. Don't take this wrongly, ok? But what you seem to reflect is very common thinking still. I believe we need to realize there is no other side of the planet anymore. Everything is just around the corner now. We leave a piece of ourselves everywhere we go and we always bring something back. The differences amongst us will dissolve over time. Let's embrace it. Jeeze, I hope that doesn't become a poor excuse of an ad campaign for Burger King or Gap Jeans to take over the whole world now
We'll put our 5,000 computers on the grid and break it in an hour. There's almost no sport in it anymore. It's like hunting sqirrels with an elephant gun.
That's excellent. It's like getting a free Rubiks Cube every so often. So yes let them take all the time they want to get it "right"...again and again and again.
After a little poking around, I found what looks like the stuff they put on the nets. It was under their noses all along. And I would venture to think that the they (the Africans) have known about it for a very long time. I'm too lazy to find out how well it controls these guys, something even more neglected in mass media. Nature triumphs the computer again. Okay, now I'm drifting off topic, but it at least I did it seamlessly and gracefully:-)
Actually I'm sure they would love to move to more fertile, profitable areas. Unfortunately, there are others with a different agenda who like to keep them away. Those people are getting much more outside help than the starving kids. Let's not forget the economics of the arms trade with african warlords and corrupt tinpot generals who are, of course, "good for our interests". I'm also aware that basic sanitation and clean water, both cheap and easy to achieve with the right thinking, will take care of probably a full 90% of the problem. Their old traditions are responsible for much of it. The parent's link lead me to this. It has to be just the tip of the iceberg. So the chemical insecticides are not needed. There are far too many unexplored, easily accessable natural solutions.
Outsiders really aren't interested in Africa's problems, unless it interferes with "free trade". This will be solved by the Africans with relatively little outside help. It's just the usual numbers game.
Unfortunately, most of the people killed are considered somewhat "less than" human. It goes a long way to explain the lack of interest, while other diseases are more politically expedient. The profit margins just aren't there.
Up to a full megawatt or more for sixteen weeks. How much does that cost where you live? Still, it's a great bang for the buck. So how long would it take with a beowolf cluster of these?
Then we wouldn't even have to vote, the machine would already know who won.
That's a no-go. Reading the result will change them. Kinda like what happened in Florida:-) Proof that you can do quantum processing with pencil and paper without all these electronical contraptions.
Absolutely not. This was the way it was designed from the beginning. And for those people who designed it, it is working perfectly, except now they're starting to draw unwanted attention with their greed. So, we'll get some phoney "reform", but it will basically remain business as usual. There will be no real roll-back. Those who believe there will be are the same people who believe we'll get lower prices at the store if they could only stop the shoplifters, or that your insurance rates will go down if they eliminate fraud. This here is nothing but an early election campaign. You could almost say it is aimed directly at Slashdot. "I promise broadband in every basement."
The source code was released under the GNU General Public License, and thus many people submitted CD information believing that the contributions, too, would remain freely available to others. Later, however, the project was sold by Kan, Scherf, and Toal to a high tech consumer electronics manufacturer called Escient.
The license conditions were changed and it was no longer a free service, requiring commercial developers to pay an "initial fee", as well as a license fee based on the usage of the servers and support. It also included terms that many programmers felt were unacceptable: no other similar database (such as freedb) could be accessed in addition to CDDB, and the CDDB logo was required to be displayed while the database was being accessed.
In March 2001, CDDB, now renamed Gracenote, banned all unlicensed applications from accessing their database. New licenses for CDDB1 (the original version of CDDB) were not available anymore, as they wanted programmers to switch to CDDB2 (a new version incompatible with CDDB1 and hence with freedb).
After the commercialization of CDDB as Gracenote, many media player applications switched to freedb, but continued to refer to the service as "CDDB" as a generic term. It is still common to see many applications refer to CDDB in their documentation when in fact the application is using freedb.
So, what we will get if the same thing happens will be a "free-wiki"...maybe. Your silly attempts at disparagement aside, corporate takeover of wiki will not be a good thing.
Find a different chairperson. This one would let the corps in and ruin it. Remember what happened to CDDB. Expect the same thing to happen here.
Donations continue to pour in, the staff is minimal, and the Wikipedia brand is too powerful to simply disappear into the ether if money ever does get tight.
There you have it. The brand name is what the corps want to exploit. Well if they get their hands on it, then it wil be time to create an alternative based purely on the community. Because this one will become just another "Clear Channel" of web based encyclopedias.
3M or some other big company will just take your idea and mass produce it cheaper than you could.
Yes but they wouldn't have the exclusivity they have now, and their version might be real junk, and their is nothing we can do about as long as IP law is on the books. Without that barrier, we can all build on it and improve it without fear of litigation.
Oops. There you go. What more proof do you need to see that if somebody wants to squat on "intellectual property", somebody else will come up with the same idea. IP law is absolutely, positively unnecessary and only impedes progress.
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PDF alert, Okay? Now I have to crash my browser because the download won't finish.
But It had to happen because nobody in their right mind thinks that some people are less then human.
:-) History has shown more than one or two maniacs that were in briefly in charge of things. And yes there is plenty of talk of "barbarians" and "savages" to this day. Anyway the real issue is purely economic. The subject of humanity doesn't come up in the boardroom.
Who said the people running the world are in their right mind?
...Donald Trump even complained...
He complains a lot worse about Rosie O'Donnell. What does that make her? Besides a big, fa...Oh, I can't.
Shipping in food at the expense of others isn't fixing this problem, it is making the people dependent on others.
Very much the intentions of the overseas (for them) merchants. I believe they would be quite self sufficient...if so much of the money simply wasn't being stolen.
Now...Back to the subject at hand. I would use the computers to figure out the next World Series win for the Cubs. Whaddya think? Do we have enough power on the grid? Or will it just cause another Northeast blackout?
Sorry 'bout the mods. Don't take this wrongly, ok? But what you seem to reflect is very common thinking still. I believe we need to realize there is no other side of the planet anymore. Everything is just around the corner now. We leave a piece of ourselves everywhere we go and we always bring something back. The differences amongst us will dissolve over time. Let's embrace it. Jeeze, I hope that doesn't become a poor excuse of an ad campaign for Burger King or Gap Jeans to take over the whole world now
Heh, don't be so quick to dismiss the thought :-) Something much worse could arise from the ashes, so to speak.
We'll put our 5,000 computers on the grid and break it in an hour. There's almost no sport in it anymore. It's like hunting sqirrels with an elephant gun.
That's excellent. It's like getting a free Rubiks Cube every so often. So yes let them take all the time they want to get it "right"...again and again and again.
After a little poking around, I found what looks like the stuff they put on the nets. It was under their noses all along. And I would venture to think that the they (the Africans) have known about it for a very long time. I'm too lazy to find out how well it controls these guys, something even more neglected in mass media. Nature triumphs the computer again. Okay, now I'm drifting off topic, but it at least I did it seamlessly and gracefully :-)
this Mark Cuban guy?
Actually I'm sure they would love to move to more fertile, profitable areas. Unfortunately, there are others with a different agenda who like to keep them away. Those people are getting much more outside help than the starving kids. Let's not forget the economics of the arms trade with african warlords and corrupt tinpot generals who are, of course, "good for our interests". I'm also aware that basic sanitation and clean water, both cheap and easy to achieve with the right thinking, will take care of probably a full 90% of the problem. Their old traditions are responsible for much of it. The parent's link lead me to this. It has to be just the tip of the iceberg. So the chemical insecticides are not needed. There are far too many unexplored, easily accessable natural solutions.
Outsiders really aren't interested in Africa's problems, unless it interferes with "free trade". This will be solved by the Africans with relatively little outside help. It's just the usual numbers game.
I've heard that gin is a good mosquito repellent.
Ignoring ACs makes you a good listener... not.
She didn't hit "Preview" first?
Unfortunately, most of the people killed are considered somewhat "less than" human. It goes a long way to explain the lack of interest, while other diseases are more politically expedient. The profit margins just aren't there.
Up to a full megawatt or more for sixteen weeks. How much does that cost where you live? Still, it's a great bang for the buck. So how long would it take with a beowolf cluster of these?
Then we wouldn't even have to vote, the machine would already know who won.
:-) Proof that you can do quantum processing with pencil and paper without all these electronical contraptions.
That's a no-go. Reading the result will change them. Kinda like what happened in Florida
Will big drug companies be able to use this and keep the prices low for the final product?
And people accuse me of living in a fantasy world...
It's gotten completely turned on it's head.
Absolutely not. This was the way it was designed from the beginning. And for those people who designed it, it is working perfectly, except now they're starting to draw unwanted attention with their greed. So, we'll get some phoney "reform", but it will basically remain business as usual. There will be no real roll-back. Those who believe there will be are the same people who believe we'll get lower prices at the store if they could only stop the shoplifters, or that your insurance rates will go down if they eliminate fraud. This here is nothing but an early election campaign. You could almost say it is aimed directly at Slashdot. "I promise broadband in every basement."
Evidently you don't know what happened.
The source code was released under the GNU General Public License, and thus many people submitted CD information believing that the contributions, too, would remain freely available to others. Later, however, the project was sold by Kan, Scherf, and Toal to a high tech consumer electronics manufacturer called Escient.
The license conditions were changed and it was no longer a free service, requiring commercial developers to pay an "initial fee", as well as a license fee based on the usage of the servers and support. It also included terms that many programmers felt were unacceptable: no other similar database (such as freedb) could be accessed in addition to CDDB, and the CDDB logo was required to be displayed while the database was being accessed.
In March 2001, CDDB, now renamed Gracenote, banned all unlicensed applications from accessing their database. New licenses for CDDB1 (the original version of CDDB) were not available anymore, as they wanted programmers to switch to CDDB2 (a new version incompatible with CDDB1 and hence with freedb).
After the commercialization of CDDB as Gracenote, many media player applications switched to freedb, but continued to refer to the service as "CDDB" as a generic term. It is still common to see many applications refer to CDDB in their documentation when in fact the application is using freedb.
So, what we will get if the same thing happens will be a "free-wiki"...maybe. Your silly attempts at disparagement aside, corporate takeover of wiki will not be a good thing.
Find a different chairperson. This one would let the corps in and ruin it. Remember what happened to CDDB. Expect the same thing to happen here.
Donations continue to pour in, the staff is minimal, and the Wikipedia brand is too powerful to simply disappear into the ether if money ever does get tight.
There you have it. The brand name is what the corps want to exploit. Well if they get their hands on it, then it wil be time to create an alternative based purely on the community. Because this one will become just another "Clear Channel" of web based encyclopedias.
Maybe the latter is why Congress should indeed pass some new rules.
New rules are the last thing we need. It's time to rid of the old ones.
Why invent?
Because...we need things.
3M or some other big company will just take your idea and mass produce it cheaper than you could.
Yes but they wouldn't have the exclusivity they have now, and their version might be real junk, and their is nothing we can do about as long as IP law is on the books. Without that barrier, we can all build on it and improve it without fear of litigation.
Oops. There you go. What more proof do you need to see that if somebody wants to squat on "intellectual property", somebody else will come up with the same idea. IP law is absolutely, positively unnecessary and only impedes progress.
Abolishment! It's the only way. Silly question.