I had this machine that would produce cocaine for me, not that I ever produced the stuff. I just had it in the corner as part of my decor. It made a great coffee table and really matched my drapes. Can you believe they confiscated it?! The nerve! People should only outlaw the cocaine makers, not the machines that just so happen to make nice room decorations.
Thomas Sowell isn't a geek by any stretch of the imagination, he's an economist, and an old one to boot (70 years or so). He makes a lot of sense when he talks about economics, but is terrible when he talks about non-economic social issues. This is one of his poorest articles I've ever read.
For some reason Clippy has managed to become the all-purpose whipping boy to use against Microsoft. After my first encounter with the creature I don't understand why this running gag is continually modded "Funny".
Is it because he's annoying? Well even if he is, there are still three easy opportunities to remove Clippy. The first is on install, where you can customize the installation to remove the "Office Assistant". The second is in Word instself, where you can permenently "Turn off the office assistant". Finally you can temporarily "Hide the office assistant".
Save your mod points for things that are truly worth it. Clippy has had enough.
1. First of all at the initial purchasing of this piece of plastic/paper, the retailer gets straight up cash with no physical loss of goods until possibly months later. In that time the money could be used for all sorts of useful things.
2. People who receive gift certificates feel obligated to use them to their full amount, otherwise they will lose the value of the card. The only problem is few things are exactly worth $20, so the consumer is forced to either pay up their own money for something, or buy something for less than the value of the card.
3. Gift certificates can't be banked or deposited, they can only be storted in some physical location, making them far easier to lose than money.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind buying or receiving gift certificates. They have saved me tons of time buying gifts. But I think it's clear retailers are getting quite a deal out of it.
The only good solution is for the profits of innovation to be shared out more easily.
What exactly does this mean, "share more easily"? Are you saying people that develop new inventions should be forced to divy up their earnings amoungst the "workers" who couldn't see the susceptibility of their own reptitious work? What "sharing profits" really amounts to is "stifling innovation".
[blockquote] hapless users who know nothing about the dangers out there on the net[/blockquote]
I commonly see this defence, the 'protect the ignorant and therefore innocent' defence, and it is no defence at all. They are adults who more than likely didn't read the fine print of whatever it is they installed. Their fault is their own, especially when Spyware is so well documented, as is its removal.
Ignorance does not exempt personal responsibility.
Exactly what constitutional amendment does "the right not to have to deal with this scumware" fall under? People talk about "rights" all the time without even realizing what are, and what are not protected-rights. For example, the "right" to education, and the "right" to healthcare do not exist, except that you are allowed to pursue these things freely without direct inhibition by your fellowman.
I support the injunction, only because our [b]truly[/b] protected right to free speech are being acknowledged. Afterwards I hope they beat the snot out of those malicious spyware companies, but that's beside the point.
Producing a better product isn't good enough. You need a SIGNIFICANTLY better product. For me, ripping even a small ~50 CD collection to ogg isn't worth the marginal benefit, even if it is free. Perhaps if oggs were particularly small, say 10-20% the size of the standard mp3, you would probably see more people flocking to it.
But in the age of $1/gig hard drives, space isn't such a huge issue.
If you can't get a login/password easy, and need a valid email address to confirm registration, try mailinator.com.
They are email accounts that require no passwords, or even any setting up. They are throw away accounts designed to curb spam.
These are the ads that will randomly make you view an advertisement whenever you click on a link. You get a full-page ad and have to click a link to get to the page you originally requested. IGN.com is notorious for using it.
Not too long ago (and even today) gamers were stereotyped as social recluses who couldn't interact beyond the realm of their own computer. But with the internet, multiplayer gaming is common place, spawning catch phrases like netiquette and the establishment of clans and clubs.
Now gamers are purportedly too fat, too skinny, too pasty, or some other unhealthy physical attribute. I hope that DDR represents a small-scale gaming trend where games become more physically intense. Imagine if some of the games out today could be adapted like that.
Or more likely they'll end up in that great Power-Glove graveyard in the sky.
Your assumptions are invalid. The case was not whether or not he should pay for seeds blown on to his crop, but whether he acquired these seeds illegally or not. His crop was about 95% Monsanto wheat. That's why he lost.
You are mistake about the case. It was not whether or not he should pay for seeds blown on to his crop, but whether he acquired these seeds illegally or not.
His crop was about 95% Monsanto wheat. That's why he lost.
The case was not whether or not he should pay for seeds blown on to his crop, but whether he acquired these seeds illegally or not. His crop was about 95% Monsanto wheat. That's why he lost.
Farmer's who buy roundup ready wheat do so because using it is so utterly cheap compared to the alternatives, despite it's premium price. Farmers who signed contracts with Monsanto new all these terms, or should have.
Second, I'm calling your bluff. GM wheat most certainly dose produce more wheat, or the same wheat at lower cost. Care to pull up that mysterious 'research', preferably from a peer reviewed journal?
Third, Vandana is insane. She rejects all biotechnology. In a particuarly absurd example, she rejects golden rice (GM rice fortified with Vitamin A that would prevent hosts of diseases related to Vitamin A deficiencies in the third world). Her solution? We should run out to the forest and eat weeds for our Vitamin A.
The case was not whether or not he should pay for seeds blown on to his crop, but whether he acquired these seeds illegally or not.
His crop was about 95% Monsanto wheat. That's why he lost.
Quite simply a farmer claims tht Monsanto's seeds had spread to his farms without his knowledge. The case was not whether or not he should pay for seeds blown on to his crop, but whether he acquired these seeds illegally or not.
His crop was about 95% Monsanto wheat. That's why he lost.
From bash.org:
@FirebirdGM> I just called my Futureshop and asked them how much a 20 GB Hard drive weighed when it was full with information, compared to when it was empty.
@FirebirdGM> The guy that was on the phone told me that it was only a few pounds difference.
@FirebirdGM> And that's why I don't shop at futureshop.
The media has twisted Congress party to look to the outside world like they are anti market economy when in fact the opposite is true. Anyone who sees the election outcome in India as a leftward shift away from economic reforms has no clue what their talking about.
I don't care if you're from outerspace. If you're going to say that the newly elected liberal party is some-how not liberal, you better have a source. If you don't you're just text on my screen.
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PeakOil.net is a scare-monger site with similar doomsday prophecies as Lester Brown's the Population Bomb, which also predicted massive die-outs in the 90s. Brown's mistake was assuming everything was going to stay the same and all he had to do was extrapolate.
PeakOil does the same thing, in spite of his silly rebuttal in the FAQ. They assume that oil consumption will not change, technology will not improve, and we'll cease to adapt.
I agree. I'd say 70% of ALL trek episodes were boring and unprogressive (ie. starred Wesley or Troi). But that didn't matter so long as episodes like "I, Borg", "Chain of Command", "The Search", and of course "The Best of Both World's"
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I had this machine that would produce cocaine for me, not that I ever produced the stuff. I just had it in the corner as part of my decor. It made a great coffee table and really matched my drapes.
Can you believe they confiscated it?! The nerve! People should only outlaw the cocaine makers, not the machines that just so happen to make nice room decorations.
Bets anyone? I say July 30th.
Thomas Sowell isn't a geek by any stretch of the imagination, he's an economist, and an old one to boot (70 years or so). He makes a lot of sense when he talks about economics, but is terrible when he talks about non-economic social issues. This is one of his poorest articles I've ever read.
"Will I have to deal with annoying dependency problems that take me hours to install the most basic of programs?"
:(
So far that answer is still yes
For some reason Clippy has managed to become the all-purpose whipping boy to use against Microsoft. After my first encounter with the creature I don't understand why this running gag is continually modded "Funny".
Is it because he's annoying? Well even if he is, there are still three easy opportunities to remove Clippy. The first is on install, where you can customize the installation to remove the "Office Assistant". The second is in Word instself, where you can permenently "Turn off the office assistant". Finally you can temporarily "Hide the office assistant".
Save your mod points for things that are truly worth it. Clippy has had enough.
I'll elaborate:
1. First of all at the initial purchasing of this piece of plastic/paper, the retailer gets straight up cash with no physical loss of goods until possibly months later. In that time the money could be used for all sorts of useful things.
2. People who receive gift certificates feel obligated to use them to their full amount, otherwise they will lose the value of the card. The only problem is few things are exactly worth $20, so the consumer is forced to either pay up their own money for something, or buy something for less than the value of the card.
3. Gift certificates can't be banked or deposited, they can only be storted in some physical location, making them far easier to lose than money.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind buying or receiving gift certificates. They have saved me tons of time buying gifts. But I think it's clear retailers are getting quite a deal out of it.
What exactly does this mean, "share more easily"? Are you saying people that develop new inventions should be forced to divy up their earnings amoungst the "workers" who couldn't see the susceptibility of their own reptitious work? What "sharing profits" really amounts to is "stifling innovation".
[blockquote] hapless users who know nothing about the dangers out there on the net[/blockquote]
I commonly see this defence, the 'protect the ignorant and therefore innocent' defence, and it is no defence at all. They are adults who more than likely didn't read the fine print of whatever it is they installed. Their fault is their own, especially when Spyware is so well documented, as is its removal.
Ignorance does not exempt personal responsibility.
Exactly what constitutional amendment does "the right not to have to deal with this scumware" fall under? People talk about "rights" all the time without even realizing what are, and what are not protected-rights. For example, the "right" to education, and the "right" to healthcare do not exist, except that you are allowed to pursue these things freely without direct inhibition by your fellowman.
I support the injunction, only because our [b]truly[/b] protected right to free speech are being acknowledged. Afterwards I hope they beat the snot out of those malicious spyware companies, but that's beside the point.
Producing a better product isn't good enough. You need a SIGNIFICANTLY better product. For me, ripping even a small ~50 CD collection to ogg isn't worth the marginal benefit, even if it is free. Perhaps if oggs were particularly small, say 10-20% the size of the standard mp3, you would probably see more people flocking to it.
But in the age of $1/gig hard drives, space isn't such a huge issue.
If you can't get a login/password easy, and need a valid email address to confirm registration, try mailinator.com.
They are email accounts that require no passwords, or even any setting up. They are throw away accounts designed to curb spam.
These are the ads that will randomly make you view an advertisement whenever you click on a link. You get a full-page ad and have to click a link to get to the page you originally requested.
IGN.com is notorious for using it.
Not too long ago (and even today) gamers were stereotyped as social recluses who couldn't interact beyond the realm of their own computer. But with the internet, multiplayer gaming is common place, spawning catch phrases like netiquette and the establishment of clans and clubs.
Now gamers are purportedly too fat, too skinny, too pasty, or some other unhealthy physical attribute. I hope that DDR represents a small-scale gaming trend where games become more physically intense. Imagine if some of the games out today could be adapted like that.
Or more likely they'll end up in that great Power-Glove graveyard in the sky.
Isn't it "photon torpedos", as in great big missles full of... ummm... light?
That show makes less and less sense the more I watch it.
Your assumptions are invalid. The case was not whether or not he should pay for seeds blown on to his crop, but whether he acquired these seeds illegally or not. His crop was about 95% Monsanto wheat. That's why he lost.
You are mistake about the case. It was not whether or not he should pay for seeds blown on to his crop, but whether he acquired these seeds illegally or not. His crop was about 95% Monsanto wheat. That's why he lost.
The case was not whether or not he should pay for seeds blown on to his crop, but whether he acquired these seeds illegally or not. His crop was about 95% Monsanto wheat. That's why he lost.
Farmer's who buy roundup ready wheat do so because using it is so utterly cheap compared to the alternatives, despite it's premium price. Farmers who signed contracts with Monsanto new all these terms, or should have.
Second, I'm calling your bluff. GM wheat most certainly dose produce more wheat, or the same wheat at lower cost. Care to pull up that mysterious 'research', preferably from a peer reviewed journal?
Third, Vandana is insane. She rejects all biotechnology. In a particuarly absurd example, she rejects golden rice (GM rice fortified with Vitamin A that would prevent hosts of diseases related to Vitamin A deficiencies in the third world). Her solution? We should run out to the forest and eat weeds for our Vitamin A.
The case was not whether or not he should pay for seeds blown on to his crop, but whether he acquired these seeds illegally or not. His crop was about 95% Monsanto wheat. That's why he lost.
Quite simply a farmer claims tht Monsanto's seeds had spread to his farms without his knowledge. The case was not whether or not he should pay for seeds blown on to his crop, but whether he acquired these seeds illegally or not.
His crop was about 95% Monsanto wheat. That's why he lost.
From bash.org:
@FirebirdGM> I just called my Futureshop and asked them how much a 20 GB Hard drive weighed when it was full with information, compared to when it was empty.
@FirebirdGM> The guy that was on the phone told me that it was only a few pounds difference.
@FirebirdGM> And that's why I don't shop at futureshop.
Jar Jar stepping in cow dung TWICE.
If you don't you're just text on my screen.
PeakOil.net is a scare-monger site with similar doomsday prophecies as Lester Brown's the Population Bomb, which also predicted massive die-outs in the 90s. Brown's mistake was assuming everything was going to stay the same and all he had to do was extrapolate.
PeakOil does the same thing, in spite of his silly rebuttal in the FAQ. They assume that oil consumption will not change, technology will not improve, and we'll cease to adapt.
I agree. I'd say 70% of ALL trek episodes were boring and unprogressive (ie. starred Wesley or Troi). But that didn't matter so long as episodes like "I, Borg", "Chain of Command", "The Search", and of course "The Best of Both World's"