One of the requirements to recieve federal funding is to "uphold the United States Constitution", and yes that means free speech as well.
Let's look at the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..." Unless my company somehow turned into Congress and passed a law against free speech, they can do as they please.
If my company takes the place of Congress in your intrepretation, then I guess they can levy an income tax as well.
How much per square mile? You make it sound like Alaska is robbing and pillaging from the rest of the US.
Feeling defensive? I merely pointed out the facts without any editorial comment at all.
If you want to get pissy though: Do the citizens themselves provide these resources? Does that zinc, lead, and oil get provided to the rest of the U.S. for free or do the companies that extract it instead get paid at whatever the market rate is? Don't you also get some kind of dividend check from the state on the taxes it levies on that extracted oil?
you're looking at approximately 100000^10 choices for the whole puzzle
It is even somewhat less than that because once you choose the first word the starting letter of each of the other nine words is already determined. Once the second word is chosen, then the first and secord letter of each subsequent word is also determined. By the time you get to the last word you are only free to choose the last letter of that word!
This the same lawmakers who wanted a A bridge to nowhere costing $941 Million?
Now to be fair, the bridge itself cost only $223 million. The $941 million was for the overall pork that Alaska got in that bill. That works out to ~$1500 per Alaskan compared to the $86 per citizen for the country as a whole.
As to how efifcient or the quantities, it probably does not matter if if can be used on a waste product. That is, if we use if on the exhaust from a power plant. Then, not only is the power plant cleaning up after itself, but it also has a product to sell.
An efficient power plant shouldn't have much in the way of CO emissions though. Typical concentrations of CO in a coal power plant flue stream are less than 0.1%, whereas carbon dioxide will probably be more like 15%. It also should be pointed out that most flue streams still contain a reasonable amount of oxygen (1-5%) as well, which could be a problem for these anaerobic bacteria.
Carbon monoxide isn't so much a waste product but a byproduct of incomplete combustion. It still contains a fair amount of energy and could be used as a fuel itself. Way back when Town Gas, a fuel composed primarily of CO and H2 among other gases, was use for lighting and heating.
They would be sold on the blackmarket, traded for food, or outright stolen by roving gangs of "revolutionaries" eager to trade them for arms, or drugs, or worse.
If the world was flooded with millions of these cheap little laptops, who the hell is going to be buying them off the black market? If they are cheap to begin with and widely distributed, they remain of low value to anybody. What is an arms dealer going to do with the couple hundred crappy little laptops he was traded for a Stinger missle?
If a $100 laptop was possible, some bottom feeder like Wal-Mart would already be selling it.
Gee, I didn't realize that Wal-mart made laptops.
These free laptops have nowhere near the screensize, processor power, storage, and probably battery life of any laptop on the market, even the loss leaders. The average Joe isn't going to be clamoring for a laptop that doesn't (and likely can't) run windows. Plus consumer laptops have to be priced with some degree of profit in mind for the retailer and producer, after taking into account all the development expenses, etc.
And MOD GRANDPARENT -1, Troll. I don't know how the grandparent poster got modded as highly as he did.
Because bashing Christianity pretty much guaruntees a +5,something on Slashdot. Meanwhile claiming that all Muslims are suicide-bombing, camel-loving, jihadists will get modded down straight away. I have no love for the religious right but the double standard really pisses me off.
How is this a troll? It's the truth. There is malware that takes advantage of bugs in the OS and malware that takes advantage of some users lack of computer savvy.
Even on Linux, if you find a user gullible enough to run whatever program you present to them, you can at least wipe out all of their files. Granted that is not as bad as the damage you can do with a virus in Windows, but it is certainly bad enough.
Unless the OS is set up to question everything the user does, which would just as likely lead the user to ignore it, there is a place for antivirus to check up on what the user is doing.
The problem here was that customers who had their phones tapped (specifically mobile phones I believe) found a charge on their bill to a number that they did not call. Further investigation revealed that it belonged to the German secret service, who were naturally displeased with the whole thing.
Supposedly, a similar thing happened in the U.S. and Canada a while back. In this case, the respective governemnts did pay for the wiretapping service but due to a bug in the telcos software, the customer was charges tax on the service. A customer who was astute enough might notice the overcharge on the tax and surmise that they were subject to a wiretap.
Yes, but will it be better or worse? Will the effect be a bad one or a good one overall for the fauna and flora. This is what we really don't know or understand.
I think it is safe to say that for some species it will be worse while for some it will be better. Some species will find their native climate expanded, some will find it diminshed or non-existant, some will find it shifted geographically. Some mobile species will be able to move and adapt. Others that are less mobile or less quick to spread will suffer. There will likely be some decrease in biodiversity initially but life on earth will go on.
So how will this affect human life? As growing seasons and rainfall patterns change, again some will benefit and others will suffer. Food shortages, etc, will likely lead to famine, economic crisis, and possibly war. The population density has somewhat optimized itself (I realize this isn't universally true) to the availability of resources. It seems unlikely that a global climate change would be such that arid climates would suddenly get sufficient rain for agriculture, while no negative effects would occur in currently productive areas. Inevitably there would be some shifts in population density either through migration or "attrition".
If you think calling a rep to get your paid for software is easier on ol' Joe than just taking the CD out and reinstalling the software, then we obviously have two differing standards of *ease of use*.
Um, I would think that any "Joe" capable of replacing any component in his computer and reinstalling his OS would be more than capable of calling an 800 number to get his software reactivated. Chances are that if Joe has a problem he is taking it to the nearest his nearest BestCircuitUSA anyway, where the tech drone, who will have done this a thousand times before, will know what to do.
Essentially, Protestants believe that the word of God in the Bible is absolute, and that anything that goes against that word is an attempt to drive them into sin. Since evolution suggests that man was not made in God's image, it's an attempt to drive the "true believers" into sin and must be surpressed.
I hardly think that you can say this about Protestant in general. Your description matches only a subset, small I would hope, of Protestants. I was raised Lutheran and I can distinctly remember being taught that evolution did not have to be exclusive of creation. Just to illustrate further in a fundamental way, Catholics (or maybe it was other Protectant denominations) believe that when blessed the communion wafer and wine literally become the body and blood of Christ as expressed in the Bible. Lutherans on the other hand believe that while they become infused with the Holy Spirit (or something to that effect) they still remain just bread and wine.
I have not attended church very regularly in the past few years and things may have changed, butI can't remember every being encouraged to take any stance like Pat Robertson or his ilk. Oh, and the churches I have attended have been part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, yet I never felt the need to tell anyone else what to do with their life. I even held my nose and voted for Skerry. I don't know, maybe I am going to hell.
I would think that advertizers would love to have this in everyone's living room. Then, for example, the tivo could scan the rfid tags in the kitchen and serve an ad for Hunts ketchup to every pvr that detects Heinz 57 in the fridge.
... and a kernel panic if it detected a roll of tin foil in the pantry.
What does this have to do with outsourcing? Besides needing someone they can trust, it would have been really expensive for them to fly someone in from India to set up their wireless, etc. Even someone flown in from Indiana would probably be more expensive.
Admit it, you just wanted to brag that you got paid $600 to be a glorified GeekSquad employee for a couple of hours.
I think that's about enough to be considered non-evil now isn't it considering how most businesses carry on?
That's setting the bar pretty low, although I guess the gold standard nowadays is not to be as ______ (reliable, ethical, humane, etc) as possible but rather to just be more so than the other guy, no matter how thin the margin or how despicable he might be.
I tend to think of the evil of a company going on more behind the scenes, especially in the case of hardware. Putting out an inferior product will quickly bite a copmany in the ass, unless they have undertaken other "evil" acts to keep the public from exploring other choices, i.e. exclusive contracts, stomping out competitors through unfair business practices, etc. They still have the option of being evil in other ways such as using slave labor to make their products or burying their toxic waste under elementary school playgrounds.
Software companies on the other hand can put more evil right into their products, which I am sure I don't need to give any examples of. In that sense providing a "good" product, one that contained no "evil" rather than just being not defective, might be a step in the right direction.
How long until AMD starts to become / feel like an evil giant corp then......Everyone loves the under-dog:o)
That's just it, everyone loves the underdog, especially when they sell a somewhat better product at somewhat better prices. As far as I can see that is really their only redeeming quality. When trying to take on a giant like Intel, of course they are going to have to sell a more cost effective product to have any chance at all of surviving. Beyond not trying to strong arm (or bribe) any exclusive supplier deals with vendors, which they probably have not been in a position to do anyway, are there any examples of them being "non-evil" besides providing a good, cheap product?
I suddenly realized why so many slashdotters find living in space so attractive. To me, the idea of spending 99% of one's time crammed in some spartan, cold moon base does not seem very appealing. On the other hand, it is probably not much different from the average slashdotter's living space, i.e. their mom's basement. When you add in the superhuman-like lifting and jumping abilities ("Look at me now, high school gym teacher!") the allure obviously becomes irresistible.
Where as in a big profit motivated company may not want to spend time and money to go beyond covering the majority.
But a copmany can make a good chunk of change selling something like an office application to the government. Whether it suits the majority of users or not, they are not going to get any of those sales unless it meets a minimum level of accessibility. Seems like a good motive to meet those requirements especially if it is going to make you one of the only players in that field.
Sure any programmer with the skills could make the necessary additions to an open source project, but why haven't they? Since there is no financial motive there needs to be some personal or idealogical motivation instead. Perhaps this apparent roadblock will be the kick in the pants needed.
So it will cost at least $400 million to launch. So what? With research and development every B-2 bomber cost us, what, over $1 billion? If only the citizens of the U.S. threw in $1.50 each we would have it covered. Heck, to possibly save millions of lives including my own, I might even chip in $10. To keep things in perspective, estimates are that it will cost greater than $100 billion for the U.S. to recover from Katrina. The U.S. spends well over $400 million a week in Iraq. If the science is sound I would say this is a pretty affordable option.
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Let's look at the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ..." Unless my company somehow turned into Congress and passed a law against free speech, they can do as they please.
If my company takes the place of Congress in your intrepretation, then I guess they can levy an income tax as well.
Feeling defensive? I merely pointed out the facts without any editorial comment at all.
If you want to get pissy though: Do the citizens themselves provide these resources? Does that zinc, lead, and oil get provided to the rest of the U.S. for free or do the companies that extract it instead get paid at whatever the market rate is? Don't you also get some kind of dividend check from the state on the taxes it levies on that extracted oil?
It is even somewhat less than that because once you choose the first word the starting letter of each of the other nine words is already determined. Once the second word is chosen, then the first and secord letter of each subsequent word is also determined. By the time you get to the last word you are only free to choose the last letter of that word!
Now to be fair, the bridge itself cost only $223 million. The $941 million was for the overall pork that Alaska got in that bill. That works out to ~$1500 per Alaskan compared to the $86 per citizen for the country as a whole.
An efficient power plant shouldn't have much in the way of CO emissions though. Typical concentrations of CO in a coal power plant flue stream are less than 0.1%, whereas carbon dioxide will probably be more like 15%. It also should be pointed out that most flue streams still contain a reasonable amount of oxygen (1-5%) as well, which could be a problem for these anaerobic bacteria.
Carbon monoxide isn't so much a waste product but a byproduct of incomplete combustion. It still contains a fair amount of energy and could be used as a fuel itself. Way back when Town Gas, a fuel composed primarily of CO and H2 among other gases, was use for lighting and heating.
If the world was flooded with millions of these cheap little laptops, who the hell is going to be buying them off the black market? If they are cheap to begin with and widely distributed, they remain of low value to anybody. What is an arms dealer going to do with the couple hundred crappy little laptops he was traded for a Stinger missle?
Gee, I didn't realize that Wal-mart made laptops.
These free laptops have nowhere near the screensize, processor power, storage, and probably battery life of any laptop on the market, even the loss leaders. The average Joe isn't going to be clamoring for a laptop that doesn't (and likely can't) run windows. Plus consumer laptops have to be priced with some degree of profit in mind for the retailer and producer, after taking into account all the development expenses, etc.
Because bashing Christianity pretty much guaruntees a +5,something on Slashdot. Meanwhile claiming that all Muslims are suicide-bombing, camel-loving, jihadists will get modded down straight away. I have no love for the religious right but the double standard really pisses me off.
After which you will be left alone to beat your own whackin' stick!
Even on Linux, if you find a user gullible enough to run whatever program you present to them, you can at least wipe out all of their files. Granted that is not as bad as the damage you can do with a virus in Windows, but it is certainly bad enough.
Unless the OS is set up to question everything the user does, which would just as likely lead the user to ignore it, there is a place for antivirus to check up on what the user is doing.
Supposedly, a similar thing happened in the U.S. and Canada a while back. In this case, the respective governemnts did pay for the wiretapping service but due to a bug in the telcos software, the customer was charges tax on the service. A customer who was astute enough might notice the overcharge on the tax and surmise that they were subject to a wiretap.
I hear they have the internet on computers now.
I think it is safe to say that for some species it will be worse while for some it will be better. Some species will find their native climate expanded, some will find it diminshed or non-existant, some will find it shifted geographically. Some mobile species will be able to move and adapt. Others that are less mobile or less quick to spread will suffer. There will likely be some decrease in biodiversity initially but life on earth will go on.
So how will this affect human life? As growing seasons and rainfall patterns change, again some will benefit and others will suffer. Food shortages, etc, will likely lead to famine, economic crisis, and possibly war. The population density has somewhat optimized itself (I realize this isn't universally true) to the availability of resources. It seems unlikely that a global climate change would be such that arid climates would suddenly get sufficient rain for agriculture, while no negative effects would occur in currently productive areas. Inevitably there would be some shifts in population density either through migration or "attrition".
Um, I would think that any "Joe" capable of replacing any component in his computer and reinstalling his OS would be more than capable of calling an 800 number to get his software reactivated. Chances are that if Joe has a problem he is taking it to the nearest his nearest BestCircuitUSA anyway, where the tech drone, who will have done this a thousand times before, will know what to do.
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I hardly think that you can say this about Protestant in general. Your description matches only a subset, small I would hope, of Protestants. I was raised Lutheran and I can distinctly remember being taught that evolution did not have to be exclusive of creation. Just to illustrate further in a fundamental way, Catholics (or maybe it was other Protectant denominations) believe that when blessed the communion wafer and wine literally become the body and blood of Christ as expressed in the Bible. Lutherans on the other hand believe that while they become infused with the Holy Spirit (or something to that effect) they still remain just bread and wine.
I have not attended church very regularly in the past few years and things may have changed, butI can't remember every being encouraged to take any stance like Pat Robertson or his ilk. Oh, and the churches I have attended have been part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, yet I never felt the need to tell anyone else what to do with their life. I even held my nose and voted for Skerry. I don't know, maybe I am going to hell.
Admit it, you just wanted to brag that you got paid $600 to be a glorified GeekSquad employee for a couple of hours.
That's setting the bar pretty low, although I guess the gold standard nowadays is not to be as ______ (reliable, ethical, humane, etc) as possible but rather to just be more so than the other guy, no matter how thin the margin or how despicable he might be.
I tend to think of the evil of a company going on more behind the scenes, especially in the case of hardware. Putting out an inferior product will quickly bite a copmany in the ass, unless they have undertaken other "evil" acts to keep the public from exploring other choices, i.e. exclusive contracts, stomping out competitors through unfair business practices, etc. They still have the option of being evil in other ways such as using slave labor to make their products or burying their toxic waste under elementary school playgrounds.
Software companies on the other hand can put more evil right into their products, which I am sure I don't need to give any examples of. In that sense providing a "good" product, one that contained no "evil" rather than just being not defective, might be a step in the right direction.
That's just it, everyone loves the underdog, especially when they sell a somewhat better product at somewhat better prices. As far as I can see that is really their only redeeming quality. When trying to take on a giant like Intel, of course they are going to have to sell a more cost effective product to have any chance at all of surviving. Beyond not trying to strong arm (or bribe) any exclusive supplier deals with vendors, which they probably have not been in a position to do anyway, are there any examples of them being "non-evil" besides providing a good, cheap product?
No, no, no, just put the shiny side out. For ultimate protection, use two layers with the shiny sides facing out on both sides.
I suddenly realized why so many slashdotters find living in space so attractive. To me, the idea of spending 99% of one's time crammed in some spartan, cold moon base does not seem very appealing. On the other hand, it is probably not much different from the average slashdotter's living space, i.e. their mom's basement. When you add in the superhuman-like lifting and jumping abilities ("Look at me now, high school gym teacher!") the allure obviously becomes irresistible.
But a copmany can make a good chunk of change selling something like an office application to the government. Whether it suits the majority of users or not, they are not going to get any of those sales unless it meets a minimum level of accessibility. Seems like a good motive to meet those requirements especially if it is going to make you one of the only players in that field.
Sure any programmer with the skills could make the necessary additions to an open source project, but why haven't they? Since there is no financial motive there needs to be some personal or idealogical motivation instead. Perhaps this apparent roadblock will be the kick in the pants needed.
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So it will cost at least $400 million to launch. So what? With research and development every B-2 bomber cost us, what, over $1 billion? If only the citizens of the U.S. threw in $1.50 each we would have it covered. Heck, to possibly save millions of lives including my own, I might even chip in $10. To keep things in perspective, estimates are that it will cost greater than $100 billion for the U.S. to recover from Katrina. The U.S. spends well over $400 million a week in Iraq. If the science is sound I would say this is a pretty affordable option.