Now that I know what bio-diesel is, I don't support it. I went vegetarian because I didn't like how people treat animals and because I don't want animals to die just so I can live my life. I won't support bio-diesel for the same reasons. In fact, I don't know which seems less personally moral to me: regular gas, or bio-diesel.
1.) Most biodiesel is made from plant waste and in the future other solids such as plastics will lead the way as sources of production. 2.) It is not cost effective to raise animals explicitly for biodiesel production, thus, it won't be that way. Ever. 3.) Animal byproducts would have been thrown into the dump to rot if they were not used for bio production.
My advice: Life is too short to wring your hands over a few turkey waste products being made into biofuels. Look at the bigger picture - the rest of us will continue to consume turkey and drive cars. Better that the byproduct was used in a way that reduced co2 emissions, and, therefore, contributed to a cleaner environment, than to have wastefully thrown it in the dump.
I bought the Urchin 5 software back in the Spring about a week before the deal w/ Google was announced. As part of the deal I was supposed to get a free license upgrade to version 6 of the software when it was released (at that time v6 was only a service model, ala Google Analytics, not software). Well, the v6 software was supposed to have arrived in the Summer, then it was pushed to the Fall. At this point I have no more expectation that v6 Urchin software will EVER be released, so the main reason I bought the software (v6 features) is probably now negated.
I can see how Google would want to incorporate a good conversion tracking mechanism for AdWords customers, but I have a real big issue with giving all of my analytics info to Goggle for them to sift through. All of the Urchin v6 features seem to be in Google Analytics, but the reason I didn't want to use the Urchin 6 service model to begin with is that my analytics is a proprietary trade secret that I don't want others to see. And while I have not read the terms closely, my bet is that Google will use the analytics data in some way to benefit Google. If they did not intend to benefit from the info, it would not be FREE , now, would it?
Give us a good example of how the US has used the root servers maliciously and you could possibly get someone to listen. But you can't. Don't you understand the type of bureaucratic morass you'd have when every flunky from every backwater hell hole around the globe would want a say in Internet governance? That's a recipe for inaction and breakdown.
These days the internet is vital as air, so nobody should have CONTROL of it. It's truly obvious that any decision regarding root servers should be taken in a recognized entity like UN.
Vital, huh? Maybe you and your non-US brethren should have pondered the consequences of allowing the Internet to become "vital" to you when you knew all along that you and your non-US brethren didn't control it. Now that you've become addicted to it, the US has to give some grubby, corrupt, half-witted nutjobs from Albania, Zimbabwe, and El Salvador the control? Give me a flippin' break.
Yeah, some blogs are very successful, which has most to do with the freshness, veracity, and relevance of their content rather than who's bankrolling them. In the rush to regulate popular bloggers the one-man pajama brigade gets squashed, too. Do we limit everyone's right to political free speech in an attempt to safeguard against a "possible" abuse? Where does it stop? I'll ask again, why should Powerline or the DailyKos be targeted by the FEC when Babs Streisand or the Dixie Chicks can get up in front of 50,000 people and embark on an extended anti-Bush screed? And be paid very, very handsomely for it!!!!
To make a legal distinction based on "potential" audience appears noble on the face, yet would be a travesty in practice. How, then, shall we regulate the political pontification of Pat Boone, Barbara Streisand, or eminem in front of 50,000 people? How do we know eminem isn't on Rick Santorum's campaign staff or payroll? How do we regulate Tim Robbins, Tom Seleck, or MeatHead when they blow hot air about politics?
No, this bill's demise was about rampant FUD about the perception that the right has its act together online. And after hearing the resounding thud made by MoveOn and other Peter Lewis/George Soros backed entities in 04, they may have a valid arguement. But instead of meeting the challenge with creativity and vigor, they block the pajama wearing dude from voicing his opinion, thereby throwing the yoke back into the MSM's "trusted" hands. Sorry, brother, I'm with free speech here.
This bill is all about trashing campaign finance reform laws.
No, it isn't. It's about exactly what it says it's about, which is exempting some opinionated dude in his pajamas from having to hire lawyers and accountants in order to exercise his first amendment right to free speech. The fact is that in the last election cycle the Dems got their asses handed to them due to their inability to uphold the status quo, which is (was) being able to rely on the main stream media to play the role of gatekeepers w/ regard to the message being put forth by a candidate or organization.
This isn't about trashing McCain Feingold, it's about preserving an idividual's freedom of speech within the political process. There is no difference between a blogger and some dude in a bar rattling on about politics.
Amen, brother. Witacre is pissed because his business isn't sexy anymore. But what he doesn't understand is that, if he builds barriers between the public and google/yahoo/whatever, google/yahoo/whatever will build a bridge. And that bridge, methinks, will be wireless and omnipresent. And that bridge will mark the end of Ma Bell once and for all.
Hate to tell you this, but for the rest of the world, Jobs isn't a celebrity.
It's not about a cult of personality, it's about Apple delivering clever, sleek, well-designed products that anyone can use. Whether it's UI, industrial design, services integration, whatever, they do a great job and set the standard for others to follow. It's natural that that type of org would get positive ink.
Besides, Mac users are always interested in what Apple will do next because most of the time it'll be interesting, cool, and sometimes will change the way we go about our lives. With MS, who gives a shit about paying attention to a follower and a bully?
Only if you're colorblind. If you think that purple color in the Games section is easy on the eyes, I'm sorry, but I think you need to see an optometrist immediately.
I never really thought "games" fit with "Stuff that matters", and maybe whoever decided on that color scheme felt the same way...
The consumers this particular war will be fought over haven't been in a format war before.
Yes, most likely they have. They are gadget-happy early adopters, which means, depending on age, they were likely to have fretted over SACD/DVD-A, Beta/VHS, to name two.
Well, I just ran 1.78GB of gzipped apache logs encompassing 8,444,145 log lines through Urchin 5 in 5 minutes, 44 seconds. That's reading the log, building the db, and archiving two db copies for backup. And that's on a powebook G4 with a 1.25ghz proc and 512MB of RAM. Hardly "bloatware" as you would say.
My mileage does indeed vary. I bought Urchin 5.x.x last week after doing a competitive analysis of the top contenders in the web analytics market. Urchin beat them all hands down in ver. 5 form, and version 6, which is in operation now as an on-demand service, will be out in software form in the next couple of months. The page overlay functions and goal tracking in 6 are the bee's knees and I cannot wait to use it.
And you talk about bloat? WebTrends 7 is a 245MB download. The entire Urchin install directory (for OSX) is 15MB decompressed. Hardly bloatware.
Mod this dude up. I'm a bit tired of fiber-deficient/.ers trashing products and services that don't fit their own personal needs. Find another, for Pete's sake! There are over 6 billion people on this rock. You can't build a unique iPod for all of 'em.
There are people in the world who want to kill other people with every fibre of their being, danila. You don't play patty-cake with people like that. Our government has an important responsibility to protect us from those people. We need to know where, when, and how they intend to try to kill us so we can try to prevent that from happening. It's about saving lives and promoting peaceful co-existence. Simple, really.
What about the line of innocent dead people who end up that way due to our inability to acquire information from terrorists and terrorist sympathizers in a timely fashion?
You cannot expect to obtain info from a zealot by giving him three hots and a cot, cable TV, good health care, yoga sessions, and self-improvement classes (such as with the US prison system). It's a value proposition situation: we must find a way to make the revelation of info more valuable to the zealot than the reverse.
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1.) Most biodiesel is made from plant waste and in the future other solids such as plastics will lead the way as sources of production. 2.) It is not cost effective to raise animals explicitly for biodiesel production, thus, it won't be that way. Ever. 3.) Animal byproducts would have been thrown into the dump to rot if they were not used for bio production. My advice: Life is too short to wring your hands over a few turkey waste products being made into biofuels. Look at the bigger picture - the rest of us will continue to consume turkey and drive cars. Better that the byproduct was used in a way that reduced co2 emissions, and, therefore, contributed to a cleaner environment, than to have wastefully thrown it in the dump.
I can see how Google would want to incorporate a good conversion tracking mechanism for AdWords customers, but I have a real big issue with giving all of my analytics info to Goggle for them to sift through. All of the Urchin v6 features seem to be in Google Analytics, but the reason I didn't want to use the Urchin 6 service model to begin with is that my analytics is a proprietary trade secret that I don't want others to see. And while I have not read the terms closely, my bet is that Google will use the analytics data in some way to benefit Google. If they did not intend to benefit from the info, it would not be FREE , now, would it?
Give us a good example of how the US has used the root servers maliciously and you could possibly get someone to listen. But you can't. Don't you understand the type of bureaucratic morass you'd have when every flunky from every backwater hell hole around the globe would want a say in Internet governance? That's a recipe for inaction and breakdown.
Vital, huh? Maybe you and your non-US brethren should have pondered the consequences of allowing the Internet to become "vital" to you when you knew all along that you and your non-US brethren didn't control it. Now that you've become addicted to it, the US has to give some grubby, corrupt, half-witted nutjobs from Albania, Zimbabwe, and El Salvador the control? Give me a flippin' break.
Yeah, some blogs are very successful, which has most to do with the freshness, veracity, and relevance of their content rather than who's bankrolling them. In the rush to regulate popular bloggers the one-man pajama brigade gets squashed, too. Do we limit everyone's right to political free speech in an attempt to safeguard against a "possible" abuse? Where does it stop? I'll ask again, why should Powerline or the DailyKos be targeted by the FEC when Babs Streisand or the Dixie Chicks can get up in front of 50,000 people and embark on an extended anti-Bush screed? And be paid very, very handsomely for it!!!!
No, this bill's demise was about rampant FUD about the perception that the right has its act together online. And after hearing the resounding thud made by MoveOn and other Peter Lewis/George Soros backed entities in 04, they may have a valid arguement. But instead of meeting the challenge with creativity and vigor, they block the pajama wearing dude from voicing his opinion, thereby throwing the yoke back into the MSM's "trusted" hands. Sorry, brother, I'm with free speech here.
No, it isn't. It's about exactly what it says it's about, which is exempting some opinionated dude in his pajamas from having to hire lawyers and accountants in order to exercise his first amendment right to free speech. The fact is that in the last election cycle the Dems got their asses handed to them due to their inability to uphold the status quo, which is (was) being able to rely on the main stream media to play the role of gatekeepers w/ regard to the message being put forth by a candidate or organization.
This isn't about trashing McCain Feingold, it's about preserving an idividual's freedom of speech within the political process. There is no difference between a blogger and some dude in a bar rattling on about politics.
Amen, brother. Witacre is pissed because his business isn't sexy anymore. But what he doesn't understand is that, if he builds barriers between the public and google/yahoo/whatever, google/yahoo/whatever will build a bridge. And that bridge, methinks, will be wireless and omnipresent. And that bridge will mark the end of Ma Bell once and for all.
Well, as someone who actually DOES live in rural Wisconsin, I can assure you that you're quite wrong.
It's not about a cult of personality, it's about Apple delivering clever, sleek, well-designed products that anyone can use. Whether it's UI, industrial design, services integration, whatever, they do a great job and set the standard for others to follow. It's natural that that type of org would get positive ink.
Besides, Mac users are always interested in what Apple will do next because most of the time it'll be interesting, cool, and sometimes will change the way we go about our lives. With MS, who gives a shit about paying attention to a follower and a bully?
I never really thought "games" fit with "Stuff that matters", and maybe whoever decided on that color scheme felt the same way...
Nah, 1280x854
Do a longer one... The link is even above the friggin fold in my browser. Sheesh.
By the looks of our IT dept, exercise and laundry must require a lot more motivation than leaning a programming language... Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
Yes, most likely they have. They are gadget-happy early adopters, which means, depending on age, they were likely to have fretted over SACD/DVD-A, Beta/VHS, to name two.
I really, really dislike this day of the year.
Well, I just ran 1.78GB of gzipped apache logs encompassing 8,444,145 log lines through Urchin 5 in 5 minutes, 44 seconds. That's reading the log, building the db, and archiving two db copies for backup. And that's on a powebook G4 with a 1.25ghz proc and 512MB of RAM. Hardly "bloatware" as you would say.
And you talk about bloat? WebTrends 7 is a 245MB download. The entire Urchin install directory (for OSX) is 15MB decompressed. Hardly bloatware.
Mod this dude up. I'm a bit tired of fiber-deficient /.ers trashing products and services that don't fit their own personal needs. Find another, for Pete's sake! There are over 6 billion people on this rock. You can't build a unique iPod for all of 'em.
Yes, danila, they are...
Tell that to these people's loved ones.
There are people in the world who want to kill other people with every fibre of their being, danila. You don't play patty-cake with people like that. Our government has an important responsibility to protect us from those people. We need to know where, when, and how they intend to try to kill us so we can try to prevent that from happening. It's about saving lives and promoting peaceful co-existence. Simple, really.
What about the line of innocent dead people who end up that way due to our inability to acquire information from terrorists and terrorist sympathizers in a timely fashion?
You cannot expect to obtain info from a zealot by giving him three hots and a cot, cable TV, good health care, yoga sessions, and self-improvement classes (such as with the US prison system). It's a value proposition situation: we must find a way to make the revelation of info more valuable to the zealot than the reverse.
day-to-day Linux on the desktop (even on powerpc) is for people with a helluva lot of time on their hands. I have work to do.
That's because the Mac would set them free - free of a job, that is...
Shucks! Ya got me! I'm typing this from the Vatican. Sheesh.
BTW, I always thought a Drunk Clam was an intoxicated sloot... As in, "hey, Joe, look at that clam, she's drunk as hell!"
But that's just me.