Of course. I don't much listen to Rush Limbaugh because he never says anything remotely sensible. We all pick and choose. The NYT has a distinct and disturbing liberal bias at times but they do manage to actually create news by good reporting. That's rather rare these days.
No, it's a lousy point. More sources doesn't equal free sources. Mayhaps you might want to pay for information from whatever varied sources you use. Unfortunately, the way that websites are going, that's not an option. Micropayments went out of style before they were even adopted. So you have to pay for the full ride.
And, unfortunately for NYT, the benefit from being a subscriber are pretty slim. Same annoying, intrusive adds. Same klunk of an interface. Same annoying emails. Most (but certainly not all) sites that have a subscription either drop adverts or markedly tone them down. The NYT team seems a bit clueless.
And I would argue that one million subscribers to the best known newspaper on the planet is not a particularly impressive feat. It just demonstrates how nobody gets it.
Remember the 'concept cars' of years ago? All sleek and shiny and completely impractical. The closest you ever saw to them on the road was the Batmobile.
Same here. Not designed to be even remotely practical. They're fun experiments and advertising bits. They also serve as conceptual trial balloons to gauge broad acceptance.
Does anybody think that future cars won't have lots of display panels and cameras? Smile for the camera!
(As an aside, how would you make out with your girlfriend (or whatever) in one of these things? Do younger people still do that or do they just fuck in their bedrooms? Did I miss it, again?)
No, what this really makes sense is as a self driving TAXI. You can be bombarded with ads until you reach your destination. In fact, if you haven't watched enough ads, the doors stay locked until you do.
because it provides a good environment for them. It is not at all surprising that the bacteria would be found in a recently disinfected cooling tower. The only way to stop that from happening is to somehow make the cooling tower environment a less friendly one for the bugs.
I know! I know! Put a politician, preferably fairly high level (they get more dangerous as they age) in the tower. That's a pretty unfriendly environment. If it's a bad infestation, you can temporarily install a committee. Monitor everything on C-Span.
I notice you subtly passed-over mentioning Uranus. I know that was intentional: your kind always pretends to "forget" Uranus, but everyone who knows about Uranus remembers Uranus, and we notice when you passover Uranus. You think you'll get away with it, but we know, and we're watching you and we're watching Uranus.
Why do ACs always focus on Uranus? In every goddamned discussion about planets, it's always ACs that have to bring it up. Can't talk about Saturn or Pluto. Neptune is always left in the lurch.
I've wondered about this. Honda engineers publicly stated that they didn't understand how Volkswagen did it. Honda is a big company with huge engineering chops. They build all manner of one off things. They undoubtedly test all manner of technology. The smoking gun here was run by a consumer protection agency and a small university. Certainly the engineering might of the other carmakers could have managed this.
Why do we assume that all government agencies need an endlessly increasing budget to do their job? Why do we accept endlessly increasing government budgets? We have a kneejerk belief that money fixes everything, but it seems only to bring more corruption, entitlement and fewer freedoms.
There is this concept of inflation. It works for the universe and pretty much everything else except, apparently, intelligence.
No, it wouldn't the first time. Nor the first hundredth time. This is one of Congress's favorite tricks. Can't get rid of an agency outright? Papercut it to death.
NASA, EPA, NRC and pretty much anything that doesn't blow things up or walk around in the dark....
+++ But this is pretty much always true of small nations. Unless you have money (Switzerland) or guns (Switzerland) or are just lucky for a while (Iceland, the Nordic states after WW II) or can group together to pretend to be a big country (European Union) you will always dance to somebody else' tune.
You're pretty far off as far as Cuba is concerned. Last time I was in Cuba was 17 years ago (through Canada). I don't think a lot has changed....
- Maybe lots of public spaces, hard to know. Not much commerce going on so lots of empty spaces in cities with people hanging around. If that's your idea of Parks and Recreation, fine. Seemed pretty dull and depressing unless you were looking for an underaged prostitute. - Yeah, you only have one oppressor, Fidel & Company. But you don't have any functional legal protections. None whatsoever. The party says you're toast and you are indeed toast (if there was any toast around). Actually, the one oppressor rule wasn't quite correct. There is a thriving black market and those sorts of things are not run by idealistic people. I will leave you to figure out the details. It's not hard. - Culture? Depends on your definition, I suppose. What I saw was mostly a wide varieties of different folk cultures. Interesting, but probably cost a couple of thousand dollars across the entire island. - City planning? Without much money, the only planning you get is what was there before the economy tanked and the relentless creativeness of humans. The only central planning that sort of worked was with agriculture and that carried a high price (not everybody likes to be forced into farming). Castro's planning failures are legion.
Yes, you can argue that Cuba hasn't devolved into the horrid mess that is Haiti and the slow motion train wreck that is Puerto Rico and to a large extent the Castro's are responsible for that. But we all know that dictatorship is probably the most efficient of human political arrangements. It just lacks a few things.
What is wrong with you people? Do you not even causally glance at the summary? This has nothing to do with monopoly, Steve Jobs, Republicans or Global Warming. It's not even Bush's fault.
It's just contract law. iFixit signed a valid, legal document. iFixit broke the terms agreed to on the document. Apple 'punishes' iFixit for doing same - in a fairly benign fashion. Apple could certainly afford to take iFixit to court and bury them in legal cowpies for the next millennium, but they didn't.
To quote Twain, "There is something fascinating about slashdot. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
I know Slashdot has been around for a while. I didn't think Taco was that old.
Slashdot Mirror
Of course. I don't much listen to Rush Limbaugh because he never says anything remotely sensible. We all pick and choose. The NYT has a distinct and disturbing liberal bias at times but they do manage to actually create news by good reporting. That's rather rare these days.
No, it's a lousy point. More sources doesn't equal free sources. Mayhaps you might want to pay for information from whatever varied sources you use. Unfortunately, the way that websites are going, that's not an option. Micropayments went out of style before they were even adopted. So you have to pay for the full ride.
And, unfortunately for NYT, the benefit from being a subscriber are pretty slim. Same annoying, intrusive adds. Same klunk of an interface. Same annoying emails. Most (but certainly not all) sites that have a subscription either drop adverts or markedly tone them down. The NYT team seems a bit clueless.
And I would argue that one million subscribers to the best known newspaper on the planet is not a particularly impressive feat. It just demonstrates how nobody gets it.
Remember the 'concept cars' of years ago? All sleek and shiny and completely impractical. The closest you ever saw to them on the road was the Batmobile.
Same here. Not designed to be even remotely practical. They're fun experiments and advertising bits. They also serve as conceptual trial balloons to gauge broad acceptance.
Does anybody think that future cars won't have lots of display panels and cameras? Smile for the camera!
(As an aside, how would you make out with your girlfriend (or whatever) in one of these things? Do younger people still do that or do they just fuck in their bedrooms? Did I miss it, again?)
No, what this really makes sense is as a self driving TAXI. You can be bombarded with ads until you reach your destination. In fact, if you haven't watched enough ads, the doors stay locked until you do.
Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, where are you?
I used to say that. Now I just don't want certain OTHER people to live on this planet anymore.
MOST other people.
because it provides a good environment for them. It is not at all surprising that the bacteria would be found in a recently disinfected cooling tower. The only way to stop that from happening is to somehow make the cooling tower environment a less friendly one for the bugs.
I know! I know! Put a politician, preferably fairly high level (they get more dangerous as they age) in the tower. That's a pretty unfriendly environment. If it's a bad infestation, you can temporarily install a committee. Monitor everything on C-Span.
Dunno, bathing the entire city in a 1970's UV glow has a certain appeal. You could bring back bell-bottoms.
I notice you subtly passed-over mentioning Uranus. I know that was intentional: your kind always pretends to "forget" Uranus, but everyone who knows about Uranus remembers Uranus, and we notice when you passover Uranus. You think you'll get away with it, but we know, and we're watching you and we're watching Uranus.
Why do ACs always focus on Uranus? In every goddamned discussion about planets, it's always ACs that have to bring it up. Can't talk about Saturn or Pluto. Neptune is always left in the lurch.
Assholes.
How many good christian family members have you lost to the GPL?
I'm pastafarian, you insensitive clod.
Not in the politically correct portions of Northern Europe. Misogynist.
But more to the point:
The new Dutch flume replaces an older, smaller version that will be retired after 35 years of service
Oh man, they should not retire the thing. They should commercialize the thing. You could make it into the ultimate water park.
I've wondered about this. Honda engineers publicly stated that they didn't understand how Volkswagen did it. Honda is a big company with huge engineering chops. They build all manner of one off things. They undoubtedly test all manner of technology. The smoking gun here was run by a consumer protection agency and a small university. Certainly the engineering might of the other carmakers could have managed this.
Why do we assume that all government agencies need an endlessly increasing budget to do their job? Why do we accept endlessly increasing government budgets? We have a kneejerk belief that money fixes everything, but it seems only to bring more corruption, entitlement and fewer freedoms.
There is this concept of inflation. It works for the universe and pretty much everything else except, apparently, intelligence.
No, it wouldn't the first time. Nor the first hundredth time. This is one of Congress's favorite tricks. Can't get rid of an agency outright? Papercut it to death.
NASA, EPA, NRC and pretty much anything that doesn't blow things up or walk around in the dark....
Well, at least it's not a prime number.
+++ But this is pretty much always true of small nations. Unless you have money (Switzerland) or guns (Switzerland) or are just lucky for a while (Iceland, the Nordic states after WW II) or can group together to pretend to be a big country (European Union) you will always dance to somebody else' tune.
You're pretty far off as far as Cuba is concerned. Last time I was in Cuba was 17 years ago (through Canada). I don't think a lot has changed....
- Maybe lots of public spaces, hard to know. Not much commerce going on so lots of empty spaces in cities with people hanging around. If that's your idea of Parks and Recreation, fine. Seemed pretty dull and depressing unless you were looking for an underaged prostitute.
- Yeah, you only have one oppressor, Fidel & Company. But you don't have any functional legal protections. None whatsoever. The party says you're toast and you are indeed toast (if there was any toast around). Actually, the one oppressor rule wasn't quite correct. There is a thriving black market and those sorts of things are not run by idealistic people. I will leave you to figure out the details. It's not hard.
- Culture? Depends on your definition, I suppose. What I saw was mostly a wide varieties of different folk cultures. Interesting, but probably cost a couple of thousand dollars across the entire island.
- City planning? Without much money, the only planning you get is what was there before the economy tanked and the relentless creativeness of humans. The only central planning that sort of worked was with agriculture and that carried a high price (not everybody likes to be forced into farming). Castro's planning failures are legion.
Yes, you can argue that Cuba hasn't devolved into the horrid mess that is Haiti and the slow motion train wreck that is Puerto Rico and to a large extent the Castro's are responsible for that. But we all know that dictatorship is probably the most efficient of human political arrangements. It just lacks a few things.
The 'own' the power of life and death over the entire population. Doesn't get much more powerful than that.
Or maybe follow adult type, agreed upon rules. It's a walled garden, not a playground.
What is wrong with you people? Do you not even causally glance at the summary? This has nothing to do with monopoly, Steve Jobs, Republicans or Global Warming. It's not even Bush's fault.
It's just contract law. iFixit signed a valid, legal document. iFixit broke the terms agreed to on the document. Apple 'punishes' iFixit for doing same - in a fairly benign fashion. Apple could certainly afford to take iFixit to court and bury them in legal cowpies for the next millennium, but they didn't.
Jeez guys.
That's because they took it apart and couldn't put it together correctly.
To quote Twain, "There is something fascinating about slashdot. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
I know Slashdot has been around for a while. I didn't think Taco was that old.
Then again, maybe we shouldn't be basing mission planning on a bunch of cheezy fucking sci-fi movies. Just a thought.
Right. I think we should stick to parody.
When I write anything recognizable at all, I put "Zaphod B". No one even looks at it.
Punching in a four digit PIN is slowing things down?
I weep for humanity.
Intelligence may be (very partially) inheritable, but it's a whole lot easier to inherit money.