Perhaps one of the potential outcomes of globalization is that we all sink to the lowest common denominator. America blocking access to foreign sites? That's so... Chinaesque!
Debeers is arguing that it is like buying a fake painting, not really a masterwork of nature, but by man's hand.
It'll be oh-so-easy for the diamond manufacturers to counter-advertise against DeBeers.
For starters, they only need to show a mangled slave child labourer, working the muck for pennies a day, diseased and dying in the effort to find a diamond for DeBeers.
The people in power are *not* interested in taking away your rights. They never have been. They're interested in protecting your own.
Correction: The people in power are interested only in protecting their own welfare. They are seldom interested in their electorate, except insofar as that interest coincides with their own self-interest. Politicians simply don't deliberately do things that cause harm to their own welfare.
Don't bother upgrading your television. There's nothing worth watching anyway. Instead, do something better: take up mountain biking, have more sex, go for a walk, join a bowling team, whatever.
Well, maybe not the bowling team, but the others are good.
If the black box shows that you consistently drive half the speed limit, your insurance company is going to recognize that you are a speedbump hazard, and jack your rates, just as it would if you regularly double the speed limit.
My root post clearly states that when everyone drives the speed limit -- ie. not faster than, not slower than -- we're all safer.
In my province, you *can* be ticketed for driving too slow. You want the same thing to happen in your state, you'd best lobby for it.
Please engage your brain before you respond to posts. Your Sunday Driver argument is purely strawman.
WhoTF said anything about driving *less* than the speed limit?
As for the rear-ending blame: here in BC, blame will be assigned to the person who smacks the person in front. It's a clear case of follow-too-close: you are *always* to have sufficient stopping distance between you and the car in front of you.
Look, smeg-for-brains, if people start doing the speed limit, everyone *will* be driving the same speed.
Problem fucking solved. We'll all be a whole helluva lot safer when assholes like you, driving twice the speed limit on country roads, are taken off the road because the insurance companies have discovered that you're a morbidly unsafe driver.
You think the speed limit is too low? Then lobby to have it changed.
Do you think I give a good goddamn how *YOU* see the lane assignments. The *LAW*, no matter how asinine it is, defines the speed limits.
Want the speed to be faster? Lobby to have it changed. In the meantime, get the fuck off my ass end, before I snap and slam on the brakes, putting *you* at fault for a rear-end collision. I've done it before, and I'll do it again.
I'm afraid that with the motorcycle crowd, which is an abnormally attentive bunch of drivers, what with their lives being on the live, SUV drivers rank as serious threat #2, with Volvo drivers ranking #2. Can't much argue with their experience.
(Of course, anyone with a cell phone is a greater threat than even the clueless SUV-driving soccer mom.)
I was going to say twenty, but then I reconsidered. Seems to me that change is accelerating, and we have seen some pretty startling changes over the past decade or so: fall of the USSR, creation of the EU, rise of India as a software powerforce, etc.
Now that China is getting trading partner status, and the West is completely ignoring its endless human rights violations, I think ten years isn't outragerously optimistic. Twenty-five years is a full generation's time: I think that timeline is a little too conservative.
Either way, though, life is going to change radically for us Westerners. I sure hope we don't find out what it's like to live in the Third World...
Subsidies can't make the cars less expensive. The cost is the same, it's just the route from your pocket to the manufacturer that's different. Either you pay GM directly, or you pay Uncle Sam, who takes a slice and then pays GM...
Walmart is not doing this out of the goodness of their heart. And they're certainly not doing it so they can sell cheaper computers: there will be far too many disgruntled customers and far too many product returns.
My guess is that they're bargaining for lower MSWindows licensing prices.
There's not a single reason why you can't discover who the Opera users are. A quick google of "opera identify browser script" brings up a great, accurate script that does the trick.
http://www.webreference.com/tools/browser/javasc ri pt.html
Opera lies, yes; but only to the simple-minded. Smart people can see through the lie quite readily.
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Ah, but the difference is, while you have been using permissions, Microsoft has been patenting them. Guess who's gonna get the money? [The guy with $40 billion to handle any lawsuits disputing the patent, of course...]
The reason the cops cut slack on the speed limit (unless they're in a truly bitchy mood) isn't because the radar is inaccurate: it's because your speedometer is inaccurate.
Indeed, it's inaccurate because of the law! There's a big government-imposed penalty if the speedo reads slower than true speed; plus there's the ever-present threat of a massive class-action suit.
Ergo, most speedos actually read 5-10% faster than true: plenty of slack to accomodate inaccuracy, worn tires, and the driver's inevitable "the needle is close to 55, so let's call it 55!" attitude.
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Perhaps one of the potential outcomes of globalization is that we all sink to the lowest common denominator. America blocking access to foreign sites? That's so... Chinaesque!
The light turns green and I sit there for a moment, reflecting on the conversation.
[snip]
The dog-walking couple smile and wave to me.
The light changes.
Doesn't this man live the life of danger. Sitting through a full cycle? Suicide!
Debeers is arguing that it is like buying a fake painting, not really a masterwork of nature, but by man's hand.
It'll be oh-so-easy for the diamond manufacturers to counter-advertise against DeBeers.
For starters, they only need to show a mangled slave child labourer, working the muck for pennies a day, diseased and dying in the effort to find a diamond for DeBeers.
The people in power are *not* interested in taking away your rights. They never have been. They're interested in protecting your own.
Correction: The people in power are interested only in protecting their own welfare. They are seldom interested in their electorate, except insofar as that interest coincides with their own self-interest. Politicians simply don't deliberately do things that cause harm to their own welfare.
Why do you have such a problem with people wanting to skip the bullshit?
Don't bother upgrading your television. There's nothing worth watching anyway. Instead, do something better: take up mountain biking, have more sex, go for a walk, join a bowling team, whatever.
Well, maybe not the bowling team, but the others are good.
Ah, good. That's a relief. As a motorcyclist, I tend to get a little freaked at the idea of people sliding around blind corners...
Thick as a freakin' brick, aintcha?
If the black box shows that you consistently drive half the speed limit, your insurance company is going to recognize that you are a speedbump hazard, and jack your rates, just as it would if you regularly double the speed limit.
My root post clearly states that when everyone drives the speed limit -- ie. not faster than, not slower than -- we're all safer.
In my province, you *can* be ticketed for driving too slow. You want the same thing to happen in your state, you'd best lobby for it.
Please engage your brain before you respond to posts. Your Sunday Driver argument is purely strawman.
WhoTF said anything about driving *less* than the speed limit?
As for the rear-ending blame: here in BC, blame will be assigned to the person who smacks the person in front. It's a clear case of follow-too-close: you are *always* to have sufficient stopping distance between you and the car in front of you.
Look, smeg-for-brains, if people start doing the speed limit, everyone *will* be driving the same speed.
Problem fucking solved. We'll all be a whole helluva lot safer when assholes like you, driving twice the speed limit on country roads, are taken off the road because the insurance companies have discovered that you're a morbidly unsafe driver.
You think the speed limit is too low? Then lobby to have it changed.
Do you think I give a good goddamn how *YOU* see the lane assignments. The *LAW*, no matter how asinine it is, defines the speed limits.
Want the speed to be faster? Lobby to have it changed. In the meantime, get the fuck off my ass end, before I snap and slam on the brakes, putting *you* at fault for a rear-end collision. I've done it before, and I'll do it again.
Refer to my next post for more detail.
Thank god I wasn't driving the other direction on that "country road" when you were learning. geezus.
Now, imagine ... all the speed data is downloaded and ... your premiums go up.
Imagine. People will start doing the friggin' speed limit. Sounds mighty good to me.
I'm afraid that with the motorcycle crowd, which is an abnormally attentive bunch of drivers, what with their lives being on the live, SUV drivers rank as serious threat #2, with Volvo drivers ranking #2. Can't much argue with their experience.
(Of course, anyone with a cell phone is a greater threat than even the clueless SUV-driving soccer mom.)
I was going to say twenty, but then I reconsidered. Seems to me that change is accelerating, and we have seen some pretty startling changes over the past decade or so: fall of the USSR, creation of the EU, rise of India as a software powerforce, etc.
Now that China is getting trading partner status, and the West is completely ignoring its endless human rights violations, I think ten years isn't outragerously optimistic. Twenty-five years is a full generation's time: I think that timeline is a little too conservative.
Either way, though, life is going to change radically for us Westerners. I sure hope we don't find out what it's like to live in the Third World...
And it's going to be the great world power within ten years. The headstone for the USA is already being carved.
Subsidies can't make the cars less expensive. The cost is the same, it's just the route from your pocket to the manufacturer that's different. Either you pay GM directly, or you pay Uncle Sam, who takes a slice and then pays GM...
Walmart is not doing this out of the goodness of their heart. And they're certainly not doing it so they can sell cheaper computers: there will be far too many disgruntled customers and far too many product returns.
My guess is that they're bargaining for lower MSWindows licensing prices.
It won't copy Sony CDs, only those of its competitors... :-)
It was a joke. Laugh.
Wonder what the uptime is..
Slashdot moderators are pretty much like the Agents in the Matrix world...
There's not a single reason why you can't discover who the Opera users are. A quick google of "opera identify browser script" brings up a great, accurate script that does the trick.
c ri pt.html
http://www.webreference.com/tools/browser/javas
Opera lies, yes; but only to the simple-minded. Smart people can see through the lie quite readily.
Ah, but the difference is, while you have been using permissions, Microsoft has been patenting them. Guess who's gonna get the money? [The guy with $40 billion to handle any lawsuits disputing the patent, of course...]
The reason the cops cut slack on the speed limit (unless they're in a truly bitchy mood) isn't because the radar is inaccurate: it's because your speedometer is inaccurate.
Indeed, it's inaccurate because of the law! There's a big government-imposed penalty if the speedo reads slower than true speed; plus there's the ever-present threat of a massive class-action suit.
Ergo, most speedos actually read 5-10% faster than true: plenty of slack to accomodate inaccuracy, worn tires, and the driver's inevitable "the needle is close to 55, so let's call it 55!" attitude.