Illiteracy is not a crime. Nor are many of the things that people find "objectionable" or "anti-social", but that's what these cameras are allegedly going to prevent.
DAT was even worse, because it would actually make the copy, but you paid extra for mixing and noise generation circuits to make it sound like a bad analog copy. God forbid they put the R&D hours into making a consumer device that has *improved* quality over the competition...
No, I definately don't want to be paying everyone's healthcare costs with my taxes. You can either make sure you have insurance or savings on your own to cover it, or risk going into debt. Nothing stopping everyone from paying for health insurance; seems unjust to force them to.
If you can't get a job, you shouldn't be buying a bunch of crap you can't afford.
Curse the poor wasting away borrowed money on such luxuries as appendectomies and chemotherapy treatments!
Circumstance plays a larger role than whether someone simply has a bad credit rating. Rather than just rejecting people with bad credit out of hand, a better solution would probably be to ask during the interview if the prospective employee has had money problems, with the credit report on hand for verification.
So, apparently you can go carbon neutral via large amounts of money. For those of us who are not millionare members of the liberal elite, how shall we make this change in our lives? Gore still rides SUVs and airplanes, and lives in a huge house. I'm not seeing the solution for the common man here.
I know Exxon-Mobil is big, but this is freaking General Electric teamed with Wal-Mart we're talking about. Their combined market cap is almost $600 billion (~4% of the GDP). I think that these things might be here to stay.
The police shouldn't be asking the roomate to investigate further. They should tell a judge "we think this guy is doing X", get a warrant, and investigate themselves. If you don't have enough evidence to support convincing a judge to issue a warrant, I would suspect it's just a fishing expedition. I mean, seriously, how hard is it to find probable cause when the searchee isn't even present to defend themselves?
They're actually increasing feature bloat in the name of insecurity. They're basically adding an extra point of failure in the driver loading process to ensure that you can't run kernel drivers whose source you've vetted yourself.
My question is when the records from this sort of tracking on police/government vehicles will be published in the newspaper. If I had to bet money on the statie blowing by at 80 every morning, I'd say "donuts" rather than "child molesters" as the object at the end of the highway.
If you're going to run commercials where some loser pretends to be a PC and some hip dude is the Mac, you're held to a slightly higher standard. Dell, HP, etc say "we will sell you a computer for $500", and do this well. Apple says "We will sell you a better computer". If they have the same problems as Dell does, then they aren't coming through.
While a single credit card user who never has to pay interest on a balance will have no effect, widespread use of credit cards causes prices to rise to cover transaction charges from the credit card companies. This is why small shops will often have some minimum transaction to accept credit.
... short of a direct-democracy where every tiny issue is decided on by national vote. That method just doesn't work on a large scale.
I think that this brings up the issue of why our federal government deals with every teeny tiny issue. The interstate commerce clause leads the way in legislative abuse.
I think the point is that to run this OS, the browser needs an OS to sit on top of (that is, you don't boot to Firefox, you boot to Windows or Linux or OSX, and run Firefox from there). This differs from say a thin client where there actually isn't anything on the local machine except the software that talks to the central server.
Well, files read from removable media would be getting their first scan. Though really, if you're letting users put just any removable media in the machines that's asking for trouble...
call me a little selfish, but i want to make damn sure that the pills im taking arnt going to kill me faster then whatever it is im taking them for.
No one is forcing you to take experimental drugs. But if every day is agony and you're not expected to last out the year, is it really sensible to keep you from a drug that has a 10% chance of making you better off, if you understand the risk and want to try it?
your generator story is all well and good, but what would have happened to you after y2k when the lights stayed on and no one wanted to pay up their share of the maitnence costs?
What happens if all of the customers in an area decide that they want to go Amish? Any business endeavour is a risk, there's always a case where things can go horribly wrong and cost you a lot. But if you're willing to take a risk, why should anyone stop you? As for accountability, I'd get a lot more out of yelling at my neighbor than my power company's answering machine when the power goes down. A small power co-op actually *prevents* people like your hypothetical 72" TV watcher; if there are only 20 people on the line, they know exactly who is taking more than their chare.
and what about water? clean, clear and healty water? would you trust some Joe down the street to keep their filter running? what if his kid was sick one day and he didnt get a chance to fix the filter.... after all, it's not his day-job right?
This is the very best example of government regulation screwing things up. In many cities, it has been made illegal to collect rainwater for any purpose. What this does, primarily, is provide a nice steady revenue stream for the water company throughout the year. We're generally talking smart, educated people who are either going to filter the water or only use it for the laundry or the yard. Worse than the American case, however, is water regulation in the third world. Someone will run a pipe out to a village in the middle of nowhere, and the government will force everyone to use it for clean water. Of course, the people don't have any money to *pay* for this water, so they basically either drink from hidden, less sanitary cisterns, or go without.
Company: "What is the progress?" Contractor: "I'll get back to you." Company: "I hear there's a cost overrun with X" Contractor: "I'll look into it." Company: "Are your guys actually doing anything, or are they just in my plane for the A/C?" Contractor: "We hire only the best"
Repeat every day, for 400 days, and you have 1200 email exchanges and zero usefulness from the contractor.
Why do we allow government agencies to patent developments? The taxes paid by the public funded the research, so why should the results not fall into the public domain?
My wife is a native Spanish-speaker, and she constantly tells me how much harder it is to spell and read English
I'm a native English speaker, and I told my Spanish teacher how hard that Spanish was to read and write all the time...
But, seriously, our alphabet does make things a pain. I'm trying to think of a scenario where the letter 'x' is actually something other than a replacement for 'ks' or 'z'. And then there's the confusion of what 'c' is supposed to sound like. There's a whole paragraph in the appendix of The Silmarillion clarifying how it's supposed to work, because you can't guess not knowing the word (ie, to figure out the pronounciation of a made up word using the English alphabet, you need to ask the person who made it up).
I would say that 99% of all audio Joe Public is going to play is in MP3, which plays fine. The other players worthy of a pie slice, WMA and AAC, are playable once you get the DRM off of them. As for DVDs, under Windows you get an error message "Pay $30+ to the company of your choice to play DVDs". Under Linux, I opened Xine and clicked "Play DVD".
I haven't had an issue playing anything other than proprietary MS or Apple formats under Linux since I switched a year ago. While there was a time at which sound under Linux was touchy, it's now a standard thing to have working automagically.
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Illiteracy is not a crime. Nor are many of the things that people find "objectionable" or "anti-social", but that's what these cameras are allegedly going to prevent.
DAT was even worse, because it would actually make the copy, but you paid extra for mixing and noise generation circuits to make it sound like a bad analog copy. God forbid they put the R&D hours into making a consumer device that has *improved* quality over the competition ...
Nationalized healthcare is the real bullshit. If you're afraid of the risk, hedge against it with your money, not mine.
No, I definately don't want to be paying everyone's healthcare costs with my taxes. You can either make sure you have insurance or savings on your own to cover it, or risk going into debt. Nothing stopping everyone from paying for health insurance; seems unjust to force them to.
If you can't get a job, you shouldn't be buying a bunch of crap you can't afford.
Curse the poor wasting away borrowed money on such luxuries as appendectomies and chemotherapy treatments!
Circumstance plays a larger role than whether someone simply has a bad credit rating. Rather than just rejecting people with bad credit out of hand, a better solution would probably be to ask during the interview if the prospective employee has had money problems, with the credit report on hand for verification.
So, apparently you can go carbon neutral via large amounts of money. For those of us who are not millionare members of the liberal elite, how shall we make this change in our lives? Gore still rides SUVs and airplanes, and lives in a huge house. I'm not seeing the solution for the common man here.
I know Exxon-Mobil is big, but this is freaking General Electric teamed with Wal-Mart we're talking about. Their combined market cap is almost $600 billion (~4% of the GDP). I think that these things might be here to stay.
The police shouldn't be asking the roomate to investigate further. They should tell a judge "we think this guy is doing X", get a warrant, and investigate themselves. If you don't have enough evidence to support convincing a judge to issue a warrant, I would suspect it's just a fishing expedition. I mean, seriously, how hard is it to find probable cause when the searchee isn't even present to defend themselves?
They're actually increasing feature bloat in the name of insecurity. They're basically adding an extra point of failure in the driver loading process to ensure that you can't run kernel drivers whose source you've vetted yourself.
BMW drivers typically don't tell everyone to buy BMWs no matter their driving needs, either. It's not the machines, it's the users.
My question is when the records from this sort of tracking on police/government vehicles will be published in the newspaper. If I had to bet money on the statie blowing by at 80 every morning, I'd say "donuts" rather than "child molesters" as the object at the end of the highway.
If you're going to run commercials where some loser pretends to be a PC and some hip dude is the Mac, you're held to a slightly higher standard. Dell, HP, etc say "we will sell you a computer for $500", and do this well. Apple says "We will sell you a better computer". If they have the same problems as Dell does, then they aren't coming through.
While a single credit card user who never has to pay interest on a balance will have no effect, widespread use of credit cards causes prices to rise to cover transaction charges from the credit card companies. This is why small shops will often have some minimum transaction to accept credit.
... short of a direct-democracy where every tiny issue is decided on by national vote. That method just doesn't work on a large scale.
I think that this brings up the issue of why our federal government deals with every teeny tiny issue. The interstate commerce clause leads the way in legislative abuse.
I think the point is that to run this OS, the browser needs an OS to sit on top of (that is, you don't boot to Firefox, you boot to Windows or Linux or OSX, and run Firefox from there). This differs from say a thin client where there actually isn't anything on the local machine except the software that talks to the central server.
Well, files read from removable media would be getting their first scan. Though really, if you're letting users put just any removable media in the machines that's asking for trouble ...
call me a little selfish, but i want to make damn sure that the pills im taking arnt going to kill me faster then whatever it is im taking them for.
No one is forcing you to take experimental drugs. But if every day is agony and you're not expected to last out the year, is it really sensible to keep you from a drug that has a 10% chance of making you better off, if you understand the risk and want to try it?
your generator story is all well and good, but what would have happened to you after y2k when the lights stayed on and no one wanted to pay up their share of the maitnence costs?
What happens if all of the customers in an area decide that they want to go Amish? Any business endeavour is a risk, there's always a case where things can go horribly wrong and cost you a lot. But if you're willing to take a risk, why should anyone stop you? As for accountability, I'd get a lot more out of yelling at my neighbor than my power company's answering machine when the power goes down. A small power co-op actually *prevents* people like your hypothetical 72" TV watcher; if there are only 20 people on the line, they know exactly who is taking more than their chare.
and what about water? clean, clear and healty water? would you trust some Joe down the street to keep their filter running? what if his kid was sick one day and he didnt get a chance to fix the filter.... after all, it's not his day-job right?
This is the very best example of government regulation screwing things up. In many cities, it has been made illegal to collect rainwater for any purpose. What this does, primarily, is provide a nice steady revenue stream for the water company throughout the year. We're generally talking smart, educated people who are either going to filter the water or only use it for the laundry or the yard. Worse than the American case, however, is water regulation in the third world. Someone will run a pipe out to a village in the middle of nowhere, and the government will force everyone to use it for clean water. Of course, the people don't have any money to *pay* for this water, so they basically either drink from hidden, less sanitary cisterns, or go without.
George Bush holds another distinction -- he is the first president to have been put in place by a ruling of the supreme court.
What is you brilliant alternative resolution to that situation? Your guy wins by default?
If my selection of something other than work someone might lounge about a work site for is the weakest component of my argument, I declare victory.
Company: "What is the progress?"
Contractor: "I'll get back to you."
Company: "I hear there's a cost overrun with X"
Contractor: "I'll look into it."
Company: "Are your guys actually doing anything, or are they just in my plane for the A/C?"
Contractor: "We hire only the best"
Repeat every day, for 400 days, and you have 1200 email exchanges and zero usefulness from the contractor.
Why do we allow government agencies to patent developments? The taxes paid by the public funded the research, so why should the results not fall into the public domain?
My wife is a native Spanish-speaker, and she constantly tells me how much harder it is to spell and read English
...
I'm a native English speaker, and I told my Spanish teacher how hard that Spanish was to read and write all the time
But, seriously, our alphabet does make things a pain. I'm trying to think of a scenario where the letter 'x' is actually something other than a replacement for 'ks' or 'z'. And then there's the confusion of what 'c' is supposed to sound like. There's a whole paragraph in the appendix of The Silmarillion clarifying how it's supposed to work, because you can't guess not knowing the word (ie, to figure out the pronounciation of a made up word using the English alphabet, you need to ask the person who made it up).
I would say that 99% of all audio Joe Public is going to play is in MP3, which plays fine. The other players worthy of a pie slice, WMA and AAC, are playable once you get the DRM off of them. As for DVDs, under Windows you get an error message "Pay $30+ to the company of your choice to play DVDs". Under Linux, I opened Xine and clicked "Play DVD".
I haven't had an issue playing anything other than proprietary MS or Apple formats under Linux since I switched a year ago. While there was a time at which sound under Linux was touchy, it's now a standard thing to have working automagically.
Have you ever seen Hostel? The reason that doesn't work in real life is that all the potential customers find it cheaper to go into dentistry.