What I find interesting is that liberals will get whipped into a frenzy over any limitations on a woman ripping an unborn human out of their body, but think its a-ok to pass laws banning them from putting more than 16 oz of soda into it.
WTF?
Liberals, they're all for your liberty except when they think you're living your life wrong, then you don't deserve any.
Any business that operated the way the US govt does would declare bankruptcy and be forced to sell off all it's assets after a year.
Our politicians are so corrupt and so sold out that I see very little hope that any one presidential candidate could fix this. The two parties we currently have have conspired to lead us to ruin. They will never ever give up their power. They'd all rather see the country burn then admit that they truly totally and completely cannot provide even mildly competent leadership.
Electric vehicles for everyone powered by nuclear power are a complete zero emission system, no matter how many cars you have.
Thats the answer. Everyone in the city is always "public transport, public transport!!" But if your not in a big city the taxes and fees to support public transport that "everyone must use" are going to be more expensive than just having an electric car.
How about calculated gross earnings of the students you have taught?
Of course that puts a value on teaching, which is something being discouraged for tenured faculty (which I obviously don't agree with).
Or you could measure net income from licensing of IP for creation of new technology. Notice I said licensing and creation, I wouldn't want to encourage our universities to continue acting like asses pursuing IP lawsuits as a means to make money.
If ever there needed to be proof the legislators NEVER think of unintended consequences of the laws/programs they create, the Internet is it.
There is NO WAY IN HELL that if they had known what the Internet would become that they would have passed the legislation and funded the programs that spawned it in the way that they did. They would have ensured the regulatory capture first, which would have saved them all this hassle of a rear guard action of trying to achieve it now.
The Internet's success was probably the most serendipitous accident in human history. Had the lawmakers actually really known exactly what they were doing, I am certain they would not have done it.
Please note that I am not at all inferring that the engineers and technical experts working at DARPA at the time didn't know exactly what THEY were doing...
I am beginning to believe that our screwed up patent system is the primary reason small businesses are failing to get started and why we're struggling so much to get out of the recession.
Exactly. Many, many of the people who pirate stuff also buy stuff.
It is just as easy to stop pirating AND buying as it is to just stop buying.
Plus there is no difference having an mp3 on your computer from a CD you legally purchased and ripped, and then later lost, versus having a pirated mp3. But when criminal jailtime is in play, this translates into having any mp3's on your computer being a bad idea that could land you in jail.
Draconian laws that can ruin someones life will eventually provide the impetus for people to stop pirating stuff AND stop buying stuff. Total avoidance will be the safest policy.
Then those police state espousing motherfuckers at the RIAA and MPAA can go the hell out of business.
The RIAA and MPAA should start tracking how the animosity that their customers feel about them impacts the bottom line. I wonder if they'd find a trend.
Yeah and that one simple line is why all the online music streaming companies get charged fucking exorbitant rates for the music they play.
There is such a deadly serious wrongness in this guys thinking.
Playing "mother may I" with all innovation is possibly the worst idea ever. The same Congress that can't pass a fricken budget would be in charge of innovation?!? I wonder what the record for the fastest collapse of a country into total irrelevance is? If we pass a law like this, we will find out.
Must be a bitch to have to walk 150 into town all the time.... Because based on your insinuation that it's too hard to get a license, he couldn't drive....
Nowhere is freedom of speech absolute, it's limited by the ability of the society to tolerate it.
The founding fathers believed Freedom of Speech to be a "natural" right. This means that the right to Free Speech is something that everyone is born with (ie. an absolute).
The founding fathers got it right, societies that can't tolerate Free Speech are getting it wrong.
Correct. Intel has just said that it does not want to participate at all in the Android tablet market.
They put all their chips on Window 8 in the tablet market.
Wow, this is mindblowingly stupid.
If intel doesn't warm to being able to run Android, they're going to end up in a world of hurt. This should be an easy call, but apparently someone at Intel still thinks the Windows monopoly matters and can impact the tablet space. There may be a small chance that's true, but its absolutely moronic Intel isn't hedging its bets by making sure its procs can run Android too.
They deserve to fall hard for making such a poor choice.
With climate change this becomes a very interesting case.
The climate scientists can (I caveat a bit, very nearly) prove AGW.
However, many of the solutions posited are ECONOMIC solutions designed to reduce the amount of CO2 output.
At this point the debate about solutions to global warming should look to Economists for evaluation of those proposed solutions, Climatologists are now not the experts who are needed to evaluate the proposed solutions.
But to take it in a different direction. If the solution proposed is Terraforming to deal with the impacts of global warming, much like solution the, um Economists from Freakanomics, came up with, then the experts needed would be Engineers in collaboration with Climate Scientists.
The reason "free-market" types totally lose it when discussing solutions to climate change is that the main solution proposed is a blasphemously fake free-market in CO2. Carbon markets are anethema to those who believe in free markets, they're more or less a free anti-market that governs the non-production of something instead of the production of it.
The solution I favor, and that I believe will be the successful one, is the natural move to alternative forms of energy. I think that advances in alternative energy (both lowering cost and increasing efficiency) will lead to clean electricity generation, and that electric vehicles (and/or hybrids) will be the norm in the next 20-30 years. I think all of this can happen without the burden of a carbon market.
iTunes music has no DRM. You can do anything you want with it.
I just have to reply to this. I don't know what f-ing idiot modded this down to 0, but it is exactly the same thought I have.
EVERY single song I have downloaded in the past 3+ years from iTunes has been synced to my Linux DVR and plays there just fine.
I really don't get this issue. I know digital inheritance rights is trending right now, but with music its already game over for the record companies.
All the music I have is DRM free, I can play it on multiple platforms, I can make (and this is important) backup copies of it. And I can give it away.
Its just like physical media. I own the song now, I can put it on whatever machines I want, but if I lose it, then its gone. Just like a CD or a record. The fact that I can make perfect copies make it harder to lose. Its actually gracious of Apple to let me redownload a song if I lose it.
Now, I would actually love to see this issue expanded into movies and music videos. Those come with DRM and I do NOT buy those from iTunes for exactly that reason. This issue IS a problem where movies and videos are concerned. Movies and videos need to be DRM free too.
You are so right a humble rock star developer is worth their weight in gold (or at least silver). Also humble rock star developers can be some of the best mentors to junior programmers because the don't maintain any off putting alloofness.
Humble rock star developers aren't fairy tales either, they do exist. Having them on your development team is a fantastic benefit.
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Huh? The first time I saw any active wells when driving across Wyoming, I was surprised at how unobtrusive and innocuous they were.
But, that said its also surprising how innocuous missle silos are.
What I find interesting is that liberals will get whipped into a frenzy over any limitations on a woman ripping an unborn human out of their body, but think its a-ok to pass laws banning them from putting more than 16 oz of soda into it.
WTF?
Liberals, they're all for your liberty except when they think you're living your life wrong, then you don't deserve any.
Nope. Ironcally nations that promise total fairness, equality and prosperity generally turn into total shitholes.
Nations that stretch their horizions expand their frontier, and search for answers have massive opportunity and progress.
What makes people more inspired, staring at the ground or looking at the stars?
Agree on Dune.
But, unlike you I did not read the Foundation books until later in life and frankly I think they're a little overrated.
Any business that operated the way the US govt does would declare bankruptcy and be forced to sell off all it's assets after a year.
Our politicians are so corrupt and so sold out that I see very little hope that any one presidential candidate could fix this. The two parties we currently have have conspired to lead us to ruin. They will never ever give up their power. They'd all rather see the country burn then admit that they truly totally and completely cannot provide even mildly competent leadership.
What???
Electric vehicles for everyone powered by nuclear power are a complete zero emission system, no matter how many cars you have.
Thats the answer. Everyone in the city is always "public transport, public transport!!" But if your not in a big city the taxes and fees to support public transport that "everyone must use" are going to be more expensive than just having an electric car.
What part of "turtles all the way down" don't you understand?
How about calculated gross earnings of the students you have taught?
Of course that puts a value on teaching, which is something being discouraged for tenured faculty (which I obviously don't agree with).
Or you could measure net income from licensing of IP for creation of new technology. Notice I said licensing and creation, I wouldn't want to encourage our universities to continue acting like asses pursuing IP lawsuits as a means to make money.
If ever there needed to be proof the legislators NEVER think of unintended consequences of the laws/programs they create, the Internet is it.
There is NO WAY IN HELL that if they had known what the Internet would become that they would have passed the legislation and funded the programs that spawned it in the way that they did. They would have ensured the regulatory capture first, which would have saved them all this hassle of a rear guard action of trying to achieve it now.
The Internet's success was probably the most serendipitous accident in human history. Had the lawmakers actually really known exactly what they were doing, I am certain they would not have done it.
Please note that I am not at all inferring that the engineers and technical experts working at DARPA at the time didn't know exactly what THEY were doing...
I am beginning to believe that our screwed up patent system is the primary reason small businesses are failing to get started and why we're struggling so much to get out of the recession.
Exactly. Many, many of the people who pirate stuff also buy stuff.
It is just as easy to stop pirating AND buying as it is to just stop buying.
Plus there is no difference having an mp3 on your computer from a CD you legally purchased and ripped, and then later lost, versus having a pirated mp3. But when criminal jailtime is in play, this translates into having any mp3's on your computer being a bad idea that could land you in jail.
Draconian laws that can ruin someones life will eventually provide the impetus for people to stop pirating stuff AND stop buying stuff. Total avoidance will be the safest policy.
Then those police state espousing motherfuckers at the RIAA and MPAA can go the hell out of business.
The RIAA and MPAA should start tracking how the animosity that their customers feel about them impacts the bottom line. I wonder if they'd find a trend.
Yeah and that one simple line is why all the online music streaming companies get charged fucking exorbitant rates for the music they play.
There is such a deadly serious wrongness in this guys thinking.
Playing "mother may I" with all innovation is possibly the worst idea ever. The same Congress that can't pass a fricken budget would be in charge of innovation?!? I wonder what the record for the fastest collapse of a country into total irrelevance is? If we pass a law like this, we will find out.
Must be a bitch to have to walk 150 into town all the time.... Because based on your insinuation that it's too hard to get a license, he couldn't drive....
Nowhere is freedom of speech absolute, it's limited by the ability of the society to tolerate it.
The founding fathers believed Freedom of Speech to be a "natural" right. This means that the right to Free Speech is something that everyone is born with (ie. an absolute).
The founding fathers got it right, societies that can't tolerate Free Speech are getting it wrong.
You just called Medicare solvent??!!! It's costs have been out of control for DECADES.
It is set to eat the entire federal budget over the next few decades.
Either we deal win fucking Medicare or we financially collapse.
Grandma's not getting pushed off a cliff, she's relegating her grandchildren to poverty.
The old voters insistence that "they get theirs" will destroy the nations future.
Correct. Intel has just said that it does not want to participate at all in the Android tablet market.
They put all their chips on Window 8 in the tablet market.
Wow, this is mindblowingly stupid.
If intel doesn't warm to being able to run Android, they're going to end up in a world of hurt. This should be an easy call, but apparently someone at Intel still thinks the Windows monopoly matters and can impact the tablet space. There may be a small chance that's true, but its absolutely moronic Intel isn't hedging its bets by making sure its procs can run Android too.
They deserve to fall hard for making such a poor choice.
I feel awful that I have to say this, but it makes me wish that Tim Berners-Lee would have taken out a defensive patent on the web.
Then he could slam ELOAS for all the money they have.
Or to put it more bluntly. I had it with these mother#$%@$ patent trolls on this mother%@$()$ internet!!
"gun-it" is great, it just brings to my mind a picture of the trawler driver gripping the wheel tightly and mashing on the "accelerator."
With climate change this becomes a very interesting case.
The climate scientists can (I caveat a bit, very nearly) prove AGW.
However, many of the solutions posited are ECONOMIC solutions designed to reduce the amount of CO2 output.
At this point the debate about solutions to global warming should look to Economists for evaluation of those proposed solutions, Climatologists are now not the experts who are needed to evaluate the proposed solutions.
But to take it in a different direction. If the solution proposed is Terraforming to deal with the impacts of global warming, much like solution the, um Economists from Freakanomics, came up with, then the experts needed would be Engineers in collaboration with Climate Scientists.
The reason "free-market" types totally lose it when discussing solutions to climate change is that the main solution proposed is a blasphemously fake free-market in CO2. Carbon markets are anethema to those who believe in free markets, they're more or less a free anti-market that governs the non-production of something instead of the production of it.
The solution I favor, and that I believe will be the successful one, is the natural move to alternative forms of energy. I think that advances in alternative energy (both lowering cost and increasing efficiency) will lead to clean electricity generation, and that electric vehicles (and/or hybrids) will be the norm in the next 20-30 years. I think all of this can happen without the burden of a carbon market.
Heh, "gun the throttle."
All I can think of it 0-1 mph in .....
iTunes music has no DRM. You can do anything you want with it.
I just have to reply to this. I don't know what f-ing idiot modded this down to 0, but it is exactly the same thought I have.
EVERY single song I have downloaded in the past 3+ years from iTunes has been synced to my Linux DVR and plays there just fine.
I really don't get this issue. I know digital inheritance rights is trending right now, but with music its already game over for the record companies.
All the music I have is DRM free, I can play it on multiple platforms, I can make (and this is important) backup copies of it. And I can give it away.
Its just like physical media. I own the song now, I can put it on whatever machines I want, but if I lose it, then its gone. Just like a CD or a record. The fact that I can make perfect copies make it harder to lose. Its actually gracious of Apple to let me redownload a song if I lose it.
Now, I would actually love to see this issue expanded into movies and music videos. Those come with DRM and I do NOT buy those from iTunes for exactly that reason. This issue IS a problem where movies and videos are concerned. Movies and videos need to be DRM free too.
Yes, that's awesome. They should so turn this into a movie...
You are so right a humble rock star developer is worth their weight in gold (or at least silver). Also humble rock star developers can be some of the best mentors to junior programmers because the don't maintain any off putting alloofness.
Humble rock star developers aren't fairy tales either, they do exist. Having them on your development team is a fantastic benefit.
This. Exactly. People who want Samsung devices are moving now out of fear that the currently on sale devices will be pulled.
Ironically, one of the bigger outages we had where our AWS instances went down was due to ..... weather.