yes, yes i know this is unrelated to the story, but i got this in my email and felt like sharing it:
Can you imagine working at the following Company? It has a little over 500 employees with the following statistics:
*29 have been accused of spousal abuse *7 have been arrested for fraud *19 have been accused of writing bad checks *117 have bankrupted at least two businesses *3 have been arrested for assault *71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit *14 have been arrested on drug-related charges *8 have been arrested for shoplifting *21 are current defendants in lawsuits *In 1998 alone, 84 were stopped for drunk driving
Can you guess which organization this is? Give up?
It's the 535 members of your United States Congress. The same group that perpetually cranks out hundreds upon hundreds of new laws designed to keep the rest of us in line.
There is lots of private money going around for private research, and there would be more if the government wasn't pumping so much money into it.
Bringing in Private Funding is bad.
1. The science research will only be about getting the company more money. So, would the company allow its data to be spread out in the world (open-source) or would they hoard it, making their competitors have to use money to find out the same info.
Governments are notoriously inefficient
2. That is true because governments are a lot more effective. The gov't wil try to find the entire effects of research (effects on enviorment, people, etc). While companies don't want to use so much money on studies that could be pointless. think a much better use of that money is an accross-the-board tax cut. I don't want to get into this, but poor families that work very hard for little money should get priority in tax cuts. Well i wanted to write more, but i need to go.
you got to remember, at the top it said MY top ten. And i assume that it was a man that was speaking. Most men don't think that Birth control changed their lives. I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
Actually i do belive that microsoft is considering changing Windows. I heard the name they were thinking about was Neptune. Or some thing like that. I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
I mean, so far, technology has made our lives infinitely more pleasurable than not
When Europe came to America, many people saw how the Native Americans lived and they believed that to be a better way of life, they saw their current lives as hectic and too busy, missing out from the best stuff of life. That was the tech level of 150 years ago. Now, very few people would leave to live in some third world nation. Technology is like a drug, we think it helps us. Now we are addicted to it. o, you're implying that the Timorese are 'better' because they 'apply technology wisely, and morally'? Whereas, the US doesn't? Well.. If that's the case, then hook me up on a train to the nearest country that applies technology at random, because I would way rather live in the US than in East Timor. Thats because you cannot live in a society that is better, but has little tech. Think what this tech does, we sit infront of a screen. We view the world through a looking glass, not being able to experience with the people we see. why should we stop?... And yeah, maybe we'll fsck up so significantly that it'll kill us all. No comment needed.
If others don't pursue technology like we (western civilization) do, fine, that's their choice. That's their choice. Don't blame technology for other people's inability (or lack of desire) to acquire it. But then those people become powerless tto stop the Western civilization in any way.
Would you rather revert back to cave-dwelling? So, why should we slow down There is a slight diferenence in slowing down, and destroying all the tech we've had for the last million years.
Oppose innapropriate applications of technology, not technology itself. I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
its true that U.S. is huge and has almost 300 mil people, but we also have the most technology. We should be able to have direct vote, everyone could just vote on the internet, and for the people without internet, set up perminent computers(junky ones that could only vote on that one page) on the streets. I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
that is TERRIBLE, how do you think the children would feel, the spirit of christmas ruined by some stupid santa. oh and, FIRST POST I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
When your small, you fight the bigger capitalist by creating better products and overshadowing them. You win. AMD believes they won, maybe they have, but they wont be saints, or demons (or daemons:). I read a while ago and im pretty sure it still holds true. AMD has a better product, but they only have a small farction of the sales, like 10%. Intel has had absolute power for a long time. AMD still has a tough road to climb, and now they don't have the element of surprise. I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
i used athena student one, and when it finished downloading it said the movie was unplayable i tried different programs (including quicktime) but none worked. over an hour to download doh I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
No, there are basicly the same amount of quakes, and there always will be. But after Turkey, the media will cover more on earthquakes. The one is california was in some rural area with no one seriously hurt but it still got front page in my paper.
I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
Unfortunitly what Marx wanted cannot exist for at least a few eons. Marx that people would be willing to sacrafice for the common good, while capitalism worked off peoples' greed. Communism was way to radical and didn't fit how people thought back then (or now). ONly when people are ready for it (few eons from now) can communism work. I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
One main thing with tech is that it allows commen people to have a voice, we don't need to be ruled by rich people that think they now more than us. the electoral colledge began to make sure that no flashy popular person would be president (but, actually they want those people because they get more power,i.e. Reagan) MAY THE RULE OF THE BACKWARD WHITE RICH CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN CHRISTIAN MAN COME TO AN END!
Slashdot Mirror
everytime i try to connect to their servers i get an error "Server returned file with no content" anyone else getting this?
yes, yes i know this is unrelated to the story, but i got this in my email and felt like sharing it:
Can you imagine working at the following Company? It has a little over
500 employees with the following statistics:
*29 have been accused of spousal abuse
*7 have been arrested for fraud
*19 have been accused of writing bad checks
*117 have bankrupted at least two businesses
*3 have been arrested for assault
*71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
*14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
*8 have been arrested for shoplifting
*21 are current defendants in lawsuits
*In 1998 alone, 84 were stopped for drunk driving
Can you guess which organization this is? Give up?
It's the 535 members of your United States Congress. The same group
that perpetually cranks out hundreds upon hundreds of new laws designed
to keep the rest of us in line.
There is lots of private money going around for private research, and there would be more if the government wasn't pumping so much money into it.
Bringing in Private Funding is bad.
1. The science research will only be about getting the company more money. So, would the company allow its data to be spread out in the world (open-source) or would they hoard it, making their competitors have to use money to find out the same info.
Governments are notoriously inefficient
2. That is true because governments are a lot more effective. The gov't wil try to find the entire effects of research (effects on enviorment, people, etc). While companies don't want to use so much money on studies that could be pointless.
think a much better use of that money is an accross-the-board tax cut.
I don't want to get into this, but poor families that work very hard for little money should get priority in tax cuts.
Well i wanted to write more, but i need to go.
you got to remember, at the top it said MY top ten. And i assume that it was a man that was speaking. Most men don't think that Birth control changed their lives.
I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
Actually i do belive that microsoft is considering changing Windows. I heard the name they were thinking about was Neptune. Or some thing like that.
I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
I mean, so far, technology has made our lives infinitely more pleasurable than not
... And yeah, maybe we'll fsck up so significantly that it'll kill us all. No comment needed.
When Europe came to America, many people saw how the Native Americans lived and they believed that to be a better way of life, they saw their current lives as hectic and too busy, missing out from the best stuff of life. That was the tech level of 150 years ago. Now, very few people would leave to live in some third world nation. Technology is like a drug, we think it helps us. Now we are addicted to it. o, you're implying that the Timorese are 'better' because they 'apply technology wisely, and morally'? Whereas, the US doesn't? Well.. If that's the case, then hook me up on a train to the nearest country that applies technology at random, because I would way rather live in the US than in East Timor. Thats because you cannot live in a society that is better, but has little tech.
Think what this tech does, we sit infront of a screen. We view the world through a looking glass, not being able to experience with the people we see.
why should we stop?
If others don't pursue technology like we (western civilization) do, fine, that's their choice. That's their choice. Don't blame technology for other people's inability (or lack of desire) to acquire it. But then those people become powerless tto stop the Western civilization in any way.
Would you rather revert back to cave-dwelling? So, why should we slow down There is a slight diferenence in slowing down, and destroying all the tech we've had for the last million years.
Oppose innapropriate applications of technology, not technology itself.
I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
its true that U.S. is huge and has almost 300 mil people, but we also have the most technology. We should be able to have direct vote, everyone could just vote on the internet, and for the people without internet, set up perminent computers(junky ones that could only vote on that one page) on the streets.
I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
that is TERRIBLE, how do you think the children would feel, the spirit of christmas ruined by some stupid santa.
oh and, FIRST POST
I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
When your small, you fight the bigger capitalist by creating better products and overshadowing them. You win. AMD :).
believes they won, maybe they have, but they wont be saints, or demons (or daemons
I read a while ago and im pretty sure it still holds true. AMD has a better product, but they only have a small farction of the sales, like 10%. Intel has had absolute power for a long time. AMD still has a tough road to climb, and now they don't have the element of surprise.
I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
i used athena student one, and when it finished downloading it said the movie was unplayable i tried different programs (including quicktime) but none worked. over an hour to download doh
I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
No, there are basicly the same amount of quakes, and there always will be. But after Turkey, the media will cover more on earthquakes. The one is california was in some rural area with no one seriously hurt but it still got front page in my paper.
I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
Unfortunitly what Marx wanted cannot exist for at least a few eons. Marx that people would be willing to sacrafice for the common good, while capitalism worked off peoples' greed. Communism was way to radical and didn't fit how people thought back then (or now). ONly when people are ready for it (few eons from now) can communism work.
I AM NOT AS I CRAZY AS I THINK I AM! or am i??? -GODriel
One main thing with tech is that it allows commen people to have a voice, we don't need to be ruled by rich people that think they now more than us. the electoral colledge began to make sure that no flashy popular person would be president (but, actually they want those people because they get more power,i.e. Reagan) MAY THE RULE OF THE BACKWARD WHITE RICH CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN CHRISTIAN MAN COME TO AN END!