Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Microsoft very pro-Net Neutrality? I can't stand Ballmer but I wonder how having him as a tech advisor would affect McCain's anti-netneutrality stance.
I think one very important thing to note about this list is it is pretty equally divided between Republicans and Democrats.
Only further proves Ron Paul's quote (to paraphrase) when he said to watch out when Republicans and Democrats worked happily together, because the taxpayers and citizens are screwed.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the ESRB's rating system have no legal ground at all? Therefore it's not illegal for stores to sell to u-18s....depends on store policy.
More than anything it's reminding me of Mozilla, now known as SeaMonkey. The reason I switched from Mozilla to Firefox was because I wanted a smaller, more nimble browser. I didn't want a RSS reader, e-mail, IRC, etc. packaged together. Firefox hasn't integrated all of those yet but it's moving towards it and I don't like it.
I think this article brings up many great points, that global warming is not the end-all-be-all catastrophe that many portray it to be. Too much of the global warming debate is consumed by the dire predictions made by fairly alarmist scientists. I never really thought about the positives of global warming but it seems quite obvious. Hooray for the first Greenland-pioneer! I can see both sides of the debate from a personal level.
First-positives. I'm originally from upstate NY, a region not exactly known for its' pleasant weather. Winter lasts from November->April (I am not kidding) with severe snowfalls from January till April. Just two weeks ago, a snowstorm blasted through and canceled classes at many of my friends colleges. (Snow day with 2 weeks of classes left is pretty crazy) Oswego, NY had over 8' of snow on the ground at one point during the February storms this year. Obviously we could deal with warmer weather.
However, I go to college in New Orleans, and obviously with a warmer climate globally there would be a higher sea level. It is already difficult enough for this city with substandard levees, adding a few more feet to the height of the ocean and local waterbays would be catastrophic. For the Americans who say to hell with New Orleans, take a look at New York City. A rise in sea level would inundate the city, especially Manhattan and Brooklyn which both are low boroughs as well as directly in contact with the ocean.
Overall while there may be positives the eroding of our seashores, the centers of economic activity, would definitely outweight the positives. Still an interesting piece though.
Come on, the only reason they bankrolled us in the Revolution was to spite the English. There was no friendship, no mutual understanding, it was just revenge. Like us giving weapons to Iraq to kill Iranians during the Iran-Iraq war. Friends of convenience is not true friendship.
Lots of people don't disagree with our policies, they just plain hate us. We're damned for not stopping the Rwanda genocide, and damned for intervening in Somalia.
Pretty similar, they have the same kind of low taxes, no illegal immigration, and nationalism as the US.
The last part is where conservatives across the Atlantic clash. Liberals across the world seem to support each other but Conservatives all believe their country is better so Sarko and Bush will probably not be too chummy, Sarko seems too proud. (obviously goes as well for Bush)
A clear example of this is Charles De Gaulle. Big french conservative.....but butted heads with the United States constantly.
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. -DeGaulle
Watch other sports? Absolutely not. I want to watch my favorite club play soccer, and there is no legal way for me to do it. Second of all, no one watches sports after the fact, it's got to be live. Third of all, I do support MLS soccer but it is nowhere the caliber of the Premiership or the Italian Serie A.
If there's no legal way for me to watch this, of course I'm going to turn to YouTube. And clips of soccer only encourages it across America, I have purchases two soccer replica jerseys (solid pocket money going to the Premiership and Serie A there)
As a big soccer/football fan myself (forza juventus!) sometimes YouTube is the only way I can watch the premiership or international football games in the US. None of the major networks broadcast it, it's rarely if ever available on cable, and it's impossible to find games on the internet. Except YouTube, people often upload it in segments. Maybe if there was a way to watch it online for cheap (or ad-supported) we wouldn't have to resort to watching on YouTube...but as of now for 90%+ of Americans, that is the only way to watch.
They claim that "PS3 prices and shipment plans for the future should be determined by market trends and competition." There is no competition for who can sell the PS3, so they can arbitrarily price it wherever they want. This is a simple supply-demand curve, and they have put the price level where supply far exceeds demand, and anyone who has been to a Gamestop, Target, etc. can tell you this. I asked an employee at Target if he had any Wiis and he laughed a bit and said "No, but I've got plenty of PS3s.
I think the very fact that we are all posting on Slashdot shows that user-driven-content isn't necessarily good, there needs to be some kind of editorial control. I read Digg for a while, it had some cool postings and seemed like a good idea. But it has just turn into pseudo-mob-rule now. Diggs trolling for advertising show up all too often (and while a similar story may appear on Slashdot we generally bitch it into obscurity) and it's news stories, IMHO, have watered down significantly. It's no longer a news site per se, I certainly wouldn't go there to read insightful comments. (Complain about/. moderation if you will, but Digg's comment system is awful and not worth reading)
So not only is user-driven news sources inherently flawed, but as we all know, giving any sort of voice or power to Myspace users just screams OMG PONIES, "OMG NEW SHOES AT ABERCOMBIE" and "People- DO U ACTLY THINK IM HOT?" all over the front page, daily.
Not only is it subsidized, it's protected by many tariffs and most importantly, there's the Cuban Embargo which blocks one of the largest sugar-growers in the world. As such, sugar is more expensive so we use corn for soda and food that would normally contain sugar. This puts another strain on the corn supply. If we really want to increase ethanol and corn use in cars, we need to lift the Cuban embargo to free up the supply.
This was a case study in an economics class I was in previously. As the demand for biofuels increases, the cost is going to rise until supply reaches the same point comparatively. It will take a while for supply to rise to meet demand, and because of that, corn and other staples will be more expensive. It's the reason China banned ethanol production. It's the reason Castro blasted the United States.
Yes, switching to these kind of fuels will leave less of an environmental impact, but it will hurt poor people the most who consume corn frequently and will certainly lead to an increase in price in corn-produced food. (Think Corn Syrup in soda) This is why we can't radically switch to biofuels like some people are calling for.
For those of you who don't know, Mary Bono is the widow of Sonny Bono, as in Sonny and Cher, and the politician who yes, died while skiing in Nevada. More importantly, she is the namesake of Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act which dramatically increased the duration of copyrights, which may explain her opposition to free and open formats and architecture.
I thought the article was fairly interesting but this was just one troll of a comment. "I bet the Swedish people are going to love to find out that the US government and a US lobbying group now have a hand in training their police personnel. So much for the notion of national sovereignty."
There are United States military troops in Germany, Italy, South Korea, Japan, Colombia, the Phillipines, Indonesia, Kosovo, Egypt, Singapore, Thailand, the UK, Spain, Turkey, Portugal, Qatar, Bahrain, Cuba, etc. etc. etc. We run the Iraqi and Afghanistan governments. Training Swedish police is not a threat to national sovereignty, and if you dispute this, it still barely scrapes the iceberg. It's hysteria to complain that training foreign governments is intruding on their sovereignty if they request it.
We train police around the world, in almost all situations, our assistance is requested and welcomed. (by the governments, at least) If the wholly independent Swedish government and the people were opposed, there might be a case.
Complain about training them in bad DMCA-style law enforcement, or in RIAA-scare-tactics. Don't complain about a foreign country asking and receiving assistance.
Or maybe we complain just because we like our Tuxracer, UT, Doom3, and desktops to be ready to go when started.
Or, it could be because installing ATI drivers (for those of you out there who've done it know this) is an absolute pain in the ass on Ubuntu. When I installed NVidia drivers on my friends laptop, I groaned because it was so convenient.
People would complain if OpenOffice, Firefox, and some kind of movie/music didn't come packaged with Feisty Fawn, and for good reason! They are essentials to the system! I think it's really too bad they probably won't be included.
What's the penalty for not registering? Fines?
Are you actually going to go out into cyberspace and make sure people do it?
How are you going to make sure we have 500 readers? Are the hosts going to be subpoenaed for page views?
Is 500 readers mean per day? Per post? Per month?
If you go to her home, click on the eraser and you will be taken to a room -- you'll see a window, a door and a mirror.
In the mirror, you'll see a hallway. Click on the farthest doorknob and look for the Christmas tree. Then click on the center of the door next to the mirror and a wreath appears. Then click on the top of the mirror and you'll see a garland.
Look for a cobweb next to the door. Click on it, and it will disappear. Now, look at the chimes in the window. Click on the second chime to the right, and hold it down. The chime will turn into the key, which opens the door. Click on the wrapped gift behind the door, then click on it again and figure out the title yourself by playing a game of hangman.
I, on the other hand, would not be surprised at all if M$ jumped into the movie-making. They're not a software company guys...I'm using an M$ mouse right now (I know they don't make it themselves) and consider the past.
Consider, for instance, the Zune. Beyond being a potential flop, it showed the culmination of Microsoft getting sick of 3rd party partnerships and jumping it in themselves. PlaysForSure was M$ intellectual property (kind of) that they licensed out to try and leverage the market. Horrible failure. The Zune is a complete reversal, where they entered a non-MS-dominant market fresh and tried to win, getting directly in there. I think if it fails, it will because they waited way too long till the market was saturated, and not because of any product weaknesses.
Like the Xbox. They've taken industry titans head on, and well, they've won. This was once again direct involvement. Same with many of their video games, ie-Bungie. For those of you who didn't know, Bungie is owned by Microsoft. Direct involvement.
I really think M$ is going to set up a small studio to at least control the project, even if they don't develop it all the way. I can't see them just handing out the IP to Halo to a movie studio and saying have fun with it.
I am a student at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and we use our social security numbers as STUDENT ID's.
It appalls me how irresponsible this is. I have to write out my social security number down for the desk worker if I lock myself out of my room, to log-in to view my classes and grades, and all the time online to manage my account.
I cannot believe that such a highly accalimed university promotes such reckless actions. SSN's are basically our national ID number, and the fact that I have to throw it around all the time scares me.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Microsoft very pro-Net Neutrality? I can't stand Ballmer but I wonder how having him as a tech advisor would affect McCain's anti-netneutrality stance.
Only further proves Ron Paul's quote (to paraphrase) when he said to watch out when Republicans and Democrats worked happily together, because the taxpayers and citizens are screwed.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the ESRB's rating system have no legal ground at all? Therefore it's not illegal for stores to sell to u-18s....depends on store policy.
But Verizon will make up the difference by charging .04dollars per kilobyte and no one noticing!
More than anything it's reminding me of Mozilla, now known as SeaMonkey. The reason I switched from Mozilla to Firefox was because I wanted a smaller, more nimble browser. I didn't want a RSS reader, e-mail, IRC, etc. packaged together. Firefox hasn't integrated all of those yet but it's moving towards it and I don't like it.
First-positives. I'm originally from upstate NY, a region not exactly known for its' pleasant weather. Winter lasts from November->April (I am not kidding) with severe snowfalls from January till April. Just two weeks ago, a snowstorm blasted through and canceled classes at many of my friends colleges. (Snow day with 2 weeks of classes left is pretty crazy) Oswego, NY had over 8' of snow on the ground at one point during the February storms this year. Obviously we could deal with warmer weather.
However, I go to college in New Orleans, and obviously with a warmer climate globally there would be a higher sea level. It is already difficult enough for this city with substandard levees, adding a few more feet to the height of the ocean and local waterbays would be catastrophic. For the Americans who say to hell with New Orleans, take a look at New York City. A rise in sea level would inundate the city, especially Manhattan and Brooklyn which both are low boroughs as well as directly in contact with the ocean.
Overall while there may be positives the eroding of our seashores, the centers of economic activity, would definitely outweight the positives. Still an interesting piece though.
Come on, the only reason they bankrolled us in the Revolution was to spite the English. There was no friendship, no mutual understanding, it was just revenge. Like us giving weapons to Iraq to kill Iranians during the Iran-Iraq war. Friends of convenience is not true friendship.
Lots of people don't disagree with our policies, they just plain hate us. We're damned for not stopping the Rwanda genocide, and damned for intervening in Somalia.
The last part is where conservatives across the Atlantic clash. Liberals across the world seem to support each other but Conservatives all believe their country is better so Sarko and Bush will probably not be too chummy, Sarko seems too proud. (obviously goes as well for Bush)
A clear example of this is Charles De Gaulle. Big french conservative.....but butted heads with the United States constantly.
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
-DeGaulle
If there's no legal way for me to watch this, of course I'm going to turn to YouTube. And clips of soccer only encourages it across America, I have purchases two soccer replica jerseys (solid pocket money going to the Premiership and Serie A there)
As a big soccer/football fan myself (forza juventus!) sometimes YouTube is the only way I can watch the premiership or international football games in the US. None of the major networks broadcast it, it's rarely if ever available on cable, and it's impossible to find games on the internet. Except YouTube, people often upload it in segments. Maybe if there was a way to watch it online for cheap (or ad-supported) we wouldn't have to resort to watching on YouTube...but as of now for 90%+ of Americans, that is the only way to watch.
They claim that "PS3 prices and shipment plans for the future should be determined by market trends and competition." There is no competition for who can sell the PS3, so they can arbitrarily price it wherever they want. This is a simple supply-demand curve, and they have put the price level where supply far exceeds demand, and anyone who has been to a Gamestop, Target, etc. can tell you this. I asked an employee at Target if he had any Wiis and he laughed a bit and said "No, but I've got plenty of PS3s.
So not only is user-driven news sources inherently flawed, but as we all know, giving any sort of voice or power to Myspace users just screams OMG PONIES, "OMG NEW SHOES AT ABERCOMBIE" and "People- DO U ACTLY THINK IM HOT?" all over the front page, daily.
Not only is it subsidized, it's protected by many tariffs and most importantly, there's the Cuban Embargo which blocks one of the largest sugar-growers in the world. As such, sugar is more expensive so we use corn for soda and food that would normally contain sugar. This puts another strain on the corn supply. If we really want to increase ethanol and corn use in cars, we need to lift the Cuban embargo to free up the supply.
Yes, switching to these kind of fuels will leave less of an environmental impact, but it will hurt poor people the most who consume corn frequently and will certainly lead to an increase in price in corn-produced food. (Think Corn Syrup in soda) This is why we can't radically switch to biofuels like some people are calling for.
For those of you who don't know, Mary Bono is the widow of Sonny Bono, as in Sonny and Cher, and the politician who yes, died while skiing in Nevada. More importantly, she is the namesake of Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act which dramatically increased the duration of copyrights, which may explain her opposition to free and open formats and architecture.
There are United States military troops in Germany, Italy, South Korea, Japan, Colombia, the Phillipines, Indonesia, Kosovo, Egypt, Singapore, Thailand, the UK, Spain, Turkey, Portugal, Qatar, Bahrain, Cuba, etc. etc. etc. We run the Iraqi and Afghanistan governments. Training Swedish police is not a threat to national sovereignty, and if you dispute this, it still barely scrapes the iceberg. It's hysteria to complain that training foreign governments is intruding on their sovereignty if they request it.
We train police around the world, in almost all situations, our assistance is requested and welcomed. (by the governments, at least) If the wholly independent Swedish government and the people were opposed, there might be a case.
Complain about training them in bad DMCA-style law enforcement, or in RIAA-scare-tactics. Don't complain about a foreign country asking and receiving assistance.
Or, it could be because installing ATI drivers (for those of you out there who've done it know this) is an absolute pain in the ass on Ubuntu. When I installed NVidia drivers on my friends laptop, I groaned because it was so convenient.
People would complain if OpenOffice, Firefox, and some kind of movie/music didn't come packaged with Feisty Fawn, and for good reason! They are essentials to the system! I think it's really too bad they probably won't be included.
If this story and its' comments are to say anything, not very safe; good luck trying to get your personal data removed.
What's the penalty for not registering? Fines?
Are you actually going to go out into cyberspace and make sure people do it?
How are you going to make sure we have 500 readers? Are the hosts going to be subpoenaed for page views?
Is 500 readers mean per day? Per post? Per month?
I, for one, welcome our new GPS-messaging overlords.
In the mirror, you'll see a hallway. Click on the farthest doorknob and look for the Christmas tree. Then click on the center of the door next to the mirror and a wreath appears. Then click on the top of the mirror and you'll see a garland.
Look for a cobweb next to the door. Click on it, and it will disappear. Now, look at the chimes in the window. Click on the second chime to the right, and hold it down. The chime will turn into the key, which opens the door. Click on the wrapped gift behind the door, then click on it again and figure out the title yourself by playing a game of hangman.
Consider, for instance, the Zune. Beyond being a potential flop, it showed the culmination of Microsoft getting sick of 3rd party partnerships and jumping it in themselves. PlaysForSure was M$ intellectual property (kind of) that they licensed out to try and leverage the market. Horrible failure. The Zune is a complete reversal, where they entered a non-MS-dominant market fresh and tried to win, getting directly in there. I think if it fails, it will because they waited way too long till the market was saturated, and not because of any product weaknesses.
Like the Xbox. They've taken industry titans head on, and well, they've won. This was once again direct involvement. Same with many of their video games, ie-Bungie. For those of you who didn't know, Bungie is owned by Microsoft. Direct involvement.
I really think M$ is going to set up a small studio to at least control the project, even if they don't develop it all the way. I can't see them just handing out the IP to Halo to a movie studio and saying have fun with it.
Yeah but if you read the NHL page, they're only free and ad-less for the first two weeks of November.
It appalls me how irresponsible this is. I have to write out my social security number down for the desk worker if I lock myself out of my room, to log-in to view my classes and grades, and all the time online to manage my account.
I cannot believe that such a highly accalimed university promotes such reckless actions. SSN's are basically our national ID number, and the fact that I have to throw it around all the time scares me.