why should we try harder to stop something like this? they need to change their ways, we can't change them for them.
everyone always bitches that the US should but out of everyone else's business and stop making everyone's business our own, well, practice what you preach.
African countries need to take steps to fix the problem before we should start giving away freebies. If starving people dying, are we just going to throw free food their way and yell about our farmer's policy of getting paid for unharvested land? Before we change our policies, the African Nations need to change the root of the problem which is the way sex, AIDS, and birth control are perceived.
since when do drug campanies have a responsibility to short-change themselves (and thereby their investors) in order to save people that are sometimes too stupid to save themselves?
drug companies research and create drugs in order to sell those drugs. they aren't non-profit organizations whose goal is to save the world. their goal is to create cures that sell.
Someone's right to make money is just as important as someone's right to live. Someone doesn't have the right to profit from another person's death, but if they weren't responsible for the person getting in that position in the first place, then by all means they can do what they want.
Bad example: I'm a white guy that finds himself in the middle of harlem late at night. I'm about to get mugged. Does a taxi cab driver have a responsibility to pick me up and drive me out of their for free?
if you say yes, you're drinking too much of your own koolaid
fine. blame the drug companies for trying to ask too much money for their drugs and for getting governments to frown on the cheap reproduction of their drug by chinese companies. fine. that's anti-capitalist, but whatever.
but do not just blame the drug companies for the extent that AIDS is attacking Africa. Blame their governments for not spending money on AIDS awareness. Blame the tribal leaders and hell, the men of the cities and tribes for not wearing a condom because they feel strongly that it makes them less of a man. And blame the communities that stigmatize the people that have AIDS and are so afraid to get treatment, let alone let anyone else know, that is causing a greater spread of the disease.
This isn't a case of "capitalists and the corporate republic and patents are killing millions in Africa". This is a case of Africans and African beliefs killing themselves through denial and stigmatizations. It's just that the drug companies aren't helping the matter all that much. But I don't see this as a huge problems since the majority of the people in Africa that have contracted the disease refuse to admit it and refuse to get treatment.
or maybe they've just established a company that does very well in pursuing class action lawsuits so based on reputation, people retain them for the lawsuits.
ever think that maybe people can do legitimate legal work that involves suing people?
THEY aren't suing. They are retained by leading plaintiffs that feel that they've been treated in an illegal fashion. The only people that can sue are those that owned stock during the "class period". This law firm is representing those that are suing.
they keep on coming up with new ideas to shaft us, and millions of people across the globe keep buying their software, their updates, and hardware with their stuff pre-installed.
of course, somehow, somewhere, someone will come up with a random number generator that gets a new and valid serial number
next they'll have us sign our validation key with some biometric information so that you'll need a license per user per cpu and that each biometrically different user will have their own licenses.
and market realities shall catch up to the IOC and the Olympics.
this year was the worst year of ratings that the Olympics have had yet.
if it continues, most large media companies will not pay the millions and billions of dollars to gain the distribution rights to the Games. By not watching the Olympics, you are standing up for your rights and for what you believe in.
Will ABC, NBC, etc. pay tons of money next year after such a disappointing year this year? Doubtful. Will the IOC have to deal with market realities like everyone else does? I'm sure they will.
Don't like what the IOC is doing? Don't watch. Read about it the next day.
completely off topic, but look again at your signature. come the millenium, in the 12th month the village idiot will come forward to lead... can you say GW Bush? Considering that he wasn't elected in November but instead in December which is a fluke to begin with...
"This from the company that actually licensed Amazon's One-Click patent."
I love how he editorializes without even checking the facts. Hmmm...
could someone please explain to my why they feel that Apple's TrueType patent is in the same boat as Amazon's 1-click patent? Apple's seems fairly valid, while Amazon's seems like common sense.
"young people these days don't appreciate taking your time to get from place to place" - old lady when the car was invented replacing the horse and buggy
"why are you sitting there listening to that noise coming out of that box?" - parent dealing with a child who was addicted to some newfangled invention called the radio
"why are you spending so much time staring at that stupid box?" - parent dealing with kids that watch too much tv instead of playing marbles
"what do you find so fascinating about typing back and forth with someone named "KewlHakerDude" on the Internet?"
it's the same generation by generation. each time with different obstacles.
Ask any old Nintendo players what the key combo for gaining unlimited lives in Contra Warriors is; chances are they'll immediately reply "up up down down left right left right B A B A select start". Ask those same old Nintendo players how to reach the first dungeon in Zelda and you'll see them try to visualize the landscape in their minds on how to reach the dungeon from the opening screen of the game. And if you ask one of your coworkers how to reach a certain point within the voice mail system, they'll probably rattle off a string of numbers and signs for the steps needed to get to a certain option.
"
this isn't learning. this is rote memorization. puzzle solving through trial and error.
explain to me how this puts children and their learning curve ahead of their parents and elders that, unlike the kids, have lived decades and have decades of experience dealing with people. Dealing with other people is how we learn the majority of our useful information. Not information we learn in books and such, but useful information about how to get through the day, interact with people, and be an integrated member of society.
JKatz, the fact that you preach this to a group of people that you think are loners is horrific. We don't learn the necessities about human interaction by playing by ourselves in a dark room. We learn the necessities of life by being outside an interacting with people. We learn this by our village elders (family, neighbors, etc.)
the northeast corridor is the only area in which amtrak is actually profitable. their northeast area offsets the losses they incur elsewhere in the country.
just some numbers. these are 3 different train ways you can get from NYC to Philadelphia.
Jersey Transit to Septa - $14+$10 - 2 hr 15 min.
Amtrak regular - $118 - 1 hr 30 min.
Amtrak Acela - $200 - 1 hr 15 min.
on the acela, you're paying for more than speed. it's like paying for the difference between business class and economy class on a plane. speed is great, but it's also the perks like no noisy kids, bigger seats, and plugs and stuff for your laptop.
this line won't be for family travel, but for the large number of business users that need to go from Boston to DC quickly (without wasting the day) and don't want to take a plane.
personally, I see it as being extremely successful since i'm sure I'll be using it atleast a dozen times in the next month or two.
please change "french dude" with "french judge that is a representative of french civil law that was created by the population of french citizens".
"some french dude" as you would put it is not causing the problem. Yahoo! is disrespecting a law that french citizens wanted put in place so some extent. otherwise, it wouldn't have become a law.
while we might cherish the right to say or do most anything, others can not be judged by our standards, but we must respect others and the laws they enact for themselves.
Let me refresh you. In 1986, Mayor Wilson Goode authorized the dropping of a satchel bomb onto the roof of a building that was housing members of MOVE, an anarchist-type group that was threatening violence in the city unless certain "reasonable" demands were met. Mayor Goode was granted immunity by U.S. District Judge Louis Pollack (who claimed the bombing was reasonable under the circumstances).
Philadelphia does not deal well with anarchists or people they view as trouble-causing. Look at their list of mayors...
Frank Rizzo - known for blatant racial profiling, but also known for being even-handed in handing out harsh punishment to ALL offenders. Lines of his include, "if he's black and he's out after dark, chances are he's causing problems."
Wilson Goode - only mayor in the country to ever authorize the dropping of a bomb on his own city.
Ed Rendell - okay, sue me, i'm not impartial. I'm a support of Rendell.
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why should we try harder to stop something like this? they need to change their ways, we can't change them for them.
everyone always bitches that the US should but out of everyone else's business and stop making everyone's business our own, well, practice what you preach.
African countries need to take steps to fix the problem before we should start giving away freebies. If starving people dying, are we just going to throw free food their way and yell about our farmer's policy of getting paid for unharvested land? Before we change our policies, the African Nations need to change the root of the problem which is the way sex, AIDS, and birth control are perceived.
since when do drug campanies have a responsibility to short-change themselves (and thereby their investors) in order to save people that are sometimes too stupid to save themselves?
drug companies research and create drugs in order to sell those drugs. they aren't non-profit organizations whose goal is to save the world. their goal is to create cures that sell.
Someone's right to make money is just as important as someone's right to live. Someone doesn't have the right to profit from another person's death, but if they weren't responsible for the person getting in that position in the first place, then by all means they can do what they want.
Bad example: I'm a white guy that finds himself in the middle of harlem late at night. I'm about to get mugged. Does a taxi cab driver have a responsibility to pick me up and drive me out of their for free?
if you say yes, you're drinking too much of your own koolaid
but do not just blame the drug companies for the extent that AIDS is attacking Africa. Blame their governments for not spending money on AIDS awareness. Blame the tribal leaders and hell, the men of the cities and tribes for not wearing a condom because they feel strongly that it makes them less of a man. And blame the communities that stigmatize the people that have AIDS and are so afraid to get treatment, let alone let anyone else know, that is causing a greater spread of the disease.
This isn't a case of "capitalists and the corporate republic and patents are killing millions in Africa". This is a case of Africans and African beliefs killing themselves through denial and stigmatizations. It's just that the drug companies aren't helping the matter all that much. But I don't see this as a huge problems since the majority of the people in Africa that have contracted the disease refuse to admit it and refuse to get treatment.
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why are they still developing? because lots of large CORPORATE clients still use netscape and that whole server package.
the mass market isn't as much a target these days as much as appealing to those corporate clients.
serious UI problems?
/. community...
could you please name/describe some of this serious problems?
please enlighten me and the rest of the
or maybe they've just established a company that does very well in pursuing class action lawsuits so based on reputation, people retain them for the lawsuits.
ever think that maybe people can do legitimate legal work that involves suing people?
THEY aren't suing. They are retained by leading plaintiffs that feel that they've been treated in an illegal fashion. The only people that can sue are those that owned stock during the "class period". This law firm is representing those that are suing.
does this change anything?
they keep on coming up with new ideas to shaft us, and millions of people across the globe keep buying their software, their updates, and hardware with their stuff pre-installed.
of course, somehow, somewhere, someone will come up with a random number generator that gets a new and valid serial number
next they'll have us sign our validation key with some biometric information so that you'll need a license per user per cpu and that each biometrically different user will have their own licenses.
i can't wait for the future.
and market realities shall catch up to the IOC and the Olympics.
this year was the worst year of ratings that the Olympics have had yet.
if it continues, most large media companies will not pay the millions and billions of dollars to gain the distribution rights to the Games. By not watching the Olympics, you are standing up for your rights and for what you believe in.
Will ABC, NBC, etc. pay tons of money next year after such a disappointing year this year? Doubtful. Will the IOC have to deal with market realities like everyone else does? I'm sure they will.
Don't like what the IOC is doing? Don't watch. Read about it the next day.
no. the main reason a non-graphics person (read anyone) would ever want to buy a Mac or PPC is USABILITY (a term many *nix users forget about)
1. "no use of scripts" - applescript (which can be quite powerful when put to use)
2. ignorance is bliss.
completely off topic, but look again at your signature. come the millenium, in the 12th month the village idiot will come forward to lead... can you say GW Bush? Considering that he wasn't elected in November but instead in December which is a fluke to begin with...
people who live in california and are having rolling blackouts will probably need to keep on restarting their boxes.
"This from the company that actually licensed Amazon's One-Click patent."
I love how he editorializes without even checking the facts. Hmmm...
could someone please explain to my why they feel that Apple's TrueType patent is in the same boat as Amazon's 1-click patent? Apple's seems fairly valid, while Amazon's seems like common sense.
tetris? sextris is much more addictive...
but then again, the logic of the game can be improved because i've come up with positions that just aren't recognized by the game...
a great collection of recent premature headlines related to bush winning can be found here
"young people these days don't appreciate taking your time to get from place to place" - old lady when the car was invented replacing the horse and buggy
"why are you sitting there listening to that noise coming out of that box?" - parent dealing with a child who was addicted to some newfangled invention called the radio
"why are you spending so much time staring at that stupid box?" - parent dealing with kids that watch too much tv instead of playing marbles
"what do you find so fascinating about typing back and forth with someone named "KewlHakerDude" on the Internet?"
it's the same generation by generation. each time with different obstacles.
"Rote memorization
Ask any old Nintendo players what the key combo for gaining unlimited lives in Contra Warriors is; chances are they'll immediately reply "up up down down left right left right B A B A select start". Ask those same old Nintendo players how to reach the first dungeon in Zelda and you'll see them try to visualize the landscape in their minds on how to reach the dungeon from the opening screen of the game. And if you ask one of your coworkers how to reach a certain point within the voice mail system, they'll probably rattle off a string of numbers and signs for the steps needed to get to a certain option.
"
this isn't learning. this is rote memorization. puzzle solving through trial and error.
explain to me how this puts children and their learning curve ahead of their parents and elders that, unlike the kids, have lived decades and have decades of experience dealing with people. Dealing with other people is how we learn the majority of our useful information. Not information we learn in books and such, but useful information about how to get through the day, interact with people, and be an integrated member of society.
JKatz, the fact that you preach this to a group of people that you think are loners is horrific. We don't learn the necessities about human interaction by playing by ourselves in a dark room. We learn the necessities of life by being outside an interacting with people. We learn this by our village elders (family, neighbors, etc.)
have you ever used hushmail?
all of the composition and encryption runs on the client through an embeded applet.
i'm assuming that yahoo! would do it the same way.
in short, probably.
the northeast corridor is the only area in which amtrak is actually profitable. their northeast area offsets the losses they incur elsewhere in the country.
just some numbers. these are 3 different train ways you can get from NYC to Philadelphia.
Jersey Transit to Septa - $14+$10 - 2 hr 15 min.
Amtrak regular - $118 - 1 hr 30 min.
Amtrak Acela - $200 - 1 hr 15 min.
on the acela, you're paying for more than speed. it's like paying for the difference between business class and economy class on a plane. speed is great, but it's also the perks like no noisy kids, bigger seats, and plugs and stuff for your laptop.
this line won't be for family travel, but for the large number of business users that need to go from Boston to DC quickly (without wasting the day) and don't want to take a plane.
personally, I see it as being extremely successful since i'm sure I'll be using it atleast a dozen times in the next month or two.
the acela passed us...
they had to stop the train because they weren't sure what the wind sheer would do to our train that was going the other way.
even stopped, it felt like the train hit part of our train or atleast took off something... that was one hell of a wind sheer.
please change "french dude" with "french judge that is a representative of french civil law that was created by the population of french citizens".
"some french dude" as you would put it is not causing the problem. Yahoo! is disrespecting a law that french citizens wanted put in place so some extent. otherwise, it wouldn't have become a law.
while we might cherish the right to say or do most anything, others can not be judged by our standards, but we must respect others and the laws they enact for themselves.
if you're going to put the word in bold capitals, you might want to have the correct word in place.
THERE should be THEIR
there refers to location.
their refers to possession.
I think you're forgetting philadelphia's history.
Let me refresh you. In 1986, Mayor Wilson Goode authorized the dropping of a satchel bomb onto the roof of a building that was housing members of MOVE, an anarchist-type group that was threatening violence in the city unless certain "reasonable" demands were met. Mayor Goode was granted immunity by U.S. District Judge Louis Pollack (who claimed the bombing was reasonable under the circumstances).
Philadelphia does not deal well with anarchists or people they view as trouble-causing. Look at their list of mayors...
Frank Rizzo - known for blatant racial profiling, but also known for being even-handed in handing out harsh punishment to ALL offenders. Lines of his include, "if he's black and he's out after dark, chances are he's causing problems."
Wilson Goode - only mayor in the country to ever authorize the dropping of a bomb on his own city.
Ed Rendell - okay, sue me, i'm not impartial. I'm a support of Rendell.
John Street - reformed Black Panther.
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