What do you mean by "produced"? Saccharin was first produced at Johns Hopkins University and Cyclamates was discovered at the University of Illinois and first produced by Abbott Laboratories.
Diet or sugar free sodas have artificial sweeteners that are cancer causing (among other things).
That's a myth. It's supported by the fact that most diet sodas used to contain saccharine, which is a sweetener that has been shown to cause cancer in laboratory rats if fed to them in sufficiently large quantities. As a result of these (possibly spurious) studies, most soft drink companies switched their artificial sweetener to aspartame ("Equal") many years ago (in the 1980s), which, as you can see by my link, has definitely not been shown by any studies to cause cancer (or lupus, or diabetes mellitus, or any other such nonsense). Virtually all of the evidence of aspartame causing ailments, including headaches, is entirely anecodotal and unsupported by scientific study.
It's illegal, but A) you (generally) can't (or won't) get arrested for it, B) 100% enforcement is impossible (at least without something like this), and C) you can get out of most speeding tickets.
The bottom line is that speeding is mostly (ab)used by localities for revenue generation.
TeX dominates academia because A) it doesn't cost $400 per seat, B) most publishers can handle the format, and C) it really is more powerful than even Framemaker, though probably not nearly as easy to use.
Come back and tell me what life is like for you when you can no longer buy cars from Toyota, computers from Apple, burgers from McDonalds, fly on planes from Boeing, or take antibiotics from Merck. You get back to us on what it was like to try and build your own cars, grow all your own food, and make your own clothing.
Spoken like a true serf. That's almost exactly what the royal elite and their loyal serfs said to all the people who came to start this Great Nation almost 300 years ago. And now look what we've become. Slaves. So which do you prefer, the whip or the boot heel?
We need more private money in elections.
Hell, yeah! How else are our greedy corporate overlords supposed to control us slaves? We don't need no stinkin' rules. Hell, let's just legalize outright bribery!
Sure. It's as valid any. Ever heard of a single issue voter? Maybe that's his single issue.
But that's what's wrong with our political process. You don't actually need a good reason to vote for someone. A lot of people just for the guy they think is going to win. It's like American Idol, but with -- well, I was going to say "old white guys," but I guess that changed recently.;)
The mostly old white guys then win by taking money -- some from people, most from corporations -- and then use that to market themselves, the way record companies market Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood. In return for the bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hcampaign contributions, they make certain promises.
So the most corrupt people get in by popular consensus, and, just like with American Idol, they serve their corporate masters.
I've seen you say a lot of worthwhile things, but this isn't one them.:( If you've never tried to write a long document (Like a book, which is why academia uses it. A Master's Thesis pretty much is a book, for instance.) in a word processor, then you have no idea how difficult and limiting Word -- or any other word processor currently on the market, with the possible exception of WordPerfect -- really is.
Right. The difference being that Word doesn't always truly separate content from presentation, nor does it enforce any separation of content from presentation.
IOW, TeX is like making a webpage using HTML 4 strict with a text editor, and Word is like making a webpage in Microsoft FrontPage.
Yep. My step-daughter is always saying things like "I hate Ubuntu! It makes you load the PDF in a separate application, not right in the browser like on Windows!"
It's a security thing! The Adobe plugins suck.
Another way to fix the whole thing is to just use NoScript. No scripts running on a Web page == no drive-by downloads.
Positive reinforcement == "you got good grades this quarter, so i'm going to [grant you extra priveleges || give you a raise in your allowance || buy you a pony].
Damn. Vodafone in NZ sucks. Even with the $130/month, you only get 250 anytime minutes?
I don't have any iPhone (nor will I get one since I refuse to use AT&T's price-jacked service with spotty coverage), but I have 3 phones with 800 anytime minutes shared between them, unlimited text and unlimited data for less than that price. I paid $0 for my phone, an LG Rumor messaging phone, and I think my wife paid only $50 after discounts and rebates for her phone (same one, but she got it when it first came out and the base price was higher than it is now).
Make the act of studying have a negative association with it in the child's mind. That way when they depend on themselves to learn things later in life, they'll be reminded of your horrible freedom inhibiting imprisonment technique.
Similar to "no friends, no phone calls, no going out, no playing [Wii || Xbox360 || PS3], no anything until your homework is done"?
Except for the myriad of non-working solutions to the problem of working out whether the car's complaint about her ex-carfriend's deed is really valid or not, not too bad.
Google doesn't sell/license BigTable in any way. It's used internally. I fail to see how it's possible to release an alternative to something which can't be acquired in any form.
Not completely correct. You can use BigTable right now. There are Google AppEngine APIs that can access BigTable. You just can't use it without using Google's servers, that's all.
If, at this point, you still can't see why it's completely obvious why Microsoft would write an alternative to BigTable and open source it, all I can say you haven't been paying attention.
I think you're misunderstanding my argument. Non-compete clauses are part of a contract; nothing to do with regulation, except insofar as the government enforces contracts in general. The only thing stopping non-compete clauses is specific regulation (in CA and other places). GPP said that regulation is bad and non-competes are bad. I was trying to get him to explain this contradiction.
Not regulation per se, simply "judicial activism".
Non-competes are unconstitutional. Activist judges allow them to stand in court, ergo, legislation through adjudication.
In many states without non-compete legislation, non-competes aren't worth the paper they're written on.
I'm almost always in favor of more open markets over regulation and control, so, IMHO, non-competes are stupid and a restraint of fair trade. In addition, "IP theft" can be dealt with in other ways, since that's what courts are for.
Or actually: which state really has jurisdiction in this case?
Since I'm not a lawyer, I can't really answer this part with any real authority, but most likely it depends what companies have a presence where, if there were any jurisdiction clauses in EMC's employment agreement, etc..
I'm not saying I agree or disagree with that statement. However, this is what Joe Sixpack sees, and why Joe Sixpack overwhelmingly prefers municipal trash removal to individually-contracted service: at my current residence, I pay ~$150 a year for trash collection, paid out quarterly.
At my last residence, a rented apartment, the cost for trash removal was built-in to my rent. So no bill, $0 from my point-of-view. (Obviouly, though, it was some fraction of my rent)
My parents own their own home in another community with municipal trash removal. It's a line-item on their annual property tax bill which, last time I saw that bill was like $20 or $50 for the entire year. So from their point of view, I pay 3 times as much they do. (Try not to laugh.) Obviously, trash collection in their community is subsidized in some way with funds from other sources.
Point is, people like having their costs hidden from them. Ignorance is truly bliss.
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What do you mean by "produced"? Saccharin was first produced at Johns Hopkins University and Cyclamates was discovered at the University of Illinois and first produced by Abbott Laboratories.
Diet or sugar free sodas have artificial sweeteners that are cancer causing (among other things).
That's a myth. It's supported by the fact that most diet sodas used to contain saccharine, which is a sweetener that has been shown to cause cancer in laboratory rats if fed to them in sufficiently large quantities. As a result of these (possibly spurious) studies, most soft drink companies switched their artificial sweetener to aspartame ("Equal") many years ago (in the 1980s), which, as you can see by my link, has definitely not been shown by any studies to cause cancer (or lupus, or diabetes mellitus, or any other such nonsense). Virtually all of the evidence of aspartame causing ailments, including headaches, is entirely anecodotal and unsupported by scientific study.
So is speeding.
Nope. It's not illegal, just heavily taxed. ;)
It's illegal, but A) you (generally) can't (or won't) get arrested for it, B) 100% enforcement is impossible (at least without something like this), and C) you can get out of most speeding tickets.
The bottom line is that speeding is mostly (ab)used by localities for revenue generation.
But notice you didn't say you'd using Word.
TeX dominates academia because A) it doesn't cost $400 per seat, B) most publishers can handle the format, and C) it really is more powerful than even Framemaker, though probably not nearly as easy to use.
I agree with you. I would come down very hard on attorneys who try to game the system as the RIAA's attorneys do, were I a judge.
Is this your unofficial campaign announcement for federal circuit judge, Ray? I'd vote for you!
Mod parent up!
Funniest. Slashdot. Post. Evar!
Come back and tell me what life is like for you when you can no longer buy cars from Toyota, computers from Apple, burgers from McDonalds, fly on planes from Boeing, or take antibiotics from Merck. You get back to us on what it was like to try and build your own cars, grow all your own food, and make your own clothing.
Spoken like a true serf. That's almost exactly what the royal elite and their loyal serfs said to all the people who came to start this Great Nation almost 300 years ago. And now look what we've become. Slaves. So which do you prefer, the whip or the boot heel?
We need more private money in elections.
Hell, yeah! How else are our greedy corporate overlords supposed to control us slaves? We don't need no stinkin' rules. Hell, let's just legalize outright bribery!
And that's a valid reason to vote Republican?
Sure. It's as valid any. Ever heard of a single issue voter? Maybe that's his single issue.
But that's what's wrong with our political process. You don't actually need a good reason to vote for someone. A lot of people just for the guy they think is going to win. It's like American Idol, but with -- well, I was going to say "old white guys," but I guess that changed recently. ;)
The mostly old white guys then win by taking money -- some from people, most from corporations -- and then use that to market themselves, the way record companies market Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood. In return for the bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hcampaign contributions, they make certain promises.
So the most corrupt people get in by popular consensus, and, just like with American Idol, they serve their corporate masters.
$DEITY, I love this country, don't you?
I've seen you say a lot of worthwhile things, but this isn't one them. :( If you've never tried to write a long document (Like a book, which is why academia uses it. A Master's Thesis pretty much is a book, for instance.) in a word processor, then you have no idea how difficult and limiting Word -- or any other word processor currently on the market, with the possible exception of WordPerfect -- really is.
Wow! I didn't know they were making lithium ion batteries in the United States!
Right. The difference being that Word doesn't always truly separate content from presentation, nor does it enforce any separation of content from presentation.
IOW, TeX is like making a webpage using HTML 4 strict with a text editor, and Word is like making a webpage in Microsoft FrontPage.
Still more than I spend for one phone. By a lot.
I was not aware of mozplugger. *shrug*
Yep. My step-daughter is always saying things like "I hate Ubuntu! It makes you load the PDF in a separate application, not right in the browser like on Windows!"
It's a security thing! The Adobe plugins suck.
Another way to fix the whole thing is to just use NoScript. No scripts running on a Web page == no drive-by downloads.
Smart card readers are only as secure as the smart cards themselves.
Positive reinforcement == "you got good grades this quarter, so i'm going to [grant you extra priveleges || give you a raise in your allowance || buy you a pony].
Denying priveleges is negative reinforcement.
Damn. Vodafone in NZ sucks. Even with the $130/month, you only get 250 anytime minutes?
I don't have any iPhone (nor will I get one since I refuse to use AT&T's price-jacked service with spotty coverage), but I have 3 phones with 800 anytime minutes shared between them, unlimited text and unlimited data for less than that price. I paid $0 for my phone, an LG Rumor messaging phone, and I think my wife paid only $50 after discounts and rebates for her phone (same one, but she got it when it first came out and the base price was higher than it is now).
Why are cellphones so expensive there?
Ha! I've got you all beat! I set my secret question on Slashdot to be "What operating system do you run?"
No one will ever guess the answer to that!
Make the act of studying have a negative association with it in the child's mind. That way when they depend on themselves to learn things later in life, they'll be reminded of your horrible freedom inhibiting imprisonment technique.
Similar to "no friends, no phone calls, no going out, no playing [Wii || Xbox360 || PS3], no anything until your homework is done"?
Except for the myriad of non-working solutions to the problem of working out whether the car's complaint about her ex-carfriend's deed is really valid or not, not too bad.
Google doesn't sell/license BigTable in any way. It's used internally. I fail to see how it's possible to release an alternative to something which can't be acquired in any form.
Not completely correct. You can use BigTable right now. There are Google AppEngine APIs that can access BigTable. You just can't use it without using Google's servers, that's all.
If, at this point, you still can't see why it's completely obvious why Microsoft would write an alternative to BigTable and open source it, all I can say you haven't been paying attention.
I think you're misunderstanding my argument. Non-compete clauses are part of a contract; nothing to do with regulation, except insofar as the government enforces contracts in general. The only thing stopping non-compete clauses is specific regulation (in CA and other places). GPP said that regulation is bad and non-competes are bad. I was trying to get him to explain this contradiction.
Not regulation per se, simply "judicial activism".
Non-competes are unconstitutional. Activist judges allow them to stand in court, ergo, legislation through adjudication.
In many states without non-compete legislation, non-competes aren't worth the paper they're written on.
Cloning machine?! Oh, man. Now you totally ruined it for me, you insensitive clod!
But which is more important?
I'm almost always in favor of more open markets over regulation and control, so, IMHO, non-competes are stupid and a restraint of fair trade. In addition,
"IP theft" can be dealt with in other ways, since that's what courts are for.
Or actually: which state really has jurisdiction in this case?
Since I'm not a lawyer, I can't really answer this part with any real authority, but most likely it depends what companies have a presence where, if there were any jurisdiction clauses in EMC's employment agreement, etc..
I'm not saying I agree or disagree with that statement. However, this is what Joe Sixpack sees, and why Joe Sixpack overwhelmingly prefers municipal trash removal to individually-contracted service: at my current residence, I pay ~$150 a year for trash collection, paid out quarterly.
At my last residence, a rented apartment, the cost for trash removal was built-in to my rent. So no bill, $0 from my point-of-view. (Obviouly, though, it was some fraction of my rent)
My parents own their own home in another community with municipal trash removal. It's a line-item on their annual property tax bill which, last time I saw that bill was like $20 or $50 for the entire year. So from their point of view, I pay 3 times as much they do. (Try not to laugh.) Obviously, trash collection in their community is subsidized in some way with funds from other sources.
Point is, people like having their costs hidden from them. Ignorance is truly bliss.