And Apache? Who is going to be the first moron to shout that Apache is the suxors, and OpenSource doesn't work? The Apache Foundation must have gobs of cash to bribe companies to use their software. Such a sucky product has 60+% market share, how criminal!
I've always been wondering how Creationists (the evolution denying bunch of them) could fail to leave space for the workings of God in evolution.
Your statements are not 'Insightful' (and yes, I have mod points today!), because there are many Christians who already 'believe in Evolution', and that Evolution was God's mechanism for the creation of species. This is the standard Roman Catholic belief. OK, it is the official Roman Catholic belief; what individual Catholics squatting in their huts around the world actually believe in, I don't want to know.
If you take the time period 'day' in Creation as symbolical
Now you hit a sticking point. Most Fundamentalists (almost by definition) believe that a 'day' in Genesis was 24-hours (yes, the same hours that we use today). The most extreme flavor actually believe that the Earth was created about 6,000 years ago.
SuSE would have been a shoo-in had it not been bought by an American company. This is not an anti-European rant, but companies and governments (especially) look for 'local' companies to deal with. When Novell bought SuSE, Europe lost its local distro, and buying SuSE has the same trade-balance effect as buying from M$.
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In any event, even if the work wasn't patented, it would have been subject to trade secret complaints (if you accept Alacritech's version of the story)
IANAL. Change your 'even if' to 'only if'. Once an invention has been described in the public (including in publicly disclosed patent documents), it is no longer a secret. It is then ineligible for Trade Secret protection. Trade Secret status is incompatible with patents; you must choose.
You really need to stop thinking that the technical implementation is the magic that makes it all work and that you possess the keys to the kingdom by having more than passing knowledge of the technology.
We tried putting the marketeers, professional managers, and VCs in charge. Result: dot-bomb.
Small sites and businesses that revolutionized the ways that people communicate and use information turned into poorly run Superbowl-ad-purchasing, high burn-rate money sinks that thought innovation meant getting rich.
You're right that you can't build a strong economy the way that I described, but you can satisfy the metrics that are commonly used to measure the health of an economy (I am not saying that this is a good thing!)
We measure economic health by the rate at which money circulates. Our term for a 'bad' economy is not 'depleted', it is 'stagnant'. As long as people SPEND, SPEND, SPEND the economic indicators look great. We ignore the fact that those people are borrowing the money that they are spending. We have somehow convinced ourselves that a huge trade imbalance is less important than our ability to sucker people into consuming more. I have no answers.
Do you really think he was going to lose had it not been for 'gay marriage'? History said he would win.
This was the closest Presidential election in US history. The GOP pushed the Gay Marriage issue hard in Ohio (all else being equal, Ohio was very close and had enough electoral votes to change the outcome). Why do you think the GOP was shouting "Gay Marriage" at the top of their lungs? They didn't think that the outcome was a foregone conclusion, and their wonks still think that their culture war efforts did sway the election.
You are trying to be funny, but why do you think our "service economy" has grown so fast? As long as we serve each other hamburgers fast enough, it looks like we have a strong economy.
Depending on what you want to count as 'illiterate', you can say the in the U.S., between 21% and 49% have "significant literacy needs".
Read the following from http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/policy/whpap.html
In 1992, the Department of Education carried out the most comprehensive, statistically reliable survey to date of literacy skills in the adult population in the U.S. Through interviews with a nationally representative sample of approximately 26,000 adults, data were collected and reported in the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS). A similar follow-up study will be conducted in 2002, which will show any progress that is made.
NALS researchers did not classify people as either "literate" or "illiterate." Instead, they created a literacy continuum divided into 5 levels, with Level 5 reflecting the highest skills and Level 1 the lowest. NALS found that 21-23 percent (40-44 million) of America's 191 million adults are at Level 1. Level 1 adults demonstrate difficulty using certain reading, writing, and computational skills considered necessary for functioning in daily life, and generally function at below the 5th grade level. An additional 25-28 (about 50 million) percent scored at Level 2, meaning they had stronger skills than adults at Level 1, but still had significant literacy needs. They were generally able to locate information in text, to make low level inferences using printed materials, and to integrate identifiable pieces of information.
SKILLS OF ADULTS AT LITERACY LEVEL I
CAN USUALLY
Sign one's name
Identify a country in a short article
Locate the expiration date information on a driver's license
Total a bank deposit entry
CANNOT USUALLY
Locate eligibility from a table of employee benefits
Locate intersection on a street map
Identify and enter background information on a social security card application
Calculate total costs of purchase from an order form
In a democracy you can screw 49% and get away with it, but not 51%.
Our top 1% (and their slightly disadvantaged friends) has been screwing our bottom 80% for over 100 years, and the screwing gets harder every year. And the rate at which the screwing gets harder, gets faster every year. Our voters are really too stupid to do anything about it.
The Rust Belt workers (and unemployed ex-workers) voted against Gay Marriage, instead of voting for American jobs. Some day, there will probably have to be a wake-up, but there is no guarantee that this will not come too late to keep America from turning into a 3rd-World country.
No fair! American companies pioneered incomprehensible manuals backed by unintelligable help desk support. They're just ripping off our designs and business processes again!
We haven't forgotten you. We just don't have enough troops to attack every nation at once. Your country is somewhere on the list; tell me how many natural resources you have, and whether or not you are adopting a DMCA-clone law and I will tell you how far down the list you are.
In most US states once convicted you lose the right to vote for life.
No. In most US states your voting rights are automatically restored when you are released from prison. I don't know if your parole/probation status has any impact on how quickly your rights are restored.
Florida is one of the few states that does not automatically restore voting rights. You must apply to a state board to get your rights restored (though this seems to be almost always granted).
Microsoft could fix this 'social engineering' problem if they were willing (and didn't mind pissing-off some of their most vulnerable customers). All that they would have to do is make many programs (WMP, IE plugins, M$ Office, pre-installed games, image manip. tools, etc) refuse to run if Administrator privileges are present.
This would force users to do 'user-ish' things under a non-privileged account and 'admin-ish' things under an admin account. The user would actively have to switch into the correct mode, and would be less able to 'accidentally' install malware or damage their OS install.
BTW, the Postgres database server already does this under both Linux and Win32. It will refuse to run as 'root' under Linux or as any user with Administrator privileges under Win32. The Postgres developers know that there is no reason that their software needs root privileges, and if there is ever a security vulnerability discovered (not too unlikely for a TCP/IP server app), then the risk will be somewhat mitigated by the fact that it is not running as root.
Some of your points are indisputably correct, but be careful about correcting some of the 'collective noun' usage. In British English, a collective noun is considered plural. The following are correct:
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And Apache? Who is going to be the first moron to shout that Apache is the suxors, and OpenSource doesn't work? The Apache Foundation must have gobs of cash to bribe companies to use their software. Such a sucky product has 60+% market share, how criminal!
Where on the body would this electric shock be localized? I will need you answer before deciding how to vote on your proposal.
Duke Nukem Forever has features like no one has ever seen!
Yes, industry has a much better track record of never developing things that don't sell:
Apple Newton
New Coke
Microsoft Bob
Ford Edsel
Iridium (sat phones)
DivX players
Whether industry or government, if every idea is a hit, then you aren't taking enough risks.
No, but Tony Blair has crawled so far up Bush's arse-hole that you might as well be.
Your statements are not 'Insightful' (and yes, I have mod points today!), because there are many Christians who already 'believe in Evolution', and that Evolution was God's mechanism for the creation of species. This is the standard Roman Catholic belief. OK, it is the official Roman Catholic belief; what individual Catholics squatting in their huts around the world actually believe in, I don't want to know.
If you take the time period 'day' in Creation as symbolical
Now you hit a sticking point. Most Fundamentalists (almost by definition) believe that a 'day' in Genesis was 24-hours (yes, the same hours that we use today). The most extreme flavor actually believe that the Earth was created about 6,000 years ago.
I don't care if a corporation owns a moon base, but we need to secure the Larkin Decision rights for the entire race!
SuSE would have been a shoo-in had it not been bought by an American company. This is not an anti-European rant, but companies and governments (especially) look for 'local' companies to deal with. When Novell bought SuSE, Europe lost its local distro, and buying SuSE has the same trade-balance effect as buying from M$.
I think that you meant 'exosolar planets'.
IANAL. Change your 'even if' to 'only if'. Once an invention has been described in the public (including in publicly disclosed patent documents), it is no longer a secret. It is then ineligible for Trade Secret protection. Trade Secret status is incompatible with patents; you must choose.
We tried putting the marketeers, professional managers, and VCs in charge. Result: dot-bomb.
Small sites and businesses that revolutionized the ways that people communicate and use information turned into poorly run Superbowl-ad-purchasing, high burn-rate money sinks that thought innovation meant getting rich.
Funny, the only meetups that I ever went to were all /. meetups.
Pssst, your tinfoil hat is slipping.
We measure economic health by the rate at which money circulates. Our term for a 'bad' economy is not 'depleted', it is 'stagnant'. As long as people SPEND, SPEND, SPEND the economic indicators look great. We ignore the fact that those people are borrowing the money that they are spending. We have somehow convinced ourselves that a huge trade imbalance is less important than our ability to sucker people into consuming more. I have no answers.
This was the closest Presidential election in US history. The GOP pushed the Gay Marriage issue hard in Ohio (all else being equal, Ohio was very close and had enough electoral votes to change the outcome). Why do you think the GOP was shouting "Gay Marriage" at the top of their lungs? They didn't think that the outcome was a foregone conclusion, and their wonks still think that their culture war efforts did sway the election.
You are trying to be funny, but why do you think our "service economy" has grown so fast? As long as we serve each other hamburgers fast enough, it looks like we have a strong economy.
Read the following from http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/policy/whpap.html
In 1992, the Department of Education carried out the most comprehensive, statistically reliable survey to date of literacy skills in the adult population in the U.S. Through interviews with a nationally representative sample of approximately 26,000 adults, data were collected and reported in the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS). A similar follow-up study will be conducted in 2002, which will show any progress that is made.
NALS researchers did not classify people as either "literate" or "illiterate." Instead, they created a literacy continuum divided into 5 levels, with Level 5 reflecting the highest skills and Level 1 the lowest. NALS found that 21-23 percent (40-44 million) of America's 191 million adults are at Level 1. Level 1 adults demonstrate difficulty using certain reading, writing, and computational skills considered necessary for functioning in daily life, and generally function at below the 5th grade level. An additional 25-28 (about 50 million) percent scored at Level 2, meaning they had stronger skills than adults at Level 1, but still had significant literacy needs. They were generally able to locate information in text, to make low level inferences using printed materials, and to integrate identifiable pieces of information.
SKILLS OF ADULTS AT LITERACY LEVEL I CAN USUALLY
Sign one's name
Identify a country in a short article
Locate the expiration date information on a driver's license
Total a bank deposit entry
CANNOT USUALLY
Locate eligibility from a table of employee benefits
Locate intersection on a street map
Identify and enter background information on a social security card application
Calculate total costs of purchase from an order form
Our top 1% (and their slightly disadvantaged friends) has been screwing our bottom 80% for over 100 years, and the screwing gets harder every year. And the rate at which the screwing gets harder, gets faster every year. Our voters are really too stupid to do anything about it.
The Rust Belt workers (and unemployed ex-workers) voted against Gay Marriage, instead of voting for American jobs. Some day, there will probably have to be a wake-up, but there is no guarantee that this will not come too late to keep America from turning into a 3rd-World country.
No fair! American companies pioneered incomprehensible manuals backed by unintelligable help desk support. They're just ripping off our designs and business processes again!
We haven't forgotten you. We just don't have enough troops to attack every nation at once. Your country is somewhere on the list; tell me how many natural resources you have, and whether or not you are adopting a DMCA-clone law and I will tell you how far down the list you are.
Are you saying that my President has a funny accent? After listening to him, I just assumed that they spoke a different language in Texas.
No. In most US states your voting rights are automatically restored when you are released from prison. I don't know if your parole/probation status has any impact on how quickly your rights are restored.
Florida is one of the few states that does not automatically restore voting rights. You must apply to a state board to get your rights restored (though this seems to be almost always granted).
This would force users to do 'user-ish' things under a non-privileged account and 'admin-ish' things under an admin account. The user would actively have to switch into the correct mode, and would be less able to 'accidentally' install malware or damage their OS install.
BTW, the Postgres database server already does this under both Linux and Win32. It will refuse to run as 'root' under Linux or as any user with Administrator privileges under Win32. The Postgres developers know that there is no reason that their software needs root privileges, and if there is ever a security vulnerability discovered (not too unlikely for a TCP/IP server app), then the risk will be somewhat mitigated by the fact that it is not running as root.
The government are considering...
A mob are attacking...
Actually, Scotland Yard is an English institution named after a site in London.