I'm also a web developer, and I agree completely - there isn't uglier web design anywhere out there.
But the fact that there's one more place where teens (and adults) can go to make their voices heard, connect with others, and create a web presense that really doesn't hurt anyone else - I think it's a good thing.
Myspace is a social networking site, and is introducing millions of kids to the ability to create their own web sites, code/design, and get online in general. There's a ton of crap there, just like there's a ton of crap on fark, and slashdot, and the internet as a whole. But the elitist "wow, we hate it because it seems shallow to us" attitude is unproductive and mean spirited.
A blog is just an easy to maintain website - would you be comfortable saying " If I had a company, I wouldn't hire anyone with a website"? It doesn't have to be a blog for information to get out onto the web...
If Bell is your only provider, you're to blame. Many States and cities made it a mess to compete, and the voters wanted it that way.
Nothing to see here. With competition, these things don't matter.
Lemme guess - you live in "Perfect Libertarian World", where all choices are made by voters so the Will of the People is always recognized, and competition fixes everything.
None of the rest of us, however, live there. We live in a place where large telco monopolies are firmly entrenched with local politicians. In your example, 49% of voters can believe in something, but still be told "it's their fault" for something that's mostly out of their control. Past that, broadband isn't available some places at all yet, and in others, there's one provider. I'm sure that's those people's fault too? Not to mention everyone who's recently moved there?
Before XP on my current machines, I'd never run anything as stable as my win98 SP2 installs. I'd have weeks of uptime, used them as house servers, never really any problems. Sometimes good hardware makes the difference...and with windows, a few weird programs can make it run funny.
Bah. I've run Windows for almost 10 years, and in that time, I've never had a virus or worm or piece of software running that I didn't put there. An unsecured linux system can be just as much of a problem if you're not careful.
When I had my own P133 with a whopping 32 megs of RAM back in 1997, Windows ran just fine on it. My upgrade to Win98 on my next machine (a P300) was even better...so much so that I can still use that machine if my others go down. While I'm sure DSL or another distro are great for those boxes, older versions of Windows have never given me any problems either.
I believe all of that is a problem with the implementation, not the weapons themselves (though there's room for a lot of improvement in the weapons). I just cringe every time I hear about a suspect being shot and killed - we most definately have the technology to stop suspects if they need to be stopped - tazers, rubber bullets, bean bags, etc. are good starts, but I don't think it's the police's job to hand out punishment or death sentences.
In international waters, with pirates, I can actually see the case for lethel weapons. OT, but in the US and other countries where we're supposedly "innocent until proven guilty", lethal weapons carried by law enforcement might truely be seen for the problem they are. Effective non-lethal weapons would be a welcome thing.
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Two issues:
First, this story is a followup. If you bothered to read the story you posted, you'd see it was mentioned that the launch was scheduled for September originally. The "news" part of this news is that the company spokesperson announced this on Friday, October 14.
Second, this isn't a CNN story - it's a Reuters wire story. CNN is just carrying it.
Sometimes news gets new again...just because something is mentioned once doesn't mean new things don't happen.
I think the point of the article and many of the posts here is that we've been taught a "work hard, earn a lot, spend a lot" ethic, and that clearly doesn't work for everyone. Just about everyone needs to work in order to pay their bills, but if I had the choice between a new car if I worked 2 extra hours a day for a year, I'd never do it. My time is WAY to valuable to me. I certainly need my job (which I love), but more importantly, I need my own time.
OT, be wary of any woman who'll "do anything" for your money. The "your" part might not be important...
In Quebec it does. The VoIP rules state you can't move your cable VoIP modem from its primary location, so they know any calls from that particular VoIP number are from a specific address.
VoIP isn't isn't a cell phone. In the states, 911 calls on cells typically go to the local highway patrol office or sherrif's agency.
While that's generally true in any game you're playing against the house (Casino Blackjack, craps, roulette, etc.), Poker is played against the other players, not the house. It's also a game with considerably more skill involved than standard gambling games.
Casinos make money at poker by raking a small amount from each hand, but this isn't true in home games, where the majority of poker is played. It's also an incredibly social game, and that's a prime reason most people play. Next time you want to generalize, make sure your facts are straight.
Making a movie with a brand new concept is a risk; sequels are almost risk-free.
Exactly. Movies can be art, movies can be entertainment, but most mainstream movies are vehicles for profit. And studios know that a movie based on a popular television show or book will bring in moviegoers even if it's not very good, simply because it's familar.
Luckily for all of us, there are hundreds of movies every year from major studios, and many thousands more from independant sources. Don't blame studios for wanting to make an easy buck. If you don't like what's out there, don't go see it. Simple!
While you might think you're a great person to take part in vigilante justice, I may very well have a different opinion. And I certainly wouldn't trust most people to "take the law into their own hands".
There are almost never enough police "when you need them". That's a fact of life. That doesn't justify, however, the rest of us fighting crime on our own terms. If you were to go out and kill your thiefs, you would rightly be guilty of murder.
Simply put, I don't think the world would be a safer or better place if people were allowed to "take care of" people they consider to be criminals. Certainly the police can't get everything done, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea that YOU do it.
Making up some words is one thing, but Okrand literally created a language around them, with structure, hundreds more words, grammar, and everything that goes into language. Okrand's part in all this was by no means minor.
Welcome to the United States, where your taxes pay for things you don't want. I don't want a war with Iraq, I don't want money going to "faith-based inititives", I don't want churches to get off without paying their share of taxes.
Even going beyond things I find morally problematic, I can't opt-out of paying for schools just because I don't have any kids. I can't opt-out of paying for garbage disposal if I were to recycle 100% of my trash. We live in a community, and as members of a community, our tax dollars pay for civic projects for the greater good. I believe internet access to be one of them.
Tracking stations failed to pick up signals from an experimental solar-driven orbiter launched on Tuesday from a Russian submarine, raising the prospect the mission had failed.
This includes stations in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, the Marshall Islands, Alaska, the Czech Republic, and two stations outside Moscow.
Hopefully it's a temporary problem, or just a miscalculated orbit.
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I'm also a web developer, and I agree completely - there isn't uglier web design anywhere out there.
But the fact that there's one more place where teens (and adults) can go to make their voices heard, connect with others, and create a web presense that really doesn't hurt anyone else - I think it's a good thing.
Why is this insightful?
Myspace is a social networking site, and is introducing millions of kids to the ability to create their own web sites, code/design, and get online in general. There's a ton of crap there, just like there's a ton of crap on fark, and slashdot, and the internet as a whole. But the elitist "wow, we hate it because it seems shallow to us" attitude is unproductive and mean spirited.
Cats of unusual size? I don't believe they exist.
A blog is just an easy to maintain website - would you be comfortable saying " If I had a company, I wouldn't hire anyone with a website"? It doesn't have to be a blog for information to get out onto the web...
If Bell is your only provider, you're to blame. Many States and cities made it a mess to compete, and the voters wanted it that way.
Nothing to see here. With competition, these things don't matter.
Lemme guess - you live in "Perfect Libertarian World", where all choices are made by voters so the Will of the People is always recognized, and competition fixes everything.
None of the rest of us, however, live there. We live in a place where large telco monopolies are firmly entrenched with local politicians. In your example, 49% of voters can believe in something, but still be told "it's their fault" for something that's mostly out of their control. Past that, broadband isn't available some places at all yet, and in others, there's one provider. I'm sure that's those people's fault too? Not to mention everyone who's recently moved there?
Before XP on my current machines, I'd never run anything as stable as my win98 SP2 installs. I'd have weeks of uptime, used them as house servers, never really any problems. Sometimes good hardware makes the difference...and with windows, a few weird programs can make it run funny.
Bah. I've run Windows for almost 10 years, and in that time, I've never had a virus or worm or piece of software running that I didn't put there. An unsecured linux system can be just as much of a problem if you're not careful.
When I had my own P133 with a whopping 32 megs of RAM back in 1997, Windows ran just fine on it. My upgrade to Win98 on my next machine (a P300) was even better...so much so that I can still use that machine if my others go down. While I'm sure DSL or another distro are great for those boxes, older versions of Windows have never given me any problems either.
That'd be fine as long they only used their weapons in those situations.
Further, if you don't like dogmatic beliefs, religion can be bad, while faith - a personal belief - is okay.
How and why is belief without evidence (faith) "okay"? Especially in a school setting?
I believe all of that is a problem with the implementation, not the weapons themselves (though there's room for a lot of improvement in the weapons). I just cringe every time I hear about a suspect being shot and killed - we most definately have the technology to stop suspects if they need to be stopped - tazers, rubber bullets, bean bags, etc. are good starts, but I don't think it's the police's job to hand out punishment or death sentences.
Perhaps we're not all as blood thirsty as you?
In international waters, with pirates, I can actually see the case for lethel weapons. OT, but in the US and other countries where we're supposedly "innocent until proven guilty", lethal weapons carried by law enforcement might truely be seen for the problem they are. Effective non-lethal weapons would be a welcome thing.
Two issues:
First, this story is a followup. If you bothered to read the story you posted, you'd see it was mentioned that the launch was scheduled for September originally. The "news" part of this news is that the company spokesperson announced this on Friday, October 14.
Second, this isn't a CNN story - it's a Reuters wire story. CNN is just carrying it.
Sometimes news gets new again...just because something is mentioned once doesn't mean new things don't happen.
No, we don't. Every school child knows countless more would have died if we hadn't dropped the bomb.
Every school child only "knows" this because it was taught to them. There's plenty of disagreement on the subject.
Money is undoubtedly important.
But it's not everything.
I think the point of the article and many of the posts here is that we've been taught a "work hard, earn a lot, spend a lot" ethic, and that clearly doesn't work for everyone. Just about everyone needs to work in order to pay their bills, but if I had the choice between a new car if I worked 2 extra hours a day for a year, I'd never do it. My time is WAY to valuable to me. I certainly need my job (which I love), but more importantly, I need my own time.
OT, be wary of any woman who'll "do anything" for your money. The "your" part might not be important...
In Quebec it does. The VoIP rules state you can't move your cable VoIP modem from its primary location, so they know any calls from that particular VoIP number are from a specific address.
VoIP isn't isn't a cell phone. In the states, 911 calls on cells typically go to the local highway patrol office or sherrif's agency.
That's great for you, but consider the following:
- I don't get good reception in my home, and really never have. That's never an issue on my landline.
- My cell is small and not made for long conversations. I like that it's small so I can carry it around.
- I live with my girlfriend, and we share the landline. We both get calls to it. Many times someone will call wanting to talk to either of us.
- The whole "calling 911 doesn't put my address on the operation center's screens" issue.
These are not uncommon problems. Until they are, I don't think it makes much sense for many of us to drop or just not use our landlines.
While that's generally true in any game you're playing against the house (Casino Blackjack, craps, roulette, etc.), Poker is played against the other players, not the house. It's also a game with considerably more skill involved than standard gambling games.
Casinos make money at poker by raking a small amount from each hand, but this isn't true in home games, where the majority of poker is played. It's also an incredibly social game, and that's a prime reason most people play. Next time you want to generalize, make sure your facts are straight.
Making a movie with a brand new concept is a risk; sequels are almost risk-free.
Exactly. Movies can be art, movies can be entertainment, but most mainstream movies are vehicles for profit. And studios know that a movie based on a popular television show or book will bring in moviegoers even if it's not very good, simply because it's familar.
Luckily for all of us, there are hundreds of movies every year from major studios, and many thousands more from independant sources. Don't blame studios for wanting to make an easy buck. If you don't like what's out there, don't go see it. Simple!
Christianity is a cult.
The only difference between a religion and a cult is the number of members.
Sometimes, bumper stickers are true.
While you might think you're a great person to take part in vigilante justice, I may very well have a different opinion. And I certainly wouldn't trust most people to "take the law into their own hands".
There are almost never enough police "when you need them". That's a fact of life. That doesn't justify, however, the rest of us fighting crime on our own terms. If you were to go out and kill your thiefs, you would rightly be guilty of murder.
Simply put, I don't think the world would be a safer or better place if people were allowed to "take care of" people they consider to be criminals. Certainly the police can't get everything done, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea that YOU do it.
Making up some words is one thing, but Okrand literally created a language around them, with structure, hundreds more words, grammar, and everything that goes into language. Okrand's part in all this was by no means minor.
I'm not sure if he was a linguist - he was good at accents, though. But Marc Okrand created the languages, not Doohan.
Also, the CNN Obit says he was married in 1974, not 1975.
Welcome to the United States, where your taxes pay for things you don't want. I don't want a war with Iraq, I don't want money going to "faith-based inititives", I don't want churches to get off without paying their share of taxes.
Even going beyond things I find morally problematic, I can't opt-out of paying for schools just because I don't have any kids. I can't opt-out of paying for garbage disposal if I were to recycle 100% of my trash. We live in a community, and as members of a community, our tax dollars pay for civic projects for the greater good. I believe internet access to be one of them.
This is from Reuters, via CNN:
Tracking stations failed to pick up signals from an experimental solar-driven orbiter launched on Tuesday from a Russian submarine, raising the prospect the mission had failed.
This includes stations in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, the Marshall Islands, Alaska, the Czech Republic, and two stations outside Moscow.
Hopefully it's a temporary problem, or just a miscalculated orbit.