You mean all that military, economic, and scientific support from Stalin wasn't a handout? I could have sworn the People's Republic Army got their support from somewhere... Hrm....
It is amazing that anyone has the balls to think that software is so fucking great it is going to solve the all problems in the world.
I've always said this about the Palestine conflict... If you were to give every single Palestinian young male a playstation then they'd be less likley to become a suicide bomber.
Why?
Because as a teen you don't have anything else to do in a poverty stricken nation and no way to let your aggression out in a society who is very repressive towards sexuality and other issues.
Sure, what they really need is land and jobs and freedom, but if they can't have that then maybe they need something to better occupy their time.
Let me tell you this... If we spend on a Trillion dollars worth of food and aid for africa is won't solve a damn thing.
We need to build their economies and infrastructure. They need factories and roads and water systems and power plants. They need TVs, air conditioning, and other things to make them enjoy life as much as possible.
The Soviet Union didn't collapse because its people weren't well fed and had jobs... It collapsed because its people wanted the nice things found in the west. They wanted rock and roll cds, cars, tvs, and blue jeans!
I hope this doesn't sound crass... But people want more than food and standard living conditions... (Which of course everyone should have)
They want to do something with their life.
Even if it is just wasting their time with trvial things... This is why free technology and free software will help them.
Since it'd be roughly as exciting as seeing two dogs mating to them, I think that might be just as well...
Maybe Martians have Furries... Or would they call them Humies? They have these Cons which they all dress up like humans and post the Martian version of Winger art on websites. Those dirty pervs!
"but I'm one conservative who does NOT. LESS governmenting spending on this bullshit." and then "Hmmm. Maybe I'm NOT conservative, because I don't believe that either. It's the George Bush cronies and conservative right-wing nuts like Senator Clinton, Howard Dean, and John Kerry who have recently been found playing up false numbers for activities that we generally frown upon as being measures of moral decay in our society. No, Republicans, screw you, I'm not buying into that line."
You are a libertarian and just don't know it yet.
The word right-wing and conservative can actually be two seperate ideologies.
I could be pro-choice, pro-stem cell research, pro-gay marriage but still be anti-big government or pro-military. The problem is that liberal is associated with personal freedom but big government and then conservative is related to authoritarian rule, but small government.
The problem is neither of the political parties actually follow these guidelines... Both Democrats and Republicans sponsor big government and moral legislation.
The political differences between George Bush and John Kerry were nihl if you look at stances on issues (although I don't know if John Kerry would have invaded iraq).
So it is a loose loose situation for us... If we could only have moderates in power.
"This is the guy who insisted that Columbine was caused by DOOM being a "murder simulator"."
If murder involves remote controlled robot using a keyboard and mouse... Then yes I would call it a "murder simulator".
You for the life of me I can't remember, but there is some reason that the US military doesn't just train recruits by sitting them in a cubicle and having them play US Army for 6 weeks and then ship them to Iraq... Seems to elude me...
Oh yes, I remember now... Firing large caliber guns effectivly and on target is hard to fucking do in real life.
Not to mention the tactics involved fighting in urban combat or lugging around 100lbs of gear. Maybe if Doom taught how to clean your guns as well... US Army comes close, but the only murder simulators out there are the shooting range and basic training.
It's even more glaring given that Doctor Who has historically been a show so foreign to sex that fandom has long speculated that the main character's species reproduces asexually.
Do they take in to account eating and having to go the the bathroom and various other mundane hygenic issues?
I have yet to see a sci-fi movie/series other than Demolition man take into account bodily functions.
But seriously, I think most TV series avoid the issue other than say South Park...
But if you think about it then you realize that space/time travelers have basic needs too that situations may cause unique or difficult situations.
Although, it would add a flavor a reality that most shows lack, I doubt people want to sit around and listen around to Dr. Who characters complain about constipation due to the time warp or fear of Daleks made them have an "accident" in their pants or they haven't taken a bath in weeks or they could really go for eating out or whatever various mundane daily task you can think of.
Well, the tires on my hyundai are 99.9% similar to the tires on your Honda, they must have evolved. Or perhaps design was involved.
Apparently, god must be the Firestone tire company.
But seriously, if intelligent design was involved we would be able to see radiation, breath underwater, survive more toxins, or be able to naturally fly. I can think of at least 100 different items the human body could improve itself on.
We are a very limited organism.
Not to mention all the defects we get naturally... Blindness, old age, cancer, mental handicaps, heart disease, obesity and don't forget birth defects...
Damn, I had a drinking glass full of water on the table somewhere, if only it weren't invisible
From what I recall is that if the object has the same refraction as air it can become invisible. There are some liquids if you put glass in it appears to be insibile because the glass has the same refraction as the liquid.
However, I think it is nigh impossible to make a solid that has the same refraction as air.
Hmmm, maybe Mars was Earth version 1. Then the designer addressed the defects and came out with version 2.
Actually, Mars was the backup planet, but after the designer position got outsourced to a job in the Eastern nebula they decided to not bother with doing nightly backups anymore.
It seems to me that Tibet (the people and the land) is as much a part of China as the Inuit areas of Alaska are a part of the USA
Well then, the PRC better hurry up and hand over Tibet to Taiwan.
The Republic of China (Taiwan) is technically still the original government of China before the Communists came along.
Many of the outer regions (you need to play Hearts of Iron 2 and you can see why it was banned by PRC) and you'll realize that most of China was divided by several groups all vying for power. Communist China assimalated all of them and then kicked the RoC forces out. The only reason China doesn't claim Mongolia was because Stalin made Mao drop the claims. We don't see China clammering for Mongolia to be back now do we?
I don't mean to troll, but given that he has Asperger's Syndrome, should it not be in his best interest to give the job of CEO to somebody who is more charismatic (in the sense that he can communicate exactly what people will want to hear)
Balmer, Fiona, or Gates were neither charismatic nor said things I wanted to hear...
So..we can't weather them. Still doesn't make it our fault for them happening. Maybe we should try to stop earthquakes next.
If at meteor was coming towards earth would we at least put forth the effort to shoot an ICMB at it? Should we not build buildings that are resistant to Earthquakes? Should we not paint the Gohbi and Sahara desert with reflective white paint.
Hell we could build 200 meter sea walls around Mahatten if we had too.
To throw up your arms in defeat is a sign of laziness and those people usually end up dying... Those who adapt will survive. Those who say "Oh its just planet earth's cycle of life" will be the first to go.
Besides, mother nature gave us old age, ebola, herpes, and the bubonic plague. We don't owe her jack shit.
Besides the huge amount of fully routable IP addresses IPv6 will open up, what are the benefits to the average end-user?
Being able to get around NAT restrictions or trying to get UPnP working each time they want to play a particular online game, video conferencing, or transfer files directly with another person behind a NAT.
Most End Users may or may not notice it or understand it, but often when say a group of people use a NAT they are unable to connect direct to anyone else's computer who is also behind a NAT. UPnP kind of gets around this but it has limitations since it only knows what programs are expecting to be receiving and often times may or may not know which computer to forward this too.
Say, I wanted to play Age of Empires with another person who was behind a NAT because he was sharing his internet connection with his family and I was sharing my connection with three over of my own computers. We would both have to go online and look up what ports AOE uses and then set our routers to foward request to the specific computer running AOE. Its not that hard to do, but for the average End User it can be way to complex if you don't know anything about your own router. UPnP helps but like I said its not perfect.
IPv6 would give out of the box direct connections... End Users would be able to play direct connect games, video conference, and share files via AIM or Yahoo without having to futz with their router or call their more technically inclined friend asking why "x feature" won't work with "x program" when they bought their router?
Oh and a side note... If you are wondering why Quake, UT2k4, NWN, and Skype and other services work out of the box, it is because the connection is going to a server that is not behind a NAT. If you want to host an online game or have some type of VoIP service then you leave the box directly connected to the internet without a NAT.
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Governments do not have money to foot the bill for anything. God, I really wish people everywhere would realize that ALL governments operate with TAXPAYER money.
Actually, government doesn't run on tax dollars alone, but rather Government debt.
As of August 2005, the total government debt is approximately $7.9 trillion, i.e. $7,900,000,000,000 ($7.9 × 1012). This is more than ten times the amount of United States currency in circulation as of 2005, estimated to be $730 billion ($7.3 × 1011). The debt can also be measured as a fraction of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP); at present, U.S. public debt is about 65% of the GDP, a rather average level when compared to other nations.
So the national debt is larger than all US dollars in circulation? It really doesn't add up. In theory this money doesn't exist and doesn't matter what you do with taxes because people think that somehow the money they pay to the government has some type of application but it really just goes into a gaping black hole.
The whole reason the US government doesn't collapse is because the system props itself up through some strange levies of government loans and other Federal Reserve schemes. Seeing they can't just print money (like they did in Germany during the Weimar Republic which lead to 1000% inflation of the DeustchMark dollar) to pay for government things, they just have to owe a great deal of money. Since people expect the US government to be here in 200 years (and it does have some of the largest militaries and government system on the planet to backitself up) people just tend to accept the debt will be paid off eventually or at least they will make a profit on the internet in 10 years.
I sort of snicker every time they argue about raising taxes to pay for this or that or decreasing funding for a certain project because in reality they'll end up selling more government bonds to China or Japan.
So yes the government could very well pay for anything like funding for this pen if it wants without raising taxes or using your tax dollars. Don't get me wrong, if they were to do away with taxes all together then the national debt would spiral out of control and it is unlikley there would be enough buyers of government debt to keep up with the costs... Heck... We might be heading in that direction now if China doesn't keep buying our debt like they are now.
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But did China wait for handouts? No.
You mean all that military, economic, and scientific support from Stalin wasn't a handout? I could have sworn the People's Republic Army got their support from somewhere... Hrm....
It is amazing that anyone has the balls to think that software is so fucking great it is going to solve the all problems in the world.
I've always said this about the Palestine conflict... If you were to give every single Palestinian young male a playstation then they'd be less likley to become a suicide bomber.
Why?
Because as a teen you don't have anything else to do in a poverty stricken nation and no way to let your aggression out in a society who is very repressive towards sexuality and other issues.
Sure, what they really need is land and jobs and freedom, but if they can't have that then maybe they need something to better occupy their time.
Let me tell you this... If we spend on a Trillion dollars worth of food and aid for africa is won't solve a damn thing.
We need to build their economies and infrastructure. They need factories and roads and water systems and power plants. They need TVs, air conditioning, and other things to make them enjoy life as much as possible.
The Soviet Union didn't collapse because its people weren't well fed and had jobs... It collapsed because its people wanted the nice things found in the west. They wanted rock and roll cds, cars, tvs, and blue jeans!
I hope this doesn't sound crass... But people want more than food and standard living conditions... (Which of course everyone should have)
They want to do something with their life.
Even if it is just wasting their time with trvial things... This is why free technology and free software will help them.
Since it'd be roughly as exciting as seeing two dogs mating to them, I think that might be just as well...
Maybe Martians have Furries... Or would they call them Humies? They have these Cons which they all dress up like humans and post the Martian version of Winger art on websites. Those dirty pervs!
And humans haven't had ANY as of yet unexplained health problems over those thousands of years either.
Unexplained health problems were a wonderful thing for a Roman Senator's career. Then again, I always thought we weren't bleeding enough humors.
Yeah. I thought natural gas was actually scarcer than petroleum...
It is, but we can make methane gas fairly easy with our landfills.
I think the city of LA in California collects methane from their sewer system... Either way, it is easier to manufacture than oil or bio-disel.
To counter this attraction, these individuals seek to eliminate, in totality, that which they are attracted to.
Maybe Jack should consider militant Buddhism.
"but I'm one conservative who does NOT. LESS governmenting spending on this bullshit." and then "Hmmm. Maybe I'm NOT conservative, because I don't believe that either. It's the George Bush cronies and conservative right-wing nuts like Senator Clinton, Howard Dean, and John Kerry who have recently been found playing up false numbers for activities that we generally frown upon as being measures of moral decay in our society. No, Republicans, screw you, I'm not buying into that line."
You are a libertarian and just don't know it yet.
The word right-wing and conservative can actually be two seperate ideologies.
I could be pro-choice, pro-stem cell research, pro-gay marriage but still be anti-big government or pro-military. The problem is that liberal is associated with personal freedom but big government and then conservative is related to authoritarian rule, but small government.
The problem is neither of the political parties actually follow these guidelines... Both Democrats and Republicans sponsor big government and moral legislation.
The political differences between George Bush and John Kerry were nihl if you look at stances on issues (although I don't know if John Kerry would have invaded iraq).
So it is a loose loose situation for us... If we could only have moderates in power.
"This is the guy who insisted that Columbine was caused by DOOM being a "murder simulator"."
If murder involves remote controlled robot using a keyboard and mouse... Then yes I would call it a "murder simulator".
You for the life of me I can't remember, but there is some reason that the US military doesn't just train recruits by sitting them in a cubicle and having them play US Army for 6 weeks and then ship them to Iraq... Seems to elude me...
Oh yes, I remember now... Firing large caliber guns effectivly and on target is hard to fucking do in real life.
Not to mention the tactics involved fighting in urban combat or lugging around 100lbs of gear. Maybe if Doom taught how to clean your guns as well... US Army comes close, but the only murder simulators out there are the shooting range and basic training.
If it's any consolation, someone modded your original post informative.
It's even more glaring given that Doctor Who has historically been a show so foreign to sex that fandom has long speculated that the main character's species reproduces asexually.
Do they take in to account eating and having to go the the bathroom and various other mundane hygenic issues?
I have yet to see a sci-fi movie/series other than Demolition man take into account bodily functions.
But seriously, I think most TV series avoid the issue other than say South Park...
But if you think about it then you realize that space/time travelers have basic needs too that situations may cause unique or difficult situations.
Although, it would add a flavor a reality that most shows lack, I doubt people want to sit around and listen around to Dr. Who characters complain about constipation due to the time warp or fear of Daleks made them have an "accident" in their pants or they haven't taken a bath in weeks or they could really go for eating out or whatever various mundane daily task you can think of.
Well, the tires on my hyundai are 99.9% similar to the tires on your Honda, they must have evolved. Or perhaps design was involved.
Apparently, god must be the Firestone tire company.
But seriously, if intelligent design was involved we would be able to see radiation, breath underwater, survive more toxins, or be able to naturally fly. I can think of at least 100 different items the human body could improve itself on.
We are a very limited organism.
Not to mention all the defects we get naturally... Blindness, old age, cancer, mental handicaps, heart disease, obesity and don't forget birth defects...
Damn, I had a drinking glass full of water on the table somewhere, if only it weren't invisible
From what I recall is that if the object has the same refraction as air it can become invisible. There are some liquids if you put glass in it appears to be insibile because the glass has the same refraction as the liquid.
However, I think it is nigh impossible to make a solid that has the same refraction as air.
Species don't evolve toward eachother genetically.
I take it you haven't been to West Virginia. You know those stories about sheep farmers... Well... Let's say "it gets really lonely up on dem hills".
Hmmm, maybe Mars was Earth version 1. Then the designer addressed the defects and came out with version 2.
Actually, Mars was the backup planet, but after the designer position got outsourced to a job in the Eastern nebula they decided to not bother with doing nightly backups anymore.
So McD's won't support Ni-Fi games? The article got my hopes up for a Yu-Gi-Oh game with local wireless but relayed elsewhere.
It seems to me that Tibet (the people and the land) is as much a part of China as the Inuit areas of Alaska are a part of the USA
Well then, the PRC better hurry up and hand over Tibet to Taiwan.
The Republic of China (Taiwan) is technically still the original government of China before the Communists came along.
Many of the outer regions (you need to play Hearts of Iron 2 and you can see why it was banned by PRC) and you'll realize that most of China was divided by several groups all vying for power. Communist China assimalated all of them and then kicked the RoC forces out. The only reason China doesn't claim Mongolia was because Stalin made Mao drop the claims. We don't see China clammering for Mongolia to be back now do we?
A museum of computer history seems to me to an unique challenge for a curator.
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Especially since someone keeps formatting the hard drives on all the hands on machines.
does anyone know if she's hot?
When a developer says "free as in beer" he means he needs lots!
Or maybe she does...
I don't mean to troll, but given that he has Asperger's Syndrome, should it not be in his best interest to give the job of CEO to somebody who is more charismatic (in the sense that he can communicate exactly what people will want to hear)
Balmer, Fiona, or Gates were neither charismatic nor said things I wanted to hear...
So..we can't weather them. Still doesn't make it our fault for them happening. Maybe we should try to stop earthquakes next.
If at meteor was coming towards earth would we at least put forth the effort to shoot an ICMB at it? Should we not build buildings that are resistant to Earthquakes? Should we not paint the Gohbi and Sahara desert with reflective white paint.
Hell we could build 200 meter sea walls around Mahatten if we had too.
To throw up your arms in defeat is a sign of laziness and those people usually end up dying... Those who adapt will survive. Those who say "Oh its just planet earth's cycle of life" will be the first to go.
Besides, mother nature gave us old age, ebola, herpes, and the bubonic plague. We don't owe her jack shit.
Darwinia would make a great game for the DS!
Oh wait... You meant Darwinian...
in a month europe, brasil and a few other nations will force a global netsplit, so we'll have 2 "internets"
More like China... But then again, they want their own "internets" cordoned off from the rest of the world.
Besides the huge amount of fully routable IP addresses IPv6 will open up, what are the benefits to the average end-user?
Being able to get around NAT restrictions or trying to get UPnP working each time they want to play a particular online game, video conferencing, or transfer files directly with another person behind a NAT.
Most End Users may or may not notice it or understand it, but often when say a group of people use a NAT they are unable to connect direct to anyone else's computer who is also behind a NAT. UPnP kind of gets around this but it has limitations since it only knows what programs are expecting to be receiving and often times may or may not know which computer to forward this too.
Say, I wanted to play Age of Empires with another person who was behind a NAT because he was sharing his internet connection with his family and I was sharing my connection with three over of my own computers. We would both have to go online and look up what ports AOE uses and then set our routers to foward request to the specific computer running AOE. Its not that hard to do, but for the average End User it can be way to complex if you don't know anything about your own router. UPnP helps but like I said its not perfect.
IPv6 would give out of the box direct connections... End Users would be able to play direct connect games, video conference, and share files via AIM or Yahoo without having to futz with their router or call their more technically inclined friend asking why "x feature" won't work with "x program" when they bought their router?
Oh and a side note... If you are wondering why Quake, UT2k4, NWN, and Skype and other services work out of the box, it is because the connection is going to a server that is not behind a NAT. If you want to host an online game or have some type of VoIP service then you leave the box directly connected to the internet without a NAT.
This can freeze your browser.
;)
Like loading Java scripts in Netscape 4.0
Actually, government doesn't run on tax dollars alone, but rather Government debt.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._government_debt
So the national debt is larger than all US dollars in circulation? It really doesn't add up. In theory this money doesn't exist and doesn't matter what you do with taxes because people think that somehow the money they pay to the government has some type of application but it really just goes into a gaping black hole.
The whole reason the US government doesn't collapse is because the system props itself up through some strange levies of government loans and other Federal Reserve schemes. Seeing they can't just print money (like they did in Germany during the Weimar Republic which lead to 1000% inflation of the DeustchMark dollar) to pay for government things, they just have to owe a great deal of money. Since people expect the US government to be here in 200 years (and it does have some of the largest militaries and government system on the planet to backitself up) people just tend to accept the debt will be paid off eventually or at least they will make a profit on the internet in 10 years.
I sort of snicker every time they argue about raising taxes to pay for this or that or decreasing funding for a certain project because in reality they'll end up selling more government bonds to China or Japan.
So yes the government could very well pay for anything like funding for this pen if it wants without raising taxes or using your tax dollars. Don't get me wrong, if they were to do away with taxes all together then the national debt would spiral out of control and it is unlikley there would be enough buyers of government debt to keep up with the costs... Heck... We might be heading in that direction now if China doesn't keep buying our debt like they are now.