No they should be encouraged any way that is within the law. If you feel the law is inadequate then that is where you begin.
American revolutionaries thought the current law was inadequate and petitioned the British government. In the end they had to take the matters into their own hands. Rule of law is important, but law can never trump your rights as an individual and cannot be taken away by any government no matter what law they pass.
Why should people who criticize have an expectation of anonymity or escape libel charges?
To be fair, some of the greatest writers of European history that criticized governments and religious organizations had to publish anonymously.
Of course instead of being called libel, it was called sedition and heresy and punishable by death. That said, throughout history anonymous or pseudonym writers actually have said a lot things that were untrue or borderline slanderous. However, I believe this is something we have to accept as the price of freedom. If we remove or outlaw the ability to libel anonymously we also remove the ability to speak out anonymously against injustice.
Yes it is quite a dilemma, but I would rather err on the side of freedom of speech than not or when injustice or illegal activity does happen we won't have anyone able to speak out against it.
No. If my credit union or bank closed tomorrow, I could withdraw all of my funds, up to the bank's insured amount -- which is more than I or most other Americans make in a year.
Actually you and the grandparent are wrong. If the economy collapse, inflation and devaluation of the dollar makes your savings in the mattress or in the bank less value and hence you loose your money. You should have invested in gold and stuck that under your mattress.
Even if you had money in the mattress or the government wrote you a check for what was in the bank, you can bet its not as worth as much as it was before the bank collapsed.
Is it to much to ask to get reference links with more credibility than wikipedia?
Umm... There were two links, the second link being the actual article with interview and links to sources at laboratories doing the research. I'm assuming the first link in the summary to Wikipedia was to familiarize anyone with the concept of using algea as a source of biofuels.
Seeing there are no online encyclopedias or organizations devoted to algea farming (as of now) Wikipedia seems to be the perfect place to explain the concept and theory behind the technique. However, if you want the actual application and source material then you should be going with the second link in the summary.
I don't see anything wrong with linking WP to show someone what the concept was. If say during a casual conversation a friend or relative asked me what city Einstein was born in, I'd recommend Wikipedia since I don't know it off the top of my head and that is the quickest method of finding that information. But if they were doing a research paper on Einstein's childhood for school, I'd recommend going to the library or bookstore simply because they'd have access to the sources directly and the fact if you have to 100 pages of reading on paper is easier on the eyes.
But for those who cannot afford cell phones or cellular service, it kind of leaves them out of the voting process. I'd have a hard time calling a country like that "Democratic" or even a Republic.
I'd hate to break it to you, but ubiquitous and cheap cell phones and coverage is available to even places like 3rd world places Somalia. Due to its 5 monopoly companies (or is it 4 now?) and lack of network sharing by the US cell phone companies has actually made cell phones and access expensive only to Americans. Most places in Europe and Asia have cell phones and service on the cheap even by their own currencies standards.
There's a generation of kids out there who pull off head shots every time using just the analog stick on high sensitivity.
Personally, I think the best FPS system to date is the Wii numchuck. The problem with the analog stick is that once you get a realism game like R6, Counter Strike, or any other game with breathing or gun sway, its hard to do a head shot without a mouse.
The US and China, you might notice, are separated by a vast expanse of water.
Oh, I really doubt China would invade the USA unless really provoked. However, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan are there most likley targets all withing fighter/short missile range of Chinese soil. Not to mention China does border Afghanistan.
If push really came to shove, Russia might have allied with China and the focal point would be controlling the Bering Strait to cross over into Alaska.
Secondly the gameplay: I am definately a keyboard/mouse kinda guy. I think a console controller is far inferior. That said, the Halo games basically set the standard for how FPS's should be played on consoles. In this sense the original Halo stands among games like Mario64 and Goldeneye for having great control schemes (for the time). Certainly a keyboard/mouse would be better, but I don't want to use those while sitting on my couch. For the equipment it has, the Halo games have as good control as you could ask for.
Eh. The reason I don't like Halo is that I've been playing realism games for too long (Counter Strike, Rainbow 6 series, WWIIOL, Day of Defeat, AA, and Red Orchestra)
Simply grabbing a machine gun and/or rocket launcher to kill someone to only respawn instantly does not do it for me and the fact that in the majority of the arcade FPS games that I cannot go prone drives me nuts.
I cannot play an FPS game that doesn't let you go prone. I don't know why, but it drives me nuts.
Otherwise... I hate the monkey jumping and RO, R6, and AA have pretty much done away with those kind of game play and its more stealth and ambush kind of deals and punishment for death. Halo on the other hand is the same formula and I will say that if you don't like realism shooters than its probably not a bad game. But again... I couldn't like it if I tried.
To be fair, I can't play Half-Life vanilla online either.
1) Most of those funds are in the form for treasury securities (T-Bills/T-notes/T-bonds). Those are promissory notes issued by the US government. Basically it says "We agree to pay you this much money by this date." Fair enough, but the value is only because the government honours that agreement. So far, US securities are one of the safest things you can buy. They have always made good and have plenty of systems in place to make sure that keeps happening. However, they could if they wanted just not honour the notes issued to China. All of a sudden that wealth is gone. China can't sell the notes if the US has made it clear they are worthless, they can't redeem them, the wealth just goes away. This would, of course, have severe consequences to the US government in terms of the ability to issue more note sin the future since people wouldn't trust them as much, but it can be done.
If the US did such a thing then China would see that as an act of War. At that moment in time people under a nationalist sentiment would most likley volunteer to work in the factories for basically free and everyone else join the military. That said I would really doubt China would up and revoke its current debt because it would rather have economic stability and most Chinese believe they can beat the US on the economic front rather a pure military one.
Even if the US did collapse economically, their are other people to sell products to like Europe, Russia, India, and South America. It wouldn't be pleasant for China but they would survive. They have after all lived through things like the Cultural Revolution.
Yeah, making them effectively worthless, and dropping a lot of the value that is propping up the Yuan. Oh but they could make it all back on their industrial strength.... except as you pointed out, they just plunged their largest consumer market into recession.
They could simply peg the Yuan against the Euro and call it a day. It would hurt them badly, but they've been through worse in a recent era and they have a system in place to control the situation if an economic crisis did occur (Remember the Cultural Revolution?)
The US on the other hand would be left with little money or factories to restart their economy and due to the political corruption we face, I doubt we would be able recover as quickly.
That said... China has one thing the US doesn't have, and that is patience. Its current form of manifest destiny does itself as a world power and to have a military more powerful military (and more high tech) than the US plus a space program to boot. But they don't see a need to destroy their economy in an arms race and have planned to match it with their growth. For example by 2050 their goal is to have a bigger navy and more aircraft carriers than the US. As they have been all of history, they are very inward looking and don't see the need to expand except say the Taiwan issue so unless they are provoked they would never overtly do something against us.
However... Attacking Iran (which is one of their major foreign oil suppliers) would most likely be a catalyst for such a thing.
Are you sure that isn't the splash screen? Mine wants me to watch the dancing Sprint logo no matter what and play their jingle. It doesn't need to check the hardware each time. Also considering my OS X and WinXP boot faster than 30 seconds.
He maybe an ass, but he's right. You can't really ignore what the Federal Reserve does. Its decisions affect you more than an executive order by the President.
Unless of course you don't own a home, car, or credit card.
Personally I used to think I could ignore this stuff... Until I bought a house. If they drop the rate again, I'm going to see if I can refinance. Not really nerdy though... But all nerds who live in the states have to deal with their decisions one way or another.
A concept which can get you ramen, Mountain Dew and high speed internet. Basically, everything a/.er could desire.
Well the point he was making is that if tomorrow by the unlikely chance everyone decided money was no longer valuable and refused good and services for money that it would simply be worthless.
Although it is unlikely, if everyone simultaneously agreed money was worthless then Bill Gates would have nothing of value in his bank account.
However, this does happen slightly every time the inflation goes up. People slowly agree that money isn't worth as much as it was before and they require more of it to be worth something.
In the end... Money these days is a non-tangible since your bank account is simply a recording of data of money that does not exist in even paper form or with some type of gold backing it.
Fight for lower taxes across the board, fight for better spending efficiency by the government. Slashdot readers are tech savvy people who can avoid sales taxes by ordering online. If you fight to keep the special treatment of internet companies over brick-and-mortar companies, you are no better than the vested special interests that you often criticize.
That doesn't make much sense because most brick and mortars have store fronts these days. In reality, if internet companies want to avoid sales tax, they'll incorporate in Delaware or over seas.
Something many of the folks don't like to admit on/. is that most of the executives at successful companies put in as many if not more hours than the average worker.
I believe Executives should be rewarded however the shareholders see fit. Its not a matter of opinion of the Executive or those underneath him. However, shareholders have been rather bad at installing good CEOs of late and rightly be punished with lack of long term gains and low stock prices as a result.
Personally, I believe CEOs should be only paid a small amount for living expenses only 25% higher of the lowest employee but have stock options they can cash in on in 5 years (write it in blood in a contract). That way they can't cannibalize the company to get short term gains only to leave the company in a golden parachute and screwing the shareholders.
Don't act like Apple is somehow bound to support all unlocked phones via any mechanism, some which may damage the phone, in any and all future software updates, especially when it can't possibly predict all iterations. You don't have to buy an iPhone.
That is the thing. I don't and probaly won't unless they were to change such happenings.
If people didn't complain about policies they think everything was fine and keep doing it. If I kept saying "You know. The iPhone is cool and all, but I just can't see myself buying a product from a company who so incessantly fights its customers freedom." then perhaps others will chime in and eventually if enough people complain Apple might change its ways (although unlikely).
Apple doesn't have to do anything it doesn't want to, but if they do want me to consider buying their iPhone they need to change their ways.
Sorry, but taking your discontent out on scores of innocent victims does not strike me as merely being led astray. At best, it shows a complete failure to consider the consequences of your actions. At worst, it shows that your personality is borderline sociopathic, in that you don't actually _care_ about the consequences of your actions.
This is China we are talking about. The run by a different set of rules. Corruption is common and ethics is often considered when we are talking about the bottom line. You are talking about corporation who have no qualms employing slave like conditions for child laborers, letting men die in coal mines due to negligence almost on a monthly basis, and no qualms whatsoever of having poisons in pet foods and on child's toys.
To be fair... The punishment for corruption in China is far worse. The equivalent of the head of the FDA in China was put to death for corruption. I doubt we would see the same response in the US other than a slap on the wrist and maybe some time in the ClubFed.
Interesting, however my previous point in another post still stands.
The load of the "rebels" had M1 Garands which was the top of the line weapons issued to US Soldiers in WWII (sure the German StG44 was far superior, but most of the Germans still only had Kar98 bolt action rifles) and of course dynamite.
If you were to compare it today standards it would be like having a fully automatic M16 and a package of C4 which are both highly illegal according to federal law. I mean... How are you supposed to defend against a Swat team armed with auto-assault rifles who also have an armored APC when you aren't even allowed to own dynamite?
Actually, it works well. We still have them. So we have one final defense.
How well do legal fire arms work well against APCs, Abrams, and Blackhawks?
You need fully automatic weapons, RPGs, and shaped charged explosive to defeat such vehicles (which Iraqi insurgents have) which are of course illegal to own in the United States.
I might be able to get lucky and shoot someone through the eye slits of their body armor, but the only use for the legal gun is to turn it on yourself when there is nothing else to live for.
In reality, I think the 2nd Amendment gave the States to have their own militias separate from Federal control. Of course now that is generally overlooked and all National Guard armies are under command of the President (which is horribly wrong in a peace time enviroment and Jefferson is powering a small generator in his grave right now through spinning)
If every state had its own militia fully armed it could defend itself from a national army, but sadly that is not the case.
As it stands now... The 2nd amendment is about as useful as the 1st in terms of getting respect from the government.
Huh? I've got one 800 Mhz mac and I didn't even bother upgraded to Tiger because I knew it would have a fit using Spotlight so there wasn't any real point seeing all my existing apps worked fine.
I ended up getting an Intel mac not because it was faster but because it could run windows for gaming. Thats about it...
Occam's razor cannot explain observable human consciousness. (But then again consciousness cannot be falsified other than by the observer denying the fact he is observing)
Seeing that we find ourselves conscious and able to observe and do find that simply observing quantum states affects its outcomes must have an explanation to why the laws of physics are the way they are.
If they were any other way then perhaps a carbon life form would not be around to observe anything at all. (Anthropic principle)
That said, perhaps if the laws of physics needed to be different for something to exist then they would be so because no sentient beings would be around to observe the laws of physics in the first place if life could not exist in that universe.
But as far as we know... Life only exists under the circumstances we see before us, so chances are this is the set of laws needed.
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No they should be encouraged any way that is within the law. If you feel the law is inadequate then that is where you begin.
American revolutionaries thought the current law was inadequate and petitioned the British government. In the end they had to take the matters into their own hands. Rule of law is important, but law can never trump your rights as an individual and cannot be taken away by any government no matter what law they pass.
Why should people who criticize have an expectation of anonymity or escape libel charges?
To be fair, some of the greatest writers of European history that criticized governments and religious organizations had to publish anonymously.
Of course instead of being called libel, it was called sedition and heresy and punishable by death. That said, throughout history anonymous or pseudonym writers actually have said a lot things that were untrue or borderline slanderous. However, I believe this is something we have to accept as the price of freedom. If we remove or outlaw the ability to libel anonymously we also remove the ability to speak out anonymously against injustice.
Yes it is quite a dilemma, but I would rather err on the side of freedom of speech than not or when injustice or illegal activity does happen we won't have anyone able to speak out against it.
No. If my credit union or bank closed tomorrow, I could withdraw all of my funds, up to the bank's insured amount -- which is more than I or most other Americans make in a year.
Actually you and the grandparent are wrong. If the economy collapse, inflation and devaluation of the dollar makes your savings in the mattress or in the bank less value and hence you loose your money. You should have invested in gold and stuck that under your mattress.
Even if you had money in the mattress or the government wrote you a check for what was in the bank, you can bet its not as worth as much as it was before the bank collapsed.
Is it to much to ask to get reference links with more credibility than wikipedia?
Umm... There were two links, the second link being the actual article with interview and links to sources at laboratories doing the research. I'm assuming the first link in the summary to Wikipedia was to familiarize anyone with the concept of using algea as a source of biofuels.
Seeing there are no online encyclopedias or organizations devoted to algea farming (as of now) Wikipedia seems to be the perfect place to explain the concept and theory behind the technique. However, if you want the actual application and source material then you should be going with the second link in the summary.
I don't see anything wrong with linking WP to show someone what the concept was. If say during a casual conversation a friend or relative asked me what city Einstein was born in, I'd recommend Wikipedia since I don't know it off the top of my head and that is the quickest method of finding that information. But if they were doing a research paper on Einstein's childhood for school, I'd recommend going to the library or bookstore simply because they'd have access to the sources directly and the fact if you have to 100 pages of reading on paper is easier on the eyes.
But for those who cannot afford cell phones or cellular service, it kind of leaves them out of the voting process. I'd have a hard time calling a country like that "Democratic" or even a Republic.
I'd hate to break it to you, but ubiquitous and cheap cell phones and coverage is available to even places like 3rd world places Somalia. Due to its 5 monopoly companies (or is it 4 now?) and lack of network sharing by the US cell phone companies has actually made cell phones and access expensive only to Americans. Most places in Europe and Asia have cell phones and service on the cheap even by their own currencies standards.
There's a generation of kids out there who pull off head shots every time using just the analog stick on high sensitivity.
Personally, I think the best FPS system to date is the Wii numchuck. The problem with the analog stick is that once you get a realism game like R6, Counter Strike, or any other game with breathing or gun sway, its hard to do a head shot without a mouse.
The US and China, you might notice, are separated by a vast expanse of water.
Oh, I really doubt China would invade the USA unless really provoked. However, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan are there most likley targets all withing fighter/short missile range of Chinese soil. Not to mention China does border Afghanistan.
If push really came to shove, Russia might have allied with China and the focal point would be controlling the Bering Strait to cross over into Alaska.
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Of course when everyone turned into melee Dexers in 2000 it was less likley they were wearing magic reflect.
Secondly the gameplay: I am definately a keyboard/mouse kinda guy. I think a console controller is far inferior. That said, the Halo games basically set the standard for how FPS's should be played on consoles. In this sense the original Halo stands among games like Mario64 and Goldeneye for having great control schemes (for the time). Certainly a keyboard/mouse would be better, but I don't want to use those while sitting on my couch. For the equipment it has, the Halo games have as good control as you could ask for.
Eh. The reason I don't like Halo is that I've been playing realism games for too long (Counter Strike, Rainbow 6 series, WWIIOL, Day of Defeat, AA, and Red Orchestra)
Simply grabbing a machine gun and/or rocket launcher to kill someone to only respawn instantly does not do it for me and the fact that in the majority of the arcade FPS games that I cannot go prone drives me nuts.
I cannot play an FPS game that doesn't let you go prone. I don't know why, but it drives me nuts.
Otherwise... I hate the monkey jumping and RO, R6, and AA have pretty much done away with those kind of game play and its more stealth and ambush kind of deals and punishment for death. Halo on the other hand is the same formula and I will say that if you don't like realism shooters than its probably not a bad game. But again... I couldn't like it if I tried.
To be fair, I can't play Half-Life vanilla online either.
1) Most of those funds are in the form for treasury securities (T-Bills/T-notes/T-bonds). Those are promissory notes issued by the US government. Basically it says "We agree to pay you this much money by this date." Fair enough, but the value is only because the government honours that agreement. So far, US securities are one of the safest things you can buy. They have always made good and have plenty of systems in place to make sure that keeps happening. However, they could if they wanted just not honour the notes issued to China. All of a sudden that wealth is gone. China can't sell the notes if the US has made it clear they are worthless, they can't redeem them, the wealth just goes away. This would, of course, have severe consequences to the US government in terms of the ability to issue more note sin the future since people wouldn't trust them as much, but it can be done.
If the US did such a thing then China would see that as an act of War. At that moment in time people under a nationalist sentiment would most likley volunteer to work in the factories for basically free and everyone else join the military. That said I would really doubt China would up and revoke its current debt because it would rather have economic stability and most Chinese believe they can beat the US on the economic front rather a pure military one.
Even if the US did collapse economically, their are other people to sell products to like Europe, Russia, India, and South America. It wouldn't be pleasant for China but they would survive. They have after all lived through things like the Cultural Revolution.
Yeah, making them effectively worthless, and dropping a lot of the value that is propping up the Yuan. Oh but they could make it all back on their industrial strength.... except as you pointed out, they just plunged their largest consumer market into recession.
They could simply peg the Yuan against the Euro and call it a day. It would hurt them badly, but they've been through worse in a recent era and they have a system in place to control the situation if an economic crisis did occur (Remember the Cultural Revolution?)
The US on the other hand would be left with little money or factories to restart their economy and due to the political corruption we face, I doubt we would be able recover as quickly.
That said... China has one thing the US doesn't have, and that is patience. Its current form of manifest destiny does itself as a world power and to have a military more powerful military (and more high tech) than the US plus a space program to boot. But they don't see a need to destroy their economy in an arms race and have planned to match it with their growth. For example by 2050 their goal is to have a bigger navy and more aircraft carriers than the US. As they have been all of history, they are very inward looking and don't see the need to expand except say the Taiwan issue so unless they are provoked they would never overtly do something against us.
However... Attacking Iran (which is one of their major foreign oil suppliers) would most likely be a catalyst for such a thing.
Are you sure that isn't the splash screen? Mine wants me to watch the dancing Sprint logo no matter what and play their jingle. It doesn't need to check the hardware each time. Also considering my OS X and WinXP boot faster than 30 seconds.
Now you're just being an ass.
He maybe an ass, but he's right. You can't really ignore what the Federal Reserve does. Its decisions affect you more than an executive order by the President.
Unless of course you don't own a home, car, or credit card.
Personally I used to think I could ignore this stuff... Until I bought a house. If they drop the rate again, I'm going to see if I can refinance. Not really nerdy though... But all nerds who live in the states have to deal with their decisions one way or another.
A concept which can get you ramen, Mountain Dew and high speed internet. Basically, everything a /.er could desire.
Well the point he was making is that if tomorrow by the unlikely chance everyone decided money was no longer valuable and refused good and services for money that it would simply be worthless.
Although it is unlikely, if everyone simultaneously agreed money was worthless then Bill Gates would have nothing of value in his bank account.
However, this does happen slightly every time the inflation goes up. People slowly agree that money isn't worth as much as it was before and they require more of it to be worth something.
In the end... Money these days is a non-tangible since your bank account is simply a recording of data of money that does not exist in even paper form or with some type of gold backing it.
I don't identify the character as myself, or myself as my character.
Yeah, it would be like trying to role play a plumber in Super Mario Bros.
Google is only evil if you think the law they are complying with is evil. Otherwise... I'm not sure that makes sense.
Fight for lower taxes across the board, fight for better spending efficiency by the government. Slashdot readers are tech savvy people who can avoid sales taxes by ordering online. If you fight to keep the special treatment of internet companies over brick-and-mortar companies, you are no better than the vested special interests that you often criticize.
That doesn't make much sense because most brick and mortars have store fronts these days. In reality, if internet companies want to avoid sales tax, they'll incorporate in Delaware or over seas.
Something many of the folks don't like to admit on /. is that most of the executives at successful companies put in as many if not more hours than the average worker.
I believe Executives should be rewarded however the shareholders see fit. Its not a matter of opinion of the Executive or those underneath him. However, shareholders have been rather bad at installing good CEOs of late and rightly be punished with lack of long term gains and low stock prices as a result.
Personally, I believe CEOs should be only paid a small amount for living expenses only 25% higher of the lowest employee but have stock options they can cash in on in 5 years (write it in blood in a contract). That way they can't cannibalize the company to get short term gains only to leave the company in a golden parachute and screwing the shareholders.
Don't act like Apple is somehow bound to support all unlocked phones via any mechanism, some which may damage the phone, in any and all future software updates, especially when it can't possibly predict all iterations. You don't have to buy an iPhone.
That is the thing. I don't and probaly won't unless they were to change such happenings.
If people didn't complain about policies they think everything was fine and keep doing it. If I kept saying "You know. The iPhone is cool and all, but I just can't see myself buying a product from a company who so incessantly fights its customers freedom." then perhaps others will chime in and eventually if enough people complain Apple might change its ways (although unlikely).
Apple doesn't have to do anything it doesn't want to, but if they do want me to consider buying their iPhone they need to change their ways.
Sorry, but taking your discontent out on scores of innocent victims does not strike me as merely being led astray. At best, it shows a complete failure to consider the consequences of your actions. At worst, it shows that your personality is borderline sociopathic, in that you don't actually _care_ about the consequences of your actions.
This is China we are talking about. The run by a different set of rules. Corruption is common and ethics is often considered when we are talking about the bottom line. You are talking about corporation who have no qualms employing slave like conditions for child laborers, letting men die in coal mines due to negligence almost on a monthly basis, and no qualms whatsoever of having poisons in pet foods and on child's toys.
To be fair... The punishment for corruption in China is far worse. The equivalent of the head of the FDA in China was put to death for corruption. I doubt we would see the same response in the US other than a slap on the wrist and maybe some time in the ClubFed.
Check out The Battle of Athens, Tennessee. 1946.
Interesting, however my previous point in another post still stands.
The load of the "rebels" had M1 Garands which was the top of the line weapons issued to US Soldiers in WWII (sure the German StG44 was far superior, but most of the Germans still only had Kar98 bolt action rifles) and of course dynamite.
If you were to compare it today standards it would be like having a fully automatic M16 and a package of C4 which are both highly illegal according to federal law. I mean... How are you supposed to defend against a Swat team armed with auto-assault rifles who also have an armored APC when you aren't even allowed to own dynamite?
Actually, it works well. We still have them. So we have one final defense.
How well do legal fire arms work well against APCs, Abrams, and Blackhawks?
You need fully automatic weapons, RPGs, and shaped charged explosive to defeat such vehicles (which Iraqi insurgents have) which are of course illegal to own in the United States.
I might be able to get lucky and shoot someone through the eye slits of their body armor, but the only use for the legal gun is to turn it on yourself when there is nothing else to live for.
In reality, I think the 2nd Amendment gave the States to have their own militias separate from Federal control. Of course now that is generally overlooked and all National Guard armies are under command of the President (which is horribly wrong in a peace time enviroment and Jefferson is powering a small generator in his grave right now through spinning)
If every state had its own militia fully armed it could defend itself from a national army, but sadly that is not the case.
As it stands now... The 2nd amendment is about as useful as the 1st in terms of getting respect from the government.
A.) Hire a lawyer and fight a court case you may or may not loose.
or
B.) Just release the source which costs you nothing
Huh? I've got one 800 Mhz mac and I didn't even bother upgraded to Tiger because I knew it would have a fit using Spotlight so there wasn't any real point seeing all my existing apps worked fine.
I ended up getting an Intel mac not because it was faster but because it could run windows for gaming. Thats about it...
Occam's razor cannot explain observable human consciousness. (But then again consciousness cannot be falsified other than by the observer denying the fact he is observing)
Seeing that we find ourselves conscious and able to observe and do find that simply observing quantum states affects its outcomes must have an explanation to why the laws of physics are the way they are.
If they were any other way then perhaps a carbon life form would not be around to observe anything at all. (Anthropic principle)
That said, perhaps if the laws of physics needed to be different for something to exist then they would be so because no sentient beings would be around to observe the laws of physics in the first place if life could not exist in that universe.
But as far as we know... Life only exists under the circumstances we see before us, so chances are this is the set of laws needed.