"Fair for all"? How so? I dare you to say, with conviction and truth, that a millionaire in the USA has the exact same power or influence as a blue-collar worker just scraping by, day to day. Sure, they can both vote, but what if a poor person can't get out of their house because they can afford to treat their illness? All systems have their classes - only their names change.
If you feel so strongly, go become a doctor and treat the poor at a margin barely enough to keep you off the street yourself.
I'm a Canadian citizen. Thus, whether I treat the rich or poor, I get paid the same. Canadian doctors get paid on a per-patient basis - thus, helping the poor or the rich is irrelevant. Its the number of patients is serve that matters. As for me having "no right to tell a doctor... who they can accept or refuse"... what if a doctor refuses to treat a patient based on income? According to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, that is an act of intentional discrimination, and thus, the doctor has committed an offence.
The fact of the matter is that for as long as I've been alive, socialized medicine has worked. Granted, it is a fragile system, and at times appears on the brink of collapse, but hey, if the Canadian government has to reroute funds from our defense budget to maintain our health care system, so be it. I'd much rather have a poor person cured of cancer than another missile in our arsenal.
Exactly. I get tired of this American, "Dollars know best" ego-stroking that I see on here lately. The fact of the matter is that when it comes to government, no matter the system, its the same old shit.
The lesson comes at a high cost for many Canadians (witness the breakdown of their health care system)
I take issue with this. Here in the good ol' US of A, I just paid well over $100 to get an X-Ray. That's with travellers insurance, and I'm told that what I paid is a bargain. Last time I visited a hospital for something similar in Canada, it cost me $1.25 for a cup of coffee. Socialist or capitalist, health care is a basic human right. How can you reserve it for only those wealthy enough to pay for insurance, or any of the associated fees? Fact: Capitalism ignores the lower class.
My apologies, I didn't state that very well. The point I was trying to make is that the total amount of money ending up in Microsoft's hands from Taiwan is certainly less than my example, Canada. And geographically speaking, Canada would make a greater impact.
For the record, however, the poverty line is generally a poor indicator of the wealth of a country, as it is a relative measure. The poverty line is the bare minimum income needed to adequately feed and house a single person. In Taiwan's case, staples such as rice would be next to nothing in terms of cost, which may skew the poverty line indication (not that that's the case, as I've never been to Taiwan, just commenting)
The problem is that Taiwan is a relatively poor country in comparison to the Western powers. A large-scale shift to open-source, free software will do little in terms of affecting Microsoft's sales. What I'd like to see is a country like Canada take a real stand, and make an effort to use open source software in schools and such. I can guarantee that Microsoft has a significant enough investment in it's northern neighbor that such an act would certainly cause it to at least take a closer look at its business practices.
It absolutely DOES have the gravitational strength to hold oxygen in the atmosphere. The red planet has a gravitational force of 0.32, which is more than strong enough to hold light gases near itself. The problem is that it will take much *more* oxygen and nitrogen to create a breatheable atmosphere, as the lower gravity means the atmosphere will be much taller, or higher above the surface.
I'm aware that its not copy protection, I was just using that as an example to illustrate that Philips drops the "CD" logo from any standard that deviates from their official standards. It seems that adding ID numbers to the CD's would do this.
It seems Philips dislikes this type of activity, and has gone so far as to disallow copy-protected CDs from using the "Compact Disc" logo. Given that they're based in the EU, I suspect they have a pretty powerful lobby there as well. I sincerely doubt that the EU would risk losing the support of one of the biggest electronics producers around - after all, one of the selling points of the European Union is that it is "business oriented". Losing the support of a major player like that is a bad business decision.
some people have money to burn (or cool), but hey its helping the economy right?
Maybe so, but christ, donate it to a charity or something. Do something good for those who can't afford purchase ridiculous CPU cooling devices - not to mention provide food and clean housing for their children.
And that, in a nutshell, is the problem with the western world.
The server isn't actually down - it's just that they've configured mysql to only accept a certain number of connections (I think 10 is the default). Keep reloading - you'll get in.
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Why pay $500 for a cooling device when the next-step high mHz CPU can be purchased for less than that? I mean, the appeal of overclocking is that it allows people to extend their hardware far beyond the intended lifetimes. So say you've got an Intel 900, and with this device, you can overclock it to 1.4 gHz. So what have you gained? An unstable, extremely expensive CPU. The equivalient "real" 1.4 ghz chip could have been purchased for less than the cooling device.
And nevermind those, "I have my Celeron 300 running at 2.3 gigahertz!" folks. CPU speed is so overrated - remember, fast RAM, and lots of it, is the best thing you can do to increase system performance. Don't fall victim to the overclocking madness - spend that $500 on a gig of RAM.
1) The Germans were both Nazis and murderers during WWII
Its exactly people like who who continue and propogate this hatred - the same hatred that killed six million Jews. All Nazis (originally) were Germans. Some Germans were Nazis. Your reasoning states that all Germans were Nazis... False! That's *exactly* like saying: All Democrats are American. Some Americans are Democrats. Therefore, all Americans are democrats.
Get your head out of your ass. The average German farm worker was not a Nazi - he was just a regular person caught up in an extremist government.
I don't know if I find that very funny - it implies that Germans are murders, not Nazis.
While I don't want to say that headline is false, I will say that any editor worth his salt would reject that headline - it's just too contentious an issue, and a dangerous generalization.
I'm seeing a number of "use something like NetNanny" suggestions. This is poor advice. You're treating the symptom, not the problem. The problem can only be prevented through talking with your children about the possible dangers of internet contacts. They'll listen to you! Only then should such blocking/protection software be used, and only to serve as a reminder to the child that certain online behaviors are unacceptable - that the internet can and is a dangerous place at times.
Please, please, please, don't entrust your child's safety to a $29.95 piece of software!
The Deloitte and Forrester research companies measure progress in the growth of e-commerce and forecast that by the end of 2002, online sales are expected to exceed $1 trillion, consisting of business-to-business sales of $842 billion and business-to-consumer sales of $180 billion (5). What effect could an Internet sales taxes have on these projected online sales? A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the imposition of sales taxes could reduce online spending by as much as 30%. A 30% reduction in projected online consumer sales of $180 billion means $54 billion in lost retail sales. A 5% tax rate on the remaining $126 billion in sales would yield $ 6.3 billion in new sales tax revenues, but result in a net loss of $ 47.7 billion to the economy. Even if a 3% sales tax resulted in a more moderate 10% reduction in online sales, the $18 billion loss in sales volume would far exceed the $ 4.86 billion in new sales tax revenues.
These are striking numbers, even if US-centric. The EU should really be careful before instituting any such thing...
I don't know who the engineer idea-guy who designed this is, but it seems fairly evident that it's influenced at least in part by Lego.
I'd like to see an interview or something to see if this can be confirmed - if so, it presents some interesting questions about the value of today's "2-step" contruction toys.
I still don't see any real advantage of this design since I first heard about it. I can see its potential over, say, arctic snow fields, or over hard-packed desert, where conventional vehicles may encounter trouble, but low-level flight over water? What's the trouble with good old boats?
I suspect that the primary use for this is simply to set new records - The Worlds Fastest Ground Effect Vehicle and the like. Commercially... well, I don't know about you, but as someone who enjoys spending time on the open water, I don't know if I want a bunch of pseudo-aircraft zipping all over the place - the water is an inherently "slow" transportation medium, and there are just too many accidents as is with traditional watercraft, without any rich fool flying along at just the right height to decapitate me and my passengers.
The fact of the matter is that preventing contamination is impossible - we have pieces of Mars rock entering our atmosphere all the time. Most bacteria is incredibly hardy - the vacuum of space and heat of re-entry are certainly survivable.
Please see this essay, entitled "Estimated Flux of Rocks Bearing Viable Lifeforms Exchanged Between Earth and Mars".
Realistically, our primary concern is with accidentally seeding Mars with Terran bacteria - if that happens, we may never know whether or not Mars had any native life.
Please see Men Against Fire (1946, 1978), by Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall, which I have open right in front of me. Based on his post-combat interviews, Marshall concluded in his book Men Against Fire (1946, 1978) that only 15 to 20 percent of the individual riflemen in World War II fired their own weapons at an exposed enemy soldier. In 1946, the US Army had accepted Marshall's conclusions, and the Human Resources Research Office of the US Army subsequently pioneered a revolution in combat training, which eventually replaced firing at targets with deeply ingrained conditioning, using realistic, man-shaped pop-up targets that fall when hit. Psychologists assert that this kind of powerful operant conditioning is the only technique that will reliably influence the primitive, midbrain processing of a frightened human being. This application and perfection of basic conditioning techniques increased the rate of fire to approximately 55 percent in Korea and around 95 percent in Vietnam (Grossman, 1995).
Equally high rates of fire resulting from modern conditioning techniques can be seen in Richard Holmes' (Soldiers, 1985) observation of British firing rates in the Falklands and FBI data on law enforcement firing rates since the nationwide introduction of modern conditioning techniques in the late 1960s.
For additional info and further statistics please consider the following selections:
Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression, 1963 John Keegan, The Face of Battle, 1976 Jim Goodwin, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders: A Handbook for Clinicians, 1988 Dave Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, 8th ed., 1996
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"Fair for all"? How so? I dare you to say, with conviction and truth, that a millionaire in the USA has the exact same power or influence as a blue-collar worker just scraping by, day to day. Sure, they can both vote, but what if a poor person can't get out of their house because they can afford to treat their illness? All systems have their classes - only their names change.
I'm a Canadian citizen. Thus, whether I treat the rich or poor, I get paid the same. Canadian doctors get paid on a per-patient basis - thus, helping the poor or the rich is irrelevant. Its the number of patients is serve that matters. As for me having "no right to tell a doctor
The fact of the matter is that for as long as I've been alive, socialized medicine has worked. Granted, it is a fragile system, and at times appears on the brink of collapse, but hey, if the Canadian government has to reroute funds from our defense budget to maintain our health care system, so be it. I'd much rather have a poor person cured of cancer than another missile in our arsenal.
Why the hell is this modded "Funny"?? It's not funny - its fact. *shrug*
Exactly. I get tired of this American, "Dollars know best" ego-stroking that I see on here lately. The fact of the matter is that when it comes to government, no matter the system, its the same old shit.
I take issue with this. Here in the good ol' US of A, I just paid well over $100 to get an X-Ray. That's with travellers insurance, and I'm told that what I paid is a bargain. Last time I visited a hospital for something similar in Canada, it cost me $1.25 for a cup of coffee. Socialist or capitalist, health care is a basic human right. How can you reserve it for only those wealthy enough to pay for insurance, or any of the associated fees? Fact: Capitalism ignores the lower class.
My apologies, I didn't state that very well. The point I was trying to make is that the total amount of money ending up in Microsoft's hands from Taiwan is certainly less than my example, Canada. And geographically speaking, Canada would make a greater impact.
For the record, however, the poverty line is generally a poor indicator of the wealth of a country, as it is a relative measure. The poverty line is the bare minimum income needed to adequately feed and house a single person. In Taiwan's case, staples such as rice would be next to nothing in terms of cost, which may skew the poverty line indication (not that that's the case, as I've never been to Taiwan, just commenting)
The problem is that Taiwan is a relatively poor country in comparison to the Western powers. A large-scale shift to open-source, free software will do little in terms of affecting Microsoft's sales. What I'd like to see is a country like Canada take a real stand, and make an effort to use open source software in schools and such. I can guarantee that Microsoft has a significant enough investment in it's northern neighbor that such an act would certainly cause it to at least take a closer look at its business practices.
Is that legal? I mean, I'd just hate to see something like that challenged under the DMCA in all its ridiculousness. Any thoughts or ideas?
It absolutely DOES have the gravitational strength to hold oxygen in the atmosphere. The red planet has a gravitational force of 0.32, which is more than strong enough to hold light gases near itself. The problem is that it will take much *more* oxygen and nitrogen to create a breatheable atmosphere, as the lower gravity means the atmosphere will be much taller, or higher above the surface.
I'm aware that its not copy protection, I was just using that as an example to illustrate that Philips drops the "CD" logo from any standard that deviates from their official standards. It seems that adding ID numbers to the CD's would do this.
It seems Philips dislikes this type of activity, and has gone so far as to disallow copy-protected CDs from using the "Compact Disc" logo. Given that they're based in the EU, I suspect they have a pretty powerful lobby there as well. I sincerely doubt that the EU would risk losing the support of one of the biggest electronics producers around - after all, one of the selling points of the European Union is that it is "business oriented". Losing the support of a major player like that is a bad business decision.
Maybe so, but christ, donate it to a charity or something. Do something good for those who can't afford purchase ridiculous CPU cooling devices - not to mention provide food and clean housing for their children.
And that, in a nutshell, is the problem with the western world.
The server isn't actually down - it's just that they've configured mysql to only accept a certain number of connections (I think 10 is the default). Keep reloading - you'll get in.
Why pay $500 for a cooling device when the next-step high mHz CPU can be purchased for less than that? I mean, the appeal of overclocking is that it allows people to extend their hardware far beyond the intended lifetimes. So say you've got an Intel 900, and with this device, you can overclock it to 1.4 gHz. So what have you gained? An unstable, extremely expensive CPU. The equivalient "real" 1.4 ghz chip could have been purchased for less than the cooling device.
And nevermind those, "I have my Celeron 300 running at 2.3 gigahertz!" folks. CPU speed is so overrated - remember, fast RAM, and lots of it, is the best thing you can do to increase system performance. Don't fall victim to the overclocking madness - spend that $500 on a gig of RAM.
1) The Germans were both Nazis and murderers during WWII
Its exactly people like who who continue and propogate this hatred - the same hatred that killed six million Jews. All Nazis (originally) were Germans. Some Germans were Nazis. Your reasoning states that all Germans were Nazis... False! That's *exactly* like saying: All Democrats are American. Some Americans are Democrats. Therefore, all Americans are democrats.
Get your head out of your ass. The average German farm worker was not a Nazi - he was just a regular person caught up in an extremist government.
While I don't want to say that headline is false, I will say that any editor worth his salt would reject that headline - it's just too contentious an issue, and a dangerous generalization.
I'm seeing a number of "use something like NetNanny" suggestions. This is poor advice. You're treating the symptom, not the problem. The problem can only be prevented through talking with your children about the possible dangers of internet contacts. They'll listen to you! Only then should such blocking/protection software be used, and only to serve as a reminder to the child that certain online behaviors are unacceptable - that the internet can and is a dangerous place at times.
Please, please, please, don't entrust your child's safety to a $29.95 piece of software!
Conversely, it may just mean an increase in the sharing of the relevant sections of the song.
Find more info about the Aphex face, as well as some software to do same thing yourself
here.
Additionally, more information on it can be found here
The Deloitte and Forrester research companies measure progress in the growth of e-commerce and forecast that by the end of 2002, online sales are expected to exceed $1 trillion, consisting of business-to-business sales of $842 billion and business-to-consumer sales of $180 billion (5). What effect could an Internet sales taxes have on these projected online sales? A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the imposition of sales taxes could reduce online spending by as much as 30%. A 30% reduction in projected online consumer sales of $180 billion means $54 billion in lost retail sales. A 5% tax rate on the remaining $126 billion in sales would yield $ 6.3 billion in new sales tax revenues, but result in a net loss of $ 47.7 billion to the economy. Even if a 3% sales tax resulted in a more moderate 10% reduction in online sales, the $18 billion loss in sales volume would far exceed the $ 4.86 billion in new sales tax revenues.
These are striking numbers, even if US-centric. The EU should really be careful before instituting any such thing...
I don't know who the engineer idea-guy who designed this is, but it seems fairly evident that it's influenced at least in part by Lego.
I'd like to see an interview or something to see if this can be confirmed - if so, it presents some interesting questions about the value of today's "2-step" contruction toys.
It's Linux.
The site www.mondaytimes.com.mv is running Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) FrontPage/4.0.4.3 on Linux.
I still don't see any real advantage of this design since I first heard about it. I can see its potential over, say, arctic snow fields, or over hard-packed desert, where conventional vehicles may encounter trouble, but low-level flight over water? What's the trouble with good old boats?
I suspect that the primary use for this is simply to set new records - The Worlds Fastest Ground Effect Vehicle and the like. Commercially... well, I don't know about you, but as someone who enjoys spending time on the open water, I don't know if I want a bunch of pseudo-aircraft zipping all over the place - the water is an inherently "slow" transportation medium, and there are just too many accidents as is with traditional watercraft, without any rich fool flying along at just the right height to decapitate me and my passengers.
The fact of the matter is that preventing contamination is impossible - we have pieces of Mars rock entering our atmosphere all the time. Most bacteria is incredibly hardy - the vacuum of space and heat of re-entry are certainly survivable. Please see this essay, entitled "Estimated Flux of Rocks Bearing Viable Lifeforms Exchanged Between Earth and Mars". Realistically, our primary concern is with accidentally seeding Mars with Terran bacteria - if that happens, we may never know whether or not Mars had any native life.
Please see Men Against Fire (1946, 1978), by Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall, which I have open right in front of me. Based on his post-combat interviews, Marshall concluded in his book Men Against Fire (1946, 1978) that only 15 to 20 percent of the individual riflemen in World War II fired their own weapons at an exposed enemy soldier. In 1946, the US Army had accepted Marshall's conclusions, and the Human Resources Research Office of the US Army subsequently pioneered a revolution in combat training, which eventually replaced firing at targets with deeply ingrained conditioning, using realistic, man-shaped pop-up targets that fall when hit. Psychologists assert that this kind of powerful operant conditioning is the only technique that will reliably influence the primitive, midbrain processing of a frightened human being. This application and perfection of basic conditioning techniques increased the rate of fire to approximately 55 percent in Korea and around 95 percent in Vietnam (Grossman, 1995).
Equally high rates of fire resulting from modern conditioning techniques can be seen in Richard Holmes' (Soldiers, 1985) observation of British firing rates in the Falklands and FBI data on law enforcement firing rates since the nationwide introduction of modern conditioning techniques in the late 1960s.
For additional info and further statistics please consider the following selections:
Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression, 1963
John Keegan, The Face of Battle, 1976
Jim Goodwin, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders: A Handbook for Clinicians, 1988
Dave Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, 8th ed., 1996