It's kind of scary to realize that the "middle class" of today was largely either heavy drug users in their youth, or born to heavy drug users. It's no wonder the 20-somethings of the world think the world is fucked up... it kind of literally was.
And this is a great example of why you are not a multi-billionaire or successful CIO suggesting people do dumb things: successful business people are at the right place at the right time because they decide to make that time NOW. Facebook, Google, eBay, Amazon... for them it was the right time because they put a lot of effort into making it the right time.
Racist? Uh... I guess... if you're into hyperbole.
Was that guy really trying to say that Google should let him list his REAL name as "CopyLion" because a larger number of people know him by that "nickname" and thus it is his actual name to most people?
Seems.. silly to me, but I guess it's more culturally acceptable in Hong Kong to be a virtual person? What are the ideas behind "virtual people" anyway? Can Google show that such people are actually people and not groups, amalgamations, fronts or scripts?
The recent meltdown was caused by an unregulated shift to a self-feeding exchange in derivatives aided by a tendency to simply inflate the currency in response to poor investment decisions. That has nothing to do with any President.
At least try to understand something before you comment on it.
While companies are subject to the force majeure of government, both Government and Corportations suffer from an inability to be held accountable for incompetence and negligence. Until one or the other is fixed in that sense, we're fucked either way.
I did not get that from this particular incident in isolation. THAT is exemplified in the consistent actions of several US government agencies... (DHS copyright enforcement takedowns? TSA scanners that were never conclusively tested for safety? TSA practices that provide not even the slightest amount of privacy for information collected? My way or the highway attitudes from appointed bureaucrats? The picture is pretty clear to me. If you want to debate semantics, I don't.)
Astounding economic growth doesn't excuse human rights abuses.
In this way I think, sadly, that the Chinese are just buying in to the "we're rich therefore we're right" concept, right as America is FINALLY starting to admit that the ideology has decimated so many facets of our society.
I hope you Chinese citizens don't spend as long wallowing in your own supposed superiority as we did. Wasted some of the best years of our society so far on complete nothingness.
She just looks like the people who yell at the cashiers at Wal-Mart, that's all.
I assume you are trying to say without saying it (presumably because you don't want to offend?) that she has the appearance of someone who abuses Methamphetamines in the picture of that article.
But then, so do lots of white people in mug shots because of the way they are taken.
So... what does her picture tell us that's relevant to whether this was a rights violation, or whether or not her rights should be respected? Answer: nothing.
In short: stop cluttering the discussion with straw men.
What a complete non-sequitur. It doesn't matter if there are other options for travel... the TSA is a GOVERNMENT agency. Their actions are subject to review, criticism and most importantly CHANGE when they do not represent the people they serve.
Who the fuck cares about the semantics? What we have here is a bureaucracy that has decided it is smarter than the people it serves, which is a situation that should always be challenged by those who desire freedom.
I can't find the article, but I believe the scientific community concluded that among many factors, the most important was a newer, stronger form of disease that was infecting wild honey bees and domesticated honey bees, but was much more destructive to wild bees.
While all of this is true, and important to know before reacting, I think it also worth noting the situation as an example of how the UN is impotent at accomplishing certain goals because of the immovable structure of procedure that has pervaded the entire body from top to bottom.
What the UN is really good at is illustrating just how nationalistic the world still is.
Why would you be concerned about them "quitting"? That would explicitly make a statement that continued membership masks: that they have no interest in participating in any kind of global governance, oversight, or community, and see the world as divided into two sections: those that are theirs, and those that are inferior.
So again, why would DPRK quitting the UN be a bad thing?
Many sysadmins were able over the last several years to sell transitions to Firefox for the enterprise to their bosses all the way up the chain as a way to improve security and reduce maintenance.
This release schedule basically bends those admins over in front of their bosses and gives them... well, you get the picture.
The idea that Mozilla is basically saying "fuck the enterprise, we never cared about them anyway" is straight out of the land of Oz... They are needlessly making life very difficult on what was their most stalwart evangelists: tech-savvy sysadmins who were charismatic enough to sell a platform change to their organization.
Because Mozilla basically told anyone who manages an enterprise network, "We don't fucking care about you. You know that handy version number system that used to differentiate between updates you can just install, and those you have to test? Well we blew it up! Now you have to test EVERY SINGLE UPDATE before it pushes! And by the time you've tested it, we'll have a new update! MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
I think the real version was a little less maniacal, but just as fucked up.
I'm a bit of a video geek, so please don't take this as me saying you're wrong, but I can't stand looking at Vizios. They, essentially, are a warehouse in California that receives the reject parts from several other manufacturers, then puts it together into a TV. I, personally, notice it quite a bit... I wish I could use something like a Vizio as a monitor without going crazy, because they are VERY inexpensive.
This is singularly unhelpful advice because it misses the point. The point is not that it FORCES you to upgrade or that you CAN'T turn off the notices, it's that their philosophy fundamentally conflicts with what browsers are used for.
Web developers can't and won't use new features in browsers released every 2-3 months. And without the devs, all it is, is a broken marketing philosophy dictating product development.
Yeah, I saw the prompt and my immediate reaction was "The only reason I open FireFox at all instead of Opera is if i need to use FireBug. Why should I break FireBug every two months?"
If Mozilla keeps to this schedule, I may just learn to like Opera's built-in inspector tool instead. I don't have time to be pestered by my browser as if it were a four year old child wanting a cookie.
No, it is not simple. It is fact. The US, most of Europe, Japan, China... in other words the parts of the world where infant mortality is now fairly low, and standard of living is fairly high, have birthrates very close to or under the replacement rate.
The way to "fix" overpopulation is by making sure that the poorer parts of the world increase their standard of living, access to medicine, and education. The more educated a population is, the less likely they are to have children. You can attribute that however you want, but that's an almost universal aspect of humanity.
I contemplated modding down, but instead I will reply with something that may actually assist you:
Posts about which counter-culture it is "acceptable" to be a part of are worse than useless. Your post essentially says "anyone who doesn't agree with my viewpoint on this is a flawed human being". For that, you deserve all the negative mod points that others will give you.
Most of the "religious" world doesn't have a problem with reproduction. It's places like Ethiopia, India, etc. that do, and I'm assuming you didn't mean them by "religious", as their predominant religious doctrines don't particularly support this sort of thing.
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It's kind of scary to realize that the "middle class" of today was largely either heavy drug users in their youth, or born to heavy drug users. It's no wonder the 20-somethings of the world think the world is fucked up... it kind of literally was.
And this is a great example of why you are not a multi-billionaire or successful CIO suggesting people do dumb things: successful business people are at the right place at the right time because they decide to make that time NOW. Facebook, Google, eBay, Amazon... for them it was the right time because they put a lot of effort into making it the right time.
Racist? Uh... I guess... if you're into hyperbole.
Was that guy really trying to say that Google should let him list his REAL name as "CopyLion" because a larger number of people know him by that "nickname" and thus it is his actual name to most people?
Seems.. silly to me, but I guess it's more culturally acceptable in Hong Kong to be a virtual person? What are the ideas behind "virtual people" anyway? Can Google show that such people are actually people and not groups, amalgamations, fronts or scripts?
The recent meltdown was caused by an unregulated shift to a self-feeding exchange in derivatives aided by a tendency to simply inflate the currency in response to poor investment decisions. That has nothing to do with any President.
At least try to understand something before you comment on it.
While companies are subject to the force majeure of government, both Government and Corportations suffer from an inability to be held accountable for incompetence and negligence. Until one or the other is fixed in that sense, we're fucked either way.
I did not get that from this particular incident in isolation. THAT is exemplified in the consistent actions of several US government agencies... (DHS copyright enforcement takedowns? TSA scanners that were never conclusively tested for safety? TSA practices that provide not even the slightest amount of privacy for information collected? My way or the highway attitudes from appointed bureaucrats? The picture is pretty clear to me. If you want to debate semantics, I don't.)
In this way I think, sadly, that the Chinese are just buying in to the "we're rich therefore we're right" concept, right as America is FINALLY starting to admit that the ideology has decimated so many facets of our society.
I hope you Chinese citizens don't spend as long wallowing in your own supposed superiority as we did. Wasted some of the best years of our society so far on complete nothingness.
I assume you are trying to say without saying it (presumably because you don't want to offend?) that she has the appearance of someone who abuses Methamphetamines in the picture of that article.
But then, so do lots of white people in mug shots because of the way they are taken.
So... what does her picture tell us that's relevant to whether this was a rights violation, or whether or not her rights should be respected? Answer: nothing.
In short: stop cluttering the discussion with straw men.
What a complete non-sequitur. It doesn't matter if there are other options for travel... the TSA is a GOVERNMENT agency. Their actions are subject to review, criticism and most importantly CHANGE when they do not represent the people they serve.
Who the fuck cares about the semantics? What we have here is a bureaucracy that has decided it is smarter than the people it serves, which is a situation that should always be challenged by those who desire freedom.
I can't find the article, but I believe the scientific community concluded that among many factors, the most important was a newer, stronger form of disease that was infecting wild honey bees and domesticated honey bees, but was much more destructive to wild bees.
I could use one:
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That movie is about so many things it's difficult to even have conversation about it.
While all of this is true, and important to know before reacting, I think it also worth noting the situation as an example of how the UN is impotent at accomplishing certain goals because of the immovable structure of procedure that has pervaded the entire body from top to bottom.
What the UN is really good at is illustrating just how nationalistic the world still is.
Why would you be concerned about them "quitting"? That would explicitly make a statement that continued membership masks: that they have no interest in participating in any kind of global governance, oversight, or community, and see the world as divided into two sections: those that are theirs, and those that are inferior.
So again, why would DPRK quitting the UN be a bad thing?
Many sysadmins were able over the last several years to sell transitions to Firefox for the enterprise to their bosses all the way up the chain as a way to improve security and reduce maintenance.
This release schedule basically bends those admins over in front of their bosses and gives them... well, you get the picture.
The idea that Mozilla is basically saying "fuck the enterprise, we never cared about them anyway" is straight out of the land of Oz... They are needlessly making life very difficult on what was their most stalwart evangelists: tech-savvy sysadmins who were charismatic enough to sell a platform change to their organization.
Because Mozilla basically told anyone who manages an enterprise network, "We don't fucking care about you. You know that handy version number system that used to differentiate between updates you can just install, and those you have to test? Well we blew it up! Now you have to test EVERY SINGLE UPDATE before it pushes! And by the time you've tested it, we'll have a new update! MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
I think the real version was a little less maniacal, but just as fucked up.
Is this really where Mozilla is at? Their shipped product is so incomplete that you need an addon to manage your other addons?
Was that a reference to Naked Lunch?
I'm a bit of a video geek, so please don't take this as me saying you're wrong, but I can't stand looking at Vizios. They, essentially, are a warehouse in California that receives the reject parts from several other manufacturers, then puts it together into a TV. I, personally, notice it quite a bit... I wish I could use something like a Vizio as a monitor without going crazy, because they are VERY inexpensive.
This is singularly unhelpful advice because it misses the point. The point is not that it FORCES you to upgrade or that you CAN'T turn off the notices, it's that their philosophy fundamentally conflicts with what browsers are used for.
Web developers can't and won't use new features in browsers released every 2-3 months. And without the devs, all it is, is a broken marketing philosophy dictating product development.
Yeah, I saw the prompt and my immediate reaction was "The only reason I open FireFox at all instead of Opera is if i need to use FireBug. Why should I break FireBug every two months?"
If Mozilla keeps to this schedule, I may just learn to like Opera's built-in inspector tool instead. I don't have time to be pestered by my browser as if it were a four year old child wanting a cookie.
No, it is not simple. It is fact. The US, most of Europe, Japan, China... in other words the parts of the world where infant mortality is now fairly low, and standard of living is fairly high, have birthrates very close to or under the replacement rate.
The way to "fix" overpopulation is by making sure that the poorer parts of the world increase their standard of living, access to medicine, and education. The more educated a population is, the less likely they are to have children. You can attribute that however you want, but that's an almost universal aspect of humanity.
I contemplated modding down, but instead I will reply with something that may actually assist you:
Posts about which counter-culture it is "acceptable" to be a part of are worse than useless. Your post essentially says "anyone who doesn't agree with my viewpoint on this is a flawed human being". For that, you deserve all the negative mod points that others will give you.
Most of the "religious" world doesn't have a problem with reproduction. It's places like Ethiopia, India, etc. that do, and I'm assuming you didn't mean them by "religious", as their predominant religious doctrines don't particularly support this sort of thing.
Which I agree with. I think that cell phone location data should be a case that requires a warrant for that reason.