I'd wager that it has more to do with being required to have IP laws which are simular to the US and Old Europe in order to participate in various trade groups and treaties.
You hit the nail on the head with that one.
I'd just add that it also has to do with getting corporations with major capital to invest in your country. Who is going to offshore research to a country where the fruits of the research might not pay off as well as if the research were done in the US?
Draconian, big-capital-friendly IP laws encourage companies to spend research funds in your country. Without them, the US would see even more offshoring of research jobs.
Then the user just types the IP address into the browser's address bar. Thanks for playing!
These are Myspace users. How many of them know how to bring up cmd and ping myspace for the IP address? Most of them wouldn't know/remember an IP address if it smacked them in the forehead.
The PATRIOT ACT (please use it in caps, as it is an acronym) simply applied certain powers the US Government already had to potential terrorists. It did not make sense for us to have more power against drug cartels than terrorist cells, which is the reason why PATRIOT ACT will not be completely voided anytime soon.
Umm, no. That's a line of propaganda you've taken hook, line, and sinker.
The PATRIOT Act (FYI, 'Act' should not be in all caps, since it is not part of the acronym) removes restricitons on apprehension of suspected terrorists that remain for drug & RICO suspects. The PATRIOT Act is a wish-list from law-enforcement agencies (including unconstitutional provisions) that was rushed through on the pretext of preventing terrorism -- it's all the the things they wished they could do, but couldn't (even under RICO) prior to 9/11.
At that point, our economy will truly slow. Hopefully, at that time, GWB will be forced to get a real backbone and deal with China and get them to untie their money from ours.
1. China has already unpegged from the dollar, they now peg to an index of currencies (I know, with the dollar still the main component).
2. What makes you think that's going to happen during the current administration? We both know that any negative actions will be held off on until the current "what-me-worry?" administration is gone. They'll let someone else take the heat.
3. And raising prime that far will have the beneficial effect of causing inflation, which will devalue our debt. The downside will when ere high prime will cause inflation, but the returns on business investment lag behind government securities causing a shrinking economy (stagflation). We've been through it before, it's not pretty -- and it's what gave us Reagan in the White House, for better or worse.
So if the Africanized Bees are also effected, the it definitely is not Global Warming.
Yes, Africanized bees are affected. However, I think you miss the point, there are two factors at work.
Yes, Africanized bees are more heat-tolerant. The red mites are one of the factors limiting their penetration into most of the US. However, non-Africanized bees in colder climates are also affected by the red mites -- and a streak of warm winters means these bees are having more problems with the mites. It just so happens that Africanized bees and red mites are two species affected by the climate.
That said, the problems I experienced with mites likely has nothing specific to do with the subject of TFA -- it's just an example of how climate change can affect species viability.
I'm a big fan of the hugely bold honeys, like buckwheat -- sick of the watered-down tasting almond honey in the supermarkets.
Blueberry is also a big one in NJ, nice flavor.
I've a few friends in Connecticut who brew nice strong ales, they like using my buckwheat honey just before bottling for a little extra bottle fermentation. As soon as they figure out that it's more than twice as potent as sugar, they'll get the carbonation under control and win some of those contests they've been entering.
Thinking of a buckwheat honey porter for next Christmas...
I know you're joking, but a slightly warmer climate definitely can impact susceptibility to fungal infections, etc.
I kept bees for quite a few years (in NJ) but stopped because of a mite that destroyed my colonies. My last extraction (in 2001) produced less than six pounds from each super, I had been getting 22-25 pounds in the early 90s. The Beekeepers Quarterly had an article at the time suggesting that the red mite was limited in it's northern expansion due to temperature, but that a succession of a few warm winters allowed it to reach nearly all the continental US -- only a harsh winter will kick it back down south.
None of this, by the way, provides any insight into why a slashdotter would keep bees, which is a mystery better left unexplored.
The fina article is pretty trim, I'd like to see a more complete analysis.
However, one quick note: FTA:
However, other User Interface Friction has worsened by a substantial amount, even when compared to Windows XP. Pfeiffer's report also covers Menu Latency --the slight lag that Windows imposes when displaying menus and submenus. Here, the report concludes Vista/Aero has worsened by no less than 20% compared to Windows XP.
Menu latency is not always a bad thing -- it lets the user see what happened. As more of a "power user", I find latency annoying... but many of the people in my workplace benefit from menu latency, since they are pretty clueless. Latency allows them time for their brain to catch up to what's happening on their display.
Obviously, few of those who are clued in are upgrading to Vista until they will be buying better hardware anyway. I think MS is wisely targeting the "slow" demographic, since those are the people most likely to buy into their marketing hype anyway. Slower == better for them. Good move, MS.
The point is, Islam as we know it today has brought nothing to the table to advance society.
And neither has Christianity as we know it today.
It's not entire religions that bring things to the table to advance society, it is subsets of those religions that sometimes have nothing to do with the religion other than a shared background.
You make two errors in your little diatribe:
Modern Islam is owed no credit for any discoveries
You conflate modern Islam with a small subset of Islamic people. Ignorant and dangerous of you -- seeing 'the enemy' in everyone is a great way to make enemies.
(unless you consider suicide bombers a discovery)
Hardly an Islamic discovery. The Japanese, as you will recall, used this technique to attack Allied navies in WWII. It's not new, it's a central theme of many heroic tragedies since the time of the Greeks. I suggest you read Dead for Good: Martyrdom and the Rise of the Suicide Bomber (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2007) by Hugh Barlow.
As far as the medieval contributions of Muslims to culture and science, perhaps you need to remember that history is written by the victors. In terms of influence in the Western Hemisphere, the Christians did "win" the Crusades.
These big guys have been popping up recently it seems, wonder why so many of them are getting caught up.
If there has been a statistically significant increase, it's probably due to one or more of four things:
1. Fishermen are more thoroughly sieving the deeps, due to declining fish stocks
2. The press that such catches get means that boat captains who previously wouldn't bother reporting these catches now do so, instead of cutting them up for bait or whatever they'd previously do.
3. Changes in oceanic conditions resulting in different behavior by the behemoths (for example, changes in salinity, temperature, or prey location).
4. These colossal squid are simply the advance guard of the armies of He Who Lies Dead But Dreaming (Cthulhu), on the march from R'lyeh to lay the smackdown on us humans.
While I suspect that if there is a noticeable increase in giant squid catches, it's most likely due to options 1 and 2. But something deep inside me tells me that option 4 is the real truth.
Valentine's Day was yesterday. And syran wrap is the preferred kitchen-product-on-a-roll for wrapping oneself in, but whatever floats your boat.
Besides, what if one of these tiny RFID chips contacts the full-body foil condom you're wearing? You've just given it a big-ass antenna, which makes it more likely you'll be spotted by "their" readers.
I'm tired of starting a new game and being a loser.
Well, first off, define "loser". Do you mean a character who is challenged by lesser encounters? Or do you mean a loser in the eyes of your peers (other players in an MMORPG)?
Seems to me a question of what you're looking to get out of an RPG. If you want to have uber-equipment and incredible spells/skills/whatever, sure, there's a grind. It's kind of like life -- it's rare to be rewarded for doing nothing.
For me, RPGs are all about the challenge. Since I don't have the time to play games for countless hours, what this leaves me with are games that are difficult in the early game (like Bard's Tale was). This still holds true for me -- once my character is powerful, I'll start a new character and handicap him. I'm one of those idiots who plays a vegetarian knight in Nethack, or an archer in Baldur's Gate (console) who refuses to use a bow.
Fundamentally, it's about what you want out of an RPG -- and if you want all the gravy, you should be prepared to work for it. (Or pay for it -- there are plenty of services out there that will do so for you). What's the point of all the cool stuff if you never have to work for it?
One other note -- if you define your character by how others perceive it, and identify with the character to the point that you're upset that others are more powerful, or have access to "cooler stuff", maybe you should be thinking about how much you have emotionally invested in a videogame.
The language is fine. It's the equivalent of saying "The Marine Corps, an American organization that uses tanks." Yes they have other things besides tanks, and they do tend to go to other places besides the USA.
It's not the equivalent -- most readers will already know what the USMC is. Not so for EFF -- the reason I have a problem with the representation in TFA is that to many Forbes readers, this is probably the first they've heard of EFF. Considering that Forbes is geared towards white-collar businesspeople, many of whom have no particular interest in 'defending bloggers', though they may have an interest in promoting digital freedom in other contexts, I think that it is journalistically irresponsible to define an organization by one small part of their activity.
the least you could do is get devowered by a massive black hole.
Look, it's bad enough that you want him to get devoweled by a black hole...
(And why would a black hole only take his vowels, anyway? Is it a conspiracy by the Balkan states, to get us all on an even linguistic footing? But I digress...)
But you have to insult people of Chinese heritage, too?
Geez, At least you didn't say he should be "devowerd by a massive black hore", which would insult another whole group of poeple.
A slight to EFF?
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FTA (emphasis mine):
Other companies have taken legal action against bloggers only to have those actions backfire. In January, Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) was reportedly forced to pay $700,000 to cover the legal expenses of bloggers against whom it had tried to take legal action, thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco group that defends bloggers.
Oh, so that's what EFF does.
Good thing Forbes cleared that up for me, I thought they do a lot more than that. And what does San Fran have to do with this case? EFF is an national organization -- and though it is based in SF, the article misrepresents tham as being a local group.
Funny, but it strikes me that he's the opposite of a n00b (what would that be, a b11n?)
Frankly, in a get-off-my-lawn kind of way, I can't stand talking on the cell phone in public, text messaging all the time, etc. Maybe it's my old (relatively) age, but it seems to me that someone who grew up without purely digital relationships will be uncomfortable with them their whole life.
I suspect that younger gamers have developed an aptitude for making emotional connections online that older gamers have not -- and this is the root of Russell's problem.
Ever been audited? It sucks. They will comb through your credit card statements looking for online purchases. Paypal account? If they suspect malfeasance, don't be surprised if those records are made available to the state -- just like b&m banks are subpoenad to provide records in the case of suspected income tax evasion.
All they need to do for enforcement is make sure that (probability of begin audited * average perceived punishment for audited people) is greater than the amount of money people save on their taxes. A good PR campaign that threatens jail time for big offenders wouldn't hurt, either.
What you'll likely see is that sellers will be responsible for remitting the tax. As a cost of doing business, it will be a cost they just have to bear.
Of course, people will still evade the tax, but it's surprising how many people will do something just because "it's the law".
Now, if there was only some way Google could wrest control over the games industry from Microsoft and let game developers develop for alternative platforms a bit easier.
What, is Google forbidding them from developing for other platforms now? Is that the only thing keeping developers back?
I'd think it would have something to do with MS's OS marketshare, but maybe that's me.
And, of course, by reducing users' dependence on MS Office, this would qualify as something that helps reduce MS domination of the home PC market. Now, if only some OEM were brave enough to piss off MS by majorly undercutting Windows boxes with a PC running Linux, configured to be plug-and-play/work out of the box... of course, that depends on more stable Linux builds, open drivers, etc.
At a time when global warming is ruining our climate, this is obscene.
Well, yes and no -- though the CO2 produced is a problem, it's been shown tha global dimming due to jet contrails has had an ameliatory effect. Note that in the days when the US air fleet was gorunded after 9/11, average ground temperature increased by three degrees -- and the consensus is that only the lack of jet contrails could have caused that temperature increase.
It's quite likely that we'll need to add extra contrails on purpose during the present century in order to hold off the worst effects of global warming until we've managed to deal with the underlying causes.
As stated earlier, you can't reliably establish the relative security of these products, let alone attribute the result to open vs. closed source.
Well, the point of the article was that you can;t even get to that point, since there is no widely accepted measurable definition of 'security', no inclusive metric of security. This means there is no way to define a 'more secure' approach, and therefore all we can do is discuss individual products in comparison with one another.
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I'd just add that it also has to do with getting corporations with major capital to invest in your country. Who is going to offshore research to a country where the fruits of the research might not pay off as well as if the research were done in the US?
Draconian, big-capital-friendly IP laws encourage companies to spend research funds in your country. Without them, the US would see even more offshoring of research jobs.
These are Myspace users. How many of them know how to bring up cmd and ping myspace for the IP address? Most of them wouldn't know/remember an IP address if it smacked them in the forehead.
The PATRIOT Act (FYI, 'Act' should not be in all caps, since it is not part of the acronym) removes restricitons on apprehension of suspected terrorists that remain for drug & RICO suspects. The PATRIOT Act is a wish-list from law-enforcement agencies (including unconstitutional provisions) that was rushed through on the pretext of preventing terrorism -- it's all the the things they wished they could do, but couldn't (even under RICO) prior to 9/11.
2. What makes you think that's going to happen during the current administration? We both know that any negative actions will be held off on until the current "what-me-worry?" administration is gone. They'll let someone else take the heat.
3. And raising prime that far will have the beneficial effect of causing inflation, which will devalue our debt. The downside will when ere high prime will cause inflation, but the returns on business investment lag behind government securities causing a shrinking economy (stagflation). We've been through it before, it's not pretty -- and it's what gave us Reagan in the White House, for better or worse.
Yep. Started seeing the mites around '95 or so, by 2001 I could barely keep the hives going, let alone get a worthwhile yield.
I'm not a huge fan of mead, I prefer the classic ales. I find a better depth of flavor in ale.
Yes, Africanized bees are more heat-tolerant. The red mites are one of the factors limiting their penetration into most of the US. However, non-Africanized bees in colder climates are also affected by the red mites -- and a streak of warm winters means these bees are having more problems with the mites. It just so happens that Africanized bees and red mites are two species affected by the climate.
That said, the problems I experienced with mites likely has nothing specific to do with the subject of TFA -- it's just an example of how climate change can affect species viability.
I've bookmarked your link.
I'm a big fan of the hugely bold honeys, like buckwheat -- sick of the watered-down tasting almond honey in the supermarkets.
Blueberry is also a big one in NJ, nice flavor.
I've a few friends in Connecticut who brew nice strong ales, they like using my buckwheat honey just before bottling for a little extra bottle fermentation. As soon as they figure out that it's more than twice as potent as sugar, they'll get the carbonation under control and win some of those contests they've been entering.
Thinking of a buckwheat honey porter for next Christmas...
I know you're joking, but a slightly warmer climate definitely can impact susceptibility to fungal infections, etc.
I kept bees for quite a few years (in NJ) but stopped because of a mite that destroyed my colonies. My last extraction (in 2001) produced less than six pounds from each super, I had been getting 22-25 pounds in the early 90s. The Beekeepers Quarterly had an article at the time suggesting that the red mite was limited in it's northern expansion due to temperature, but that a succession of a few warm winters allowed it to reach nearly all the continental US -- only a harsh winter will kick it back down south.
None of this, by the way, provides any insight into why a slashdotter would keep bees, which is a mystery better left unexplored.
However, one quick note:
FTA:
Menu latency is not always a bad thing -- it lets the user see what happened. As more of a "power user", I find latency annoying... but many of the people in my workplace benefit from menu latency, since they are pretty clueless. Latency allows them time for their brain to catch up to what's happening on their display.
Obviously, few of those who are clued in are upgrading to Vista until they will be buying better hardware anyway. I think MS is wisely targeting the "slow" demographic, since those are the people most likely to buy into their marketing hype anyway. Slower == better for them. Good move, MS.
(Only half-joking, folks).
It's not entire religions that bring things to the table to advance society, it is subsets of those religions that sometimes have nothing to do with the religion other than a shared background.
You make two errors in your little diatribe:
You conflate modern Islam with a small subset of Islamic people. Ignorant and dangerous of you -- seeing 'the enemy' in everyone is a great way to make enemies.
Hardly an Islamic discovery. The Japanese, as you will recall, used this technique to attack Allied navies in WWII. It's not new, it's a central theme of many heroic tragedies since the time of the Greeks. I suggest you read Dead for Good: Martyrdom and the Rise of the Suicide Bomber (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2007) by Hugh Barlow.
As far as the medieval contributions of Muslims to culture and science, perhaps you need to remember that history is written by the victors. In terms of influence in the Western Hemisphere, the Christians did "win" the Crusades.
If there has been a statistically significant increase, it's probably due to one or more of four things:
1. Fishermen are more thoroughly sieving the deeps, due to declining fish stocks
2. The press that such catches get means that boat captains who previously wouldn't bother reporting these catches now do so, instead of cutting them up for bait or whatever they'd previously do.
3. Changes in oceanic conditions resulting in different behavior by the behemoths (for example, changes in salinity, temperature, or prey location).
4. These colossal squid are simply the advance guard of the armies of He Who Lies Dead But Dreaming (Cthulhu), on the march from R'lyeh to lay the smackdown on us humans.
While I suspect that if there is a noticeable increase in giant squid catches, it's most likely due to options 1 and 2. But something deep inside me tells me that option 4 is the real truth.
Valentine's Day was yesterday. And syran wrap is the preferred kitchen-product-on-a-roll for wrapping oneself in, but whatever floats your boat.
Besides, what if one of these tiny RFID chips contacts the full-body foil condom you're wearing? You've just given it a big-ass antenna, which makes it more likely you'll be spotted by "their" readers.
Well, first off, define "loser". Do you mean a character who is challenged by lesser encounters? Or do you mean a loser in the eyes of your peers (other players in an MMORPG)?
Seems to me a question of what you're looking to get out of an RPG. If you want to have uber-equipment and incredible spells/skills/whatever, sure, there's a grind. It's kind of like life -- it's rare to be rewarded for doing nothing.
For me, RPGs are all about the challenge. Since I don't have the time to play games for countless hours, what this leaves me with are games that are difficult in the early game (like Bard's Tale was). This still holds true for me -- once my character is powerful, I'll start a new character and handicap him. I'm one of those idiots who plays a vegetarian knight in Nethack, or an archer in Baldur's Gate (console) who refuses to use a bow.
Fundamentally, it's about what you want out of an RPG -- and if you want all the gravy, you should be prepared to work for it. (Or pay for it -- there are plenty of services out there that will do so for you). What's the point of all the cool stuff if you never have to work for it?
One other note -- if you define your character by how others perceive it, and identify with the character to the point that you're upset that others are more powerful, or have access to "cooler stuff", maybe you should be thinking about how much you have emotionally invested in a videogame.
It's not the equivalent -- most readers will already know what the USMC is. Not so for EFF -- the reason I have a problem with the representation in TFA is that to many Forbes readers, this is probably the first they've heard of EFF. Considering that Forbes is geared towards white-collar businesspeople, many of whom have no particular interest in 'defending bloggers', though they may have an interest in promoting digital freedom in other contexts, I think that it is journalistically irresponsible to define an organization by one small part of their activity.
Look, it's bad enough that you want him to get devoweled by a black hole...
(And why would a black hole only take his vowels, anyway? Is it a conspiracy by the Balkan states, to get us all on an even linguistic footing? But I digress...)
But you have to insult people of Chinese heritage, too?
Geez, At least you didn't say he should be "devowerd by a massive black hore", which would insult another whole group of poeple.
Oh, so that's what EFF does.
Good thing Forbes cleared that up for me, I thought they do a lot more than that. And what does San Fran have to do with this case? EFF is an national organization -- and though it is based in SF, the article misrepresents tham as being a local group.
Funny, but it strikes me that he's the opposite of a n00b (what would that be, a b11n?)
Frankly, in a get-off-my-lawn kind of way, I can't stand talking on the cell phone in public, text messaging all the time, etc. Maybe it's my old (relatively) age, but it seems to me that someone who grew up without purely digital relationships will be uncomfortable with them their whole life.
I suspect that younger gamers have developed an aptitude for making emotional connections online that older gamers have not -- and this is the root of Russell's problem.
All they need to do for enforcement is make sure that (probability of begin audited * average perceived punishment for audited people) is greater than the amount of money people save on their taxes. A good PR campaign that threatens jail time for big offenders wouldn't hurt, either.
What you'll likely see is that sellers will be responsible for remitting the tax. As a cost of doing business, it will be a cost they just have to bear.
Of course, people will still evade the tax, but it's surprising how many people will do something just because "it's the law".
What, is Google forbidding them from developing for other platforms now? Is that the only thing keeping developers back?
I'd think it would have something to do with MS's OS marketshare, but maybe that's me.
And, of course, by reducing users' dependence on MS Office, this would qualify as something that helps reduce MS domination of the home PC market. Now, if only some OEM were brave enough to piss off MS by majorly undercutting Windows boxes with a PC running Linux, configured to be plug-and-play/work out of the box... of course, that depends on more stable Linux builds, open drivers, etc.
It's quite likely that we'll need to add extra contrails on purpose during the present century in order to hold off the worst effects of global warming until we've managed to deal with the underlying causes.
Actually, we prefer to shoot our British friends, but some Commonwealth citizens will suffice in this case.
Awesome.