I'm sure they have imagined it. But judging from the shortage of native Arabian speakers in the intelligence community, I'm pretty sure they're also a long way from it.
NOAA has several gigs of data publically available via FTP, and some open format like csv. No, I'm not going to again link to them. Want to peer review that? Go for it. Or, since you're so sure that all the data is garbage, feel free to go up to any industry threatened by carbon caps and taxes, and propose them a research program that will demonstrate once and for all (ONCE AND FOR ALL!!) that there is no global climate change. Should be a cinch, right? Imagine: you'll be rich, you'll be famous, you'll be the savior of humanity!
IP industries are government-supported monopolies with practically fungible , but legally 100% distinct products. How anyone can be a capitalist and think this helps commerce is beyond me.
Considering that the total budget for this year is supposed to clock in at about 3.8 trillion, the numbers you mention don't add up. Unless the rest of the federal government really only gets 300 billion to run everything else.
Oh, right, the 2.5 trillion refers to what taxpayers and corporations pay, not what the federal government spends on it.
You got it all wrong. Unfortunately. It isn't the government that wants complete control. The people who make laws and institute policies are elected law-makers who are answered to their home constituency.
The real fuckwits are the people who keep voting for the assholes who keep talking a tough game. You only need a population to consist of 50.1% fuckwits, and presto - instant idiocy.
In a democracy, we get the government we deserve. And boy, did we ever deserve this one.
Explain to me again why Google pulling out of China is a loss for China? Baidu is far and away the market leader, anyway. In other words, China has not experienced a single drawback to its current policies. Why should it stop?
Because it's confusing as hell when people think they invented a new word, but all they did was assign new meaning to an already existing word. If you slept through English class, it might be useful, but to others who know current rules of grammar, spelling and vocabulary, it's just confusing and a sign of ignorance.
Of course. However, depending on the quantity of distilled water you're drinking, you will have to adjust your diet. If you do not modify your diet to account for the fact that you're losing ions and minerals to your intestine, you will end up with a deficit. The deficit will stabilize somewhere, but at a sub-optimal level.
You're right, technically. Distilled water won't directly harm you. There is no mechanism by which H20 disrupts body functions directly (disregard blocking O2 absorption in the lungs for a second). What happens though is that pretty much every membrane in your body is porous for ions and minerals. If you drink nothing but distilled water for an extended period, you're losing minerals through osmosis very quickly. The first effect is that your neural system starts to act up, because Potassium and other ions used in signal transmission become less and less available. That's why it's a bad idea to use snow as a source of drinking water without adding anything to it, or making sure that your diet supplements the extra ions and minerals needed.
Sometimes, there is a logical progression to events that needs to be talked about before people engage in certain activities. This is one of those situations. The slippery slope fallacy is only a fallacy if used to argue that once something has happened, there's no resistance to other, more nefarious things happening.
What you pointed out is pretty much my concern as well. At this point, Apple doesn't have enough market share to control how EVERYBODY accesses the internet. But it is conceivable that Apple could get as big as Microsoft, with as much penetration as MS has now. After all, if MS did it, anyone else can get there as well. Alternatively, it is enough that enough corporations with closed ecosystems gain enough total market share to have the same effect on consumers.
It's one thing that's kept me from completely buying into the Apple paradigm.... I don't like where its connectivity is going.
It seems the AC posted AC because he had mod points. Quite a few people pointing out the utter stupidity of the AC post are getting modded flamebait...Sometimes, dear AC, calling someone out for their abyssal ignorance is informative, impolite language or not.
Fun factoid: wars are frequently started when men can't find girls to marry. The most violent segment of a population is without fail young, badly employed, male, and single.
This is not a recipe for long-term success, but it sure is a recipe for population-culling via war.
I'm not sure if the insightful mod is a sarcastic one or is serious.... yikes. I really hope someone out there is having some fun with moderation system today.
As I mentioned earlier, firing at will doesn't mean firing for any reason. You can fire anyone at any time if you determine at your discretion that you don't them doing their job anymore. You can't fire someone for no reason, then hire someone else to keep doing their job. If that happens, that's a slam dunk illegal termination case.
The neat trick here is that they can't fire you because they don't like you. It's amazing actually how hard it is to show that you fired someone just because you didn't want them anymore. Companies trip up on that on a constant basis.
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You realize that drag racing is a 100% predictable event, with no curves and a requirement for maximal acceleration during the entire race? Of course automatics should dominate the race. I'm waiting for the car with an optical starting light recognition system, where the computer has the engined dialed in to the perfect RPM the instant the light is about to go green. Drag Racing is designed to be run by computers today.
As for WRC cars using automatics , I'd like to see a citation for that. A quick browse of the WRC site shows nothing but manuals - even if the manuals are all paddle shifters, it's still a manual.
What benefits? The right to bankrupt the company I work for, so that I can get some short-sighted and unsustainable benefits? The right to have seniority come before competence?
Unions are behind the fact that I have a 40 hour work week, I get that. However, they've far outlived their usefulness.
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I'm sure they have imagined it. But judging from the shortage of native Arabian speakers in the intelligence community, I'm pretty sure they're also a long way from it.
Rally racers are the last true racers. These people are nuts. More driving skills than F1, ballsier attitude than NASCAR.
NOAA has several gigs of data publically available via FTP, and some open format like csv. No, I'm not going to again link to them. Want to peer review that? Go for it. Or, since you're so sure that all the data is garbage, feel free to go up to any industry threatened by carbon caps and taxes, and propose them a research program that will demonstrate once and for all (ONCE AND FOR ALL!!) that there is no global climate change. Should be a cinch, right? Imagine: you'll be rich, you'll be famous, you'll be the savior of humanity!
Or, you can bitch on slashdot. Your call.
I'm sure you'll have no problem then debunking all the other unrelated claims. Take your time. I'm not holding my breath.
Most insightful post in the entire thread.
IP industries are government-supported monopolies with practically fungible , but legally 100% distinct products. How anyone can be a capitalist and think this helps commerce is beyond me.
No, it merely demonstrates that those selected for moderation can be subject to various incorrect assumptions, biases or asshat inclinations.
Can we now get off the idea that moderation is anything but "Someone finds me interesting,informative, trollish" etc.?
Considering that the total budget for this year is supposed to clock in at about 3.8 trillion, the numbers you mention don't add up. Unless the rest of the federal government really only gets 300 billion to run everything else.
Oh, right, the 2.5 trillion refers to what taxpayers and corporations pay, not what the federal government spends on it.
You got it all wrong. Unfortunately. It isn't the government that wants complete control. The people who make laws and institute policies are elected law-makers who are answered to their home constituency.
The real fuckwits are the people who keep voting for the assholes who keep talking a tough game. You only need a population to consist of 50.1% fuckwits, and presto - instant idiocy.
In a democracy, we get the government we deserve. And boy, did we ever deserve this one.
Explain to me again why Google pulling out of China is a loss for China? Baidu is far and away the market leader, anyway. In other words, China has not experienced a single drawback to its current policies. Why should it stop?
Have her read science fiction. Or does your kid have no imagination?
Because it's confusing as hell when people think they invented a new word, but all they did was assign new meaning to an already existing word. If you slept through English class, it might be useful, but to others who know current rules of grammar, spelling and vocabulary, it's just confusing and a sign of ignorance.
Of course. However, depending on the quantity of distilled water you're drinking, you will have to adjust your diet. If you do not modify your diet to account for the fact that you're losing ions and minerals to your intestine, you will end up with a deficit. The deficit will stabilize somewhere, but at a sub-optimal level.
You're right, technically. Distilled water won't directly harm you. There is no mechanism by which H20 disrupts body functions directly (disregard blocking O2 absorption in the lungs for a second). What happens though is that pretty much every membrane in your body is porous for ions and minerals. If you drink nothing but distilled water for an extended period, you're losing minerals through osmosis very quickly. The first effect is that your neural system starts to act up, because Potassium and other ions used in signal transmission become less and less available. That's why it's a bad idea to use snow as a source of drinking water without adding anything to it, or making sure that your diet supplements the extra ions and minerals needed.
I'll wait for your opinion on this until you are old and need to eat.
Sometimes, there is a logical progression to events that needs to be talked about before people engage in certain activities. This is one of those situations. The slippery slope fallacy is only a fallacy if used to argue that once something has happened, there's no resistance to other, more nefarious things happening.
What you pointed out is pretty much my concern as well. At this point, Apple doesn't have enough market share to control how EVERYBODY accesses the internet. But it is conceivable that Apple could get as big as Microsoft, with as much penetration as MS has now. After all, if MS did it, anyone else can get there as well. Alternatively, it is enough that enough corporations with closed ecosystems gain enough total market share to have the same effect on consumers.
It's one thing that's kept me from completely buying into the Apple paradigm.... I don't like where its connectivity is going.
It seems the AC posted AC because he had mod points. Quite a few people pointing out the utter stupidity of the AC post are getting modded flamebait...Sometimes, dear AC, calling someone out for their abyssal ignorance is informative, impolite language or not.
Fun factoid: wars are frequently started when men can't find girls to marry. The most violent segment of a population is without fail young, badly employed, male, and single.
This is not a recipe for long-term success, but it sure is a recipe for population-culling via war.
I'm not sure if the insightful mod is a sarcastic one or is serious.... yikes. I really hope someone out there is having some fun with moderation system today.
As I mentioned earlier, firing at will doesn't mean firing for any reason. You can fire anyone at any time if you determine at your discretion that you don't them doing their job anymore. You can't fire someone for no reason, then hire someone else to keep doing their job. If that happens, that's a slam dunk illegal termination case.
The neat trick here is that they can't fire you because they don't like you. It's amazing actually how hard it is to show that you fired someone just because you didn't want them anymore. Companies trip up on that on a constant basis.
Search Engine Optimization. URLs containing keywords will cause the page to be ranked much higher.
Do you like your car to last a long time? Then don't warm it up for 20 minutes.
Funny how environmentally responsible actions are frequently the selfish actions.
You realize that drag racing is a 100% predictable event, with no curves and a requirement for maximal acceleration during the entire race? Of course automatics should dominate the race. I'm waiting for the car with an optical starting light recognition system, where the computer has the engined dialed in to the perfect RPM the instant the light is about to go green. Drag Racing is designed to be run by computers today.
As for WRC cars using automatics , I'd like to see a citation for that. A quick browse of the WRC site shows nothing but manuals - even if the manuals are all paddle shifters, it's still a manual.
What benefits? The right to bankrupt the company I work for, so that I can get some short-sighted and unsustainable benefits? The right to have seniority come before competence?
Unions are behind the fact that I have a 40 hour work week, I get that. However, they've far outlived their usefulness.
How many child porn downloaders and uploaders are shitting their pants right about now? My guess is more than spies and Chinese dissidents.