Actually as someone who has worked in a metric using country as a builder (Australia) millimetres are used for any measurement at all. I've ordered 10,000mm of pipe before. Millimetres are alot more accurate than inches.
3. Once the drug companies patents run out, anyone can produce generic medicines cheaply.
And how many millions of people will die in the meantime?
And how many millions would have died had the drug never been brought to the market in the first place?
The same number of millions who won't use it because they can't afford it.
If only that were true. Take a visit to Singapore. Their government hit dictatorships bottom a while ago and altough it's going up (economy wise) society is still finding new lows and methods of control.
You must be new here I've walked up the street, arrested, detained for 10 hours, interrogated and released because of suspicion that we were going to commit a crime(Indecent language). Here in Australia there is something called the big 3 that police can arrest with without any suspicion at all. The three are Indecent language (how many people shout fuck when a policeman tackles them), resisting arrest (if you question why the officer just tackled you) and resisting a directive (policeman tells you to do something that takes a minute and arrests you 30 seconds later). I know people who have criminal records a mile long filled with crimes like this. Are they criminals? Mostly no, usually just someone black or gay or otherwise different from the whitepicket fence folk. I also know that US police can do this too in some states. Crime hasn't been about committing crimes in a while. Look up and look out.
You hit the nail on the head. Those who turn over the rights of all for the benefit of a few has got us all in this mess. The sex offenders registry is a stupid idea. I've seen a guy in my street hounded by fundementalists worst than anything I saw in the middle east. Throwing rocks and rotten food at him and his house. Fair enough the guy was an ex crim but he served the 20 year sentence our judicial system dealt him. If he reoffends he will be caught. The registry is for vigilantees and fanatics to hound people. What do you think this system will be used for? The same damn thing. As a passionate anti present shithead government campaigner I'm not feeling very keen on this.
I run X64 XP professional and Gentoo on my dual opty box and I notice no speed difference other than an increase. Games run faster on X64 due to less spam, spyware, other crap. The only things that run noticably worse are Nvidia firewall (oh how i wish to unsolder thou) and some really badly emulated hardware apps and drivers. I'm not a windows fanboi but what you are saying is a load of turds.
I hope you know legacy is the cream of the computer market. Intel got rich off it, Microsoft got rich off it, many more continue to get rich off it. Windows is stuck in a trap security and speed versus legacy. I know of many companies porting to linux because vista does not support some of their applications. Microsoft is going to lose a big market with vista just as many PC/mobo manufacturers lose big orders to companies because of lack of ps/2 or rs232 or isa (in extremes). Development of software continues to cost alot and redevelopment is enough for some companies to drop a product completely at huge cost. Vista will not be supported in my workplace for at least 10 years because thats how long it would take to redevelop the entire system, a real-time life and death system with alot of terminals for a huge number of different users. This is microsft's big gamble in trying to ditch some legacy for security and speed will they win? Only time will tell.
Is anyone out there thinking what backups does the data centre do? Does it just use another online service? Tapes? Raid? These are important questions that will shoot it down for corporations. Who backs up the backups? who is responsible for the data?
As someone who has done corporate programming I can assure you work will be lost when anything is upgraded. People will waste time playing with whatever was added. Vista would be an easy week on the go slow.
Oh come on now, why would piracy ever give anyone the idea the thing is against any laws. It's not like stealing a boat and forcing its crew to walk a plank into shark infested waters could possibly be illegal. Who would have thought it. Larceny on the high seas against laws, wow thats a headline I'll never see.
In all honesty piracy will never be stopped. It hasn't been stopped on the ocean and it won't be stopped on disks either. Singapore straits for anyone who has been out there is full of pirates. High earning pirates with gunboats and helicopters. I think piracy is deep within human nature. The spirit of rebellion and freedom. Trying to stop it is like trying to stop jaywalking (walking across when the light is red if your countries police do not try to prosecute this).
Friedman is wrong. What happens when education is commericalised, one big mac plus two big mac equals happy mac fun. Don't believe me? A school in Canberra is funned by boeing. Their work experience was to sweap a tarmac and look at others fix planes. I'm not saying they aren't valid career opportunities for someone that way inclined but for a company that employs only 300 in 500kms of the school its shear stupidity to have 200 Boeing ready graduates a year adding to an unemployment queue.
1. Stay the same, and suffer
1. Yes that will happen in every area of any industry for the entire history of the universe. Evolution is not optional.
2. Re-institute Corporal punishment and all the other negative reinforcement measures that have been barred from touchy feely public schools
2. Do you hit coworkers? No? Why should we teach our children that it is alright to hit someone smaller than them? I work as a tutor for a large group of students to make a bit of money and I'm starting my degree in Education next year after I graduate with a BS(CS). The level of control a teacher has over a class is due to skill not fear. I work in an area where the majority of children have disruptive homes, where a parent is in jail, crime is rife, unemployment 60% and yet I can still get these kids to learn something and peacefully. The majority of teachers and tutors in this area break after 6 months. Hitting something is a sign of incompetence. Just think of the plebs who hit computers. It shows lack of understanding that should not be in any civilised education system.
3. Deregulate and make schools accountable to a paying public. (essentially some sort of universal voucher program)
3. How good sir do you think that will help. Private schools in this country at least are shown to have a lower quality of education than many public schools. Remember when you pay taxes you don't own shit of where that money goes. It's a common misconception that shows no economic understanding or historical thought. Did the serfs own the knights in the middle ages. "My grains pay your way" and see how far it got them. Taxes are exactly the same. If you think otherwise you are living in an illusionary fantasy world. Democracy as currently practiced is the 4 year dictatorship with very little accountability which is quickly disappearing.
Deregulation is a buzz word that you don't truly understand. If something is deregulated the government relinquishes control handing it to the private sector. Anything less is not deregulation. Once the asset is in the private sector there is no public accountability there is shareholder and stakeholder accountability. Which if you think is a good idea for something as important as future generations upbringing you need a lobotomy because you obviously aren't using it anyway.
I am appalled by your diatribe. Sure gifted children have problems at school. I was one, I was so bored I turned to crime, drugs and violence and I still graduated with A+'s. But I know I'm not the norm for gifted kids. There needs to be some program there for them but none is overdone. Learning and intellectual disability programs, in Australia at least, work. We see children who when they came into school weren't even toilet trained or able to speak graduating a useful member of society. Disability can cost society in two ways, huge social security cost or huge moral cost (of letting most of them die on the street like the US) it is better to spend alot of money to fix this problem in childhood than just let it get out of control and add a lifetime of burden for society.
Here is my reason for writing portable apps, if you can't write a good app that will work on multiple operating systems or platforms you aren't worthy of the title programmer. The only reason you should need to write non portable apps is for crazy optimisations. In which case you can spend time testing on multiple OS's and finding bugs in threads and memory management.
Where did you fail from. Even being a communist party member or a Republican party member doesn't make you right or left wing. Go to a political debate and watch supposed conservative politicans arguing for evolution in schools, or anachists saying not to piss off police. There is a mix in everything and the left-right bullshit is a false dicotomy.
Actually I'm confusing neither. In mining areas of Australia the demand is so great and the supply so low, electricians, and some other skilled labour jobs are payed well above what a senior manager can make in a city here. $8000 a week is COMMON in these areas. Do some research, maybe move here and make a killing financially.
I know people on $500AU/hour waged. They are called electricians and crane drivers. Also one of these persons I know bought a japanese PS3 on ebay. There are higher paying jobs than law which require alot less education.
If there are 1,600 terrorists in England you are screwed. There were only about 1,000 in fallujah (according to a close friend who was there as a doctor) and the US had 20,000+ troops against them. If there are 1,600 terrorists that's it head for the hills....but we all know thats not the case. What there really is, is alot of people "suspected" or witch hunted by the government for some reason. And in all seriousness that is only their official claim of how many they are watching. I'm becoming quite terrified of my government and police forces. I know people who are definately being watched (a hypothetical conversation about terrorism led to 3 raids and a week in prison). Any statistics about homeland security are to be treated with mistrust. You can't fight a war on anything against your own citizens in a democracy. Armies and spies are horrible things to use within your own borders.
My point is keep alert the worst is coming and soon.
Throwing around socialism for generic-I-don't-understand-it-or-disagree-with word was so last century. Did you miss 2001 everything bad now is a terrorist. It's not governments that are bad, terrorists are bad. Socialism isn't slavery, terrorism is slavery. Get the new edition of idiotspeak dictionary from a TV near you.
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Actually as someone who has worked in a metric using country as a builder (Australia) millimetres are used for any measurement at all. I've ordered 10,000mm of pipe before. Millimetres are alot more accurate than inches.
If only that were true. Take a visit to Singapore. Their government hit dictatorships bottom a while ago and altough it's going up (economy wise) society is still finding new lows and methods of control.
You must be new here I've walked up the street, arrested, detained for 10 hours, interrogated and released because of suspicion that we were going to commit a crime(Indecent language). Here in Australia there is something called the big 3 that police can arrest with without any suspicion at all. The three are Indecent language (how many people shout fuck when a policeman tackles them), resisting arrest (if you question why the officer just tackled you) and resisting a directive (policeman tells you to do something that takes a minute and arrests you 30 seconds later). I know people who have criminal records a mile long filled with crimes like this. Are they criminals? Mostly no, usually just someone black or gay or otherwise different from the whitepicket fence folk. I also know that US police can do this too in some states. Crime hasn't been about committing crimes in a while. Look up and look out.
You hit the nail on the head. Those who turn over the rights of all for the benefit of a few has got us all in this mess. The sex offenders registry is a stupid idea. I've seen a guy in my street hounded by fundementalists worst than anything I saw in the middle east. Throwing rocks and rotten food at him and his house. Fair enough the guy was an ex crim but he served the 20 year sentence our judicial system dealt him. If he reoffends he will be caught. The registry is for vigilantees and fanatics to hound people. What do you think this system will be used for? The same damn thing. As a passionate anti present shithead government campaigner I'm not feeling very keen on this.
I run X64 XP professional and Gentoo on my dual opty box and I notice no speed difference other than an increase. Games run faster on X64 due to less spam, spyware, other crap. The only things that run noticably worse are Nvidia firewall (oh how i wish to unsolder thou) and some really badly emulated hardware apps and drivers. I'm not a windows fanboi but what you are saying is a load of turds.
I hope you know legacy is the cream of the computer market. Intel got rich off it, Microsoft got rich off it, many more continue to get rich off it. Windows is stuck in a trap security and speed versus legacy. I know of many companies porting to linux because vista does not support some of their applications. Microsoft is going to lose a big market with vista just as many PC/mobo manufacturers lose big orders to companies because of lack of ps/2 or rs232 or isa (in extremes). Development of software continues to cost alot and redevelopment is enough for some companies to drop a product completely at huge cost. Vista will not be supported in my workplace for at least 10 years because thats how long it would take to redevelop the entire system, a real-time life and death system with alot of terminals for a huge number of different users. This is microsft's big gamble in trying to ditch some legacy for security and speed will they win? Only time will tell.
Is anyone out there thinking what backups does the data centre do? Does it just use another online service? Tapes? Raid? These are important questions that will shoot it down for corporations. Who backs up the backups? who is responsible for the data?
As someone who has done corporate programming I can assure you work will be lost when anything is upgraded. People will waste time playing with whatever was added. Vista would be an easy week on the go slow.
Oh come on now, why would piracy ever give anyone the idea the thing is against any laws. It's not like stealing a boat and forcing its crew to walk a plank into shark infested waters could possibly be illegal. Who would have thought it. Larceny on the high seas against laws, wow thats a headline I'll never see. In all honesty piracy will never be stopped. It hasn't been stopped on the ocean and it won't be stopped on disks either. Singapore straits for anyone who has been out there is full of pirates. High earning pirates with gunboats and helicopters. I think piracy is deep within human nature. The spirit of rebellion and freedom. Trying to stop it is like trying to stop jaywalking (walking across when the light is red if your countries police do not try to prosecute this).
Per student funding as an extra to the school.
Sigh, I'm flamebait for fucking up my formatting and grammar. Please read my post, not my mistakes.
I am appalled by your diatribe. Sure gifted children have problems at school. I was one, I was so bored I turned to crime, drugs and violence and I still graduated with A+'s. But I know I'm not the norm for gifted kids. There needs to be some program there for them but none is overdone. Learning and intellectual disability programs, in Australia at least, work. We see children who when they came into school weren't even toilet trained or able to speak graduating a useful member of society. Disability can cost society in two ways, huge social security cost or huge moral cost (of letting most of them die on the street like the US) it is better to spend alot of money to fix this problem in childhood than just let it get out of control and add a lifetime of burden for society.
Here is my reason for writing portable apps, if you can't write a good app that will work on multiple operating systems or platforms you aren't worthy of the title programmer. The only reason you should need to write non portable apps is for crazy optimisations. In which case you can spend time testing on multiple OS's and finding bugs in threads and memory management.
Where did you fail from. Even being a communist party member or a Republican party member doesn't make you right or left wing. Go to a political debate and watch supposed conservative politicans arguing for evolution in schools, or anachists saying not to piss off police. There is a mix in everything and the left-right bullshit is a false dicotomy.
Actually I'm confusing neither. In mining areas of Australia the demand is so great and the supply so low, electricians, and some other skilled labour jobs are payed well above what a senior manager can make in a city here. $8000 a week is COMMON in these areas. Do some research, maybe move here and make a killing financially.
I know people on $500AU/hour waged. They are called electricians and crane drivers. Also one of these persons I know bought a japanese PS3 on ebay. There are higher paying jobs than law which require alot less education.
If there are 1,600 terrorists in England you are screwed. There were only about 1,000 in fallujah (according to a close friend who was there as a doctor) and the US had 20,000+ troops against them. If there are 1,600 terrorists that's it head for the hills. ...but we all know thats not the case. What there really is, is alot of people "suspected" or witch hunted by the government for some reason. And in all seriousness that is only their official claim of how many they are watching. I'm becoming quite terrified of my government and police forces. I know people who are definately being watched (a hypothetical conversation about terrorism led to 3 raids and a week in prison). Any statistics about homeland security are to be treated with mistrust. You can't fight a war on anything against your own citizens in a democracy. Armies and spies are horrible things to use within your own borders.
My point is keep alert the worst is coming and soon.
I think your onto something there. In no time at all my spam will be a better read than the mail I get from my illiterate contacts.
Throwing around socialism for generic-I-don't-understand-it-or-disagree-with word was so last century. Did you miss 2001 everything bad now is a terrorist. It's not governments that are bad, terrorists are bad. Socialism isn't slavery, terrorism is slavery. Get the new edition of idiotspeak dictionary from a TV near you.
So are you, evidently. Learn to type English. Also, got proof?.
I must say I agree with you well said. Now If only the dilusional crowd that has those ideas don't mod you into oblivion.
Two wrongs don't make a right, unless you live in Melbourne where three lefts make a right turn.