Yeah, and if there's no profit in creating the medicines, then nobody creates them! and if a few more million people die, so what? At least we have emacs! Down with the profit motive!
Last I checked, every attempt at socialism had failed. Last I checked, every attempt at capitalism had failed.
Oh, wait, maybe we'd better define "success" first. I define it as everyone in a country has access to housing, food, good education, health care, work, transportation, etc. & etc. I don't care how we get that, but IMO you don't have a successful country is some of the people can't get some of that when they need it.
If you define "success" as "some people have a lot of money, and who cares about the rest," then a lot of capitalist countries were successful. You see, it all depends on your definition of success.
yeah, the animation quality of ST:TAS really gave Speed Racer a run for its money!
You are correct about the stories, though. Not all of them were great (heck, not all of the original series was great, as you pointed out), but some of the stories were quite good, even without taking the half-hour format into consideration.
I bought the series on DVD awhile back. Fun to watch.
Whenever I think somebody, anyone, not just supreme cosmic beings, is trying to piss me off, I think: am I really that important? I used to wonder about this. Then I realized that, since the cosmic beings/universe/whatever are trying to piss my off, then I am, ipso facto, that important. It did wonders for my self-esteem.
Still, I can't help but wonder... is the entire universe against me? Or just the part where light has reached since my birth? Don't laugh; it's an important question.
but it works better than anything else we can come up with.
Correction: it works better than anything else we HAVE come up with.
Unless you believe we can never make any more major discoveries in economics. I mean, that's as silly as giving away free software, or freely distributing music online!:-)
We don't even need one monopolistic company; we just need one set of standards. For example, how hard is it to tell if some brand of cereal is more nutritious than another? It's easy, 'cause we have a standard way of describing it, right on the side of the box.
In this case, forcing the various companies to adopt one standard is HELPFUL to the oh-so-holy Free Market. It does make things easier for us, the consumer (you all remember the consumers, the very people the Free Market is suppose to be all about?).
If peak, off-peak, evening, weekend, etc. were well-defined terms, so that every phone company had to use them the same way, there'd be no problem comparing them. The cell phone sales part of the industry is just crying out for a little more regulation, to help the Free Market get closer to nirvana.
I was working on my Boy Scout computers merit badge, and a friend of my parents let me use a computer of some sort at Fluke.
I still remember sitting in that cold room, the tall menhirs of flashing lights and whirring tapes behind me. When I was done running my programs, he said, "try this." He typed
ADVENT
and my fate was sealed. I work on computers to this day. The first game I wrote myself for my TRS-80 model 1 (4K of memory!) was a simple text adventure.
Willy Wonka had it all wrong. It's computers that are worlds of pure imagination.
[DRM] locks iTunes to the iPod, and so they mutually support each other giving apple the monopoly. Speaking out against it didn't mean Jobs didn't like it. Just that he realised that if Apple didn't allow DRM free music on iTunes, it would mean competitors would be able to offer a better product. Apple had to make a concession here.
Nonsense. Most music on any random iPod will not be from the iTunes music store. It will have been ripped from a CD. This information is quite easy to find; only the people with an ax to grind deny it. I believe a study showed that Apple has sold 20 songs per iPod sold, on average. The DRM is there because the record companies want it there, so the iTunes Music Store wasn't able to start up without using DRM (or they would've been another also-ran, like eMusic). Any iTunes-iPod tying effect is almost nonexistent. To claim it's a major cause of people buying iPods is laughable.
iPods sell well because they're iPods. They're good, easy-to-use, high-quality, music playback devices. People buy them because they work well, not because Apple sells DRM music. They buy new iPods to replace their old ones because the old ones worked so well. The monopoly isn't contrived or forced, it arose because they offered the best product at a good price, and continues because of that, not because of DRM tracks at the music store.
And you'll notice that he's not volunteering to help out. Heaven forfend he should sully his precious time using his superior Luthor-like intellect to spot the criminals who hack our voting machines.
(1) Pull out of Iraq (2) Take the several zillions of dollars a day we save, and invest in more lines and more workers,
until we have roughly 25 to 50 times the capacity. (3) Lines that took an hour to move through now take two or three minutes. (4) Because we have more people working, we can actually have BETTER security.
"TSA: Fighting you here, because they shoot back over there."
If you don't like the rules, agitate within the party to have them changed (hint: the first step is becoming a local Democratic party member, and attending all the caucuses and meetings and such). The other alternative is to run independent, or for another party.
Political parties will never be perfectly democratic (small "d") because they are supposed to represent something (in theory, anyway). Otherwise, you might end up with drunken warmongering sailors representing the party of small government and morality!:-)
Damnit, how many times have I got to tell you that slashdot is not the place for good analogies or logic? I'm so very sorry. I'll darn myself to heck, and sit here with the thermostat turned to 75 degrees for 10 minutes.
And you've most likely never been raped.
Because if you've ever been the victim of a violent act, it's considered appropriate for you to demand vengeance upon the people who attacked you.
Unless, of course, you are an Iraqi, 'cause then it would just be stupid.
Is it a "near miss" when a collision is narrowly avoided? or is it a "near miss" when two planes pass closer than they should to each other, but were really in no real danger of colliding?
For example, on the freeway, cars sometimes swerve towards another car, then realize what they are doing, and move back into the center of their lane. Is that a "near accident," or just a normal occurrence?
I'm serious about this. I'd really like to know what counts as a "near miss."
It's almost funny the number of people here who have advocated jury nullification -- having the jury simply refuse to find a defendant guilty because they don't like the law.
The other side of that coin, however, is that if you anger the jury, they may be more willing to find you guilty, and give you a heavy sentence.
This is the legal equivalent of a Darwin Award, IMHO.
The Alto UI had all the features of a modern GUI - desktop metaphor, windows , icons and a mouse all on a bitmapped display. I'm not entirely sure what else you want? Ok , it had tiled windows not overlays , BFD. And a chariot had all the features of a modern automobile: wheels, a place for the driver, and a power source in the front.
So, it needed a few tweaks -- that hardly made the Model T revolutionary.
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Yeah, and if there's no profit in creating the medicines, then nobody creates them! and if a few more million people die, so what? At least we have emacs! Down with the profit motive!
7.6 billion years? For a minute, I thought you said 7.6 million years.
Words can't express my relief.
In Soviet Russia, non-obligatory jokes let go of YOU!
Oh, wait, maybe we'd better define "success" first. I define it as everyone in a country has access to housing, food, good education, health care, work, transportation, etc. & etc. I don't care how we get that, but IMO you don't have a successful country is some of the people can't get some of that when they need it.
If you define "success" as "some people have a lot of money, and who cares about the rest," then a lot of capitalist countries were successful. You see, it all depends on your definition of success.
yeah, the animation quality of ST:TAS really gave Speed Racer a run for its money!
You are correct about the stories, though. Not all of them were great (heck, not all of the original series was great, as you pointed out), but some of the stories were quite good, even without taking the half-hour format into consideration.
I bought the series on DVD awhile back. Fun to watch.
Still, I can't help but wonder... is the entire universe against me? Or just the part where light has reached since my birth? Don't laugh; it's an important question.
Correction: it works better than anything else we HAVE come up with.
Unless you believe we can never make any more major discoveries in economics. I mean, that's as silly as giving away free software, or freely distributing music online! :-)
We don't even need one monopolistic company; we just need one set of standards. For example, how hard is it to tell if some brand of cereal is more nutritious than another? It's easy, 'cause we have a standard way of describing it, right on the side of the box.
In this case, forcing the various companies to adopt one standard is HELPFUL to the oh-so-holy Free Market. It does make things easier for us, the consumer (you all remember the consumers, the very people the Free Market is suppose to be all about?).
If peak, off-peak, evening, weekend, etc. were well-defined terms, so that every phone company had to use them the same way, there'd be no problem comparing them. The cell phone sales part of the industry is just crying out for a little more regulation, to help the Free Market get closer to nirvana.
Yeah, what woman would want a man that lacks Vim?
I was working on my Boy Scout computers merit badge, and a friend of my parents let me use a computer of some sort at Fluke.
I still remember sitting in that cold room, the tall menhirs of flashing lights and whirring tapes behind me. When I was done running my programs, he said, "try this." He typed
ADVENT
and my fate was sealed. I work on computers to this day. The first game I wrote myself for my TRS-80 model 1 (4K of memory!) was a simple text adventure.
Willy Wonka had it all wrong. It's computers that are worlds of pure imagination.
I'm trying to remember...
How many American industries have sued themselves into extinction? I'm having trouble thinking of one.
And no, the recording industry doesn't count. They're still here, so they ain't extinct.
Nonsense. Most music on any random iPod will not be from the iTunes music store. It will have been ripped from a CD. This information is quite easy to find; only the people with an ax to grind deny it. I believe a study showed that Apple has sold 20 songs per iPod sold, on average. The DRM is there because the record companies want it there, so the iTunes Music Store wasn't able to start up without using DRM (or they would've been another also-ran, like eMusic). Any iTunes-iPod tying effect is almost nonexistent. To claim it's a major cause of people buying iPods is laughable.
iPods sell well because they're iPods. They're good, easy-to-use, high-quality, music playback devices. People buy them because they work well, not because Apple sells DRM music. They buy new iPods to replace their old ones because the old ones worked so well. The monopoly isn't contrived or forced, it arose because they offered the best product at a good price, and continues because of that, not because of DRM tracks at the music store.
And, even you don't live in my state, may I say as a citizen, thank you very much for volunteering. People like you are a credit to the country.
And you'll notice that he's not volunteering to help out. Heaven forfend he should sully his precious time using his superior Luthor-like intellect to spot the criminals who hack our voting machines.
(1) Pull out of Iraq
(2) Take the several zillions of dollars a day we save, and invest in more lines and more workers,
until we have roughly 25 to 50 times the capacity.
(3) Lines that took an hour to move through now take two or three minutes.
(4) Because we have more people working, we can actually have BETTER security.
"TSA: Fighting you here, because they shoot back over there."
Party rules, party rules.
:-)
If you don't like the rules, agitate within the party to have them changed (hint: the first step is becoming a local Democratic party member, and attending all the caucuses and meetings and such). The other alternative is to run independent, or for another party.
Political parties will never be perfectly democratic (small "d") because they are supposed to represent something (in theory, anyway). Otherwise, you might end up with drunken warmongering sailors representing the party of small government and morality!
Because if you've ever been the victim of a violent act, it's considered appropriate for you to demand vengeance upon the people who attacked you.
Unless, of course, you are an Iraqi, 'cause then it would just be stupid.
That's the first time I ever heard of someone comparing the Mormon Extermination Order by Gov. Boggs to Megan's Law.
Not saying you're wrong about the effects, though.
That would be insightful if, in reality, TV was just radio with pictures.
The Kindle is just a book on an electronic screen. It's not anything radically different from an actual book; it's just smaller.*
TV is a medium with more capabilities than radio. Does the Kindle have more book-like capabilities than a book?
I mean, seriously. How much of TV is music videos, anyway?
* Yes, I know you can order wirelessly and it has a web browser. If you put a way to order music wirelessly on an iPod, would that make it a TV?
Is it a "near miss" when a collision is narrowly avoided? or is it a "near miss" when two planes pass closer than they should to each other, but were really in no real danger of colliding? For example, on the freeway, cars sometimes swerve towards another car, then realize what they are doing, and move back into the center of their lane. Is that a "near accident," or just a normal occurrence? I'm serious about this. I'd really like to know what counts as a "near miss."
It's almost funny the number of people here who have advocated jury nullification -- having the jury simply refuse to find a defendant guilty because they don't like the law. The other side of that coin, however, is that if you anger the jury, they may be more willing to find you guilty, and give you a heavy sentence. This is the legal equivalent of a Darwin Award, IMHO.
Read the treaties we've signed governing warfare, and get back to us, when you can admit how utterly wrong you are.
You can start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions
And also check here for information about the effect of treaties on our laws: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Six_of_the_United_States_Constitution
Hey, the 1984 Mac had a desktop metaphor, windows, icons, and a mouse, all on a bitmapped display. I'm not entirely sure what else you want.
So, it needed a few tweaks -- that hardly made the Model T revolutionary.