Unsafe at any speed was the title of a book by Ralph Nader in 1965 detailing resistance by car manufacturers to the introduction of safety features, like seat belts, and their general reluctance to spend money on improving safety.
Are you a football player by chance? Or are you just being obstinately stupid? "Might potentially" and "perhaps, one imagines" means "more study is warranted".
I get the impression he hates on Apple because it's popular to hate on them in particular
RMS doing something becuse it's popular? Huh? Are we discussing the same RMS?
the real problem with the "Just run Linux" solution is that non-Computer Science people want to do things like answer e-mail, write correspondence, and buy software from the store that has a nice, easy installer
When will this lie end? Modern distros are far more useable than Windows, and possibly Apples as well (I wouldn't know). The only thing you got right was the "buy software" part. You don't buy software with Linux, you download it from the distro's repository. It takes one click and no reboots.
Since I am not drinking the Apple hate-eraid, I imagine I will be modded into oblivion.
Apple fans get mod points, too, as seen by your "+3 interesting" comment that's almost 100% incorrect.
I know you're being sarcastic, but many Americans really believe that tripe because they refuse to read the bibles they thump (or read anything else for that matter).
Jesus loves a winner.
Luke 6:24 "But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort. Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you, for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.
Jesus hates taxes
Mark 12:13 -- "Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it. And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's. And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him."
poor sick people.
Luke 6:20 -- "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God."
Firstly, I don't even know what you mean by a "fanatical atheist".
I think he's referring to an antitheists. Those guys want to rid the world of all religions, and they are indeed fanatical about it. And since there's no evidence that you've seen, the only logical choice is agnosticism.
The cataract surgery is completely painless except when they're dosing you with eyedrops, and they fill you so full of antianxiety drugs (they call it "twilight sleep"; you're awake but not all that aware) that it won't bother you. In fact, you're advised that you shouldn't drive for 24 hours afterwards.
They don't use a knife, rather they stick a needle in, shoot microwaves through the needle to liquify the lens, then suck it out, and insert the implant through the needle.
After cataract surgery, being able to read the clock on the recovery room wall without contacts is just amazing. You need to do excersizes on the eye (if you have the accomodating lens) to strengthen the focusing muscles you haven't used in years for a while.
The industrial system employs a high energy power source with long life.
The system has a unique internal protection feature (patented) that traps stray microwaves, thus making the system completely safe to operate. A new exclusive type of forced-air system used in conjunction with microwave energy (patented) accelerates the removal of moisture quickly and efficiently.
A straight-through conveyor assures uniform exposure to the microwaves.
Because of its high processing capacity, unit costs are much lower than with the batch process
I don't know what they solder phones with, but silver solder doesn't have the problem with tin whiskers and would guess that that's what they use. Also, I doubt any of the capacitors are electrolytic; electrolytic caps are pretty big.
I've read a lot about tin whickers, but after playing with the insides of electronics for half a century I've never seen the phenomenon firsthand, although I have seen capacitors explode/leak. I
2. There were 14,000 murders in 2010, while a million died from cancer and heart disease. Murders are little more than a rounding error in deaths; far more people die in accidents.
Once the term expires NO-ONE can use the material to make a profit. If you don't add that - then companies will simply get the material and hold it for 10 years, then make obscene amounts whilst giving the originator nothing at all, not even a nod.
That's just stupid -- no publisher will want to do that. -- once Foundation is in the public domain, anybody can publish it, not just Asimov's publisher.
They would have a ten year monopoly on publication. After ten years the monopoly ends, which is as it should be, and anyone can publish it. Remember, copyright is primarily about publication.
You can get a hardcopy of Huckleberry Finn for under five bucks. That's what the public domain does.
The US is #1 in only one health care metric. Life expectancy? Nope. Children dying in their first year? Nope. First five years? Nope. The one metric that we are #1 in is cost. We have the most expensive health care system in the world, but it's far from the best.
You really believe you get what you pay for? I have a bridge for sale...
Tablets, phones, and appliances are close to 100% non-x86 and vastly outweigh the x86 market in terms of units in service and probably total market value.
I'm a nerd, not an MBA. I want to tinker. I don't give two shits about market value or items in service and have no idea why you do. However, I also don't care what instruction set a chip is running, they're so fast these days emulation works. Nobody writes in assembly these days, as long as you have a compiler for the chip it's all good.
You're talking about Indiana and Ohio, with perhaps the most retarded legislators in the nation. What I want government to do with health care is get the damned insurance companies out of it, they're just leeches; unnecessary middlemen. I have no say in how a company is run, I do have some say in how government is run, even if it is just one puny vote per candidate. Socialized medicine works, medicine as a business doesn't. Some things governments do better than the private sector, this is one of them.
BTW, Indiana and Ohio need to get rid of those turkeys.
WTF... Did you just call unions "worker-friendly"? Unions are only friendly to unionized workers. They exist to keep non members from working.
You either don't understand the first thing about unions, or are deliberately misrepresenting them. Unions don't exist to keep anybody from working, they exist to let workers bargain collectively. That means when someone joins your shop, if they don't join the union the union is diluted and marginalized, something employers love.
Want to know how to keep a union out of your workplace? It's easy -- don't fuck your workers over. As the CEO of a then-non union airline once said in the early eighties, "any company that gets a union deserves one."
Unions have no downside to the worker whatever, and many benefits. Unions have no upside to a company, and many detriments. It's no longer me against a big rich corporation with thousands of members, it's now me and the thousands (or hundreds depending on company size) of my fellow workers against the big rich corporation.
Anyone who owns a business and likes unions is incredibly stupid. Anyone who works for a business and doesn't like unions* is equally stupid.
* Yes, there are a few bad unions. Bad unions are in bed with management and have constructed rules that make it hard to get rid of union leadership. There are not many surving unions like that.
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Unsafe at any speed was the title of a book by Ralph Nader in 1965 detailing resistance by car manufacturers to the introduction of safety features, like seat belts, and their general reluctance to spend money on improving safety.
Are you a football player by chance? Or are you just being obstinately stupid? "Might potentially" and "perhaps, one imagines" means "more study is warranted".
Lazars? Light Amplification by Zoological Amplification of Radiation?
Oh shit... SHARKS!
Why not post it as a series of slashdot journal entries? Probably not a lot of slashdotters who don't like science fiction!
I get the impression he hates on Apple because it's popular to hate on them in particular
RMS doing something becuse it's popular? Huh? Are we discussing the same RMS?
the real problem with the "Just run Linux" solution is that non-Computer Science people want to do things like answer e-mail, write correspondence, and buy software from the store that has a nice, easy installer
When will this lie end? Modern distros are far more useable than Windows, and possibly Apples as well (I wouldn't know). The only thing you got right was the "buy software" part. You don't buy software with Linux, you download it from the distro's repository. It takes one click and no reboots.
Since I am not drinking the Apple hate-eraid, I imagine I will be modded into oblivion.
Apple fans get mod points, too, as seen by your "+3 interesting" comment that's almost 100% incorrect.
I know you're being sarcastic, but many Americans really believe that tripe because they refuse to read the bibles they thump (or read anything else for that matter).
Jesus loves a winner.
Luke 6:24 "But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort. Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you, for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.
Jesus hates taxes
Mark 12:13 -- "Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it. And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's. And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him."
poor sick people.
Luke 6:20 -- "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God."
Firstly, I don't even know what you mean by a "fanatical atheist".
I think he's referring to an antitheists. Those guys want to rid the world of all religions, and they are indeed fanatical about it. And since there's no evidence that you've seen, the only logical choice is agnosticism.
Almost all cars in the sixties had STEEL dashes, no seat belts (let alone air bags), drum brakes and no ABS, and no crumple zones.
Unsafe at any speed.
Why would anyone buy one of these boxes in the first place??
Wait a minute, that can't be right... I mean, Washington is from Venus.
Indeed, XP's passwords are trivial to crack. There are quite a few Linux-based tools that will open that XP machine's admin account in seconds.
The cataract surgery is completely painless except when they're dosing you with eyedrops, and they fill you so full of antianxiety drugs (they call it "twilight sleep"; you're awake but not all that aware) that it won't bother you. In fact, you're advised that you shouldn't drive for 24 hours afterwards.
They don't use a knife, rather they stick a needle in, shoot microwaves through the needle to liquify the lens, then suck it out, and insert the implant through the needle.
After cataract surgery, being able to read the clock on the recovery room wall without contacts is just amazing. You need to do excersizes on the eye (if you have the accomodating lens) to strengthen the focusing muscles you haven't used in years for a while.
Yes, it is. The only differences:
I don't know what they solder phones with, but silver solder doesn't have the problem with tin whiskers and would guess that that's what they use. Also, I doubt any of the capacitors are electrolytic; electrolytic caps are pretty big.
I've read a lot about tin whickers, but after playing with the insides of electronics for half a century I've never seen the phenomenon firsthand, although I have seen capacitors explode/leak. I
I doubt you'll be taking your cell phone to Mars with you.
A guild was not a labor union. I find it telling that you had to go centuries back to a pre-industrial revolution book to make your nonexistant point.
Or, avoid being fucked and go use pirated software
That's an invitation to be pwned.
Best solution: choose F/OSS when possible, appropriate, and adequate.
Indeed it is.
1. Someone else already debunked that one
2. There were 14,000 murders in 2010, while a million died from cancer and heart disease. Murders are little more than a rounding error in deaths; far more people die in accidents.
3. What insurance company fo you work for, shill?
The only thing that copyright achieves in this case is to make us loose parts of our history
On the contrary, rather than setting parts of our history free (loosing), current copyright lengths imprison them.
Once the term expires NO-ONE can use the material to make a profit. If you don't add that - then companies will simply get the material and hold it for 10 years, then make obscene amounts whilst giving the originator nothing at all, not even a nod.
That's just stupid -- no publisher will want to do that. -- once Foundation is in the public domain, anybody can publish it, not just Asimov's publisher.
They would have a ten year monopoly on publication. After ten years the monopoly ends, which is as it should be, and anyone can publish it. Remember, copyright is primarily about publication.
You can get a hardcopy of Huckleberry Finn for under five bucks. That's what the public domain does.
The US is #1 in only one health care metric. Life expectancy? Nope. Children dying in their first year? Nope. First five years? Nope. The one metric that we are #1 in is cost. We have the most expensive health care system in the world, but it's far from the best.
You really believe you get what you pay for? I have a bridge for sale...
Tablets, phones, and appliances are close to 100% non-x86 and vastly outweigh the x86 market in terms of units in service and probably total market value.
I'm a nerd, not an MBA. I want to tinker. I don't give two shits about market value or items in service and have no idea why you do. However, I also don't care what instruction set a chip is running, they're so fast these days emulation works. Nobody writes in assembly these days, as long as you have a compiler for the chip it's all good.
You get a free internet connection?
Sure, there are free hotspots in a lot of places.
You're talking about Indiana and Ohio, with perhaps the most retarded legislators in the nation. What I want government to do with health care is get the damned insurance companies out of it, they're just leeches; unnecessary middlemen. I have no say in how a company is run, I do have some say in how government is run, even if it is just one puny vote per candidate. Socialized medicine works, medicine as a business doesn't. Some things governments do better than the private sector, this is one of them.
BTW, Indiana and Ohio need to get rid of those turkeys.
WTF... Did you just call unions "worker-friendly"? Unions are only friendly to unionized workers. They exist to keep non members from working.
You either don't understand the first thing about unions, or are deliberately misrepresenting them. Unions don't exist to keep anybody from working, they exist to let workers bargain collectively. That means when someone joins your shop, if they don't join the union the union is diluted and marginalized, something employers love.
Want to know how to keep a union out of your workplace? It's easy -- don't fuck your workers over. As the CEO of a then-non union airline once said in the early eighties, "any company that gets a union deserves one."
Unions have no downside to the worker whatever, and many benefits. Unions have no upside to a company, and many detriments. It's no longer me against a big rich corporation with thousands of members, it's now me and the thousands (or hundreds depending on company size) of my fellow workers against the big rich corporation.
Anyone who owns a business and likes unions is incredibly stupid. Anyone who works for a business and doesn't like unions* is equally stupid.
* Yes, there are a few bad unions. Bad unions are in bed with management and have constructed rules that make it hard to get rid of union leadership. There are not many surving unions like that.