But largely, he's right. You don't buy votes, you buy the voter. Do you think Bush pushes for tax cuts because he got campaign contributions from people who want taxes cut? No, he got the contributions because he campaigned on cutting taxes. Donors buy the candidate who wants what they want, they don't change the candidate's beliefs. Further contributions are to keep him in.
DVD players that can be modified to be region-free (usually through a remote hack) work excellently.
Region-free sometimes isn't enough, though. The ideal DVD player allows you to set it to any region, because DVDs can play tricks like trying one region, and if it plays on that, refusing to play the main content which is from another region.
In general, I've found the whole DVD script stuff to be a PITA. Often to play a disc, rather than selecting play I have to go to the "chapter select" screen and select the first chapter to get it to play the movie.
The bullets were not rubber, 4 defenseless students died, 1 was permanently paralized. Many many more were injured.
But...
1) Kent State was ~35 years ago; all those in power when it happened have retired or died. Tiananmen Square was 14 years ago.
2) Kent State is widely recognized as a tragic situation by those in and out of government. TS is covered up by the Chinese gov't, with many of the students jailed for their "crimes."
2) At Kent State, the shots were fired by a panicking group of inexperienced National Guardsman. At TS, there were troops ordered by the government to disperse a crowd of thousands with deadly force, with rewards and decorations for their leaders.
There are people starving in parts of the world and thousands are dieing because they can't afford common medicines, yet tycoons in the good ole US of A can spend upwards of $90,000 for a superman costume...
But that just means the money goes from one person's pocket to another's, and the person who receives the $90G could then give it to charity if they wish.
The main time a rich person's money affects the rest of the economy is when he/she spends it on someone else's labor -- building a mansion, for example -- so that labor is not available for others. If a rich man buys a Picasso for $1 million from another, and the other buys a Degas from the first man for the same price, economically nothing has happened.
For some time now I've been wondering why nobody has created a product for cars which would run a fan pulling the hot air out of the car, powered by a solar panel on the roof, on the dash, or beneath the back window.
I remember one advertized for the Mazda Millenia some years ago, but haven't heard about it since.
Another good thing about the scheme would be a reduction in the number of small children accidentally baked to death by absent-minded guardians.
Great idea, but power simply can't be distributed over that great a distance.
It can, you just store it as potential energy by making hydrogen or other substances. It's an inefficient process, but at some point it's more efficient than power line transmission.
Yes, that is what we were taught in school -- that the pyramids were built with slave labour, with brutal working conditions.
Often it seems the implication is that the Hebrews freed by Moses were the pyramid builders. But the Great Pyramid at Giza was completed around 2680 B.C., whereas Moses lived in the 13th century B.C.
Money spent on IVF could be used to help [the millions of unwanted children]
So could the money spent on CDs, DVDs, video games, dining out, Rolexes, Jimmy Choos, bigger houses, Hummers -- you name it. Heck, IVF is only a fraction of the cost of raising a child -- why pick on IVFers?
Egomaniacal yuppies continue to satisfy their own selfish desires.
But when the cost of flying with a pilot is 10 times more than flying an automatic plane, I think a lot of people will take the money saving option. Also, if the automatic planes have a flawless record over a certain number of years, it will probably change some minds.
UPS, FedEx, et al will probably be the first to use truly automated pilots, and thus there will be those years of experience to just their capabilities.
Only because by default any new user added to the system is admin, and has no password.
It's worse than that. Many commercial programs have no concept of not running without admin access, and there's no easy equivalent of setuid that I know of. So for my daughter to play "Cinderella's Dreamhouse", I have to log her in as admin...
I know I always take my laptop with me to the ballpark!
You could more reasonably take a PDA with a Wi-Fi compact flash card. Heck, I could imagine using such a device to do a scorecard on, if you're in to that sort of thing.
in the second you indicate that you believe carbs to be less readily digested than fat and protein.
I said nothing about digestion, I said "handled." Specifically, I meant that carbohydrate-rich food may not make you feel full like protein and fats do.
I would think being less readily digested would be a good thing for keeping a food from adding to your body fat, not vice-versa.
As a fairly typical geek, I tend to dislike most sports (particularly those involving "teams" - stupid primate dominance rituals).
If you're exercising for health, you're probably better off. The risk with sports is injury, as they're not typically designed with low-impact in mind. I was hoping to lose weight by playing lots of indoor soccer, but quadricep pulls and sore achilles tendons have limited its effectiveness.
My understanding as to the reason the Atkins diet works is that people digest fat and protein much less readily than they do carbs, so you effectively eat fewer calories.
The idea is that fat and protein make you feel full much more than carbs, and thus you eat fewer calories simply because you don't feel hungry.
Assuming you're not a creationist, what do you think our ancestors ate on the plains of the Serengeti? Grains and rice generally require farming and cooking. Berries are seasonal, and were typically smaller before human cultivation. Meat, leafy veggies, and eggs were probably among their primary food sources. Our bodies evolved to handle those sources well. What carbohydrate-rich food did people have before the agrarian revolution? Not many, so it's not too surprising our bodies might not handle carbs so well.
The problem with the government doing online currency, at least in the US, is that by law any currency that comes from the Treasury Department MUST be accepted as legal tender in ALL transactions.
Interesting, but not true. There are stores (such as Scan, at the Columbia, MD mall) that do not take cash. It may be different if I already have a debt, and attempt to repay in cash, but that does not mean that someone must always be willing to take cash for a good or service.
The problem is that they claim that Linux itself is illegal. Which means that don't give a rat's ass about licenses Linux is distributed under.
But they must. If they distribute anything other than the specific sections that they claim come from their code, they must have the author's permission to do so. They do not have, nor will they get, this permission, unless they claim to have written *all* of the Linux kernel. I think we can dispense with that claim rather quickly.
How can anyone not be happy with the ways that the franchise games have gone?
I think the concern was not so much the franchise games, but the lack of new blood. Are there any new significant characters in Zelda, Mario, Metroid Prime, etc.? Or any other games that provide the next Link?
I think someone really blew it in that the Gamecube has no Pokemon game, and didn't have one at the start. Clearly the Pokemon phenomenon has faded, and was fading even then, but a decent Pokemon-themed game -- possibly even if it just used the franchise to flavor a generic game (racing, golf, etc.) -- would have been a big seller, and given the Gamecube a significant boost. Now such a game would not do nearly so well.
I can't help but wonder if a high tech civilization using fission, fusion, antimatter and who knows what.... would generate high levels of nutrino flux and if results from detectors such as these could be used as a device to detect such?
I'd think you would need an incredibly sensitive detector in terms of determining the angle of origin of the neutrinos. Remember that most such civilizations will have an enormous fusion reactor -- aka a star -- right nearby, generating more such particles than the civilization would.
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But largely, he's right. You don't buy votes, you buy the voter. Do you think Bush pushes for tax cuts because he got campaign contributions from people who want taxes cut? No, he got the contributions because he campaigned on cutting taxes. Donors buy the candidate who wants what they want, they don't change the candidate's beliefs. Further contributions are to keep him in.
DVD players that can be modified to be region-free (usually through a remote hack) work excellently.
Region-free sometimes isn't enough, though. The ideal DVD player allows you to set it to any region, because DVDs can play tricks like trying one region, and if it plays on that, refusing to play the main content which is from another region.
In general, I've found the whole DVD script stuff to be a PITA. Often to play a disc, rather than selecting play I have to go to the "chapter select" screen and select the first chapter to get it to play the movie.
The bullets were not rubber, 4 defenseless students died, 1 was permanently paralized. Many many more were injured.
But...
1) Kent State was ~35 years ago; all those in power when it happened have retired or died. Tiananmen Square was 14 years ago.
2) Kent State is widely recognized as a tragic situation by those in and out of government. TS is covered up by the Chinese gov't, with many of the students jailed for their "crimes."
2) At Kent State, the shots were fired by a panicking group of inexperienced National Guardsman. At TS, there were troops ordered by the government to disperse a crowd of thousands with deadly force, with rewards and decorations for their leaders.
There are people starving in parts of the world and thousands are dieing because they can't afford common medicines, yet tycoons in the good ole US of A can spend upwards of $90,000 for a superman costume...
But that just means the money goes from one person's pocket to another's, and the person who receives the $90G could then give it to charity if they wish.
The main time a rich person's money affects the rest of the economy is when he/she spends it on someone else's labor -- building a mansion, for example -- so that labor is not available for others. If a rich man buys a Picasso for $1 million from another, and the other buys a Degas from the first man for the same price, economically nothing has happened.
For some time now I've been wondering why nobody has created a product for cars which would run a fan pulling the hot air out of the car, powered by a solar panel on the roof, on the dash, or beneath the back window.
I remember one advertized for the Mazda Millenia some years ago, but haven't heard about it since.
Another good thing about the scheme would be a reduction in the number of small children accidentally baked to death by absent-minded guardians.
Great idea, but power simply can't be distributed over that great a distance.
It can, you just store it as potential energy by making hydrogen or other substances. It's an inefficient process, but at some point it's more efficient than power line transmission.
The specs do sound intriguing, but some of them also seem off kilter, like the 7.1 sound.
Speaking of which, will there ever be an end to this adding of channels, or should we expect 9.2, 15.3, 30.20.6 and so on?
Yes, that is what we were taught in school -- that the pyramids were built with slave labour, with brutal working conditions.
Often it seems the implication is that the Hebrews freed by Moses were the pyramid builders. But the Great Pyramid at Giza was completed around 2680 B.C., whereas Moses lived in the 13th century B.C.
No need to worry, unless your ISP is comcast. The court documents doesn't list a name, unlike some of the other user names, but only the ISP.
Any idea why?
This isn't going to take off unless it's actually adapted by companies.
Why wouldn't there be an open-source movement for object designs?
Why is it that EVERY person that points out a spelling or grammar mistake makes one themself?
It's the law.
Money spent on IVF could be used to help [the millions of unwanted children]
So could the money spent on CDs, DVDs, video games, dining out, Rolexes, Jimmy Choos, bigger houses, Hummers -- you name it. Heck, IVF is only a fraction of the cost of raising a child -- why pick on IVFers?
Egomaniacal yuppies continue to satisfy their own selfish desires.
Unlike everyone else, selfless humanitarians all.
But when the cost of flying with a pilot is 10 times more than flying an automatic plane, I think a lot of people will take the money saving option. Also, if the automatic planes have a flawless record over a certain number of years, it will probably change some minds.
UPS, FedEx, et al will probably be the first to use truly automated pilots, and thus there will be those years of experience to just their capabilities.
Only because by default any new user added to the system is admin, and has no password.
It's worse than that. Many commercial programs have no concept of not running without admin access, and there's no easy equivalent of setuid that I know of. So for my daughter to play "Cinderella's Dreamhouse", I have to log her in as admin...
it's an article about a baseball park - "slugfest" is a totally appropriate term
Except the crux of the issue is a PR person's concern about a press release; so it's more of a "wild pitch."
I know I always take my laptop with me to the ballpark!
You could more reasonably take a PDA with a Wi-Fi compact flash card. Heck, I could imagine using such a device to do a scorecard on, if you're in to that sort of thing.
The headgear will protect him.
I'm telling you, those tinfoil hats, you just gotta have one!
in the second you indicate that you believe carbs to be less readily digested than fat and protein.
I said nothing about digestion, I said "handled." Specifically, I meant that carbohydrate-rich food may not make you feel full like protein and fats do.
I would think being less readily digested would be a good thing for keeping a food from adding to your body fat, not vice-versa.
As a fairly typical geek, I tend to dislike most sports (particularly those involving "teams" - stupid primate dominance rituals).
If you're exercising for health, you're probably better off. The risk with sports is injury, as they're not typically designed with low-impact in mind. I was hoping to lose weight by playing lots of indoor soccer, but quadricep pulls and sore achilles tendons have limited its effectiveness.
My understanding as to the reason the Atkins diet works is that people digest fat and protein much less readily than they do carbs, so you effectively eat fewer calories.
The idea is that fat and protein make you feel full much more than carbs, and thus you eat fewer calories simply because you don't feel hungry.
Assuming you're not a creationist, what do you think our ancestors ate on the plains of the Serengeti? Grains and rice generally require farming and cooking. Berries are seasonal, and were typically smaller before human cultivation. Meat, leafy veggies, and eggs were probably among their primary food sources. Our bodies evolved to handle those sources well. What carbohydrate-rich food did people have before the agrarian revolution? Not many, so it's not too surprising our bodies might not handle carbs so well.
The problem with the government doing online currency, at least in the US, is that by law any currency that comes from the Treasury Department MUST be accepted as legal tender in ALL transactions.
Interesting, but not true. There are stores (such as Scan, at the Columbia, MD mall) that do not take cash. It may be different if I already have a debt, and attempt to repay in cash, but that does not mean that someone must always be willing to take cash for a good or service.
The problem is that they claim that Linux itself is illegal. Which means that don't give a rat's ass about licenses Linux is distributed under.
But they must. If they distribute anything other than the specific sections that they claim come from their code, they must have the author's permission to do so. They do not have, nor will they get, this permission, unless they claim to have written *all* of the Linux kernel. I think we can dispense with that claim rather quickly.
Also, do we really need the hyperlink to www.microsoft.com in the article?
It's so we can slashdot Microsoft.
How can anyone not be happy with the ways that the franchise games have gone?
I think the concern was not so much the franchise games, but the lack of new blood. Are there any new significant characters in Zelda, Mario, Metroid Prime, etc.? Or any other games that provide the next Link?
I think someone really blew it in that the Gamecube has no Pokemon game, and didn't have one at the start. Clearly the Pokemon phenomenon has faded, and was fading even then, but a decent Pokemon-themed game -- possibly even if it just used the franchise to flavor a generic game (racing, golf, etc.) -- would have been a big seller, and given the Gamecube a significant boost. Now such a game would not do nearly so well.
I can't help but wonder if a high tech civilization using fission, fusion, antimatter and who knows what.... would generate high levels of nutrino flux and if results from detectors such as these could be used as a device to detect such?
I'd think you would need an incredibly sensitive detector in terms of determining the angle of origin of the neutrinos. Remember that most such civilizations will have an enormous fusion reactor -- aka a star -- right nearby, generating more such particles than the civilization would.