I once had a boss who took kickbacks from vendors. I remember one time CDW gave him a huge plasma TV, and an iPod, and many other goodies. He also used to rent SUV's on the company credit card and use it to take his family on trips. He was eventually fired.
The Iranian people have been disenfranchised by their own government. That same government then began summarily beating and executing dissenters. If that's not a dictatorship, I'm not sure what is.
From http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dictatorship:
Main Entry: dictatorship
Pronunciation: \dik-t-tr-ship, dik-\
Function: noun
Date: 1542
1 : the office of dictator
2 : autocratic rule, control, or leadership
3 a : a form of government in which absolute power is concentrated in a dictator or a small clique b : a government organization or group in which absolute power is so concentrated c : a despotic state
Decades ago I wrote a map digitizing app for the Mac II and that tablet, which in the mid-eighties I think had been rebranded as the MacTablet. I used LightSpeed Pascal (I was still in college.) It was cool. I even added a logarithmic feature for contour maps. The app would draw a picture of what you were tracing, inside a small window, while it streamed the digitized coordinates to another small window. Because I built it for engineers to use, it also had a recalibration feature during which the app auto-calculates the map scale. It let you save the image as a bitmap file, and you could spool the coordinate stream to a flat file.
According to other comments, Gates et. al. are indeed investing their own money into alternative energy. So perhaps they're trying to say something like, "We put our money up, so should the Feds."
And try to imagine a world in which China dominates the global energy market. It makes me shudder.
Suddenly it makes sense why Jesus and God have to be one and the same being, somehow, because otherwise you'd have idol worship. I've always enjoyed diff'ing religions, because the more you dig into them, the closer you examine them, the more they resemble each other.
But if the missile body is destroyed before the missile transits the apex of its trajectory, won't the bomb fall somewhere else, most likely in the middle of some ocean? This is of course assuming that neither Canada nor Mexico will ever launch anything at the U.S.
No. Massive, ecosystem-wrecking oil spills are not even in the same ballpark as your dumbass falling down a flight of stairs. Comparing your booboo to one of the worst natural disasters in recent history, in which 11 people were killed and no one even knows how many billions it will cost us, is just plain inane.
If you fall down the stairs then perhaps only you should stop using stairs. The rest of us can manage. But if you fuck up huge swaths of precious natural resources then you lose your right to exploit said resources.
There is no safe way to drill that deeply. The risks outweigh the rewards. No amount of regulation is going to make it safe. And instead of pouring finite research dollars into deep-drilling technology to try to make it safe, we're better off funneling that money into renewable energy.
Yes you are correct. Rights are protected by the Constitution, not granted. Those same rights are elaborated by the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, both of which are explicit about the source of our rights: our humanity.
So how does your point refute the parent's assertion that corporations should not have the same rights as individuals?
Combine electronics and astronomy by having them build their own radio telescope. They can probably McGyver something using a basic Radio Shack kit and a trash can lid or something.
On one hand I don't really care if one technology kills another, older technology. So from that perspective this is a non-story. On the other hand I have a G1 and I love it, and the latest update automatically disables the power-sucking GPS when I navigate out of map mode, which is nice.
The innovators probably already sold their product to some nameless, faceless board of directors whose sole purpose is to increase shareholder value by squeezing every last penny out of the assets they own.
My favorite sci-fi design flaws are in "2001: A Space Odyssey". Much love to the late Arthur C. Clarke, whose brilliance is immortalized, but damn! The one flaw that stands out the most is the external oxygen cable that connects the helmet to the EVO pack. One quick tug by HAL and poof! no more air for you.
Comparing the music industry to the business software industry is like comparing Twitter to Oracle. The "public does not object to BSA's campaign" because the general public does not use business software. They could care less.
Sometimes you have to first create the demand, and then the supply will follow. In the case of electric vehicles, at first the energy to recharge them will be generated by non-green methods. But when the number of electric vehicles on our roads crosses a certain threshold, we'll start seeing off-the-grid recharging stations that use green power. This will also help localize energy distribution, reducing demand on the grid. Win-win-win.
TFA mentions that when the star "goes supernova", that we'll be able to see it unaided even during the day. But if it's shedding mass so quickly, perhaps by the time its internal furnace cools down, the star won't have sufficient surface mass to cause the kind of collapse necessary to create a supernova?
Hellloooo! People? He was joking. Please note the more obvious sarcasm of his second sentence, followed by a sentence fragment the intention of which is subtle self-deprecation. We humans call this "humor".
OK, Mars then. Load it up with stuff we'll need for the Mars mission, and then send it on a long, slow trip to Mars orbit. By the time we get there, it will be there waiting for us, a kind of orbital outpost.
I say it's time to move on. We have to pivot off the ISS and onto the moon and mars because, as they point out in TFA, our resources are limited. ISS is awesome and we learned a lot and yes there's more to learn there, but all of that and more await us on Mars.
I also say we should strap some remote-controlled ion thrusters to the ISS and push it over to the moon where it can orbit indefinitely. That would be so cool.
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I once had a boss who took kickbacks from vendors. I remember one time CDW gave him a huge plasma TV, and an iPod, and many other goodies. He also used to rent SUV's on the company credit card and use it to take his family on trips. He was eventually fired.
The Iranian people have been disenfranchised by their own government. That same government then began summarily beating and executing dissenters. If that's not a dictatorship, I'm not sure what is.
From http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dictatorship: Main Entry: dictatorship Pronunciation: \dik-t-tr-ship, dik-\ Function: noun Date: 1542 1 : the office of dictator 2 : autocratic rule, control, or leadership 3 a : a form of government in which absolute power is concentrated in a dictator or a small clique b : a government organization or group in which absolute power is so concentrated c : a despotic state
Decades ago I wrote a map digitizing app for the Mac II and that tablet, which in the mid-eighties I think had been rebranded as the MacTablet. I used LightSpeed Pascal (I was still in college.) It was cool. I even added a logarithmic feature for contour maps. The app would draw a picture of what you were tracing, inside a small window, while it streamed the digitized coordinates to another small window. Because I built it for engineers to use, it also had a recalibration feature during which the app auto-calculates the map scale. It let you save the image as a bitmap file, and you could spool the coordinate stream to a flat file.
That was back when I rocked.
"Enough market power to effectively set the rules" means a monopoly, which means anti-trust charges.
Kampei! Congratulations to the Japanese. This is a very cool accomplishment, and something all of us geeks have been waiting for for a long time.
According to other comments, Gates et. al. are indeed investing their own money into alternative energy. So perhaps they're trying to say something like, "We put our money up, so should the Feds."
And try to imagine a world in which China dominates the global energy market. It makes me shudder.
Suddenly it makes sense why Jesus and God have to be one and the same being, somehow, because otherwise you'd have idol worship. I've always enjoyed diff'ing religions, because the more you dig into them, the closer you examine them, the more they resemble each other.
Thanks!
But if the missile body is destroyed before the missile transits the apex of its trajectory, won't the bomb fall somewhere else, most likely in the middle of some ocean? This is of course assuming that neither Canada nor Mexico will ever launch anything at the U.S.
No. Massive, ecosystem-wrecking oil spills are not even in the same ballpark as your dumbass falling down a flight of stairs. Comparing your booboo to one of the worst natural disasters in recent history, in which 11 people were killed and no one even knows how many billions it will cost us, is just plain inane.
If you fall down the stairs then perhaps only you should stop using stairs. The rest of us can manage. But if you fuck up huge swaths of precious natural resources then you lose your right to exploit said resources.
There is no safe way to drill that deeply. The risks outweigh the rewards. No amount of regulation is going to make it safe. And instead of pouring finite research dollars into deep-drilling technology to try to make it safe, we're better off funneling that money into renewable energy.
Yes you are correct. Rights are protected by the Constitution, not granted. Those same rights are elaborated by the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, both of which are explicit about the source of our rights: our humanity. So how does your point refute the parent's assertion that corporations should not have the same rights as individuals?
Combine electronics and astronomy by having them build their own radio telescope. They can probably McGyver something using a basic Radio Shack kit and a trash can lid or something.
Please tell me the parent was modded "insightful" because of its biting sarcasm.
On one hand I don't really care if one technology kills another, older technology. So from that perspective this is a non-story. On the other hand I have a G1 and I love it, and the latest update automatically disables the power-sucking GPS when I navigate out of map mode, which is nice.
"ESA is looking for European volunteers to take part."
oh wait! how about: ...because everyone knows that Europeans already live in a bubble, so the transition should be no problem for them.
The innovators probably already sold their product to some nameless, faceless board of directors whose sole purpose is to increase shareholder value by squeezing every last penny out of the assets they own.
+1. 3-factor auth is the only reasonable solution.
Both he and the company he works for are criminals. Allegedly.
My favorite sci-fi design flaws are in "2001: A Space Odyssey". Much love to the late Arthur C. Clarke, whose brilliance is immortalized, but damn! The one flaw that stands out the most is the external oxygen cable that connects the helmet to the EVO pack. One quick tug by HAL and poof! no more air for you.
OMG! The trailer looks so awesome.
Comparing the music industry to the business software industry is like comparing Twitter to Oracle. The "public does not object to BSA's campaign" because the general public does not use business software. They could care less.
Sometimes you have to first create the demand, and then the supply will follow. In the case of electric vehicles, at first the energy to recharge them will be generated by non-green methods. But when the number of electric vehicles on our roads crosses a certain threshold, we'll start seeing off-the-grid recharging stations that use green power. This will also help localize energy distribution, reducing demand on the grid. Win-win-win.
TFA mentions that when the star "goes supernova", that we'll be able to see it unaided even during the day. But if it's shedding mass so quickly, perhaps by the time its internal furnace cools down, the star won't have sufficient surface mass to cause the kind of collapse necessary to create a supernova?
Hellloooo! People? He was joking. Please note the more obvious sarcasm of his second sentence, followed by a sentence fragment the intention of which is subtle self-deprecation. We humans call this "humor".
OK, Mars then. Load it up with stuff we'll need for the Mars mission, and then send it on a long, slow trip to Mars orbit. By the time we get there, it will be there waiting for us, a kind of orbital outpost.
I say it's time to move on. We have to pivot off the ISS and onto the moon and mars because, as they point out in TFA, our resources are limited. ISS is awesome and we learned a lot and yes there's more to learn there, but all of that and more await us on Mars.
I also say we should strap some remote-controlled ion thrusters to the ISS and push it over to the moon where it can orbit indefinitely. That would be so cool.