Given the massive quantities one can produce on the back 40 of even one farm cannabis should be sold by the pound right next to flour.
And that's a big problem to forces that block it's legalization. 'They' want to control it yet unlike Tobacco, for instance, it's really easy to grow at least baseline quality pot that will get you stoned. Which makes it difficult to regulate and tax. Similar problems with Alcohol emerged which led to things like the Gin Tax in the 19th century.
It's too easy to find chemical vices that satisfy and demotivate, I guess.
Conversely, President Clinton lied and engaged in a fairly elaborate coverup over something as trivial as a sexual harassment case with a young intern. If he would cover that up, what wouldn't he do?
Apple is not a commodity or even a set of products. Apple is a way of designing, making and marketing products.
Okay. But what have they designed lately? Don't just list off some redesigns. A lot of people perceive that Apple has mostly been in the incremental redesign business for awhile now, with no road map head of anything more.
First off, you're citing a journal printed on yellow paper. Second, you're citing them as if the statistic churned up to make the case in their article is the single overriding factor.
I could speculate on the frothing fury that would spin up (actually it has spun up) out of the Slashdot community when anybody dares infringe on certain special copyrighted material generated with public money. Namely, anytime anything GNU gets pirated/stolen.
Why should Samsung expend resources to push a platform that will likely have the third best market share in Mobile OSes. They need to concentrate on keeping Android the best mobile platform.
Often enough in a the case of the suicide of a young person, the family really does NOT want it investigated further, because a significant number of young people die of Erotic Asphyxiation.
Marvel that the assumed steady increase in intellect doesn't exist - and then ask why this is so?
Because the concept of 'progress' that most people who think of themselves as being 'progressive' about is a myth. Life, and culture, runs in cycles. The notion that we are converging on anything, reaching toward 'the perfect man' is one of the things that has motivated more of the death and anguish and suffering in the world throughout recent history. There's communism/fascism/nationalism, etc. in that domain.
Deal with it. Hopefully not by banding together with 'fellow believers' to inflict your ideology on the rest of us.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among his age group (after accidental death),
Often enough it isn't even suicide in people of that age. They make a terrible mistake during autoerotic adventures with a noose, and everybody calls it a suicide out of respect. How did this guy commit suicide, again? The article doesn't give any details at all.
More accurately: "Until they employ the same methods as a mechanical, aerospace, chemical, etc. engineer." Engineers design things. A specification is written, a plan is designed and only then is metal cut or stone laid.
Hot-dog "coders" sniff at the notion that their project should start with flowcharts, solid data structures, and be based on written specifications. They want to pile on more layers of code until the thing works, then screw down the lid.
A big part of the loss of privacy you cite centers on cellphone/mobile usage. That isn't trading freedom for safety. Its trading freedom for convenience. There is a big difference.
The only connected mobile device I carry is a disposable Tracphone. I "hook in" when I like using my Galaxy Tab or iPod Touch over wifi, and thus seldom feel disconnected.
People for the most part don't need to be immediately reachable 24/7 and people will figure that out if/when it becomes important to them.
You live in Shanghai. That's one of the worlds biggest cities, which happens to be in China. Your observations have little meaning in the context of all of China.
But for now - it's 100% privately held by a foreign national. And there's no problem with that.
There likely would be if you, as the owner of this company and it's assets, decided to move your production facility to Mexico. Suddenly it becomes very difficult and expensive to move your expensive tooling and other capital equipment.
Maybe you just have a software company, and it can all move around in a laptop.... But the big companies who set up subsidiaries in China find a lot of their capital trapped there.
A lot of Americans (well, not just Americans) get hung up on the fact that there is a thriving network of Gulags in China. Granted, the 'g' in gulag is perhaps lower case. This is not simply a cold-war meme.
Many people shorten that to 'gimp' but some other people strive to allow the acronym to hold more of it's original meaning by prepending a 'The' on it.
For awhile, anyway. Once Obama has everybody properly collared and leashed, and they roll out single-payer, the Insurance Companies are out of business.
Not entirely a bad thing, because Insurance companies are leeches, but that's the deal coming up.
Slashdot Mirror
Given the massive quantities one can produce on the back 40 of even one farm cannabis should be sold by the pound right next to flour.
And that's a big problem to forces that block it's legalization. 'They' want to control it yet unlike Tobacco, for instance, it's really easy to grow at least baseline quality pot that will get you stoned. Which makes it difficult to regulate and tax. Similar problems with Alcohol emerged which led to things like the Gin Tax in the 19th century.
It's too easy to find chemical vices that satisfy and demotivate, I guess.
Conversely, President Clinton lied and engaged in a fairly elaborate coverup over something as trivial as a sexual harassment case with a young intern. If he would cover that up, what wouldn't he do?
Apple is not a commodity or even a set of products. Apple is a way of designing, making and marketing products.
Okay. But what have they designed lately? Don't just list off some redesigns. A lot of people perceive that Apple has mostly been in the incremental redesign business for awhile now, with no road map head of anything more.
I believe Second Life even has thriving BDSM communities these days. The sex is everywhere, I am told. Have never been there, personally.
Disney characters have no genitalia.
True, but this 'solution' only corrects for a bad diet.
First off, you're citing a journal printed on yellow paper. Second, you're citing them as if the statistic churned up to make the case in their article is the single overriding factor.
I could speculate on the frothing fury that would spin up (actually it has spun up) out of the Slashdot community when anybody dares infringe on certain special copyrighted material generated with public money. Namely, anytime anything GNU gets pirated/stolen.
The hacker culture is about hacking, meaning coding and designing new stuff. Not human engineering, and not wiretapping.
A better statistic would be to find out what percentage of new PC purchasers would pay a bit more for a Windows 7 downgrade.
C'mon, Microsoft. We dare you to make that offer. The statistics would be helpful, even to you.
This makes complete sense.
Why should Samsung expend resources to push a platform that will likely have the third best market share in Mobile OSes. They need to concentrate on keeping Android the best mobile platform.
Your whole comment can be condensed down to the following:
When you're dead, you aren't.
Why pretend it's more complicated than that with fancy language?
By definition, order resists change. No complicated conspiracy or even an active agent need be applied.
Often enough in a the case of the suicide of a young person, the family really does NOT want it investigated further, because a significant number of young people die of Erotic Asphyxiation.
Marvel that the assumed steady increase in intellect doesn't exist - and then ask why this is so?
Because the concept of 'progress' that most people who think of themselves as being 'progressive' about is a myth. Life, and culture, runs in cycles. The notion that we are converging on anything, reaching toward 'the perfect man' is one of the things that has motivated more of the death and anguish and suffering in the world throughout recent history. There's communism/fascism/nationalism, etc. in that domain.
Deal with it. Hopefully not by banding together with 'fellow believers' to inflict your ideology on the rest of us.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among his age group (after accidental death),
Often enough it isn't even suicide in people of that age. They make a terrible mistake during autoerotic adventures with a noose, and everybody calls it a suicide out of respect. How did this guy commit suicide, again? The article doesn't give any details at all.
More accurately: "Until they employ the same methods as a mechanical, aerospace, chemical, etc. engineer." Engineers design things. A specification is written, a plan is designed and only then is metal cut or stone laid.
Hot-dog "coders" sniff at the notion that their project should start with flowcharts, solid data structures, and be based on written specifications. They want to pile on more layers of code until the thing works, then screw down the lid.
If your "universe" rotates solely around cultural content that the MPAA/RIAA owns, you live in a stunted world.
Get out, get around, there's a bigger world out there. With trees and birds and even some wild animals.
A big part of the loss of privacy you cite centers on cellphone/mobile usage. That isn't trading freedom for safety. Its trading freedom for convenience. There is a big difference.
The only connected mobile device I carry is a disposable Tracphone. I "hook in" when I like using my Galaxy Tab or iPod Touch over wifi, and thus seldom feel disconnected.
People for the most part don't need to be immediately reachable 24/7 and people will figure that out if/when it becomes important to them.
You live in Shanghai. That's one of the worlds biggest cities, which happens to be in China. Your observations have little meaning in the context of all of China.
But for now - it's 100% privately held by a foreign national. And there's no problem with that.
There likely would be if you, as the owner of this company and it's assets, decided to move your production facility to Mexico. Suddenly it becomes very difficult and expensive to move your expensive tooling and other capital equipment.
Maybe you just have a software company, and it can all move around in a laptop.... But the big companies who set up subsidiaries in China find a lot of their capital trapped there.
A lot of Americans (well, not just Americans) get hung up on the fact that there is a thriving network of Gulags in China. Granted, the 'g' in gulag is perhaps lower case. This is not simply a cold-war meme.
There will be a mandatory web-cam, and the volume control on the, *ahem* Viewscreen, can be turned down, but never off.
It's not called "The Gimp", by the way.
It's called the Gnu Image Manipulation Program.
Many people shorten that to 'gimp' but some other people strive to allow the acronym to hold more of it's original meaning by prepending a 'The' on it.
For awhile, anyway. Once Obama has everybody properly collared and leashed, and they roll out single-payer, the Insurance Companies are out of business.
Not entirely a bad thing, because Insurance companies are leeches, but that's the deal coming up.