"In March 2003, Donald Rumsfeld engaged in a little bit of amateur philosophising: "There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know." What he forgot to add was the crucial fourth term: the "unknown knowns", things we don't know that we know - which is precisely the Freudian unconscious. If Rumsfeld thought that the main dangers in the confrontation with Iraq were the "unknown unknowns", the threats from Saddam we did not even suspect, the Abu Ghraib scandal shows where the main dangers actually are in the "unknown knowns", the disavowed beliefs, suppositions and obscene practices we pretend not to know about, even though they form the background of our public values. To unearth these "unknown knowns" is the task of an intellectual."
We went to war for a number of reasons, most of which are irrelevant to this discussion. Oil, however, was almost certainly one of those reasons. But we didn't go to war to avoid the volatile price swings of oil markets, but to secure long-term access to a geostrategic resource. Oil is (second perhaps to water) the most important resource in the world. The middle east is one of the most important sources of oil in the world. To a certain extent it doesn't matter what the price of oil is because the global economy is almost entirely reliant on it. Until there is a satisfactory replacement, oil will be a preeminent issue in international security for some time to come.
If prices are based solely on the marginal cost, then no revenue is being devoted to recouping fixed or operating costs. By definition, the investment will be a net loss. Part of the "reasonable markup for profit" will have to be spent on costs incurred by producing the original good and running the business.
"I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility... for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it. You want to sell it!"
Point taken. I may have jumped head first into an issue I don't know enough about. However, I remain skeptical that state-sponsored insurance will see the entire health care system turn into the DMV.
This isn't about the government running hospitals, pharmacies, or emergency services. It's about insurance. Doctors love state-sponsored healthcare because those companies just pay. Simple. Nobody should have to fight tooth and nail for medical treatment. The actual services remain unaffected, it merely changes who's paying for treatment.
I live in Washington where I enjoy state healthcare. I have no copay and pay pennies for prescription drugs, but I have access to all the same private facilities, doctors, and services as everyone else. Yes, this is anecdotal evidence, but your equivocation fallacy is not helping.
As has been said before about voting - taking part only legitimises a corrupt system.
And not taking part allows the system to do whatever it wants with impunity. Do you suggest we relinquish what power we do have and suffer the consequences? Human systems will forever be imperfect. Refusal to participate guarantees that power will be in the hands of the most corrupt. I refuse to stand idly by while history unfolds itself without contributing my own efforts, however small they may be.
"Quest Communications... refused the NSA's request for its customers phone records based on the advice of legal counsel, the former CEO said in a statement released on Friday. "
I can in fact SSH from mine, and have been able to ever since I got it.
Point taken. However, I think the point remains that the iPhone's demise will not be due to a (perceived) lack of capability. In fact, because you are a techie and are satisfied with the iPhone, I think proves the point even further.
As for the App store, I think that's a non-issue for most people, much like the 250gb Comcast bandwidth cap. Sure, it's going to irritate some people, but I don't think it detracts from the overall value of the product.
I would like to write some more powerful apps than what you're allowed.
Clearly Woz is not in Apple's demographic. It's been said time and again: Apple succeeds at delivering coherent, easy-to-use products that admirably perform tasks that typical non-techy users require. As long as Apple continues to design the products with that mentality, they will do well. If the iPod/iPhone stops selling briskly, it will be because everybody who wants one already has one, not because an Android phone lets you ssh into your home slackware server.
Hmm, care to tell more of this Lenovo rep story? Got me intrigued.
I was trying to decide between the T61 and the X61 models. The T61 was offered with Suse Enterprise, but the X61 was not. I asked if it was possible to have Suse preloaded on the X61, to which the answer was no. That in itself is not too big a deal, maybe they don't have configuration for it, whatever.
I further asked if I could buy an X61 without a copy of windows, to which the answer was again, no. I asked the rep if Lenovo was aware of anti-trust laws, and she replied "Lenovo is well aware of the law. We are not planning to offer any alternate configurations at this time."
I just bought a new Thinkpad T61 preloaded with Suse Enterprise Edition from Lenovo just a few weeks ago. If I remember correctly, it was roughly $100-120 less than the equivalent model preloaded with Vista. Everything worked out of the box (wireless, suspend, 3D rendering, audio...), although I found the distro to be somewhat buggy. I loaded linux mint on it the other day and it works like a charm.
It's a shame they stopped offering linux preloaded. At this point I have virtually no need for windows, and I'd rather not pay for it.
As an anecdotal story, I was talking with a Lenovo representative about why they offered Linux on only a few select models. Eventually I started asking about anti-trust law. Her response was continually that Lenovo was aware of the law and that nothing was going to change.
According to a leaked memo from the Department of Defense, the Air Force may begin dropping DMCA take down notices on Iranian nuclear facilities as early as next week.
You don't get the feeling they're waiting for a critical point and then planning to release oil faster than ever for another 5 years, bankrupting everyone who invested in alternative energy, before lowering production again and repeating the cycle? They will destroy their oil fields faster than they already are if they pursue that strategy.
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60's style protests don't work anymore.
That's just what they want you to think.
"In March 2003, Donald Rumsfeld engaged in a little bit of amateur philosophising: "There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know." What he forgot to add was the crucial fourth term: the "unknown knowns", things we don't know that we know - which is precisely the Freudian unconscious. If Rumsfeld thought that the main dangers in the confrontation with Iraq were the "unknown unknowns", the threats from Saddam we did not even suspect, the Abu Ghraib scandal shows where the main dangers actually are in the "unknown knowns", the disavowed beliefs, suppositions and obscene practices we pretend not to know about, even though they form the background of our public values. To unearth these "unknown knowns" is the task of an intellectual."
-Slavoj Zizek
http://www.lacan.com/zizekempty.htm
We went to war for a number of reasons, most of which are irrelevant to this discussion. Oil, however, was almost certainly one of those reasons. But we didn't go to war to avoid the volatile price swings of oil markets, but to secure long-term access to a geostrategic resource. Oil is (second perhaps to water) the most important resource in the world. The middle east is one of the most important sources of oil in the world. To a certain extent it doesn't matter what the price of oil is because the global economy is almost entirely reliant on it. Until there is a satisfactory replacement, oil will be a preeminent issue in international security for some time to come.
I doubt the geologist is at fault. However, his defense rests on really shaky ground.
...juvenile metaphors that's so thick you can cut it with a knife.
Worst metaphor ever.
Unless the interest rate is higher than the rate of inflation.
If prices are based solely on the marginal cost, then no revenue is being devoted to recouping fixed or operating costs. By definition, the investment will be a net loss. Part of the "reasonable markup for profit" will have to be spent on costs incurred by producing the original good and running the business.
Did you catch his UID?
"I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility... for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it. You want to sell it!"
-Ian Malcolm
Point taken. I may have jumped head first into an issue I don't know enough about. However, I remain skeptical that state-sponsored insurance will see the entire health care system turn into the DMV.
This isn't about the government running hospitals, pharmacies, or emergency services. It's about insurance. Doctors love state-sponsored healthcare because those companies just pay. Simple. Nobody should have to fight tooth and nail for medical treatment. The actual services remain unaffected, it merely changes who's paying for treatment.
I live in Washington where I enjoy state healthcare. I have no copay and pay pennies for prescription drugs, but I have access to all the same private facilities, doctors, and services as everyone else. Yes, this is anecdotal evidence, but your equivocation fallacy is not helping.
As has been said before about voting - taking part only legitimises a corrupt system.
And not taking part allows the system to do whatever it wants with impunity. Do you suggest we relinquish what power we do have and suffer the consequences? Human systems will forever be imperfect. Refusal to participate guarantees that power will be in the hands of the most corrupt. I refuse to stand idly by while history unfolds itself without contributing my own efforts, however small they may be.
The author claims, among other things, that Mahalo will win out over Google. Mahalo has Google Adsense on the search result pages.
Not all of the telco's cooperated.
"Quest Communications... refused the NSA's request for its customers phone records based on the advice of legal counsel, the former CEO said in a statement released on Friday. "
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/208
I can in fact SSH from mine, and have been able to ever since I got it.
Point taken. However, I think the point remains that the iPhone's demise will not be due to a (perceived) lack of capability. In fact, because you are a techie and are satisfied with the iPhone, I think proves the point even further.
As for the App store, I think that's a non-issue for most people, much like the 250gb Comcast bandwidth cap. Sure, it's going to irritate some people, but I don't think it detracts from the overall value of the product.
I would like to write some more powerful apps than what you're allowed.
Clearly Woz is not in Apple's demographic. It's been said time and again: Apple succeeds at delivering coherent, easy-to-use products that admirably perform tasks that typical non-techy users require. As long as Apple continues to design the products with that mentality, they will do well. If the iPod/iPhone stops selling briskly, it will be because everybody who wants one already has one, not because an Android phone lets you ssh into your home slackware server.
Queen to Bishop 6. Check.
Hmm, care to tell more of this Lenovo rep story? Got me intrigued.
I was trying to decide between the T61 and the X61 models. The T61 was offered with Suse Enterprise, but the X61 was not. I asked if it was possible to have Suse preloaded on the X61, to which the answer was no. That in itself is not too big a deal, maybe they don't have configuration for it, whatever.
I further asked if I could buy an X61 without a copy of windows, to which the answer was again, no. I asked the rep if Lenovo was aware of anti-trust laws, and she replied "Lenovo is well aware of the law. We are not planning to offer any alternate configurations at this time."
I just bought a new Thinkpad T61 preloaded with Suse Enterprise Edition from Lenovo just a few weeks ago. If I remember correctly, it was roughly $100-120 less than the equivalent model preloaded with Vista. Everything worked out of the box (wireless, suspend, 3D rendering, audio...), although I found the distro to be somewhat buggy. I loaded linux mint on it the other day and it works like a charm. It's a shame they stopped offering linux preloaded. At this point I have virtually no need for windows, and I'd rather not pay for it. As an anecdotal story, I was talking with a Lenovo representative about why they offered Linux on only a few select models. Eventually I started asking about anti-trust law. Her response was continually that Lenovo was aware of the law and that nothing was going to change.
I heard getting first post increases your life expectancy.
According to a leaked memo from the Department of Defense, the Air Force may begin dropping DMCA take down notices on Iranian nuclear facilities as early as next week.
Who the hell does Bill think he is?
Wouldn't it be more appropriate for the game industry to go postal?
While the Macbook Air does not come with an optical drive, it does come with a canister of compressed breath of Steve.