>The excerpt is a fascinating indictment of capitalism
Well, marxists have been very good at that from day one. Commies did not fall far behind in that either: Mao and Stalin were quite successful in creating artificial problems as well.
Ilya Ehrenburg, famous Soviet journalist, WWII propaganda scribe, writer and socialite, extensively traveled abroad and he wrote in his memoir "People, years, life" about overproduction crisis in 1929-1931:
In 1929 Americans had an excess of wheat of 240K bushels. Prices fell catastrophically, farmers went bankrupt and starving. At the same time there were 40M registered unemployed around the world. Import of wheat into Western Europe shrank seven-fold.
Representatives of 46 states gathered in Rome to decide what to do with excess of wheat in 1931. Everybody went insane. Brasilians burned coffee. US burned cotton. It was suggested to denaturate wheat with eosin: red grains would go as a food for cattle.
Cows were eating first grade wheat - manitoba or barleta (?). But after a few months newspapers informed us that there are too much butter and meat in the world, and that's why people are dying from hunger.
In 1933 I was in Denmark. I saw an amazing machine that converted cows into round cakes for feeding pigs.
> "hey, this program is requesting permission to look at everything on your phone's internal storage, send information to who-knows-what internet server, and make phone calls and send SMS messages on your dime, are you sure you want to go through with installing this"
You might not believe me, but this is not a definition of malware. Malware does "mal" with the "ware" you provided.
Tor is suitable for this, because it is very slow. Human operators have limited patience to get through extreme slowness of access to their Jihad blogs and favorite torrent directories, but bots have unlimited patience.
Strong bias as demonstrated in the title of this article discourages discussion and exchange of information. Nobody is unbiased and nobody expresses their opinion in a completely unbiased way, but it does not mean that trying to tone it down a bit does not have any communicative advantage.
Once old (and wise) man said to me: "people are not getting better with age". Now, old man myself, the wisdom of this saying is getting to me more and more.
With age we do not get wiser, we do not get better, we do not get stronger, we do not get more moral.
Instead of wisdom we get inability to learn, so we only can teach. Instead of getting more moral, we just get more nostalgic of the non-existent times.
By Time, Every man is at loss Except those who believe, do good deeds And call others to Patience and Truth.
The darling of NPR and C-SPAN (I do not have any idea how the latter happens, since C-SPAN is supposed to be just transmitting one-to-one what happens, but his voice dominates C-SPAN, whenever I listen to it)
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>A bit of study showed that they were all relatives of a strain first found growing on refrigerated, vacuum packed meat.
BLurgh.
>The excerpt is a fascinating indictment of capitalism
Well, marxists have been very good at that from day one. Commies did not fall far behind in that either: Mao and Stalin were quite successful in creating artificial problems as well.
Ilya Ehrenburg, famous Soviet journalist, WWII propaganda scribe, writer and socialite, extensively traveled abroad and he wrote in his memoir "People, years, life" about overproduction crisis in 1929-1931:
>even if genetic material is 100% identical
Don't forget about epigenetics.
That's a theory that costs a nickel
>But in fact, in terms of biomass and effects on the Earth's ecosystems, we are still living in the Age of Bacteria.
No, we live in Hollywood era.
>folks who watch a lot of netflix streaming
You do not need gigabit speed for that. For downloading - that's another story.
I wonder who of normal users needs gigabit speeds?
Are there any usage caps in this cyberhighway paradise?
>sarcasm doesn't translate
In this case there was nothing to translate. TIL that you can be goofy without being funny.
> "hey, this program is requesting permission to look at everything on your phone's internal storage, send information to who-knows-what internet server, and make phone calls and send SMS messages on your dime, are you sure you want to go through with installing this"
You might not believe me, but this is not a definition of malware. Malware does "mal" with the "ware" you provided.
Tor is suitable for this, because it is very slow. Human operators have limited patience to get through extreme slowness of access to their Jihad blogs and favorite torrent directories, but bots have unlimited patience.
>I expect that accurate modelling of something as complex as climate is really, really hard.
especially, 100 years forward.
I am not sure there is a big difference between my trust in this report's prediction of the future and the one in Time Machine.
>The problem is that in Australia you sometimes do have to take dirt roads through wildnerness areas to get to residential areas
Dirt roads might require vehicle more suitable than sedan.
>went down a sudden incline over the shells
>sedan
There is some kind of miscommunication here between local authorities and you.
>Besides, impartiality is overrated
Strong bias as demonstrated in the title of this article discourages discussion and exchange of information. Nobody is unbiased and nobody expresses their opinion in a completely unbiased way, but it does not mean that trying to tone it down a bit does not have any communicative advantage.
We do not even pretend to be impartial now?
The title obviously should be
> Greenspun: Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate'
I had mod points as yesterday. Oh, how I would have went medieval on your asses...
I think /. knows that and never gives me mod points when political subject comes up...
So Amazon storage works as a flash drive.
>because it's actually required in an exam (didn't happen to me in my life).
Imagine a civil engineer required to bring his own bridge to the test (or Caterpillar).
"for the next century " eyeroll
How old are you?
Once old (and wise) man said to me: "people are not getting better with age". Now, old man myself, the wisdom of this saying is getting to me more and more.
With age we do not get wiser, we do not get better, we do not get stronger, we do not get more moral.
Instead of wisdom we get inability to learn, so we only can teach. Instead of getting more moral, we just get more nostalgic of the non-existent times.
Well, 75% is close enough to 2/3 (we all know that the correct number is actually 68.5%)
The darling of NPR and C-SPAN (I do not have any idea how the latter happens, since C-SPAN is supposed to be just transmitting one-to-one what happens, but his voice dominates C-SPAN, whenever I listen to it)
You seem like you know more than me about it. How exactly nuclear missiles are destroyed?