Unfortunately, for every 'debunking myth' article hidden away in some obscure website, there's dozens of full page Microsoft Myth ads prominantly placed in executive washroom magazines that claim the latest Windows makes the Internet safer, boosts your bank balance and improves your corporate standing.
here is no evidence that cutting the levels of CO2 emissions would "devolve [the US] economy".
In typical US fashion the feerless leader would have to declare "War On CO2!". (cf "war on poverty" "war on drugs" "war on terrorism", etc)
You only have to go back 65 years to find the US rationing gas and meat, 35mph speed limits (mainly to conserve rubber tires when SE Asian supplies were unexpectedly cut off) and year 'round daylight savings time ("war" time).
I guess it's like a visiting dignitary - if you want so-n-so to visit your country, you have to help provide him/her police protection. In The Future® if you want pop star so-n-so to appear on your computer in audio or video, you'll need DRM to protect the material from getting around without permission.
Amen (ahem) - Ideally people would realize the two different areas of science/physics and religion/metaphysics, but they're easily confused for reasons including the fact that you can't make a metaphysical point without using a physical analogy. We often say, "they're buying their head in the sand" like an Ostridge, where in fact Ostridges don't *REALLY* do that, but YOU GET MY POINT. Even Jesus used parables, and told people he was using a parable so DONT TAKE IT LITERALLY but we have these literal churchgoers and schoolboard members burying their heads in the sand, so to speak.
Likewise, science can't prove everything, such as why there is anything at all, what is the meaning of life, love, etc which leaves plenty of room for metaphysical beliefs.
slashdot goes further into the spin zone with every piracy article published - might as well say the Government wants a man to quit work, lose income, and stop supporting his family, because they arrested and jailed him for robbing a convenience store.
You do the crime - you do the time. RIAA is not the ones causing people to drop out of college - it's the perps who though they could get away with it/everybody does it/ who commit the infringement that put themselves at risk and now have to suffer the consequences. Might as well blame the police for crime. If there weren't any police, nobody would be arrested for theft!! Whoooppeeee!!!!
Well, they (noted hurricane experts Dr. Philip J. Klotzbach, Dr. William M. Gray, and their associates at Colorado State University) are "predicting a well above-average season (17 named storms, 9 hurricanes, 5 of Category 3 or higher)."
The average is 9.6 tropical storms, 5.9 hurricanes, and 2.3 hurricanes reaching or exceeding Category 3 strength.
Own the company. Unless you actually own at least part of the firm's capital, IP or bricks and mortar, you are either going to have to compete with foreign white coller labor or illegal blue collar immigrants. You just invest your money in what gives the best return.
Would a long, slow design done in broad daylight be any different? My take on the situation is that email was first rolled out amongst liberal academia with self control and ethics who honestly beleive that if you can just make technology available to "everybody" we would all somehow benefit - that is, that believe in some innate 'goodness' in people to do The Right Thing® and the only reason for crime and mischief is want and poverty, etc. Now that anybody can get into a system where they can reach out and anonymously be a jerk just because they want to, it's a problem.
some bottled water swilling, cell-phone fearing, earth hugging idiot will be complaining that it's not as good as *real* gravity, or worse, that AG causes some vague and unspecific health problems that only *they* can perceive and can never be reproduced in the lab and yet they'll have enough collective political pull to keep it an ongoing issue and complete waste of time in the public discourse.
Could be - in the late 50's people were fed up with "Univac" and job destroying "giant brains" and all so much that Digital Equipment Corp. didn't even call their machines "computers". They were "Programmable Data Processors" (PDP). If you look at radio magazines from the 20's and 30's Hugo Gernsback was envisionsing radio as the solution for everything - radio weapons, radio movies (TV), radio medicine, radio prospecting, blah blah blah blah. Now 60 years later you just make a call on your cell phone and go about normal life without even thinking about the underlying technology that makes it possible. In 2020 computers will be as ubiquitous as radio, tv, automobiles, etc - just they will be invisible to normal life, only noticed when they FAIL to function.
please add "grow plants and smoke them" to the list of things the feds should get out of. Unfortunately "people taking control and not asking government to act for them" is nowhere on the radar screen at this point in time.
Our top priority is to produce great software that meets the needs of our customers, partners, and other constituent communities.
No, your company's top priority is generating increasing value for shareholders. If that is accomplished thru "great software" you are correct - but if that prime directive is best accomplished thru other strategies like monopoly market manipulation or producing mediocre software to lock-in clients and getting them on the upgrade treadmill, that's something else.
2. One who preys on others; a plunderer. 3. One who makes use of or reproduces the work of another without authorization. 4. One that operates an unlicensed, illegal television or radio station.
a rose by any other name and all that.
I heard the "Undercover Economist" on the radio the other day, and his comment about piracy in China was a reminder that once the US was like China to England - book publishers in the US blantently copied the works of Dickens, he didn't get a penny from US sales. But eventually US authors like Mark Twain and others pressured congress for better laws and enforcement so they could make a living writing and that helped make it possible for US author to exist.
It's just the decreasing level of intelligence as linux becomes more popular, the superficial differences become more important than the underlying similarities. I used to boggle over the amount of ill will and vindictive over Atari -vs- Commodore -vs- Apple users in the BBS age - to me they were all just 6502 boxes with custom roms and video/sound chips. To the partisans they were engaged in some epic good -vs- evil struggle to defend the honor of their purchasing decisions (or, in current times, the desktop they know and love).
In other startling news, Police Chief Harris announced, "We have no hope of ending crime - but we struggle on to CONTAIN it lest anarchy prevail". Film at 11.
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Unfortunately, for every 'debunking myth' article hidden away in some obscure website, there's dozens of full page Microsoft Myth ads prominantly placed in executive washroom magazines that claim the latest Windows makes the Internet safer, boosts your bank balance and improves your corporate standing.
I'll see your $25 mil and raise you another $10 mil.
have you every tried www.goggle.com ?
It's pretty bad. A popup got around firefox, automatically starts a file download gsetup.exe, etc.
here is no evidence that cutting the levels of CO2 emissions would "devolve [the US] economy".
In typical US fashion the feerless leader would have to declare "War On CO2!".
(cf "war on poverty" "war on drugs" "war on terrorism", etc)
You only have to go back 65 years to find the US rationing gas and meat, 35mph speed limits (mainly to conserve rubber tires when SE Asian supplies were unexpectedly cut off) and year 'round daylight savings time ("war" time).
That's why I use the Canon Digital Rebel XCP Camera with integrated cell phone.
I guess it's like a visiting dignitary - if you want so-n-so to visit your country, you have to help provide him/her police protection. In The Future® if you want pop star so-n-so to appear on your computer in audio or video, you'll need DRM to protect the material from getting around without permission.
Amen (ahem) - Ideally people would realize the two different areas of science/physics and religion/metaphysics, but they're easily confused for reasons including the fact that you can't make a metaphysical point without using a physical analogy. We often say, "they're buying their head in the sand" like an Ostridge, where in fact Ostridges don't *REALLY* do that, but YOU GET MY POINT. Even Jesus used parables, and told people he was using a parable so DONT TAKE IT LITERALLY but we have these literal churchgoers and schoolboard members burying their heads in the sand, so to speak.
Likewise, science can't prove everything, such as why there is anything at all, what is the meaning of life, love, etc which leaves plenty of room for metaphysical beliefs.
Funniest thing I've read in a long time:
;)) <tears rolling down cheeks>
Thanks - same here
slashdot goes further into the spin zone with every piracy article published - might as well say the Government wants a man to quit work, lose income, and stop supporting his family, because they arrested and jailed him for robbing a convenience store.
/everybody does it/ who commit the infringement that put themselves at risk and now have to suffer the consequences. Might as well blame the police for crime. If there weren't any police, nobody would be arrested for theft!! Whoooppeeee!!!!
You do the crime - you do the time. RIAA is not the ones causing people to drop out of college - it's the perps who though they could get away with it
Well, they (noted hurricane experts Dr. Philip J. Klotzbach, Dr. William M. Gray, and their associates at Colorado State University) are "predicting a well above-average season (17 named storms, 9 hurricanes, 5 of Category 3 or higher)."
The average is 9.6 tropical storms, 5.9 hurricanes, and 2.3 hurricanes reaching or exceeding Category 3 strength.
there was this one roach, strutting across the counter alone, singing, "I've got to be meeeeeee - I've got to be ..." .
Own the company. Unless you actually own at least part of the firm's capital, IP or bricks and mortar, you are either going to have to compete with foreign white coller labor or illegal blue collar immigrants. You just invest your money in what gives the best return.
Would a long, slow design done in broad daylight be any different?
My take on the situation is that email was first rolled out amongst liberal academia with self control and ethics who honestly beleive that if you can just make technology available to "everybody" we would all somehow benefit - that is, that believe in some innate 'goodness' in people to do The Right Thing® and the only reason for crime and mischief is want and poverty, etc. Now that anybody can get into a system where they can reach out and anonymously be a jerk just because they want to, it's a problem.
and tails, the natural dress for a penguin promoter.
Either that or a jumpsuit and a motorcycle helmet.
My name is Andrei Smirnov. You are using my software without paying for it. Prepare to die.
some bottled water swilling, cell-phone fearing, earth hugging idiot will be complaining that it's not as good as *real* gravity, or worse, that AG causes some vague and unspecific health problems that only *they* can perceive and can never be reproduced in the lab and yet they'll have enough collective political pull to keep it an ongoing issue and complete waste of time in the public discourse.
Hmmmpf.
Could be - in the late 50's people were fed up with "Univac" and job destroying "giant brains" and all so much that Digital Equipment Corp. didn't even call their machines "computers". They were "Programmable Data Processors" (PDP). If you look at radio magazines from the 20's and 30's Hugo Gernsback was envisionsing radio as the solution for everything - radio weapons, radio movies (TV), radio medicine, radio prospecting, blah blah blah blah. Now 60 years later you just make a call on your cell phone and go about normal life without even thinking about the underlying technology that makes it possible. In 2020 computers will be as ubiquitous as radio, tv, automobiles, etc - just they will be invisible to normal life, only noticed when they FAIL to function.
where do I submit my deck of fortran punch-cards and where do I pickup the printout?
"We can get all we want on the office computers" remarked Justice Clarence Thomas.
please add "grow plants and smoke them" to the list of things the feds should get out of. Unfortunately "people taking control and not asking government to act for them" is nowhere on the radar screen at this point in time.
Our top priority is to produce great software that meets the needs of our customers, partners, and other constituent communities.
No, your company's top priority is generating increasing value for shareholders. If that is accomplished thru "great software" you are correct - but if that prime directive is best accomplished thru other strategies like monopoly market manipulation or producing mediocre software to lock-in clients and getting them on the upgrade treadmill, that's something else.
Why? It's a definition of the word:
2. One who preys on others; a plunderer.
3. One who makes use of or reproduces the work of another without authorization.
4. One that operates an unlicensed, illegal television or radio station.
a rose by any other name and all that.
I heard the "Undercover Economist" on the radio the other day, and his comment about piracy in China was a reminder that once the US was like China to England - book publishers in the US blantently copied the works of Dickens, he didn't get a penny from US sales. But eventually US authors like Mark Twain and others pressured congress for better laws and enforcement so they could make a living writing and that helped make it possible for US author to exist.
It's just the decreasing level of intelligence as linux becomes more popular, the superficial differences become more important than the underlying similarities. I used to boggle over the amount of ill will and vindictive over Atari -vs- Commodore -vs- Apple users in the BBS age - to me they were all just 6502 boxes with custom roms and video/sound chips. To the partisans they were engaged in some epic good -vs- evil struggle to defend the honor of their purchasing decisions (or, in current times, the desktop they know and love).
In other startling news, Police Chief Harris announced, "We have no hope of ending crime - but we struggle on to CONTAIN it lest anarchy prevail". Film at 11.
Alien landing strip.