The Canon Digital Rebel (a/k/a 300D) is in many ways a crippled version of the Canon 10D. A Russian hacker developed a version of the firmware that unlocks much of the hidden potential of this camera.
"the prima donna example is of the Allies during the war: fire-bombing German cities not to directly disrupt their war effort, but to terrorise the populous and kill factory workers. Not only did it not work, but few think of it as terrorism even today as the victims were so dehumanised."
"prima donna"? They dropped ballet dancers on Dresden?
"This is a really nice idea. The problem is that all this research costs money and a lot of it is being done by publicly owned companies. A publicly owned company has an obligation to its stockholders to make profit and generally to maximize that profit. That's not just someone's idea, but that's actually the law."
That's the law now . It used to be the law that a corporation had to serve the public good. There are sound reasons for the change but they needn't be absolute. (And another pet peeve, the corporate "person" fiction, makes sense but only if we can have the corporate death penalty too.)
"Now, we say, "that's just insanely priced," but in economic terms, that's "what the market will bear," which in layman's terms means that enough people are willing to pay that "insane price" that it's worth it to keep it at that price."
The "market" is merely a (very usefull) description of certain kinds of interactions amongst spearate entities. It is not a god that must be obeyed. If the "market" makes it profitable to deny medical care to some, perhaps this is a "market" that should be examined and regulated. Perhaps it isn't possible to develop needed drugs in a regulated market. But maybe it is. There may be a profitable market in using infants' chest cavities as self-fertilizing planters. That doesn't mean the market must be served.
"I have no problem with us changing the law, but it's kind of like changing the rules of the game after the game has started. All the players hurt by the new rules cry foul, for obvious reasons."
The rules were changed to benefit the corporations at the expense of individuals. The rules might change back. So what. If corporations don't like the rules, they don't have to play. These aren't commandments. These are social conventions. If they don't serve society's interests, change them so they do.
The flip side of that is the South has marketed itself as a source of cheap labor. It has not invested in the education of its citizens. It has doled out huge tax incentives to manufacturers. And it is closer and closer to being tthird-worlded every day. The North transfers a lot of money in the form of federal taxes/spending to the South. When will they learn some self-reliance?
And if you RTFA you'd see:
"The Mandelbrot set is the modern development of a theory developed independently in 1918 by Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou. Julia wrote an enormous book - several hundred pages long - and was very hostile to his rival Fatou. That killed the subject for 60 years because nobody had a clue how to go beyond them. My uncle didn't know either, but he said it was the most beautiful problem imaginable and that it was a shame to neglect it. He insisted that it was important to learn Julia's work and he pushed me hard to understand how equations behave when you iterate them rather than solve them. At first, I couldn't find anything to say. But later, I decided a computer could take over where Julia had stopped 60 years previously."
I'm a liberal and generally write off capital-L Libertarians as "Republicans-that-want-to-smoke-dope". But market forces are real. I've never understood people who assert that Capital has a moral duty to maximize return but somehow think it is evil for Labor to do the same thing.
In my view, the mistake is treating the Market as a religion rather than as a useful way to desribe certain interactions.
According to this FCC fact sheet, you cannot be prevented from installing a 1 meter or smaller dish antenna for receiving television programming if it is installed on a portion of the apartment (or condo or co-op) that you have exclusive control over. In general, this means you can install it on a balcony if it doesn't hang over the edge. Window ledges and exterior walls are not under "exclusive control" and you do not have a right to install there. Where was your antenna situated?
"makes you think what else in Star Trek might work if it were tried"
If only there were something like a communicator. That would be cool. A handheld walkie talkie-like thing only able to talk to almost anybody on the planet. It could maybe even open up like a clam. Sigh. I guess it will never be.
"What kind of racist crap is this? It shouldn't be in a/. article, for one thing. Bad taste. VERY BAD TASTE."
How the fuck did this get modded troll? "Solly Cholly" *IS* racist crap. It *SHOULDN'T* be in/. Or if it's now acceptable, can we expect the "Gay Nigger" trolls to get on the front page?
I'm a big believer in the standard counter-intuitive line on this merger: The merger is only a debacle if you were a Time-Warner share holder. The AOL people converted "assets" backed by nothing to shares in a company that actually owned stuff. And they did it by capitalizing on the ridiculous value of their stock at the height of the bubble.
Every AOL shareholder who wasn't smart enough to sell near the top of the bubble should fall down on their knees every day thanking Steve Case for preserving as much of that value as possible.
"Uhmm... NO. In this case, they are working towards the next war, the rogue nation with a highly limited number of fairly crude ballistic missiles. Our experience during the cold war proved that while the consequences of major nuclear war are very high, the probability is rather low. The exact opposite is true of the rogue nation/terrorist group scenario.
The consequences for a so-called rogue nation are actually higher than they would be for a classic cold war confrontation. There would be no reason for the US to not respond in full force because the "rogue nation" will have shot its wad with the first salvo.
The scenario you posit requires a leader of a nation to be so completely irrational as to initiate an action that guarantees the complete and total destruction of their entire country. There is absolutely no evidence that any leader in the world is this irrational. Individuals like Hussein, Qaddafi, Il Jong or Castro may be vicious, sociopathic, megalomaniacal killers but they have never shown an indifference to their personal self-preservation.
Backtracking a ballistic missile launch to its source is now a trivial exercise. The US response would be overwhelming and final. Nothing would remain of the "rogue country" except blast glass.
On the other hand, smuggling a nuclear bomb into the US in a shipping container, for example, leaves no mathematically certain way to track it to its source. It's also much cheaper and simpler. This is the real threat from terrorists or "rogue nations." And it is a threat for which we are woefully unprepared.
One of the many reasons I think the Bush Administration is dangerous is the continued insistence on missile defense at the expense of defending the sort of threats that have already killed thousands of Americans. A few tens of millions of dollars could allow the installation of radiation detectors for every point of entry for Manhattan (it's sometimes good to be an island) and most of New York City. Instead we'll waste billions defending a threat that doesn't exist. This is irrational. Faith-based defensed is insane.
Good post. As another poster noted below, in the scene where Randy returns to California and his earthquake ravaged home, *only* the Christian people behave decently to him and America Shaftoe.
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The weirdest thing just happened. I was reading your post and my LCD display morphed into a Trinitron monitor. Hinky.
The Canon Digital Rebel (a/k/a 300D) is in many ways a crippled version of the Canon 10D. A Russian hacker developed a version of the firmware that unlocks much of the hidden potential of this camera.
"All of them?"
To which I would answer, "No, I am a communications major."
And in constant, inflation adjusted dollars . . .
"prima donna"? They dropped ballet dancers on Dresden?
That's the law now . It used to be the law that a corporation had to serve the public good. There are sound reasons for the change but they needn't be absolute. (And another pet peeve, the corporate "person" fiction, makes sense but only if we can have the corporate death penalty too.)
The "market" is merely a (very usefull) description of certain kinds of interactions amongst spearate entities. It is not a god that must be obeyed. If the "market" makes it profitable to deny medical care to some, perhaps this is a "market" that should be examined and regulated. Perhaps it isn't possible to develop needed drugs in a regulated market. But maybe it is. There may be a profitable market in using infants' chest cavities as self-fertilizing planters. That doesn't mean the market must be served.
The rules were changed to benefit the corporations at the expense of individuals. The rules might change back. So what. If corporations don't like the rules, they don't have to play. These aren't commandments. These are social conventions. If they don't serve society's interests, change them so they do.
Oh man! I thought this was a cache of this guys music collection. Turns out it's just the article. What a rip. (Har.)
Nah. I just like tweaking capital-L Libertarians.
The flip side of that is the South has marketed itself as a source of cheap labor. It has not invested in the education of its citizens. It has doled out huge tax incentives to manufacturers. And it is closer and closer to being tthird-worlded every day. The North transfers a lot of money in the form of federal taxes/spending to the South. When will they learn some self-reliance?
And if you RTFA you'd see: "The Mandelbrot set is the modern development of a theory developed independently in 1918 by Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou. Julia wrote an enormous book - several hundred pages long - and was very hostile to his rival Fatou. That killed the subject for 60 years because nobody had a clue how to go beyond them. My uncle didn't know either, but he said it was the most beautiful problem imaginable and that it was a shame to neglect it. He insisted that it was important to learn Julia's work and he pushed me hard to understand how equations behave when you iterate them rather than solve them. At first, I couldn't find anything to say. But later, I decided a computer could take over where Julia had stopped 60 years previously."
CNN has never endorsed any candidate. Heck, not even FOX News has endorsed a candidate.
I agree completely!
I'm a liberal and generally write off capital-L Libertarians as "Republicans-that-want-to-smoke-dope". But market forces are real. I've never understood people who assert that Capital has a moral duty to maximize return but somehow think it is evil for Labor to do the same thing.
In my view, the mistake is treating the Market as a religion rather than as a useful way to desribe certain interactions.
to form a union. Only the lazy and the stupid need unions, right? I'm sure that the free market will ensure you are treated fairly.
I haven't had this much schadenfreude since hearing about O'Reilly's loofah.
According to this FCC fact sheet, you cannot be prevented from installing a 1 meter or smaller dish antenna for receiving television programming if it is installed on a portion of the apartment (or condo or co-op) that you have exclusive control over. In general, this means you can install it on a balcony if it doesn't hang over the edge. Window ledges and exterior walls are not under "exclusive control" and you do not have a right to install there. Where was your antenna situated?
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Springfield is the most common city name in the United States. But how many Springfields are close to a Shelbyville? See the map at the bottom.
If only there were something like a communicator. That would be cool. A handheld walkie talkie-like thing only able to talk to almost anybody on the planet. It could maybe even open up like a clam. Sigh. I guess it will never be.
And Fark swiped it from Boing Boing. I think. Whatever, it's still funny.
Funny? Pass me some of that.
How the fuck did this get modded troll? "Solly Cholly" *IS* racist crap. It *SHOULDN'T* be in /. Or if it's now acceptable, can we expect the "Gay Nigger" trolls to get on the front page?
Every AOL shareholder who wasn't smart enough to sell near the top of the bubble should fall down on their knees every day thanking Steve Case for preserving as much of that value as possible.
Unfortunately I can no longer remember where I stole it from.
The consequences for a so-called rogue nation are actually higher than they would be for a classic cold war confrontation. There would be no reason for the US to not respond in full force because the "rogue nation" will have shot its wad with the first salvo.
The scenario you posit requires a leader of a nation to be so completely irrational as to initiate an action that guarantees the complete and total destruction of their entire country. There is absolutely no evidence that any leader in the world is this irrational. Individuals like Hussein, Qaddafi, Il Jong or Castro may be vicious, sociopathic, megalomaniacal killers but they have never shown an indifference to their personal self-preservation.
Backtracking a ballistic missile launch to its source is now a trivial exercise. The US response would be overwhelming and final. Nothing would remain of the "rogue country" except blast glass.
On the other hand, smuggling a nuclear bomb into the US in a shipping container, for example, leaves no mathematically certain way to track it to its source. It's also much cheaper and simpler. This is the real threat from terrorists or "rogue nations." And it is a threat for which we are woefully unprepared.
One of the many reasons I think the Bush Administration is dangerous is the continued insistence on missile defense at the expense of defending the sort of threats that have already killed thousands of Americans. A few tens of millions of dollars could allow the installation of radiation detectors for every point of entry for Manhattan (it's sometimes good to be an island) and most of New York City. Instead we'll waste billions defending a threat that doesn't exist. This is irrational. Faith-based defensed is insane.
Good post. As another poster noted below, in the scene where Randy returns to California and his earthquake ravaged home, *only* the Christian people behave decently to him and America Shaftoe.