But every time the dead horse is run through the town, the town has changed and the horse is becoming a little less dead than before. Sit down it might come as a big shock to you. MS is no longer having the strangle hold monopoly. Don't get me wrong, it is still the king in desktops and corporate office application markets. But the town has expanded so much in the tablet, mobile phone arena, that the original fiefdom of MS has shrunk in percentage, even though it has expanded in size!
The iPhone is the new walled garden proprietary Microsoft. Android is the linux barbarian at the gate.
This is a very clever scheme by Obama and CIA. Now Obama can claim ALL outstanding US Govt bond were fakes, forgeries and scams, and he has already paid off all the legitimate US Bonds. That news will hit the market on Oct 22, 2012. After the steadily improving economic picture, falling unemployment rates, killing Osama, the news that USA is debt free would be the final nail in the coffin. Obama will sweep all 50 states, and Democrats will win all the houses and senate of all the states, governorships too. In US Senate Reid will get filibuster proof, but not veto overriding number of senators.
I tell you, the Chosen One is deep and he is the only one who can pull this off.
We all know what happened to the nuclear reactor this guy built on the eastern seaboard of Japan. Will this thing fare any better against a Tsunami? oh, wait. That was Fukushima right? oops. me bad.
Yea, I would say if you have this attitude vote for obama if Ron Paul isn't running.
Ron Paul? Seriously? You think his administration would get through one new cycle that has a "human interest" story?
Take one example. The federal government is the insurance of last resort, for any home built anywhere with absolutely no regard to the risk. Even in the face of repeated total loss claims, even if it is patently insane to build a home on stilts on a sand bar in South Carolina with absolutely no wind break for 3000 miles. These sand bars and million other high risk locations are owned by private parties, and the value of their land parcels depend on someone willing to build a home there. Someone can build a home there only if banks would lend money to do so. Banks lend only if there is insurance. That is where the US Govt comes in propping up the property values of millions and millions of people using our tax dollars to insure insane risk at ridiculous prices. Then the very same property owners will call themselves rugged independents and disparage poor children getting free lunch at school or a poor janitor begging for insulin medications. Let Ron Paul try to tell them after a hurricane, "all properties that lost their homes, will not be eligible for Federal insurance guarantee for the next 99 years". All hell will break lose. There you will see whether or not Government creates value and the true colors of these libertarians.
If is beyond question government creates value, government provides the solid bedrock that holds up the entire economy. People who don't get it, get bamboozled by the likes of Ron Paul.
It is far better to fix what is broken in our government than to break it up even more.
Let him try and touch the federal government guaranteed insurance for any home built anywhere with no regard to the risk, the via
Thanks a lot, President Lawnchair. Maybe some time in my lifetime we'll get an actual liberal in the white house (though I can't think of when that would be)?
I too would like to get a real liberal in the White House. Till that date comes, all I can do is to try my best keep the wacko Republicans from getting the Presidency, pack the courts, and hand over what little remains to the Mulitnational Corporations and the banksters. That means voting Obama.
Take the 'Malicious Software Removal Tool' for one example. Sounds to me like a malicious program that goes and removes software from your computer.
The name accurately describes what the software does and how. Your explanation that it is a malicious tool that removes software is correct. Your mistake is to assume it is a tool to remove malicious software.
That place was known to be very chaotic, with very little supervision about secured area. All top brass move with impunity everywhere and they always have a sidekick or two in tow. There was some apocryphal story about the food meant to be shipped to the IST was pilfered in the Baikonur cosmodrome.
It is really confusing. One of the fundamental tenet of Wahhabism, was to reduce the amount of veneration of Mohammad. They claim even having the idea of a holy site associated with mortals is idolatry. Wahhab was worried Muslims of elevating Mohammad to the status of God. Sunni's fundamental complaint against Shias is that the Shias worship many saints in addition to Allah. Now the bastion of Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia, is turning against a journalist for treating Mohammad as a human being?
Satan, satan, please check your realm. Is it frozen over or what? Some East Texas jury found for the defendant in a patent law suite. Wondering what happened and how a random act of sanity struck East Texas. I know those guys were upset about their main Rick Perry being laughed off the national stage. Are they taking the first baby steps to acquire some kind of respectability?
The carriers, now you know what it feels like to be on the receiving end. For most customers switching the carrier is not easy, not possible some times due to coverage or something. When you have them over the barrel what do the carriers do? Do they worry about being reasonable? They "maximize the profits" and ask the customers to go to hell. Well carriers, feel our pain and cry us a river.
Assuming the data there is accurate and up to date, the numbers are very close, 10.9% of total for India vs 11% for Pakistan. It is possible recently Pakistan overtook India, or may they have been trading places back and forth in the past. Still it is a fact that India has the second or the third largest population of Muslims in the world.
Google has agreed before a court in Delhi to remove religious and other content considered objectionable, though some other Internet firms are likely to appeal the court's decision, plaintiff Mufti Ajiaz Arshad Qasmi said on Monday.
The appeal:
The government allowed the court to prosecute the Internet companies under various Indian laws in the criminal case, but Google has meanwhile appealed the decision before the Delhi High Court.
Basic background: India is the country with the second largest Muslim population in the world, number of Indian Muslims dwarfs Pakistan, Arabia, Egypt, Bangladesh. Just recently Indonesia overtook it. Muslims form a sizeable vote bank, some 15% of the electorate and almost all the politicians kow-tow the lines drawn by them. There is widespread belief that the Muslims are punching way above their weight politically. But even when there is provocation like Muslim painters paint Hindu goddesses in the nude or something, the Hindu reaction is usually divided. The secularists are mostly in control of the hard liners on the Hindu side. Once in a while you hear Hindu hardliners banning Valentines Day or protesting some movie or a book.
Having said that, for country with that large a Muslim population, very few of the Indian Muslims are involved in terrorism, or support terrorism. Despite periodical outrageous attacks by Pakistani Muslims terrorist outfits inside India, there is no widespread retaliation against the local Muslims. Indian Muslims join the police and military in large numbers.
Please sit down, it might come as a shock to you. The line about government being small enough to be drowned in a bathtub? We got that and the government was promptly drowned by the big corporations. Today the greatest threat to our liberty comes from corporations and the government it owns. Private prisons make money by jailing people they fund "strong on crime" campaigns and jail more and more non-violent, thus cheaper and higher profit margin, offenders. The corporations have already got all the rights and privileges of the persons, without the liabilities.
You walk away from your loan, your credit history is ruined and it follows you to your grave. Corporations pass all their profits and assets to other corporations, renege on all their liabilities, and go bankrupt. They are systematically privatizing profits and socializing the losses. Some of you tea party guys are paid shills of these corporations. The others are unwitting tools, cannon fodder.
It is really sad the greatest nation on earth, the first nation built on the principles of liberty and freedom was undermined by a few greedy people. To borrow a phrase from Winston Churchill, Never in history have so many people been so thoroughly screwed by so few greedy men.
You do have a strong point. I think the "invention" of calculus was published by Newton in a book he called "The mathematical principles of natural philosophy", in Latin. I have two major gripes with philosophy majors.
1. They write in English using very long sentences with very complex construction. It confuses, not clarifies. English is not my mother toungue. My vocabulary and reading comprehension is very good, I place at the top 1% in GRE verbal. But I can't understand most of the philosophy major's dissertations and theses. Take the simple phrase "cruel and unusual punishment". Does it refer to punishments that are cruel and also unusual? Or does it refer to all the cruel punishments, some of them might not be unusual and all the unusual punishments some might not be cruel? See how imprecise the natural English language is? The philosophy majors try to make it clear using more natural English, which makes it even more confusing. Pages and pages of text explaining an idea is how everyone communicated till 16th century. Mathematics, chemistry, and other sciences developed their own vocabulary, notations, diagrams, charts and thousand other things to communicate precisely. Computer science has developed completely new languages with syntax and grammar to communicate precisely and unambiguously. Law and philosophy are subjects that still cling to a system of communication that is centuries behind the times. They need to develop vocabulary, symbols, syntax and structures, punctuation marks etc to communicate clearly.
2. That brings up the second gripe. If philosophy develops an unambiguous way to communicate, if everyone could understand what the philosophers are pontificating about, a significant portion of them would lay bare their ignorance. There are lots of philosophy majors who hide behind these thickets of verbiage. So on average the whole field garners less respect. If they want respectability afforded to mathematicians or computer programmers, they have to earn it.
You are correct. It is more like 1 mm not 0.1 mm. I was wrong. See, Philosophy majors? This is how it is done. Make a mistake. Admit it freely and openly.
Why do you need to lie, I hardly expect 1-2mm is any less sensational...
Well, why attribute to malice what is perfectly explained by incompetence or ignorance? I was wrong by an order of magnitude, no less!. More knowledgeable people have corrected my wrong information. That is the way science works. In science you don't have to be nice when you point out the errors of others. But in society you would find you get great mileage being nicer than by being nasty. Just a suggestion. It is a free country after all.
From the summary and the kind of English usage, I thought this guy one of those philosophy majors who periodically infest science discussions with terms like philosophical materialism etc in the grand tradition of Rene "cogito, ergo sum" Descartes.
Nah, this guy is on the up-and-up, neuroscience degree from Columbia. Studying that hard to understand neurotransmitters, synapses etc using the same neurotransmitters and synapses could leave one with ideas in his brain that can not be communicated to other brains using words. That could explain the similarities of his essay to that of addled philosophers.
all the remaining methods fail us even more. So even if the mumbo jumbo you are saying is really true, I will stick with science. You ponder about whether or not science is giving right answers, next time when you are at cruise altitude inside a shiny aluminum bubble with less than 0.1 mm of aluminum between you and a -40 degree (F or C does not matter) atmosphere with pressure so low your blood will boil instantly at that temperature. Happy thoughts.
I will have to provide for it in my budget for my team. I am going to order one for each member of my team. Will instrument it to add a trigger in clear-case preventing check-ins when their fatigue level is high.
Note to self: Also order coffee machines integrated with intravenous delivery control modules to inject more caffeine when the fatigue level goes above threshold into these bitching and moaning, belly aching malingerers, when their caffeine systems have too much blood in them.
Second note to self: Scout for small islands near Bahamas to buy with the bonus that will surely come due to the increased productivity of my team.
If I remember Srimati teacher correctly, apparently a whole kingdom was lost because some cobbler missed nailing one nail in the shoe of one horse. I, along with rest of the class, had actually memorized the entire report of the investigation committee. We delivered the report to an assembly of interested parties ( Mohan master accompanied us on the xylaphone) on the annual day of the Mahatma Gandhi Elementary. From the standing ovation we got, I assume our report was spot on and was accepted with great appreciation.
Someone used to post a form with few boxes checked saying stuff like, "your idea will not work because: [x] blah [*] yadda yadda yadda", everytime there was an idea to combat spam/phish. Wonder what happened to him.
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The iPhone is the new walled garden proprietary Microsoft. Android is the linux barbarian at the gate.
I tell you, the Chosen One is deep and he is the only one who can pull this off.
We all know what happened to the nuclear reactor this guy built on the eastern seaboard of Japan. Will this thing fare any better against a Tsunami? oh, wait. That was Fukushima right? oops. me bad.
Yea, I would say if you have this attitude vote for obama if Ron Paul isn't running.
Ron Paul? Seriously? You think his administration would get through one new cycle that has a "human interest" story?
Take one example. The federal government is the insurance of last resort, for any home built anywhere with absolutely no regard to the risk. Even in the face of repeated total loss claims, even if it is patently insane to build a home on stilts on a sand bar in South Carolina with absolutely no wind break for 3000 miles. These sand bars and million other high risk locations are owned by private parties, and the value of their land parcels depend on someone willing to build a home there. Someone can build a home there only if banks would lend money to do so. Banks lend only if there is insurance. That is where the US Govt comes in propping up the property values of millions and millions of people using our tax dollars to insure insane risk at ridiculous prices. Then the very same property owners will call themselves rugged independents and disparage poor children getting free lunch at school or a poor janitor begging for insulin medications. Let Ron Paul try to tell them after a hurricane, "all properties that lost their homes, will not be eligible for Federal insurance guarantee for the next 99 years". All hell will break lose. There you will see whether or not Government creates value and the true colors of these libertarians.
If is beyond question government creates value, government provides the solid bedrock that holds up the entire economy. People who don't get it, get bamboozled by the likes of Ron Paul.
It is far better to fix what is broken in our government than to break it up even more. Let him try and touch the federal government guaranteed insurance for any home built anywhere with no regard to the risk, the via
Thanks a lot, President Lawnchair. Maybe some time in my lifetime we'll get an actual liberal in the white house (though I can't think of when that would be)?
I too would like to get a real liberal in the White House. Till that date comes, all I can do is to try my best keep the wacko Republicans from getting the Presidency, pack the courts, and hand over what little remains to the Mulitnational Corporations and the banksters. That means voting Obama.
Take the 'Malicious Software Removal Tool' for one example. Sounds to me like a malicious program that goes and removes software from your computer.
The name accurately describes what the software does and how. Your explanation that it is a malicious tool that removes software is correct. Your mistake is to assume it is a tool to remove malicious software.
That place was known to be very chaotic, with very little supervision about secured area. All top brass move with impunity everywhere and they always have a sidekick or two in tow. There was some apocryphal story about the food meant to be shipped to the IST was pilfered in the Baikonur cosmodrome.
It is really confusing. One of the fundamental tenet of Wahhabism, was to reduce the amount of veneration of Mohammad. They claim even having the idea of a holy site associated with mortals is idolatry. Wahhab was worried Muslims of elevating Mohammad to the status of God. Sunni's fundamental complaint against Shias is that the Shias worship many saints in addition to Allah. Now the bastion of Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia, is turning against a journalist for treating Mohammad as a human being?
I got it. They all believe Al Gore invented the internet. That is why. Now it makes sense.
Satan, satan, please check your realm. Is it frozen over or what? Some East Texas jury found for the defendant in a patent law suite. Wondering what happened and how a random act of sanity struck East Texas. I know those guys were upset about their main Rick Perry being laughed off the national stage. Are they taking the first baby steps to acquire some kind of respectability?
The carriers, now you know what it feels like to be on the receiving end. For most customers switching the carrier is not easy, not possible some times due to coverage or something. When you have them over the barrel what do the carriers do? Do they worry about being reasonable? They "maximize the profits" and ask the customers to go to hell. Well carriers, feel our pain and cry us a river.
Assuming the data there is accurate and up to date, the numbers are very close, 10.9% of total for India vs 11% for Pakistan. It is possible recently Pakistan overtook India, or may they have been trading places back and forth in the past. Still it is a fact that India has the second or the third largest population of Muslims in the world.
Google has agreed before a court in Delhi to remove religious and other content considered objectionable, though some other Internet firms are likely to appeal the court's decision, plaintiff Mufti Ajiaz Arshad Qasmi said on Monday.
The appeal:
The government allowed the court to prosecute the Internet companies under various Indian laws in the criminal case, but Google has meanwhile appealed the decision before the Delhi High Court.
Basic background: India is the country with the second largest Muslim population in the world, number of Indian Muslims dwarfs Pakistan, Arabia, Egypt, Bangladesh. Just recently Indonesia overtook it. Muslims form a sizeable vote bank, some 15% of the electorate and almost all the politicians kow-tow the lines drawn by them. There is widespread belief that the Muslims are punching way above their weight politically. But even when there is provocation like Muslim painters paint Hindu goddesses in the nude or something, the Hindu reaction is usually divided. The secularists are mostly in control of the hard liners on the Hindu side. Once in a while you hear Hindu hardliners banning Valentines Day or protesting some movie or a book.
Having said that, for country with that large a Muslim population, very few of the Indian Muslims are involved in terrorism, or support terrorism. Despite periodical outrageous attacks by Pakistani Muslims terrorist outfits inside India, there is no widespread retaliation against the local Muslims. Indian Muslims join the police and military in large numbers.
You walk away from your loan, your credit history is ruined and it follows you to your grave. Corporations pass all their profits and assets to other corporations, renege on all their liabilities, and go bankrupt. They are systematically privatizing profits and socializing the losses. Some of you tea party guys are paid shills of these corporations. The others are unwitting tools, cannon fodder.
It is really sad the greatest nation on earth, the first nation built on the principles of liberty and freedom was undermined by a few greedy people. To borrow a phrase from Winston Churchill, Never in history have so many people been so thoroughly screwed by so few greedy men.
1. They write in English using very long sentences with very complex construction. It confuses, not clarifies. English is not my mother toungue. My vocabulary and reading comprehension is very good, I place at the top 1% in GRE verbal. But I can't understand most of the philosophy major's dissertations and theses. Take the simple phrase "cruel and unusual punishment". Does it refer to punishments that are cruel and also unusual? Or does it refer to all the cruel punishments, some of them might not be unusual and all the unusual punishments some might not be cruel? See how imprecise the natural English language is? The philosophy majors try to make it clear using more natural English, which makes it even more confusing. Pages and pages of text explaining an idea is how everyone communicated till 16th century. Mathematics, chemistry, and other sciences developed their own vocabulary, notations, diagrams, charts and thousand other things to communicate precisely. Computer science has developed completely new languages with syntax and grammar to communicate precisely and unambiguously. Law and philosophy are subjects that still cling to a system of communication that is centuries behind the times. They need to develop vocabulary, symbols, syntax and structures, punctuation marks etc to communicate clearly.
2. That brings up the second gripe. If philosophy develops an unambiguous way to communicate, if everyone could understand what the philosophers are pontificating about, a significant portion of them would lay bare their ignorance. There are lots of philosophy majors who hide behind these thickets of verbiage. So on average the whole field garners less respect. If they want respectability afforded to mathematicians or computer programmers, they have to earn it.
You are correct. It is more like 1 mm not 0.1 mm. I was wrong. See, Philosophy majors? This is how it is done. Make a mistake. Admit it freely and openly.
Thanks for the correction. I was wrong. It is more like 0.9 mm to 1.1 mm. I was mis remembered numbers from Aircraft Structures I from so long ago.
Why do you need to lie, I hardly expect 1-2mm is any less sensational...
Well, why attribute to malice what is perfectly explained by incompetence or ignorance? I was wrong by an order of magnitude, no less!. More knowledgeable people have corrected my wrong information. That is the way science works. In science you don't have to be nice when you point out the errors of others. But in society you would find you get great mileage being nicer than by being nasty. Just a suggestion. It is a free country after all.
Nah, this guy is on the up-and-up, neuroscience degree from Columbia. Studying that hard to understand neurotransmitters, synapses etc using the same neurotransmitters and synapses could leave one with ideas in his brain that can not be communicated to other brains using words. That could explain the similarities of his essay to that of addled philosophers.
all the remaining methods fail us even more. So even if the mumbo jumbo you are saying is really true, I will stick with science. You ponder about whether or not science is giving right answers, next time when you are at cruise altitude inside a shiny aluminum bubble with less than 0.1 mm of aluminum between you and a -40 degree (F or C does not matter) atmosphere with pressure so low your blood will boil instantly at that temperature. Happy thoughts.
Or cut out caffeine to your team altogether, be more productive: http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/02/22/coffee/
Oooops! Did I say productive? Me, bad. I meant to be punitive. ;-)
Note to self: Also order coffee machines integrated with intravenous delivery control modules to inject more caffeine when the fatigue level goes above threshold into these bitching and moaning, belly aching malingerers, when their caffeine systems have too much blood in them.
Second note to self: Scout for small islands near Bahamas to buy with the bonus that will surely come due to the increased productivity of my team.
If I remember Srimati teacher correctly, apparently a whole kingdom was lost because some cobbler missed nailing one nail in the shoe of one horse. I, along with rest of the class, had actually memorized the entire report of the investigation committee. We delivered the report to an assembly of interested parties ( Mohan master accompanied us on the xylaphone) on the annual day of the Mahatma Gandhi Elementary. From the standing ovation we got, I assume our report was spot on and was accepted with great appreciation.
Low Earth Orbit - to boldly go where hundreds have gone before!
Are you talking about Low Earth Orbit or the Sideling Hill Service Plaza rest stop in the Pennsylvania Turnpike?
Someone used to post a form with few boxes checked saying stuff like, "your idea will not work because: [x] blah [*] yadda yadda yadda", everytime there was an idea to combat spam/phish. Wonder what happened to him.