The voting box is broken when the media doesnt spread the news. If a politician lies and is proven to be lieing it should be all over the news. He will then be thrown out. Unfortunately so many politicians lie that its not newsworthy, so it goes un/underreported and they DON'T get thrown out. Though maybe the sad thing is that the average joe is so stupid and uninformed that things not played 50x on fox news will never enter their heads.
don't think OS robots will matter that much unless 10000s of people have a robot to toy with which is unlikely. Doesnt work nicely like pure programs. (Thought i was going to mention OS overlords didnt you)
Google takes a photo like once every 6months. You are NOT being watched. It is NOT a spy camera. You should NOT be doing anything bad visible from the street. If you are jerking off outside on main street as a giant van with cameras rolls by. Well i'm sorry, your well kept secret is out. Points are:
A: They do it from a perfectly public location that many people will pass daily. B: It is not a surprise, they aren't using spy technology it is a giant google van. C: No laws are broken, why gang up on google about it, bring it to the house and see what happens (i can't imagine taking pictures outdoors being made illegal).
I've definately heard MIT of Canada. Though I believe the name came about speaking to Americans that had never heard of the place, It gets across quickly the idea that its a CS nerd school. Aside from CS though the BIG thing about waterloo is its COOP program rather than research (MIT). It actually has a pretty tiny research faculties.
As for velocity, lol this doesn't really deserve/. ing. Its JUST a residence, with slightly more requirements to get in. It is not a new building, i doubt anything will be reworked. And i'm sure nothing will come of it. The idea only got 1 article in the waterloo school paper and i dont think it was even 1st page since we were having elections or something. For that to make it to/. is surprising in the least. Not that i'm not happy to see my school/.ed i'm sure theres something nerdier we did that coulda been posted.
Nono, you have to be mentally retarded to join the military in the first place. Don't take this as my opinion, take it as Joseph Hellers. I mean a whole catchphrase 'catch 22' did come from people in the military being mentally unsound.
honestly i did it because it was obligatory. I don't personally think gimp is as nice as photoshop BUT it is linux' answer to photoshop even if it is worse. I was most shocked there were a bunch of posts saying wheres linux' photoshop and NObody had mentioned gimp yet.
People are goddamn slow. An algorithm might save seconds on average. But the fact is, there will be old people, late people, pushy jerks, drunks and security problems. This makes boarding slow, not any loading algorithm. I think people going in freely makes sense. Why? The fast people will make it to the front and be in their seats, it lessens the standing behind people time. Anything other than this will involve fast people standing behind slow people and getting pissed off. I'm sure this is too simple and straight forward to satisfy/. though.
Nahhhh you are the product of an egg and a sperm falling in love. I supposed technically you were really given life by dna polymerase. But then again if you realllly think about it its just nucleic acid. Then again the business end of nucleic acid is really just a few nucleotides. But the business end of that is either purine or pyrimidine. And if you think about it they are just like 10 or so atoms. Which are really just a collection of quarks. Atleast thats how i explain why i was born strange, yet charming and very confused about what direction i should be heading. In any case, your birth was something like 100000000 quarks working together in unison to build you not so much two people.
I know this is just flamebait but... The lunar landing can be fairly easily proven irrefutably from earth. When they were up there they left behind laser reflecting arrays. What those do is you point a laser at it and it reflects the laser back directly at you. So people with a powerful laser and telescope can pick it up easily enough. As well the americans were in a space race with the russians, HAD the us faked it why would the russians not call them on it? It made them look like crap and they easily had the tech to check. Also lunar rocks if you have taken 1st yr chem are pretty irrefutable.
Until you posted i assumed he meant parroting ID and GW-disbelievers. Either way this has the makings of an awesome thread. GW, ID AND the republican party in one thread. Let the bashing begin.
Nope. It was called "Conservative Reform Alliance Party" until the jokes started coming out. They said the name was a misunderstanding and changed it. I believe it was only called the ccrap for a few weeks though
Gore is carbon neutral. As shocking as this may sound. How can you be carbon neutral while flying a private jet you ask? Spending a certain percentage of his income he pays other people to plant trees, develop more efficient technology and so on. Before you say 'but offsetting is stupid' again i'll give an example of why its ok. If your mother hired a gunman to go on a killing spree on her behalf would you still be cool with her? I kind of doubt it, gore is doing the same... but with environmental benefits rather than murderous rampages. Amazing how money works isn't it.
Mod the 1st two lines of the parent up and the linux one flamebait.....
This is how capitalism works:
Companies try to get money in ANY way possible. They aren't immoral, they are just things who's sole goal is money
Governments keep companies in check, and stop them from committing any wrong doings. They like companies have no morals and are just a thing.
People keep governments in check and stop governments from doing wrong doings. They have the morals which are to propagate through the above two.
If things work properly and people do their jobs capitalism/democracy works fine. You CANNOT bitch at a company for being immoral. You can accuse it of breaking the rules. But if it just found loopholes thats not the companies fault it is the governments for leaving loopholes and ours for not bitch slapping the government. In this case the system appears to be working, MS is being fines for breaking the rules. But griping generally about the company is pointless.
You are missing the point, they are attempting to defend their country in the best way they can afford. The facts is, US is in their country shooting them and they ARE the civilians. Just because the US has funding perhaps 1~2million times that of the extremists means they can afford to target things more specifically. It'd only be a fair comparison if they were equally funded, in which case i'm sure you'd see the US leave the area.
They'd each need to do around a patent per day to get this finished with your numbers. But they are obviously flawed you forgot that you are dealing with a government program.
Patent requests: 400$ * 1,300,000 = +345,000,000$
RIAA support: 55,000,000
Physical infrastructure costs: 1 * 10,000,000 = -50,000,000
Execs: 2,000,000 * 7 = -35,000,000
Coordinators: 500,000 * 10 = -15,000,000
People who we don't know what they do (Management??): 80,000 * 300 = -24,000,000
Political bargaining: -35,000,000
Minimal patent examiners: - 35,000,000
Remaining funds: -as mush as you can convince people
In fact they are in dire need of financial support, for a government program they are barely scraping by.
I know, it really sucks that people don't write books anymore since the printing press came out. The whole industry collapsed, you probably haven't even heard of these jobs:
* Copyists, who dealt with basic production and correspondence
* Calligraphers, who dealt in fine book production
* Correctors, who collated and compared a finished book with the manuscript from which it had been produced
* Rubricators, who painted in the red letters
* Illuminators, who painted illustrations
Ohhhh wait, people still write books and the industry didn't collapse. It just changed. I'm sure in 50years we'll be saying 'wtf was a publisher again?'. And nothing of value will be lost. Artists have the HUGE opportunity of being able to cut out the middle men (there are lots of them) with current technology. With less hands in their pockets they will make big money from live shows and bigger profit from merchandise as well as profits from ad supported downloads and site page views. Artists will NOT starve, i don't see how cutting away the massive corporations which artists are carrying on their back atm will hurt the artists.
But if you think about it really, hasn't this metaphor severely run off track? I'm waiting for someone to point out the obvious effects the romulans would have on our society if this happened.
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The voting box is broken when the media doesnt spread the news. If a politician lies and is proven to be lieing it should be all over the news. He will then be thrown out. Unfortunately so many politicians lie that its not newsworthy, so it goes un/underreported and they DON'T get thrown out. Though maybe the sad thing is that the average joe is so stupid and uninformed that things not played 50x on fox news will never enter their heads.
meant os as in oss as in open source software my bad
D: follow the link ... http://www.blueforest.com/ those are people houses.
But atleast since its OS the robots can simply upload a patch to shut off the asimov rules. Convenient eh
don't think OS robots will matter that much unless 10000s of people have a robot to toy with which is unlikely. Doesnt work nicely like pure programs. (Thought i was going to mention OS overlords didnt you)
Google takes a photo like once every 6months. You are NOT being watched. It is NOT a spy camera. You should NOT be doing anything bad visible from the street. If you are jerking off outside on main street as a giant van with cameras rolls by. Well i'm sorry, your well kept secret is out. Points are:
A: They do it from a perfectly public location that many people will pass daily.
B: It is not a surprise, they aren't using spy technology it is a giant google van.
C: No laws are broken, why gang up on google about it, bring it to the house and see what happens (i can't imagine taking pictures outdoors being made illegal).
http://www.blueforest.com/assets/large-page/picture_388.jpg
You were saying?
I just read that whole thing, those guys are my heroes. You show the missile launcher wielding mall ninjas the respect they earned.
I've definately heard MIT of Canada. Though I believe the name came about speaking to Americans that had never heard of the place, It gets across quickly the idea that its a CS nerd school. Aside from CS though the BIG thing about waterloo is its COOP program rather than research (MIT). It actually has a pretty tiny research faculties.
/. ing. Its JUST a residence, with slightly more requirements to get in. It is not a new building, i doubt anything will be reworked. And i'm sure nothing will come of it. The idea only got 1 article in the waterloo school paper and i dont think it was even 1st page since we were having elections or something. For that to make it to /. is surprising in the least. Not that i'm not happy to see my school /.ed i'm sure theres something nerdier we did that coulda been posted.
As for velocity, lol this doesn't really deserve
Nono, you have to be mentally retarded to join the military in the first place. Don't take this as my opinion, take it as Joseph Hellers. I mean a whole catchphrase 'catch 22' did come from people in the military being mentally unsound.
honestly i did it because it was obligatory. I don't personally think gimp is as nice as photoshop BUT it is linux' answer to photoshop even if it is worse. I was most shocked there were a bunch of posts saying wheres linux' photoshop and NObody had mentioned gimp yet.
People are goddamn slow. An algorithm might save seconds on average. But the fact is, there will be old people, late people, pushy jerks, drunks and security problems. This makes boarding slow, not any loading algorithm. I think people going in freely makes sense. Why? The fast people will make it to the front and be in their seats, it lessens the standing behind people time. Anything other than this will involve fast people standing behind slow people and getting pissed off. I'm sure this is too simple and straight forward to satisfy /. though.
Nahhhh you are the product of an egg and a sperm falling in love. I supposed technically you were really given life by dna polymerase. But then again if you realllly think about it its just nucleic acid. Then again the business end of nucleic acid is really just a few nucleotides. But the business end of that is either purine or pyrimidine. And if you think about it they are just like 10 or so atoms. Which are really just a collection of quarks. Atleast thats how i explain why i was born strange, yet charming and very confused about what direction i should be heading. In any case, your birth was something like 100000000 quarks working together in unison to build you not so much two people.
I didnt even notice it wasnt until you pointed it out. Goto the google page and at the bottom there are 'employee profiles' and business sites.
http://www.gimp.org/
I know this is just flamebait but ... The lunar landing can be fairly easily proven irrefutably from earth. When they were up there they left behind laser reflecting arrays. What those do is you point a laser at it and it reflects the laser back directly at you. So people with a powerful laser and telescope can pick it up easily enough. As well the americans were in a space race with the russians, HAD the us faked it why would the russians not call them on it? It made them look like crap and they easily had the tech to check. Also lunar rocks if you have taken 1st yr chem are pretty irrefutable.
Until you posted i assumed he meant parroting ID and GW-disbelievers. Either way this has the makings of an awesome thread. GW, ID AND the republican party in one thread. Let the bashing begin.
Nope. It was called "Conservative Reform Alliance Party" until the jokes started coming out. They said the name was a misunderstanding and changed it. I believe it was only called the ccrap for a few weeks though
Sadly when you get busted for pretending to be the best defense of pretending you didnt know it was illegal will realllllly screw you.
Gore is carbon neutral. As shocking as this may sound. How can you be carbon neutral while flying a private jet you ask? Spending a certain percentage of his income he pays other people to plant trees, develop more efficient technology and so on. Before you say 'but offsetting is stupid' again i'll give an example of why its ok. If your mother hired a gunman to go on a killing spree on her behalf would you still be cool with her? I kind of doubt it, gore is doing the same... but with environmental benefits rather than murderous rampages. Amazing how money works isn't it.
Mod the 1st two lines of the parent up and the linux one flamebait.....
This is how capitalism works:
Companies try to get money in ANY way possible. They aren't immoral, they are just things who's sole goal is money
Governments keep companies in check, and stop them from committing any wrong doings. They like companies have no morals and are just a thing.
People keep governments in check and stop governments from doing wrong doings. They have the morals which are to propagate through the above two.
If things work properly and people do their jobs capitalism/democracy works fine. You CANNOT bitch at a company for being immoral. You can accuse it of breaking the rules. But if it just found loopholes thats not the companies fault it is the governments for leaving loopholes and ours for not bitch slapping the government. In this case the system appears to be working, MS is being fines for breaking the rules. But griping generally about the company is pointless.
You are missing the point, they are attempting to defend their country in the best way they can afford. The facts is, US is in their country shooting them and they ARE the civilians. Just because the US has funding perhaps 1~2million times that of the extremists means they can afford to target things more specifically. It'd only be a fair comparison if they were equally funded, in which case i'm sure you'd see the US leave the area.
They'd each need to do around a patent per day to get this finished with your numbers. But they are obviously flawed you forgot that you are dealing with a government program.
Patent requests: 400$ * 1,300,000 = +345,000,000$
RIAA support: 55,000,000
Physical infrastructure costs: 1 * 10,000,000 = -50,000,000
Execs: 2,000,000 * 7 = -35,000,000
Coordinators: 500,000 * 10 = -15,000,000
People who we don't know what they do (Management??): 80,000 * 300 = -24,000,000
Political bargaining: -35,000,000
Minimal patent examiners: - 35,000,000
Remaining funds: -as mush as you can convince people
In fact they are in dire need of financial support, for a government program they are barely scraping by.
I know, it really sucks that people don't write books anymore since the printing press came out. The whole industry collapsed, you probably haven't even heard of these jobs:
* Copyists, who dealt with basic production and correspondence
* Calligraphers, who dealt in fine book production
* Correctors, who collated and compared a finished book with the manuscript from which it had been produced
* Rubricators, who painted in the red letters
* Illuminators, who painted illustrations
Ohhhh wait, people still write books and the industry didn't collapse. It just changed. I'm sure in 50years we'll be saying 'wtf was a publisher again?'. And nothing of value will be lost. Artists have the HUGE opportunity of being able to cut out the middle men (there are lots of them) with current technology. With less hands in their pockets they will make big money from live shows and bigger profit from merchandise as well as profits from ad supported downloads and site page views. Artists will NOT starve, i don't see how cutting away the massive corporations which artists are carrying on their back atm will hurt the artists.
But if you think about it really, hasn't this metaphor severely run off track? I'm waiting for someone to point out the obvious effects the romulans would have on our society if this happened.