I arrived in Guadalara, and "Poof!" there was an email from Uber announcing they now have service in Guadalajara.
I'm going to uninstall their app now.
His monthly Skeptic article [Sept's Scientific American] is a sensible look at reality. He simply identifies some problems we are facing, and how much it might cost to deal with each of them them. I found that... sensible. A lot more sensible than my "Hyperventilating Climate Change Crowd" friends.
"... a thing that we invest with rights..." by that Benjamin Wittes seems to mean a human.
The Founders believed that "rights" were given to us by God, and that we had to take care that the government did not take them from us.
Wittes seems to have gone back to believing we [not God] "invested" those rights into humans. Even an Atheist [like me] could find that misguided.
When I was a university professor, I reserved the right to subtract more than 100% of the value of an exam question if the student gave with a ridiculous answer (for example answering that the current in a circuit with a 12V power supply and resistors with values of Kohms was so many mega amps).
I fear that the authors of this work need a similar "wake up" slap.
Ever try to get something copyrighted? It's the world's easiest thing: Fast, simple, and cheap. So if the RIAA gets their way, and you want to be exempt from the law, just copyright anything (your signature will do).
I believe in the value of standards (even de facto standards which is what MS has often created), which tempers my MS hate. That said:
1- While explaining to an unsophisticated user why I had recently changed to a Mac, this slipped out:
"The most important part of a computer is the Software. The Mac's software is based on Unix, which was designed to work well. The PC's software is based on Windows, which was designed to make money. Both got succeeded.
2- If it weren't for innovators (that keep the MS, "tail light chaser," busy) MS might have gotten some of their programs to work pretty well by now.
3- Their legal strategy (count on the slowness of the courts to allow them to do whatever they want, so that by the time the courts move, MS has already won), is a perfect workable strategy in high tech. I have to admire them for having used it so effectively, but it makes me hate 'em all the more.
4- I have great respect for both Ethics and simplicity. The result is paradoxical that that I love/hate them for their clear statement of Ethics, which is given in the following quote " ".
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I arrived in Guadalara, and "Poof!" there was an email from Uber announcing they now have service in Guadalajara. I'm going to uninstall their app now.
The only thing I can think of that would be better is if ISIS insisted all their followers were illiterate.
His monthly Skeptic article [Sept's Scientific American] is a sensible look at reality. He simply identifies some problems we are facing, and how much it might cost to deal with each of them them. I found that... sensible. A lot more sensible than my "Hyperventilating Climate Change Crowd" friends.
"... a thing that we invest with rights..." by that Benjamin Wittes seems to mean a human. The Founders believed that "rights" were given to us by God, and that we had to take care that the government did not take them from us. Wittes seems to have gone back to believing we [not God] "invested" those rights into humans. Even an Atheist [like me] could find that misguided.
As we learn more about what our Government is doing in secret, we can be more sure that: They Lie!!
"You can't use that drug cocktail on a human because they haven't been tested on a human."
When I was a university professor, I reserved the right to subtract more than 100% of the value of an exam question if the student gave with a ridiculous answer (for example answering that the current in a circuit with a 12V power supply and resistors with values of Kohms was so many mega amps). I fear that the authors of this work need a similar "wake up" slap.
Ever try to get something copyrighted? It's the world's easiest thing: Fast, simple, and cheap. So if the RIAA gets their way, and you want to be exempt from the law, just copyright anything (your signature will do).
I believe in the value of standards (even de facto standards which is what MS has often created), which tempers my MS hate. That said: 1- While explaining to an unsophisticated user why I had recently changed to a Mac, this slipped out: "The most important part of a computer is the Software. The Mac's software is based on Unix, which was designed to work well. The PC's software is based on Windows, which was designed to make money. Both got succeeded. 2- If it weren't for innovators (that keep the MS, "tail light chaser," busy) MS might have gotten some of their programs to work pretty well by now. 3- Their legal strategy (count on the slowness of the courts to allow them to do whatever they want, so that by the time the courts move, MS has already won), is a perfect workable strategy in high tech. I have to admire them for having used it so effectively, but it makes me hate 'em all the more. 4- I have great respect for both Ethics and simplicity. The result is paradoxical that that I love/hate them for their clear statement of Ethics, which is given in the following quote " ".