You completely missed the point of my original post.
I called your assertion that
everyone is a wrongdoer by someone's definition.
wrong because a person's actions can only have consequences under the letter of the law.
If I am speeding and get caught, I am a wrongdoer under the law. If I'm on a bus and don't offer my seat to a 90 year old lady, I am a wrongdoer in someone's books.
One action has consequences, the other has none (ignoring any beliefs in karma etc). Thus, the law's definition of wrongdoer is the only one that matters here.
If you break the law, you should expect consequences. You should expect that your trial will be unfair. You should expect Google (or anyone else) to provide evidence about your crime. You should expect to get the maximum penalty.
Similarly, if you do something that's legal in your jurisdiction but offends someone, their opinion of your actions is ultimately inconsequential.
(By the way, the fact that people regularly break laws simply means that the benefits outweigh the risks. They don't do it to stick it to The Man, who enforces the law "capriciously and inconsistently".)
Please stop spewing out ridiculous maxims. There is only one definition of a wrongdoer that matters here, and it's defined by the law. You break the law and you can expect some consequences, especially if you leave a record of it. It's simple enough.
These popular conspiracy theories about group X holding back product/information Y are all debunked by a single thought: IF these people are truly smart enough to rule the world (or an aspect of it), they know better than to try to control every single individual in it.
What does this mean? That they are smart enough to follow free markets. They are smart enough to know that they can't predict the future of the stock market, even if they can control an aspect of it. This assumes that these groups do have a level of involvement high enough to control the government, financial and religious institutions WITHOUT being exposed. You really think that a large group of people is capable of holding a secret so large for so long? A president gets a blowjob from an intern and the whole world hears about it. I doubt an army of engineers, scientists and politicians would be quiet about what really goes on in Area 51, killing people with vaccines, peak oil conspiracies or whatever bullshit is popular that day.
So give your conspiracy theories a rest and please report some real news.
Socialism works if done correctly and capitalism works if done correctly.
Socialism does not scale very well. At the core, it attempts to set up a mechanism to control supply and demand (of jobs, goods, money, resources, etc). This can be done in a small, tight-knit community where every member has the same goals and ambitions. But expand the community to a country, and you'll find people on every end of the demand and supply curves - some want to work 90 hours a week and drive a Land Rover, others are content being on welfare and having no boss. No amount of government planning and control can take that into account.
Capitalism and free markets have their own set of problems, but at least they're not impossible to solve.
Mickey has to draw and scribble his way through levels, mending broken bridges by applying the right colour paint or peering through walls after applying thinner. He can even clear rubble from his path by erasing parts of the world.
It's a painting game puzzle game with retro art style. It may be darker than previous painting games, but I really doubt it's Mickey's version of Batman Begins.
Apologies for the double reply, but I forgot this gem in your post:
in other words, what do we lose if they go bankrupt?
How about access to medication? Are you gonna spit into some breadcrumbs and add some spider webs next time you need penicillin?
Your argument is about as intelligent as proclaiming that we should all simultaneously stop paying taxes. The government can't do anything, LOL! Wrong. They can stop picking up your garbage, maintaining the roads you drive on and providing any other service. You give a little, you get a little - same with the drug companies.
Oh how, clever. You've taken my question and answered it with another question. However, I'll bite.
Here's why your idea of non-profit drug companies won't work:
Pay scale for non-profit companies is much lower than for-profit. This results in a brain drain towards for-profits. Even if you make it the law to be a non-profit drug company in the US, they'll either move their facilities to another country or the employees will move to a different field.
Assuming you can pay the employees the same as a for-profit, you still need to make money to stay in business. This means you have to sell your drugs and you have to convince people that they are better than your competitor's product. This requires marketing and investment into areas other than R&D and manufacturing. But that's ok, because these are costs that are somewhat easy to predict.
What's not predictable is how much failed R&D, drug recalls and lawsuits will occur. Nobody knows what these costs will be from year to year (with the possible exception of R&D, as the maximum you'll lose is what you spend on it). So you over-compensate, charge higher prices and end up with huge surpluses on the end of most years. Other years, you'll end up in court, paying out huge amounts that make the reserves from your fat years disappear.
So the notion of non-profit drug companies is pure fantasy. Simply put they need money to sit out bad times. If a non-profit drug company has a magic way of avoiding or even predicting those, I want it around, too.
Oh yeah, let's all boycott drug companies that make profit. What exactly is wrong with making profit?
Boil it down to the basics and the process works very well for everyone involved:
1) Drug company develops or buys the rights to a drug 2) Patients live longer and more comfortable lives thanks to the drugs 3) Drug company profits
Everyone wins. Hell, you can even invest in a drug company and share their profits.
And the fact that the USA has a fucked up pricing system for drugs is a discussion you should be having with your elected representative, not another Slashdotter.
My son (who just turned 3) has been playing the DS for about 6 or 8 months now. There's some teaching involved on how to handle the hardware - don't poke the screen, don't open the hinge 180 degrees, don't touch the top screen with the stylus - but I don't worry anymore when he plays with it.
Here are some kid-appropriate games he plays:
- Crayola Treasure Adventures. Coloring games, join-the-numbers and great music. 4/5 - Smart Boys Gameroom. Puzzles, music games, counting games. Probably the most educational. 5/5 - Clubhouse Games. 42 old-school games - he plays bowling, shake the bottle, darts, hangman (called balloons) and many others. 4/5 - Meteos. Loses interest in it after a while. 2/5
I also tried out a number of other games that he may have been interested in. There was a Diego title that seemed too advanced for him, and I tried out the DS Interactive Storybook series but was not impressed by it (In the story of the 3 little pigs, the wolf or the pig call each other "idiot". I don't need my 3 year old learning insults.)
You rag on John Diefenbaker (Progressive Conservative) for cancelling a very expensive program and you whine that Stephen Harper (Conservative) is not spending enough on exploring the arctic.
You're either a troll or a disgruntled liberal will find any excuse to bash the conservatives. Frankly, I don't know how you got moderated up.
If we took this money and invested it into researching and implementing green alternatives to our current fossil-fuel infrastructure instead, more progress would be made in the long run.
Yeah, how about China and India do their part, too? Why is the onus on the West to cut back on greenhouse emissions while the Far East countries accelerate their output?
A Safari.exe in program files if it is not becoming a system default browser with UI tricks shouldn't matter to any browser vendor
When I saw the option to download Safari, I unchecked the box at first. I then checked it again, as I though - "gee, I'll install it and check out how it compares to Firefox, Mozilla and IE."
It became my default browser and replaced Firefox with Safari in the start menu (Windows XP). I checked it out on a few websites, decided that its default font/rendering was hurting my eyes and that the lack of a no-script plugin was a big letdown, so I uninstalled it 5 minutes later. Apple should be ashamed of so aggressively pushing a product that doesn't offer any advantages over its competitors.
In theory, markets are supposed to correct this "cost of business". The expense of buying carbon credits is supposed to be passed on to consumers, who will supposedly select the lower-cost product. However, this assumes several things:
- The company has competition.
- The competition manufactures its products in a carbon-trading country.
- The cost of carbon credits is much higher than the cost of running a carbon-neutral or carbon-positive production.
There are probably other conditions that have to be met. And trading carbons will not help clean already polluted areas (like the example you gave).
You can already use the Wii as a frontend to a media server. Tversity can convert any video to FLV and stream it to the Wii. It has a nice flash interface, and you can also use it to display pictures and play mp3s located on your PC (via the Opera web browser). It's also free, which is good, as it has its limitations:
- Configuration options are a bit limited (no choice of framerate, for example).
- My Wii is connected by 801.11b, which limits quality of the videos (from what I can tell). I have the video resolution set to 240x180, which really sucks on a 46" tv, as Anything higher drops frames. I suspect that using a wired connection or the G protocol would allow for a higher throughput.
- I was watching a 90 minute video yesterday and the Opera browser gave me an "Out of memory" message about 85 minutes into the show. I'm not sure if higher resolutions or bitrates would fill the memory faster.
Imagine you are taking your Civic from Maine to Califorina and it's winter. You have 18" dubs and semi-slick tires, so you are looking for a day with no precipitation. Good luck. Maine has bad roads and permanent black ice, so you are stuck in your mom's basement until June 8th. But you have to start driving before June 14th, when all the cops are on the roads, giving out tickets to any driver not wearing a beret to celebrate Bastille Day.
During the Bastille Bash, you did burnouts in front of your house so you need to refuel your car and put in some sweet NOS before leaving on the 17th.
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According to Wikipedia, they're reaching speeds of touch typists:
In July 1939 at a contest in Asheville, North Carolina Ted R. Elroy set a still-standing record for Morse copying, 75.2 WPM.
Each Morse code alphabet letter has a total of 1 to 4 dashes and/or dots. Each digit has a total of 5 dashes and/or dots. Sure, it's something new to learn, but it's not any harder (and a lot more useful) than memorizing 50 quotes from The Simpsons.
Once upon a time, my SO was a PC, too. Until I discovered that her beige box was full of viruses, that she was rooted by strangers and that neighbours would piggyback on her fat pipe.
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The dirty hippies will argue that reducing consumption is the real alternative.
You completely missed the point of my original post.
I called your assertion that
wrong because a person's actions can only have consequences under the letter of the law.
If I am speeding and get caught, I am a wrongdoer under the law. If I'm on a bus and don't offer my seat to a 90 year old lady, I am a wrongdoer in someone's books.
One action has consequences, the other has none (ignoring any beliefs in karma etc). Thus, the law's definition of wrongdoer is the only one that matters here.
If you break the law, you should expect consequences. You should expect that your trial will be unfair. You should expect Google (or anyone else) to provide evidence about your crime. You should expect to get the maximum penalty.
Similarly, if you do something that's legal in your jurisdiction but offends someone, their opinion of your actions is ultimately inconsequential.
(By the way, the fact that people regularly break laws simply means that the benefits outweigh the risks. They don't do it to stick it to The Man, who enforces the law "capriciously and inconsistently".)
Please stop spewing out ridiculous maxims. There is only one definition of a wrongdoer that matters here, and it's defined by the law. You break the law and you can expect some consequences, especially if you leave a record of it. It's simple enough.
These popular conspiracy theories about group X holding back product/information Y are all debunked by a single thought: IF these people are truly smart enough to rule the world (or an aspect of it), they know better than to try to control every single individual in it.
What does this mean? That they are smart enough to follow free markets. They are smart enough to know that they can't predict the future of the stock market, even if they can control an aspect of it. This assumes that these groups do have a level of involvement high enough to control the government, financial and religious institutions WITHOUT being exposed. You really think that a large group of people is capable of holding a secret so large for so long? A president gets a blowjob from an intern and the whole world hears about it. I doubt an army of engineers, scientists and politicians would be quiet about what really goes on in Area 51, killing people with vaccines, peak oil conspiracies or whatever bullshit is popular that day.
So give your conspiracy theories a rest and please report some real news.
Socialism does not scale very well. At the core, it attempts to set up a mechanism to control supply and demand (of jobs, goods, money, resources, etc). This can be done in a small, tight-knit community where every member has the same goals and ambitions. But expand the community to a country, and you'll find people on every end of the demand and supply curves - some want to work 90 hours a week and drive a Land Rover, others are content being on welfare and having no boss. No amount of government planning and control can take that into account.
Capitalism and free markets have their own set of problems, but at least they're not impossible to solve.
Source
It's a painting game puzzle game with retro art style. It may be darker than previous painting games, but I really doubt it's Mickey's version of Batman Begins.
What freaks me out even more is the "Alter Relationship" link right after your user name. I guess Slashdot is a very progressive website.
Apologies for the double reply, but I forgot this gem in your post:
How about access to medication? Are you gonna spit into some breadcrumbs and add some spider webs next time you need penicillin?
Your argument is about as intelligent as proclaiming that we should all simultaneously stop paying taxes. The government can't do anything, LOL! Wrong. They can stop picking up your garbage, maintaining the roads you drive on and providing any other service. You give a little, you get a little - same with the drug companies.
Oh how, clever. You've taken my question and answered it with another question. However, I'll bite.
Here's why your idea of non-profit drug companies won't work:
Pay scale for non-profit companies is much lower than for-profit. This results in a brain drain towards for-profits. Even if you make it the law to be a non-profit drug company in the US, they'll either move their facilities to another country or the employees will move to a different field.
Assuming you can pay the employees the same as a for-profit, you still need to make money to stay in business. This means you have to sell your drugs and you have to convince people that they are better than your competitor's product. This requires marketing and investment into areas other than R&D and manufacturing. But that's ok, because these are costs that are somewhat easy to predict.
What's not predictable is how much failed R&D, drug recalls and lawsuits will occur. Nobody knows what these costs will be from year to year (with the possible exception of R&D, as the maximum you'll lose is what you spend on it). So you over-compensate, charge higher prices and end up with huge surpluses on the end of most years. Other years, you'll end up in court, paying out huge amounts that make the reserves from your fat years disappear.
So the notion of non-profit drug companies is pure fantasy. Simply put they need money to sit out bad times. If a non-profit drug company has a magic way of avoiding or even predicting those, I want it around, too.
Oh yeah, let's all boycott drug companies that make profit. What exactly is wrong with making profit?
Boil it down to the basics and the process works very well for everyone involved:
1) Drug company develops or buys the rights to a drug
2) Patients live longer and more comfortable lives thanks to the drugs
3) Drug company profits
Everyone wins. Hell, you can even invest in a drug company and share their profits.
And the fact that the USA has a fucked up pricing system for drugs is a discussion you should be having with your elected representative, not another Slashdotter.
I'll take people doctors, please. I don't buy the idea of euthanasia being a cure for a broken leg.
My son (who just turned 3) has been playing the DS for about 6 or 8 months now. There's some teaching involved on how to handle the hardware - don't poke the screen, don't open the hinge 180 degrees, don't touch the top screen with the stylus - but I don't worry anymore when he plays with it.
Here are some kid-appropriate games he plays:
- Crayola Treasure Adventures. Coloring games, join-the-numbers and great music. 4/5
- Smart Boys Gameroom. Puzzles, music games, counting games. Probably the most educational. 5/5
- Clubhouse Games. 42 old-school games - he plays bowling, shake the bottle, darts, hangman (called balloons) and many others. 4/5
- Meteos. Loses interest in it after a while. 2/5
I also tried out a number of other games that he may have been interested in. There was a Diego title that seemed too advanced for him, and I tried out the DS Interactive Storybook series but was not impressed by it (In the story of the 3 little pigs, the wolf or the pig call each other "idiot". I don't need my 3 year old learning insults.)
You rag on John Diefenbaker (Progressive Conservative) for cancelling a very expensive program and you whine that Stephen Harper (Conservative) is not spending enough on exploring the arctic.
You're either a troll or a disgruntled liberal will find any excuse to bash the conservatives. Frankly, I don't know how you got moderated up.
Yeah, how about China and India do their part, too? Why is the onus on the West to cut back on greenhouse emissions while the Far East countries accelerate their output?
Who are the crackheads moderating tonight? Microwaving batteries is not a good idea.
Yes. The software bends the EULA over and has its way with it. Repeatedly, without consent.
When I saw the option to download Safari, I unchecked the box at first. I then checked it again, as I though - "gee, I'll install it and check out how it compares to Firefox, Mozilla and IE."
It became my default browser and replaced Firefox with Safari in the start menu (Windows XP). I checked it out on a few websites, decided that its default font/rendering was hurting my eyes and that the lack of a no-script plugin was a big letdown, so I uninstalled it 5 minutes later. Apple should be ashamed of so aggressively pushing a product that doesn't offer any advantages over its competitors.
In theory, markets are supposed to correct this "cost of business". The expense of buying carbon credits is supposed to be passed on to consumers, who will supposedly select the lower-cost product. However, this assumes several things:
- The company has competition.
- The competition manufactures its products in a carbon-trading country.
- The cost of carbon credits is much higher than the cost of running a carbon-neutral or carbon-positive production.
There are probably other conditions that have to be met. And trading carbons will not help clean already polluted areas (like the example you gave).
You can already use the Wii as a frontend to a media server. Tversity can convert any video to FLV and stream it to the Wii. It has a nice flash interface, and you can also use it to display pictures and play mp3s located on your PC (via the Opera web browser). It's also free, which is good, as it has its limitations:
- Configuration options are a bit limited (no choice of framerate, for example).
- My Wii is connected by 801.11b, which limits quality of the videos (from what I can tell). I have the video resolution set to 240x180, which really sucks on a 46" tv, as Anything higher drops frames. I suspect that using a wired connection or the G protocol would allow for a higher throughput.
- I was watching a 90 minute video yesterday and the Opera browser gave me an "Out of memory" message about 85 minutes into the show. I'm not sure if higher resolutions or bitrates would fill the memory faster.
YMMV
The lack of qualified candidates doesn't mean that Google can't hire people with less/no talent.
For all we know they hired 10,000 janitors and have trouble finding programmers.
Imagine you are taking your Civic from Maine to Califorina and it's winter. You have 18" dubs and semi-slick tires, so you are looking for a day with no precipitation. Good luck. Maine has bad roads and permanent black ice, so you are stuck in your mom's basement until June 8th. But you have to start driving before June 14th, when all the cops are on the roads, giving out tickets to any driver not wearing a beret to celebrate Bastille Day.
During the Bastille Bash, you did burnouts in front of your house so you need to refuel your car and put in some sweet NOS before leaving on the 17th.
Two Wongs Can Make It White!
Of course it did - it's ambidextrous! Can't be sending left-handed hammers into space with right-handed astronauts...
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/05/vide
http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/06/morse-code-tru
According to Wikipedia, they're reaching speeds of touch typists:
Each Morse code alphabet letter has a total of 1 to 4 dashes and/or dots. Each digit has a total of 5 dashes and/or dots. Sure, it's something new to learn, but it's not any harder (and a lot more useful) than memorizing 50 quotes from The Simpsons.
Once upon a time, my SO was a PC, too. Until I discovered that her beige box was full of viruses, that she was rooted by strangers and that neighbours would piggyback on her fat pipe.