I concur about Whirl***... one of their subsidiaries made our oven (came with the house) -- nearly burned the house down. Seems that there are 10's of similar models that the company was forced to recall for similar problems. Since our explicit model wasn't recalled, they told us to pound sand.
From having nearly everything Whirl**** or May*** or subsidiary, we have replaced our washer/drier with LG, our refrigerator/freezer with LG, and our stove with a small independent brand.
It's too early for your 10 year test. I do know I would never buy a front load clothes washer again (they don't air out and get moldy).
The comment was obviously meant as a joke given the rank hypocrisy of the environmental crusaders like Al Gore who did breed exponentially, have a 12 times the normal carbon footprint, and then want to tell everyone else how to live their lives.
So forgive me for not following your whore humping preacher.
The OP is grossly overreacting -- stating that every child born is taking food out of his mouth. If he lived in one of the African states that is deliberately starving their people out, he may be able to whine about his neighbors, but nearly anywhere else in the world he's gone off the deep end. He should stop reading the apocalyptic spew of Al Gore and seek psychiatric help for dealing with the real world.
And if you're really that frightened of the future, don't breed. The European birth-rate is such that their population is decreasing; remove immigration and see what happens to the population of the United States. So not only is Al Gore a whore humping preacher, he's preaching to the wrong audience.
There are two types of people concerned about over population: suicides and hypocrites. Given that you're still pounding away on your keyboard, we know which category you fall into.
While you're at it, please don't pull an Al Gore who breeded exponentially. As a libertarian liberal I generally despise the religious right -- but at least they have the good sense to throw their whore humping preachers under the bus -- the totalitarian left give 'em Nobel Peace Prize.
Sometime in the middle of the night, Karl Rove had the Democrat representatives kidnapped, cloned and their brains replaced with aging Republican brains so they could vote for this fascist law.
Your problem is assuming that the Republicans are the only neo-Fascists in the game. As a libertarian Democrat, I was appalled when the Republicans voted for the Patriot [sic] Act with a sunset clause. I was stunned when the Democrats passed [effectively] the same bill with no sunset clause.
I remember the neo-Fascists Republicans calling anyone who disagreed with their president unpatriotic. I now see the neo-Fascists Democratic president trying to rip up the first amendment to silence his critics.
I guess I'm just not a good enough partisan whore to think that only the Republicans are shredding the constitution -- and this DNA database is just the latest evidence that the neo-Fascists are running the Democratic party as well.
There was a case a number of years ago where Sun had trademarked "business.com" but did not obtain the domain name. Another poor sap did obtain the domain name, but failed to obtain a trademark. Sun sued and won. The guy owning "business.com" was not allowed to use "business.com" in any advertisement as it was a trademark of Sun.
I freely admit that lawyers are slime -- they can only protect you from other slimeballs. In this case, you may need one.
I have this weird notion of sticking to fellow nerds and giving (most) of them the benefit of the doubt.:)
I guess I was under the false impression that the law was supposed to give them the benefit of the doubt as well, or at least accept a reasonable doubt as being not guilty.
That's because a few douchebags ruined sexual harassment in the workplace for the rest of us.
I realize that you're being sarcastic, but as a husband and father of two girls, I'm glad that we've made major strides in the elimination of sexual harassment in the work force. But the censorship was mainly from the left... and it was mainly because of my fellow Democrats that we nearly lost all the advances.
While NOW and other groups rallied around Anita Hill and helped clean up sexual harassment in the work force. They rallied around Bill Clinton and turned on the victims of sexual harassment. Hopefully by the time my daughters enter the work force there will be an national organization for women instead of the national organization of political whores.
Has the Internet given mindless fact less fools equal footing as real journalists.
Real journalists? Like Dan Rather and his forged documents? Sorry, no. It would appear that "real" journalists are too often "mindless, factless fools." They're just making a living at it.
IF you write a very similar piece but publish it on the net, well then it better be safe for work and kids and right wingers.
You forgot to mention the left wing censorship. Pornographic material, or even semi-pornographic material is censored in the work place because of NOW, Anita Hill, and others associated with the left. I know, I know, those of us on the left don't want to admit that we censor things too. It's just a question of who gets to do the censoring and what "we" get to censor.
Remember, censoring porn from kids is bad; censoring porn from hurting women's feelings is good.
Someone else (say, ISO, only without the bribery) should be in charge of the standards.
I agree that we can't trust M$ to set the standards, but the standardization process is too slow. Look how long it takes the W3C to send out an update. You might be able to argue that the operating system market is sufficiently mature, but I wouldn't want to bet the IT industry on it. That stagnation would be worse that M$.
MDI: Allow a single window with a multiple document interface; but allow existing window interface for current users.
Dialog boxes
Slide out dialog boxes (Analogous to K-Develop): a set of icons on the side indicating the various dialogs, clicking the icon slides the dialog (e.g., layers) out where it can be used... clicking the icon again or clicking the dialogs [x] hides it. By default, I'd probably make the last dialog box opened be on top of the other boxes.
If slide out, still detachable: allow me to move the dialog box to be moved anywhere within the GIMP window.
Menus: Allow simplified menus for beginners and full menus for advanced users.
High Dynamic Range -- okay, this probably isn't an UI request per se, but high dynamic range handling would be really cool.
At work I bought over 50 desktops during the course of last year, all with nVidia cards because they were supposed to support Linux better. Sigh. Well, at least I know for my next purchases.
This isn't about "Freedom". There is no right for anybody to be able to purchase a movie without DRM.
Yes it most certainly is about Freedom. Those same people have managed to get laws passed to take away your freedom to break that DRM on goods you bought.
While I should probably state that I hate DRM, but when you purchase a DVD, you have not purchased the movie: just a license for home viewing and the media. All rights to the movie are reserved; same with music and proprietary software.
Out of idle curiosity, if the astroturf ban(see Slashdot or Slashdot) had taken place, would this article on Fight DRM have caused Slashdot to have to register as a lobbyist?
Note that this really isn't to pry into Slashdot's finances... but if they are making over $25K a quarter then I'm sure some RIAA/MPAA lawyer would have had a field day.
And Switzerland isn't homogenous either. Three, now four, languages are frequently used. In the north a Germanic language is used, to the west French is used, and to the south Italian is found. And then there's English.
So heterogeneous in the U.S. is white, black, asian, and hispanic. Heterogeneous in Switzerland is white Swiss, white French, and white German...
Likewise, heterogeneous Japan is Asianic Ainu and other Asianics...
Furthermore, the article summary and TFA both help perpetuate the myth that evolution and global warming are theories. They're not. They're proven fact-
How we got here is now scientific fact? Great. Where's the documentation for recreating the experiment that results in humans?
Frankly, I find it irritating when people water down the term "science fact". In order to be scientific fact you must be able to document the experiment so that someone else can recreate it. That's why the phrase "science fact" carries so much weight. It's verifiable.
Since we cannot recreate the experiment that resulted in humans, we have to go for historical proof combined with scientific testing of evidence. If you find a jawbone of a dinosaur you can carbon date it and give the date of the jawbone as scientific fact (because I can reproduce your experiment in testing the age of the bone).
However, you cannot scientifically prove that George Washington existed. You cannot recreate the experiment that resulted in George Washington. You can historically prove that he existed. You can run scientific tests on his dentures. You can point out his writings. But ultimately, it's is a historical proof - not scientific. At best, George Washington is a historical fact with scientific evidence.
How humans got here is a historical event. We have scientific theories - theories backed up by scientific tests and physical evidence that we can apply scientific tests to - but ultimately we cannot recreate the experiment that generated the human race. Evolution is a historical fact and a scientific theory, but it is not a scientific fact.
Take housing, for example... the average house in a mostly Caucasian neighborhood appreciates much faster than the average house in a mostly non-Caucasian neighborhood. When you can sell your house later for $50,000 more than you bought it for, you've gained a measure of wealth that others don't necessarily have access to.
So you're complaining that the Caucasian has to pay $50,000 more for their house?
By the way, I live in a racially mixed, upper middle income neighborhood. Everyone paid a premium to get into the neighborhood because it's quiet... it's also quiet because everyone living here had to pay a premium.
In a gold based system there are natural limits on the amount of money
Which is part of the problem with a gold based system... the basic assumption that there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world. The amount of gold in the world in 1507 versus 2007 is reasonably constant. However, the amount of wealth in the world is significantly higher in 2007 than in 1507.
Perhaps the term "wealth" is also misleading because it also connotes existing assets versus asset creation. The amount of asset creation -- value added if you will -- is significantly higher now than it was 500 years ago but again, the amount of gold in the world is relatively constant, making gold a poor measure of purchasing power over time.
Note that the above does not diminish your comments regarding the problems of a fiat system that is susceptible to political pressures. Both systems have problems, just in opposite directions.
If all comes down to what you believe about human nature. Roughly speaking, some people believe that poor people are poor because they are lazy and violent, while others believe that people are poor because they don't have opportunities available to them, so they turn to violence as an effective, but not ideal, way of problem solving in their miserable lives.
Doing this sort of binary divide of world views is almost too simplistic. In California (USA), one can flip burgers at McDonalds and support oneself through a community college education. There is no reason that someone in the United States cannot better their lot in life.
However, hard working, enterprising people in Mexico do not have the same level of opportunity - to the point that they will risk the hazards of the desert and coyotes in order to get a shot at the opportunities in the United States.
New Zealand, Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, Norway, the Netherlands, and Canada
What's the ethnic and cultural diversity within each of these countries? I know Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, Norway, and Netherlands are relatively homogenous.
I'm sorry, I didn't realize that I was dealing with someone was didn't know history. This is $500 for the same hammer you can buy at Home Depot for $10. Monopolies -- which governments are -- have no incentive for being cost effective.
Frankly, I find it amazing how many people who rail against the Microsoft monopoly (which we can boycott) think that the government (which we cannot boycott) is the cure all.
Thanks for the input and great link, but I think your DMV quip is a little disconnected from
the issue (state government agency, and very different pressures, funding levels, etc.).
So, instead of the DMV... we want to turn it over to the same people who brought us the $500 hammer?
I freely admit that I don't want the government to get involved (unless fraud is taking place). Frankly, I don't believe that outsourcing customer service is the correct answer -- the company doing the outsourcing will rightfully see that their customer is the company that you have problems with, not you.
I still believe that a better solution would be pre-screening sites and buyer education (which will take time). Check out those who you do business with before handing over the cash.
Just before Christmas, I was looking for a wide screen TV. The three places with the best price also turned out to have horrible ratings. I bought the TV online, from a company with a decent rating.
I don't believe that turning customer service over to the same people who brought us the lines at the DMV is a good idea. Rather than set up another government bureaucracy, I would suggest that people use existing methods, including BBB and http://www.resellerratings.com/. If before buying people would check the quality of the merchant, and after buying post feedback both positive and negative, then we can have a working eco-system.
I'm not saying he couln't have done it, but it's like the OJ case
I'm pretty sure that if I was Reiser I wouldn't want my case to be compared to OJ's. OJ is pretty much taken as a wife murdered who got away with it. He would have been convicted if (1) he wasn't black, (2) he wasn't a celebrity, or (3) they had filed the case in Santa Monica versus L.A. (where due to Rodney King, no predominantly black jury would convicted him).
Nobody gets BANNED from law enforcement for deliberately screwing up the trial!
Again, look at the cast of characters from the OJ trial. Most of the high profile cops were no longer on the force within 2 years. Marcia Clark is no longer with the D.A.'s office. A lot of careers were destroyed because of high profile incompetence. (Whereas with low profile incompetence they could have stayed on for years.)
By the way, I like the theory of "the wife did it to frame him and she's really living it up south of the border" theory. Sounds like grasping at straws, but could muddy the waters enough for "reasonable doubt".
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I concur about Whirl*** ... one of their subsidiaries made our oven (came with the house) -- nearly burned the house down. Seems that there are 10's of similar models that the company was forced to recall for similar problems. Since our explicit model wasn't recalled, they told us to pound sand.
From having nearly everything Whirl**** or May*** or subsidiary, we have replaced our washer/drier with LG, our refrigerator/freezer with LG, and our stove with a small independent brand.
It's too early for your 10 year test. I do know I would never buy a front load clothes washer again (they don't air out and get moldy).
It would seem that if he emerged victorious, the other side should have to cover the $200K -- plus something for his time.
The comment was obviously meant as a joke given the rank hypocrisy of the environmental crusaders like Al Gore who did breed exponentially, have a 12 times the normal carbon footprint, and then want to tell everyone else how to live their lives.
So forgive me for not following your whore humping preacher.
The OP is grossly overreacting -- stating that every child born is taking food out of his mouth. If he lived in one of the African states that is deliberately starving their people out, he may be able to whine about his neighbors, but nearly anywhere else in the world he's gone off the deep end. He should stop reading the apocalyptic spew of Al Gore and seek psychiatric help for dealing with the real world.
And if you're really that frightened of the future, don't breed. The European birth-rate is such that their population is decreasing; remove immigration and see what happens to the population of the United States. So not only is Al Gore a whore humping preacher, he's preaching to the wrong audience.
There are two types of people concerned about over population: suicides and hypocrites. Given that you're still pounding away on your keyboard, we know which category you fall into.
While you're at it, please don't pull an Al Gore who breeded exponentially. As a libertarian liberal I generally despise the religious right -- but at least they have the good sense to throw their whore humping preachers under the bus -- the totalitarian left give 'em Nobel Peace Prize.
Your problem is assuming that the Republicans are the only neo-Fascists in the game. As a libertarian Democrat, I was appalled when the Republicans voted for the Patriot [sic] Act with a sunset clause. I was stunned when the Democrats passed [effectively] the same bill with no sunset clause.
I remember the neo-Fascists Republicans calling anyone who disagreed with their president unpatriotic. I now see the neo-Fascists Democratic president trying to rip up the first amendment to silence his critics.
I guess I'm just not a good enough partisan whore to think that only the Republicans are shredding the constitution -- and this DNA database is just the latest evidence that the neo-Fascists are running the Democratic party as well.
I freely admit that lawyers are slime -- they can only protect you from other slimeballs. In this case, you may need one.
I guess I was under the false impression that the law was supposed to give them the benefit of the doubt as well, or at least accept a reasonable doubt as being not guilty.
While NOW and other groups rallied around Anita Hill and helped clean up sexual harassment in the work force. They rallied around Bill Clinton and turned on the victims of sexual harassment. Hopefully by the time my daughters enter the work force there will be an national organization for women instead of the national organization of political whores.
Remember, censoring porn from kids is bad; censoring porn from hurting women's feelings is good.
I agree that we can't trust M$ to set the standards, but the standardization process is too slow. Look how long it takes the W3C to send out an update. You might be able to argue that the operating system market is sufficiently mature, but I wouldn't want to bet the IT industry on it. That stagnation would be worse that M$.
At work I bought over 50 desktops during the course of last year, all with nVidia cards because they were supposed to support Linux better. Sigh. Well, at least I know for my next purchases.
Out of idle curiosity, if the astroturf ban(see Slashdot or Slashdot) had taken place, would this article on Fight DRM have caused Slashdot to have to register as a lobbyist?
Note that this really isn't to pry into Slashdot's finances ... but if they are making over $25K a quarter then I'm sure some RIAA/MPAA lawyer would have had a field day.
So heterogeneous in the U.S. is white, black, asian, and hispanic. Heterogeneous in Switzerland is white Swiss, white French, and white German ...
Likewise, heterogeneous Japan is Asianic Ainu and other Asianics ...
How we got here is now scientific fact? Great. Where's the documentation for recreating the experiment that results in humans?
Frankly, I find it irritating when people water down the term "science fact". In order to be scientific fact you must be able to document the experiment so that someone else can recreate it. That's why the phrase "science fact" carries so much weight. It's verifiable.
Since we cannot recreate the experiment that resulted in humans, we have to go for historical proof combined with scientific testing of evidence. If you find a jawbone of a dinosaur you can carbon date it and give the date of the jawbone as scientific fact (because I can reproduce your experiment in testing the age of the bone).
However, you cannot scientifically prove that George Washington existed. You cannot recreate the experiment that resulted in George Washington. You can historically prove that he existed. You can run scientific tests on his dentures. You can point out his writings. But ultimately, it's is a historical proof - not scientific. At best, George Washington is a historical fact with scientific evidence.
How humans got here is a historical event. We have scientific theories - theories backed up by scientific tests and physical evidence that we can apply scientific tests to - but ultimately we cannot recreate the experiment that generated the human race. Evolution is a historical fact and a scientific theory, but it is not a scientific fact.
So you're complaining that the Caucasian has to pay $50,000 more for their house?
By the way, I live in a racially mixed, upper middle income neighborhood. Everyone paid a premium to get into the neighborhood because it's quiet ... it's also quiet because everyone living here had to pay a premium.
Which is part of the problem with a gold based system ... the basic assumption that there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world. The amount of gold in the world in 1507 versus 2007 is reasonably constant. However, the amount of wealth in the world is significantly higher in 2007 than in 1507.
Perhaps the term "wealth" is also misleading because it also connotes existing assets versus asset creation. The amount of asset creation -- value added if you will -- is significantly higher now than it was 500 years ago but again, the amount of gold in the world is relatively constant, making gold a poor measure of purchasing power over time.
Note that the above does not diminish your comments regarding the problems of a fiat system that is susceptible to political pressures. Both systems have problems, just in opposite directions.
Doing this sort of binary divide of world views is almost too simplistic. In California (USA), one can flip burgers at McDonalds and support oneself through a community college education. There is no reason that someone in the United States cannot better their lot in life.
However, hard working, enterprising people in Mexico do not have the same level of opportunity - to the point that they will risk the hazards of the desert and coyotes in order to get a shot at the opportunities in the United States.
What's the ethnic and cultural diversity within each of these countries? I know Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, Norway, and Netherlands are relatively homogenous.
I'm sorry, I didn't realize that I was dealing with someone was didn't know history. This is $500 for the same hammer you can buy at Home Depot for $10. Monopolies -- which governments are -- have no incentive for being cost effective.
Frankly, I find it amazing how many people who rail against the Microsoft monopoly (which we can boycott) think that the government (which we cannot boycott) is the cure all.
So, instead of the DMV ... we want to turn it over to the same people who brought us the $500 hammer?
I freely admit that I don't want the government to get involved (unless fraud is taking place). Frankly, I don't believe that outsourcing customer service is the correct answer -- the company doing the outsourcing will rightfully see that their customer is the company that you have problems with, not you.
I still believe that a better solution would be pre-screening sites and buyer education (which will take time). Check out those who you do business with before handing over the cash.
Just before Christmas, I was looking for a wide screen TV. The three places with the best price also turned out to have horrible ratings. I bought the TV online, from a company with a decent rating.
I don't believe that turning customer service over to the same people who brought us the lines at the DMV is a good idea. Rather than set up another government bureaucracy, I would suggest that people use existing methods, including BBB and http://www.resellerratings.com/. If before buying people would check the quality of the merchant, and after buying post feedback both positive and negative, then we can have a working eco-system.
I'm pretty sure that if I was Reiser I wouldn't want my case to be compared to OJ's. OJ is pretty much taken as a wife murdered who got away with it. He would have been convicted if (1) he wasn't black, (2) he wasn't a celebrity, or (3) they had filed the case in Santa Monica versus L.A. (where due to Rodney King, no predominantly black jury would convicted him).
Again, look at the cast of characters from the OJ trial. Most of the high profile cops were no longer on the force within 2 years. Marcia Clark is no longer with the D.A.'s office. A lot of careers were destroyed because of high profile incompetence. (Whereas with low profile incompetence they could have stayed on for years.)
By the way, I like the theory of "the wife did it to frame him and she's really living it up south of the border" theory. Sounds like grasping at straws, but could muddy the waters enough for "reasonable doubt".