Mine are on file here in Indiana because I have a permit to carry a firearm. Given Indiana's ability to effectively share any information at all with other states, or even between our own counties, I'm not too worried about it.
You might download the ISO and run it off a CD. You might not. Maybe BIOS will be involved. Possibly even TCP/IP. It will probably include some kind of menuing system and maybe a ribbonish banner that can be docked somewhere on the desktop or not, that might include items like Vista's Gadgets or OSX application launching capability or possibly some blend of both. Almost certainly the web will be involved.
This just serves to illustrate that we should never blindly trust what people tell us, and that critical thinking skills can't be dispensed with just because we think some author somewhere is above reproach.
Why does it seem reasonable to you? Why shouldn't I be able to do what I want with the bandwidth I purchased?
While I think ISPs should be able to do anything they want with the connections they sell, as long as they are up front about the terms, I will gravitate toward the ones who meddle less.
I bet had they called in Microsoft and completed the necessary bags-of-cash-handover that follows that kind of thing, Microsoft would have magically switched from critic to proponent.
I just finished explaining to a friend why the software he just purchased for his business will run fine on the laptop I suggested from a Fry's ad. The specs for the software list "Intel Processor" and he assumed the AMD chip in my recommendation wouldn't work, because he has no idea what a processor even does. I would even hazard a guess that whomever wrote those specs doesn't know either, this little software vendor isn't getting paid to push Intel hardware.
If they could just get word out enough to get the general public to realize that they are making an x86 alternative to Intel they might do themselves some good.
Once of the biggest mistakes many people, and geeks seem especially prone to this, make is to read the text of a law and think that whatever their interpretation of that text might be is all they need to know to construe about the legal implications of one thing or another.
Consider why the law quoted doesn't just openly state "It is illegal to be a monopoly". Why does the word monopoly not even appear? Does the word 'monopolize' have a legal meaning different from 'monopoly'? How have courts interpreted the law quoted?
You could read this guide as a start, but reading actual court documents is much better. Microsoft was indeed found guilty of being in violation, but not simply due to their monopoly status, but because they unreasonably restrained trade, therefore they are guilty of unreasonably restraining trade rather than 'being a monopoly' because 'being a monopoly' is not illegal.
If I can improve your property even more than you can, should I be able to take it from you? Or maybe more accurately, should the State be able to take it from you and give it to me, since it was the State that gave it to you in the first place?
What is the mess in the USA? My brother's kid drove his ATV into the side of a barn and twisted himself all up. Probably 20 minutes after I called 911 a helicopter showed up and whisked him away, and this was way out in the boonies.
I don't recall any questions about insurance until long after we drove to the hospital ourselves. I realize that there are some serious problems but I fail to see the difference between the situation here in Indiana, USA and the one you describe in London, England.
Also, Denmark's health care is not free, you have just been hoodwinked into believing that it is because one day a government tax collector got the idea that it would be much smoother to take everyone's money before they ever saw it as opposed to sending people out with rifles to pry it from their hands, face to face.
The people who sent the cake aren't the same people who decided to run a study. "Microsoft" is a vast corporation where each individual has distinct thoughts, plans, motives, etc.
Maybe the US government can send them Lon Horiuchi, as a gift.
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Advertising is, and pretty much always has been, about making a person feel some particular way rather than explaining the particulars of a product.
Emotions sell things because at the end of the day none of us actually need any of this shit, so keeping cold hard logic at bay is necessary for selling the vast majority of things. I do some product photography and I've sat through hundreds of sessions with ad people picking out which photos to use in a campaign and there is always a lot of talk about how this one particular shot 'makes me feel'. I hear more of that in ad sessions than at art gallery openings.
"Choosy mothers choose Jif" doesn't even explain what product the Jif Corporation is trying to sell, and isn't backed up by any evidence, but voice it over a shot of some kid kicking a ball to his dog in his perfect little backyard and it sells because it implies that if you don't serve your child Jif Corporation products his little body will rot away and he won't be able to kick balls to dogs in your backyard. Or at least that was how it made me feel.
If you are trying to point out that I am prejudiced against racists then I suppose I will have to agree.
The thing about your original comment, and why your ham fisted attempt at a metaphor doesn't fit, is that your premise of poor African-Americans (and presumably actual African natives, since you disclaim having been to Africa the continent as well) being the only people who talk that way is incorrect. I've been to Africa more times than your mom has told you to put on clean underwear and I can assure that you'll find very few actual Africans who speak that way.
I've also actually been to many poor areas of major cities, in dozens of different countries, and I have met far more poor blacks who speak proper English than otherwise. If I were to just guess I'd say the greatest concentration of kids who speak the kind of slang you took a wild swing at in your original post was in Tokyo. In the right areas you'll be overrun with iPod toting Japanese teenagers shouting a version of English they heard their favorite rapper using into their cell phones.
Which brings us to where your problem lies, the fact that continue to perpetuate the stereotype of only poor African-Americans speaking in street slang. Indeed the particular slang you use was most likely invented by the manager of a rapper in an attempt to build his rapper's 'street cred'. The manager realized that TV had convinced the middle class white kid demographic that poor African-Americans have a particular way of speaking and if he could get his client to speak that way as well, these middle class white kids would buy more of his music. A self-perpetuating stereotype because many poor African-Americans became convinced that in order to be considered authentic poor African-Americans and build their own personal street cred, they needed to start speaking the kind of street slang that middle class white kids expected them to speak.
So next time, if you want to expose less of your ignorance yet make the same point, just reply with "No yuo".
See, I'm right, we are getting so much of this crap it is all muddled up in my head.
Actually I did attempt to read the article but saw the word Novell in the first sentence and decided that I'd had my fill of reading about the sky falling.
But maybe I'll go read it now. Or maybe I'll just wait a few minutes for the next actual "Microsoft/Novell Deal" submission to pop up and recycle my original comment.
I have yet to see a coating that can effectively self clean anywhere other than a lab. There are some that are anti-fungal for short periods of time, but they certainly don't last the lifetime of the product, particularly when exposed to the elements.
In the case of commercial roofing, rain actually reduces the reflectivity of the membrane because it contains a so many dissolved solids. The water evaporates and most of the solids are left behind, depending on their PH many of them get etched into the surface of the material.
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Mine are on file here in Indiana because I have a permit to carry a firearm. Given Indiana's ability to effectively share any information at all with other states, or even between our own counties, I'm not too worried about it.
They could deny making an office suite today and I would still believe them.
I think it will be a full featured BSD distro.
Or maybe the return of BeOS.
Or NeXT.
You might download the ISO and run it off a CD. You might not. Maybe BIOS will be involved. Possibly even TCP/IP. It will probably include some kind of menuing system and maybe a ribbonish banner that can be docked somewhere on the desktop or not, that might include items like Vista's Gadgets or OSX application launching capability or possibly some blend of both. Almost certainly the web will be involved.
Or none of the above, who knows.
This just serves to illustrate that we should never blindly trust what people tell us, and that critical thinking skills can't be dispensed with just because we think some author somewhere is above reproach.
But don't just take my word for it.
Why does it seem reasonable to you? Why shouldn't I be able to do what I want with the bandwidth I purchased?
While I think ISPs should be able to do anything they want with the connections they sell, as long as they are up front about the terms, I will gravitate toward the ones who meddle less.
I thought that kind of stuff couldn't be stolen?
I bet had they called in Microsoft and completed the necessary bags-of-cash-handover that follows that kind of thing, Microsoft would have magically switched from critic to proponent.
To some extent, yes.
I just finished explaining to a friend why the software he just purchased for his business will run fine on the laptop I suggested from a Fry's ad. The specs for the software list "Intel Processor" and he assumed the AMD chip in my recommendation wouldn't work, because he has no idea what a processor even does. I would even hazard a guess that whomever wrote those specs doesn't know either, this little software vendor isn't getting paid to push Intel hardware.
If they could just get word out enough to get the general public to realize that they are making an x86 alternative to Intel they might do themselves some good.
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Your post makes me think of that Tiananmen Square photo.
Consider why the law quoted doesn't just openly state "It is illegal to be a monopoly". Why does the word monopoly not even appear? Does the word 'monopolize' have a legal meaning different from 'monopoly'? How have courts interpreted the law quoted?
You could read this guide as a start, but reading actual court documents is much better. Microsoft was indeed found guilty of being in violation, but not simply due to their monopoly status, but because they unreasonably restrained trade, therefore they are guilty of unreasonably restraining trade rather than 'being a monopoly' because 'being a monopoly' is not illegal.
When I open Firefox I want my memory meter to play Black Flag's Gimme, Gimme, Gimme.
If I can improve your property even more than you can, should I be able to take it from you? Or maybe more accurately, should the State be able to take it from you and give it to me, since it was the State that gave it to you in the first place?
A company can't be 'convicted of being' a monopoly in a US court because there are no laws that make being a monopoly illegal.
And if the filters don't do the trick, rifles.
What is the mess in the USA? My brother's kid drove his ATV into the side of a barn and twisted himself all up. Probably 20 minutes after I called 911 a helicopter showed up and whisked him away, and this was way out in the boonies.
I don't recall any questions about insurance until long after we drove to the hospital ourselves. I realize that there are some serious problems but I fail to see the difference between the situation here in Indiana, USA and the one you describe in London, England.
Also, Denmark's health care is not free, you have just been hoodwinked into believing that it is because one day a government tax collector got the idea that it would be much smoother to take everyone's money before they ever saw it as opposed to sending people out with rifles to pry it from their hands, face to face.
The people who sent the cake aren't the same people who decided to run a study. "Microsoft" is a vast corporation where each individual has distinct thoughts, plans, motives, etc.
So no, it isn't weird.
Spent casings don't biodegrade, corpses do.
That is an amazing statistic.
Maybe the US government can send them Lon Horiuchi, as a gift.
Advertising is, and pretty much always has been, about making a person feel some particular way rather than explaining the particulars of a product.
Emotions sell things because at the end of the day none of us actually need any of this shit, so keeping cold hard logic at bay is necessary for selling the vast majority of things. I do some product photography and I've sat through hundreds of sessions with ad people picking out which photos to use in a campaign and there is always a lot of talk about how this one particular shot 'makes me feel'. I hear more of that in ad sessions than at art gallery openings.
"Choosy mothers choose Jif" doesn't even explain what product the Jif Corporation is trying to sell, and isn't backed up by any evidence, but voice it over a shot of some kid kicking a ball to his dog in his perfect little backyard and it sells because it implies that if you don't serve your child Jif Corporation products his little body will rot away and he won't be able to kick balls to dogs in your backyard. Or at least that was how it made me feel.
Glass plates mostly.
I'm sure dagguerotypes would handle space just fine if they could have figured out the logistics of getting them up there.
If you are trying to point out that I am prejudiced against racists then I suppose I will have to agree.
The thing about your original comment, and why your ham fisted attempt at a metaphor doesn't fit, is that your premise of poor African-Americans (and presumably actual African natives, since you disclaim having been to Africa the continent as well) being the only people who talk that way is incorrect. I've been to Africa more times than your mom has told you to put on clean underwear and I can assure that you'll find very few actual Africans who speak that way.
I've also actually been to many poor areas of major cities, in dozens of different countries, and I have met far more poor blacks who speak proper English than otherwise. If I were to just guess I'd say the greatest concentration of kids who speak the kind of slang you took a wild swing at in your original post was in Tokyo. In the right areas you'll be overrun with iPod toting Japanese teenagers shouting a version of English they heard their favorite rapper using into their cell phones.
Which brings us to where your problem lies, the fact that continue to perpetuate the stereotype of only poor African-Americans speaking in street slang. Indeed the particular slang you use was most likely invented by the manager of a rapper in an attempt to build his rapper's 'street cred'. The manager realized that TV had convinced the middle class white kid demographic that poor African-Americans have a particular way of speaking and if he could get his client to speak that way as well, these middle class white kids would buy more of his music. A self-perpetuating stereotype because many poor African-Americans became convinced that in order to be considered authentic poor African-Americans and build their own personal street cred, they needed to start speaking the kind of street slang that middle class white kids expected them to speak.
So next time, if you want to expose less of your ignorance yet make the same point, just reply with "No yuo".
See, I'm right, we are getting so much of this crap it is all muddled up in my head.
Actually I did attempt to read the article but saw the word Novell in the first sentence and decided that I'd had my fill of reading about the sky falling.
But maybe I'll go read it now. Or maybe I'll just wait a few minutes for the next actual "Microsoft/Novell Deal" submission to pop up and recycle my original comment.
I have yet to see a coating that can effectively self clean anywhere other than a lab. There are some that are anti-fungal for short periods of time, but they certainly don't last the lifetime of the product, particularly when exposed to the elements.
In the case of commercial roofing, rain actually reduces the reflectivity of the membrane because it contains a so many dissolved solids. The water evaporates and most of the solids are left behind, depending on their PH many of them get etched into the surface of the material.