Your reasoning is logical, but empirically false. I lose about 8mpg in my Insight when it's cold. I haven't had time to learn exactly why, but it's talked about on the hybrid car blogs.
I just had the misfortune of running Visual Studio 2012 for the first time. I know why your coworker is buying a Mint box.
I've been moving away from Windows for 3 years now, and I've been a diehard Microsoft fan since DOS 3.2.
Let's face it: their products are atrocious. First they shove the ribbon down everyone's throat, alienating their expert user-base. Then they change their desktop, alienating their general user base. Now they've created the most fugly IDE since Windows 2.0 (monochrome) and alenated their developers.
I read a blog from one of their testers, and he was conviced that Microsoft was doing the right thing: after all, Henry Ford only offered his cars in black, right?
Hey now, that's not true. Most of our local officials are legit. It's just the feds and some states that are corrupt in the US. (I live in Illinois where blank CD's can't be transported. No payola from the RIAA/MPAA there. It's definitely for the kids.)
I love what these groups have to say!
The KKK? - Makes people disgusted by racism.
Westboro Baptist Church? - Makes people question their values and religion.
Scientologists? - Can anyone really take them seriously?
Creationists - Makes people more interested in GOOD science.
In short, crazies make sanity more obvious and fun!
I want to start jumping up and down and scream, "You're right! Yes!" However, we have not heard from the Democrats yet.
The Democrats may decide this would be a good topic to differentiate themselves from the Republicans, talk about creators rights and the rights of artists, and stall out anything good for another 2-4 years at least. Don't forget, the VP bumps nasties with Hollywood so often he's on a penicillin drip.
All this would mean is that next election, I switch over and vote Republican. Not like I haven't done it before.
Not really. They stand for opposite extremes socially, but they both stand for more control by big business and less transparency into the workings of the government.
The city of St. Louis declared eminent domain on a very successful nightclub, Mississippi Nights. The sold the property to an investor who promised to build condos on the property. The city would have made much more money from residential property taxes than they got for the commercial property taxes from the nightclub.
The investor then sold the property to a gaming company. The gaming company razed the nightclub and built a parking lot.
Absolutely. I was just saying this as I was playing with my 500-year-old mass spectrometer yesterday... Oh, wait, the mass spectrometer was invented in 1884, my bad.
Rationally, it was literacy which allowed science and invention to flourish, not patents. Without a place to publish, patents are pretty worthless. Which also brings up the reason why so many secrets were lost over the ages... you gotta write 'em down, and the books have to survive! Who knows what was in the Library of Alexandria when it burned down.
My point was lost on you: the government should not be asking you to give up your own freedom. Not now, not ever.
The thing that made Americans a force to be reconed with was never discipline, but the lack of it. We didn't stand in a line and trade musket fire: we found cover and hid. At least until the European generals took over, with the wonderful history and academic training of 1000 years, we forgot our frontier training and had to be taught guerrilla warefare again in Vietnam.
I really don't give a shit about the "Millitary point of view". It's bullshit. It's one thing to follow a chain of command during wartime. Being drummed out for breaking protocol, however, proves that the military is defined by the Peter Principal. Do you see another Sgt York this day and age? No, the best and the brightest are not lauded for innovation, they are removed for lack of conformity.
Hi there Jim D. I just wanted you to know that you are the problem.
Why do we have government officials constantly overstepping their constitutional boundaries and stoping on the rights of the citizens? Because too many citizens feel like you do. You use protocol as an excuse for limiting freedom. You remember that term, "land of the free"? Yes, you've heard it, but you wrote it off as bullshit long ago. I'm sure you feel that the SEALs "Knew the rules, and the penalty for breaking them." Allow me to call Bullshit - if the rules contradict rights and freedoms, then it is the rules that must give, not the other way around.
Yes, I'm a civilian, and I'm really disgusted that now, in the most peaceful time that humanity has ever known, we are wasteing time and money on trampling human rights.
What if Disney pulls a Viacom and creates a geek vaccuum? Perhaps it could be filled by totally new universe built entirely in the public domain, for all to borrow, steal, sell, add to, and profit from.
If only there were some authors who were interested in such things. You know, totally into Sci Fi, maybe silly enough to wear an enormous cranial protection device...
Depends. So many people I meet are already defeated. "Oh, we can't do that? Darn..."
I'm the only freak I know who gets fired up about these things, and believe me, I know a lot of freaks.
Yes, Lucas was heavy-handed in his movies, but what about fan-created materials? He was almost always supportive of those, but Disney? Not so much. There was a truck that used to drive around my town with a big Mickey sticker on the hood. One day, it was gone. Rumor has it that the owner got a C&D letter from Disney. Sound strange? Trying doing an image search for "Hello Kitty car" and see how many fans have sticker-covered daily drivers. Now do a search for "Mickey Mouse car" and you'll find... very few.
There will probably be good movies made by Disney. But the die-hard fans will almost surely suffer.
I would like to take this time to mention that your are totally full of shit.
NO fixed R&D cost justifies $70k per treatment. (Note, as mentioned, that often the government is footing the bulk of the bill!)
Also, have you NOT noticed the massive profits the pharma's are making? They are not breaking even. They are not making a tidy profit. They are gouging people in need, because they know they can. Plain and simple.
And lying about it puts you squarely in their corner.
I would like to take this chance to say that the Turing test, although invented by a brilliant mind, is complete and utter garbage. Why? Because people with a categorical knowledge of a subject are routinely voted as being AI, and chatbots that communicate about nothing in particular score the highest on the human scale.
Any intelligence shown by the contestants is immediately interpreted as artificial. Therefore, this isn't a test for artificial intelligence, this is a test for artificial shallowness and ignorance.
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I've been moving away from Windows for 3 years now, and I've been a diehard Microsoft fan since DOS 3.2.
Let's face it: their products are atrocious. First they shove the ribbon down everyone's throat, alienating their expert user-base. Then they change their desktop, alienating their general user base. Now they've created the most fugly IDE since Windows 2.0 (monochrome) and alenated their developers.
I read a blog from one of their testers, and he was conviced that Microsoft was doing the right thing: after all, Henry Ford only offered his cars in black, right?
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Re: No
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Re: Re: "Too Far" - they always say that.
The KKK? - Makes people disgusted by racism.
Westboro Baptist Church? - Makes people question their values and religion.
Scientologists? - Can anyone really take them seriously?
Creationists - Makes people more interested in GOOD science.
In short, crazies make sanity more obvious and fun!
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Having said that, having the state dictate how much soda you can have in your cup is pretty fucked up.
So, "quintessential"? No. "Nanny-state"? Yeah, pretty much.
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Someone needs to make a law...
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Re: Thrust that double-edged sword.
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The Democrats may decide this would be a good topic to differentiate themselves from the Republicans, talk about creators rights and the rights of artists, and stall out anything good for another 2-4 years at least. Don't forget, the VP bumps nasties with Hollywood so often he's on a penicillin drip.
All this would mean is that next election, I switch over and vote Republican. Not like I haven't done it before.
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You know, corruption.
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The investor then sold the property to a gaming company. The gaming company razed the nightclub and built a parking lot.
Not a fuck was given, apparently.
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Rationally, it was literacy which allowed science and invention to flourish, not patents. Without a place to publish, patents are pretty worthless. Which also brings up the reason why so many secrets were lost over the ages... you gotta write 'em down, and the books have to survive! Who knows what was in the Library of Alexandria when it burned down.
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The thing that made Americans a force to be reconed with was never discipline, but the lack of it. We didn't stand in a line and trade musket fire: we found cover and hid. At least until the European generals took over, with the wonderful history and academic training of 1000 years, we forgot our frontier training and had to be taught guerrilla warefare again in Vietnam.
I really don't give a shit about the "Millitary point of view". It's bullshit. It's one thing to follow a chain of command during wartime. Being drummed out for breaking protocol, however, proves that the military is defined by the Peter Principal. Do you see another Sgt York this day and age? No, the best and the brightest are not lauded for innovation, they are removed for lack of conformity.
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Re: This is not the judge you were looking for
Much obliged, stranger! Stranger?
Who was that masked man -er- woman -er- entity?
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Why do we have government officials constantly overstepping their constitutional boundaries and stoping on the rights of the citizens? Because too many citizens feel like you do. You use protocol as an excuse for limiting freedom. You remember that term, "land of the free"? Yes, you've heard it, but you wrote it off as bullshit long ago. I'm sure you feel that the SEALs "Knew the rules, and the penalty for breaking them." Allow me to call Bullshit - if the rules contradict rights and freedoms, then it is the rules that must give, not the other way around.
Yes, I'm a civilian, and I'm really disgusted that now, in the most peaceful time that humanity has ever known, we are wasteing time and money on trampling human rights.
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If only there were some authors who were interested in such things. You know, totally into Sci Fi, maybe silly enough to wear an enormous cranial protection device...
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I'm the only freak I know who gets fired up about these things, and believe me, I know a lot of freaks.
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You're all missing something...
There will probably be good movies made by Disney. But the die-hard fans will almost surely suffer.
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NO fixed R&D cost justifies $70k per treatment. (Note, as mentioned, that often the government is footing the bulk of the bill!)
Also, have you NOT noticed the massive profits the pharma's are making? They are not breaking even. They are not making a tidy profit. They are gouging people in need, because they know they can. Plain and simple.
And lying about it puts you squarely in their corner.
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Any intelligence shown by the contestants is immediately interpreted as artificial. Therefore, this isn't a test for artificial intelligence, this is a test for artificial shallowness and ignorance.
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