Comment Re:Can't predict future (Score 1) 444
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
12A just along the corridor
you are all in the wrong room. You want room 12A just along the corridor
The problem I have with Green technology is not the Green technology. It is the threat of losing access to the not-so-green technology. The access would not go away because the not-so-green technology isn't popular, but rather because the liberty to use the not-so-green technology is unimportant to many people.
The unsupported theory that the Earth is heating up because of the use of the not-so-green technology is being used as a political tool to limit liberty.
So... we look for the supporting data. A theory with incomplete supporting data should not be used as a justification for limiting liberty!
I ordered the dirt.
I don't think he was calling the lack of patents socialist. he was calling the slashdotters' naive agenda socialist.
I thought one of the points of patent law was to create a library of knowledge. The idea is that if an inventor has to keep the invention secret or obscured in order to make money on it, the knowledge could be lost. Patents give temporary protection to the inventor (or their supreme corporate overlord).
If mathematics were patentable, then eventually the knowledge is available to all and the mathematician (or their supreme corporate overlord) gets rights for some certain period of time.
This doesn't seem to be that much of a problem, or does it?
I think they will find something else to scare us with. They will have to in order to further increase the percentage of our earnings they can control and further increase the percentage of the population that is dependent on government for life.
cereal in-your-face
WolframAlpha is supplying speed of light in a vacuum. I hardly think that applies to the case of pinging through the center of the Earth! What's the speed of light through the core?
You Americans have one set of rulers: the majority shareholders of the largest corporations in the country. They call the shots. The government is there for show. For shits and giggles, if you will.
So how do I buy into this one of these largest of corporations?
Oh wait. You are just an AC being stupid.
closed captioning for real life
Nice
The most important thing any journalist can do is declare the source of the article, i.e. identify that it is from an eye-witness, or a source article (by name or link) so interested people can go back to the source if the writer is not the originator of the "fact". This would really flatten out the delivery tree because any journalist could then go back to the first textual copy of the story and short out all of the bad bits that were added in between.
ATT should charge more on overcrowded cell-sites and less on lightly loaded cell-sites. Also they should show the consumer what and where they are. This does two things, keeps sales up in areas where sales are low, and shows the users in the areas where insufficient network resources exist, how horrible the vendor is, or something. Oh well.
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