While that's true for lots of the objections raised, it isn't true for all of them. This, for example:
When Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., installed solar panels a few years ago, for example, the local utility, Dominion Virginia Power, threatened legal action. The utility said that only it could sell electricity in its service area.
Government-created incumbent monopolies seem to be playing their part as well.
The death of a language starts when developers leave it in droves for something else. I don't see that happeneing for Java. Do you?
Pretty much. Nobody I know starts a new project in Java. Sure, they'll maintain it, and if they already run it, they'll add new features to an existing Java system, but if I ask someone to start a new web project, and ask them what the best language to develop it in is, I don't know anyone that would say "Java" (whereas go back 10 years, and it would have been all I heard). And Java desktop apps never really took off.
The only thing that's keeping Java relevant for new development is Google, with Android - and funnily enough, Oracle was busily involved in suing them over it. I feel like Oracle must be deliberately trying to run Java into the ground at this point.
My point is exactly the opposite - are they betting against old school power? This article just says they're *talking* against old school power. I'd be seeing where they put their money before I believe what they say.
The Sheldon character holds down a high paying job and manages to interact with an admittedly small circle of friends. He's already doing better than a good segment of the population.
Do you really think that an IRL Sheldon without script immunity would be able to do the same? The TV Sheldon also seems to be a pretty crap physicist, given to conspiracy theories, junk science, and an inability to distinguish between fiction and reality.
So an investment company has published reports.
Have they started pulling out of investments in power generation and transmission, then?
...is "professional journalism", and the "vibrant one" comprises bloggerss, press releases and Google Adwords, yes?
Professional journalism was dying long before the internet. Papers were spewing out nothing but press releases and rebadged wire stories long before blogging became a thing. The very fact that the newspapers were offering basically nothing is what allowed blogs to eat their lunch so thoroughly.
Because making it illegal means that nobody will do it. Just like making drugs illegal means nobody in the US smokes marijuana (except in Colorado).
Legislation will give you the illusion of safety, and (maybe, if the company is in the US, and you can afford the legal action) the ability to claim compensation after the fact. It can't give you actual safety.
Yeah, I have absolutely no problem with this article. You don't want RandomCompany looking at your emails? Don't send your emails through RandomCompany servers.
Don't want your ISP looking at your emails? Encrypt your emails.
Don't have the ability to understand how to encrypt your emails and want someone to manage it for you because technology is all so hard but you still want to use it? Suck it up and learn, or pay someone to do it for you and stop whining about your own ignorance.
First, your portrayal of Hamas' rocket fire is inaccurate. While it is true that various actors within Gaza have been responsible for a low but continuous level of rocket attacks into Israel for a very long time, to pin the blame on Hamas is disingenuous.
Yes, I'm sure Hamas is in no way encouraging or endorsing missile attacks on Israel by groups other than itself. That's why it erected a monument to them. Obviously, they'd love nothing more than to round up those malcontents and arrest them - it's just the Israeli attacks against them in response to those rocket attacks that have prevented them from doing so in the last 13 years.
Second, you mention civilian targets. Unfortunately (or fortunately?), Hamas does not have targeting capabilities on any of their rockets. At all. The rockets are fired indiscriminately at Israel.
Well, I don't dispute that, given that Palestinian rockets not infrequently misfire and blow up their own citizens. But if you're randomly shooting a handgun into a group of a thousand people and one soldier, as far as I'm concerned, you're targeting civilians. The fact that they're firing rockets more or less randomly into a largely-civilian area hardly absolves them from shooting at civilians.
If Israel is unhappy with this arrangement, I'm sure Hamas will be more than willing to accept delivery of rockets that do have targeting capabilities.
Israel has been delivering such rockets for the last few days now.
The Gazans are free to elect somebody that is willing to and can do just that
Actually, they're not. Hamas haven't held an election since they themselves were elected. Funny thing about electing despots.
Indeed, this is amusing. As amusing as the fact that Israel cannot make the connection that the destruction Israel brings to Gaza (along with the blockade, along with the refusal to recognize sovereignty, etc) is the reason (are the reasons?) Hamas shoots rockets into Israel.
Indeed. And while those rockets have wounded thousands, and inconvenienced many more, they've only killed a handful. Israel has exceeded that by many orders of magnitude in a tiny fraction of the time. Maybe someday the Palestinians will figure out that getting into a violent pissing contest with someone with the power to utterly destroy you isn't really a smart move.
I find it odd that Anti-Arab propagandists seem to expect that continued flaunting of international law and marginalization of a powerless people should not bring any reprisal
Like the 13-year strategy of rocket attacks against civilian targets that Hamas has pursued in violation of international law? I think Israel, like Hamas, has figured out that international law is largely toothless.
The two are not mutually exclusive. Something doesn't become unscientific just because you happen to think it's trivial.
World discovers A/B testing
Freaks out
Until the next reality tv show comes on
Yeah, in the same way GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program
It's not that it's a format that he dislikes; it's in a format that is cumbersome to read. There's a reason we moved away from stone tablets - formats are important.
MS Word is a pretty poor choice to distribute a read-only document. Even PDF has unnecessary cruft and overhead if it's not intended to be printed.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
