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They are far less likely to put a farmer on that says that climate change might be happening but he doesn't believe humans are the cause.
Why would they ask a farmer that? He/she is not very likely to know. It makes more sense to ask... you know, scientists... which is what the TFA is about.
Should we as a car mechanic about medical advice and a lawyer about network topology as well?
Uhm. Read his post again. He didn't mention Oracle. He mentioned selling MySQL to Sun. That was before Oracle got involved. He's talking about how the MySQL founders sold it off to Sun for $1BN.
A bunch of citations in Wikipedia's section about it.
Quoth http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199702133360701#t=articleResults:
We observed no safety advantage to hands-free as compared with hand-held telephones. This finding was not explained by imbalances in the subjects' age, education, socioeconomic status, or other demographic characteristics. Nor can it be explained by suggesting that those with units that leave the hands free do more driving. One possibility is that motor vehicle collisions result from a driver's limitations with regard to attention rather than dexterity. Regardless of the explanation, our data do not support the policy followed in some countries of restricting hand-held cellular telephones but not those that leave the hands free.
Ah, so Anonymous Coward is British. Thanks for finally letting us in on the secret...
In related news, Queen Marie Antoinette asked her subjects to "Let them eat cake" when learning that her peasants lacked bread. When queried further on the subject, she elaborated: "they should get some, cakes are awesome!"
You're vastly exaggerating their "corruption" here. They're not a language police[0]. They are simply making an observation about words they notice have popped up in common usage[1]. Nobody really cares about this list, people just read it for the curiosity value.
To make this clear, the final sentences in their own comment about the debacle translates roughly to: "Everybody's part of deciding what words are introduced in the language by choosing what words we use. If we want ogooglingsbar in the language we'll use the word and it is our use that is important - nothing a multinational company can change by coercion. The word is free![2]"
[0] If we have one, it's not them, but rather Svenska Akademien - the same folks that award the Nobel Prize in Literature.
[1] Not that I've ever actually heard ogooglingsbar it being used by anybody.
[2] A little word play there - "ordet är fritt", literally meaning "the word is free", is a Swedish expression used when you invite anybody present to speak their mind on something.
So which app replaced his rice cooker?
The exploding battery, obviously.
Nah. None of the software I write runs on existing hardware. I prefer to think of it as being ahead of the curve!
Honest question (from a not so die hard, but still a Star Wars fan) - what's the shield that blocks the path between first Darth Maul and Qui Gon Jinn and then later Obi Wan prior to the last part of the duel which kills both Qui Gon and Maul in Episode I? I guess it's a particle shield, given that it stops the Jedi themselves for a while, but if I recall correctly it also blocks the light saber when someone (can't remember who) briefly strikes at it to test it. I would have assumed a light saber was "energy" in this case.
Libertarians have legitimate debates over whether the use of trademarks are matters of Imaginary Property or measures of fraud/not-fraud.
The problem for Ron Paul in this situation, is that there is no fraud accusation here - RonPaul.com is not trying to pretend that it's Ron Paul.
Good point. Trademark laws are mostly useful in relation to fraud, and this is obviously not attempted fraud. Thanks for pointing that out. This may indeed be more hypocritical than I initially thought.
The modern day ones as well. With the 'condoms are dangerous' lies they're spreading (primarily in Africa), I wouldn't be surprised if they've caused more deaths than any other organization in history. Including the the infamous competition from the WW2 era everybody always name when it comes to speaking about evil people.
Not that I'm a libertarian (far from it), but I've never really gotten the impression that they hate trademark laws. This is (arguably) a trademark case.
GP didn't even mention Linux. Many of the questions in his post are answered by "Perhaps a Windows, but not Windows 8," as he apparently too subtly implied.
The point seems to be that Windows 8 is never the best solution, whatever your problem is. Even you are ranting about how wonderful Windows 7 is. Why the hell would anybody want Windows 8 then?
There is no conflict between what you say, and what GP says. Android does not natively support X. The N9 does, because Nokia implemented it themselves. Its UI is award winning (whatever that means), presumably proving that X does just fine on a handheld device, contrary to OP's point.
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Every X-user I know uses network transparency. And given your numbers and estimated number of people using X for their desktop, I apparently know every single network transparency using person in the world, and then some.
It is much more common than you think, apparently.
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