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Anytime someone brought in a kid suffering from a disease that could have been prevented by vaccination, I would first ask whether the parent was brain dead.
-jcr
Recently, one of the biggest changes in mainstream music was that the big labels stopped signing bands and started building bands.
"RECENTLY"? What are you, 1,000 years old? The big studios have been doing that for DECADES AND DECADES.
I think they should change the "Reactive" to something like "Proactive" as Reactive has such a negative connotation.
It's late on Friday, lots of plans for the weekend, but need to hit a few stores on the way home and maybe top of the tank
then it hits, "Oh, you're still here we need WHUMP (massive request hits the inbox) kthxbaihavagudwkendlol"
Complex applications from simple declarative statements?
I have a button you can push and it will create an app for you.
George Jetson, have you been playing with the time machine at Spacely Sprockets again?
Funny that you're disagreeing with the parent, touting how much faster software has gotten, and then complain that video playback doesn't work, when your problem is the steaming pile of crap that is Adobe Flash.
I guarantee that your old Dell can play back H.264 video just fine, using something like MPlayer instead of Flash for the decoding...
They say gallium is chemically inert, non-toxic to humans and can be injected and sucked out without leaving a residue.
Doing even the most cursory of searches on gallium and reading through the Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium) would suggest that gallium is not chemically intert, may not be non-toxic to humans, and given that extremities can easily get cold enough to drop below the freezing point of gallium, I'd have to say that it might rather well leave a residue, forget about the stickiness others have reported.
Yea, that'd be great: inject liquid metal, have it thicken and solidify in your feet and fingertips because you step outside on a brisk day, giving you the equivalent of massive frostbite. No thank you.
There are growing numbers of Chinese researchers in my field (neuroscience) and their results always need to be taken with an extra-large grain of salt. It looks like the same is true here.
Even with access to the source, we're talking about running services rather than code you run on your own hardware. There is no reason to believe that the source they provide is the same as they're running, and there's no way to tell who else has access to their systems.
Most other big providers such as google and yahoo run most of their stuff on open source software, so while we have the code we have no way to tell what they're doing with it.
Or they can simply provision the availability of service at the boundary of your property, and make it your responsibility to deal with getting it across your own private land (or not, if you dont want the service).
Note that at some point every service anyone uses will have had to cross private land in that way, any house built before the days or electricity, sewerage, telephone and running water had to have these services retrofitted at some point. Installing fibre is simply the next logical step on from installing copper telephone wires.
Sure, it is often more expensive to replace something when it catastrophically breaks, and your more likely to screw the process up because at that point you no longer have the luxury of being able to plan the transition.
That said, IT departments are often sailing on luck alone, lots of places have no redundancy, no DR plan, no backups, massive easily exploitable security holes etc and yet they get away with it out of pure luck. So this crufty old system that needs replacing may well continue running for a long time.
They teach too, but research has always been a part of it. Now if you don't want them getting patents and such on research that's fine, but then you need to increase funding. Part of the issue is that states have continually cut funding to universities. If that money isn't being paid in by the state, it needs to come from other sources, either higher tuition, or more research dollars.
Not as useless as bitching about it, kid.
-jcr
The House has got it spot on. Now for the Senate and President.
It's pretty much a fact that the Dems (of which I have been a lifelong member) both own the Senate, and are owned by many of the people (universities, high tech, and so on) that value patents.
The Senate will not pass this, and what a shame.
With a 325 - 91 margin it's got to make more than a few feel a bit uncomfortable about opposing it. It's also not the Apple vs Samsung sort of patent trolling, it's the scum who keep filling those courthouses in Eastern Texas.
The House has got it spot on. Now for the Senate and President.
Was he still considered a terrorist by the US
It's so much worse than just Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher calling Mandela a "terrorist".
When congress passed anti-apartheid sanctions, Reagan vetoed them, and then actively called the Senators before the veto override vote to try to convince them to let it stand. Congress went ahead and overrode the veto, giving Reagan one of his worst political defeats as president. It was the only time in the 20th century when congress overrode a president's veto of a foreign policy bill.
Reagan still refused to enforce the sanctions against the apartheid regime, asking South African President Botha to call congress himself and lobby to have the sanctions lifted.
Reagan's successor, George H W Bush, included in his platform a promise to enforce the sanctions to their fullest extent, which he ultimately did.
Mandela's legacy will ring out long after Reagan and Thatcher's have been relegated to the trash.
I continue to feel Reagan is overrated. Mandela was the Gandhi of our time.
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