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by hugh 18y ago
So, uhh, you're stealing and then coming here to brag about it? (Not to mention comparing yourself to Gandhi...) What's that you say? It doesn't count as stealing because you didn't deny the ticket to anybody else? Sure, but everybody else
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by hugh 18y ago
Agreed. Though I just went and read the article, and it's pretty damn good. For somewhere else, not here.
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by hugh 18y ago
Wow. Despite the title, that's pretty much all doom-and-gloom. Alternative possibility: move to another country. New Zealand, frinstance, has just elected a new business-friendly government, it has lots of smart, well-educated people and a
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by hugh 18y ago
If he were giving it away for free that'd be one thing, but this is still just a roommates wanted ad. That said, hmmm, is it close to BART? update: No, not really.
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by hugh 18y ago
Er, yes, well of course, that was my point.
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by hugh 18y ago
Much like puppies, according to Mr. Gore, Web 2.0 has to have a purpose. The purpose he urges us to consider is to bring about a higher level of consciousness about our relationship with this planet. Let me rephrase that for you, Al: The
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by hugh 18y ago
There are two ways to use advisors. On one hand, you can use them to help you make decisions. On the other hand, you can use them to lend credibility to decisions you've already made. Interestingly, the bigger and more prominent your board
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by hugh 18y ago
The main difference between the UAW and a regular contracting firm is that if I decide to stop buying labour from a regular contracting firm, that firm can't and won't wind up blockading my factory entrance and trying to stop my new laboure
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm in two minds about this kind of thing. On the upside, some of these ideas really do seem like they could help programmers to do things quickly and with fewer bugs. On the downside, the combination of bright colours, constant supervision
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by hugh 18y ago
Auto workers are a pretty weird subspecies of the "middle class" though. As far as I can figure out, they're lower-class people with lower-class jobs who get upper-middle-class money.
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by hugh 18y ago
Unfortunately he just seems to be a twat. I'm not sure exactly what it is about him, but his personality as revealed by his words, body language and attitude just strike the rest of the world as undeniably twattish. In an alternative univer
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by hugh 18y ago
Well, I think the main problem is that running up to people and asking them how "happy" they are isn't a very good measure of their overall well-being.
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by hugh 18y ago
And if your comments were better thought out then they might even get upmodded. Generalizations of the form "Ohhh yeah, progressives always do X" aren't useful.
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by hugh 18y ago
GM is selling more vehicles than any other company on the planet. Last year they sold 9.37 million vehicles worldwide, slightly more than second-placed Toyota. I don't have numbers for this year handy, but GM is still either number one or n
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by hugh 18y ago
I doubt they'll be able to sell the Volt at a big profit initially. They'll probably be forced to sell it at cost to keep the price from being too ridiculous -- and they're talking about the manufacturing cost being something like $40K.
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by hugh 18y ago
Electric cars were a brief fad a few months ago. Right now I'm buying gas at $2.30 a gallon and nobody cares about fuel economy so much any more. Really, GM's US-based product lineup is pretty good at the moment (and don't forget, they stil
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by hugh 18y ago
Oops, you're right, I hadn't checked. That'd make island gravity roughly half of regular Earth gravity.
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by hugh 18y ago
Actually, I personally have always found that one a bit ominous too. If I were President I'd say: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your own sorry ass." I've got no interest in getting into a particularly de
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm no expert either, but I think the problem is that suitable donors are extremely rare -- and most of them would prefer not to give up their bone marrow to some random stranger, thanks very much. update: Oh, and a bone marrow transplant
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by hugh 18y ago
Like most "happiness research", this seems to rely on dodgy methodology and be aimed at some sort of political agenda. Ooh, and here it is: So what are the policy implications for this new research. The researchers said single-shot events
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by hugh 18y ago
It's not quite slavery, but it's walking an awfully fine line, especially since the value of the so-called "tax credit", at $40 an hour, by far exceeds the economic value of the work performed. As a thought experiment, suppose the value of
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by hugh 18y ago
Technically it seems to be (and I only learned this word a couple of hours ago) a Corvee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvee "Corvée is labour, often but not always unpaid, that persons in power have authority to compel their subjects to
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by hugh 18y ago
This plan was out in the open before the election. Why is it only now that everyone's suddenly discussing it? Prior to the election I only saw it discussed on right-wing blogs.
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by hugh 18y ago
A good deal for whom?
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by hugh 18y ago
From Bush's inauguration in 2001 to late 2007, the Dow rose from 10,000ish to 14,000ish. It's only dropped in the last year, and in particular in the last few months, as it became more and more likely (based on approval ratings and polls) t
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by hugh 18y ago
Ahhh, right, that explains it. However, while I haven't watched every episode of Lost I think it'd be a lot more noticeable if gravity there was 4.815162 times regular Earth gravity. Everybody would be crawling around, for starters.
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by hugh 18y ago
Sheesh. Enough already!
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by hugh 18y ago
Al Gore doesn't need PR. Oh, I don't know. His real moment in the sun was a couple of years ago, and if he doesn't watch out he'll fade into irrelevance. Maybe he can finagle himself a position in the Obama administration, maybe he can't,
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by hugh 18y ago
Possibly. Why doesn't somebody go away and find all the twittering directors on all the boards of all the tech companies in the country, make a list, and submit it? Maybe somebody will upvote that. It must also be said that at this point Al
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by hugh 18y ago
The space program isn't really a great example of long-term thinking though. Its crowning achievement was the Apollo Project, which only took about eight years -- less than the time it takes Boeing to design a new airliner, for instance. On

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