It's a very small minority of hot sauces that use habaneros.
The idea of ranking chiles on a scale of bad to good I find completely foreign. Like people, each one has its own character and something to appreciate. And that appreciation can scarcely be found in bottled hot sauces.
(I live in Mexico and I'm here for the food. Indeed I doubt I would be here were it not for the existence of chiles and the myriad ways in which they're exploited in Mexican cuisine.)
Actually Oracle only made two patent infringement claims against Google -- rangeCheck wasn't one of them -- and Google didn't argue prior art against either of them.
I wonder. I run a website that has ranked on Google page 1 for the relevant search terms just behind Wikipedia for years now. But it's been on the backburner for some time; I've basically been ignoring it. A couple months ago a server migration that escaped my notice took it completely offline. Totally dropped off Google. Well, I just updated the DNS record a few days ago and within a day or two it was back on page 1, right behind Wikipedia.
So in my experience Google is remarkably forgiving.
It varies. Tijuana is one of the more dangerous cities in Mexico with a murder rate of 107/100k from 2006-2010, but that's way behind Cd. Juarez with 485 over the same period. By comparison the national average was 30.8 and Mexico City was 7.36.
I couldn't find stats for Ensenada but Tijuana makes up over half of the population of the state of Baja California, which in 2010 had a murder rate of 28. I'd bet Ensenada is well below that. Baltimore by contrast was 34.8 and Oakland 22.
(FWIW the violence in TJ has abated considerably in 2011 as the Sinaloa cartel has effectively won the turf war that was raging.)
I've been using the free Instapaper iPhone app for some time, until it just completely stopped working. Trying to update, it would tell me that there was no network connection. Uh, wrong. Over and over. Eventually I logged out, wiped the local cache, and tried logging in fresh. And what did I get? A blank page with "403" at the top.
My impression of the app at this point was that either the developer is a fuck up or that I've been geo-locked out because I'm not in the U.S. Actually the second implies the first. I didn't care, I just stopped using Instapaper.
On the basis of this post, I took a leap of faith. Despite a complete failure of user experience with the free app, I bet $5 that maybe the paid app would, well, work. And so far it has.
Marco, if you're listening, you make some great points in this post, but your upselling in my experience is... as described.
Nintendo revived the industry in part by exerting quality control over every game released for the NES, and this has been standard practice for console manufacturers ever since.
I don't recall how she treated the fundamental questions of ethics in Atlas Shrugged but you might find her 'The Objectivist Ethics' interesting (http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ari_ayn_rand...). Here she presents her ideas on ethics fairly systematically, starting with questions like why man needs a code of ethics, what are values, and why does man need them.
Your last statement is certainly true but it doesn't explain the vitriol. Most people don't have a positive bias towards, say, Plato. But you don't see at everysingle mention of his name this seeming compulsion to speak up and smear his image and spread misconceptions about his thought. By people who at times even confess that they haven't read his books.
Rand certainly regarded intelligence as important but I don't think she regarded it as volitional. Of course one can volitionally act unintelligently, but for instance Eddie Willers in Atlas did not have Dagny's intelligence and efficacy, but he was a moral character and would have to be listed among the novel's heroes. Mike the construction worker in The Fountainhead would be a similar example.
Rand actually said at one point (sorry I don't remember where) that striking was a legitimate way for workers to correct a situation where they're being paid below market rate -- as long as it was done voluntarily. What Rand opposed was pro-union legislation that coercively stacks the decks in the unions' favor.
It never ceases to amaze me the certitude with which people demonstrate their ignorance of Rand. This is complete nonsense. Rand never said making money is the highest value nor that it should be the sole standard of any value, dropping all other context.
A moments thought, if you know anything of Rands works, would demonstrate this to you. If you read The Foundtainhead, then you know that Roark gave up work for years because he had higher values in life than simply to maximize his income. And Atlas Shrugged was about a man who did the same, and took a bunch of others with him -- not because they thought this was the best way to optimize their long-term money making potential, but because the rest of the world had come to regard them, being creative and productive individuals, as chattel. (You might also recall that while there were a number of titans of industry, one was a composer, another was a professor, another an train engineer, etc.)
I don't know what it is about Rand that makes people think they're entitled to sling nonsense about her views around without the slightest effort at substantiation. You say Rand's is a "fairy tale land where everybody is always capable of making rational decisions with perfect information" and "Markets are always perfectly efficient". This is your fairy tale about Rand's views. I studied all of Rand's works quite extensively from about the age of 17 to 27, and I'm confident you cannot demonstrate that Rand held such views.
The article argues every step for a reality-based ethics. And the author has one in mind, not surprisingly. Advocacy is not a crime and arguments are not invalidated by conclusions.
Responding in the form "I agree that..." or "I disagree that..." could start an interesting discussion.
A person is not a conclusion. The article ends by advocating Ayn Rand's ideas and works, clearly. Whatever one's views might be of her doesn't invalidate everything that precedes.
I hope it lives up to the potential. Chris Roberts of Wing Commander fame went down that path and has barely been heard from since. OTOH he never got anywhere close to a $200m budget.
"because... they're lazy... they steal... they're incompetent"
What about being trapped in a political system and/or culture that makes it impossible to live the life they imagine?
Every one of her novels touches (EDIT: focuses) on this. Anthem, We The Living, and Atlas Shrugged dealt more with the political, exhibiting characters who were unable to achieve their potential because of the political systems they had to endure. In The Fountainhead Roark spent decades suffering professionally and personally for living in a culture that values subjugation of the self to the interests of the crowd.
Also, Rand never promised that in her ideal society every individual would necessarily achieve whatever life they might imagine. Consistent with America's Declaration of Independence, it was the right to pursue happiness that she argued for.