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Freedom of speech never ment freedom to say whatever the hell you want.

Yes, it does. Freedom. Speech.

The problem is, Americans have turned freedom of speech into some sort of ideal in itself rather than a means to an end, and that conflicts with the fact that some speech is directly harmful with no benefit to society.

Because you can't accept this fact without conceding that freedom of speech isn't an absolute, you resolve your cognitive dissonance by redefining speech that is directly harmful with no benefit to society as being something other than speech.

This is, of course, utter nonsense. Yelling fire in a crowded theatre is clearly speech, you are clearly not free to do it under the law, and so you clearly have limits on the freedom of your speech.

Instead of believing in freedom of speech as an ideal in itself, you should realise that freedom of speech is a means to an end; a method of defending liberty. It's not an absolute, there are limits, and acknowledging that doesn't make you an evil commie.

In fact sticking your head in the sand and pretending some types of speech aren't speech is actually more threatening to liberty, because it paves the way for people to redefine particular types of speech they don't like as being something other than speech - hey, if you can have your own special definition of "speech", why can't they?

The sentence "Freedom of speech never ment freedom to say whatever the hell you want." sounds like some kind of double-speak a dictator might use to justify locking somebody up for dissidence. Are you really sure you want to play word games to muddy the waters in this way?

How about a dictionary dude? Any reputable news source, professional journal, or education institution will have rules against copyright violations as well as plagiarism, but they won't call the "overuse of source material" something that it is not, even as they burn you for it. There are laws against that already, no need to try to fit it into another term.

I have two guesses:

http://www.answers.com/allot&r=67

http://www.answers.com/a+lot&r=67

I have two guesses:

http://www.answers.com/allot&r=67

http://www.answers.com/a+lot&r=67

I done learnt me somethin' new today!

/me goes into cruise control for the rest of the day

it allows me to segway into a little known fact

A segway is a vehicle. You mean segue.

1. You may be interested to note the correct spelling of the word "phrase".
2. The word nonsense is not hyphenated.
3. If you we to have written that sentence correctly, it would look something like this;
   "Also, (COMMA) as to whether it has "W3C Support,"(COMMA) I hope you realize,(COMMA) that phrase is nonsense.(FULL-STOP) However,(COMMA) it has plenty of CSS fixes and enhancements,(COMMA) which I've studied in detail,(COMMA) and have had the chance to test myself in the IE7 beta 2.

1. You may be interested to note the correct spelling of the word "phrase".
2. The word nonsense is not hyphenated.
3. If you we to have written that sentence correctly, it would look something like this;
   "Also, (COMMA) as to whether it has "W3C Support,"(COMMA) I hope you realize,(COMMA) that phrase is nonsense.(FULL-STOP) However,(COMMA) it has plenty of CSS fixes and enhancements,(COMMA) which I've studied in detail,(COMMA) and have had the chance to test myself in the IE7 beta 2.

You do realize China has been sending things to space since 1970, and modules that could be manned since 1999. So, potentially manned modules for 7 years, does that number sound familiar? The US made it to the moon in 7 years when it *had never been done before*, and you seem to think that it is beyond thinking that China could put people into space within 7 years of first having the capability to do so?

Insightful? Good grief; someone misunderstands a word, turns it into a politics discussion, and gets modded insightful. Amazing. I especially like how he thinks the founding fathers were conservative. Haven't heard one like *that* in a while.

First point: "liberal" has more meanings than just "Democrat". It's use in the grandparent post was to refer to the fairly liberal (generous, ample, unlimited (see http://answers.com/liberal) qualities of the MIT license. A conservative license is more like a corporate license; "conservative" means "restrained; cautious, moderate; favoring traditional values; preservative" (see http://answers.com/conservative). A restrained license? doesn't sound very like liberty to me.

Second point: The founding fathers were conservative? Please describe for me how they were cautious? Or restrained? They certainly didn't favor traditional values; no, they were revolutionaries, who rebelled strongly and bravely against the traditional governments of Kings and Lords. They favored ":maximizing each individuals rights and minimizing the role of the state" in their lives. They "believed in free will", and the fundamental right of a person to have the opportunity to create their own place in history. This, by definition (see http://answers.com/libertarian) makes them libertarian, not conservative or liberal.

Sorry for the off-topic second point, but not replying to things like that are impossible.

Insightful? Good grief; someone misunderstands a word, turns it into a politics discussion, and gets modded insightful. Amazing. I especially like how he thinks the founding fathers were conservative. Haven't heard one like *that* in a while.

First point: "liberal" has more meanings than just "Democrat". It's use in the grandparent post was to refer to the fairly liberal (generous, ample, unlimited (see http://answers.com/liberal) qualities of the MIT license. A conservative license is more like a corporate license; "conservative" means "restrained; cautious, moderate; favoring traditional values; preservative" (see http://answers.com/conservative). A restrained license? doesn't sound very like liberty to me.

Second point: The founding fathers were conservative? Please describe for me how they were cautious? Or restrained? They certainly didn't favor traditional values; no, they were revolutionaries, who rebelled strongly and bravely against the traditional governments of Kings and Lords. They favored ":maximizing each individuals rights and minimizing the role of the state" in their lives. They "believed in free will", and the fundamental right of a person to have the opportunity to create their own place in history. This, by definition (see http://answers.com/libertarian) makes them libertarian, not conservative or liberal.

Sorry for the off-topic second point, but not replying to things like that are impossible.

Insightful? Good grief; someone misunderstands a word, turns it into a politics discussion, and gets modded insightful. Amazing. I especially like how he thinks the founding fathers were conservative. Haven't heard one like *that* in a while.

First point: "liberal" has more meanings than just "Democrat". It's use in the grandparent post was to refer to the fairly liberal (generous, ample, unlimited (see http://answers.com/liberal) qualities of the MIT license. A conservative license is more like a corporate license; "conservative" means "restrained; cautious, moderate; favoring traditional values; preservative" (see http://answers.com/conservative). A restrained license? doesn't sound very like liberty to me.

Second point: The founding fathers were conservative? Please describe for me how they were cautious? Or restrained? They certainly didn't favor traditional values; no, they were revolutionaries, who rebelled strongly and bravely against the traditional governments of Kings and Lords. They favored ":maximizing each individuals rights and minimizing the role of the state" in their lives. They "believed in free will", and the fundamental right of a person to have the opportunity to create their own place in history. This, by definition (see http://answers.com/libertarian) makes them libertarian, not conservative or liberal.

Sorry for the off-topic second point, but not replying to things like that are impossible.

"DOPA would prohibit sites that enable users to create their own content and share it."
Wouldn't this cover any web-hosting service?

Hell, isn't a school a site that enables users to create their own content and share it?

-Grey

I thought these plants were supposed to convert sewage already

isn't one online in Missouri right now?

I'm wondering when they'll be trained to sniff out a video nasty.

Per answers.com dictionary:

Stealing: The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny.
http://www.answers.com/stealing

Steal: To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
http://www.answers.com/steal

I'm sorry but I see nothing about deprivation. You're welcome to look at the other definitions at those links and you'll see the same.

If you get your car worked on and then drive off without paying...that's stealing. You didn't actually take a physical object from that person though.

Per answers.com dictionary:

Stealing: The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny.
http://www.answers.com/stealing

Steal: To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
http://www.answers.com/steal

I'm sorry but I see nothing about deprivation. You're welcome to look at the other definitions at those links and you'll see the same.

If you get your car worked on and then drive off without paying...that's stealing. You didn't actually take a physical object from that person though.

I think the first android that was mentioned in the article is the one shown in this link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4714135.stm

From the photos, I'd say that the Japanese one looks more life-like, but that could just be because of the close-up on the Korean one.

Also, I think they both count as androids simply because they look (at least semi-convincingly) human, rather than anything really technically sophisticated. Check what Answers.com has to say:

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=android&gwp= 13

Uh, see the Hybrid kernel Wiki. The concept isn't really very difficult to grasp, but you seem to be suffering from arrogance.

There are no competing lines now because railways are (mostly) unprofitable now - with the explosion of "personal travel" (cars, bikes) and air travel, which is almost always cheaper than taking a train, the railroads are simply less profitable entites than they were when there was an explosion of competitors.

And let's talk about the competitors for a moment. Part of the reason that the ICC was formed in the first place is that every competitor found it necessary to use their own rails with their own shapes and sizes - meaning that another company's cars couldn't travel those tracks. Finding the results of this insanity unacceptable, railway measurements were standardized, and the physical changes were mostly accomplished by richer rail companies buying out the smaller ones and replacing their rails (since the land was already allocated to rails, it was like getting free land).

Railway history

So you live in a country like kuwait of 1990 perhaps?

Personally, I tend to like the swiss model. Have good relations with everybody and have a good mliitary.

Where we go wrong is that we have presidents who every so often have to prove something or they want something such as oil. Then we throw out might around (basically a bully or being greedy).

The law is called "statute of frauds"...

See here..

http://www.answers.com/topic/statute-of-frauds

B.

It's so nice to see old-school geeks at work. I don't mean that in a bad way. Corey is known for the Corey-House process in organic chemistry, and basically is the father of organic chemistry. He won the Nobel Prize in 1990, and it isn't surprising he hasn't patented the process. Of course, he's also infamous for a suicide of one of his graduate students...

Because it is data not intended to be viewed or manipulated by the user directly.

Define "manipulated directly". Most people do not hex-edit Microsoft Word documents, yet they're still documents.

While a save file may "document" my progress in a game, it isn't a document in any common sense of the word.

Which "common sense of the word" are you talking about? Unless you state otherwise, I'll use the computer science related definitions in American Heritage Dictionary:

A piece of work created with an application, as by a word processor. [or] A computer file that is not an executable file and contains data for use by applications.

It isn't like I am using Windows for much more than playing games.

Perhaps an argument by analogy might help: Where should a Linux game's saved states go?

ObTopic: Unless this dilemma between Application Data and My Documents is solved, Windows game developers will just not bother changing the saving code that currently writes to Program Files, Windows games will continue to require administrator privileges, and Windows games will continue to pop up the sudo style dialog boxes described by The Article.

For better or worse, Microsoft will be around for a long, long time. Look how long Western Union lasted after the telephone replaced the telegraph. However, what Dvorak may be saying is that the days of Microsoft being a driving, innovative, vibrant force in the computer industry have long since passed. Microsoft's stock price illustrates this nicely.

Could you answer all possible trivia questions about all of these states?

Of course not. But it's one thing not to know every last trivial detail, and another thing entirely to confuse a state with the whole damn USA; to confuse France with Europe; to confuse New South Wales with Australia.

I for one don't expect anybody to know mundane political facts of my country and am certainly not going to call anybody ignorant because of that.

Why not? Ignorant means to be "unaware or uninformed". It doesn't mean "stupid"; it's not pejorative. Ignorant is precisely the right word to describe somebody who doesn't know something.

If somebody is really pissed off for my lack of knowledge of such things, I will choose to talk to somebody else more fun and jovial.

Great. You do that. But bear in mind that the person who isn't fun and jovial might be pissed off because a close family member got blown up or shot because of the difference between the UK and England. This is an intensely personal issue to some people.

Apostrophes are used to signify possession or to indicate omitted characters. You are doing neither of these things, so the word is embargoed.

Valuable means the same thing as invaluable? What a silly language!

Valuable and invaluable do not have the same meaning.

valuable (vl'y--bl, vl'y-) http://www.answers.com/topic/valuable
adj.

1. Having considerable monetary or material value for use or exchange: a valuable diamond.
2. Of great importance, use, or service: valuable information; valuable advice.
3. Having admirable or esteemed qualities or characteristics: a valuable friend.

invaluable (n-vl'y--bl) http://www.answers.com/topic/invaluable
adj.

Of inestimable value

I think you meant flammable http://www.answers.com/topic/flammable and inflammable http://www.answers.com/topic/inflammable, which have the same meaning.

But yes, English can be a very silly language.

Valuable means the same thing as invaluable? What a silly language!

Valuable and invaluable do not have the same meaning.

valuable (vl'y--bl, vl'y-) http://www.answers.com/topic/valuable
adj.

1. Having considerable monetary or material value for use or exchange: a valuable diamond.
2. Of great importance, use, or service: valuable information; valuable advice.
3. Having admirable or esteemed qualities or characteristics: a valuable friend.

invaluable (n-vl'y--bl) http://www.answers.com/topic/invaluable
adj.

Of inestimable value

I think you meant flammable http://www.answers.com/topic/flammable and inflammable http://www.answers.com/topic/inflammable, which have the same meaning.

But yes, English can be a very silly language.

Valuable means the same thing as invaluable? What a silly language!

Valuable and invaluable do not have the same meaning.

valuable (vl'y--bl, vl'y-) http://www.answers.com/topic/valuable
adj.

1. Having considerable monetary or material value for use or exchange: a valuable diamond.
2. Of great importance, use, or service: valuable information; valuable advice.
3. Having admirable or esteemed qualities or characteristics: a valuable friend.

invaluable (n-vl'y--bl) http://www.answers.com/topic/invaluable
adj.

Of inestimable value

I think you meant flammable http://www.answers.com/topic/flammable and inflammable http://www.answers.com/topic/inflammable, which have the same meaning.

But yes, English can be a very silly language.

Valuable means the same thing as invaluable? What a silly language!

Valuable and invaluable do not have the same meaning.

valuable (vl'y--bl, vl'y-) http://www.answers.com/topic/valuable
adj.

1. Having considerable monetary or material value for use or exchange: a valuable diamond.
2. Of great importance, use, or service: valuable information; valuable advice.
3. Having admirable or esteemed qualities or characteristics: a valuable friend.

invaluable (n-vl'y--bl) http://www.answers.com/topic/invaluable
adj.

Of inestimable value

I think you meant flammable http://www.answers.com/topic/flammable and inflammable http://www.answers.com/topic/inflammable, which have the same meaning.

But yes, English can be a very silly language.

if a market has perfect elasticity, that curve would be a straight line at a 45 degree angle...

Actually, I think you're thinking of "unit elasticity," or an elasticity of 1. "Perfect elasticity" would be represented by a horizontal line. At price p the firm would sell as many as they could produce. At price p + $.01 consumers display their perfect willingness to refrain from purchasing, and the firm sells none of their product or service.

Here's a page with some diagrams:
http://www.answers.com/topic/elasticity-economics

From the GPA:
"The result is I simply quit buying CD's. How is this profitable?"

The correct answer to this question is "You are not a part of our target market."

Just because the war fails doesn't mean that tons of people who've never hurt anyone won't have their lives destroyed by it.

I believe that the these wars are accomplishing exactly what the people who've instigated them wanted them to. As has been pointed out elswhere in responses to this story, these "wars" exist so that the powerful can prosecute and imprison people they don't like.

If you're a liberal pot smoker, you go to jail.

If you're a right-wing political pundit popping OxyContin, then boo-hoo, you have a drug addiction, and, well, you keep doing whatever you were doing before.

If you're a coke-snorting son of a family of senators, you do some community service, go AWOL, get arrested for drunk driving, and eventually get your governor-brother to rig election results so that you can become president, and stab your own CIA operatives in the back.

No, these wars and laws are a complete success.

--- SER

Chandelier

Ennui

If you can't read the phonetics crap (which I can't), just click on the speaker button and it'll play a sound clip of each pronounciation.

Chandelier

Ennui

If you can't read the phonetics crap (which I can't), just click on the speaker button and it'll play a sound clip of each pronounciation.

Instead of a tray, a single, innovative, self-loading media bay will play both 12-centimeter optical discs used for the new system as well as Nintendo GameCube discs.

Surely a top-loading CD drive like the Jaguar toilet seat would be more appropriate?

Congratulations, Nintendo. You're up against stiff competition, and we weren't sure you could pull it off; but with a branding decision like this, urine the running for sure. The guy who came up with this name must be a real whizz.

No doubt there will be a shower of solid gold hit software--a veritable golden shower of games. You'll be flush with cash in no time.

True, I should have sited that,

BTW, it's 'cited'[1], not 'sited'[2].

[1] "To quote as an authority or example." http://www.answers.com/cited
[2] "Having a site; situated. [Obs.]" http://www.answers.com/sited

True, I should have sited that,

BTW, it's 'cited'[1], not 'sited'[2].

[1] "To quote as an authority or example." http://www.answers.com/cited
[2] "Having a site; situated. [Obs.]" http://www.answers.com/sited

nah, three is the best number of legs. Then you can be a Tripod

Lord knows I tried, but the camera angles are just so shitty. Seriously, I'm like "I know there's bats out there, but the camera is trapped behind some plants and all I can see is green shit, wtf mate?" ps: you mean 'platonic,' d00d. At least, I'm pretty sure you do: http://www.answers.com/plutonic&r=67

Ok, you've done it at least twice in this story. THE WORD IS MANNER, NOT MANOR. Please... I know they're homonyms. It's not that hard, though. Show respect for yourself and the people reading your comments by not coming across as ignorant.

Ok, you've done it at least twice in this story. THE WORD IS MANNER, NOT MANOR. Please... I know they're homonyms. It's not that hard, though. Show respect for yourself and the people reading your comments by not coming across as ignorant.

OH... MY... GOD!!! STOP WITH THE "ARCHITECTING" already!!!

Quickest way to make your "important" job sound like a joke? Start "verbing" nouns.

Look it up. http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?gwp=13&s=archi tect

I really should chill out, but this one's just a _huge_ pet peeve of mine. Especially in the computer industry.

http://www.answers.com/topic/neo-geo

Nonetheless, this type of power carried a large price tag; the console was planned to debut at $599 USD and included two joystick controllers and a game (either Baseball Stars or NAM-1975). However, this plan was quickly scrapped and when the system had its national launch it debuted at $649.99 with two joysticks, a memory card, and a single pack-in game, Magician Lord (the early Neo Geo boxes had a gold sticker announcing the inclusion of Magician Lord over the initially planned choice of two games), this package was known as the "Gold System". The system was also released in a "Silver System" package, which included one joystick controller and did not include a game or memory card. Other games cost $200 and up--each. With these "premium" prices, most gamers weren't able to afford the system and so the console was only accessible to a niche market.

Although that was $650 before inflation. It was a pretty significant flop as far as home consoles went.

Google's use is obviously within the bounds of Fair Use. In particular, transformative works that cannot be substituted for the original and do not detract from profits on the original (except as criticism might deter buyers) are protected under fair use. Obviously, for example, you don't need Disney's permission to write a book analyzing Disney. If you did, copyright law would be in blatant conflict with the first amendment. Quite frankly the first amendment is infinitely more important than anyone's ability to make a buck. And, in this particular case, Google's tribute was only serving to publicize the artist. It would be impossible to argue that their fair use detracted from the profits of the copyright holders.

No it isn't. It's two words.

Common definitions of "buzzword" include phrases. Your pedantry fails it ;-)

I don't think "put on the computer by a company that sold it and not the end user" is a very useful definition of "operating system". By that definition, many Linux boxes have no OS at all.

My definition of an operating system (or "operating environment" in Sun parlance) was "all software bundled with the kernel into a distribution". If IIS is bundled with Windows Server, then IIS is part of the Windows Server system. Likewise, if Apache is bundled with Fedora Core, then Apache is part of the Fedora Core server system. Which definition of "operating system" do you prefer so that we can agree on semantics?

assigned them bizarre definitions

My definition of an operating system agrees with the American Heritage Dictionary's definition of "system" as "A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole."

and declared him clueless on that basis.

Where did I say "clueless"?

You're right that they're the only constituents of the light we see, but if supersymmetry turns out to exist, then it predicts the existence of the "photino" which may or may not be related to the electromagnetic force in a similar way as the photon. Also, since it's quite massive it's a possible candidate for dark matter, but that's a bit off-topic.

A few quick googles and searches on Wikipedia turn up these links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photino
http://www.answers.com/topic/gaugino

They're a bit vague, but will satisfy a passing question.

Disfranchisement
n.

The act of disfranchising, or the state of being disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities.

offtopic p.s.: no thanks to "crystal reports | business objects" for locking up my pc with their flash advertisement while I was typing this. I actually even couldn't figure out what they were trying to sell me.