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I don't think that's true. The photographer stated clearly in his description of the photo to the contest that it was created with an HDR like treatment of the RAW file. The AP photojournalism standards clearly allow dodging and burning:

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/g/goffs/135%20photojournalism/Associated%20Press%20ethics%20code.pdf.

Compositing two images to add or remove elements isn't allowed, nor is manipulating a photo in such a way that it misleads or changes the factual content, but there's no real suggestion that he did either of those things. He just tweaked the lighting a little.

Unbelievable as it seems, you can't find much solid evidence that Americans are any dumber than Europeans. -C. Adams

Scarcely anything could be easier to believe than vague wishful thinking and national pride. Nothing melts away any semblance of critical thought quite so quickly.

Although it's actually pretty easy to find evidence of that.

Perhaps a better quote would be, "There are plenty of smart Americans. Pay attention to us instead of the idiots."

LOL... and if you think punishing your liver makes you a man, you need to grow up.

In any case, going by blood alcohol content, drinking 6 oz. of 80 proof liquor in an hour will make you legally "drunk."

Submitting work previously graded in another course unless doing so has been approved by the course instructor or by department policy.

Ten years ago, in a previous life, I was an Air Force Recruiter. My area of responsibility was northwest Nevada and west into California as far as the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Because of the post-Cold War "peace dividend," recruiting had slowed down and I was given the additional "goal" (quota) of finding at least two qualified applicants for the Air Force Officer Training School (OTS) per fiscal year.

the basic educational qualifications for OTS were: a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, a minimum of a 2.5 GPA, and qualifying scores on the Air Force Officer Qualification Test, similar to the GRE exam. An applicant also had to provide a resume that showed "leadership potential," through work experience or holding leadership positions in student organizations.

I quickly learned that exceptionally well-qualified applicants with non-technical (i.e. business, history, etc.) had little chance of selection. For example, one applicant had spent three years enlisted in the Army, worked his way through university on the G.I. bill to earn a B.A. with honors in Financial Management, and was holding an executive position with one of the major casinos in town. He was rejected - twice. In contrast, another applicant, with a B.S.E.E from Chico State, no leadership experience (unless you counted his six months as assistant night manager of the Taco Bell in Susanville, California), and no engineering experience outside of college, was picked up on his first application without question. Another applicant, a dual math/physics major, also with no management or leadership experience, was also selected on his first try.

Both of these applicants successfully completed OTS; the E.E. major was assigned to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, to work on the AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile program, the dual math/physics major was sent to the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, to work on "stuff".

Pretty good for a former Taco Bell assistant night manager and a guy who stocked shelves at the local co-op.

If you're a U.S. citizen (by birth or naturalized), have a degree in engineering, meet the physical and moral (i.e. don't tell and we won't ask and nothing worse than a juvenile misdemeanor in your record) requirements, then there's a very good chance you can get that "five years of experience" employers are looking for with the U.S. Air Force.

If you don't meet all the requirements, or have a moral objection to serving in the Armed Forces, but have an engineering degree, then you might consider applying for the Palace ACQUIRE program.

PeopleSoft is kind of an open-ended money hole. The implementation at the CSU system is hundreds of millions of dollars over-budget

http://www.csulb.edu/~cfa/peoplesoftlat.html
http://www.bsa.ca.gov/reports/summary.php?id=390
http://www.csus.edu/org/cfa/CFACMSBrief.htm

The CSU system did not do a feasibility study, they didn't establish a business case, it is not going to achieve the goals they did establish, it won't even have all the functionality of the systems it is replacing, it will cost more to maintain, and the money is coming out of the general fund.

Don't forget MS-NPR now.

Website probably won't get slashdotted, it's actually housed at the university I go to (as it is a university program), and the evaluator of the IT story is actually one of my old professors.

-Steve

Any other Slashdotters outdoors lovers?

I love backpacking, cross-country skiing, river and sea kayaking, and anything else that involves me, the world, and my moving through that world under my own power.

For the usual egocentric geek type, the control freak who likes computers because they obey his every command, the outdoors is really perfect. You can go wherever you want to go -- no WALK/DON'T WALK signals --, there's plenty of techy gear to obsess about if you want to, and yet it's a raw encounter with reality that forces you to concede that living a virtual life is not necessarily the best one.

It's being outdoors that convinces me that I don't actually want to live as a brain in a vat, which I and I'm sure many Slashdotters would otherwise love to be.

Anyone else?

mithras

In my opinion, the orgy/dance scene was reminiscient of the opening dance scene from "Blade", only longer and less effective. I wish they had cut this sequence down, as I felt it was unnecessary....

Overall though, a decent sequel with some nice CG treats.

If you've taken a philosophy class, you'd have recognized the Matrix as a new incarnation of Plato's allegory of the cave from The Republic, later expressed as "The Evil Deceiver" by Descartes and later still as the "brain in a vat" scenario by Hilary Putnam.

In the sequel, the filmmakers move on to questions of free will vs. determinism vs. fate. These issues were also nicely articulated in one of the segments of the animated Art Linklater film "The Waking Life", for anyone who's interested.

So it was cool to have a new philosophical issue raised. To "What is the nature of reality... and is it all a sham?" has been added "What is the nature of choice... and is it all a sham?"

Plus, the freeway chase scene was incredible ;)

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Marshall Berman said, in "All that is Solid Melts into Air", that you can't stop progress, and anyone that attempts to stop progress will be torn asunder by it. I'm paraphrasing with that statement, but you get the point. I find it ironic that the very elements the Bourgeois Elite employ seem to dethrone them, time and time again.

Supply and Demand will solve this problem. :)

When I was a young, pimply faced pre-adult (as opposed to now, when I'm a middle aged pimply faced childish-adult,) the only jobs I could get were with telephone soliciting companies.

Now this was in the days before (a) do-not-call lists, (b) war-dialers and (c) calling-line ID. We worked from pages torn from the local phone book, holding our heavy 2500 set phones uncomfortably to our ears as we vainly tried to sell whatever warez we were pushing for minimum wage.

People didn't scream at us that much in those days, but you always got a few who did. When it happened, you made a "stress relief" call, to one of your carefully collected list of numbers of people who were either (a) always drunk, or (b) never home and had answering machines.

My favourite was leaving messages that their moose was sick and they'd better get down to the vet's office soon before it died. The next day, you'd leave another message, saying the moose was dead and "confirming" their name & address to send the large bill for the funeral to... and leaving as a phone number that of a pizza store.

Ah, fourteen...

You say it is from a conversation in an airport in Chicago. Another site claims it is from a Republican fundraiser, and plenty of other sites provide no cite or provide other theories.

Now going with your version of where the quote is from, are we to assume that a small Boulder-area newspaper actually had a reporter present, or is it not more likely that the newspaper got the quote from the (Boulder-area) atheism activist who alleges that Bush said that?

And if so doesn't that tend to undermine the quote's credibility, just as it undermines the quote's credibility that it bears no relation to anything else George H. W. Bush ever said?

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