Yes, I'm saying exactly that. Because NYC is exactly where they are needed most. I live in flyover country. Random violent crime is so rare it makes the front page on the occasion we have one. My weapon stays in a case on a top shelf of a closet on the reasoning that an accidental discharge is the greater risk. I wouldn't live in a place like NYC unless I could keep the damned thing loaded and under my pillow or srapped to my ass when I was walking the crime ridden streets of our major cities... even after the admirable efforts of NYC's former mayor to REDUCE[1] violent crime. NYC isn't an amorphous mass of people. There are neighborhoods and some are safer than others. This safety isn't based on the number of people willing to respond to crime with lethal force because crime is more complex than you've allowed. In NYC, money is the deciding factor. In your city, perhaps it's a handgun. I doubt that, though. I've never seen a crime-ridden neighborhood that wasn't also poverty-ridden. Your perspective (fear) of NYC is based on the fact that the rich and poor are in high relief.
In NYC there is no place to fire a gun that isn't ten feet from someone's bedroom window or two feet from a bystander's head.
I think you want to find an analog in classical music. Composers compose for many reasons (maybe they just enjoy it) - like the growing community of FOSS developers. If someone with money values their work, they might get a commission. If a country values their work, they might get a subsidy or grant. If I value their work, I'll find performers (who I also value) who perform their work. I might pay any number of people to get to that performance. There are many ways for an artist to make money like this. Right now, there's only one way - the RIAA way.
Theists have many rules from God. Many of those people break many of those rules. Would you rather live in a world where remembering the Sabbath carries as much weight as a proscription against murder or a world in which every person understands the social benefit (and thereby their own) to not-murdering?
The use and abuse of religion are feeble to stem, they are strong and irresistible to impel, the stream of national manners.
The user community isn't static. The original adopters did and still want a lean application, but as the user base expands more interests become involved. I'd imagine that balancing those interests is difficult, though I confess that I've never developed anything on that scale - maybe it's really easy and users are jerks.
When I first got the Reader I flipped out because I saw a ghost of the load screen at the next screen. However, in normal operation (though menus and page-turning) it first blanks the screen by displaying a negative of the page and then refreshing with the current page.
From what I've read about the E-ink displays, I think you'd sacrifice resolution for color. Why color, though? It's not for looking at photos, it's for reading books. Few books I've read have needed color (and those are mostly instructional books, not literature). I've got a Reader and I initially was upset by the lack of input, however, I can't do that with a regular book and I can search the copies I keep on my machine. It's really like a regular book with some minor conveniences. It's not a laptop.
If the refresh rate is anything like the Sony Reader (I have one), then you won't be using it as a monitor any time soon. Not as your primary monitor anyway. I would like a peripheral display for my desk in which I could dump text for reading. Actually, I was thinking the other day that if they could get the refresh rate good enough, it'd be a GREAT way to code.
I have the Reader as well, but I like the screen size. However, I would like two sides - like a book. I think a letter-sized display would be a mistake. I find that text blocks are a bit too wide for comfortable reading.
If you're saying that promoting diverse role models is good for all children, I have to agree and thank you because I hadn't thought about it quite that way before.
Well, we act like it anyway. We know it is a joke and yet, can you truly honestly say that if you are introduced to a brunette and a blond you do not instantly make an judgement on their IQ? Yes.
Oh you can claim you are above them but you are not. I could have sworn I was, but you know best. In any case, I make an effort to avoid stereotyping people. It is difficult not to be a racist because one can act racist by accident. However difficult it is to not be a racist, it's very easy to be anti-racism.
Well, it's the truth that if you have Affirmative Action propping you up, you technically had to work less than someone who didn't have Affirmative Action guaranteeing them that job or that scholarship. It's unbalancing the playing field based on race--which is racial discrimination in reverse. We should treat everybody the same like MLK wanted. Success isn't based on merit. I'm smarter than G.W. Bush and I would have done quite a bit better at Yale. And yet Yale wasn't even an option for me. When people that don't deserve success stop succeeding with their family's money, I'll be right there with you to get rid of Affirmative Action. In the meantime, Affirmative Action is at least productive of good results - it helps an entire group of people get out of a socio-economic rut.
There were some black leaders on TV actually condemning the president for using the word "articulate" to describe Obama because it's somehow racist. We are at the point where you can't compliment a well-spoken guy who also has darker skin. It's ridiculous. I believe black leaders today do more to segregate black communities from white communities than any whites do. How do you distinguish a racist from a person who isn't a racist but says racist things? Politicians know better because they have a set of guidelines called 'political correctness.' When a politician does otherwise, it is deliberate - and racist.
"Is it racism to acknowledge that children identify more with people who look like them?"
Your question is wrong. The correct questions is, "are you acknowledging racism when you acknowledge that children identify more with people who look like them?" The answer is yes. You argument basically boils down to "Racism is a natural state for humans, so we should just go with it." Do you feel the same way about the Klan as you do about the Black racists? And your argument boils down to: "To end racism, we must ignore it."
You can make a movie called White Guys can't Jump but you can't make a movie called Black Guys can't swim (fill in swim with whatever). Can you provide any examples of this? "Black Guys Can't Swim" sounds like a great anti-racist movie.
We have a new minority in America. It's call the muslims. Please, if you are a male white American, add to your list of people not to offend: the Muslims. But remember, anyone can publicly deride the whites, males, christians but never speak ill of the jews, muslims, blacks (oh shit! sorry -- African American), mexicans, or anyone else who didn't have an ancestoral basis in North Western Europe along the paternal lines of the family tree.
It's getting kind of crazy around here with all the people who are demanding both freedom of speech and respect for their own beliefs.
Political correctness is for politicians. It's good for them because they can follow those loose guidelines and not alienate potential voters. I find it useful also, because I work and socialize with many different kinds of people. I value their friendship and so I don't use racial epithets. Your problem is that you live in a pluralistic society and we don't like bigots.
Your attitude is finding a home in many places, so I don't buy the oppressed freedom-fighter posture. You've been forced, in the same manner, to wear nice clothing to a wedding or a job interview. You've also been forced to be nice to white males you don't like. If you're able to bear any of those burdens, you might try finding that same fortitude for a similar purpose.
I haven't checked the quotations from the Quran, but Christians have always been accused of idolatry by Jews and Muslims. I don't know if that quote applies to Christians - I'm only saying that it could.
The worship of images had stolen into the church by insensible degrees, and each petty step was pleasing to the superstitious mind, as productive of comfort, and innocent of sin. But in the beginning of the eighth century, in the full magnitude of the abuse, the more timorous Greeks were awakened by an apprehension, that under the mask of Christianity, they had restored the religion of their fathers: they heard, with grief and impatience, the name of idolaters; the incessant charge of the Jews and Mahometans, who derived from the Law and the Koran an immortal hatred to graven images and all relative worship. The servitude of the Jews might curb their zeal, and depreciate their authority; but the triumphant Mussulmans, who reigned at Damascus, and threatened Constantinople, cast into the scale of reproach the accumulated weight of truth and victory.
Sometimes when I want to draw something and I can't decide what to draw I'll open The GIMP, render some noise and stare at it until I see an interesting drawing in it. It works even better with the sort of bathroom stalls that have the tiny flecks of color all over them. When I'm on the toilet at home, I read - at work I don't need to, because the stalls are entertaining enough.
who said anything about "perils" ? You did. Lets not quibble over the term.
no i dont... and in the Evolution context Domination is not WillToPower but WillToSurvive and WillToImposeYourGenes. and since when Domination==BruteForce/MusclePower ?!.. anyway, dont underestimate the BruteForce... it's still there and it will always be. Up, down, left, right - found a point yet? More quibbling, too.
and interesting that you gave a Nietzsche quote to support your pacifist-intelectual views... AFAIK, he was one of the biggest advocates of the AlphaMale, BruteForce and such It is interesting. You're wrong....which was my point..:)
Domination and the macho attitude in IT is really the morality of a squirming mass of degenerate weaklings - weak in the intellectual sense, of course. and where did i say anything different? I'm on candid camera!
And you're right; all the stupid talk about how we supposedly need 8 glasses of water a day makes it worse. I've had people tell me I should be drinking that much water, regardless of how much food or drink I take in. That figure doesn't take into account all the water in your food, for one thing, and drinking that much pure water without electrolytes is a recipe for disaster, or at least a headache. Well, the wiki says that it's dangerous to drink a lot of water 'in a sitting,' so I don't think it's necessarily true that that number is bad - made up, sure...but not dangerous.
Consuming as little as 1.8 litres of water (0.48 gal) in a single sitting may prove fatal for a person adhering to a low-sodium diet, or 3 litres (0.79 gallons) for a person on a normal diet. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
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You do realize that crime is a complex issue, right? It's absurd to suggest that armed citizens is the solution.
I think you want to find an analog in classical music. Composers compose for many reasons (maybe they just enjoy it) - like the growing community of FOSS developers. If someone with money values their work, they might get a commission. If a country values their work, they might get a subsidy or grant. If I value their work, I'll find performers (who I also value) who perform their work. I might pay any number of people to get to that performance. There are many ways for an artist to make money like this. Right now, there's only one way - the RIAA way.
This would work if someone were to integrate a chording keyboard into it.
Many philosophers agree with you and have for a long time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism
The user community isn't static. The original adopters did and still want a lean application, but as the user base expands more interests become involved. I'd imagine that balancing those interests is difficult, though I confess that I've never developed anything on that scale - maybe it's really easy and users are jerks.
When I first got the Reader I flipped out because I saw a ghost of the load screen at the next screen. However, in normal operation (though menus and page-turning) it first blanks the screen by displaying a negative of the page and then refreshing with the current page.
From what I've read about the E-ink displays, I think you'd sacrifice resolution for color. Why color, though? It's not for looking at photos, it's for reading books. Few books I've read have needed color (and those are mostly instructional books, not literature). I've got a Reader and I initially was upset by the lack of input, however, I can't do that with a regular book and I can search the copies I keep on my machine. It's really like a regular book with some minor conveniences. It's not a laptop.
If the refresh rate is anything like the Sony Reader (I have one), then you won't be using it as a monitor any time soon. Not as your primary monitor anyway. I would like a peripheral display for my desk in which I could dump text for reading. Actually, I was thinking the other day that if they could get the refresh rate good enough, it'd be a GREAT way to code.
I have the Reader as well, but I like the screen size. However, I would like two sides - like a book. I think a letter-sized display would be a mistake. I find that text blocks are a bit too wide for comfortable reading.
Answering my email in the palm of my hand is good enough. I don't need major surgery for hardware upgrades.
You stay here. I'm going.
I just disabled all images from images.slashdot.org. It's not a bad way to live a life.
If you're saying that promoting diverse role models is good for all children, I have to agree and thank you because I hadn't thought about it quite that way before.
Your question is wrong. The correct questions is, "are you acknowledging racism when you acknowledge that children identify more with people who look like them?" The answer is yes. You argument basically boils down to "Racism is a natural state for humans, so we should just go with it." Do you feel the same way about the Klan as you do about the Black racists? And your argument boils down to: "To end racism, we must ignore it."
It's getting kind of crazy around here with all the people who are demanding both freedom of speech and respect for their own beliefs.
Political correctness is for politicians. It's good for them because they can follow those loose guidelines and not alienate potential voters. I find it useful also, because I work and socialize with many different kinds of people. I value their friendship and so I don't use racial epithets. Your problem is that you live in a pluralistic society and we don't like bigots.
Your attitude is finding a home in many places, so I don't buy the oppressed freedom-fighter posture. You've been forced, in the same manner, to wear nice clothing to a wedding or a job interview. You've also been forced to be nice to white males you don't like. If you're able to bear any of those burdens, you might try finding that same fortitude for a similar purpose.
From chapter XLIX of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
Sometimes when I want to draw something and I can't decide what to draw I'll open The GIMP, render some noise and stare at it until I see an interesting drawing in it. It works even better with the sort of bathroom stalls that have the tiny flecks of color all over them. When I'm on the toilet at home, I read - at work I don't need to, because the stalls are entertaining enough.
I'm not sure it's Flash's fault. However, a developer who is aware of the problem can take steps to fix it.
- a-flash-animation-on-linux-its-possible/
http://blog.marcoos.com/2006/07/21/html-div-above
and since when Domination==BruteForce/MusclePower ?!
Well, the wiki says that it's dangerous to drink a lot of water 'in a sitting,' so I don't think it's necessarily true that that number is bad - made up, sure...but not dangerous. Consuming as little as 1.8 litres of water (0.48 gal) in a single sitting may prove fatal for a person adhering to a low-sodium diet, or 3 litres (0.79 gallons) for a person on a normal diet. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication