The prof talks about throwing out this test result and about the "great efforts" of his staff to write a new test which this time does not use material from the textbook publisher's test bank.
WTF?!
The prof was too lazy to write his own exam questions? He simply copied questions provided by the publisher?
Tuition money spent by a class of 530 students wasn't enough to pay this prof to write his own exam!?
This may be a disaster for Person X trying to communicate to Person Y how to search for a particular topic. The terms that yield good results for X may receive hidden help from X's personal context, which is totally murky and can't be readily communicated to Y, let alone typed in the search box...
As a simplified example, consider how the agriculture professor and a freshman student may end up with wildly divergent search results for "Onion"...
I'm not sure why I should see compelling people to support political platforms that they vehemently disagree with as an expansion of freedom.
Because there is a serious public interest at stake in informing the public of the proposed policies of each candidate whose name appears on sufficient ballots to become president.
eliminating money from the equation necessarily means restricting free speech.
Granting free, scheduled time on the publicly owned airwaves to all candidates on the ballot would put a serious dent in the power of unbalanced money.
The solution -- so often the case -- is more speech, not less.
"Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free."
(2) The irony of the Native American singing "This land was my land," with the response line, "But now it's our land," is sharp and poignant commentary on the original song, easily qualifying it as a parody. It's an angle I've thought of when hearing Woody claim the land for many, many years.
if this is MY stop, I want to know if I'm dealing with a multiple ax murderer BEFORE I try to put him in cuffs and into the back of my cruiser.
Sorry, but patting him down for axes or other weapons is sufficient to protect you, and that is exactly what is allowed under a Terry stop.
You may WANT to know all kinds of extraneous info beyond the presence of weapons, but your immediate safety does not require it. The Fourth Amendment stands.
and of our continuing infantilism that our political views are expressed through games?
Perhaps our nation's infantile approach to international politics is actually most appropriately expressed via juvenile forms such as trading cards and coloring books...
> And getting to the main point- even the lockheed model is ugly
Yes, it's absolutely crucial that people-killing machines look cool. Who cares if we leave a stack of dead corpses we leave in our wake, so long as we look cool doing it?
Trading card (no, not by Topps) to make the point: Pretty Weapons.
When the Hugos go wrong (and they do; The Dispossessed is an interesting book, but it's nowhere near as significant as The Shockwave Rider, the Nebula winner that year)
You seem to have your books confused. The Dispossessed won both the Nebula and the Hugo. Brunner won the 1969 Hugo for Stand on Zanzibar, but has not won a Nebula. Check this site for award lists.
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The prof talks about throwing out this test result and about the "great efforts" of his staff to write a new test which this time does not use material from the textbook publisher's test bank.
WTF?!
The prof was too lazy to write his own exam questions? He simply copied questions provided by the publisher?
Tuition money spent by a class of 530 students wasn't enough to pay this prof to write his own exam!?
I don't want Google reading and storing my mail in perpetual archives!
I expect the feds love all this consolidated data collection that Google makes so convenient for them.
This may be a disaster for Person X trying to communicate to Person Y how to search for a particular topic. The terms that yield good results for X may receive hidden help from X's personal context, which is totally murky and can't be readily communicated to Y, let alone typed in the search box...
As a simplified example, consider how the agriculture professor and a freshman student may end up with wildly divergent search results for "Onion"...
I'm not sure why I should see compelling people to support political platforms that they vehemently disagree with as an expansion of freedom.
Because there is a serious public interest at stake in informing the public of the proposed policies of each candidate whose name appears on sufficient ballots to become president.
More information = stronger democracy.
eliminating money from the equation necessarily means restricting free speech.
Granting free, scheduled time on the publicly owned airwaves to all candidates on the ballot would put a serious dent in the power of unbalanced money.
The solution -- so often the case -- is more speech, not less.
As expressed by Utah Phillips:
"Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free."
(1) Woody can be heard singing the "private property" verse on the Smithsonian Folkways release, "This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1". It's track #14.
(2) The irony of the Native American singing "This land was my land," with the response line, "But now it's our land," is sharp and poignant commentary on the original song, easily qualifying it as a parody. It's an angle I've thought of when hearing Woody claim the land for many, many years.
Sorry, but patting him down for axes or other weapons is sufficient to protect you, and that is exactly what is allowed under a Terry stop.
You may WANT to know all kinds of extraneous info beyond the presence of weapons, but your immediate safety does not require it. The Fourth Amendment stands.
Sorry, this is obsolete.
These days the Vice President sets the policy, and the President unquestioningly carries it out.
and of our continuing infantilism that our political views are expressed through games?
Perhaps our nation's infantile approach to international politics is actually most appropriately expressed via juvenile forms such as trading cards and coloring books...
> And getting to the main point- even the lockheed model is ugly
Yes, it's absolutely crucial that people-killing machines look cool . Who cares if we leave a stack of dead corpses we leave in our wake, so long as we look cool doing it?
Trading card (no, not by Topps) to make the point: Pretty Weapons.
It's from a set of 81 American Crusade 2001+ Trading Cards I made to protest this absurd hegemonic war.
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It's == It Is
Its == possessive version of 'it'
The rules of the apostrophe for it/its/it's are a special case
This is not a special case. "Its" belongs to a consistent system.
Meet the Possessive Pronouns: my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, their, theirs.
No possessive pronoun uses an apostrophe.
This helpful tip has been provided by Captain Grammaticus. Use it goodly.
When the Hugos go wrong (and they do; The Dispossessed is an interesting book, but it's nowhere near as significant as The Shockwave Rider, the Nebula winner that year)
You seem to have your books confused. The Dispossessed won both the Nebula and the Hugo. Brunner won the 1969 Hugo for Stand on Zanzibar, but has not won a Nebula. Check this site for award lists.