Well, I certainly don't fault you. The rights that young people actually have is a very gray area. Clearly, they don't have the exact same rights as adults. They don't have the right to bear arms. They don't have full protection against search and seizure without a warrant. Parents get to determine a lot of these rights. This area is even further muddled because sometimes schools are being charged to act as parents, so there's the questions of which rights THEY get to determine. And then there's the pure politics of it. Personally, I believe the whole law that added "under God" to the PoA is unconstitutional. The more strictly you read the constitution, I think the more obvious it is. The same goes for the "In God We Trust" on the currency (which was put there by an act of Congress at some point). But do I think these things will ever actually get turned over by the courts? Nope. That's just not the country we live in. In the same vein, I think some of the issues about school don't always turn out as one would expect.
It's not so much that I care about who is using it. It's that on the one hand, there is political correctness. This is something that came into fashion as a way to hypersensitively label people without hurting their feelings. I've observed that the people making up the PC terms generally weren't the ones who actually fit those terms (though they would often later buy into them and adopt the terms). The "White Nationalist" term to me seems more like doublespeak. They use that term to try to obscure, evade and influence public opinion. Much like saying "downsizing" instead of "layoffs", "detainee" instead of "prisoner", "homicide bomber" instead of "suicide bomber", "corporal punishment" instead of "spanking", "intelligent design" instead of "creationism", "pro-life/pro-choice" instead of "pro/anti-abortion". The list goes on and on. I don't like lumping both activities under the same term (PC).
Unfortunately, your whole argument falls down on one major point. It's very important that you picked the library analogy, because that's exactly what this isn't. A library is a place with limited time/money/space. Every item placed in a library costs those things. The internet is not a library (cue "tubes" reference). It's something totally different. I suggest we named it something different - "internet" has a nice ring to it. On the internet, you are not using up any of your locations time/money/space to store anything. Information is there for you to pull anytime you want. The only real limitation is with limited bandwidth, which isn't the case that any of these people are making. So when you block a site, it's fundamentally different than stocking a book.
It is, in fact, much more like restricting which books you can bring to school and read while you are on school property. It's a direct infringement of your rights - the question being is whether it's a legal infringements or an illegal infringement. Yes, schools (especially those below university level) get away with a lot of infringement. I think that mostly has to do with the unique position of the affected students not being the taxpayers and getting out of there before the wheels of justice can even begin their rotation. But people do sue and people do win.
As to another theme in your post: "The freedom to speak is not the same as the freedom to be heard." That's a paraphrase, but is often brought up in these situations. But I think that sounds a lot better as a bit of rhetoric than it actually works out in real life. You might agree that it would be unconstitutional for Congress to pass a law banning the publication of holocaust denial literature. But would you say it's constitutional for Congress to pass a law banning the purchase or reading of holocaust denial literature? Can you see that without the freedom to be heard, there really is no freedom to speak?
I would agree that this does not mean we are forced to provide a public forum for anyone's speech. But in these cases, that public forum already exists and you have to go out of your way to remove it. That's why it's a restriction. You're taking away something that would naturally be there.
Is that what the white supremacists are calling themselves these days? The PC (really more "doublespeak" in this case) bandwagon just got a little bit more crowded...
I think it comes into play when the list is used by public entities, such as schools. The use public money and they are an arm of the government, hence the opening for a First Amendment challenge (at least, in the current status where the First Amendment applies to any decision by a publicly funded entity and not just laws passed by Congress). The question is, should each school be sued or should the list making company? Seems a little fishy to go after the company, even if many blocklist companies' practices are kinda suspect. Then again, the company is getting money from a public entity (the schools), so I can see the argument that this "taints" them with "publicness".
I have to agree with you on this one, even if the other replies are jumping on you. At best, that line is just poor grammar. At worst, it's plain wrong.
According to the official Penguin.SWF blog, the a beta release of the long-awaited Flash 9 for Linux is available for download, a mere year after the release for Windows.
According to the official Penguin.SWF blog, the a beta release of the long-awaited Flash 9 for Linux is available for download, a mere year after the beta release for Windows.
Which is a large % of people on a large % of days...
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A monitor's a rather pointless one though as it requires a cable for the power.
Actually, no. Imagine having your CPU in the closet and only your monitor and peripherals at your desk. Or imagine having a monitor/peripherals in a totally different room of the house/office.
Even if it's only two feet away, wireless is nice for... well, for removing wires. Systems can be such a cabling mess. I'm much rather bath in the invisible waves than have to deal with that rat's nest.
This wouldn't happen to be red food coloring, would it? I have a friend who had the same problem as a child/young adult. Red food coloring made him quite irritable.
This article isn't credible. It must be a hoax. I mean, c'mon, you really expect me to believe someone wrote a 1,000 line perl script. And that it did what it was supposed to?
I really don't get the submission process. I sent this in on Friday. It was pending all weekend. Now it's rejected and they post someone's submission that links to an article published this morning. So it wasn't a matter of not being first to the punch. And my submission text was short and to the point with all the relevant details, linking to two different sources. It even had a better quote from Jack: "When kids start showing up in ERs with slingshot wounds at the hands of Bully enthusiasts, don't blame me."
I wouldn't have said anything, but having the main page load saying "Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop" at the top was a bit too much. What a crock.
I'd just like to relate my preorder experience. I saw/.'s posting of the story at about 11:30 (Central). Wasn't really planning on preordering but figure WTH and started calling. The third closest EB/Gamestop to me (still within 5-10 minutes) had two left. Futzed around a bit and then went over there. Got there at about 12:30 and there was still one left.
Just because you don't agree with the JEWS (that's what you mean by neocon, right - you totally give yourself away there)
Speaking only for myself, I have heard and used the term for quite some time before I'd ever heard the whole jewish conspiracy angle. So there's at least ONE person out there who says neocon not because they're anti-semitic, but because they need some term to distinguish between old style conservatives and new style conservatives. I think such a term is needed, as I agree on many points with old style conservatives, but far fewer with the current incarnation.
Vegetable is a culinary term. Its definition has no scientific value and is somewhat arbitrary and subjective.
All parts of an herbaceous plant that humans eat whole or in part is generally considered a vegetable, except for culinary fruits and arguably grains, nuts, herbs, and spices. Also, mushrooms are commonly considered vegetables, despite belonging to a different biological kingdom, namely fungi.
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Since "vegetable" is not a botanical term, there is no contradiction in a plant part being a fruit botanically while still being considered a vegetable (see diagram). See Nix v. Hedden for a United States Supreme Court's ruling on the matter.
The only problem is that people aren't reading. The article submission is completely correct and very to the point. It is a big deal that someone has bettered the Cinematch engine on the probe data set. If the title was "Netflix Prize Competitor Posts Probe Results with an RMSE Smaller Than 0.9474", no one would have any clue what they were saying. The title and summary are 100% accurate.
One important thing to keep in mind is how the Progress Prize works. The minimum for it is a 1% improvement over last years best score. However, the prize doesn't just go to the first to reach that 1%. It goes to the best algorithm that contest year that beats 1%. So if someone posts a 1% solution now and then in 11 months another posts a 2%, the 2% solution gets the prize.
Due to this, there's a big incentive NOT to post any results until near the end of the contest year, unless your results qualify you for the grand prize. Even then, there is a 30 day window in which other people (or you) can beat your results.
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Yes, but in getting the genres mixed up, I think you've hit upon a second major feature of a Shakes MMORPG....
...all I can think about was this awful novel by Robert L. Forward called Camelot 30K. Good science, bad writing.
Well, I certainly don't fault you. The rights that young people actually have is a very gray area. Clearly, they don't have the exact same rights as adults. They don't have the right to bear arms. They don't have full protection against search and seizure without a warrant. Parents get to determine a lot of these rights. This area is even further muddled because sometimes schools are being charged to act as parents, so there's the questions of which rights THEY get to determine. And then there's the pure politics of it. Personally, I believe the whole law that added "under God" to the PoA is unconstitutional. The more strictly you read the constitution, I think the more obvious it is. The same goes for the "In God We Trust" on the currency (which was put there by an act of Congress at some point). But do I think these things will ever actually get turned over by the courts? Nope. That's just not the country we live in. In the same vein, I think some of the issues about school don't always turn out as one would expect.
It's not so much that I care about who is using it. It's that on the one hand, there is political correctness. This is something that came into fashion as a way to hypersensitively label people without hurting their feelings. I've observed that the people making up the PC terms generally weren't the ones who actually fit those terms (though they would often later buy into them and adopt the terms). The "White Nationalist" term to me seems more like doublespeak. They use that term to try to obscure, evade and influence public opinion. Much like saying "downsizing" instead of "layoffs", "detainee" instead of "prisoner", "homicide bomber" instead of "suicide bomber", "corporal punishment" instead of "spanking", "intelligent design" instead of "creationism", "pro-life/pro-choice" instead of "pro/anti-abortion". The list goes on and on. I don't like lumping both activities under the same term (PC).
Unfortunately, your whole argument falls down on one major point. It's very important that you picked the library analogy, because that's exactly what this isn't. A library is a place with limited time/money/space. Every item placed in a library costs those things. The internet is not a library (cue "tubes" reference). It's something totally different. I suggest we named it something different - "internet" has a nice ring to it. On the internet, you are not using up any of your locations time/money/space to store anything. Information is there for you to pull anytime you want. The only real limitation is with limited bandwidth, which isn't the case that any of these people are making. So when you block a site, it's fundamentally different than stocking a book.
It is, in fact, much more like restricting which books you can bring to school and read while you are on school property. It's a direct infringement of your rights - the question being is whether it's a legal infringements or an illegal infringement. Yes, schools (especially those below university level) get away with a lot of infringement. I think that mostly has to do with the unique position of the affected students not being the taxpayers and getting out of there before the wheels of justice can even begin their rotation. But people do sue and people do win.
As to another theme in your post: "The freedom to speak is not the same as the freedom to be heard." That's a paraphrase, but is often brought up in these situations. But I think that sounds a lot better as a bit of rhetoric than it actually works out in real life. You might agree that it would be unconstitutional for Congress to pass a law banning the publication of holocaust denial literature. But would you say it's constitutional for Congress to pass a law banning the purchase or reading of holocaust denial literature? Can you see that without the freedom to be heard, there really is no freedom to speak?
I would agree that this does not mean we are forced to provide a public forum for anyone's speech. But in these cases, that public forum already exists and you have to go out of your way to remove it. That's why it's a restriction. You're taking away something that would naturally be there.
Is that what the white supremacists are calling themselves these days? The PC (really more "doublespeak" in this case) bandwagon just got a little bit more crowded...
I think it comes into play when the list is used by public entities, such as schools. The use public money and they are an arm of the government, hence the opening for a First Amendment challenge (at least, in the current status where the First Amendment applies to any decision by a publicly funded entity and not just laws passed by Congress). The question is, should each school be sued or should the list making company? Seems a little fishy to go after the company, even if many blocklist companies' practices are kinda suspect. Then again, the company is getting money from a public entity (the schools), so I can see the argument that this "taints" them with "publicness".
I have to agree with you on this one, even if the other replies are jumping on you. At best, that line is just poor grammar. At worst, it's plain wrong.
According to the official Penguin.SWF blog, the a beta release of the long-awaited Flash 9 for Linux is available for download, a mere year after the release for Windows.
According to the official Penguin.SWF blog, the a beta release of the long-awaited Flash 9 for Linux is available for download, a mere year after the beta release for Windows.
Makes a world of difference in readability.
Which is a large % of people on a large % of days...
A monitor's a rather pointless one though as it requires a cable for the power.
Actually, no. Imagine having your CPU in the closet and only your monitor and peripherals at your desk. Or imagine having a monitor/peripherals in a totally different room of the house/office.
Even if it's only two feet away, wireless is nice for... well, for removing wires. Systems can be such a cabling mess. I'm much rather bath in the invisible waves than have to deal with that rat's nest.
This wouldn't happen to be red food coloring, would it? I have a friend who had the same problem as a child/young adult. Red food coloring made him quite irritable.
This article isn't credible. It must be a hoax. I mean, c'mon, you really expect me to believe someone wrote a 1,000 line perl script. And that it did what it was supposed to?
I really wanted to do that, but as far as I know it's impossible to get your submission text in slashdot. Do you know of a way?
I really don't get the submission process. I sent this in on Friday. It was pending all weekend. Now it's rejected and they post someone's submission that links to an article published this morning. So it wasn't a matter of not being first to the punch. And my submission text was short and to the point with all the relevant details, linking to two different sources. It even had a better quote from Jack: "When kids start showing up in ERs with slingshot wounds at the hands of Bully enthusiasts, don't blame me."
I wouldn't have said anything, but having the main page load saying "Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop" at the top was a bit too much. What a crock.
You do realize the quote you are including already made this joke, only much more subtly, right? Right?
Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservative#Short comings_and_criticism_of_the_term_.22Neoconservati ve.22 for more info on the JCA. It's more about who first founded the neoconservative movement then it is about most of the gang in Penn. Ave today.
I'd just like to relate my preorder experience. I saw /.'s posting of the story at about 11:30 (Central). Wasn't really planning on preordering but figure WTH and started calling. The third closest EB/Gamestop to me (still within 5-10 minutes) had two left. Futzed around a bit and then went over there. Got there at about 12:30 and there was still one left.
So, all in all pretty easy for me.
Just because you don't agree with the JEWS (that's what you mean by neocon, right - you totally give yourself away there)
Speaking only for myself, I have heard and used the term for quite some time before I'd ever heard the whole jewish conspiracy angle. So there's at least ONE person out there who says neocon not because they're anti-semitic, but because they need some term to distinguish between old style conservatives and new style conservatives. I think such a term is needed, as I agree on many points with old style conservatives, but far fewer with the current incarnation.
Vegetable is a culinary term. Its definition has no scientific value and is somewhat arbitrary and subjective.
All parts of an herbaceous plant that humans eat whole or in part is generally considered a vegetable, except for culinary fruits and arguably grains, nuts, herbs, and spices. Also, mushrooms are commonly considered vegetables, despite belonging to a different biological kingdom, namely fungi.
...
Since "vegetable" is not a botanical term, there is no contradiction in a plant part being a fruit botanically while still being considered a vegetable (see diagram). See Nix v. Hedden for a United States Supreme Court's ruling on the matter.
Los Gatos is in Silicon Valley. Shockingly, there are actually one or two nerds that live there that don't work for Netflix. :P
The only problem is that people aren't reading. The article submission is completely correct and very to the point. It is a big deal that someone has bettered the Cinematch engine on the probe data set. If the title was "Netflix Prize Competitor Posts Probe Results with an RMSE Smaller Than 0.9474", no one would have any clue what they were saying. The title and summary are 100% accurate.
One important thing to keep in mind is how the Progress Prize works. The minimum for it is a 1% improvement over last years best score. However, the prize doesn't just go to the first to reach that 1%. It goes to the best algorithm that contest year that beats 1%. So if someone posts a 1% solution now and then in 11 months another posts a 2%, the 2% solution gets the prize.
Due to this, there's a big incentive NOT to post any results until near the end of the contest year, unless your results qualify you for the grand prize. Even then, there is a 30 day window in which other people (or you) can beat your results.
It's just you. Everyone else read the rules and know what the different scores and sections actually mean.
That might have been the cover story, but I seem to remember at some point it being revealed to be a puppeteer machination.
I don't wear a watch, you insensitive clod!