Real journalists have integrity. Real journalists present data in an unbiased fashion, without spin. Real journalist check their sources, don't manufacture news, and don't commit plagiarism, all of which is rampant on blogs.
I bet you are a wanna-be journalist who does all of the above.
Now shut your hole and go fuck yourself, pissant.
Please identify more than one publication that prints primarily submissions from what you define as "journalists". And why haven't you submitted stories from this publication to slashdot?
I call bullshit on both your posts. China is jailing bloggers, not journalists.
What makes someone a "journalist"? What makes a "blogger" not a "journalist"? Third question, why does it matter if someone who is jailed for what they publish is a "journalist", "blogger", or just some ordinary Schmoe?
You lump two different groups withing the Republican Party as the "U.S. conservatives". You lump the pro business Northeastern Republicans (traditionally referred to as "Rockefeller Republicans") with the Religious Right (traditionally Southern and Midwestern Republicans). You also mis-characterize the Religious Right as desiring to destroy the barrier between church and state.
That is a very good question when this report ( http://www.csdp.org/research/hosb1203.pdf ) says that it rose 26% from 1997 to 2001, while violent crime rates in the US FELL 12%.
The problem with "free health care" being a right, is that means that a doctor is required to give health care to whoever shows up...it is their right to have free health care.
If free health care is a right, then it should be illegal for health care providers to charge for their services. There's the answer for you: make it illegal for health care providers to charge for their services and the health care problem is fixed without requiring any government expenditure.
Rights as understood by those who wrote the U.S. Constitution are things that people have the right to do, not things that they have the right to receive.
Freedom of speech does not mean "respect the opinions of others". There are many people who hold opinions that I have no respect for whatsoever, but I believe that they should be free to express those opinions.
You do know that violent crime has been rising in the UK as they tighten their weapons laws, right? I don't believe that you are correct that UK gun crime has been dropping. The last reference I saw indicated that it has in fact been rising.
The gold standard monetary system is also based 100% on faith. Gold only has the value that other people think it has. To me I would be willing to do about an hours worth of work for a pound of gold (unless of course someone thinks it is worth more than that, and will give me more than that for it). The idea that gold has significant intrinsic value is bullshit.
First off, it is important to remember that slashdot represents the opinions of many different people. It is quite likely that the people who jump all over proprietary software that has a poor quality release are not the same people as the one's who are defending MySQL
Second, there is an important difference between MySQL and a proprietary database solution. I don't have to pay any money for MySQL. If I try MySQL and it chokes on my database, all I am out is my time. If I buy proprietary, I am out money AND my time.
By the same logic, you don't "buy" software, yet the courts have ruled that making a backup copy of the software is fair use. So making a backup copy of the ebook by printing it is legal. Just because he chooses to read his backup copy rather than his original doesn't mean he is breaking the law.
Film makers get SF movies wrong for a basic reason (which you touched upon). Film makers think that SF is an "action" genre (which is not entirely wrong). Unfortunately, the action in many SF works is not central. That is why I expect Hollywood to screw up the Foundation story..."violence is the last refuge of the incompetent". In the Foundation series, Asimov's protagonists never win with violence, they always defuse the antagonist's violence in ways that make it just go "fizz".
I like Asimov better than Heinlein, but I think that Heinlein's stories lend themselves better to Hollywood adaptation than Asimov's (despite what they did to "Starship Troopers").
Of course, when Ayaan Hirsi Ali became too dangerous to have around the Netherlands kicked her out. Yes, I know there are some extenuating circumstances regarding this action, but having followed the story, I believe that she would have been allowed to stay and hold her seat in Parliament if the people of the Netherlands had not been afraid of Muslim violence.
The important thing is that we can actually figure out how to deploy this laser technology on the battlefield without the cooperation of those who desire to use violence to satisfy their desires. How do you propose getting those who desire violence to cooperate in ending wars?
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The scientific theory of ID is that just as some artifacts we find in the world were clearly constructed by intelligent creatures (the basis for much of archeology), some artifacts we find in living creatures were clearly created by intelligent creatures.
This same principle is also used in SETI.
Do HOAs have the deed, or do you yourself actually own the property?
How is it that they can have ANY say in your property, when you have the deed?
(i don't know the answer to question 1, so question 2 might be moot)
I am not sure of the exact legal term, but when you buy the house, you sign the HOA agreement as well. Part of that agreement is that you can only sell your house to someone who signs onto the HOA. The HOA agreement becomes part of the deed.
I believe that the last round of funds approved by the U.S. Congress for higher education included a provision requiring any educational institution receiving federal funds to make "all reasonable efforts" to combat illegal file sharing. I am confident that the federal government would regard your suggestion as the opposite of making "reasonable efforts" to combat illegal file sharing.
Not having a guideline is a good way for your company to be found in contempt of court. It is also a good way for the opposing legal team to convince a court (and public opinion) that the lack of documentation represents a deliberate attempt to cover up wrong doing.
At the time that Article 1 was written, the Constitution specified that the Vice President was the person who got the second most Electoral College votes. That means that usually the Vice President was the President's chief rival, so when Article 1 was written, the Vice President was not viewed as the President's surrogate.
This was changed when Aaron Burr (who was nominated with the intention that he become Vice President) received the same number of Electoral College votes as Thomas Jefferson (nominated by the same party).
I think that in this last election if the original design was in place that Sarah Palin would be Vice President.
Congress was stacked behind him, but the idea of stacking the Supreme Court the way that Roosevelt suggested was so unpopular that Congress refused to go along. In the next Congressional election, Roosevelt campaigned heavily against every Congressman who voted against his proposed Constitutional Amendment (all but one of them won anyway). There was a History Channel show on about FDR just the other night. I think that the Democrats also lost a significant number of seats in the next Congressional election over this, but I may be mixing up elections on that part.
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But... I assume you're in the USA? Does the government there really not equip public schools with IT facilities? I'm genuinely astonished. Surely schools have some facilities, if only a computer room for IT lessons? Is IT on the curriculum at all?!
The answer is: it depends. In the US, education is a local issue (as it should be), so what the government equips the schools with depends on each school district (in the US, a school district is the local government entity responsible for the public schools). In addition to the local control, each state has a basic curriculum that each school must meet, but this curriculum is decided at the state level. There is really no authorization in the US Constitution for the Federal Government to get involved in education (I believe that this was done on purpose by the Founding Fathers and that if they saw what the Federal Government was doing today, they would have made the restrictions on what it can do more explicit).
The "no child left behind" policy is less than 8 years old, school policies that make it almost impossible to fail a student go back much longer than that.
The geocentric model was developed by the Ancient Greeks (Aristotle was a proponent). If many Anthropogenic Global Warming proponents had the same amount of political power as Galileo's rivals, they would do the same to those scientists who disagree with them.
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Real journalists have integrity. Real journalists present data in an unbiased fashion, without spin. Real journalist check their sources, don't manufacture news, and don't commit plagiarism, all of which is rampant on blogs.
I bet you are a wanna-be journalist who does all of the above.
Now shut your hole and go fuck yourself, pissant.
Please identify more than one publication that prints primarily submissions from what you define as "journalists". And why haven't you submitted stories from this publication to slashdot?
I call bullshit on both your posts. China is jailing bloggers, not journalists.
What makes someone a "journalist"? What makes a "blogger" not a "journalist"? Third question, why does it matter if someone who is jailed for what they publish is a "journalist", "blogger", or just some ordinary Schmoe?
You lump two different groups withing the Republican Party as the "U.S. conservatives". You lump the pro business Northeastern Republicans (traditionally referred to as "Rockefeller Republicans") with the Religious Right (traditionally Southern and Midwestern Republicans). You also mis-characterize the Religious Right as desiring to destroy the barrier between church and state.
That is a very good question when this report ( http://www.csdp.org/research/hosb1203.pdf ) says that it rose 26% from 1997 to 2001, while violent crime rates in the US FELL 12%.
The problem with "free health care" being a right, is that means that a doctor is required to give health care to whoever shows up...it is their right to have free health care.
If free health care is a right, then it should be illegal for health care providers to charge for their services. There's the answer for you: make it illegal for health care providers to charge for their services and the health care problem is fixed without requiring any government expenditure.
Rights as understood by those who wrote the U.S. Constitution are things that people have the right to do, not things that they have the right to receive.
Freedom of speech does not mean "respect the opinions of others". There are many people who hold opinions that I have no respect for whatsoever, but I believe that they should be free to express those opinions.
You do know that violent crime has been rising in the UK as they tighten their weapons laws, right? I don't believe that you are correct that UK gun crime has been dropping. The last reference I saw indicated that it has in fact been rising.
The gold standard monetary system is also based 100% on faith. Gold only has the value that other people think it has. To me I would be willing to do about an hours worth of work for a pound of gold (unless of course someone thinks it is worth more than that, and will give me more than that for it). The idea that gold has significant intrinsic value is bullshit.
First off, it is important to remember that slashdot represents the opinions of many different people. It is quite likely that the people who jump all over proprietary software that has a poor quality release are not the same people as the one's who are defending MySQL
Second, there is an important difference between MySQL and a proprietary database solution. I don't have to pay any money for MySQL. If I try MySQL and it chokes on my database, all I am out is my time. If I buy proprietary, I am out money AND my time.
By the same logic, you don't "buy" software, yet the courts have ruled that making a backup copy of the software is fair use. So making a backup copy of the ebook by printing it is legal. Just because he chooses to read his backup copy rather than his original doesn't mean he is breaking the law.
Film makers get SF movies wrong for a basic reason (which you touched upon). Film makers think that SF is an "action" genre (which is not entirely wrong). Unfortunately, the action in many SF works is not central. That is why I expect Hollywood to screw up the Foundation story..."violence is the last refuge of the incompetent". In the Foundation series, Asimov's protagonists never win with violence, they always defuse the antagonist's violence in ways that make it just go "fizz".
I like Asimov better than Heinlein, but I think that Heinlein's stories lend themselves better to Hollywood adaptation than Asimov's (despite what they did to "Starship Troopers").
Of course, when Ayaan Hirsi Ali became too dangerous to have around the Netherlands kicked her out. Yes, I know there are some extenuating circumstances regarding this action, but having followed the story, I believe that she would have been allowed to stay and hold her seat in Parliament if the people of the Netherlands had not been afraid of Muslim violence.
The important thing is that we can actually figure out how to deploy this laser technology on the battlefield without the cooperation of those who desire to use violence to satisfy their desires. How do you propose getting those who desire violence to cooperate in ending wars?
The scientific theory of ID is that just as some artifacts we find in the world were clearly constructed by intelligent creatures (the basis for much of archeology), some artifacts we find in living creatures were clearly created by intelligent creatures.
This same principle is also used in SETI.
Do HOAs have the deed, or do you yourself actually own the property?
How is it that they can have ANY say in your property, when you have the deed?
(i don't know the answer to question 1, so question 2 might be moot)
I am not sure of the exact legal term, but when you buy the house, you sign the HOA agreement as well. Part of that agreement is that you can only sell your house to someone who signs onto the HOA. The HOA agreement becomes part of the deed.
The 1930's called, they want their economic thinking back.
I believe that the last round of funds approved by the U.S. Congress for higher education included a provision requiring any educational institution receiving federal funds to make "all reasonable efforts" to combat illegal file sharing. I am confident that the federal government would regard your suggestion as the opposite of making "reasonable efforts" to combat illegal file sharing.
Good grief, talk about damning with faint praise, Evian tastes terrible.
Yeah, but if an area doesn't have drinkable water, do they really have $1200 to spend on this gizmo?
Not having a guideline is a good way for your company to be found in contempt of court. It is also a good way for the opposing legal team to convince a court (and public opinion) that the lack of documentation represents a deliberate attempt to cover up wrong doing.
At the time that Article 1 was written, the Constitution specified that the Vice President was the person who got the second most Electoral College votes. That means that usually the Vice President was the President's chief rival, so when Article 1 was written, the Vice President was not viewed as the President's surrogate.
This was changed when Aaron Burr (who was nominated with the intention that he become Vice President) received the same number of Electoral College votes as Thomas Jefferson (nominated by the same party).
I think that in this last election if the original design was in place that Sarah Palin would be Vice President.
Congress was stacked behind him, but the idea of stacking the Supreme Court the way that Roosevelt suggested was so unpopular that Congress refused to go along. In the next Congressional election, Roosevelt campaigned heavily against every Congressman who voted against his proposed Constitutional Amendment (all but one of them won anyway). There was a History Channel show on about FDR just the other night. I think that the Democrats also lost a significant number of seats in the next Congressional election over this, but I may be mixing up elections on that part.
I But... I assume you're in the USA? Does the government there really not equip public schools with IT facilities? I'm genuinely astonished. Surely schools have some facilities, if only a computer room for IT lessons? Is IT on the curriculum at all?!
The answer is: it depends. In the US, education is a local issue (as it should be), so what the government equips the schools with depends on each school district (in the US, a school district is the local government entity responsible for the public schools). In addition to the local control, each state has a basic curriculum that each school must meet, but this curriculum is decided at the state level. There is really no authorization in the US Constitution for the Federal Government to get involved in education (I believe that this was done on purpose by the Founding Fathers and that if they saw what the Federal Government was doing today, they would have made the restrictions on what it can do more explicit).
The "no child left behind" policy is less than 8 years old, school policies that make it almost impossible to fail a student go back much longer than that.
The geocentric model was developed by the Ancient Greeks (Aristotle was a proponent). If many Anthropogenic Global Warming proponents had the same amount of political power as Galileo's rivals, they would do the same to those scientists who disagree with them.