Just because this Dan Savage guy came up with the strongest political advertising campaign of the last few centuries.
And in doing so, he was steadfastly doing the work of $deity [insert appropriate homily for chosen invisible friend, such as: praise be upon him, blessed be his name, etc.]. Ever notice how $deity is usually a male, and lacks a female consort?
Actually, that sounds like a really good excuse for a high schooler to use! "I just googled Santorum and this page came up! Why is that donkey wrestling that man?"
Or, "I always thought Santorum was a yucky kind of guy, but really!"
[no links... everyone is probably avoiding any links in this discussion]
Look at movies from 50 years ago and see the floors full of secretaries. Those jobs are all gone now.
Look at movies from 100 years ago. There were horses. The horse-shoers all lost their jobs.
120 years ago 80% of Americans worked in farms now 2% do. Look at all those lost jobs.
I get what you're saying, but sometimes the details are more complicated than a first impression would suggest.
For instance, the population of horses in the US has been increasing since the 1950s, but is still only half its peak of roughly 20 million which occurred about a century ago. The number of farriers in work has probably tracked the number of horses (farriers also put shoes on mules, but there is much less demand for this). Of course, many horses are used for recreation nowadays rather than for work, so the breed proportions have shifted from mostly coldblood draught horses to mostly warmblood and fullblood riding horses. Also, the geographic distribution has changed so that most horses live in regions just outside urban areas, rather than in farmland; the farriers' work has followed the horses.
If you dig around on the web, you can find some historical estimates of US horse populations, which can be taken with as many grains of salt as you think appropriate:
1867 = 8 million
1915 = 21 million
1940 = 6 million
1950 = 2 million
1960 = 3 million
They're reducing their costs, not their prices.
Prices will go down if there is competitive pressure. Which apparently, is largely absent from the US market.
That would be the Ponderal Index, which assumes mass is proportional to the cube of height, and has some use in pediatrics. However, non-infant humans don't scale like spheres. Unfortunately, they also don't scale such that mass is proportional to the square of height, which the BMI assumes. A statistical fit to height and weight data for the US yields an exponent of about 2.6 for those aged 2 to 19 years. Note that this exponent slightly underestimates weight for persons shorter than 40" or taller than 65", and slightly overestimates it for those of height from 45" to 60". Apparently, medical underwriters don't rely just on BMI, but assume the Ponderal index has at least as much significance in assessing health risks from weight.
Study the techniques of Bob the Bastard in testing hardware. Apply analogous techniques to software. Software developers will fear and respect you, and tremble at the mention of your name.
Optional for power users who want them, not required for simple tasks like mounting an image where a mouse click will do.
And that's the way it's been on almost any Linux distribution, for quite a while. On Ubuntu 10.04, I just right click on an ISO file and select the mount option. Then it appears as a new drive on the desktop. It works about the same, whether you're using a Gnome desktop, or KDE, or LXDE, or xfce. Probably also on other desktop environments or window managers, but those are the ones I'm familiar with.
Of course, with Linux, you can ALSO do it via the command line. This is very useful on a headless (no GUI) machine, which Windows curiously lacks support for.
Pretty soon, it didn't matter what you searched for, you got back the same 10 porn sites.
You know, I think I only got a porn link from an Alta Vista search if I was explicitly searching for porn. At least, that was in the days when it had boolean search criteria, which I almost always used (e.g. "Fractional NEAR (differintegral OR calculus)"). Maybe it went even further downhill than I thought after they abandoned the boolean query.
Evil compared to what? Mother Theresa and Ghandi perhaps, but compared to Facebook and the worst of the worst that is Microsoft they are still saints.
Actually, I'd class Google as a saint compared to Mother Teresa, who believed that suffering was good, and ensured it was widespread in her "hospices", and publicly stated that poverty should not be alleviated because it also was a good thing.
I used to use Alta Vista as my main search engine, back when they supported boolean queries (the "NEAR" keyword!). When they dropped that capability, I abandoned them. Google didn't really become better than Alta Vista. Alta Vista became worse than Google.
nobody uses aero in everyday language nowadays, that's the reason.
the reason is that Aero ltd. changed it's name to Finnair in '68.
Aerosmith and Aeroflot seem to be behind the times. Maybe they're used to it. But it's odd to juxtapose them in the same sentence.
Copyright until year X. Not starting year X.
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For simplicity, copyright should be a fixed term. Then, when you buy something, and see it says right on the package that "This item is Copyright 2006" and you know that after X years you are free to copy it and distribute all you like.
I would much rather see the package say "This item is copyright until 2020" and know that on 1 January 2021 it would no longer be under copyright and be freely copyable.
States Rights. This is a conglomeration of 50 individual states. There is no 'national election'.
The current SCOTUS would probably rule that elections to Federal offices (President, Congress) very obviously fall under the Interstate Commerce and/or the Necessary and Proper clauses of the constitution. Their reasoning would be bizarre and impenetrable, but their decision is final.
Explain how, given that when someone uses "Happy Birthday To You" royalties are paid to Warner Music, these monies compensate the writers/musicians/artists/designers/videographers and other creators involved in this work. In your answer, include the non-disputed facts that: (1) the melody is identical to the song "Good Morning to All", written and composed by Patty and Mildred in 1893; (2) the combination of melody and lyrics in "Happy Birthday to You" first appeared in print in 1912 and (3) the Summy Company registered for copyright of this work in 1935.
You will automatically receive an F if you discuss or reference any post-World War 2 work.
Probably because of the kind of people and organizations that Teddy Roosevelt referred to as "malefactors of great wealth", and which caused him to set up the trust-busting organs of the US government when president of the USA (he also established the national parks and bodies for food inspection, drug purity, and so forth). If only the US had a comparable individual among its candidates today...
N9 is the best looking phone out there with the best looking OS. Of course it sells.
This appears to be so. I live in one of the markets where the N9 is sold (apparently, it's deliberately not sold in some major markets), and I've seen a fair number of them on the go. The N9 was on the market first, but I have yet to see anyone with a Lumia. This is despite the major Lumia promotion which has been going on for a few weeks, and the recent drops in prices for Lumia phones. Our junk mail has numerous Lumia offers and most of the specialist phone shops, electronics/computer stores, appliance stores, and some of the larger supermarkets have lots of posters and display stands for Lumia.
It also explains why Nokia management fell into Microsoft arms in nanoseconds. Unfortunately, they are made for each other.
But only in the sense of dicks and assholes. It's the sort of union which is destined to be fruitless in the long term, and probably quite uncomfortable.
...because I will continue to not use Twitter at all.
Likewise. I even dare to hope that the regular news media will soon relegate twitter-derived "news" to an appropriate small-print corner. While it preserves the superficiality of any message in the typical tweet, this geographical/national segregation and potential censorship will eviscerate what little plausibility they had.
No other company responded that could meet all our requirements.
It sounds like those respondents did not meet your requirements either. As you said, Google could not "promise that our data would never leave Europe", and Microsoft first said they could, then recanted after they got the order.
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Just because this Dan Savage guy came up with the strongest political advertising campaign of the last few centuries.
And in doing so, he was steadfastly doing the work of $deity [insert appropriate homily for chosen invisible friend, such as: praise be upon him, blessed be his name, etc.]. Ever notice how $deity is usually a male, and lacks a female consort?
Actually, that sounds like a really good excuse for a high schooler to use! "I just googled Santorum and this page came up! Why is that donkey wrestling that man?"
Or, "I always thought Santorum was a yucky kind of guy, but really!"
[no links... everyone is probably avoiding any links in this discussion]
So "Rapid Rewards" becomes "Raped Rewards". So it goes.
Look at movies from 50 years ago and see the floors full of secretaries. Those jobs are all gone now. Look at movies from 100 years ago. There were horses. The horse-shoers all lost their jobs. 120 years ago 80% of Americans worked in farms now 2% do. Look at all those lost jobs.
I get what you're saying, but sometimes the details are more complicated than a first impression would suggest.
For instance, the population of horses in the US has been increasing since the 1950s, but is still only half its peak of roughly 20 million which occurred about a century ago. The number of farriers in work has probably tracked the number of horses (farriers also put shoes on mules, but there is much less demand for this). Of course, many horses are used for recreation nowadays rather than for work, so the breed proportions have shifted from mostly coldblood draught horses to mostly warmblood and fullblood riding horses. Also, the geographic distribution has changed so that most horses live in regions just outside urban areas, rather than in farmland; the farriers' work has followed the horses.
If you dig around on the web, you can find some historical estimates of US horse populations, which can be taken with as many grains of salt as you think appropriate:
1867 = 8 million
1915 = 21 million
1940 = 6 million
1950 = 2 million
1960 = 3 million
They're reducing their costs, not their prices.
Prices will go down if there is competitive pressure. Which apparently, is largely absent from the US market.
Isn't weight proportional to cube of height?
That would be the Ponderal Index, which assumes mass is proportional to the cube of height, and has some use in pediatrics. However, non-infant humans don't scale like spheres. Unfortunately, they also don't scale such that mass is proportional to the square of height, which the BMI assumes. A statistical fit to height and weight data for the US yields an exponent of about 2.6 for those aged 2 to 19 years. Note that this exponent slightly underestimates weight for persons shorter than 40" or taller than 65", and slightly overestimates it for those of height from 45" to 60". Apparently, medical underwriters don't rely just on BMI, but assume the Ponderal index has at least as much significance in assessing health risks from weight.
...it's probably not alive any more.
Any tips?
Study the techniques of Bob the Bastard in testing hardware. Apply analogous techniques to software. Software developers will fear and respect you, and tremble at the mention of your name.
Optional for power users who want them, not required for simple tasks like mounting an image where a mouse click will do.
And that's the way it's been on almost any Linux distribution, for quite a while. On Ubuntu 10.04, I just right click on an ISO file and select the mount option. Then it appears as a new drive on the desktop. It works about the same, whether you're using a Gnome desktop, or KDE, or LXDE, or xfce. Probably also on other desktop environments or window managers, but those are the ones I'm familiar with.
Of course, with Linux, you can ALSO do it via the command line. This is very useful on a headless (no GUI) machine, which Windows curiously lacks support for.
Some of the toughest exams I've ever taken have been open book.
Same here. My observation was that if the test was "open-book", the books would not be much help.
Pretty soon, it didn't matter what you searched for, you got back the same 10 porn sites.
You know, I think I only got a porn link from an Alta Vista search if I was explicitly searching for porn. At least, that was in the days when it had boolean search criteria, which I almost always used (e.g. "Fractional NEAR (differintegral OR calculus)"). Maybe it went even further downhill than I thought after they abandoned the boolean query.
Evil compared to what? Mother Theresa and Ghandi perhaps, but compared to Facebook and the worst of the worst that is Microsoft they are still saints.
Actually, I'd class Google as a saint compared to Mother Teresa, who believed that suffering was good, and ensured it was widespread in her "hospices", and publicly stated that poverty should not be alleviated because it also was a good thing.
All the cool kids used Alta Vista.
I used to use Alta Vista as my main search engine, back when they supported boolean queries (the "NEAR" keyword!). When they dropped that capability, I abandoned them. Google didn't really become better than Alta Vista. Alta Vista became worse than Google.
nobody uses aero in everyday language nowadays, that's the reason. the reason is that Aero ltd. changed it's name to Finnair in '68.
Aerosmith and Aeroflot seem to be behind the times. Maybe they're used to it. But it's odd to juxtapose them in the same sentence.
For simplicity, copyright should be a fixed term. Then, when you buy something, and see it says right on the package that "This item is Copyright 2006" and you know that after X years you are free to copy it and distribute all you like.
I would much rather see the package say "This item is copyright until 2020" and know that on 1 January 2021 it would no longer be under copyright and be freely copyable.
Why not a national ID system?
States Rights. This is a conglomeration of 50 individual states. There is no 'national election'.
The current SCOTUS would probably rule that elections to Federal offices (President, Congress) very obviously fall under the Interstate Commerce and/or the Necessary and Proper clauses of the constitution. Their reasoning would be bizarre and impenetrable, but their decision is final.
Can you imagine the swift response to correct the problem when the government workers find out they can't surf pr0n all day!
Hey, don't exaggerate. They aren't surfing pr0n all day; just for eight hours (maybe less if they're in late or leave early).
Presumably, they'll just get employees who can simulate working. While goofing off.
"Okay, lets get this started. Assume the position."
FTFY.
Explain how, given that when someone uses "Happy Birthday To You" royalties are paid to Warner Music, these monies compensate the writers/musicians/artists/designers/videographers and other creators involved in this work. In your answer, include the non-disputed facts that: (1) the melody is identical to the song "Good Morning to All", written and composed by Patty and Mildred in 1893; (2) the combination of melody and lyrics in "Happy Birthday to You" first appeared in print in 1912 and (3) the Summy Company registered for copyright of this work in 1935.
You will automatically receive an F if you discuss or reference any post-World War 2 work.
Probably because of the kind of people and organizations that Teddy Roosevelt referred to as "malefactors of great wealth", and which caused him to set up the trust-busting organs of the US government when president of the USA (he also established the national parks and bodies for food inspection, drug purity, and so forth). If only the US had a comparable individual among its candidates today...
N9 is the best looking phone out there with the best looking OS. Of course it sells.
This appears to be so. I live in one of the markets where the N9 is sold (apparently, it's deliberately not sold in some major markets), and I've seen a fair number of them on the go. The N9 was on the market first, but I have yet to see anyone with a Lumia. This is despite the major Lumia promotion which has been going on for a few weeks, and the recent drops in prices for Lumia phones. Our junk mail has numerous Lumia offers and most of the specialist phone shops, electronics/computer stores, appliance stores, and some of the larger supermarkets have lots of posters and display stands for Lumia.
It also explains why Nokia management fell into Microsoft arms in nanoseconds. Unfortunately, they are made for each other.
But only in the sense of dicks and assholes. It's the sort of union which is destined to be fruitless in the long term, and probably quite uncomfortable.
I know what TANSTAFFL means
Did you mean TANSTAAFL? If not, please enlighten us.
...because I will continue to not use Twitter at all.
Likewise. I even dare to hope that the regular news media will soon relegate twitter-derived "news" to an appropriate small-print corner. While it preserves the superficiality of any message in the typical tweet, this geographical/national segregation and potential censorship will eviscerate what little plausibility they had.
No other company responded that could meet all our requirements.
It sounds like those respondents did not meet your requirements either. As you said, Google could not "promise that our data would never leave Europe", and Microsoft first said they could, then recanted after they got the order.