What is Mr Kirby Jr's stance on all this? Does he want money?
He didn't do any of the work, he just inherited copyrights.
Worse than a patent troll.
So you have a problem with inheritance? You think his family shouldn't have inherited the house, either? You think that when somebody dies, all their posessions should revert to the State? Or just the stuff that you want?
I have always wondered, why exactly, because for me, comic books are for those who are literacy-challenged and/or don't have a developed fantasy.
For you, maybe. Others aren't so narrow minded, and realise that like any other expressive medium, comics can be used to cover the entire artistic range, from high art to complete crap. Only some of them "are for those who are literacy-challenged and/or don't have a developed fantasy."
It was a huge loss of time in my schooldays (1960s), with hours practicing in a copybook every evening trying to develop a legible style. I routinely have to take notes on paper, as I have to keep a logbook. If I ever want to read it again, I print. My kids were taught cursive (1990s) but don't use it; they have to take notes at college now, but prefer to print.
However, it has been a couple of decades since most people actually needed to sit down with a pen and piece of paper and write reams of content in a single sitting.
Not done a humanities exam recently, have you? It would be easy to solve that, of course, although in my experience those responsible for humanities exams might not find it so.
The thing with "doesn't matter to me" is that opinion on cursive writing is always going to be polarised. On a forum like Slashdot there's usually no point even raising the issue. The forum is largely populated with philistines who couldn't give a fuck about anything as individual as handwriting.
OK, I guess I made my own position clear enough in the last sentence. Yes, I still write with a fountain-pen (and sometimes even a quill) on paper in addition to using a keyboard.
There is still a lot to be said for a low-tech approach that is not vulnerable to power blackouts, viruses, malware or spyware.
I too prefer to use a fountain pen, and I've done paid work as a calligrapher. But I still think it's right that cursive be allowed to die back to a specialist niche.
Not "die a death", but be quietly put into a retirement home. There are still people who can do copperplate engraving (and I mean egraving, not just the handwriting style), which is great as a historic craft but has little real-world use. I think cursive handwriting is in the same boat, to be relegated to specialist calligraphers.
It sounds like the cold startup or poorly designed starters is your issue. It may be lower electrical certification standards that let in bulbs that do not work very well.
Cold startup does seem to be the issue. I'm not sure whether that's even addressed by certification standards. I see from Wikipedia that some CFLs take up to three minutes to come to their rated brightness, and that one minute is common.
I'm using the best ones available in local stores, so I expect my experience to be widespread (and indeed, I have seen a lot of complaints online about this very issue)
Incidentally, where are you finding those bulbs designed for 240v? The nominal voltage across Europe (including the UK) has been 230v since 1998, so even if in practice the UK electricity supply companies are still delivering 240v (it's within the permitted tolerance) it's unlikely to be the design voltage of bulbs as the manufacturers will want to sell to the wider market.
Why is that modded troll? It's a significant issue with CFLs -- they need time to warm up, so in rooms one pacces through rather than rests in (eg, hallways and landings) one is out of the room again before they're bright enough to be much use.
How do those not equate? If setting policy and providing funding doesn't count as running something then the government doesn't run the civil service, the school system, the police force, or the military.
It depends what you mean by "run" -- day-to-day it's run by independent trusts, the government is distant from that and there's very limited opportunity for government corruption to impact service delivery.
That's not to say I don't think universal, publicly-funded, healthcare is a bad idea, but I think that the USA would do better to fix its government before giving it more responsibilities.
Never a bad idea, but your argument over healthcare looks a bit post hoc ergo procter hoc. In the UK at least the government doesn't really run the health system, they just set policy and provide the money.
It will get vastly worse when the government takes total control. Every bit player will get their funding for their "medical" devices and the only thing not getting real money is patient care.
The evidence is against you there -- most countries with state healthcare provision get better health outcomes for about the same per-capita spending as the US government is already spending on healthcare. Your health insurance contributions are buying you nothing in terms of health (though I grant that they might buy you nicer places to be sick in). Have a look at the cross-country comparisons and see who you think is being shafted at the moment. Of course, you might be right, if the US government is really that much better than all other countries at screwing things up, but you'll have a hard time convincing us Brits of that (and I suspect some other countries will want to see evidence, too) because if there's one thing our government is good at it's screwing things up. And even that doesn't come close to matching how bad your health insurers are.
Why was that modded offtopic? Clearly it was going to be about how "how many people suddenly come down with "disabilities" once insurance companies start paying for fancy PDAs and SmartPhones", although I'm not sure that attention deficit disorder is much helped by fancy PDAs and -- oh, look! A butterfly!
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Maybe the mods don't think that sucking donkey balls is bad? (Search the page for "Specialty Foods" -- work safe)
The burgers you see in photographs are not even edible.
Whereas the ones you buy from McDonalds ... er ...
Why?
What is Mr Kirby Jr's stance on all this? Does he want money?
He didn't do any of the work, he just inherited copyrights.
Worse than a patent troll.
So you have a problem with inheritance? You think his family shouldn't have inherited the house, either? You think that when somebody dies, all their posessions should revert to the State? Or just the stuff that you want?
I have always wondered, why exactly, because for me, comic books are for those who are literacy-challenged and/or don't have a developed fantasy.
For you, maybe. Others aren't so narrow minded, and realise that like any other expressive medium, comics can be used to cover the entire artistic range, from high art to complete crap. Only some of them "are for those who are literacy-challenged and/or don't have a developed fantasy."
It would be nice if us lefties had a system like this, too...
You have -- Google for images of Leonardo da Vinci's handwriting.
It was a huge loss of time in my schooldays (1960s), with hours practicing in a copybook every evening trying to develop a legible style. I routinely have to take notes on paper, as I have to keep a logbook. If I ever want to read it again, I print. My kids were taught cursive (1990s) but don't use it; they have to take notes at college now, but prefer to print.
However, it has been a couple of decades since most people actually needed to sit down with a pen and piece of paper and write reams of content in a single sitting.
Not done a humanities exam recently, have you? It would be easy to solve that, of course, although in my experience those responsible for humanities exams might not find it so.
The thing with "doesn't matter to me" is that opinion on cursive writing is always going to be polarised. On a forum like Slashdot there's usually no point even raising the issue. The forum is largely populated with philistines who couldn't give a fuck about anything as individual as handwriting. OK, I guess I made my own position clear enough in the last sentence. Yes, I still write with a fountain-pen (and sometimes even a quill) on paper in addition to using a keyboard. There is still a lot to be said for a low-tech approach that is not vulnerable to power blackouts, viruses, malware or spyware.
I too prefer to use a fountain pen, and I've done paid work as a calligrapher. But I still think it's right that cursive be allowed to die back to a specialist niche.
Not "die a death", but be quietly put into a retirement home. There are still people who can do copperplate engraving (and I mean egraving, not just the handwriting style), which is great as a historic craft but has little real-world use. I think cursive handwriting is in the same boat, to be relegated to specialist calligraphers.
Whoosh...
I think you'll find that they all fail to break even because all of the money is spent on subcontracors, subsidiaries and so on.
wisdow
OCR error?
Exactly how do you think such a law could ever get on the statutes?
like fo rreal , rapists , murderers and other real crime that hurts people?
I think you'll find that laws are already in place to deal with such crimes.
Where do you get those (in the UK)? One to three minutes is the norm for the stuff in stores here.
It sounds like the cold startup or poorly designed starters is your issue. It may be lower electrical certification standards that let in bulbs that do not work very well.
Cold startup does seem to be the issue. I'm not sure whether that's even addressed by certification standards. I see from Wikipedia that some CFLs take up to three minutes to come to their rated brightness, and that one minute is common.
I'm using the best ones available in local stores, so I expect my experience to be widespread (and indeed, I have seen a lot of complaints online about this very issue)
Incidentally, where are you finding those bulbs designed for 240v? The nominal voltage across Europe (including the UK) has been 230v since 1998, so even if in practice the UK electricity supply companies are still delivering 240v (it's within the permitted tolerance) it's unlikely to be the design voltage of bulbs as the manufacturers will want to sell to the wider market.
Any of these credible?
Why is that modded troll? It's a significant issue with CFLs -- they need time to warm up, so in rooms one pacces through rather than rests in (eg, hallways and landings) one is out of the room again before they're bright enough to be much use.
How do those not equate? If setting policy and providing funding doesn't count as running something then the government doesn't run the civil service, the school system, the police force, or the military.
It depends what you mean by "run" -- day-to-day it's run by independent trusts, the government is distant from that and there's very limited opportunity for government corruption to impact service delivery.
That's not to say I don't think universal, publicly-funded, healthcare is a bad idea, but I think that the USA would do better to fix its government before giving it more responsibilities.
Never a bad idea, but your argument over healthcare looks a bit post hoc ergo procter hoc. In the UK at least the government doesn't really run the health system, they just set policy and provide the money.
On the other hand, if you think prevention is better than cure...
Do you have a reference for that by the way?
That's irrelevant. It will happen whether the ISPs look for malware activity or not.
It will get vastly worse when the government takes total control. Every bit player will get their funding for their "medical" devices and the only thing not getting real money is patient care.
The evidence is against you there -- most countries with state healthcare provision get better health outcomes for about the same per-capita spending as the US government is already spending on healthcare. Your health insurance contributions are buying you nothing in terms of health (though I grant that they might buy you nicer places to be sick in). Have a look at the cross-country comparisons and see who you think is being shafted at the moment. Of course, you might be right, if the US government is really that much better than all other countries at screwing things up, but you'll have a hard time convincing us Brits of that (and I suspect some other countries will want to see evidence, too) because if there's one thing our government is good at it's screwing things up. And even that doesn't come close to matching how bad your health insurers are.
Why was that modded offtopic? Clearly it was going to be about how "how many people suddenly come down with "disabilities" once insurance companies start paying for fancy PDAs and SmartPhones", although I'm not sure that attention deficit disorder is much helped by fancy PDAs and -- oh, look! A butterfly!