And no, it's not socialism, not in any meaningful sense of the word. It was, as another poster pointed out, a dictatorship, or more properly an absolute monarchy. It would be like calling the government of Louis XIV a socialist government.
To right-wing nutballs, anything they don't like is socialism. How do they know it's socialism? Because they don't like socialism, and so if there's something they don't like, socialism is what it must be!
Any attempt to point out the flaws in this line of reasoning is, of course, socialist propaganda.
So they are both self-righteous assholes and cowards in my book.
Consider them self-righteous assholes all you want, but calling them (or the Occupiers, for that matter) "cowards" is patently absurd. I suspect you have no conception of what real courage looks like, but feel all tough and brave because you slapped a "Support our Troops" sticker on your SUV.
I think you may have misread the problem. Libraries already have "limited" numbers of e-books; their licenses already prohibit them from lending "copies" of e-books to more than a certain number of customers at a time. What the publishers want is a limit on the total number of times a library can lend a "copy" of an e-book. It's like selling a hardcopy book to a library and saying, "You can only lend this book n times, then you have to throw it away." Which is absurd, especially when n is such a small number: 26 in this case, far far smaller than the number of times a physical book can be lent before it starts to disintegrate.
... I have a hard time believing the open-source-ness of Android played any real part in the decision, no matter what TFA says. Someone at Dell made the right deal with the right people at the Pentagon.
If you want a larger turnout for the elections, you need to offer better candidates; many people stay at home because they despise the choices offered to them.
Again, the solution to this is to work harder. Don't just wait until the general election; get involved in the primaries. And don't just concentrate on the big-ticket races (President, Governor, US Senator and Representative); pay attention to races for state legislature, city council, board of education, county commissioner, etc. The only way we're going to get better candidates is if more people pay attention to the process by which candidates are made. By the time the Tuesday after the first Monday in November rolls around, it's too late.
Primarily because the tax-consumer class keep voting themselves more of the middle class' money. Democracy can only last until the majority realise they can vote to steal from the minority.
Investment bankers and defense contractor CEOs are a majority?
Yep. And the scary thing is that at least in some cases, they apparently believe their own propaganda. When "Look how X we are" is just a cynical bid for profits, it's scummy but understandable. When the corporate culture is so warped and so insulated from reality that they actually think they're X when in fact they're almost the definition of !X, it's kind of terrifying.
But that's okay. The invisible hand of the free market will come along to weed out such inefficiencies and reward the rational actors. Aaaaany day now.
You know, once upon a time, the United States had a Department of War. It's job was to ensure that our country was always at war with some other country. We ditched it in favor of a Department of Defense.
Only the first sentence in the quoted block is true.
I agree with pretty much everything else you said in your post, but by winding up with silliness like this, you don't strengthen your point any.
Is it part of the arrogance of those electing themselves to write and editing articles on wiki that they refuse to use a spell checker, or is it that the words are simply unknown to the normal spell-check dictionaries?
Maybe it's that aggressive as-you-type spell checkers seem to introduce more errors than they catch. Seriously. I've never seen one that doesn't try to replace rare but valid words with more common words that look vaguely similar (often just similar enough to be missed in proofreading) but have completely unrelated meanings. In general, as-you-type "correction" is an insult to anyone writing above a third-grade level.
We get it... America Bad. Why don't you just put it in your sig to save yourself the typing?
Your comment history makes it pretty clear that you're one of those people who thinks that anyone who doesn't think America is 100% the best at everything, all the time, is anti-American. Well, screw you. "My country right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; if wrong, to be set right." That's real patriotism, and it's something that flag-waving cheerleaders like you will never understand.
Unfortunately, when it comes to space tech, a lot of otherwise intelligent people never seem to be able get beyond that mentality, despite the Cold War having been over for a generation. Not that mindless nationalism is limited to space, of course, but it's one of the major hot buttons.
We warned you people that Bush's grubbing for power would come back and bite us in the ass later on. Once power is gained, it is seldom let go of.
We warned you that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional.
Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex.
o/~ One of these things is not like the others... o/~
By "War Powers Act" you probably mean the War Powers Resolution of 1973 (the actual War Powers Acts were WW2 laws) which is intented to limit the President's ability to wage war without Congressional approval. To the degree that it functions as intended (not very well, unfortunately) it thereby serves as a check on executive power and the growth of the military-industrial complex. Those who argue that it is unconstitutional -- which regrettably includes every President from Nixon on -- are in fact attempting to subvert the Constitution by undoing its placement of the power to declare war in Congress' hands.
If protestors had invaded GoDaddy's private property and thrown a tantrum under the pretense of moving their domains, there may have been arrests there too.
Thank you, tovarisch. Your faith in the pravda of the words of our wise and glorious leaders is noted and appreciated.
Isn't that what you would want to see a corporate entity do?
What most smart, knowledgeable people want to see this corporate entity do is crash and burn, and for its executives to be out begging on the street. The former probably won't happen, of course, and the latter definitely won't happen, but we can dream.
Unless of course it getsyouarrested instead. GoDaddy would probably be thrilled if they could have people arrested for transferring domains to another registrar if too many people try to do so at once -- and don't be surprised if some future version of DMCA/SOPA/FUBAR actually includes such a provision, or at least language which can be twisted that way. Face it, folks, they're not going to quit pushing.
In software, there are a hundred different ways to achieve a similar effect and so most patents are easy enough to get around. Genetic sequences, with their billions of possible combinations, and thousands of genes that are dormant and do nothing, should be incredibly easy to do this with.
Short answer: despite some superficial similarities, software code and DNA are not the same thing.
Unfortunately, the longer answer is too long to put in a Slashdot post. If you really want to understand why it's not nearly as simple as "coding around the problem," I suggest picking up any decent introductory biology textbook and reading the chapters on DNA, RNA, and proteins very carefully. Sorry if this comes across as arrogant or dismissive, but it's the truth. Biology is messy and unpredictable in a way that doesn't fit well into the worldview of math and computer science (as a bioinformaticist, I deal with this problem pretty much every day.) The best way to really understand this is to learn enough biology to start thinking about the ways in which living systems can -- and can't -- be modeled with current mathematical and computational techniques.
As another poster in this sub-thread pointed out, you're not just wrong, you're stupid wrong. I just knew as soon as I saw the summary that there'd be someone making a fool of himself by complaining about the use of the word "state" in this context, and congratulations, you didn't disappoint.
Well powered flight has immediate and obvious useful applications, this thing less so, at least as far as I can see.
Understanding the behavior of the earth's core has implications for pretty much all of geology; I hope I don't have to tell you what the "useful applications" of the field as a whole are! By way of analogy to powered flight, what the researchers are doing here isn't so much like the work of the Wright Brothers as it is like the work of Bernoulli and Cayley.
I'm not saying the GP was right or wrong, but I had to point out the comparison.
It's a bad comparison. "By their fruits ye shall know them" -- physicists have a history of producing useful results, managers (as a group) do not. So a reasonable default assumption, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, is that the physicists' plan is basically sound while your hypothetical managers' plan is a load of crap.
Dark Matter was created for the sole purpose of explaining the orbital momentum of stars. There is NO other evidence for it.
As it happens, the post immediately above yours indicates otherwise; there's a lot of other evidence for it, or at least, there are a lot of other observations which fit nicely with the theory. Be careful about saying "there's no evidence" or "there's no other evidence" about pretty much anything in science, really -- there is so much new data coming in all the time that there's a good chance you're wrong.
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And no, it's not socialism, not in any meaningful sense of the word. It was, as another poster pointed out, a dictatorship, or more properly an absolute monarchy. It would be like calling the government of Louis XIV a socialist government.
To right-wing nutballs, anything they don't like is socialism. How do they know it's socialism? Because they don't like socialism, and so if there's something they don't like, socialism is what it must be!
Any attempt to point out the flaws in this line of reasoning is, of course, socialist propaganda.
So they are both self-righteous assholes and cowards in my book.
Consider them self-righteous assholes all you want, but calling them (or the Occupiers, for that matter) "cowards" is patently absurd. I suspect you have no conception of what real courage looks like, but feel all tough and brave because you slapped a "Support our Troops" sticker on your SUV.
I think you may have misread the problem. Libraries already have "limited" numbers of e-books; their licenses already prohibit them from lending "copies" of e-books to more than a certain number of customers at a time. What the publishers want is a limit on the total number of times a library can lend a "copy" of an e-book. It's like selling a hardcopy book to a library and saying, "You can only lend this book n times, then you have to throw it away." Which is absurd, especially when n is such a small number: 26 in this case, far far smaller than the number of times a physical book can be lent before it starts to disintegrate.
... I have a hard time believing the open-source-ness of Android played any real part in the decision, no matter what TFA says. Someone at Dell made the right deal with the right people at the Pentagon.
If you want a larger turnout for the elections, you need to offer better candidates; many people stay at home because they despise the choices offered to them.
Again, the solution to this is to work harder. Don't just wait until the general election; get involved in the primaries. And don't just concentrate on the big-ticket races (President, Governor, US Senator and Representative); pay attention to races for state legislature, city council, board of education, county commissioner, etc. The only way we're going to get better candidates is if more people pay attention to the process by which candidates are made. By the time the Tuesday after the first Monday in November rolls around, it's too late.
Primarily because the tax-consumer class keep voting themselves more of the middle class' money. Democracy can only last until the majority realise they can vote to steal from the minority.
Investment bankers and defense contractor CEOs are a majority?
Nice extension of the metaphor! And depressingly accurate.
Yep. And the scary thing is that at least in some cases, they apparently believe their own propaganda. When "Look how X we are" is just a cynical bid for profits, it's scummy but understandable. When the corporate culture is so warped and so insulated from reality that they actually think they're X when in fact they're almost the definition of !X, it's kind of terrifying.
But that's okay. The invisible hand of the free market will come along to weed out such inefficiencies and reward the rational actors. Aaaaany day now.
So given that there were 2 sides fighting, which side do you suggest America should have supported ?
How about "a plague on both your houses"? We don't need to take sides in every fight, you know; in fact, in most fights, we shouldn't.
You know, once upon a time, the United States had a Department of War. It's job was to ensure that our country was always at war with some other country. We ditched it in favor of a Department of Defense.
Only the first sentence in the quoted block is true.
I agree with pretty much everything else you said in your post, but by winding up with silliness like this, you don't strengthen your point any.
Is it part of the arrogance of those electing themselves to write and editing articles on wiki that they refuse to use a spell checker, or is it that the words are simply unknown to the normal spell-check dictionaries?
Maybe it's that aggressive as-you-type spell checkers seem to introduce more errors than they catch. Seriously. I've never seen one that doesn't try to replace rare but valid words with more common words that look vaguely similar (often just similar enough to be missed in proofreading) but have completely unrelated meanings. In general, as-you-type "correction" is an insult to anyone writing above a third-grade level.
We get it... America Bad. Why don't you just put it in your sig to save yourself the typing?
Your comment history makes it pretty clear that you're one of those people who thinks that anyone who doesn't think America is 100% the best at everything, all the time, is anti-American. Well, screw you. "My country right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; if wrong, to be set right." That's real patriotism, and it's something that flag-waving cheerleaders like you will never understand.
America good! Russia bad! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Unfortunately, when it comes to space tech, a lot of otherwise intelligent people never seem to be able get beyond that mentality, despite the Cold War having been over for a generation. Not that mindless nationalism is limited to space, of course, but it's one of the major hot buttons.
We warned you people that Bush's grubbing for power would come back and bite us in the ass later on. Once power is gained, it is seldom let go of.
We warned you that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional.
Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex.
o/~ One of these things is not like the others ... o/~
By "War Powers Act" you probably mean the War Powers Resolution of 1973 (the actual War Powers Acts were WW2 laws) which is intented to limit the President's ability to wage war without Congressional approval. To the degree that it functions as intended (not very well, unfortunately) it thereby serves as a check on executive power and the growth of the military-industrial complex. Those who argue that it is unconstitutional -- which regrettably includes every President from Nixon on -- are in fact attempting to subvert the Constitution by undoing its placement of the power to declare war in Congress' hands.
Why do you hate America?
If protestors had invaded GoDaddy's private property and thrown a tantrum under the pretense of moving their domains, there may have been arrests there too.
Thank you, tovarisch. Your faith in the pravda of the words of our wise and glorious leaders is noted and appreciated.
Isn't that what you would want to see a corporate entity do?
What most smart, knowledgeable people want to see this corporate entity do is crash and burn, and for its executives to be out begging on the street. The former probably won't happen, of course, and the latter definitely won't happen, but we can dream.
Voting with your dollars works!
Unless of course it gets you arrested instead. GoDaddy would probably be thrilled if they could have people arrested for transferring domains to another registrar if too many people try to do so at once -- and don't be surprised if some future version of DMCA/SOPA/FUBAR actually includes such a provision, or at least language which can be twisted that way. Face it, folks, they're not going to quit pushing.
In software, there are a hundred different ways to achieve a similar effect and so most patents are easy enough to get around.
Genetic sequences, with their billions of possible combinations, and thousands of genes that are dormant and do nothing, should be incredibly easy to do this with.
Short answer: despite some superficial similarities, software code and DNA are not the same thing.
Unfortunately, the longer answer is too long to put in a Slashdot post. If you really want to understand why it's not nearly as simple as "coding around the problem," I suggest picking up any decent introductory biology textbook and reading the chapters on DNA, RNA, and proteins very carefully. Sorry if this comes across as arrogant or dismissive, but it's the truth. Biology is messy and unpredictable in a way that doesn't fit well into the worldview of math and computer science (as a bioinformaticist, I deal with this problem pretty much every day.) The best way to really understand this is to learn enough biology to start thinking about the ways in which living systems can -- and can't -- be modeled with current mathematical and computational techniques.
You just keep on digging that hole you're in, kiddo.
"Sovereign State" was not the concept employed.
Okay, fine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State
As another poster in this sub-thread pointed out, you're not just wrong, you're stupid wrong. I just knew as soon as I saw the summary that there'd be someone making a fool of himself by complaining about the use of the word "state" in this context, and congratulations, you didn't disappoint.
Let me know what you think!
Congratulations. You have just won the internet.
Well powered flight has immediate and obvious useful applications, this thing less so, at least as far as I can see.
Understanding the behavior of the earth's core has implications for pretty much all of geology; I hope I don't have to tell you what the "useful applications" of the field as a whole are! By way of analogy to powered flight, what the researchers are doing here isn't so much like the work of the Wright Brothers as it is like the work of Bernoulli and Cayley.
I'm not saying the GP was right or wrong, but I had to point out the comparison.
It's a bad comparison. "By their fruits ye shall know them" -- physicists have a history of producing useful results, managers (as a group) do not. So a reasonable default assumption, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, is that the physicists' plan is basically sound while your hypothetical managers' plan is a load of crap.
Dark Matter was created for the sole purpose of explaining the orbital momentum of stars. There is NO other evidence for it.
As it happens, the post immediately above yours indicates otherwise; there's a lot of other evidence for it, or at least, there are a lot of other observations which fit nicely with the theory. Be careful about saying "there's no evidence" or "there's no other evidence" about pretty much anything in science, really -- there is so much new data coming in all the time that there's a good chance you're wrong.