Because lawyers like laws, disputes (that's how they get paid), and money. Mr. Smith should become a politician and propse a law outlawing all BAR members from serving in Congress.
Forgive my ignorance, but I don't quite understand what you mean here. Do you mean that you have to actually register to a certain party in order to vote? What happens if you change your opinion later on - is that possible?
Sorry if I wasn't being clear enough. The professor was obstructing your ability to register to vote (wouldn't register you, you would have to go elsewhere) unless you registered with the party he wanted you to register with. Basically he only cared that you exercised your right to vote if you voted the way he wanted you to.
I had 2 teachers who did this in college. One of them would actively obstruct you from registering unless you registered Socialist. What a fucking prick.
True story, at UVM. I wont name the professor (but I will say he was tenured there) because it's too petty but I didn't hold the same beliefs as him and now I am forever soured, not only against him but against what he stood for as well.
Exactly why it is terrible. Serving the lowest common denominator is just a celebration of mediocrity, something higher education is supposed to not be. This as bad as standardized performance exams like the SAT and ACT or quotas in just ruining anything worthy in higher education.
I ask because I noticed on the page your sig links to you write "the Bible is God's infallible word, and that he guided the translators perfectly to copy it." From the Bible:
God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves
This is really for GP but I would like to know which translators he/she is speaking of. Since there are quite a few different translators and many disagree with each other- making such a general claim (at a glance mind you) sounds to me like an attempt at deception.
It's a commercial about nothing. Didn't you ever watch Seinfeld, the show about nothing? What a great way to create random buzz about something by making a clever nudge at the very essence of the comedian's show with of all things, an inside joke. If you watched Seinfeld you would know that as the show progressed, the inside jokes became more and more obscure and this just about tops it. Sure, random buzz may not be good buzz but any publicity is good publicity these days. I know ridiculous amounts of people using Vista (yuck) despite the bad reviews, just because of all the buzz and if you don't, you probably live in your mom's basement.
While this ad didn't make me want to go out and buy a Windows computer, neither did it make me actively want to avoid having anything to do with the company responsible for it, as the "I'm a Mac" ads did. From that point of view, I'd call this a success.
I gotta agree. THe skinny "hip" kid actor in the mac commercials is about as faux-cool as you can get and still manage to look like you're trying way too hard + john hodgeman, well what has he done than write a strange book? Mr. Hodgeman is still much cooler than that kid, any day of the week- at least he's on the daily show from time to time.
I understand that the leg-work to get the data into some useable form is hard work, I do similar work for a living. I was actually picking on Google for their elitist attitude when really the general solution for improvement was simple- ask the darn customer:)
Most businesses are too arrogant to ask the customer questions and instead focus on presenting a product. This is the reason why some crazy percentage like 99% of all businesses fail in 5 years. Someone else will come along who has enough sense and humility- someone who was too arrogant to ask the last time.
You should be an advocate for the fatties-disease:)
They're not oblivious. They're just irresponsible. But I don't really care. As cold-hearted as it may sound I can't wait until their dead (the ones who really don't have some sort of glandular problem) and not sucking my hard-earned dollars.
Better yet, I sincerely hope that they get it together, slim down and find happiness, fulfillment and success in their lives.
But we all know that won't happen. It's not their fault. They have a disease (read:sarcasm). And it will kill them much sooner than my genetic predisposition to high blood pressure ever will kill me.
You're helping them tune PageRank by messing with the results which, if you're building a search engine, may not be a good idea to help your competitor.
Hrm, all those masters and Ph.Ds floating around there and the best they can do is "uh... lets ask our customers?" Jesus, they could have paid some hicks @ a gas station in BFE and figured that one out.
OK. Same as Biden then. At least we don't have a choice.
I've been screaming this sentiment for a while now... I stopped... nobody listens...
If we elect McCain however, we may have the gift of more great gaffes sch as, "I've just signed legislation that will outlaw Windows forever! We begin bombing in five minutes!"
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Because lawyers like laws, disputes (that's how they get paid), and money. Mr. Smith should become a politician and propse a law outlawing all BAR members from serving in Congress.
Forgive my ignorance, but I don't quite understand what you mean here. Do you mean that you have to actually register to a certain party in order to vote? What happens if you change your opinion later on - is that possible? Sorry if I wasn't being clear enough. The professor was obstructing your ability to register to vote (wouldn't register you, you would have to go elsewhere) unless you registered with the party he wanted you to register with. Basically he only cared that you exercised your right to vote if you voted the way he wanted you to.
I had 2 teachers who did this in college. One of them would actively obstruct you from registering unless you registered Socialist. What a fucking prick. True story, at UVM. I wont name the professor (but I will say he was tenured there) because it's too petty but I didn't hold the same beliefs as him and now I am forever soured, not only against him but against what he stood for as well.
Exactly why it is terrible. Serving the lowest common denominator is just a celebration of mediocrity, something higher education is supposed to not be. This as bad as standardized performance exams like the SAT and ACT or quotas in just ruining anything worthy in higher education.
That is just awful.
Do you ever tell Jack off?
I ask because I noticed on the page your sig links to you write "the Bible is God's infallible word, and that he guided the translators perfectly to copy it." From the Bible:
God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves
This is really for GP but I would like to know which translators he/she is speaking of. Since there are quite a few different translators and many disagree with each other- making such a general claim (at a glance mind you) sounds to me like an attempt at deception.
Does anyone know how quickly the end of the world is supposed to happen assuming these people are right? Will I have time for one last doobie?
Not really. If there's one thing we know for sure about Scientologists, it's that their tolerance for bad science fiction is *really* high.
There must be a lot of Scientologists on
Leave it to lawyers to turn something innocuous and something people do without thinking in to something completely ridiculous.
There are only two types of politicians, war heroes and lawyers. The rest got there by accident.
It's a commercial about nothing. Didn't you ever watch Seinfeld, the show about nothing? What a great way to create random buzz about something by making a clever nudge at the very essence of the comedian's show with of all things, an inside joke. If you watched Seinfeld you would know that as the show progressed, the inside jokes became more and more obscure and this just about tops it. Sure, random buzz may not be good buzz but any publicity is good publicity these days. I know ridiculous amounts of people using Vista (yuck) despite the bad reviews, just because of all the buzz and if you don't, you probably live in your mom's basement.
While this ad didn't make me want to go out and buy a Windows computer, neither did it make me actively want to avoid having anything to do with the company responsible for it, as the "I'm a Mac" ads did. From that point of view, I'd call this a success.
I gotta agree. THe skinny "hip" kid actor in the mac commercials is about as faux-cool as you can get and still manage to look like you're trying way too hard + john hodgeman, well what has he done than write a strange book? Mr. Hodgeman is still much cooler than that kid, any day of the week- at least he's on the daily show from time to time.
Mod parent up for hilarity.
Is Gates high in the mughshot photo they pasted on his shoe card id?
Apparently the shoes hold up well in water. I may have to get myself a pair since I do a fair amount of walking in the rain.
I believe this is one of the steps towards a police state? Ever seen Brazil? The laws in that movie are not only incomprehensible, they're unreadable.
I'm all for state powers
That's a scary thought. You could end up with unreadable copyrighted laws or something!
Just like Chinese cars pose no threat to Honda or Toyota or GM (they have bigger fish to fry) or BMW.
f'ing idiots. I swear, enviro-zealots are just as bad, if not worse than those who say it's completely unfounded.
I understand that the leg-work to get the data into some useable form is hard work, I do similar work for a living. I was actually picking on Google for their elitist attitude when really the general solution for improvement was simple- ask the darn customer :)
Most businesses are too arrogant to ask the customer questions and instead focus on presenting a product. This is the reason why some crazy percentage like 99% of all businesses fail in 5 years. Someone else will come along who has enough sense and humility- someone who was too arrogant to ask the last time.
You should be an advocate for the fatties-disease :)
They're not oblivious. They're just irresponsible. But I don't really care. As cold-hearted as it may sound I can't wait until their dead (the ones who really don't have some sort of glandular problem) and not sucking my hard-earned dollars.
Better yet, I sincerely hope that they get it together, slim down and find happiness, fulfillment and success in their lives.
But we all know that won't happen. It's not their fault. They have a disease (read:sarcasm). And it will kill them much sooner than my genetic predisposition to high blood pressure ever will kill me.
Great, now some spammer s going to write millions of bots to do the EXACT OPPOSITE of what you are doing thereby making the results even more useless.
You're helping them tune PageRank by messing with the results which, if you're building a search engine, may not be a good idea to help your competitor.
Hrm, all those masters and Ph.Ds floating around there and the best they can do is "uh... lets ask our customers?" Jesus, they could have paid some hicks @ a gas station in BFE and figured that one out.
we want to know why!!
OK. Same as Biden then. At least we don't have a choice.
I've been screaming this sentiment for a while now... I stopped... nobody listens...
If we elect McCain however, we may have the gift of more great gaffes sch as, "I've just signed legislation that will outlaw Windows forever! We begin bombing in five minutes!"
When they bought that stupid 767 jet.
Do no evil? Is it only polluting when someone from the middle class does it or do all these environmental gripes apply to rich people too?
How about donating 10% of what B. Gates does to charity Goog? Do no evil?