It's a common meme in redressing ills done to others.
Pay back MORE THAN YOU OWE.
So the white kids were found guilty of racism and this was their punishment? Because the whole point of "redressing ills" and "paying back more than you owe" is that you have to be guilty of the crime in the first place.
What's particularly disturbing is that the prudism is getting worse over time. A good example is the original Andromeda Strain. It has a G rating on it, but features (briefly) a naked woman in it. Were it to come out today, it would get an instant R rating for that scene alone.
So, before PulseAudio, audio in Linux did not work properly. It got by and mostly worked using either hardware mixing (when those cards were common)
Aaah, the golden age. I'd just get a cheapo Soundblaster and everything worked just fine. Well, except for Crossover Office/wine which would occasionally flake out and grab all the resources. That was an edge case though.
Then came the dark ages -- dmix, esd, early Pulseaudio.
Now things are pretty stable, and I'm happy with how Pulseaudio works -- especially with the seamless network sound streaming (use this surprisingly often).
They could have stayed in business by cutting costs because their product wasn't as in demand. But just like our wonderful country's population, the bakers union would rather lose everything that take a cut.
Maybe they shouldn't take a cut.
I don't think -any- company is worth sacrificing your family's well being just to keep it afloat, especially if the guys at the top aren't willing to sharply cut their own salaries and bonuses. If the only way to keep a company alive is to give subsistence-or-worse wages and no benefits, then that company shouldn't exist.
You seem to be under the assumption that the factory workers were living large and can afford to take a big cut.
Hostess couldn't change with the times. They will be replaced by a leaner, hungrier, better company. That's the free market in action, and that's how it should work.
And just about any company that uses a pension system should probably go down anyway. What a misguided retirement system! Now if only I could convince my state to do the same.
The tech ain't advanced enough to fit your vision, Lucas? Really?
Of course not. The original mechas in the 80s looked gritty and dirty, CG allowed Lucas to show his original vision: a future that was completely clean, sterile, plasticy, and candy-colored.
You know exactly what you're talking about except for the "I know for certain it was a blizzard associate that sold my account info to get them in both times" part.
Well, this was about what would happen to Lucasfilm, and Pixar was bought by Disney, just as Lucasfilm was. It comes full circle, I suppose. Pixar was a spin-off of Lucasfilm originally.
Disney has made for a while some animated movies were as a parent you weren't totally hating every minute but few adults would see them if their kids didn't make them.
Oh now, I think the Pirates of the Caribbean movies were definitely movies that adults went to see on their own. The Muppets as well. With the latter, I'd imagine parents were the ones dragging kids to it.
Let me reply with something from your favorite quotes:
Do you have anything to hide ?
This is an argument brought up with any story on erosion of privacy. "Do you not want cameras in your yard? In your house? In your bedroom? Do you have anything to hide?" And the answer is "fuck yes, I have things to hide." Everyone does, and saying otherwise is not being reasonable. The privacy of voting is one of the most sacrosanct notions in the American political process, one hardly unique to the USA either.
What do you think treaties are? They're laws, laws signed in by the US government, laws that override state laws
Elections are under the purview of the states, and a treaty cannot interfere with that. The kerfuffle over Florida in 2000 should have taught you that.
Ah yes. "There were accusations." It's a meaningless statement -- "there were accusations" doesn't require that anything substantiate those accusations. No need for any proof, no need to have something to go on. It's nothing more than rumor-mongering that is formalized in 21st-century media.
I hear this on cable news shows all the time. They can't get away with stating outright falsehoods are true. That's slander and it can get them sued. So how do you slander someone without losing boatloads of cash? Instead they can say whatever the hell they want by prepending unsupported, outrageous statements with "some people say," and "some question whether," and "there are accusations of." Few actually fact check, and when they do, it's only for facts that support the side of the story they are pushing. Why would they, when you can throw insinuations out there knowing your audience will probably believe them?
The "Political Compass" is a Libertarian recruiting tool, written in a way to try to convince most "reasonable" people that they are, in fact, Libertarians. This is because it grades people on fairly vague statements and libertarian ideals can be quite compelling in those situations, but most people shy away from them when they're asked about specifics.
So what is my point with all this? It's not the arrogance, it's the social skills that matter
I'd say social skills are what separates confidence from arrogance. People like "confidence" (being sure that you know enough to be right), but not arrogant (I'm right, you idiot).
I didn't apply myself in History, English, other sciences, or any of the nonsensical electives we had to take. I saw no reason to, and I didn't care that I was just outside the top 10% mark in my school, nobody I knew was as good at Math or CS as me, so as far as I was concerned, I was the valedictorian. When I later spoke with people in the top 1% including the actual valedictorian, the arrogance they exuded was astonishing, as if they had accomplished something worthwhile.
This is hilarious. Does this count as cognitive dissonance? Are we being trolled? It's great, I wish I could favorite this post. It should have been modded +1, Funny. The +1 Insightful mods are just disturbing.
I also have made a decision already, and that's to never become a manager. I don't want to manage people, I want to be an engineer.
I was always a programmer. I was a good organizer, I ran computer labs at school. The last quarter I was promoted to be a manager. Horrible horrible. Engineers, programmers, etc, often don't make good managers. They're different skillsets. Plus, if you really like tinkering, hacking, programming, you just get a hell of a lot less time to do that as a manager.
Once I graduated and got a real job, I made sure "manager" was not one of my goals.
I still can't see that actor in any role and not just recognize him as "Mac douche"
Too bad, because Justin Long was pretty good as the kid who guides down the ship in Galaxy Quest. He was pretty good on New Girl recently, playing a wuss.
This is why contract should stipulate the the music for a show, is part of the show.
That will greatly increase the price of the music used in the show then. Only having the rights to use it in the live broadcast makes it cheaper (and thus more possible) to do.
So You Think You Can Dance is one of (if not my favorite) shows airing. I like dance, I like the performers, the competition, and the artistry that goes into the routines. However, it will never have a DVD release, since 3/4 of the show if dancing to music that was only licensed for the live broadcast. Past seasons are lost completely -- you'd better hope that someone uploaded a favorite routine to Youtube.
It's one case where a show exists, but is held out of any public circulation because it would be too expensive to distribute.
And how is an Apple product announcement not news for nerds?
Did you read the Summary? This isn't a product announcement. This is details about a product announcement announcement. The next logical step is to have a press release indicating that sometime in the near future we will release a press release about a new product and the press release's press release is on 8.5x11 heavy cardstock paper.
I think it's actual notable for the decision to only stream to Apple hardware. That's worth talking about, though Apple's dickish lockout tactics aren't a new thing. But it's still worth reporting on since not that many people are aware of it.
Samsung Android phone is very nice - I log it on to my home wireless network, and get better youtube and live TV performance than on any of my laptops or desktops
Hell, I get far better performance on my Samsung Android than my older iphone. Sure, the iphone is older and slower, so I expect that, but I wasn't prepared for how slow it is in -every- capacity. The Samsung phone renders web pages so much faster, the network downloads are so much faster, even when both phones are connected to the same local wireless network. Just a network download using the same network connection was dog-slow on the iphone, and that was even the case after it was re-flashed to use the factory default OS. I was never able to figure out why this was the case.
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It's a common meme in redressing ills done to others.
Pay back MORE THAN YOU OWE.
So the white kids were found guilty of racism and this was their punishment? Because the whole point of "redressing ills" and "paying back more than you owe" is that you have to be guilty of the crime in the first place.
What's particularly disturbing is that the prudism is getting worse over time. A good example is the original Andromeda Strain. It has a G rating on it, but features (briefly) a naked woman in it. Were it to come out today, it would get an instant R rating for that scene alone.
Or Walt Disney's G-Rated Fantasia:
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/night-on-bald-mountain?before=1337222899 (the furies in Night on Bald Mountain were bare-chested, as were the centaurettes in the opening of the Pastoral Symphony).
That's not junk, it's perl dammit! :P
Same thing. >_>
Zing!
So, before PulseAudio, audio in Linux did not work properly. It got by and mostly worked using either hardware mixing (when those cards were common)
Aaah, the golden age. I'd just get a cheapo Soundblaster and everything worked just fine. Well, except for Crossover Office/wine which would occasionally flake out and grab all the resources. That was an edge case though.
Then came the dark ages -- dmix, esd, early Pulseaudio.
Now things are pretty stable, and I'm happy with how Pulseaudio works -- especially with the seamless network sound streaming (use this surprisingly often).
The fact that it took less than 5 minutes for you to get down-modded shows how true your statement is.
Or maybe "Dear Leader" is insulting flamebait. Either way.
They could have stayed in business by cutting costs because their product wasn't as in demand. But just like our wonderful country's population, the bakers union would rather lose everything that take a cut.
Maybe they shouldn't take a cut.
I don't think -any- company is worth sacrificing your family's well being just to keep it afloat, especially if the guys at the top aren't willing to sharply cut their own salaries and bonuses. If the only way to keep a company alive is to give subsistence-or-worse wages and no benefits, then that company shouldn't exist.
You seem to be under the assumption that the factory workers were living large and can afford to take a big cut.
Hostess couldn't change with the times. They will be replaced by a leaner, hungrier, better company. That's the free market in action, and that's how it should work.
And just about any company that uses a pension system should probably go down anyway. What a misguided retirement system! Now if only I could convince my state to do the same.
The tech ain't advanced enough to fit your vision, Lucas? Really?
Of course not. The original mechas in the 80s looked gritty and dirty, CG allowed Lucas to show his original vision: a future that was completely clean, sterile, plasticy, and candy-colored.
I screamed my head off in the trash compactor scene when I first saw Episode IV, but I was 3.
I think a lot of kids were yelling (and their parents were nervous) during the trash incinerator scene at the end of Toy Story 3 as well!
You know exactly what you're talking about except for the "I know for certain it was a blizzard associate that sold my account info to get them in both times" part.
Word wrap looks far far worse (and is more confusing) than multi-line properly-indented code.
That being said I like wide wide terminals to have code with long lines!
Hell, "lately?" Star Tours has been in Disneyland for 25 years now.
and Pixar is the same as Disney how?
Well, this was about what would happen to Lucasfilm, and Pixar was bought by Disney, just as Lucasfilm was.
It comes full circle, I suppose. Pixar was a spin-off of Lucasfilm originally.
Disney has made for a while some animated movies were as a parent you weren't totally hating every minute but few adults would see them if their kids didn't make them.
Oh now, I think the Pirates of the Caribbean movies were definitely movies that adults went to see on their own. The Muppets as well. With the latter, I'd imagine parents were the ones dragging kids to it.
Libertarian recruiting tool??? What? It's believed to be from One World Action, which is hardly a Libertarian organization
I didn't say it originated with the Libertarians, just that they use it often due to the goofy answers it gives.
Let me reply with something from your favorite quotes:
Do you have anything to hide ?
This is an argument brought up with any story on erosion of privacy. "Do you not want cameras in your yard? In your house? In your bedroom? Do you have anything to hide?" And the answer is "fuck yes, I have things to hide." Everyone does, and saying otherwise is not being reasonable. The privacy of voting is one of the most sacrosanct notions in the American political process, one hardly unique to the USA either.
What do you think treaties are? They're laws, laws signed in by the US government, laws that override state laws
Elections are under the purview of the states, and a treaty cannot interfere with that. The kerfuffle over Florida in 2000 should have taught you that.
That's actually part of the constitution. All treaties are considered US law, per the Constitution.
Unless they contradict the Constitution. If there is ever a disagreement, the Constitution takes precedence.
Ah yes. "There were accusations." It's a meaningless statement -- "there were accusations" doesn't require that anything substantiate those accusations. No need for any proof, no need to have something to go on. It's nothing more than rumor-mongering that is formalized in 21st-century media.
I hear this on cable news shows all the time. They can't get away with stating outright falsehoods are true. That's slander and it can get them sued. So how do you slander someone without losing boatloads of cash? Instead they can say whatever the hell they want by prepending unsupported, outrageous statements with "some people say," and "some question whether," and "there are accusations of." Few actually fact check, and when they do, it's only for facts that support the side of the story they are pushing. Why would they, when you can throw insinuations out there knowing your audience will probably believe them?
The "Political Compass" is a Libertarian recruiting tool, written in a way to try to convince most "reasonable" people that they are, in fact, Libertarians. This is because it grades people on fairly vague statements and libertarian ideals can be quite compelling in those situations, but most people shy away from them when they're asked about specifics.
So what is my point with all this? It's not the arrogance, it's the social skills that matter
I'd say social skills are what separates confidence from arrogance. People like "confidence" (being sure that you know enough to be right), but not arrogant (I'm right, you idiot).
I didn't apply myself in History, English, other sciences, or any of the nonsensical electives we had to take. I saw no reason to, and I didn't care that I was just outside the top 10% mark in my school, nobody I knew was as good at Math or CS as me, so as far as I was concerned, I was the valedictorian. When I later spoke with people in the top 1% including the actual valedictorian, the arrogance they exuded was astonishing, as if they had accomplished something worthwhile.
This is hilarious. Does this count as cognitive dissonance?
Are we being trolled? It's great, I wish I could favorite this post.
It should have been modded +1, Funny. The +1 Insightful mods are just disturbing.
I also have made a decision already, and that's to never become a manager. I don't want to manage people, I want to be an engineer.
I was always a programmer. I was a good organizer, I ran computer labs at school. The last quarter I was promoted to be a manager. Horrible horrible.
Engineers, programmers, etc, often don't make good managers. They're different skillsets. Plus, if you really like tinkering, hacking, programming, you just get a hell of a lot less time to do that as a manager.
Once I graduated and got a real job, I made sure "manager" was not one of my goals.
I still can't see that actor in any role and not just recognize him as "Mac douche"
Too bad, because Justin Long was pretty good as the kid who guides down the ship in Galaxy Quest.
He was pretty good on New Girl recently, playing a wuss.
Copyright is to protect the musicians
It's to protect the rights holders, who are often not the musicians.
The idea is that if the musicians can sell the rights to their music, then they can buy food and gear while writing and practicing.
This is why contract should stipulate the the music for a show, is part of the show.
That will greatly increase the price of the music used in the show then. Only having the rights to use it in the live broadcast makes it cheaper (and thus more possible) to do.
So You Think You Can Dance is one of (if not my favorite) shows airing. I like dance, I like the performers, the competition, and the artistry that goes into the routines. However, it will never have a DVD release, since 3/4 of the show if dancing to music that was only licensed for the live broadcast. Past seasons are lost completely -- you'd better hope that someone uploaded a favorite routine to Youtube.
It's one case where a show exists, but is held out of any public circulation because it would be too expensive to distribute.
And how is an Apple product announcement not news for nerds?
Did you read the Summary? This isn't a product announcement. This is details about a product announcement announcement. The next logical step is to have a press release indicating that sometime in the near future we will release a press release about a new product and the press release's press release is on 8.5x11 heavy cardstock paper.
I think it's actual notable for the decision to only stream to Apple hardware. That's worth talking about, though Apple's dickish lockout tactics aren't a new thing. But it's still worth reporting on since not that many people are aware of it.
Samsung Android phone is very nice - I log it on to my home wireless network, and get better youtube and live TV performance than on any of my laptops or desktops
Hell, I get far better performance on my Samsung Android than my older iphone. Sure, the iphone is older and slower, so I expect that, but I wasn't prepared for how slow it is in -every- capacity. The Samsung phone renders web pages so much faster, the network downloads are so much faster, even when both phones are connected to the same local wireless network. Just a network download using the same network connection was dog-slow on the iphone, and that was even the case after it was re-flashed to use the factory default OS. I was never able to figure out why this was the case.