Last time I looked, just because someone has a right to do something does not mean it is right to do so.
As far as I can tell, the writer of the article never claimed that they did not have a right to remove the article, just that it was contrary to their stated reasons for running the site in the first place and that it might be a political backfire for them with the linux community.
Or, in summary, you may have a "right" to call me an idiot, but it's not a great idea if you are trying to get me to buy something from you.
It looks like it could be from the end of several episodes where they're all laughing. The first one that springs to mind is "The Galileo Seven" where at the end Kirk says "Spock, you're a stubborn man," Spock says "yes, sir" and they all start to laugh. But, IIRC, in that episode, Kirk was standing near Spock's usual station, but many episodes ended with that sort of laughing... and that looks like a picture from one of those scenes.
It really is like the director thinks it is "*their* movie
Well, if I recall, the "system" treats it this way. When so-and-so directs a film, don't the credits usually say "A so-and-so film"? The credits pretty much say that the director is the "creator"/"owner" of the film.
There does appear to be little effect for the scriptwriters and/or, just as importantly, the story writers. Many of my favorite films have been adaptations of good books I liked and many of the DECENT films these days still are.
But adaptations of books seem to be much less popular than several decades ago. I have wonder if it is that they want to put out too many films too fast and there are too few good books being written or it if it because adaptations from books require too much thought on the part of the moviemakes and the audiance (or some other factor that I have just failed to see coming).
As others have stated, I find the independent, unique films much more interesting than the "we're spending a fortune making this film, so we need an *objective/formulatic* way to show that it's likely to succeed" garbage that they make these days.
It always amazes me that upper level managers seem to think that they can always cut time off of the schedule that engineers give them. I just watched the "Gambit" episode of ST:TNG the other day and it provides a perfect example:
NARIK: It will take at least five hours to replace the anti-matter containment unit.
BARAN: You have three hours, Narik. One minute beyond that and you'll answer for it with your life.
Narik glares at Baran, but has little choice except tonod and EXIT the Bridge.
it sounds a LOT like a lot of meetings I have been to.
Apparently lotsa management people think that they are accomplishing something by just TELLING engineers to take less time. In cases like this, I have actually asked managers "Are you always going to cut down my estimates so that I *have* to give you inflated estimates so that you can cut them down to what it'll really take? Or would you rather I tell you how long it will really take and you will respect that? Either way is okay with me... just let me know how things work around here."
The right to do what you like, learn what you like, stay as ignorant as you like, has produced nations full of people who believe in magic and the principle of least effort. We don't have enough intelligent, informed, educated people to do the hard work of being free.
Yes! "Freedom isn't free." People don't realize how "expensive" freedom is and, since it is being taken a little at a time, and the return "looks nice," they don't complain.
The costs of freedom include: risk, personal responsibility, involvement. If each of the rights they take away, one at a time, are of value to only 10% of the people, they will encounter little opposition as long as they continue to remove them one at a time and with a good excuse for each.
Won't be long before they're ALL gone.:-(
We frogs still sit in the pot, and the water's nearly boiling.
While they'll bitch and moan, you'll have tons of programmers on the side who'd be chomping at the bit to supply support for legacy systems/OSes.
Two things:
1. It's possible that the code is such a mess that no one with the ability would bother except when paid to do so or when absolutely necessary for their own/company's needs.
2. In addition to the financial reasons, MS would fight this tooth and nail because people would discover more of the security holes in the code that they claimed was secure for years.
The electorial College should be removed from the constitution. It is just bad goverment
People seem to make this blanket statement all the time with no reasonable argument for it.
The fact is that the Electorial College was created because our country is NOT a group of people.... It is a group of STATES. In essence, the STATES elect the president, not the individuals within those states.
And I agree with whomever said it earlier.... if you abolish the electoral college, no cantidate will CARE about any state except the top 3 in terms of population.
Yeah, but to be fair, it's comparitivly easy to get software to work out of the box when you pretty much control all the hardware as well.
Not to say that that isn't a valid business plan, just wanted to be sure we're not attacking the fedora people compared to the apple people for failing to succeed at what is clearly a more difficult job.
It doesn't really need a videocard either. Or a harddisk... My MP3 (or rather OGG) server is a Pentium 75 with a fanless lightweigh PSU, an AWE 64 Gold soundcard...
That sounds like an MP3 player, rather than a server. The server would need a hard disk and NOT need a soundcard.
The bigger issue was the fact that the Federal government was trying to impose its standards on the southern States, leading to the seccession of South Carolina... the big problem was that Lincoln's government was trying to dictate what the States could and could not do, imposing one set of standards for radically different geographies and economies.
Completely off the main topic, I know. But I am always happy when SOMEONE sees that issue in the Civil War and the damage that Lincoln did.
Sure, he ended up freeing the slaves, but that was not his goal. His goal was essentially to control what the states could and could not do from Washington, DC.
Since then states have had less and less independence and, therefore, the main ruling government has been further and further away from the people it is supposed to serve.
Yes they do. Obviously it depends on the type of airplane, but if you put a Cessna through a barrel roll, you'd better be ready to retire it
No... if you do it right, barrel rolls should not do that.
Now, if you screw up ANY maneuver, you can overstress the airframe. I suspect whoever did that to your poor 172 had no idea how to properly execute such a maneuver.
That's all this is. Can anyone explain how it is any different (other than extent)? Detaining/postponing/delaying/inconviencing the innocent to TRY to get the guilty.
There WAS a time when a few judges had the guts to say that DUI stops were "fishing expeditions" and there was no reasonable reason to stop and detain people with NO evidence that they had done anything wrong.
But, alas, we become more and more of a police state every day...:-(
i think the federal government needs to force counties and states to do a lawbook housecleaning some year
How about the federal government having to do the same thing? I always liked the idea of a proposal that each governing body's laws should hav a limitation, x number of words or some such thing.
It's a sad day (and it happened a LONG time ago) when most of us hardly know ANY of the laws that we are supposed to follow. I don't have a reference, but I read somewhere that the average citizen unknowingly breaks at least 10 laws a day.
Oh, then you always end up with endless arguments about what constitutes a person or company's "net worth." Just coming to a decision that out would be another legalistic nightmare about as bad as the trial itself.
With "simple" individuals it might be easy (speeding ticket is 10% of your AGI on you last 1040 form) but with companies and/or people who do lotsa tricks with assets and income, it would be a nightmare to settle on.
That said, I agree that, as a concept, fines are ridiculously unfair -- a $75 fine for running a red light hurts a college student a LOT more than it would a corporate CEO who has $2M in stock options per year.
... and once we all get used to this, I wonder how long it will be before they want to fingerprint ALL airline passangers.
Many might say I am paranoid, but I have always been worried about "having control" of my fingerprints -- yeah, yeah, I realize I leave them behind everywhere, but there's something scary to me about the government having them.
Just too bad that they don't have some kind of device that I could be reasonably sure would check my fingerprints against the known criminals and then DISCARD them -- I'd feel much better if I knew that they weren't keeping a permenant record of them for possible future use who-knows-when and who-knows-how.
And, please, don't give me the age old line of "If you've done nothing wrong, what are you afraid of?" Some of us just like privacy (and respect it in others) for the sake of it.
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I guess I make 3 of us not happy about the AOPA changes
Last time I looked, just because someone has a right to do something does not mean it is right to do so.
As far as I can tell, the writer of the article never claimed that they did not have a right to remove the article, just that it was contrary to their stated reasons for running the site in the first place and that it might be a political backfire for them with the linux community.
Or, in summary, you may have a "right" to call me an idiot, but it's not a great idea if you are trying to get me to buy something from you.
It looks like it could be from the end of several episodes where they're all laughing. The first one that springs to mind is "The Galileo Seven" where at the end Kirk says "Spock, you're a stubborn man," Spock says "yes, sir" and they all start to laugh. But, IIRC, in that episode, Kirk was standing near Spock's usual station, but many episodes ended with that sort of laughing... and that looks like a picture from one of those scenes.
Well, if I recall, the "system" treats it this way. When so-and-so directs a film, don't the credits usually say "A so-and-so film"? The credits pretty much say that the director is the "creator"/"owner" of the film.
There does appear to be little effect for the scriptwriters and/or, just as importantly, the story writers. Many of my favorite films have been adaptations of good books I liked and many of the DECENT films these days still are.
But adaptations of books seem to be much less popular than several decades ago. I have wonder if it is that they want to put out too many films too fast and there are too few good books being written or it if it because adaptations from books require too much thought on the part of the moviemakes and the audiance (or some other factor that I have just failed to see coming).
As others have stated, I find the independent, unique films much more interesting than the "we're spending a fortune making this film, so we need an *objective/formulatic* way to show that it's likely to succeed" garbage that they make these days.
I don't remember anybody having a problem finding a job under Clinton
Yah... especially presidential aides
It always amazes me that upper level managers seem to think that they can always cut time off of the schedule that engineers give them. I just watched the "Gambit" episode of ST:TNG the other day and it provides a perfect example:
NARIK: It will take at least five hours to replace the anti-matter containment unit.
BARAN: You have three hours, Narik. One minute beyond that and you'll answer for it with your life.
Narik glares at Baran, but has little choice except tonod and EXIT the Bridge.
With a couple simple substitutions, as follows
s/anti-matter conainment unit/subroutines/
s/life/job/
it sounds a LOT like a lot of meetings I have been to.
Apparently lotsa management people think that they are accomplishing something by just TELLING engineers to take less time. In cases like this, I have actually asked managers "Are you always going to cut down my estimates so that I *have* to give you inflated estimates so that you can cut them down to what it'll really take? Or would you rather I tell you how long it will really take and you will respect that? Either way is okay with me... just let me know how things work around here."
Sheesh
P.S. Interestingly, we seldom see Picard do that.
No, we decided that an individual is too stupid to think for the government until he/she's 18 (i.e. voting age)
Apparently we decided than an individual is too stupid to think for themselves when they're 21 (drinking age)
Tell me that THAT makes sense!
The costs of freedom include: risk, personal responsibility, involvement. If each of the rights they take away, one at a time, are of value to only 10% of the people, they will encounter little opposition as long as they continue to remove them one at a time and with a good excuse for each.
Won't be long before they're ALL gone.
While they'll bitch and moan, you'll have tons of programmers on the side who'd be chomping at the bit to supply support for legacy systems/OSes.
Two things:
1. It's possible that the code is such a mess that no one with the ability would bother except when paid to do so or when absolutely necessary for their own/company's needs.
2. In addition to the financial reasons, MS would fight this tooth and nail because people would discover more of the security holes in the code that they claimed was secure for years.
What more can I say?
The electorial College should be removed from the constitution. It is just bad goverment
People seem to make this blanket statement all the time with no reasonable argument for it.
The fact is that the Electorial College was created because our country is NOT a group of people.... It is a group of STATES. In essence, the STATES elect the president, not the individuals within those states. And I agree with whomever said it earlier.... if you abolish the electoral college, no cantidate will CARE about any state except the top 3 in terms of population.
About the only company that does this is Apple
Yeah, but to be fair, it's comparitivly easy to get software to work out of the box when you pretty much control all the hardware as well.
Not to say that that isn't a valid business plan, just wanted to be sure we're not attacking the fedora people compared to the apple people for failing to succeed at what is clearly a more difficult job.
Most people seem to think that irony means something akin to "odd" as opposed to saying the opposite of what you really mean.
Black Adder: You've no idea what irony is, have you Baldric?
Baldric: Yeah, it's like goldie or bronzie except it's made out of iron.
I've recycled a bunch of old pentium-class machines that were headed for the landfill by setting up a "smoothie" and giving them away to ppl
I found that bering works GREAT booted off of a CF card using a CF/IDE adapter board -- so literally NO moving parts and VERY configurable.
It doesn't really need a videocard either. Or a harddisk... My MP3 (or rather OGG) server is a Pentium 75 with a fanless lightweigh PSU, an AWE 64 Gold soundcard...
That sounds like an MP3 player, rather than a server. The server would need a hard disk and NOT need a soundcard.
The bigger issue was the fact that the Federal government was trying to impose its standards on the southern States, leading to the seccession of South Carolina... the big problem was that Lincoln's government was trying to dictate what the States could and could not do, imposing one set of standards for radically different geographies and economies.
Completely off the main topic, I know. But I am always happy when SOMEONE sees that issue in the Civil War and the damage that Lincoln did.
Sure, he ended up freeing the slaves, but that was not his goal. His goal was essentially to control what the states could and could not do from Washington, DC.
Since then states have had less and less independence and, therefore, the main ruling government has been further and further away from the people it is supposed to serve.
Yes they do. Obviously it depends on the type of airplane, but if you put a Cessna through a barrel roll, you'd better be ready to retire it
No... if you do it right, barrel rolls should not do that.
Now, if you screw up ANY maneuver, you can overstress the airframe. I suspect whoever did that to your poor 172 had no idea how to properly execute such a maneuver.
That's all this is. Can anyone explain how it is any different (other than extent)? Detaining/postponing/delaying/inconviencing the innocent to TRY to get the guilty.
:-(
There WAS a time when a few judges had the guts to say that DUI stops were "fishing expeditions" and there was no reasonable reason to stop and detain people with NO evidence that they had done anything wrong.
But, alas, we become more and more of a police state every day...
i think the federal government needs to force counties and states to do a lawbook housecleaning some year
How about the federal government having to do the same thing? I always liked the idea of a proposal that each governing body's laws should hav a limitation, x number of words or some such thing.
It's a sad day (and it happened a LONG time ago) when most of us hardly know ANY of the laws that we are supposed to follow. I don't have a reference, but I read somewhere that the average citizen unknowingly breaks at least 10 laws a day.
When was the last time your Delta pilot did a barrel roll?
:-)
Actually, barrel rolls don't put a lot of stress on an airplane. Try an outside loop or an Immelman.
"It take 9 months to bear a child, no matter how many women you assign to the job."
:-)
You also didn't mention the fact that you MUST assign at least one woman because NO amount of men can EVER accomplish the task.
(of course, it's also difficult for a woman to initiate the task solo)
Oh, then you always end up with endless arguments about what constitutes a person or company's "net worth." Just coming to a decision that out would be another legalistic nightmare about as bad as the trial itself.
With "simple" individuals it might be easy (speeding ticket is 10% of your AGI on you last 1040 form) but with companies and/or people who do lotsa tricks with assets and income, it would be a nightmare to settle on.
That said, I agree that, as a concept, fines are ridiculously unfair -- a $75 fine for running a red light hurts a college student a LOT more than it would a corporate CEO who has $2M in stock options per year.
Heh... I read the best one-line review of STV:
"William Shatner has proven that he is a better actor than director."
I wholeheartedly agreed (once I finished laughing)
'nuff said
... and once we all get used to this, I wonder how long it will be before they want to fingerprint ALL airline passangers. Many might say I am paranoid, but I have always been worried about "having control" of my fingerprints -- yeah, yeah, I realize I leave them behind everywhere, but there's something scary to me about the government having them. Just too bad that they don't have some kind of device that I could be reasonably sure would check my fingerprints against the known criminals and then DISCARD them -- I'd feel much better if I knew that they weren't keeping a permenant record of them for possible future use who-knows-when and who-knows-how. And, please, don't give me the age old line of "If you've done nothing wrong, what are you afraid of?" Some of us just like privacy (and respect it in others) for the sake of it.