Language is -- first and foremost -- a biological act. Then, a social one. It's like the difference between pinky-first tea sipping and drinking from your cupped hand at a pool that men would die to gaze upon.
Why, in the current climate where Big Brother has cowed telecoms into letting them eavesdrop on everything under the sun, would anyone adopt a program that makes you save your documents elsewhere? I can hear the tagline: "Don't kid yourself! Your documents aren't really private anyway!"
So, after every quantum time interval there are 2^(number of quanta in the universe) new universes being created. Each with an identical number of quanta in the exact location of the universe it split from. And this has been happening ever since Time began.
That's a lot of universes. You'd think that in one of them I could [fill in the blank].
Interesting threshold: violate Roberts Rules of Order? Get tasered.
I'd love to see if that flew in, say, the British Parliament during the Q&A of the Prime Minister. "Officer Hastings, that backbencher is getting rowdy. Give him 50,000 of the best and make it snippy."
And the crowd? A bunch of little proto-nazis as far as I'm concerned. This is UF after all. The wonderful wisdom of the crowd.
Calling the crowd "little proto-nazis" gets a 3.
Making an ironic reference to them get a "Flamebait" tag.
There's a range of motivation between drawing attention to rampant injustice and flashing your tits to a Girls Gone Wild camera. The egregious insanity of the Iraq War and Congressional (read Democratic) timidity in standing up to it actually deserves wider reaction than it has got. My generation definitely had self-defense in opposing the Vietnam War thanks to the draft, but the draft ended in '72, and student opposition stayed strong. It's more than a little depressing to see the current college crew sit on its collective hams.
As for the kid's other complaint -- voter fraud -- that gets trickier. There was a lot of voter suppression in Ohio in 2004, and at least one person is facing criminal charges over it. There was a Florida St. investigation into the Florida 2000 election that showed that Florida's peremptory change to its method of counting double marked ballots was the culprit in that election. (Gore would have won easily.) The GOP seems to have counted on the American impulse to "get on with it" to make off with at least one election and possibly 2. A weird fatalism about such things seems to be the chief public reaction. I'm sorry that the guy got tasered but I'm glad that he had a Howard Beale moment. There should be more.
Most of the communication things you can do today, you could do in 1950, but more expensively.
In "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955) the detective has a telephone answering machine. It's about as big as a toaster oven, but it works.
There's never been a check on the government intercepting foreign communications. FISA is irrelevant to that. Even with domestic communication there was a 3 days "hot pursuit" allowance permitting the gov't to intercept first and seek a warrant later.
A young person who isn't a liberal has no heart. An old person who is has no brain.
That was Churchill. Robert Frost said it better: I never cared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old....
Churchill had his political ax to grind. I'll go with Frost.
dr, dirmagic, lview, grep, awk, and zoo
I quit paying attention to software a long time ago (as obvious from my list). Hardware advances made good design "quaint".
In "heat of the chase" situations, the gov't had permission to tap and then seek warrants later. That proved too onerous for the Bush Administration. Even though the court approved something like 99% of warrant requests.
All of the conservative, libertarian, or even simply Republicans defenders of the Admin who didn't howl in protest should turn in their right-to-comment cards. Instead, the people who exposed the abuses were castigated.
A lot of the replies here remind me of the swarm responses to the FCC that [deleted]-wing groups drum up. There's an autonomic quality to it like Poe's Raven croaking "nevermore".
There isn't any cloak of secrecy. The data and algorithms are, in fact, all available, contrary to assertions. The corrections to the temp record were done with ad hoc scripts and one-off programs which are sometimes problematic to track down and replicate. (c.f. any sufficiently busy academic's desk). If one has a doubt about the accuracy, code it yourself and, if the results vary from the published ones, publish a note which describes the differences. That's countering science with science, not science with quibble.
Calibration time. The famous anti "hockey stick" paper was bolstered by a graph which changed the scale of the y-axis by almost an order of magnitude. The "hockey sticks" produced would have shown up in the original graph as so much flutter. Which global warming skeptic publicly objected to that little finesse, eh?
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Language is -- first and foremost -- a biological act. Then, a social one. It's like the difference between pinky-first tea sipping and drinking from your cupped hand at a pool that men would die to gaze upon.
Why, in the current climate where Big Brother has cowed telecoms into letting them eavesdrop on everything under the sun, would anyone adopt a program that makes you save your documents elsewhere? I can hear the tagline: "Don't kid yourself! Your documents aren't really private anyway!"
So, after every quantum time interval there are 2^(number of quanta in the universe) new universes being created. Each with an identical number of quanta in the exact location of the universe it split from. And this has been happening ever since Time began.
That's a lot of universes. You'd think that in one of them I could [fill in the blank].
Interesting threshold: violate Roberts Rules of Order? Get tasered.
I'd love to see if that flew in, say, the British Parliament during the Q&A of the Prime Minister. "Officer Hastings, that backbencher is getting rowdy. Give him 50,000 of the best and make it snippy."
And the crowd? A bunch of little proto-nazis as far as I'm concerned. This is UF after all.
The wonderful wisdom of the crowd.
Calling the crowd "little proto-nazis" gets a 3.
Making an ironic reference to them get a "Flamebait" tag.
I love the smell of consistency in the morning.
Also note how the crowd applauds when he is pulled away from the mike.
The wonderful wisdom of the crowd.
There's a range of motivation between drawing attention to rampant injustice and flashing your tits to a Girls Gone Wild camera. The egregious insanity of the Iraq War and Congressional (read Democratic) timidity in standing up to it actually deserves wider reaction than it has got. My generation definitely had self-defense in opposing the Vietnam War thanks to the draft, but the draft ended in '72, and student opposition stayed strong. It's more than a little depressing to see the current college crew sit on its collective hams.
As for the kid's other complaint -- voter fraud -- that gets trickier. There was a lot of voter suppression in Ohio in 2004, and at least one person is facing criminal charges over it. There was a Florida St. investigation into the Florida 2000 election that showed that Florida's peremptory change to its method of counting double marked ballots was the culprit in that election. (Gore would have won easily.) The GOP seems to have counted on the American impulse to "get on with it" to make off with at least one election and possibly 2. A weird fatalism about such things seems to be the chief public reaction. I'm sorry that the guy got tasered but I'm glad that he had a Howard Beale moment. There should be more.
Most of the communication things you can do today, you could do in 1950, but more expensively.
In "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955) the detective has a telephone answering machine. It's about as big as a toaster oven, but it works.
I'd like to think that they want to prevent anyone from doing this.
It's a thought.
There's never been a check on the government intercepting foreign communications. FISA is irrelevant to that. Even with domestic communication there was a 3 days "hot pursuit" allowance permitting the gov't to intercept first and seek a warrant later.
A young person who isn't a liberal has no heart. An old person who is has no brain. That was Churchill. Robert Frost said it better: I never cared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. ...
Churchill had his political ax to grind. I'll go with Frost.
dr, dirmagic, lview, grep, awk, and zoo
I quit paying attention to software a long time ago (as obvious from my list). Hardware advances made good design "quaint".
In "heat of the chase" situations, the gov't had permission to tap and then seek warrants later. That proved too onerous for the Bush Administration. Even though the court approved something like 99% of warrant requests. All of the conservative, libertarian, or even simply Republicans defenders of the Admin who didn't howl in protest should turn in their right-to-comment cards. Instead, the people who exposed the abuses were castigated.
I've got a special viewing device at home that shows other works that use these techniques. It's called a television.
A lot of the replies here remind me of the swarm responses to the FCC that [deleted]-wing groups drum up. There's an autonomic quality to it like Poe's Raven croaking "nevermore".
There isn't any cloak of secrecy. The data and algorithms are, in fact, all available, contrary to assertions. The corrections to the temp record were done with ad hoc scripts and one-off programs which are sometimes problematic to track down and replicate. (c.f. any sufficiently busy academic's desk). If one has a doubt about the accuracy, code it yourself and, if the results vary from the published ones, publish a note which describes the differences. That's countering science with science, not science with quibble. Calibration time. The famous anti "hockey stick" paper was bolstered by a graph which changed the scale of the y-axis by almost an order of magnitude. The "hockey sticks" produced would have shown up in the original graph as so much flutter. Which global warming skeptic publicly objected to that little finesse, eh?