Why don't the US instate public representatives in addition to the current corporate representatives? It seems like such an easy solution to this representation issue you guys are having.
Because only Commies and Terrorists support public funding of campaigns.
Er, the problem is exactly that people stopped buying movies and music, they just didn't stop consuming them.
"Revolution" is one way to fix the issue of bills like these. People giving up piracy and paying for what they use would probably also work, as it'd take away the rationale and I think the labels/studios would lose interest in lobbying at that point, given that it's expensive, slow and frustrating for all involved.
Of course most people want to shout "fuck the corporations" and feel radical at the same time as they guzzle down Hollywood movies from TPB. So that solution isn't going to happen.
When the major labels tank, it will be because their individual investors finally accept that the world no longer values the product. It doesn't matter whether people are pirating or not - if we valued the product, we'd buy it. (Portal Song author) Jonathan Coulton, for example, gives a non-trivial amount of his music away free on his website. http://www.jonathancoulton.com/ At PAX East he was selling signed, branded thumb drives which contained his complete discography for about $60 - and they were selling (besides which, the dude gives a hell of a show).
Literate consumers aren't geese anymore, ready to have shitty media crammed down our throats to produce financial pate for greedy marketing slobs. I've downloaded plenty of media that turned out to be garbage, and so I don't pay for it. I'm not ashamed in the least, either. I feel it makes me a truly informed consumer, and I vote with my wallet every chance I get. Good luck returning a shitty movie, piece of software, or album if you pay in advance. The industry is inside out. It forces you to commit a crime to determine value. Fuck 'em.
If you read TFA, you'll find that this isn't assuming that students won't know something yet - it is defining a predator as an organism that gets its nutrients from consuming another organism (meaning a cow is a predator).
They're just trying to teach critical thinking - getting young minds to consider alternative points of view. In this instance, for example, they want the students to look at things from the point of view of the grass!
The basis of science is to challenge currently accepted beliefs, even those that are considered physical laws. It was once a scientifically accepted belief that if you sailed too far from home, you'd fall off the edge of the world. Scientists knew that gravity pulled down, and that the Earth was round. Someone eventually challenged that belief and found that you wouldn't fall off the edge of the world. As I understand it, time was proven to be constant until someone came along and discovered relativity. While the intent and practical effect of this law may have a negative impact on scientific learning, in principle it supports the teaching of science.
Fine-point debates in cutting-edge scientific thought doesn't traditionally take place in a first grade classroom. This law applies to K-12, not at the University level.
Also, IF YOU BELONG TO A RELIGION, YOU ARE PART OF THIS PROBLEM. You can't give your support to a religion and then pretend like you have absolutely no accountability when that religion rapes little boys or infuses theology with science in public schools.
Well that's just silly. I am not a faith-based person, but tarring everyone who belongs to any religion for the bad actors in a few religions is ignorant and counterproductive.
Except (eg) Catholics. Sorry guys, your church is inexcusable until Rome takes responsibility for centuries of child torture.
I would argue that any teacher in a biological science who believes in creationism to the exclusion of evolution through natural selection isn't qualified to teach biology, but if they're willing to teach evolution, I can live with whatever nutball thing they believe.
I don't think this law does what you think it does. I believe the goal of this law is to allow teachers to present creationism as a legitimate scientific alternative to natural selection.
Yes, but it also allows a teacher to teach that the Crusades were a religiously-inspired invasion of sovereign nations...possibly even terrorism by Christians against Muslims. I wonder if the governor will agree that THAT "accomplishes anything that isn’t already acceptable in our schools."
No it doesn't. These allowances only apply to science/biology classes - NOT social sciences or any other discipline. Seriously.
Damage already done, and for years. Some group of kids is going to be brought up with this "Creationism is good" shit and be basically non-contributing/non-functional members of society.
Might take 4 years to overturn this and guess what? that's a quite large group of kids in Tennessee.
Chalk that up to lack of sex ed and contraception. Remember kids, everything you see and hear and think and feel is wrong. Now take all that shame and let it ferment into hatred for anyone with less shame than you!
It sounds like you're saying they should become Radio Shack, which isn't doing spectacularly either.
With few exceptions, I get much better and more knowledgeable help in a Radio Shack than I ever did in Best Buy. In BB, I just feel like a cross between a cow being prepped for slaughter and a criminal.
(My experience is at the Boston/Cambridge location)
Hooray! That's the only tech store in the area I'll do business with anymore. They have good sales, the staff aren't pushy and occasionally even know things. Astonishing. God help you if you get stuck in traffic at the BU bridge rotary though...
There's quite a bit of vetting process involved in promoting someone from $12,000/yr to $6,000,000/yr. Clearly he had some worthwhile ideas along the way, as he expanded the company by 300%+ over a decade against some pretty stiff competition (Circuit City, Incredible Universe, CompUSA and others are now defunct).
I mean, I hate corporate america as much as the next guy, but clearly his growth strategy worked, because we're talking about him today and not CompUSA. The main problem here was that the company failed to transition from a growth strategy to a stable revenue stream, which is pretty common in the retail sector.
Saying Best Buy's success against Circuit City and CompUSA is evidence of his qualifications is a little bit like telling Republican voters that Romney's success against Cain and Perry is proof of his conservatism. Those institutions died from (mostly) self-inflicted wounds.
Perhaps one of the idiot Left wingers on this forum can tell me - why do you think white people don't have the right to have their own countries ANY MORE?
You have every right to go start your own country. I'd be proud to be the first to sign your petition.
National Review is a money loser. It has lost tens of millions over its lifetime. Like a sports team, it's just an ego project for effete neocons with connections. It can "afford" to throw away popular writers for having popular ideas, that the elite hates.
Personally I don't think the elites at the National Review hate his ideas, I think they just hate that he aired them without using code words that provide political coverage for their special brand of institutionalized bigotry. I don't know much about this guy, but after reading his screed I find it implausible that anyone who had more than casual contact with him wouldn't know he was a bigot.
As I asked someone else above, do you think that a black man might have that mentality because he has grown up in a society dominated by white cultural views, including racism? Or do you believe he has investigated the statistics around mugging and determined that he is much more likely to be victimized by a black person?
From the context, it seems pretty clear that he's talking about his shame over a deep-seated, unconscious fear of blacks. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
I'm not an expert or anything, but wasn't "look-and-feel" the basis for that failed historic Apple suit against Microsoft? I have it in my head that this isn't sufficient to reach the level of infringement, but my head is often wrong.
I suppose you're right that there's not much of a market for complex games like this. But if the average player didn't have to deal with writing any code then it could work. The code guys might be the equivalent of the game's crafters, and people buy (using ingame currency) software from them.
Information wants to be free. Which leads us inexorably to the conclusion that the game will be filled with pirates.
SPACE pirates! Or the more culturally sensitive term, "atmospherically challenged infringers" perhaps.
+5 funny, but actually true. It's mindboggling to think that the guy who ripped off a vastly superior game in what looks like some Kindergarten-level JavaBabble made such an enormous amount of money. I just don't understand how the world works sometimes.
It is a girl and by the sounds of it a young one. It almost sounds trollish too. I for one love dwarf fortress. The interface is terrible, but the game play is on par with the most advanced rts out there. Of course it is all opinion so troll lo lo lo la
The only fun part about DF is the arcane interface. Once you've figured it out, there's no more game. It's like fun-through-obscurity, and it doesn't work any better for fun than it does for security.
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Why don't the US instate public representatives in addition to the current corporate representatives?
It seems like such an easy solution to this representation issue you guys are having.
Because only Commies and Terrorists support public funding of campaigns.
Er, the problem is exactly that people stopped buying movies and music, they just didn't stop consuming them.
"Revolution" is one way to fix the issue of bills like these. People giving up piracy and paying for what they use would probably also work, as it'd take away the rationale and I think the labels/studios would lose interest in lobbying at that point, given that it's expensive, slow and frustrating for all involved.
Of course most people want to shout "fuck the corporations" and feel radical at the same time as they guzzle down Hollywood movies from TPB. So that solution isn't going to happen.
When the major labels tank, it will be because their individual investors finally accept that the world no longer values the product. It doesn't matter whether people are pirating or not - if we valued the product, we'd buy it. (Portal Song author) Jonathan Coulton, for example, gives a non-trivial amount of his music away free on his website. http://www.jonathancoulton.com/ At PAX East he was selling signed, branded thumb drives which contained his complete discography for about $60 - and they were selling (besides which, the dude gives a hell of a show).
Literate consumers aren't geese anymore, ready to have shitty media crammed down our throats to produce financial pate for greedy marketing slobs. I've downloaded plenty of media that turned out to be garbage, and so I don't pay for it. I'm not ashamed in the least, either. I feel it makes me a truly informed consumer, and I vote with my wallet every chance I get. Good luck returning a shitty movie, piece of software, or album if you pay in advance. The industry is inside out. It forces you to commit a crime to determine value. Fuck 'em.
If you read TFA, you'll find that this isn't assuming that students won't know something yet - it is defining a predator as an organism that gets its nutrients from consuming another organism (meaning a cow is a predator).
They're just trying to teach critical thinking - getting young minds to consider alternative points of view. In this instance, for example, they want the students to look at things from the point of view of the grass!
(also, FTFY)
FTFTFY
Not that I disagree with how useful an internet connection is, but homeless people aren't known for having either facebook pages OR smartphones.
Welcome to the post-Keynes economy, in a segment Stephen Colbert will likely call, "Better Know You're Homeless".
Now that's funny, I don't care who you are.
What's a Tebow? (*seizes your nerd credentials*)
The basis of science is to challenge currently accepted beliefs, even those that are considered physical laws. It was once a scientifically accepted belief that if you sailed too far from home, you'd fall off the edge of the world. Scientists knew that gravity pulled down, and that the Earth was round. Someone eventually challenged that belief and found that you wouldn't fall off the edge of the world. As I understand it, time was proven to be constant until someone came along and discovered relativity. While the intent and practical effect of this law may have a negative impact on scientific learning, in principle it supports the teaching of science.
Fine-point debates in cutting-edge scientific thought doesn't traditionally take place in a first grade classroom. This law applies to K-12, not at the University level.
Also, IF YOU BELONG TO A RELIGION, YOU ARE PART OF THIS PROBLEM. You can't give your support to a religion and then pretend like you have absolutely no accountability when that religion rapes little boys or infuses theology with science in public schools.
Well that's just silly. I am not a faith-based person, but tarring everyone who belongs to any religion for the bad actors in a few religions is ignorant and counterproductive.
Except (eg) Catholics. Sorry guys, your church is inexcusable until Rome takes responsibility for centuries of child torture.
My opinion.
I would argue that any teacher in a biological science who believes in creationism to the exclusion of evolution through natural selection isn't qualified to teach biology, but if they're willing to teach evolution, I can live with whatever nutball thing they believe.
I don't think this law does what you think it does. I believe the goal of this law is to allow teachers to present creationism as a legitimate scientific alternative to natural selection.
Yes, but it also allows a teacher to teach that the Crusades were a religiously-inspired invasion of sovereign nations...possibly even terrorism by Christians against Muslims. I wonder if the governor will agree that THAT "accomplishes anything that isn’t already acceptable in our schools."
No it doesn't. These allowances only apply to science/biology classes - NOT social sciences or any other discipline. Seriously.
Damage already done, and for years. Some group of kids is going to be brought up with this "Creationism is good" shit and be basically non-contributing/non-functional members of society.
Might take 4 years to overturn this and guess what? that's a quite large group of kids in Tennessee.
Chalk that up to lack of sex ed and contraception. Remember kids, everything you see and hear and think and feel is wrong. Now take all that shame and let it ferment into hatred for anyone with less shame than you!
Praise Jesus.
Maybe, but if they can read, rite, and 'rithmatic, they're still miles ahead of the US.
Who is lieing now...
I am.
It sounds like you're saying they should become Radio Shack, which isn't doing spectacularly either.
With few exceptions, I get much better and more knowledgeable help in a Radio Shack than I ever did in Best Buy. In BB, I just feel like a cross between a cow being prepped for slaughter and a criminal.
(My experience is at the Boston/Cambridge location)
Hooray! That's the only tech store in the area I'll do business with anymore. They have good sales, the staff aren't pushy and occasionally even know things. Astonishing. God help you if you get stuck in traffic at the BU bridge rotary though...
There's quite a bit of vetting process involved in promoting someone from $12,000/yr to $6,000,000/yr. Clearly he had some worthwhile ideas along the way, as he expanded the company by 300%+ over a decade against some pretty stiff competition (Circuit City, Incredible Universe, CompUSA and others are now defunct).
I mean, I hate corporate america as much as the next guy, but clearly his growth strategy worked, because we're talking about him today and not CompUSA. The main problem here was that the company failed to transition from a growth strategy to a stable revenue stream, which is pretty common in the retail sector.
Saying Best Buy's success against Circuit City and CompUSA is evidence of his qualifications is a little bit like telling Republican voters that Romney's success against Cain and Perry is proof of his conservatism. Those institutions died from (mostly) self-inflicted wounds.
Perhaps one of the idiot Left wingers on this forum can tell me - why do you think white people don't have the right to have their own countries ANY MORE?
You have every right to go start your own country. I'd be proud to be the first to sign your petition.
Bye now.
National Review is a money loser. It has lost tens of millions over its lifetime. Like a sports team, it's just an ego project for effete neocons with connections. It can "afford" to throw away popular writers for having popular ideas, that the elite hates.
Personally I don't think the elites at the National Review hate his ideas, I think they just hate that he aired them without using code words that provide political coverage for their special brand of institutionalized bigotry. I don't know much about this guy, but after reading his screed I find it implausible that anyone who had more than casual contact with him wouldn't know he was a bigot.
As I asked someone else above, do you think that a black man might have that mentality because he has grown up in a society dominated by white cultural views, including racism? Or do you believe he has investigated the statistics around mugging and determined that he is much more likely to be victimized by a black person?
From the context, it seems pretty clear that he's talking about his shame over a deep-seated, unconscious fear of blacks. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
Serious question for anyone who is white and purports to be outraged or disgusted by John Derbyshires article.
Would you volunteer to walk around the streets of Compton on a Friday night. If not why not?
Hell no, I wouldn't.
I also wouldn't walk around South Boston in the middle of the night, a low income, predominantly (85%) white neighborhood.
http://www.cityofboston.gov/dnd/U_Neighborhood_Profiles.asp
You don't know much about the South if you think Central Florida is part of it.
You don't know much about Florida if you think it isn't a deeply racist region.
I'm not an expert or anything, but wasn't "look-and-feel" the basis for that failed historic Apple suit against Microsoft? I have it in my head that this isn't sufficient to reach the level of infringement, but my head is often wrong.
Your thinking of EVE online.
I suppose you're right that there's not much of a market for complex games like this. But if the average player didn't have to deal with writing any code then it could work. The code guys might be the equivalent of the game's crafters, and people buy (using ingame currency) software from them.
Information wants to be free. Which leads us inexorably to the conclusion that the game will be filled with pirates.
SPACE pirates! Or the more culturally sensitive term, "atmospherically challenged infringers" perhaps.
Damnit, I want to play this game now.
+5 funny, but actually true. It's mindboggling to think that the guy who ripped off a vastly superior game in what looks like some Kindergarten-level JavaBabble made such an enormous amount of money. I just don't understand how the world works sometimes.
People like things that you don't like?!
Idiots!
They are a publisher, but they also develop games.
I should know, as I worked at EA for 6 years, specifically on sports titles.
Cheers.
-jamman
There's a special place in hell for you, jamman.
It is a girl and by the sounds of it a young one. It almost sounds trollish too. I for one love dwarf fortress. The interface is terrible, but the game play is on par with the most advanced rts out there. Of course it is all opinion so troll lo lo lo la
The only fun part about DF is the arcane interface. Once you've figured it out, there's no more game. It's like fun-through-obscurity, and it doesn't work any better for fun than it does for security.