Oh Jesus fucking Christ. "Hasn't anyone noticed there are fewer and fewer of us taxpayers not on unemployment here?" What's unemployment at these days, 6.7%? That was the AVERAGE unemployment rate for the period 1970-1995! You're talking about people STARVING TO DEATH?!? Look, reasonable people can differ on whether outsourcing is good, or whether Bush is handling the economy well (to the extent a president has influence on such matters), but telling tales of impending apocalypse because unemployment went up as high as 7% during a recession is flat out ridiculous. Just get down on your knees and thank God you weren't in the workplace during the 70's or 80's, when employment spiked over 9%.
Right, sorry, I have no idea why part way through my post I started calling him "Mike." What I was trying to do was provide an example of how it is theoretically possible for Google to return potentially misleading results. Illegal or not, Google ought to think about remedying that, perhaps by only quoting contigious blocks of text, or else by making a more obvious seperator than an ellipsis, which can be easy to skim past.
But I see no evidence of this theoretical possiblility having occured in Mark Maughan's case, though it is possible that Google has removed offending results. The article claims 3 "false" results, only one of which was substantiated through my Google search. The other two, gross negligence and failure to timely submit a client's claim for refund of overpayment of taxes, may have been misleading Google summaries as I described. Again, I'm making no judgement about whether I think Maughan ought to be compensated (in fact, I'm of the opinion that he should not be), but it does point to a minor user interface issue in the way Google presents results.
I'm not sure about all of the charges, but the California Board of Accountancy does list the disciplinary action for practicing with an expired license. This is the first Google result for "Mark Maughan CPA" (without quotes). So as far as I can tell, the information DOES appear on the state board site, contraditing the article.
At first, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, because I have seen results before where it takes search terms from different parts of the page, and gives a misleading summary: ...blah blah blah blah blah blah Mike... ...Maughan punished for gross negligence...
Even though the linked article might be talking about Mike Smith and Fred Maughan. I can see how something like that could be damaging to someone's reputation, and Google might want to change the way it presents summaries. But since the "offending information" actually does appear on the Board website, I'm not sure how Google is supposed to be responsible.
People will still use google for a while. I used to use Altavista, and it took me a while to transition to Google. In fact, I really didn't make the switch until it got to the point where Altavista had become virtually useless, and Google was orders of magnitude better. People rely on things that have worked in the past, and it takes a number of bad experiences before they'll admit that it's not very good anymore.
I don't think "Google" will remain the generic word for websearching if people switch to another engine. For one thing, "google" is only a verb, not a noun. One might say "I googled for information on monkeys," but no one ever says "MSN has a google, but it's not very good." Also, most brands that become generic are simple, and replace unwieldly terms, often having fewer than half the syllables of the official generic term. For example: Kleenex vs. Facial Tissue, Xerox vs. Photocopier, or Band-Aid vs. Adhesive Bandage. Google is a longer word than "search."
I was just trying to point out that other english speaking countries are hardly a parenthetical. In contrast, there are no other Japanese speaking countries. Nor is it a common second language.
To everyone *outside the USA* (or english speaking countries), it is in a 'second language'
Woah, that was pretty dismissive of the rest of the English speaking world. You've got Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, and the UK as major first world nations that all speak English as their native language. Those nations alone have 1/2 the population of the US, and that doesn't even consider the number of poorer countries the speak English (Bahamas, Liberia, etc.), or the countries where English is a second, but extremely widespread, language (India comes to mind).
I'm not making any hard predictions about whether Japan's movie industry is going to be crippled because of language barriers. But it is absurd to equate Japanese, with a mere 125 million native speakers, and very few non-native speakers, with English, with half a billion native speakers, and more second language speakers than any language in the world.
You may already know this, and I don't mean to condescend if you do, but the outlandish hair colors are there for a reason: it makes it easy for new viewers to immediately tell people apart. It's just like how the Ninja Turtles were given differently colored masks when they made the leap from comics to cartoons (originally, the comic was black and white, and they were all shown with red masks on the covers). So in live action, where you have real faces, that sort of measure would be absurd.
As long as we're talking about anime to live action, Japan also occasionally does it the other way around. Iria is based on a live action movie, Zeiram (and it's sequel). If you ever want a good laugh, pick it up sometime, it's production values are fully on par with Power Rangers.
But they are still eligible for men's competitions, at least that's my understanding. So as you say, there'd have to be a seperate division for enhanced players. And that brings up another idea. Can the athlete sue his parents for making him ineligible to play in normal leauges, if the normal leagues are more popular? Can an athlete sue his parents for NOT enhancing him if the enhanced league is more popular?
Here's the issue: music used to be expensive (full albums $18, singles $6). Now, music is getting cheap, or at least affordable (albums $10, singles $1). That makes it a perfect thing for companies to give away. People are still used to thinking of music as expensive, but in actual fact, that is an incorrect assesment. So a music giveaway seems like a better deal than it really is, so everyone's rushing to offer free music before perceived value falls to current market levels.
That's why he didn't say "Dell and Gateway," he said "Viewsonic and Asus." Display and motherboard companies would profit because they could sell directly to the consumer. OEMs would lose out, as you say.
Of course, the beauty of the original mnemonic (My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas) is that it contains a checksum. Nine Pizzas = Nine Planets, so you know that you have the correct number. Since there is no planet name starting with T, there's no way to incorporate "ten" into the new mnemonic.
Emergency? What the hell kind of emergency are we talking about here? A conventional war that was large scale enough to wipe out the majority of military personnel, but which took place entirely outside of America (because if the war is on American soil, the fact that the women are civilians won't keep them from taking casualties)? I'm sorry, but I can't even conceive of any scenario that would fit what you are talking about.
I also liked (and by "liked," I mean "disliked") how they rewrote the rules to be more accessible. "Rule #3: They can defend themselves." What the hell is this crap?
Men don't have children, so they're far more expendable in a demographic sense.
Huh? The notion of high birth rates as a national goal went out of fashion after WWII. Even if it hadn't, our society does not pracice polygyny, so additional women would be unmarried and have a low birth rate (not zero, obviously, but significantly lower than the married women).
But women aren't in ARMY combat positions. As you say, they are pilots, not infantry. Since the draft is only to funnel personnel into the Army, women are still excluded. The military has justified this to the courts on the basis that the draft would be used mainly to fill combat positions, and hence women would not be elligible anyway. However, if they keep up with this "special skills" idea, the courts may reverse that.
Actually, the current form of the SSS was found legal only because of its purpose: to provide fighting men in time of war. Because women are not allowed into combat positions, drafting them would be unneccessary. However, if the SSS starts putting more effort into figuring out how to draft medical and computer personnel, then that argument loses value, and the courts could very well force them to start drafting women.
The Air Force doesn't take draftees. The draft is only for the purpose of bolstering the ranks of the Army. So the question is, did the Army experience the same overrecruitment? Given how much I see them trying to recruit on campus, I doubt it.
Also remember, rattlesnake poison and polio are natural. Natural doesn't mean good or bad really.
I think you're being unnecessarily harsh. It DOES seem that foods which undergo the least processing are healthiest. Getting vitamins from whole foods is generally regarded as better than getting them from tablets. Formula milk for infants is so far inferior to natural breast milk that I'm amazed it's still legal to sell. It's certainly true that just because something's "natural" doesn't automatically mean it's good, however I think the OP's point still stands.
Without getting into the "what is smarts" questions, you can outperform many people if you put some work into it.
You don't think there are genetic or nutritional components to work ethic?
Woah! Hold on a second, we're not talking about guns, we're talking about knives. I will allow that reasonable people can differ on the issue of guns, because the non-violent uses are pretty minimal, but if you believe that not being able to carry anything that would be a "potential weapon" is a good thing, then I'm damn glad I don't live in the UK. This is the exact same argument made for illegalizing DeCSS, or Napster, that it can be used to commit a crime. Attack the criminals, not those who simply use the same tools for different purposes.
As for me, you can have my Leatherman Wave when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
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Only from 2000 to 2001. I was responding to the claim that we're worse off after 10 years (1991 to 2001), which is false.
Yeah, it's called the "consumer price index," and the numbers I linked to have already been adjusted to compensate for the CPI.
I love America. Here, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, the Party always finds you!
Actually, yes we are.
Oh Jesus fucking Christ. "Hasn't anyone noticed there are fewer and fewer of us taxpayers not on unemployment here?" What's unemployment at these days, 6.7%? That was the AVERAGE unemployment rate for the period 1970-1995! You're talking about people STARVING TO DEATH?!? Look, reasonable people can differ on whether outsourcing is good, or whether Bush is handling the economy well (to the extent a president has influence on such matters), but telling tales of impending apocalypse because unemployment went up as high as 7% during a recession is flat out ridiculous. Just get down on your knees and thank God you weren't in the workplace during the 70's or 80's, when employment spiked over 9%.
But I see no evidence of this theoretical possiblility having occured in Mark Maughan's case, though it is possible that Google has removed offending results. The article claims 3 "false" results, only one of which was substantiated through my Google search. The other two, gross negligence and failure to timely submit a client's claim for refund of overpayment of taxes, may have been misleading Google summaries as I described. Again, I'm making no judgement about whether I think Maughan ought to be compensated (in fact, I'm of the opinion that he should not be), but it does point to a minor user interface issue in the way Google presents results.
I'm not sure about all of the charges, but the California Board of Accountancy does list the disciplinary action for practicing with an expired license. This is the first Google result for "Mark Maughan CPA" (without quotes). So as far as I can tell, the information DOES appear on the state board site, contraditing the article.
...blah blah blah blah blah blah Mike...
...Maughan punished for gross negligence...
At first, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, because I have seen results before where it takes search terms from different parts of the page, and gives a misleading summary:
Even though the linked article might be talking about Mike Smith and Fred Maughan. I can see how something like that could be damaging to someone's reputation, and Google might want to change the way it presents summaries. But since the "offending information" actually does appear on the Board website, I'm not sure how Google is supposed to be responsible.
I don't think "Google" will remain the generic word for websearching if people switch to another engine. For one thing, "google" is only a verb, not a noun. One might say "I googled for information on monkeys," but no one ever says "MSN has a google, but it's not very good." Also, most brands that become generic are simple, and replace unwieldly terms, often having fewer than half the syllables of the official generic term. For example: Kleenex vs. Facial Tissue, Xerox vs. Photocopier, or Band-Aid vs. Adhesive Bandage. Google is a longer word than "search."
I was just trying to point out that other english speaking countries are hardly a parenthetical. In contrast, there are no other Japanese speaking countries. Nor is it a common second language.
Woah, that was pretty dismissive of the rest of the English speaking world. You've got Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, and the UK as major first world nations that all speak English as their native language. Those nations alone have 1/2 the population of the US, and that doesn't even consider the number of poorer countries the speak English (Bahamas, Liberia, etc.), or the countries where English is a second, but extremely widespread, language (India comes to mind).
I'm not making any hard predictions about whether Japan's movie industry is going to be crippled because of language barriers. But it is absurd to equate Japanese, with a mere 125 million native speakers, and very few non-native speakers, with English, with half a billion native speakers, and more second language speakers than any language in the world.
As long as we're talking about anime to live action, Japan also occasionally does it the other way around. Iria is based on a live action movie, Zeiram (and it's sequel). If you ever want a good laugh, pick it up sometime, it's production values are fully on par with Power Rangers.
That was in the movie, so it really doesn't matter (although I think Comedy Central did air the movie uncut at some point)
But they are still eligible for men's competitions, at least that's my understanding. So as you say, there'd have to be a seperate division for enhanced players. And that brings up another idea. Can the athlete sue his parents for making him ineligible to play in normal leauges, if the normal leagues are more popular? Can an athlete sue his parents for NOT enhancing him if the enhanced league is more popular?
Did you read the article? The second battery adds 6 hours, for a total of 9 hours of battery life. How much does you Latitude C get?
Here's the issue: music used to be expensive (full albums $18, singles $6). Now, music is getting cheap, or at least affordable (albums $10, singles $1). That makes it a perfect thing for companies to give away. People are still used to thinking of music as expensive, but in actual fact, that is an incorrect assesment. So a music giveaway seems like a better deal than it really is, so everyone's rushing to offer free music before perceived value falls to current market levels.
That's why he didn't say "Dell and Gateway," he said "Viewsonic and Asus." Display and motherboard companies would profit because they could sell directly to the consumer. OEMs would lose out, as you say.
Of course, the beauty of the original mnemonic (My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas) is that it contains a checksum. Nine Pizzas = Nine Planets, so you know that you have the correct number. Since there is no planet name starting with T, there's no way to incorporate "ten" into the new mnemonic.
Emergency? What the hell kind of emergency are we talking about here? A conventional war that was large scale enough to wipe out the majority of military personnel, but which took place entirely outside of America (because if the war is on American soil, the fact that the women are civilians won't keep them from taking casualties)? I'm sorry, but I can't even conceive of any scenario that would fit what you are talking about.
I also liked (and by "liked," I mean "disliked") how they rewrote the rules to be more accessible. "Rule #3: They can defend themselves." What the hell is this crap?
Huh? The notion of high birth rates as a national goal went out of fashion after WWII. Even if it hadn't, our society does not pracice polygyny, so additional women would be unmarried and have a low birth rate (not zero, obviously, but significantly lower than the married women).
But women aren't in ARMY combat positions. As you say, they are pilots, not infantry. Since the draft is only to funnel personnel into the Army, women are still excluded. The military has justified this to the courts on the basis that the draft would be used mainly to fill combat positions, and hence women would not be elligible anyway. However, if they keep up with this "special skills" idea, the courts may reverse that.
Actually, the current form of the SSS was found legal only because of its purpose: to provide fighting men in time of war. Because women are not allowed into combat positions, drafting them would be unneccessary. However, if the SSS starts putting more effort into figuring out how to draft medical and computer personnel, then that argument loses value, and the courts could very well force them to start drafting women.
The Air Force doesn't take draftees. The draft is only for the purpose of bolstering the ranks of the Army. So the question is, did the Army experience the same overrecruitment? Given how much I see them trying to recruit on campus, I doubt it.
I think you're being unnecessarily harsh. It DOES seem that foods which undergo the least processing are healthiest. Getting vitamins from whole foods is generally regarded as better than getting them from tablets. Formula milk for infants is so far inferior to natural breast milk that I'm amazed it's still legal to sell. It's certainly true that just because something's "natural" doesn't automatically mean it's good, however I think the OP's point still stands.
Without getting into the "what is smarts" questions, you can outperform many people if you put some work into it.
You don't think there are genetic or nutritional components to work ethic?
As for me, you can have my Leatherman Wave when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.