Just because the TSA is somewhat broken doesn't mean the workers are idiots, brutes, or power mongers. The Nuremberg defense doesn't impress me (thank you, Godwin).
Um,sorry but the only time I have seen VBA used is in Excel macros.What exactly are you doing that needs embedded code in a document? Word is the tool of choice for publishers and copyeditors. Macro use is very common for both.
The Olympics are about:
1) the athletes, who are generally the best in the world
2) the advertisers
Any attempt to politicize them is wrong, and just because China will use them as a chance to spread more propaganda doesn't make it okay for the U.S. to boycott.
Let the athletes decide individually whether they want to boycott or not -- after all, this is the chance of a lifetime for them, and it's fucked up for the government to decide whether or not they get to compete.
I have yet to encounter a single piece of nontrivial Python code that actually worked as its author claimed and didn't require debugging before actually being used. The same could be said for any language under the sun if no specific examples are given.
The exclamatory use of obscenity is designed to provoke. So if I burn my hand on the stove and say, "FUCK!" exactly who or what am I trying to provoke? What happens if I accidentally do it on live television? What if I write a show in which a character does it?
Such provocation within the context of civil discourse has no place-- on the public airwaves What if my show has nothing to do with civil discourse? What if it's a documentary on gang culture, or prison life, or the war movie mentioned in the article? Clearly, your black and white view not only has nothing to do with common sense, but it's also a smokescreen for your own prudery.
Fact is, that's how lots of people talk, so banning it accomplished nothing but censorship.
...every person has an abolute right to not be even "incidentally exposed" to some things,or have their child exposed to it, an obvious examples examples being frontal nudity or other explicit pornography. I agree -- we should ban the internet!!
incidental exposure can be irreparably damaging I hear people say this, yet 100% of people I've asked saw porn as children and didn't turn into serial killers. Could you cite a source that isn't funded by any religious group? I find it much more likely that kids who are traumatized by such things are harmed more by their parents' serious over-reaction than by the porn itself -- Janet Jackson's breast comes to mind (as an example of the "frontal nudity" that you're so worried about).
Funny how the world is full of 2-year-olds who see tits all the time, yet show those same tits to an 8-year-old and suddenly they've been scarred for life.
You could argue that the US is more educated than it ever has been. More people have advanced degrees than ever have, and more poor people have degrees. Making it stupidly easy to get a degree doesn't make those with degrees educated. I could sell "College Diplomas" out of a vending machine -- doesn't mean people who purchase one are educated.
The real problem today is that we've set the bar ridiculously low. Basic reading, writing, and arithmetic are all that's needed for someone to be called 'educated.' Calculus, which the average 12-year-old is perfectly capable of doing, is generally not studied until college, if even then. Science in the U.S. is literally a joke, laughed at by other nations. Hell, half our population can't even speak correct English!
Without Net Neutrality, YouTube would have been throttled out of existence 2 years ago. Whether that's a good or bad thing depends on your point of view, but the fact is worth mentioning to your Congressman.
No Sbux fan, but...
I usually politely reply that I refuse to to use their marketspeak... They are required to use that terminology for their jobs; you are not required to be a dick.
Is it wrong to walk into a gym where you dont have a membership and start exercising just because they dont bother to check ID's at the door? Yes Where this analogy breaks down: When I visit a URL, I'm not physically moving -- that stream of electrons is coming into my house because someone has purposely set it up to do so over an internet connection that I pay for.
A better analogy is: Is it okay to work out on gym equipment that someone has set up in your house, but not given you permission to use? The answer is yes, because it's my fucking house.
Cardinal Bellarmine, the Church's presumed expert in the matter, was simply unconvinced by assertions made and evidence presented The typical educated person at the time knew and believed in heliocentrism, including the Church bigwigs. The problem was that there was a difference between what one knew and what one loudly proclaimed Fact.
This view of the Galileo trial was generally held until the Protestant Reformation... Or at least until you actually bothered opening a book a learning when the Reformation took place.
They are not Bible literalists, they just claim to be. In fact, they are very careful about what they do and do not accept as truth in the Bible.
If anything, they should be called Bible exclusionists.
and your ok with sony taking away your choice like that? sheeple. It was a choice given to us by Sony to begin with, so why not? If they had admitted defeat and folded, they would still have been taking away the choice. Would that have been better?
And "your" is spelled "you're" when it's a contraction. fucktards.
So, you're saying that a 7 year old accidentally tripping over a Goatse link is a good thing? Just because something is not good doesn't mean it's bad.
Your solution implies that the cable model of distribution is the correct one, which hasn't been proven.
On the other hand, if your model were adopted by the MPAA, the world would be vastly improved. Imagine if the MPAA said, "We'll let you listen to all the music you want as long as you pay us $20 per month forever," would you do it? I wouldn't either -- there's just too much good music that doesn't come from MPAA-member artists to bother.
The MPAA and its members would collapse, and all music would become essentially independent.
IOW, I support your proposed solution wholeheartedly.
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And we haven't annexed Canada because we hate hockey.
Please read the other comments about what the "it" in "getting it" means before both being a dick and making a fool of yourself.
Oh -- too late.
The Olympics are about:
1) the athletes, who are generally the best in the world
2) the advertisers
Any attempt to politicize them is wrong, and just because China will use them as a chance to spread more propaganda doesn't make it okay for the U.S. to boycott.
Let the athletes decide individually whether they want to boycott or not -- after all, this is the chance of a lifetime for them, and it's fucked up for the government to decide whether or not they get to compete.
(BTW - Moscow Olympics were in 1980.)
(not a Python guy...just sayin')
Such provocation within the context of civil discourse has no place-- on the public airwaves What if my show has nothing to do with civil discourse? What if it's a documentary on gang culture, or prison life, or the war movie mentioned in the article? Clearly, your black and white view not only has nothing to do with common sense, but it's also a smokescreen for your own prudery.
Fact is, that's how lots of people talk, so banning it accomplished nothing but censorship.
...every person has an abolute right to not be even "incidentally exposed" to some things,or have their child exposed to it, an obvious examples examples being frontal nudity or other explicit pornography. I agree -- we should ban the internet!! incidental exposure can be irreparably damaging I hear people say this, yet 100% of people I've asked saw porn as children and didn't turn into serial killers. Could you cite a source that isn't funded by any religious group? I find it much more likely that kids who are traumatized by such things are harmed more by their parents' serious over-reaction than by the porn itself -- Janet Jackson's breast comes to mind (as an example of the "frontal nudity" that you're so worried about).Funny how the world is full of 2-year-olds who see tits all the time, yet show those same tits to an 8-year-old and suddenly they've been scarred for life.
The real problem today is that we've set the bar ridiculously low. Basic reading, writing, and arithmetic are all that's needed for someone to be called 'educated.' Calculus, which the average 12-year-old is perfectly capable of doing, is generally not studied until college, if even then. Science in the U.S. is literally a joke, laughed at by other nations. Hell, half our population can't even speak correct English!
Without Net Neutrality, YouTube would have been throttled out of existence 2 years ago. Whether that's a good or bad thing depends on your point of view, but the fact is worth mentioning to your Congressman.
The modding today is way out of whack -- multiple threads where legitimate statements are modded Troll.
(BTW mods, this one is OffTopic. Thanks.)
A better analogy is: Is it okay to work out on gym equipment that someone has set up in your house, but not given you permission to use? The answer is yes, because it's my fucking house.
Walmart music store has failed? Enlighten us with your source, please.
They are not Bible literalists, they just claim to be. In fact, they are very careful about what they do and do not accept as truth in the Bible. If anything, they should be called Bible exclusionists.
You've apparently missed the point entirely.
I can turn invisible when no one's looking.
Maybe they fired this guy to replace him with Perez Hilton.
And "your" is spelled "you're" when it's a contraction. fucktards.
Your solution implies that the cable model of distribution is the correct one, which hasn't been proven.
On the other hand, if your model were adopted by the MPAA, the world would be vastly improved. Imagine if the MPAA said, "We'll let you listen to all the music you want as long as you pay us $20 per month forever," would you do it? I wouldn't either -- there's just too much good music that doesn't come from MPAA-member artists to bother.
The MPAA and its members would collapse, and all music would become essentially independent.
IOW, I support your proposed solution wholeheartedly.