I know that on my Windows box, I can use Audacity (fr'instance) to record the "stereo mix" input while some other application is playing whatever I'm listening to, DRM'd or not. The ability to do this probably depends on whether the audio hardware allows this, though. Also, this does add an extra decompression-recompression step that degrades the quality a little. Not that I can tell any difference, though. The virtual audio driver option would do the same.
Very likely that I am indeed an idiot. Won't argue with you on that point.
But, can someone at least point to the specific acts of deregulation that led financial institutions to start giving out sub-prime mortgages to under qualified recipients?
Seems more like it's too much regulation that's caused the problem. Banks were basically forced by regulation to lend money to people who wouldn't qualify, absent the coercion.
Scanners that cover the cellphone bands aren't legal. That legislation was bought by the cellphone carriers back in 1985 (when everything was still analog) because they wanted to tell their customers that using a mobile phone was just as private as using a landline phone.
I don't know about you, but in MY family, the kids wash the dishes, clean the kitchen, do the laundry, clean the bathrooms, etc, while we adults sit on our fat, lazy asses watching American Idol!
No need for parental control technology here. By the time the kids are done with their chores, it's time for them to hop off to bed.
I wonder if the plaintiffs even know whether they were spied on, or if they just suspect it. If they do and they have proof, then maybe they got a case.
But it still doesn't convince me (nor anyone, I suspect, who doesn't already share your views) that belief in any of the great world religions is anything at all like belief in the literal truth of Harry Potter stories.
You see, a sneer is no argument. It didn't convince me, anyway.
But, nevermind. I know you're just out having fun with a bit of intolerant fundie-bashing. So... carry on.
The factoid, that "the sentence declares itself false," is true. But the sentence itself can have no truth value assigned, because it is just logical gibberish, regardless of how eloquently it babbles.
> by allowing really really stupid things to be said > out loud by a dimwitted fringe few, it trains the > rest of us to have stronger minds
Yeah, because it's real hard work for our brains when we have to analyze obvious, "really stupid things."
I'd think that our critical thinking skills get honed when we take the time to analyze the untruths and deceptions that are more subtle and not so obvious.
As I usually do, I blame the public school system for teaching us what to think instead of how to think.
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Isn't this capability already available?
I know that on my Windows box, I can use Audacity (fr'instance) to record the "stereo mix" input while some other application is playing whatever I'm listening to, DRM'd or not.
The ability to do this probably depends on whether the audio hardware allows this, though.
Also, this does add an extra decompression-recompression step that degrades the quality a little. Not that I can tell any difference, though. The virtual audio driver option would do the same.
Very likely that I am indeed an idiot.
Won't argue with you on that point.
But, can someone at least point to the specific acts of deregulation that led financial institutions to start giving out sub-prime mortgages to under qualified recipients?
Seems more like it's too much regulation that's caused the problem.
Banks were basically forced by regulation to lend money to people who wouldn't qualify, absent the coercion.
Scanners that cover the cellphone bands aren't legal.
That legislation was bought by the cellphone carriers back in 1985 (when everything was still analog) because they wanted to tell their customers that using a mobile phone was just as private as using a landline phone.
... I've lost my marbles.
Pear Pimples for Hairy Fishnuts.
Sure do that, but you probably won't be able to fully appreciate it outside the cultural context of the time in which it ran.
C'mon, mods!
That was funny.
... is the one that comes out on top after taking an average of all the different ranking methods.
Heh.
I don't know about you, but in MY family, the kids wash the dishes, clean the kitchen, do the laundry, clean the bathrooms, etc, while we adults sit on our fat, lazy asses watching American Idol!
No need for parental control technology here. By the time the kids are done with their chores, it's time for them to hop off to bed.
CTL-F "lipstick" found this.
But Barack Obama's a Muslim, and he'll probably want to impose Sharia on all of us.
No, it does jive with the facts.
I think you meant it doesn't jibe with the facts.
> The student *didn't* do anything in the school,
> therefore the school has no ability to punish him.
That's a common misconception.
Schools can and do discipline students for actions taken outside of school.
I wonder if the plaintiffs even know whether they were spied on, or if they just suspect it. If they do and they have proof, then maybe they got a case.
Sneer if you must.
But it still doesn't convince me (nor anyone, I suspect, who doesn't already share your views) that belief in any of the great world religions is anything at all like belief in the literal truth of Harry Potter stories.
You see, a sneer is no argument.
It didn't convince me, anyway.
But, nevermind.
I know you're just out having fun with a bit of intolerant fundie-bashing.
So... carry on.
LOL!
You are right!
The factoid, that "the sentence declares itself false," is true.
But the sentence itself can have no truth value assigned, because it is just logical gibberish, regardless of how eloquently it babbles.
> all you can do is expose people to issues and arguments,
> and their mind grapples with it
We can hope so, but I've seen too much from every side that indicates a lot of minds don't grapple.
Examples:
Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Sarah Palin asserts the conflict in Iraq is God's war.
The Universe is only 6000 years old.
etc, etc.
But yeah, you may be right that the obvious, really stupid stuff is good fodder for young apprentice thinkers.
"Imaginary man in the sky" is quite hyperbolic, dont'cha think?
A sneer is not an argument..
Score: 0, gibberish, no truth value one way or the other.
> by allowing really really stupid things to be said
> out loud by a dimwitted fringe few, it trains the
> rest of us to have stronger minds
Yeah, because it's real hard work for our brains when we have to analyze obvious, "really stupid things."
I'd think that our critical thinking skills get honed when we take the time to analyze the untruths and deceptions that are more subtle and not so obvious.
As I usually do, I blame the public school system for teaching us what to think instead of how to think.
Likewise, you atheists have some pretty weird assertions about the beliefs of Christians.
How do we mark you?
If natural gas is as cheap and plentiful as Boone Pickens says it is, why aint't the car manufacturers pumping out CNG cars?
I hear there's surefire profit in that line of business.