anyone who loves America and the principles for which it once stood should be clamouring to have everyone either tried in public in the normal American system of courts, or released.
Released where? That's the question. At this point, we'd love to release the Uighurs; should we 'release' them in China? They'd be tortured. And we'd love to release lots and lots of Yeminis. Should we release them into Cuba? Or into the Atlantic? Or Miami? How about into your neighborhood?
Your post seems like someone who's really pissed at the current situation, which is well and truly screwed up, but doesn't have a solution to solve it. The current Adminstration is working to get many of these people asylum in various countries, but they don't want them, and it appears that they don't want to come to the US, and the Congresscritters certainly don't want them to come to the US. So, it's going to take a while.
1. Kids do stuff with cell phones that they should not be doing. They text each other during class, their friends (and enemies) call them, they browse and cheat during tests. I know, I know, not YOUR perfect little princess, nope, she's going to be perfect and never do those things. But the other kids do. And if you think that the school calling you to discipline your child when they do these things is a good solution, you are out of your mind. Parents will make excuses, and say 'Prove that my child was cheating on the test' or 'It's not her fault that someone else called her', and then lawyers will be involved, and it doesn't work. I know, I know, not YOU, you're perfect too and when your child does something bad, you will properly discipline her, and she's be perfect again.
2. It's disruptive to the entire class. If you need to contact them, or they need to contact you, you either call the fucking office, or the child calls you from the fucking office. How hard is that? Is that too difficult for you? There will be a slight delay as they look up the name of the current teacher and have the student come down. It's far, far better than having someone's phone ringing every 5 minutes because someone needs to tell their child that they gave them the wrong lunch, and then they talk for 15 minutes about some random crap, while telling the teacher, "I'm getting off the phone real soon now!".
Schools over-react for thing like aspirin because they get their asses sued when things go wrong. The rules are really simple: don't bring any medicines to school and self-administer. The parent gives them the medicine. If it's emergency (a la Epipen) then the nurse / aide holds it. Why is that so frigging hard? But, banning cell phones in classrooms is not overreacting. It's common sense, and it's the only way that it's going to work. And if you take one phone-abusing child's phone away, then you have to take them all away, because otherwise you get sued again: "You let child X use a phone and you didn't suspend her, you don't let my child get away with it because he/she is a girl/boy/black/white/gay/straight/left handed/etc."
It seems like art students view laptops as toys, media devices, and gaming rigs. I and my co-workers view it as a vital tool. You would not sit down and use someone elses computer unless you are showing them something. It would just be weird to ask someone to use their computer for personal stuff.
SVG is pretty broad. There's lots of pieces, and so the library is going to be big. 2M of C++ holds a huge amount of functionality. So, I'd think that the choices are either to pick a subset of the functionality or take the 2M.
We're using Batik and it's great. It's real, working, (mostly) complete, and multi-platform. Does it cover absolutely everything? No, it doesn't (see their status page), but it has done everything that we want it to do.
At this point, the creationists say that not only has speciation been observed, it is vital to the process, since it allows fewer species to have been aboard the Ark during the Flood. The IDers say that speciation does not happen and has not been observed.
The problem with this is that the Flood didn't happen, and the geological evidence is so overwhelmingly against it that it isn't even considered possible except by the absolute literalists and those that don't know better. Don't take my word for it, check out the Affiliation of Christian Geologists and the American Scientific Affiliation
Further, the premise is that there are smaller number of 'kinds' of animals and that speciation has produced the diversity of life we see today. It cannot occur at the speed required by Flood proponents. I took a look at the pages you linked to. There is no discussion of the speed of speciation, or selection pressure, or population genetics that would explain, for example, how dingoes, wolves, dogs, coyotes, and other 'dog kinds' could have come from a (small) set of dogs after the Flood. Try to run the numbers on that.
The idea that there can be this massive speciation and changes in genetic distribution, since the flood, but that this is limited to 'kinds' doesn't make sense. We can measure the distance between kinds, and if you accept reasonable rates of change (within kinds), then if you go further back, the kinds meet up into super-kinds, and as you go further back, you end up with a common ancestor. There's no logical reason (other than reliance on Biblical literalism) to limit the process like that.
The real shame of the article is the misinformation about creationists that it peddles. Creationists do NOT in general deny speciation. The quote used does state that speciation has not actually been observed which is pretty much true. If an argument against someone cannot stand without disinformation, it's time to shut up. It's a shame the author of TFA didn't do just that...
"Pretty much true"??? But we've observed itrepeatedly.
And Jonathan Wells is not a random guy, he's a senior guy at the Discovery Institute. He's lying, and he knows he's lying. His entire book "Icons of Evolution" was a horrible misrepresentation of evolutionary evidence. The real shame is that someone like that gets any interest by real scientists at all.
Mobile phones are incredibly valuable to prison inmates, more so than drugs. Cell phones can quite light as well, so this is a good use of the technology --> trying to get something light to someplace difficult to get into by land.
The same applies to other missions as well. A lb of explosives in the right (or wrong) place can be worth a lot.
Guess what? The chickens are coming home to roost. The kids now believe your shit about The Man(tm) and you don't like it. Tough cookies.
Getting off on a political tangent here, I've felt the same way about the right-wingnuts and their shit about The Government(tm). They've been complaining about the gov't being the problem for so long that now it is. Seems The Man and The Government are getting into bed and The People(tm) are the ones getting screwed.
However, I have seen precious little from the entertainment business to meet this demand. Shopping for music online has become somewhat better, with reasonable prices, good selection and less DRM. But online movies? There's few choices there, if any. And the focus is still very much on DRM and/or streaming (the Pay-per-view model that they love so much), as evidenced by recently emerged standards such as HDMI and Bluray.
The best step in this direction is the fact that my Tivo connects to my Netflix account. Plenty of movies on Netflix that stream, but not all. I think that over time it will get better and I'll be able to get movies as they come out on DVD through streaming, and then I'll be a happy boy wrt to movies.
Yes, I have to pay twice, once for Tivo, and once for Netflix. That will also, I think, get better over time as they merge or some other corporate entity provides the same service. Sony has the ability to provide those services: a desktop box that records live TV and connects to the internet and streams HD movies. How frigging hard is this? Not terribly, especially with the technical abilities of Sony. And the part that is really hard, the corporate shenanigans / deal making to make it work is the part that Sony would be able to pull off. There is a huge opportunity here, and they are pissing it away.
I think that you are picking on a relatively minor misuse of a phrase. In this case, I think that Romancer is pointing out that the GP is incorrect for thinking that the airport is a higher risk area than other public areas because it was used in the past, and therefore acceptable to accept more surveillance there than other places.
I'm not sure that English has a correct word. Taleb (cf. The Black Swan) I think calls it 'tunneling': over-focus on a particular instance of a rare event (and its particulars) at the expense of consideration of the rare events as a class.
If 'narrow-minded' didn't already have a meaning, then it might be a good way to describe it.
Personally, I play a female character, but then so does my wife. Turns out our guild has a number of other RL women too, some of which play male characters. Women are still in the minority, but it's greater than my experience with EQ.
WoW once you reach the top level seems, to me, to be largely a cross between a MMORPG and a chat room. It's comfortable, not too hard, pretty to look at, smooth, and friendly. And that's something that keeps people in the community even after they don't care about the 'game' much anymore.
In the US, it appears to be highly dependent on what sort of company you are. I've been at an LLC, and an S Corp, and C Corp, and they are all handled differently. It appears that a sole proprietorship would be different again (haven't done that).
My salary does not currently depend on our expenses. But my bonus sure does, as does my potential raise for next year. We're a small company and we fret over things like the overhead expenses. You should see the 'spirited' discussions regarding benefits and health care costs and options. Ugh. Development is the easy part!
Did he solicit the dominatrix for sex or just a beating?
If no sex is involved, it is NOT prostitution either.
Just because he might get some sexual enjoyment out of it doesn't make it sex. Hey, my dick gets hard when I get a back massage, but unless I get the happy ending (and I don't), it doesn't count. Some people get off from all sorts of things, but that doesn't make them illegal.
Was he 'looking at porn'?
IMHO AFF is more like FaceBook or match.com than hustler.com. Yes, he's trying to hook up, yes, he should not be doing it on company / government time, but it is not the same as surfing porn. Its a matter of degrees, but I don't see a big difference between posting pictures of yourself in a swimsuit on eharmony and posting a picture of yourself without a suit on AFF.
Is it the nudity? What if he's posting pictures of his latest trip to Orient Beach in St. Martin (its a nude beach)? Is that illegal? Or is it that the whole point of AFF is to find someone to have sex with? Or the combination of nudity with AFF? I'm really not clear on what makes it illegal.
I fully expect his actions to violate the rules of acceptable use at his work. But it doesn't make it illegal.
A guy goes to the pharmacy to buy condoms and the pharmacist asks him if he wants the high school pack, the college pack, or the married pack. He asks 'whats the difference'?
The pharmacist says 'The high school pack has 3: one for Fri, one for Sat, and one for Sun. The college pack has 6: two for Fri, two for Sat, and two for Sun.'
Guy asks 'How many in the married pack?'
Pharmacist says '12'.
Guy asks 'Why so many?'
Pharmacist says 'One for January, one for February,....'
Maybe they figure it's safe to protest again, and won't be waterboarded now that Bush is out of office?
Seriously, this is a non-story. A bunch of people make a protest (good for them, right of free speech) and then block the entrances after being asked to move (preventing expression of other people's rights) and get arrested. So what?
If there is a story here, it's whether or not the games are interesting, actually improve recruitment, and are worth the $.
Then someone (namely the people that should be enforcing CAN-SPAM) are not doing their job.
Seriously, we can wiretap everybody and their brother without a warrant, and send out NSL's, and the RIAA can track people down, but we can't enforce CAN-SPAM against people spamming from within the US? There's a serious mis-allocation of resources here.
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anyone who loves America and the principles for which it once stood should be clamouring to have everyone either tried in public in the normal American system of courts, or released.
Released where? That's the question. At this point, we'd love to release the Uighurs; should we 'release' them in China? They'd be tortured. And we'd love to release lots and lots of Yeminis. Should we release them into Cuba? Or into the Atlantic? Or Miami? How about into your neighborhood?
Your post seems like someone who's really pissed at the current situation, which is well and truly screwed up, but doesn't have a solution to solve it. The current Adminstration is working to get many of these people asylum in various countries, but they don't want them, and it appears that they don't want to come to the US, and the Congresscritters certainly don't want them to come to the US. So, it's going to take a while.
Try Where Am I. I'm not sure that this is the soul that religious people mean though.
You are living in an pretend world.
1. Kids do stuff with cell phones that they should not be doing. They text each other during class, their friends (and enemies) call them, they browse and cheat during tests. I know, I know, not YOUR perfect little princess, nope, she's going to be perfect and never do those things. But the other kids do. And if you think that the school calling you to discipline your child when they do these things is a good solution, you are out of your mind. Parents will make excuses, and say 'Prove that my child was cheating on the test' or 'It's not her fault that someone else called her', and then lawyers will be involved, and it doesn't work. I know, I know, not YOU, you're perfect too and when your child does something bad, you will properly discipline her, and she's be perfect again.
2. It's disruptive to the entire class. If you need to contact them, or they need to contact you, you either call the fucking office, or the child calls you from the fucking office. How hard is that? Is that too difficult for you? There will be a slight delay as they look up the name of the current teacher and have the student come down. It's far, far better than having someone's phone ringing every 5 minutes because someone needs to tell their child that they gave them the wrong lunch, and then they talk for 15 minutes about some random crap, while telling the teacher, "I'm getting off the phone real soon now!".
Schools over-react for thing like aspirin because they get their asses sued when things go wrong. The rules are really simple: don't bring any medicines to school and self-administer. The parent gives them the medicine. If it's emergency (a la Epipen) then the nurse / aide holds it. Why is that so frigging hard? But, banning cell phones in classrooms is not overreacting. It's common sense, and it's the only way that it's going to work. And if you take one phone-abusing child's phone away, then you have to take them all away, because otherwise you get sued again: "You let child X use a phone and you didn't suspend her, you don't let my child get away with it because he/she is a girl/boy/black/white/gay/straight/left handed/etc."
That's my experience too.
It seems like art students view laptops as toys, media devices, and gaming rigs. I and my co-workers view it as a vital tool. You would not sit down and use someone elses computer unless you are showing them something. It would just be weird to ask someone to use their computer for personal stuff.
So, we let ISO run DNS?
SVG is pretty broad. There's lots of pieces, and so the library is going to be big. 2M of C++ holds a huge amount of functionality. So, I'd think that the choices are either to pick a subset of the functionality or take the 2M.
We're using Batik and it's great. It's real, working, (mostly) complete, and multi-platform. Does it cover absolutely everything? No, it doesn't (see their status page), but it has done everything that we want it to do.
Well, this is rich.
At this point, the creationists say that not only has speciation been observed, it is vital to the process, since it allows fewer species to have been aboard the Ark during the Flood. The IDers say that speciation does not happen and has not been observed.
The problem with this is that the Flood didn't happen, and the geological evidence is so overwhelmingly against it that it isn't even considered possible except by the absolute literalists and those that don't know better. Don't take my word for it, check out the Affiliation of Christian Geologists and the American Scientific Affiliation
Further, the premise is that there are smaller number of 'kinds' of animals and that speciation has produced the diversity of life we see today. It cannot occur at the speed required by Flood proponents. I took a look at the pages you linked to. There is no discussion of the speed of speciation, or selection pressure, or population genetics that would explain, for example, how dingoes, wolves, dogs, coyotes, and other 'dog kinds' could have come from a (small) set of dogs after the Flood. Try to run the numbers on that.
The idea that there can be this massive speciation and changes in genetic distribution, since the flood, but that this is limited to 'kinds' doesn't make sense. We can measure the distance between kinds, and if you accept reasonable rates of change (within kinds), then if you go further back, the kinds meet up into super-kinds, and as you go further back, you end up with a common ancestor. There's no logical reason (other than reliance on Biblical literalism) to limit the process like that.
The real shame of the article is the misinformation about creationists that it peddles. Creationists do NOT in general deny speciation. The quote used does state that speciation has not actually been observed which is pretty much true. If an argument against someone cannot stand without disinformation, it's time to shut up. It's a shame the author of TFA didn't do just that...
"Pretty much true"??? But we've observed it repeatedly.
And Jonathan Wells is not a random guy, he's a senior guy at the Discovery Institute. He's lying, and he knows he's lying. His entire book "Icons of Evolution" was a horrible misrepresentation of evolutionary evidence. The real shame is that someone like that gets any interest by real scientists at all.
I'm glad to hear that other people have dogs that do that. My neighbors think my dog is nuts.
But on the bright side, to date a plane has never landed in my yard.
I'm sure on the internet you can get a wolf pelt, but perhaps the treatment of it will remove some of the effect?
Maybe a more interesting idea is to get some of the wolf urine they use to keep animals away from plants.
Or add a neurocontroller like they have done with rats, and then fly it remotely. And that was 2002. Who knows what they have going now.
Mobile phones are incredibly valuable to prison inmates, more so than drugs. Cell phones can quite light as well, so this is a good use of the technology --> trying to get something light to someplace difficult to get into by land.
The same applies to other missions as well. A lb of explosives in the right (or wrong) place can be worth a lot.
Guess what? The chickens are coming home to roost. The kids now believe your shit about The Man(tm) and you don't like it. Tough cookies.
Getting off on a political tangent here, I've felt the same way about the right-wingnuts and their shit about The Government(tm). They've been complaining about the gov't being the problem for so long that now it is. Seems The Man and The Government are getting into bed and The People(tm) are the ones getting screwed.
However, I have seen precious little from the entertainment business to meet this demand. Shopping for music online has become somewhat better, with reasonable prices, good selection and less DRM. But online movies? There's few choices there, if any. And the focus is still very much on DRM and/or streaming (the Pay-per-view model that they love so much), as evidenced by recently emerged standards such as HDMI and Bluray.
The best step in this direction is the fact that my Tivo connects to my Netflix account. Plenty of movies on Netflix that stream, but not all. I think that over time it will get better and I'll be able to get movies as they come out on DVD through streaming, and then I'll be a happy boy wrt to movies.
Yes, I have to pay twice, once for Tivo, and once for Netflix. That will also, I think, get better over time as they merge or some other corporate entity provides the same service. Sony has the ability to provide those services: a desktop box that records live TV and connects to the internet and streams HD movies. How frigging hard is this? Not terribly, especially with the technical abilities of Sony. And the part that is really hard, the corporate shenanigans / deal making to make it work is the part that Sony would be able to pull off. There is a huge opportunity here, and they are pissing it away.
I think that you are picking on a relatively minor misuse of a phrase. In this case, I think that Romancer is pointing out that the GP is incorrect for thinking that the airport is a higher risk area than other public areas because it was used in the past, and therefore acceptable to accept more surveillance there than other places.
I'm not sure that English has a correct word. Taleb (cf. The Black Swan) I think calls it 'tunneling': over-focus on a particular instance of a rare event (and its particulars) at the expense of consideration of the rare events as a class.
If 'narrow-minded' didn't already have a meaning, then it might be a good way to describe it.
True, and you can tell when you get on vent.
Personally, I play a female character, but then so does my wife. Turns out our guild has a number of other RL women too, some of which play male characters. Women are still in the minority, but it's greater than my experience with EQ.
WoW once you reach the top level seems, to me, to be largely a cross between a MMORPG and a chat room. It's comfortable, not too hard, pretty to look at, smooth, and friendly. And that's something that keeps people in the community even after they don't care about the 'game' much anymore.
In the US, it appears to be highly dependent on what sort of company you are. I've been at an LLC, and an S Corp, and C Corp, and they are all handled differently. It appears that a sole proprietorship would be different again (haven't done that).
My salary does not currently depend on our expenses. But my bonus sure does, as does my potential raise for next year. We're a small company and we fret over things like the overhead expenses. You should see the 'spirited' discussions regarding benefits and health care costs and options. Ugh. Development is the easy part!
Did he solicit the dominatrix for sex or just a beating?
If no sex is involved, it is NOT prostitution either.
Just because he might get some sexual enjoyment out of it doesn't make it sex. Hey, my dick gets hard when I get a back massage, but unless I get the happy ending (and I don't), it doesn't count. Some people get off from all sorts of things, but that doesn't make them illegal.
Was he 'looking at porn'? IMHO AFF is more like FaceBook or match.com than hustler.com. Yes, he's trying to hook up, yes, he should not be doing it on company / government time, but it is not the same as surfing porn. Its a matter of degrees, but I don't see a big difference between posting pictures of yourself in a swimsuit on eharmony and posting a picture of yourself without a suit on AFF.
Is it the nudity? What if he's posting pictures of his latest trip to Orient Beach in St. Martin (its a nude beach)? Is that illegal? Or is it that the whole point of AFF is to find someone to have sex with? Or the combination of nudity with AFF? I'm really not clear on what makes it illegal.
I fully expect his actions to violate the rules of acceptable use at his work. But it doesn't make it illegal.
A guy goes to the pharmacy to buy condoms and the pharmacist asks him if he wants the high school pack, the college pack, or the married pack. He asks 'whats the difference'?
....'
The pharmacist says 'The high school pack has 3: one for Fri, one for Sat, and one for Sun. The college pack has 6: two for Fri, two for Sat, and two for Sun.'
Guy asks 'How many in the married pack?'
Pharmacist says '12'.
Guy asks 'Why so many?'
Pharmacist says 'One for January, one for February,
Maybe they figure it's safe to protest again, and won't be waterboarded now that Bush is out of office?
Seriously, this is a non-story. A bunch of people make a protest (good for them, right of free speech) and then block the entrances after being asked to move (preventing expression of other people's rights) and get arrested. So what?
If there is a story here, it's whether or not the games are interesting, actually improve recruitment, and are worth the $.
Holy crap, mailinator is great! Thanks (though you could have included a link).
And their FAQ is fricking hilarious.
Then someone (namely the people that should be enforcing CAN-SPAM) are not doing their job.
Seriously, we can wiretap everybody and their brother without a warrant, and send out NSL's, and the RIAA can track people down, but we can't enforce CAN-SPAM against people spamming from within the US? There's a serious mis-allocation of resources here.
What about Best of Youtube" Does that step on YouTube's trademark?
I think that it's pretty silly. As long as it's clearly put on the front page that it's not associated with Wikipedia, then Wikipedia Art is fine.