That's a far cry from all French citizens supporting him when some are actually demanding exactly that isn't it? Shouldn't they deserve some recognition on your part?
I think anyone from any side is justified in saying that giving it to Obama is premature, since the requirements are that you have already done something worth giving you the award, not that you are "expected to" do certain things.
Well, regardless of if you agree with the decision of awarding Obama the Peace Prize or not, the Nobel Foundation is a private institution, they should be able to award any prize how they damn well please. If their decisions make the Nobel Peace Prize irrelevant to the world, it would be a shame but it is their prerogative.
But I would also like to point out that people on both sides of the political fence are unhappy. From the BBC article:
Socialist Party spokesman Benoit Hamon told Reuters: "As a minister of culture he has drawn attention to himself by defending a film maker accused of raping a child and he has written a book where he said he took advantage of sexual tourism. To say the least, I find it shocking."
Marine Le Pen, vice president of the right-wing National Front, read excerpts of Mr Mitterrand's book aloud during a television interview, and said it left "an indelible stain on the government".
She called for the culture minister to step down.
"Resign, Mr Mitterrand and perhaps, afterwards we'll be able to give lessons to other people," she said.
Mr Mitterrand said it was an honour to be dragged though the mud by the National Front, and criticised the Socialists for making common cause with the extreme right.
"reeks of political calculation"? It's pretty blatant but should it come as any surprise from an organization who's major goal is to change world politics? For the better yes, but to change it never the less.
The Infinite Improbability Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing vast interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a second, without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace. It was discovered by a lucky chance, and then developed into a governable form of propulsion by the Galactic Government's research team on Damogran.
This, briefly, is the story of its discovery. The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were of course well understood - and such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess's undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the Theory of Indeterminacy.
Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this - partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.
Another thing they couldn't stand was the perpetual failure they encountered in trying to construct a machine which could generate the infinite improbability field needed to flip a spaceship across the mind-paralysing distances between the furthest stars, and in the end they grumpily announced that such a machine was virtually impossible.
Then, one day, a student who had been left to sweep up the lab after a particularly unsuccessful party found himself reasoning this way:
If, he thought to himself, such a machine is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite improbability. So all I have to do in order to make one is to work out exactly how improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea... and turn it on!
He did this, and was rather startled to discover that he had managed to create the long sought after golden Infinite Improbability generator out of thin air.
It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass.
Prior to graduate school, Henderson was a certified public accountant. He received the William A. Paton Award for achieving the highest score in Michigan on the May 1980 CPA examination; he also received the Elijah Watt Sells Award for attaining one of the top 100 scores in the U.S.
Bachelor of business administration degree with high distinction from the University of Michigan in 1980 with an emphasis in accounting and finance.
Master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School in 1984 graduating as a George F. Baker Scholar.
After graduating, Henderson started his career at General Motors in 1984 as a senior analyst in the Treasurer's office in New York.
Perhaps he worked his balls off for 20+ years in the same company?
It hasn't "worked" fully at all, yet. But it is one of the more complex science instruments on the planet, not a Toyota Pickup truck at the garage. Give them time and it'll do its job... unless some twelve-year old Chinese prodigy figures out a way to do the same stuff in his lunch box.
Who would be immediately lynched by the scientific community because no one likes a smart ass.
Your first quote seems to support the AFACT lawyers claimed against iiNet. That they did nothing to discourage copyright infringement on its network. Thus the parallel to Holden and their inaction.
Your second quote supports The Pirate Bay and their fight against the IFPI and the MPAA and their claims of copyright infringement encouraged by the Pirate Bay.
Capitalism has given a majority in America the delusion that they too can win the lotto, they too can be the next 10million dollar a year winner...
I think gambling predates capitalism.
The pres of my company makes a modest salary by ceo/pres standards. I will work 20 years at a decent salary (top 10%) for my region, save 20% of my salary a year and it will not equal what he makes in one year! There's something woefully wrong with our system.
The fact that you may be completely incapable of doing what the President of your Company does nor willing to be responsible for what is expected of the President of your Company does not even factor in to your equation. Only the fact that he makes more than you.
Consider that perhaps the bottom 10% of your region think the same of you as you think of the President of your Company. That you don't deserve the salary you earn. Thus, I challenge you to put your money where your mouth is and adopt the income of the bottom 10% for your region.
Holden repeatedly allows their vehicles to be used in drug running, armed robberies and abductions by failing to control what the vehicles are used for.
and...
The Pirate Bay is a classic case of David vs Goliath.
Its great that the little guys are able to hold out against the big corporate bullies.
Well, there are some people who would have an opinion on the authors but that is totally unfair for those who don't. So in the interest of fairness, I gave some people something to rant about so they have something to post.
I agree. Even more so when the compilation of the material used for it's purpose is funded by the public. Now if someone wants to privately fund a compilation of the material and charge for it, fine.
Don't accept the public funds and obligation then?
No is saying all educational material has to be publicly funded. No one is saying the owners of privately funded educational material can't do what the want with it.
A publisher can produce educational material without using federal funds and keep all the rights in addition to everything that doesn't fall under the educational material category.
This is correct. In all U.S. jurisdictions that I am aware of, any individual may file a lawsuit on his own behalf regardless of his status as member of the bar.
For some reason that gets conservatives so mad you would think they were about to bust an artery.
Well... being a little tongue-in-cheek
Conservatives keep accusing liberals of treating Obama like Jesus. In a public school, some children are prompted by some commie liberal to sing praise to Obama so that's kinda like prayer in public school right? Fair middle ground?
Now, on a serious note, assume that the conservatives are correct and that the public school was out of line pushing a political viewpoint onto children where they had no right to do so. That the responsibility should fall to the realm of the parents.
I would put it them then that, like politics, so too does education in a religious viewpoints fall to the parents and is their responsibility and not one a public school should undertake. Seems fair and reasonable to me.
However, I am constantly reminded that you cannot reason someone out of a position that they were not reasoned into.
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That's a far cry from all French citizens supporting him when some are actually demanding exactly that isn't it? Shouldn't they deserve some recognition on your part?
I think anyone from any side is justified in saying that giving it to Obama is premature, since the requirements are that you have already done something worth giving you the award, not that you are "expected to" do certain things.
Well, regardless of if you agree with the decision of awarding Obama the Peace Prize or not, the Nobel Foundation is a private institution, they should be able to award any prize how they damn well please. If their decisions make the Nobel Peace Prize irrelevant to the world, it would be a shame but it is their prerogative.
No seriously, google it:
And so I did....
French minister in 'boy sex' row
The Bad Life: A Memoir by Frederic Mitterrand (Author), Jesse Browner (Translator)
But I would also like to point out that people on both sides of the political fence are unhappy. From the BBC article:
Socialist Party spokesman Benoit Hamon told Reuters: "As a minister of culture he has drawn attention to himself by defending a film maker accused of raping a child and he has written a book where he said he took advantage of sexual tourism. To say the least, I find it shocking."
Marine Le Pen, vice president of the right-wing National Front, read excerpts of Mr Mitterrand's book aloud during a television interview, and said it left "an indelible stain on the government".
She called for the culture minister to step down.
"Resign, Mr Mitterrand and perhaps, afterwards we'll be able to give lessons to other people," she said.
Mr Mitterrand said it was an honour to be dragged though the mud by the National Front, and criticised the Socialists for making common cause with the extreme right.
"reeks of political calculation"? It's pretty blatant but should it come as any surprise from an organization who's major goal is to change world politics? For the better yes, but to change it never the less.
Hey, it's possible that someone may not have read the book. Hopefully they may want to now.
Nope, comedy.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Chapter 10
The Infinite Improbability Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing vast interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a second, without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace. It was discovered by a lucky chance, and then developed into a governable form of propulsion by the Galactic Government's research team on Damogran.
This, briefly, is the story of its discovery. The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were of course well understood - and such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess's undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the Theory of Indeterminacy.
Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this - partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.
Another thing they couldn't stand was the perpetual failure they encountered in trying to construct a machine which could generate the infinite improbability field needed to flip a spaceship across the mind-paralysing distances between the furthest stars, and in the end they grumpily announced that such a machine was virtually impossible.
Then, one day, a student who had been left to sweep up the lab after a particularly unsuccessful party found himself reasoning this way:
If, he thought to himself, such a machine is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite improbability. So all I have to do in order to make one is to work out exactly how improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea... and turn it on!
He did this, and was rather startled to discover that he had managed to create the long sought after golden Infinite Improbability generator out of thin air.
It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass.
*sigh*... Please turn in your geek membership card as you exit slashdot. You may also want to Google "Infinite Improbability Drive".
So, do you think there is hot tea in that Chinese prodigy's lunch box? Great source of relativistic particles and Brownian motion.
Thanks for the clarification then.
You kidding?
I would *love* to be a CEO but I don't have any idea how to do that.
There in lays the problem. Correct?
For example how did the CEO of General Motors reach that level? I suspect it was pure luck.
Or perhaps not luck at all? Lets look at his C.V.
Summary from: Frederick (Fritz) A. Henderson - GM President and Chief Executive Officer
Prior to graduate school, Henderson was a certified public accountant. He received the William A. Paton Award for achieving the highest score in Michigan on the May 1980 CPA examination; he also received the Elijah Watt Sells Award for attaining one of the top 100 scores in the U.S.
Bachelor of business administration degree with high distinction from the University of Michigan in 1980 with an emphasis in accounting and finance.
Master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School in 1984 graduating as a George F. Baker Scholar.
After graduating, Henderson started his career at General Motors in 1984 as a senior analyst in the Treasurer's office in New York.
Perhaps he worked his balls off for 20+ years in the same company?
It hasn't "worked" fully at all, yet. But it is one of the more complex science instruments on the planet, not a Toyota Pickup truck at the garage. Give them time and it'll do its job... unless some twelve-year old Chinese prodigy figures out a way to do the same stuff in his lunch box.
Who would be immediately lynched by the scientific community because no one likes a smart ass.
Your first quote seems to support the AFACT lawyers claimed against iiNet. That they did nothing to discourage copyright infringement on its network. Thus the parallel to Holden and their inaction.
Your second quote supports The Pirate Bay and their fight against the IFPI and the MPAA and their claims of copyright infringement encouraged by the Pirate Bay.
Please clarify your position.
Capitalism has given a majority in America the delusion that they too can win the lotto, they too can be the next 10million dollar a year winner...
I think gambling predates capitalism.
The pres of my company makes a modest salary by ceo/pres standards. I will work 20 years at a decent salary (top 10%) for my region, save 20% of my salary a year and it will not equal what he makes in one year! There's something woefully wrong with our system.
The fact that you may be completely incapable of doing what the President of your Company does nor willing to be responsible for what is expected of the President of your Company does not even factor in to your equation. Only the fact that he makes more than you.
Consider that perhaps the bottom 10% of your region think the same of you as you think of the President of your Company. That you don't deserve the salary you earn. Thus, I challenge you to put your money where your mouth is and adopt the income of the bottom 10% for your region.
Holden repeatedly allows their vehicles to be used in drug running, armed robberies and abductions by failing to control what the vehicles are used for.
and...
The Pirate Bay is a classic case of David vs Goliath.
Its great that the little guys are able to hold out against the big corporate bullies.
One of these things is not like the other.
Second quote provided by:Dan541 (1032000).
Well, there are some people who would have an opinion on the authors but that is totally unfair for those who don't. So in the interest of fairness, I gave some people something to rant about so they have something to post.
so universities can break the law but common criminals can't? remind's me of nazi/japanese experiments on humans in the name of 'science'.
Wow... you put the "Hyper" in hyperbole.
I think you pulled enough G's ( unit: Godwin ) there to create a cognitive singularity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Howard
Both pioneered a genre.
How far and how fast can your radio go?
Depends on how hard you throw it.
/rimshot
"Dr. Zaius"
Education, by definition, is open source.
I agree. Even more so when the compilation of the material used for it's purpose is funded by the public. Now if someone wants to privately fund a compilation of the material and charge for it, fine.
...but disliked the conditions put on it.
Don't accept the public funds and obligation then?
No is saying all educational material has to be publicly funded. No one is saying the owners of privately funded educational material can't do what the want with it.
You forget that to qualify, it must be:
A publisher can produce educational material without using federal funds and keep all the rights in addition to everything that doesn't fall under the educational material category.
Will a bill such as this endanger publishing companies in the same way Internet journalism endangers traditional journalism?
Don't think so since the scope of what is covered, educational materials published or produced using federal funds, is fairly narrow.
This is correct. In all U.S. jurisdictions that I am aware of, any individual may file a lawsuit on his own behalf regardless of his status as member of the bar.
or even if they are incarcerate. e.g. Jonathan Riches
For some reason that gets conservatives so mad you would think they were about to bust an artery.
Well... being a little tongue-in-cheek
Conservatives keep accusing liberals of treating Obama like Jesus. In a public school, some children are prompted by some commie liberal to sing praise to Obama so that's kinda like prayer in public school right? Fair middle ground?
Now, on a serious note, assume that the conservatives are correct and that the public school was out of line pushing a political viewpoint onto children where they had no right to do so. That the responsibility should fall to the realm of the parents.
I would put it them then that, like politics, so too does education in a religious viewpoints fall to the parents and is their responsibility and not one a public school should undertake. Seems fair and reasonable to me.
However, I am constantly reminded that you cannot reason someone out of a position that they were not reasoned into.