Mike Godwin was (is?) a grammar and spelling Nazi.
Really. Back in the days of 1200 baud modems, when BBS systems had little or no message editing features, Mike would complain incessantly about spelling and grammar errors.
He'd even make up errors, like "you should not start a paragraph with 'but.'" Never mind the medium was more extemporaneous than literary, some schoolmarm had taught him it was wrong.
Which is why every conversation Mike was involved with used the word "Nazi." It describes Mike's enthusiasm for the pedantic.
*Exactly* like the famous Soup Nazi. "Mike, quit being a capitalization Nazi. Mike, quit being a spelling Nazi. Mike, quit being a grammar Nazi."
If Mike Godwin was around, the word "Nazi" was going to get used.
It's time we rescued "Nazi" from Mike's personal problems. "Nazi" is a perfectly good word to describe people who like to enforce silly little rules. Such informal use does not diminish the evil of the NSDAP; campaigning against such informal use provides camouflage for real Nazis by belittling the efforts of those who work to expose real Nazis.
I'll start by suggesting that those who pedantically invoke Godwin's silly little rule, are Godwin Nazis.
Firstly, Cuba is not communist. The USSR never claimed to be communist. Comments about Cuba being communist show the ignorance of the person saying them.
Neither country claimed to be totalitarian, either.
A political entity must be judged by its actions and not by its pronouncements.
And since Marx claimed that he was not Marxist, well that gives you a cute little get-out-of-losing-arguments-free card, doesn't it? When confronted with the facts concerning communism, you can always say "well that wasn't real communism."
Here is real communism:
Pol Pot. Buddhist nuns tortured by insertion of cattle prods. The Chinese Cultural Revolution. The environmental disaster of the Aral Sea. The Tiennanmen Square massacre. The Berlin Wall.
Yes, yes, we all know, that's not real communism. Real communism says that it is sunshine and freedom and delicious food. Therefore death by the millions and enslavement of billions cannot ever be the product of communism. Marx wasn't Marsixt. Communism isn't communist.
And to the expected laundry list of the failures of capitalism, well that's not real capitalism.
This is not the "Biggest Douche in the Universe" John Edwards, but rather the relatively-unknown outside the USA political candidate for President John Edwards.
It is the same person: he talks to the dead for money.
The constitution says that habeas corpus can only be suspended at time of war.
Wrong.
The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
Rebellion or invasion, not war.
Is there a case of rebellion? Thousands, maybe millions, of airheads think that treason is the highest form of patriotism. And they act on it and get recorded by one of their own and we get to talk about it on Slashdot.
Is there a case of invasion? That terrorists sneak in by twos and threes does not make it any less of an invasion, their methods being so assymetrical and all. Also, 20% of Mexico's citizens are in the United States, many illegally and all with the blessings and assistance of the Mexican government (such as it is), and the backing of American racist leagues like la Raza and Mecha.
So by the conditions stated in the Constitution, the writ of habeas corpus may, indeed should, be suspended.
So if this universe shreds apart, and breaks off into other, smaller universes, and those break into others and so forth, where is all the matter for each of the universes coming from?
Meaning, the girl was a direct descendant of that woman who lived around 2,000 years ago.
The Secrets of the Dead episode you saw was not so definitive, showing that she was not a direct descendant but had a common ancestor with the buried "Amazon" warrior woman. So the "Amazon" woman's mom might have been the Little Blonde Girl's great*n grandmother.
I was disappointed by the wording implying a more direct connection when none had been established.
That there were "Caucasians" (using quotes even though Blumenbach may have been right) all over Asia is an established and quite interesting area of study.
If I've read the linguist and genetics mail list archives correctly, the Sinitic peoples are themselves "split" from the Caucasian, in other (probably less accurate) words, a bunch of Caucasians crossed the Tien Shan/Altay ranges, the genetic bottleneck caused thereby accounting for the distintive features of the Sinitic peoples.
Oh, what do I mean by "Blumenbach may have been right?" That a darker-complexioned folk with woolly hair got to the Caucasus, and "bleached out" as they adapted to living in valleys with less insolation than the flats (skin pigmentation in humans seeming to be driven by the need for vitamin D).
This theory neatly accounts for the black Georgians of Herodotus. According to the legends Herodotus records, they were remnants of an expedition of a Pharoah Sesostris, "most manifestly are Egyptians." In the "Caucasians from Caucasus" theory, this dark-complexioned, woolly-haired folk in Georgia is simply the relict population which didn't bleach out.
I am not providing many links, because those interested in the assertions of this post will be rewarded by doing their own research. Really. Get thee to a search engine and find out.
Many cultures have legends about a place in or around Central Asia around which the world rotates: Shambala, Olmo Lungring, Mount Meru. The more Central Asian history I learn, the more it seems like World History does rotate around an axis with one pole in Central Asia and the other in Mesopotamia.
IMPO, by far the most interesting theories regarding Central Asia are those of radio pioneer Reginald A. Fessenden. Of course something so old will have a lot of bad guesses, but what's amazing is what he got right - giant glacier lakes in Central Asia, the *outflow* of the Black Sea during the Ice Age, apples (and therefore the Hesperides) being from the east - and how he divined the information from the mythologies: Schleimannesque.
Tocharians are the easternmost "Scotch-Irish" clan;-)
On a message board discussing the blonde and redhaired Chinese, somebody noted that there are a lot of them in Canada, but that their origin was not Tocharian or Scythian, it was L'Oreal!
CS is dying because universities and colleges require you to take stupid classes that are completely boring and have nothing to do with CS? That might be it.
I went to a tricky school where they had Political Science classes named after programming languages and offered under the Computer Science heading in the course catalog.
Maybe the biggest reason is that writing software is an art rather than a science, more akin to writing a symphony or poem.
Composers are "musician programmers." Symphony composers are symphony programmers. Radio station programmers are the butt of jokes^H^H^H program the order of the songs on a radio station. Computer programmers program the order of instructions for a computer.
When listening to CSO, I think of the orchestra as a big computer, and consider the total brainpower available, how many man-centuries goes in to crafting each player's abilities, and wonder how it all happens. How do you herd cats, these individual ego(t)istic musicians, and get them to agree, "okay you stringy people play this phrase here, and you tuba folk play some other notes after that."
It works surprisingly well in spite of some public disagreements,
Solti to Bud: why don't you ever follow my tempo? Bud to Solti: why don't you ever follow my tempo?
Think of Herseth as a great trumpet library that's hard to call;-)
There are PRECISE mathematical formulas and design rules which an engineer of physical things, such as a bridge, for example, can apply. Software, being non-physical, is fundamentally different from any physical device or machine which can be 'engineered' by precise mathematical procedures. Perhaps the very term "software engineer" is a misnomer in the same way that applying the term "engineer" would be to a musician.
I've noticed that some of the best-sounding albums are those where one of the members is also a recording engineer, or a non-instrumentalist engineer is accorded as much esteem as a band member.
I consider "software engineer" a misnomer for most of the same reasons you mention. I joke that since engineering is "the application of materials science," and since software is not made of material, there is no such thing as software engineering!
But there is much from the engineering world that could improve software, so I tolerate the term when used to describe an engineering approach to software development.
Various state licensing boards are working on PE certification for software engineers.
You think scientists (especially climate scientists) have choosen that field for the celebrity and wealth that awaits??? Seriously???.
Since this stuff has been going on for decades, yes, that's completely long enough for well-funded leftist opportunists to have completely corrupted a field.
Why are the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Corrupt Climatology and the Union of Corrupt Scientists the biggest whiners on this issue?
Their gig is up and they know it. Finally, somebody with money and balls is calling "bullshit" on these murderous bastards.
Encyclopedias should be banned period, they are a reference to find other sources not a source themselves.
Yeah, who would trust an article on helicopters by Igor Sikorsky?
I might be on the "no citing of encyclopedias" side, if I had any evidence at all that college grads even know what an encyclopedia is or how to get to a library.
And they're perfectly fine for obvious stuff, like birthdates of historical figures. I mean, do you really need to refer to a biography if you're including the Great Gauss's birthday? I would have to look up the date (shame) - and since I did that, I would have to cite where I got it. Why is an encyclopedia any worse than a biography for such pedestrian facts?
Indeed, for such pedestrian facts, an encyclopedia may be a superior source. The presentation may be different. For instance, they might have a handy table of metal melting points, and your cheap-ass school doesn't have the encyclopedia's source in its library or an institutional membership in ASME.
Like MIT's Open CourseWare, it's better than nothing.
Making a rule against all encyclopedias all the time is just lazy. Instead of actually grading the paper, just count off for unauthorized sources. Don't need to even read the sentence containing the reference!
But the battles in academe are so brutal, because the stakes are so low.
...and CIOs are also, each and every special one of them, pretty and/or handsome, excellent athletes, superb musicians, and they have beautiful handwriting!
(This article is more self-serving than most political rallies....)
The war in Iraq, which is part of the Wolfowitz Doctrine, would not have happened and THOUSANDS of Americans and HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of Iraqs would still be alive.
Or tens of thousands of Americans would be dead and so would hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
How would tens of thousands of Americans die? Saddam shoots down a plane, and the US is forced to react on his timetable. Instead of the brilliant, near-perfect military campaign, we get a rush job, with typical and normal fatalities for such an operation. Think "Iwo Jima" and "Gettysburg" scaled up to the size of Iraq.
How would hundreds of thousands of Iraqis die without US intervention? Just a few more years of Saddam would do it.
Just because CNN refused to report on Saddam's travesties doesn't mean they didn't happen.
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Or we can go live with the Machine Elves!
Mike Godwin was (is?) a grammar and spelling Nazi.
Really. Back in the days of 1200 baud modems, when BBS systems had little or no message editing features, Mike would complain incessantly about spelling and grammar errors.
He'd even make up errors, like "you should not start a paragraph with 'but.'" Never mind the medium was more extemporaneous than literary, some schoolmarm had taught him it was wrong.
Which is why every conversation Mike was involved with used the word "Nazi." It describes Mike's enthusiasm for the pedantic.
*Exactly* like the famous Soup Nazi. "Mike, quit being a capitalization Nazi. Mike, quit being a spelling Nazi. Mike, quit being a grammar Nazi."
If Mike Godwin was around, the word "Nazi" was going to get used.
It's time we rescued "Nazi" from Mike's personal problems. "Nazi" is a perfectly good word to describe people who like to enforce silly little rules. Such informal use does not diminish the evil of the NSDAP; campaigning against such informal use provides camouflage for real Nazis by belittling the efforts of those who work to expose real Nazis.
I'll start by suggesting that those who pedantically invoke Godwin's silly little rule, are Godwin Nazis.
Neither country claimed to be totalitarian, either.
A political entity must be judged by its actions and not by its pronouncements.
And since Marx claimed that he was not Marxist, well that gives you a cute little get-out-of-losing-arguments-free card, doesn't it? When confronted with the facts concerning communism, you can always say "well that wasn't real communism."
Here is real communism:
Pol Pot. Buddhist nuns tortured by insertion of cattle prods. The Chinese Cultural Revolution. The environmental disaster of the Aral Sea. The Tiennanmen Square massacre. The Berlin Wall.
Yes, yes, we all know, that's not real communism. Real communism says that it is sunshine and freedom and delicious food. Therefore death by the millions and enslavement of billions cannot ever be the product of communism. Marx wasn't Marsixt. Communism isn't communist.
And to the expected laundry list of the failures of capitalism, well that's not real capitalism.
(Same person, different body)
Getting silly here ---
Those copying the AIDS virus will be arrested for patent infringement and put in jail. All of 'em. Let G=d sort 'em out.
So the AIDS epidemic is halted in its tracks.
Except among the patent violators. Who will all be in jail giving the patented disease to each other.
I think I'll shop this story to Sci-Fi channel, if that's okay with you. They can run it after wrestling.
Is there a case of rebellion? Thousands, maybe millions, of airheads think that treason is the highest form of patriotism. And they act on it and get recorded by one of their own and we get to talk about it on Slashdot.
Is there a case of invasion? That terrorists sneak in by twos and threes does not make it any less of an invasion, their methods being so assymetrical and all. Also, 20% of Mexico's citizens are in the United States, many illegally and all with the blessings and assistance of the Mexican government (such as it is), and the backing of American racist leagues like la Raza and Mecha.
So by the conditions stated in the Constitution, the writ of habeas corpus may, indeed should, be suspended.
If global warming did not exist, leftists would have to invent it.
I was disappointed by the wording implying a more direct connection when none had been established.
That there were "Caucasians" (using quotes even though Blumenbach may have been right) all over Asia is an established and quite interesting area of study.
If I've read the linguist and genetics mail list archives correctly, the Sinitic peoples are themselves "split" from the Caucasian, in other (probably less accurate) words, a bunch of Caucasians crossed the Tien Shan/Altay ranges, the genetic bottleneck caused thereby accounting for the distintive features of the Sinitic peoples.
Oh, what do I mean by "Blumenbach may have been right?" That a darker-complexioned folk with woolly hair got to the Caucasus, and "bleached out" as they adapted to living in valleys with less insolation than the flats (skin pigmentation in humans seeming to be driven by the need for vitamin D).
This theory neatly accounts for the black Georgians of Herodotus. According to the legends Herodotus records, they were remnants of an expedition of a Pharoah Sesostris, "most manifestly are Egyptians." In the "Caucasians from Caucasus" theory, this dark-complexioned, woolly-haired folk in Georgia is simply the relict population which didn't bleach out.
I am not providing many links, because those interested in the assertions of this post will be rewarded by doing their own research. Really. Get thee to a search engine and find out.
Many cultures have legends about a place in or around Central Asia around which the world rotates: Shambala, Olmo Lungring, Mount Meru. The more Central Asian history I learn, the more it seems like World History does rotate around an axis with one pole in Central Asia and the other in Mesopotamia.
IMPO, by far the most interesting theories regarding Central Asia are those of radio pioneer Reginald A. Fessenden. Of course something so old will have a lot of bad guesses, but what's amazing is what he got right - giant glacier lakes in Central Asia, the *outflow* of the Black Sea during the Ice Age, apples (and therefore the Hesperides) being from the east - and how he divined the information from the mythologies: Schleimannesque.
Tocharians are the easternmost "Scotch-Irish" clan ;-)
On a message board discussing the blonde and redhaired Chinese, somebody noted that there are a lot of them in Canada, but that their origin was not Tocharian or Scythian, it was L'Oreal!
I blame Parnas. Seriously.
When listening to CSO, I think of the orchestra as a big computer, and consider the total brainpower available, how many man-centuries goes in to crafting each player's abilities, and wonder how it all happens. How do you herd cats, these individual ego(t)istic musicians, and get them to agree, "okay you stringy people play this phrase here, and you tuba folk play some other notes after that."
It works surprisingly well in spite of some public disagreements,
Solti to Bud: why don't you ever follow my tempo?
Bud to Solti: why don't you ever follow my tempo?
Think of Herseth as a great trumpet library that's hard to call
I consider "software engineer" a misnomer for most of the same reasons you mention. I joke that since engineering is "the application of materials science," and since software is not made of material, there is no such thing as software engineering!
But there is much from the engineering world that could improve software, so I tolerate the term when used to describe an engineering approach to software development.
Various state licensing boards are working on PE certification for software engineers.
I like the idea of useless turd-world potentates being sent into exile.
They can pass all the silly rules they want to protect the moon's fragile ecosystem.
All of the idiot world citizen types can have a reason for howling at the moon.
That part of Manhattan can be put to more productive and ethical use like crack dealing.
Though wouldn't it be cheaper to just bulldoze the dump into the East River?
I think the funny part was that it was a C++ GUI guide. That's so over. A book about Web GUI with Ruby that would be a good gift.
Why are the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Corrupt Climatology and the Union of Corrupt Scientists the biggest whiners on this issue?
Their gig is up and they know it. Finally, somebody with money and balls is calling "bullshit" on these murderous bastards.
Boot sequence via toggle switches, to boot CP/M from 8"
I might be on the "no citing of encyclopedias" side, if I had any evidence at all that college grads even know what an encyclopedia is or how to get to a library.
And they're perfectly fine for obvious stuff, like birthdates of historical figures. I mean, do you really need to refer to a biography if you're including the Great Gauss's birthday? I would have to look up the date (shame) - and since I did that, I would have to cite where I got it. Why is an encyclopedia any worse than a biography for such pedestrian facts?
Indeed, for such pedestrian facts, an encyclopedia may be a superior source. The presentation may be different. For instance, they might have a handy table of metal melting points, and your cheap-ass school doesn't have the encyclopedia's source in its library or an institutional membership in ASME.
Like MIT's Open CourseWare, it's better than nothing.
Making a rule against all encyclopedias all the time is just lazy. Instead of actually grading the paper, just count off for unauthorized sources. Don't need to even read the sentence containing the reference!
But the battles in academe are so brutal, because the stakes are so low.
Sure they can detect aquifers on Earth. Some of them "antennas" are actually dowsing rods!
They consult an astrologer to interpret the data.
And having a tiny fundamental unit of money, the penny, is actually a brake on inflation.
Just gotta make cheaper pennies: aluminum.
...and CIOs are also, each and every special one of them, pretty and/or handsome, excellent athletes, superb musicians, and they have beautiful handwriting!
(This article is more self-serving than most political rallies....)
If (D)ARPA created the Internet, then the Internet was designed to kill people!
Katrina happened after Operation Iraqi Freedom.
It's sad that idiots like you actually vote.
How would tens of thousands of Americans die? Saddam shoots down a plane, and the US is forced to react on his timetable. Instead of the brilliant, near-perfect military campaign, we get a rush job, with typical and normal fatalities for such an operation. Think "Iwo Jima" and "Gettysburg" scaled up to the size of Iraq.
How would hundreds of thousands of Iraqis die without US intervention? Just a few more years of Saddam would do it.
Just because CNN refused to report on Saddam's travesties doesn't mean they didn't happen.