information technology bombards us so constantly with entertainment and marketing that quiet, objective consideration of our fate often becomes impossible. This leads to a society in which each member is increasingly concerned with the satisfaction of his or her own material appetites, and less and less concerned with the philosophical problems and principles that underlie the successful creation and maintenance of a civil society.
Carr essentially makes the argument that given too much information, we become worse people. Given the bombardment of marketing, I won't be able to find time to quietly contemplate moral issues. But the government -- whose individual human agents won't be affected by this bombardment (huh?) -- can help by restricting information.
Thankfully, Milton figured most of this out several centuries ago:
a fool will be a fool with the best book, yea, or without book
I'd like to extend this to say that a fool will be a fool even if he writes a book... or two, or three.
More importantly, the version of Tetris (Fake-ris) on this site blows. It destroys the symmetry of Tetris and it's ugly too. Like all poorly implemented Tetris clones, it fails to recognize the original beauty, or attempts to "improve" in some stupid way. Yes, I'm bitter about it.
I've had better luck. I'm not saying it's the best system in the world, but I downloaded at least 10 songs over 2 Mb last week. Most were crap (artist's fault, not Gnutella) but I got them.
My, God, man! Are you insane? How is this different than paying 3 times as much for something you'll eventually have to upgrade anyway? If you pay, say, $1000 per year, or $3000 up front, is it really that big of a deal?
Middlehoff has saved the idea of profitable intellectual property.
Jon, your hypocrisy is deporable. You make your living with intellectual property. Publish all of your manuscripts online, now, or shut the hell up.
If I collected your/. writings and sold them for profit, would that be OK with you? When you collect the comments of/. posters and try to sell them in a book you are profiting from IP (even if you give those profits to charity). Can anyone collect and sell in a book with the/. name on the cover? No. Why? Because that name is IP. Don't despise what pays you.
As they have the right to do... according to the Constitution. States Rights are a foreign concept since the Civil War, but they still exist. Regardless, any confusion over the split of popular vs. electoral votes can be cleared up by reading the Constitution. The US does not elect Presidents by popular vote. The US has never elected a President by popular vote.
If every state divided their electoral votes the way Maine does (by district) you could still have a disparity between popular and electoral votes. the only way to elect a president by popular vote is to abolish the electoral college. Anything else is mathmatically impossible.
It did not provide an opportunity to evalutate the real circumstances where the ballot book could nudge slightly to misalign the holes.
You're right. I never thought of it like that. Voters also didn't have a chance to pactice their vote after standing in a long line, or hearing the distracting sound of rain, or smelling dirty diapers from the toddler in the arms of the woman in the next booth, or having stomach cramps from the Gordita Grande you ate just prior to getting in line.
The foreign press is already wondering why we are still arguing when Gore won the popular vote (albeit by a slim margin).
The foreign press could clear up their confusion by reading a copy of the Consititution of the United States. Note, this document may be different than the Constitution of their own country. To make our own laws simpler, we use just one Constitution, though I am sure that there are some fine examples of other similar documents around the globe.
This is a little unfair. Voting is a local matter. Counties buy the machines and choose what to buy. If they wanted to invest in Vote-Tron 10k The Voting Robot Helper (tm) then they could. Many of these counties choose voting machines and stick with them for as many elections as is possible. This is known as fiscal responsibility. Though of federal interest, the matter has to be resolved locally. The federal government has no jurisdiction in how Florida or any of its counties choose their ballots.
This same ballot design was used in the past in my district in Georgia. It is unnecessarily confusing and a poor design.
That said, those votes should stand. The ballot was approved by a democratic official and it was available for the public to review and challenge before the election.
Homecoming History
The first Homecoming was conceived at the University of Illinois in the fall of 1909, but the down-count for what proved to be a succesful launching didn't come until October 15 of the following year. On that memorable day, for the first time in nine years, Illinois defeated Chicago by a score of 3-0 on a dropkick by Otto Seiler '12. Today, Homecoming is a tradition on just about every college campus in the United States.
The late Elmer Ekblaw '10, AM '12, editor of The Daily Illini and one of the most forceful undergraduates in the University, and I were members of the Shield and Trident, a senior honorary society. We met frequently in the office of the Illini to discuss policies of the publication, campus polititcs and, from an undergraduate viewpoint, the desitny of the University which we loved so well. We wanted to do something constructive for Illinois.
At long last, the idea of a super reunion began to evolve in our minds. On the way from the Illinioffice to our respective campus homes, we sat down one evening on the YMCA steps for further discussion. Why not a homecoming for alumni and their friends, something like the old New England homecomings, one of us suggested. It was a nostalgic approach. It fired us with the confidence and enthusiasm of youthful dreamers.
After further discussion and consideration, we presented the Homecoming idea to Shield and Trident, and later to Phoenix, the other senior society, both of which entusiastically voted to support the project. Ekblaw and I called upon President Edmund James and Dean Thomas Arkle Clark, Class of 1890, who also were convinced that a bang-up Homecoming would rekindle loyalty and interest among alumni and would create favorable publicity, generally. Dr. James and Dean Clark voiced their whole-hearted approval.
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Thanks to presidents and other officers of the Alumni Association, editors of alumni and undergraduate publications, and capable undergraduate leaders of appropriate committees, it looks as if Homecoming, as introduced at Illinois in 1910, is here to stay.
--C. F. (Dab) Williams '10, 1960
(upon the 50th anniversary of Homecoming)
During each school year, their is a Homecoming Dance which is usually associated with a Homecoming football game in which a weaker opponent is intentionally chosen so victory is all but assured. A King and Queen are elected by the student body for the occasion. They get nothing but "status" for the honor; they have no duties or responsibilites except to wear the crown. In this case, our hero refused to accept the crown. Off with his head.
I think this is an excellent idea. The President of the United States should spend a lot of time wrangling with issues that affect dozens of cities all over America. Many people will argue that these cities could probably pass their own laws that best suit their own citizens, but local government will just get it wrong. A federal law is necessary for any behavior which might be incorrect or inefficient. Think of all those people trapped in all that suburban sprawl, masturbating with their right hands, when they should be using their left as God and Congress intended.
This is a troll, and a bad one at that, but I'll respond to it.
OJ was presumed innocent until prosecutors provided a mountain of evidence. OJ didn't have to provide a mountain of evidence that he was innocent. He just had to introduce reasonable doubt. He did. The jury bought it. He's free.
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This might be a charitable interpretation, but I think his text got MUNGED.
Carr essentially makes the argument that given too much information, we become worse people. Given the bombardment of marketing, I won't be able to find time to quietly contemplate moral issues. But the government -- whose individual human agents won't be affected by this bombardment (huh?) -- can help by restricting information.
Thankfully, Milton figured most of this out several centuries ago:
I'd like to extend this to say that a fool will be a fool even if he writes a book... or two, or three.
Dumbass.
More importantly, the version of Tetris (Fake-ris) on this site blows. It destroys the symmetry of Tetris and it's ugly too. Like all poorly implemented Tetris clones, it fails to recognize the original beauty, or attempts to "improve" in some stupid way. Yes, I'm bitter about it.
Don Giovanni is an opera about a scoundrel. Don Giovanni is the scoundrel. No ghosts, really. Except at the very end.
I'd say we should stay home.
I've had better luck. I'm not saying it's the best system in the world, but I downloaded at least 10 songs over 2 Mb last week. Most were crap (artist's fault, not Gnutella) but I got them.
My, God, man! Are you insane? How is this different than paying 3 times as much for something you'll eventually have to upgrade anyway? If you pay, say, $1000 per year, or $3000 up front, is it really that big of a deal?
Jon, your hypocrisy is deporable. You make your living with intellectual property. Publish all of your manuscripts online, now, or shut the hell up.
If I collected your /. writings and sold them for profit, would that be OK with you? When you collect the comments of /. posters and try to sell them in a book you are profiting from IP (even if you give those profits to charity). Can anyone collect and sell in a book with the /. name on the cover? No. Why? Because that name is IP. Don't despise what pays you.
If every state divided their electoral votes the way Maine does (by district) you could still have a disparity between popular and electoral votes. the only way to elect a president by popular vote is to abolish the electoral college. Anything else is mathmatically impossible.
You're right. I never thought of it like that. Voters also didn't have a chance to pactice their vote after standing in a long line, or hearing the distracting sound of rain, or smelling dirty diapers from the toddler in the arms of the woman in the next booth, or having stomach cramps from the Gordita Grande you ate just prior to getting in line.
The foreign press could clear up their confusion by reading a copy of the Consititution of the United States. Note, this document may be different than the Constitution of their own country. To make our own laws simpler, we use just one Constitution, though I am sure that there are some fine examples of other similar documents around the globe.
This is a little unfair. Voting is a local matter. Counties buy the machines and choose what to buy. If they wanted to invest in Vote-Tron 10k The Voting Robot Helper (tm) then they could. Many of these counties choose voting machines and stick with them for as many elections as is possible. This is known as fiscal responsibility. Though of federal interest, the matter has to be resolved locally. The federal government has no jurisdiction in how Florida or any of its counties choose their ballots.
That said, those votes should stand. The ballot was approved by a democratic official and it was available for the public to review and challenge before the election.
Homecoming History The first Homecoming was conceived at the University of Illinois in the fall of 1909, but the down-count for what proved to be a succesful launching didn't come until October 15 of the following year. On that memorable day, for the first time in nine years, Illinois defeated Chicago by a score of 3-0 on a dropkick by Otto Seiler '12. Today, Homecoming is a tradition on just about every college campus in the United States. The late Elmer Ekblaw '10, AM '12, editor of The Daily Illini and one of the most forceful undergraduates in the University, and I were members of the Shield and Trident, a senior honorary society. We met frequently in the office of the Illini to discuss policies of the publication, campus polititcs and, from an undergraduate viewpoint, the desitny of the University which we loved so well. We wanted to do something constructive for Illinois. At long last, the idea of a super reunion began to evolve in our minds. On the way from the Illinioffice to our respective campus homes, we sat down one evening on the YMCA steps for further discussion. Why not a homecoming for alumni and their friends, something like the old New England homecomings, one of us suggested. It was a nostalgic approach. It fired us with the confidence and enthusiasm of youthful dreamers. After further discussion and consideration, we presented the Homecoming idea to Shield and Trident, and later to Phoenix, the other senior society, both of which entusiastically voted to support the project. Ekblaw and I called upon President Edmund James and Dean Thomas Arkle Clark, Class of 1890, who also were convinced that a bang-up Homecoming would rekindle loyalty and interest among alumni and would create favorable publicity, generally. Dr. James and Dean Clark voiced their whole-hearted approval. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------
Thanks to presidents and other officers of the Alumni Association, editors of alumni and undergraduate publications, and capable undergraduate leaders of appropriate committees, it looks as if Homecoming, as introduced at Illinois in 1910, is here to stay.
--C. F. (Dab) Williams '10, 1960
(upon the 50th anniversary of Homecoming)
During each school year, their is a Homecoming Dance which is usually associated with a Homecoming football game in which a weaker opponent is intentionally chosen so victory is all but assured. A King and Queen are elected by the student body for the occasion. They get nothing but "status" for the honor; they have no duties or responsibilites except to wear the crown. In this case, our hero refused to accept the crown. Off with his head.
Dubya had an abortion? I'm voting Nad for sure! He would have shown more responsibility.
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Anne Marie is a man. Quit feeding this mantroll.
Duly noted. It never occurred to may that someone would hate bn.com. I don't know why. I hate plenty of retailers. The link has been changed.
I think this is an excellent idea. The President of the United States should spend a lot of time wrangling with issues that affect dozens of cities all over America. Many people will argue that these cities could probably pass their own laws that best suit their own citizens, but local government will just get it wrong. A federal law is necessary for any behavior which might be incorrect or inefficient. Think of all those people trapped in all that suburban sprawl, masturbating with their right hands, when they should be using their left as God and Congress intended.
Moderate the above post up, please!
I did attack your claim to womanhood through the nick of Anne Marie.
Still, your points in this forum a quite valid, and I welcome the diversity a man posing as a woman can bring.
Got any pics?
I second that. Except Anne Marie is a man. Read the posting history.
Too late.
This is a troll, and a bad one at that, but I'll respond to it.
OJ was presumed innocent until prosecutors provided a mountain of evidence. OJ didn't have to provide a mountain of evidence that he was innocent. He just had to introduce reasonable doubt. He did. The jury bought it. He's free.
Where's the problem?
Troll.
Canadian Troll.