Something tells me he had some money to win and even financial compensation just for playing regardless of outcome. Never underestimate how much debasement people will risk for money particularly if peoples assumptions are flawed about their opponent.
You've got the correct issue but in the 100% wrong direction IMO. The purpose of the law SHOULD be to hold those with more power like corporations and governments to different standards than individuals because corporations and governments can cause MUCH more harm than private individuals. Thus I think the salesperson's layer has it 100% right that individuals ought to be able to challenge power always to hold it accountable without fear of liable lawsuits, but that the powerful like corporations have no right to use their power like a corporate e-mail system to destroy an individual which is shockingly similar to a Soviet show trial only done by the private sector rather than a government.
I realize that is not necessarily how the laws are written now, but the goal ought to be to protect the press and a private individuals right to always challenge concentrated public and private power, while always protecting the individual from the malice of concentrated power. One of the purposes of the bill of rights for example was to protect individuals and minorities from the concentrated power of the government well guess what in the 21st century corporations have as much if not more power than governments and we ought to be protecting individuals from corporations as well. All power to the individual and all accountability to concentrated power.
That's great you are learning music I was in a garage band in the 90s myself. I'd strongly recommend listening to some music with modal and chromatic chord progressions from be bop jazz to middle eastern, asian and gypsy music to Led Zeps Kashmir to Harry Partch's microtonal music for when your talent grows on the instrument though.
It's the 21st century and no point being limited in your musical choices IMO
However I also reboot my system every day when I wake up to save energy and incidentally $$$$. Unless we are talking about a server why should a computer be on when you are asleep*? That is just irrationally wasteful and when aggregated over millions of users probably to the tune of wasting a who power plants worth of electricity a year, ie hundreds of thousand of tons of carbon. Your uptime bragging rights are NOT worth making global warming worse.
*Admittedly some people may be downloading torrents or doing distributed computing, but does that have to be EVERY night?
I agree with your fuck the suits and copyright law BTW.
OTOH there is a lot of got music that doesn't require samples from Andrew Bird to Abigail Washington to Secret Chiefs 3 there are many people still making original compositions. No they won't get major label deals and don't need them in a era of the "long tail" cheap easy recording and a million niche markets.
Good sound doesn't have to be expensive, a primo late 70s Sansui integrated amp can be had for ~120 bucks and Advent speakers that sound as good many 800+ "audiophile" speakers for another hundred bucks. I.e. for the price of a crappy mini system you can have a stereo that reproduces 40 to 20,000 in a musical, detailed non fatiguing way that will make you want to listen to only 256 vbr or better mp3 because it sounds so good. IMO I'd far rather have that than a couple months of crappy cable tee vee.
First your skills ARE incredibly valuable and you deserve your high pay for the hard intellectual work you do. However tight architecture is NOT the only thing that makes a web site successful in fact good graphic design is what the user sees up front, you can have the best most efficient modularized back end and if you have such poor taste that you put say blue text on a yellow background your web site will still be an usability disaster. In short there IS a place for people with art/design background who know about things like white space:
The most readable fonts, what an anti aliased font is, what colors complement each other, having enough color contrast for web page elements to stand out etc. If you implement a web side with the best most efficient custom coded Drupal plugins but fail to find a designer no one will want to visit your unshiny fast beast. In short don't just snidely dismiss those of us whose skill set runs towards photoshop, Wacom tablets, Dreamweaver, basic Joomla and reading poetry on lunch breaks if you want a popular web site as well as one that is efficient. Your code oriented arrogance may well be your own downfall if you can't see beyond the forest of fastest sorting algorithms and other non visual CS oriented thinking.
This is just a badly worded blatant rip off of this classic from San Fran Craigslist:
""Dear Red States..." A Letter From The Blue!
Date: 2005-06-24, 11:54AM PDT
Dear Red States...
We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us.
In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.
To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.
We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood. We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss. We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.
Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.
Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire. "
The difference this is actually funny and not bitter and awkward like your post above. It seems the regressive right can't even do a rip off with any style and grace. Love your favorite slashdot commie, pinko tofu eater.
I downloaded it onto a MacBook with 3 gigs ram Core2Duo 2.0 ghz latest Leopard 10.5.6 and the first thing it did was replace my stable Safari install WTF!!!???
Then it beach balled as soon as it launched on apples own web site.
So I went through a renaming rigarolmole to see if I could run both 3.21 and 4 beta running (I couldn't).
Then it crashed mail.app when reading rss feeds with a message about being incompatible with growl.
So then I had to run the uninstaller and reboot (again), grand total 40 minutes down the drain with nothing to show for it. If you want to tests squirrelfish use the far more stable nighties:
"If productivity meant anything, a worker would earn the same living standard as a 1950 worker in only 11 hours per week."
Now back to your regularly scheduled MSM bashing which I happen to agree with, I just hope investigative reporting doesn't become a causality of this. And no investigative reporting doesn't have to be U.S. or even western based as Al Jareeza shows but it does require some major money to keep reporters on the ground, etc.
... but peer reviewed science. Read this and learn something. From the peer reviewed science journal, Science:
"Others agree. The American Meteorological Society (6), the American Geophysical Union (7), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) all have issued statements in recent years concluding that the evidence for human modification of climate is compelling (8).
The drafting of such reports and statements involves many opportunities for comment, criticism, and revision, and it is not likely that they would diverge greatly from the opinions of the societies' members. Nevertheless, they might downplay legitimate dissenting opinions. That hypothesis was tested by analyzing 928 abstracts, published in refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, and listed in the ISI database with the keywords "climate change" (9).
The 928 papers were divided into six categories: explicit endorsement of the consensus position, evaluation of impacts, mitigation proposals, methods, paleoclimate analysis, and rejection of the consensus position. Of all the papers, 75% fell into the first three categories, either explicitly or implicitly accepting the consensus view; 25% dealt with methods or paleoclimate, taking no position on current anthropogenic climate change. Remarkably, none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position.
Admittedly, authors evaluating impacts, developing methods, or studying paleoclimatic change might believe that current climate change is natural. However, none of these papers argued that point.
This analysis shows that scientists publishing in the peer-reviewed literature agree with IPCC, the National Academy of Sciences, and the public statements of their professional societies. Politicians, economists, journalists, and others may have the impression of confusion, disagreement, or discord among climate scientists, but that impression is incorrect."
Between political correctness on the left, intolerance on the right, and pressure from crony capitalists to wall off their monopoly profits, pretty soon the only thing you'll be able to post on the internet will be cat pictures.:(
Like Ypsi wireless right down the street from me? I think these are excellent initiatives that allow wi-fi to be rolled out in poor areas on the cheap, Will they be required to keep these sorts of extensive records of their users?
"The right to state your views anonymously does not extend to being a shield against liability if your statements are found to be actionable."
Then what good is anonymity? If a government say can find a statement actionable and the ISP or other server can be forced to reveal your identity then the whole ethically justifiable reason for anonymity vanishes. Whither the whistleblower?
Web apps are OK for the "enterprise" the problem is though is that enterprise "solutions" become standards for everyone and thus Uncle Joe and Aunt Jane in the past were stuck with M.S. Word if they wanted to be able to open attachments and print at Kinkos or whatever.
Will home users now be stuck with sub optimal web apps when open office or Abi Word, whatever would serve their needs better?
My MacBook will hold me for years
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I suspect my MacBook already 2 years old will hold me down for another 4 years, including running XP fast enough to play the old school games well enough for me to be satisfied. I also can edit video, use photoshop on large images, do web development, and run Ubuntu on another virtual machine Note that I got this computer used of Craigs list.
If you had told me me in 2000 I'd be buying a used notebook computer and holding onto for 5+ years I would have laughed in your face. Good for me, and the environment. And for the computer manufacturers? Not so much...
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Something tells me he had some money to win and even financial compensation just for playing regardless of outcome. Never underestimate how much debasement people will risk for money particularly if peoples assumptions are flawed about their opponent.
That's the rustiest gun I ever seen I don't think she's going to shoot anyone.
"Those were the happy days, I hope they never come again."
You've got the correct issue but in the 100% wrong direction IMO. The purpose of the law SHOULD be to hold those with more power like corporations and governments to different standards than individuals because corporations and governments can cause MUCH more harm than private individuals. Thus I think the salesperson's layer has it 100% right that individuals ought to be able to challenge power always to hold it accountable without fear of liable lawsuits, but that the powerful like corporations have no right to use their power like a corporate e-mail system to destroy an individual which is shockingly similar to a Soviet show trial only done by the private sector rather than a government.
I realize that is not necessarily how the laws are written now, but the goal ought to be to protect the press and a private individuals right to always challenge concentrated public and private power, while always protecting the individual from the malice of concentrated power. One of the purposes of the bill of rights for example was to protect individuals and minorities from the concentrated power of the government well guess what in the 21st century corporations have as much if not more power than governments and we ought to be protecting individuals from corporations as well. All power to the individual and all accountability to concentrated power.
That's great you are learning music I was in a garage band in the 90s myself. I'd strongly recommend listening to some music with modal and chromatic chord progressions from be bop jazz to middle eastern, asian and gypsy music to Led Zeps Kashmir to Harry Partch's microtonal music for when your talent grows on the instrument though.
It's the 21st century and no point being limited in your musical choices IMO
Yes I leave my browser on all day.
However I also reboot my system every day when I wake up to save energy and incidentally $$$$. Unless we are talking about a server why should a computer be on when you are asleep*? That is just irrationally wasteful and when aggregated over millions of users probably to the tune of wasting a who power plants worth of electricity a year, ie hundreds of thousand of tons of carbon. Your uptime bragging rights are NOT worth making global warming worse.
*Admittedly some people may be downloading torrents or doing distributed computing, but does that have to be EVERY night?
I agree with your fuck the suits and copyright law BTW.
OTOH there is a lot of got music that doesn't require samples from Andrew Bird to Abigail Washington to Secret Chiefs 3 there are many people still making original compositions. No they won't get major label deals and don't need them in a era of the "long tail" cheap easy recording and a million niche markets.
I like groups like Secret Chiefs three who play middle eastern surf metal. Cookbook blues/rock progressions are way beyond stale.
American Idol isn't kitsche it's just bad. Support local live music.
Good sound doesn't have to be expensive, a primo late 70s Sansui integrated amp can be had for ~120 bucks and Advent speakers that sound as good many 800+ "audiophile" speakers for another hundred bucks. I.e. for the price of a crappy mini system you can have a stereo that reproduces 40 to 20,000 in a musical, detailed non fatiguing way that will make you want to listen to only 256 vbr or better mp3 because it sounds so good. IMO I'd far rather have that than a couple months of crappy cable tee vee.
First your skills ARE incredibly valuable and you deserve your high pay for the hard intellectual work you do. However tight architecture is NOT the only thing that makes a web site successful in fact good graphic design is what the user sees up front, you can have the best most efficient modularized back end and if you have such poor taste that you put say blue text on a yellow background your web site will still be an usability disaster. In short there IS a place for people with art/design background who know about things like white space:
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/css_101/
The most readable fonts, what an anti aliased font is, what colors complement each other, having enough color contrast for web page elements to stand out etc. If you implement a web side with the best most efficient custom coded Drupal plugins but fail to find a designer no one will want to visit your unshiny fast beast. In short don't just snidely dismiss those of us whose skill set runs towards photoshop, Wacom tablets, Dreamweaver, basic Joomla and reading poetry on lunch breaks if you want a popular web site as well as one that is efficient. Your code oriented arrogance may well be your own downfall if you can't see beyond the forest of fastest sorting algorithms and other non visual CS oriented thinking.
This is just a badly worded blatant rip off of this classic from San Fran Craigslist:
""Dear Red States..." A Letter From The Blue!
Date: 2005-06-24, 11:54AM PDT
Dear Red States...
We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us.
In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.
To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.
We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.
We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.
We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama.
We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.
Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the
Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.
Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and
anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no
purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their
children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire. "
More at: http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/80714812.html
The difference this is actually funny and not bitter and awkward like your post above. It seems the regressive right can't even do a rip off with any style and grace. Love your favorite slashdot commie, pinko tofu eater.
Yeah how dare they use a publicly availible RSS feed, what is this world coming to? The nerve!
SIGH, just when you think corporate apologists couldn't get any more disingenuous they somehow find a way. :(
I downloaded it onto a MacBook with 3 gigs ram Core2Duo 2.0 ghz latest Leopard 10.5.6 and the first thing it did was replace my stable Safari install WTF!!!???
Then it beach balled as soon as it launched on apples own web site.
So I went through a renaming rigarolmole to see if I could run both 3.21 and 4 beta running (I couldn't).
Then it crashed mail.app when reading rss feeds with a message about being incompatible with growl.
So then I had to run the uninstaller and reboot (again), grand total 40 minutes down the drain with nothing to show for it. If you want to tests squirrelfish use the far more stable nighties:
http://nightly.webkit.org/
"If productivity meant anything, a worker would earn the same living standard as a 1950 worker in only 11 hours per week."
Now back to your regularly scheduled MSM bashing which I happen to agree with, I just hope investigative reporting doesn't become a causality of this. And no investigative reporting doesn't have to be U.S. or even western based as Al Jareeza shows but it does require some major money to keep reporters on the ground, etc.
... but peer reviewed science. Read this and learn something. From the peer reviewed science journal, Science:
"Others agree. The American Meteorological Society (6), the American Geophysical Union (7), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) all have issued statements in recent years concluding that the evidence for human modification of climate is compelling (8).
The drafting of such reports and statements involves many opportunities for comment, criticism, and revision, and it is not likely that they would diverge greatly from the opinions of the societies' members. Nevertheless, they might downplay legitimate dissenting opinions. That hypothesis was tested by analyzing 928 abstracts, published in refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, and listed in the ISI database with the keywords "climate change" (9).
The 928 papers were divided into six categories: explicit endorsement of the consensus position, evaluation of impacts, mitigation proposals, methods, paleoclimate analysis, and rejection of the consensus position. Of all the papers, 75% fell into the first three categories, either explicitly or implicitly accepting the consensus view; 25% dealt with methods or paleoclimate, taking no position on current anthropogenic climate change. Remarkably, none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position.
Admittedly, authors evaluating impacts, developing methods, or studying paleoclimatic change might believe that current climate change is natural. However, none of these papers argued that point.
This analysis shows that scientists publishing in the peer-reviewed literature agree with IPCC, the National Academy of Sciences, and the public statements of their professional societies. Politicians, economists, journalists, and others may have the impression of confusion, disagreement, or discord among climate scientists, but that impression is incorrect."
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686
Between political correctness on the left, intolerance on the right, and pressure from crony capitalists to wall off their monopoly profits, pretty soon the only thing you'll be able to post on the internet will be cat pictures. :(
Like Ypsi wireless right down the street from me? I think these are excellent initiatives that allow wi-fi to be rolled out in poor areas on the cheap, Will they be required to keep these sorts of extensive records of their users?
http://www.wireless.ypsi.com/
When did we start taking East Germany in the Communist era as the model for our society?
The new Brittany Spears is teh suck. 320 LAME mp3
shall not be abridged as written in the 1st amendment? The founding fathers must be rolling over in their graves right now.
"The right to state your views anonymously does not extend to being a shield against liability if your statements are found to be actionable."
Then what good is anonymity? If a government say can find a statement actionable and the ISP or other server can be forced to reveal your identity then the whole ethically justifiable reason for anonymity vanishes. Whither the whistleblower?
Pop music is dead, the underground lives and surprisingly sounds a lot like country and folk and crossed with Sonic Youth.
I corrected your post, you're welcome.
...show you the Windows source code, I mean it SOB!
Oh wait that's the lamest threat ever isn't it?
Web apps are OK for the "enterprise" the problem is though is that enterprise "solutions" become standards for everyone and thus Uncle Joe and Aunt Jane in the past were stuck with M.S. Word if they wanted to be able to open attachments and print at Kinkos or whatever.
Will home users now be stuck with sub optimal web apps when open office or Abi Word, whatever would serve their needs better?
I suspect my MacBook already 2 years old will hold me down for another 4 years, including running XP fast enough to play the old school games well enough for me to be satisfied. I also can edit video, use photoshop on large images, do web development, and run Ubuntu on another virtual machine Note that I got this computer used of Craigs list.
If you had told me me in 2000 I'd be buying a used notebook computer and holding onto for 5+ years I would have laughed in your face. Good for me, and the environment. And for the computer manufacturers? Not so much...