I understand the -1 mod on the parent, but redundant? Off topic or troll I would understand but this is as if geeks already know that "tits are a myth" and as such the information is nothing new.
I have two words for you: 'Tiananmen' and 'Square'
I have three words for you; it's: Tian anmen Square
Technically it's heavenly (tian) peace (an) gate (men) square (guang chang), so if you really want to be nit-picky, it's four words in English, but personally I think the grandparent said it just fine when we said it was two words. It's not like you separate Beijing into two words for meaning "north capital".
I'm pretty sure much of the devastation in our economy today is directly attributable to propeller heads, math majors, who took their computers to Wall Street and thought they could rule the world's economy using math, for example by writing algorithms to assess risk of Credit Default Swaps, and to use computerized trading to keep investment banks and hedge funds with 30 to 1 leverage from imploding. They failed. Maybe teaching math isn't always a good idea:)
Of course, you're assuming that what's going on now is unintentional. I'm not saying that it was planned, just pointing out that the possibility of it exists.
I think people (meaning those rejecting college applications) need to stop being so uptight.
I drink beer. So what?
At first I had the same thought, but the I realized that the article is about universities in the US and as such the people sending in college applications are very likely to be under 21.
A game costs roughly $60.00. For each act of infringement, Activision wants, at the very least, 50000% of the initial price, or at the most, 250000% of the initial price. How is it even legal to demand that much?
I'd say that there are two reasons for asking for that much money. The first is that by asking for such insane amounts someone is much more likely to settle for *just* $5000 or something similar and the second is that I think it can be argued that the pirate is responsible for each and every downloaded copy of the game he posted. It's also much easier to sue the pirate instead of tracking down each and every download via IP address.
I'm not saying that I agree with the tactic and have no idea whether it's legal or not as IANAL but there are reasons for their actions.
I'm not sure that would such an "honor". Judging by the quality of 90% of their other products, I think I'd take the "Made in Russia" suit, myself,...;-)
I mean yeah, that was really terrible when Bird's Nest Stadium collapsed on everyone. My point is that they're more than capable of making high quality products, the government knows what's being produced there so they obviously know how much control is needed in a case such as this. The problem is that no matter how bad the cheap products turn out westerners still buy them, which if you were a factory owner, would be a great motivation to increase your margins.
Alright I'll bite. Chinese use Chinese characters (called hanzi) when they sms each other, and while someone could use pinyin as pretty much all Chinese know it, it'd be pointless as it's generally easier to understand what they're saying with characters. The only incompatibility would be receiving Chinese characters on your foreign phone (they'd appear as squares and other unintelligible symbols) but depending on the make and model, I do believe that you can download and install the required programs onto your phone.
I know this is a bit late in the game but you'd probably be interested in reading the article "China's All-Seeing Eye" by Naomi Klein, it's pretty scary what's going on...
1. Jesus said He is the Son of God. You will have to refute Jesus' own description of Himself, or challenge the writings that make that statement and the authors thereof.
I'm not going to start a discussion on God, but I am going to tell you how I interpret your first point. I believe that Jesus is the son of God in the way that we are all children of God. As with everything else in life, your example is subject to interpretation and as such it's possible for different people to read the same passage and a garner different meaning from it.
I agree with you that this humor bit is just insulting but what do you mean outrage against an invasion? What are you smoking? Fox News? Find some real news and figure out that Georgia opened fire on ten UN-sanctioned Russian peacekeepers and executed the injured with a bullet to their heads rather than let doctors attend to them. Lets not forget about the military exercises Georgia and US partook in last month or that the Georgian president himself holds a US passport. I wonder who benefits more from this destabilization, the country that's fighting its neighbors (and evacuated the women and children from the region last week) or the country that's been screwing with the entire region for far too long.
For your information, a hostel room with two beds costs 180RMB and you share the shower/sinks/bathrooms. I stayed there for a couple of days. It was worth every penny and it was impeccably clean. I highly recommend it.
I've stayed in Beijing in a two-bedroom hotel with private bath for 150 RMB/night which was also very clean (and far from being the cheapest clean room I've had in a Chinese metropolis), there are cheap places and if you speak a few phrases of Chinese you can go to the hotels where locals stay at and even haggle over the price. Then again I doubt there'll be much haggling due to the demand during the Olympics.
There is no "Swiss" language, they speak German, Italian, and French.
But there is the dialect Swiss German which I believe is spoken by over half the population. I've even met a woman from Zurich that just calls it Swiss but I don't know if it's correct to call it that.
What I wonder is:
What happens if there's a different style of writing that's not accounted for? I hope they're not just marked down. What will it consider a good book, what's truly interesting and insightful or books that are made to sell like The Da Vinci Code?
I can see how much easier it would be to identify which books well sell well but I fear that this will be its only use, and the less said about doing the same for movies the better.
It is similar to airline security mentality -- make everything secure by installing a fancy machine.
If it is sufficiently expensive, it must be effective.
I would say that the parent's comment is more insightful than funny but maybe I'm just lacking a sense of humor...
In conclusion, I really think Amazon's argument is flawed in this case; it's not about whether they or a subsidiary truly owns the distribution points. It's about the constitutionality of a state levying an interstate commerce tax, and that's what they should be disputing.
Amazon's argument is only flawed if you think that they're trying to get just taxes, not avoid them completely by making the case last years.
At least five of the pitches will feature the phrase "Think Star Trek meets Lord of the Rings with a Monty Python twist!" I can see it now! The protagonist will be an old Klingon wizard with a funny walk and he'll have to stop a flaming Borg Eye from attacking an unsuspecting Earth of the past with giant bananas. In scene 37 the wizard will be arrested because his summoned banana-eating monster (called a Bananarog), while having taken care of the banana problem in the past, accidentally crushed many a city with its mighty foot and changed history thus violating the temporal prime directive. In the end, as he was only trying to help his only punishment was only a reduction of rank within the Ministry of Silly Walks and was given a new funny walk to develop based on bat'leth training exercises.... erm, did I go too far?
The conspiracy theorist in me sometimes believes that the sole purpose of that show was to inundate people with the term 'Big Brother' just so that when the UK really did become a big brother state there would be no shock value in calling it so. I always thought that they did the same with the phrase 'antisocial behavior'. I'm not from the UK but I get the impression that they managed to make it not only refer to your neighborhood hoodlum who likes to break windows and spray-paint walls, but protesters too. That way when you hear about antisocial behavior on the news you automatically think it was justified that someone was arrested without actually knowing what they were doing.
I may be wrong so feel free to correct me if I'm off base with my opinion.
I'm from Canada, and we learned fractions in grade 3 or 4, the early 1980s. Damn man, I didn't start doing fractions until 1996 when I was in the 6th grade (in California) and I was on the "fast track" for math...
First off I'm not trying to complain (well, maybe a bit), but I'm wondering why my MP-related quote which was posted nearly ten minutes before yours didn't get modded up. I'm new here, would someone explain it to me?
To me, the Leaning Tower of Pisa was a monument of how human mistakes live on for centuries, and it was a miracle it was still standing. They might as well have straightened it. I believe that a non-Leaning Tower of Pisa serves as a much worse reminder of human error than a leaning one. The fact that it's reinforced just to stay up keeps the lesson alive.
If the same thing had happened today, which it does on a regular basis, the building would have been torn down. So in your opinion we should just tear down every building not in pristine condition? If the same thing happened today we'd tear it down so that we could do something profitable with the space (apartments, office building, etc) and as the AC already said:
tourism. It's arguably the most important source of income for Pisa
They said it was daft to build a tower on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. But seriously, I'm glad that they mentioned the Galileo thing is regarded as a myth as I've had physics teachers that have retold the story as fact.
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boobs are a myth!
I understand the -1 mod on the parent, but redundant? Off topic or troll I would understand but this is as if geeks already know that "tits are a myth" and as such the information is nothing new.
I'm sad to be a member of this community =)
I have two words for you: 'Tiananmen' and 'Square' I have three words for you; it's: Tian anmen Square
Technically it's heavenly (tian) peace (an) gate (men) square (guang chang), so if you really want to be nit-picky, it's four words in English, but personally I think the grandparent said it just fine when we said it was two words. It's not like you separate Beijing into two words for meaning "north capital".
I'm pretty sure much of the devastation in our economy today is directly attributable to propeller heads, math majors, who took their computers to Wall Street and thought they could rule the world's economy using math, for example by writing algorithms to assess risk of Credit Default Swaps, and to use computerized trading to keep investment banks and hedge funds with 30 to 1 leverage from imploding. They failed. Maybe teaching math isn't always a good idea :)
Of course, you're assuming that what's going on now is unintentional. I'm not saying that it was planned, just pointing out that the possibility of it exists.
I think people (meaning those rejecting college applications) need to stop being so uptight.
I drink beer. So what?
At first I had the same thought, but the I realized that the article is about universities in the US and as such the people sending in college applications are very likely to be under 21.
A game costs roughly $60.00. For each act of infringement, Activision wants, at the very least, 50000% of the initial price, or at the most, 250000% of the initial price. How is it even legal to demand that much?
I'd say that there are two reasons for asking for that much money. The first is that by asking for such insane amounts someone is much more likely to settle for *just* $5000 or something similar and the second is that I think it can be argued that the pirate is responsible for each and every downloaded copy of the game he posted. It's also much easier to sue the pirate instead of tracking down each and every download via IP address.
I'm not saying that I agree with the tactic and have no idea whether it's legal or not as IANAL but there are reasons for their actions.
Was I the only /.er that looked at the title and wondered how the contents of my computer's recycle bin was ending up overseas?
Wow. I need to have more kids so that my gas mileage will increase.
Or take the bus...
I'm not sure that would such an "honor". Judging by the quality of 90% of their other products, I think I'd take the "Made in Russia" suit, myself,... ;-)
I mean yeah, that was really terrible when Bird's Nest Stadium collapsed on everyone. My point is that they're more than capable of making high quality products, the government knows what's being produced there so they obviously know how much control is needed in a case such as this. The problem is that no matter how bad the cheap products turn out westerners still buy them, which if you were a factory owner, would be a great motivation to increase your margins.
Alright I'll bite. Chinese use Chinese characters (called hanzi) when they sms each other, and while someone could use pinyin as pretty much all Chinese know it, it'd be pointless as it's generally easier to understand what they're saying with characters. The only incompatibility would be receiving Chinese characters on your foreign phone (they'd appear as squares and other unintelligible symbols) but depending on the make and model, I do believe that you can download and install the required programs onto your phone.
I know this is a bit late in the game but you'd probably be interested in reading the article "China's All-Seeing Eye" by Naomi Klein, it's pretty scary what's going on...
1. Jesus said He is the Son of God. You will have to refute Jesus' own description of Himself, or challenge the writings that make that statement and the authors thereof.
I'm not going to start a discussion on God, but I am going to tell you how I interpret your first point. I believe that Jesus is the son of God in the way that we are all children of God. As with everything else in life, your example is subject to interpretation and as such it's possible for different people to read the same passage and a garner different meaning from it.
I agree with you that this humor bit is just insulting but what do you mean outrage against an invasion? What are you smoking? Fox News? Find some real news and figure out that Georgia opened fire on ten UN-sanctioned Russian peacekeepers and executed the injured with a bullet to their heads rather than let doctors attend to them. Lets not forget about the military exercises Georgia and US partook in last month or that the Georgian president himself holds a US passport. I wonder who benefits more from this destabilization, the country that's fighting its neighbors (and evacuated the women and children from the region last week) or the country that's been screwing with the entire region for far too long.
For your information, a hostel room with two beds costs 180RMB and you share the shower/sinks/bathrooms. I stayed there for a couple of days. It was worth every penny and it was impeccably clean. I highly recommend it.
I've stayed in Beijing in a two-bedroom hotel with private bath for 150 RMB/night which was also very clean (and far from being the cheapest clean room I've had in a Chinese metropolis), there are cheap places and if you speak a few phrases of Chinese you can go to the hotels where locals stay at and even haggle over the price. Then again I doubt there'll be much haggling due to the demand during the Olympics.
There is no "Swiss" language, they speak German, Italian, and French.
But there is the dialect Swiss German which I believe is spoken by over half the population. I've even met a woman from Zurich that just calls it Swiss but I don't know if it's correct to call it that.
There fixed it for ya. :P
What if some of the men are fat?
What I wonder is: What happens if there's a different style of writing that's not accounted for? I hope they're not just marked down. What will it consider a good book, what's truly interesting and insightful or books that are made to sell like The Da Vinci Code? I can see how much easier it would be to identify which books well sell well but I fear that this will be its only use, and the less said about doing the same for movies the better.
It is similar to airline security mentality -- make everything secure by installing a fancy machine. If it is sufficiently expensive, it must be effective.
I would say that the parent's comment is more insightful than funny but maybe I'm just lacking a sense of humor...
In conclusion, I really think Amazon's argument is flawed in this case; it's not about whether they or a subsidiary truly owns the distribution points. It's about the constitutionality of a state levying an interstate commerce tax, and that's what they should be disputing.
Amazon's argument is only flawed if you think that they're trying to get just taxes, not avoid them completely by making the case last years.
First off I'm not trying to complain (well, maybe a bit), but I'm wondering why my MP-related quote which was posted nearly ten minutes before yours didn't get modded up. I'm new here, would someone explain it to me?