Seems more and more like the country is being run by Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader with Grand Moff Tarkin tightening his grip.
These elitist assholes need to be slapped upside the head with the constitution, and the bozos on the grand jury that handed down the indictment need full frontal lobotomies. I guess I should be waiting for a knock on the door for the previous statement...
While I strongly support the Sherriff and the other police agencies in Arizona, corrupt officers are not unheard of, and I strongly reject the notion that a citizen recording any interaction with any official of the state should be criminal.
What is your position on this issue and what can we do to prevent such onerous laws, such as they have in Massachusetts for example, from becoming law here?
I don't personally think that e-ink is so much better on the eyes as is commonly thought. I don't really notice any difference between focusing long term on a computer screen vs. long term reading a book, and most people I've talked to don't either. Yes this is anecdotal. I've been looking for a qualitative study comparing e-ink to traditional LCD and I haven't been able to fine one. If I stare at a book or a monitor for an extended period of time my eyes get a little dry and tired. It is a known fact that reading a book and reading a monitor will both induce a bit of squinting increasing eye-strain, and reduces the number of eye-blinks by 50% or more resulting in dry eyes. The two real issue that I have witnessed have to do with the font size and ambient light. I notice that when I bump up the font size that it significantly reduces eyestrain, and this is where e-readers of all types have an advantage over books - adjustable font sizes. I also notice that when I adjust ambient lighting conditions it makes reading books or the computer screen less of a strain.
Until there is a study that measures eye squint / blinks and strain for e-ink I'm not buying this particular "fact".
Last I heard it was well over $600 for the base model.
If by well over $600 you mean $499 you are correct. http://www.apple.com/ipad/ Apparently not drinking the kool-aid extends to not checking facts. The base model has never been advertised as being well over $600.
Based on personal experience with tablets, Windows XP is not really a good thing. The transition from desktop with keyboard and mouse to touch isn't good, and the US of displaying multiple applications in windows is not a good experience on a tablets.
Unfortunately, even though I could recite the words, if there is a god he would know that I don't believe what I'm saying and nothing would happen. I can't force myself to believe in the magic man in the sky in order to sincerely pray.
The problem with tablets running "full" operating systems is that Windows, OS X, etc are designed specifically for keyboard and mouse/trackpad interfaces and not touch. Having a multitude of windows on a touch screen where you simply substitute your finger / stylus for input and still requires keyboard input via the on screen keyboard is not an optimal solution. I've used the iPad and windows powered tablets, and while the iPad doesn't do all the things I'd like it to do, the interface is ideal for a touch screen, unlike regular windows 7. Unless Asus is going to invest in a really good touch interface to sit on top of windows, or use android or some other OS designed for touch, this will be a failure.
The actual point of debate isn't really important. The point is, how do you debate anything related to the religion in question with a "true believer"?
As a side note, I reject the "normal behavior in members society" argument. If it is a societal norm that grown adults consumate marriage with 9 year olds then that society has engrained abuse issues. Of course even today we see the systematic oppression of women in the devout Muslim countries so one should not necessarily be surprised. The question is, is the oppression of women in a society acceptable because it is "normal" for that society? At one time it was "normal" in our society to keep slaves from Africa. Even though I have a great deal of respect for what the men of that time were able to accomplish, I also do not understand how men of conscience were able to participate in that practice, and it does affect my view of them.
In my opinion people have the right to believe whatever they want and practice whatever they want. People also have the right to ridicule and mock whomever they want. These rights are not absolute, however. Your right to worship may not impinge on my rights to free speech, or any other rights that an individual has in a free, civilized society. Go to you church/mosque/temple and pray - fine. Getting in my face about accepting Allah/Jesus, etc - you're approaching a line. Threatening others with violence or death because they do not believe in your religion and they mock it? - a line has been crossed and this behavior has no place in any society I want to live in.
Personally I think anyone who believes that some supernatural being that lives in the sky is responsible fo thing that happen is an utter idiot, but that's my opinion - I respect your right to practice your religion, but if you tell me I cannot do something because it is against your religion I'm going to do it, especially if there is an implied threat on your part.
The biggest problem is, how do you argue with someone who "knows" they are right based on blind faith? If a rational person believes them self to be right based on evidence, if you show evidence to the contrary, they will generally adjust their position or at least debate the merits of the argument you have presented. How do you debate the question of, for example, whether or not Muhammed was in fact a pedophile with a group of people that have blind faith in their prophet? You can't without risking that some radical faction will threaten to injure or kill you, and that is unacceptable. Where religious beliefe run afoul of established secular law, the law does, and should, trump the religious beliefs and there should be no exceptions. Unfortunately we see exceptions based on religious beliefs creeping into our laws, the recent healthcare law is the most recent example: http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20090806.html.
Short version: do whatever you want, but if in practicing your religion you step on my rights or somehow get you preferential treatment from the government, fuck off.
Really? The bush administration is responsible for the 2010 and 2011 budgets? I had no idea the administrations 2 years out of office had to be part of the budgeting process.
Most of the tea party people I know hate Bush only slightly less than Obama...
Having said that, the 2009 and 2010 deficits are almost 3 trillion dollars. The biggest deficit 2000-2008 was about $480 billion. So, while I believe that $480 billion dollar deficits are bad, $1.5 trillion is 3 times worse, and 2011 isn't going to be much better. The record debt under Bush looks very conservative compared to the actual 2009 and projected 2010-2012 budgets, and as usual the deficits are likely to be larger than the projections...
I hate all politicians and believe they all need to be dragged into the street and shot as traitors
That would be too good for them. I think stripping them of their power and assets and forcing them to get real jobs would probably be a fate worse than death for most of them.
Unfortunately many programmers are problems because they seem to think that since they can program, that means they are good with computers in every way. After all, they write the software, how hard can the rest be?
It all depends on skill set and how good someone is at the skills they have. I'm a developer, but I used to be in IT (before WIndows NT) and I've run across IT guys that knew less about sys admin that I do, but they were crappy IT guys and should have been back on the help desk where they belonged.
Personally I hate systems administration and I'm perfectly willing to let someone else deal with it, and on the couple of occasions where IT screwed up my system and I couldn't get on the WAN or into VSS, I told my boss what the deal was and spent the time reviewing specs instead of coding.
But really, it boils down to interest and work ethic. I'm very interested in UI and application development. I write (according to other professionals that have reviewed my code, not me) clean, efficient code that follows the standards and the spec. I also participated in numerous contextual design exercises working directly with customers on developing better UI. So I'm good at writing classes and logic, and also good at developing UI, but only barely adequate at sysadmin on my small Linux / Unix network.
Having said all this, we don't know what the exact issue was and we don't know what specific skill set she used to win.
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maybe they should try the Russian nuke idea.
Seems more and more like the country is being run by Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader with Grand Moff Tarkin tightening his grip.
These elitist assholes need to be slapped upside the head with the constitution, and the bozos on the grand jury that handed down the indictment need full frontal lobotomies. I guess I should be waiting for a knock on the door for the previous statement...
...and the other police agencies in Arizona...
The point isn't that we have an issue now. The point is that this seems to be a trend and I don't want it to become an issue.
"1 Mb ought to be enough for anybody"?
...half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon...
I have been reading recently about what seems to me to be a disturbing trend by police agencies, prosecutors and legislatures to criminalize the ability of a citizen to record a police interaction. This is but one example: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/12/police_fight_cellphone_recordings/
While I strongly support the Sherriff and the other police agencies in Arizona, corrupt officers are not unheard of, and I strongly reject the notion that a citizen recording any interaction with any official of the state should be criminal.
What is your position on this issue and what can we do to prevent such onerous laws, such as they have in Massachusetts for example, from becoming law here?
sudo get me a blood test is probably more appropriate than please get me a blood test
I don't personally think that e-ink is so much better on the eyes as is commonly thought. I don't really notice any difference between focusing long term on a computer screen vs. long term reading a book, and most people I've talked to don't either. Yes this is anecdotal. I've been looking for a qualitative study comparing e-ink to traditional LCD and I haven't been able to fine one. If I stare at a book or a monitor for an extended period of time my eyes get a little dry and tired. It is a known fact that reading a book and reading a monitor will both induce a bit of squinting increasing eye-strain, and reduces the number of eye-blinks by 50% or more resulting in dry eyes. The two real issue that I have witnessed have to do with the font size and ambient light. I notice that when I bump up the font size that it significantly reduces eyestrain, and this is where e-readers of all types have an advantage over books - adjustable font sizes. I also notice that when I adjust ambient lighting conditions it makes reading books or the computer screen less of a strain.
Until there is a study that measures eye squint / blinks and strain for e-ink I'm not buying this particular "fact".
Last I heard it was well over $600 for the base model.
If by well over $600 you mean $499 you are correct. http://www.apple.com/ipad/ Apparently not drinking the kool-aid extends to not checking facts. The base model has never been advertised as being well over $600.
Apple's only "invention" was giving theirs a sane price.
that and not putting a full OS designed for keyboard and mouse on the thing...
Based on personal experience with tablets, Windows XP is not really a good thing. The transition from desktop with keyboard and mouse to touch isn't good, and the US of displaying multiple applications in windows is not a good experience on a tablets.
Unfortunately, even though I could recite the words, if there is a god he would know that I don't believe what I'm saying and nothing would happen. I can't force myself to believe in the magic man in the sky in order to sincerely pray.
The problem with tablets running "full" operating systems is that Windows, OS X, etc are designed specifically for keyboard and mouse/trackpad interfaces and not touch. Having a multitude of windows on a touch screen where you simply substitute your finger / stylus for input and still requires keyboard input via the on screen keyboard is not an optimal solution. I've used the iPad and windows powered tablets, and while the iPad doesn't do all the things I'd like it to do, the interface is ideal for a touch screen, unlike regular windows 7. Unless Asus is going to invest in a really good touch interface to sit on top of windows, or use android or some other OS designed for touch, this will be a failure.
The banana is a lie!
The actual point of debate isn't really important. The point is, how do you debate anything related to the religion in question with a "true believer"?
As a side note, I reject the "normal behavior in members society" argument. If it is a societal norm that grown adults consumate marriage with 9 year olds then that society has engrained abuse issues. Of course even today we see the systematic oppression of women in the devout Muslim countries so one should not necessarily be surprised. The question is, is the oppression of women in a society acceptable because it is "normal" for that society? At one time it was "normal" in our society to keep slaves from Africa. Even though I have a great deal of respect for what the men of that time were able to accomplish, I also do not understand how men of conscience were able to participate in that practice, and it does affect my view of them.
In my opinion people have the right to believe whatever they want and practice whatever they want. People also have the right to ridicule and mock whomever they want. These rights are not absolute, however. Your right to worship may not impinge on my rights to free speech, or any other rights that an individual has in a free, civilized society. Go to you church/mosque/temple and pray - fine. Getting in my face about accepting Allah/Jesus, etc - you're approaching a line. Threatening others with violence or death because they do not believe in your religion and they mock it? - a line has been crossed and this behavior has no place in any society I want to live in.
Personally I think anyone who believes that some supernatural being that lives in the sky is responsible fo thing that happen is an utter idiot, but that's my opinion - I respect your right to practice your religion, but if you tell me I cannot do something because it is against your religion I'm going to do it, especially if there is an implied threat on your part.
The biggest problem is, how do you argue with someone who "knows" they are right based on blind faith? If a rational person believes them self to be right based on evidence, if you show evidence to the contrary, they will generally adjust their position or at least debate the merits of the argument you have presented. How do you debate the question of, for example, whether or not Muhammed was in fact a pedophile with a group of people that have blind faith in their prophet? You can't without risking that some radical faction will threaten to injure or kill you, and that is unacceptable. Where religious beliefe run afoul of established secular law, the law does, and should, trump the religious beliefs and there should be no exceptions. Unfortunately we see exceptions based on religious beliefs creeping into our laws, the recent healthcare law is the most recent example: http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20090806.html.
Short version: do whatever you want, but if in practicing your religion you step on my rights or somehow get you preferential treatment from the government, fuck off.
Now what? Are they going to drop the ban hammer on /. too?
Really? The bush administration is responsible for the 2010 and 2011 budgets? I had no idea the administrations 2 years out of office had to be part of the budgeting process.
Not budget - actual dollars added to the deficit.
Most of the tea party people I know hate Bush only slightly less than Obama...
Having said that, the 2009 and 2010 deficits are almost 3 trillion dollars. The biggest deficit 2000-2008 was about $480 billion. So, while I believe that $480 billion dollar deficits are bad, $1.5 trillion is 3 times worse, and 2011 isn't going to be much better. The record debt under Bush looks very conservative compared to the actual 2009 and projected 2010-2012 budgets, and as usual the deficits are likely to be larger than the projections...
I hate all politicians and believe they all need to be dragged into the street and shot as traitors
That would be too good for them. I think stripping them of their power and assets and forcing them to get real jobs would probably be a fate worse than death for most of them.
Unfortunately many programmers are problems because they seem to think that since they can program, that means they are good with computers in every way. After all, they write the software, how hard can the rest be?
It all depends on skill set and how good someone is at the skills they have. I'm a developer, but I used to be in IT (before WIndows NT) and I've run across IT guys that knew less about sys admin that I do, but they were crappy IT guys and should have been back on the help desk where they belonged.
Personally I hate systems administration and I'm perfectly willing to let someone else deal with it, and on the couple of occasions where IT screwed up my system and I couldn't get on the WAN or into VSS, I told my boss what the deal was and spent the time reviewing specs instead of coding.
But really, it boils down to interest and work ethic. I'm very interested in UI and application development. I write (according to other professionals that have reviewed my code, not me) clean, efficient code that follows the standards and the spec. I also participated in numerous contextual design exercises working directly with customers on developing better UI. So I'm good at writing classes and logic, and also good at developing UI, but only barely adequate at sysadmin on my small Linux / Unix network.
Having said all this, we don't know what the exact issue was and we don't know what specific skill set she used to win.
This is not the same as antibiotics.
Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
Now what will I do?
Play Duke Nukem Forever
juggernaut
a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.