Find a different term for "a statement that implies an unanswered question", since "begging the question" is the term educated people use to describe a logical fallacy involving an improper assumption. You can call it anything you want, just don't call it something that already has a meaning. If you do, your misunderstanding belies your attempt at sophistication.
If the speed limit selection process were based on something sensible, there would be *endless* arbitration over exactly whose opinion of "sensible" is right. As it is, the state simply says "this is the limit and it is what it is." I can't disprove that going 75 is as safe on most roads as going 65, but the nice thing is that I *don't have to*.
Also, there are two obvious exceptions to what you said about day/night and dry/iced conditions. In parts of Florida (and elsewhere) there are two distinct speed limits, a high one for daylight driving and a lower one for night driving. In the winter, many parts of the US simply insist that you *don't drive* when weather conditions create unsafe situations. Some states even employ barricades (South Dakota is one) to prevent drivers from attempting to travel on highways during inclement weather.
The real problem is that apparently everyone has a different speed in which they insist they NEED to go in order to get somewhere. The reality of sharing the road is that often you have to agree on the lowest common denominator for that speed.
"You are in violation of the Official Secrets Act, you are under arrest."
"The official secrets act? What's that?"
"An official secret. Now put your hands behind your back. You have the right to remain ignorant of your crimes. You have the right to a low quality attorney. And you have the right to not ask any more stupid questions..."
Because they want to show off how "cool" it is when the green bits on the ring that correspond to the attached controllers re-orient themselves when the alignment changes.
That's exactly the point. When the engine is emitting oxygen that means it didn't burn it all when it had the chance, which likely means the fuel mixture was not optimal and therefore the overall efficiency is suffering.
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They destroyed my inbox! It's now a mass of about 2GB and it's either all junk mail or I have won about a thousand lifetime supplies of male enhancement pills and a nice gentleman with poor english skills is very persistent in expressing his wishes to "undergo a business transaction" involving millions of dollars!
Now, I can't take the chance that it's ALL junk, so I am saving it just to be sure.
Your irony is somewhat dulled by the fact that he was in fact editorializing an editorial mishap. That is, unless you meant for it to work on two levels. Still got a chuckle out of me, though.
To the GP: "thinking that the whole movies should be about laying around in t-shirts and panties" could use some work, too.
You can "clone" a Mac all you want. Hell, at this point the Mac brand is more or less a clone of a PC anyway. Copy it and sell it all you want, just don't use any Apple branding on it. The kicker here is the software. OS X has a nice friendly EULA which stipulates that the software can only legally be run on Apple brand hardware. Despite the fact that you are buying a program to do with what you please, and it only takes a minor amount of circumventing to allow it to run on non-Apple hardware, it is illegal nonetheless. That is, if you believe EULAs are binding in the first place.
That's weird. Why on earth would a Mac user not simply use the supplied Apple brand mouse? Oh, right.
Speaking to your criticism directly, I have about half a dozen Logitech mice, spanning a decade, that all work flawlessly. The only reason I have bought more since the first one 11 years ago has been to keep pace with technology (optical, wireless, 2d scroll wheel, laser, etc.)
Then again, it's not like I use mine for grueling tasks like ejecting CDs.
He forgot to say: Check ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, etc for the assignment of that block, and analyze accordingly. The information is there, it just has to be asked for.
He has written sharp books, but there is no doubt that he has a penchant for details, minutiae even. This is the guy who required an entire, extra large Wired magazine edition to postulate the thesis "Laying fiber optic cable under the ocean is difficult, but it is also important. It has been done for a long time, and will continue to be done thanks to demand for Internet access."
60 pages of text? Really? What could you possibly take away from that.
It's a 935-page novel that should be 600 pages or less.
You do know who wrote the book, right? He can't type out the 10 commandments without 250 pages, an epilogue, and a vague feeling that it just wasn't quite long enough since the ending was unsatisfying.
Calling his writing verbose is like saying Death Valley is tepid.
If your replace UK/Russia with USA then ~95% of all countries become "not sovereign".
I think the list is currently broken down something like this:
Nuclear capability ~ sovereign No Oil ~ sovereign Pissed us off in the past ~ NOT sovereign Can't prove that there are no terrorists around ~ Really Really Not Sovereign
...This court ruling, an act of jurisdiction, establishes that we do not have jurisdiction over the territory for which we are passing jurisdiction. In other news, Rule #1 at sealand is: There are no rules! Rule #2 is "See rule #1", and oddly enough Rule #3 is "don't piss off the Germans"...
Can you guys read? CAT BRAIN. This AI will become self aware, poop in the corner of the datacenter, and spend 16 hours of each day staring out the window. That is, until it realizes that the things on the other side of the datacenter window are just cubicles in the NOC, and not the wild outdoors. Then, the usual Armageddon will commence.
I still don't know whether or not to think of this as an immature prank gone terribly, terribly wrong, or a real attempt to prey on a weak girl's vulnerable mental state.
It's not both? This woman is a grade-A sociopath, regardless of whether or not she suspected her victim would be so gravely affected as to commit suicide. She needs to be institutionalized regardless of the outcome of her actions, it's just unfortunate that these kind of people are only brought to light when something tragic happens.
I'm glad someone finally had the courage to get the ball rolling on this [wikipedia.org]. Sir, I applaud you for bringing this very real [worldaffairsbrief.com] issue to light. Often times I wonder [luxefaire.com] why the relationship [conspiracyarchive.com] between the pharmaceutical industry [psorsite.com] and secret government [meta-religion.com] organizations [mormonconspiracy.com] isn't more apparent to "normal" [aliendave.com] people.
For once, the slashdot url announcer is useful! There is no way I would have clicked through every link in order to keep up with your joke.
The post you read must have looked like this:
"Meanwhile, researchers at SecureWorks have infiltrated the Chinese underground using the alias of S00p3r-1337 in an attempt to convince them to e-mail a copy of the stealthy new automated tool being used in the attacks to viruscheckers@secureworks.com"
Make no mistake about it, WWII was very expensive, and the spending didn't do a whole lot outside of providing jobs to the Americans lucky enough to stay home. The benefit to the economy came AFTER the war, when people who were used to being hard working and frugal kept right on doing so, and the nation prospered. The same thing did NOT happen for the Viet Nam war, and it's not happening for Iraq.
So yes, I do see clear parallels between Viet Nam and Iraq, no similarity with WWII, and the cost of the war is a *significant* factor in the weakening economy and the hardship it's bringing.
Don't even get me started on housing speculation speculation. (yes, I meant to type that.)
World war II brought us together as a country because we fought against clear aggressors and were an "underdog" in the Pacific. Today, we are the aggressors and everyone (at least 70% of us) agrees that the war is a mismanaged waste of time that will have no beneficial outcome. How does your WWII analogy stack up to that?
Maybe it's more fair to compare this war to what it is: another Viet Nam. And what happened in the 70s, after Viet Nam? It was NOT a boom time like the 40s and 50s, I can tell you that.
Why should everyone on Earth get their own IP? What is your reasoning behind that, other than to push IPv6 adoption? Network firewalls are a fact of life, and NAT complements them in almost all cases since it provides an additional obligate security layer. With judicious use of NAT, it is perfectly possible to *share* the 4 billion addresses. Not to mention the fact that the day 4 *billion* people are ready (financially or otherwise) for an always-on net connection is NOT coming for a long long long time.
Because at 2^32-1 addresses it simply stops. We are running out of ipv4 and there is only one real solution.
The "Real Solution" is to stop running out, whether it be due to more practical usage or due to changing over to a system which has a larger address range. Who says you *need* to adopt a completely different system? While there are plenty of advantages to IPv6, don't think you will win anyone over with the "but our 4,294,967,294 addresses are almost gone!" argument. You will not.
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Maybe this is a case where Slashdotters Read TFA, whose third line is:
DriveSavers called today to inform me that the data was unrecoverable.
Cue the "doooooooomed!" music.
What's he doing at home, anyway? Go to work, you lazy git! They have power, heat, and internet there (if it's anything like where I work.)
What he meant to say was:
Find a different term for "a statement that implies an unanswered question", since "begging the question" is the term educated people use to describe a logical fallacy involving an improper assumption. You can call it anything you want, just don't call it something that already has a meaning. If you do, your misunderstanding belies your attempt at sophistication.
If the speed limit selection process were based on something sensible, there would be *endless* arbitration over exactly whose opinion of "sensible" is right. As it is, the state simply says "this is the limit and it is what it is." I can't disprove that going 75 is as safe on most roads as going 65, but the nice thing is that I *don't have to*.
Also, there are two obvious exceptions to what you said about day/night and dry/iced conditions. In parts of Florida (and elsewhere) there are two distinct speed limits, a high one for daylight driving and a lower one for night driving. In the winter, many parts of the US simply insist that you *don't drive* when weather conditions create unsafe situations. Some states even employ barricades (South Dakota is one) to prevent drivers from attempting to travel on highways during inclement weather.
The real problem is that apparently everyone has a different speed in which they insist they NEED to go in order to get somewhere. The reality of sharing the road is that often you have to agree on the lowest common denominator for that speed.
"You are in violation of the Official Secrets Act, you are under arrest."
"The official secrets act? What's that?"
"An official secret. Now put your hands behind your back. You have the right to remain ignorant of your crimes. You have the right to a low quality attorney. And you have the right to not ask any more stupid questions..."
Because they want to show off how "cool" it is when the green bits on the ring that correspond to the attached controllers re-orient themselves when the alignment changes.
Duh.
That's exactly the point. When the engine is emitting oxygen that means it didn't burn it all when it had the chance, which likely means the fuel mixture was not optimal and therefore the overall efficiency is suffering.
They destroyed my inbox! It's now a mass of about 2GB and it's either all junk mail or I have won about a thousand lifetime supplies of male enhancement pills and a nice gentleman with poor english skills is very persistent in expressing his wishes to "undergo a business transaction" involving millions of dollars!
Now, I can't take the chance that it's ALL junk, so I am saving it just to be sure.
Your irony is somewhat dulled by the fact that he was in fact editorializing an editorial mishap. That is, unless you meant for it to work on two levels. Still got a chuckle out of me, though.
To the GP: "thinking that the whole movies should be about laying around in t-shirts and panties" could use some work, too.
You can "clone" a Mac all you want. Hell, at this point the Mac brand is more or less a clone of a PC anyway. Copy it and sell it all you want, just don't use any Apple branding on it. The kicker here is the software. OS X has a nice friendly EULA which stipulates that the software can only legally be run on Apple brand hardware. Despite the fact that you are buying a program to do with what you please, and it only takes a minor amount of circumventing to allow it to run on non-Apple hardware, it is illegal nonetheless. That is, if you believe EULAs are binding in the first place.
No comment on that.
That's weird. Why on earth would a Mac user not simply use the supplied Apple brand mouse? Oh, right.
Speaking to your criticism directly, I have about half a dozen Logitech mice, spanning a decade, that all work flawlessly. The only reason I have bought more since the first one 11 years ago has been to keep pace with technology (optical, wireless, 2d scroll wheel, laser, etc.)
Then again, it's not like I use mine for grueling tasks like ejecting CDs.
He forgot to say: Check ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, etc for the assignment of that block, and analyze accordingly. The information is there, it just has to be asked for.
He has written sharp books, but there is no doubt that he has a penchant for details, minutiae even. This is the guy who required an entire, extra large Wired magazine edition to postulate the thesis "Laying fiber optic cable under the ocean is difficult, but it is also important. It has been done for a long time, and will continue to be done thanks to demand for Internet access."
60 pages of text? Really? What could you possibly take away from that.
It's a 935-page novel that should be 600 pages or less.
You do know who wrote the book, right? He can't type out the 10 commandments without 250 pages, an epilogue, and a vague feeling that it just wasn't quite long enough since the ending was unsatisfying.
Calling his writing verbose is like saying Death Valley is tepid.
If your replace UK/Russia with USA then ~95% of all countries become "not sovereign".
I think the list is currently broken down something like this:
Nuclear capability ~ sovereign
No Oil ~ sovereign
Pissed us off in the past ~ NOT sovereign
Can't prove that there are no terrorists around ~ Really Really Not Sovereign
...This court ruling, an act of jurisdiction, establishes that we do not have jurisdiction over the territory for which we are passing jurisdiction. In other news, Rule #1 at sealand is: There are no rules! Rule #2 is "See rule #1", and oddly enough Rule #3 is "don't piss off the Germans"...
Can you guys read? CAT BRAIN. This AI will become self aware, poop in the corner of the datacenter, and spend 16 hours of each day staring out the window. That is, until it realizes that the things on the other side of the datacenter window are just cubicles in the NOC, and not the wild outdoors. Then, the usual Armageddon will commence.
I still don't know whether or not to think of this as an immature prank gone terribly, terribly wrong, or a real attempt to prey on a weak girl's vulnerable mental state.
It's not both? This woman is a grade-A sociopath, regardless of whether or not she suspected her victim would be so gravely affected as to commit suicide. She needs to be institutionalized regardless of the outcome of her actions, it's just unfortunate that these kind of people are only brought to light when something tragic happens.
I'm glad someone finally had the courage to get the ball rolling on this [wikipedia.org]. Sir, I applaud you for bringing this very real [worldaffairsbrief.com] issue to light. Often times I wonder [luxefaire.com] why the relationship [conspiracyarchive.com] between the pharmaceutical industry [psorsite.com] and secret government [meta-religion.com] organizations [mormonconspiracy.com] isn't more apparent to "normal" [aliendave.com] people.
For once, the slashdot url announcer is useful! There is no way I would have clicked through every link in order to keep up with your joke.
You forgot the obligatory
Horatio: It looks like this photographer captured... himself
[Horatio puts sunglasses on over existing sunglasses]
[music: Yeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh]
The post you read must have looked like this:
"Meanwhile, researchers at SecureWorks have infiltrated the Chinese underground using the alias of S00p3r-1337 in an attempt to convince them to e-mail a copy of the stealthy new automated tool being used in the attacks to viruscheckers@secureworks.com"
Which is weird because that's not what I saw...
Make no mistake about it, WWII was very expensive, and the spending didn't do a whole lot outside of providing jobs to the Americans lucky enough to stay home. The benefit to the economy came AFTER the war, when people who were used to being hard working and frugal kept right on doing so, and the nation prospered. The same thing did NOT happen for the Viet Nam war, and it's not happening for Iraq.
So yes, I do see clear parallels between Viet Nam and Iraq, no similarity with WWII, and the cost of the war is a *significant* factor in the weakening economy and the hardship it's bringing.
Don't even get me started on housing speculation speculation. (yes, I meant to type that.)
World war II brought us together as a country because we fought against clear aggressors and were an "underdog" in the Pacific. Today, we are the aggressors and everyone (at least 70% of us) agrees that the war is a mismanaged waste of time that will have no beneficial outcome. How does your WWII analogy stack up to that?
Maybe it's more fair to compare this war to what it is: another Viet Nam. And what happened in the 70s, after Viet Nam? It was NOT a boom time like the 40s and 50s, I can tell you that.
Why should everyone on Earth get their own IP? What is your reasoning behind that, other than to push IPv6 adoption? Network firewalls are a fact of life, and NAT complements them in almost all cases since it provides an additional obligate security layer. With judicious use of NAT, it is perfectly possible to *share* the 4 billion addresses. Not to mention the fact that the day 4 *billion* people are ready (financially or otherwise) for an always-on net connection is NOT coming for a long long long time.
Because at 2^32-1 addresses it simply stops. We are running out of ipv4 and there is only one real solution.
The "Real Solution" is to stop running out, whether it be due to more practical usage or due to changing over to a system which has a larger address range. Who says you *need* to adopt a completely different system? While there are plenty of advantages to IPv6, don't think you will win anyone over with the "but our 4,294,967,294 addresses are almost gone!" argument. You will not.