"Frankly, it's as stupid as that site that lets high school kids make unsubstantiated complaints about their teachers. Just because you have free speech, doesn't mean that you can use it to make a person's life hell."
I'm a teacher and I'm entirely in favor of free speech. If there's a sucky teacher someplace, students absolutely should have the right to warn away other students. I've personally got a very good rating on RateMyProfessor.com.
Man, what a load of horseshit. Did he say in advance he'd be grading based on how well you hacked the instructions? Or did he intentionally mislead the entire class about that? If the point was that in real life you'll have research texts available, wouldn't it be shorter to just *say* that than waste a whole freaking class period on this fraudulent exercise?
That kind of passive-aggressive "gotcha" teaching and grading is truly bullshit. Apparently he's got nothing useful to actually say about the field engineering that day.
"a) Because he insisted that all the details of his theory... b) Because he thought that everyone should accept his hypothesis just because, no matter the lack of proofs... c) And because he did make the point clear by adding a character to his book, named 'Simpleton'"
Nice try. Here's why Galileo was really the focus-point of the Church's attacks:
* Because he had a good telescope. *
Whereas the heliocentric theory could previously be held at arms-length as a hypothesis, Galileo could actually *see* that it was true by looking at it. And he wanted, begged other people to look through his telescope and see for themselves. That's why he was the biggest threat among centuries of prior heliocentric-theorists.
According to Andrew White (History of the Warfare Science with Thelogy in Christendom, Vol. 1) practically as soon as Galileo announced that Jupiter had its own moons, all hell broke loose on him. Church leaders were making declarations that it was a sin to look through his telescope, if he offered it to anyone -- that the moons of Jupiter were illusions from the Devil and so forth. That's how much the telescope frightened them in their theological beliefs. And that's why it was Galileo that they went after.
"Point of order (which may affect how you think about this topic): Galileo was not, as is commonly believed, imprisoned for advocating heliocentrism. He was imprisoned for using a Papal imprimatur on the book where he advocated it."
You know what? That's horseshit. It's make-believe just as much as Santa Claus or, in the first place, God is. It's an excellent modern-day continuation of the theological attacks on Galileo.
Riding the bus to the college where I teach today, I just *happen* to be reading Andrew White's "History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Vol. 1", and I just *happen* today to be reading the extensive chapter on the Church's battle with Galileo.
There were years and hosts of attacks on Galileo and specifically the heliocentric idea. I'll focus on two. In 1615 he was put before the Inquisition. After a month of cross-examinations, the unanimous decision was as follows:
"THE FIRST PROPOSITION, THAT THE SUN IS THE CENTRE AND DOES NOT REVOLVE ABOUT THE EARTH, IS FOOLISH, AND ABSURD, FALSE IN THEOLOGY, AND HERETICAL, BECAUSE EXPRESSLY CONTRARY TO HOLY SCRIPTURE"; AND "THE SECOND PROPOSITION, THAT THE EARTH IS NOT THE CENTRE BUT REVOLVES ABOUT THE SUN, IS ABSURD, FALSE IN PHILOSOPHY, AND, FROM A THEOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW AT LEAST, OPPOSED TO THE TRUE FAITH." (White, p. 158)
Look at that -- the declaration is entirely on heliocentrism, and none about Papal imprimaturs.
At the end of his period as a hostage, Galileo was forced to issue this declaration:
"I, Galileo, being in my seventieth year, being a prisoner and on my knees, and before your Eminences, having before my eyes the Holy Gospel, which I touch with my hands, abjure, curse, and detest the error and the heresy of the movement of the earth." (White, p. 163)
Again -- the forced apology is entirely about heliocentrism, and no apology for imprimatur usage was required of Galileo. 400 years on and the spurious attacks on the poor guy *still* continue.
Have you seen the new recruiting ads on TV that are precisely that, some guy at a screen in a bunker protecting the Pentagon from "3 million intrusion attempts a day?"
Yes. One of the very first things that designers said publicly months ago is that conversions will not be possible to 4E. There's a bit of song-and-dance marketing that "the same idea in your head will now have different mechanics applied".
This is intentional, because they're trying to break compatibility with last edition's Open Gaming License (inspired by the GPL), and make D&D once again totally proprietary.
It's pretty obvious from the early comments that not many people RTFA. (Comments like, "I wonder who at eBay is high up the kook-chain in Scientology?" and all that.) This is an established EBay program called VERO that Scientology has joined, like a bunch of other manufacturers, and (big surprise) happens to be abusing.
The mechanism that permits the Church of Scientology (and others) such broad access and discretion is called the Verified Rights Owner ("VeRO") Program. Membership in VeRO is obtained simply by submitting a form to eBay explaining that you are an Intellectual Property rights holder.
It should come as little surprise that VeRO members routinely overreach, as the cost of challenging a listing removal is almost always prohibitive. (See my paper on this subject here, and see the brave husband and wife exception to this rule here.) The VeRO Program makes a great deal of sense for some types of listings--counterfeit Rolexes and Gucci handbags appear on eBay with such frequent regularity that those companies would be hard pressed to handle these trademark violations any other way.
Blah blah blah. The thing is, the leaders of Al Qaeda have expounded *at great length* about exactly why they're fighting Americans. There's no need to make up a bunch of fantasy shit. All you have to do is listen for 3 minutes and not go around trying to throw sand in everyone's faces. There is no question about it -- every statement, the founding of Al Qaeda, every attack begins and ends with U.S. military forces in Saudi Arabia.
"[T]he ruling to kill the Americans and their allies - civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque (in Jerusalem) and the holy mosque (in Makka) from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim."
"True Capitalism - I'm talking Ayn Rand style Capitalism - would laugh at this pathetic copy."
He had a broad face and a round little belly, That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly, He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself - Clement Moore, "A Visit from St. Nicholas"
I've noticed that a number of people I'm in contact with (I run an email list for my band) have email systems that bounce back anything with a link in it, saying it's spam. (For example, the URL for the band's website, stuff like that.) When I pursued it with my girlfriend, she had no idea it was happening, and investigated her system settings and definitely had all spam filter options turned to "off".
Unfortunately, I've started to get accustomed to dealing with this (strip out links & resend individual emails).
There, I said it. Voice-recognition shit (most especially attempts at "natural language" parsing) never, ever, ever works right for me -- or anyone that I know or discuss it with. It never works right. On phone networks we all just wind up frustrated, wasting time, swearing obscenities into the phone until it finally turns us over to a live human operator, in a much-worse mood.
It sucks and I hate it and it's bullshit and the charlatans selling this shit should be shot in the kneecaps. You're *garbage*.
The fact that there are two classes of legally recognized entities, with competing rights allocated to each, is sort of the definition of a class struggle.
I prety much never comment on these Microsoft strategy threads... but man, that's fucked up. You need a special new MS tag to indicate standard, non-MS-specific behavior? MS is promoting this as standards compliant? Isn't that inherently contradictory?
[iamnotbroken] Yeah, thanks a bunch, Microsoft, you fucking a-holes. [/iamnotbroken]
There was an interesting bit of research in the last "Game Developer" magazine that showed the higher up in a corporate hierarchy someone is (CEO, CFO), the more likely they to spend time playing games in the office, during their work hours.
The normal rules don't apply for the people at the top.
This is an interesting thought experiment, actually.
"...conservative neo-nazi fascist trying to take over the world Republicans... Open Source is not communism and its not socialism... If any system is more like a communist system, its a big corporate system, which has all of its components centrally planned and designed."
The problem is, neo-nazi fascists are *not* troubled by communism because it's centrally planned and designed. They're *solely* troubled because its non-corporate (upwardly profit motivated). The fact that Open Source non-centrally-controlled, ruggedly individualist, honest, and non-spying are utterly antagonistic to people like that.
What you've just described is effectively Anarchy, LOL.
I used to keep my WiFi router secured. But then there were some days when I couldn't connect from the other end of my apartment, and it was real handy to go through neighbor's unsecured WiFi. This convinced me that it was the neighborly thing to do and opened mine.
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"Frankly, it's as stupid as that site that lets high school kids make unsubstantiated complaints about their teachers. Just because you have free speech, doesn't mean that you can use it to make a person's life hell."
I'm a teacher and I'm entirely in favor of free speech. If there's a sucky teacher someplace, students absolutely should have the right to warn away other students. I've personally got a very good rating on RateMyProfessor.com.
First for me as well.
Man, what a load of horseshit. Did he say in advance he'd be grading based on how well you hacked the instructions? Or did he intentionally mislead the entire class about that? If the point was that in real life you'll have research texts available, wouldn't it be shorter to just *say* that than waste a whole freaking class period on this fraudulent exercise?
That kind of passive-aggressive "gotcha" teaching and grading is truly bullshit. Apparently he's got nothing useful to actually say about the field engineering that day.
"a) Because he insisted that all the details of his theory... b) Because he thought that everyone should accept his hypothesis just because, no matter the lack of proofs... c) And because he did make the point clear by adding a character to his book, named 'Simpleton'"
Nice try. Here's why Galileo was really the focus-point of the Church's attacks:
* Because he had a good telescope. *
Whereas the heliocentric theory could previously be held at arms-length as a hypothesis, Galileo could actually *see* that it was true by looking at it. And he wanted, begged other people to look through his telescope and see for themselves. That's why he was the biggest threat among centuries of prior heliocentric-theorists.
According to Andrew White (History of the Warfare Science with Thelogy in Christendom, Vol. 1) practically as soon as Galileo announced that Jupiter had its own moons, all hell broke loose on him. Church leaders were making declarations that it was a sin to look through his telescope, if he offered it to anyone -- that the moons of Jupiter were illusions from the Devil and so forth. That's how much the telescope frightened them in their theological beliefs. And that's why it was Galileo that they went after.
"Point of order (which may affect how you think about this topic): Galileo was not, as is commonly believed, imprisoned for advocating heliocentrism. He was imprisoned for using a Papal imprimatur on the book where he advocated it."
You know what? That's horseshit. It's make-believe just as much as Santa Claus or, in the first place, God is. It's an excellent modern-day continuation of the theological attacks on Galileo.
Riding the bus to the college where I teach today, I just *happen* to be reading Andrew White's "History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Vol. 1", and I just *happen* today to be reading the extensive chapter on the Church's battle with Galileo.
There were years and hosts of attacks on Galileo and specifically the heliocentric idea. I'll focus on two. In 1615 he was put before the Inquisition. After a month of cross-examinations, the unanimous decision was as follows:
"THE FIRST PROPOSITION, THAT THE SUN IS THE CENTRE AND DOES NOT REVOLVE ABOUT THE EARTH, IS FOOLISH, AND ABSURD, FALSE IN THEOLOGY, AND HERETICAL, BECAUSE EXPRESSLY CONTRARY TO HOLY SCRIPTURE"; AND "THE SECOND PROPOSITION, THAT THE EARTH IS NOT THE CENTRE BUT REVOLVES ABOUT THE SUN, IS ABSURD, FALSE IN PHILOSOPHY, AND, FROM A THEOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW AT LEAST, OPPOSED TO THE TRUE FAITH." (White, p. 158)
Look at that -- the declaration is entirely on heliocentrism, and none about Papal imprimaturs.
At the end of his period as a hostage, Galileo was forced to issue this declaration:
"I, Galileo, being in my seventieth year, being a prisoner and on my knees, and before your Eminences, having before my eyes the Holy Gospel, which I touch with my hands, abjure, curse, and detest the error and the heresy of the movement of the earth." (White, p. 163)
Again -- the forced apology is entirely about heliocentrism, and no apology for imprimatur usage was required of Galileo. 400 years on and the spurious attacks on the poor guy *still* continue.
Have you seen the new recruiting ads on TV that are precisely that, some guy at a screen in a bunker protecting the Pentagon from "3 million intrusion attempts a day?"
Tag line is now "Air - Space - Cyberspace".
So it took a $1.3 billion fine to get Microsoft to change a single "if" statement?
Yes. One of the very first things that designers said publicly months ago is that conversions will not be possible to 4E. There's a bit of song-and-dance marketing that "the same idea in your head will now have different mechanics applied".
This is intentional, because they're trying to break compatibility with last edition's Open Gaming License (inspired by the GPL), and make D&D once again totally proprietary.
Anyone remember the MASH episode where Burns thought he spotted Koreans carrying bombs into the camp, and they turned out to be pots of kimchi?
God only knows what the equivalent reaction would be today if Homeland Security spazzed out over the same thing. And now in space!
It's pretty obvious from the early comments that not many people RTFA. (Comments like, "I wonder who at eBay is high up the kook-chain in Scientology?" and all that.) This is an established EBay program called VERO that Scientology has joined, like a bunch of other manufacturers, and (big surprise) happens to be abusing.
What is it about the right that you always go in for the ad hominem attacks?
Ah, that's right, because you're self-absorbed, whored-out assholes.
The word is "lose".
Blah blah blah. The thing is, the leaders of Al Qaeda have expounded *at great length* about exactly why they're fighting Americans. There's no need to make up a bunch of fantasy shit. All you have to do is listen for 3 minutes and not go around trying to throw sand in everyone's faces. There is no question about it -- every statement, the founding of Al Qaeda, every attack begins and ends with U.S. military forces in Saudi Arabia.
"[T]he ruling to kill the Americans and their allies - civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque (in Jerusalem) and the holy mosque (in Makka) from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_qaeda#1995-2000_fatwa_declarations_and_bomb_attacks
"True Capitalism - I'm talking Ayn Rand style Capitalism - would laugh at this pathetic copy."
He had a broad face and a round little belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly,
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself
- Clement Moore, "A Visit from St. Nicholas"
You know, this article made me think to do some more testing.
It looks like anything with the "http://" protocol header in the text causes the block. For the cases I see, remove that, and the email goes through.
I've noticed that a number of people I'm in contact with (I run an email list for my band) have email systems that bounce back anything with a link in it, saying it's spam. (For example, the URL for the band's website, stuff like that.) When I pursued it with my girlfriend, she had no idea it was happening, and investigated her system settings and definitely had all spam filter options turned to "off".
Unfortunately, I've started to get accustomed to dealing with this (strip out links & resend individual emails).
Hey, the guy quotes something God "said" in his sig. Maybe he's hearing voices.
There, I said it. Voice-recognition shit (most especially attempts at "natural language" parsing) never, ever, ever works right for me -- or anyone that I know or discuss it with. It never works right. On phone networks we all just wind up frustrated, wasting time, swearing obscenities into the phone until it finally turns us over to a live human operator, in a much-worse mood.
It sucks and I hate it and it's bullshit and the charlatans selling this shit should be shot in the kneecaps. You're *garbage*.
"Meanwhile I can't even get cable. Maybe it's time to move to India."
Dude, the free market solves all problems. Didn't you get the memo?
Completely disagree.
"Apple's just being a company" = "Class struggle"
The fact that there are two classes of legally recognized entities, with competing rights allocated to each, is sort of the definition of a class struggle.
I prety much never comment on these Microsoft strategy threads... but man, that's fucked up. You need a special new MS tag to indicate standard, non-MS-specific behavior? MS is promoting this as standards compliant? Isn't that inherently contradictory?
[iamnotbroken] Yeah, thanks a bunch, Microsoft, you fucking a-holes. [/iamnotbroken]
There was an interesting bit of research in the last "Game Developer" magazine that showed the higher up in a corporate hierarchy someone is (CEO, CFO), the more likely they to spend time playing games in the office, during their work hours.
The normal rules don't apply for the people at the top.
This is an interesting thought experiment, actually.
"...conservative neo-nazi fascist trying to take over the world Republicans... Open Source is not communism and its not socialism... If any system is more like a communist system, its a big corporate system, which has all of its components centrally planned and designed."
The problem is, neo-nazi fascists are *not* troubled by communism because it's centrally planned and designed. They're *solely* troubled because its non-corporate (upwardly profit motivated). The fact that Open Source non-centrally-controlled, ruggedly individualist, honest, and non-spying are utterly antagonistic to people like that.
What you've just described is effectively Anarchy, LOL.
I used to keep my WiFi router secured. But then there were some days when I couldn't connect from the other end of my apartment, and it was real handy to go through neighbor's unsecured WiFi. This convinced me that it was the neighborly thing to do and opened mine.
My wife is a high school teacher... She scans her students myspace pages all the time... She doesn't do it because she's out to get them, though."
No, she does it because she's a nosy busybody.
I'm a teacher, too, but I have plenty to do already preparing class lectures, presentations, and assessments.