How rare it is that someone accepts correction so maturely! Too bad, though. I was pretty jazzed about the bit about seven eights of scientists still being alive!
I can honestly say that without him as a role model, I would never have become a physicist or discovered how to paint the dimensional portal which brought me to this world years ago.
So what you're saying is that you're from Cool World?
Okay, but seriously, you'd probably like Phineas and Ferb, as would the kid in question. Not being real I guess they don't qualify as role models, but they're definitely worth watching until a real world role model shows up.
Manfred von Richtofen had 80 confirmed kills in World War I
That's your idea of a role model for kids, relative to, say, the Wright Brothers, who demonstrated admirable persistence in inventing the airplane in the first place and even managed not to kill anyone?
Fair enough, but when copying long strings of characters over and over like that, one might at least hope for the occasional mutation, and that once in a while one of those would actually be beneficial.
"Steal: To take (the property of another) without right or permission." It doesn't have to be physical property. One can steal ideas, research and designs.
No, you can't, because copyright isn't property. It's a state-granted theoretically-temporary entitlement of monopoly to a particular set of words, sounds, or images. You're not stealing the property, you're violating the monopoly. That's not the same thing.
In fact designs are a very good example. If China steals the designs for a fighter jet from the US, the US still has the designs; they haven't lost anything. But it's still called stealing.
No, it's called espionage. If they actually hijack a copy of the plane, that's stealing.
I've heard this many times, but you shouldn't necessarily feel like you have to do that. Plenty of people attend schools like Phoenix and actually learn things there. It's just that the perception of them is bad, and so many people respond to resumes with those schools on them the way you do, so I advise students to steer clear of them anyway.
So while Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Stanford, and a handful of others are excellent, there's no point spending the money on a Vanderbilt, USC, or SMU when you can go to a state school or University of Phoenix.
I work in higher ed. I'd advise my own kids that if they don't end up at a really top school that a state school will do just fine. However, I'd certainly avoid them to avoid schools like the University of Phoenix. They're expensive, unremarkable, and poorly regarded.
Does that mean that you shouldn't pay taxes for firefighting either? Should we privatize firefighting instead?
That's an interesting example, since firehouses were originally built not by governments, but by insurance companies that realized they were a good way to lower payouts.
In time government took them over, since that's its nature. But even now, as budgets get tight, fees are being instituted/raised for use of emergency services. That's partway to re-privatized right there.
Voyager will almost certainly survive until it reaches another star system; maybe not with any power, but it'll be an intact object (there aren't a lot of other objects floating around in interstellar space for it to collide with).
Unless, of course, it's blasted to bits by a Klingon.
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And remember... we're the good guys!
No it won't.
Maybe it means this guy.
As opposed to an American network, where you'd have had a rerun of Dancing With The Stars.
See also, What If Torchwood Were American?
Ah, I suppose you work for the Transportation Sexual Assailants?
How rare it is that someone accepts correction so maturely! Too bad, though. I was pretty jazzed about the bit about seven eights of scientists still being alive!
Damn it, include a spoiler warning next time!!!
http://moodle.org/
and/or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle
E.g., Michael Vick.
It's sort of like how America's medieval-style prisons are called the "correctional system".
One might even say he was begging the question...
One might, and it would even be a rare correct use of the phrase!
I can honestly say that without him as a role model, I would never have become a physicist or discovered how to paint the dimensional portal which brought me to this world years ago.
So what you're saying is that you're from Cool World?
Okay, but seriously, you'd probably like Phineas and Ferb, as would the kid in question. Not being real I guess they don't qualify as role models, but they're definitely worth watching until a real world role model shows up.
Manfred von Richtofen had 80 confirmed kills in World War I
That's your idea of a role model for kids, relative to, say, the Wright Brothers, who demonstrated admirable persistence in inventing the airplane in the first place and even managed not to kill anyone?
In return, let Canadians use the ccTLD for Western Sahara.
Flamebait? Seriously? What a stupid mod.
Fair enough, but when copying long strings of characters over and over like that, one might at least hope for the occasional mutation, and that once in a while one of those would actually be beneficial.
I know, I know, idealist.
that an infinate number of monkeys, working for an infinate amount of time will eventually recreate the works of shakespere.
That's been said, but now that we have the blogosphere we know that's not the case after all.
"Steal: To take (the property of another) without right or permission." It doesn't have to be physical property. One can steal ideas, research and designs.
No, you can't, because copyright isn't property. It's a state-granted theoretically-temporary entitlement of monopoly to a particular set of words, sounds, or images. You're not stealing the property, you're violating the monopoly. That's not the same thing.
In fact designs are a very good example. If China steals the designs for a fighter jet from the US, the US still has the designs; they haven't lost anything. But it's still called stealing.
No, it's called espionage. If they actually hijack a copy of the plane, that's stealing.
Someone named "clarkkent09" is advising us to see "Waiting for Superman"? Veeeery suspicious....
But seriously, jeers to the stupid mod who marked this as troll. Disagree if you want, fine, but that doesn't even remotely make this a troll.
Maybe the Minbari will help fund it.
I've heard this many times, but you shouldn't necessarily feel like you have to do that. Plenty of people attend schools like Phoenix and actually learn things there. It's just that the perception of them is bad, and so many people respond to resumes with those schools on them the way you do, so I advise students to steer clear of them anyway.
So while Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Stanford, and a handful of others are excellent, there's no point spending the money on a Vanderbilt, USC, or SMU when you can go to a state school or University of Phoenix.
I work in higher ed. I'd advise my own kids that if they don't end up at a really top school that a state school will do just fine. However, I'd certainly avoid them to avoid schools like the University of Phoenix. They're expensive, unremarkable, and poorly regarded.
Does that mean that you shouldn't pay taxes for firefighting either? Should we privatize firefighting instead?
That's an interesting example, since firehouses were originally built not by governments, but by insurance companies that realized they were a good way to lower payouts.
In time government took them over, since that's its nature. But even now, as budgets get tight, fees are being instituted/raised for use of emergency services. That's partway to re-privatized right there.
Wave was nothing like Facebook, nor was it intended to be. Their social networkign serves are Orkut, and now Google Buzz.
Wave was... something else. Something really exciting, where you could do anything. Sort of like Zombo.com.
Voyager will almost certainly survive until it reaches another star system; maybe not with any power, but it'll be an intact object (there aren't a lot of other objects floating around in interstellar space for it to collide with).
Unless, of course, it's blasted to bits by a Klingon.