It's funny how so many people support the right of first sale, but only for CDs, video games, DVDs, and other stuff that can be ripped. When it comes to books, the original items for which the right of first sale was determined, all the sudden used book resellers are the bad guys.
Frankly, I'm glad that we can buy used books and used CDs and used video games and used DVDs. Amazon is providing a useful service,one that I've made use of. My ability to try out cheap used books by an author usually makes me more likely to try out similar new works by that author, which is I think the argument that Amazon is also making. The used book business drives the book business as a whole.
It seems to me that the Author's Guild is cutting off their nose to spite their face here.
Or, you could use a distro that provides precompiled binary packages of GCC, like just about every other distro. Linux is about choices; if you don't like how your distro works, change it yourself or get another distro.
Why? You can always reimage the box with the approved distro, since you are keeping your important work products in some sort of server storage or backup storage anyway, right?
Really, if you're not wiping machines and reinstalling after an employee leaves, you're just making things harder on yourself. Every new employee should get a fresh machine.
Of course, it helps that we used their minerals and oil to do it, and often just plain enslaved them to help us. We're not the only cause of 3rd world problems, but we are one of the causes.
Not to nitpick, but of course a Fiat is more fuel efficient than an SUV - for one thing, it's lighter. A more impressive argument would be to say that here's a European vehicle that does everything an SUV does in a more fuel-efficient manner. I'm not saying that such a vehicle doesn't exist, I'm just saying that a Fiat isn't it. You have to compare apples to apples.
The problem with separate ductwork is that you have to run the ducts through the rest of the house in order to get to the outside, and you probably have to have a separate HVAC system on the roof. These are both vulnerable.
The only way to get a workable separate ductwork system is to put the panic room on an exterior wall of the house and go through that. But then you're probably more vulnerable to attacks on that wall of the room.
Even worse - my whole experience with propane is limited to the fact that the propane flame on Hank Hill's jacket is blue.
According to a U.S. Department of Education survey, about one in three Americans is a fucking
idiot. Hollywood and other big business seem to like to exploit and reinforce that.
According to a U.S. Department of Statistics survey, 70% of all statistics are made up on the spot to prove a point.
I think "cardinality" is the word you're looking for. Various infinities are distinguished by their cardinality, aren't they? That's where transcendental numbers come from IIRC, although I could be wrong about that.
I tried that, but I really couldn't accomplish anything by providing free nerd-points. I wish you luck with it, though - and if you find that island or planet where the women do appreciate nerd-points, let us all know, OK?
I don't know why, but I thought that image was hilarious. They could have a guarded citadel, super star destroyers, a kickass march for a theme, etc. I love it!
The abused spouse wouldn't be spending money to prosecute one way or the other in criminal matters - that's what the state hires prosecutors to do. The only decision they have to make is whether or not to ask the state to press the charges, or else say that they won't support the prosecution (for example, if they forgive their bastard of a husband).
I'm glad to see that the state is always going to prosecute these guys - it takes the heat off of the abused wife for giving them the go ahead.
Good points, and on the balance they are convincing. I just thought it was interesting because I'd read your account a year or two ago, and had only now stumbled onto the other side of the story. I was taken aback by how Michael was able to write a convincing opposing viewpoint - this was not something that I expected, based on my previous reading of your account.
So: I'm not necessarily doubting you, or doubting Michael; I'm just amazed at the different views of the same events that people can perceive, and how convincing (at least when taken independently) they can both be. It makes it tough on bystanders like myself who just want to know who the good guy is, and who the bad guy is.
Oh yeah, and not to forget what's really important in life: thanks for your hard work and perseverance on the censorware front. Hopefully this kind of public sniping doesn't slow you down too much.
Y'know, reading the two accounts, it's amazing to see that two almost diametrically-opposed accounts of the same things could be written. These guys must really have it in for each other, and (after reading this) I have no idea who's closer to being in the right. Seth doesn't get any points from me because he doesn't put his.sig in the right spot so that it isn't shown when I have "hide sigs" enabled. But on the other hand, most public opinion seems to be in the anti-Michael category. Is that just because Seth got his story out first, or is it because his account is closer to what really happened?
I guess it's a question of where you draw the line - where does the misuse of a term become the new official use? When is the instant when people stop sounding uninformed for misusing a term, and instead start sounding completely normal?
I wasn't aware that the knowledge of the proper use of this term wasn't widespread, so it's always sounded to me like people are just ignorant when they misuse it. Not ignorant meaning bad or stupid, but just ill-informed. So I think that I'm still on the one side of the line, and it sounds like you're on the other - the original use of the term now seems weird and archaic to you, whereas to me it's just how normal people speak.
I wonder if we'll look back in 50 or 100 years and decide that the Internet was the worst thing to ever happen to human language - in many ways we're ending up with the lowest common denominator of language, because we're just in too much of a hurry to use things the (to me, anyway) right way. YMMV though.
Maybe he was just soaring too high for it to sync.
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"Begs the question" refers to how, if you use part of your conclusion to form part of your premises, and say that these premises prove your conclusion, then other rational listeners will point out that the question of whether the conclusion is justified is still open. Essentially, you have stated a circular argument, but in such bald terms that your listeners cannot help but ask if you have really accomplished anything. You have practically begged them to question your conclusions.
Or at least that's how it makes sense to me. It is a confusing term, which maybe shouldn't be used as much as it is. But we will be even more confused if we use the term to start meaning something else at this point.
Chalk up one for users of ancient browsers - I've never seen any annoying ads like that, and I find it hard to understand why someone would keep using a browser that had such problems.
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It's funny how so many people support the right of first sale, but only for CDs, video games, DVDs, and other stuff that can be ripped. When it comes to books, the original items for which the right of first sale was determined, all the sudden used book resellers are the bad guys.
Frankly, I'm glad that we can buy used books and used CDs and used video games and used DVDs. Amazon is providing a useful service,one that I've made use of. My ability to try out cheap used books by an author usually makes me more likely to try out similar new works by that author, which is I think the argument that Amazon is also making. The used book business drives the book business as a whole.
It seems to me that the Author's Guild is cutting off their nose to spite their face here.
Good point. Server configs should be standardized, reviewed, and carefully managed.
Or, you could use a distro that provides precompiled binary packages of GCC, like just about every other distro. Linux is about choices; if you don't like how your distro works, change it yourself or get another distro.
It sounds like Gentoo is not for you. Try Mandrake - it has a very GUI-riffic install.
Why? You can always reimage the box with the approved distro, since you are keeping your important work products in some sort of server storage or backup storage anyway, right?
Really, if you're not wiping machines and reinstalling after an employee leaves, you're just making things harder on yourself. Every new employee should get a fresh machine.
Of course, it helps that we used their minerals and oil to do it, and often just plain enslaved them to help us. We're not the only cause of 3rd world problems, but we are one of the causes.
Not to nitpick, but of course a Fiat is more fuel efficient than an SUV - for one thing, it's lighter. A more impressive argument would be to say that here's a European vehicle that does everything an SUV does in a more fuel-efficient manner. I'm not saying that such a vehicle doesn't exist, I'm just saying that a Fiat isn't it. You have to compare apples to apples.
Transfinite, exactly. Thanks for the correction. How come all the smart people in this thread are ACs? :)
The problem with separate ductwork is that you have to run the ducts through the rest of the house in order to get to the outside, and you probably have to have a separate HVAC system on the roof. These are both vulnerable.
The only way to get a workable separate ductwork system is to put the panic room on an exterior wall of the house and go through that. But then you're probably more vulnerable to attacks on that wall of the room.
Even worse - my whole experience with propane is limited to the fact that the propane flame on Hank Hill's jacket is blue.
According to a U.S. Department of Statistics survey, 70% of all statistics are made up on the spot to prove a point.
I think "cardinality" is the word you're looking for. Various infinities are distinguished by their cardinality, aren't they? That's where transcendental numbers come from IIRC, although I could be wrong about that.
0*anything is 0. Why should infinity get to be any different? :)
I tried that, but I really couldn't accomplish anything by providing free nerd-points. I wish you luck with it, though - and if you find that island or planet where the women do appreciate nerd-points, let us all know, OK?
I think he was playing off of this comment :)
I don't know why, but I thought that image was hilarious. They could have a guarded citadel, super star destroyers, a kickass march for a theme, etc. I love it!
The abused spouse wouldn't be spending money to prosecute one way or the other in criminal matters - that's what the state hires prosecutors to do. The only decision they have to make is whether or not to ask the state to press the charges, or else say that they won't support the prosecution (for example, if they forgive their bastard of a husband).
I'm glad to see that the state is always going to prosecute these guys - it takes the heat off of the abused wife for giving them the go ahead.
Good points, and on the balance they are convincing. I just thought it was interesting because I'd read your account a year or two ago, and had only now stumbled onto the other side of the story. I was taken aback by how Michael was able to write a convincing opposing viewpoint - this was not something that I expected, based on my previous reading of your account.
So: I'm not necessarily doubting you, or doubting Michael; I'm just amazed at the different views of the same events that people can perceive, and how convincing (at least when taken independently) they can both be. It makes it tough on bystanders like myself who just want to know who the good guy is, and who the bad guy is.
Oh yeah, and not to forget what's really important in life: thanks for your hard work and perseverance on the censorware front. Hopefully this kind of public sniping doesn't slow you down too much.
I think that is an eminently reasonable way to look at it.
Y'know, reading the two accounts, it's amazing to see that two almost diametrically-opposed accounts of the same things could be written. These guys must really have it in for each other, and (after reading this) I have no idea who's closer to being in the right. Seth doesn't get any points from me because he doesn't put his .sig in the right spot so that it isn't shown when I have "hide sigs" enabled. But on the other hand, most public opinion seems to be in the anti-Michael category. Is that just because Seth got his story out first, or is it because his account is closer to what really happened?
Decide for yourself, I guess. I'll be damned if I can tell what the truth is.
So he has a fool for a client? Although I suppose that's already a given in this case...
I guess it's a question of where you draw the line - where does the misuse of a term become the new official use? When is the instant when people stop sounding uninformed for misusing a term, and instead start sounding completely normal?
I wasn't aware that the knowledge of the proper use of this term wasn't widespread, so it's always sounded to me like people are just ignorant when they misuse it. Not ignorant meaning bad or stupid, but just ill-informed. So I think that I'm still on the one side of the line, and it sounds like you're on the other - the original use of the term now seems weird and archaic to you, whereas to me it's just how normal people speak.
I wonder if we'll look back in 50 or 100 years and decide that the Internet was the worst thing to ever happen to human language - in many ways we're ending up with the lowest common denominator of language, because we're just in too much of a hurry to use things the (to me, anyway) right way. YMMV though.
Maybe he was just soaring too high for it to sync.
"Begs the question" refers to how, if you use part of your conclusion to form part of your premises, and say that these premises prove your conclusion, then other rational listeners will point out that the question of whether the conclusion is justified is still open. Essentially, you have stated a circular argument, but in such bald terms that your listeners cannot help but ask if you have really accomplished anything. You have practically begged them to question your conclusions.
Or at least that's how it makes sense to me. It is a confusing term, which maybe shouldn't be used as much as it is. But we will be even more confused if we use the term to start meaning something else at this point.
Well, but any web site could do that to you, without warning. Just wait 'til all the doubleclick ads are that kind, for instance.
Chalk up one for users of ancient browsers - I've never seen any annoying ads like that, and I find it hard to understand why someone would keep using a browser that had such problems.