even if it is on a channel with advertising you only get adverts at half time and before and after the match so there are two 45 minute blocks of uninterrupted football with decent commentators in general.
The down side is you're forced to watch 45 uninterrupted minutes of European football, which is probably the only sport more boring than baseball.
Next, he'd be asking that the NASA scientists all be replaced by nubile eighteen year old actresses who do a slow strip while discussing solid-rocket "bustier."
... just watch a weather report on American TV. "ZOMG IT'S THE BIG ONE EVERYBODY RUN FOR COVER WINDS WILL REACH 50MPH IN PLACES!" and so on. We don't need it, thanks.
What alternate universe are you watching American TV in? During regular storms we can get gusts up to 50 mph, and the TV doesn't typically react like that. If you mean hurricanes, which most of you folks other there are clueless as to how rough they can get, yes, they get a little excited, but it kind of makes sense.
You do the same thing by pretending one side is altruistic
Only you're completely making up something that I never said. I have serious problems with the Democrats. But just because I don't like how they operate, doesn't mean I think they're equally as bad as the Republicans. It's not binary, good or bad.
It's impossible to say one side is worse than the other without having the blinders of partisanship in place. They are all repulsive in the extreme and anyone who tries to argue that their party is "not as bad as the other guys" is deluded. That's not necessarily throwing up one's hands to let the problem continue, though it will continue as long as we keep letting these corrupt people into office.
You're just lazy. Just because the analysis is difficult doesn't mean it's impossible to do. X is bad, Y is bad, so X and Y must be equally bad is shoddy thinking.
You seem to be confused in thinking it's "Republican Standard Operating Procedure" when in reality it's "Politician Standard Operating Procedure."
No, I don't buy that. When you just throw up your hands and say they're all like that you basically let the problem continue. You have to hold people and groups accountable for their actions. The current crop of people running the Republican party are repulsive in the extreme, and they've pretty much been that way since the 90's, and as bad as the Democrats can be, the Republican party is worse.
An operating system is more than just the kernel. An operating system is the software which provides the basis for everything else that will run in that environment - at least that is the way I perceive it. Given this description Android is an operating system, since it provides the base environment for everything else to run.
But if you go that far then Bob the poseur "creates an OS" when he packages the linux kernel with some windows manager.
I don't think that qualifies as moral relativism; the guy seems to be basically saying stealing is wrong, but not as wrong as letting your family starve. Of course slashdot is a very strongly capital L Libertarian viewpoint so I'm sure if anyone else responds to this story they'll be a lot more disapproving.
I think there are some pretty serious structural problems with TPM. In part it's because they choose to introduce Anakin as a child, which, to my mind, makes a lot of what happens in the second half of the film more like some silly Disney film, where no matter how adult the situations (ie. flying a space fighter to blow up a huge enemy space cruiser/battle station), you have to insert a kid into it. Jar Jar is a symptom of that too. Star Wars was never what I'd call a grown up franchise,
Yeah, you do have a good point, though I think that could have been handled in a way that wasn't silly. Like a good child actor who played a melancholy, quiet Anakin. Jar Jar without the ridiculous accent.
I hope the physicians are covered by some sort of indemnity so that they won't be sued for something that they cannot possibly figure out via a video phone and 10 minutes. Otherwise you'll see doctors figure out that it's just not worth the risk.
As a physician, I'll be happy to participate in something like this so long as my exposure to lawsuits is limited.
As a lawyer, I'd hope that if a doctor risks harming a patient by practicing through video phone, then maybe they shouldn't practice through videophone.
Lucas is great at coming up with stories; his stuff, even the stuff that doesn't come out that well, tends to be interesting and creative. The problem is he's not that great a screenwriter. If the basic story in TPM had been told and directed and acted well, it could have come out really well.
In contrast there are movies that just cannot be saved from the lousy story by good screenwriting, acting and directing.
Yes. And kill 1,000 kittens to prove some obscure hypothesis that you'll publish in a third-rate academic journal that nobody will ever read again or use.
I wish that everyone who thinks we shouldn't do animal testing would volunteer to be have said tests run on themselves. Maybe then they would understand that Human Life is more valuable than Animal Life.
That makes zero sense. Why would someone have testing run on themselves make them understand that? Wouldn't it make them understand that testing is terribly cruel and shouldn't be run on anyone?
The real problem with testing on animals, and then putting them to death, is that monkeys are cute.
The real problem is that generations of scientists have been so casual about using animals for experimentation with no ethical concerns whatsoever that it has started to cause problems even when the cause, as it seems to be here, is good. There has for the most part not been any sort of balance approach -- "will this experiment's social utility in the long term justify the pain inflicted on this particular animal"?
There are people who do similar things, but without the inflexible sense of righteousness and the denigration of everyone else. Look at Jean Paul Sartre, for example. But I guess it really is the "righteous" path to withdraw from the public world, turn down the opportunity to teach others or contribute to the common good, and instead live off your aged mother. Maybe instead of the Fields medal he should have been given the Nobel Peace Prize.
I feel a stronger connection with people like Perelman than the vast majority of my alleged peers, though still not an emotional one. People like Perelman have a more instinctive grasp of ethics than any neurotypical types.
Actually it's called obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. It's not any genuinely thought-out ethics, it's a rigid, reflexive narcissistic dogmatism that is unpleasant to deal with.
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That sounds like the Jamaica, Queens postal area. I'd guess Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, or maybe Glendale.
Huh?? I'm in NYC and my iphone works fine. Well, not great, it drops calls more frequently than it should, but nowhere near a 30% rate.
Does this mean the German editors are nicer and less bureaucratic
Haha. Insert German stereotype joke here.
I find that baseball is like NASA TV, unless you're educated and understand what you're watching - you'll find it boring.
That's the Woody Allen defense; "don't like it? Well you just don't understand it."
even if it is on a channel with advertising you only get adverts at half time and before and after the match so there are two 45 minute blocks of uninterrupted football with decent commentators in general.
The down side is you're forced to watch 45 uninterrupted minutes of European football, which is probably the only sport more boring than baseball.
Next, he'd be asking that the NASA scientists all be replaced by nubile eighteen year old actresses who do a slow strip while discussing solid-rocket "bustier."
Yes that would be...terrible.
... just watch a weather report on American TV. "ZOMG IT'S THE BIG ONE EVERYBODY RUN FOR COVER WINDS WILL REACH 50MPH IN PLACES!" and so on. We don't need it, thanks.
What alternate universe are you watching American TV in? During regular storms we can get gusts up to 50 mph, and the TV doesn't typically react like that. If you mean hurricanes, which most of you folks other there are clueless as to how rough they can get, yes, they get a little excited, but it kind of makes sense.
You do the same thing by pretending one side is altruistic
Only you're completely making up something that I never said. I have serious problems with the Democrats. But just because I don't like how they operate, doesn't mean I think they're equally as bad as the Republicans. It's not binary, good or bad.
I support open source software by making fun of various open source packages on slashdot. That encourages the developers to create better software.
It's impossible to say one side is worse than the other without having the blinders of partisanship in place. They are all repulsive in the extreme and anyone who tries to argue that their party is "not as bad as the other guys" is deluded. That's not necessarily throwing up one's hands to let the problem continue, though it will continue as long as we keep letting these corrupt people into office.
You're just lazy. Just because the analysis is difficult doesn't mean it's impossible to do. X is bad, Y is bad, so X and Y must be equally bad is shoddy thinking.
You seem to be confused in thinking it's "Republican Standard Operating Procedure" when in reality it's "Politician Standard Operating Procedure."
No, I don't buy that. When you just throw up your hands and say they're all like that you basically let the problem continue. You have to hold people and groups accountable for their actions. The current crop of people running the Republican party are repulsive in the extreme, and they've pretty much been that way since the 90's, and as bad as the Democrats can be, the Republican party is worse.
An operating system is more than just the kernel. An operating system is the software which provides the basis for everything else that will run in that environment - at least that is the way I perceive it. Given this description Android is an operating system, since it provides the base environment for everything else to run.
But if you go that far then Bob the poseur "creates an OS" when he packages the linux kernel with some windows manager.
I don't think that qualifies as moral relativism; the guy seems to be basically saying stealing is wrong, but not as wrong as letting your family starve. Of course slashdot is a very strongly capital L Libertarian viewpoint so I'm sure if anyone else responds to this story they'll be a lot more disapproving.
I think there are some pretty serious structural problems with TPM. In part it's because they choose to introduce Anakin as a child, which, to my mind, makes a lot of what happens in the second half of the film more like some silly Disney film, where no matter how adult the situations (ie. flying a space fighter to blow up a huge enemy space cruiser/battle station), you have to insert a kid into it. Jar Jar is a symptom of that too. Star Wars was never what I'd call a grown up franchise,
Yeah, you do have a good point, though I think that could have been handled in a way that wasn't silly. Like a good child actor who played a melancholy, quiet Anakin. Jar Jar without the ridiculous accent.
I hope the physicians are covered by some sort of indemnity so that they won't be sued for something that they cannot possibly figure out via a video phone and 10 minutes. Otherwise you'll see doctors figure out that it's just not worth the risk. As a physician, I'll be happy to participate in something like this so long as my exposure to lawsuits is limited.
As a lawyer, I'd hope that if a doctor risks harming a patient by practicing through video phone, then maybe they shouldn't practice through videophone.
What kind of blasphemy is this? Everybody knows the government drives innovation, not independent players in a market scenario.
Yes, what innovation did government ever come up with other than minor ones like the computer, the space shuttle, the internet, and the atomic bomb?
"Aspartame makes you Fat"
Actually, there is legitimate research showing that.
As a generic sort of idea man, Lucas is great
Lucas is great at coming up with stories; his stuff, even the stuff that doesn't come out that well, tends to be interesting and creative. The problem is he's not that great a screenwriter. If the basic story in TPM had been told and directed and acted well, it could have come out really well.
In contrast there are movies that just cannot be saved from the lousy story by good screenwriting, acting and directing.
Yes. And kill 1,000 kittens to prove some obscure hypothesis that you'll publish in a third-rate academic journal that nobody will ever read again or use.
I wish that everyone who thinks we shouldn't do animal testing would volunteer to be have said tests run on themselves. Maybe then they would understand that Human Life is more valuable than Animal Life.
That makes zero sense. Why would someone have testing run on themselves make them understand that? Wouldn't it make them understand that testing is terribly cruel and shouldn't be run on anyone?
The real problem with testing on animals, and then putting them to death, is that monkeys are cute.
The real problem is that generations of scientists have been so casual about using animals for experimentation with no ethical concerns whatsoever that it has started to cause problems even when the cause, as it seems to be here, is good. There has for the most part not been any sort of balance approach -- "will this experiment's social utility in the long term justify the pain inflicted on this particular animal"?
There are people who do similar things, but without the inflexible sense of righteousness and the denigration of everyone else. Look at Jean Paul Sartre, for example. But I guess it really is the "righteous" path to withdraw from the public world, turn down the opportunity to teach others or contribute to the common good, and instead live off your aged mother. Maybe instead of the Fields medal he should have been given the Nobel Peace Prize.
I feel a stronger connection with people like Perelman than the vast majority of my alleged peers, though still not an emotional one. People like Perelman have a more instinctive grasp of ethics than any neurotypical types.
Actually it's called obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. It's not any genuinely thought-out ethics, it's a rigid, reflexive narcissistic dogmatism that is unpleasant to deal with.
Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade fame maintained her anonymity for years, and only became publicly known because she revealed herself.
I don't recall seeing a "Are you a closet homosexual?" button when I signed up for my account.
You wouldn't, it was a radio button.