won't that be kind of hard not to change major plot points? at least, if they leave in all the parts with Valentine and Peter. (They could make it entirely about Ender and sidestep this whole issue) It was pretty clear that the original alien invasion of earth had occured while the Cold War was still going on, so a lot of the political games that they played as "Locke" and "Demonsthenes" on the Internet were based on those tensions having been put on hold so that a cohesive world government could fight the Bugger menace, but heating back up again (train movements behing the Iron Curtain and such) because it had been so long since anyone had last seen an alien -- long enough that the Earth had re- and even over-populated itself.
On the other hand, Card himself has had to gloss the end of the Cold War over in the Shadow books. So, if they do consult him, the unavoidable changes could be as acceptable as the new sequels, but if not...
Isn't it possible that there is some physiologically-based maximum level for an individual's of productivity? If you keep expecting more from a person, up to a point they'll appreciate it, feel valued/challenged, but once they're past that point they're just going to become stressed, with all the associated health consequences that have shown up in all sorts of recent medical studies, resulting in a dropoff in productivity.
as for "misplaced resources", isn't that a natural consequence of economics, Pareto efficency and all that? In every transaction, one party must win and the other must lose. If you don't start out from a position of privelidge, increased productivity isn't going to help you not repeatly be the loser in every transaction you enter into.
I'm a member of a sorority http://www.alpha-sigma-kappa.org/ for women in technical studies. We generally don't let the label "geek" or "nerd" bother us (even embracing it sometimes), enjoying the positive aspects of the stereotype that we know more than the suits do, whether it's IT, architecture, chemical engineering, or any of the other majors we accept. At the same time, we certainly avoid the antisocial aspects of the "nerd" stereotype -- we do fondue parties, go to girly movies together, and generally support each other, both in college and afterwards.
Funniest case of this I've ever run into of this: my father (a community college English teacher) was grading papers at the end of the Fall 2001 semester. He felt he had to share the statement by one student that recent events had been a "terrible act of tourism."
A mathemetician, a physicist and an engineer were asked to find the volume of a red rubber bouncy ball. the mathemetician measured the circumference and computed the volum using the formula. The physisist dropped it in a glass of water and measured the displacement. The engineer looked up the red rubber ball's serial number in the Red Rubber Bouncy Ball Specifications manual.
Yeah, I'm an Iowan too. and a registered Democrat. They don't seem to have my phone number anymore now that I've moved off campus, but they sure as heck have my email address, and while I don't mind getting Story County info, it's not just Dean's email newsletter I'm subscribed to (that was intentional), it's also Graham's, Edward's, Lieberman's, and occaisionally I get something from Kerry, too. I never asked to be on any of those lists specifically, but ain't having the first-in-the-nation caucuses great.
It can be entertaining though, like the day I was informed by the Lieberman campaign that "Joe" would have PT Cruisers with his face on them driving across New Hampshire and just a short time later found out that "Bob" is sponsoring a NASCAR racin' truck. "What's next," I thought. "Dean on a bicycle?" Sure enough, Dean rode a day of RAGBRAI... (a bicycle thing we have here in Iowa)
Actually, if you watch the scene between Neo and the Oracle, right after he comes out of the "back doors" -- the one where she admit's she's a machine intellegence, but she wants to work with humans to solve the problems the Earth is facing rather than destroy again and again -- that candy she's eating, is the kind you're talking about. It's pretty significant, because she offers him some, says that he's already made the decision whether or not to eat it and she knows what that is, and then he eats one. So that candy really does symbolize the Red Pill.
It's not just that they can find out what you checked out -- it's that you won't ever be told. When that federal agent hands that librarian the order (which isn't signed by any judge, by the way, it's the agency's discretion whether the order should be executed) to hand over the library's records because there's a suspected terrorist cell or whatever excuse they come up with, she or he is placed under a gag order. They can't even tell their bosses, let alone you. the only recourse that librarian has is a lawyer, which she had damn well better avail herself of, because if the FBI does in turn use that information the patron can still sue her for releasing that information. But if they don't then the libary board, the head librarian, and the patrons who had their reading lists snooped through will never know.
I was thinking the same thing, but more in relation to the current position Smith is in: he has given himself a human self-image on a level way beyond that the walker was on. and he was getting off on it, too, with that scene where he was cutting his hand open. Now if he just finds human love, we're looking at a classical story of conversion. We're all in this together, as the Oracle said.
Small world. I know a guy who was on the same flight as you were. Unless it was less of an ad-lib than you (and he) were thinking, and commonly said by Southwest pilots after bumpy landings. Not that I'm saying the comment loses much charm if it wasn't ad-lib.
That's not the greatest analogy: these schools are not employees of MS, they're customers. a better one would be saying that because I buy Kleenex brand tissues, Kimberly Clark has the right to come into my home, take the used tissues out of my trash can, and analyze my DNA from the biological waste I used them for.
I learned "trit" myself in my fundamentals of computing class last fall. This semester I'm in a class where we're doing a lot of assembly programming, so where when we have to do the bit masking and such, we're reffering to the individual hex digits or half-bytes as nibbles.
So in trinary, you couldn't go in hex halves, you'd have to go by base-9 thirds. Would a third of a tryte perhaps then be a "katz" ? No, we want a diminutive, not a superlative... Hackneyed is too long... a "stale"? well, that does it for my thesaurus. Suggestions?
Did anybody look up today? Here in the Midwest, while this tragedy can seem so close on the TV it almost vanishes into the background when you step outside and see everything and everyone going about their business normally. Until you look up. When the FAA shut down all domestic air travel, they almost turned off the sky. It was a pure blue here in Iowa today, interrupted only by the occaisional cirrus cloud. Right now, the stars wink alone. The contrails, the glints of silver in the sunset, all gone. Routes out of DSM, STL, Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis crisscross the sky daily, but not today. It felt very strange to look up at that barren sky. It's a sight that hasn't been seen in many decades, and I don't expect to see it again.
In theory, the government can exercise only those powers specifically named in the Constitution; all others are delegated to the states or the people. Of course this has not been the case for some time now.
Would you like to know exactly how long that's been? Since the end of the Civil War. As soon as the North won, suddenly "The United States of America" went from being a plural to a singular. Today we just think of it as the name of the country we live in, but once upon a time, people actually meant every individual word of that -- they spoke of a collection of almost independant entities, but Lincoln, by uniting a country divided on that very issue of state's rights (and don't let them tell you it was about slavery, that was a side effect) and winning it for Federalism, redefined the nation. Now it has a single currency, and more uniform laws. Yes, the federal government has done some pretty bogus things, like the war on drugs, but don't blame that on a loss of state's rights.
As for the interpretation of the right to privacy, a supreme court decision discovered that nugget was in there, after the government had tried to push that particular envelope. Yes, the constitution states that it grants specific rights to the federal government and all others belong to the people. If that's true, why bother having the first amendment at all? or the forteenth? Heck, most of the bill of rights isn't granting the government powers the way the 18th did, it's limiting the extent of it. Those are the parts of the constitution that the Supreme Court found a right to privacy in the "penumbra" of.
where e is the charge on an electron, h-bar (normally a lover case script h with a horizontal line through the stem just above the round part) is Plank's constant divided by 2*pi, and c is the speed of light. the answer is a dimensionless 1/137.036.
I was listening to BBC World Service last night as I was trying to fall asleep. They interviewed an American scientist who basically stated that Dubya had pulled the number 60 out of his ass.
In the actual movie "revenge of the nerds", after getting kicked out of the dorm, sleeping in the gymnasium, and then getting the frat house, the nerds had to find a national fraternal organization that would take them in. The only one that would was Lambda Lambda Lambda (tri-lam in fratspeak), which up till that point had no white members. In the end they are actually defended by some of thier brothers from a nearby black college from the wrath of the jocks.
As I post this, there are about 1000 others attached to this article. As usual, only about 5% have floated to the top of the "insightful" and "informative" heap. Hoping to see some ray of light in what I was certain would be a madhouse of trolling, I bumped my filter up to +5, expecting at least one post that might show some insight about what we as a community need to do. Instead, all I read are posts piously echoing the article itself, articulating only complaints about the "psychology" and the "mentality" of the 133t and the kiddies. Do you think anyone with such a mentality is reading at +5, taking in the wise recommendations of the informed? No! All they're doing is going on with the usual bathroom humor. Saying that they need to contribute to the community won't make lightbulbs go off over their heads, and suddenly they'll start spending all thier idle time writing HP scanner drivers rather than posting about how dumb newbies are. For all the value an onlince community can provide, we can't make them change. This is a discussion board. Discussing the unkind/superiority-craving/hypocritical element among us won't change them. Discussing what the rest can actually do about them might, because those of us that are actually reading for insightfulness are also those who will act.
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won't that be kind of hard not to change major plot points? at least, if they leave in all the parts with Valentine and Peter. (They could make it entirely about Ender and sidestep this whole issue) It was pretty clear that the original alien invasion of earth had occured while the Cold War was still going on, so a lot of the political games that they played as "Locke" and "Demonsthenes" on the Internet were based on those tensions having been put on hold so that a cohesive world government could fight the Bugger menace, but heating back up again (train movements behing the Iron Curtain and such) because it had been so long since anyone had last seen an alien -- long enough that the Earth had re- and even over-populated itself.
On the other hand, Card himself has had to gloss the end of the Cold War over in the Shadow books. So, if they do consult him, the unavoidable changes could be as acceptable as the new sequels, but if not...
Isn't it possible that there is some physiologically-based maximum level for an individual's of productivity? If you keep expecting more from a person, up to a point they'll appreciate it, feel valued/challenged, but once they're past that point they're just going to become stressed, with all the associated health consequences that have shown up in all sorts of recent medical studies, resulting in a dropoff in productivity.
as for "misplaced resources", isn't that a natural consequence of economics, Pareto efficency and all that? In every transaction, one party must win and the other must lose. If you don't start out from a position of privelidge, increased productivity isn't going to help you not repeatly be the loser in every transaction you enter into.
I'm a member of a sorority http://www.alpha-sigma-kappa.org/ for women in technical studies. We generally don't let the label "geek" or "nerd" bother us (even embracing it sometimes), enjoying the positive aspects of the stereotype that we know more than the suits do, whether it's IT, architecture, chemical engineering, or any of the other majors we accept. At the same time, we certainly avoid the antisocial aspects of the "nerd" stereotype -- we do fondue parties, go to girly movies together, and generally support each other, both in college and afterwards.
Funniest case of this I've ever run into of this: my father (a community college English teacher) was grading papers at the end of the Fall 2001 semester. He felt he had to share the statement by one student that recent events had been a "terrible act of tourism."
A mathemetician, a physicist and an engineer were asked to find the volume of a red rubber bouncy ball. the mathemetician measured the circumference and computed the volum using the formula. The physisist dropped it in a glass of water and measured the displacement. The engineer looked up the red rubber ball's serial number in the Red Rubber Bouncy Ball Specifications manual.
This has nothing to do with the B3 bomber...
Yeah, I'm an Iowan too. and a registered Democrat. They don't seem to have my phone number anymore now that I've moved off campus, but they sure as heck have my email address, and while I don't mind getting Story County info, it's not just Dean's email newsletter I'm subscribed to (that was intentional), it's also Graham's, Edward's, Lieberman's, and occaisionally I get something from Kerry, too. I never asked to be on any of those lists specifically, but ain't having the first-in-the-nation caucuses great.
It can be entertaining though, like the day I was informed by the Lieberman campaign that "Joe" would have PT Cruisers with his face on them driving across New Hampshire and just a short time later found out that "Bob" is sponsoring a NASCAR racin' truck. "What's next," I thought. "Dean on a bicycle?" Sure enough, Dean rode a day of RAGBRAI... (a bicycle thing we have here in Iowa)
Actually, if you watch the scene between Neo and the Oracle, right after he comes out of the "back doors" -- the one where she admit's she's a machine intellegence, but she wants to work with humans to solve the problems the Earth is facing rather than destroy again and again -- that candy she's eating, is the kind you're talking about. It's pretty significant, because she offers him some, says that he's already made the decision whether or not to eat it and she knows what that is, and then he eats one. So that candy really does symbolize the Red Pill.
It's not just that they can find out what you checked out -- it's that you won't ever be told. When that federal agent hands that librarian the order (which isn't signed by any judge, by the way, it's the agency's discretion whether the order should be executed) to hand over the library's records because there's a suspected terrorist cell or whatever excuse they come up with, she or he is placed under a gag order. They can't even tell their bosses, let alone you. the only recourse that librarian has is a lawyer, which she had damn well better avail herself of, because if the FBI does in turn use that information the patron can still sue her for releasing that information. But if they don't then the libary board, the head librarian, and the patrons who had their reading lists snooped through will never know.
I was thinking the same thing, but more in relation to the current position Smith is in: he has given himself a human self-image on a level way beyond that the walker was on. and he was getting off on it, too, with that scene where he was cutting his hand open. Now if he just finds human love, we're looking at a classical story of conversion. We're all in this together, as the Oracle said.
I've never heard that one, but I'm certain you can use something similar to make an AI for a robot...
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Silly, you don't get to use proper names in scrabble!
so does "the" Moon. do the math. It experiences more gravitational attraction from the Sun than it does from Earth.
Small world. I know a guy who was on the same flight as you were. Unless it was less of an ad-lib than you (and he) were thinking, and commonly said by Southwest pilots after bumpy landings. Not that I'm saying the comment loses much charm if it wasn't ad-lib.
That's not the greatest analogy: these schools are not employees of MS, they're customers. a better one would be saying that because I buy Kleenex brand tissues, Kimberly Clark has the right to come into my home, take the used tissues out of my trash can, and analyze my DNA from the biological waste I used them for.
I learned "trit" myself in my fundamentals of computing class last fall. This semester I'm in a class where we're doing a lot of assembly programming, so where when we have to do the bit masking and such, we're reffering to the individual hex digits or half-bytes as nibbles.
So in trinary, you couldn't go in hex halves, you'd have to go by base-9 thirds. Would a third of a tryte perhaps then be a "katz" ? No, we want a diminutive, not a superlative... Hackneyed is too long... a "stale"? well, that does it for my thesaurus. Suggestions?
Actually, this is a worse joke than either of you realize... Bin Laden's organization is called Al-Qaeda, which translates to "The Base"...
Did anybody look up today? Here in the Midwest, while this tragedy can seem so close on the TV it almost vanishes into the background when you step outside and see everything and everyone going about their business normally. Until you look up. When the FAA shut down all domestic air travel, they almost turned off the sky. It was a pure blue here in Iowa today, interrupted only by the occaisional cirrus cloud. Right now, the stars wink alone. The contrails, the glints of silver in the sunset, all gone. Routes out of DSM, STL, Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis crisscross the sky daily, but not today. It felt very strange to look up at that barren sky. It's a sight that hasn't been seen in many decades, and I don't expect to see it again.
I guess xbill is completely out of the question...
In theory, the government can exercise only those powers specifically named in the Constitution; all others are delegated to the states or the people. Of course this has not been the case for some time now.
Would you like to know exactly how long that's been? Since the end of the Civil War. As soon as the North won, suddenly "The United States of America" went from being a plural to a singular. Today we just think of it as the name of the country we live in, but once upon a time, people actually meant every individual word of that -- they spoke of a collection of almost independant entities, but Lincoln, by uniting a country divided on that very issue of state's rights (and don't let them tell you it was about slavery, that was a side effect) and winning it for Federalism, redefined the nation. Now it has a single currency, and more uniform laws. Yes, the federal government has done some pretty bogus things, like the war on drugs, but don't blame that on a loss of state's rights.
As for the interpretation of the right to privacy, a supreme court decision discovered that nugget was in there, after the government had tried to push that particular envelope. Yes, the constitution states that it grants specific rights to the federal government and all others belong to the people. If that's true, why bother having the first amendment at all? or the forteenth? Heck, most of the bill of rights isn't granting the government powers the way the 18th did, it's limiting the extent of it. Those are the parts of the constitution that the Supreme Court found a right to privacy in the "penumbra" of.
alpha =(e^2)/((h-bar)*c)
where e is the charge on an electron, h-bar (normally a lover case script h with a horizontal line through the stem just above the round part) is Plank's constant divided by 2*pi, and c is the speed of light. the answer is a dimensionless 1/137.036.
I was listening to BBC World Service last night as I was trying to fall asleep. They interviewed an American scientist who basically stated that Dubya had pulled the number 60 out of his ass.
In the actual movie "revenge of the nerds", after getting kicked out of the dorm, sleeping in the gymnasium, and then getting the frat house, the nerds had to find a national fraternal organization that would take them in. The only one that would was Lambda Lambda Lambda (tri-lam in fratspeak), which up till that point had no white members. In the end they are actually defended by some of thier brothers from a nearby black college from the wrath of the jocks.
As I post this, there are about 1000 others attached to this article. As usual, only about 5% have floated to the top of the "insightful" and "informative" heap. Hoping to see some ray of light in what I was certain would be a madhouse of trolling, I bumped my filter up to +5, expecting at least one post that might show some insight about what we as a community need to do. Instead, all I read are posts piously echoing the article itself, articulating only complaints about the "psychology" and the "mentality" of the 133t and the kiddies. Do you think anyone with such a mentality is reading at +5, taking in the wise recommendations of the informed? No! All they're doing is going on with the usual bathroom humor. Saying that they need to contribute to the community won't make lightbulbs go off over their heads, and suddenly they'll start spending all thier idle time writing HP scanner drivers rather than posting about how dumb newbies are. For all the value an onlince community can provide, we can't make them change. This is a discussion board. Discussing the unkind/superiority-craving/hypocritical element among us won't change them. Discussing what the rest can actually do about them might, because those of us that are actually reading for insightfulness are also those who will act.
Absolutely! Next step: find a frat house, and join an historically black fraternal organization.