To answer your question, I'm making fun of... well, both, I guess.
In terms of their politics, I'm making fun of their insistance that the whole group is supposed to represent a broad cross-section of political views, when their left-most blogger is Glenn Reynolds, a guy who weighed in on the issue of torture of Iraqi prisoners by US forces by claiming that Dems should just keep quiet about it, or they'll just make the whole thing worse.
In terms of their business model, I'm just wondering when they're going to wond up with a sock puppet for a mascot.
In any case, I didn't mean to suggest that this was a topic unworthy of discussion, or that you shouldn't have submitted the story. I'm just suggesting that the proper category may have been "It's Funny. Laugh."
This is pretty obviously (to me) an example of blog triumphalism gone awry. You have a buch of bloggers ranging from the conservative to the frothing-at-the-mouth reactionary. One of them says, "Hey: if we all start IMing each other, we can make serious cash!"
Their business model really isn't much better fleshed out than that.
For an amusing take on their launch party, read this blog entry about a professional photojournalist who was invited.
I wish that I still had the reference, but I recall reading an article describing how chemistry classes are seeing an influx of students who all want to be like the cool cats they see on CSI, and have no real appreciation of the work that's actually done by real forensic pathologists. Once they find out what's really entailed, the immediately seek to drop the class.
I was about to comment about how you need to get a life, or are clearly unbalanced, when I remembered how extended sessions of Quake caused me to walk up and down stairwells by circle-strafing, so as not to be caught off guard.
Two of those linked stories were right off the home page of CNN.com - in fact, the GM story was the lead. The other two were linked off the front page of their Money section.
Since it's obviously not that hard to find coverage (of variable quality) of all the stories you mention, I can only conclude that what really has your panties in a bunch is that people seem to care more about watching L&O:SVU than they do important real events of the day. A valid concern, but one that isn't well served by griping at the news.
The origin of the saying isn't known definitively. Wikipedia notes that it has been attributed to Bonaparte in the past, but a more likely (from where I'm sitting) scenario is that it's a corruption of Heinlein's Razor, after a short story in which the sci-fi author wrote, "You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity."
An Apple Powerbook isn't a car. Laptops are much less likely to be stolen for the purposes of selling off the pieces than they are to be stolen for the purposes of selling whole (or keeping).
Target specifically allowing their pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions on the basis of moral opposition to their use, and is justifying it based on what is, in my opinion, a "convenient" reading of the Civil Right Act. The same reading would give a Mormon cashier the right to refuse to sell you coffee on the grounds (ha! grounds! get it? sorry.) that it's a stimulant, or a fundamentalist Christian the right to refuse to sell you contraceptives of any kind - like condoms - on the grounds that it encourages immoral behavior.
In other words, this is a very narrowly tailored policy on Target's part, and is in no way - not even in Target's corporate cover-speak - designed to protect the consumer the pharmicist.
Tell you what. I'll start wearing ties (and I can actually pull it off pretty well, when required), when I stop having to crawl around in the raised floor of our data center.
Of course, if the second had had 'had' (id est, they both had had 'had'), then combined they would have had two less 'had's' than if both had had 'had had'.
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On the other hand, I can log on to WoW and play two hours a night after the kids are asleep.
I cannot, but my daughter is about 1 year old and is still staying up until about 10 pm, and waking up around 6 most days.
On the other hand, I can occasionally schedule a night to be out and play with friends.
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There are a ton of really interesting games out there by independent authors. They don't have the marketing clout of a FASA or Wizards of the Coast, but that doesn't mean that they're not great games. Some worthy titles to start you out:
Primetime Adventures, by Dog-Eared Designs. A good role-playing game should feel like you're coauthoring a good drama, right? So why not make the analogy explicit?
Dogs in the Vineyard, by Lumpley Games. Maybe the first game that gives faith the treatment it deserves in a serious game context. (Also, the author is an old friend of mine. Buy three copies!)
Polaris, by TAO Games: about a time long ago in the frozen north, when the people were dying at the end of the world. (Very eerie, neat play mecahnics
You have nothing to lose but your four dozen expansion rulebooks for Shadowrun.
Are you saying that Paul Murphy's statement that, "almost every result [in the published report] shows Windows losing to the two Unix variants." is inaccurate?
(I'm not being sarcastic: I haven't yet had time to read the full report, and would genuinely like to know.)
Microsoft has a trademark on the word Windows in this context. Trademark law is designed to let the trademark holder do exactly this kind of thing, and to my knowledge, doesn't require the holder to inform the infringer that they intend to expand the mark in any way.
So, do people really think that it would have been more acceptable for Microsoft to just say, "you can't call your product that" and then let it die there?
Still, this is probably an instance where a lawyer copied something said by a tech wrong, and then didn't bother to review it with him later. Or, possibly, reviewed it with the tech, but the tech was so irritated at having to help out with such a bullshit case that he deliberately misled them.
Quoting from SCO's motion, which is reprinted in TFA, emphasis mine:
All documents concerning IBM's contributions to" ten specific Linux projects, including "development work," and "all documents concerning contributions to Linux" through several additional specific Linux projects.
"All documents concerning IBM's contributions to the Linux 2.7 kernel," including "development work."
"All documents concerning IBM's contributions to any development tree for Linux," including the "development trees" themselves.
The boldfaced line is the only one in the motion where the "2.7" appears.
Now, do you really think that they intended to demand code contributed to a nonexistent project? Or that perhaps, just maybe, someone fat-fingered "2.6?"
In other words, this is most likely just a silly typo. Nothing to see, move along.
Catholics believe that Christ raised from the dead. This is a much greater miracle than feeding 5000+ people with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish. It's an a fortiori argument. If Christ can do the greater miracle, why couldn't he do the smaller miracle? Just some food for thought.
Well, maybe he was a vampire. Vampires appear to come back from the dead all the time, but they don't feed multitudes with loaves and fish.
Although in The Lost Boys, Kiefer Sutherland's character does that one thing where he makes it look like the Chinese food is made of worms. That was pretty cool.
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To answer your question, I'm making fun of... well, both, I guess.
In terms of their politics, I'm making fun of their insistance that the whole group is supposed to represent a broad cross-section of political views, when their left-most blogger is Glenn Reynolds, a guy who weighed in on the issue of torture of Iraqi prisoners by US forces by claiming that Dems should just keep quiet about it, or they'll just make the whole thing worse.
In terms of their business model, I'm just wondering when they're going to wond up with a sock puppet for a mascot.
In any case, I didn't mean to suggest that this was a topic unworthy of discussion, or that you shouldn't have submitted the story. I'm just suggesting that the proper category may have been "It's Funny. Laugh."
I think you're giving them too much credit.
This is pretty obviously (to me) an example of blog triumphalism gone awry. You have a buch of bloggers ranging from the conservative to the frothing-at-the-mouth reactionary. One of them says, "Hey: if we all start IMing each other, we can make serious cash!"
Their business model really isn't much better fleshed out than that.
For an amusing take on their launch party, read this blog entry about a professional photojournalist who was invited.
I wish that I still had the reference, but I recall reading an article describing how chemistry classes are seeing an influx of students who all want to be like the cool cats they see on CSI, and have no real appreciation of the work that's actually done by real forensic pathologists. Once they find out what's really entailed, the immediately seek to drop the class.
I was about to comment about how you need to get a life, or are clearly unbalanced, when I remembered how extended sessions of Quake caused me to walk up and down stairwells by circle-strafing, so as not to be caught off guard.
Two of those linked stories were right off the home page of CNN.com - in fact, the GM story was the lead. The other two were linked off the front page of their Money section.
Since it's obviously not that hard to find coverage (of variable quality) of all the stories you mention, I can only conclude that what really has your panties in a bunch is that people seem to care more about watching L&O:SVU than they do important real events of the day. A valid concern, but one that isn't well served by griping at the news.
The origin of the saying isn't known definitively. Wikipedia notes that it has been attributed to Bonaparte in the past, but a more likely (from where I'm sitting) scenario is that it's a corruption of Heinlein's Razor, after a short story in which the sci-fi author wrote, "You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity."
All this (and more!) where you'd expect to find it.
An Apple Powerbook isn't a car. Laptops are much less likely to be stolen for the purposes of selling off the pieces than they are to be stolen for the purposes of selling whole (or keeping).
Reread the link I provided.
Target specifically allowing their pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions on the basis of moral opposition to their use, and is justifying it based on what is, in my opinion, a "convenient" reading of the Civil Right Act. The same reading would give a Mormon cashier the right to refuse to sell you coffee on the grounds (ha! grounds! get it? sorry.) that it's a stimulant, or a fundamentalist Christian the right to refuse to sell you contraceptives of any kind - like condoms - on the grounds that it encourages immoral behavior.
In other words, this is a very narrowly tailored policy on Target's part, and is in no way - not even in Target's corporate cover-speak - designed to protect the consumer the pharmicist.
Tell you what. I'll start wearing ties (and I can actually pull it off pretty well, when required), when I stop having to crawl around in the raised floor of our data center.
Unfortunately, I'm boycotting Target. Which is a shame, because I used to like to shop there.
Hello, German buddy of Vincent!
I'm an old-college-friend of Vincent (and Meg). I have occasinally posted on his blog, although not recently, probably with the same nick.
Of course, if the second had had 'had' (id est, they both had had 'had'), then combined they would have had two less 'had's' than if both had had 'had had'.
There. That's not so had.
Er, hard.
Amazing stuff - thank you for the heads-up!
Uh. Yeah.
Hey, further proof that I'm old skool!
I cannot, but my daughter is about 1 year old and is still staying up until about 10 pm, and waking up around 6 most days.
On the other hand, I can occasionally schedule a night to be out and play with friends.
You have nothing to lose but your four dozen expansion rulebooks for Shadowrun.
"Dude, dude!"
I'll take it you intend this as a criticism of free market economies?
Or do you not think that cutting consumption of fossil fuels is a good idea?
Are you saying that Paul Murphy's statement that, "almost every result [in the published report] shows Windows losing to the two Unix variants." is inaccurate?
(I'm not being sarcastic: I haven't yet had time to read the full report, and would genuinely like to know.)
"Flipping the bird" is a colloquialism for making this gesture.
Seriously, what is the issue? (IANAL)
Microsoft has a trademark on the word Windows in this context. Trademark law is designed to let the trademark holder do exactly this kind of thing, and to my knowledge, doesn't require the holder to inform the infringer that they intend to expand the mark in any way.
So, do people really think that it would have been more acceptable for Microsoft to just say, "you can't call your product that" and then let it die there?
Well, damn. That's a different story.
Still, this is probably an instance where a lawyer copied something said by a tech wrong, and then didn't bother to review it with him later. Or, possibly, reviewed it with the tech, but the tech was so irritated at having to help out with such a bullshit case that he deliberately misled them.
The boldfaced line is the only one in the motion where the "2.7" appears.
Now, do you really think that they intended to demand code contributed to a nonexistent project? Or that perhaps, just maybe, someone fat-fingered "2.6?"
In other words, this is most likely just a silly typo. Nothing to see, move along.
Well, maybe he was a vampire. Vampires appear to come back from the dead all the time, but they don't feed multitudes with loaves and fish.
Although in The Lost Boys, Kiefer Sutherland's character does that one thing where he makes it look like the Chinese food is made of worms. That was pretty cool.
Depends on whether it still has minutes left on its plan.