Where I live in Australia it costs around $17 per adult to see a movie at the cinema. The last movie I went to had around 8 people watching it. If they charged $5 per adult I bet there would have been a lot more people watching that movie (that may have also purchased overpriced crappy food from the candy bar).
It is ridiculous to expect $17 from someone to watch a shitty movie, considering the majority of movies pumped out these days are pretty terrible.
On the other hand, for shitty movies, its ridiculous to even contemplate watching them in a theater, no matter the price. After all, that's what the "shitty rental movies Friday nights" are for (take 7 weeklies for $7, make fun of them from the leisure on your couch). I found the time for the today's movies to get into the weekly category is about 3-4 months from their launch in cinemas - good enough for me.
The US military has been shaped by paranoia about a preemptive strike ever since Pearl Harbor. They don't want to be caught a decade behind and short on forces ever again, especially just to salve the conscience of some whiny hippies.
Oh, really? Only since and because Pearl Harbour you say? Well, how about this whiny hippy?
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
When it comes to a real problem a change in personality wouldn't be such a problem, but losing dopamine forever? Never to feel positive emptions again ever?
That would be against one of the unalienable human rights as exemplified about 235 years ago (remember the "pursuit of happiness"?)
Aren't precedents law in US? If true, then here's the "law". The most explicit part is probably at the bottom of page 60:
Having chosen a for-profit corporate form, the craigslist directors are bound by the fiduciary duties and standards that accompany that form. Those standards include acting to promote the value of the corporation for the benefit of its stockholders. The “Inc.” after the company name has to mean at least that. Thus, I cannot accept as valid [...] a corporate policy that specifically, clearly, and admittedly seeks not to maximize the economic value of a for-profit Delaware corporation for the benefit of its stockholders — no matter whether those stockholders are individuals of modest means or a corporate titan of online commerce.
And don't forget to apply the only insightful solution suggested by the article (after whining about various kinds of crap you should expect in real-world code, the last phrase):
there’s one simple and completely painless way to prevent future generations from cursing you when they look at your code: Include some comments!
If you can explain what your are doing, good chances that your code has some merits. If you can't, then nobody will be able to understand it.
Say you're riding your motorcycle and some idiot in a car left turns you and you're horribly injured and basically just a brain, then I'd love to have a clone to transfer into so I could get back to riding motorcycles.
So, it was me that rode that motorcycle and it was me to become just a brain (BTW, it is called locked-in syndrome), but... it is somehow you to get a clone and get back to riding motorcycles.
It make as much sense of doing the same thing and expecting different results.
Granted, for a soldier, cognition is inconvenient: after all, for a job profile in which sensing and reacting are paramount, cognition becomes quite frequently a hindrance (what else do you think the army training and army regulations are about? A soldier may be wrong about anything, but s/he must be sure about everything. In other words, for a soldier, impaired/insufficient cognition must never be a reason for inaction, quite the contrary)
But... speaking about oxymorons and truisms: do you know burdens which are convenient?
... but the only thing American troops should be carrying in Afghanistan now, if anything at all, is humanitarian aid. Or vacation equipment, if they came back for a personal tour of non-duty.
"Reason" used in the same phrase with "the troops"? That's akin to "Army intelligence".
TFS narrowly avoids another oxymoron... by using the "burden" term to reconcile between "cognition" and "soldier".
I'll go one better and do the whole post. "languages are isomorphic" is itself redundant in that sentence, so the whole phrase could be deleted if you want to delete "fluff and filler".
What's one's "fluff and filler", it's another's treasure. For me, your post is an absolute evidence in favour of the above statement: I see your post a convoluted (i.e. with lots of "fluff") way to say I surmise all the programming languages are Turing complete, I suspect that natural languages are too. I'll "prove" my assumption by providing a single example based on programming languages and forcing the conclusion that's the same for all natural languages
Consider x86 assembly and Java. Totally different, right? They actually have EXACTLY the same expressive power, and here's proof.
Below, an example of why specialized concepts and terminology are beneficial for the advancement of science/technology. Except for memory limits Malbolge is Turing complete. I challenge you to write in Malbolge a program computing the factorial(99). You are even allowed to use whatever inspiration source you can, including the 99 bottles of beer implementation.
Alternatively, to gain some insight into different ways of expressing the same reality, translate into mandarin the following: "laugh", "smile", "grin" and perform an analysis of the ideogram groups that make each translation (the result is descriptive rather than a simple sequence of letters that makes a word).
... but we're still very early into this research," Lee said. "It's many, many years away from becoming something that's in a technology that a consumer would use."
You can pretty much use Windows 8 just like Windows 7, just the "start menu" is now fullscreen. Press the windows key, start typing what you want, bingo.
Ok... I want to create a clean install DVD from your OS image. If "Bing...Oh" is the only answer for that but no DVD, then it's a fail.
I am sick of hearing about patent lawsuits. It is sad that the industry can't work together to create unique products and actually innovate instead of stagnating one another.
Take a (patented, how else?) pill to manage the symptoms: unfortunately, the cause of your sickness is not going away any time soon.
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Where I live in Australia it costs around $17 per adult to see a movie at the cinema. The last movie I went to had around 8 people watching it. If they charged $5 per adult I bet there would have been a lot more people watching that movie (that may have also purchased overpriced crappy food from the candy bar).
It is ridiculous to expect $17 from someone to watch a shitty movie, considering the majority of movies pumped out these days are pretty terrible.
On the other hand, for shitty movies, its ridiculous to even contemplate watching them in a theater, no matter the price.
After all, that's what the "shitty rental movies Friday nights" are for (take 7 weeklies for $7, make fun of them from the leisure on your couch). I found the time for the today's movies to get into the weekly category is about 3-4 months from their launch in cinemas - good enough for me.
The US military has been shaped by paranoia about a preemptive strike ever since Pearl Harbor. They don't want to be caught a decade behind and short on forces ever again, especially just to salve the conscience of some whiny hippies.
Oh, really? Only since and because Pearl Harbour you say? Well, how about this whiny hippy?
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
When it comes to a real problem a change in personality wouldn't be such a problem, but losing dopamine forever? Never to feel positive emptions again ever?
That would be against one of the unalienable human rights as exemplified about 235 years ago (remember the "pursuit of happiness"?)
Re. patents, we reached as point in which it needs to get worse in order to get better.
Having chosen a for-profit corporate form, the craigslist directors are bound by the fiduciary duties and standards that accompany that form. Those standards include acting to promote the value of the corporation for the benefit of its stockholders. The “Inc.” after the company name has to mean at least that. Thus, I cannot accept as valid [...] a corporate policy that specifically, clearly, and admittedly seeks not to maximize the economic value of a for-profit Delaware corporation for the benefit of its stockholders — no matter whether those stockholders are individuals of modest means or a corporate titan of online commerce.
Keep an eye on EOMA68 cards. Sometime in the future, the IO may be made extremely easy
A more workable plan would be to divide the country in half and pay one half to watch the other half. We would kill unemployment and crime overnight.
An even better plan is to pay both halves to watch the other.
Now, go back to your bitching about nonsense.
And don't forget to apply the only insightful solution suggested by the article (after whining about various kinds of crap you should expect in real-world code, the last phrase):
there’s one simple and completely painless way to prevent future generations from cursing you when they look at your code: Include some comments!
If you can explain what your are doing, good chances that your code has some merits. If you can't, then nobody will be able to understand it.
It's all self contained, it's not like its using 'real' thunderstorms out in the 'wild'. It won't effect the outside world at all realistically.
Self-contained you say... Won't affect, eh? TFA quote:
the vortex could be 50 m in diameter at its base and extend up to the tropopause
I was speaking generally, not exclusively of soldiers. :-)
Almost got it (but wasn't sure). Just wanted to "defend" the soldiers, showing they have good reasons to let the reason aside.
Say you're riding your motorcycle and some idiot in a car left turns you and you're horribly injured and basically just a brain, then I'd love to have a clone to transfer into so I could get back to riding motorcycles.
So, it was me that rode that motorcycle and it was me to become just a brain (BTW, it is called locked-in syndrome), but... it is somehow you to get a clone and get back to riding motorcycles.
It make as much sense of doing the same thing and expecting different results.
What would the connector look like? Please, not a massive version of RJ45.
Ah, you're a Linux user, I see
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Cognition certainly is an inconvenient burden.
Granted, for a soldier, cognition is inconvenient: after all, for a job profile in which sensing and reacting are paramount, cognition becomes quite frequently a hindrance (what else do you think the army training and army regulations are about? A soldier may be wrong about anything, but s/he must be sure about everything. In other words, for a soldier, impaired/insufficient cognition must never be a reason for inaction, quite the contrary)
But... speaking about oxymorons and truisms: do you know burdens which are convenient?
a soldier hand over her rucksack to a robotic beast of burden
adds to the cognitive burden of the soldier
Free association of ideas: how long 'til the soldier's burden of cognition is entirely handed over to the robotic beast?
... but the only thing American troops should be carrying in Afghanistan now, if anything at all, is humanitarian aid. Or vacation equipment, if they came back for a personal tour of non-duty.
"Reason" used in the same phrase with "the troops"? That's akin to "Army intelligence".
TFS narrowly avoids another oxymoron... by using the "burden" term to reconcile between "cognition" and "soldier".
an actual mule?
Well, at least one...you don't need to pack a methane fuel cell to be able to use the mule for recharging your radio batteries.
I'll go one better and do the whole post. "languages are isomorphic" is itself redundant in that sentence, so the whole phrase could be deleted if you want to delete "fluff and filler".
What's one's "fluff and filler", it's another's treasure.
For me, your post is an absolute evidence in favour of the above statement: I see your post a convoluted (i.e. with lots of "fluff") way to say
I surmise all the programming languages are Turing complete, I suspect that natural languages are too. I'll "prove" my assumption by providing a single example based on programming languages and forcing the conclusion that's the same for all natural languages
Consider x86 assembly and Java. Totally different, right? They actually have EXACTLY the same expressive power, and here's proof.
Below, an example of why specialized concepts and terminology are beneficial for the advancement of science/technology.
Except for memory limits Malbolge is Turing complete. I challenge you to write in Malbolge a program computing the factorial(99). You are even allowed to use whatever inspiration source you can, including the 99 bottles of beer implementation.
Alternatively, to gain some insight into different ways of expressing the same reality, translate into mandarin the following: "laugh", "smile", "grin" and perform an analysis of the ideogram groups that make each translation (the result is descriptive rather than a simple sequence of letters that makes a word).
... but we're still very early into this research," Lee said. "It's many, many years away from becoming something that's in a technology that a consumer would use."
what about converting academic theory to useable data and cut out the fluff and filler.
Challenge: convert "languages are isomorphic" in something that doesn't have "fluff and filer".
He's not real bright.
You can pretty much use Windows 8 just like Windows 7, just the "start menu" is now fullscreen. Press the windows key, start typing what you want, bingo.
Ok... I want to create a clean install DVD from your OS image. If "Bing...Oh" is the only answer for that but no DVD, then it's a fail.
I am sick of hearing about patent lawsuits. It is sad that the industry can't work together to create unique products and actually innovate instead of stagnating one another.
Take a (patented, how else?) pill to manage the symptoms: unfortunately, the cause of your sickness is not going away any time soon.
note: slashdot japan is MADE IN USA
The "World War on drugs" no less the same.
Tell him, if he chooses to ignore you, don't press on. You offered help, he declined, everything's fine.
On the same line, you can tell him stories on the bees and flowers and crane birds and whatnot. There'll be a time when he'll learn the truth.
I like solar and geothermal energy sources for home based power.
Uh? Ummm... like what? Each home running a well down to the hotter layers of the lithosphere, pumping water and running a steam turbine?
As a non-pedestrian
How do you get to/from your car? Teleport?
He doesn't. Was born in a trailer, will live in a car or a trailer, will die in a trailer.