Hmmm... later on there was coverage that was almost exclusively the US team, with a minute or two of coverage of other teams
I'm sitting up here in Ontario, watching the Olympics on CBC, and it's the same thing. In the US television concentrates on the American team; in Canada television concentrates on the Canadian team. I watched the Sydney games in Scotland, and they concentrated on the British athletes. Why should that be so strange?
Nor is Olympic coverage the only example of this refusal to let Americans see that any other nation might be an equal. American movies are notorious for changing history so that The Heroic Americans Rescue the World (All By Themselves.)
Gosh. American movies made by Americans for an American audience tend to concern American things or emphasize American involvement in events. This is of course vastly different from movies made in, say, India. Half of what was depicted in Braveheart never occurred either. Movies about history lie utterly, shamelessly, and thoroughly. U-571 was made-up historical garbage. Cleopatra was made-up historical garbage. Amistad was made-up historical garbage. Filmmakers lie. That's life.
Is that some kind of half-human, half-robot lawyer?
That cyberlawyer is out there. It can't be bargained with! It can't be reasoned with! It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are destroyed!
I think you have it backwards Social and economic interactions have become so complex because the law has become so complex.
You must be joking. Lawyers didn't invent the canal, the telegraph, the railroad, the radio, or the Internet. Lawyers didn't invent the concept of adoption, or primogeniture, or shipwreck. The development of the law has followed technological or societal innovations, not created them.
If it costs you USD 10Bn to get to an asteroid and back and you can bring back USD 11Bn worth of minerals with you, then getting a job in space will be no harder than getting a job on an oil rig, or in a mine.
Well, not to nit-pick, but there's no way that a company would be willing to invest in such a risky mining operation with an expectation of only a 10% profit.
Yeah because the rights of the Native Americans and Aboriginees to their respective traditional lands and hunting grounds really discouraged settlemnents of their continents because their presence was respected as a claim.
The white settlers purchased large portions from the indigenous tribes, including most of Pennsylvania, and, most famously, the island of Manhattan. They would hardly have bothered if they had not recognized the concept that Indian tribes could own land.
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It would be a dumb idea if it were not for the fact that law has become so complex without good reason what so ever other than the basic reason of being complex.
Law has become so complex for the good reason that the scope of human social and economic interactions has become so complex. It's the same reason why the Code of Justinian is more complex than the Code of Hammurabi.
but I REALLY learned to type chatting on ICQ and communicating in Everquest. Talking smack in quake is also pretty good training too.
On a text-based MUD, one engages in player-vs-player combat by typing in combat commands in real time. Gives you a real incentive to learn to type rapidly.
There do exist some written Languages that begin every Noun, common or proper, with a capital Letter. At one Time, English showed the same Tendency.
Thif remarkable Curiofity moft regrettably went out of Fafhion at the End of the Eighteenth Century. It does lend a certain dramatic Flair to any written Text, as does the lamentably difufed Cuftom of ufing an overfized Letter 'S' in the Middle or at the Beginning of Words, with the Effect that it refembles the Letter 'F'.
Turns out that I'm in the 2nd decile with a respectable 58 wpm (mean is approx. 40, and anyone who claims >100 is either in the 99.8%-ile or is full of BS).
Experienced MUD/MUSH players probably have a faster average typing speed. Childhood experience playing a keyboard or woodwind instrument would help as well.
No, no, no. That's the HARD way to go about fixing it. Instead, just get a homeless person to move into the wal-mart, if they squat there long enough then it is their home, emminent domain or somesuch.
Ladies and gentlemen: this is why you should not look for legal advice on Slashdot.
Banks in Canada lend money out on leverage. The government only requires a very small percentage of actual money in the bank at any given time. The bank literally has the power to generate money from nothing, charge interest for it, and pay it back to the void when done.
That isn't special to banks in Canada. The principle of fractional reserve lending is what defines a "bank".
From '92-'02 there was a "12% decrease in fiction readers"
What does "fiction readers" mean? Perhaps there's a 12% decrease in the number of people who read fiction, but the remaining readers indulge in a great many more books than before.
Makes perfect sense to me.
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If Christianity can't be made into a game that is believable and enjoyable, um, that says something interesting about Christianity.
Yep. And if tying your shoes can't be made into a game that is believable and enjoyable, it therefore follows that you shouldn't ever tie your shoes.
You've actually managed to get right to the heart of modernism: "If it isn't entertaining, it isn't valid."
There is a wonderful book (pure satire) set in such a world. It's called Tik-Tok by John Sladek.
It should be noted that Tik-Tok was the name of a robot who was a character in L. Frank Baum's "Oz" books. I believe that his first appearance was in "Ozma of Oz", published in 1907.
Actually, it isn't a failure on Marvel's part, they got their check. It is a failure on the part of the advertisers who are placing their ads in the wrong location.
People older than eight are a more valuable demographic. Marvel has screwed up by not explaining to advertisers that their audience is older - and thereby needlessly charging too little for advertising.
But in the more mature comics you get these really deep plot-lines that small children probably wouldn't get next to advertisements that target 8 year olds. Yet another case of the popular conception of the world being wrong. Mainly the American conception being wrong.
This isn't a failure of "the American conception" of anything, it's a failure of Marvel Entertainment's marketing department. It's their job to explain to potential advertisers the target market for their product, and to solicit advertisements to which the readers of that comic are likely to respond. Either Marvel's marketing is screwing up and soliciting "8-year-olds" ads for comic books with a mature audience, or your perceptions that these plot lines are written for someone older than eight are inaccurate. It doesn't have anything to do with some sort of failure on the part of the American public.
that depends on what you're looking for in literature. if you're looking for great prose and a mastery of the english language, you're absolutely right. you're going to find that in umberto eco
Well, you're going to find it in Umberto Eco's translator, anyway. Umberto Eco is Italian and writes in Italian.
Anyone else see where this is going? Give it another decade or two... but keep in mind how congratulatory you were when one of these things on Earth decides it's not quite ready to turn off.
Well, look on the bright side. It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with, and it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. But it absolutely can be stopped if you pour the contents of a Dustbuster over its solar panels.
How much of the userbase is really getting a benefit from all this hype about search, which Microsoft *and* Apple are gung-ho about?
People who work seriously with text documents for a living. If your entire "work" and "school" consists of a "handful" of documents, then powerful searching is not for you.
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I'm sitting up here in Ontario, watching the Olympics on CBC, and it's the same thing. In the US television concentrates on the American team; in Canada television concentrates on the Canadian team. I watched the Sydney games in Scotland, and they concentrated on the British athletes. Why should that be so strange?
Gosh. American movies made by Americans for an American audience tend to concern American things or emphasize American involvement in events. This is of course vastly different from movies made in, say, India. Half of what was depicted in Braveheart never occurred either. Movies about history lie utterly, shamelessly, and thoroughly. U-571 was made-up historical garbage. Cleopatra was made-up historical garbage. Amistad was made-up historical garbage. Filmmakers lie. That's life.
That cyberlawyer is out there. It can't be bargained with! It can't be reasoned with! It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are destroyed!
You must be joking. Lawyers didn't invent the canal, the telegraph, the railroad, the radio, or the Internet. Lawyers didn't invent the concept of adoption, or primogeniture, or shipwreck. The development of the law has followed technological or societal innovations, not created them.
Well, not to nit-pick, but there's no way that a company would be willing to invest in such a risky mining operation with an expectation of only a 10% profit.
The white settlers purchased large portions from the indigenous tribes, including most of Pennsylvania, and, most famously, the island of Manhattan. They would hardly have bothered if they had not recognized the concept that Indian tribes could own land.
Law has become so complex for the good reason that the scope of human social and economic interactions has become so complex. It's the same reason why the Code of Justinian is more complex than the Code of Hammurabi.
On a text-based MUD, one engages in player-vs-player combat by typing in combat commands in real time. Gives you a real incentive to learn to type rapidly.
That's a shame. If you'd stuck to the end of the course, you might be able to type 80 WPM today, which can be very useful.
Thif remarkable Curiofity moft regrettably went out of Fafhion at the End of the Eighteenth Century. It does lend a certain dramatic Flair to any written Text, as does the lamentably difufed Cuftom of ufing an overfized Letter 'S' in the Middle or at the Beginning of Words, with the Effect that it refembles the Letter 'F'.
Experienced MUD/MUSH players probably have a faster average typing speed. Childhood experience playing a keyboard or woodwind instrument would help as well.
Ladies and gentlemen: this is why you should not look for legal advice on Slashdot.
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I've always wanted to visit Northern Cyprus. There are supposed to be some spectacularly well preserved ruins there.
That isn't special to banks in Canada. The principle of fractional reserve lending is what defines a "bank".
What does "fiction readers" mean? Perhaps there's a 12% decrease in the number of people who read fiction, but the remaining readers indulge in a great many more books than before.
Yep. And if tying your shoes can't be made into a game that is believable and enjoyable, it therefore follows that you shouldn't ever tie your shoes.
You've actually managed to get right to the heart of modernism: "If it isn't entertaining, it isn't valid."
J. R. R. Rowlings' books about young Gandalf and Saruman at the wizards' school are supposed to be pretty good, though.
It should be noted that Tik-Tok was the name of a robot who was a character in L. Frank Baum's "Oz" books. I believe that his first appearance was in "Ozma of Oz", published in 1907.
People older than eight are a more valuable demographic. Marvel has screwed up by not explaining to advertisers that their audience is older - and thereby needlessly charging too little for advertising.
This isn't a failure of "the American conception" of anything, it's a failure of Marvel Entertainment's marketing department. It's their job to explain to potential advertisers the target market for their product, and to solicit advertisements to which the readers of that comic are likely to respond. Either Marvel's marketing is screwing up and soliciting "8-year-olds" ads for comic books with a mature audience, or your perceptions that these plot lines are written for someone older than eight are inaccurate. It doesn't have anything to do with some sort of failure on the part of the American public.
Well, you're going to find it in Umberto Eco's translator, anyway. Umberto Eco is Italian and writes in Italian.
Well, look on the bright side. It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with, and it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. But it absolutely can be stopped if you pour the contents of a Dustbuster over its solar panels.
People who work seriously with text documents for a living. If your entire "work" and "school" consists of a "handful" of documents, then powerful searching is not for you.
And then you'd need Steve Ballmer to be your cheerleader.