I understand where you're coming from and it is a fair point. However, the Supreme Court often has to decide on constitutional issues that go back to equality and freedom. For someone who hasn't experienced racism or sexism, their opinion on how a given action affects the equality and freedom of a person is simply different than a person who has experienced those two things. It's a "soft" issue and one that you can't quantify impartially and objectively.
Now, that doesn't mean you should look for racism and sexism where it doesn't exist. But I don't think that's the issue here.
The key part of the phrase here is who hasn't lived that life. That's the context.
Now there's an understandable difference of opinion on whether the statement about reaching a "better" conclusion based on experiences similar to the plaintiff/defendant is valid, but I don't think it's racially biased in the sense of "race X is better than race Y."
SageTV doesn't know jack about Hulu. I just have utorrent and some RSS feeds. I'm just saying that once you abstract it, they're basically all the same.
But if you're talking about the fine details, one big difference that negates the "IOW, it's just boxee" statement is that the Hulu desktop player won't break every time Hulu decides to screw over 3rd party players.
I don't know about on the Mac, but I do not believe the most browser windows capture remote keypresses like Play/Pause media keys without using something like LM Remote Keymap to reprogram your remote to use regular keypresses rather than the windows. IE might, considering it's an MS product. But being a bit of a flash programmer, I don't recall anything that would let me see any of those mediacenter buttons from within a flash app, either. So you'd have to write a translation layer, and then you'd be stuck with it only working in IE.
IOW, it's just Boxee
True, but only in that my SageTV is just Boxee, and someone else's Vista MediaCenter is just Boxee.
The easiest way to get a project approved: "We'll need to code very little new stuff and just wrap software already being used by millions of people up in a nice interface. We'll have it out in three months."
The easiest way to get a project rejected: "We're not only going to have to build an interface, but put a decent amount of work into the underlying framework which isn't one you've ever heard of before and has a much smaller userbase. We're expecting a next year Q3 release."
Hulu Desktop is wrapped with a media-center-like bow, with a customized "lean-back" UI that can run full screen and even respond to Apple Remotes and Windows Media Center remotes.
Football's not a sport, at least not as practiced in the NCAA or the NFL. Football amounts to a human trial on every possible growth hormone known to science.
My perspective, as a guy who likes to play few sports (raquetball, tennis, ultimate frisbee), is that sports like american football, soccer, basketball, baseball, etc. is that they're all about a bunch of genetic freaks, anyway. I lost interest way before the hormone stuff.
And FYI, what you said about football is at least as true for baseball. It's the one that's come under scrutiny for widespread doping recently.
Good luck in the US and I hope TSA treats you ok. Nationalism is the opiate of the masses.
Point taken. As said above, I really try to avoid spectator sports as much as possible. I guess it also proves the point as to just how commercially unsuccessful pro baseball in Canada can be.
Don't forget, those of the US of A have a baseball competition called the World Series... totally ignoring the rest of the world as the players are all from the US of A!
Hey, you managed to be wrong twice in one sentence! First, because there are two Canadian teams, second because even I, who loathes baseball as well as football and basketball, know that there is a significant amount of the players that are not from the USA.
To be more precise: Overall, 28.0 percent of the 818 players (748 active 25-man roster players and 70 disabled or restricted Major League players) on April 5th rosters were born outside the 50 United States, representing 15 countries and territories. The all-time highs occurred in 2005, when 29.2 percent (242/829) of Opening Day players were foreign-born, and in 2007, when 246 players were born outside the U.S., totaling 29.0 percent of all players. Last season, 239 players from a pool of 855 were foreign-born, also totaling 28.0 percent. [...] In addition, 3,335 of the 6,973 Minor League players under contract -- 47.8 percent -- were born outside the United States, the same percentage as last season (3,356/7,021). Minor League players span 41 countries and territories, up from 36 one year ago.
On top of all this, you have these comments about the egotism of the US even though you are Australian. Have you seriously ever took a step back and looked at your country? In terms of ego, Australia is basically an order of magnitude greater than the US. The main difference is that the rest of the world just generally ignores them. And I say all that even though I like Australia (and will be there in a couple of months!) Imagine what the people who like Australia about as much as you like the US say...
You're not using your imagination. The "turn around" would be to say that evolutionists are dumb because they think different species of dogs "evolved" when clearly we intelligently designed them. Then the audience will cheer and they'll move on to their next talking point. The problem here is that you seem to approach it as an intellectual debate. It's not; it's a pep rally and a dogma spouted by Authority.
Your point misses reality. We're talking about a group that already ignores logical arguments and uses science selectively and only when it will seem to benefit their argument. So to counter this, you try to provide them with an argument that will be incredibly easy to turn around and use to boost their own case.
What's your point? [...] the only people claiming evolution is in direct opposition to creationism, and thus must be completely, utterly invalid, are the wild-eyed Disco-tute fundies and their related brethren.
Which is exactly the group this idea of classifying dogs as species was directed at, even if only in jest.
So yeah, probably not the best tack to take in trying to defuse their "arguments."
Does it really matter if it was CBS, the owner of last.fm, that did it, even though the people who run last.fm might not have done it if asked? They're still the same company, just a different level. If my boss decides to put some DRM in our new game that sniffs around on your machine and sends it back your data to our servers, do you really give a crap that the Jeff the leader coder thought it was a sucky idea?
This whole idea that they're not the same thing is a farce. It's just sleight of hand to get you to feel good about a company that you would never have given a chance if it was directly marketed by parent company Evil, Incorporated.
Wasn't this a topic on slashdot a while back? Basically along the lines of a lawyer telling slashdot users (or just internet posters in general) that the law didn't buy those kinds of "well there's a convoluted way that the thing you think is clearcut evidence against me is really not, so there!" arguments simply do not fly in an actual courtroom. Basically they follow Occam's razor, and unless you can actually prove that this more complicated and less likely thing happened to make the evidence invalid, they'll assume it is valid.
Isn't it obvious? This site is going to wind up pointing to a lot of other sites that ACTUALLY hold the data, like census.gov or irs.gov, because departmentalizing things like that always works better than trying to jam it all together into one hairball. So what do we call things that point you other places based on categories of interest?
index.gov
directory.gov
Hell, I'd even settle for home.gov or start.gov. But data.gov? That's just silly.
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I understand where you're coming from and it is a fair point. However, the Supreme Court often has to decide on constitutional issues that go back to equality and freedom. For someone who hasn't experienced racism or sexism, their opinion on how a given action affects the equality and freedom of a person is simply different than a person who has experienced those two things. It's a "soft" issue and one that you can't quantify impartially and objectively.
Now, that doesn't mean you should look for racism and sexism where it doesn't exist. But I don't think that's the issue here.
The key part of the phrase here is who hasn't lived that life. That's the context.
Now there's an understandable difference of opinion on whether the statement about reaching a "better" conclusion based on experiences similar to the plaintiff/defendant is valid, but I don't think it's racially biased in the sense of "race X is better than race Y."
I hope she understands "cyberlaw" better than I understood anything but the last line of that summary...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=garbage+collector
SageTV doesn't know jack about Hulu. I just have utorrent and some RSS feeds. I'm just saying that once you abstract it, they're basically all the same.
But if you're talking about the fine details, one big difference that negates the "IOW, it's just boxee" statement is that the Hulu desktop player won't break every time Hulu decides to screw over 3rd party players.
Did you miss the part where Hulu sells the set-top box? As in "takes money in exchange for." Keyword: money.
Why would I need Plex or a Mac when I have SageTV and BitTorrent?
I don't know about on the Mac, but I do not believe the most browser windows capture remote keypresses like Play/Pause media keys without using something like LM Remote Keymap to reprogram your remote to use regular keypresses rather than the windows. IE might, considering it's an MS product. But being a bit of a flash programmer, I don't recall anything that would let me see any of those mediacenter buttons from within a flash app, either. So you'd have to write a translation layer, and then you'd be stuck with it only working in IE.
IOW, it's just Boxee
True, but only in that my SageTV is just Boxee, and someone else's Vista MediaCenter is just Boxee.
Have to agree with this. To boil it down:
Hulu Desktop is wrapped with a media-center-like bow, with a customized "lean-back" UI that can run full screen and even respond to Apple Remotes and Windows Media Center remotes.
They do not fly into them, either.
Football's not a sport, at least not as practiced in the NCAA or the NFL. Football amounts to a human trial on every possible growth hormone known to science.
My perspective, as a guy who likes to play few sports (raquetball, tennis, ultimate frisbee), is that sports like american football, soccer, basketball, baseball, etc. is that they're all about a bunch of genetic freaks, anyway. I lost interest way before the hormone stuff.
And FYI, what you said about football is at least as true for baseball. It's the one that's come under scrutiny for widespread doping recently.
Good luck in the US and I hope TSA treats you ok. Nationalism is the opiate of the masses.
Point taken. As said above, I really try to avoid spectator sports as much as possible. I guess it also proves the point as to just how commercially unsuccessful pro baseball in Canada can be.
Don't forget, those of the US of A have a baseball competition called the World Series ... totally ignoring the rest of the world as the players are all from the US of A!
Hey, you managed to be wrong twice in one sentence! First, because there are two Canadian teams, second because even I, who loathes baseball as well as football and basketball, know that there is a significant amount of the players that are not from the USA.
To be more precise: Overall, 28.0 percent of the 818 players (748 active 25-man roster players and 70 disabled or restricted Major League players) on April 5th rosters were born outside the 50 United States, representing 15 countries and territories. The all-time highs occurred in 2005, when 29.2 percent (242/829) of Opening Day players were foreign-born, and in 2007, when 246 players were born outside the U.S., totaling 29.0 percent of all players. Last season, 239 players from a pool of 855 were foreign-born, also totaling 28.0 percent. [...] In addition, 3,335 of the 6,973 Minor League players under contract -- 47.8 percent -- were born outside the United States, the same percentage as last season (3,356/7,021). Minor League players span 41 countries and territories, up from 36 one year ago.
On top of all this, you have these comments about the egotism of the US even though you are Australian. Have you seriously ever took a step back and looked at your country? In terms of ego, Australia is basically an order of magnitude greater than the US. The main difference is that the rest of the world just generally ignores them. And I say all that even though I like Australia (and will be there in a couple of months!) Imagine what the people who like Australia about as much as you like the US say...
You're terribly out of date. American football is the most watched sport in America.
Baseball is America's "national pastime," but that's little beyond a marketing term at this point.
You're not using your imagination. The "turn around" would be to say that evolutionists are dumb because they think different species of dogs "evolved" when clearly we intelligently designed them. Then the audience will cheer and they'll move on to their next talking point. The problem here is that you seem to approach it as an intellectual debate. It's not; it's a pep rally and a dogma spouted by Authority.
Your point misses reality. We're talking about a group that already ignores logical arguments and uses science selectively and only when it will seem to benefit their argument. So to counter this, you try to provide them with an argument that will be incredibly easy to turn around and use to boost their own case.
Good luck with that.
What's your point? [...] the only people claiming evolution is in direct opposition to creationism, and thus must be completely, utterly invalid, are the wild-eyed Disco-tute fundies and their related brethren.
Which is exactly the group this idea of classifying dogs as species was directed at, even if only in jest.
So yeah, probably not the best tack to take in trying to defuse their "arguments."
I suspect it was internet based...
Does it really matter if it was CBS, the owner of last.fm, that did it, even though the people who run last.fm might not have done it if asked? They're still the same company, just a different level. If my boss decides to put some DRM in our new game that sniffs around on your machine and sends it back your data to our servers, do you really give a crap that the Jeff the leader coder thought it was a sucky idea?
This whole idea that they're not the same thing is a farce. It's just sleight of hand to get you to feel good about a company that you would never have given a chance if it was directly marketed by parent company Evil, Incorporated.
Wasn't this a topic on slashdot a while back? Basically along the lines of a lawyer telling slashdot users (or just internet posters in general) that the law didn't buy those kinds of "well there's a convoluted way that the thing you think is clearcut evidence against me is really not, so there!" arguments simply do not fly in an actual courtroom. Basically they follow Occam's razor, and unless you can actually prove that this more complicated and less likely thing happened to make the evidence invalid, they'll assume it is valid.
What would you suggest they call it?
Isn't it obvious? This site is going to wind up pointing to a lot of other sites that ACTUALLY hold the data, like census.gov or irs.gov, because departmentalizing things like that always works better than trying to jam it all together into one hairball. So what do we call things that point you other places based on categories of interest?
index.gov
directory.gov
Hell, I'd even settle for home.gov or start.gov. But data.gov? That's just silly.
As opposed to all the non-data being posted under the .gov domain?
I just feel like it could be a little more vague. I suggest "thing.it" or possibly "yadayadaya.da".
I like it. It was just what I needed after a bland, heavy lunch.