I fail to see the faulty logic even if this story is made up which it appears to be. If he was going to mix with the commercial passengers in the same exact secure area you might as well have no security at airports at all if you're going to let someone into that area with weapons. And while maybe you're a proponent of having no security check at airports that's a different argument entirely, and not faulty logic with the current situation. Whether it's a TSA worker, a janitor, a private jet owner, the pilot of a plane or a regular economy class chum, if they aren't all checked before entering a secure area then the area isn't secure for anyone anymore.
This would be absolutely true if his own plane was at his OWN airport and he only had to walk through his OWN secure area. I mean seriously, even before 9-11 allowing someone who has their own plane to bring any sort of weapons into the secure area where they could potentially give them to any other passenger would be an unbelievably gaping hole in security of both the real and theater variety.
No one is limiting his free speech, but they don't have to invite him over to dinner either. He has no legal right to enter the US. This is exactly the same thing as if you yelled over the fence to your neighbor, "Hey Bob, your wife's a whore!" and then got all upset that your "freedom of speech" was trampled when he replied "I don't want you coming into my house anymore!". Even if his wife IS turning tricks every night on the corner he has no obligation to let you into his house if he doesn't like your attitude towards his wife.
It take a bit of a leap involving original content creation to take Flash Gordon and a movie set in feudal japan about two farmers and a general getting the princess her crown back and end up with the entire universe that is Star Wars. You could have given 500 people the same task with that same "original content" and none of em would come up with anything close to resembling what Lucas made. And if you start down that path what token size do you choose? Are all engineers since the invention of the pulley, inclined plane, wheel and screw just recycling material from past engineers with no "original" content?
I think that was the GP's point. The best way to make change happen is to show how sincere AND level headed in your beliefs you are that you're willing not only to face violence but to face it with peace. That's the kind of shit that inspires other people to join your cause and sway others to re-evaluate their stances/beliefs. It's not as simple as just 'looking like a victim'. Victims still fight back. But violent opposition to violent opposition tends to cause people to not think and just become more entrenched.
Exactly, no one can keep you from being an asshole in America. But no one has to let you use their property or services to be an asshole either especially when there's a big NO ASSHOLES clause in your contract to use said services/property.
It is funny how the ISP's and Hosting companies want all that common carrier protection right up until they do something like this, and then don't want to play the neutral party obligation that goes along with being a common carrier.
You're contrasting the restrictions that would only be imposed if they achieved what they wanted with their current situation. It's akin to saying "I think it's awfully fishy that you want a yearly salary of 1 MILLION dollars but currently when tax time rolls around you're only currently paying 30 grand! You're not playing by the rules!" Even though that person might only be making 70k currently you're somehow saying because they aren't playing by rules that don't pertain to them they have no business wanting to move up into a different category.
This is DARPA we're talking about, we need to spend millions on improving the state of the art pigeons until they're bandwidth is greatly increased and you'll need buckshot to down them.
I feel like the jury is probably still out on the average lifespan of an iPad, but what I'm wondering is if the schools see this as a way to always pass the cost of a replacement on to a student. iPad breaks because it's just plain old? Well, your kid must have broken it, it was working when we gave it to him, so you'll have to pay for the new one! Now all the school has to pay for is updates to the online textbooks.
Between the cost of a textbook and the rate at which they become 'obsolete' for the state testing I'd imagine with an educational discount from Apple (no need to make the state pay taxes to itself and can prolly write off some of it as a donation) they probably aren't whole lot more expensive than your regular schoolbook in the long run. Course I'd be interested in knowing what the policy is for broken iPads. Do the kid's parents have to shell out the money for a new iPad? you would for a replacement book.
"Wikipedia, if it were run by academic experts, would look like this"
Intrigued I clicked the link and got a firefox unable to connect/page unavailable error. So in principle I agree. This is exactly what a webpage with wikipedia's user base would look like if it were run by Academics.
Not that I disagree with your ridiculous budgets point but I would like to point out that accurately depicting events of the present is often much harder then the distant past because there's way more people who have the knowledge and credentials to call BS on any cut corners. I believe there's a whole thread in these comments about vetrans complaining about all the mistakes they made failing to accurate portray the reality of combat and life in Iraq. You generally won't find tens of thousands of people with the credentials to comment on the mistakes in the formations and accurate soldier life of medieval battles for example, and even if there were people simply wouldn't care because there's no chance of disrespecting anyone living.
Well, he's probably not teaching at a school for aspbergers, and while that may sound offensive at first your suggestion that he can't teach the general population this way because that subset might exist in hiding is akin to saying he can't ask students to solve problems on the whiteboard because some students might be in wheel chairs and not be able to reach it and somehow he'd never know and wouldn't make exceptions for them, not understanding why when he called them to the front of the class they just struggled to reach the board for 2 minutes then broke down crying. Must be because they're cheating. And oh my God, what if someone's blind and doesn't tell him? They won't even be able to see the board!!! That disabled-hating bastard ought to be reading every single thing out-loud rather then writing anything down. Oh wait, but someone could be deaf, better switch everything to braille handouts just to be safe.
Guess what? Every University in this country has exceptions for students with medical conditions and it's usually a set in stone standard part of every syllabus for every class that the student should make any conditions known to the professor so they can better work with them. If they have a diagnosed medical condition exceptions will always be made. If they just like their nerd cave and don't want to talk to people too bad, part of what universities want to claim about their degree recipients is that they are well rounded and capable of interacting with people. Rather then forcing you to take Speaking and Basic Social Interaction 101 you just have to be able to talk in front of people in some of your other classes.
You're really going to narrow the fields you can work in if you can't do this anyways. I work at a mainly algorithms and R&D company and the interview process requires you to give a 40 minute technical presentation to the entire division coupled with the day's one on one interviews. Being able to communicate with fellow human beings is slightly integral to the foundations of society.
Everyone is way off base with the motives here. This isn't about protecting the soldiers or respecting them. The real story is a bunch of top level gamestop employees got their asses handed to them last night in a game of CTF by a bunch of people with "USMC" as their clan tag so now their trying to take precautions to prevent that from happening again.
With all the money he saves now and you fronting the initial R&D of the first breeds of electric cars when it comes time he'll prolly be passing you in his electric Lexus;)
They are supposed to wait until all evidence has been presented before passing judgment and certainly not supposed to talk about the case. She posted that she was going to announce a guilty verdict before the defense even stated any of their case.
I think it's a sad state of the slashdot moderation system when someone espousing that a group is rascists, homophobes, and STD spreaders gets modded insightful and someone saying a group espouses peace and tolerance in the same form and conversational tone gets modded flamebait. They're either both flamebait or they're both contributing to the discussion at hand. You can't mod just one, it's not -1 disagree.
This doesn't make sense for consoles as they sell them at a loss hoping to make up the money in software sales. So every new console a user would ahve to buy would mean another $100 or so the company would be in the hole. It is far more likely the case that they do this to make modding more difficult. Granted, it's not going to stop someone dedicated to modding their console, but it'll stop a lot of curious kids that just want to try cheating or pirate some games (Yes, the "omg I just want to make some backups because I have a version of Terrets where I uncontrollably break game discs over my knee" people get screwed in the process). Small inconveniences often prove to be very effective psychological barriers. Like all that plastic wrap over the leftovers in your fridge. Who wants to mess with that shit when you can just throw something new together? You'll throw it out when it gets moldy.
Seems like a wise use of money. I mean, sure, they could have bought a normal data center for far cheaper, but does the normal data center protect against nuclear missiles? You see, these are the questions you have to ask Meg.
Yea, I'm sure Gates is all like: "I'll only donate 10 million dollars to your foundation if you agree to pay me $100 for these 2 copies of Microsoft office and swear a blood oath never to install Open Office." It's the perfect crime!!
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I fail to see the faulty logic even if this story is made up which it appears to be. If he was going to mix with the commercial passengers in the same exact secure area you might as well have no security at airports at all if you're going to let someone into that area with weapons. And while maybe you're a proponent of having no security check at airports that's a different argument entirely, and not faulty logic with the current situation. Whether it's a TSA worker, a janitor, a private jet owner, the pilot of a plane or a regular economy class chum, if they aren't all checked before entering a secure area then the area isn't secure for anyone anymore.
This would be absolutely true if his own plane was at his OWN airport and he only had to walk through his OWN secure area. I mean seriously, even before 9-11 allowing someone who has their own plane to bring any sort of weapons into the secure area where they could potentially give them to any other passenger would be an unbelievably gaping hole in security of both the real and theater variety.
No one is limiting his free speech, but they don't have to invite him over to dinner either. He has no legal right to enter the US. This is exactly the same thing as if you yelled over the fence to your neighbor, "Hey Bob, your wife's a whore!" and then got all upset that your "freedom of speech" was trampled when he replied "I don't want you coming into my house anymore!". Even if his wife IS turning tricks every night on the corner he has no obligation to let you into his house if he doesn't like your attitude towards his wife.
It take a bit of a leap involving original content creation to take Flash Gordon and a movie set in feudal japan about two farmers and a general getting the princess her crown back and end up with the entire universe that is Star Wars. You could have given 500 people the same task with that same "original content" and none of em would come up with anything close to resembling what Lucas made. And if you start down that path what token size do you choose? Are all engineers since the invention of the pulley, inclined plane, wheel and screw just recycling material from past engineers with no "original" content?
I think that was the GP's point. The best way to make change happen is to show how sincere AND level headed in your beliefs you are that you're willing not only to face violence but to face it with peace. That's the kind of shit that inspires other people to join your cause and sway others to re-evaluate their stances/beliefs. It's not as simple as just 'looking like a victim'. Victims still fight back. But violent opposition to violent opposition tends to cause people to not think and just become more entrenched.
The correct response would be to have all the Muslims in the world mail him their old worn copies. Preferably cash on delivery.
That must be why we have such uncordial relations with ourselves.
Exactly, no one can keep you from being an asshole in America. But no one has to let you use their property or services to be an asshole either especially when there's a big NO ASSHOLES clause in your contract to use said services/property.
It is funny how the ISP's and Hosting companies want all that common carrier protection right up until they do something like this, and then don't want to play the neutral party obligation that goes along with being a common carrier.
You're contrasting the restrictions that would only be imposed if they achieved what they wanted with their current situation. It's akin to saying "I think it's awfully fishy that you want a yearly salary of 1 MILLION dollars but currently when tax time rolls around you're only currently paying 30 grand! You're not playing by the rules!" Even though that person might only be making 70k currently you're somehow saying because they aren't playing by rules that don't pertain to them they have no business wanting to move up into a different category.
I think you mean birdshot.
This is DARPA we're talking about, we need to spend millions on improving the state of the art pigeons until they're bandwidth is greatly increased and you'll need buckshot to down them.
I feel like the jury is probably still out on the average lifespan of an iPad, but what I'm wondering is if the schools see this as a way to always pass the cost of a replacement on to a student. iPad breaks because it's just plain old? Well, your kid must have broken it, it was working when we gave it to him, so you'll have to pay for the new one! Now all the school has to pay for is updates to the online textbooks.
Between the cost of a textbook and the rate at which they become 'obsolete' for the state testing I'd imagine with an educational discount from Apple (no need to make the state pay taxes to itself and can prolly write off some of it as a donation) they probably aren't whole lot more expensive than your regular schoolbook in the long run. Course I'd be interested in knowing what the policy is for broken iPads. Do the kid's parents have to shell out the money for a new iPad? you would for a replacement book.
So the article is titled:
"Wikipedia, if it were run by academic experts, would look like this"
Intrigued I clicked the link and got a firefox unable to connect/page unavailable error. So in principle I agree. This is exactly what a webpage with wikipedia's user base would look like if it were run by Academics.
Europeans fighting and killing other Europeans?! Inconceivable!!
Not that I disagree with your ridiculous budgets point but I would like to point out that accurately depicting events of the present is often much harder then the distant past because there's way more people who have the knowledge and credentials to call BS on any cut corners. I believe there's a whole thread in these comments about vetrans complaining about all the mistakes they made failing to accurate portray the reality of combat and life in Iraq. You generally won't find tens of thousands of people with the credentials to comment on the mistakes in the formations and accurate soldier life of medieval battles for example, and even if there were people simply wouldn't care because there's no chance of disrespecting anyone living.
Well, he's probably not teaching at a school for aspbergers, and while that may sound offensive at first your suggestion that he can't teach the general population this way because that subset might exist in hiding is akin to saying he can't ask students to solve problems on the whiteboard because some students might be in wheel chairs and not be able to reach it and somehow he'd never know and wouldn't make exceptions for them, not understanding why when he called them to the front of the class they just struggled to reach the board for 2 minutes then broke down crying. Must be because they're cheating. And oh my God, what if someone's blind and doesn't tell him? They won't even be able to see the board!!! That disabled-hating bastard ought to be reading every single thing out-loud rather then writing anything down. Oh wait, but someone could be deaf, better switch everything to braille handouts just to be safe.
Guess what? Every University in this country has exceptions for students with medical conditions and it's usually a set in stone standard part of every syllabus for every class that the student should make any conditions known to the professor so they can better work with them. If they have a diagnosed medical condition exceptions will always be made. If they just like their nerd cave and don't want to talk to people too bad, part of what universities want to claim about their degree recipients is that they are well rounded and capable of interacting with people. Rather then forcing you to take Speaking and Basic Social Interaction 101 you just have to be able to talk in front of people in some of your other classes.
You're really going to narrow the fields you can work in if you can't do this anyways. I work at a mainly algorithms and R&D company and the interview process requires you to give a 40 minute technical presentation to the entire division coupled with the day's one on one interviews. Being able to communicate with fellow human beings is slightly integral to the foundations of society.
What, you mean you don't want a doctor with no more than a high school education? ;)
Oh don't worry, we only let them learn on the job with the patients that are really old anyways.
Everyone is way off base with the motives here. This isn't about protecting the soldiers or respecting them. The real story is a bunch of top level gamestop employees got their asses handed to them last night in a game of CTF by a bunch of people with "USMC" as their clan tag so now their trying to take precautions to prevent that from happening again.
With all the money he saves now and you fronting the initial R&D of the first breeds of electric cars when it comes time he'll prolly be passing you in his electric Lexus ;)
They are supposed to wait until all evidence has been presented before passing judgment and certainly not supposed to talk about the case. She posted that she was going to announce a guilty verdict before the defense even stated any of their case.
I think it's a sad state of the slashdot moderation system when someone espousing that a group is rascists, homophobes, and STD spreaders gets modded insightful and someone saying a group espouses peace and tolerance in the same form and conversational tone gets modded flamebait. They're either both flamebait or they're both contributing to the discussion at hand. You can't mod just one, it's not -1 disagree.
This doesn't make sense for consoles as they sell them at a loss hoping to make up the money in software sales. So every new console a user would ahve to buy would mean another $100 or so the company would be in the hole. It is far more likely the case that they do this to make modding more difficult. Granted, it's not going to stop someone dedicated to modding their console, but it'll stop a lot of curious kids that just want to try cheating or pirate some games (Yes, the "omg I just want to make some backups because I have a version of Terrets where I uncontrollably break game discs over my knee" people get screwed in the process). Small inconveniences often prove to be very effective psychological barriers. Like all that plastic wrap over the leftovers in your fridge. Who wants to mess with that shit when you can just throw something new together? You'll throw it out when it gets moldy.
Seems like a wise use of money. I mean, sure, they could have bought a normal data center for far cheaper, but does the normal data center protect against nuclear missiles? You see, these are the questions you have to ask Meg.
Oh look, sideshowBob just solved 40 years of biblical and political debate by finding a passage no one else knew about. Care to share? =P
Yea, I'm sure Gates is all like: "I'll only donate 10 million dollars to your foundation if you agree to pay me $100 for these 2 copies of Microsoft office and swear a blood oath never to install Open Office." It's the perfect crime!!