Quoting media matters? Enough said about your bias.
The truth of the matter is that he does support infanticide, in that a baby born alive after a botched abortion could still be killed. I don't know how could possibly support this stance. Obama defended it saying it was an encroachment on abortion rights.
>>WTF are you talking about. A restriction on xyz guns affects everyone.
What I'm talking about is the various Hollywood liberals who support gun rights, except not for themselves, exactly as I stated it.
>>Just one slight problem for you....liberal != Democrat.
Yeah, no shit. But let's conflate them for now. They have all sorts of great phrases like, "I might disagree what you say, but I'll die for your right to say it", until, you know, Ann Coulter or someone comes to their campus. Then they do everything they can to stop her from speaking.
I've looked through the pdfs, and scary red lines which prove nothing aside (OMG, their header files have identically-named functions?? Think about it.), I just don't see plagarism there.
>>However, underlining is universally recognized to be a horizontal line
Universally recognized by people OVER 9 years old. Give me a fucking break. Kids don't come born into the world with knowledge pre-implanted in their heads. Kids experiment with language and actions, and try different things before some adult slaps them down for coloring outside the lines.
>>I think this demonstrates that the idealized version of the scientific method isn't always followed.
Indeed. This was the true scandal of Climategate (as anyone following the story knows). In a scientific field which relies pretty much entirely on climate measurements and models, withholding both of them is tantamount to claiming you've invented Cold Fusion but not saying how. And flipping off people when coming up with legally-questionable excuses to avoid FOIA requests is just icing on the cake.
Sure, there were other models and climate data available - Gavin Schmidt of RealClimate.org hurriedly posted examples after the scandal broke - but that doesn't change anything about Phil Jones and his merry band's bad behavior.
Hell, he even wrote to Gavin Schmidt with advice on how to dodge FOIA requests. Post that on RealClimate.org though on any of their various threads on the scandal and they immediately delete it, though.
>>When all the 39 different Android phone models are having the same issue, then may be you'd have a point, but the thing is the Droid Eris is only one phone
My Motorola Droid has done it once or twice, and my LG VX8300 used to do it all the damn time. I'd have to hang up and then redail. I honestly think that it's just a bug in Verizon's network.
Also, I don't know what the issue with 911 is, anyway. I once witnessed a robbery at a Mira Mesa Ralph's (grocery store) and was on hold for about 15 minutes with 911 until someone picked up. 3 or 4 other people were on hold as long when they tried to dial, too. I don't think there's an expectation of speedy answering these days, is there?
It's not, but it is piracy to copy the full version, which is exactly what happened. He estimated that less than 10% of the sites running the full version of his software had paid for it.
>>Software, however has a completely different problem, even though it still stems directly from value.
I knew the person that wrote some popular BBS code. I'm tempted to say it was Searchlight BBS, but it's been a long time.
He released it as shareware, got massively popular, but he said he made hardly any money out of it. And the people that were pirating it would constantly ask him for tech support, as well. So it's not quite true that software has no overhead.
He was kind of bitter about the whole thing, and really hated software pirates because they screwed the small guy a lot worse than companies like Microsoft. Even though the dollar amounts are obviously much larger for Microsoft, if he can't put food on his plate writing software, the software is going to go away.
>>Their estimates were 100% wrong. Assholes will be assholes no matter what.
This is not true.
Using their real names would absolutely have a chilling effect on the assholery on the WoW forums. In fact, they might cease to be the cesspit of idiocy that they are right now. For evidence of this, see the ReadID-esque program Amazon rolled out a few years back. When people use their real names on reviews, they tend to well, write them as if their potential bosses were going to read them in the future.
However, this probably doesn't make up for all the downsides: cyberstalking, invasion of privacy, real life harassment, etc. The Penny Arcade comic is right - there'd undoubtedly be real-life murders over in game douchbaggery, which is not worth cleaning up forums for.
For a long time, you could retrieve all of Cisco's customer data (from people who entered data on their web site) from just changing "submit" to "retreive" in the URL. Haven't tried it recently, but they exposed names, addresses and emails by the thousands for years without doing anything to correct it.
All their trade secret is, is taking FFT signatures from music in small chunks and matching them against a database. We did things like that, but with wavelets, back in the mid 90s.
Shazam's real value is their signature database, which can't be replicated easily. So they really have nothing to worry about, really.
Considering she called out JFK *by name* as being anti-communist, I'm frankly baffled by your conclusion that she claims he's pro-communist. Since I supplied the damn reference to you in my last post, it's obvious you don't bother reading anything before making an opinionated statement.
She concluded that there needed to be more liberals like JFK.
I've recently rewatched the JFK/Nixon debates. They fought over who was tougher on communism. This is in contrast to the milquetoast liberals who, as she said (again with hyperbole) were often sympathizers.
If you think she criticized JFK for being pro-communist, then you obviously haven't read what she said, and are just repeating shit you heard some idiot say. I won't disagree with you about the wide paintbrush and hyperbole she uses, but if you're going to criticize her for something that is the opposite of what she said, then you're guilty of what you imagine she is doing.
And just because there was a Red Scare doesn't mean that there weren't actually communist inflitrators.
This is the dominant / mainstream notion in American history now (in my AP US History class back in the day, we were taught that it was all paranoia and hoopla). Coulter corrects a very fundamental error in our society's memory. I'm not sure how any small mistakes (such as?) make up for correcting this very large one.
As for Woodie Guthrie and the rest, I don't have much respect for anyone who trends socialist or communist. As for the patriotism and the like, the true believers of the communist party put the interests of the USSR (and their Nazi allies before Hitler broke off the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) ahead of that of their home country.
That's what a communist international gets you, you know.
>>Next time I visit the small farming community I grew up in, I guess I should go around telling all the non-college educated farmers they're drains on society and don't contribute.
Hardly. Nor do I even think that self-educated programmers are worthless (though I would make an argument that they tend to have a lot more bad habits, because they never had a legion of TAs to beat the stupid out of them as an undergrad). More or less, four years of living and breathing X is generally enough to prepare you for a job in X.
This doesn't even mean I favor the college grad - a lot of college students "get by" without really digging into their subject material.
>>Irrelavant. They weren't hassled, assaulted and illegally detained - lucky them.
It's not irrelevant. It's very relevant that the photographer with the chip on his shoulder managed to pick a fight with a cop, when he easily could have resolved the situation.
>>One person's being polite is another's kowtowing to illegitimate authority.
And one person's standing-up-for-liberty is another person's being-a-douche-to-a-cop.
As I'm reading through a book on the Venona intercepts, it's probably not a good time to be arguing against anti-comunist people. Commie spies in England early in the war were helping the mother fucking Nazis bomb UK defense installations, and agitated heavily in the US to keep us put of Europe, and helped instigate Pearl Harbor.
So while I wouldn't say that McCarthy was a saintly or even nice individual, I would say that we've lost our focus on the evils of communism to focus just on the "Red Scare", as if the problem was all imaginary.
As someone who works in education (as a consultant to teachers), I can say that I have never met a teacher that wanted his or her students to be automatons.
Occasionally you'll get a bad teacher that will try to crush the spirit out of a kid because they prize an orderly classroom more than individual thinking, but that's a tangential issue.
All teachers are trained these days in Marzano's levels of thinking, and are taught to create lesson plans that teach kids critical thinking and higher level analysis, not just rote memorization and recitation.
Your quotes form a pervasive meme on Slashdot, and one that I'd wish would fucking die.
>>As for your snippet, it proves nothing, because telling the truth once (or even a million times) doesn't erase the times that one has lied.
On the balance of things, I've heard Ann Coulter admit when she'd made a mistake, but I've never seen Olbermann do the same. But then again, I think Olbermann is an idiot, so I avoid watching him.
I'm not an especial fan of Ann Coulter, either, as she's in the wrong on a couple issues, her articles provide a good counterpoint to the left-wing bias in the mainstream media. (And it is left wing - it's silly to argue otherwise.)
My personal take on consuming media is to try to draw from as many sources as possible. I listen to Pacifica Communist Radio out of Berkeley as much as Fox News.
Then there's plenty of other contradictions for you left wing nuts.
Freedom of Speech... unless you disagree with the guy, or it has the possibility of offending someone. Strong government... unless they get involved in your personal life. Higher taxes... but not for ourselves. Smaller military/less intervention... except in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc. Pro-immigration.... but only if the immigrants will vote for Democrats. Restriction on gun rights... except not for ourselves. (Seeing a trend here? They're elitist bastards who like to pretend they're the voice of the people.)
>>aborting a blob of cells with as much brainpower as your average garden worm
I wasn't aware a 9 month old fetus was a blob of cells with as much brainpower as an average garden worm. Hell, Obama supported post-birth abortions, i.e., infanticide.
>>Do you have any data to back up your claim that non-college educated folk are dim-witted drains on society? Or are you just being a douche?
In a startup, I took a group of 6 very bright community college guys (active game modders and the like, but no formal training) and taught them technical skills, like programming, sys admin stuff, etc.
Verdict: I'd rather hire people with a four year degree in computer science.
As much as I liked the guys, they just didn't have enough background in computer science to succeed. I'm not in the business of running a four year university to train them, and they had the net effect of increasing my workload instead of decreasing it. Being involved in three other businesses already, I had to scrap the experiment after a half year.
It was far from consistent. For the first half of the video his repeated question as to why he was being detained was answered with the fact that he was not being detained. He was free to walk away from the police officer. He just wasn't free to walk towards the area that the police were keeping clear for the parade.
This is the key distinction that I picked up on. Police have the right to move crowds around and clear areas for parades. The photographer didn't have his camera suddenly snatched from him and trampled on the ground like in the Godfather. The kid was refusing to move, and acting like a total twit about it, demanding to know what law he police was using. The policeman obviously didn't know, this annoyed him, and things went downhill from there.
Believe me, if the cop had just come up and punched the kid in the gut and taken his camera, I'd be on the other side of this issue. But IMO the kid caused the whole incident. As I said earlier, there were other people in the area photographing, and yet somehow none of them were subject to this 'arbitrary' police harassment.
>>Would that include things like taking photographs in a public place? You know, the thing he was doing before the blue hooligans assaulted him?
You do know that there were other photographers in the area, and ones without a chip on the shoulder. Did you listen to the tape? The cop started by just asking him to move out of an area he was blocking, which is something all police have the right to do (think about fire codes, emergencies, and the like). The photographer was a jerk to him, asking the cop to cite which statute gave him the right to do it. The cop didn't know, this annoyed him, and the rest went downhill from there.
I'll repeat my statement - in a number of cases, police harassment can be avoided, just by being polite to them. The young photographer, unfortunately, seems to have learned the wrong lesson from this.
>>If you can't answer that, then you are asserting that the cop's rights to be incorrect and unlawful asses exceeds our explicitly granted rights.
I'm just saying that a lot (not all) of cases of police being asses was the result of a member of the public being an ass to them first. As a lawyer friend of mine once said, 'That's not a winning proposition.'
Police have a certain amount of discretion as they go about their business, and if they want to be a dick to you, they can make your life pretty miserable. As I said, the other photographers in the area, that didn't have a chip on their shoulder, were not harassed by the police. It's not a coincidence.
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Quoting media matters? Enough said about your bias.
The truth of the matter is that he does support infanticide, in that a baby born alive after a botched abortion could still be killed. I don't know how could possibly support this stance. Obama defended it saying it was an encroachment on abortion rights.
Here's a more reputable source for you to read:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obama_and_infanticide.html
>>WTF are you talking about. A restriction on xyz guns affects everyone.
What I'm talking about is the various Hollywood liberals who support gun rights, except not for themselves, exactly as I stated it.
>>Just one slight problem for you....liberal != Democrat.
Yeah, no shit. But let's conflate them for now. They have all sorts of great phrases like, "I might disagree what you say, but I'll die for your right to say it", until, you know, Ann Coulter or someone comes to their campus. Then they do everything they can to stop her from speaking.
I've looked through the pdfs, and scary red lines which prove nothing aside (OMG, their header files have identically-named functions?? Think about it.), I just don't see plagarism there.
>>However, underlining is universally recognized to be a horizontal line
Universally recognized by people OVER 9 years old. Give me a fucking break. Kids don't come born into the world with knowledge pre-implanted in their heads. Kids experiment with language and actions, and try different things before some adult slaps them down for coloring outside the lines.
>>I think this demonstrates that the idealized version of the scientific method isn't always followed.
Indeed. This was the true scandal of Climategate (as anyone following the story knows). In a scientific field which relies pretty much entirely on climate measurements and models, withholding both of them is tantamount to claiming you've invented Cold Fusion but not saying how. And flipping off people when coming up with legally-questionable excuses to avoid FOIA requests is just icing on the cake.
Sure, there were other models and climate data available - Gavin Schmidt of RealClimate.org hurriedly posted examples after the scandal broke - but that doesn't change anything about Phil Jones and his merry band's bad behavior.
Hell, he even wrote to Gavin Schmidt with advice on how to dodge FOIA requests. Post that on RealClimate.org though on any of their various threads on the scandal and they immediately delete it, though.
>>When all the 39 different Android phone models are having the same issue, then may be you'd have a point, but the thing is the Droid Eris is only one phone
My Motorola Droid has done it once or twice, and my LG VX8300 used to do it all the damn time. I'd have to hang up and then redail. I honestly think that it's just a bug in Verizon's network.
Also, I don't know what the issue with 911 is, anyway. I once witnessed a robbery at a Mira Mesa Ralph's (grocery store) and was on hold for about 15 minutes with 911 until someone picked up. 3 or 4 other people were on hold as long when they tried to dial, too. I don't think there's an expectation of speedy answering these days, is there?
>>How is it piracy to download shareware?
It's not, but it is piracy to copy the full version, which is exactly what happened. He estimated that less than 10% of the sites running the full version of his software had paid for it.
>>Software, however has a completely different problem, even though it still stems directly from value.
I knew the person that wrote some popular BBS code. I'm tempted to say it was Searchlight BBS, but it's been a long time.
He released it as shareware, got massively popular, but he said he made hardly any money out of it. And the people that were pirating it would constantly ask him for tech support, as well. So it's not quite true that software has no overhead.
He was kind of bitter about the whole thing, and really hated software pirates because they screwed the small guy a lot worse than companies like Microsoft. Even though the dollar amounts are obviously much larger for Microsoft, if he can't put food on his plate writing software, the software is going to go away.
So, TFA - there's your answer.
>>The problem with DAB is not government development, it's that it's a solution with no corresponding problem.
The two issues are not unrelated.
>>Their estimates were 100% wrong. Assholes will be assholes no matter what.
This is not true.
Using their real names would absolutely have a chilling effect on the assholery on the WoW forums. In fact, they might cease to be the cesspit of idiocy that they are right now. For evidence of this, see the ReadID-esque program Amazon rolled out a few years back. When people use their real names on reviews, they tend to well, write them as if their potential bosses were going to read them in the future.
However, this probably doesn't make up for all the downsides: cyberstalking, invasion of privacy, real life harassment, etc. The Penny Arcade comic is right - there'd undoubtedly be real-life murders over in game douchbaggery, which is not worth cleaning up forums for.
For a long time, you could retrieve all of Cisco's customer data (from people who entered data on their web site) from just changing "submit" to "retreive" in the URL. Haven't tried it recently, but they exposed names, addresses and emails by the thousands for years without doing anything to correct it.
Never gave me a good impression of Cisco...
All their trade secret is, is taking FFT signatures from music in small chunks and matching them against a database. We did things like that, but with wavelets, back in the mid 90s.
Shazam's real value is their signature database, which can't be replicated easily. So they really have nothing to worry about, really.
Considering she called out JFK *by name* as being anti-communist, I'm frankly baffled by your conclusion that she claims he's pro-communist. Since I supplied the damn reference to you in my last post, it's obvious you don't bother reading anything before making an opinionated statement.
She concluded that there needed to be more liberals like JFK.
I've recently rewatched the JFK/Nixon debates. They fought over who was tougher on communism. This is in contrast to the milquetoast liberals who, as she said (again with hyperbole) were often sympathizers.
If you think she criticized JFK for being pro-communist, then you obviously haven't read what she said, and are just repeating shit you heard some idiot say. I won't disagree with you about the wide paintbrush and hyperbole she uses, but if you're going to criticize her for something that is the opposite of what she said, then you're guilty of what you imagine she is doing.
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And just because there was a Red Scare doesn't mean that there weren't actually communist inflitrators.
This is the dominant / mainstream notion in American history now (in my AP US History class back in the day, we were taught that it was all paranoia and hoopla). Coulter corrects a very fundamental error in our society's memory. I'm not sure how any small mistakes (such as?) make up for correcting this very large one.
As for Woodie Guthrie and the rest, I don't have much respect for anyone who trends socialist or communist. As for the patriotism and the like, the true believers of the communist party put the interests of the USSR (and their Nazi allies before Hitler broke off the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) ahead of that of their home country.
That's what a communist international gets you, you know.
>>Next time I visit the small farming community I grew up in, I guess I should go around telling all the non-college educated farmers they're drains on society and don't contribute.
Hardly. Nor do I even think that self-educated programmers are worthless (though I would make an argument that they tend to have a lot more bad habits, because they never had a legion of TAs to beat the stupid out of them as an undergrad). More or less, four years of living and breathing X is generally enough to prepare you for a job in X.
This doesn't even mean I favor the college grad - a lot of college students "get by" without really digging into their subject material.
>>Irrelavant. They weren't hassled, assaulted and illegally detained - lucky them.
It's not irrelevant. It's very relevant that the photographer with the chip on his shoulder managed to pick a fight with a cop, when he easily could have resolved the situation.
>>One person's being polite is another's kowtowing to illegitimate authority.
And one person's standing-up-for-liberty is another person's being-a-douche-to-a-cop.
As I'm reading through a book on the Venona intercepts, it's probably not a good time to be arguing against anti-comunist people. Commie spies in England early in the war were helping the mother fucking Nazis bomb UK defense installations, and agitated heavily in the US to keep us put of Europe, and helped instigate Pearl Harbor.
So while I wouldn't say that McCarthy was a saintly or even nice individual, I would say that we've lost our focus on the evils of communism to focus just on the "Red Scare", as if the problem was all imaginary.
As someone who works in education (as a consultant to teachers), I can say that I have never met a teacher that wanted his or her students to be automatons.
Occasionally you'll get a bad teacher that will try to crush the spirit out of a kid because they prize an orderly classroom more than individual thinking, but that's a tangential issue.
All teachers are trained these days in Marzano's levels of thinking, and are taught to create lesson plans that teach kids critical thinking and higher level analysis, not just rote memorization and recitation.
Your quotes form a pervasive meme on Slashdot, and one that I'd wish would fucking die.
>>As for your snippet, it proves nothing, because telling the truth once (or even a million times) doesn't erase the times that one has lied.
On the balance of things, I've heard Ann Coulter admit when she'd made a mistake, but I've never seen Olbermann do the same. But then again, I think Olbermann is an idiot, so I avoid watching him.
I'm not an especial fan of Ann Coulter, either, as she's in the wrong on a couple issues, her articles provide a good counterpoint to the left-wing bias in the mainstream media. (And it is left wing - it's silly to argue otherwise.)
My personal take on consuming media is to try to draw from as many sources as possible. I listen to Pacifica Communist Radio out of Berkeley as much as Fox News.
>>Hardly.
Then there's plenty of other contradictions for you left wing nuts.
Freedom of Speech... unless you disagree with the guy, or it has the possibility of offending someone. Strong government... unless they get involved in your personal life. Higher taxes... but not for ourselves. Smaller military/less intervention... except in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc. Pro-immigration.... but only if the immigrants will vote for Democrats. Restriction on gun rights... except not for ourselves. (Seeing a trend here? They're elitist bastards who like to pretend they're the voice of the people.)
>>aborting a blob of cells with as much brainpower as your average garden worm
I wasn't aware a 9 month old fetus was a blob of cells with as much brainpower as an average garden worm. Hell, Obama supported post-birth abortions, i.e., infanticide.
>>Do you have any data to back up your claim that non-college educated folk are dim-witted drains on society? Or are you just being a douche?
In a startup, I took a group of 6 very bright community college guys (active game modders and the like, but no formal training) and taught them technical skills, like programming, sys admin stuff, etc.
Verdict: I'd rather hire people with a four year degree in computer science.
As much as I liked the guys, they just didn't have enough background in computer science to succeed. I'm not in the business of running a four year university to train them, and they had the net effect of increasing my workload instead of decreasing it. Being involved in three other businesses already, I had to scrap the experiment after a half year.
This is the key distinction that I picked up on. Police have the right to move crowds around and clear areas for parades. The photographer didn't have his camera suddenly snatched from him and trampled on the ground like in the Godfather. The kid was refusing to move, and acting like a total twit about it, demanding to know what law he police was using. The policeman obviously didn't know, this annoyed him, and things went downhill from there.
Believe me, if the cop had just come up and punched the kid in the gut and taken his camera, I'd be on the other side of this issue. But IMO the kid caused the whole incident. As I said earlier, there were other people in the area photographing, and yet somehow none of them were subject to this 'arbitrary' police harassment.
>>Would that include things like taking photographs in a public place? You know, the thing he was doing before the blue hooligans assaulted him?
You do know that there were other photographers in the area, and ones without a chip on the shoulder. Did you listen to the tape? The cop started by just asking him to move out of an area he was blocking, which is something all police have the right to do (think about fire codes, emergencies, and the like). The photographer was a jerk to him, asking the cop to cite which statute gave him the right to do it. The cop didn't know, this annoyed him, and the rest went downhill from there.
I'll repeat my statement - in a number of cases, police harassment can be avoided, just by being polite to them. The young photographer, unfortunately, seems to have learned the wrong lesson from this.
>>If you can't answer that, then you are asserting that the cop's rights to be incorrect and unlawful asses exceeds our explicitly granted rights.
I'm just saying that a lot (not all) of cases of police being asses was the result of a member of the public being an ass to them first. As a lawyer friend of mine once said, 'That's not a winning proposition.'
Police have a certain amount of discretion as they go about their business, and if they want to be a dick to you, they can make your life pretty miserable. As I said, the other photographers in the area, that didn't have a chip on their shoulder, were not harassed by the police. It's not a coincidence.
>>the only thing that is definitely "used" is the name (Lemmings) and the original EGA graphics from the game
Well, then.
I'm certain you'll be fine!