Wow, yes, compare accusations against a powerful man that is given the benefit of the doubt by a large portion of the public whose personal life isn't barely affected by such accusations, even if true TO tossing around dirty rumors against a teacher whose weight in words alone would destroy his personal and professional life and probably cause him to move out of town even if proven innocent with multiple alibis, eyewitnesses, and mountains of evidence.
Should we put the same weight behind accusations of rape and cheating on one's taxes? I hardly think so.
Wait, if you were right, should we sue the person who spread the word about the pedo?
Yes, that's all fine and dandy until a dirty cop is paid off to illegally search and trash his place and/or arrest the poor guy. Not that that'd necessarily happen, but don't doubt that it could and does.
This is a god who made a claim about a researcher.
Can you even sue Zeus? Under whose jurisdiction does he fall?
Apparently not. When Ernie Chambers of Nebraska tried to sue God, the judge threw it out because God wasn't served a legal notice. But in all fairness, the claim was that the lawsuit was filed to give light to frivolous lawsuits.... AND we come full circle!
That's only effective they would ever solve the exit nodes problem (whoever runs it can view all unencrypted information across it). Besides that obvious flaw, how would TOR solve anything? This person wasn't trying to be anonymous?
I don't think Parent is assuming anything. I think he made his comments derived from observation and experience. Yes, there can be some kind of Genius hidden in someone who hasn't taken math courses, but it's not likely. Notice he said "most" turned out to be idiots, not all.
When you gamble to win, you go with the odds. But I guess it'd take some level of understanding of basic math to understand that.
And while employers liked that "broader range of skills" right off the bat, how's that going to fare long-term? Can you think about problems in the same way? What happens when you come across something you've never seen before and you don't have a text book (or Google) to help step you along? Who do you think will come out ahead?
I would go on to say that even though your father didn't use calculus straight up, he used his brain that calculus helped form into a problem-solving machine. It doesn't just train you in calculus, it helps train you how to think about problems.
If you can't do the curriculum, you probably don't belong there.
Sounds like a whiny 5th grader who complains they'll "never ever use geography, so why I need it?". Give me a break. Quit whining and do the work. It's good to challenge yourself once in awhile. Nobody's going to coddle you in the real world.
I know I would NEVER hire somebody that failed to learn some basic math. If you can't grasp some abstract concepts, I would think you would have a tough time learning anything new, much less come up with something "outside the box".
It matters so I can use shit that already exists and is very widely adopted. Pretty simple.
Sure, I don't have to watch YouTube videos, but if I want to, it's really fucking nice that I was using something Big Enough to get enough attention to get some kind of Flash player (or hell, even an HTML5 browser) installed on it without much fuss.
Not that many people. I personally do this, as I have multiple public IP addresses with 1 internet connection. Helps me keep personal traffic separate from server traffic. I don't want to be personally blocked by IP if my server was crawling a website and they have more sensitive rules than the norm.
GP nailed many points. Frankly, I'm tired of the criticisms from other countries that assume I cannot think for myself, or that I have no clue of what the hell is going on in the rest of the world, or any other assumption made ever just because I'm from a certain country.
The level of ignorance in that alone is ironic.
However, you have a few points correct, but you have some misconceptions. We do have many political parties here. You can vote for any one of them. We have representatives in many states that are neither Republican or Democrat. These others claim to be more "centrists" than anything else.
That said, I don't think I need to point out that the Two Parties dominate, and that's because they're the only ones that can (I think by law?), participate in the major presidential debates that get media attention. It's why Ron Paul (a Libertarian) ran as a "Republican" for his presidential bid. You can still vote for anybody, but their chances of winning presidency are next to nothing if they don't get all the free media blitz that the others get. Make no mistake: the media controls who it comes down to in the final race. However, as I stated before, our states of representatives of more than just two parties. The media doesn't cover state races the same as it covers national ones, which helps. It doesn't happen nearly as often, but it happens.
The electoral system here wouldn't change our outcomes nearly as much as you claim they would. Again, it comes down to who gets attention. It could be a 100% complete democracy and idiots would still toe "their" party line thinking they have a choice between only 1 of 2 people.
Sometimes I have to resign to just look in awe about the level of collective brainwashing that seems to be going on in any situation where anybody has been in power, ever
His point was not that they have different party names, but that their policies are all but indistinguishable.
Their policies of screwing over everybody and furthering their own political career are exactly the same. How they accomplish this is different. You're screwed either way.
He's the most "left-wing" president we've had for a LONG time. Besides, you can't even say someone is 100% left or right. It really matters on the issue. And even then it varies greatly (there isn't just left vs. right).
But seriously, the guy wants to redistribute money to make things more equal for all, whether they've earned it or not. That's wholly a left-wing deal.
Well, TFA states that it isn't intended to produce "final form HTML ready for deployment to web pages". It looks like it's more of a tool to convert animation sequences and things like that.
Say what you will about Adobe, but I've always been impressed by their efforts to make their products as cross-platform ready as humanly possible, and much more so than almost any other company out there in a similar type of market.
I tend to tense up my hands when playing intense video games (like a fast-action highly competitive FPS). This inevitably leads to repetitive motion injuries for me. I've tried to train myself to relax more, but I just can't make it happen with a mouse.
That isn't the only reason I prefer consoles, but it's a contributing factor. Of course, there are exceptions (Super Meat Boy on consoles KILLS my hands).
Why do they have to decide on one or the other? What's wrong with supporting both? If someone wants to pay commercial licensing for encoding h264, they can. If they have a tighter budget and need something free and open but still supported, they can.
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Well, hell, if I can sue somebody for enough cash to pay for my defense trial for my own crime in question.... wait, it shouldn't work like that?
Wow, yes, compare accusations against a powerful man that is given the benefit of the doubt by a large portion of the public whose personal life isn't barely affected by such accusations, even if true TO tossing around dirty rumors against a teacher whose weight in words alone would destroy his personal and professional life and probably cause him to move out of town even if proven innocent with multiple alibis, eyewitnesses, and mountains of evidence.
Should we put the same weight behind accusations of rape and cheating on one's taxes? I hardly think so.
Wait, if you were right, should we sue the person who spread the word about the pedo?
Yes, that's all fine and dandy until a dirty cop is paid off to illegally search and trash his place and/or arrest the poor guy. Not that that'd necessarily happen, but don't doubt that it could and does.
This is a god who made a claim about a researcher. Can you even sue Zeus? Under whose jurisdiction does he fall?
Apparently not. When Ernie Chambers of Nebraska tried to sue God, the judge threw it out because God wasn't served a legal notice. But in all fairness, the claim was that the lawsuit was filed to give light to frivolous lawsuits.... AND we come full circle!
That's only effective they would ever solve the exit nodes problem (whoever runs it can view all unencrypted information across it). Besides that obvious flaw, how would TOR solve anything? This person wasn't trying to be anonymous?
I don't think Parent is assuming anything. I think he made his comments derived from observation and experience. Yes, there can be some kind of Genius hidden in someone who hasn't taken math courses, but it's not likely. Notice he said "most" turned out to be idiots, not all.
When you gamble to win, you go with the odds. But I guess it'd take some level of understanding of basic math to understand that.
And while employers liked that "broader range of skills" right off the bat, how's that going to fare long-term? Can you think about problems in the same way? What happens when you come across something you've never seen before and you don't have a text book (or Google) to help step you along? Who do you think will come out ahead?
I would go on to say that even though your father didn't use calculus straight up, he used his brain that calculus helped form into a problem-solving machine. It doesn't just train you in calculus, it helps train you how to think about problems.
If you can't do the curriculum, you probably don't belong there.
Sounds like a whiny 5th grader who complains they'll "never ever use geography, so why I need it?". Give me a break. Quit whining and do the work. It's good to challenge yourself once in awhile. Nobody's going to coddle you in the real world.
I know I would NEVER hire somebody that failed to learn some basic math. If you can't grasp some abstract concepts, I would think you would have a tough time learning anything new, much less come up with something "outside the box".
Republicans? Last I checked, Obama wasn't republican.
They force on you to suspend your system on lid close,
They decide that you don't need toolbar applets, like cpu monitor.
OK, I was aware of the buttons thing, but I was not aware of these two things. Can you provide a source for this information? Thanks.
It matters so I can use shit that already exists and is very widely adopted. Pretty simple.
Sure, I don't have to watch YouTube videos, but if I want to, it's really fucking nice that I was using something Big Enough to get enough attention to get some kind of Flash player (or hell, even an HTML5 browser) installed on it without much fuss.
Not that many people. I personally do this, as I have multiple public IP addresses with 1 internet connection. Helps me keep personal traffic separate from server traffic. I don't want to be personally blocked by IP if my server was crawling a website and they have more sensitive rules than the norm.
GP nailed many points. Frankly, I'm tired of the criticisms from other countries that assume I cannot think for myself, or that I have no clue of what the hell is going on in the rest of the world, or any other assumption made ever just because I'm from a certain country.
The level of ignorance in that alone is ironic.
However, you have a few points correct, but you have some misconceptions. We do have many political parties here. You can vote for any one of them. We have representatives in many states that are neither Republican or Democrat. These others claim to be more "centrists" than anything else.
That said, I don't think I need to point out that the Two Parties dominate, and that's because they're the only ones that can (I think by law?), participate in the major presidential debates that get media attention. It's why Ron Paul (a Libertarian) ran as a "Republican" for his presidential bid. You can still vote for anybody, but their chances of winning presidency are next to nothing if they don't get all the free media blitz that the others get. Make no mistake: the media controls who it comes down to in the final race. However, as I stated before, our states of representatives of more than just two parties. The media doesn't cover state races the same as it covers national ones, which helps. It doesn't happen nearly as often, but it happens.
The electoral system here wouldn't change our outcomes nearly as much as you claim they would. Again, it comes down to who gets attention. It could be a 100% complete democracy and idiots would still toe "their" party line thinking they have a choice between only 1 of 2 people.
Far right? You mean, relative to Country A's "left"?
Sometimes I have to resign to just look in awe about the level of collective brainwashing that seems to be going on in any situation where anybody has been in power, ever
FTFY
His point was not that they have different party names, but that their policies are all but indistinguishable.
Their policies of screwing over everybody and furthering their own political career are exactly the same. How they accomplish this is different. You're screwed either way.
Obama is right-leaning? Not at all!
He's the most "left-wing" president we've had for a LONG time. Besides, you can't even say someone is 100% left or right. It really matters on the issue. And even then it varies greatly (there isn't just left vs. right).
But seriously, the guy wants to redistribute money to make things more equal for all, whether they've earned it or not. That's wholly a left-wing deal.
Telling an ignorant person that "his" party is guilty of the exact same things is like telling a blind man he can see.
They're all politicians.
Your shit is more appropriate for plants.
Can already do this with IPv4.
Their motivation ended when they found out it wasn't made of cheese.
Well, TFA states that it isn't intended to produce "final form HTML ready for deployment to web pages". It looks like it's more of a tool to convert animation sequences and things like that.
Say what you will about Adobe, but I've always been impressed by their efforts to make their products as cross-platform ready as humanly possible, and much more so than almost any other company out there in a similar type of market.
I tend to tense up my hands when playing intense video games (like a fast-action highly competitive FPS). This inevitably leads to repetitive motion injuries for me. I've tried to train myself to relax more, but I just can't make it happen with a mouse.
That isn't the only reason I prefer consoles, but it's a contributing factor. Of course, there are exceptions (Super Meat Boy on consoles KILLS my hands).
Why do they have to decide on one or the other? What's wrong with supporting both? If someone wants to pay commercial licensing for encoding h264, they can. If they have a tighter budget and need something free and open but still supported, they can.
Everybody wins?