Atlantis is a geologically absurd myth (or maybe a flying city), whereas linguists do agree that proto-Indo-European existed at some point. And the various efforts to pin down its origin seem to be pretty scientific, even if they do produce conflicting results.
Yes he does. DRM-free just means you can make copies. It doesn't mean you can transfer ownership. Yes, Scout, Rumer, and Tallulah (!) can go to Dad's computer and copy his iTunes files, but those copies would be illegal and grounds for prosecution.
Preferential routing was caused by regulation? Which regulation requires a company to give themselves preferential treatment?
This "all regulation is evil" meme is very lame. Yeah, there are regulations that are stupid. There are also regulations that keep the air breathable and prevent your next-door-neighbor from running a disco in a residential neighborhood.
You seem to be saying that there should be Hugos for crappy SF, pseudo-SF, and non-SF, just so they they can cover all the categories. Well, if you want the awards to be meaningless, I guess that makes sense.
You've got it backwards. If an area manages to develop a thriving tech sector, it becomes home to a lot of well-paid professionals. That drives up housing costs. Fifty years ago, the Santa Clara valley was a cheap place to live, and most of the land was orchards. Now it's all urban, and one of the most expensive places to live in the country,
The big magnet for tech companies is other tech companies. People quit their jobs to start their own companies, and don't feel like moving. Plus an established tech sector means a skilled labor pool you can drawn upon. Even if you wanted to start up in the low-cost boonies, you'd have a hard time getting the people you need to move there. Some of your staff might work remotely, but with a very few exceptions (such as MySQL) companies need their core personnel in one place.
Good networking used to be a factor too. 15 years ago, half the streets in Silicon Valley were being torn up so the telecoms could lay fiber. But nowadays network infrastructure seems to be less important. Portland, OR, where I live now, has really sucky Internet connectivity, but still manages to attract a lot of software firms to its downtown. Many seem to be cloud software companies, which is unsurprising, since these buy their server time from Amazon or Rackspace, so they don't need a lot of premises bandwidth..
I don't what I find stranger, that Neil Gaiman actually took the time write a Dr. Who episode (part of a lame ripoff of The Time Traveler's Wife) or that people really think it counts as SF.
I'm wondering how much I care about Jo Walton these days. I started out reading Farthing, which was very good, but turned out to be the first volume in a trilogy that was terrible. She's also written a series about Victorian Dragons, which I feel no inclination at all the read. I'll probably get this new one out of the library, but end up not finishing it.
Jeez, first you spend a lot of time telling me it's not fair to lay the "You're Evil!" schtick on the Right, then you go into an angry, not very coherent "You're Evil" rant,. If you ever calm down, you'll realize how supremely stupid that is.
One only needs to look at the actions of the so-called "evil liberals" to see why "no compromise" is not only catching on, but warranted.
Hey, thanks for proving my point!
How can one rationalize even slight support for the abusive and gratuitously anti-constitutional nature of laws such as Obamacare and the act that created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
Mainly by a desire to have insurance one can afford and being tired of banks ripping us off.
BTW, I'm not sure you understand the meaning of the word gratuitous. But then, I'm just one of the Evil Liberals (and crypto-Socialists) who need to be rounded up so you can have your single-party state where all dissent is outlawed. An ironic attitude, coming from a political grouping that likes to take credit for the downfall of the Soviet State.
Out of character? You haven't been paying attention, especially in the current season. They made it clear from the very first episode that Walt is not a nice guy. His anger issues cost him his share of the startup that would have made him rich, and sent him off to a teaching job he despises and that doesn't pay the bills. Later, he refuses to accept help with his medical expenses from his former partners, obviously still pissed at whatever issue forced him to break with them.
He wears a mask of a mild-mannered suburban nebbish, but his sociopath side becomes evident early on and gradually becomes the only face he shows to his colleagues in the drug business. More and more, people suffer because of Walt's lack of moral center, sometimes just because he's mad at them. (So long Mike!)
Recently on Slashdot, somebody called Neil Armstrong "one of the greatest men of the last century". (I think Armstrong would have been livid at that description; like you, he hated minimizing the contributions of a lot of nameless people.) When I pointed out the absurdity of that description, I got flamed up the wazoo.
But they did falsely claim he went AWOL while serving in the National Guard (ask Dan Rather if you don't believe me)
Sigh. Dan Rather lost his job because of the way he gathered evidence about Bush going AWOL. The story itself was never discredited. But of course, Rather was a bad person, so everything he claimed must have been false, right? Typical ad hominem crap.
You're kind of missing my sarcasm, so I'll make the point more directly. When Mitt Romney was governor, he had some claim to be the Republican Obama. He had some real achievements, all of them made in collaboration with a legislature controlled by the other party.
But as soon as the 2012 primaries began, that Mitt Romney disappeared. The No Compromise with Evil Liberals meme had so thoroughly taken over the GOP, that no candidate who even said the word "bipartisan" had a hope of achieving the nomination..So the Mitt Romney who got picked is basically a different person who happens to look like the other Mitt Romney. Ok, that's an exaggeration, but the way Romney has completely sold his soul to the NCwEL crowd simply negates his previous success at working with the Demos in MA.
Now, the Demos certainly have their No Compromise with Evil Conservatives crowd. But they just don't dominate the party the way their right-wing counterparts do. If they did, Barack Obama would have had no hope of getting nominated 4 years ago.
Going back to our previous exchange about Obama and the Paul Ryan deficit reduction plan. The failure of this plan had nothing to do with Obama. Ryan could have gotten a big chunk of his plan in the Simpson-Bowles commission plan. But that plan had too many compromises for Ryan, and he helped scuttle it.
The bottom line for me: yes both sides need to get away from stupid No Compromise ideas. But the stupidity is a lot worse on the GOP side. They got the Palins and the Ryans and the rabid TPers that the party ignores at its peril.
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Yes, but can you say "substrate toponymy" five times real fast?
Atlantis is a geologically absurd myth (or maybe a flying city), whereas linguists do agree that proto-Indo-European existed at some point. And the various efforts to pin down its origin seem to be pretty scientific, even if they do produce conflicting results.
Not an unusual thing. I lived in the San Francisco Bay area for 30 years without meeting a single native speaker of Tamyen, Chochenyo, or Miwok.
I'm not putting words in your mouth, I'm trying to understand what you're saying. If you don't want to be misinterpreted, write more clearly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
Yes he does. DRM-free just means you can make copies. It doesn't mean you can transfer ownership. Yes, Scout, Rumer, and Tallulah (!) can go to Dad's computer and copy his iTunes files, but those copies would be illegal and grounds for prosecution.
Yeah, St. Steve would never do anything bad.
Preferential routing was caused by regulation? Which regulation requires a company to give themselves preferential treatment?
This "all regulation is evil" meme is very lame. Yeah, there are regulations that are stupid. There are also regulations that keep the air breathable and prevent your next-door-neighbor from running a disco in a residential neighborhood.
Hey, glad you like my prose. Need any technical writing?
Sorry, my mistake. The title made me think of the episode where The Doctor marries that that woman from ER.
It tries to be SF. Epic fail.
You seem to be saying that there should be Hugos for crappy SF, pseudo-SF, and non-SF, just so they they can cover all the categories. Well, if you want the awards to be meaningless, I guess that makes sense.
Catch 22!
TLDR.
You've got it backwards. If an area manages to develop a thriving tech sector, it becomes home to a lot of well-paid professionals. That drives up housing costs. Fifty years ago, the Santa Clara valley was a cheap place to live, and most of the land was orchards. Now it's all urban, and one of the most expensive places to live in the country,
The big magnet for tech companies is other tech companies. People quit their jobs to start their own companies, and don't feel like moving. Plus an established tech sector means a skilled labor pool you can drawn upon. Even if you wanted to start up in the low-cost boonies, you'd have a hard time getting the people you need to move there. Some of your staff might work remotely, but with a very few exceptions (such as MySQL) companies need their core personnel in one place.
Good networking used to be a factor too. 15 years ago, half the streets in Silicon Valley were being torn up so the telecoms could lay fiber. But nowadays network infrastructure seems to be less important. Portland, OR, where I live now, has really sucky Internet connectivity, but still manages to attract a lot of software firms to its downtown. Many seem to be cloud software companies, which is unsurprising, since these buy their server time from Amazon or Rackspace, so they don't need a lot of premises bandwidth..
I don't what I find stranger, that Neil Gaiman actually took the time write a Dr. Who episode (part of a lame ripoff of The Time Traveler's Wife) or that people really think it counts as SF.
I'm wondering how much I care about Jo Walton these days. I started out reading Farthing, which was very good, but turned out to be the first volume in a trilogy that was terrible. She's also written a series about Victorian Dragons, which I feel no inclination at all the read. I'll probably get this new one out of the library, but end up not finishing it.
Jeez, first you spend a lot of time telling me it's not fair to lay the "You're Evil!" schtick on the Right, then you go into an angry, not very coherent "You're Evil" rant,. If you ever calm down, you'll realize how supremely stupid that is.
Plausible, but still only a guess. I think maybe we'll find out about it in the very last episode.
You got flamed because the group think doesn't want to hear the truth about themselves.
Who does?
One only needs to look at the actions of the so-called "evil liberals" to see why "no compromise" is not only catching on, but warranted.
Hey, thanks for proving my point!
How can one rationalize even slight support for the abusive and gratuitously anti-constitutional nature of laws such as Obamacare and the act that created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
Mainly by a desire to have insurance one can afford and being tired of banks ripping us off.
BTW, I'm not sure you understand the meaning of the word gratuitous. But then, I'm just one of the Evil Liberals (and crypto-Socialists) who need to be rounded up so you can have your single-party state where all dissent is outlawed. An ironic attitude, coming from a political grouping that likes to take credit for the downfall of the Soviet State.
Also trainwreck-like in that you can't look away.
Walter takes shocking, out-of-character risks
Out of character? You haven't been paying attention, especially in the current season. They made it clear from the very first episode that Walt is not a nice guy. His anger issues cost him his share of the startup that would have made him rich, and sent him off to a teaching job he despises and that doesn't pay the bills. Later, he refuses to accept help with his medical expenses from his former partners, obviously still pissed at whatever issue forced him to break with them.
He wears a mask of a mild-mannered suburban nebbish, but his sociopath side becomes evident early on and gradually becomes the only face he shows to his colleagues in the drug business. More and more, people suffer because of Walt's lack of moral center, sometimes just because he's mad at them. (So long Mike!)
Mr. Wizard was always a front. Now he's Nero.
Jeez, what a great show. I look forward to the final 9 eps with anticipation and dread.
Short answer: no.
Recently on Slashdot, somebody called Neil Armstrong "one of the greatest men of the last century". (I think Armstrong would have been livid at that description; like you, he hated minimizing the contributions of a lot of nameless people.) When I pointed out the absurdity of that description, I got flamed up the wazoo.
People need heroes.
Surely you're aware of the British Cars Suck meme. Don't you watch Mad Men?
But they did falsely claim he went AWOL while serving in the National Guard (ask Dan Rather if you don't believe me)
Sigh. Dan Rather lost his job because of the way he gathered evidence about Bush going AWOL. The story itself was never discredited. But of course, Rather was a bad person, so everything he claimed must have been false, right? Typical ad hominem crap.
You're kind of missing my sarcasm, so I'll make the point more directly. When Mitt Romney was governor, he had some claim to be the Republican Obama. He had some real achievements, all of them made in collaboration with a legislature controlled by the other party.
But as soon as the 2012 primaries began, that Mitt Romney disappeared. The No Compromise with Evil Liberals meme had so thoroughly taken over the GOP, that no candidate who even said the word "bipartisan" had a hope of achieving the nomination..So the Mitt Romney who got picked is basically a different person who happens to look like the other Mitt Romney. Ok, that's an exaggeration, but the way Romney has completely sold his soul to the NCwEL crowd simply negates his previous success at working with the Demos in MA.
Now, the Demos certainly have their No Compromise with Evil Conservatives crowd. But they just don't dominate the party the way their right-wing counterparts do. If they did, Barack Obama would have had no hope of getting nominated 4 years ago.
Going back to our previous exchange about Obama and the Paul Ryan deficit reduction plan. The failure of this plan had nothing to do with Obama. Ryan could have gotten a big chunk of his plan in the Simpson-Bowles commission plan. But that plan had too many compromises for Ryan, and he helped scuttle it.
The bottom line for me: yes both sides need to get away from stupid No Compromise ideas. But the stupidity is a lot worse on the GOP side. They got the Palins and the Ryans and the rabid TPers that the party ignores at its peril.