There are some serious arguments to be made against it. Any city large enough to consider mass transit will have its share of inconsiderate assholes. The private nature of the pods will encourage these individuals, especially when they're drunk, to deposit various bodily excretions (semen, piss, vomit and the occasional turd). Perhaps a camera could be installed to let people know these are not meant to be anybody's private space.
What do you do about homeless people who decide to live in one of these pods? You'd have to arrest them. They'd likely be back on the street within 24 hours, and angry enough to contribute to the excretion problem described above.
What if one breaks down between stations? How easy is it to get a service technician out there? How easy is it to evacuate the pod between stations in case of an emergency?
That's just off the top of my head. I don't work with mass transit, but I do use it every day.
Without having RTFA, this is probably why Wilco "couldn't take the money" themselves. They would be doing an end-run around the label, using its marketing dollars while keeping the sales profits.
Note: this is in no way a defense of modern music label practices, just pointing out that Wilco knows better than to bite the hand that feeds.
In all seriousness (okay, half seriousness), this goes a long way in explaining why Native Americans were so easily duped into selling their land. Mastering ambiguity is a prerequisite for business negotiations! I can only imagine how it went:
White Guy: We will trade you something of indescribable value for a bunch of dirt. Native: Wow, it's a deal! White Guy: As promised, eight shiny beads! Native: What value do these have? White Guy: None that I could describe. Now about that dirt... your village is sitting on it.
Did we watch the same video? The one i saw slowed and sped up with the finger, and Obi Wan's voice never matched his lips. Still, I was impressed at how smooth it was. I wouldn't have thought an iPod could load so many photos in rapid succession without any (non-finger related)slowdown.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather them pack as many bits onto the disc as possible, then apply a reasonable error correction scheme...
It's not just you. The grandparent suggested making each bit in the disc larger than normal. You suggest duplicating each bit several times. Put the duplicate bits in a row instead of randomly scattered (reducing seek time when they are needed) and your solutions are virtually identical.
Then again, scattering the bits would make the disc more robust, since one scratch would be less likely to wipe out a given bit and all of it's duplicates. So... yeah. Go patent that. =)
There's been a Sony Style store in New York for nearly a decade. I don't know why everyone's flipping out about the 11th and 12th additions to a chain store. Our Best Buys and Circuit Citys have yet to go out of business, though regional chain Nobody Beats the Wiz, nearly has. But that's more to do with competition with Best Buy and Circuit City. Also, they suck.
If all the new networks stopped doing theater they would be even more boring than they are and everyone would watch "The Daily Show" to get their news. He is a crafty wabbit.
The Daily Show is a parody of the media. If the media ceased to be absurd, Jon Stewart would be out of work. Is it really so hard to believe that an intelligent person might be so exasperated with what passes for news these days that he would take advantage of a golden opportunity to let everyone know how he feels?
Keep in mind that the Daily Show is not Jon's creation, and I don't think he plans to stay on basic cable forever. I'm not sure when his current contract expires, but I'm sure new offers are already pouring in.
Just because I can eat a bannana by shoving it up my nose and down my throat, doesn't make it normal OR right.
Doesn't make it illegal or immoral, either. As for bestiality, I would consider that animal abuse unless you can prove that the chicken likes it. The only kink you might stump me with is incest between consenting adults. I don't like the idea, but Libertarian Extraordinaire, John Stossel put up a surprisingly strong defense of it on prime-time television.
Most of Israel's support (money, etc) actually comes from American Christian churches...
...because they believe the Jews must regain complete control of Israel before the Rapture can take place. They don't like Jews, necessarily, they just need them. Sort of like how much of Ralph Nader's support (money, etc) actually comes from Republicans.
I'm too young to know about '68, but this article provides an intelligent counterpoint to your post. I'm not disagreeing with you, necessarily, but the existence of good cops doesn't negate the existence of bad ones.
From the article:
"according to Army sources, as many as one in six protesters at the Chicago '68 protests were really undercover military intelligence agents. There were local police and FBI agents planted throughout the antiwar movement, often urging their cohorts to ever more daring feats of resistance. Richard Nixon's White House relished riots, knowing they only helped the Republicans. On a larger scale, the FBI's COINTELPRO program used its agents to provoke violence in antiwar and civil rights groups throughout the late '60s and early '70s."
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I have to disagree. Circumstances should always be taken into account when meting out justice, otherwise what's the difference between first degree murder and self-defense if the end-result is a dead body?
Granted, that's an extreme example, and the distinction between Jenkins and Fischer is probably more political than legal. Jenkins' wife must be an extremely sympathetic figure to the Japanese public, and (to be completely cynical about it) it would probably cost someone some votes come election time if she were robbed of her husband at such a delicate time in her life. The Prime Minister of Japan himself has promised he won't be extradited. Fischer, on the other hand, is a hate-spewing loose cannon who few want to be associated with. Easy call.
Japan does have an extradition treaty with the U.S., and I'm sure they've been consistent in the past (wouldn't be much of a treaty otherwise). Jenkins is a rare and highly publicized exception.
That's an excellent point, and I would mod you up (I do have mod points) if it weren't my own post you were replying to!
I wasn't trying to argue for or against either side, just paraphrasing other people's arguments to show which one was *more* reasonable. If the post I originally replied to had said what you said instead of simply dismissing the argument, I could at least respect it while disagreeing with it.
His argument: Serious and frightening abuses of power have occurred in the past. Here is a ton of evidence. Let's try to avoid such things in the future.
Your argument: LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA LA
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There are some serious arguments to be made against it. Any city large enough to consider mass transit will have its share of inconsiderate assholes. The private nature of the pods will encourage these individuals, especially when they're drunk, to deposit various bodily excretions (semen, piss, vomit and the occasional turd). Perhaps a camera could be installed to let people know these are not meant to be anybody's private space.
What do you do about homeless people who decide to live in one of these pods? You'd have to arrest them. They'd likely be back on the street within 24 hours, and angry enough to contribute to the excretion problem described above.
What if one breaks down between stations? How easy is it to get a service technician out there? How easy is it to evacuate the pod between stations in case of an emergency?
That's just off the top of my head. I don't work with mass transit, but I do use it every day.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Without having RTFA, this is probably why Wilco "couldn't take the money" themselves. They would be doing an end-run around the label, using its marketing dollars while keeping the sales profits.
Note: this is in no way a defense of modern music label practices, just pointing out that Wilco knows better than to bite the hand that feeds.
"If wisdom grew on trees, you Sir, would be a bush".
Shouldn't "bush" be capitalized in that sentence?
Yes, you're right, I can't think of a single instance of genocide or empire building by a Christian nation in the past 500 years.
You'll appreciate this. Others will call it flaimbait. Me? I just like the pretty pictures =)
In all seriousness (okay, half seriousness), this goes a long way in explaining why Native Americans were so easily duped into selling their land. Mastering ambiguity is a prerequisite for business negotiations! I can only imagine how it went:
... your village is sitting on it.
White Guy: We will trade you something of indescribable value for a bunch of dirt.
Native: Wow, it's a deal!
White Guy: As promised, eight shiny beads!
Native: What value do these have?
White Guy: None that I could describe. Now about that dirt
Did we watch the same video? The one i saw slowed and sped up with the finger, and Obi Wan's voice never matched his lips. Still, I was impressed at how smooth it was. I wouldn't have thought an iPod could load so many photos in rapid succession without any (non-finger related)slowdown.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather them pack as many bits onto the disc as possible, then apply a reasonable error correction scheme...
It's not just you. The grandparent suggested making each bit in the disc larger than normal. You suggest duplicating each bit several times. Put the duplicate bits in a row instead of randomly scattered (reducing seek time when they are needed) and your solutions are virtually identical.
Then again, scattering the bits would make the disc more robust, since one scratch would be less likely to wipe out a given bit and all of it's duplicates. So... yeah. Go patent that. =)
Spoke too soon. He was behind after the first round for the first time ever.
4. Don't look now, but Ken Jennings is about to lose on Jeopardy. Now there's a man who knows a thing or two about
5. profit.
Ice floats. Nice try.
There's been a Sony Style store in New York for nearly a decade. I don't know why everyone's flipping out about the 11th and 12th additions to a chain store. Our Best Buys and Circuit Citys have yet to go out of business, though regional chain Nobody Beats the Wiz, nearly has. But that's more to do with competition with Best Buy and Circuit City. Also, they suck.
If all the new networks stopped doing theater they would be even more boring than they are and everyone would watch "The Daily Show" to get their news. He is a crafty wabbit.
The Daily Show is a parody of the media. If the media ceased to be absurd, Jon Stewart would be out of work. Is it really so hard to believe that an intelligent person might be so exasperated with what passes for news these days that he would take advantage of a golden opportunity to let everyone know how he feels?
Keep in mind that the Daily Show is not Jon's creation, and I don't think he plans to stay on basic cable forever. I'm not sure when his current contract expires, but I'm sure new offers are already pouring in.
Sorry, most of us already have.
If you're having lag problems, I feel bad for you son.
I got 96 processors and you got one!"
Apparantly it's '96.
Just because I can eat a bannana by shoving it up my nose and down my throat, doesn't make it normal OR right.
Doesn't make it illegal or immoral, either. As for bestiality, I would consider that animal abuse unless you can prove that the chicken likes it. The only kink you might stump me with is incest between consenting adults. I don't like the idea, but Libertarian Extraordinaire, John Stossel put up a surprisingly strong defense of it on prime-time television.
...because they believe the Jews must regain complete control of Israel before the Rapture can take place. They don't like Jews, necessarily, they just need them. Sort of like how much of Ralph Nader's support (money, etc) actually comes from Republicans.
From the article:
Depends what you mean by "trip".
I have to disagree. Circumstances should always be taken into account when meting out justice, otherwise what's the difference between first degree murder and self-defense if the end-result is a dead body?
Granted, that's an extreme example, and the distinction between Jenkins and Fischer is probably more political than legal. Jenkins' wife must be an extremely sympathetic figure to the Japanese public, and (to be completely cynical about it) it would probably cost someone some votes come election time if she were robbed of her husband at such a delicate time in her life. The Prime Minister of Japan himself has promised he won't be extradited. Fischer, on the other hand, is a hate-spewing loose cannon who few want to be associated with. Easy call.
Japan does have an extradition treaty with the U.S., and I'm sure they've been consistent in the past (wouldn't be much of a treaty otherwise). Jenkins is a rare and highly publicized exception.
Oops, didn't mean to post AC. Once more, with humility:
Coverage of the pro-war-in-iraq demonstrations was remarkably sparse, although attendance was signifigantly larger than that of the anti-war groups.
Significantly more than 5 to 7 million people marched in favor of war? You're right, I didn't see that at all.
That's an excellent point, and I would mod you up (I do have mod points) if it weren't my own post you were replying to!
I wasn't trying to argue for or against either side, just paraphrasing other people's arguments to show which one was *more* reasonable. If the post I originally replied to had said what you said instead of simply dismissing the argument, I could at least respect it while disagreeing with it.
His argument:
Serious and frightening abuses of power have occurred in the past. Here is a ton of evidence. Let's try to avoid such things in the future.
Your argument:
LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA LA
Who's being unreasonable?