In Hollywood, there is a formula for making money. Spend big money on special effects; don't worry about the story. The art of telling an original story is lost ( or maybe it has gone into hiding) Stories still interest people - until Hollywood rediscovers the story, they will IMO continue to lose money.
I am a criminal defense attorney. My experience is that whenever it's the word of the police versus the word of the person accused of a crime, the accused loses. In most jurisdictions in the US, judges and juries tend to believe the cops. Unless the case was tried by a jury in a large metro area with significant minority population ( and the jury is reflective of that), chances are a guilty verdict will result.
Wrongful death is not murder per se. Wrongful death can be not only murder but also the crimes of manslaughter voluntary and involuntary, negligent homicide, vehicular homicide, misdemeanor manslaughter or the civil cause of action wherein someone negligently causes the death of another. IANAL (at least not till I pass the damned MD bar)
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This represents a win-win situation for the US and a lose-lose proposition for the developping world.
The US profits. Most likely US corporations will benefit when the government forces a developping country to buy these things, under a so-called trade agreement. This serves both interests. After all, the US government mainly is a shill for american business interests.
The developping country will always be able to be coerced into these deals. Why? Because they dont have nuclear weapons. THe US can use the carrot-stick approach. By these or else we will lump you with the so called axis-of-evil.
Wait did he use a Henry James's novel as the benchmark? Ughhh. Reading Henry James is a better sleep aid than warm milk after drinking wine and having a valium! I think that the scores must measure how boring one writes...
IMO, WOTW was already remade. People have forgotten about Independence Day(ID). ID had a diabolical Heat-ray and the aliens were defeated by a virus. Of course the producers exercised artistic license for modern audiences. In ID, the aliens aren't from Mars and the "virus" was a computer virus, not a natural one.
2015-AssociatedPress. Hip hop groups and fans all of a sudden start rapping about computer hardware. Some attribute this fad to the pervasive use of diamond semiconductors
Perhaps I am missing something, but are nt web sites a uniquely visual medium. I mean, television is visual but they have sound for those blind who just need that. I guess one can tell I am not blind but what sites are there that cater to people with that particular handicap?
It seems like we have a lot of handwriting detractors. I wonder how many geeks/nerds write love-letters using computers; could there be a correlation btwn.... Nothing says I wanna fuck u desparately like 12-point Courier font.
I didn't know that venerable meant the same thing as suck-ass....M-16s despite their being improved since Vietnam still jam when dirty. It's about time they be replaced.
Since Slashdot is now running tongue-in-cheek stories, for your entertainment here's one: http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/
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We just don't know about the ones they got right and prevented because those are classified.
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Qualifications: How about the raid on Son_Tay in Vietnam? Perfectly executed in everyway except there were no prisoners there. Or to use a more modern example - Iraq. How many WMD have been found there? None. So either someone's lying to the American people or the CIA's intello is faulty.
Here's an anecdote I read a long while back, near the end of the Cold-War:
NATO wanted to know the bore of the gun of a Soviet tank. There was one in East Germany. The US used satellites at a cost of millions of dollars. The British used someone to break into the facility to measure the bore. The cost was to replace the lock but the person who did it risked his life. The French took a Russian officer out to dinner, after having plied him with good food and lots of alcohol and just asked the him what the bore was.
Perhaps this is a wake-up call for us computer users here in the USA. Who really speaks for computer users here? What we need IMO is an NRA equivalent to represent the interests of computer users, of people who are interested in fair-use issues, reasonable intellectual property laws and accountability of elected representatives. Interest groups like the NRA and AARP have shown that Congress-people do listen when people organize.
I know what you mean ( I've scored these high-school standard tests 2x ) Basically what happens is that some temp agency or a third-party hires these people who are for the most part unemployed. Actually it's a boring, repetititious, really low paying, fairly demeaning wage-slave type job, like telemarketing or package-handling. But it's really easy since the hardest part of the job is fighting sleep. http://www.idler.co.uk/html/library/crapjob.htm
The people who grade( actually most companies prefer the less objectionable term "score" to the term "grade") these tests do not determine the scores without guidance. The companies usually have a set of guidelines that must be followed by each scorer. These guidelines tend to devalue a clearly written, well organized response and to value a not so well written response where the writer piles on concrete details and/or write with a strong tone evidencing an outgoing personality (i.e, expression ). Of course an expressive well organized response will receive a high score. But under the guidelines, I have seen some shittily written papers get higher scores and some well written papers get lower scores.
IANAL yet, still have yet to pass the bar- Doh! This sounds almost like a classic disparate impact case. The case that first treated this issue was Griggs v. Duke Power Co.; in that case, the company instituted a high school degree requirement. This H1b case sounds strangely like it, except here the H1B visa holders are, if I am reading the facts correctly, exempted from a requirement that American workers are subject to. If nothing else, this might be discrimination against Americans, and it is not legal to discriminate on the basis of nationality, whether one is a foreign national or american worker.
Griggs v. Duke Power Co http://www.hr-guide.com/data/G702.htm is an interesting case, chiefly in that it said that animus was not necessary in this type of case
America probably relies too much on technology in the first place. Good old fashioned human intelligence gained from exploiting human weaknesses (such as one's fondness for drink drugs sex gambling etc) are invaluable. I remember a story I read in a book whose name I can't recall that was published during the Reagan presidency; it was one of those that during the time were really popular, about how the US was so far behind the USSR in military technology. NATO wanted to know about a new Soviet tank. The US used satellites to get the info; the Brits broke in to the base, Deus Ex stealth mode and took photos and replaced the broken pad lock when they left; the French had an agent invite a Soviet tank-officer to dinner and plied him with rich food and lots of alchohol.
Did anyone not see this coming after the "Attack on America"? People who favor these anti-privacy measures are in my opinion in the same category as those who attack American Arab Muslims, just another example of the fascist strain that has for centuries run thru some of us Americans. Recall the anti-communists of the fifties; they were so concerned with hunting american communists that they violated the rights of many law-abiding americans. They wanted apparently to avoid the Stalin Gulags. And yet at the same time in the America, there was widespread political oppression and terrorist againST black americans.
I d like to propose a truism: it's not the media but the artist who gives credibility to the art form. The reason why computer art is not considered a "fine art" -- whatever that phrase means anyway -- is that no artist has really made anything really worthwhile. Look at photography. It took a long while for that form to establish itself in the same manner vis a vis painting. Until there is an Ansel Adams of computer art the form will remain a graphic arts.
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In Hollywood, there is a formula for making money. Spend big money on special effects; don't worry about the story. The art of telling an original story is lost ( or maybe it has gone into hiding) Stories still interest people - until Hollywood rediscovers the story, they will IMO continue to lose money.
I am a criminal defense attorney. My experience is that whenever it's the word of the police versus the word of the person accused of a crime, the accused loses. In most jurisdictions in the US, judges and juries tend to believe the cops. Unless the case was tried by a jury in a large metro area with significant minority population ( and the jury is reflective of that), chances are a guilty verdict will result.
Did they name it Project 2501? And was it secretly created by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?
I think in a lot of Anglophone countries, as a question of policy, property rights seem to be more highly valued than human rights.
Wrongful death is not murder per se. Wrongful death can be not only murder but also the crimes of manslaughter voluntary and involuntary, negligent homicide, vehicular homicide, misdemeanor manslaughter or the civil cause of action wherein someone negligently causes the death of another. IANAL (at least not till I pass the damned MD bar)
This represents a win-win situation for the US and a lose-lose proposition for the developping world.
The US profits. Most likely US corporations will benefit when the government forces a developping country to buy these things, under a so-called trade agreement. This serves both interests. After all, the US government mainly is a shill for american business interests.
The developping country will always be able to be coerced into these deals. Why? Because they dont have nuclear weapons. THe US can use the carrot-stick approach. By these or else we will lump you with the so called axis-of-evil.
Wait did he use a Henry James's novel as the benchmark? Ughhh. Reading Henry James is a better sleep aid than warm milk after drinking wine and having a valium! I think that the scores must measure how boring one writes...
IMO, WOTW was already remade. People have forgotten about Independence Day(ID). ID had a diabolical Heat-ray and the aliens were defeated by a virus. Of course the producers exercised artistic license for modern audiences. In ID, the aliens aren't from Mars and the "virus" was a computer virus, not a natural one.
2015-AssociatedPress. Hip hop groups and fans all of a sudden start rapping about computer hardware. Some attribute this fad to the pervasive use of diamond semiconductors
Dont forget about the mine gap. -Dr. Strangelove allusion.
On Slashdot, who has got them?
a gang of monkeys in a shit-throwing fight.
Perhaps I am missing something, but are nt web sites a uniquely visual medium. I mean, television is visual but they have sound for those blind who just need that. I guess one can tell I am not blind but what sites are there that cater to people with that particular handicap?
It seems like we have a lot of handwriting detractors. I wonder how many geeks/nerds write love-letters using computers; could there be a correlation btwn.... Nothing says I wanna fuck u desparately like 12-point Courier font.
I didn't know that venerable meant the same thing as suck-ass....M-16s despite their being improved since Vietnam still jam when dirty. It's about time they be replaced.
Can it be inferred from his resignation that Waste can be used? Will Nullsoft poste Waste again? Stay tuned. Same Slash-time. Same Slash-channel.
Since Slashdot is now running tongue-in-cheek stories, for your entertainment here's one: http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/
We just don't know about the ones they got right and prevented because those are classified.
Qualifications: How about the raid on Son_Tay in Vietnam? Perfectly executed in everyway except there were no prisoners there. Or to use a more modern example - Iraq. How many WMD have been found there? None. So either someone's lying to the American people or the CIA's intello is faulty.
Here's an anecdote I read a long while back, near the end of the Cold-War:
NATO wanted to know the bore of the gun of a Soviet tank. There was one in East Germany. The US used satellites at a cost of millions of dollars. The British used someone to break into the facility to measure the bore. The cost was to replace the lock but the person who did it risked his life. The French took a Russian officer out to dinner, after having plied him with good food and lots of alcohol and just asked the him what the bore was.
Perhaps this is a wake-up call for us computer users here in the USA. Who really speaks for computer users here? What we need IMO is an NRA equivalent to represent the interests of computer users, of people who are interested in fair-use issues, reasonable intellectual property laws and accountability of elected representatives. Interest groups like the NRA and AARP have shown that Congress-people do listen when people organize.
I know what you mean ( I've scored these high-school standard tests 2x ) Basically what happens is that some temp agency or a third-party hires these people who are for the most part unemployed. Actually it's a boring, repetititious, really low paying, fairly demeaning wage-slave type job, like telemarketing or package-handling. But it's really easy since the hardest part of the job is fighting sleep. http://www.idler.co.uk/html/library/crapjob.htm
The people who grade( actually most companies prefer the less objectionable term "score" to the term "grade") these tests do not determine the scores without guidance. The companies usually have a set of guidelines that must be followed by each scorer. These guidelines tend to devalue a clearly written, well organized response and to value a not so well written response where the writer piles on concrete details and/or write with a strong tone evidencing an outgoing personality (i.e, expression ). Of course an expressive well organized response will receive a high score. But under the guidelines, I have seen some shittily written papers get higher scores and some well written papers get lower scores.
IANAL yet, still have yet to pass the bar- Doh!
This sounds almost like a classic disparate impact case. The case that first treated this issue was Griggs v. Duke Power Co.; in that case, the company instituted a high school degree requirement. This H1b case sounds strangely like it, except here the H1B visa holders are, if I am reading the facts correctly, exempted from a requirement that American workers are subject to. If nothing else, this might be discrimination against Americans, and it is not legal to discriminate on the basis of nationality, whether one is a foreign national or american worker.
Griggs v. Duke Power Co http://www.hr-guide.com/data/G702.htm is an interesting case, chiefly in that it said that animus was not necessary in this type of case
America probably relies too much on technology in the first place. Good old fashioned human intelligence gained from exploiting human weaknesses (such as one's fondness for drink drugs sex gambling etc) are invaluable. I remember a story I read in a book whose name I can't recall that was published during the Reagan presidency; it was one of those that during the time were really popular, about how the US was so far behind the USSR in military technology. NATO wanted to know about a new Soviet tank. The US used satellites to get the info; the Brits broke in to the base, Deus Ex stealth mode and took photos and replaced the broken pad lock when they left; the French had an agent invite a Soviet tank-officer to dinner and plied him with rich food and lots of alchohol.
Did anyone not see this coming after the "Attack on America"? People who favor these anti-privacy measures are in my opinion in the same category as those who attack American Arab Muslims, just another example of the fascist strain that has for centuries run thru some of us Americans. Recall the anti-communists of the fifties; they were so concerned with hunting american communists that they violated the rights of many law-abiding americans. They wanted apparently to avoid the Stalin Gulags. And yet at the same time in the America, there was widespread political oppression and terrorist againST black americans.
I d like to propose a truism: it's not the media but the artist who gives credibility to the art form. The reason why computer art is not considered a "fine art" -- whatever that phrase means anyway -- is that no artist has really made anything really worthwhile. Look at photography. It took a long while for that form to establish itself in the same manner vis a vis painting. Until there is an Ansel Adams of computer art the form will remain a graphic arts.