Look at Reid's Wikipedia page. It sure reads like a Conservative platform on many levels. And yet he is one of the highest ranking Liberals. The truth is both parties are far more similar than anyone wants to admit.
Um...ahem...you really think there are liberals left in Washington any more? After the Reagan right turn it's been a constant slide, with Clinton taking up most of the right-wing talking points as his own and all of congress scared of being "unpatriotic" after 9/11. If you look at the actual policies of Nixon, he was to the left of basically every so-called liberal in Congress today, with rare exceptions like Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders (whose party affiliation is Socialist)...pretty sad when you have to look to the Socialist Party to find someone more liberal than Nixon. Case in point, a Democratic congress just passed the health reform that Republicans called for in the '90s, and there is now a large enough pro-life faction of Democrats that they can force their own abortion language into major bills. Liberal indeed.
I don't think we have a shortage of art looming, and if we do: I don't see that copyright laws in India are the problem.
Didn't you know? Hollywood stopped making movies when China started bootlegging them. That's why Ghostbusters II and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade never got made. Not to mention Titanic, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, or any Harry Potter movies.
...in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can invade those 4.3 billion people's countries and build them a decent IP system. Just imagine, we'll be greeted as liberators!
You know, there's a point where you have to step back and realize that you're a minority (by a long shot) and when you are on your own little unique land its *typically* not everyone else that's wrong.
Well, when we were the only country on Earth with a binding written constitution, I'm pretty sure it was everyone else that was wrong. Not that that applies to this situation; in this situation I'm pretty sure the US is wrong, but I wouldn't follow your logic to reach that conclusion.
She is a non-techie and so far she loves Lucid. I'm waiting to upgrade until the semester ends, because for me it's mission critical, whereas her computer is more a toy that she occasionally uses for work. Karmic was my first upgrade without something really breaking in a particularly annoying way, so I'm optimistic for what Lucid will be like after all you early adopters act as bug decoys.
That was always a crapshoot. 89% of the time it would work fine. The other 11% something would break and require a few hours of digging around to fix it.
Fixed that for you. (There is no craps bet with 9-to-1 odds...I'm assuming you consider yourself the house...)
My first thought was, "Sounds like mafia." Then again, in the origin story, he came in demanding his overdue rent but then left without breaking any kneecaps.
That's what they always do. You leave, then have your enforcer show up to do the actual knee-capping.
Additional translation note:
Morals are inherently relative to personal values and situational details. Anytime someone warns about moral relativism, it's because they want you to follow their values and sense of right and wrong, instead of your own.
The Pope's version of moral relativism: Thinking child molestation is worse than opposing the inerrant authority of God's singular representative on Earth.
Why would an atheist, in particular, care who the Pope is? Is there some pro-atheist papal candidate who might have a shot at the papacy if the current Pope is ousted? It seems an odd statement.
I understand what you're saying. When you compare the 83 with the theoretical 50, then the difference is great and it cannot be attributed to mere deviation from the mean.
No, you don't. Clearly shown by what you think he was saying:
If the author thinks that 14% can be dismissed as pure deviation from the mean, fine. But then, it's just as close to the 83 that is the real mean (not a theoretical one).
It's called a distribution. Here's how it works: being X points away from the mean and being X points away from point Y do not represent the same difference in probability, unless the distribution is uniform or the PDF is otherwise linear. Most distributions in nature are approximately normal for large samples, and in a normal distribution, 1.5 standard deviations from the mean is considered "not statistically significant" whereas 3.0 standard deviations from the mean is considered "statistically significant". But, as you say, that 3.0 is just as far from the 1.5 as the 1.5 is from 0, so it must be the same difference, right?
Please don't reply saying "I get what you're saying, but who's to say what's `normal'?" Statistics is a science with actual rigor and a well-developed formal vocabulary, and you do it a disservice when you talk like that.
I'm not jumping to any conclusions. I just think the author is doing some very convenient interpretative work there which is far from being correct. Thus, bad statistics.
And so are you. Like interpreting what TFA is saying to be that the "real mean" you would find in actual people is 50%. There's this other thing called a hypothesis test. When you make the hypothesis that a selection between two alternatives is pure chance, then yes, the "real mean" (for that hypothesis test) is 50%. That's what TFA was doing, and it's pretty standard when you're trying to examine bias.
People no longer become under the influence of substantives which make them more dangerous? (note - I know that not all drugs make you dangerous, but some certainly do impair your judgement)
*psst*...hey! Watch out for that guy! He knows his parts of speech. I wouldn't go near him, if you value your innocence....
It's not only humans that show preference, it's hard-wired into every living thing with a brain. Fortunately for us, our brains are so developed that we can override this once vital but now irrelevant feature. Well at least some of us can.
You sound like a kike.
I'm choosing to assume you mean he sounds like an enrique.
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He was only ever an Open Source evangelist when it was opportunistic to be one. I spent enough time fighting him when he was in anti-open-source mode.
Bruce Perens for National Open Source Adviser!
I move we start a letter-writing campaign to president Obama.
Until Open Source(TM) starts making major campaign contributions, this is how it's going to be.
Look at Reid's Wikipedia page. It sure reads like a Conservative platform on many levels. And yet he is one of the highest ranking Liberals. The truth is both parties are far more similar than anyone wants to admit.
Um...ahem...you really think there are liberals left in Washington any more? After the Reagan right turn it's been a constant slide, with Clinton taking up most of the right-wing talking points as his own and all of congress scared of being "unpatriotic" after 9/11. If you look at the actual policies of Nixon, he was to the left of basically every so-called liberal in Congress today, with rare exceptions like Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders (whose party affiliation is Socialist)...pretty sad when you have to look to the Socialist Party to find someone more liberal than Nixon. Case in point, a Democratic congress just passed the health reform that Republicans called for in the '90s, and there is now a large enough pro-life faction of Democrats that they can force their own abortion language into major bills. Liberal indeed.
Who would have modded that recursive?
Who would have modded that recursive?
Who would have modded that recursive?
Who would have modded that recursive?
Who would have modded that recursive?
Who would have modded that recursive?
Only six levels of recursion? Amateur.
I don't think we have a shortage of art looming, and if we do: I don't see that copyright laws in India are the problem.
Didn't you know? Hollywood stopped making movies when China started bootlegging them. That's why Ghostbusters II and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade never got made. Not to mention Titanic, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, or any Harry Potter movies.
...in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can invade those 4.3 billion people's countries and build them a decent IP system. Just imagine, we'll be greeted as liberators!
Intellectual Property is intellectual theft.
You know, there's a point where you have to step back and realize that you're a minority (by a long shot) and when you are on your own little unique land its *typically* not everyone else that's wrong.
Well, when we were the only country on Earth with a binding written constitution, I'm pretty sure it was everyone else that was wrong. Not that that applies to this situation; in this situation I'm pretty sure the US is wrong, but I wouldn't follow your logic to reach that conclusion.
She is a non-techie and so far she loves Lucid. I'm waiting to upgrade until the semester ends, because for me it's mission critical, whereas her computer is more a toy that she occasionally uses for work. Karmic was my first upgrade without something really breaking in a particularly annoying way, so I'm optimistic for what Lucid will be like after all you early adopters act as bug decoys.
Because there are just too many regular Lynx's out there.
Regular lynx is a text-mode web browser. I use it near-daily, for quickness.
That was always a crapshoot. 89% of the time it would work fine. The other 11% something would break and require a few hours of digging around to fix it.
Fixed that for you. (There is no craps bet with 9-to-1 odds...I'm assuming you consider yourself the house...)
Release party on IRC server: irc.freenode.net #ubuntu-release-party
Will there be any chicks there?
"If there are any girls there, I wanna do them!"
"Left Boot" and "Right Boot" qualifies as two distinct boot detection?
Depends if you kick simultaneously, or sequentially.
Where called Parents?
THERE called Parents! Can't you see It? Look where I'm pointing, dammit!
There called Parents. Most have a basement where Slashdot readers live.
Correction: where a Slashdot reader lives. There is a statutory limit of one Slashdot reader per basement, for the safety of all involved.
It's hard to explain, but the long and short of it is that you have to understand Japanese.
One day I will find a Westerner who learned Japanese for reasons other than casually dropping the fact into web forums.
You mean you haven't met any who learned Japanese so they could train as Samurai in hopes of one day committing seppuku?
My first thought was, "Sounds like mafia." Then again, in the origin story, he came in demanding his overdue rent but then left without breaking any kneecaps.
That's what they always do. You leave, then have your enforcer show up to do the actual knee-capping.
Additional translation note: Morals are inherently relative to personal values and situational details. Anytime someone warns about moral relativism, it's because they want you to follow their values and sense of right and wrong, instead of your own.
The Pope's version of moral relativism: Thinking child molestation is worse than opposing the inerrant authority of God's singular representative on Earth.
Yeah, you try issuing the Bull of Demarcation in 140 characters or less!
All it will do is make a few Atheists happy.
Why would an atheist, in particular, care who the Pope is? Is there some pro-atheist papal candidate who might have a shot at the papacy if the current Pope is ousted? It seems an odd statement.
Even better: these guys might end up in charge.
I understand what you're saying. When you compare the 83 with the theoretical 50, then the difference is great and it cannot be attributed to mere deviation from the mean.
No, you don't. Clearly shown by what you think he was saying:
If the author thinks that 14% can be dismissed as pure deviation from the mean, fine. But then, it's just as close to the 83 that is the real mean (not a theoretical one).
It's called a distribution. Here's how it works: being X points away from the mean and being X points away from point Y do not represent the same difference in probability, unless the distribution is uniform or the PDF is otherwise linear. Most distributions in nature are approximately normal for large samples, and in a normal distribution, 1.5 standard deviations from the mean is considered "not statistically significant" whereas 3.0 standard deviations from the mean is considered "statistically significant". But, as you say, that 3.0 is just as far from the 1.5 as the 1.5 is from 0, so it must be the same difference, right?
Please don't reply saying "I get what you're saying, but who's to say what's `normal'?" Statistics is a science with actual rigor and a well-developed formal vocabulary, and you do it a disservice when you talk like that.
I'm not jumping to any conclusions. I just think the author is doing some very convenient interpretative work there which is far from being correct. Thus, bad statistics.
And so are you. Like interpreting what TFA is saying to be that the "real mean" you would find in actual people is 50%. There's this other thing called a hypothesis test. When you make the hypothesis that a selection between two alternatives is pure chance, then yes, the "real mean" (for that hypothesis test) is 50%. That's what TFA was doing, and it's pretty standard when you're trying to examine bias.
People no longer become under the influence of substantives which make them more dangerous? (note - I know that not all drugs make you dangerous, but some certainly do impair your judgement)
*psst*...hey! Watch out for that guy! He knows his parts of speech. I wouldn't go near him, if you value your innocence....
I hope this was some "over my head" joke - i'm not seeing the serious health problems here, and not sure how this would cause "cognitive deficiencies"
Maybe because you didn't bother to google the syndrome, but just assumed the above-listed social effects were the only ones?
"Birds of a feather flock together"
It's not only humans that show preference, it's hard-wired into every living thing with a brain. Fortunately for us, our brains are so developed that we can override this once vital but now irrelevant feature. Well at least some of us can.
You sound like a kike.
I'm choosing to assume you mean he sounds like an enrique.
So what have you done lately to promote serious copyright reform? And no, bitching about it on Slashdot does not count.
Hear that? That's the sound of 100,000 slashdotters' heads exploding.