Well, it's mostly because good news in most cases doesn't have much information in it: "everything is fine. no problems" is not really newsworthy.
If you look at C. Shannon's definition of information (being the reciprocal of probability), events that we expect to happen, mostly have a high probability and thus not much information to begin with. But events we expect are events we are well prepared for, thus the happening of those events is good news for us. Really big news is at first improbable and thus disruptive, it contradicts our expectation and leaves us unprepared. Thus big news in the most cases is bad news for us.
They didn't just exceeded their powers. They were accessing a computer system with stolen or coerced passwords. This is a federal crime. They are just criminals.
We don't. We just use "Americans". If we are talking about someone from the U.S., we specify it and call them U.S. Americans or Americans from the U.S..
Why long? Two years ago (Jan 2010), a guy in german TV demonstrated how to get enough stuff past the body scanners to build a thermite bomb, including the lighter. And the body scanner was operated by a service person from the manufacturer during the demonstration.
Car insurance covers much more than just the new car. Car insurance mainly covers the damage you could inflict upon others if you make a mistake while driving. I don't know if you are able to pay the care for someone who is quadriplegic for the rest of his life because you hit his motocycle in an accident.
That's akin to claiming that not knowing the alphabet is not the same as illiteracy. Of course there is more to literacy than knowing the letters, and there are some cases of people knowing a large body of literature while being technically analphabets. But in general, people not knowing the alphabet are illiterate, and people not knowing arithmetic are seriously challenged by math.
This doesn't connect very well with the reports about Ratko Mladic's arrest I've read. As far as I know, the local secret police of Lazarevo in the Vojvodina was arresting Ratko Mladic. While it was long suspected that enough officials in Serbia knew about his whereabouts, but some attempts to arrest him were thwarted by doing nothing or the information about a planned arrest being leaked to Ratko Mladic's environment.
It's fine with me. The main part of the number is the same size than the lowercase letters, and some of the numbers have ascenders and descenders - making them very similar in their typographic character than normal english text with lots of lowercase letters, some of them with ascenders and descenders, and a few uppercase letters thrown in for good measure.
The other people have to learn their craft first, and in the process to be educated about what they actually have to do they also take over the attitudes necessary to perform their job -- and suddenly the next generation of computer science wizkid is so faszinated with the way the Internet works that this generation will fight teeth and nails to keep it from harm.
Maybe -- just maybe -- you have to be an Internet freedom defending, long haired, beardy guy to successfully manage large networks:)
I like to read up historical topics on Wikipedia, and all those branches and different developments and final reunion of history lines are really faszinating and a good read. So yes, hyperlinking can be a very interesting way to tell a narrative, which in turn consists of many different interwoven narratives.
There are also narratives you can easily turn into hyperlinking, so for instance Michael Ende's Never Ending Story has lots of points which you could turn into hyperlinks - often there is a substory indicated but not written down, instead you find the sentence: "but this is a different story and shall be told at another time".
Or imagine all those fan fiction written for the likes of Star Trek or Star Wars, which takes some characters and develop a separate story around them - they could have been turned into hyperlinks woven into the main story.
The Silmarillon stories could have been hyperlinks inside of the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, and the Disk World novels form a large network of stories which are connected by places, names and concepts - and which could be hyperlinked at those connections.
The main problem with that concept is that it is a gargantuan task to write all those sub-plots and sub-stories, make them consistent with the main story, and don't lose your drive. I guess not many writers are productive enough to give it a try.
It must have been to do with the fact, that small 5 HP cars accelerate, brake and turn so much better with a 200-lb-person sitting on it than with a 50 lb 8 year old.
In most EU legislations, databases are copyright (or Author's right) protected, even when the actual items in the database are not. So a database of historical events or facts actually can be protected.
"Bricked" is a term we used long before the iPhone for equipment finally failing to respond to any attempt to get it running again without any evidence of a physical damage. I've seen many a bricked switch or router in my life which failed during an update attempt:)
This means 17% of al drunk driving incidents for about 5% of the driving population, meaning that drunk teenagers cause on average three times the incidents than adults per person.
But then, the U.S. had to lie before the Soviets, and the Soviets were able to check if the U.S. missions succeeded - they managed to get unmanned missions to the Moon, to Venus and Mars themselves, and they surely knew how to monitor the orbit. And the Soviets surely would have proclaimed failure, if there was the smallest hint of an U.S. fake.
The whole "the moon landing was a fake" (which is problematic by itself, because there were several manned moon landings, and each of them would have to have been faked) brouhaha works only if you sincerely believe that each government official lies all the time, and everyone who supports a claim by a government official is lying himself. But it works fine for you, because it creates a "them against us", which in turn creates an "us", you can control - you can throw out everyone you don't like from "us" by claiming that person fell for a government lie or worse, is actually working for the government. And this "them vs. us" interestingly is so powerful, that you almost never have to specify "them". Everyone carries his own "them", and readily matches it with any other unspecific "them" of people he wants to feel "us" with. If you start to deconstruct the "them" by asking which government official actually made which lie, and why the claim was actually a lie, even if evidence points to the contrary, people tend to get uncomfortable and to put you in the "them" category.
Not exactly. There is much more that can go wrong with a human in the first place, and differently than a car you can't just put your damaged body to a scrapyard and shop for a new one. You don't get any warranties on humans, and if a human comes defectively from the manufacturer, you can't return it. So health insurance has to cover all those people whose metabolism doesn't work right, who were born with a heart condition, who were misthreated, whose brains make them unable to live for themselves etc.pp.
One of the main characteristics of being sick is that you can't take care of yourself, and the whole credo of the libertarians, that everybody should a) be allowed to take care for himself and thus b) has the duty to take care for himself breaks down with people getting sick. Sick people are the antithesis to the whole free market ideology. I know that some protestants, especially people raised in calvinist environments, that becoming sick or even being born sick is also a matter of your own responsibility, because people living a faithful and devout life won't ever get sick. But I really doubt that someone will actively try to get multiple sklerosis just to be able to get a free ride on other people's money.
If the moon landings were fake, they were already a lie. So "the government has a reason to lie about the moon landing" ist equivalent to "The government has a reason to lie about a lie". This is circular reasoning. Your conclusion is equal to your precondition.
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Well, it's mostly because good news in most cases doesn't have much information in it: "everything is fine. no problems" is not really newsworthy.
If you look at C. Shannon's definition of information (being the reciprocal of probability), events that we expect to happen, mostly have a high probability and thus not much information to begin with. But events we expect are events we are well prepared for, thus the happening of those events is good news for us. Really big news is at first improbable and thus disruptive, it contradicts our expectation and leaves us unprepared. Thus big news in the most cases is bad news for us.
The users of Facebook are the advertisers, who get a look at the large database collections. Of course Facebook caters to their needs.
The ones with the profiles on Facebook are the suppliers of information to be sold to the users.
What's not to be understood with "Americans from the U.S."?
They didn't just exceeded their powers. They were accessing a computer system with stolen or coerced passwords. This is a federal crime. They are just criminals.
Tell me why? Tell me why? Tell me why?
Somehow the former East Germany had the Pledge Of Allegiance quite shortened. It was reduced to "for peace and socialism - be ready!".
We don't. We just use "Americans". If we are talking about someone from the U.S., we specify it and call them U.S. Americans or Americans from the U.S..
There are some undergrounds which run driverless, Lyon(France) Line D and Nuremberg(Germany) U3 being the examples first coming to my mind.
Why long? Two years ago (Jan 2010), a guy in german TV demonstrated how to get enough stuff past the body scanners to build a thermite bomb, including the lighter. And the body scanner was operated by a service person from the manufacturer during the demonstration.
It worked for him for about 40 years. And it seems to work for Bashar al-Assad right now.
Car insurance covers much more than just the new car. Car insurance mainly covers the damage you could inflict upon others if you make a mistake while driving. I don't know if you are able to pay the care for someone who is quadriplegic for the rest of his life because you hit his motocycle in an accident.
That's akin to claiming that not knowing the alphabet is not the same as illiteracy. Of course there is more to literacy than knowing the letters, and there are some cases of people knowing a large body of literature while being technically analphabets. But in general, people not knowing the alphabet are illiterate, and people not knowing arithmetic are seriously challenged by math.
This doesn't connect very well with the reports about Ratko Mladic's arrest I've read.
As far as I know, the local secret police of Lazarevo in the Vojvodina was arresting Ratko Mladic. While it was long suspected that enough officials in Serbia knew about his whereabouts, but some attempts to arrest him were thwarted by doing nothing or the information about a planned arrest being leaked to Ratko Mladic's environment.
It's fine with me. The main part of the number is the same size than the lowercase letters, and some of the numbers have ascenders and descenders - making them very similar in their typographic character than normal english text with lots of lowercase letters, some of them with ascenders and descenders, and a few uppercase letters thrown in for good measure.
The other people have to learn their craft first, and in the process to be educated about what they actually have to do they also take over the attitudes necessary to perform their job -- and suddenly the next generation of computer science wizkid is so faszinated with the way the Internet works that this generation will fight teeth and nails to keep it from harm.
Maybe -- just maybe -- you have to be an Internet freedom defending, long haired, beardy guy to successfully manage large networks :)
I like to read up historical topics on Wikipedia, and all those branches and different developments and final reunion of history lines are really faszinating and a good read. So yes, hyperlinking can be a very interesting way to tell a narrative, which in turn consists of many different interwoven narratives.
There are also narratives you can easily turn into hyperlinking, so for instance Michael Ende's Never Ending Story has lots of points which you could turn into hyperlinks - often there is a substory indicated but not written down, instead you find the sentence: "but this is a different story and shall be told at another time".
Or imagine all those fan fiction written for the likes of Star Trek or Star Wars, which takes some characters and develop a separate story around them - they could have been turned into hyperlinks woven into the main story.
The Silmarillon stories could have been hyperlinks inside of the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, and the Disk World novels form a large network of stories which are connected by places, names and concepts - and which could be hyperlinked at those connections.
The main problem with that concept is that it is a gargantuan task to write all those sub-plots and sub-stories, make them consistent with the main story, and don't lose your drive. I guess not many writers are productive enough to give it a try.
This sounds awfully like Microsoft Windows 1.02. You know, the Comdex 1985 version.
It must have been to do with the fact, that small 5 HP cars accelerate, brake and turn so much better with a 200-lb-person sitting on it than with a 50 lb 8 year old.
In most EU legislations, databases are copyright (or Author's right) protected, even when the actual items in the database are not. So a database of historical events or facts actually can be protected.
"Bricked" is a term we used long before the iPhone for equipment finally failing to respond to any attempt to get it running again without any evidence of a physical damage. :)
I've seen many a bricked switch or router in my life which failed during an update attempt
This means 17% of al drunk driving incidents for about 5% of the driving population, meaning that drunk teenagers cause on average three times the incidents than adults per person.
And some of them are actually turbos.
But then, the U.S. had to lie before the Soviets, and the Soviets were able to check if the U.S. missions succeeded - they managed to get unmanned missions to the Moon, to Venus and Mars themselves, and they surely knew how to monitor the orbit. And the Soviets surely would have proclaimed failure, if there was the smallest hint of an U.S. fake.
The whole "the moon landing was a fake" (which is problematic by itself, because there were several manned moon landings, and each of them would have to have been faked) brouhaha works only if you sincerely believe that each government official lies all the time, and everyone who supports a claim by a government official is lying himself. But it works fine for you, because it creates a "them against us", which in turn creates an "us", you can control - you can throw out everyone you don't like from "us" by claiming that person fell for a government lie or worse, is actually working for the government.
And this "them vs. us" interestingly is so powerful, that you almost never have to specify "them". Everyone carries his own "them", and readily matches it with any other unspecific "them" of people he wants to feel "us" with. If you start to deconstruct the "them" by asking which government official actually made which lie, and why the claim was actually a lie, even if evidence points to the contrary, people tend to get uncomfortable and to put you in the "them" category.
Not exactly. There is much more that can go wrong with a human in the first place, and differently than a car you can't just put your damaged body to a scrapyard and shop for a new one. You don't get any warranties on humans, and if a human comes defectively from the manufacturer, you can't return it. So health insurance has to cover all those people whose metabolism doesn't work right, who were born with a heart condition, who were misthreated, whose brains make them unable to live for themselves etc.pp.
One of the main characteristics of being sick is that you can't take care of yourself, and the whole credo of the libertarians, that everybody should a) be allowed to take care for himself and thus b) has the duty to take care for himself breaks down with people getting sick. Sick people are the antithesis to the whole free market ideology. I know that some protestants, especially people raised in calvinist environments, that becoming sick or even being born sick is also a matter of your own responsibility, because people living a faithful and devout life won't ever get sick. But I really doubt that someone will actively try to get multiple sklerosis just to be able to get a free ride on other people's money.
If the moon landings were fake, they were already a lie. So "the government has a reason to lie about the moon landing" ist equivalent to "The government has a reason to lie about a lie". This is circular reasoning. Your conclusion is equal to your precondition.