Guess what you'll find -- the EU, France, Germany and others basically saying the U.S. intelligence is flawed and Iran is a much greater nuclear threat than that report states.
No, they don't. They're talking about new sanctions, not engaging in warmongering.
The Middle East nations all are fearful of Iran as is, and terrified of them having nuclear weapons.
The head of their theocracy was the one who shut down the program in 2003. And if you were living in the region and saw what the U.S. did to Iraq and Israel did to Lebanon, you'd want nukes too. But don't let those facts get in the way of your hand waving.
Except their weapon program was shut down by their Supreme Leader because it wasn't consistent with Islam. But neocons wont let that get in the way of their drinking Hatorade on Muslims.
Why's he working at a private school then, eh? The other problem is that we have a lot more kids than we have talented educators willing to work for peanuts because "they have the calling."
Now, I'm not defending Wikipedia per se, but if the Linux kernel were developed like that -- "everyone contributes, and everyone is equal", we'd probably end up with a kernel that combines all the bloat of Microsoft Office with all of the elegance of ed.
Other than the fact that a few bad lines of code can pooch the entire kernel, whereas an entry on fart jokes isn't going to destroy an entry by a department chair at a university.
Sounds like a meritocracy to me.
It's not. What SatanicPuppy said on quality vs quantity: the aforementioned department chair could write a couple excellent entires on subjects in his field, but a shmoe user such as myself could become an admin much faster by editing a bunch of articles.
Wikipedia would have contained the mainstream but wrong information? And would have corrected it later when it was shown that they weren't just nuts? Or are you trying to assert that wrong information inserted into Wikipedia will be protected against correction forever?
Red herring. Under the parents scenario, there is no reason there couldn't be an entry on the ulcer page for contrary research if it had some merit, but it would have been deleted by admins in the U.S. and the Australians banned.
The complaint isn't that people can't put whatever they want in a Wiki, it's that "notability" is often used as an excuse by snobby admins to remove articles they don't like. This is particularly true for online items which is ironic for an online encyclopedia that wants to be taken seriously.
Sounds like the rantings of an anti-Apple fanboy. Nobody is looking at the Kindle because they find it interesting or might like to try it out, it's because it's a cult.
Valve does have good levels, but all their maps are rat tunnels - there is only one path to take and only one way to solve a puzzle. That was fine in the first game, because you're in a damaged underground base so it makes sense that your movement options are limited. Not so much in the HL2 as you spend most of the game above ground in cities or traveling in the country.
That's why I think Deus Ex is the better example. On most of the maps you not only have multiple paths you can take, but there are multiple ways to accomplish your objective. In one level, your mission is to take down a power generator being used by the "terrorists". You can disable cameras and turrets and sneak through a tunnel, climb onto the rooftops and snipe, or you can go in the front door, guns blazing.
No, she really did get fired for violating some very generic state agency policies here in Texas.
Sure she did. And Bob got fired from Wal-Mart for clocking in at 8:00:05 instead of 8 o'clock. Company policy to be on time, you know.
Your typical disciplinary action goes something like: 1) verbal warning 2) written warning 3) final warning 4) termination, depending on the offense. When a company wants to get rid of someone, they might take an issue that otherwise would never even rise to the level of a verbal warning and go straight to termination. For example, at the last company I worked at, I knew a couple who worked in the same area during the same shift. So, obviously, they rode in the same vehicle together. The wife was fired for being late while the husband faced no disciplinary action whatsoever.
With a sufficiently large employee handbook, it is virtually impossible not to break company policy some time or other, even if it is a token violation. I don't live in Texas (thank God), so maybe this really is an infraction that people really are commonly fired for. But it sure hits the BS-o-meter.
Thank you for the classic evolutionary response - "Oh, you don't like my long shot logic that ties together the origins of man? Well, tough, go find your own hard evidence." Just because you are comfortable with the long shot odds and logic doesn't mean I should be. blah blah blah
So in other words, you are not just guilty as charged, but proud of it.
blah blah blah blah blah I can more easily explain things using ID than you can with evolution.
Oh, you think so? Explain why whales have hip bones then. Or why biped humans have quadruped spines. Or why, in our pain response system, a large paper cut hurts like a mother but you might have extremely malignant cancer and not feel a thing. These things make perfect sense from an evolutionary perspective, but not for Intelligent Design, because it's more like Bloody Stupid Design.
ID uses the same tactics as the moon landing conspiracy people: make statements that seem reasonable to laypeople that rest on bad logic or are easily debunked. Moonies demand to know why, in pictures taken on the moon, you can't easily see the stars because there is no atmosphere. Answer: they had to use film with very short exposure times because otherwise the film would be overexposed - there's no way you could see stars with this film even if you took it on the dark side of the moon. Moonies demand to know why you can see footprints close to the lunar lander when the rockets should have pushed the dust away. Answer - because there is no atmosphere to push the dust or carry the force of the rockets.
It's the same for you ID fraudsters. You make arguments that seem reasonable on the face but are hollow. You engage in selective sampling and hand waving misdirection - no wonder you're all Republicans.
What happened is she walked off the job to attend a presentation not directly related to her job duties.
Of course it wasn't for opposing ID, just like Wal-Mart has never fired anyone who's tried to organize a union. When a company wants to fire someone but their reason is illegal, unpopular, or actionable, they can be very creative in finding other reasons to terminate you.
Here's the challenge, post right and here and now (the challenge I have given more than once on this slanted forum (pun intended)) one empirical fact or verifiable fact that shows evolution between kinds has been proven.
All the evidence in the world could be heaped on nutjobs like you and you'd still divide by two. Want a link between species A and species C? Fine, a species B is found. But then you demand a fossil link between species A and species B. Rinse, wash, repeat.
The only reason one guy had to wipe down and install is because he had only 1GB free when crap happened, meaning he couldn't archive and install.
I don't think you'd even have to do that, if you had a Leopard install cd. Since it comes with Terminal.app, you should be able to delete enough stuff (or move it to a removable disk) to upgrade to Leopard or just reinstall Tiger.
It's not an ad hominem - if you don't want to be called a dipshit then don't talk like one. Do you sometimes confuse arson with cannibalism? How about rape and drunken driving? Embezzlement and manslaughter? No, of course you wouldn't, because such a mistake would be ridiculous and you would deserve to be flamed. Calling copyright infringement stealing is just as ridiculous - and thus you are flamed.
Because the cable companies have already proved that the ideots will pay for cable AND watch ads.
Because those markets were already established before broadband internet and gigahertz PC's became commonplace. It's far more convenient to download Smallville and Heroes at 720p with no ads for my computer than to buy an HDTV and cable/satellite. Content companies can come up with new BS, but it's a lot easier to strip that out now.
How is prosecuting people for stealing your software 'extortion'?
It's not stealing, dipshit.
it's not. but to spin every case as being like that, when the truth 9as we aLL know) is that there are just thousands of companies using warezed copies of software is just delusional.
Too damned bad. Deplorable legal tactics are deplorable legal tactics.
Methinks you are expecting a bit much from Lucas. His strengths have been brainstorming, storyboards and visualizations. Script writing, directing - not so much. Did Lucas intend for the twins to make out in ESB? Did he intend to make talented actors look like bumbling idiots in the prequels? So he didn't include this in TPM - big deal, that scene will be more tolerable the next time I see the movie.
And your point is largely a red herring because that support is a drop in the bucket next to the money and resources Microsoft spends on Windows. And Linux is still a volunteer movement - support from IBM is just gravy on top, not necessary for it's existence. Unless you have evidence that most kernel code comes from IBM, you're just making a lame attempt at misdirection.
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I'd agree with you if Ahmadinejad wasnt such a nut case.
He's far less of a nutcase than most of our Republican politicians and their lackeys in the press.
What you just said is complete nonsense to anyone who has listened to him.
Listening to what he's actually said or the media's willful mistranslations of what he's said?
Norman Podhoretz, is that you?
Guess what you'll find -- the EU, France, Germany and others basically saying the U.S. intelligence is flawed and Iran is a much greater nuclear threat than that report states.
No, they don't. They're talking about new sanctions, not engaging in warmongering.
The Middle East nations all are fearful of Iran as is, and terrified of them having nuclear weapons.
Yup, based on their wars of aggression and bombing their neighbors into the stone age. Whoops, wrong country.
The head of their theocracy was the one who shut down the program in 2003. And if you were living in the region and saw what the U.S. did to Iraq and Israel did to Lebanon, you'd want nukes too. But don't let those facts get in the way of your hand waving.
Except their weapon program was shut down by their Supreme Leader because it wasn't consistent with Islam. But neocons wont let that get in the way of their drinking Hatorade on Muslims.
EXACTLY my point. He's not in it for the money.
Why's he working at a private school then, eh? The other problem is that we have a lot more kids than we have talented educators willing to work for peanuts because "they have the calling."
Bullshit, and I call it supreme bullshit.
Well said. He's talking about teaching requirements, and you're talking about Soviet prison camps. Bullshit, indeed.
Now, I'm not defending Wikipedia per se, but if the Linux kernel were developed like that -- "everyone contributes, and everyone is equal", we'd probably end up with a kernel that combines all the bloat of Microsoft Office with all of the elegance of ed.
Other than the fact that a few bad lines of code can pooch the entire kernel, whereas an entry on fart jokes isn't going to destroy an entry by a department chair at a university.
Sounds like a meritocracy to me.
It's not. What SatanicPuppy said on quality vs quantity: the aforementioned department chair could write a couple excellent entires on subjects in his field, but a shmoe user such as myself could become an admin much faster by editing a bunch of articles.
Wikipedia would have contained the mainstream but wrong information? And would have corrected it later when it was shown that they weren't just nuts? Or are you trying to assert that wrong information inserted into Wikipedia will be protected against correction forever?
Red herring. Under the parents scenario, there is no reason there couldn't be an entry on the ulcer page for contrary research if it had some merit, but it would have been deleted by admins in the U.S. and the Australians banned.
No, I'm saying I find it *because* of the notability purges
How, exactly? You search for mountain top removal mining, you'll get the page on it, not the Juggernaut Bitch video.
The complaint isn't that people can't put whatever they want in a Wiki, it's that "notability" is often used as an excuse by snobby admins to remove articles they don't like. This is particularly true for online items which is ironic for an online encyclopedia that wants to be taken seriously.
Except that "notability" is a catch-all excuse for removing articles that an admin doesn't like.
Sounds like the rantings of an anti-Apple fanboy. Nobody is looking at the Kindle because they find it interesting or might like to try it out, it's because it's a cult.
but people forget the company has a string of failures alongside its string of successes.
Can you name one from the last 10 years that isn't the Cube?
Valve does have good levels, but all their maps are rat tunnels - there is only one path to take and only one way to solve a puzzle. That was fine in the first game, because you're in a damaged underground base so it makes sense that your movement options are limited. Not so much in the HL2 as you spend most of the game above ground in cities or traveling in the country.
That's why I think Deus Ex is the better example. On most of the maps you not only have multiple paths you can take, but there are multiple ways to accomplish your objective. In one level, your mission is to take down a power generator being used by the "terrorists". You can disable cameras and turrets and sneak through a tunnel, climb onto the rooftops and snipe, or you can go in the front door, guns blazing.
We are a company that invents and receives patents - my own - and licenses them.
He invents patents, he doesn't patent inventions. Pure patent troll.
No, she really did get fired for violating some very generic state agency policies here in Texas.
Sure she did. And Bob got fired from Wal-Mart for clocking in at 8:00:05 instead of 8 o'clock. Company policy to be on time, you know.
Your typical disciplinary action goes something like: 1) verbal warning 2) written warning 3) final warning 4) termination, depending on the offense. When a company wants to get rid of someone, they might take an issue that otherwise would never even rise to the level of a verbal warning and go straight to termination. For example, at the last company I worked at, I knew a couple who worked in the same area during the same shift. So, obviously, they rode in the same vehicle together. The wife was fired for being late while the husband faced no disciplinary action whatsoever.
With a sufficiently large employee handbook, it is virtually impossible not to break company policy some time or other, even if it is a token violation. I don't live in Texas (thank God), so maybe this really is an infraction that people really are commonly fired for. But it sure hits the BS-o-meter.
Thank you for the classic evolutionary response - "Oh, you don't like my long shot logic that ties together the origins of man? Well, tough, go find your own hard evidence." Just because you are comfortable with the long shot odds and logic doesn't mean I should be. blah blah blah
So in other words, you are not just guilty as charged, but proud of it.
blah blah blah blah blah I can more easily explain things using ID than you can with evolution.
Oh, you think so? Explain why whales have hip bones then. Or why biped humans have quadruped spines. Or why, in our pain response system, a large paper cut hurts like a mother but you might have extremely malignant cancer and not feel a thing. These things make perfect sense from an evolutionary perspective, but not for Intelligent Design, because it's more like Bloody Stupid Design.
ID uses the same tactics as the moon landing conspiracy people: make statements that seem reasonable to laypeople that rest on bad logic or are easily debunked. Moonies demand to know why, in pictures taken on the moon, you can't easily see the stars because there is no atmosphere. Answer: they had to use film with very short exposure times because otherwise the film would be overexposed - there's no way you could see stars with this film even if you took it on the dark side of the moon. Moonies demand to know why you can see footprints close to the lunar lander when the rockets should have pushed the dust away. Answer - because there is no atmosphere to push the dust or carry the force of the rockets.
It's the same for you ID fraudsters. You make arguments that seem reasonable on the face but are hollow. You engage in selective sampling and hand waving misdirection - no wonder you're all Republicans.
What happened is she walked off the job to attend a presentation not directly related to her job duties.
Of course it wasn't for opposing ID, just like Wal-Mart has never fired anyone who's tried to organize a union. When a company wants to fire someone but their reason is illegal, unpopular, or actionable, they can be very creative in finding other reasons to terminate you.
Here's the challenge, post right and here and now (the challenge I have given more than once on this slanted forum (pun intended)) one empirical fact or verifiable fact that shows evolution between kinds has been proven.
All the evidence in the world could be heaped on nutjobs like you and you'd still divide by two. Want a link between species A and species C? Fine, a species B is found. But then you demand a fossil link between species A and species B. Rinse, wash, repeat.
The only reason one guy had to wipe down and install is because he had only 1GB free when crap happened, meaning he couldn't archive and install.
I don't think you'd even have to do that, if you had a Leopard install cd. Since it comes with Terminal.app, you should be able to delete enough stuff (or move it to a removable disk) to upgrade to Leopard or just reinstall Tiger.
It's not an ad hominem - if you don't want to be called a dipshit then don't talk like one. Do you sometimes confuse arson with cannibalism? How about rape and drunken driving? Embezzlement and manslaughter? No, of course you wouldn't, because such a mistake would be ridiculous and you would deserve to be flamed. Calling copyright infringement stealing is just as ridiculous - and thus you are flamed.
Because the cable companies have already proved that the ideots will pay for cable AND watch ads.
Because those markets were already established before broadband internet and gigahertz PC's became commonplace. It's far more convenient to download Smallville and Heroes at 720p with no ads for my computer than to buy an HDTV and cable/satellite. Content companies can come up with new BS, but it's a lot easier to strip that out now.
How is prosecuting people for stealing your software 'extortion'?
It's not stealing, dipshit.
it's not. but to spin every case as being like that, when the truth 9as we aLL know) is that there are just thousands of companies using warezed copies of software is just delusional.
Too damned bad. Deplorable legal tactics are deplorable legal tactics.
Methinks you are expecting a bit much from Lucas. His strengths have been brainstorming, storyboards and visualizations. Script writing, directing - not so much. Did Lucas intend for the twins to make out in ESB? Did he intend to make talented actors look like bumbling idiots in the prequels? So he didn't include this in TPM - big deal, that scene will be more tolerable the next time I see the movie.
And your point is largely a red herring because that support is a drop in the bucket next to the money and resources Microsoft spends on Windows. And Linux is still a volunteer movement - support from IBM is just gravy on top, not necessary for it's existence. Unless you have evidence that most kernel code comes from IBM, you're just making a lame attempt at misdirection.