Given what the "intelligence" services think of real journalists, I wouldn't get too excited about them lumping bloggers in with them if I was a blogger.
Massive numbers of scientists who study climate have a secret agenda to bring down industrial civilization, and will fudge any and all data in order to convince the population to end industrial civilization before the sky falls in on us from the shaking of industry's engines.
You forgot "After decades of saying that the data didn't support the idea." So, we're supposed to believe that, rather than reacting to new data, these scientist were all bribed in some way by the Illuminati.
"The Great Global Warming Conspiracy", a documentary wherein you will discover that:
A nutter who has a pathological hatred of environmentalists and who has atrack record of fraud can put together an incoherent load of shit that reveals how bias he is.
Jesus, do some research before spouting bullshit like that. The Great Global Warming Conspiracy's claims were shredded withing 12hrs of broadcast.
Actually, installing from source under Gentoo is probably the single easiest way to install MythTV. I've had less trouble with Gentoo than with binary installs, although they were a year or two ago now so things might have picked up.
What if we dropped one of our MOAB bombs right in the middle of an Iraq mall killing just as many or more?
Errr, but you already have many times over. Alright, you used smaller bombs to do it a bit at a time but really, if you'd just dropped one MOAB in a mall and went home the Iraqi people would count themselves lucky.
And that's not even counting all the people Saddamm killed when the CIA were helping him round up his opponents. America's responsible for all those deaths too. Indeed, since they let Saddam loose in Iraq in the full knowledge that he was a murderer and a thug they're pretty well responsible for all the deaths he caused. Especially the ones where he used the WMD Rumsfeld supplied him with in return for promises that he'd only drop them on Iranians.
We'd SO be condemned for our actions.
You would and you are, and rightly so. Just as binLaden is, and rightly so. But the idea that America is and different from binLaden is hard to support, really. He's a nutter and America's just in it for the oil. Big fucking moral difference there.
Apple product is expensive crap. Wake me up when something happens.
Seriously, though, the idea of selling a phone with a non-replaceable battery and then claiming that the user shouldn't assume otherwise might have been defensible in 1997, today it's a bad joke.
Brilliant argument for handing out the lethal weapons to any retard who can fill in a form.
Do you think you can make any attempt to connect the existance of violence to the virtues of distributing weapons capable of long-range mass killings? Or is that pathetic knee-jerk stock phrase as far as your reasoning goes?
This kind of shit happens everywhere, and it's really only by having the protection of the guns of any particular country that you gain any measure of freedom past the average level that the man on the street considers the lowest possible.
The only reason we need guns is to protect us from the sort of jerks who own guns...
Now to make people look foolish by challenging them to break out of a wet paper bag!
From TFA: "Also, says materials scientist Boris Yakobson of Rice University in Houston, Texas, because water is so common as either liquid as rain or vapor as humidity, it will [probably] affect graphene sheets exposed to the environment in the long run if the material can't be protected from water's effects."
Bagley trolls the web smearing critics of Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne. Both Byrne and Overstock are under investigation by the feds for lying to the media.
Which doesn't change the fact that Wales is a creditless sack of shit.
Microsoft has lost the ability to compete in a free market?
No. They never had it.
MS took off when they were given the keys to the IBM-PC market and have spent all their time since making sure that no one else ever gets the keys back. They'd sink without trace if they had to fight in an open market, and they know it or they wouldn't bother bullying OEMs to install Windows, or paying politicians to block open standards laws, would they?
my country used to be in its shadow and now it is ruined.
I very much doubt that. I suspect that what your country was in the shadow of was Stalinism. Just because the nice American man said you were living under communism doesn't mean anything as Americans generally can not tell the difference between Communism, Stalinism, and Socialism (and assume they're all Stalinism).
Communism, like capitalism, is based on a model of the world which only works if everyone acts in exactly the way the inventor of the model thought they should. Neither work in reality; both need socialist elements to prevent them turning into a nightmare for all but the top 500 or so people in a country.
From an encyclopedia I want concise information - not just a paragraph but not so much detail that it is difficult to get an overview of more advanced topics, let alone more basic ones.
Perhaps, if the people at the bus stop cited their sources, had a mechanism for tracking changes in what was said, had ever-vigilant anti-vandalism editors to stamp out graffiti, included people with vast knowledge of the subject, and were able to translate everything they said into hundreds of languages
And weren't idiots.
Wikipedia is not a place for your personal opinions.
I assume you meant this as a joke of some sort. Wikipedia is a feudal collection of fiefdoms where huge swaiths of related subjects are controled by networks of friends who enforce their personal opinions and claim they can't be biased since they all agree.
Those who post personal opinions are quickly suppressed,
Unless they agree with the "ever vigilant editors" opinions.
and the vast majority of the articles I read have a fairly balanced approach to the subject.
The further you go from history and the closer you get to mathematics (or Harry Potter) on WP, the more true this becomes.
Except for this. And this. And this. And this. And this. And this. And this. And this. And this. And this. And this.
None of which wankathon has anything to do with editing in the "make it read coherently" sense.
I'm sure you have much better things to do with your time than dump on the single most successful* web collaboration effort to date.
Well, if Google would remove it and all it's replicators from its index, then I would not be irritated by it pretty well every day. WP is successful only in the context of page hits. As an encyclopedia it's just plain shit.
One app is done using one kit, and another is done using a different kit.
And users learn each in the context of the app. It's not an issue.
The issue is the lack of bare machines. Having different Window Managers available is what makes Linux into a viable desktop machine for me. If I had to use Windows, OS X, KDE, or Gnome I would simply ditch my computer; I don't need that sort of shit in my life, thanks. But there's lots of choice and I use WindowMaker. Which is good for me.
The one think WP gets right is the online access. Freed of the need to limit paper use or even disc space (and therefore cost), an online encyclopedia can afford to expand on any topic for as far as that topic needs. WP gets everything else wrong: there's no business model, no quality control except agreeing with the consensus, no overall editing system either for the entire work or individual articles, a deranged approach to point-of-view, and - ironically - no good mechanism for keeping the length of trivial articles under control.
Patent is intellectual property. You don't have to be a "patent attorney", ie someone who has passed the specialized patent bar for bar examiners, to be knowledgeable and qualified in patent law.
Okay, what part of her background qualified her to advise on IP?
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Given what the "intelligence" services think of real journalists, I wouldn't get too excited about them lumping bloggers in with them if I was a blogger.
You forgot "After decades of saying that the data didn't support the idea." So, we're supposed to believe that, rather than reacting to new data, these scientist were all bribed in some way by the Illuminati.
A nutter who has a pathological hatred of environmentalists and who has atrack record of fraud can put together an incoherent load of shit that reveals how bias he is.
Jesus, do some research before spouting bullshit like that. The Great Global Warming Conspiracy's claims were shredded withing 12hrs of broadcast.
TWW
Actually, installing from source under Gentoo is probably the single easiest way to install MythTV. I've had less trouble with Gentoo than with binary installs, although they were a year or two ago now so things might have picked up.
TWW
There are people who still browse with java switched on?! That is SO 1990's.
Errr, but you already have many times over. Alright, you used smaller bombs to do it a bit at a time but really, if you'd just dropped one MOAB in a mall and went home the Iraqi people would count themselves lucky.
And that's not even counting all the people Saddamm killed when the CIA were helping him round up his opponents. America's responsible for all those deaths too. Indeed, since they let Saddam loose in Iraq in the full knowledge that he was a murderer and a thug they're pretty well responsible for all the deaths he caused. Especially the ones where he used the WMD Rumsfeld supplied him with in return for promises that he'd only drop them on Iranians.
We'd SO be condemned for our actions.
You would and you are, and rightly so. Just as binLaden is, and rightly so. But the idea that America is and different from binLaden is hard to support, really. He's a nutter and America's just in it for the oil. Big fucking moral difference there.
TWW
This must be the single funniest thing ever posted on /. What a wonderful utopia it evokes!
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It's shit too.
Seriously, though, the idea of selling a phone with a non-replaceable battery and then claiming that the user shouldn't assume otherwise might have been defensible in 1997, today it's a bad joke.
Brilliant argument for handing out the lethal weapons to any retard who can fill in a form.
Do you think you can make any attempt to connect the existance of violence to the virtues of distributing weapons capable of long-range mass killings? Or is that pathetic knee-jerk stock phrase as far as your reasoning goes?
TWW
So we need guns to protect us from the jerks that have them.
Government is set up at our convenience. We control whether it lives or dies. And the Constitution is ours... not theirs.
Dream on, kid.
TWW
The only reason we need guns is to protect us from the sort of jerks who own guns...
TWW
From TFA: "Also, says materials scientist Boris Yakobson of Rice University in Houston, Texas, because water is so common as either liquid as rain or vapor as humidity, it will [probably] affect graphene sheets exposed to the environment in the long run if the material can't be protected from water's effects."
Sorry.
TWW
Which doesn't change the fact that Wales is a creditless sack of shit.
TWW
No. They never had it.
MS took off when they were given the keys to the IBM-PC market and have spent all their time since making sure that no one else ever gets the keys back. They'd sink without trace if they had to fight in an open market, and they know it or they wouldn't bother bullying OEMs to install Windows, or paying politicians to block open standards laws, would they?
I very much doubt that. I suspect that what your country was in the shadow of was Stalinism. Just because the nice American man said you were living under communism doesn't mean anything as Americans generally can not tell the difference between Communism, Stalinism, and Socialism (and assume they're all Stalinism).
Communism, like capitalism, is based on a model of the world which only works if everyone acts in exactly the way the inventor of the model thought they should. Neither work in reality; both need socialist elements to prevent them turning into a nightmare for all but the top 500 or so people in a country.
TWW
From an encyclopedia I want concise information - not just a paragraph but not so much detail that it is difficult to get an overview of more advanced topics, let alone more basic ones.
Perhaps, if the people at the bus stop cited their sources, had a mechanism for tracking changes in what was said, had ever-vigilant anti-vandalism editors to stamp out graffiti, included people with vast knowledge of the subject, and were able to translate everything they said into hundreds of languages
And weren't idiots.
Wikipedia is not a place for your personal opinions.
I assume you meant this as a joke of some sort. Wikipedia is a feudal collection of fiefdoms where huge swaiths of related subjects are controled by networks of friends who enforce their personal opinions and claim they can't be biased since they all agree.
Those who post personal opinions are quickly suppressed,
Unless they agree with the "ever vigilant editors" opinions.
and the vast majority of the articles I read have a fairly balanced approach to the subject.
The further you go from history and the closer you get to mathematics (or Harry Potter) on WP, the more true this becomes.
Except for this. And this. And this. And this. And this. And this. And this. And this. And this. And this. And this.
None of which wankathon has anything to do with editing in the "make it read coherently" sense.
I'm sure you have much better things to do with your time than dump on the single most successful* web collaboration effort to date.
Well, if Google would remove it and all it's replicators from its index, then I would not be irritated by it pretty well every day. WP is successful only in the context of page hits. As an encyclopedia it's just plain shit.
I think it's a given that the purpose of any biological system is to reproduce; mules are a freak.
I don't see any different between patenting instructions for the biological machines in our cells and for the silicon machines in our computers.
Indeed: patenting software is a bad idea whatever the context.
Maybe we will get lucky and the net effect will be to take software from copyright protection and put it under patent protection
That's the sort of luck the world can do without. Patent duration would be extended to 100+ years within a month.
TWW
And users learn each in the context of the app. It's not an issue.
The issue is the lack of bare machines. Having different Window Managers available is what makes Linux into a viable desktop machine for me. If I had to use Windows, OS X, KDE, or Gnome I would simply ditch my computer; I don't need that sort of shit in my life, thanks. But there's lots of choice and I use WindowMaker. Which is good for me.
TWW
Maybe they have, but this work is as worthless to AI as Ford's research into LPG engines is to 100m sprinters.
TWW
TWW
Okay, what part of her background qualified her to advise on IP?
TWW
Because people keep buying their buggy shit. If people buy your products regardless of the quality, what incentive do you have to fix anything?
I'm all for trade barriers between my country and slave-owning, stalinist, baby-killing, thought-policing bastards like China.
TWW
Actually, in any universe Rowling is in charge of, this seems a very intelligent plan that will almost always work.