Similarly, the moon is receding from the Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year. At some point, it's going to "fly off into space". Imagine if we hadn't developed intelligence and telescopes until after that happened? We wouldn't be able to describe our origin!
I read a short story a while ago in which there were astronomers wondering at the significance of the six stars in their sky. As they were debating this, one of the stars winked out, and they were left with only five visible stars. Really neat thought experiment.
Would you have to abide by Facebook's ToS on every site with a "Like" button and a FB tracking cookie?
Alternately: would you have to abide by a judge's ruling to share passwords with the spouse who you're divorcing, if this will violate Facebook's ToS and submit you to even more judicial scrutiny?
Yeah, that SSA agreement is almost illegible on the box cover you child-posted. I heard an article on NPR the other day about the healthcare issue being in front of the Supreme Court, and in it they mentioned "We want to see the fine print be more transparent." This really amused me: if the fine print was "more transparent" (as in see-through), wouldn't it be even harder to read? (Yes, I know it was all in my head.)
A hundred years ago, movies were vastly different than they are today. They didn't even have sound. It's possible that 100 years from now, watching a 2011 movie would be as interesting to the average American as watching a silent movie is to the average American of today.
It's come close to reaching that point for me already; I spend more time here than I used to watching media.
A Spanish-speaker once asked me what "mocho" meant. I had no idea. I asked him for the context: "innit m8".
In English, we have the abbreviation "K9" for "canine". In Brazilian Portuguese (and perhaps continental), they have the abbreviation "K7" for "cassette". (A Portuguese 7 is pronounced (in English phonemes) like "set'-she", and their word for "cassette" is pronounced "ca-set'-she", so it works just as well -- but I thought the store had something to do with dogs, the first time I saw it.:)
If I could keep them typing long enough, they would always end up making some kind of written error. Thus being a spelling/grammar Nazi is inherently being a hypocrite.
To an extent; however, consider their feedback similar to a RAID array: every drive you own will die some day, but by setting your system up properly, you hopefully will not experience dataloss when a drive dies. Similarly, all grammar Nazi's (heh) will fail at some point -- however, that does not negate the benefits of their feedback in terms of teaching, training, and learning (regardless of how harsh they were).
Some of those writers are talented enough to go on for page after page saying hardly anything at all, while defeating the immediate "this is vacuous crap" quick page-turn self defense.
Reminds me of both Frank Herbert's paid-by-the-word writing in "The White Plague" (excellent book, but should have been 1/3 the size); and also the old quote, "diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy until you find a rock", which would be transformed into something like, "successful vacuous writing is the art of saying something the reader will find interesting, while you fill your bank account" -- or something similar, I'm tired.:)
I am a native speaker and I've learned many words in writing before I learned them in speech. As a result, some of my pronunciations are nonstandard. I pronounce "comparable" as if it were "compare" + "able", even though the standard way is irregular, "comp" + "arable". I tried to pronounce these words from how they were written before I'd heard them.
Native speaker here, as well. I recall when I was 5 or 6, I had this box of crayons, with one color Magenta. I pronounced it "magneto" (perhaps I had been exposed to the X-Men at this early age? I don't think so, but it's possible I heard something in school etc), and I distinctly recall my father's excellent advice: "Son, you can call it that if you like, but nobody is going to understand you."
Even more amusing is he called me out, a few months ago, for pronouncing "detritus" wrong (det'-ri-tus; he said it is de-'try-tus, which the dictionary agrees with).
If you don't like that, then it is time to start working on your senators and congressman. Get enough of a ground swell going that those people will see that they will not be re-elected if they don't change it and guess what, it will get changed.
What you quoted as a "limited time" is effectively unlimited for all humans currently existing at the point of creation of a specific work. That was absolutely not the framers' intentions when they wrote "limited Times".
I respect your idealism but don't put much stock in your methods; they've been tried before. He who has the gold makes the rules. I agree that there isn't much else we can effectively do, except protest, riot, revolt. We've hit the first stage.
Uh, no. The demanded right is the ability to download it after the copyright period specified in the Constitution has expired. Where is the Amendment extending this time period?
I was listening to the radio this morning and in the context of another story the speaker matter of factly stated many young Italians will never have a steady job!
What you say about Italy is interesting. I've been thinking recently that the people who created the European Central Bank, and removed the ability for those countries to inflate their currency, are the new thieves of the economy -- and knew full well what they were doing. It's working almost as well as the Federal Reserve Banking system. The root of it is fractional reserve lending; for more info Google for Zeitgeist, they now have 3 movies and are working on a fourth.
Case in point, which appeared to work: "It's the economy, stupid." (This was a sign in President Bill Clinton's office, which he wrote, and was meant to be directed towards himself as both motivation for the issues he should direct his attention to, and also some self-criticism.)
Alternately, a "joke" I heard in high school which I now question the actual accuracy of: "The intelligence of the world is constant. The population is growing."
DOH! My bad, I failed. I did not expand and read the hidden post, and thought you were responding to Opyros. So it's still for dinner; it's just me doing the eating.
If your idea can quickly be copied then it's clearly not innovative enough to deserve a patent.
Oh, I don't know; nanotechnology assemblers can copy themselves, and they are likely innovative enough for their eventual creators to be awarded a patent.
Or, to put it in a different perspective: it's around 3 years of US vehicular deaths. Since you started with "in the few years of Calderon's term", it seems reasonable to state that drug-related deaths in Mexico are on a par with vehicle-related deaths in the US. It's bad, sure, but not catastrophic. (In terms of the raw numbers; hanging typists from bridges does seem fairly catastrophic.)
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Hmm, perhaps FXI is a division of Microsoft? Embracing the Rasbperry Pi; Extending the pricing; Extinguishing the hobbyist.
Similarly, the moon is receding from the Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year. At some point, it's going to "fly off into space". Imagine if we hadn't developed intelligence and telescopes until after that happened? We wouldn't be able to describe our origin!
I read a short story a while ago in which there were astronomers wondering at the significance of the six stars in their sky. As they were debating this, one of the stars winked out, and they were left with only five visible stars. Really neat thought experiment.
NZT FTW
Would you have to abide by Facebook's ToS on every site with a "Like" button and a FB tracking cookie?
Alternately: would you have to abide by a judge's ruling to share passwords with the spouse who you're divorcing, if this will violate Facebook's ToS and submit you to even more judicial scrutiny?
Yeah, that SSA agreement is almost illegible on the box cover you child-posted. I heard an article on NPR the other day about the healthcare issue being in front of the Supreme Court, and in it they mentioned "We want to see the fine print be more transparent." This really amused me: if the fine print was "more transparent" (as in see-through), wouldn't it be even harder to read? (Yes, I know it was all in my head.)
A hundred years ago, movies were vastly different than they are today. They didn't even have sound. It's possible that 100 years from now, watching a 2011 movie would be as interesting to the average American as watching a silent movie is to the average American of today.
It's come close to reaching that point for me already; I spend more time here than I used to watching media.
(I'm going for Informative.)
A Spanish-speaker once asked me what "mocho" meant. I had no idea. I asked him for the context: "innit m8".
In English, we have the abbreviation "K9" for "canine". In Brazilian Portuguese (and perhaps continental), they have the abbreviation "K7" for "cassette". (A Portuguese 7 is pronounced (in English phonemes) like "set'-she", and their word for "cassette" is pronounced "ca-set'-she", so it works just as well -- but I thought the store had something to do with dogs, the first time I saw it. :)
If I could keep them typing long enough, they would always end up making some kind of written error. Thus being a spelling/grammar Nazi is inherently being a hypocrite.
To an extent; however, consider their feedback similar to a RAID array: every drive you own will die some day, but by setting your system up properly, you hopefully will not experience dataloss when a drive dies. Similarly, all grammar Nazi's (heh) will fail at some point -- however, that does not negate the benefits of their feedback in terms of teaching, training, and learning (regardless of how harsh they were).
Some of those writers are talented enough to go on for page after page saying hardly anything at all, while defeating the immediate "this is vacuous crap" quick page-turn self defense.
Reminds me of both Frank Herbert's paid-by-the-word writing in "The White Plague" (excellent book, but should have been 1/3 the size); and also the old quote, "diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy until you find a rock", which would be transformed into something like, "successful vacuous writing is the art of saying something the reader will find interesting, while you fill your bank account" -- or something similar, I'm tired. :)
Hmm. So once the country's land is owned, what do the distributists do when the next baby is born?
I am a native speaker and I've learned many words in writing before I learned them in speech. As a result, some of my pronunciations are nonstandard. I pronounce "comparable" as if it were "compare" + "able", even though the standard way is irregular, "comp" + "arable". I tried to pronounce these words from how they were written before I'd heard them.
Native speaker here, as well. I recall when I was 5 or 6, I had this box of crayons, with one color Magenta. I pronounced it "magneto" (perhaps I had been exposed to the X-Men at this early age? I don't think so, but it's possible I heard something in school etc), and I distinctly recall my father's excellent advice: "Son, you can call it that if you like, but nobody is going to understand you."
Even more amusing is he called me out, a few months ago, for pronouncing "detritus" wrong (det'-ri-tus; he said it is de-'try-tus, which the dictionary agrees with).
You seem pleasant to be around.
If you don't like that, then it is time to start working on your senators and congressman. Get enough of a ground swell going that those people will see that they will not be re-elected if they don't change it and guess what, it will get changed.
What you quoted as a "limited time" is effectively unlimited for all humans currently existing at the point of creation of a specific work. That was absolutely not the framers' intentions when they wrote "limited Times".
I respect your idealism but don't put much stock in your methods; they've been tried before. He who has the gold makes the rules. I agree that there isn't much else we can effectively do, except protest, riot, revolt. We've hit the first stage.
Uh, no. The demanded right is the ability to download it after the copyright period specified in the Constitution has expired. Where is the Amendment extending this time period?
LOL, you get "cultural norms" from corporations?
I was listening to the radio this morning and in the context of another story the speaker matter of factly stated many young Italians will never have a steady job!
What you say about Italy is interesting. I've been thinking recently that the people who created the European Central Bank, and removed the ability for those countries to inflate their currency, are the new thieves of the economy -- and knew full well what they were doing. It's working almost as well as the Federal Reserve Banking system. The root of it is fractional reserve lending; for more info Google for Zeitgeist, they now have 3 movies and are working on a fourth.
Case in point, which appeared to work: "It's the economy, stupid." (This was a sign in President Bill Clinton's office, which he wrote, and was meant to be directed towards himself as both motivation for the issues he should direct his attention to, and also some self-criticism.)
Alternately, a "joke" I heard in high school which I now question the actual accuracy of: "The intelligence of the world is constant. The population is growing."
Seriously: do you consider that Slashdot counts?
Sometimes for entertainment; more often than not, though, for information.
DOH! My bad, I failed. I did not expand and read the hidden post, and thought you were responding to Opyros. So it's still for dinner; it's just me doing the eating.
Reading Comprehension. It's what's for dinner.
If your idea can quickly be copied then it's clearly not innovative enough to deserve a patent.
Oh, I don't know; nanotechnology assemblers can copy themselves, and they are likely innovative enough for their eventual creators to be awarded a patent.
Or, to put it in a different perspective: it's around 3 years of US vehicular deaths. Since you started with "in the few years of Calderon's term", it seems reasonable to state that drug-related deaths in Mexico are on a par with vehicle-related deaths in the US. It's bad, sure, but not catastrophic. (In terms of the raw numbers; hanging typists from bridges does seem fairly catastrophic.)
You're hoping, without anything to back you up, that drugs will be significantly cheaper once they are being legalized.
See US prohibition of alcohol, for prior art.