The USA flag is public domain. Anyone and any company can use it, even as their company logo. Walmart could use it if they wanted to.
Interesting: USA flag is public domain, but the FBI badges cannot be reproduced on X-Files and caused some unfortunate folks to challenge the FBI at their door with "pshaw, those aren't real FBI badges, I know what those look like, I watch X-Files".
I'm not sure I want my tools to respond differently to me depending on what mood I'm in.
Actually, I just found out about f.lux yesterday and installed it on my work laptop this morning, then forgot about it during the day. Then along comes 6 pm and the laptop starts getting easier to read! It's not my mood, it's a different external reading (available sunlight, calculated by the current time, and it also might have some sort of IP-geolocation, to determine latitude), but I found on just the first day of using it that it is fairly cool. I'm now putting it on all my computers.
That said, I very much agree with you: it is frustrating using Outlook to type part of someone's email address, especially when that someone and another email are addresses that you regularly communicate with a lot, but sometimes more and sometimes less, so that those two fucking addresses keep swapping places in the drop-down hint that appears... (Did you know you can arrow-key to one of the entries and then hit the Delete key to stop it from ever appearing again? That might be useful for some who find themselves in this circumstance, if for instance one of the two emails is a "dead" one.)
Anyway: yeah, a tool that is not deterministic (i.e., changes with my mood) seems like it would make my mood worse, not improve it.
Er, I think that now I get it; they had already gone from "don't upset the downstairs neighbor" by aiming it at the wall; then, they turned it around and aimed it at the room. Silly early morning brain.;)
The only technology that's ever interfered with my sleep is my neighbour's sub-woofer.
A friend of mine experienced this in reverse. When the neighbors talked with him, he aimed his sub-woofer at the room, not at the wall. Load of difference for them.
I guess my problem stems from the same argument as drug legalization. I know the ideal is that it only hurts yourself but it causes societal harm.
Drugs are not illegal because their addictions cause societal harm (society was just fine up until about 70 years ago). Drugs are illegal because hemp caused William Randolph Hearst's forests to be financially harmed, and he advocated for hemp to be illegal, using racist propaganda that worked so well, we didn't need a Constitutional Amendment like we did to make alcohol illegal in the 1920s..
What I am forcing on you is living with the consequences of the choices you already made. Women don't need a mulligan unless they haven't been taught the birds and the bees. Face it women know the dangers of having sex before engaging. Don't let them about face when shit gets real.
So, how moral is a miscarriage in your world? And how much inducing of one is needed in order to be "breaking the law"?
They're returned to 'purity' the next day so you can cause them pain and suffering again, and again, and again. Just like you did in life! Awesome stuff huh?
I see what you did there. Hell is being Heaven's virgins.
LOL not "texting while driving". So, they were spending a couple hours texting, and during this behavior, spent a few minutes driving. I like you wording so much for the story it created in my head. Thanks.:)
Uh, the US government stashes cocaine on its citizenry daily. It's not entirely random, though, as the citizen must be carrying paper currency... But I agree with the rest, and I also understand that my world of logic will fade like Archimedes's circles when he asked the gentlemen to please not disturb them.
"No one would have" is not arguable. I maintain that someone would have. But we don't have a control world. So we can only hold differing opinions, one of which is more likely.
Chances are that twelve year olds didn't use IM ten years ago, and that Facebook is their first communication medium.
And furthermore, if you're 12, aren't you violating Facebook's terms of service if you're using their service? Based on some stupid federal law, corporations can't collect information on people less than 13?
However, a claim of certain acts -- including pedophilia (and domestic abuse, etc) -- instantly initiates criminal proceedings, starting out with separation and investigation. They are engaging in acts that do have very serious immediate consequences that involve law enforcement and the courts.
I like to think that if enough kids start doing this type of thing, the hysteria will be reduced: the children are pointing out to the adults, "Hey, you've set the consequences for these actions wrong, and here's how the system can be gamed." Hopefully this will teach our authorities lessons in setting proper consequences. And, yes, I also live in a world where logic triumphs over e.g. Gadaffi...
And maybe a more appropriate punishment is NOT suspending kids, but making them stay LONGER in school. Wash some of the graffiti off the lockers, etc. I could never figure out how suspending a kid was a punishment.
Princpal: "You skipped school yesterday, so we're suspending you today"
Student: "So what you're saying is I have permission to skip school today too? Works for me!"
Reminds me of the Simpsons, where Homer asked for Friday off; Mr. Burns: "If you don't come in Friday, don't bother coming in Monday." Homer, cleverly demonstrating not getting the point: "Woohoo! Four day weekend!"
TFA says "Also, if the wormhole is short, so that the two stars it links don't lie far apart, an observer might see another unusual signpost -- two closely spaced objects with nearly identical properties."
However, the wormhole doesn't need to be short, which would mean regions of the universe far apart from each other would have similar properties if wormholes existed.
Oh, wormholes definitely exist; I see the birds picking at them outside my window. Yay spring!
All of the technological improvements - the very technologies that were created- were funded by the government in the form of NHGRI and DOE grants. Also, the entire next generation is being funded directly from the government. While the commercialization of these have been commercially funded. And to note the technologies developed to date are to resequence human genomes, which is the same thing as denovo sequencing. The costs have come down, as has the utility of the sequence.
That's all well and good, but we don't have a "control world" where the government didn't interfere and people created technological improvements themselves, at a different pace. My belief is that it would be a more rapid pace, but since we don't have this control world we will never know if the government helped or hindered progress.
Thereby creating work for Slashdot's "duplicate comment detection" coders (the period was italicized). So: they should of stripped the tags before comparing the comments.
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Thought I warned you not to marry my ex.
The USA flag is public domain. Anyone and any company can use it, even as their company logo. Walmart could use it if they wanted to.
Interesting: USA flag is public domain, but the FBI badges cannot be reproduced on X-Files and caused some unfortunate folks to challenge the FBI at their door with "pshaw, those aren't real FBI badges, I know what those look like, I watch X-Files".
I'm not sure I want my tools to respond differently to me depending on what mood I'm in.
Actually, I just found out about f.lux yesterday and installed it on my work laptop this morning, then forgot about it during the day. Then along comes 6 pm and the laptop starts getting easier to read! It's not my mood, it's a different external reading (available sunlight, calculated by the current time, and it also might have some sort of IP-geolocation, to determine latitude), but I found on just the first day of using it that it is fairly cool. I'm now putting it on all my computers.
That said, I very much agree with you: it is frustrating using Outlook to type part of someone's email address, especially when that someone and another email are addresses that you regularly communicate with a lot, but sometimes more and sometimes less, so that those two fucking addresses keep swapping places in the drop-down hint that appears... (Did you know you can arrow-key to one of the entries and then hit the Delete key to stop it from ever appearing again? That might be useful for some who find themselves in this circumstance, if for instance one of the two emails is a "dead" one.)
Anyway: yeah, a tool that is not deterministic (i.e., changes with my mood) seems like it would make my mood worse, not improve it.
If Flash ran around in a sandbox, wouldn't he change it to a glassbox?
Actually good sleep is a science. The key: breathing deeply. That's it, really.
Er, I think that now I get it; they had already gone from "don't upset the downstairs neighbor" by aiming it at the wall; then, they turned it around and aimed it at the room. Silly early morning brain. ;)
The only technology that's ever interfered with my sleep is my neighbour's sub-woofer.
A friend of mine experienced this in reverse. When the neighbors talked with him, he aimed his sub-woofer at the room, not at the wall. Load of difference for them.
"at the wall, not at the floor" you mean?
Soon today's games will be retro, is I think his point.
I guess my problem stems from the same argument as drug legalization. I know the ideal is that it only hurts yourself but it causes societal harm.
Drugs are not illegal because their addictions cause societal harm (society was just fine up until about 70 years ago). Drugs are illegal because hemp caused William Randolph Hearst's forests to be financially harmed, and he advocated for hemp to be illegal, using racist propaganda that worked so well, we didn't need a Constitutional Amendment like we did to make alcohol illegal in the 1920s..
What I am forcing on you is living with the consequences of the choices you already made. Women don't need a mulligan unless they haven't been taught the birds and the bees. Face it women know the dangers of having sex before engaging. Don't let them about face when shit gets real.
So, how moral is a miscarriage in your world? And how much inducing of one is needed in order to be "breaking the law"?
"Believe it or not, I'm walking on air"
Nirvana!
They're returned to 'purity' the next day so you can cause them pain and suffering again, and again, and again. Just like you did in life! Awesome stuff huh?
I see what you did there. Hell is being Heaven's virgins.
LOL not "texting while driving". So, they were spending a couple hours texting, and during this behavior, spent a few minutes driving. I like you wording so much for the story it created in my head. Thanks. :)
Uh, the US government stashes cocaine on its citizenry daily. It's not entirely random, though, as the citizen must be carrying paper currency... But I agree with the rest, and I also understand that my world of logic will fade like Archimedes's circles when he asked the gentlemen to please not disturb them.
Sure, and if we start breaking windows, the glaziers will have an economy!
"No one would have" is not arguable. I maintain that someone would have. But we don't have a control world. So we can only hold differing opinions, one of which is more likely.
Chances are that twelve year olds didn't use IM ten years ago, and that Facebook is their first communication medium.
And furthermore, if you're 12, aren't you violating Facebook's terms of service if you're using their service? Based on some stupid federal law, corporations can't collect information on people less than 13?
However, a claim of certain acts -- including pedophilia (and domestic abuse, etc) -- instantly initiates criminal proceedings, starting out with separation and investigation. They are engaging in acts that do have very serious immediate consequences that involve law enforcement and the courts.
I like to think that if enough kids start doing this type of thing, the hysteria will be reduced: the children are pointing out to the adults, "Hey, you've set the consequences for these actions wrong, and here's how the system can be gamed." Hopefully this will teach our authorities lessons in setting proper consequences. And, yes, I also live in a world where logic triumphs over e.g. Gadaffi...
And maybe a more appropriate punishment is NOT suspending kids, but making them stay LONGER in school. Wash some of the graffiti off the lockers, etc. I could never figure out how suspending a kid was a punishment.
Princpal: "You skipped school yesterday, so we're suspending you today" Student: "So what you're saying is I have permission to skip school today too? Works for me!"
Reminds me of the Simpsons, where Homer asked for Friday off; Mr. Burns: "If you don't come in Friday, don't bother coming in Monday." Homer, cleverly demonstrating not getting the point: "Woohoo! Four day weekend!"
TFA says "Also, if the wormhole is short, so that the two stars it links don't lie far apart, an observer might see another unusual signpost -- two closely spaced objects with nearly identical properties."
However, the wormhole doesn't need to be short, which would mean regions of the universe far apart from each other would have similar properties if wormholes existed.
Oh, wormholes definitely exist; I see the birds picking at them outside my window. Yay spring!
All of the technological improvements - the very technologies that were created- were funded by the government in the form of NHGRI and DOE grants. Also, the entire next generation is being funded directly from the government. While the commercialization of these have been commercially funded. And to note the technologies developed to date are to resequence human genomes, which is the same thing as denovo sequencing. The costs have come down, as has the utility of the sequence.
That's all well and good, but we don't have a "control world" where the government didn't interfere and people created technological improvements themselves, at a different pace. My belief is that it would be a more rapid pace, but since we don't have this control world we will never know if the government helped or hindered progress.
"Living language" does not mean that everything that comes out of someone's mouth is correct. It's still possible to be wrong.
Exactly. Fucking "proof is in the pudding" meme.
Thereby creating work for Slashdot's "duplicate comment detection" coders (the period was italicized). So: they should of stripped the tags before comparing the comments.
I wish I could mod this up.
Cleanliness is next to oh-godliness.