monopoly (which is a lousy game) No, sir, if you win, the game really rocks!;)
Just out of curiosity: Does anyone play Monopoly to completion anymore? That's what I don't get about some board games. Monopoly, Risk, Trivial Pursuit... After you get out of college, who can find four adults who are willing to dedicate six uninterrupted hours to playing these? One time (in college) a bunch of us decided to play Risk one night. When dawn came and there was no clear victory at hand, I swore never to play it again.
Except that the appeals court did not overturn *any* of his findings. The only thing that was overturned was his sentence.
They didn't overturn his findings, but the sentence wasn't "the only thing that was overturned". They also partially overturned the verdict:
... Accordingly, we affirm in part and reverse in part the District Court's judgment that Microsoft violated [section] 2 of the Sherman Act by employing anticompetitive means to maintain a monopoly in the operating system market; we reverse the District Court's determination that Microsoft violated [section] 2 of the Sherman Act by illegally attempting to monopolize the internet browser market; and we remand the District Court's finding that Microsoft violated [section] 1 of the Sherman Act by unlawfully tying its browser to its operating system....
Technically speaking, there were three separate phases: Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and the sentencing. Usually, the first two are issued simultaneously, but Judge Jackson separated them by several months, presumably to encourage Microsoft to settle with the government. I have no idea when during all this the comments were made, though.
You know, "travel" doesn't just mean "take a vacation". It encompasses things like going to the grocery or to work without the government knowing whether I took my "usual route", because a sudden change might make me appear suspicious to them.
Well, I'll be the first to admit my general ignorance about Africa. Unfortunately, I'm a product of my environment, and around these parts, the ability to name African countries does little more than help you win a drinking game.
Anyway, the SADC (linked on the slim chance anyone else is reading this and would like to actually learn about it) sounds suspiciously constrained to the southern part of the continent. Groups like the SADC and ECOWAS remind me not so much of the US as the EU (which also has the concept of "member states", though I doubt "all becomes Europe").
My point about the Colorado River was that it supplies water to seven different states, not that it does so equitably. My example was probably a bad one, but I maintain that the Federal government has much more capacity to force the States to work toward a common goal than the SADC has over its member nations.
Maybe the problem is the assumption that a company that only sells software deserves to stay in business.
I make a pretty good living writing code, but absolutely no one outside of my employer ever uses (or even knows about) the software I produce. Instead, my employer sells a service, and uses my software to do so more efficiently.
The problem with your analogy is that Africa is not a single country with a common self-interest. Nevada can thrive economically because the Federal government won't sit back and let other states hoard their water.
Hahah. Maybe I'll just not work then! I receive a middle-class income anyway, right?
If you want to waste your life doing that, go for it. I [] would like to work and do something with our lives.
Waste is in the eye of the beholder. quadra was probably just joking, but s/he's got a point. In a hundred years or so you'll both be dead, and s/he'll have had a much less stressful existence.
If Microsoft puts voice recognition into Longhorn how long will it take the open source community to compete?
I realize I might be alone in thinking this, but I don't want my Linux PC to have voice recognition. DWIMNWIS takes on a whole new meaning. Besides, I apparently mispronounce things like "GNU"; how am I supposed to pronounce a regular expression?
I suppose the obvious answer is to type some things and say others, but I mutter while I type.
Iterator iter = foo.getList().iterator();
while (iter.hasNext()) { MyData bar = (MyData) iter.next();
bar.doStuff();
since I know get list returns at least one element, maybe a do while is bet wait don't type that stop stop it you stupid piece of }
(My apologies; I can't seem to get the code to indent properly.)
"We do not inherit the land from our ancestors" "We borrow it from our children"
I believe it was Dogbert who said (to Dilbert): "But you and I don't have any children, so we're borrowing it from complete strangers. We can just use it up and leave a smoldering wasteland behind."
I've said a couple times that I expect soon for the telemarketers to make deals with charities, so that they'll be calling on behalf of the charity but selling the same old crap. That way they'll be immune to the do-not-call list.
It's already been happening for some time. There's a telemarketing firm that called me up every three months asking me to buy magazine subscriptions at a steep discount so that (somehow) the Special Olympics would get a charitable donation.
Since they always tried to guilt me when I say I'm not interested in magazines, I hit upon a "compromise": I told them I didn't want any magazines, but I was very interested in helping out the Special Olympics, so could they please give me the address where I could mail in a donation directly? Alas, no one on their end had any idea of what the address might be.
By my argument, we would need to assume that objects that we call white are a little more absorbent of light in the yellow end of the spectrum. Could be true, I guess.
That thought occurred to me as I was reading the first part of your response, but then I hit another wall: if they absorbed more "yellow" then they would appear bluish when viewed under a light source with more even distribution (such as a fluorescent light).
Blue is just a guess, though. The cones in our eyes are RGB, and yellow is made from equal parts red and green. Regardless, it makes sense that there'd be some kind of color change. Of course, by my logic, there's a dangerous temptation to conclude that the sun is white, but just appears yellow because all the blue is scattered across the sky, leaving only red and green to appear to come directly from the sun. Or, less crazily, that the sort of "burn-in" that you get from staring at something causes that object to appear reversed on a white background (again, blue to yellow).
I didn't claim that. Your justification for applying the word "aberrant" was "going against the norm... drastically". People who go out of the way to save themselves for marriage are doing just that. Perhaps a better example would be left-handedness.
I'm fully aware that some folk take offense at the word. It is my opinion that they shouldn't be offended by it anymore the they are offended by a word that until recent decades was the name of a mental illness.
Except that there is no other word for "homosexual" that isn't some sort of epithet or slang. I mean, how else should they refer to themselves distinctly?
Besides, I'm pretty sure even straight people would be offended by being called aberrant. As long as it has a negative connotation for the general populace, why shouldn't it for everyone?
...it wouldn't be "xenophobia."... "Bigotry" would be the word you're looking for...
Both are acceptable. Xenophobia: A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign.
Regardless, I'm glad they don't apply.
What offends me is when those of an abberant sexuality decide that they are a distinct social culture, and wear every element of their sexuality as a "badge of honor."... (This subculture-rebelliousness isn't limited to homosexuals, btw....)
See, that's the kind of talk that makes me doubt your tolerance. You sound like you want Them to stop acting different. Just be normal!
Oh, and Columbine was perpetrated by a couple of psychotics who stopped taking their meds. That they were geeks is only relevant insofar as they were being continuously bullied for being "different".
I can attribute [my friend] with the quote "polyamory: a PC way to say 'sleeps around.'"
Actually, isn't that how it's listed in the dictionary?;-)
Abberant is offensive, but it shouldn't be.... It's just a word...
That feels like a cop-out. I mean, "asshole" and "cunt" are just words, but like "aberrant", society as a whole has decided that these are offensive.
*: Apologies to the transexuals, homosexuals, and polyandrists that are offended, but when you're going against the norm that drastically, you're "abberant." It should be no more a dirty word than "homosexual."
So, I take it you'll also accept that the label of "abberant" is a badge of honor to be worn by people who are virgins on their honeymoon.
Really, to think that being called "abberant" isn't offensive is nonsense, and your use of the word was blatant xenophobia.
you're right, the sun emits the full spectrum of light, but it does have a predominant color, and it is yellow-orange.
I'm a little confused by this, though. Why don't "white" things appear yellow-orange when you look at them in natural light? I mean, "white" things look red in a dark room, because the light is predominantly red. What gives?
Everyone (yes EVERYONE) watching a movie knows sound can't travel in a vacuum!
I realized the folly of this kind of assumption when I was forced to explain to a 23-year-old that shooting stars were not, in fact, stars; and that gold-plating on the space shuttle would not permit a manned mission to the sun.
Yes, but define 'reasonable attempt'. Ford would send me a letter telling me to get the car to a dealer. Microsoft expects us to ask if there's a 'recall' in effect.
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Just out of curiosity: Does anyone play Monopoly to completion anymore? That's what I don't get about some board games. Monopoly, Risk, Trivial Pursuit... After you get out of college, who can find four adults who are willing to dedicate six uninterrupted hours to playing these? One time (in college) a bunch of us decided to play Risk one night. When dawn came and there was no clear victory at hand, I swore never to play it again.
They didn't overturn his findings, but the sentence wasn't "the only thing that was overturned". They also partially overturned the verdict:
Oh, and on a personal note: When the Hell did Slashdot stop supporting HTML entities? § used to work just fine. What gives?
Technically speaking, there were three separate phases: Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and the sentencing. Usually, the first two are issued simultaneously, but Judge Jackson separated them by several months, presumably to encourage Microsoft to settle with the government. I have no idea when during all this the comments were made, though.
You know, "travel" doesn't just mean "take a vacation". It encompasses things like going to the grocery or to work without the government knowing whether I took my "usual route", because a sudden change might make me appear suspicious to them.
If you're red-green color-blind, though, it sucks pretty hard.
Well, I'll be the first to admit my general ignorance about Africa. Unfortunately, I'm a product of my environment, and around these parts, the ability to name African countries does little more than help you win a drinking game.
Anyway, the SADC (linked on the slim chance anyone else is reading this and would like to actually learn about it) sounds suspiciously constrained to the southern part of the continent. Groups like the SADC and ECOWAS remind me not so much of the US as the EU (which also has the concept of "member states", though I doubt "all becomes Europe").
My point about the Colorado River was that it supplies water to seven different states, not that it does so equitably. My example was probably a bad one, but I maintain that the Federal government has much more capacity to force the States to work toward a common goal than the SADC has over its member nations.
Maybe the problem is the assumption that a company that only sells software deserves to stay in business.
I make a pretty good living writing code, but absolutely no one outside of my employer ever uses (or even knows about) the software I produce. Instead, my employer sells a service, and uses my software to do so more efficiently.
The right to anonymous travel, which USians supposedly have.
The problem with your analogy is that Africa is not a single country with a common self-interest. Nevada can thrive economically because the Federal government won't sit back and let other states hoard their water.
Waste is in the eye of the beholder. quadra was probably just joking, but s/he's got a point. In a hundred years or so you'll both be dead, and s/he'll have had a much less stressful existence.
This animated film was hand-drawn by a single man.
I realize I might be alone in thinking this, but I don't want my Linux PC to have voice recognition. DWIMNWIS takes on a whole new meaning. Besides, I apparently mispronounce things like "GNU"; how am I supposed to pronounce a regular expression?
I suppose the obvious answer is to type some things and say others, but I mutter while I type.
(My apologies; I can't seem to get the code to indent properly.)
I believe it was Dogbert who said (to Dilbert): "But you and I don't have any children, so we're borrowing it from complete strangers. We can just use it up and leave a smoldering wasteland behind."
It's not "by default" if you have to affirmatively choose to install it.
Wait. So, you're saying that since Windows is the underdog for security issues, it has no choice but to come out victorious?
It's already been happening for some time. There's a telemarketing firm that called me up every three months asking me to buy magazine subscriptions at a steep discount so that (somehow) the Special Olympics would get a charitable donation.
Since they always tried to guilt me when I say I'm not interested in magazines, I hit upon a "compromise": I told them I didn't want any magazines, but I was very interested in helping out the Special Olympics, so could they please give me the address where I could mail in a donation directly? Alas, no one on their end had any idea of what the address might be.
Curiously, that was the last time they called me.
Nonsense. There are well in excess of six billion people on this rock. Fourteen in twenty-something years is a pittance.
That's fine. I'll just download it from a 0-day warez site, because that will be 100% legal, too.
That thought occurred to me as I was reading the first part of your response, but then I hit another wall: if they absorbed more "yellow" then they would appear bluish when viewed under a light source with more even distribution (such as a fluorescent light).
Blue is just a guess, though. The cones in our eyes are RGB, and yellow is made from equal parts red and green. Regardless, it makes sense that there'd be some kind of color change. Of course, by my logic, there's a dangerous temptation to conclude that the sun is white, but just appears yellow because all the blue is scattered across the sky, leaving only red and green to appear to come directly from the sun. Or, less crazily, that the sort of "burn-in" that you get from staring at something causes that object to appear reversed on a white background (again, blue to yellow).
I didn't claim that. Your justification for applying the word "aberrant" was "going against the norm... drastically". People who go out of the way to save themselves for marriage are doing just that. Perhaps a better example would be left-handedness.
Except that there is no other word for "homosexual" that isn't some sort of epithet or slang. I mean, how else should they refer to themselves distinctly?
Besides, I'm pretty sure even straight people would be offended by being called aberrant. As long as it has a negative connotation for the general populace, why shouldn't it for everyone?
Both are acceptable. Xenophobia: A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign.
Regardless, I'm glad they don't apply.
See, that's the kind of talk that makes me doubt your tolerance. You sound like you want Them to stop acting different. Just be normal!
Oh, and Columbine was perpetrated by a couple of psychotics who stopped taking their meds. That they were geeks is only relevant insofar as they were being continuously bullied for being "different".
Actually, isn't that how it's listed in the dictionary? ;-)
That feels like a cop-out. I mean, "asshole" and "cunt" are just words, but like "aberrant", society as a whole has decided that these are offensive.
So, I take it you'll also accept that the label of "abberant" is a badge of honor to be worn by people who are virgins on their honeymoon.
Really, to think that being called "abberant" isn't offensive is nonsense, and your use of the word was blatant xenophobia.
I'm a little confused by this, though. Why don't "white" things appear yellow-orange when you look at them in natural light? I mean, "white" things look red in a dark room, because the light is predominantly red. What gives?
The aliens in Alien Nation were vulnerable to salt-water, but they weren't an invading force.
I realized the folly of this kind of assumption when I was forced to explain to a 23-year-old that shooting stars were not, in fact, stars; and that gold-plating on the space shuttle would not permit a manned mission to the sun.
[I swear to you I'm not making this up.]
Yes, but define 'reasonable attempt'. Ford would send me a letter telling me to get the car to a dealer. Microsoft expects us to ask if there's a 'recall' in effect.