This is wonderful. Your problem is moot. We'll have theaters for people who like to watch movies, and theaters for people who like to monkey with their cell phones/pages/blackberries. More than likely this will create a place where everyone can be happy. The noisy pople will be together and the quiet people will be together. Let's face it. There's no way we'd ever get along anyway. You people who have cell phones for "emergency phone calls" involving your "dying mother" or "babysitter", are actually getting calls from your friends lining up a bar for later that night. We quiet people know. We're sitting behind you. We're able to see your screen as it lights up the dark theater, so we know who's calling. LCD screens are very easy to read in the dark.
We hear your phone beep when you "kindly" let the message role to voicemail. We hear you talk all the way out of the theater when you "have to take" your "emergency phone call" about what you're having for lunch tomorrow. We know that it's not an emergency.
Most places like theaters and opera houses have a house manager with whom you can check your pager or phone and they can pull you out of the show if you happen to be an emergency medial worker, so that's not an issue at all. Face it. You want to be a loud noisy person. This has nothing to do with emergencies.
The solution is tests. Let's test them to make sure they learn these basic things. Then let's set standards so that we hold schools accountable to these tests, and if the students go to a school that can't pass these tests, they can switch to another school that teaches Credit Card, News Paper Editor, and Heart Blood pressure interpretation properly. That's the solution. If that fails let's blame teachers unions.
You have to look historically to see why King Kong could be an interracial love story. The original was from 1933. A time when interracial dating was a horrible taboo and a black man dating a white woman would be a "monster". The second movie was in 1976 which was when hollywood started realizing the power of both civil rights type stories and that black audiences were a large untapped market. This was when King Kong became a sympathetic character, unjustly persecuted by a world that cannot understand him. Sounds like the plot of 90% of the blackploitation pictures made around the same time.
I believe the current version is simply an homage. I think it has about the same relevance as Gus Van Sant's rendering of Psycho. Just because Van Sant added nothing to hist version, it did not impact the original picture. It also did not change the historical significance of the original picture. In much the same way while the new King Kong may have nothing to do with racism, the two predecessors certainly did and for many people (including those who lived through the times in question), the story will always carry its historical weight.
I think the problem with the current way we view racism is that we see being racist and being insensitive as the same thing. If your father was lynched during the civil rights era, you might not want to ever see a picture of someone being hanged no matter the color of your skin, and it certainly wouldn't be unreasonable to immediately think as in the South Park episode that if there was a hanging of a black figure with white figures all around that it was a depiction of a lynching. That's how our minds work. Rewiring trauma is a very hard thing. And while it might not be racist it would be insensitive and insensitivity to our fellow man is not something we should aspire to either.
I was out smoking at Dell one day when I encountered a marketing exec. I mentioned that I thought PCs wouldn't really take off as home appliances until they brought out colors and made them look interesting so they matched the decor (this would have been about 1996). He scoffed and said that Dell would NEVER have a computer that was any color other than beige, because that wasn't what customers wanted. Dell's entire culture has become built around trailing the pack and just finding out a way to build the "current thing" cheaper than everyone else.
Yeah, I have never met a perl zealot who though Perl's object oriented programing was better than any other language. That was always perl's biggest weakness. Now this book was entitled "How to process Strings in PHP", you might have a point.
Oh no, I can't buy anthing at amazon.com because everytime I try to login it tells me my session has already expired for being inactive for 60 minutes. BFD indeed.
I'm so glad the current admininstration has decided on patriarchy. We wouldn't want to have input on our government. Just so you know I'm not just a complainer, I did send a letter to my congress people. They sent me back form letters telling me that they agreed that becoming less dependent on foreign oil was important and were glad I supported their position. It's fun having non-representative democracy.
Actually, I think manufacturers get burned on mail in rebates. They don't actually think you're going to send them in. You're costing them money when you do...
Great idea. Because what would happen is that they'd start rigging things. Poor people who had maybe stolen something once would see their scores climb off the charts and would be paying $100 for a loaf of bread. Rich cleptomaniacs would still be paying normal prices as long as they bought more than they stole. This is the kind of screwed up logic we use for way too much in life.
You're too black and white. Committing suicide is not the same as wishing you had never been born. And you're basically being tedious. This is a circular argument. If you think there is a 100% right answer here you're an ignoramus. There is only what you feel works better in the majority of cases. I'm sorry I chose a case that was too morally easy for you (fetal alchohol syndrome). What about a baby born with no brain. Should the mother be allowed to abort? In that case once born the baby will not be able to make any choices.
It doesn't get a choice no matter which way you stand. The pro-lifers don't take into account that the baby might not want to be born to a druggie mom with fetal alchohol syndrome, the pro-choicers don't take into account that the baby might want to go to an adoptive family. Why? Because babies don't make choices. So that's not really a valid point is it? It sure makes for nice pointless rhetoric to put on your signs though doesn't it?
Yeah, it's just the names that are goofy. pro-life meaning anti-abortion, not actually pro-life. Whereas pro-choice actually means pro-choice for a lot of people and not pro-abortion. Which is what makes the debate so difficult.
No you again are missing the point about CIA operatives. They don't generally go under cover as completely different people with different names, lives, children. It's not like the movies. CIA agents generally work in legitimate fields (like owning a business), that gives them access to useful people and information. They can be themselves and learn this information. It just becomes a problem if others learn that they really work for the CIA.
Why don't you move to Iraq? The President says it's a wonderful democracy that's getting better every month and the insurgency is on it's last legs.
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>> You will not find a kid who is failing any subect who has parents who are interested and involved in his school work.
Really? I guess you've never met anyone with a learning disability. Try to explain to a kid why they can read and write at a college level in junior high but can't do elementery school level math.
1) I think many of the people who are drawn to tech are drawn because they don't like the ambiguity of the English language. Otherwise, they might have pursued a Liberal Arts Degree. 2) Most coders feel the same way about the language they program in as they do about the English language. It is an inexact and inefficient way to communicate with the underlying logical hardware. I think this frustration eventually just leads to the inability to care. There is also a difference between caring about the minutia of the Star Wars series and caring about the minutia of everything in everyday life. 3) I live in a state where over 50% of the kids do not graduate from high school. We seem to assume that all those kids in the top of the class somehow are managing to learn everything perfectly, while these over half just drop out. Chances are the educational system is failing the smart kids also. Most smart kids are being forced to do test prep (whether enrolled in private or public schools). I think this is reflected on Slashdot. You see wonderful vocabularies with no ability to string the long words together. 4) The web is conversational. We are moving towards a more casual conversational form of writing. This makes the web resemble a theatrical play in style more than a novel. Of course it resembles a theatrical play with no spell checker... 5) And that leads to my final point. When was the last time you visited a website like this with a spell checker? It's all Slashdot's fault!
Absolutely. Check out my URL. I have content management, blogs, webmail (including the fact that postfix delivers my mail to a php script), mailing lists, and reservation management. The real flaw for php is the same problem mod_perl has. One database connection per thread, so you don't have true connection pooling. Under load that can become a serious problem.
You're just trying to pin blame on a decision you don't like. You can pretend that the "conservatives" voted against this, but according to their appointments almost the whole court is conservative. This is the same thing as those Republicans in Congress who say that Democrats are the reason they can't get anything done. If you can't get anything done with a majority it's not because you can't, it's because you won't. This should be a rallying call for true conservatives and liberals to get out and vote out this whole mess of corporate teat sucking "public" officials. While we're at it we might as well start calling them "private officials".
Let's be honest Bush will appoint someone who would uphold this decision. Let's not forget that the Republican party is no longer conservative. They are neo-conservative. Most of the true conservatives have wandered off into other parties. This would fit into the neo-conservative mode of thinking perfectly. After all, the government shouldn't be allowed to give private citizens the ability to own private property. That's creating an unfair public monopoly on real estate ownership granting rights. All land should be deregulated and acutioned off to privately held corporations (kingdoms) who will do with the land what is best for their land owners (serfs). If the land owner (serf) doesn't like losing his land he can choose another corporation (kingdom) to buy from as long as they have not been bought out by the first corporation (kingdom) in the meantime.
Come on people. Wake up. Stop voting for silly things like the most Christian candidate. Our current President doesn't even go to church and you elected him on morals! You're f#cking morons!
Offtopic. You're describing standard eminenent domain. What today's decision handed down would be the equivilant of your community deciding to bulldoze a few houses because they felt a new McDonalds would benefit the comminity on par with that running water you were describing.
And by socialists you're referring to the Republican party? I'm so confused. Seems like last thing I remembered the Republican party has been hell bent on "deregulating" since they got into office, and there hasn't been an improvement in the manufacturing or I.T. job situation. Of course this could be because these "deregulators" actually just keep handing entire markets over to major corporations and then making it illegal to compete against them.
I'm thinking that if there was more than one cable company in my city that there would be more jobs... of wait- saying that makes me a socialist.
Let's be honest, we're a nation of lard-asses who are now only interested in fattening up a select group of lard-ass companies.
Ha! That's funny. It's true that most of the basics are built for you, but luckily most developers don't realize that and so rewrite the basics for each project they work on. My favorite is a Java XML library built from scratch based upon a JavaScript XML library (you know that base code had to be good). You can give a programmer an SDK with every possible building block in it, but 99% of them will never use it. Look at PHP as a great example of this. Awesome class library, most people never use it.
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Yes that's correct. But since it's a movie, watching is the prefered activity, not texting.
This is wonderful. Your problem is moot. We'll have theaters for people who like to watch movies, and theaters for people who like to monkey with their cell phones/pages/blackberries. More than likely this will create a place where everyone can be happy. The noisy pople will be together and the quiet people will be together. Let's face it. There's no way we'd ever get along anyway. You people who have cell phones for "emergency phone calls" involving your "dying mother" or "babysitter", are actually getting calls from your friends lining up a bar for later that night. We quiet people know. We're sitting behind you. We're able to see your screen as it lights up the dark theater, so we know who's calling. LCD screens are very easy to read in the dark.
We hear your phone beep when you "kindly" let the message role to voicemail. We hear you talk all the way out of the theater when you "have to take" your "emergency phone call" about what you're having for lunch tomorrow. We know that it's not an emergency.
Most places like theaters and opera houses have a house manager with whom you can check your pager or phone and they can pull you out of the show if you happen to be an emergency medial worker, so that's not an issue at all. Face it. You want to be a loud noisy person. This has nothing to do with emergencies.
The solution is tests. Let's test them to make sure they learn these basic things. Then let's set standards so that we hold schools accountable to these tests, and if the students go to a school that can't pass these tests, they can switch to another school that teaches Credit Card, News Paper Editor, and Heart Blood pressure interpretation properly. That's the solution. If that fails let's blame teachers unions.
You have to look historically to see why King Kong could be an interracial love story. The original was from 1933. A time when interracial dating was a horrible taboo and a black man dating a white woman would be a "monster". The second movie was in 1976 which was when hollywood started realizing the power of both civil rights type stories and that black audiences were a large untapped market. This was when King Kong became a sympathetic character, unjustly persecuted by a world that cannot understand him. Sounds like the plot of 90% of the blackploitation pictures made around the same time.
I believe the current version is simply an homage. I think it has about the same relevance as Gus Van Sant's rendering of Psycho. Just because Van Sant added nothing to hist version, it did not impact the original picture. It also did not change the historical significance of the original picture. In much the same way while the new King Kong may have nothing to do with racism, the two predecessors certainly did and for many people (including those who lived through the times in question), the story will always carry its historical weight.
I think the problem with the current way we view racism is that we see being racist and being insensitive as the same thing. If your father was lynched during the civil rights era, you might not want to ever see a picture of someone being hanged no matter the color of your skin, and it certainly wouldn't be unreasonable to immediately think as in the South Park episode that if there was a hanging of a black figure with white figures all around that it was a depiction of a lynching. That's how our minds work. Rewiring trauma is a very hard thing. And while it might not be racist it would be insensitive and insensitivity to our fellow man is not something we should aspire to either.
It's not that we haven't caught up. It's that other industrys haven't.
I was out smoking at Dell one day when I encountered a marketing exec. I mentioned that I thought PCs wouldn't really take off as home appliances until they brought out colors and made them look interesting so they matched the decor (this would have been about 1996). He scoffed and said that Dell would NEVER have a computer that was any color other than beige, because that wasn't what customers wanted. Dell's entire culture has become built around trailing the pack and just finding out a way to build the "current thing" cheaper than everyone else.
Yeah, I have never met a perl zealot who though Perl's object oriented programing was better than any other language. That was always perl's biggest weakness. Now this book was entitled "How to process Strings in PHP", you might have a point.
Oh no, I can't buy anthing at amazon.com because everytime I try to login it tells me my session has already expired for being inactive for 60 minutes. BFD indeed.
I'm so glad the current admininstration has decided on patriarchy. We wouldn't want to have input on our government.
Just so you know I'm not just a complainer, I did send a letter to my congress people. They sent me back form letters telling me that they agreed that becoming less dependent on foreign oil was important and were glad I supported their position. It's fun having non-representative democracy.
I was being sarcastic.
Actually, I think manufacturers get burned on mail in rebates. They don't actually think you're going to send them in. You're costing them money when you do...
Great idea. Because what would happen is that they'd start rigging things. Poor people who had maybe stolen something once would see their scores climb off the charts and would be paying $100 for a loaf of bread. Rich cleptomaniacs would still be paying normal prices as long as they bought more than they stole. This is the kind of screwed up logic we use for way too much in life.
You're too black and white. Committing suicide is not the same as wishing you had never been born. And you're basically being tedious. This is a circular argument. If you think there is a 100% right answer here you're an ignoramus. There is only what you feel works better in the majority of cases. I'm sorry I chose a case that was too morally easy for you (fetal alchohol syndrome). What about a baby born with no brain. Should the mother be allowed to abort? In that case once born the baby will not be able to make any choices.
It doesn't get a choice no matter which way you stand. The pro-lifers don't take into account that the baby might not want to be born to a druggie mom with fetal alchohol syndrome, the pro-choicers don't take into account that the baby might want to go to an adoptive family. Why? Because babies don't make choices. So that's not really a valid point is it? It sure makes for nice pointless rhetoric to put on your signs though doesn't it?
Yeah, it's just the names that are goofy. pro-life meaning anti-abortion, not actually pro-life.
Whereas pro-choice actually means pro-choice for a lot of people and not pro-abortion. Which is what makes the debate so difficult.
No you again are missing the point about CIA operatives. They don't generally go under cover as completely different people with different names, lives, children. It's not like the movies.
CIA agents generally work in legitimate fields (like owning a business), that gives them access to useful people and information. They can be themselves and learn this information. It just becomes a problem if others learn that they really work for the CIA.
Why don't you move to Iraq? The President says it's a wonderful democracy that's getting better every month and the insurgency is on it's last legs.
>> You will not find a kid who is failing any subect who has parents who are interested and involved in his school work.
Really? I guess you've never met anyone with a learning disability. Try to explain to a kid why they can read and write at a college level in junior high but can't do elementery school level math.
1) I think many of the people who are drawn to tech are drawn because they don't like the ambiguity of the English language. Otherwise, they might have pursued a Liberal Arts Degree.
2) Most coders feel the same way about the language they program in as they do about the English language. It is an inexact and inefficient way to communicate with the underlying logical hardware. I think this frustration eventually just leads to the inability to care. There is also a difference between caring about the minutia of the Star Wars series and caring about the minutia of everything in everyday life.
3) I live in a state where over 50% of the kids do not graduate from high school. We seem to assume that all those kids in the top of the class somehow are managing to learn everything perfectly, while these over half just drop out. Chances are the educational system is failing the smart kids also. Most smart kids are being forced to do test prep (whether enrolled in private or public schools). I think this is reflected on Slashdot. You see wonderful vocabularies with no ability to string the long words together.
4) The web is conversational. We are moving towards a more casual conversational form of writing. This makes the web resemble a theatrical play in style more than a novel. Of course it resembles a theatrical play with no spell checker...
5) And that leads to my final point. When was the last time you visited a website like this with a spell checker? It's all Slashdot's fault!
Absolutely. Check out my URL. I have content management, blogs, webmail (including the fact that postfix delivers my mail to a php script), mailing lists, and reservation management.
The real flaw for php is the same problem mod_perl has. One database connection per thread, so you don't have true connection pooling. Under load that can become a serious problem.
is to ensure that we drop prices so low, that by the time we have to go on public assistance we'll still be able to afford that $2 plasma TV.
You're just trying to pin blame on a decision you don't like. You can pretend that the "conservatives" voted against this, but according to their appointments almost the whole court is conservative. This is the same thing as those Republicans in Congress who say that Democrats are the reason they can't get anything done. If you can't get anything done with a majority it's not because you can't, it's because you won't. This should be a rallying call for true conservatives and liberals to get out and vote out this whole mess of corporate teat sucking "public" officials. While we're at it we might as well start calling them "private officials".
Let's be honest Bush will appoint someone who would uphold this decision. Let's not forget that the Republican party is no longer conservative. They are neo-conservative. Most of the true conservatives have wandered off into other parties. This would fit into the neo-conservative mode of thinking perfectly. After all, the government shouldn't be allowed to give private citizens the ability to own private property. That's creating an unfair public monopoly on real estate ownership granting rights. All land should be deregulated and acutioned off to privately held corporations (kingdoms) who will do with the land what is best for their land owners (serfs). If the land owner (serf) doesn't like losing his land he can choose another corporation (kingdom) to buy from as long as they have not been bought out by the first corporation (kingdom) in the meantime.
Come on people. Wake up. Stop voting for silly things like the most Christian candidate. Our current President doesn't even go to church and you elected him on morals! You're f#cking morons!
Offtopic. You're describing standard eminenent domain. What today's decision handed down would be the equivilant of your community deciding to bulldoze a few houses because they felt a new McDonalds would benefit the comminity on par with that running water you were describing.
And by socialists you're referring to the Republican party? I'm so confused. Seems like last thing I remembered the Republican party has been hell bent on "deregulating" since they got into office, and there hasn't been an improvement in the manufacturing or I.T. job situation. Of course this could be because these "deregulators" actually just keep handing entire markets over to major corporations and then making it illegal to compete against them.
I'm thinking that if there was more than one cable company in my city that there would be more jobs... of wait- saying that makes me a socialist.
Let's be honest, we're a nation of lard-asses who are now only interested in fattening up a select group of lard-ass companies.
Ha! That's funny. It's true that most of the basics are built for you, but luckily most developers don't realize that and so rewrite the basics for each project they work on. My favorite is a Java XML library built from scratch based upon a JavaScript XML library (you know that base code had to be good).
You can give a programmer an SDK with every possible building block in it, but 99% of them will never use it. Look at PHP as a great example of this. Awesome class library, most people never use it.