OK. Take a deep breath. While I'm as anti-corporate as anybody on Slashdot (maybe even more than most), this is a terrible example of what you're ranting about.
The ACS is a non-profit organization. They have spent several years working on their database, and it's quite usable and useful. It's also very expensive to curate this information by hand, and so they have to charge for access, which is paid not by individuals, but by universities, who pay for it with - ultimately - taxpayer dollars (tuition charges don't pay for much outside of the students direct costs these days).
The ACS isn't really saying "you can't do this because it hurts our profits!" - they're saying "why bother?" For what it's going to cost the Feds to reproduce this data they could likely subsidize the ACS's costs and open access to all. I'm fairly certain the ACS would be happy to receive (another) large federal grant for their efforts.
It is a database of information curated from journal articles, not a database of journal articles. It's a big distinction, and made clear if you use it.
This is rediculous. If you are the pilot and the choice is between dead people in the plane due to a dickhead with a razor blade and EVERYBODY on the plane dead, as well as however many thousands in the building that you suspect the dickhead is going to fly into when he gets control of the plane - sorry, the 8yr old girl is dead. And if I'm a passenger while the dickhead is cutting the girl, he's going to have to go through me and probably 90% of the other people on the plane next. I'm a coward, but I would fight to save my life and the life of anybody on the ground that the plane could fly into. No plane is ever going to be hijacked by a guy with a boxcutter again in my lifetime.
>>Someone with no training in CS can pick up a "Teach Yourself $LANGUAGE in 24 Hours" book and turn out code that, even if it's poorly written, at least does something useful;
Absolutely true, and I am proof. A large chunk of my PhD is the results I got from a VERY poorly coded Perl script that I wrote after reading "Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours". Had some C background, so that helped, and I eventually learned enough Perl/Tk to code up a UI.
That's fantastic! I told my wife that after Bush won again I was going to have to get into politics, and I planned to use "fuck" in every speech at least 3 times. That's a brilliant way to say what I was thinking.
It's not so much the government regulation that's always scary though. What happens if one or two wholly corporate-owned radio stations with nationwide reach have usurped local broadcasting? That's a lot of power in few hands. And consider that to enter this market you have to get a satellite on a rocket into space? This is exactly the situation the FCC had a mandate to prevent with its ownership rules, and has ignored it in favor of splashy big-fine-cleaning-up-the-airwaves headlines.
Maybe the show generates that and makes it worth it, maybe it doesn't. The reason Infinity paid those fines is because the FCC was holding up paperwork for licenses when Infinity was trying to buy several radio stations back during the big radio consolidation crunch. Things were being "lost" even though the FCC isn't supposed to be able to do this, and Infinity at the time had plans to contest the fines in court. One might be able to argue that Clear Channel came into such power because the FCC effectively sidelined Infinity at this time, but that's another can of beans.
Clearly, a significant argument for gun ownership is self-protection. If the NRA thought guns should only be used for hunting then why do they oppose handguns, or pretty much any banning of firearms? Violence -> climate of fear -> more gun purchases -> more NRA members -> more power/money for NRA.
Because he fined a small number of people a large sum of money. Trying to make examples, etc. Which leads to seemingly random enforcement when coupled with no clear definition of what the rules are.
Maybe the general public hasn't heard of SciFinder Scholar, but I and most of my colleagues in the lab use it almost daily. I'd wager most every physics/chemistry/biomed science grad student has used it at one time or another, as long as their institution pays for it (and I've not been to one that doesn't). Gee, I can't imagine how anybody would confuse Google's science publication search service called Scholar with the ACS's science publication search service called SciFinder Scholar. That said, we all just call it SciFinder anyway. But it was stupid of Google anyway.
You know, it really just says something about the way (most) people watch TV now. The reason these shows do well is because people are busy, and you don't have to make plans around being in front of the television at a particular time to catch an interesting show. Lots of the new reality shows are self contained, just like the Law&Order/CSI shows. You can flick through the channels, find one, and sit down and watch it, and understand what's happening without a recap or having ever seen the show before. Lots of reality shows are also shorter, lasting maybe a 1/2 or 1/4 season, if they need to be sequential. TV shows are becoming theme based, rather than story-arc based.
The brilliance of Global Frequency is that each episode would be self contained. At least in the comics, there's a whole new cast every issue (though I understand they changed that a bit in the TV show). Might have been very interesting.
OK. How then what if: - Two men fall in love. One gets a sex change. Now can they get married? Are they "disabled"? - Two women fall in love. One gets raped, gets pregnant, and chooses not to get an abortion. Now this couple is procreating, through no fault or choice of their own. Can they get married? Or are they still "disordered"?
Your black and white definitions are stupid and meaningless in today's society.
It's not only just not funded - you are forbidden from sharing lab space, equipment, supplies, chemicqals, personnel (I believe) with research that is federally funded. If you currently receive federal funds, you essentially have to set up a whole new research lab to do anything with embyonic stem cells. This is a major undertaking, for even the most independently funded laboratories, because almost every scientist in the US gets some sort of federal funding. It's not specifically a ban on this research, but it might as well be.
Though I'm no geochemist, and I've never really sought out dissenting opinions, Thomas Gold's book "The Deep Hot Biosphere" is a pretty interesting and convincing read about the abiogenic oil theory.
Sure, but that's not what we're talking about. From the Associated Press (which I saw posted at Salon): Three Medford school teachers were threatened with arrest and escorted from the event after they showed up wearing T-shirts with the slogan "Protect our civil liberties." All three said they applied for and received valid tickets from Republican headquarters in Medford. "The women said they did not intend to protest. "I wanted to see if I would be able to make a statement that I feel is important, but not offensive, in a rally for my president," said Janet Voorhies, 48, a teacher in training.
"We chose this phrase specifically because we didn't think it would be offensive or degrading or obscene," said Tania Tong, 34, a special education teacher. Thursday's event in Oregon sets a new bar for a Bush/Cheney campaign that has taken extraordinary measures to screen the opinions of those who attend Bush and Cheney speeches. For months, the Bush/Cheney campaign has limited event access to those willing to volunteer in Bush/Cheney campaign offices. In recent weeks, the Bush/Cheney campaign has gone so far as to have those who voice dissenting viewpoints at their events arrested and charged as criminals."
Columbine was a couple of stupid kids being incredibly selfish and idiotic. That was nowhere near terrorism.
The whole goal of the kids at Columbine was to inflict terror on the people who were tormenting them at school. This was patently obvious from the notes and videotapes they left behind. Just because they weren't Arab doesn't mean they aren't terrorists.
I intentionally don't forward the ports because the stupid SMC Barricade g (SMC2804WBR) router gives up the ghost after 15 minutes to a couple hours; every time I come home I have to power-cycle it to get my connection back on the machine that's doing the torrent. However, all the other machines here work fine so it's not that the router is completely borked; it just stops wanting to talk to my torrenting machine.
Weird. The same thing happens to my LinkSys wireless router ever since I got a cable modem. You don't happen to have Cox? Also happens when I do large usenet binary downloads. I know this is way off topic, but does anybody know why this could be? I'd love to fix this...
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>There are 35 listed, and maybe 4 or 5 of them are not MMORPGs.
Huh. Sounds like an open market then.
Exactly. If I ever meet the dickhead who designed that "You are a WINNER!!" rainbow flashing epilepsy-inducing ad, I WILL kick him in the nuts.
If lack of ad revenue kills the internets (which is retarded and nonsensicle to anybody with half a brain) then Doubleclick will be to blame.
OK. Take a deep breath. While I'm as anti-corporate as anybody on Slashdot (maybe even more than most), this is a terrible example of what you're ranting about.
The ACS is a non-profit organization. They have spent several years working on their database, and it's quite usable and useful. It's also very expensive to curate this information by hand, and so they have to charge for access, which is paid not by individuals, but by universities, who pay for it with - ultimately - taxpayer dollars (tuition charges don't pay for much outside of the students direct costs these days).
The ACS isn't really saying "you can't do this because it hurts our profits!" - they're saying "why bother?" For what it's going to cost the Feds to reproduce this data they could likely subsidize the ACS's costs and open access to all. I'm fairly certain the ACS would be happy to receive (another) large federal grant for their efforts.
It is a database of information curated from journal articles, not a database of journal articles. It's a big distinction, and made clear if you use it.
This is rediculous. If you are the pilot and the choice is between dead people in the plane due to a dickhead with a razor blade and EVERYBODY on the plane dead, as well as however many thousands in the building that you suspect the dickhead is going to fly into when he gets control of the plane - sorry, the 8yr old girl is dead. And if I'm a passenger while the dickhead is cutting the girl, he's going to have to go through me and probably 90% of the other people on the plane next. I'm a coward, but I would fight to save my life and the life of anybody on the ground that the plane could fly into. No plane is ever going to be hijacked by a guy with a boxcutter again in my lifetime.
Let me know when Tolstoy writes about vampires or spaceships. Half of War and Peace was enough for me.
Pompous ass.
>>Someone with no training in CS can pick up a "Teach Yourself $LANGUAGE in 24 Hours" book and turn out code that, even if it's poorly written, at least does something useful;
Absolutely true, and I am proof. A large chunk of my PhD is the results I got from a VERY poorly coded Perl script that I wrote after reading "Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours". Had some C background, so that helped, and I eventually learned enough Perl/Tk to code up a UI.
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly041229.htm
That's fantastic! I told my wife that after Bush won again I was going to have to get into politics, and I planned to use "fuck" in every speech at least 3 times. That's a brilliant way to say what I was thinking.
It's not so much the government regulation that's always scary though. What happens if one or two wholly corporate-owned radio stations with nationwide reach have usurped local broadcasting? That's a lot of power in few hands. And consider that to enter this market you have to get a satellite on a rocket into space? This is exactly the situation the FCC had a mandate to prevent with its ownership rules, and has ignored it in favor of splashy big-fine-cleaning-up-the-airwaves headlines.
Maybe the show generates that and makes it worth it, maybe it doesn't. The reason Infinity paid those fines is because the FCC was holding up paperwork for licenses when Infinity was trying to buy several radio stations back during the big radio consolidation crunch. Things were being "lost" even though the FCC isn't supposed to be able to do this, and Infinity at the time had plans to contest the fines in court. One might be able to argue that Clear Channel came into such power because the FCC effectively sidelined Infinity at this time, but that's another can of beans.
Clearly, a significant argument for gun ownership is self-protection. If the NRA thought guns should only be used for hunting then why do they oppose handguns, or pretty much any banning of firearms? Violence -> climate of fear -> more gun purchases -> more NRA members -> more power/money for NRA.
It's comforting to know that television programmers are as retarded everywhere in the world as they seem to be in the US.
I like Xnews. Free (as in $) too.
Because he fined a small number of people a large sum of money. Trying to make examples, etc. Which leads to seemingly random enforcement when coupled with no clear definition of what the rules are.
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Maybe the general public hasn't heard of SciFinder Scholar, but I and most of my colleagues in the lab use it almost daily. I'd wager most every physics/chemistry/biomed science grad student has used it at one time or another, as long as their institution pays for it (and I've not been to one that doesn't). Gee, I can't imagine how anybody would confuse Google's science publication search service called Scholar with the ACS's science publication search service called SciFinder Scholar. That said, we all just call it SciFinder anyway. But it was stupid of Google anyway.
You know, it really just says something about the way (most) people watch TV now. The reason these shows do well is because people are busy, and you don't have to make plans around being in front of the television at a particular time to catch an interesting show. Lots of the new reality shows are self contained, just like the Law&Order/CSI shows. You can flick through the channels, find one, and sit down and watch it, and understand what's happening without a recap or having ever seen the show before. Lots of reality shows are also shorter, lasting maybe a 1/2 or 1/4 season, if they need to be sequential. TV shows are becoming theme based, rather than story-arc based.
The brilliance of Global Frequency is that each episode would be self contained. At least in the comics, there's a whole new cast every issue (though I understand they changed that a bit in the TV show). Might have been very interesting.
OK. How then what if:
- Two men fall in love. One gets a sex change. Now can they get married? Are they "disabled"?
- Two women fall in love. One gets raped, gets pregnant, and chooses not to get an abortion. Now this couple is procreating, through no fault or choice of their own. Can they get married? Or are they still "disordered"?
Your black and white definitions are stupid and meaningless in today's society.
It's not only just not funded - you are forbidden from sharing lab space, equipment, supplies, chemicqals, personnel (I believe) with research that is federally funded. If you currently receive federal funds, you essentially have to set up a whole new research lab to do anything with embyonic stem cells. This is a major undertaking, for even the most independently funded laboratories, because almost every scientist in the US gets some sort of federal funding. It's not specifically a ban on this research, but it might as well be.
Though I'm no geochemist, and I've never really sought out dissenting opinions, Thomas Gold's book "The Deep Hot Biosphere" is a pretty interesting and convincing read about the abiogenic oil theory.
Sure, but that's not what we're talking about. From the Associated Press (which I saw posted at Salon):
Three Medford school teachers were threatened with arrest and escorted from the event after they showed up wearing T-shirts with the slogan "Protect our civil liberties." All three said they applied for and received valid tickets from Republican headquarters in Medford. "The women said they did not intend to protest. "I wanted to see if I would be able to make a statement that I feel is important, but not offensive, in a rally for my president," said Janet Voorhies, 48, a teacher in training.
"We chose this phrase specifically because we didn't think it would be offensive or degrading or obscene," said Tania Tong, 34, a special education teacher. Thursday's event in Oregon sets a new bar for a Bush/Cheney campaign that has taken extraordinary measures to screen the opinions of those who attend Bush and Cheney speeches. For months, the Bush/Cheney campaign has limited event access to those willing to volunteer in Bush/Cheney campaign offices. In recent weeks, the Bush/Cheney campaign has gone so far as to have those who voice dissenting viewpoints at their events arrested and charged as criminals."
Columbine was a couple of stupid kids being incredibly selfish and idiotic. That was nowhere near terrorism.
The whole goal of the kids at Columbine was to inflict terror on the people who were tormenting them at school. This was patently obvious from the notes and videotapes they left behind. Just because they weren't Arab doesn't mean they aren't terrorists.
Since when is wearing a t-shirt accosting someone?
I intentionally don't forward the ports because the stupid SMC Barricade g (SMC2804WBR) router gives up the ghost after 15 minutes to a couple hours; every time I come home I have to power-cycle it to get my connection back on the machine that's doing the torrent. However, all the other machines here work fine so it's not that the router is completely borked; it just stops wanting to talk to my torrenting machine.
Weird. The same thing happens to my LinkSys wireless router ever since I got a cable modem. You don't happen to have Cox? Also happens when I do large usenet binary downloads. I know this is way off topic, but does anybody know why this could be? I'd love to fix this...