The market is slow to make decisions, because it relies on the input of everybody involved. That's as opposed to government bureaucracy which makes bad decisions relatively quickly and then forces those bad decisions down everyone's throat.
He didn't say anything about "illegitimate claims of rape", though, he said "in cases of legitimate rape," which I hear as "in cases where it's actually rape," as opposed to where it's consensual. I don't think we're in disagreement here; I just think we're seeing this from different angles. There's no doubt that some women do lie about being raped. But you're focusing more on the science/statistics angle, and I'm focusing more on what Akin's comments say about him. In Akin's mind, the fact that someone got pregnant means that she is lying - it was consensual, not rape. And that leads to my initial point, that all this talk about defining "illegitimate rape" just distracts from the major issue: this elected official, in the 21st century US, still believes in blaming the victim for the rape. As I said in a post above, even with the media circus as big as it is, I still think he's getting off easy.
I do see the point of discussions regarding rape statistics, laws about rape and abortion, etc, and I'm not trying to stop those. Mostly why I made my original post was simply because I'm tired of seeing comments like "Well if there's legitimate rape, there must be illegitimate rape, right?" Or "He said that in cases of legitimate rape (as opposed to what?) then..."
I don't get all this hubbub about "illegitimate rape" and what it means. It doesn't mean anything, because there's no such thing. Akin was using "legitimate" as an intensifier, not a qualifier. The opposite of legitimate rape isn't "illegitimate rape", it's consensual sex. What Akin meant was that if you got pregnant from a rape, it wasn't rape. You enjoyed it, you slut.
Well, there's two problems. When someone says something like this, you have to do two things: 1. Get rid of the idiot who said them (that's what you're doing). And 2. Disprove what he said so that fewer people believe it in the future. That's what Hamblin is doing. Doing one doesn't remove the need for the other.
This sounds amazingly like someone put money into a data storage system that turned out to be far slower than they'd wanted. Now marketing is picking up the slack by calling it Glacier.
In other words, they're stuck trying to sell white salmon by claiming "Guaranteed to never turn pink in the can!"
It has more to do with the form factor than anything else. Lenovo's new ultrabook series have similar form factor and the same exact limitations (soldered memory / ssd, etc.)
And yet no one whines about them "restricting choices", eh?
Kentucky was much less of a bloody affair than Missouri was. There were pro-South guerillas, but not in significant numbers. In fact, when Confederate general Bragg invaded Tennessee and Kentucky in mid-1862, he brought along tens of thousands of rifles, hoping to arm thousands of Kentuckians who would rise up alongside him when they saw gray troops in their streets. He ended up carting nearly all of them back South three months later, an Army of Kentucky having never materialized.
It also would have been impossible for the Union to simply have allowed Kentucky to split off. Militarily, the state was the key to the Ohio River valley. Had it seceded, it would have basically been a knife in the Union's armpit, poised to slice off the entire Midwest. Lincoln himself (paraphrase) said "I hope to have God on my side, but what I really need is Kentucky."
At what point would individuality be replaced with fabrication?
At what point would our library of congress stored in DNA mutate into something totally different?
What evolutionary benefit would a mutation of encoded history serve? Any distortion would simply be part of random noise and wouldn't take over the general population. Moreover, I have a feeling someone would consciously notice if they thought the Gettysburg Address started "Three score and..." when everyone else said otherwise. Encoded knowledge wouldn't preclude the ability to obtain knowledge during your lifetime.
Calling someone out on their (procedural) bullshit is part of a judge's job. It's not her fault both sides are doing it, and she'd be negligent if she didn't hassle or berate them for intentionally wasting the court's time.
I don't hang out much with people who read sci-fi, so I don't actually know how well-known he is. But I've never heard him brought up during a sci-fi discussion, despite his work being amazing. So he gets my vote.
Or, you know, maybe it's people who want price to actually reflect value instead of taking wild swings? If I buy a barrel of oil, I want it to be because I believe that a new technology has been implemented to make it more valuable than it used to be. Buying it simply to wait for the HFT-fueled upswing serves no purpose other than to destabilize the market for the sake of speculators. It's a negative damping effect, and those never end well.
This report counts the number of people employed in the US this month and the number employed last month. Then it subtracts one from the other. "Having an opening listed on Monster" does not count as creating a job.
That's great advice for whatever percentage of the population are auditory learners. For other people, writing down what you hear enhances your recall of it, especially if you copy it into a more legible format after class (akin to your taking 15 mins to summarize). I had friends in college who could have been deaf for all they got out of listening, but they learned everything they needed from the blackboard and the online notes. I had other friends (most of them, actually, since a large majority of engineering students are haptic learners) who couldn't make heads or tails of lectures OR notes until they actually saw an example or did their homework - and after that they'd mastered it.
Different people learn very differently. Blanket statements like "take notes this way" or "just listen, don't write" will work for some people and will be awful for others.
You know how you learn best. You know what you'll remember and what you won't. Just take notes like you always have. Use a laptop if you want, but that doesn't work for diagrams/graphs/etc (unless it's one of the laptops that you write on a touch-screen, and then why aren't you just using paper?). If it goes too quickly to take effective notes, record it - modern recorders are a lot better than the old bulky tape recorders - and go over it later.
I just got out of college recently, I grew up with modern tech, and even I realized how much better paper notes were. Sometimes the old way really is the best way.
You have it 100% backwards. "Thou" is the nominative form, used as a subject (or with the verb to be). "Thee" is the dative/accusative form, used as an object. As I said before, thee/thy/thine uses the exact same rules as me/my/mine (also thou and I, though that doesn't rhyme). Take off the "th" and put on an "m" and ask if it still makes sense. "Art thou so evil, that thee canst be trusted any longer" -> "Am I so evil, that me cannot be trusted any longer?" It doesn't work.
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The market is slow to make decisions, because it relies on the input of everybody involved. That's as opposed to government bureaucracy which makes bad decisions relatively quickly and then forces those bad decisions down everyone's throat.
I honestly can't tell if you're trolling or not.
I do see the point of discussions regarding rape statistics, laws about rape and abortion, etc, and I'm not trying to stop those. Mostly why I made my original post was simply because I'm tired of seeing comments like "Well if there's legitimate rape, there must be illegitimate rape, right?" Or "He said that in cases of legitimate rape (as opposed to what?) then..."
You think I'm defending him?. I think he's getting off easy by everyone being distracted by the "illegitimate rape" crap.
I don't get all this hubbub about "illegitimate rape" and what it means. It doesn't mean anything, because there's no such thing. Akin was using "legitimate" as an intensifier, not a qualifier. The opposite of legitimate rape isn't "illegitimate rape", it's consensual sex. What Akin meant was that if you got pregnant from a rape, it wasn't rape. You enjoyed it, you slut.
Well, there's two problems. When someone says something like this, you have to do two things: 1. Get rid of the idiot who said them (that's what you're doing). And 2. Disprove what he said so that fewer people believe it in the future. That's what Hamblin is doing. Doing one doesn't remove the need for the other.
Now a rugby pitch, that's a fixed size.
Lies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_pitch#Playing_field (note the "Not Exceeding" measurements in the picture.)
This sounds amazingly like someone put money into a data storage system that turned out to be far slower than they'd wanted. Now marketing is picking up the slack by calling it Glacier.
In other words, they're stuck trying to sell white salmon by claiming "Guaranteed to never turn pink in the can!"
It has more to do with the form factor than anything else. Lenovo's new ultrabook series have similar form factor and the same exact limitations (soldered memory / ssd, etc.)
And yet no one whines about them "restricting choices", eh?
They're from China. What is "choices"?
Errr... you mean like Serbia and Bosnia?
I thought he meant like India and Pakistan.
Kentucky was much less of a bloody affair than Missouri was. There were pro-South guerillas, but not in significant numbers. In fact, when Confederate general Bragg invaded Tennessee and Kentucky in mid-1862, he brought along tens of thousands of rifles, hoping to arm thousands of Kentuckians who would rise up alongside him when they saw gray troops in their streets. He ended up carting nearly all of them back South three months later, an Army of Kentucky having never materialized.
It also would have been impossible for the Union to simply have allowed Kentucky to split off. Militarily, the state was the key to the Ohio River valley. Had it seceded, it would have basically been a knife in the Union's armpit, poised to slice off the entire Midwest. Lincoln himself (paraphrase) said "I hope to have God on my side, but what I really need is Kentucky."
Don't forget Alia Atreides!
At what point would individuality be replaced with fabrication?
At what point would our library of congress stored in DNA mutate into something totally different?
What evolutionary benefit would a mutation of encoded history serve? Any distortion would simply be part of random noise and wouldn't take over the general population. Moreover, I have a feeling someone would consciously notice if they thought the Gettysburg Address started "Three score and..." when everyone else said otherwise. Encoded knowledge wouldn't preclude the ability to obtain knowledge during your lifetime.
Calling someone out on their (procedural) bullshit is part of a judge's job. It's not her fault both sides are doing it, and she'd be negligent if she didn't hassle or berate them for intentionally wasting the court's time.
Researchers at Purdue are busy creating early-warning earthquake detectors based around when their dogs all start acting weird.
I don't hang out much with people who read sci-fi, so I don't actually know how well-known he is. But I've never heard him brought up during a sci-fi discussion, despite his work being amazing. So he gets my vote.
Or, you know, maybe it's people who want price to actually reflect value instead of taking wild swings? If I buy a barrel of oil, I want it to be because I believe that a new technology has been implemented to make it more valuable than it used to be. Buying it simply to wait for the HFT-fueled upswing serves no purpose other than to destabilize the market for the sake of speculators. It's a negative damping effect, and those never end well.
This report counts the number of people employed in the US this month and the number employed last month. Then it subtracts one from the other. "Having an opening listed on Monster" does not count as creating a job.
Now I can't even eat cheetos anymore without giving away my bank pin!
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You learn something new every day.
A nuclear fission chain reaction? Using uranium? Ha! Good luck ever getting THAT to work!
And it was uphill both ways to get there, right?
That's great advice for whatever percentage of the population are auditory learners. For other people, writing down what you hear enhances your recall of it, especially if you copy it into a more legible format after class (akin to your taking 15 mins to summarize). I had friends in college who could have been deaf for all they got out of listening, but they learned everything they needed from the blackboard and the online notes. I had other friends (most of them, actually, since a large majority of engineering students are haptic learners) who couldn't make heads or tails of lectures OR notes until they actually saw an example or did their homework - and after that they'd mastered it.
Different people learn very differently. Blanket statements like "take notes this way" or "just listen, don't write" will work for some people and will be awful for others.
You know how you learn best. You know what you'll remember and what you won't. Just take notes like you always have. Use a laptop if you want, but that doesn't work for diagrams/graphs/etc (unless it's one of the laptops that you write on a touch-screen, and then why aren't you just using paper?). If it goes too quickly to take effective notes, record it - modern recorders are a lot better than the old bulky tape recorders - and go over it later.
I just got out of college recently, I grew up with modern tech, and even I realized how much better paper notes were. Sometimes the old way really is the best way.
You have it 100% backwards. "Thou" is the nominative form, used as a subject (or with the verb to be). "Thee" is the dative/accusative form, used as an object. As I said before, thee/thy/thine uses the exact same rules as me/my/mine (also thou and I, though that doesn't rhyme). Take off the "th" and put on an "m" and ask if it still makes sense. "Art thou so evil, that thee canst be trusted any longer" -> "Am I so evil, that me cannot be trusted any longer?" It doesn't work.
Wikipedia agrees, if you still don't believe me.
Except the users.
That's fine. We'll just put them on the gaming grid.