The author is deprived of his right to enjoy a monopoly on the sale, distribution, and publication of his work.
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How does a fucking porn collection live and treat others?
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Human beings are not "beloved computers," and they are not "porn collections." The comparison, if you want to be pedantic, is a category error.
I didn't think it was funny. Instead, I found it rather insulting. I should have realized that slashdot was full of immature solipsists before bothering to read the comments.
So sorry, that was the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. Like any government document, the Constitution has no provisions for being set aside by the public in the public good. The American Civil War proved that, when the Southern states seceeded, the Northern states forced them back into the fold.
This public good you speak of... Was it perhaps slavery?
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Utterly tasteless. Perhaps the parent has never had to deal with the death of another human being.
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That's what I think everyone dreams of-- that their parent, or spouse, or, worse, their child, will defy the odds and come out somehow stronger, and better able to deal with death on his or her own terms.
However, in the essay, Charlie's survival odds were five percent, or fifteen percent with treatment, and he was able to understand that for him, several months to wrap up his life were better than a few years of futile struggle. Perhaps he understood that the "fifteen percent" rate was a cold equation, and it did not matter whether he was morally worthy, or lucky, or "fought hard." Unfortunately, this isn't "the fragile reality of Discworld, [where] the gods [] like to play games, [where] a million-to-one chance succeeds nine times out of ten."
Perhaps someone has already written a paper studying responses to cancer treatment among the innumerate and among those who understand statistics.
I enjoy "House," on television, and the conceit of the episodes is that every case is a puzzle, and it's a race against time to solve this puzzle, and if the doctor is brilliant enough, the patient will be saved and life will go on. That sound like a theme that appeals to a lot of people, and perhaps the illusion for the loved ones who have to deal with the impending death of a patient is that if even a faint glimmer of life is sustained, that gives the doctors time to figure it all out.
I received a similar message. For the past year, I've had a subsidized, free subscription to the website, and I've been notified that my access will be cut off (or greatly curtailed) if I don't upgrade to a regular digital subscription. I had thought that the subscription department was proposing a new offer-- half price for 16 weeks, rather than 99 cents for the first 8 weeks, then a regular rate afterwards.
Oh? Congress isn't capable of subterfuge? Just as the meaning of a patent is contained in the Claims and not in the Abstract, the meaning of a law lies in the text itself. In the name of stopping online piracy, SOPA would give the US government, and by extension, the various intellectual property rights organizations, the power to make any internet node node inaccessible from the United States.
No. Some of the jackbooted government thugs who used to work for the INS were combined with some of the jackbooted government thugs who used to work for US Customs to form ICE. The others went to the Border Patrol. If ICE did not exist, you'd be hearing about domains being seized by the Customs Service.
I've got an SX120. Good camera. I have CHDK installed on it, though I've yet to figure out a decent free Raw toolchain for my mac. One major sticking point, though. There's no viewfinder, and the LCD tends to wash out during the day. As result, manual focus is difficult.
1987a was 168,000 ly from Earth. The anomalous neutrinos had a excess speed of 1/40,000 c. So I'd expect them to arrive four years (ok, 50 months) prior to the light.
Among the unions affiliated with the [AFL-CIO] Department for Professional Employees are nine representing creators, performing artists, and craft workers. Those unions include the Actors’ Equity Association, the American Federation of Musicians, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the American Guild of Musical Artists; the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts; the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the Office and Professional Employees International Union, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Writers Guild of America, East.
Basically, half the characters on "30 Rock" would, in real life, belong to one or more of these unions.
Earl Grey tea is just black tea blended with bergamot You can get it from thousands of suppliers. Quality varies--too much bergamot is bitter, too little can be insipid.
I think this has the potential to make animation more like live-action film. A director woking with live actors can order more takes if he's not getting the performances he needs from his actors or the shot's composition is less than perfect. This system sounds like it might give animators the same direct feedback, allowing them to more easily compose those perfect shots,
No, I think you need to revisit your layman's understanding of what fracking is and is not. The whole point of the process is to inject pressurized liquid into the ground, so as to produce and expand cracks and fissures in the rock.
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The author is deprived of his right to enjoy a monopoly on the sale, distribution, and publication of his work.
How does a fucking porn collection live and treat others?
Human beings are not "beloved computers," and they are not "porn collections." The comparison, if you want to be pedantic, is a category error.
I didn't think it was funny. Instead, I found it rather insulting. I should have realized that slashdot was full of immature solipsists before bothering to read the comments.
This public good you speak of... Was it perhaps slavery?
Utterly tasteless. Perhaps the parent has never had to deal with the death of another human being.
That's what I think everyone dreams of-- that their parent, or spouse, or, worse, their child, will defy the odds and come out somehow stronger, and better able to deal with death on his or her own terms.
Christopher Hitchens recently poured water over this sentiment.
However, in the essay, Charlie's survival odds were five percent, or fifteen percent with treatment, and he was able to understand that for him, several months to wrap up his life were better than a few years of futile struggle. Perhaps he understood that the "fifteen percent" rate was a cold equation, and it did not matter whether he was morally worthy, or lucky, or "fought hard." Unfortunately, this isn't "the fragile reality of Discworld, [where] the gods [] like to play games, [where] a million-to-one chance succeeds nine times out of ten."
Perhaps someone has already written a paper studying responses to cancer treatment among the innumerate and among those who understand statistics.
I enjoy "House," on television, and the conceit of the episodes is that every case is a puzzle, and it's a race against time to solve this puzzle, and if the doctor is brilliant enough, the patient will be saved and life will go on. That sound like a theme that appeals to a lot of people, and perhaps the illusion for the loved ones who have to deal with the impending death of a patient is that if even a faint glimmer of life is sustained, that gives the doctors time to figure it all out.
20 articles? I could use that allotment up in a day or two.
I received a similar message. For the past year, I've had a subsidized, free subscription to the website, and I've been notified that my access will be cut off (or greatly curtailed) if I don't upgrade to a regular digital subscription. I had thought that the subscription department was proposing a new offer-- half price for 16 weeks, rather than 99 cents for the first 8 weeks, then a regular rate afterwards.
For slashdot's home page, I got 1.74 Megabytes (using Safari's "Web inspector"). The New York Times weighs in at 2.59 Megabytes.
Oh? Congress isn't capable of subterfuge? Just as the meaning of a patent is contained in the Claims and not in the Abstract, the meaning of a law lies in the text itself. In the name of stopping online piracy, SOPA would give the US government, and by extension, the various intellectual property rights organizations, the power to make any internet node node inaccessible from the United States.
No. Some of the jackbooted government thugs who used to work for the INS were combined with some of the jackbooted government thugs who used to work for US Customs to form ICE. The others went to the Border Patrol. If ICE did not exist, you'd be hearing about domains being seized by the Customs Service.
"Knowledge Manager"?
Perhaps the word you're looking for is Librarian
And that plank would be
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
source
I suppose you're ready and willing to quibble over the meaning of "monopoly."
I've got an SX120. Good camera. I have CHDK installed on it, though I've yet to figure out a decent free Raw toolchain for my mac.
One major sticking point, though. There's no viewfinder, and the LCD tends to wash out during the day. As result, manual focus is difficult.
I'll do you one better. I use whole beans-- and then, I, get this, I GRIND THEM.
The best of both worlds.
Their interest has peaked. It's all downhill from here, and soon they'll be quite bored.
Probably a bit like fleshbot, actually.
But if playboy.com and playboy.xxx both exist, the filter can assume that playboy.com probably is porn.
Same with slashdot.xxx and slashdot.org.
1987a was 168,000 ly from Earth. The anomalous neutrinos had a excess speed of 1/40,000 c. So I'd expect them to arrive four years (ok, 50 months) prior to the light.
From Almeida''s statement:
Basically, half the characters on "30 Rock" would, in real life, belong to one or more of these unions.
Earl Grey tea is just black tea blended with bergamot You can get it from thousands of suppliers. Quality varies--too much bergamot is bitter, too little can be insipid.
I think this has the potential to make animation more like live-action film. A director woking with live actors can order more takes if he's not getting the performances he needs from his actors or the shot's composition is less than perfect. This system sounds like it might give animators the same direct feedback, allowing them to more easily compose those perfect shots,
No, I think you need to revisit your layman's understanding of what fracking is and is not. The whole point of the process is to inject pressurized liquid into the ground, so as to produce and expand cracks and fissures in the rock.
What is "Fracking"? Well, it's the tunneling down in to the ground to extract natural gas.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
And what of pragmatism?
Or Textualism?