The founding fathers believed that it's better to let a guilty man run free than let an innocent man be found guilty.
And that should be trivially obvious too - it doesn't take a complicated debate on ethics. When a guilty man is found not guilty, a guilty man goes free. When an innocent man is found guilty, an innocent man is punished and a guilty man goes free.
Is the purpose of a college class to give a student knowledge of a field of study? Or is it to just award a credit towards a degree?
Sound to me that the lecturer thinks it's the latter, which is a problem. Those notes are a valuable resource to any student who wants to retain that knowledge, whether for future classes, a job after college, or just for the pure love of knowledge for its own sake. The student has paid for those notes in time, effort, and money. Asking him to give them up is short-sighted and stupid. Taking them from his backpack is theft.
The biggest problem is people speculating on oil prices, buying oil that they're never going to use and might not even have been produced thus somebody is stockpiling something somewhere only to keep the prices up at the pump
Got any evidence for this stockpile? Paul Krugman has looked for it, and can't find it anywhere. If you know better, I'm all ears.
A friend of mine is a mortgage broker and explained the problem. The Feds demanded the mortgage industry provide more loans to minorities. All too often, minorities applying for loans did not have sufficient income to qualify. If they turned them down, AS THEY SHOULD HAVE, they would have been accused of discrimination. This whole mortgage crises was created by the Feds forcing the industry to give loans to people who had no chance of paying them back.
Horsecrap. The mortgage issuers were packaging up mortgages into supposedly AAA-rated bond-equivalents and selling them off. They were lending money to people who couldn't afford to pay because they weren't taking on any of the risks. It has nothing to do with minorities and everything to do with moral hazard.
Sounds like a bunch of Perl coders who cant be bothered to learn another platform
If you'd read the article[1] you'd have found out that they use Ruby on Rails internally, and that's why they replicated its functionality in Perl. The reason they did that was because they weren't allowed to use anything other than Perl.
especially paying the usurious fees charged by MLB
MLB's audio service is $15 a year, for every game. It's a bargain.
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45kb was a lot.
It wasn't so much that it was a lot - it was that by the time you loaded a mouse driver, maybe a cd driver, himem.sys, and all that, some programs just wouldn't load in low mem. I spent hours fiddling with the order stuff loaded in to get some games to run, and finding a mouse driver that only took 6k instead of 18k was a god-send. I had four or five copies of autoexec.bat tailored for different games; in the end, DOS 6 introduced a menu system to take the hassle out of it.
mlb.com is a lot better than it was. It does at least work on Linux at the moment - they used to have code specifically to prevent me listening to games on Linux. And quite frankly, the mlb.tv package is a bargain. It's the only content I pay for on the internet, and I'm happy to do so. Of course, I don't live in the USA and therefore don't get blacked out.
I use the low-bandwidth site, btw. It's pretty clean.
People here should be encouraging the development of non-lethal weapons, not making jokes about it or calling it a "waste". If you want a less abusive government, the way to get it is to promote things like non-lethal weapons.
Give the police more non-lethal weapons, and they're more likely to use them. Trouble is, they're not even non-lethal. People have been killed by rubber bullets, and by bean-bag projectiles.
Well, he doesn't do anything extreme with gimp - cropping, resizing, brightness adjustment, that sort of thing, and he only uses Linux because I can admin it remotely.
In answer to your question, he just doesn't think about computers in the same way you or I do. He didn't use one until he was almost 60, and nothing about using them comes easily to him. If I show him how to do something, and he does it regularly enough, he can 'remember' how to do it, but if he needs to do something similar, it doesn't occur to him to adapt any of the procedures he already knows to accomplish the new task. For example, if he uses an option on the File menu of an application, he knows to click there, and there, and there - but if I tell him to click on the File menu to do something else, he has to look for it.
It's the same with the right mouse button. If there's an option he uses a lot, he can use the right mouse button, but he doesn't have it abstracted out as 'the button that produces a context menu'. It's just 'the button he uses when he has to save an image from Opera', for example. If he wanted to find out the properties of that same image, it wouldn't occur to him to look for it on the context menu.
He's a perfectly intelligent guy. It's just that computer interfaces don't come naturally to him. (He's learning, though. I'm constantly amazed by how much he's bought into using a computer, even if he has to work at it)
The truth is, I don't think you'll find a single person on Earth that can do email but is actually confused by two mouse buttons.
My father uses Opera, scanner software, the Gimp, and Picasa on Linux, but absolutely can't remember what he's supposed to use the right mouse button for. No matter how many times I tell him it's a context menu, and it does something with the object he right-clicks on, he doesn't get it. If I tell him to double-click something, he asks 'which button?', even though it's obvious to me that right-double-click is never used.
Remember this when some big corporation starts whining about government regulation of the market. They don't want a free market. They want government regulation that favours them.
What I find unfortunate is that DHS can't win. If they send out any kind of alert and nothing happens, they overreacted (even if there was a real threat and the perps simply scratched their mission once they were exposed.). If they don't send an alert and something happens, they take the blame for that.
Government has lost the trust of anyone who has been paying attention for the last few years. If they can't win, it's their own fault for their 'everything is political' tactics.
Does that mean that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a democratic republic?
Labour used to be Socialist. The dropped that ideal when they abandoned a committment to the common ownership of the means of production (aka Clause 4). Under Tony Blair, they've become common-or-garden Thatcherites, committed to privatising everything, whether it produces better social services or not. To call them socialists is pure ignorance, of what socialism is and of what the Labour party has become.
well if there was a national register of DNA and finger prints then it would be rather quite easy to find the person who committed any crime
Except that's not how it works. DNA testing isn't 100%. It'll narrow it down to a certain number of people. Now, if you arrest someone on suspicion of a crime, and it turns out that his DNA matches the crime scene, you've usually got your man. On the other hand, if you run the test against everyone, and narrow it down to, say, 10 people in the entire country - well, pity the poor sod who lives closest to the crime scene and had the misfortune to spend the day alone at home with no alibi.
Speaking as a cyclist, please don't build bike lanes. The best bike lanes already exist - they're called roads. They're generally well surfaced, and they go places where I want to go. All I ask is that I'm treated with the same respect other road users get - give me some room, be patient if you're held up for a few precious seconds. Bike lanes just reinforce the prejudice that cyclists are second-class road users who need to be coralled out of the way of motorists.
My reply is a bit late, but, no, I didn't. Gloria Vanderbilt was ill, and was moving hospitals after the weekend, hence "Sick Gloria in transit Monday"
Hitler lost the war because he was out produced, not because of his faith in technology.
Those two clauses aren't incompatible. The Tiger was a fantastic tank that was so complex, they only made a couple of thousand of them. The Soviet T34 was a very good tank that was simple enough to make tens of thousands of them.
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And that should be trivially obvious too - it doesn't take a complicated debate on ethics. When a guilty man is found not guilty, a guilty man goes free. When an innocent man is found guilty, an innocent man is punished and a guilty man goes free.
If the facts are against you, bang on the law. If the law is against you, bang on the facts. If both are against you, bang on the table.
Making an anti-copyright statement in court would be the equivalent of banging on the table, which Pirate Bay don't appear to need to do.
Is the purpose of a college class to give a student knowledge of a field of study? Or is it to just award a credit towards a degree?
Sound to me that the lecturer thinks it's the latter, which is a problem. Those notes are a valuable resource to any student who wants to retain that knowledge, whether for future classes, a job after college, or just for the pure love of knowledge for its own sake. The student has paid for those notes in time, effort, and money. Asking him to give them up is short-sighted and stupid. Taking them from his backpack is theft.
Except, for some reason, 'Jesus', which becomes "Jesus'", not "Jesus's". I have no idea why, but that's what the style guides say.
Opera used to use opera.no as its primary domain, as they didn't own opera.com
If you'd read the article[1] you'd have found out that they use Ruby on Rails internally, and that's why they replicated its functionality in Perl. The reason they did that was because they weren't allowed to use anything other than Perl.
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mlb.com is a lot better than it was. It does at least work on Linux at the moment - they used to have code specifically to prevent me listening to games on Linux. And quite frankly, the mlb.tv package is a bargain. It's the only content I pay for on the internet, and I'm happy to do so. Of course, I don't live in the USA and therefore don't get blacked out.
I use the low-bandwidth site, btw. It's pretty clean.
Give the police more non-lethal weapons, and they're more likely to use them. Trouble is, they're not even non-lethal. People have been killed by rubber bullets, and by bean-bag projectiles.
Well, he doesn't do anything extreme with gimp - cropping, resizing, brightness adjustment, that sort of thing, and he only uses Linux because I can admin it remotely.
In answer to your question, he just doesn't think about computers in the same way you or I do. He didn't use one until he was almost 60, and nothing about using them comes easily to him. If I show him how to do something, and he does it regularly enough, he can 'remember' how to do it, but if he needs to do something similar, it doesn't occur to him to adapt any of the procedures he already knows to accomplish the new task. For example, if he uses an option on the File menu of an application, he knows to click there, and there, and there - but if I tell him to click on the File menu to do something else, he has to look for it.
It's the same with the right mouse button. If there's an option he uses a lot, he can use the right mouse button, but he doesn't have it abstracted out as 'the button that produces a context menu'. It's just 'the button he uses when he has to save an image from Opera', for example. If he wanted to find out the properties of that same image, it wouldn't occur to him to look for it on the context menu.
He's a perfectly intelligent guy. It's just that computer interfaces don't come naturally to him. (He's learning, though. I'm constantly amazed by how much he's bought into using a computer, even if he has to work at it)
This needs extensive scientific research and international co-operation. Unfortunately, the Bush administration is openly hostile to both.
Remember this when some big corporation starts whining about government regulation of the market. They don't want a free market. They want government regulation that favours them.
Does that mean that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a democratic republic?
Labour used to be Socialist. The dropped that ideal when they abandoned a committment to the common ownership of the means of production (aka Clause 4). Under Tony Blair, they've become common-or-garden Thatcherites, committed to privatising everything, whether it produces better social services or not. To call them socialists is pure ignorance, of what socialism is and of what the Labour party has become.
Except that's not how it works. DNA testing isn't 100%. It'll narrow it down to a certain number of people. Now, if you arrest someone on suspicion of a crime, and it turns out that his DNA matches the crime scene, you've usually got your man. On the other hand, if you run the test against everyone, and narrow it down to, say, 10 people in the entire country - well, pity the poor sod who lives closest to the crime scene and had the misfortune to spend the day alone at home with no alibi.
Speaking as a cyclist, please don't build bike lanes. The best bike lanes already exist - they're called roads. They're generally well surfaced, and they go places where I want to go. All I ask is that I'm treated with the same respect other road users get - give me some room, be patient if you're held up for a few precious seconds. Bike lanes just reinforce the prejudice that cyclists are second-class road users who need to be coralled out of the way of motorists.
Hitler lost the war because he was out produced, not because of his faith in technology.
Those two clauses aren't incompatible. The Tiger was a fantastic tank that was so complex, they only made a couple of thousand of them. The Soviet T34 was a very good tank that was simple enough to make tens of thousands of them.
Oh, come on. "Headless body found in topless bar" is a work of genius. "Sick Gloria in transit Monday", also.