You're absolutely right, we need to diversify our marketspeak. Lets bring back "tron," "cyber," and "o-matic" as prefixes and suffixes for the next gee-whiz widget!
If anyone cares to actually read the provisions of the Act which implement the Real ID system, they'll see a provision which allows for easy compliance. In essence, my state can continue to issue licenses and ignore the data gathering burdens of the act by simply changing the color of the license and printing "not valid as federal identification" on the front.
Of course, then I may need some alternative form of ID if I wish to deal with a federal agency... But it's cheap this way.
This study confirms what we've all long suspected. MUDs are superior to graphical games, and stuff like World of Warcrack and Evercrack really are bad for you. All those bright pictures, colors, and songs just ruin your focus. If you want your children to grow up smart, park them in front of telnet, not teletubbies.
Surely the next media format will be a long-lasting, broadly compatible mechanism. The kind of thing that holds a movie nicely, but does not waste space with advertising, "bonus" features, or DRM... and that will remain useful while outliving my great grandchildren. Kind of like, a book. Right?
Can anyone direct me to an easy way to get a "wipe cookies" button in my Firefox toolbar? Perhaps something to make deleting all of my cookies as easy as hitting "refresh" while looking at a high school website?
Homeopaths, naturalists, new-age healers, dowsers, reflexologists, chiropractors, feng shui "experts," et all: they use any slip of a scientist to bolster their support from those who don't know better. It saddens me, but such is the nature of the game.
All of these folks are vitaly important. Lets see if I can address them in turn*:
1. Homeopaths - sexual orientation has not been proven to affect scientific ability.
2. Naturalists - These are people who run around without clothes, right? Whats not fun about that?
3. New-age Healers - Because after a year or two, the bottom of my shoe really needs to be replaced.
4. Dowsers - I didn't get any money for marrying my wife, but if this practice is going to see a return, I can't complain.
5. Reflexologists - These folks are a must, how else will we be able to develop the weapons we need to fight the Zentradi?
6. Chiropractors - A good chiropractor sometimes costs less than a massage therapist, both give good back-rubs. Competition is good, we need Chiropractors.
7. Feng Shui Experts - This is perhaps the most important of all, it helps keep my wife from re-arranging the furniture. "But honey, they HAVE to be arranged that way."
Under the Federal Constitution, all states are required to provide a "republican form of government." The States have always had voting. I think you're thinking of presidential electors only. (Which of course gets all the press, but when it comes down to the things I vote about that actually affect my day-to-day life, is pretty low on the list.)
Actually, in some jurisdictions (North Dakota), one does not need to register to vote.
Too, we can't have a single national lab developing a single national voting system, because each state sets voting rules based on its own preferences, values, and traditions. (At least, it seems that a single system which tries to handle the voting systems in all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and the territories, will not be truly good at any one in particular.)
Something must be missing in the inflamatory language of this article. Wouldn't this outlaw the digital to analog convertor for my television? You know, the one that the federal government is going to subsidize for me when we switch to digital television in 2009?
I don't see what's so "Insightful" about the above post.
While I think I make an important point about the fleeting cool factor of new graphics, perhaps the most insightful thing about my post is how I got some mod points thrown at what is, until I change my.sig, a plug for my favorite MUD.
After the first hour or two, does anyone really notice the eye-candy graphics? If not, why not just skip that part alltogether and play a MUD for free?
Endless zombie gore pales before the epic thrill of asterisk spam
Perhaps this is more of a survival trait in humans than a superiority in chimps. Growing up, there were a lot of things I needed to know HOW to do which were too complex for me to understand WHY at the time. Too, I emulate my parents' culture, often without a conscious reason, perhaps because their culture has allowed them to succeed.
When my windows box crashes, I reboot it, without knowing why. I could probably eliminate some steps between boot, crash, and reboot too...
So why don't we de-criminalize the whole issue. If you don't want to wear a seatbelt, you pay an extra fee when you license your vehicle, or renew your driver's license.
Normally, I use sic to flag a quoted statement that contains errors. In this case I used it, improperly, it because my own statement contains jesting errors. It was my hope that this would dissuate the inevitable/. reader who thought I was serious from attacking me on the point, while allowing me to be sufficiently lazy as to avoid typing it out.
Of course, now I've had to type out the explanation anyway. Thanks for ruining an otherwise totally unproductive friday! I hope you're happy.
I'm glad to see this. Up to now I thought the only thing the U.S. Copyright office did was register the official names of stars in cooperation with some official sounding international registry about which I know very little.
I was unable to tell from TFA, though I did not read it closely, whether this will make soy biodiesel as cheap or cheaper than standard diesel is now.
Not that it matters, I just bought a nice, fuel efficient gasoline powered car... It should be wearing out about the time the patent expires on this new process.
To challenge the conclusion, and offer an alternative based on available evidence, would be a good manner in challenging the way we think the universe got from zero to this point.
If science is based on reproduceable experiment only, there can be no scientific theory about how the universe got from Zero to this point. At least, not until we figure out time travel. Why not simply ask the fundies to accept that biological change over time is taking place right now, albiet only at the scale we can test, and leave the whole issue of the past to the philosophers and historians?
Actually, the engineers are partly to blame for the high demand for lawyers we have in most United States. Each new technology requires a slough of new "rules" to go along with it. The automobile is the perfect example. The automobile gave people vast a vast new power to travel, but it also created a whole new realm of legal questions. To adapt, we have had to create rules about safety, speed limits, alcohol consumption, pollution and so on.
Microsoft has recently decided they need to move into providing internet services rather than just selling software. If They want to make money selling services over the internet, does it really matter who made the browser? You'll still be logging into their proprietary applications services and forking over your cash. Why limit the customer base to ONLY that 85-90% that run your browser?
On the other hand, won't such a single standard utopia be open to exploitation, virii, and all the other "bad stuff" that comes with a non-diverse system?
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You're absolutely right, we need to diversify our marketspeak. Lets bring back "tron," "cyber," and "o-matic" as prefixes and suffixes for the next gee-whiz widget!
If anyone cares to actually read the provisions of the Act which implement the Real ID system, they'll see a provision which allows for easy compliance. In essence, my state can continue to issue licenses and ignore the data gathering burdens of the act by simply changing the color of the license and printing "not valid as federal identification" on the front.
Of course, then I may need some alternative form of ID if I wish to deal with a federal agency... But it's cheap this way.
This study confirms what we've all long suspected. MUDs are superior to graphical games, and stuff like World of Warcrack and Evercrack really are bad for you. All those bright pictures, colors, and songs just ruin your focus. If you want your children to grow up smart, park them in front of telnet, not teletubbies.
Surely the next media format will be a long-lasting, broadly compatible mechanism. The kind of thing that holds a movie nicely, but does not waste space with advertising, "bonus" features, or DRM ... and that will remain useful while outliving my great grandchildren. Kind of like, a book. Right?
Can anyone direct me to an easy way to get a "wipe cookies" button in my Firefox toolbar? Perhaps something to make deleting all of my cookies as easy as hitting "refresh" while looking at a high school website?
Homeopaths, naturalists, new-age healers, dowsers, reflexologists, chiropractors, feng shui "experts," et all: they use any slip of a scientist to bolster their support from those who don't know better. It saddens me, but such is the nature of the game.
All of these folks are vitaly important. Lets see if I can address them in turn*:
1. Homeopaths - sexual orientation has not been proven to affect scientific ability.
2. Naturalists - These are people who run around without clothes, right? Whats not fun about that?
3. New-age Healers - Because after a year or two, the bottom of my shoe really needs to be replaced.
4. Dowsers - I didn't get any money for marrying my wife, but if this practice is going to see a return, I can't complain.
5. Reflexologists - These folks are a must, how else will we be able to develop the weapons we need to fight the Zentradi?
6. Chiropractors - A good chiropractor sometimes costs less than a massage therapist, both give good back-rubs. Competition is good, we need Chiropractors.
7. Feng Shui Experts - This is perhaps the most important of all, it helps keep my wife from re-arranging the furniture. "But honey, they HAVE to be arranged that way."
Under the Federal Constitution, all states are required to provide a "republican form of government." The States have always had voting. I think you're thinking of presidential electors only. (Which of course gets all the press, but when it comes down to the things I vote about that actually affect my day-to-day life, is pretty low on the list.)
Actually, in some jurisdictions (North Dakota), one does not need to register to vote.
Too, we can't have a single national lab developing a single national voting system, because each state sets voting rules based on its own preferences, values, and traditions. (At least, it seems that a single system which tries to handle the voting systems in all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and the territories, will not be truly good at any one in particular.)
Something must be missing in the inflamatory language of this article. Wouldn't this outlaw the digital to analog convertor for my television? You know, the one that the federal government is going to subsidize for me when we switch to digital television in 2009?
Someone has to be misreading this act.
I don't see what's so "Insightful" about the above post.
.sig, a plug for my favorite MUD.
While I think I make an important point about the fleeting cool factor of new graphics, perhaps the most insightful thing about my post is how I got some mod points thrown at what is, until I change my
After the first hour or two, does anyone really notice the eye-candy graphics? If not, why not just skip that part alltogether and play a MUD for free?
Endless zombie gore
pales before the epic thrill
of asterisk spam
-A haiku for MUDs.
Perhaps this is more of a survival trait in humans than a superiority in chimps. Growing up, there were a lot of things I needed to know HOW to do which were too complex for me to understand WHY at the time. Too, I emulate my parents' culture, often without a conscious reason, perhaps because their culture has allowed them to succeed.
When my windows box crashes, I reboot it, without knowing why. I could probably eliminate some steps between boot, crash, and reboot too...
Organised religion, as opposed to what, organised government? Maybe organised business entities?
Can anyone point out to me a category of organised human endeavor that HAS a good track record by these standards?
Why, just the other day I was lamenting the lack of games that allow me to play a 32 year old, balding, Xbox owner in his parents' basement.
I've been wrong before, but isn't a link to a print article technically called a Citation?
Your opinion is troubling. I really hope you're not a lawyer.
So why don't we de-criminalize the whole issue. If you don't want to wear a seatbelt, you pay an extra fee when you license your vehicle, or renew your driver's license.
Normally, I use sic to flag a quoted statement that contains errors. In this case I used it, improperly, it because my own statement contains jesting errors. It was my hope that this would dissuate the inevitable /. reader who thought I was serious from attacking me on the point, while allowing me to be sufficiently lazy as to avoid typing it out.
Of course, now I've had to type out the explanation anyway. Thanks for ruining an otherwise totally unproductive friday! I hope you're happy.
I'm glad to see this. Up to now I thought the only thing the U.S. Copyright office did was register the official names of stars in cooperation with some official sounding international registry about which I know very little.
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Religion was illegal... ...and people on the whole preferred it that way because it stopped people messing with observable fact. Or lawyers.
On the other hand they had salt mines...
But then again if we were to send the lawyers to the salt mines, I think it would solve most of our problems...
Sure thing, and If you ever get arrested, call your doctor.
I was unable to tell from TFA, though I did not read it closely, whether this will make soy biodiesel as cheap or cheaper than standard diesel is now.
Not that it matters, I just bought a nice, fuel efficient gasoline powered car... It should be wearing out about the time the patent expires on this new process.
To challenge the conclusion, and offer an alternative based on available evidence, would be a good manner in challenging the way we think the universe got from zero to this point.
If science is based on reproduceable experiment only, there can be no scientific theory about how the universe got from Zero to this point. At least, not until we figure out time travel. Why not simply ask the fundies to accept that biological change over time is taking place right now, albiet only at the scale we can test, and leave the whole issue of the past to the philosophers and historians?
Actually, the engineers are partly to blame for the high demand for lawyers we have in most United States. Each new technology requires a slough of new "rules" to go along with it. The automobile is the perfect example. The automobile gave people vast a vast new power to travel, but it also created a whole new realm of legal questions. To adapt, we have had to create rules about safety, speed limits, alcohol consumption, pollution and so on.
Microsoft has recently decided they need to move into providing internet services rather than just selling software. If They want to make money selling services over the internet, does it really matter who made the browser? You'll still be logging into their proprietary applications services and forking over your cash. Why limit the customer base to ONLY that 85-90% that run your browser?
On the other hand, won't such a single standard utopia be open to exploitation, virii, and all the other "bad stuff" that comes with a non-diverse system?