And then, after you have read the newspaper, you toss it in the bin, which has to be emptied into a dumpster and transported yet another time to the dump, where the inks are pollutants.
More than that, don't look for any possible truths outside of your opinions and existing personal prejudices. If you can't face facts, then design a system that gladly tells you the lies you want to hear. Promotes your ignorance and panders to your stupidity. This isn't convenience, its self perpetuating brain damage.
Sounds like Fox News - and anything else that Murdoch does.
I am surprised that no one has challenged the name of this business.. for example with the intent to force them to change it from 'Australian' to 'American' as right now they could well be deemed to be passing off in a deliberate attempt to deceive the public - which would be classified as a type of fraud.
I always thought, when Murdoch dropped his Australian citizenship to become an American, he should have been required to change the name of his newspaper from "The Australian" to "The American". But then, his corporation calls itself "News Corp" when it should be called "Bias Corp", or something like that... if we required "Truth In Naming".
So, yes, I would support your claim that AFACT would be less deceptive if it called itself the "American" FACT
PS: I would also rename Murdoch's former nation as The Privatewealth of Australia - especially if Abbott gets in.
Financial Analysis is ripe with ways of twisting the truth. It happens all the time. Companies make it so they look like they are poor to the government to not pay taxes and Rich to the share holders to raise stock price.
You're at a bar. A good-looking girl asks you, "How much money do you make?" You answer... (a) truthfully (b) boost it up (c) tell her you are on unemployment benefits.
The phone rings and a person asks for a donation to a charity. You answer: (a) I can afford that. (b) I am broke at the moment. (c) I am one of the beneficiaries of that charity - can I have a handout?
Corporations are like that too, only their notions of the "good-looking girl" (cashed-up firm wanting to buy you out) and "charity collector" (government) are different.
See? The CSIRO engages in actual research, and patents its own work, and licences its own patented work to others.
It doesn't go around buying up patents from other companies with the aim of litigation.
The result of non-Australians paying for the use of CSIRO patents will be further research by CSIRO that could improve technology for the rest of the world - not just for Australians. If patents are to exist at all, this is how it should work.
We're getting ready to head into a presidential election where the "left" is actually center and the "right" is actually "holy fucking shit I didn't know the scale went this far".
Best political analysis ever.
Or, as my brother used to tell me, "America has two parties: a right-wing party and a righter-wing party".
Still, MS works to maintain some compatibility when they really have no reason to.
Oh come on!
MS is doing it because BIG customers are demanding it. Unless MS lets Windows servers play nicely with Linux virtual hosts, those big customers will take themselves off to VMware or some other virtualisation vendor. MS doesn't own the virtualisation market, so they have to play nicely with Linux virtual hosts if they want to compete. MS doesn't maintain compatibility if it owns a market, only if it is facing real competition from other products.
Competition is what forces MS to play nicely. And competition is what MS tries to destroy.
I remember being taught at school about the CSIRO back in the 1960s. Even back then they were an icon of Australian scientiic and technical research, in the same way that NASA is in the US.
Australians are rightly proud of the CSIRO. We don't mind if the rest of the world chips in, every now and then, to support the CSIRO's research - especially when the rest of the world benefits too.
New technologies promote new languages. The "microcomputer" made Basic popular. The web made PHP popular - it is kind of like Basic for web servers (not in syntax, but in being easy for beginners). Ruby has gotten nowhere much apart from Rails. And Objective-C has been around for ages, but only rose to any kind of prominence when it was bought by NextStep, which was bought by Apple, who now use it on their iDevices. And we all know what language the browser has made popular.
A popular technology promotes a new popular language.
Dr Ken Cooper - the guy who invented aerobics and published back in the 1970s - was answering this question more or less. He was a US Air Force doctor and had access to thousands of subjects for testing. He wanted to answer the question: "How much exercise do I *need* to do, when a doctor tells me to get `more' exercise?"
Basically, after a 13 week conditioning program of gradually increasing exersion, his program settles down into walking 4 miles in 55 minutes, three times a week. This is not that burdensome. And there are many alternatives to walking: swimming, running/jogging, cycling, playing various vigorous sports like squash, etc. He worked out age and activity based tables for mixing and matching various activities to achieve the weekly exercise goal - all based on research into basic aerobic fitness.
Of course you could still fly to NZ and perhaps take a cruise ship the rest of the way, just saying if you really wanted to go without a full body scan.
Or swim. Then you don't even have to go through customs and immigration.
Kiwis (New Zealanders) swim across the Tasman all the time. That's why we have so many in Bondi - that's where they all land.
Yeah, there's been dozens of people who've noticed that the university lecture is a really poor way of conveying information
If only "dozens of people" have noticed "that the university lecture is a really poor way of conveying information", then I think it must be pretty good, given the millions of people who have undergone university education in the last few decades.
Perhaps you would like to increase your estimate of the number of disgruntled lecturees?
which maybe suited a bunch of philosophy students gathering to hear Hegel hold forth at length, but not much else.
Is he still lecturing? Man! That's what I call academic tenure!
Sometimes stupidity is malice. Like when you're too uniformed, untrained, and unmotivated to do your very important job properly. Not admitting that and stepping down is malice.
And sometimes malice is malice... when you are a paranoid government in cahoots with a paranoid entertainment industry who want to stomp on all that Internet freedom, and turn it into a "manageable" broadcast medium, where only the big corporations are free to issue content.
Slashdot Mirror
Yay! So now we can put those bacteria in farmers, and they won't get sick or die when they spray their farms.
It's all about feelings.
it is all about concrete thinking over abstract understanding.
And then, after you have read the newspaper, you toss it in the bin, which has to be emptied into a dumpster and transported yet another time to the dump, where the inks are pollutants.
So if a writer types 'How does someone publish there book?', Microsoft will send them to a spelling and grammar site instead of HarperCollins?
No. Send them to Clippy! "I see you are trying to write 'their'. Would you like help with that?"
More than that, don't look for any possible truths outside of your opinions and existing personal prejudices. If you can't face facts, then design a system that gladly tells you the lies you want to hear. Promotes your ignorance and panders to your stupidity. This isn't convenience, its self perpetuating brain damage.
Sounds like Fox News - and anything else that Murdoch does.
Oh, look: prior art.
I am surprised that no one has challenged the name of this business.. for example with the intent to force them to change it from 'Australian' to 'American' as right now they could well be deemed to be passing off in a deliberate attempt to deceive the public - which would be classified as a type of fraud.
I always thought, when Murdoch dropped his Australian citizenship to become an American, he should have been required to change the name of his newspaper from "The Australian" to "The American". But then, his corporation calls itself "News Corp" when it should be called "Bias Corp", or something like that ... if we required "Truth In Naming".
So, yes, I would support your claim that AFACT would be less deceptive if it called itself the "American" FACT
PS: I would also rename Murdoch's former nation as The Privatewealth of Australia - especially if Abbott gets in.
I'd ask it the other way around.
If baboons can learn to recognize words, is it not ethical to use humans in medical testing?
Then the bigger question: "Why?"
Sure it's ethical to experiment on humans.
We'll start with you.
Why not?
Apple gets a pass because they have better marketing than God, and, as a result, a more loyal religion.
Apple is the Cool Kid(TM). It's like Nike or La Coste clothing some years ago. They're a must-have fashion item in the non-tech world.
Google is the Nerdy Genius(TM). They're really smart ... and as they don't sell you anything, what's to complain about?
Microsoft is the Dorky Kid heading for Business School. His PCs drive you crazy.
Facebook is where you keep all your fake friends and pretend to have a social life.
So you pick on Microsoft.
My strong suspicion is that you're just rather young and naive and don't have enough supervision on this project.
That's a no-brainer on /.
Financial Analysis is ripe with ways of twisting the truth. It happens all the time.
Companies make it so they look like they are poor to the government to not pay taxes and Rich to the share holders to raise stock price.
You're at a bar. A good-looking girl asks you, "How much money do you make?" You answer ...
(a) truthfully
(b) boost it up
(c) tell her you are on unemployment benefits.
The phone rings and a person asks for a donation to a charity. You answer:
(a) I can afford that.
(b) I am broke at the moment.
(c) I am one of the beneficiaries of that charity - can I have a handout?
Corporations are like that too, only their notions of the "good-looking girl" (cashed-up firm wanting to buy you out) and "charity collector" (government) are different.
China has Copyright laws?
Sure. For everything you write, the government has the right to get a copy.
See? The CSIRO engages in actual research, and patents its own work, and licences its own patented work to others.
It doesn't go around buying up patents from other companies with the aim of litigation.
The result of non-Australians paying for the use of CSIRO patents will be further research by CSIRO that could improve technology for the rest of the world - not just for Australians. If patents are to exist at all, this is how it should work.
We're getting ready to head into a presidential election where the "left" is actually center and the "right" is actually "holy fucking shit I didn't know the scale went this far".
Best political analysis ever.
Or, as my brother used to tell me, "America has two parties: a right-wing party and a righter-wing party".
Still, MS works to maintain some compatibility when they really have no reason to.
Oh come on!
MS is doing it because BIG customers are demanding it. Unless MS lets Windows servers play nicely with Linux virtual hosts, those big customers will take themselves off to VMware or some other virtualisation vendor. MS doesn't own the virtualisation market, so they have to play nicely with Linux virtual hosts if they want to compete. MS doesn't maintain compatibility if it owns a market, only if it is facing real competition from other products.
Competition is what forces MS to play nicely. And competition is what MS tries to destroy.
The CSIRO isn't your typical patent troll.
I remember being taught at school about the CSIRO back in the 1960s. Even back then they were an icon of Australian scientiic and technical research, in the same way that NASA is in the US.
Australians are rightly proud of the CSIRO. We don't mind if the rest of the world chips in, every now and then, to support the CSIRO's research - especially when the rest of the world benefits too.
the Gondorians a neutral General American/ Received Pronunciation accent (educated middle/upper-class).
I imagine the Gondorians would be more like upper class Bostonians.
People shouldn't be indoors playing those competitive video games that put you all on edge and make you so aggressive.
They should go outdoors and do some traditional non-competitive, non-aggressive activity, like buy a rifle and shoot animals and stuff.
How does a gun-toting country ban video games for being too aggressive?
I think my head is exploding.
So who was pushing Perl, PHP or Ruby?
Mr W. W. Web
New technologies promote new languages. The "microcomputer" made Basic popular. The web made PHP popular - it is kind of like Basic for web servers (not in syntax, but in being easy for beginners). Ruby has gotten nowhere much apart from Rails. And Objective-C has been around for ages, but only rose to any kind of prominence when it was bought by NextStep, which was bought by Apple, who now use it on their iDevices. And we all know what language the browser has made popular.
A popular technology promotes a new popular language.
We just want more funding for our research... why can't people see how important it is!
But according to their research, we can't tell if they are competent at their research.
Steve Jobs might not be around any more to enforce some of Apple's stricter policies
At first I misread that as "...Apple's sphincter policies" and then I decided I was right.
Dr Ken Cooper - the guy who invented aerobics and published back in the 1970s - was answering this question more or less. He was a US Air Force doctor and had access to thousands of subjects for testing. He wanted to answer the question: "How much exercise do I *need* to do, when a doctor tells me to get `more' exercise?"
Basically, after a 13 week conditioning program of gradually increasing exersion, his program settles down into walking 4 miles in 55 minutes, three times a week. This is not that burdensome. And there are many alternatives to walking: swimming, running/jogging, cycling, playing various vigorous sports like squash, etc. He worked out age and activity based tables for mixing and matching various activities to achieve the weekly exercise goal - all based on research into basic aerobic fitness.
Of course you could still fly to NZ and perhaps take a cruise ship the rest of the way, just saying if you really wanted to go without a full body scan.
Or swim. Then you don't even have to go through customs and immigration.
Kiwis (New Zealanders) swim across the Tasman all the time. That's why we have so many in Bondi - that's where they all land.
FTFS: The technology will show passengers on a screen as stick figures of neither sex.
This gives a whole new meaning to "obligatory XKCD".
Now I have a mental image of body scanner operators sitting around all day looking at XCKD cartoons.
How do I get that job?
Yeah, there's been dozens of people who've noticed that the university lecture is a really poor way of conveying information
If only "dozens of people" have noticed "that the university lecture is a really poor way of conveying information", then I think it must be pretty good, given the millions of people who have undergone university education in the last few decades.
Perhaps you would like to increase your estimate of the number of disgruntled lecturees?
which maybe suited a bunch of philosophy students gathering to hear Hegel hold forth at length, but not much else.
Is he still lecturing? Man! That's what I call academic tenure!
Sometimes stupidity is malice. Like when you're too uniformed, untrained, and unmotivated to do your very important job properly. Not admitting that and stepping down is malice.
And sometimes malice is malice ... when you are a paranoid government in cahoots with a paranoid entertainment industry who want to stomp on all that Internet freedom, and turn it into a "manageable" broadcast medium, where only the big corporations are free to issue content.