It may be partially about transparency in government, but it's much more about the perpetual campaign season. These days, politicians are always campaigning. The new mantra is it's never too early to start campaigning for the next race.
The Obama administration will use these tools to release a constant stream of positive spin. In the old days, Presidents had to rely on weekly radio addresses that no one listened to, daily press briefings that no one listened to, and press conferences that either happened too infrequently to sustain a message or so frequently that people got sick of them.
Now, with these services, the administration has the opportunity to campaign continuously in a low-key and less intrusive way that will, they hope, be more effective. Time will tell how well it works.
Just like/. I want to make obama my enemy. Mod him troll/off topic/flamebait.
Guess I should prep myself for the poor mods;) I think my excellent karma can take it though
There are easier ways to get yourself put on an FBI watch list. Why not try the tried and true method of sending him a death threat through the mail? You'll be on his enemies list in no time flat.
How long after we kill the children would one have to wait to use the old "repopulating the Earth" line to get women in bed? I ask merely out of curiosity.
I don't get why anyone would object to "swine flu".
Let me see if I understand the logic here: You think pigs are unclean, and therefore you object to naming a deadly virus that thrives in unclean environments after them. Wha?
I could understand objecting to it if it were called "Puppy and Kitty Cat Flu", or if we were trying to name a new translation of the Koran the "Swine Koran", but this is just ridiculous.
Weren't the Klingons in TOS basically just bad-tempered humans? They didn't develop the weird growths on their foreheads until much later. They were basically just a poorly fleshed out analogue for the Soviet Union.
On the other hand, kids that are of a coloring-book age (like my 5-year-old) at this point probably don't remember September 11, 2001, anyhow.
Isn't that the point? To explain a tragic and significant event in what is to them American History in an age-appropriate way? I don't see what's wrong with that.
That sort of thing is just unfair. In my opinion, plagiarism is indeed a heinous crime in an academic setting because it goes against everything the pursuit of academics is supposed to be about. Given that, the punishment should be severe.
However, since the punishment for plagiarism should be severe, there should be great care to investigate it properly. If you can show a preponderance of evidence that not only is a paper plagiarized, but you can accurately identify the source(s) from which each plagiarized section of it was copied, then the student should be expelled after the first offense. If you can't come up with that evidence, though, you should not be punishing the student.
I thought professors had legions of grad students to ferret this sort of thing out, why do they need these programs? Trusting a decision that could permanently impact a student's entire life to a computer program seems careless and dangerous.
Countless games capitalize on the deaths of millions of real people in World War II. There are also plenty of games that capitalize on the deaths of thousands in Vietnam. Hell, there are even games based on Desert Storm.
The only difference here is the war is still ongoing and also just happens to be a major politically divisive conflict. Give it 10 or 20 years after the end of the war, after we've had time to sanitize our memories and glorify the war in our own minds and they'll start making games based on it that people will accept.
It's been a long time since I've taken a biology class, but the way I remember it is the sunlight hits the plant and the plant makes food with it, like tacos. Also, I think some birds fuck some bees or something. It's all very confusing.
It's one thing to be nervous when a plane flies by. It's entirely another thing to evacuate multiple buildings when a plane flies by.
We are a nation of overreactors. When we see a bag someone has left on a bench, we have to evacuate 4 square miles and call in the bomb squad. When someone shows up at the gate at an airport without his boarding pass, we evacuate the airport, ground all the planes, and search the whole place.
It pays to be cautious, but there's a vast middle ground between doing nothing and panicking over every little thing.
Microsoft realized after Apple's OSX that their current naming scheme robbed them of the ability to release Windows X, which would be similar to Windows, but more streamlined, and with flames painted on the sides. They went back to the standard sequential number scheme so they could legitimately call a release "Windows X" without looking like poseurs.
This game is based on the prequel movie. You're mixing up the games based on TOS and TNG.
The game based on TOS has "Start Fist-Fight" and "Seduce Alien Woman" buttons, while the one based on TNG has "Talk Endlessly (aka Diplomacy)" and "Flirt with Troi" buttons.
May not work until they get the voice synthesis and the mannerisms right. They might as well start from scratch if they're going to develop digital "actors".
The character is an emotionless cyborg. There aren't a lot of mannerisms to get right, and voice inflection is minimal as well.
In this particular case, since he plays a robot, the only real way to keep him in the movies is through digital enhancement, unless they want to come up with a reason the unchanging cyborg turned into a wrinkly old man and why his giant muscles turned into sagging manboobs.
I worry that the new movie will be too CGI-heavy, but the Terminator series has done pretty well with the special effects so far, so I guess we'll just wait and see.
not only this, they probably also spent a tremendous amount of money for the "research", money gathered from bribing some sheik and agreeing to give some billion dollars from the tax payers more for some billion (metric) tons of oil for... actually themselves, because you have to be an "impotent beer fart" to drive a 5 (metric) tone car just for yourself... and that because you weigh 300 (american) pounds for your (american) 5 feet. But, hey, at least you try, golf is known to be an intensive sport, proven by another research to burn your calories. Ah, at least you get to show that you're an asshole to other assholes. And the answer to the obvious question is: "no, I really don't envy them"
If they ever found a way to power cars with incoherent rants, you'd be rich!
How often do you see cow dung on a golf course? If they really wanted to make a useful "green" golf cart, they would power it with the most abundant resources present on golf courses: beer farts and impotent rage.
I don't know that it was all that obvious. I mean sure, it was obvious from the point of view that everyone knows Oracle has been in a buying mode for several years, and so if a technology company goes up for sale Oracle is automatically seen to be in the running. However, Oracle has also stated several times that they're in the software business and don't want to be in the hardware business, so from that perspective the Sun purchase didn't make a lot of sense.
Sun obviously has some nice stuff like Java, MySQL, and Solaris that Oracle could steer toward supporting its core business. It also has a lot of stuff that expands Oracle pretty far afield of their core business though, and they'll have to take a lot of care in how they decide to manage and/or dispose of those pieces. The biggest example is the hardware business: it's profitable, so Oracle may want to keep it. On the other hand, it's not Oracle's core competency at all, and so it might be wiser for them to jettison it or risk going from a tightly controlled laser-focused company into a sprawling difficult to manage conglomerate.
I'm at my most productive at 2am the night before the project is scheduled to go live.
I'm at my second most productive at 9am the following day while I'm patching the running code on the live system to fix what I didn't have time to test the night before.
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It may be partially about transparency in government, but it's much more about the perpetual campaign season. These days, politicians are always campaigning. The new mantra is it's never too early to start campaigning for the next race.
The Obama administration will use these tools to release a constant stream of positive spin. In the old days, Presidents had to rely on weekly radio addresses that no one listened to, daily press briefings that no one listened to, and press conferences that either happened too infrequently to sustain a message or so frequently that people got sick of them.
Now, with these services, the administration has the opportunity to campaign continuously in a low-key and less intrusive way that will, they hope, be more effective. Time will tell how well it works.
Just like /. I want to make obama my enemy. Mod him troll/off topic/flamebait.
Guess I should prep myself for the poor mods ;) I think my excellent karma can take it though
There are easier ways to get yourself put on an FBI watch list. Why not try the tried and true method of sending him a death threat through the mail? You'll be on his enemies list in no time flat.
How long after we kill the children would one have to wait to use the old "repopulating the Earth" line to get women in bed? I ask merely out of curiosity.
On the bright side, Oracle provides free soda pop to their employees, so it should be smooth sailing from here on out.
Employees that are so stupid they think this kind of stunt is OK.
What do you have against free soda pop? Are you a dentist?
It's not so much "pigs are gross" as "you are guaranteed to go to hell if you touch pigs the wrong way."
So if a fat chick is hitting on me at a bar, I can just tell her I'm Muslim? I'm gonna have to try that.
I don't get why anyone would object to "swine flu".
Let me see if I understand the logic here: You think pigs are unclean, and therefore you object to naming a deadly virus that thrives in unclean environments after them. Wha?
I could understand objecting to it if it were called "Puppy and Kitty Cat Flu", or if we were trying to name a new translation of the Koran the "Swine Koran", but this is just ridiculous.
Weren't the Klingons in TOS basically just bad-tempered humans? They didn't develop the weird growths on their foreheads until much later. They were basically just a poorly fleshed out analogue for the Soviet Union.
On the other hand, kids that are of a coloring-book age (like my 5-year-old) at this point probably don't remember September 11, 2001, anyhow.
Isn't that the point? To explain a tragic and significant event in what is to them American History in an age-appropriate way? I don't see what's wrong with that.
My post was an attempt at a joke that obviously nobody got.
Can we not conflate unrelated issues at all and keep Net Neutrality to mean one thing and one thing only
This wouldn't even be a problem if we didn't have Obama out there letting all the illegals in to steal our bandwidth.
That sort of thing is just unfair. In my opinion, plagiarism is indeed a heinous crime in an academic setting because it goes against everything the pursuit of academics is supposed to be about. Given that, the punishment should be severe.
However, since the punishment for plagiarism should be severe, there should be great care to investigate it properly. If you can show a preponderance of evidence that not only is a paper plagiarized, but you can accurately identify the source(s) from which each plagiarized section of it was copied, then the student should be expelled after the first offense. If you can't come up with that evidence, though, you should not be punishing the student.
I thought professors had legions of grad students to ferret this sort of thing out, why do they need these programs? Trusting a decision that could permanently impact a student's entire life to a computer program seems careless and dangerous.
Countless games capitalize on the deaths of millions of real people in World War II. There are also plenty of games that capitalize on the deaths of thousands in Vietnam. Hell, there are even games based on Desert Storm.
The only difference here is the war is still ongoing and also just happens to be a major politically divisive conflict. Give it 10 or 20 years after the end of the war, after we've had time to sanitize our memories and glorify the war in our own minds and they'll start making games based on it that people will accept.
It's been a long time since I've taken a biology class, but the way I remember it is the sunlight hits the plant and the plant makes food with it, like tacos. Also, I think some birds fuck some bees or something. It's all very confusing.
It's one thing to be nervous when a plane flies by. It's entirely another thing to evacuate multiple buildings when a plane flies by.
We are a nation of overreactors. When we see a bag someone has left on a bench, we have to evacuate 4 square miles and call in the bomb squad. When someone shows up at the gate at an airport without his boarding pass, we evacuate the airport, ground all the planes, and search the whole place.
It pays to be cautious, but there's a vast middle ground between doing nothing and panicking over every little thing.
I think DHL went out of business.
Not quite. They ended domestic parcel service in the US, but they still do international shipping.
Microsoft realized after Apple's OSX that their current naming scheme robbed them of the ability to release Windows X, which would be similar to Windows, but more streamlined, and with flames painted on the sides. They went back to the standard sequential number scheme so they could legitimately call a release "Windows X" without looking like poseurs.
and a user base to rape!
Dude, have you SEEN the user base? Not even with someone else's dick.
This game is based on the prequel movie. You're mixing up the games based on TOS and TNG.
The game based on TOS has "Start Fist-Fight" and "Seduce Alien Woman" buttons, while the one based on TNG has "Talk Endlessly (aka Diplomacy)" and "Flirt with Troi" buttons.
Because a game based on the stuff that goes on in the corridors of the Enterprise between battles would be boring as hell?
Games can't survive on 10 minutes of dialogue at a time like TV shows can, you need a lot of action to sustain interest.
Besides, the Star Trek movies were always a lot more about combat than the TV shows were.
May not work until they get the voice synthesis and the mannerisms right. They might as well start from scratch if they're going to develop digital "actors".
The character is an emotionless cyborg. There aren't a lot of mannerisms to get right, and voice inflection is minimal as well.
In this particular case, since he plays a robot, the only real way to keep him in the movies is through digital enhancement, unless they want to come up with a reason the unchanging cyborg turned into a wrinkly old man and why his giant muscles turned into sagging manboobs.
I worry that the new movie will be too CGI-heavy, but the Terminator series has done pretty well with the special effects so far, so I guess we'll just wait and see.
not only this, they probably also spent a tremendous amount of money for the "research", money gathered from bribing some sheik and agreeing to give some billion dollars from the tax payers more for some billion (metric) tons of oil for... actually themselves, because you have to be an "impotent beer fart" to drive a 5 (metric) tone car just for yourself... and that because you weigh 300 (american) pounds for your (american) 5 feet. But, hey, at least you try, golf is known to be an intensive sport, proven by another research to burn your calories. Ah, at least you get to show that you're an asshole to other assholes. And the answer to the obvious question is: "no, I really don't envy them"
If they ever found a way to power cars with incoherent rants, you'd be rich!
How often do you see cow dung on a golf course? If they really wanted to make a useful "green" golf cart, they would power it with the most abundant resources present on golf courses: beer farts and impotent rage.
Look up "Oracle On Demand." They do all of that stuff.
I don't know that it was all that obvious. I mean sure, it was obvious from the point of view that everyone knows Oracle has been in a buying mode for several years, and so if a technology company goes up for sale Oracle is automatically seen to be in the running. However, Oracle has also stated several times that they're in the software business and don't want to be in the hardware business, so from that perspective the Sun purchase didn't make a lot of sense.
Sun obviously has some nice stuff like Java, MySQL, and Solaris that Oracle could steer toward supporting its core business. It also has a lot of stuff that expands Oracle pretty far afield of their core business though, and they'll have to take a lot of care in how they decide to manage and/or dispose of those pieces. The biggest example is the hardware business: it's profitable, so Oracle may want to keep it. On the other hand, it's not Oracle's core competency at all, and so it might be wiser for them to jettison it or risk going from a tightly controlled laser-focused company into a sprawling difficult to manage conglomerate.
I'm at my most productive at 2am the night before the project is scheduled to go live.
I'm at my second most productive at 9am the following day while I'm patching the running code on the live system to fix what I didn't have time to test the night before.