First to clarify: I completely agree that the government shouldn't be involved in marriage. That's a religious matter that should have nothing to do with the state in my mind.
And my point was precisely that prop 8 is all about what the state recognizes. They won't recognize your gay marriage, but to be absolutely clear, neither will they arrest you for it (which is not outside the realm of possibility: Texas for example until quite recently was prepared to arrest people for having homosexual sex, let alone homosexual marriage).
Recluse: you're understanding it wrong. Well-known/fame (being of interest TO society) and recluse ( being disinterested IN society http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recluse : marked by withdrawal from society) are completely orthogonal.
Indeed. I was a horrifically oversheltered kid. It took me close to a decade to understand how to fit into the real world after I got away from my parents.
Prop 8 does not prevent the marriage of gays. Gays are getting married every day in CA, and no one is arresting them or the ministers or the attendees of the ceremony. It prevents the taxation of gays as a household.
It's actually more evil, right, because now less people will work to overturn it, and therefore it can be abused more easily? Perhaps the right description would be more insidious.
Of course, by saying it that way, you're making his point. And of course, maybe that was the point of your post, you never can tell when an AC will turn out to be intentionally funny, rather than stupidly funny.
Very true. They are enabling the pointing. And if they omitted documents, how could we trust them not to be withholding the most vital documents for improving our freedom?
They (particularly paypal) did this long before. They've been shutting down the accounts of any customers who might make them look bad in the press for years.
Why would I avoid donating to a charity just because I find out that they are helping to fund white supremacist marches. I mean, they're still helping someone, right?
You don't go to the movies of an actor (let's say Mel Gibson) because he's an anti-Semite because you don't want him to have more money to fuel that cause. And because you want to set a public example for others that says: this sort of behavior is not ok.
But there are behavior trees handling a huge number of potential situations, as well as a lot of good games doing things like genetic algorithms to try to find new behaviors. There's a lot, lot more going on there than pacman's 3 state AI.
AI today is significantly more complex and sophisticated. It is playing much more complex games against you. I can assure you that this is almost a purely 'oh the good old days' sort of thinking.
My comcast box returns my viewing data to comcast. All of the smart dvr type boxes do as far as I know. Yeah, if you have an older dumb box, you're not part of it, but the OP is right, if you've received a new box in the last 5 years it probably returns data to the cableco.
Sadly, this discovery shows just how incompetent a painter he was. There should have been three times as many swirlies. Or maybe he was just lazy. Anyway, I'm sure others will chalk it up to 'artistic license' rather than out their favorite painter as the fraud that he was.
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Exactly my point, I was just trying to be more subtle.
First to clarify: I completely agree that the government shouldn't be involved in marriage. That's a religious matter that should have nothing to do with the state in my mind.
And my point was precisely that prop 8 is all about what the state recognizes. They won't recognize your gay marriage, but to be absolutely clear, neither will they arrest you for it (which is not outside the realm of possibility: Texas for example until quite recently was prepared to arrest people for having homosexual sex, let alone homosexual marriage).
Recluse: you're understanding it wrong.
Well-known/fame (being of interest TO society) and recluse ( being disinterested IN society http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recluse : marked by withdrawal from society) are completely orthogonal.
No, slashdot is pro-apple. You'll be virulently downmodded if you criticize the great one (Jobs).
Indeed. I was a horrifically oversheltered kid. It took me close to a decade to understand how to fit into the real world after I got away from my parents.
Prop 8 does not prevent the marriage of gays. Gays are getting married every day in CA, and no one is arresting them or the ministers or the attendees of the ceremony. It prevents the taxation of gays as a household.
It's actually more evil, right, because now less people will work to overturn it, and therefore it can be abused more easily?
Perhaps the right description would be more insidious.
Of course, by saying it that way, you're making his point.
And of course, maybe that was the point of your post, you never can tell when an AC will turn out to be intentionally funny, rather than stupidly funny.
I disagree ... among knowledgeable online users that is just a plain old fact.
Yeah, I have to say I was furious over all the wars this caused.
Very true. They are enabling the pointing. And if they omitted documents, how could we trust them not to be withholding the most vital documents for improving our freedom?
They (particularly paypal) did this long before. They've been shutting down the accounts of any customers who might make them look bad in the press for years.
Why would I avoid donating to a charity just because I find out that they are helping to fund white supremacist marches. I mean, they're still helping someone, right?
You don't go to the movies of an actor (let's say Mel Gibson) because he's an anti-Semite because you don't want him to have more money to fuel that cause. And because you want to set a public example for others that says: this sort of behavior is not ok.
Because whatever they withhold, we'd have to wonder who got to them?
False pride is still pride. So while it may be more appropriate to be happy, it's not at all impossible to be proud.
I suppose it could be revealed that paypal funnels their profits to white supremacy groups. ... http://www.google.com/search?q=paypal+white+supremacy
Oh, wait, they do
Or even better, since I misremembered which word they actually used due to AC's error:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quashes
No, they meant quashed and got it right. The legal definition flows from the standard english one.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quashed?show=0&t=1291432910
Yeah, but A* is just for path finding and:
compared to pac-man AI, A* is complex.
compared to A*, modern AI is complex.
So in case that was unclear:
Modern AI is vastly more complex than A* is more complex than pac-man.
Modern AI is a complex beast built on top of fundamental algorithms like A*.
But there are behavior trees handling a huge number of potential situations, as well as a lot of good games doing things like genetic algorithms to try to find new behaviors. There's a lot, lot more going on there than pacman's 3 state AI.
AI today is significantly more complex and sophisticated. It is playing much more complex games against you. I can assure you that this is almost a purely 'oh the good old days' sort of thinking.
Probably because Sony subsidizes the sale of PS3 hardware, so this is one of the cheaper ways to buy flops.
My comcast box returns my viewing data to comcast. All of the smart dvr type boxes do as far as I know. Yeah, if you have an older dumb box, you're not part of it, but the OP is right, if you've received a new box in the last 5 years it probably returns data to the cableco.
Sadly, this discovery shows just how incompetent a painter he was. There should have been three times as many swirlies. Or maybe he was just lazy. Anyway, I'm sure others will chalk it up to 'artistic license' rather than out their favorite painter as the fraud that he was.
Exactly, the correct statement would have to be that they don't have any info on you that you don't provide to someone.