James Carville said he wanted Bush to fail, but that was in general, to be fair, as the comment was made before the war.
In 2006 a national poll said 51% of Democrats wanted President Bush to fail... Again, "fail" in general, not specifically about the war.
Harry Reid announced the war was already lost and that we HAD failed, about a year ago.
I remember a good example of a DU poster, on the day that the capture of Saddam was announced, responding to the news with the comment "I'm in tears over here... How can we win if stuff like this keeps happening?"
Honestly I don't think any prominent Democrat would be STUPID enough to make such a PUBLIC statement, though it was their desire. There's probably plenty of examples of the random lunatic fringe Democrat members of the House buried in some news archives somewhere, but I really don't feel like digging them out just for you to say "Well, they're not a major figure any way!"
Sheer incompetence that shows the Republicans couldn't rebuild New Orleans in the amount of time that it took to rebuild all of Europe after WWII.
New Orleans is squarely in Democrat hands, the Republicans haven't had anything to do with it. The fact that you don't know that just goes to show how good the media is at covering for them.
Really, though, I think jmorris was talking about CONSERVATIVES, which Republicans ain't. Which is why they lost so big in the last election cycle, their own "right wing" base won't support them.
Or how about a 'politically cleansed america' where if you do scientific research or have a charity that doesn't follow the narrow government sense or morals you lose your funding.
Actually, Conservatives believe in not giving any charities government funding, regardless of belief.
As far as Scientific Funding.... Who was the first US President to dedicate Federal funds to embryonic stem cell research?
Neighbours are allowed weapons sizeable to a small army and shoot trespassers with impunity
Actually that sounds pretty awesome.:)
Right wing republicans want a dictatorship in the US, run by religious law - very much indistinguisable from the likes of the Taliban.
Can you give an actual example of a Conservative Republican who wants that? I don't think so. Hell, I'd be surprised if you came up with an example of a Conservative Republican, period.
Its the Republicans that need to wake up and change their attitude or get the hell out of the country before they destroy it.
Ahh there's that tolerance everyone on the left said was missing during the Bush years. I feel so accepted for my differing viewpoints. Really.
Here's a news flash: At this rate, things are going to come to a head, one way or another. And only one side of this argument owns guns.
Except that comment still doesn't back up the accusation. Sending out an e-mail alleging someone else is gay is NOT illegal. At worst it's libel (if it's not true).
No, they wouldn't. Copyright in no way prevents educators from using their work like this. Comparative works are explicitly permitted under fair use. You could make some crazy argument about breach of contract, but I don't think a contract can coerce you into giving up your fair use rights.
I don't think the economic impact argument holds water. Turnitin isn't competing with you in selling your paper, they're just showing that there are similarities between your paper and another paper. There's no distribution involved, and this use falls under fair use, so no copyright violation.
No one was talking about the legality of plagiarism. You don't get arrested for plagiarising your term paper, you get permanently expelled from your university system. The fact that you had the authors permission doesn't change that fact, you're still lying to your university.
Installing solar panels and using water butts and various other green things can save money so why wouldn't people want to save money?
Last time I did the numbers for installing solar panels, it in fact cost a lot more money over the lifetime of the solar panels than just buying the electricity from a power company. Granted, it's been several years, but I doubt it's changed much. There's also the fact that buying your power from the company spreads the cost out over a long period, while solar panels have a ridiculously high initial investment. Then there's the matter of storing energy for when it's dark outside...
If you want cheap and green energy, build nuclear reactors. Lots of them.
Water butts? I hope you don't mean for any water that's going to come in contact with my body in any way. Yech. I'd rather not base my water system off of a third-world model.
You can't (shouldn't) drive while intoxicated so increased public transportation makes it better for me when I want to socialise with my friend with alcohol and what not.
Or we'll use a designated driver. Or we'll call a cab. Or we'll drink at my house. Either way, we can come and go on OUR schedule, not the schedule of some transportation union.
The public transportation in San Jose was useful when I visited... Except when we left the bar, the trains were no longer in service. Go figure. Walking 20 blocks in the rain to our hotel really taught us the value of public transportation.
My main concern is looking out for number one and looking out for the environment results in nothing but benefits for me as it does for most people.
You really should try convincing people like Al Gore of this. Maybe they'd stop flying in private jets, driving SUVs, and building 20,000 sq ft houses...
So even if you have a "fuck the planet" attitude making certain change benefits yourself as well as the tree huggers.
Not the changes the tree huggers want me to make. They'll inconvenience me more than anything else.
Minor quibble... Low pressure sodium is preferred by observatories. High pressure sodium has huge bands all over the spectrum, while low pressure only has a single strong band and a bunch of weak ones.
Excuse me for not explaining myself better... At least SOME of us will be able to actually get SOMETHING out of the money the SSA leeches from our paychecks.
they'll ask for the general public to insure their stupidity.
Which is what we're doing now with the current social security system. At least with partial privatization, SOME of us could have a chance at having a decent retirement.
Obama voted yes for the telecom immunity bill. He supported the wiretapping program in the Senate, why do you think he'd stop supporting it when he was elected President?
Fantasy often has people running around in what's pretty much medieval Europe, having that at the same time as sufficiently advanced technology is... unlikely.
More or less likely than FTL travel?
None of what you said refutes my thesis. All you're claiming, in essence, is Sci Fi is just a restricted subset of Fantasy that (usually) requires some explanation of how things are done. There are plenty of examples, though, of Sci Fi (Lensman, the later Ender books, A Fire Upon the Deep) that is more "magical" than most Medieval Fantasy and some Medieval Fantasy stories put more explanation and detail into how their "magical systems" work than most Sci Fi bother to put into explaining how they sidestep fundamental laws of physics (Heisenberg Compensators? Seriously?)...
And anything in Fantasy *CAN* happen given sufficiently advanced technology...:)
Or argued from another direction, if Science Fiction is a set of events that COULD occur given our current understanding of the universe, and Fantasy is the set of events that can be imagined by a human beings, then Science Fiction is a subset of Fantasy...
Stop invoking a Bush boogeyman. Everyone is Washington is bad. Bush's alleged abuses are kid's stuff compared to what some previous administrations have pulled off, and probably will be sorely missed after we get through what's coming down the pipe...
Three months isn't "a long time now." And the EXAMPLE was the response to the question, whether or not the problem has been since "fixed" is irrelevant.
I'm really amused though how people immediately knew I was referring to KDE...:)
Yeah, but it's only SLIGHTLY exaggerated. The real problem is that if you went to the KDE forums and asked "Why are things this way?" you'd get sent to aseigo's blog entry where he said "I have killed desktop icons! HAR HAR HAR!" and then got into a multipage flame-war with people who disagreed with the idea... Any explanation as to WHY the change was made always came down to "Your way of doing things is bad, our way is better." regardless.
Folderview as a desktop containment is still really terrible (in 4.2.2, at least, dunno about trunk). Icons reorganize themselves if you change activities, the context menu is missing entries it should have from the Desktop menu (that, admittedly, could be a Fedora problem...), and it in general just seems klunky... It is better, but it still has a ways to go until I can use it without noticing the problems.
My problem, I think, is I still don't understand what Plasma is supposed to be getting me. Activities just change the widgets on the desktop, but leave the same windows in place (so if I want an E-mail activity I need an E-mail Virtual Desktop), and the Activity Desktop Affinity setting makes the entire system go insane. Meanwhile, none of the widgets (at least the menu doesn't call them plasmoids anymore!) that are available seem to do anything that will help me get work done, and I generally can't see them anyway as they're hidden behind the windows I *AM* getting work done in. It really seems like someone looked at the Dashboard in Mac OS X and decided "Hey, let's put this stuff BEHIND windows instead of in front of them! It'll be great!" and then removed all the useful dashboard applets... But I'd be very happy to be proven wrong and be shown some way to use this stuff to get work done.
Well none of that is (completely) true. It's (mostly) just your perception.
Personally I think the GP was spot on based on plenty of my prior experiences...
"Why can't I make an icon on my desktop like I have for the last thirteen years?"
"Desktops are not places for icons! You are a BAD person for wanting to clutter up your workspace with them! Can't you see how much BETTER this new way is? WHY DON'T YOU APPRECIATE OUR WORK TO FREE YOU FROM THE DESKTOP PARADIGM!?!?!?!?!"
That pretty much sums up my experiences with constructive criticism and OSS projects...
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James Carville said he wanted Bush to fail, but that was in general, to be fair, as the comment was made before the war.
In 2006 a national poll said 51% of Democrats wanted President Bush to fail... Again, "fail" in general, not specifically about the war.
Harry Reid announced the war was already lost and that we HAD failed, about a year ago.
I remember a good example of a DU poster, on the day that the capture of Saddam was announced, responding to the news with the comment "I'm in tears over here... How can we win if stuff like this keeps happening?"
Honestly I don't think any prominent Democrat would be STUPID enough to make such a PUBLIC statement, though it was their desire. There's probably plenty of examples of the random lunatic fringe Democrat members of the House buried in some news archives somewhere, but I really don't feel like digging them out just for you to say "Well, they're not a major figure any way!"
Wow, you just keep digging that hole deeper.
New Orleans is squarely in Democrat hands, the Republicans haven't had anything to do with it. The fact that you don't know that just goes to show how good the media is at covering for them.
Really, though, I think jmorris was talking about CONSERVATIVES, which Republicans ain't. Which is why they lost so big in the last election cycle, their own "right wing" base won't support them.
Actually, Conservatives believe in not giving any charities government funding, regardless of belief.
As far as Scientific Funding.... Who was the first US President to dedicate Federal funds to embryonic stem cell research?
Actually that sounds pretty awesome. :)
Can you give an actual example of a Conservative Republican who wants that? I don't think so. Hell, I'd be surprised if you came up with an example of a Conservative Republican, period.
Ahh there's that tolerance everyone on the left said was missing during the Bush years. I feel so accepted for my differing viewpoints. Really.
Here's a news flash: At this rate, things are going to come to a head, one way or another. And only one side of this argument owns guns.
That's funny, you think Bush was a Conservative.
Except that comment still doesn't back up the accusation. Sending out an e-mail alleging someone else is gay is NOT illegal. At worst it's libel (if it's not true).
No, they wouldn't. Copyright in no way prevents educators from using their work like this. Comparative works are explicitly permitted under fair use. You could make some crazy argument about breach of contract, but I don't think a contract can coerce you into giving up your fair use rights.
I don't think the economic impact argument holds water. Turnitin isn't competing with you in selling your paper, they're just showing that there are similarities between your paper and another paper. There's no distribution involved, and this use falls under fair use, so no copyright violation.
No one was talking about the legality of plagiarism. You don't get arrested for plagiarising your term paper, you get permanently expelled from your university system. The fact that you had the authors permission doesn't change that fact, you're still lying to your university.
Last time I did the numbers for installing solar panels, it in fact cost a lot more money over the lifetime of the solar panels than just buying the electricity from a power company. Granted, it's been several years, but I doubt it's changed much. There's also the fact that buying your power from the company spreads the cost out over a long period, while solar panels have a ridiculously high initial investment. Then there's the matter of storing energy for when it's dark outside...
If you want cheap and green energy, build nuclear reactors. Lots of them.
Water butts? I hope you don't mean for any water that's going to come in contact with my body in any way. Yech. I'd rather not base my water system off of a third-world model.
Or we'll use a designated driver. Or we'll call a cab. Or we'll drink at my house. Either way, we can come and go on OUR schedule, not the schedule of some transportation union.
The public transportation in San Jose was useful when I visited... Except when we left the bar, the trains were no longer in service. Go figure. Walking 20 blocks in the rain to our hotel really taught us the value of public transportation.
You really should try convincing people like Al Gore of this. Maybe they'd stop flying in private jets, driving SUVs, and building 20,000 sq ft houses...
Not the changes the tree huggers want me to make. They'll inconvenience me more than anything else.
Minor quibble... Low pressure sodium is preferred by observatories. High pressure sodium has huge bands all over the spectrum, while low pressure only has a single strong band and a bunch of weak ones.
Excuse me for not explaining myself better... At least SOME of us will be able to actually get SOMETHING out of the money the SSA leeches from our paychecks.
Better?
Which is what we're doing now with the current social security system. At least with partial privatization, SOME of us could have a chance at having a decent retirement.
Since when is sending an e-mail alleging someone else is gay a crime? At worst it's libel, which is a civil matter, not a crime...
And what does a cell phone (much less an iPod) have to do with the investigation of this "crime"? Nothing... It's just harassment.
Normally I'm all about giving police the benefit of the doubt, but that's when they're actually accusing someone of a CRIME.
If you're looking to retire in ten years, you shouldn't have all your money at risk...
Because this won't be the last of it.
Obama voted yes for the telecom immunity bill. He supported the wiretapping program in the Senate, why do you think he'd stop supporting it when he was elected President?
More or less likely than FTL travel?
None of what you said refutes my thesis. All you're claiming, in essence, is Sci Fi is just a restricted subset of Fantasy that (usually) requires some explanation of how things are done. There are plenty of examples, though, of Sci Fi (Lensman, the later Ender books, A Fire Upon the Deep) that is more "magical" than most Medieval Fantasy and some Medieval Fantasy stories put more explanation and detail into how their "magical systems" work than most Sci Fi bother to put into explaining how they sidestep fundamental laws of physics (Heisenberg Compensators? Seriously?)...
And anything in Fantasy *CAN* happen given sufficiently advanced technology... :)
Or argued from another direction, if Science Fiction is a set of events that COULD occur given our current understanding of the universe, and Fantasy is the set of events that can be imagined by a human beings, then Science Fiction is a subset of Fantasy...
Science Fiction is just a subset of Fantasy.
If Olympia Snow is a Republican, then I'm a Socialist.
Stop invoking a Bush boogeyman. Everyone is Washington is bad. Bush's alleged abuses are kid's stuff compared to what some previous administrations have pulled off, and probably will be sorely missed after we get through what's coming down the pipe...
You ever try Gnome or KDE, or to a lesser extent WindowMaker or Eazel?
Yeah, I have. You ever try KDE 4.0/4.1? Or to a lesser extent, 4.2?
Three months isn't "a long time now." And the EXAMPLE was the response to the question, whether or not the problem has been since "fixed" is irrelevant.
I'm really amused though how people immediately knew I was referring to KDE... :)
Yeah, but it's only SLIGHTLY exaggerated. The real problem is that if you went to the KDE forums and asked "Why are things this way?" you'd get sent to aseigo's blog entry where he said "I have killed desktop icons! HAR HAR HAR!" and then got into a multipage flame-war with people who disagreed with the idea... Any explanation as to WHY the change was made always came down to "Your way of doing things is bad, our way is better." regardless.
Folderview as a desktop containment is still really terrible (in 4.2.2, at least, dunno about trunk). Icons reorganize themselves if you change activities, the context menu is missing entries it should have from the Desktop menu (that, admittedly, could be a Fedora problem...), and it in general just seems klunky... It is better, but it still has a ways to go until I can use it without noticing the problems.
My problem, I think, is I still don't understand what Plasma is supposed to be getting me. Activities just change the widgets on the desktop, but leave the same windows in place (so if I want an E-mail activity I need an E-mail Virtual Desktop), and the Activity Desktop Affinity setting makes the entire system go insane. Meanwhile, none of the widgets (at least the menu doesn't call them plasmoids anymore!) that are available seem to do anything that will help me get work done, and I generally can't see them anyway as they're hidden behind the windows I *AM* getting work done in. It really seems like someone looked at the Dashboard in Mac OS X and decided "Hey, let's put this stuff BEHIND windows instead of in front of them! It'll be great!" and then removed all the useful dashboard applets... But I'd be very happy to be proven wrong and be shown some way to use this stuff to get work done.
Personally I think the GP was spot on based on plenty of my prior experiences...
"Why can't I make an icon on my desktop like I have for the last thirteen years?"
"Desktops are not places for icons! You are a BAD person for wanting to clutter up your workspace with them! Can't you see how much BETTER this new way is? WHY DON'T YOU APPRECIATE OUR WORK TO FREE YOU FROM THE DESKTOP PARADIGM!?!?!?!?!"
That pretty much sums up my experiences with constructive criticism and OSS projects...