This reminds me of that news program where the journalist debunked 10 common myths like "underpaid teachers" Oh, do tell us what it said. This should be great.
Wow, that's really a ridiculously uninformed thing to say. That such a major surgery could be carried out on four THOUSAND people with only nine deaths, REGARDLESS of the type of malady, is miraculous to me. What are you talking about? I don't think he was complaining that the availability of the surgery is bad.
Carter was dead wrong, but at least he thought about the issue, unlike Kerry, who just pandered to the lunatic fringe of the eco-left. By which you mean the vast majority of people outside Slashdot, who don't like nuclear power?
According to the complaint, Thompson accused attorney Cardenas of "distribution of pornography to children," claimed that the Alabama judge presiding over the Devin Moore case "breaks the rules, even the Alabama State Bar Rules, because he thinks that the rules don't apply to him," and sent a letter to Blank Rome's managing partner, saying, "Your law firm has actively and knowingly facilitated by various means the criminal distribution of sexual material to minors." Thompson claims that the complaints violate state religious protections because his advocacy is motivated by his Christian faith. I hate Thompson as much as anybody, and he may well deserve to be disbarred, but I don't think it's fair to do so for the reasons stated. He didn't invent claims out of nothing, he made interpretations of real things that were quite, uh, inflammatory. His reasoning was ridiculous, but not patently absurd. There's a logic to them that can't be categorically called false.
By that time the Wine (www.winehq.org) team will have released DX10 libraries that use opengl and thus can run on Win XP or older (and of course Linux!). When game publishers start shipping WINE libraries instead of DirectX updaters with their Windows games, I will be more wonderfully amused than I previously thought possible.
Yeah, midichlorians were a pretty big issue for me. Okay, I didn't like any of the new series one bit. People who desperately tried to claim that Episode Three was a return to form just seemed pathetic to me. Jar Jar Binks needs to be killed multiple times. A million other things. But I never got why everyone hated midichlorians so much. Okay, they took out the mystery, a fine complaint, but why the hatred of them as though a fatal decision?
Hold on a minute. So is he saying that they put the "I'm feeling lucky" feature in just so we don't notice that google is really "16,000 people working on undermining your privacy?" So they make us think they are "just two kind of grad students hanging out and having a beer and having a grand old time" so we don't notice that the true purpose of google is to undermine our privacy?
Time to put on the tin foil hat -- I am on to you now google! You just made my list! In case you're not just joking and it really didn't occur to you: What would happen if Google removed the I'm Feeling Lucky button? That's right: "Hey, look, guys! Google truly has become a heartless corporation, losing their old 'quirky' charm."
far too large for the average family Here, Thanksgiving is the number one holiday for family reunions, probably even more than Christmas. So that explains that.
sarcasmo-challenged Sadly, the correct term would be sarcastically-challenged. Not nearly as fun to say. Here's a possible substitute: sarcasmohumorously-challenged.
Well, looking at it from that point of view there hasn't really been any "relevant" music in the past 30 years or so. That is in the Rock & Roll front.
The innovation and experimentations happened in the 50' and 60's and ended somewhere in the 70's. This argument is about as good as one claiming that the Urban Folk Revival was nothing new, since "folk music" had been done a long time ago. Heck, it's no more convincing than saying Mozart was nothing new, since he was really just rehashing the style of music created by people like Bach. Really, to believe that rock music hasn't continued to evolve to this day can only be explained by willful ignorance.
Personally, I think a person who loves music spends most of her or his mental energy loving good music, not rejecting unworthy music. The stereotypical big music fan is a big paradox to me.
This always bugs me. WTF does "relevant" music mean? Music stands by itself if it was made yesterday or 60 years ago. "Relevant" is a term clueless music critics use now when they have nothing else to say. There's always a creative front (or many) in music. "Relevant" music is the music that is today evolving and solidifying genres. "Irrelevant", I suppose, is a disparaging way of saying "not part of or directly influencing" that front.
I'm not exactly sure what point you're making by "music stands for itself", but understanding and keeping in mind the context of a song - its influences and influence, its motive, what else was going on at the time, the reaction intended and resulting, etc - is the only way to truly enjoy it, IMO.
...which is the real issue here, to me...though absurd compensation for the CEO and very lopsided revenue from google are others The CEO "compensation" is what troubles me most right now. Mozilla used to simply be the non-profit organization that organized the various Mozilla products. Then it incorporated itself, but promised that it's not really changing. But they've now got a CEO making five fucking thousand thousand a year (counting benifits).
I believe in free software, very strongly. But I also believe that if I do work to make someone else rich, I deserve compensation. Are we now just giving free labor to a corporation, duped by ideology? The setup may be beneficial now, but the nature of the product and its development is turning foul.
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Uh... So, in America, bold is people?
Well that should certainly be considered. On the other hand, does Japan have any motive for minimizing the number of radiation deaths?
Well the guy on the left seems to have made out pretty well from it.
My god. Why isn't there a mod for "-1 Serious Fucking Asshole"? Totally uncalled for, man.
What exactly are the two men on the right trying to do in this one?
Time to put on the tin foil hat -- I am on to you now google! You just made my list! In case you're not just joking and it really didn't occur to you: What would happen if Google removed the I'm Feeling Lucky button? That's right: "Hey, look, guys! Google truly has become a heartless corporation, losing their old 'quirky' charm."
In other words, the point isn't paranoid at all.
So what planet are ducks from?
Google has already acknowledged this problem.
The innovation and experimentations happened in the 50' and 60's and ended somewhere in the 70's. This argument is about as good as one claiming that the Urban Folk Revival was nothing new, since "folk music" had been done a long time ago. Heck, it's no more convincing than saying Mozart was nothing new, since he was really just rehashing the style of music created by people like Bach. Really, to believe that rock music hasn't continued to evolve to this day can only be explained by willful ignorance.
Personally, I think a person who loves music spends most of her or his mental energy loving good music, not rejecting unworthy music. The stereotypical big music fan is a big paradox to me.
> trip-balls /dev/me /dev/input/mouth
How do you execute a drug? Is this a new computer geeky synonym for "ingest"?
Okay, but look at Devo. With the Honda scooter commercial and Devo 2.0, they turned selling out itself into high art.
I'm not exactly sure what point you're making by "music stands for itself", but understanding and keeping in mind the context of a song - its influences and influence, its motive, what else was going on at the time, the reaction intended and resulting, etc - is the only way to truly enjoy it, IMO.
You're tripping right now, aren't you? Arguing against insinuated statements not made. You're not helping. ;)
...which is the real issue here, to me...though absurd compensation for the CEO and very lopsided revenue from google are others The CEO "compensation" is what troubles me most right now. Mozilla used to simply be the non-profit organization that organized the various Mozilla products. Then it incorporated itself, but promised that it's not really changing. But they've now got a CEO making five fucking thousand thousand a year (counting benifits).I believe in free software, very strongly. But I also believe that if I do work to make someone else rich, I deserve compensation. Are we now just giving free labor to a corporation, duped by ideology? The setup may be beneficial now, but the nature of the product and its development is turning foul.