It sounds like a joke, but it's very representative of [Chinese Communist Party] mentality.
FTFY. Please don't confuse these two things. You shouldn't confuse my mind might hold, as an individual American, with whatever by GOP/Democrat overlords might pronounce. At least I have two sets of corrupt overlords I can refuse to vote for. And, what's more, I can publicly proclaim a pox on both their houses, at least until they stop aiding and abetting the starvation of Yemeni women and children. Vastly more so you shouldn't confuse Chinese with CCP.
... for a big part of the market. These companies need to understand that by hiking rates they're causing more people to cut the cord. They need to go for volume if they're to survive as TV businesses (and not just ISP's).
A couple months ago, it was reported that the dearly departed mobile brand known as Palm would be making a comeback. That day has finally come.
That remains to be seen. Comeback is an awful strong term for an attempt to market a phone to people who already have one.
Imagine GM/Saturn trying to sell a car for when you don't want to use your car. I wouldn't call it a comeback unless they actually managed to move units.
On a related note, Aristotle held that the study of ethics was not useful for those who were not already habituated to behaving ethically.
Hence a young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character; the defect does not depend on time, but on his living, and pursuing each successive object, as passion directs. For to such persons, as to the incontinent, knowledge brings no profit; but to those who desire and act in accordance with a rational principle knowledge about such matters will be of great benefit. [Nichomachean Ethics I.3]
(Note that he considered the study of ethics to fall under what's termed 'political science' above. The Greek term is 'politikos.' You're just as well to read the above as 'ethics,' given the context.)
Aristotle did think the study of value to those who already normally behaved ethically, inasmuch as it would help them to determine difficult cases, reflect on the meaning of actions, attain happiness (eudaimonia), etc.
But, for what it's worth, the guy who invented the study of ethics would likely agree with your point.
P.s., post edit--What? Slashdot still won't let me write Greek characters? It's been in Unicode since, well, Unicode has been. Why hasn't this part of Slashdot caught up with 1991?
It's easy to see how these techniques might be applied in a more innocuous way...
No, I really have trouble seeing a less innocuous application than making John Oliver look like an animated frog. Not even using the example in TFA. It's the less innocuous things that concern. I suspect this was intended as a throwaway line to point at positives before transitioning to the apocalyptic.
My voting place just uses plain scantron like paper ballots. Fill in the oval, stick it in the machine, done.
Keep all the ballots for at least 8 years or something, and if you ever need to verify the vote, take them out and check them by hand. (This assumes they are stored securely.)
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While I could design something secure that uses touch screens and such, I still wouldn't trust it as much as this plain simple system. Sometimes simple wins. I doubt your going to improve on this design much, no matter how much you try to do so.
+1. People miss the importance of expense and effort. The important thing isn't that a system like this can't be compromised. It's that it is much, much more cumbersome to compromise it than an electronic system. It also has the deterrent effect of leaving a fair bit of evidence (paper trail, numerous co-conspirators needed, etc.) that it has been compromised.
Don't knock diversity of approach. Different people trying something many different ways can be the best way of finding the right way. That's one of the best features of freedom.
I agree with the thrust of your post, but a detail compels me to offer a friendly correction.
A still very instructive example of that is when the catholic church tried to force the world to be flat. They had absolutely no understanding that the shape of the planet [...]
This is untrue. Scholars in the middle ages were mistaken about many aspects of cosmology, to be sure, but the whole flat Earth business is a myth in more ways than one. First, it's important to understand that there were no official dogmas on these matters. But setting that fact aside (which requires a discussion of how dogma, canons, and councils work), there's a more directly relevant fact. The major Christian teachers during the middle ages treated the world as spherical. Hell, even the guys who objected to Galileo in later years thought of the world as spherical.
The reasons for this have to with the Aristotelian physics to which the objectors to Galileo were regrettably too committed. To oversimplify their position: earth (dirt, minerals, etc.) and water goes down; air and fire go up. If the former go down from all directions and the latter go up, you cannot but have a spherical planet with airy, firey (and quintessential!) things above it. Indeed, the objection to Galileo is based partly on this Aristotelian understanding of the elements (How can the Earth be moving in a circular fashion if the natural motion of its primary constituent--earth--is simply down?). To be sure, we have a better understanding of physics today than did the scholastic disciples of Aristotle, but I hope you can see that even in their view a flat Earth is incoherent.
TL;DR: Neither the Church nor educated medieval folk in general bought into any flat Earth nonsense. This is merely a popular myth. Modern flat Earthers are even behind Aristotle (d. 322 B.C.) on this one. Now, whether the spherical Earth was thought of as moving or fixed in the center of the universe is another story altogether...
P.s. I only offer this lengthy correction because sometimes I fear we give modern flat Earthers the appearance of having even more credit than they deserve. Conspiratorial minds can dismiss claims of what we can discover with government funded rockets and satellites. "No one believed this round earth stuff until the government forced it on us all and fabricated the evidence!" My response is something along the lines of, "Come on. Medieval people knew the Earth was round. Eratosthenes had a pretty good estimation of its size, given the limited tools he was working with. Come join the third century B.C., will you? Grab a pocket calculator and look down a well."
News Flash!: The internet will now respond to the lack of a Victoria's Secret Catalog with endless amounts of... oh, wait. That's exactly what killed the Victoria's Secret catalog.
Filemaker is still around. I had to learn it a couple of years back because a research project I was working on used it. I think the project itself is indicative of why Filemaker still exists. When the project started, they went looking for someone who could put together a database for them on the cheap. The guy they hired had been using Filemaker for years and, yeah, he could totally do that for them. It was a mess. The poor folks on the research project didn't even realize that a web-based front end was a possibility. The guy had instructed them to edit the database at home via campus computers using remote access on Windows. He had countless work arounds and quirks for everything. But, once they had the database and had sunk costs into it, they felt like they had to stick with it. I suspect he's still out there, somewhere, causing people to be stuck with Filemaker.
Look at the [median] person and then realize half the people are dumber than him.
FTFY. Now, if you want to talk about averages, medians, and Gaussian distributions, that's normally all well and good for the population size of the electorate. But I've been on Twitter. The outliers lie really far out.
Maybe they figure the best way to keep him from getting reelected is to let him keep talking. Were they pro-Trump, they might be like his staff and try to keep him from talking (see 60 minutes interview).
It's "ferentis" in the Greenough edition. I could see "ferentes" being a variant reading though (much like "quidquid" in place of "quicquid"). Both -es and -is occur as accusative plurals for participles and adjectives of one ending.
The first tier is third party, like the current ESRB.
The third tier is 'Self-Reported' and is labeled as such. Viewers could use their own discretion about whether to trust such ratings, and could input into the system whether they agree or disagree with the rating. Content creators would have at built-in albeit limited incentive to try and self-assess accurately, since they know the demographic they want to attract.
The second tier would be something like 'Self-Reported, Verified'. This would go to content creators who self-assess and have a long track record of agreement with viewers about the accuracy of their self-assessment.
Of course, a few problems and abuses for this system already occur to me. But I don't think it'd be impossible to put together a system that crowdsources reputation. Maybe if they called in karma it'd all work out.
In the late 19th century Pulitzer and Hearst were going at it hammer and tongs trying to outsell one another in the newspaper business. They ended up in a contest over who could come up with the most sensationalized headlines and copy to sell papers. One of the simplest going theories for the origin of the term in the use of yellow ink during this period of big, exaggerated headlines. There are, however, other theories as well.
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It won't have the original trilogy yet. Turner holds the streaming rights until 2024.
That doesn't change its obsolescence.
FTFY. Please don't confuse these two things. You shouldn't confuse my mind might hold, as an individual American, with whatever by GOP/Democrat overlords might pronounce. At least I have two sets of corrupt overlords I can refuse to vote for. And, what's more, I can publicly proclaim a pox on both their houses, at least until they stop aiding and abetting the starvation of Yemeni women and children. Vastly more so you shouldn't confuse Chinese with CCP.
... for a big part of the market. These companies need to understand that by hiking rates they're causing more people to cut the cord. They need to go for volume if they're to survive as TV businesses (and not just ISP's).
We don't get cable TV along with it.
That remains to be seen. Comeback is an awful strong term for an attempt to market a phone to people who already have one.
Imagine GM/Saturn trying to sell a car for when you don't want to use your car. I wouldn't call it a comeback unless they actually managed to move units.
Does the Turing Test count if people change?
On a related note, Aristotle held that the study of ethics was not useful for those who were not already habituated to behaving ethically.
(Note that he considered the study of ethics to fall under what's termed 'political science' above. The Greek term is 'politikos.' You're just as well to read the above as 'ethics,' given the context.)
Aristotle did think the study of value to those who already normally behaved ethically, inasmuch as it would help them to determine difficult cases, reflect on the meaning of actions, attain happiness (eudaimonia), etc.
But, for what it's worth, the guy who invented the study of ethics would likely agree with your point.
P.s., post edit--What? Slashdot still won't let me write Greek characters? It's been in Unicode since, well, Unicode has been. Why hasn't this part of Slashdot caught up with 1991?
I think that this was meant to be the actual link. Or, better still, you could just go to the announcement.
Sorry, I just realized that's a 501c6. FTFM.
Like the NFL, for example. I get the impression that it makes money for people.
No, I really have trouble seeing a less innocuous application than making John Oliver look like an animated frog. Not even using the example in TFA. It's the less innocuous things that concern. I suspect this was intended as a throwaway line to point at positives before transitioning to the apocalyptic.
Yahoo still exists?
+1. People miss the importance of expense and effort. The important thing isn't that a system like this can't be compromised. It's that it is much, much more cumbersome to compromise it than an electronic system. It also has the deterrent effect of leaving a fair bit of evidence (paper trail, numerous co-conspirators needed, etc.) that it has been compromised.
Don't knock diversity of approach. Different people trying something many different ways can be the best way of finding the right way. That's one of the best features of freedom.
This is untrue. Scholars in the middle ages were mistaken about many aspects of cosmology, to be sure, but the whole flat Earth business is a myth in more ways than one. First, it's important to understand that there were no official dogmas on these matters. But setting that fact aside (which requires a discussion of how dogma, canons, and councils work), there's a more directly relevant fact. The major Christian teachers during the middle ages treated the world as spherical. Hell, even the guys who objected to Galileo in later years thought of the world as spherical.
The reasons for this have to with the Aristotelian physics to which the objectors to Galileo were regrettably too committed. To oversimplify their position: earth (dirt, minerals, etc.) and water goes down; air and fire go up. If the former go down from all directions and the latter go up, you cannot but have a spherical planet with airy, firey (and quintessential!) things above it. Indeed, the objection to Galileo is based partly on this Aristotelian understanding of the elements (How can the Earth be moving in a circular fashion if the natural motion of its primary constituent--earth--is simply down?). To be sure, we have a better understanding of physics today than did the scholastic disciples of Aristotle, but I hope you can see that even in their view a flat Earth is incoherent.
TL;DR: Neither the Church nor educated medieval folk in general bought into any flat Earth nonsense. This is merely a popular myth. Modern flat Earthers are even behind Aristotle (d. 322 B.C.) on this one. Now, whether the spherical Earth was thought of as moving or fixed in the center of the universe is another story altogether...
P.s. I only offer this lengthy correction because sometimes I fear we give modern flat Earthers the appearance of having even more credit than they deserve. Conspiratorial minds can dismiss claims of what we can discover with government funded rockets and satellites. "No one believed this round earth stuff until the government forced it on us all and fabricated the evidence!" My response is something along the lines of, "Come on. Medieval people knew the Earth was round. Eratosthenes had a pretty good estimation of its size, given the limited tools he was working with. Come join the third century B.C., will you? Grab a pocket calculator and look down a well."
News Flash!: The internet will now respond to the lack of a Victoria's Secret Catalog with endless amounts of... oh, wait. That's exactly what killed the Victoria's Secret catalog.
That means taxis priced artificially high.
Couldn't you say exactly the same thing about taxis?
Filemaker is still around. I had to learn it a couple of years back because a research project I was working on used it. I think the project itself is indicative of why Filemaker still exists. When the project started, they went looking for someone who could put together a database for them on the cheap. The guy they hired had been using Filemaker for years and, yeah, he could totally do that for them. It was a mess. The poor folks on the research project didn't even realize that a web-based front end was a possibility. The guy had instructed them to edit the database at home via campus computers using remote access on Windows. He had countless work arounds and quirks for everything. But, once they had the database and had sunk costs into it, they felt like they had to stick with it. I suspect he's still out there, somewhere, causing people to be stuck with Filemaker.
FTFY. Now, if you want to talk about averages, medians, and Gaussian distributions, that's normally all well and good for the population size of the electorate. But I've been on Twitter. The outliers lie really far out.
Maybe they figure the best way to keep him from getting reelected is to let him keep talking. Were they pro-Trump, they might be like his staff and try to keep him from talking (see 60 minutes interview).
It's "ferentis" in the Greenough edition. I could see "ferentes" being a variant reading though (much like "quidquid" in place of "quicquid"). Both -es and -is occur as accusative plurals for participles and adjectives of one ending.
Of course, a few problems and abuses for this system already occur to me. But I don't think it'd be impossible to put together a system that crowdsources reputation. Maybe if they called in karma it'd all work out.
In the late 19th century Pulitzer and Hearst were going at it hammer and tongs trying to outsell one another in the newspaper business. They ended up in a contest over who could come up with the most sensationalized headlines and copy to sell papers. One of the simplest going theories for the origin of the term in the use of yellow ink during this period of big, exaggerated headlines. There are, however, other theories as well.