Actually, it's the Bill of Rights and not the Constitution, and it doesn't grant the right to bear arms. The Constitution and Bill of Rights don't grant rights to the people, they provide a list of rights that the government should be unable to take away from the people. argh!
the bill of rights is just a traditional name given to the first set of amendments to the original draft of the constitution. he is not wrong in saying "your constitution protected...." any amendment to the constitution is a part of the constitution. its legally treated no differently than the original draft, except where it modifies the original draft, in which case it preempts that portion of the original draft.
Joe Swanson: How about you, Peter? Peter Griffin: Oh, like you got to ask. The chick with three knockers from Total Recall. Joe Swanson: Interesting. Cleveland Brown: I never saw that movie. Glenn Quagmire: You know one of 'em was papier-mâché, right? Peter Griffin: Oh, gee, can I change my ans--of course I know it's paper! I don't care! W-what's wrong with you?
Touche... I will try to avoid using that in the future. I really need a better word. Something between overbearing and fascist I know its not a word, but i like to use the phrase "nosy-neighbor-ish" to describe people who want to foist essentially frivolous values on others.
read the original posts subject. he is not saying that pirating music is equivalent to theft. he is saying that trent reznor believes that pirating music is equivalent to theft
yowsers! quite the heavy handed move on msfts part. not so much the actual lock-out, rather the tone of the email.
no wonder one of computerworlds current reader favorite articles is:
How to make Windows XP last for the next seven years Vista, schmista. Follow our tips for keeping your XP setup humming happily for a long, long time. so cute...
Little things like this in the spec make it less than superb:
Table like Word95 instead of tags like this, why not just ensure that OOXML is flexible enough in its format descriptions that "autoSpaceLikeWord95" and "lineWrapLikeWord6" behaviors are able to be described natively. this seems more vendor neutral, and even a sort of test that OOXML is a rich enough language.
The human mind congeals around age 30 wow. thats quite a premise to just tuck into your conclusion without backing it up. kudos. you get todays dogmatism award.
hmm. i actually did choose my peanut butter based on ideological reasons. i am opposed to foods with more than three or four ingredients. and as natural as possible. not for health reasons, rather for some misplaced neo-luddite fettish. so i eat laura scudders peanut butter. and smooth peanut butter is too mechanical and artificial and removed from its origins, so its only nutty peanut butter for me.
i broke up with a girlfriend once over her peanut butter choices: some sort of sickly smooth hydrogenated peanut shortening, like skippy or jif. ick.
But in some sense the announcement had to be public. The copyright infringement was public. Without a public protest, someone could unknowingly take that code and incorporate it into proprietary software. Even if resolved privately first, a public announcement describing the duration and scope of the contamination would still be necessary after the fact.
but those conditions dont exist. you cant discount relativistic effects and be any more than an approximation of what you would get had you included relativistic effects. GR is not the special case, which i think i understood you say. It is the general always-more-correct-than-newton case. which in my mind makes newton plain wrong.
its got to be okay for scientists to say, "hey we weren't quite right, we're more right now than we were, and its highly likely we still are a little bit wrong; but this is the best model we have so far. see how well it predicts x and y; see how the old failed on x -- it was wrong". and right and wrong are fine, because in the end i think the creed for a scientist is: we are looking for truth, but we'll settle for getting out the best predictions we can". and when we get wrong predictions, and something else gives the right ones while still being consistent with older, correct predictions, then we should be unafraid to say "the old was wrong (because we value truth), the new is the most correct thing we know about, and at least makes all the right predictions now"
so i have no problem saying newton was wrong. because his predictions didnt pan out. and we are after truth. i dont think that belittles him. i think its a testament to how close he was that it took so long to prove him wrong. but science is a big game of king of the hill, and when youre pushed off the hill thats it. and eventually most get proven wrong, but every time we get closer to truth.
and if some ignorants use that to imply that their hair-brained alternatives have equal weight to all the current best working theories, so what? they arent even in the game; they are nowhere near the top of the hill. there will always be these sideliners trying to assert they are right without actually getting into the shoving match that is scientific peer review. why debate them or worry about them if they cant be bothered to get in the game.
and i think that has to be the argument given to the politicals and others who arent scientists but make decisions that affect scientists and who listen to these sideliners: the game is this: try to get to the top of the hill. you get to the top by predicting things others cant say one way or the other, or by getting predictions right that others get wrong. the more you do it the higher you get, and if someone does it to you, you get shoved down. but if you dont play the game we cant have time for your out-of-the-blue ideas. because while we all want to find the truth, well settle for the best predictions we can get.
Einstein gave us a deeper understanding of gravity that applied even more universally than Newton's law, but it didn't invalidate Newton's law. It's still the best formulation to use for non-relatavistic, massive bodies.
Yes it did invalidate Newton's laws. Einstein's relativity completely invalidated the newtonian view of gravity. Sure, its used still, but in every case, Einstein's predictions about what a couple of bodies will do, no matter how massive, is more accurate than Newton's.
Kudos to Newton for having the best description for so long, but it turns out he was completely wrong. And when someone comes up with a unified theory that predicts things better than Einstein's relativity and whatever is current in the quantum world, at the same time, then those will be completely wrong.
never used protothreads. im not an expert thread programmer, and i like boost::thread because i find the interface and usage pattern recommendations simple enough to follow, but not dumb enough not to do useful things with it. it doesn't aim to be a cutting edge thread library, but a library that encapsulates stable thread notions, and can be used to build higher level ideas.
iso c++ standard moves slow to be sure. since much of boost is a proving ground for the standard, and since it has its own review process that seems stringent enough, i find it can be used along with std as a "better" standard library.
if you really are interested in c++ regex, you should get to know Boost. It is a fantastic set of libraries that play nice with the standard c++ library, and includes regexes, parser generators, threads, algebra and probability packages, serialization, custom memory handling, and more.
Ill be putting my faith in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. When Star Wars pisses me off Ill just go watch HHGG for a second time to cleanse my brain.
Didn't anyone understand the point of the comparison? He was comparing the relative popularity of two of Ximian's products:
Ximian's desktop product has waned in popularity, but its mail reader is still very popular.
I hate bad government, I also hate bad corporations.
Absolutely. Its sort of a sad thing about american libertarianism: In protecting individuals from all regulation, american libertarians by and large seem to want no regulations on corporations either.
Thats just crazy. Not regulating corporations can be dangerous. With the power and money some of them have, it can be like not regulating government.
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the bill of rights is just a traditional name given to the first set of amendments to the original draft of the constitution. he is not wrong in saying "your constitution protected...." any amendment to the constitution is a part of the constitution. its legally treated no differently than the original draft, except where it modifies the original draft, in which case it preempts that portion of the original draft.
if you are going to be pedantic, be correct.
perhaps the EFF should start a legal insurance service.
"worried you could be the target of an RIAA lawsuit? pay $X a month and the EFF will come to your rescue if and when they come to get ya"
Joe Swanson: How about you, Peter?
Peter Griffin: Oh, like you got to ask. The chick with three knockers from Total Recall.
Joe Swanson: Interesting.
Cleveland Brown: I never saw that movie.
Glenn Quagmire: You know one of 'em was papier-mâché, right?
Peter Griffin: Oh, gee, can I change my ans--of course I know it's paper! I don't care! W-what's wrong with you?
i just asked a woman about her connection to the lunar cycle, and she stared at me like she was confused and i was crazy.
so, yeah. wooosh.
read the original posts subject. he is not saying that pirating music is equivalent to theft. he is saying that trent reznor believes that pirating music is equivalent to theft
no kidding! where is my free ipod and ps3?
no wonder one of computerworlds current reader favorite articles is: How to make Windows XP last for the next seven years
Vista, schmista. Follow our tips for keeping your XP setup humming happily for a long, long time. so cute...
Table like Word95 instead of tags like this, why not just ensure that OOXML is flexible enough in its format descriptions that "autoSpaceLikeWord95" and "lineWrapLikeWord6" behaviors are able to be described natively. this seems more vendor neutral, and even a sort of test that OOXML is a rich enough language.
no. you are giving the guys too much credit. see how he ends his comment:
I, and most folks I know, need a phone to do two things: Make phone calls and survive my day.
a simple rough-and-tumble is all he wants. he never says he wants an iphone.
hmm. i actually did choose my peanut butter based on ideological reasons. i am opposed to foods with more than three or four ingredients. and as natural as possible. not for health reasons, rather for some misplaced neo-luddite fettish. so i eat laura scudders peanut butter. and smooth peanut butter is too mechanical and artificial and removed from its origins, so its only nutty peanut butter for me.
i broke up with a girlfriend once over her peanut butter choices: some sort of sickly smooth hydrogenated peanut shortening, like skippy or jif. ick.
But in some sense the announcement had to be public. The copyright infringement was public. Without a public protest, someone could unknowingly take that code and incorporate it into proprietary software. Even if resolved privately first, a public announcement describing the duration and scope of the contamination would still be necessary after the fact.
but those conditions dont exist. you cant discount relativistic effects and be any more than an approximation of what you would get had you included relativistic effects. GR is not the special case, which i think i understood you say. It is the general always-more-correct-than-newton case. which in my mind makes newton plain wrong.
its got to be okay for scientists to say, "hey we weren't quite right, we're more right now than we were, and its highly likely we still are a little bit wrong; but this is the best model we have so far. see how well it predicts x and y; see how the old failed on x -- it was wrong". and right and wrong are fine, because in the end i think the creed for a scientist is: we are looking for truth, but we'll settle for getting out the best predictions we can". and when we get wrong predictions, and something else gives the right ones while still being consistent with older, correct predictions, then we should be unafraid to say "the old was wrong (because we value truth), the new is the most correct thing we know about, and at least makes all the right predictions now"
so i have no problem saying newton was wrong. because his predictions didnt pan out. and we are after truth. i dont think that belittles him. i think its a testament to how close he was that it took so long to prove him wrong. but science is a big game of king of the hill, and when youre pushed off the hill thats it. and eventually most get proven wrong, but every time we get closer to truth.
and if some ignorants use that to imply that their hair-brained alternatives have equal weight to all the current best working theories, so what? they arent even in the game; they are nowhere near the top of the hill. there will always be these sideliners trying to assert they are right without actually getting into the shoving match that is scientific peer review. why debate them or worry about them if they cant be bothered to get in the game.
and i think that has to be the argument given to the politicals and others who arent scientists but make decisions that affect scientists and who listen to these sideliners: the game is this: try to get to the top of the hill. you get to the top by predicting things others cant say one way or the other, or by getting predictions right that others get wrong. the more you do it the higher you get, and if someone does it to you, you get shoved down. but if you dont play the game we cant have time for your out-of-the-blue ideas. because while we all want to find the truth, well settle for the best predictions we can get.
Einstein gave us a deeper understanding of gravity that applied even more universally than Newton's law, but it didn't invalidate Newton's law. It's still the best formulation to use for non-relatavistic, massive bodies.
Yes it did invalidate Newton's laws. Einstein's relativity completely invalidated the newtonian view of gravity. Sure, its used still, but in every case, Einstein's predictions about what a couple of bodies will do, no matter how massive, is more accurate than Newton's.
Kudos to Newton for having the best description for so long, but it turns out he was completely wrong. And when someone comes up with a unified theory that predicts things better than Einstein's relativity and whatever is current in the quantum world, at the same time, then those will be completely wrong.
And that is how science works.
we havent had a decent amendment in a while. time for a push for an explicit right to privacy?
never used protothreads. im not an expert thread programmer, and i like boost::thread because i find the interface and usage pattern recommendations simple enough to follow, but not dumb enough not to do useful things with it. it doesn't aim to be a cutting edge thread library, but a library that encapsulates stable thread notions, and can be used to build higher level ideas.
iso c++ standard moves slow to be sure. since much of boost is a proving ground for the standard, and since it has its own review process that seems stringent enough, i find it can be used along with std as a "better" standard library.
if you really are interested in c++ regex, you should get to know Boost. It is a fantastic set of libraries that play nice with the standard c++ library, and includes regexes, parser generators, threads, algebra and probability packages, serialization, custom memory handling, and more.
Ill be putting my faith in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. When Star Wars pisses me off Ill just go watch HHGG for a second time to cleanse my brain.
...So you are saying they should change the name to GnuCrash?
Didn't anyone understand the point of the comparison? He was comparing the relative popularity of two of Ximian's products:
Ximian's desktop product has waned in popularity, but its mail reader is still very popular.
Absolutely. Its sort of a sad thing about american libertarianism: In protecting individuals from all regulation, american libertarians by and large seem to want no regulations on corporations either.
Thats just crazy. Not regulating corporations can be dangerous. With the power and money some of them have, it can be like not regulating government.
Scary
And who would buy these products on this small island...monkeys?
How ironic that the anniversary of the Television coincides with World Literacy Day...
Woops, sorry, didn't realize /. recently did an article on this.