The fuss was that it was the first big budget 3D movie since the last time Hollywood had gone apeshit over 3D movies. That was it. The reason almost every major action/animated movie has a 3D version in cinemas right now is due to Avatar.
People tend to forget that, but there's an almost universal split between those who saw it in 3D and said that, despite a lackluster plot, it was worth watching because "It looked awesome", and those who saw it in 2D and didn't like it and wouldn't recommend it to anyone. The 3D was really genuinely the big thing at the time.
(Me? I never saw it so I'll withhold judgment beyond point out that (1) 3D movies make me nauseous and (2) If it has to be watched in 3D to be enjoyed then that's probably all you need to know.)
They're only talking about possibly maybe finding a way to circumvent the primaries, not the election. Therefore it's the Republican Party that might not "represent the will of the people", not the Government of the United States. Trump and Cruz are free, albeit in a way that might be seen as a broken promise, to stand as independents and as a result still be presented as election options to the American people, if they so choose.
As for why hold an primary election? Because the Republican Party (like the Democrats) is trying to ride the dual horses of accountability to its supporters, and ensuring it has someone who represents Republican values as its Presidential candidate. Usually an election will result in someone who fits both criteria. Sometimes though its supporters and what the party stands for diverge so radically the Party feels that steps need to be taken to protect itself.
Is it right to? I can see why the Republicans would be unhappy with Trump or Cruz as their nominated Presidential candidate, but I'm not a Republican or even a conservative, so from my point of view that's their decision to make.
I think you're veering off-topic. the *AA is talking about piracy (copyright infringement if you prefer) that involves the Internet. Decrypting and copying a DVD to your own media server for streaming within your home does not, in any way shape or form, involve the Internet.
Technically it's illegal, it absolutely shouldn't be, but that's neither here nor there: it's not the same thing or category as distributing a movie to millions of strangers. The MPAA isn't being entirely unreasonable opposing the latter and seeking ways to stop the latter from happening.
The problem here is more than the punishment - essentially one that destroys the ability of a serial copyright infringer to be a part of modern society - is drastically worse than the crime.
That wouldn't solve the problem. Ironically, Google could solve the problem by faithfully making a 100% copy of Oracle's version of Java, complete with their JVM, the core Android environment.
Oracle's argument, bizarrely, is that Google didn't copy them enough and therefore isn't entitled to any Java technologies it considers covered by its IP.
The entire situation is absurd, and if Oracle prevails, it'll have very interesting consequences in terms of continuing corporate support for the platform.
Yeah I'm glad about that. The most annoying part on the paperwhite Kindle is that there's no room to show the buttons, so instead you have to remember roughly what areas of the screen map to what function.
Not sure why there's an obsession amongst device manufacturers in general with removing buttons. My cheap $30 Android phone is an improvement on the expensive Hipster phone it replaced in part because it has the navigation buttons at the bottom, whereas Hipster phone insisted on omitting them and forcing you to use virtual buttons on the screen.
I don't know if you saw the picture, but the protesters here were sitting down with linked arms, not in any way threatening the "peace" officer or pushing him to his limit. So while your point may be justified in some contexts, this isn't one of them.
What I find interesting is that this case highlights the university's complicity with the violent act meted out upon peaceful protesters. Fifty years down the line, without these attempts to scrub the world clean of "that photo", it would have been linked to one bad officer whose employer's fault is giving him the job in the first place. But by trying to whitewash the incident, the university is effectively saying "Actually, this was us, employing violent thugs is policy, not an accident, and we abhor peaceful protest. We believe this so strongly we're willing to spend $175k on rehabilitating the reputations of those we employ to harm others."
The ACA didn't actually change the privateness of the healthcare system. It didn't nationalize anything. It simply implemented some minor regulatory reforms, coupled with insurance mandates and major regulatory reforms on insurers, and made more subsidies available.
So it really isn't relevant here one way or another.
My mistake was, on seeing lots of copies of/etc/passwd entitled "passwd~", "passwd.BAK", "passwd.bak", etc, thinking that "rm/etc/passwd*" would remove those files, because that means "remove anything beginning with passwd but with something on the end, right?"
I'd say rookie mistake, but I'd been using *ix for something like seven years in one form or another, and other operating systems that used * (or in AmigaOS's case #?) for even longer, so there was really no excuse.
You're missing the context here. He was attacking me for saying it was better to spend my money on helping people than on killing them and persecuting them.
All of the things you mention could be termed (if those programs are operated well, which is a different issue) working for the public good, rather than causing harm and misery. As such Mi's not very likely to support any of them.
You are welcome to give it to next permanently disabled person you see. You can even ask Department of Education to help you identify one.
Actually I'm not welcome to do anything of the sort. I have never been asked, except a very general indirect question asked once every two years, who should receive the money I'm required to surrender to the government. As I said the government generally gives my money to things I disagree with - it spends my money on killing people, persecuting people for entirely consensual activities, etc.
But you aren't satisfied with that â" you wish to compel others into it.
Oh boohoo. The same people who want me to fund killing people and persecuting people who do things they don't like that doesn't affect them in any way also would rather not relieve the debt burden of disabled people.
With respect, fuck the killing and persecution advocates. I have as much right to demand their taxes are spent on things I want as they have my taxes be spent on stuff they want.
It's my money and yeah I have no objection to it being spent this way, as opposed to much of the rest of the time when it's being spent on killing people, persecuting people for victimless crimes, and so on.
Money for actually helping people who are having real problems through no fault of their own? That sounds laudable to me.
Just a note: It's about coverage, not bandwidth. I'm not sure why anyone thinks its about bandwidth. This technology makes it easy for a mobile phone operator to allow its customers to add coverage to their own homes and offices without having to involve the FCC (or other local regulatory body) every single time.
They never pass bit on. It's always "I got a 'Software Fatal Error', what do I do?" "Oh, could you tell me what it said?" "Uh, 'Software Fatal Error'", "No, underneath, where it said something like "Error code 1234", "Oh, I didn't see that bit, I just clicked 'Close Program' and called you".
At one point my then employer and I had a great idea, which we never implemented, that we should show pictures with each error message, so the call would go "Hey, I just used your product, and it showed me a picture of a tree and said 'Software Error'", "A tree? Ah, that means you're out of memory. Might mean a memory leak. Can you tell me what you were doing before you saw the tree..."
Whether what he said was right or not, using language usually associated with Nazi propaganda like "degenerates" is probably the wrong way to go about it. Also the entire thing comes across as victim blaming.
If you don't care how you pay for it, then you shouldn't care if it's done properly.
Subsidizing trucks and heavily taxing trains makes no sense whatsoever. Trains are a more efficient, safer, way to transport large quantities of goods across the country. All you're doing by bankrupting railroads and moving freight to roads is raising costs - direct (inefficiencies) and external (accidents, etc) - overall, meaning you'll end up paying more - whether it's your tax bill or the cost of food at the supermarket.
At the very least, if you're in favor of the position taxation should subsidize transportation, you should be in favor of reforms that do not favor terrible transportation over good transportation.
For what it's worth, you can program Android in C. It's not recommended.
C is widely considered unsafe, a language that makes it far too easy to accidentally introduce security holes that end up with attackers being able to execute arbitrary code. Managed languages like Java aren't perfect, but they fix 90% of these errors, leaving developers able to focus on the types of error that are because something was badly designed, not because a buffer's size is too small for the data being read into it.
Mobile operating systems have enough security problems as it is without making it easier for programmers to introduce more.
Java, FWIW, has only two major problems: it's absurdly bureaucratic, and its master, Oracle, isn't really happy with anyone writing incompatible variants of it and is trying to prevent that from happening.
Meanwhile, nothing else has taken off. C# is almost as bureaucratic as Java, and, well, then there's Swift, but I'm having difficulty believing Apple will be less possessive of it than Oracle is of Java.
I'd love a decent passenger rail network too, but that's not what this is about. And while I'm unhappy with the freight rail establishment (though not for the reasons you give) I fail to see how completely destroying what's left of the freight rail network is going to help in the long term.
Yeah, we might fix road funding if that happens, but we still have no freight rail network at the end of it. Ironically that'd probably reduce the need to fix road funding...
This is a problem anyway. I've identified a way in which it'll become worse.
As far as your other point, yes, I'm aware they're different. This article however is about self driving trucks, which will reduce the differences pretty significantly. That's why it's a concern. Yes, trucks are less fuel efficient than trains, but they are heavily subsidized, and railroads are heavily taxed. With labor costs eliminated, it's not hard to see trucks having the financial advantage in that environment.
In the US, trucking is already heavily subsidized. The government spends far more money on roads than it takes in supposed use (fuel) taxes, and trucks are far more efficient per pound than cars meaning the major beneficiary are trucks. Add to that higher speeds than many trains (and more flexible schedules), and the ability to run all night, and you have a recipe for disaster: huge amounts of freight currently carried by train will end up on the roads, bankrupting the railroad industry AND the causing massive chaos on the roads and expenditures on roads going through the roof.
The question, I guess, is whether Congress (and the States) is willing to address fuel tax reform before this can happen? (And at the same time, are States willing to address the silliness of property taxes on railroads given the existence of a private railroad network saves them money.)
As it is, your actual plumbing is simple 'proof' of your sex. Nobody's arguing that someone who's gone through gender-switching should have to go to their original sex's bathroom, either.
Unfortunately yes they are. This article is about a law that, in part, punishes certain institutions for letting people use a bathroom marked for a gender that isn't on their birth certificate. And there are a sizable number of people posting here who are also making that point and making it clear that they don't want someone who was born a man to be in a women's bathroom, regardless of how they appear.
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iTunes has had podcast support for... as long as I remember, at least five years, probably over a decade.
BTW there's a reason they're called "Podcasts".
The fuss was that it was the first big budget 3D movie since the last time Hollywood had gone apeshit over 3D movies. That was it. The reason almost every major action/animated movie has a 3D version in cinemas right now is due to Avatar.
People tend to forget that, but there's an almost universal split between those who saw it in 3D and said that, despite a lackluster plot, it was worth watching because "It looked awesome", and those who saw it in 2D and didn't like it and wouldn't recommend it to anyone. The 3D was really genuinely the big thing at the time.
(Me? I never saw it so I'll withhold judgment beyond point out that (1) 3D movies make me nauseous and (2) If it has to be watched in 3D to be enjoyed then that's probably all you need to know.)
They're only talking about possibly maybe finding a way to circumvent the primaries, not the election. Therefore it's the Republican Party that might not "represent the will of the people", not the Government of the United States. Trump and Cruz are free, albeit in a way that might be seen as a broken promise, to stand as independents and as a result still be presented as election options to the American people, if they so choose.
As for why hold an primary election? Because the Republican Party (like the Democrats) is trying to ride the dual horses of accountability to its supporters, and ensuring it has someone who represents Republican values as its Presidential candidate. Usually an election will result in someone who fits both criteria. Sometimes though its supporters and what the party stands for diverge so radically the Party feels that steps need to be taken to protect itself.
Is it right to? I can see why the Republicans would be unhappy with Trump or Cruz as their nominated Presidential candidate, but I'm not a Republican or even a conservative, so from my point of view that's their decision to make.
I think you're veering off-topic. the *AA is talking about piracy (copyright infringement if you prefer) that involves the Internet. Decrypting and copying a DVD to your own media server for streaming within your home does not, in any way shape or form, involve the Internet.
Technically it's illegal, it absolutely shouldn't be, but that's neither here nor there: it's not the same thing or category as distributing a movie to millions of strangers. The MPAA isn't being entirely unreasonable opposing the latter and seeking ways to stop the latter from happening.
The problem here is more than the punishment - essentially one that destroys the ability of a serial copyright infringer to be a part of modern society - is drastically worse than the crime.
That wouldn't solve the problem. Ironically, Google could solve the problem by faithfully making a 100% copy of Oracle's version of Java, complete with their JVM, the core Android environment.
Oracle's argument, bizarrely, is that Google didn't copy them enough and therefore isn't entitled to any Java technologies it considers covered by its IP.
The entire situation is absurd, and if Oracle prevails, it'll have very interesting consequences in terms of continuing corporate support for the platform.
Yeah I'm glad about that. The most annoying part on the paperwhite Kindle is that there's no room to show the buttons, so instead you have to remember roughly what areas of the screen map to what function.
Not sure why there's an obsession amongst device manufacturers in general with removing buttons. My cheap $30 Android phone is an improvement on the expensive Hipster phone it replaced in part because it has the navigation buttons at the bottom, whereas Hipster phone insisted on omitting them and forcing you to use virtual buttons on the screen.
I don't know if you saw the picture, but the protesters here were sitting down with linked arms, not in any way threatening the "peace" officer or pushing him to his limit. So while your point may be justified in some contexts, this isn't one of them.
What I find interesting is that this case highlights the university's complicity with the violent act meted out upon peaceful protesters. Fifty years down the line, without these attempts to scrub the world clean of "that photo", it would have been linked to one bad officer whose employer's fault is giving him the job in the first place. But by trying to whitewash the incident, the university is effectively saying "Actually, this was us, employing violent thugs is policy, not an accident, and we abhor peaceful protest. We believe this so strongly we're willing to spend $175k on rehabilitating the reputations of those we employ to harm others."
Which is... revealing.
The ACA didn't actually change the privateness of the healthcare system. It didn't nationalize anything. It simply implemented some minor regulatory reforms, coupled with insurance mandates and major regulatory reforms on insurers, and made more subsidies available.
So it really isn't relevant here one way or another.
My mistake was, on seeing lots of copies of /etc/passwd entitled "passwd~", "passwd.BAK", "passwd.bak", etc, thinking that "rm /etc/passwd*" would remove those files, because that means "remove anything beginning with passwd but with something on the end, right?"
I'd say rookie mistake, but I'd been using *ix for something like seven years in one form or another, and other operating systems that used * (or in AmigaOS's case #?) for even longer, so there was really no excuse.
It's generally not bigotry to oppose bigotry, FWIW. Otherwise the word would have no meaning.
You're missing the context here. He was attacking me for saying it was better to spend my money on helping people than on killing them and persecuting them.
All of the things you mention could be termed (if those programs are operated well, which is a different issue) working for the public good, rather than causing harm and misery. As such Mi's not very likely to support any of them.
Actually I'm not welcome to do anything of the sort. I have never been asked, except a very general indirect question asked once every two years, who should receive the money I'm required to surrender to the government. As I said the government generally gives my money to things I disagree with - it spends my money on killing people, persecuting people for entirely consensual activities, etc.
Oh boohoo. The same people who want me to fund killing people and persecuting people who do things they don't like that doesn't affect them in any way also would rather not relieve the debt burden of disabled people.
With respect, fuck the killing and persecution advocates. I have as much right to demand their taxes are spent on things I want as they have my taxes be spent on stuff they want.
And unlike you, my demands aren't evil.
It's my money and yeah I have no objection to it being spent this way, as opposed to much of the rest of the time when it's being spent on killing people, persecuting people for victimless crimes, and so on.
Money for actually helping people who are having real problems through no fault of their own? That sounds laudable to me.
Just a note: It's about coverage, not bandwidth. I'm not sure why anyone thinks its about bandwidth. This technology makes it easy for a mobile phone operator to allow its customers to add coverage to their own homes and offices without having to involve the FCC (or other local regulatory body) every single time.
They never pass bit on. It's always "I got a 'Software Fatal Error', what do I do?" "Oh, could you tell me what it said?" "Uh, 'Software Fatal Error'", "No, underneath, where it said something like "Error code 1234", "Oh, I didn't see that bit, I just clicked 'Close Program' and called you".
At one point my then employer and I had a great idea, which we never implemented, that we should show pictures with each error message, so the call would go "Hey, I just used your product, and it showed me a picture of a tree and said 'Software Error'", "A tree? Ah, that means you're out of memory. Might mean a memory leak. Can you tell me what you were doing before you saw the tree..."
I wouldn't say either example you give is being "honest", whether spoken out loud or not.
Whether what he said was right or not, using language usually associated with Nazi propaganda like "degenerates" is probably the wrong way to go about it. Also the entire thing comes across as victim blaming.
Indeed. But if you subsidize trucks, and if you remove labor costs, that's not likely to be true any more, is it?
We already subsidize trucking. We already overtax railroads. And this article is about eliminating labor costs.
If you don't care how you pay for it, then you shouldn't care if it's done properly.
Subsidizing trucks and heavily taxing trains makes no sense whatsoever. Trains are a more efficient, safer, way to transport large quantities of goods across the country. All you're doing by bankrupting railroads and moving freight to roads is raising costs - direct (inefficiencies) and external (accidents, etc) - overall, meaning you'll end up paying more - whether it's your tax bill or the cost of food at the supermarket.
At the very least, if you're in favor of the position taxation should subsidize transportation, you should be in favor of reforms that do not favor terrible transportation over good transportation.
For what it's worth, you can program Android in C. It's not recommended.
C is widely considered unsafe, a language that makes it far too easy to accidentally introduce security holes that end up with attackers being able to execute arbitrary code. Managed languages like Java aren't perfect, but they fix 90% of these errors, leaving developers able to focus on the types of error that are because something was badly designed, not because a buffer's size is too small for the data being read into it.
Mobile operating systems have enough security problems as it is without making it easier for programmers to introduce more.
Java, FWIW, has only two major problems: it's absurdly bureaucratic, and its master, Oracle, isn't really happy with anyone writing incompatible variants of it and is trying to prevent that from happening.
Meanwhile, nothing else has taken off. C# is almost as bureaucratic as Java, and, well, then there's Swift, but I'm having difficulty believing Apple will be less possessive of it than Oracle is of Java.
I'd love a decent passenger rail network too, but that's not what this is about. And while I'm unhappy with the freight rail establishment (though not for the reasons you give) I fail to see how completely destroying what's left of the freight rail network is going to help in the long term.
Yeah, we might fix road funding if that happens, but we still have no freight rail network at the end of it. Ironically that'd probably reduce the need to fix road funding...
This is a problem anyway. I've identified a way in which it'll become worse.
As far as your other point, yes, I'm aware they're different. This article however is about self driving trucks, which will reduce the differences pretty significantly. That's why it's a concern. Yes, trucks are less fuel efficient than trains, but they are heavily subsidized, and railroads are heavily taxed. With labor costs eliminated, it's not hard to see trucks having the financial advantage in that environment.
In the US, trucking is already heavily subsidized. The government spends far more money on roads than it takes in supposed use (fuel) taxes, and trucks are far more efficient per pound than cars meaning the major beneficiary are trucks. Add to that higher speeds than many trains (and more flexible schedules), and the ability to run all night, and you have a recipe for disaster: huge amounts of freight currently carried by train will end up on the roads, bankrupting the railroad industry AND the causing massive chaos on the roads and expenditures on roads going through the roof.
The question, I guess, is whether Congress (and the States) is willing to address fuel tax reform before this can happen? (And at the same time, are States willing to address the silliness of property taxes on railroads given the existence of a private railroad network saves them money.)
Did this also happen to Slashdot when it implemented friends and foes?
I mean, yeah, Slashdot eventually faded into relative obscurity, but I'm pretty sure that was a decade or so after friends and foes were implemented.
Unfortunately yes they are. This article is about a law that, in part, punishes certain institutions for letting people use a bathroom marked for a gender that isn't on their birth certificate. And there are a sizable number of people posting here who are also making that point and making it clear that they don't want someone who was born a man to be in a women's bathroom, regardless of how they appear.