This looks like as good a place as any to mention the ecological fallacy.
The term comes from a 1950 paper by William Robinson. For each of the 48 states in the US as of the 1930 census, he computed the literacy rate and the proportion of the population born outside the US. He showed that these two figures were associated with a positive correlation of 0.53 -- in other words, the greater the proportion of immigrants in a state, the higher its average literacy. However, when individuals are considered, the correlation was 0.11 -- immigrants were on average less literate than native citizens. Robinson showed that the positive correlation at the level of state populations was because immigrants tended to settle in states where the native population was more literate. He cautioned against deducing conclusions about individuals on the basis of population-level, or "ecological" data.
In other words, it can be helpful and interesting to scramble up some statistics on a question for a study omelette, but we have certainly destroyed some information in the process. Ex post facto attempts to opine about the original materials will leave us with egg on the face.
Elsewhere on Wikipedia, Einstein is on record for doubting whether the Almighty throws dice with the universe. Allow me to second that from the standpoint of refusing to fret. Do what you consider Destiny would have you do with respect to your reproduction; rejoice in any outcome.
Yeah, yeah, but is there life beyond snarky post-modernist cynicism? Not so much you, Jeff; the whole modern age seems just a little too pouty over the fact that the Information Age brought more ambiguity than transparency.
Bush also pressured an awful lot of people into bending intelligence reports to sound the way he wanted them and interpred Intelligence information in the way that suited his political goals. To me that is lying albeit in a roundabout way.
This allegation of yours is as well founded as the supposed ones in which you claim Bush engaged.
I'll go along with you long enough to say OK, he did. Sure.
Now you, he and I are all a part of the overall problem. Whoopee.
well aware of reports by the IAEA that there were no indications of the Iraqis having a significant nuclear weapons making capability. I wonder why that wasn't mentioned in the next breath?
Please ensure you capture context of Saddam the undeniable bad guy, engaging in systematic brinksmanship with the rest of the world. Counterfactuals about the two madmen-in-training, his sons, would also be interesting.
I'm not so much after letting Bush off the hook as I am in asking what other real ideas of what to do are out there. Clinton's efforts in the 1990's were less than impressive, and I edit myself heavily here because the gentleman brings out the troll in me.
Whether or not Bush is remembered as the American Stalin or simply a leader applying some necessary effort in the Middle East shan't be known for a couple decades, at least.
If our task is to discredit the FSF and mis-characterize the GPLv3 effort, it is important to blow off the spirit of the license, which is to protect freedom, users, and developers.
One great means of achieving this mis-characterization is to apply the old formula: "a text without a context is a pretext".
The learning curve of FOSS is nothing if not a lengthy, slippery slope, sir.
Just got a udev-081 rule for my Logitech V200.
Next emerge upgraded me to udev-081-r1, and my rule was TU[1].
Aunt Petunia would die, I just cussed and debugged.
Well, if your assertions hold 'true' (for whatever value the variable holds in a political context), then the opposition ought to have a fairly easy time painting the 'publicans out the picture in 2008.
On the subject of rigging elections, one anecdote I heard (maybe someone can cough up a link) is that the Ohio investigations for 2004 turned up quite a bit of evidence of funny business, but that the media tends to favor the guilty side, so we just won't quite put that little story in heavy rotation, OK?;)
Oh, come on: how many people, seriously, are going to write printer drivers?
Sure, there may be a generic project that dumps courier on paper, and mostly gets the margins right.
But the annoyance of getting it RIGHT across a variety of printers/operating systems could lead to madness
where people work on the things that interest them
Let's not kid ourselves: this is the good news/bad news of FOSS.
The genius of proprietary software: getting you to trade your sovreignty for code that does a lot of the less interesting stuff.
Unless you're actually selling that printer, are you going to want to spend all day writing a driver for it, much less testing it against a bazillion OS's?
Leo seems to indicate the 'Rat' is something more abstract, like council, than mammalian.
Or maybe the 'F' in front was silent for so long as to fall off the word.
That's what leads people to try to write novels, for example. They like reading novels. They notice that people who write them win Nobel prizes. What could be more wonderful, they think, than to be a novelist? But liking the idea of being a novelist is not enough; you have to like the actual work of novel-writing if you're going to be good at it; you have to like making up elaborate lies.
I'm no novelist, but the 20,000 word novella I wrote as an undergrad had to do with a fascination with Scottish history and being recently, painfully, dumped. Therapy? Mostly.
Motives for writing vary as much as motives for coding.
BTW, bugbear WTF arc?
See, now, that ain't no bug: that's a feature.
Look at how much additional
hardware sales are driven,
applications developed,
billable hours logged for consultants,
bookshelves lined with tomes
slashdot articles and advertisements launched
I, for one, sing:
Praise spam, from whom all blessings flow,
Praise it all admins here below,
Praise it above ye SMTP host,
Praise Viagra, Teenage Nigerian Nymphomaniacs, and Bill the most. Ahhh-hem
What a dumb question.
Clearly, they will use the new <lj-hijack> tags to drone on about the stupidity of parents, education, and responsibility on someone else's journal.;)
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In other words, it can be helpful and interesting to scramble up some statistics on a question for a study omelette, but we have certainly destroyed some information in the process. Ex post facto attempts to opine about the original materials will leave us with egg on the face.
Elsewhere on Wikipedia, Einstein is on record for doubting whether the Almighty throws dice with the universe. Allow me to second that from the standpoint of refusing to fret. Do what you consider Destiny would have you do with respect to your reproduction; rejoice in any outcome.
Well, there would be a certain convenience in disproving Truth; we could rationalize much.
Yeah, yeah, but is there life beyond snarky post-modernist cynicism?
Not so much you, Jeff; the whole modern age seems just a little too pouty over the fact that the Information Age brought more ambiguity than transparency.
No, they hold an annual rendering engine forum called WebDAVos, to which all the bigwigs go, feel big and bewigged.
I'll go along with you long enough to say OK, he did. Sure.
Now you, he and I are all a part of the overall problem. Whoopee.
Please ensure you capture context of Saddam the undeniable bad guy, engaging in systematic brinksmanship with the rest of the world. Counterfactuals about the two madmen-in-training, his sons, would also be interesting.
I'm not so much after letting Bush off the hook as I am in asking what other real ideas of what to do are out there. Clinton's efforts in the 1990's were less than impressive, and I edit myself heavily here because the gentleman brings out the troll in me.
Whether or not Bush is remembered as the American Stalin or simply a leader applying some necessary effort in the Middle East shan't be known for a couple decades, at least.
Oh, you too will be devoured, sycophant.
Transparency? That which would help both the code, and the government...
Me, too.
In !(Soviet Russia) one hopes that these possibilities will drive home the need for FOSS at all levels of the computer to you!
If our task is to discredit the FSF and mis-characterize the GPLv3 effort, it is important to blow off the spirit of the license, which is to protect freedom, users, and developers.
One great means of achieving this mis-characterization is to apply the old formula: "a text without a context is a pretext".
The learning curve of FOSS is nothing if not a lengthy, slippery slope, sir.
Just got a udev-081 rule for my Logitech V200.
Next emerge upgraded me to udev-081-r1, and my rule was TU[1]. Aunt Petunia would die, I just cussed and debugged.
[1]Tits up.
Well, if your assertions hold 'true' (for whatever value the variable holds in a political context), then the opposition ought to have a fairly easy time painting the 'publicans out the picture in 2008. ;)
On the subject of rigging elections, one anecdote I heard (maybe someone can cough up a link) is that the Ohio investigations for 2004 turned up quite a bit of evidence of funny business, but that the media tends to favor the guilty side, so we just won't quite put that little story in heavy rotation, OK?
I think you need a "Head First" at the head, first.
Lemmy in I'm So Bad (Baby I Don't Care)
Ballmer's laptop.
Case in point. I can PS print out of emacs well enough, but, for a nice booklet printout, I still need[1] to boot 'Doze and use a spiffier HP driver.
[1]I realize that booklet printing is probably quite doable under Gentoo, I just haven't overcome the static friction of mabooty to figure it out.
Oh, come on: how many people, seriously, are going to write printer drivers?
Sure, there may be a generic project that dumps courier on paper, and mostly gets the margins right.
But the annoyance of getting it RIGHT across a variety of printers/operating systems could lead to madness
The genius of proprietary software: getting you to trade your sovreignty for code that does a lot of the less interesting stuff.
Unless you're actually selling that printer, are you going to want to spend all day writing a driver for it, much less testing it against a bazillion OS's?
Abdicate your sovereignty to Redmond.
Suits will come, and suits will go.
Just make sure Guido is well compensated. The world really needs Python.
Leo seems to indicate the 'Rat' is something more abstract, like council, than mammalian.
Or maybe the 'F' in front was silent for so long as to fall off the word.
"Well, obviously, it's not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturers of dairy products." Monty Python, Life of Brian
Motives for writing vary as much as motives for coding.
BTW, bugbear WTF arc?
Look at how much additional
hardware sales are driven,
applications developed,
billable hours logged for consultants,
bookshelves lined with tomes
slashdot articles and advertisements launched
I, for one, sing:
Praise spam, from whom all blessings flow,
Praise it all admins here below,
Praise it above ye SMTP host,
Praise Viagra, Teenage Nigerian Nymphomaniacs, and Bill the most.
Ahhh-hem
What a dumb question. ;)
Clearly, they will use the new <lj-hijack> tags to drone on about the stupidity of parents, education, and responsibility on someone else's journal.