d00d, what about reading the write-up, which pegged the unlocking percentage at 20%, vice your suggested 33%?
Maybe the real story here is the way Apple's stock has tanked in the face of strong profits.
We can rest assured that there was no insider trading, because people are basically good and wouldn't break the rules and stuff. http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/01/stock-is-getting-killed-ive-instructed.html
OK, I think you buried my argument decisively.
Not buying off on your analysis of Terrist goals, though. The counter-argument is that they would like to, in essence, repeat the North Vietnamese pattern post-Tet Offensive.
Thank you most sincerely for a though-provoking post.
Well, for example, OOXML doesn't seem to be quite obliterating ODF the way IE did Netscape in the mid-90's.
While not exactly T. Herman Zweibel holding forth from the depths of his iron lung, Mr. Softy seems no' so spry these days.
The perl script, or the media script where we feign a boo-boo as a form of left-handed advertising?
You know, the corporate version of the celebrity arrest...
I've seen some programmers who were simply cut-n-paste hacks that couldn't grasp the information flow separate from a particular tool and basic print statement debugging.
The real issue isn't first personnel, but time.
The need to get stuff done NOW, NOW, NOW doesn't afford the FNG any time to sink into the language and its paradigms.
Lack of time leads to heat and pressure, which produces nasty coal fires more often than diamonds.
It's important in this sort of discussion to remember the difference between tactical and strategic.
Tactically, terrorism is a bigger threat. The evidence is fairly clear that they don't mind dying, and that freedom from normal concerns about self-preservation renders terrorists highly unpredictable. Fortunately, there are not too many of them, as a fraction of world population.
Strategically, the concern about the government is well-founded. Bureaucrats seem to believe in government with the same fervor that the terrorist adheres to extremism. Scary indeed, and a reason to vote against those who'd turn the US into a European-style nanny state.
That would be what I meant. I had some better Latin scholars (I took a couple of years in High School) tweak me on previous, slightly different variations.
The white space, of course, isn't authentic, dating as it does to Charlemagne, although that fact (from a CD series on ancient Rome) doesn't appear on Wikipedia in the "Education reforms" section. Added that to the discussion page; we'll see if a history geek validates it.
What we've got here is... failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach.
So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it...
well, he gets it.
I don't like it any more than you men.
The lesson I've learned in the past 7 years is this: when you start to hear trial balloons floated about an issue of authoritarian enforcement, whether it's surveillance, police powers, rights of the accused, it's almost always about corporate profits rather than the "security" of the citizens of America or anywhere else.
I guess I'd echo that sentiment by saying that the amount and flavors of fear used by both conferences of the American Political Football League is quite staggering.
You've got fear of: old age, unemployment, disease, environmental catastrophe, crime (violent, identity theft), electoral fraud, judicial activism, government peeping, religious extremism...
You're supposed to react to these stimuli like cattle to the prod, and contribute/vote appropriately.
At this point, I'm prepared to take my chances with the terrorists,
OK. I'm not, but the rhetoric is a bit thin, no?
but I want to be protected from those in power.
Yeah, that 10th Amendment, and the minimalist spirit thereof, seems to get as much coverage as a presidential candidate with shallow pockets on http://opensecrets.org/, no?
Civ4: "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy"
I like my odds vs. the terrorists.
Have you met any?
But the people who are currently in power have both motive and opportunity.
They also have what they perceive is a job to do.
Our job as citizens is to reward courage in leadership, but we seem to reward leadership in earmarks
Certainly, the existing body of law, like this town, needs an enema.
What will be interesting to watch (for those keen on subtle, baseball-like action that is exciting as watching paint dry for the casual viewer) is the interplay between the need for legal recourse, which implies some international body having jurisdiction, and the serious US allergy to anything that sets precedent to diminish national sovereignty.
That issue is among the major reasons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea has hung in the air, the way bricks don't, for a few decades awaiting US Senate ratification.
Taking the low road is proving too marshy, so taking the high road leads to the moral high ground?
(Watch (out (for (large (old (hirsute (fellow (with (text (editor.))))))))))
Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put out in KP
Some of the images draw delightfully crass connections.
The instantly recongnizable image of "The Thinker", with an annoying, screw-you, bugs-in-my-code hourglass icon in the upper-left corner is quite well done.
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d00d, what about reading the write-up, which pegged the unlocking percentage at 20%, vice your suggested 33%?
Maybe the real story here is the way Apple's stock has tanked in the face of strong profits.
We can rest assured that there was no insider trading, because people are basically good and wouldn't break the rules and stuff.
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/01/stock-is-getting-killed-ive-instructed.html
OK, I think you buried my argument decisively.
Not buying off on your analysis of Terrist goals, though. The counter-argument is that they would like to, in essence, repeat the North Vietnamese pattern post-Tet Offensive.
Thank you most sincerely for a though-provoking post.
Well, for example, OOXML doesn't seem to be quite obliterating ODF the way IE did Netscape in the mid-90's.
While not exactly T. Herman Zweibel holding forth from the depths of his iron lung, Mr. Softy seems no' so spry these days.
The perl script, or the media script where we feign a boo-boo as a form of left-handed advertising?
You know, the corporate version of the celebrity arrest...
I've seen some programmers who were simply cut-n-paste hacks that couldn't grasp the information flow separate from a particular tool and basic print statement debugging.
The real issue isn't first personnel, but time.
The need to get stuff done NOW, NOW, NOW doesn't afford the FNG any time to sink into the language and its paradigms.
Lack of time leads to heat and pressure, which produces nasty coal fires more often than diamonds.
It's important in this sort of discussion to remember the difference between tactical and strategic.
Tactically, terrorism is a bigger threat. The evidence is fairly clear that they don't mind dying, and that freedom from normal concerns about self-preservation renders terrorists highly unpredictable. Fortunately, there are not too many of them, as a fraction of world population.
Strategically, the concern about the government is well-founded. Bureaucrats seem to believe in government with the same fervor that the terrorist adheres to extremism. Scary indeed, and a reason to vote against those who'd turn the US into a European-style nanny state.
That would be what I meant. I had some better Latin scholars (I took a couple of years in High School) tweak me on previous, slightly different variations.
The white space, of course, isn't authentic, dating as it does to Charlemagne, although that fact (from a CD series on ancient Rome) doesn't appear on Wikipedia in the "Education reforms" section. Added that to the discussion page; we'll see if a history geek validates it.
Didn't G's Law already have a name,
or are you merely underscoring TFA?
"HTML coders"
You've got fear of: old age, unemployment, disease, environmental catastrophe, crime (violent, identity theft), electoral fraud, judicial activism, government peeping, religious extremism...
You're supposed to react to these stimuli like cattle to the prod, and contribute/vote appropriately. OK. I'm not, but the rhetoric is a bit thin, no?
Yeah, that 10th Amendment, and the minimalist spirit thereof, seems to get as much coverage as a presidential candidate with shallow pockets on http://opensecrets.org/, no? Civ4: "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy" Have you met any? They also have what they perceive is a job to do.
Our job as citizens is to reward courage in leadership, but we seem to reward leadership in earmarks
Certainly, the existing body of law, like this town, needs an enema.
What will be interesting to watch (for those keen on subtle, baseball-like action that is exciting as watching paint dry for the casual viewer) is the interplay between the need for legal recourse, which implies some international body having jurisdiction, and the serious US allergy to anything that sets precedent to diminish national sovereignty.
That issue is among the major reasons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea has hung in the air, the way bricks don't, for a few decades awaiting US Senate ratification.
Aye, vast and inscrutable as the Indian Ocean they are.
Taking the low road is proving too marshy, so taking the high road leads to the moral high ground?
(Watch (out (for (large (old (hirsute (fellow (with (text (editor.))))))))))
Death: inevitable. What good, gadget fetishism?
Is "less power to demand 'openness'" a figure of speech meaning "having diminished legal muscle to invade privacy", then, yes, I'd agree.
Are you saying that you can differentiate among any of the cable news channels and an open sewer?
Do go on, sir.
Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put out in KP
Now bow to your Redmond overlord, miscreants!
"What is the most-linked image in
Some of the images draw delightfully crass connections.
The instantly recongnizable image of "The Thinker", with an annoying, screw-you, bugs-in-my-code hourglass icon in the upper-left corner is quite well done.
Thanks for clearing that up, boss.
Even if you claim it's an upgrade to vi?
Oh, wait, that's emacs...