Wow, that is much better. Fits with the meter and everything. Because when you think about it, why would it be a problem that he is "Romeo"? That has nothing to do with his family identity.
But what shall have to wait for another time is: what is the textual evidence for this? If it ain't Shakespeare, it ain't Shakespeare.
FYI, it's "pseudo-" not "psuedo-" (unless you really want to sound like a pseudo-intellectual)
Why would it be "whence"?
"Whence" = "from where" ("hence" = "from here"; "thence" = "from there")
"Whither" = "to where" ("hither" = "to here" e.g. "hither and yon" "all over the place"; "thither" = "to there")
Similar sound relationships between various correlatives occur in lots of languages, particularly Ancient Greek, Japanese (ko-so-a-do series), Gaelic, also mildly in German (if you push it).
What a bizarre comment. There's no dichotomy here - I go to a top Ivy League University, am there for the intellectual enrichment, and am very much looking forward to being a full-time businessman (for which, frankly, I will also need said enrichment)
Relax, buddy. "Why even have laws" (as dept.)? This decision is fundamentally about allowing a company to incorporate videoconferencing capabilities into its own software.
They're not dismantling your beloved welfare state just yet. Don't freak out on us. Although I suppose the whole purpose of having laws is to keep the evil corporations from eating our children, right? So perhaps your concern is justified.
Bicycling more "sustainable"? Haven't the environmentalists been trying to get us all to change to bicycles from cars supposedly because of the pollution that cars generate? And now not even bicycles are "sustainable" because they are "resource intensive"?
When does it end? Should I just stop using resources altogether (i.e. die?)
I won't post this anonymously precisely because I mean this quite seriously and not as a troll. Mod me down if you must.
How does this show that airport security is a joke? The only item that got through security without being inspected was the game timer. It is, after all, just a timer. Why would this be a breach in security?
A lot of posters seem to think they are very clever because they can come up with ideas for bypassing airport security. And some of them are right, especially since news organizations have done stories where they smuggled through actually dangerous materials. But show me a picture of you, on the plane, with actually dangerous stuff.
You wouldn't risk it? Perhaps deterrence is valuable, since if a terrorist is caught, it can lead to the downfall of a larger part of a terrorist organization. The strategy seems to be looking for minimal risk of being arrested, so the 9/11 hijackers brought boxcutters (which I believe were allowed on planes at the time), and Richard Reid hid the explosives in his shoes, where nobody thought to look (until flight attendants noticed him trying to light his shoelaces).
But it is true that no security strategy is likely to be 100% effective. Which is why we should address the causes of terrorism (by which I mean that we should continue to "end" states that sponsor it). The spread of individual rights and economic prosperity is the only way to ensure our security long-term.
Justin
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Have you tried pressing the plus sign?
This will give you the other possibilities that the phone has in its dictionary.
God damn progress. Increased personal productivity and satisfaction, knowledge about the universe (SETI@home), improvements in medical knowledge (Folding@home), development of technologies for the desktop that we could have only dreamed about 20 years ago, etc. etc., etc. It makes me so angry!
Faster chips make the environment I live in much better. Where are you living?
Or if you are dying from cancer because you inherited a genetic defect predisposing you to it - don't try to save yourself. If you're "naturally" unable to destroy the tumor, maybe you're not supposed to live at all!
I don't mean to troll either. We should consider the issues, and your point about adoption is well-taken.
But your comment is a disturbing muddle. You say that "nature is nature" - what do you mean by this? You seem to imply, particularly with your use of "supposed to," that there is some entity "nature" prescribing rules for human beings to follow. And you further imply that it is our obligation to follow these "rules" (whatever those may be and whoever determines them).
But this is a strange type of nihilism/fatalism. If we didn't do what we were "naturally unable" to do, we would still be living in caves. There isn't anything "natural" about cars or corrective lenses, or supermarkets or even a reliable supply of food. Do you advocate abandoning these?
Further, the "natural way" of having children involves risk of death to the mother, almost guaranteed malnourishment for both mother and child, and the probability that the child will not live past the age of 5 (as figures from many third-world countries, and pre-Industrial Europe will attest). Should we all return to this state because it is how we're "naturally supposed to" live?
As legitimate a question as this Ask Slashdot is, and as worked up as people are getting, I can't help noticing the post date:
Tuesday April 01, @07:00AM
And other Ask Slashdot topics today, including "Why do some CDRs smell like Almonds?" and "How Much Are Tongues Worth?"
Perhaps the editors are trying to get back at us for our spelling and grammar skills by phrasing silly questions as legitimate avenues of inquiry and seeing what happens. Just a thought.
A lot of the comments I've been reading, and quotations from the article, demonstrate that the writer of the article doesn't really seem to "get it" about nuances of Free Software, etc. (or even basic stuff like Intel building chips "for" Linux).
But this is pretty typical BusinessWeek - the stories are consistently of a quick glance-over quality, rather than any sort of accurate and/or compelling analysis. If you pick up the print edition you will also notice LOTS of pretty pictures, which is true to the light-on-content feel of most of BW's articles.
Most businesspeople just read it for a quick glance at emerging issues - so the very existence of the article is a pretty important step, and exactly how accurate the content is is in comparison, for now, somewhat irrelevant.
Aren't many of these intended to look like error messages from Windows XP, etc. so that people click on them?
In this case, I'm surprised (well, not totally) Microsoft hasn't filed some sort of claim against them for copyright (or some such) infringement. Is look-and-feel copyrightable? Aren't they damaging Microsoft's brand image (by posting fraudulent "error messages"? Have there been cases of companies being sued for copying the look-and-feel of another brand?
I don't understand your objection.
It's not like you're "paying for the privilege of not having advertisements crammed down your throat." They're not just doing it to be assholes.
They're doing it because, otherwise, Slashdot "won't be around much longer," to quote CmdrTaco. As great as it would be to have an ad-free, no-pay site, that just doesn't appear to be within the realm of possibility.
I guess it makes sense that everyone's upset - now the Slashdot experience will be slightly more expensive (either time or money), which sucks. But I don't begrudge CmdrTaco, et al. for trying to continue making a living at what they love doing.
Justin
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Wow, that is much better. Fits with the meter and everything. Because when you think about it, why would it be a problem that he is "Romeo"? That has nothing to do with his family identity.
But what shall have to wait for another time is: what is the textual evidence for this? If it ain't Shakespeare, it ain't Shakespeare.
Yes, I do realize this will be modded Offtopic.
Justin
psuedo-intellectual
FYI, it's "pseudo-" not "psuedo-" (unless you really want to sound like a pseudo-intellectual)
Why would it be "whence"?
"Whence" = "from where" ("hence" = "from here"; "thence" = "from there")
"Whither" = "to where" ("hither" = "to here" e.g. "hither and yon" "all over the place"; "thither" = "to there")
Similar sound relationships between various correlatives occur in lots of languages, particularly Ancient Greek, Japanese (ko-so-a-do series), Gaelic, also mildly in German (if you push it).
Justin
Whew! Aren't trolls usually posted anonymously?
Justin
Ultimately, could Microsoft be blamed for these viruses?
I have an idea I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere: perhaps the virus writers should be blamed for these viruses.
Justin
Sadly, you have misspelled "official".
What a bizarre comment. There's no dichotomy here - I go to a top Ivy League University, am there for the intellectual enrichment, and am very much looking forward to being a full-time businessman (for which, frankly, I will also need said enrichment)
Justin
Why would you assume that? That's clearly not what I meant. Look carefully at the tone of my post, what exactly I'm satirizing, etc.
Justin
Michael,
Relax, buddy. "Why even have laws" (as dept.)? This decision is fundamentally about allowing a company to incorporate videoconferencing capabilities into its own software.
They're not dismantling your beloved welfare state just yet. Don't freak out on us. Although I suppose the whole purpose of having laws is to keep the evil corporations from eating our children, right? So perhaps your concern is justified.
Justin
Bicycling more "sustainable"? Haven't the environmentalists been trying to get us all to change to bicycles from cars supposedly because of the pollution that cars generate? And now not even bicycles are "sustainable" because they are "resource intensive"?
When does it end? Should I just stop using resources altogether (i.e. die?)
I won't post this anonymously precisely because I mean this quite seriously and not as a troll. Mod me down if you must.
Justin
How does this show that airport security is a joke? The only item that got through security without being inspected was the game timer. It is, after all, just a timer. Why would this be a breach in security?
A lot of posters seem to think they are very clever because they can come up with ideas for bypassing airport security. And some of them are right, especially since news organizations have done stories where they smuggled through actually dangerous materials. But show me a picture of you, on the plane, with actually dangerous stuff.
You wouldn't risk it? Perhaps deterrence is valuable, since if a terrorist is caught, it can lead to the downfall of a larger part of a terrorist organization. The strategy seems to be looking for minimal risk of being arrested, so the 9/11 hijackers brought boxcutters (which I believe were allowed on planes at the time), and Richard Reid hid the explosives in his shoes, where nobody thought to look (until flight attendants noticed him trying to light his shoelaces).
But it is true that no security strategy is likely to be 100% effective. Which is why we should address the causes of terrorism (by which I mean that we should continue to "end" states that sponsor it). The spread of individual rights and economic prosperity is the only way to ensure our security long-term.
Justin
Have you tried pressing the plus sign?
This will give you the other possibilities that the phone has in its dictionary.
Justin
Followed some of your links. Yikes! I thought we were past this.
Sorry I dignified your post with a response.
Justin
God damn progress. Increased personal productivity and satisfaction, knowledge about the universe (SETI@home), improvements in medical knowledge (Folding@home), development of technologies for the desktop that we could have only dreamed about 20 years ago, etc. etc., etc. It makes me so angry!
Faster chips make the environment I live in much better.
Where are you living?
Justin
Or if you are dying from cancer because you inherited a genetic defect predisposing you to it - don't try to save yourself. If you're "naturally" unable to destroy the tumor, maybe you're not supposed to live at all!
I don't mean to troll either. We should consider the issues, and your point about adoption is well-taken.
But your comment is a disturbing muddle. You say that "nature is nature" - what do you mean by this? You seem to imply, particularly with your use of "supposed to," that there is some entity "nature" prescribing rules for human beings to follow. And you further imply that it is our obligation to follow these "rules" (whatever those may be and whoever determines them).
But this is a strange type of nihilism/fatalism. If we didn't do what we were "naturally unable" to do, we would still be living in caves. There isn't anything "natural" about cars or corrective lenses, or supermarkets or even a reliable supply of food. Do you advocate abandoning these?
Further, the "natural way" of having children involves risk of death to the mother, almost guaranteed malnourishment for both mother and child, and the probability that the child will not live past the age of 5 (as figures from many third-world countries, and pre-Industrial Europe will attest). Should we all return to this state because it is how we're "naturally supposed to" live?
Justin
As legitimate a question as this Ask Slashdot is, and as worked up as people are getting, I can't help noticing the post date:
Tuesday April 01, @07:00AM
And other Ask Slashdot topics today, including "Why do some CDRs smell like Almonds?" and "How Much Are Tongues Worth?"
Perhaps the editors are trying to get back at us for our spelling and grammar skills by phrasing silly questions as legitimate avenues of inquiry and seeing what happens. Just a thought.
Justin
A lot of the comments I've been reading, and quotations from the article, demonstrate that the writer of the article doesn't really seem to "get it" about nuances of Free Software, etc. (or even basic stuff like Intel building chips "for" Linux).
But this is pretty typical BusinessWeek - the stories are consistently of a quick glance-over quality, rather than any sort of accurate and/or compelling analysis. If you pick up the print edition you will also notice LOTS of pretty pictures, which is true to the light-on-content feel of most of BW's articles.
Most businesspeople just read it for a quick glance at emerging issues - so the very existence of the article is a pretty important step, and exactly how accurate the content is is in comparison, for now, somewhat irrelevant.
Aren't many of these intended to look like error messages from Windows XP, etc. so that people click on them?
In this case, I'm surprised (well, not totally) Microsoft hasn't filed some sort of claim against them for copyright (or some such) infringement. Is look-and-feel copyrightable? Aren't they damaging Microsoft's brand image (by posting fraudulent "error messages"? Have there been cases of companies being sued for copying the look-and-feel of another brand?
Thanks,
Justin
I don't understand your objection. It's not like you're "paying for the privilege of not having advertisements crammed down your throat." They're not just doing it to be assholes. They're doing it because, otherwise, Slashdot "won't be around much longer," to quote CmdrTaco. As great as it would be to have an ad-free, no-pay site, that just doesn't appear to be within the realm of possibility. I guess it makes sense that everyone's upset - now the Slashdot experience will be slightly more expensive (either time or money), which sucks. But I don't begrudge CmdrTaco, et al. for trying to continue making a living at what they love doing. Justin