Anyone remember the Republican campaign worker who carved a backwards B into her face and blamed it on an Obama supporter?
Fixed that for you.
I find it heartening that the freepers are so quick to dismiss this story. Perhaps they will recognize that they are identifying with the enemies of democracy in Iran, and the cognitive dissonance will result in personal growth.
I hate the ACLU with a passion, however and as in this case, they have their uses.
This is why I give money to the NRA. People like this guy are the first to form a mob when some demagogue starts telling them to go after a scapegoat. I hope if anything good is to come out of the recent wash of right-wing terrorism, it is convincing liberals of the danger of these kooks and the necessity of the second amendment to keep them in line.
The official histories were rewritten and now Republicans have ALWAYS been racists and Democrats have ALWAYS been the enlightened folk. But it ain't so.
The Drake equation is exact, but we have no idea how large a few of the factors are, so the true probability is anyone's guess, really. Your co-worker is guilty of guessing, but you and the people who have modded you up are guilty of being morons.
Of course, your checkmate preyed more on your co-worker's gross under-exaggeration rather than his real argument.
Yeah, seriously. Less than four hundred planets are known to exist, and at least one has life. I've met thousands of people, and none of them have won the lottery. Obviously life is more common.
Well, it does interfere with professional astronomy. Many observatories have closed or been relocated due to light pollution. Governments have instituted dark sky preserves to protect the value of observatories and national parks.
Android did it first with Street View. There is nothing unique about the iPhone in this regard, every mobile computer with a camera and a network connection is a viable platform.
And the idea itself is twenty years old. Why does fanboy drivel like this get posted?
Being smarter than the vast majority of the population does not mean you have, or ever will, accomplish anything. Better the kid learn humility and challenge himself than become the kind of person who whines about political correctness on the Internet.
We can't really encapsulate the resources without jumping through hoops.
Those hoops are the same hoops you're jumping through with destructors on C++. It only looks more elegant because the complexity has all been pushed into ensuring that all objects are properly destroyed when they need to be. You're doing the exact same thing using the dispose pattern in a GC'ed language, only it feels difficult because you're normally reliant on the collector, but there is a distinction between "resources" and "objects".
Because people are really hankerin' for some DRM, slow displays, and proprietary data networks. Remove all that, and all you have is a Kindle-like device with a thin screen that can show text, and maybe even pictures, as if it were a web browser! Who the fuck uses a web browser?
It is more about you being awestruck by "simple" questions like why are we here, what is my purpose here if I have any at all, where did we come from, where are we going, etc.
Awe is an emotion, it is not knowledge.
And if awe doesn't lead you to seek knowledge, but instead leads you to constantly reproduce the experience in church or meditation, then you're no different than a crack addict, masturbating your brain with endorphins.
How does one be laughably ignorant of a pursuit which is itself laughable?
And you are confusing complexity with rigor. It isn't that the "soft" sciences aren't complex, it is that the subject matter is so complex it leaves the practitioners grasping at straws. That leaves a lot of room for the incompetently confident, so the fields are dominated by people who divorce their theories from physical reality and reduce everything to an ideology.
Seriously. It has worked well for the XBox and games like Rock Band. Since Apple is so insistent on making their phone a console, it makes sense that they would promote the same revenue model.
Of course, buying games by the level is as stupid as buying only the "hit" songs on an album. It's a good way to promote fluff while leaving the long, complex, rewarding gems lost in the sales rankings. I don't look forward to seeing the new wave of fart applications, now with downloadable sound effects.
As someone who's first MMO was Pre-CU (as in pre SOE destruction) Star Wars Galaxies and who has played EVE for the last 2 years, I have to say I am GLAD the typical WOW player doesn't play my game
Ah, EVE Online, the griefer game so boring that out-of-band drama is the primary game mechanic, and someone has to steal from a guild bank to make it interesting.
But I have nothing against EVE. It's existence has greatly reduced the number of ninjas and gold-beggers in WoW.
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge presiding over cases on the violation of civil rights by discrimination based on race or sex] than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
If you're going to insert your own words into a quotation, insert the proper context.
Why should I, as a tax payer, who has never owned a GM product, be required to prop up GM? Give me ONE reason?
For the same reason we subsidize grain - there is a tremendous national security advantage to being self-sufficient. We can't lose our industrial capacity any more than we can lose our ability to feed ourselves, or we risk becoming dependent on nations we might war against.
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If people care so much about freedom, why don't they stop using it?
Maybe they want others to stop using it as well? That's kind of the point of a boycott, fanboy.
Anyone remember the Republican campaign worker who carved a backwards B into her face and blamed it on an Obama supporter?
Fixed that for you.
I find it heartening that the freepers are so quick to dismiss this story. Perhaps they will recognize that they are identifying with the enemies of democracy in Iran, and the cognitive dissonance will result in personal growth.
I hate the ACLU with a passion, however and as in this case, they have their uses.
This is why I give money to the NRA. People like this guy are the first to form a mob when some demagogue starts telling them to go after a scapegoat. I hope if anything good is to come out of the recent wash of right-wing terrorism, it is convincing liberals of the danger of these kooks and the necessity of the second amendment to keep them in line.
The official histories were rewritten and now Republicans have ALWAYS been racists and Democrats have ALWAYS been the enlightened folk. But it ain't so.
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I have to reiterate this again and again.
Hmm... redundant loops. Perhaps the problem isn't the language, but your code?
You think public utilities are more obnoxious and bureaucratic than the cable or phone company?
Are you ignorant, or just toeing some sort of market fundamentalist party line?
The Drake equation is exact, but we have no idea how large a few of the factors are, so the true probability is anyone's guess, really. Your co-worker is guilty of guessing, but you and the people who have modded you up are guilty of being morons.
*snicker*
Of course, your checkmate preyed more on your co-worker's gross under-exaggeration rather than his real argument.
Yeah, seriously. Less than four hundred planets are known to exist, and at least one has life. I've met thousands of people, and none of them have won the lottery. Obviously life is more common.
Well, it does interfere with professional astronomy. Many observatories have closed or been relocated due to light pollution. Governments have instituted dark sky preserves to protect the value of observatories and national parks.
I particularly liked how they introduced third-party peripheral support, something other PDAs had over a decade ago, and all the demos failed.
You have a gift with words. It's almost like we can see the spittle on your monitor!
Android did it first with Street View. There is nothing unique about the iPhone in this regard, every mobile computer with a camera and a network connection is a viable platform.
And the idea itself is twenty years old. Why does fanboy drivel like this get posted?
Being smarter than the vast majority of the population does not mean you have, or ever will, accomplish anything. Better the kid learn humility and challenge himself than become the kind of person who whines about political correctness on the Internet.
Not trolling, not flaming, just asking.
If that is the case, why is your next paragraph a bunch of retarded wharrgarbl?
We can't really encapsulate the resources without jumping through hoops.
Those hoops are the same hoops you're jumping through with destructors on C++. It only looks more elegant because the complexity has all been pushed into ensuring that all objects are properly destroyed when they need to be. You're doing the exact same thing using the dispose pattern in a GC'ed language, only it feels difficult because you're normally reliant on the collector, but there is a distinction between "resources" and "objects".
Ref-counted Objective-C does not do automatic cycle detection. Garbage collected Objective-C is not based on reference counting.
Because people are really hankerin' for some DRM, slow displays, and proprietary data networks. Remove all that, and all you have is a Kindle-like device with a thin screen that can show text, and maybe even pictures, as if it were a web browser! Who the fuck uses a web browser?
I don't see what is compelling or really even interesting about this product. A netbook for the same money is a far more capable device.
WiFi? Larger screen than an iPhone? Lame.
These questions don't go away just because there's no divinity involved
Meditate upon this statement and perhaps you will be enlightened as to why no one need bother themselves with theology.
It is more about you being awestruck by "simple" questions like why are we here, what is my purpose here if I have any at all, where did we come from, where are we going, etc.
Awe is an emotion, it is not knowledge.
And if awe doesn't lead you to seek knowledge, but instead leads you to constantly reproduce the experience in church or meditation, then you're no different than a crack addict, masturbating your brain with endorphins.
How does one be laughably ignorant of a pursuit which is itself laughable?
And you are confusing complexity with rigor. It isn't that the "soft" sciences aren't complex, it is that the subject matter is so complex it leaves the practitioners grasping at straws. That leaves a lot of room for the incompetently confident, so the fields are dominated by people who divorce their theories from physical reality and reduce everything to an ideology.
Seriously. It has worked well for the XBox and games like Rock Band. Since Apple is so insistent on making their phone a console, it makes sense that they would promote the same revenue model.
Of course, buying games by the level is as stupid as buying only the "hit" songs on an album. It's a good way to promote fluff while leaving the long, complex, rewarding gems lost in the sales rankings. I don't look forward to seeing the new wave of fart applications, now with downloadable sound effects.
As someone who's first MMO was Pre-CU (as in pre SOE destruction) Star Wars Galaxies and who has played EVE for the last 2 years, I have to say I am GLAD the typical WOW player doesn't play my game
Ah, EVE Online, the griefer game so boring that out-of-band drama is the primary game mechanic, and someone has to steal from a guild bank to make it interesting.
But I have nothing against EVE. It's existence has greatly reduced the number of ninjas and gold-beggers in WoW.
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge presiding over cases on the violation of civil rights by discrimination based on race or sex] than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
If you're going to insert your own words into a quotation, insert the proper context.
Why should I, as a tax payer, who has never owned a GM product, be required to prop up GM? Give me ONE reason?
For the same reason we subsidize grain - there is a tremendous national security advantage to being self-sufficient. We can't lose our industrial capacity any more than we can lose our ability to feed ourselves, or we risk becoming dependent on nations we might war against.