This is getting a little offtopic but I couldn't help but reply...
This explains why the superior writing and speaking abilities I developed in seminar during my BA Political Science moved me ahead of my comparatively inarticulate peers during and after my BSCS. Jesus, if you're just looking for a trade, try ITT.
Err...I just said that... "How you write is more important than what you write."
The teachers thought the papers were good because they sounded good. They weren't insightful, they weren't well researched, they just had a good vocabulary interspersed with clever turns of phrase. One teacher, started to make a list of "Joeyisms."
Not to sound like this is all about me and my ego (too late?) but I had an assignment back in 11th grade history to write a "letter" from a soldier in the trenches in WWI that would be found years later. I couldn't think of what to write so I went cliche and did a love letter. I didn't think much of it, and about a month or two later, the teacher said that it was wonderful, and she showed it to other teachers in the dept who not only agreed but passed it around while crying. I wish I remembered what I wrote.
Anyway, I agree completely that being able to speak and, perhaps more importantly, write well will propel you ahead of those that can't even if they have better technical skills.
Especially since in high school kids do not have access to cliff notes or spark notes;)
Back then, I read only books of interest to me (Ender's Game) not those that did not (The Scarlet Letter). English teacher's are well meaning but are fairly easy to fool. The first thing you do in writing a paper is say that the book epitomizes the prevailing thought of the time or represented "fill-in-the-blank" during a transitional period in "country-it-was-written-in" I also found comparing any classic book to "The Great Gatsby" was effective.
Then throw in buzz phrases like "paradigm shift", "curious amalgam", etc. and you have got yourself an A paper.
We had to write a paper on a song by Bessie Smith. 2 hours later, I composed the entire paper without doing more than a google search worth of "research."
Not only did I get an A, the teacher suggested that I join the humanities because I "got it".
It shows that how you write is more important than what you write
Howard Dean still supports the federal government expansion of social programs. But your point is made, there are democrats that match that description, but I would argue there are more on the Right than on the Left.
The reason Libertarians are more "attached" to Republicans is that there are several fiscally-conservative-socially-liberal members of the GOP.
That more or less describes me.
There are only a couple of ProLife democrats, one tried to speak (PA govenor, I think?) at the 1996 DNC convention, and all hell broke loose among the delegates.
Also, I feel like I can vote Republican because I don't believe anything will change on the social issues anyway, and, they aren't nearly as important to me:)
The correlation is based on earnings and it always has been. I know you are thinking "The earnings have been great, over the past few months why the slump" The answer is because it is only a few months, we went 2-3 years with stocks like Bank of America have forward multiples of 28. Eventually it came crashing down, and just like that, I bet we see a pretty good spike once the election is settled if for no other reason than the emphasis on a Spanish style terrorist attack will be muted.
Stocks are a predictor of the future, when the future is not clear, neither is a stock trend.
249004 Importing false CA certificate leading to error -8182 (pe...
# False certificates aren't really an exploit
250906 null (%00) in filename fakes extension (ftp, file)
# fake extense aren't exploits
251381 new libpng buffer overflow vulnerabilities
# okay that is an exploit
253121 lock icon and certificates spoofable with onunload docume...
# that is not an exploit either
I think they should be more like bugs. I think Mozilla is just trying to play it safe. Ironically by them "being up front" they may end up driving people away from the browser...
The football program funds other programs. The computer club that I was the president of in High School (Future Technology Professionals) got money as a result of sport attendance. No one comes to see us play half life, they come to see us get beaten really badly in football.
It certainly is, but she knows that at some point in the future her books will enter the public domain. At the time of her writing it was 50 years if I understand the article correctly. She reasons that it is worthwhile to pen novels even though she can only be protected for 50 years. Why? Because she will make nearly all the money she is going to make in 2 - 3 years.
If the music companies had to pay a substantial fee (that fee could be as little as $1 dollar per song) they would not extend most of their copyrights. That want it to be free so that if there is a interest in a song, one they currently can't justify protecting, down the road they can capitalize off of it. What they don't realize (or maybe they do) is that the copyright status will prevent the potential renaissance they are trying to capitalize on.
A good example of this is "It's a Wonderful Life!" This movie dropped into the public domain because there was no interest in extending it. People rediscovered a movie they had forgotten about. Then someone discovered that the music was still protected, the rights to the music was purchased, and now it is back under copyright protection.
Had it not gone into the public domain, no one would have ever heard of it. I wonder what other movies are great that came out recently that won't have the chance to be rediscovered ("Frequency" would be one of my picks) because of the artificial rules on distribution...
Hopefully, enough songs fall into the public domain that it will be seen as too late.
I don't know man, I am an investor (one who hold Nokia) and I got in about the 14 dollars and then about 12 dollars. It has no debt, tons of cash, and a ~3% dividend. There is no reason why this company can be at the helm of innovation once again. They have some bitchin stuff, the Ngage QD is cool as hell, they are making phones that are meant to leverage text messages with a BlackBerry-like Qwerty keyboard and MP3players/phones etc..
The fact that they recognize they are not providing the what some customers want.
I don't know man, I am an investor (one who hold Nokia) and I got in about the 14 dollars and then about 12 dollars. It has no debt, tons of cash, and a ~3% dividend. There is no reason why this company can be at the helm of innovation once again. The Ngage QD is cool as hell, they are making phones that are meant to leverage text messages with a BlackBerry-like Qwerty keyboard...
I don't know, have you seen some of the beer people are drinking these days? Michelob Ultra? What the hell is that? If you are going to drink beer, drink beer. If you are going to drink water, drink water. If you are going to drink beer flavored water then drink Michelob-Freaking-Ultra.
I travelled in France and I must say, I totally disagree with your statement.
Just before landing in Lyon, a French couple, asked me if I spoke French, I said No in a way that was to say "No I'm sorry, I wish I could help you but I do not speak your language"
When I asked if people spoke English (in French!) they responded like I asked how much their mother was for the night.
I spoke Spanish more often in France, than English. In fact, I actually told people I was from Spain, so they would be more likely to speak English. Turns out they were only slightly less rude.
I get people asking me if I speak Spanish infrequently but it does happen. I then try to speak what little I can, it is called common freakin courtesy, something the French have no concept of...
I'll give you that Americans are assholes when they travel to Europe. Hell, most people are assholes in foreign countries (::cough:: Brazilian Tour groups at themeparks). I never got that attitude in the following countries: Norway, Holland, Switzerland, Germany. Norwegians bentover backwards to be helpful to the point that I decided to learn to speak a little Norsk once I got back:)
Despite howls of scorn from the Right to the tune of "get over it," there is ample evidence that Gore won the popular vote in Florida, too. Of course, the idiotic Gore campaign was so lame it couldn't even win Tennessee. However, the Bush administration should wear a scarlett A for its voting adultery in Florida in 2000.
All the evidence I have seen is that Bush won the popular vote in Florida. EVERY recount, official (there were at least 2) and unofficial by the NYT (at least 1), Bush came out ahead by a very small amount.
Skole that you are referring to is also Norwegian (or Danish but means the same in both languages). It means "Cheers!" or more literally "Skull" from back when vikings would toast successful pillaging by drinking beer out of the vanquished's skulls.
You go to Norway or Denmark now and you stare in disbelief that these people who are so nice and polite were doing that sort of thing a few hundred years ago.
Freedom of speech is already abridged. Trying running around screaming that you are going to kill several prominent members of Congress. How long do you think that will last?
Just playing devil's advocate, I think that copy protection falls inside the bounds of free speech.
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Err...I just said that... "How you write is more important than what you write."
The teachers thought the papers were good because they sounded good. They weren't insightful, they weren't well researched, they just had a good vocabulary interspersed with clever turns of phrase. One teacher, started to make a list of "Joeyisms."
Not to sound like this is all about me and my ego (too late?) but I had an assignment back in 11th grade history to write a "letter" from a soldier in the trenches in WWI that would be found years later. I couldn't think of what to write so I went cliche and did a love letter. I didn't think much of it, and about a month or two later, the teacher said that it was wonderful, and she showed it to other teachers in the dept who not only agreed but passed it around while crying. I wish I remembered what I wrote.
Anyway, I agree completely that being able to speak and, perhaps more importantly, write well will propel you ahead of those that can't even if they have better technical skills.
--Joey
Especially since in high school kids do not have access to cliff notes or spark notes ;)
Back then, I read only books of interest to me (Ender's Game) not those that did not (The Scarlet Letter). English teacher's are well meaning but are fairly easy to fool. The first thing you do in writing a paper is say that the book epitomizes the prevailing thought of the time or represented "fill-in-the-blank" during a transitional period in "country-it-was-written-in"
I also found comparing any classic book to "The Great Gatsby" was effective.
Then throw in buzz phrases like "paradigm shift", "curious amalgam", etc. and you have got yourself an A paper.
We had to write a paper on a song by Bessie Smith. 2 hours later, I composed the entire paper without doing more than a google search worth of "research."
Not only did I get an A, the teacher suggested that I join the humanities because I "got it".
It shows that how you write is more important than what you write
Boo humanities, yay engineering!
--Joey
Number 1 is the right answer with 4 being really cool.
That's Communism for ya...
Before I get 8 replies saying, "Oh yeah? Look at China" China is transitioning to a free market economy.
As a complete aside, I found Australia surprisingly dark! I didn't realize how strong the coastal population concentrations were!
--Joey
That doesn't surprise me. I find Russians have similar accents to Norwegians (when they have them) in English.
--Joey
Howard Dean still supports the federal government expansion of social programs. But your point is made, there are democrats that match that description, but I would argue there are more on the Right than on the Left.
--Joey
The reason Libertarians are more "attached" to Republicans is that there are several fiscally-conservative-socially-liberal members of the GOP.
:)
That more or less describes me.
There are only a couple of ProLife democrats, one tried to speak (PA govenor, I think?) at the 1996 DNC convention, and all hell broke loose among the delegates.
Also, I feel like I can vote Republican because I don't believe anything will change on the social issues anyway, and, they aren't nearly as important to me
--Joey
The correlation is based on earnings and it always has been. I know you are thinking "The earnings have been great, over the past few months why the slump" The answer is because it is only a few months, we went 2-3 years with stocks like Bank of America have forward multiples of 28. Eventually it came crashing down, and just like that, I bet we see a pretty good spike once the election is settled if for no other reason than the emphasis on a Spanish style terrorist attack will be muted.
Stocks are a predictor of the future, when the future is not clear, neither is a stock trend.
--Joey
249004 Importing false CA certificate leading to error -8182 (pe...
# False certificates aren't really an exploit
250906 null (%00) in filename fakes extension (ftp, file)
# fake extense aren't exploits
251381 new libpng buffer overflow vulnerabilities
# okay that is an exploit
253121 lock icon and certificates spoofable with onunload docume...
# that is not an exploit either
I think they should be more like bugs. I think Mozilla is just trying to play it safe. Ironically by them "being up front" they may end up driving people away from the browser...
--Joey
The football program funds other programs. The computer club that I was the president of in High School (Future Technology Professionals) got money as a result of sport attendance. No one comes to see us play half life, they come to see us get beaten really badly in football.
--Joey
It certainly is, but she knows that at some point in the future her books will enter the public domain. At the time of her writing it was 50 years if I understand the article correctly. She reasons that it is worthwhile to pen novels even though she can only be protected for 50 years. Why? Because she will make nearly all the money she is going to make in 2 - 3 years.
If the music companies had to pay a substantial fee (that fee could be as little as $1 dollar per song) they would not extend most of their copyrights. That want it to be free so that if there is a interest in a song, one they currently can't justify protecting, down the road they can capitalize off of it. What they don't realize (or maybe they do) is that the copyright status will prevent the potential renaissance they are trying to capitalize on.
A good example of this is "It's a Wonderful Life!" This movie dropped into the public domain because there was no interest in extending it. People rediscovered a movie they had forgotten about. Then someone discovered that the music was still protected, the rights to the music was purchased, and now it is back under copyright protection.
Had it not gone into the public domain, no one would have ever heard of it. I wonder what other movies are great that came out recently that won't have the chance to be rediscovered ("Frequency" would be one of my picks) because of the artificial rules on distribution...
Hopefully, enough songs fall into the public domain that it will be seen as too late.
--Joey
Whoops my last message got sent off to quickly
I don't know man, I am an investor (one who hold Nokia) and I got in about the 14 dollars and then about 12 dollars. It has no debt, tons of cash, and a ~3% dividend. There is no reason why this company can be at the helm of innovation once again. They have some bitchin stuff, the Ngage QD is cool as hell, they are making phones that are meant to leverage text messages with a BlackBerry-like Qwerty keyboard and MP3players/phones etc..
The fact that they recognize they are not providing the what some customers want.
--Joey
I don't know man, I am an investor (one who hold Nokia) and I got in about the 14 dollars and then about 12 dollars. It has no debt, tons of cash, and a ~3% dividend. There is no reason why this company can be at the helm of innovation once again. The Ngage QD is cool as hell, they are making phones that are meant to leverage text messages with a BlackBerry-like Qwerty keyboard...
--Joey
I don't know, have you seen some of the beer people are drinking these days? Michelob Ultra? What the hell is that? If you are going to drink beer, drink beer. If you are going to drink water, drink water. If you are going to drink beer flavored water then drink Michelob-Freaking-Ultra.
:)
Oh fwiw, I use Mozilla exclusively now
--Joey
I travelled in France and I must say, I totally disagree with your statement.
:)
Just before landing in Lyon, a French couple, asked me if I spoke French, I said No in a way that was to say "No I'm sorry, I wish I could help you but I do not speak your language"
When I asked if people spoke English (in French!) they responded like I asked how much their mother was for the night.
I spoke Spanish more often in France, than English. In fact, I actually told people I was from Spain, so they would be more likely to speak English. Turns out they were only slightly less rude.
I get people asking me if I speak Spanish infrequently but it does happen. I then try to speak what little I can, it is called common freakin courtesy, something the French have no concept of...
I'll give you that Americans are assholes when they travel to Europe. Hell, most people are assholes in foreign countries (::cough:: Brazilian Tour groups at themeparks). I never got that attitude in the following countries: Norway, Holland, Switzerland, Germany. Norwegians bentover backwards to be helpful to the point that I decided to learn to speak a little Norsk once I got back
You have to remember when someone is trying to make a point, you can't afford to let facts or logic get in the way of your writing.
There are no way 5 people per family on average are viewing Spiderman 2, as there are not 5 people per family on average.
--Joey
there is a certain providence in the rise of a sparrow.
--Joey
Actually it was in prelude to foundation. Good book and interesting twist I must say. I didn't know it going in so it was pretty shocking.
--Joey
Jeg vet hvordan aa uttale skole: some "SKO-Leh" ikke sant?
Selfoelgig det er hvordan jeg uttale det med englesk.
Vi snakkes,
--Joey
I know you pronounce it "Skaal", the guy above me wrote it like that :)
--Joey
Skole that you are referring to is also Norwegian (or Danish but means the same in both languages). It means "Cheers!" or more literally "Skull" from back when vikings would toast successful pillaging by drinking beer out of the vanquished's skulls.
You go to Norway or Denmark now and you stare in disbelief that these people who are so nice and polite were doing that sort of thing a few hundred years ago.
Anyway, linux..earlier => better
--Joey
Freedom of speech is already abridged. Trying running around screaming that you are going to kill several prominent members of Congress. How long do you think that will last?
Just playing devil's advocate, I think that copy protection falls inside the bounds of free speech.
--Joey
Yeah it is! I am using this at work and have no problems. This will be the only linux distro I ever use.
--Joey
That was great!! I am crying from that!
--Joey
No, because Fat Bastard ate meat in Austin Powers 2. Minimo's a vegetarian...no, wait, that's marymo.
--Joey