You'll have to chide the Congressional Research Service (that bunch of zealots!), which stated in its 44-page report:
"It appears unlikely that a court would hold that Congress has expressly or impliedly authorized the NSA electronic surveillance operations here," the authors of the CRS report wrote. The administration's legal justification "does not seem to be... well-grounded," they said. [WaPo Story]
Whaa? Rush didn't talk about this? Oh, wait, wait, don't tell me, you listen to Neal Boortz. He's the intellectual idiot's radio man.
First, you are correct in that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. However, considering the number of stories I've read about "grade grubbing," I'd think that students who have a legitimate beef would have no problem skewering a prof by his balls to get that minus taken of their A.
Your analysis of corporate strategy is spot-on, but college life is not the same. In the first place, students are the ones paying the bills (with the exception of research professors, whose grants help pay the bills). If you're a freshman in algebra for idiots, you don't have a lot to lose if your professor won't shut up about the rise of the new Right Fascist Party. If you're a grad student a few months from finishing your thesis, you probably have quite a bit more to lose if your major professor keeps needling you about being a Hitler Youth.
I don't think this guy's approach is meant to protect students and solve an as-yet-undemonstrated problem. I think it's meant to attack and intimidate people with contrary views, and I think his intent is malevolent. That's why I have a problem with it. He has a right to do it, the students certainly have a right to work with him, and I have a right to call him an asshole.
Well, there goes the stereotype of the "limousine liberal."
I worked for a trucking company, and I can guarantee you there wasn't a Democrat vote in the whole damned terminal. My co-workers weren't stupid, but they weren't highly educated and their principal source of (mis)information and news came from talk radio. In the run-up to the war, one old fart sighed "Yep, they're [skeptics/liberals/protestors] gonna give him enough time to get his weapons in the air," while another grinned and said "they don't want us going in there because I bet all them weapons are gonna have 'Made in France' stickers on 'em."
That's just one example of people who were making pretty decent bank and had no idea what they were talking about. Considering this was Southwest Missouri, where Babdist churches seem to sprout like volunteer corn and where you're not too far from the home of the Clampetts (really), it's not a stretch to extrapolate and say a significant percentage of the people voting Bush down there were 99 44/100% full of shit.
However, there is also a potential for rooting out the kind of profs who will harass and fail anyone who dares challenge the irrelevant political ideas that they preach about instead of staying on topic.
Don't most universities have a mechanism for this? As I recall, UCLA hasn't had any complaints of professors who have graded unfairly, which makes this look like a ham-handed solution in search of a problem.
IANAL, but I would think the copyright infringement comes into play through the financial transaction. Any lawyers who can tell us if there is a difference between simply offering a recording of a lecture and selling a recording of a lecture?
Sorry, I didn't read the same article; I was misquoting from memory of Richard Dawkins.
I think to say "there must be" isn't a logical jump. I can look at you and say you must have had grandparents, although I've certainly never met them. We know that there were creatures on earth hundreds of millions of years ago. We know some of them had pretty primitive eyes (trilobytes had rigid calcite lenses instead of soft lenses like ours). Making the observation that vision followed the same path of differentiation and specialization as other organs isn't that much of a stretch.
Not nearly of a stretch as a magical being who gets really pissed if you don't burn the right incense at the temple, IMHO.
Just like "part of an eye is useless," right? Bullshit. What about an organism that has one or two cells that turn up sensitive to light? Can you not imagine that a simple organism with the tiniest bit of distinction between light and dark has an advantage over a similar, but completely "sight"less organism?
Oh, and flying squirrels only have "part of a wing," and they use it to their advantage.
A nice secondary benefit from acquiring Opera would be all their mobile browsing tech. Am I wrong in thinking they make more dough from the mobile device stuff than the regular browser?
When you have people who don't really understand the technology, or have little experience with it, it doesn't get used.
By comparison, here's a representative college-years dialogue between me and most any girl "friend", who naturally considered me so non-threatening as to nearly be asexual:
Her: "Then we did 69 for like a half hour. Have you ever done that?" Me: "I have a pee pee."
Strict liability torts, which do not require a finding of intent or negligence, are primarily confined to ultrahazardous activities and product liability cases.
An activity is ultrahazardous if it is so inherently dangerous that even the highest degree of care will not eliminate the risk of harm. If someone is injured because of such activity, the defendant is liable regardless of the level of care he or she exercised.
I think the people looking at long-term trends, via ice core samples, would tell you that when the planet has a period of high atmospheric CO2 concentrations, bad things follow. We are in a period with high atmospheric CO2 levels.
I don't think you're being specific enough -- it's the House of Representatives that's meant to be closer to the will of the people. The Senate is meant as a counterweight to that tendency:
The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions. Examples on this subject might be cited without number; and from proceedings within the United States, as well as from the history of other nations. But a position that will not be contradicted, need not be proved. All that need be remarked is, that a body which is to correct this infirmity ought itself to be free from it, and consequently ought to be less numerous. It ought, moreover, to possess great firmness, and consequently ought to hold its authority by a tenure of considerable duration.
What we are seeing, ladies and gents, is a galactic Surinam Toad.
Exactly what the spawn were, and what has become of them, is the subject of fierce debate. But we can be sure of two things: We have always been at war with Oceania, and these creatures don't like waffles.
Oh sure, my friends said, just try a little LSD. All that stuff about flashbacks and going psycho is bullshit...
You think I'm afraid of that prospect? I would revel in it if I could believe it were true. If I were held to account for my life and my actions, I would have things I would be ashamed of, but I would not be ashamed of my beliefs (or lack of faith).
As Thomas Jefferson said, "Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear."
What he should have pointed out is that manned exploration of mars and a manned return to the moon is also a giant waste of resources. Why not do these unmanned, as we are having terrific success with our current unmanned missions?
Robots don't have psych problems, waste elimination problems, urinary tract infections, etc.
Yes, but not all of us are 14, with limitless free time. Some of us have full-time jobs with families that require our time outside our work, and we're looking for the most efficient path to learning, not mucking through gigabytes of documentation and a dizzying array of books.
I went to public school in a small town, and I have no complaints about the education I received.
The school doesn't have a lot of money for things like "modern textbooks" or "above-poverty salaries," but they do have small class sizes and teachers that know you and your parents, and actually give a damn whether you succeed or not.
True story: my high school principal called our Mom one day and told her what my brother had done (distributed profane newspaper accusing band teacher of sodomy). She told him to beat him with the paddle (1988 or 1989).
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I can't imagine they'd have anything too insightful to write in their blogs. Coooo, coooo.
Either way, their comments section will be FILLED with anti-science trolls.
You'll have to chide the Congressional Research Service (that bunch of zealots!), which stated in its 44-page report:
... well-grounded," they said. [WaPo Story]
"It appears unlikely that a court would hold that Congress has expressly or impliedly authorized the NSA electronic surveillance operations here," the authors of the CRS report wrote. The administration's legal justification "does not seem to be
Whaa? Rush didn't talk about this? Oh, wait, wait, don't tell me, you listen to Neal Boortz. He's the intellectual idiot's radio man.
First, you are correct in that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. However, considering the number of stories I've read about "grade grubbing," I'd think that students who have a legitimate beef would have no problem skewering a prof by his balls to get that minus taken of their A.
Your analysis of corporate strategy is spot-on, but college life is not the same. In the first place, students are the ones paying the bills (with the exception of research professors, whose grants help pay the bills). If you're a freshman in algebra for idiots, you don't have a lot to lose if your professor won't shut up about the rise of the new Right Fascist Party. If you're a grad student a few months from finishing your thesis, you probably have quite a bit more to lose if your major professor keeps needling you about being a Hitler Youth.
I don't think this guy's approach is meant to protect students and solve an as-yet-undemonstrated problem. I think it's meant to attack and intimidate people with contrary views, and I think his intent is malevolent. That's why I have a problem with it. He has a right to do it, the students certainly have a right to work with him, and I have a right to call him an asshole.
Well, there goes the stereotype of the "limousine liberal."
I worked for a trucking company, and I can guarantee you there wasn't a Democrat vote in the whole damned terminal. My co-workers weren't stupid, but they weren't highly educated and their principal source of (mis)information and news came from talk radio. In the run-up to the war, one old fart sighed "Yep, they're [skeptics/liberals/protestors] gonna give him enough time to get his weapons in the air," while another grinned and said "they don't want us going in there because I bet all them weapons are gonna have 'Made in France' stickers on 'em."
That's just one example of people who were making pretty decent bank and had no idea what they were talking about. Considering this was Southwest Missouri, where Babdist churches seem to sprout like volunteer corn and where you're not too far from the home of the Clampetts (really), it's not a stretch to extrapolate and say a significant percentage of the people voting Bush down there were 99 44/100% full of shit.
However, there is also a potential for rooting out the kind of profs who will harass and fail anyone who dares challenge the irrelevant political ideas that they preach about instead of staying on topic.
Don't most universities have a mechanism for this? As I recall, UCLA hasn't had any complaints of professors who have graded unfairly, which makes this look like a ham-handed solution in search of a problem.
IANAL, but I would think the copyright infringement comes into play through the financial transaction. Any lawyers who can tell us if there is a difference between simply offering a recording of a lecture and selling a recording of a lecture?
Sorry, I didn't read the same article; I was misquoting from memory of Richard Dawkins.
I think to say "there must be" isn't a logical jump. I can look at you and say you must have had grandparents, although I've certainly never met them. We know that there were creatures on earth hundreds of millions of years ago. We know some of them had pretty primitive eyes (trilobytes had rigid calcite lenses instead of soft lenses like ours). Making the observation that vision followed the same path of differentiation and specialization as other organs isn't that much of a stretch.
Not nearly of a stretch as a magical being who gets really pissed if you don't burn the right incense at the temple, IMHO.
Just like "part of an eye is useless," right? Bullshit. What about an organism that has one or two cells that turn up sensitive to light? Can you not imagine that a simple organism with the tiniest bit of distinction between light and dark has an advantage over a similar, but completely "sight"less organism?
Oh, and flying squirrels only have "part of a wing," and they use it to their advantage.
A nice secondary benefit from acquiring Opera would be all their mobile browsing tech. Am I wrong in thinking they make more dough from the mobile device stuff than the regular browser?
Study: 95% of VCR Owners Don't Use Recorder.
When you have people who don't really understand the technology, or have little experience with it, it doesn't get used.
By comparison, here's a representative college-years dialogue between me and most any girl "friend", who naturally considered me so non-threatening as to nearly be asexual:
Her: "Then we did 69 for like a half hour. Have you ever done that?"
Me: "I have a pee pee."
You're looking at these relationships the wrong way.
To a dog, you're family.
To a cat, you're staff.
You mean you were able to talk to him? I can't ever get into his office, except when he's out.
I think the people looking at long-term trends, via ice core samples, would tell you that when the planet has a period of high atmospheric CO2 concentrations, bad things follow. We are in a period with high atmospheric CO2 levels.
What we are seeing, ladies and gents, is a galactic Surinam Toad.
...
Exactly what the spawn were, and what has become of them, is the subject of fierce debate. But we can be sure of two things: We have always been at war with Oceania, and these creatures don't like waffles.
Oh sure, my friends said, just try a little LSD. All that stuff about flashbacks and going psycho is bullshit
You think I'm afraid of that prospect? I would revel in it if I could believe it were true. If I were held to account for my life and my actions, I would have things I would be ashamed of, but I would not be ashamed of my beliefs (or lack of faith).
As Thomas Jefferson said, "Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear."
Slashdot could benefit from fark's [Obvious] tag.
What he should have pointed out is that manned exploration of mars and a manned return to the moon is also a giant waste of resources. Why not do these unmanned, as we are having terrific success with our current unmanned missions?
Robots don't have psych problems, waste elimination problems, urinary tract infections, etc.
Yes, but not all of us are 14, with limitless free time. Some of us have full-time jobs with families that require our time outside our work, and we're looking for the most efficient path to learning, not mucking through gigabytes of documentation and a dizzying array of books.
I heard that the plans for the Saturn rockets are lost. A quick check, however, revealed that they are not.
I now have no reason for posting this message.
Nooo, sorry. It's Pussy Wagon. Pussy Wagon was the phrase we were looking for.
Beatrix Kiddo, you're still in control.
"I'll take 'Famous Japanese Weaponsmiths' for $1000."
After reading Sartak's reply to this, I believe Sartre said it best when he said "A.C., you just got effed in the a."
...how easy this test is for SCO employees:
Glib: check.
Grandiose: check.
Pathological liar: check.
And so on.
But will Olympus just rename itself Bob's Cameras for the duration, or what?
There are plenty of people clacking away on their wangs, but it has nothing whatever to do with this article.
I went to public school in a small town, and I have no complaints about the education I received.
The school doesn't have a lot of money for things like "modern textbooks" or "above-poverty salaries," but they do have small class sizes and teachers that know you and your parents, and actually give a damn whether you succeed or not.
True story: my high school principal called our Mom one day and told her what my brother had done (distributed profane newspaper accusing band teacher of sodomy). She told him to beat him with the paddle (1988 or 1989).