But that's a bad precident to set, where the majority arbitrarily decides what is and is not acceptable for society.
I'm not trying to frame this as an argument either for or against anything in particular, but I think that's exactly what a society is supposed to do. The bad precedents come about when small minorities decide what is or is not acceptable for everyone else.
This varies state-by-state. In my home state of Texas you are not allowed to carry a handgun in the open, but if you have your concealed handgun license (as I do) then you may carry one but it must not be visible through normal observation. You are technically allowed to have rifles and shotguns in the open, but I guarantee if a cop saw you walking down the street of a city with a shotgun or rifle, he'd ticket/arrest you for something. Inciting public unrest, or something like that.
Urban sprawl isn't just a Phoenix phenomenon. Everything you describe ('cept maybe the snowbird thing) is the same here in the Coruscant starter kit known as Dallas/Fort Worth and pretty much every large American city not named NYC.
I don't know that your assertion has any actual merit, but it's interesting to me nontheless since I was just visiting Mexico City last week and stood in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, where the Mexican military massacred an unknown number of students in 1968. The stone pavers in the plaza are still filled with the bullet holes. Some say thousands were killed, most agree on 200-400. The Mexican government says 4, with 20 wounded.
I've had my CouchSurfing profile for about a year and a half. I used it once to find a place to crash in Norway last year, and have had a couple of folks contact me while they were in Texas. There is a limited verification system involving a donation to the project with a credit card and verifying your address.
You see what you did there? You repeated the same damn misconception I was railing against and you tried to pass it off as a counterpoint.
You're obviously not talking about Computer Science. You're talking about applied trade skills. If a student wants to learn job-ready skills to get hired to do the things you listed, then s/he should not be in a program called Computer Science. And if an employer wants job-ready coders, admins, or whatever, then they shouldn't be looking at Computer Science graduates. Call it IT, or MIS, or whatever. Just don't co-opt the term Computer Science 'cause it was already taken long before the first transistor or IC was fabricated.
Computer Science is Pure Math in the spirit of Hardy and others who eschewed any practical application of their work. It's not something that should be held off for graduate studies. It's a whole damn different field of study. I'm a competent programmer and have been paid to do so in the past, I'm currently employed as a systems admin, but I consider myself a mathematician above the others because that's what I studied in school and that's where my interests lie.
I'm tired of {system-,network-,db-} administration, programming, and every other trade skill getting equated with Computer Science. CS is a branch of theoretical mathematics and has very little to do with anything you can sit in front of, type into, click on, or reboot. And I don't mean this as a (serious) troll. I just hate to see the term misused, much like engineers cringe when they hear the building maintenance staff referred to as 'engineers', as in "we'll have an engineer bring some buckets up to put under that leak in the roof."
From the 4th link: Investigators have also recovered books on how police investigate homicides, which were obtained by Hans Reiser a few days after his wife's Sept. 3 disappearance, the sources said.
Man, that's worse than looking up money laundering in a dictionary.
The individuals in the "greater mass" created those laws to protect themselves, not others. When it comes down to it, very few people give a rats ass about other individuals they are not closely related to. It's just that the best system of protecting yourself is to create laws that apply evenly to everyone.
But you're right about not replacing a life with a new life. That was just a dumb comment on your parent poster's part.
How is a common API going to reserve the differences in user interface? GNOME keeps things simple, a little too so for many users, why KDE is known for making more options available.
So how's that speech-recognition software test coming?
I don't know if this counters your point or not, but I remember when my university began selling MS products to students at $5 a disk ($5 for the OS, $10 or $15 for Office, etc.) and neither tuition nor fees were increased that semester or even the next.
"Straight facts" are straight facts, and "obvious bias" is obvious bias.
Here's my take:
The only bit of journalism that is just "straight facts" is the police blotter (in newspapers that still have one). Everything else is written by someone who chooses words and phrases to evoke specific emotions and color the facts with their own bias. That doesn't necessarily imply the intent to deceive or spin or otherwise brainwash the reader. It's just a natural result of a writer conveying information to a reader.
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I'm not trying to frame this as an argument either for or against anything in particular, but I think that's exactly what a society is supposed to do. The bad precedents come about when small minorities decide what is or is not acceptable for everyone else.
Another cat?
This varies state-by-state. In my home state of Texas you are not allowed to carry a handgun in the open, but if you have your concealed handgun license (as I do) then you may carry one but it must not be visible through normal observation. You are technically allowed to have rifles and shotguns in the open, but I guarantee if a cop saw you walking down the street of a city with a shotgun or rifle, he'd ticket/arrest you for something. Inciting public unrest, or something like that.
Me: I like to keep my email bytes uniformly sized. It makes them flow through the tubes much more smoothly and prevents clogging.
Government: But it's unintelligble noise, suspiciously like untaxed VOIP calls to Osama.
Me: Ummm....and it prevents kiddy porn too.
Government: Well in that case, someone ought to sponsor a bill right away. Good work, citizen.
Urban sprawl isn't just a Phoenix phenomenon. Everything you describe ('cept maybe the snowbird thing) is the same here in the Coruscant starter kit known as Dallas/Fort Worth and pretty much every large American city not named NYC.
I was interested in your website, being that I'm from Fort Worth, but it doesn't seem to be valid.
I don't know that your assertion has any actual merit, but it's interesting to me nontheless since I was just visiting Mexico City last week and stood in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, where the Mexican military massacred an unknown number of students in 1968. The stone pavers in the plaza are still filled with the bullet holes. Some say thousands were killed, most agree on 200-400. The Mexican government says 4, with 20 wounded.
Just thought I'd share.
I've had my CouchSurfing profile for about a year and a half. I used it once to find a place to crash in Norway last year, and have had a couple of folks contact me while they were in Texas. There is a limited verification system involving a donation to the project with a credit card and verifying your address.
You see what you did there? You repeated the same damn misconception I was railing against and you tried to pass it off as a counterpoint.
You're obviously not talking about Computer Science. You're talking about applied trade skills. If a student wants to learn job-ready skills to get hired to do the things you listed, then s/he should not be in a program called Computer Science. And if an employer wants job-ready coders, admins, or whatever, then they shouldn't be looking at Computer Science graduates. Call it IT, or MIS, or whatever. Just don't co-opt the term Computer Science 'cause it was already taken long before the first transistor or IC was fabricated.
Computer Science is Pure Math in the spirit of Hardy and others who eschewed any practical application of their work. It's not something that should be held off for graduate studies. It's a whole damn different field of study. I'm a competent programmer and have been paid to do so in the past, I'm currently employed as a systems admin, but I consider myself a mathematician above the others because that's what I studied in school and that's where my interests lie.
I'm tired of {system-,network-,db-} administration, programming, and every other trade skill getting equated with Computer Science. CS is a branch of theoretical mathematics and has very little to do with anything you can sit in front of, type into, click on, or reboot. And I don't mean this as a (serious) troll. I just hate to see the term misused, much like engineers cringe when they hear the building maintenance staff referred to as 'engineers', as in "we'll have an engineer bring some buckets up to put under that leak in the roof."
/End of Friendly Math Snob Rant
You're not very good at the hypothetical game. :)
Hell, even those pieces of legislation had sunset clauses. Our honorable leaders had enough balls to drop the facade of "temporary wartime measures".
Not to get picky ... but you should have written "drives my brother and me mad". Since we're picking apart the details. HAND.
Can anyone point me to some resources for me to learn more about quantum computing and especially quantum computational theory and algorithms?
I am the walrus.
Just get it implanted in your forehead and stick your face on the reader. Might have to remove that silly-looking tuque first, though. :)
From the 4th link:
Investigators have also recovered books on how police investigate homicides, which were obtained by Hans Reiser a few days after his wife's Sept. 3 disappearance, the sources said.
Man, that's worse than looking up money laundering in a dictionary.
The individuals in the "greater mass" created those laws to protect themselves, not others. When it comes down to it, very few people give a rats ass about other individuals they are not closely related to. It's just that the best system of protecting yourself is to create laws that apply evenly to everyone. But you're right about not replacing a life with a new life. That was just a dumb comment on your parent poster's part.
How is a common API going to reserve the differences in user interface? GNOME keeps things simple, a little too so for many users, why KDE is known for making more options available.
So how's that speech-recognition software test coming?
I don't know if this counters your point or not, but I remember when my university began selling MS products to students at $5 a disk ($5 for the OS, $10 or $15 for Office, etc.) and neither tuition nor fees were increased that semester or even the next.
If Spamhaus is not liked here, have the US build a huge firewall around the country to "protect" itself.
I think that bill has already been introduced into the Senate.
I had a friend with a PHPBB site that got shot to all hell when some cracker came along and defaced it.
Why you gotta get all racial about it?
Must have been all that piracy.
"Straight facts" are straight facts, and "obvious bias" is obvious bias.
Here's my take:
The only bit of journalism that is just "straight facts" is the police blotter (in newspapers that still have one). Everything else is written by someone who chooses words and phrases to evoke specific emotions and color the facts with their own bias. That doesn't necessarily imply the intent to deceive or spin or otherwise brainwash the reader. It's just a natural result of a writer conveying information to a reader.
They just don't make genuine breakthroughs like they used to.