...this distinction is one of the first covered in law school. The U.S., being a common law country (in general), deals with precedence.
Important note: Louisiana is a civil law state, NOT a common law state, because of their French heritage.
And while the nature of France as an "evolved" country is certainly debatable (and quite possibly laughable), it is necessary to remind readers of this (slashdot.org). It is difficult to take seriously an argument that advances French handling of technological issues, when we so recently had to deal with them insisting that Yahoo! could and WOULD block all French access to certain auctions.
...I look forward to the day when such technology is used to put professional athletes out of work. Instead, 2 or more geeks will simply play a REALLY intricate game, and it'll be broadcast on TV.:)
But ever hear of the Colorado river? Starts in (surprise) Colorado. Used to run out to the Pacific. Now, is used up pretty much in its entirety en route, both for fresh water & electricity. So, when you secede, better invade a few states, so as to avoid having them cut off your water....
Then again, there HAVE been a large number of CA people moving to CO in the last couple of years. OMG!! The invasion has already started!!!
...posting no more Mir stories, once it dropped.;)
It's things like this that help to remind us that the space program is FUN! Russians on the CB, Mars Explorers that should appear on Battlebots.... Good stuff.
One engineer I work with was fed
up with his law firm not letting him work on technology cases like he wanted, so he became an engineer. With a bit more
school, I have no doubt I could do the reverse.
That's exactly what I'm doing; taking my still-damp BS in Comp. Sci, and going to law school. And I get some really funny looks, everytime someone hears about it....
You don't throw it away...
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As someone above already pointed out, it's PAPER. So, when you're done with it, you use it to start a fire. Security hole closed.:)
Hmm.... I wonder if that works for Windows.... Time to go find my old CD-ROMs, and some lighter fluid.
The story, I'm afraid, was completely useless. "This proves evolution!" they say. "These discoveries are the end of the argument!" they trumpet. But the story doesn't really explain HOW this result marks the end of creationism. Anyone seen a good scientific paper on this yet, or must we wait until they get published? Before alienating millions of fundamentalist Christians, it'd be nice to have the facts....
I couldn't help but think of the Reverend's wife on the Simpsons while reading this: "Think of the children! Oh won't somebody please think of the children!"
*sigh* Movies and culture?
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Well, I saw this movie. And I enjoyed this movie. It was all I would hope for, given how little I'd heard about it, and how little I paid to see it. Bottom line: it entertained me.
What I found MOST amusing was the obvious product placement of anti-MS people: the afore-mentioned GNOME is obvious, but did how could you miss the prominent placement of Sun logos at times? Or how about the more subtle Handspring Visor on the main character's desk? These are companies I can see spending bucks on an anti-MS propaganda flick. It's the little things that make movies worth seeing....
Whoa, there pardner. If these assholes can come up with the hundreds of thousands of dollars it requires to campaign to put their
butts in office, they can certainly scrape up enough to live comfortably.
The catch is this: what if we're dealing with HONEST politicians? I.e. their campaign funds are all legally raised, and they don't skim off the top for themselves, but actually USE said monies for campaigning. If you can get the support of a party behind you, finding campaign funds is less difficult, and it doesn't cost THAT much to run a successful campaign for U.S. Rep. But what happens once you get there?
I couldn't tell you which reps anymore. High School Government class was a long time ago....
They are getting paid a LOT of money and were elected cause they lied to say the wanted to make America a better place.
Fine...get off your ass and out of meetings with special interest groups and do something.
Make the salary of a congressman equal to the average salary of the American worker, and then we'll get the right kind of people
in there.
I'm afraid you've got it wrong, my friend. Congress Critters aren't paid ENOUGH to be common men, not vice-versa. Why? Well, I believe that Congress people are paid $120,000/year. What do they have to do with that? Well, first off they must maintain a residence in their home state. This isn't a cheap prospect, as likely many of them WILL keep their primary residence there (unlike Hillary...). Then, they must maintain a residence in Washington, D.C. One of the most expensive real estate markets in the whole world. Then, they have the travel costs between their two homes. Finally, tack in all the costs of just plain living (food, gas, etc.). What you have is an amount that a common man (w/o a huge pre-existing bank account) can't hope to match on a $120,000/year salary.
One story I heard involved three Representatives from some state who WERE your average American workers. They were sharing a one-bedroom apartment in Washington, as that's all they could afford.
Before you go and complain about something like this, it's useful to get the facts straight.
Also, the same spell over and over again wore pretty
thin, since there really wasn't much casting to begin with.
Ah, but if you've played the game, then surely you're familiar with the all-too-prevalent attitude amongst mages: "I wanna cast...Magic Missile." (Higher levels: substitute Fireball, Prismatic Spray, whatever) As a player, I've always tried to avoid using only the one spell over and over, but I'm accustomed to such by now; it doesn't surprise me that it should show up in the movie this way, too.
This is interesting, too:
From the opinion:
"This is sufficient reason for us to decline at this time to review the federal questions asserted to be present
(Emphasis added.)
What's this mean? Well, the US SC wasn't sure exactly where the Fl SC got its ruling from, and so redirected it to/dev/null before requerrying, looking for more substantive output. If such output is forthcoming, they still have reserved the right to deal with this further.:)
Wait
until the Dolphin or whatever Nintendo is calling their new system comes out and you will see that the PS2 games at that time will
kick the shit out of it.
I almost agree with you. However, there are 2 things I'd have you look at first: Mario and Zelda. These 2 names alone pack a LOT of punch w/gamers (at least w/me), and they are Nintendo's own brands. The release of the SNES was accompanied by Super Mario World (STILL an awesome game) and Zelda 3. The release of the N64 was accompanied by Mario 64 (not exactly shabby) and Zelda: Ocarina (odd instrument, great cart). If they stick to their (profit-enhancing) trend, the launch of the Gamecube will be worth watching, even for just those 2 games. Now after that, yes, I'd expect the quality to trickle off a bit.
But then again, Nintendo is a little stricter about control over their games (as other posters have noted), so I don't expect to see anything TOO ugly.
The real question, for me, is if they'll give in to (continue?) the evil trend of selling their console sans game at launch time.
Not my post, but as I recall, this was something that everyone's favorite pRon publisher (Larry Flynt) dug up during the Republican primary, after Bush's campaign started throwing mud at the competition (McCain, for those w/short memories; still, I think, the best overall choice for pres.)
First, just let me say (to stay on topic) that I loved Stranger, for quite a few reasons. As to the above post, though:
If your voting restriction is on intelligence, then you get an intellectual elite running the country - this may be
no bad thing, incidentally, since we'd get the leaders we want instead of the ones we deserve, and stuff
might get run right!
I would encourage the poster to read Plato's The Republic. If you can get through it, and still think that a philosopher-king is the way to go, bully for you. I'll stick w/a less restrictive system.
But if your voting restriction is on those dumb enough to put their necks on the line - well hey, we've got
ourselves a government of macho assholes. If any poor dumb sod can join the army as a grunt, that poor
dumb sod has a chance of coming out the other side any having a say in politics, so you'll find the politicians
catering to the lowest common denominator, ie. that dumb grunt.
This remark leads me to think you went with the movie portrayal of the story (as a friend put it: it was a movie based on the back cover of a Heinlein novel). Frankly, the military portrayed in ST was much more like the US's modern Air Force: few, VERY well educated & trained, and those that survive are those capable of thought. (And for anyone who's READ The Republic, this is much what Plato/Socrates was suggesting w/the whole guardian class.)
I do research in this field; Honda's robot demo dates back to July, I believe. If you're interested, you can also check out MIT's project, or NASA's project.
In general, these humanoid robots are NOT meant for physical research: building legs, as cool as it is, is not a new thing. Instead, these are research PLATFORMS, designed to test new theories in artificial cognition. The thinking, quite simply, is thus: if we want a robot to act like a human, it has to perceive the world (and interact with it) as a human does. Therefore, you equip it with sensors akin to ours (eyes, ears, touch), program the drivers and such (so that the robot knows it CAN see, CAN hear, CAN touch), and then you teach the hell out of it. Fun stuff!
Well, you might try something along the same lines as what I'm doing. Failing the conviction/time/desire/ability to do that, there's always the old standbys of democracy: make some noise, get your Congresscritter's attention, esp. at the state level, and get some legislation allowing/requiring competent judges on difficult cases. (See here for more on that.)
the 4.7x bunch just absolutely will not let you take the
preformated sections out of your bookmark file.
I'm using 4.75 for Windows, and clearing the preset bookmarks isn't exactly brain (or registry) surgery: Click on "Bookmarks", then "Edit Bookmarks": this brings up the Netscape bookmark editor. Next, left click the first thing that bothers you. Use Ctrl/Shift selecting to get the rest of the stuff that bothers you. Now, hit the "delete" key. The end.
"What's Related" can be disabled in preferences, leaving you only the "Netscape" button on the Toolbar. I can cope.
Okay, so I'm checking out the popular vote situation: as of 12:27 am, Bush received 1,132,596 popular votes, and Gore received...1,104,930 popular votes (24% of precincts reporting). And CA is still listed as Gore's state. Anyone know what CNN bases their projections on???
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...this distinction is one of the first covered in law school. The U.S., being a common law country (in general), deals with precedence.
Important note: Louisiana is a civil law state, NOT a common law state, because of their French heritage.
And while the nature of France as an "evolved" country is certainly debatable (and quite possibly laughable), it is necessary to remind readers of this (slashdot.org). It is difficult to take seriously an argument that advances French handling of technological issues, when we so recently had to deal with them insisting that Yahoo! could and WOULD block all French access to certain auctions.
...I look forward to the day when such technology is used to put professional athletes out of work. Instead, 2 or more geeks will simply play a REALLY intricate game, and it'll be broadcast on TV. :)
Well, maybe not a whole lot.
But ever hear of the Colorado river? Starts in (surprise) Colorado. Used to run out to the Pacific. Now, is used up pretty much in its entirety en route, both for fresh water & electricity. So, when you secede, better invade a few states, so as to avoid having them cut off your water....
Then again, there HAVE been a large number of CA people moving to CO in the last couple of years. OMG!! The invasion has already started!!!
Reverse Hacking is starting with a nice, elegant, and simple solution...and then turning it into Windows.
...posting no more Mir stories, once it dropped. ;)
It's things like this that help to remind us that the space program is FUN! Russians on the CB, Mars Explorers that should appear on Battlebots.... Good stuff.
One engineer I work with was fed up with his law firm not letting him work on technology cases like he wanted, so he became an engineer. With a bit more school, I have no doubt I could do the reverse.
That's exactly what I'm doing; taking my still-damp BS in Comp. Sci, and going to law school. And I get some really funny looks, everytime someone hears about it....
As someone above already pointed out, it's PAPER. So, when you're done with it, you use it to start a fire. Security hole closed. :)
Hmm.... I wonder if that works for Windows.... Time to go find my old CD-ROMs, and some lighter fluid.
I was about to respond to this comment, but you took all of my points. Grrr! ;)
The story, I'm afraid, was completely useless. "This proves evolution!" they say. "These discoveries are the end of the argument!" they trumpet. But the story doesn't really explain HOW this result marks the end of creationism. Anyone seen a good scientific paper on this yet, or must we wait until they get published? Before alienating millions of fundamentalist Christians, it'd be nice to have the facts....
Jessica Litman, a professor of copyright law at Wayne State University in Chicago,
Wayne State University is in Detroit, unless there is a) another one, and b) they also specialize in IP law.
I couldn't help but think of the Reverend's wife on the Simpsons while reading this: "Think of the children! Oh won't somebody please think of the children!"
Well, I saw this movie. And I enjoyed this movie. It was all I would hope for, given how little I'd heard about it, and how little I paid to see it. Bottom line: it entertained me.
What I found MOST amusing was the obvious product placement of anti-MS people: the afore-mentioned GNOME is obvious, but did how could you miss the prominent placement of Sun logos at times? Or how about the more subtle Handspring Visor on the main character's desk? These are companies I can see spending bucks on an anti-MS propaganda flick. It's the little things that make movies worth seeing....
Whoa, there pardner. If these assholes can come up with the hundreds of thousands of dollars it requires to campaign to put their butts in office, they can certainly scrape up enough to live comfortably.
The catch is this: what if we're dealing with HONEST politicians? I.e. their campaign funds are all legally raised, and they don't skim off the top for themselves, but actually USE said monies for campaigning. If you can get the support of a party behind you, finding campaign funds is less difficult, and it doesn't cost THAT much to run a successful campaign for U.S. Rep. But what happens once you get there?
I couldn't tell you which reps anymore. High School Government class was a long time ago....
They are getting paid a LOT of money and were elected cause they lied to say the wanted to make America a better place. Fine...get off your ass and out of meetings with special interest groups and do something.
Make the salary of a congressman equal to the average salary of the American worker, and then we'll get the right kind of people in there.
I'm afraid you've got it wrong, my friend. Congress Critters aren't paid ENOUGH to be common men, not vice-versa. Why? Well, I believe that Congress people are paid $120,000/year. What do they have to do with that? Well, first off they must maintain a residence in their home state. This isn't a cheap prospect, as likely many of them WILL keep their primary residence there (unlike Hillary...). Then, they must maintain a residence in Washington, D.C. One of the most expensive real estate markets in the whole world. Then, they have the travel costs between their two homes. Finally, tack in all the costs of just plain living (food, gas, etc.). What you have is an amount that a common man (w/o a huge pre-existing bank account) can't hope to match on a $120,000/year salary.
One story I heard involved three Representatives from some state who WERE your average American workers. They were sharing a one-bedroom apartment in Washington, as that's all they could afford.
Before you go and complain about something like this, it's useful to get the facts straight.
Also, the same spell over and over again wore pretty thin, since there really wasn't much casting to begin with.
Ah, but if you've played the game, then surely you're familiar with the all-too-prevalent attitude amongst mages: "I wanna cast...Magic Missile." (Higher levels: substitute Fireball, Prismatic Spray, whatever) As a player, I've always tried to avoid using only the one spell over and over, but I'm accustomed to such by now; it doesn't surprise me that it should show up in the movie this way, too.
Certainly not something I'm going to buy on DVD when it comes out, but I've paid seven bucks to see worse movies.
:)
If nothing else, you can remind yourself of this: it's not Battlefield Earth.
There really is only one response for a rant such as the above (whether it was meant to be serious or not is completely irrelevant):
...
:)
"Roll the dice to see if I'm getting drunk."
"You're not there, you're getting drunk!"
"Okay, but if they're any girls there, I wanna DO them!"
Taken from "Dungeons & Dragons" by The Dead Alewives.
Here for more on the band, here for the sketch.
Listen. Enjoy. Stop the ranting.
This is interesting, too:
/dev/null before requerrying, looking for more substantive output. If such output is forthcoming, they still have reserved the right to deal with this further. :)
From the opinion:
"This is sufficient reason for us to decline at this time to review the federal questions asserted to be present
(Emphasis added.)
What's this mean? Well, the US SC wasn't sure exactly where the Fl SC got its ruling from, and so redirected it to
Wait until the Dolphin or whatever Nintendo is calling their new system comes out and you will see that the PS2 games at that time will kick the shit out of it.
I almost agree with you. However, there are 2 things I'd have you look at first: Mario and Zelda. These 2 names alone pack a LOT of punch w/gamers (at least w/me), and they are Nintendo's own brands. The release of the SNES was accompanied by Super Mario World (STILL an awesome game) and Zelda 3. The release of the N64 was accompanied by Mario 64 (not exactly shabby) and Zelda: Ocarina (odd instrument, great cart). If they stick to their (profit-enhancing) trend, the launch of the Gamecube will be worth watching, even for just those 2 games. Now after that, yes, I'd expect the quality to trickle off a bit.
But then again, Nintendo is a little stricter about control over their games (as other posters have noted), so I don't expect to see anything TOO ugly.
The real question, for me, is if they'll give in to (continue?) the evil trend of selling their console sans game at launch time.
Not my post, but as I recall, this was something that everyone's favorite pRon publisher (Larry Flynt) dug up during the Republican primary, after Bush's campaign started throwing mud at the competition (McCain, for those w/short memories; still, I think, the best overall choice for pres.)
First, just let me say (to stay on topic) that I loved Stranger, for quite a few reasons. As to the above post, though:
If your voting restriction is on intelligence, then you get an intellectual elite running the country - this may be no bad thing, incidentally, since we'd get the leaders we want instead of the ones we deserve, and stuff might get run right!
I would encourage the poster to read Plato's The Republic. If you can get through it, and still think that a philosopher-king is the way to go, bully for you. I'll stick w/a less restrictive system.
But if your voting restriction is on those dumb enough to put their necks on the line - well hey, we've got ourselves a government of macho assholes. If any poor dumb sod can join the army as a grunt, that poor dumb sod has a chance of coming out the other side any having a say in politics, so you'll find the politicians catering to the lowest common denominator, ie. that dumb grunt.
This remark leads me to think you went with the movie portrayal of the story (as a friend put it: it was a movie based on the back cover of a Heinlein novel). Frankly, the military portrayed in ST was much more like the US's modern Air Force: few, VERY well educated & trained, and those that survive are those capable of thought. (And for anyone who's READ The Republic, this is much what Plato/Socrates was suggesting w/the whole guardian class.)
I do research in this field; Honda's robot demo dates back to July, I believe. If you're interested, you can also check out MIT's project, or NASA's project.
In general, these humanoid robots are NOT meant for physical research: building legs, as cool as it is, is not a new thing. Instead, these are research PLATFORMS, designed to test new theories in artificial cognition. The thinking, quite simply, is thus: if we want a robot to act like a human, it has to perceive the world (and interact with it) as a human does. Therefore, you equip it with sensors akin to ours (eyes, ears, touch), program the drivers and such (so that the robot knows it CAN see, CAN hear, CAN touch), and then you teach the hell out of it. Fun stuff!
But what can we do?
Well, you might try something along the same lines as what I'm doing. Failing the conviction/time/desire/ability to do that, there's always the old standbys of democracy: make some noise, get your Congresscritter's attention, esp. at the state level, and get some legislation allowing/requiring competent judges on difficult cases. (See here for more on that.)
the 4.7x bunch just absolutely will not let you take the preformated sections out of your bookmark file.
I'm using 4.75 for Windows, and clearing the preset bookmarks isn't exactly brain (or registry) surgery: Click on "Bookmarks", then "Edit Bookmarks": this brings up the Netscape bookmark editor. Next, left click the first thing that bothers you. Use Ctrl/Shift selecting to get the rest of the stuff that bothers you. Now, hit the "delete" key. The end.
"What's Related" can be disabled in preferences, leaving you only the "Netscape" button on the Toolbar. I can cope.
Okay, so I'm checking out the popular vote situation: as of 12:27 am, Bush received 1,132,596 popular votes, and Gore received...1,104,930 popular votes (24% of precincts reporting). And CA is still listed as Gore's state. Anyone know what CNN bases their projections on???