Also we note: in the US, the teachers union would never allow some teachers to get gravy classes while others are stuck with borderline retards.
Huh? My daughter is in the "gravy classes" at a public school, not a charter school. The teachers' union "allows" her teachers to do this without a grumble from anybody. I don't know where you are getting your information from but it's not from around here.
It's pretty obvious that ad-blocking web sites IS akin to resource theft...
Oh, it's obvious, is it? Is it theft if I visit the site but never click on the ads? What if I click on all the ads but have no intention of buying anything? Tell me, what else is obviously theft when I am reading a page on the web?
Oh and if you or anyone could bother to reply, another question: why doesn't that guy Kucinich (sp?), the only one who apparently publically called for an impeachment procedure against president GW Bush, run for president?
Have you never seen what some live recordings will sell for? I've got bootleg vinyl from shows such as Pink Floyd, The Who, etc, that are very much not legal, and are very much worth a bit of money.
They may not be worth as much as you think if they've been liberated on Dime (or any of the other like-sites). Something you might want to consider doing.
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I believe what we have here is a free market. If you don't like the non-warranty offered by one company, don't buy their product. Buy the one product from a company that does give the warranty you want.
Or one could buy the product that doesn't get turned into a zombie. Thus spake the Apple fanboy.;-)
Condorcet (and even IRV) is clearly not equal to plurality.
I would argue that they are clearly equal, where "all things" means "you have candidates, voters vote, a winner is determined from the votes". That's what all voting systems do. Given that (i.e. all things being equal), plurality is much simpler.
Unfortunately, getting the average American to understand things like beatpaths and the like is not bloody likely.
In defense of the average American, plurality voting has the virtue of having Occam's Razor on its side. Beatpaths? Try selling the Cordorcet paradox along with your new-fangled voting system and see how far you get. You won't even have a chance to bring up beatpaths.
For example, while you can write C++-style code in Ruby, it will be ugly and slow. To use Ruby productively, you have to learn to take advantage of the dynamic typing. Just as in order to take advantage of C++, you need to take advantage of the static typing.
Meanwhile the company looking for an experienced Ruby programmer will pass over the GP and wait months and months until they find someone with just the skillset they want. In that time, of course, they could have had the GP and had him learning Ruby AND how to use Ruby effectively from his co-workers AND been trained in how the company does things. Smart programmers that don't know Ruby are still smart and are easier to find than smart programmers that have a lot of Ruby experience.
If you look here, you will find what you're looking for:
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On this issue I agree with them, but there is a general perception held by many that the ACLU is flawed and is just pushing a left leaning agenda.
By the same people who deride the mainstream media as "left-leaning" and claim Fox News is "fair and balanced". To them, "left-leaning" is really just "not right-leaning" and there is no middle ground.
Don't "Al Sharpton's forces" have a right to free speech? Does free speech mean stupid speech is free of consequences? Al Sharpton didn't fire Don Imus. Didn't Al just exercise his free speech to let Imus's employer know that Al thought Don was an idiot? One could argue that fewer idiots on the air is a good thing.
I saw an interview with Arthur C. Clarke where this came up. He said something along the lines of, "It's infinitely improbable. Then again, somebody has to be first."
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
That Genesis sequence was quite an eye-opener.
Beauty and the Beast
The ballroom scene, while not technically so amazing, raised public awareness of CG in movies.
Jurassic Park
After seeing this, I thought effects shouldn't matter anymore because now anything was possible. It still bothers me when people talk about the great CG effects in a movie. Who cares (except for Sin City...and Sky Captain...and 300:-)? How was the movie?
You've never worked on a movie with CG in it, have you? No building from scratch? Think of any movie from Pixar. Every single thing in the movie is built from scratch. What's this "3D artist" you say is the one person that does everything? How about the supervisor on the set helping the live action work well with the digital coming down the road? The compositor working in the 2D world getting the lighting just right? The artics & mattes people erasing all those damn wires? On and on it goes.
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Light takes about 14 hours to get from Earth to the spacecraft.
Fixed that for you.
Also we note: in the US, the teachers union would never allow some teachers to get gravy classes while others are stuck with borderline retards.
Huh? My daughter is in the "gravy classes" at a public school, not a charter school. The teachers' union "allows" her teachers to do this without a grumble from anybody. I don't know where you are getting your information from but it's not from around here.
Oh, sorry. I'm an idiot and didn't read your post carefully enough.
Read my last sentence closer:
Tell me, what else is obviously theft when I am reading a page on the web?
Some things are obviously theft. Reading a web page without ads is not one of them.
It's pretty obvious that ad-blocking web sites IS akin to resource theft...
Oh, it's obvious, is it? Is it theft if I visit the site but never click on the ads? What if I click on all the ads but have no intention of buying anything? Tell me, what else is obviously theft when I am reading a page on the web?
Oh and if you or anyone could bother to reply, another question: why doesn't that guy Kucinich (sp?), the only one who apparently publically called for an impeachment procedure against president GW Bush, run for president?
Was that a joke?
Two more words: "earth" and "quake".
YMMV outside of California.
Have you never seen what some live recordings will sell for? I've got bootleg vinyl from shows such as Pink Floyd, The Who, etc, that are very much not legal, and are very much worth a bit of money.
They may not be worth as much as you think if they've been liberated on Dime (or any of the other like-sites). Something you might want to consider doing.
I believe what we have here is a free market. If you don't like the non-warranty offered by one company, don't buy their product. Buy the one product from a company that does give the warranty you want.
Or one could buy the product that doesn't get turned into a zombie. Thus spake the Apple fanboy. ;-)
Condorcet (and even IRV) is clearly not equal to plurality.
I would argue that they are clearly equal, where "all things" means "you have candidates, voters vote, a winner is determined from the votes". That's what all voting systems do. Given that (i.e. all things being equal), plurality is much simpler.
Unfortunately, getting the average American to understand things like beatpaths and the like is not bloody likely.
In defense of the average American, plurality voting has the virtue of having Occam's Razor on its side. Beatpaths? Try selling the Cordorcet paradox along with your new-fangled voting system and see how far you get. You won't even have a chance to bring up beatpaths.
For example, while you can write C++-style code in Ruby, it will be ugly and slow. To use Ruby productively, you have to learn to take advantage of the dynamic typing. Just as in order to take advantage of C++, you need to take advantage of the static typing.
Meanwhile the company looking for an experienced Ruby programmer will pass over the GP and wait months and months until they find someone with just the skillset they want. In that time, of course, they could have had the GP and had him learning Ruby AND how to use Ruby effectively from his co-workers AND been trained in how the company does things. Smart programmers that don't know Ruby are still smart and are easier to find than smart programmers that have a lot of Ruby experience.
I have a gut feeling I know how this will end.
Jerry Yang being appointed to the newly created position of Technology Czar for the Bush Administration?
Mac computer with USB 2.0 port
Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later
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Windows system requirements
PC with USB 2.0 port
Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate Edition; or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later
iTunes 7.3 or later
No mention of Linux anywhere.
On this issue I agree with them, but there is a general perception held by many that the ACLU is flawed and is just pushing a left leaning agenda.
By the same people who deride the mainstream media as "left-leaning" and claim Fox News is "fair and balanced". To them, "left-leaning" is really just "not right-leaning" and there is no middle ground.
> The current administration of the United States has made "fighting terrorism" their top priority.
The current administration of the United States has made "fighting terrorism" their only priority.
Fixed that for you. :-)
And the closest thing we have to a Praetorian Guard, the Secret Service is not large enough to pull off a coop.
Probably because they're too chicken.
Reference, please.
They enjoyed their smaller cities where you don't fight a 2-hour backup in the morning for a 15-minute drive.
Ah, I see you have tried to get to Google's offices in Santa Monica. :-)
- Don Imus shut up by Al Sharpton's forces
Don't "Al Sharpton's forces" have a right to free speech? Does free speech mean stupid speech is free of consequences? Al Sharpton didn't fire Don Imus. Didn't Al just exercise his free speech to let Imus's employer know that Al thought Don was an idiot? One could argue that fewer idiots on the air is a good thing.
You can be arrested for assault if you gently place the tip of your index finger on a police officer.
Actually, that's battery. Assault is pointing your finger in, say, the officer's face where he feels threatened. The touch is where battery comes in.
Jury duty can be very informative.
I saw an interview with Arthur C. Clarke where this came up. He said something along the lines of, "It's infinitely improbable. Then again, somebody has to be first."
Lack of radio waves is the major one, for me, and no one has explained this so far.
Dinosaurs were around for millions of years and, for some reason, never developed radios. Satisfied?
I'll toss out a few more:
That Genesis sequence was quite an eye-opener.
The ballroom scene, while not technically so amazing, raised public awareness of CG in movies.
After seeing this, I thought effects shouldn't matter anymore because now anything was possible. It still bothers me when people talk about the great CG effects in a movie. Who cares (except for Sin City...and Sky Captain...and 300
You've never worked on a movie with CG in it, have you? No building from scratch? Think of any movie from Pixar. Every single thing in the movie is built from scratch. What's this "3D artist" you say is the one person that does everything? How about the supervisor on the set helping the live action work well with the digital coming down the road? The compositor working in the 2D world getting the lighting just right? The artics & mattes people erasing all those damn wires? On and on it goes.