Common Core appears to have become controversial primarily because the conservative media told us it is.
I love the way the summary frames it as "rich guys pushing crazy agendas vs. the public interest," when in fact this is much more a case of "rich guys pushing crazy agendas vs. another group of rich guys pushing different crazy agendas."
On one side you have Bill Gates pushing Common Core, on the other side you have the Koch Brothers pushing school vouchers so that people like them get a big tax rebate for sending their kids to schools where your commoner kids will never be allowed to go.
The "We're Solvent! Honest!" messaging is all about vitality, see! We're letting people know that "we're here and present," and in no way have we had had to get rid of most of our office space and work out of our cars. "We're alive," we're telling the world, and not having to sell our blood to pay our mortgages this month.
1) The studios (Fox, Paramount, Sony, etc.) tell Netflix that without DRM, Netflix is going to have its own original series to stream AND THAT'S ALL. 2) Netflix decides it might be wise to include D-R-M unless they want to go B-A-N-K-R-U-P-T. 3) The major browser companies all adopt DRM too, since no one wants to be the one browser that doesn't work with Netflix 4) You, the user, streams movies from your browser.
I love that the MS hatred is so strong on/. that MS is somehow blamed for the bad stuff that MOZILLA does, as if MS went over to Mozilla HQ and forced them to adopt DRM:
That's the great thing about living in post-9-11 America, NO ONE is too unimportant to have their phone calls and emails archived. To the NSA, we're ALL special!
In all fairness, can you imagine the cost to them if they had to turn over the recordings of every one of your phones calls and emails for the last 10+ years? That shit would add up fast, man.
I kind of just always assumed that treated water was put back in the reservoirs anyway. I mean, it has been TREATED right? Wouldn't that make it cleaner than most lake water anyway?
No one in their right mind is denying "climate change." Some are just skeptical of assertions that:
a) There is a warming trend at present, and more importantly that b) It is directly caused by identifiable human actions.
And you should be glad that there are skeptics, because a healthy dose of skepticism could stop us from doing something VERY stupid because we think we know what we're doing when we yet don't. There are already some fringe elements talking about efforts to *intentionally* change the climate to contradict the effects of global warming. They are unbothered by the fact that we're still not actually 100% sure yet what the fuck is going on, much less what unintended side effects could result from fucking with Mother Nature on such a large scale. As a mild skeptic myself, I'm much more comfortable with the idea of not spewing so much shit into the air (as a good general principle) than the idea that things are SO AWFUL that we have to build a giant fucking air-conditioner before WEZZA ALL GONNA DIE!!!
In my experience terms like "aesthetics" and "historical integrity" usually translates to:
1) All I care about is my property values, the rest of the world be damned! 2) I bought this house decades ago with the assumption that this neighborhood would never, ever, ever, ever change. NO TAKEBACKS!
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IF radical christians thought they could get away with murdering people they would do it in a heart beat.
Unless you're writing from the Middle Ages, I'm pretty sure that isn't true.
That must be why every Japanese videogame is on-rails and looks like every other Japanese videogame, because the Japanese are so used to choices.
They're the conclusions that *I* have come to!
Common Core appears to have become controversial primarily because the conservative media told us it is.
I love the way the summary frames it as "rich guys pushing crazy agendas vs. the public interest," when in fact this is much more a case of "rich guys pushing crazy agendas vs. another group of rich guys pushing different crazy agendas."
On one side you have Bill Gates pushing Common Core, on the other side you have the Koch Brothers pushing school vouchers so that people like them get a big tax rebate for sending their kids to schools where your commoner kids will never be allowed to go.
The war in the Middle East has grown way beyond a religious conflict.
I realize that this article is about private loans, but shouldn't there also be some standard for federally-guaranteed loans too?
Is this "cyborg" as in "Allows the paralyzed to walk," "Allows the small-dicked to be big-dicked," "Allows a soldier or cop to be bulletproof"?
Or is it "cyborg" as in "We can't actually do anything that anyone would pay for yet, and probably never will."
Because if it's the former, just issue a press release and stand back. If it's the latter, then the answer is "You can't."
No, I'm pretty sure the heat death of the universe will kill those languages
The "We're Solvent! Honest!" messaging is all about vitality, see! We're letting people know that "we're here and present," and in no way have we had had to get rid of most of our office space and work out of our cars. "We're alive," we're telling the world, and not having to sell our blood to pay our mortgages this month.
And not just regular squatters either.....SPACE squatters!
Build a car that anyone outside of the upper class can actually afford?
No, no, you're missing some steps:
1) The studios (Fox, Paramount, Sony, etc.) tell Netflix that without DRM, Netflix is going to have its own original series to stream AND THAT'S ALL.
2) Netflix decides it might be wise to include D-R-M unless they want to go B-A-N-K-R-U-P-T.
3) The major browser companies all adopt DRM too, since no one wants to be the one browser that doesn't work with Netflix
4) You, the user, streams movies from your browser.
I love that the MS hatred is so strong on /. that MS is somehow blamed for the bad stuff that MOZILLA does, as if MS went over to Mozilla HQ and forced them to adopt DRM:
"ADOPT THIS DRM OR WE'LL BREAK YOUR FACE, MAN!!"
"Okay, okay, we'll do it! Just stop hurting us!"
"THAT'S RIGHT, BITCH! MICROSOFT 4EVER!!"
That's the great thing about living in post-9-11 America, NO ONE is too unimportant to have their phone calls and emails archived. To the NSA, we're ALL special!
In all fairness, can you imagine the cost to them if they had to turn over the recordings of every one of your phones calls and emails for the last 10+ years? That shit would add up fast, man.
I kind of just always assumed that treated water was put back in the reservoirs anyway. I mean, it has been TREATED right? Wouldn't that make it cleaner than most lake water anyway?
Some are denying. Some are just skeptical.
And is still worth *$4 BILLION* apparently.
Don't get too happy. The Obama administration is a complete lame duck and anything he does this late into the administration will be purely symbolic.
We sure could have used some consumer/privacy advocates like this in the administration back in 2009, though.
But in 2015, they're pure symbolism--only slightly better than nothing at all.
No one in their right mind is denying "climate change." Some are just skeptical of assertions that:
a) There is a warming trend at present, and more importantly that
b) It is directly caused by identifiable human actions.
And you should be glad that there are skeptics, because a healthy dose of skepticism could stop us from doing something VERY stupid because we think we know what we're doing when we yet don't. There are already some fringe elements talking about efforts to *intentionally* change the climate to contradict the effects of global warming. They are unbothered by the fact that we're still not actually 100% sure yet what the fuck is going on, much less what unintended side effects could result from fucking with Mother Nature on such a large scale. As a mild skeptic myself, I'm much more comfortable with the idea of not spewing so much shit into the air (as a good general principle) than the idea that things are SO AWFUL that we have to build a giant fucking air-conditioner before WEZZA ALL GONNA DIE!!!
In my experience terms like "aesthetics" and "historical integrity" usually translates to:
1) All I care about is my property values, the rest of the world be damned!
2) I bought this house decades ago with the assumption that this neighborhood would never, ever, ever, ever change. NO TAKEBACKS!
"Hey, you need us for security protection, otherwise you never know when a break-in might happen, right Vinnie?"
"Yeah boss, this place *definitely* needs to pay for our security protection."
"See? You should listen to Vinnie, he's a security expert and shit."
Most people produce negative value.
Well then, perhaps they should die and decrease the surplus population,
I guess it's not as embarrassing as drilling a hole in your own head. Now THAT would be a humiliating death!
I call dibs!