Within the confines of a single family unit, there is absoltely nothing wrong with poligomy as long as all are fully willing participants for each major adjustment in their 'family contract' so to speak.
The problems poligomoy:
1. They only ever exist in deeply patriarical societies where women are generally repressed or at least marginalized
2. Its almost always forbiudden for Women to take multiple male partners, which would at least allow for some aspect of equality in the mix
3. The practice is also quite commonly associated with with child brides (where much older men marry children/teens) which has its own set of moral and ethical problems to deal with
4. The scarcity of partners in one sex or the other causes deep social issues where the uncoupled are deprived of a 'fair' chance to procreate, which is one reason why on a genetic level, poligomy is a problem (another is less diversity in the gene pool with a single dominant sex coupling many)
The only notable areas of poligomy I know of are in Muslim nations and in small pockets of the US/Canada where they barely escape the laws that firmly define their rights within those nations (often skirting or breaking society's laws). If someone could point out a stable large scale poligomist culture, I'd be interested in it as a purely academic perspective, because it doesn't seem to be a good poster child for a poligomist tolerant society to model itself off in terms of its legal bound regulations.
Wouldn't you be arguing the point that its the state's job to decide if they wanted to allow slavery, child workers, the vote (to anyone or select groups), etc.. Personally when it comes to laws that dictate the legal status of persons that it can only be reasonably applied on a national level.
Note to self: Shred that Bill of Rights thing. It was written by a bunch of centrist totalitarians taking my freedoms away!
Marriage as an application of an officially designated status recognized by legal rules in a secular nation certainly falls into the category of an ethical dispute. Pragmatically, these people are bound in whatever family unit name you want to call it and the name makes absoltely no difference, so if so why are people so concerned over this? Its very obvious that THIS isn't a problem.
The powers of concervatism see this as just another chizle knocking away their good old religous beliefs like so many before. Ask yourself why you're morally no longer allowed to: Buy yourself into heaven, stone, suppress, rape, "insert bad things" to religious 'heretics', carry slaves, enforce absolute rule over all the populace as they singly dictate the word of a god, etc..
The pathetic thing about this whole discussion is that you are guaranteed to lose this argument, and all it will take is time. The last vestages of religious influence over the world is fleeting. Secularism and religious power bases are being systemically destroyed by either informed secularism, secular dictatorships, or simply apathy. The last bastion of a strong religious power base is Islam, and the US is doing its best to remove the teeth from their religious influence as well.
"Do you say this when it is a Hollywood celebrity that is saying something you agree with, or is using fame as a soapbox allowed for people you agree with but not for others?"
Everyone with a notable voice can talk about anything they want to. That voice doesn't preclude them from being judged or ridiculed for their public opinions. The Iraq war protest message hurt the Dixie Chicks, and Mel Gibson's outspoken comments on "who the hell knows what" has all but isolated him from film making.
Speaker had a fair bit of religion in it (though I thought it was presented unbiased), but Xenocide was when he took religion and spirituality and tried to base pseudo-science atop of it. It didn't stick, and the story fell to shreds, though I tried soo hard to like it.
A little off topic, but in the vein of card's character, I really enjoyed ender's game and speaker for the dead, but I was absolutely sucker punched at how fast you can fuck over your audience after reading Xenocide and Ender's Children.. The very outspoken religious dogma in Xenocide made me loose all faith in Card's cred for interesting and objective sci-fi writing... which was a shame, because I actually considered Speaker to be one of the better approaches to religion as a facet of the story without being preachy... oh well.
That's the fundamental rule of how cameras function. Without such a limitation, you'd need incremental exposure timing/capture which I don't believe any sensor's can perform, then you need to actually process the HDR'ness of the image, which is quite frankly very subjective. One may choose to blind the viewer with the light shining through the window, or one may want to see the house across the street. This is an artisitic quality that needs to be supported regardless of which technology you choose. In the down to earth point of view, you may look into bracketing, which can at least support HDR from most decent SLR's, but of course even those techniques require two shots, meaning basically absoltely still shots. The real HDR shots are taken with prism splitters into two bodies, but that means two identical cameras with a custom expensive setup... Well, nobody said the perfection was cheap.
It works great for countries where health is 'free' (through taxes), and their main goal is to make people healthy, not to extract maximum funds from your pocket. It's too bad that you don't live there.
To be fair, top gear does this ALL THE TIME. Its an entertainment program and they do so by panning some cars and lauding others (like DIY kits or 500k super cars). Any typical top gear viewer shouldn't consider a 'bad review' on the show as a buying decision.
The last 5 years introduced 2 enterprise Java standards enhancements which were in fact very big deals. The JVM and the language itself are getting rather slow, but its not the job of a language to constantly adapt to a changing world. That's why Java has thousands of potentially competing libraries that sit on top of the base implementation. The same could be said for C/C++, or most other languages. The innovation will come from the communities driving them.
Does Java have a vibrant development community? IMHO yes, there are a lot of paid and independent projects that really make programming for the platform easier and more effective.
And you believe that MS wouldn't Kowtow to these people why? Worse comes to worse, they leave resale on for country X, and publishers can choose (as they always have) if they want to allow sales of games in said country. Either the games industry or the country's lawmakers will blink and this non-issue will a bullet point in the history of video gaming, right between paying for online functionality and the death of video game physical media (aka precache).
Nah, Macs and Linux are about as capable from a corporate desktop point of view if you discount MS office on MAC, and apparently most MAC people I hear from do.
Plus Apple hardware and software cost substantially more, so if you were an IT department, wohat would you do? To put another way, look a the apple server market and tell us how well they do there...
1. Microsoft has a very tenuous relationship with their OEM's that can only be balanced with deep discounts for OEM's windows licenses. If Microsoft bought dell tomorrow, wouldn't that put them in substantial channel conflict? One could argue that Samsung's toe waggle with Tizen is a hedge against Google/Motorola locking down the android a market (dumb idea for any involved) and running away like bandits. 2. The desktop market is shrinking (very slowly), and losing one more player from the open playing field doesn't re-enforce their struggle to stay relevant in a world that seems to be finding any way possible to stop paying the microsoft tax on products that many don't want to use. Sure, someone will eventually fill that market share for so long, but at the end of the day, the PC market place will only stay healthy and competitive if there are the right amount of players with skin in the game.
Well, you're partly right. Sandboxing is always running on all JVM instances, and can be quite handy when dealing with dividing multiple aspects of a running system (like deploying different versions of a given software library across different deployments on the same server instance).
Now I haven't looked into this one yet, and I'm not sure if they found flaws in the plugin shared objects, or in the platform's handling of its platform sandbox.. If it was the platform sandbox, then that's a lot worse imho.
Switch to Wind/Mobilicity if you have good coverage in your area. Sometimes plans come as low as $25/mo for unlimnited EVERYTHING. I got mine for $40 and it has unlimited US/canada calling, data, tether, voice mail, unlimited text, unlimited data and I can walk away whenever I want to. The 'catch' is that they don't subsidize the phones, but I find this an advantage.
I appreciated Batman Rises much more after the second watching from home.
As for scene cuts, a movie this large where scenes cost millions of dollars to shoot / produce, you can damn well bet that the movie was story boarded to death before a single roll of film was shot. Its not like the old days were you can just randomly have great actors run on a scene longer, or just make up an extra dialogue inter-cut and then drop it depending on how well it fit in with the rest of the movie. Hell it happens, but ultimately the movies are much more efficient at telling the story they set out to make vs. the old days.
We already have too many OS contenders in the market already. Canonical should instead made applications if they're hot to trot in order to jump into the hot cell phone markets. That said, the expenential bell curve on smart phones is soon to start rounding off once the majority of dumb phone users are forced into the upgrade due to availability. Once we're there, people will be looking for the next best hot exponential bell curve market (currently tablets) ad infinitum... The only areas unaffected by smart phones will be in the ultra-poor places where even a few bucks can be a financial burden.
FOCUS on what you're good at, which is apparently linux desktops awesome. Jump on the latest buzz words with half baked notions of being the next greatest Android/IOS and you'll most likely end up sharing shelf-space with WebOS, Maemo, and all the other failed to adopt platforms left in the wreckage.
Apple's always been evil to their competition or partners if they had the opportunity, but they're generally nice to their users so people just shut up about it. MS and Google will both be nasty when a competitor threatens their core businesses in any way. That said, Google has a habbit of buying their threatening competitors or out innovating them. MS just closes the doors on them.
Given the fact that there are several competitive applications that support the core youtube functionality and that all the functionality can be scraped in real time means that the issue is -kinda- moot. Now if Google bocked it by a TOS, there'd be a little more guilty of being a bad neighbour, but hell, google's business is to make money and people watching youtube (ads anyways) makes them money, and generally they've been very willing to spread the love to platforms that play ball. Could it be that MS didn't want to form a formal business relationship on the issue to make sure their app didn't just ad block youtube ads?
Unfair? Who were the guys who removed tariffs? You know the opposite of free trade? You say it like china has all the control and you're just riding yourselves to the bottom. No. Ther US deliberately weakened their controls over trade balances in order to encourage trade. Well, now you have it and you're finding that there's lack of value that you're bringing to the world markets... troubles ahead me thinks.
Admitently, it was a lot easier to grow an industrialization culture given that 80% of the population needed to be farmers to advance society. The question arises more as a question than an attack, but what is -the- next thing? I mean we farm our production jobs over seas because at the moment its cheaper, but what's the next big thing that will continue to allow our minds to be put to good work?
You'll always have need for jobs in medial, law, law enforcement, etc.. but where do the other 90% of the populace work? Mcdonalds?
No, the free market 'says' that if Hotmail is an inferior product then people will find a different product to use. You shouldn't give one hair arse if you're being blocked. Its those using inferior products that should feel sad about it. Email is about as far from monopoly terratory as you can get.
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Within the confines of a single family unit, there is absoltely nothing wrong with poligomy as long as all are fully willing participants for each major adjustment in their 'family contract' so to speak.
The problems poligomoy:
1. They only ever exist in deeply patriarical societies where women are generally repressed or at least marginalized
2. Its almost always forbiudden for Women to take multiple male partners, which would at least allow for some aspect of equality in the mix
3. The practice is also quite commonly associated with with child brides (where much older men marry children/teens) which has its own set of moral and ethical problems to deal with
4. The scarcity of partners in one sex or the other causes deep social issues where the uncoupled are deprived of a 'fair' chance to procreate, which is one reason why on a genetic level, poligomy is a problem (another is less diversity in the gene pool with a single dominant sex coupling many)
The only notable areas of poligomy I know of are in Muslim nations and in small pockets of the US/Canada where they barely escape the laws that firmly define their rights within those nations (often skirting or breaking society's laws). If someone could point out a stable large scale poligomist culture, I'd be interested in it as a purely academic perspective, because it doesn't seem to be a good poster child for a poligomist tolerant society to model itself off in terms of its legal bound regulations.
Wouldn't you be arguing the point that its the state's job to decide if they wanted to allow slavery, child workers, the vote (to anyone or select groups), etc.. Personally when it comes to laws that dictate the legal status of persons that it can only be reasonably applied on a national level.
Note to self: Shred that Bill of Rights thing. It was written by a bunch of centrist totalitarians taking my freedoms away!
Marriage as an application of an officially designated status recognized by legal rules in a secular nation certainly falls into the category of an ethical dispute. Pragmatically, these people are bound in whatever family unit name you want to call it and the name makes absoltely no difference, so if so why are people so concerned over this? Its very obvious that THIS isn't a problem.
The powers of concervatism see this as just another chizle knocking away their good old religous beliefs like so many before. Ask yourself why you're morally no longer allowed to: Buy yourself into heaven, stone, suppress, rape, "insert bad things" to religious 'heretics', carry slaves, enforce absolute rule over all the populace as they singly dictate the word of a god, etc..
The pathetic thing about this whole discussion is that you are guaranteed to lose this argument, and all it will take is time. The last vestages of religious influence over the world is fleeting. Secularism and religious power bases are being systemically destroyed by either informed secularism, secular dictatorships, or simply apathy. The last bastion of a strong religious power base is Islam, and the US is doing its best to remove the teeth from their religious influence as well.
"Do you say this when it is a Hollywood celebrity that is saying something you agree with, or is using fame as a soapbox allowed for people you agree with but not for others?"
Everyone with a notable voice can talk about anything they want to. That voice doesn't preclude them from being judged or ridiculed for their public opinions. The Iraq war protest message hurt the Dixie Chicks, and Mel Gibson's outspoken comments on "who the hell knows what" has all but isolated him from film making.
Speaker had a fair bit of religion in it (though I thought it was presented unbiased), but Xenocide was when he took religion and spirituality and tried to base pseudo-science atop of it. It didn't stick, and the story fell to shreds, though I tried soo hard to like it.
A little off topic, but in the vein of card's character, I really enjoyed ender's game and speaker for the dead, but I was absolutely sucker punched at how fast you can fuck over your audience after reading Xenocide and Ender's Children.. The very outspoken religious dogma in Xenocide made me loose all faith in Card's cred for interesting and objective sci-fi writing... which was a shame, because I actually considered Speaker to be one of the better approaches to religion as a facet of the story without being preachy... oh well.
That's the fundamental rule of how cameras function. Without such a limitation, you'd need incremental exposure timing/capture which I don't believe any sensor's can perform, then you need to actually process the HDR'ness of the image, which is quite frankly very subjective. One may choose to blind the viewer with the light shining through the window, or one may want to see the house across the street. This is an artisitic quality that needs to be supported regardless of which technology you choose. In the down to earth point of view, you may look into bracketing, which can at least support HDR from most decent SLR's, but of course even those techniques require two shots, meaning basically absoltely still shots. The real HDR shots are taken with prism splitters into two bodies, but that means two identical cameras with a custom expensive setup... Well, nobody said the perfection was cheap.
It works great for countries where health is 'free' (through taxes), and their main goal is to make people healthy, not to extract maximum funds from your pocket. It's too bad that you don't live there.
To be fair, top gear does this ALL THE TIME. Its an entertainment program and they do so by panning some cars and lauding others (like DIY kits or 500k super cars). Any typical top gear viewer shouldn't consider a 'bad review' on the show as a buying decision.
The last 5 years introduced 2 enterprise Java standards enhancements which were in fact very big deals. The JVM and the language itself are getting rather slow, but its not the job of a language to constantly adapt to a changing world. That's why Java has thousands of potentially competing libraries that sit on top of the base implementation. The same could be said for C/C++, or most other languages. The innovation will come from the communities driving them.
Does Java have a vibrant development community? IMHO yes, there are a lot of paid and independent projects that really make programming for the platform easier and more effective.
And you believe that MS wouldn't Kowtow to these people why? Worse comes to worse, they leave resale on for country X, and publishers can choose (as they always have) if they want to allow sales of games in said country. Either the games industry or the country's lawmakers will blink and this non-issue will a bullet point in the history of video gaming, right between paying for online functionality and the death of video game physical media (aka precache).
Nah, Macs and Linux are about as capable from a corporate desktop point of view if you discount MS office on MAC, and apparently most MAC people I hear from do.
Plus Apple hardware and software cost substantially more, so if you were an IT department, wohat would you do? To put another way, look a the apple server market and tell us how well they do there...
1. Microsoft has a very tenuous relationship with their OEM's that can only be balanced with deep discounts for OEM's windows licenses. If Microsoft bought dell tomorrow, wouldn't that put them in substantial channel conflict? One could argue that Samsung's toe waggle with Tizen is a hedge against Google/Motorola locking down the android a market (dumb idea for any involved) and running away like bandits.
2. The desktop market is shrinking (very slowly), and losing one more player from the open playing field doesn't re-enforce their struggle to stay relevant in a world that seems to be finding any way possible to stop paying the microsoft tax on products that many don't want to use. Sure, someone will eventually fill that market share for so long, but at the end of the day, the PC market place will only stay healthy and competitive if there are the right amount of players with skin in the game.
Well, you're partly right. Sandboxing is always running on all JVM instances, and can be quite handy when dealing with dividing multiple aspects of a running system (like deploying different versions of a given software library across different deployments on the same server instance).
Now I haven't looked into this one yet, and I'm not sure if they found flaws in the plugin shared objects, or in the platform's handling of its platform sandbox.. If it was the platform sandbox, then that's a lot worse imho.
You weren't going to buy it anyways, so was anything of value lost?
But I don't use it, and it sits on its charger. Soo lonely... =/
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Switch to Wind/Mobilicity if you have good coverage in your area. Sometimes plans come as low as $25/mo for unlimnited EVERYTHING. I got mine for $40 and it has unlimited US/canada calling, data, tether, voice mail, unlimited text, unlimited data and I can walk away whenever I want to. The 'catch' is that they don't subsidize the phones, but I find this an advantage.
There are a LARGE number of unlimited (practically) plans here, that even on some top tier carriers it may be cheaper for internet calls than voice.
I appreciated Batman Rises much more after the second watching from home.
As for scene cuts, a movie this large where scenes cost millions of dollars to shoot / produce, you can damn well bet that the movie was story boarded to death before a single roll of film was shot. Its not like the old days were you can just randomly have great actors run on a scene longer, or just make up an extra dialogue inter-cut and then drop it depending on how well it fit in with the rest of the movie. Hell it happens, but ultimately the movies are much more efficient at telling the story they set out to make vs. the old days.
We already have too many OS contenders in the market already. Canonical should instead made applications if they're hot to trot in order to jump into the hot cell phone markets. That said, the expenential bell curve on smart phones is soon to start rounding off once the majority of dumb phone users are forced into the upgrade due to availability. Once we're there, people will be looking for the next best hot exponential bell curve market (currently tablets) ad infinitum... The only areas unaffected by smart phones will be in the ultra-poor places where even a few bucks can be a financial burden.
FOCUS on what you're good at, which is apparently linux desktops awesome. Jump on the latest buzz words with half baked notions of being the next greatest Android/IOS and you'll most likely end up sharing shelf-space with WebOS, Maemo, and all the other failed to adopt platforms left in the wreckage.
Apple's always been evil to their competition or partners if they had the opportunity, but they're generally nice to their users so people just shut up about it. MS and Google will both be nasty when a competitor threatens their core businesses in any way. That said, Google has a habbit of buying their threatening competitors or out innovating them. MS just closes the doors on them.
Given the fact that there are several competitive applications that support the core youtube functionality and that all the functionality can be scraped in real time means that the issue is -kinda- moot. Now if Google bocked it by a TOS, there'd be a little more guilty of being a bad neighbour, but hell, google's business is to make money and people watching youtube (ads anyways) makes them money, and generally they've been very willing to spread the love to platforms that play ball. Could it be that MS didn't want to form a formal business relationship on the issue to make sure their app didn't just ad block youtube ads?
Unfair? Who were the guys who removed tariffs? You know the opposite of free trade? You say it like china has all the control and you're just riding yourselves to the bottom. No. Ther US deliberately weakened their controls over trade balances in order to encourage trade. Well, now you have it and you're finding that there's lack of value that you're bringing to the world markets... troubles ahead me thinks.
Admitently, it was a lot easier to grow an industrialization culture given that 80% of the population needed to be farmers to advance society. The question arises more as a question than an attack, but what is -the- next thing? I mean we farm our production jobs over seas because at the moment its cheaper, but what's the next big thing that will continue to allow our minds to be put to good work?
You'll always have need for jobs in medial, law, law enforcement, etc.. but where do the other 90% of the populace work? Mcdonalds?
Sounds like the same guy. At least the exact same scenario...
No, the free market 'says' that if Hotmail is an inferior product then people will find a different product to use. You shouldn't give one hair arse if you're being blocked. Its those using inferior products that should feel sad about it. Email is about as far from monopoly terratory as you can get.