Seems British subjects are being oppressed. Why don't we liberate them and annex Britain to the U.S.? Of course they'd have to give up that silly royalty business.
Science began as branch of philosophy. Newton was not referred to as a 'scientist' in his own time but as a 'philosopher'. His most famous work: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis)
If it was just me I could get by with fluxbox, fvwm, etc., but I think KDE running on Kubuntu was an essential component to getting my wife to use Linux on a computer that we were sharing. She doesn't miss Windows now.
When I was in college a math professor told us that calculus had not changed much since the days of Newton and Leibniz and probably 100 pages of public domain material would more than cover the subject. He said that the 500+ page book that we had paid $100 for was basically a rip-off. I hope he had tenure because speaking the truth like that could be costly.
It may be that the majority of Man Made global warming deniers don't deny warming at all. But that strawman is hardly non-existent. Last winter every time it got cold or snowed Faux news idiot Sean Hannity would use the event as a demonstration of the non-existence of global warming.
A single anecdote won't serve to destroy my theory. ABC (owned by very conservative Disney) is interested in on-air personalities who provide them with ratings. Higher ratings equals selling more ads and making more money. Stossel could still be at ABC if he had been drawing an audience for them, no matter what he was advocating. (so long as he wasn't advocating that the audience not purchase the sponsor's products). But the aspect of your response I find most interesting is how it reveals the underlying difference in our philosophy. For you "big government" is most likely to restrict the freedom of the individual. For me big corporations are more likely to have a negative impact on my life when their power is not held in check by a sufficiently empowered government.
"It is like a laugh track or a drum rimshot to indicate a joke's punchline. It only accompanies the worst forms of humor."
To the contrary sometimes the laugh track is thrown in because the humor is considered too sophisticated for the audience. (Gilligan's genius was too cutting edge for us.)
"It's also a well-known fact the while corporations may own the media, their reporters almost all identify themselves as Democrat or liberal. They create stores that reflect that bias."
I don't deny that. When they report something it may have a liberal spin, but I repeat, the corporate (therefore conservative) bias in reporting at NBC, CBS, etc. is what they choose NOT to report. Take a look at BBC news for example and you'll see all sorts of stories that most Americans remain blissfully unaware of.
Corporate owned media like NBC should be regarded as right-leaning. They may appear left-leaning by comparison with ultra-right wing Fox. Their conservative bias doesn't appear in the news stories they cover. It appears in what they refuse to cover. (To get those stories, you have to tune into Link TV, Freespeech TV.) For example, you won't be seeing a documentary like "Walmart: the High Cost of Low Prices" on any commercially owned network such an NBC, CBS, ABC. Instead you will see lots of advertising telling you to shop at Walmart. PBS appears to be increasingly censoring content to avoid offending their corporate sponsors. Somehow I don't know think that an agricultural program that is "made possible by a grant from Archers Daniels Midland" is going to give me an unbiased perspective on the benefits of organic farming.
I wouldn't know what Prince thought about the internet, if I hadn't just read about it over the internet. And increasingly large numbers of young people will have to google Prince to find out who he was.
By that logic, should we also eliminate the secret ballot? If you feel strongly enough about a candidate to walk into a voting booth and vote for them, you shouldn't be so cowardly as to want to keep your vote secret from family, employers, etc.
My economics professor described economics as a field of study that "attempts to be a science". (I thought "pretends to be" might have been closer to the mark). But to insulate themselves from your suggestion, they might now insist on defining it as "a quasi-scientific field of reasoning".
In an effort to explain open source software, I sometimes used the analogy of "what if the alphabet had been patented, and over the centuries anyone reading or writing had to pay a royalty to the patent holders? We'd still be living in the Dark Ages." Seems like Microsoft heard and thought it'd be a good idea.
Tiny Core sounds similar to Puppy Linux in running entirely from RAM. I tried Puppy recently but was disappointed to find that the default setup has the user doing everything as root. Changing it to add non-root users was not a trivial as I thought it would be.
Yeah, right. I have a logo that will subconsciously make your customers cough up their entire bank account on what ever kind of crap you want to sell them. We've been working on this at McMahon and Tate for 50 years. We've almost got it perfected. And it can be yours if the price is right.
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....(pause to light cigar) it'd be a shame, ya know, if anything was to ahh... happen to it.
Seems British subjects are being oppressed. Why don't we liberate them and annex Britain to the U.S.? Of course they'd have to give up that silly royalty business.
Allright lunchtime. Let's see what do we have today ... AAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!
Science began as branch of philosophy. Newton was not referred to as a 'scientist' in his own time but as a 'philosopher'. His most famous work: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis)
Won't somebody please think of the Froggies!
First they laugh at you.
Then they ignore you.
Then they fight you.
And then you win.
And then they claim that they have always been your friend.
I'M taking out a patent on the letter 'M'. I can see quite a few people here are going to owe Me Money.
... provoke a memory of "Logan's Run".
If it was just me I could get by with fluxbox, fvwm, etc., but I think KDE running on Kubuntu was an essential component to getting my wife to use Linux on a computer that we were sharing. She doesn't miss Windows now.
"1) Every person should be copyrighted"
OK. But I'll be copyleft. Feel free to replicate me and if you make any improvements in me please pass those along.
Did anyone else read that as "Mind over Monkey"?
When I was in college a math professor told us that calculus had not changed much since the days of Newton and Leibniz and probably 100 pages of public domain material would more than cover the subject. He said that the 500+ page book that we had paid $100 for was basically a rip-off. I hope he had tenure because speaking the truth like that could be costly.
It may be that the majority of Man Made global warming deniers don't deny warming at all. But that strawman is hardly non-existent. Last winter every time it got cold or snowed Faux news idiot Sean Hannity would use the event as a demonstration of the non-existence of global warming.
A single anecdote won't serve to destroy my theory. ABC (owned by very conservative Disney) is interested in on-air personalities who provide them with ratings. Higher ratings equals selling more ads and making more money. Stossel could still be at ABC if he had been drawing an audience for them, no matter what he was advocating. (so long as he wasn't advocating that the audience not purchase the sponsor's products).
But the aspect of your response I find most interesting is how it reveals the underlying difference in our philosophy. For you "big government" is most likely to restrict the freedom of the individual. For me big corporations are more likely to have a negative impact on my life when their power is not held in check by a sufficiently empowered government.
"It is like a laugh track or a drum rimshot to indicate a joke's punchline. It only accompanies the worst forms of humor."
To the contrary sometimes the laugh track is thrown in because the humor is considered too sophisticated for the audience. (Gilligan's genius was too cutting edge for us.)
"It's also a well-known fact the while corporations may own the media, their reporters almost all identify themselves as Democrat or liberal. They create stores that reflect that bias."
I don't deny that. When they report something it may have a liberal spin, but I repeat, the corporate (therefore conservative) bias in reporting at NBC, CBS, etc. is what they choose NOT to report. Take a look at BBC news for example and you'll see all sorts of stories that most Americans remain blissfully unaware of.
Corporate owned media like NBC should be regarded as right-leaning. They may appear left-leaning by comparison with ultra-right wing Fox. Their conservative bias doesn't appear in the news stories they cover. It appears in what they refuse to cover. (To get those stories, you have to tune into Link TV, Freespeech TV.) For example, you won't be seeing a documentary like "Walmart: the High Cost of Low Prices" on any commercially owned network such an NBC, CBS, ABC. Instead you will see lots of advertising telling you to shop at Walmart.
PBS appears to be increasingly censoring content to avoid offending their corporate sponsors. Somehow I don't know think that an agricultural program that is "made possible by a grant from Archers Daniels Midland" is going to give me an unbiased perspective on the benefits of organic farming.
Oh, Sarah Palin wishes she had thought of this. She could have gone after Tina Fey for using her exact words against her.
I wouldn't know what Prince thought about the internet, if I hadn't just read about it over the internet. And increasingly large numbers of young people will have to google Prince to find out who he was.
By that logic, should we also eliminate the secret ballot? If you feel strongly enough about a candidate to walk into a voting booth and vote for them, you shouldn't be so cowardly as to want to keep your vote secret from family, employers, etc.
My economics professor described economics as a field of study that "attempts to be a science". (I thought "pretends to be" might have been closer to the mark). But to insulate themselves from your suggestion, they might now insist on defining it as "a quasi-scientific field of reasoning".
In an effort to explain open source software, I sometimes used the analogy of "what if the alphabet had been patented, and over the centuries anyone reading or writing had to pay a royalty to the patent holders? We'd still be living in the Dark Ages." Seems like Microsoft heard and thought it'd be a good idea.
Tiny Core sounds similar to Puppy Linux in running entirely from RAM. I tried Puppy recently but was disappointed to find that the default setup has the user doing everything as root. Changing it to add non-root users was not a trivial as I thought it would be.
Caught with Jolly Ranchers huh? Should we read her Miranda rights, or treat her as an enemy combatant?
Yeah, right. I have a logo that will subconsciously make your customers cough up their entire bank account on what ever kind of crap you want to sell them. We've been working on this at McMahon and Tate for 50 years. We've almost got it perfected. And it can be yours if the price is right.