With one dressed up to look like a computer and another as Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, the demonstrators danced and put on a short sketch to illustrate their objections to the system.
i'd recommend doing building your own pc at most once. it's a good way to familiarize yourself with pc hardware (i found the docs at sharkyextreme.com particularly helpful).
but when you roll your own, you're on your own, replacement-parts-wise. stuff breaks. so if the learning benefit will be small or nonexistent, i'd say go with a dell or another company that's willing to have your hardware headaches for you.
also, if i were to build my box over again, i'd try to avoid buying from bulk resellers, who send out components without documentation. sure, you can usually find the docs online, but it's convenient not to have to look.
You had to love Heston at that moment in the first movie, a towering old-school Hollywood superhero insisting on his dignity in a world that didn't want to give him a shred, but which, ultimately, had no choice.
for a moment, i thot JonKatz was referring to some actor-studio squabbles in making the original.
a quick check found that Heston was in fact enthusiastic about the movie (at the start): see here and here.
Heston on the prospects for the movie: "The novel was singularly uncinematic; there wasn't even a treatment outlining an effective script. Still, I smelled a good film in it."
You might remember the story a few months ago about the 15-year-old stock manipulator, who pumped and dumped stocks on message boards full of gullible idiots. Now the NYT Magazine has a story that is even better - that legal professional answering your questions about criminal law? Maybe he's a 15-year-old too.
you're missing the point. Michael Lewis's articles on teenagers Jonathan Lebed and Marcus Arnold are only superficially about gullibility, manipulation, fraud, etc. Lewis is describing what he understands as one in a series of crises of authority caused by technological change. read the Lebed article and note how Lewis describes the inversion by the computer of conventional authority relations of teenage life; also note how Lewis describes the S.E.C.'s historically specific (and limited) purpose, and how that institution lacks the moral and legal grounds to condemn Jonathon. read the Arnold article and note Lewis' narrative of the replacement of what he understands as "old-fashioned" lawyering, and note the comments on the role of information in legal authority. progress -- in the form of the telephonic advances, highways, and the Internet -- begets authority, and progress erodes authority.
Attributing American prosperity (a questionable assertion itself, given the disparities of wealth and the absence of strong social benefits in this country) to simple demographics and geography is equally naive.
A Harvard economist named Juliet Schor wrote an analysis of American work and leisure patterns several years ago called The Overworked American. Weak unions, consumerism, and corporate downsizing are some of the reasons cited for the dramatic comparative difference with Europe, *and* with the American work and leisure in the late 1960s (when workers worked an average of about a month less than in the late 1980s).
As for Calvinism, a funny little man named Max Weber advanced an argument along that line some years ago...
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i'd recommend doing building your own pc at most once. it's a good way to familiarize yourself with pc hardware (i found the docs at sharkyextreme.com particularly helpful).
but when you roll your own, you're on your own, replacement-parts-wise. stuff breaks. so if the learning benefit will be small or nonexistent, i'd say go with a dell or another company that's willing to have your hardware headaches for you.
also, if i were to build my box over again, i'd try to avoid buying from bulk resellers, who send out components without documentation. sure, you can usually find the docs online, but it's convenient not to have to look.
for a moment, i thot JonKatz was referring to some actor-studio squabbles in making the original.
a quick check found that Heston was in fact enthusiastic about the movie (at the start): see here and here.
Heston on the prospects for the movie: "The novel was singularly uncinematic; there wasn't even a treatment outlining an effective script. Still, I smelled a good film in it."
yeesh.
You might remember the story a few months ago about the 15-year-old stock manipulator, who pumped and dumped stocks on message boards full of gullible idiots. Now the NYT Magazine has a story that is even better - that legal professional answering your questions about criminal law? Maybe he's a 15-year-old too.
you're missing the point. Michael Lewis's articles on teenagers Jonathan Lebed and Marcus Arnold are only superficially about gullibility, manipulation, fraud, etc. Lewis is describing what he understands as one in a series of crises of authority caused by technological change. read the Lebed article and note how Lewis describes the inversion by the computer of conventional authority relations of teenage life; also note how Lewis describes the S.E.C.'s historically specific (and limited) purpose, and how that institution lacks the moral and legal grounds to condemn Jonathon. read the Arnold article and note Lewis' narrative of the replacement of what he understands as "old-fashioned" lawyering, and note the comments on the role of information in legal authority. progress -- in the form of the telephonic advances, highways, and the Internet -- begets authority, and progress erodes authority.
Of course, Weber was discussing the implications of the already existing "Calvinist" viewpoint, wasn't he?
and your point is ...?
How Calvinist of you.
Attributing American prosperity (a questionable assertion itself, given the disparities of wealth and the absence of strong social benefits in this country) to simple demographics and geography is equally naive.
A Harvard economist named Juliet Schor wrote an analysis of American work and leisure patterns several years ago called The Overworked American. Weak unions, consumerism, and corporate downsizing are some of the reasons cited for the dramatic comparative difference with Europe, *and* with the American work and leisure in the late 1960s (when workers worked an average of about a month less than in the late 1980s).
As for Calvinism, a funny little man named Max Weber advanced an argument along that line some years ago ...