you should submit to the uniformed thugs who have decided that they didn't like your question
Please take your ridiculous hyperbole to digg where it belongs. The uniformed thugs had no opinion about what he said, and you know it. Are you really so retarded as to think that the police were standing in the back saying amongst themselves, "omfg did you hear that? he asked Kerry about Skull and Bones! Fuck, we've got to take this kid down!"
That's not what happened at all. You're just wrong. There's no other way around this. You're just completely wrong. What happened was, the kid was impolite to everyone else there. The kid was a douche. That is the fact, and nothing you can say changes that. The cops stepped up for just one purpose, to enforce the rules that everyone else was following. If that douchebag kid had just stepped away from the mic then the confrontation would have stopped - but NOO, he had to throw a hissy fit. The police reacted to his hysterical hissy fit, and not what he said.
Where exactly do you get off making a statement like, "the uniformed thugs who have decided that they didn't like your question"
No seriously, I'd love to hear your explanation for that statement. It's doublethink. Your statement is doublethink. You look at what the police did, which was to react to the guy's behavior, and you say that the police didn't like his question? It's doublethink. And you should be ashamed of yourself.
show us one instance where tasing while under control is allowed.
I'm sure it's not allowed.
Also, they aren't allowed to taser people an the international space station.
(in case you don't get my point, you're supposed to say, "but, but he wasn't on the space station!!" to which I reply, "and he wasn't under control - no cuffs = no control. That's the bottom line. You're just going to have to deal with it.)
Being unnecessarily shocked with electricity by a government force is a form of torture in my view.
Oh, I agree with you. And I'll be really angry just as soon as you show me an example of someone being unnecessarily shocked (with electricity, thanks for adding that clarification, that was really useful and added a lot to the conversation because it makes it crystal clear that you aren't referring to being shocked by a goatse image).
This guy was not unnecessarily shocked. He was unnecessarily rude and childish. The shocking was used to make him stop moving so they could cuff him. All of that was his choice. The police did nothing but react to him. Just deal with it.
When you enter that auditorium do you enter into a contract with me to do what I want you to do?
Only if it's your auditorium and/or your event. Allow me to correct your analogy. If you set up a Nude Dancing for John Kerry event and I show up, then I am agreeing to at least accept nude dancing for Kerry. If I go to your event (of my own free will) and then start shouting about how Jesus is going to send you to hell, what are you going to do?? Of course, you're going to ask me to leave because I've violated the contract.
Is that really so hard to understand?? If I refuse to leave, you're going to ask security to escort me out. Is that hard for you to understand? If I then fight with security and begin waving a bible above my head, then security is going to pick me up to carry me out. And if I keep fighting, I'll get tasered.
was this really a majority rules decision
Nothing that I said had anything even remotely to do with "majority rules."
What about the rights of the minorities?
exactly. Why should HE be allowed to monopolize and dominate the event and prevent others from asking Kerry questions? He shouldn't be allowed to do that. Why are you arguing this point??
Rights are rights in virtue of our freedom from government, not from others.
So, I have the right to walk on the sidewalk. Does that mean I have the right to deny others the use of the sidewalk? If the police come along and say, "sir, please allow others to walk on this sidewalk" are you going to say that my right to use the sidewalk is really a freedom from government and therefore the government doesn't have the right to ask me to move?
I doubt you'll say that if you're trying to pass on the sidewalk.
The same thing happened here. When he entered that auditorium, he entered into a contract with everyone there. Part of the contract says, "you will be quiet while Kerry talks." Part of the contract says, "you will queue up to ask questions, instead of just shouting questions." Part of the contract says, "you will ask a question and then let someone else have a turn."
Part of the government's job is to enforce contracts. That's what the security people did here. Then this guy choose to escalate the situation. He was frankly quite immature. It saddens me that so few people see that.
the only problem at this point was his hands not being behind his back to be cuffed.
Yeah. They couldn't get his hands behind his back. They tried to, but they couldn't. If they had cuffed him, then they would have picked him up and carried him out. But they couldn't get him cuffed until they tasered him.
He was tortured
Please don't dilute that word by throwing it around in such a nonchalant manner.
I can agree that he was resisting arrest, but in this case there was no need for the arrest in the first place. Have we lost all touch with our freedoms that we think we are living in a police state that one can be arrested and detained for a non-threatening reason?
That's not the way I see this at all. At every step, he made choices that escalated the encounter.
1. He wasn't asking questions. He was making rhetorical statements. He was preaching. He was robbing other people of the chance to actually ask Kerry questions. What is the punishment for that? Simple, they take the mic away from you and give it to someone with something constructive to say. No taser involved.
2. When security (and others) politely asked him to yield the mic, he acted impolitely and continued to monopolize the event. What is the punishment for that? Simple, they escort him away from the venue. Still no taser involved. But look who made the choice to go from 1 to 2 - it's him. OK, he made his stupid little rhetorical statements. If he had just sat his privileged little ass down, that would be the end of it. But no, **he choose** to escalate from 1 to 2.
3. When security took him by the arm and gently began to escort him from the venue, he began pitching an absolute hissy fit. ok, now we're into interesting territory. You are not allowed to shout fire in a crowded theater, because that insights panic. And you are not allowed be hysterical in an auditorium for the same reason. He was shouting and waving his arms and running around the auditorium. That is completely out of line. He does not have the right to do that. What is the punishment? Simple, the police are going to restrain him for everyone's safety and forcibly remove him. Still no taser involved. And once again, it was his choice to go to step 3. When the police put their hands on him, he could have walked out of the venue and that would be the end of it. But no, he choose to escalate to 3.
4. The police get him to the back of the auditorium and the whole thing is about 10 seconds from being over and then einstein breaks free from the police and tries to run back down the isle. I'm sorry, but at that point, the consequences of all of his actions have reached the level where a taser is appropriate. The police had a duty to subdue and restrain this asshat and get him outside.
You greatly oversimplify the situation by saying, "he was resisting arrest." That's not what happened at all. Four times he escalated the situation. The police reacted appropriately each time. At any point during the encounter he could have made another choice and stopped escalating things, but he's not that smart. Fuck him. I'm sorry, but fuck him.
If I had been in his shoes, I would have asked Kerry a pithy question - I would have made my point that way. Then I would have preached rhetorically on my blog. But then, I'm not a dick.
ok, I'll bite. How do you plan to harvest kudzu? It's not like wheat that just stands up in nice rows ready to be cut. Kudzu wants to climb something. If you plant it in the middle of an empty field it'll spread out, but not get more than two or three inches off the ground until it finds something it can climb. I hardly think the amount of usable biomass you get from something three inches off the ground justifies the cost of clearing the field. When kudzu climbs something, it wraps around it. How do you plan to pull it off a tree without killing the tree?
I'm not writing you off, I'm just pointing out a problem with your plan. Invent some kind of armature that you can let the kudzu climb, and that you can then get the kudzu off of, and patent it, and I think you'll be on to something.
The trip from the Sun to Earth takes only 8 minutes, but it takes more than 10 million years for the photons to get from the core of the sun where they are created, out to the surface.
you used the word nuclear, therefore I am going to have a reactionary emotional response and completely refuse to consider your proposal on its merits: OMFG YOU WANT TO BLOW UP MY CHILDREN WONT SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN THERE ARE PROBLEMS THAT WE NEED TO SOLVE RIGHT HERE ON EARTH AND YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT MAKING ALL OF EARTH A RADIOACTIVE WASTELAND OMFG OMFG NUCLEAR IS EVIL 3-MILE ISLAND WHEN WILL PEOPLE LIKE YOU LEARN WE CAN ONLY HAVE A SPACE PROGRAM WHEN EVERY LAST PROBLEM ON EARTH HAS BEEN SOLVED AND THERES NO MORE DISEASE AND THE LION LAYS DOWN WITH THE LAMB AND THEN WE CAN ONLY HAVE ROCKETS THAT ARE POWERED BY RAINBOWS AND HAPPY THOUGHTS AND NEVER EVER EVIL NUCLEAR ROCKETS THAT MURDER CHILDREN OMFG.
All wikipedia entries should have some reference to source material to be considered valid.
That's true, but that's not what this tool is looking at. I might go edit the conservapedia, adding valid, multiply-sourced facts - but then immediately get a revert. And this would happen again and again.
Now this tool comes along and says, "ah ha! everything this guy writes gets reverted. He's obviously not trustworthy." And now my supposed untrustworthiness is used as an excuse to remove everything else I contribute.
This could be a tool for group-think (more so that wikipedia already is)
nothing I've said is even a little bit racist. Racism is the belief that one group of people is genetically superior to another. I don't believe that and nothing I've said would suggest it.
You're just so irrational and emotional that you are completely incapable of refuting anything I've said, so you fall back on your old standby, the nuclear attack of liberalism, you call me "racist" because in your mind, that negates everything I say.
Well, here's a little cluebat for you: it's not 1990 anymore. Nobody is scared or even bothered by your childish name-calling.
The irony here is, you've probably been on the receiving end of just such an attack. As a liberal, you've probably debated conservatives who are every bit as irrational and emotional as you are. Maybe you had an evolution vs. intelligent design debate. You made a logical, well-reasoned case for evolution, and the conservatives, completely unable to formulate a response, called you a name. "Well, you're just a godless heathen!" they probably said. And you probably laughed at them, realizing what morons they are.
Well here we are in exactly the same situation. I made a well-reasoned post and you are doing exactly what the ID people do. You are just angry about what I said. I mean, I'm right of course. Deep-down you know that I'm right. But it makes you angry. You've been indoctrinated to a certain way of thinking and anyone who challenges that just plain makes you angry. So you lash out at me just like the ID people lashed out at you. You call me a name, thinking to yourself that the name-calling ends the argument. "Racist!" you shout! Well, I laugh at you, realizing that you're a moron.
It doesn't matter what race a culture is. You can't see past that because of your indoctrination, but it's true. Over tens of thousands of years, there were successive migrations across the land bridge into North America. Each migration wiped out the people who came before them. The native Americans had no more or no less right to own the continent than did the white Europeans. Native Americans took the land from others. Europeans took the land from them. It has nothing to do with race. It's called life. The only reason that race is an issue is that people like you pick one race, the white race, and you say it's bad when they take the land away from people who took the land away from other people. You're the one who makes that arbitrary distinction. You're the one making a moral judgment based on nothing more than race. I make no *moral* judgment at all - and furthermore, the judgment I do make is made based on results, NOT race.
The Computer doesn't care it is just focusing on the game 100%
and more to the point, the computer doesn't even know what chess is. It's just adding, subtracting, fetching instructions from memory, etc. It's kind of like how a guy in a box doesn't really understand chinese, or how none of your brain cells actually know what slashdot is.
I wonder if it would be more accurate to say that a system, which included a computer as one of its parts, but also included a human programmer, beat Kasparov. Kind of like how it's not accurate to say that a few neurons and muscle fibers posted to slasdot. My brain cells and my fingers don't know what they're doing, any more than Big Blue knew what it was doing.
Nobody is saying you can't write your own closed-source application which runs on top of Linux.
nobody is saying that? Really? What about TFA: "is VMware a derived product of Linux? Unless vmkernel can be loaded without the Linux kernel, it would appear so."
The article says that because VMware runs on top of linux, it is a derivitive. The article says the opposite of what you just said.
a "90-day mission" and it's still going 3 years later? Something is rotten in Mars.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. What exactly is rotten on Mars? NASA asked for a rover with a design life of 90 days. Engineers built a rover that would last at least 90 days. What's the problem?
And that's why I really don't like the way feminism is going.
Well, just take that stand and stick to it. What feminism *should* be about is simple equality under the law, because that's "the right thing to do." It's been hijacked by some heavy-duty radicals, but that doesn't have to reflect negatively on you. You can take care of your kids and still call yourself a feminist, and if anyone says, in shock, "omfg you believe every word of the SCUM manifesto??" You can calmly say, "no, I believe that men and women should be treated equally under the law" and make no apologies for what other people do.
"Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family- maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that." -- Vivian Gornick, feminist author, University of Illinois, The Daily Illini, April 25, 1981.
"In order to raise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them" -- Dr. Mary Jo Bane, feminist and assistant professor of education at Wellesley College, and associate director of the school's Center for Research on Woman.
Someone please explain to me why the Toyota chose the Prius to be its hybird? The prius is the ugliest car they make. It looks like a damn turtle with those tiny little wheels (you know, just like the wheels on a turtle).
Toyota makes Scion and the Scion Tc is a nice looking car in the same size range as the Prius. Why aren't they sticking batteries in that sucker??
From what I remember the same impairment did was not as significant for conversation within the vehicle for reasons I can't remember.
IIRC it's because when two people in a car are talking they are both looking out of the windows. The conversation instantly stops when either person sees something wrong. I bet that if you repeated the experiment but had the passenger blindfolded, you would find the same amount of driver distraction as with cell phone use, because the passenger would keep talking regardless of anything going on outside the vehicle.
When the Series 3's came out last year there was a window - until January 07 I think - where you could transfer a lifetime service. That was the only reason I bought a series 3. I had a lifetime service on a Series 1 that died (I broke it by modding it)
They've added some neat features. You can subscribe to podcasts. They recently added what I think are video podcasts, but I'm not exactly sure. I watched some show by John Dvorak where he interviewed the Digg people. It can stream MP3s, so you don't need a seperate box for that. You can rent movies through amazon.com for $1.99. Once you hit the play button it keeps them around for 24 hours then deletes them, but that's still more convenient than netflix.
I have a series 2 also and it can transfer shows over the network, so I can keep every episode of BSG and a bunch of movies and such. That's very cool, except for the fact that the transfer rate is slow. You have to wait an hour for enough of a 2 hour movie to transfer so that you can start watching. And anyway, they haven't turned that feature on for the series 3's, though the article above claims "it's coming." We'll see.
Overall I'm pretty happy with it. I'm not sure that I would buy one and pay subscription though. But if you can get the lifetime deal then go for it.
I think that the best thing about the game was the the storyline was in the best traditions of sci-fi. Specifically, you got to the end of freespace 2 and were left with the feeling that the Shivans really didn't even notice you much at all. They were going about their business and you were little more than a mosquito. That's what I love in scifi, being reminded of how small humans are in this great big universe.
Oh man, I played the heck out of Silpheed on the Apple IIgs back in the late '80s.
Since this new version of the game is a 3d space fighter, I feel obligated to point out that Freespace was released as open source some years ago, and people have been working on it ever since. The homepage for the source code project is here:
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you should submit to the uniformed thugs who have decided that they didn't like your question
Please take your ridiculous hyperbole to digg where it belongs. The uniformed thugs had no opinion about what he said, and you know it. Are you really so retarded as to think that the police were standing in the back saying amongst themselves, "omfg did you hear that? he asked Kerry about Skull and Bones! Fuck, we've got to take this kid down!"
That's not what happened at all. You're just wrong. There's no other way around this. You're just completely wrong. What happened was, the kid was impolite to everyone else there. The kid was a douche. That is the fact, and nothing you can say changes that. The cops stepped up for just one purpose, to enforce the rules that everyone else was following. If that douchebag kid had just stepped away from the mic then the confrontation would have stopped - but NOO, he had to throw a hissy fit. The police reacted to his hysterical hissy fit, and not what he said.
Where exactly do you get off making a statement like, "the uniformed thugs who have decided that they didn't like your question"
No seriously, I'd love to hear your explanation for that statement. It's doublethink. Your statement is doublethink. You look at what the police did, which was to react to the guy's behavior, and you say that the police didn't like his question? It's doublethink. And you should be ashamed of yourself.
show us one instance where tasing while under control is allowed.
I'm sure it's not allowed.
Also, they aren't allowed to taser people an the international space station.
(in case you don't get my point, you're supposed to say, "but, but he wasn't on the space station!!" to which I reply, "and he wasn't under control - no cuffs = no control. That's the bottom line. You're just going to have to deal with it.)
Being unnecessarily shocked with electricity by a government force is a form of torture in my view.
Oh, I agree with you. And I'll be really angry just as soon as you show me an example of someone being unnecessarily shocked (with electricity, thanks for adding that clarification, that was really useful and added a lot to the conversation because it makes it crystal clear that you aren't referring to being shocked by a goatse image).
This guy was not unnecessarily shocked. He was unnecessarily rude and childish. The shocking was used to make him stop moving so they could cuff him. All of that was his choice. The police did nothing but react to him. Just deal with it.
When you enter that auditorium do you enter into a contract with me to do what I want you to do?
Only if it's your auditorium and/or your event. Allow me to correct your analogy. If you set up a Nude Dancing for John Kerry event and I show up, then I am agreeing to at least accept nude dancing for Kerry. If I go to your event (of my own free will) and then start shouting about how Jesus is going to send you to hell, what are you going to do?? Of course, you're going to ask me to leave because I've violated the contract.
Is that really so hard to understand?? If I refuse to leave, you're going to ask security to escort me out. Is that hard for you to understand? If I then fight with security and begin waving a bible above my head, then security is going to pick me up to carry me out. And if I keep fighting, I'll get tasered.
was this really a majority rules decision
Nothing that I said had anything even remotely to do with "majority rules."
What about the rights of the minorities?
exactly. Why should HE be allowed to monopolize and dominate the event and prevent others from asking Kerry questions? He shouldn't be allowed to do that. Why are you arguing this point??
Rights are rights in virtue of our freedom from government, not from others.
So, I have the right to walk on the sidewalk. Does that mean I have the right to deny others the use of the sidewalk? If the police come along and say, "sir, please allow others to walk on this sidewalk" are you going to say that my right to use the sidewalk is really a freedom from government and therefore the government doesn't have the right to ask me to move?
I doubt you'll say that if you're trying to pass on the sidewalk.
The same thing happened here. When he entered that auditorium, he entered into a contract with everyone there. Part of the contract says, "you will be quiet while Kerry talks." Part of the contract says, "you will queue up to ask questions, instead of just shouting questions." Part of the contract says, "you will ask a question and then let someone else have a turn."
Part of the government's job is to enforce contracts. That's what the security people did here. Then this guy choose to escalate the situation. He was frankly quite immature. It saddens me that so few people see that.
the only problem at this point was his hands not being behind his back to be cuffed.
Yeah. They couldn't get his hands behind his back. They tried to, but they couldn't. If they had cuffed him, then they would have picked him up and carried him out. But they couldn't get him cuffed until they tasered him.
He was tortured
Please don't dilute that word by throwing it around in such a nonchalant manner.
I can agree that he was resisting arrest, but in this case there was no need for the arrest in the first place. Have we lost all touch with our freedoms that we think we are living in a police state that one can be arrested and detained for a non-threatening reason?
That's not the way I see this at all. At every step, he made choices that escalated the encounter.
1. He wasn't asking questions. He was making rhetorical statements. He was preaching. He was robbing other people of the chance to actually ask Kerry questions. What is the punishment for that? Simple, they take the mic away from you and give it to someone with something constructive to say. No taser involved.
2. When security (and others) politely asked him to yield the mic, he acted impolitely and continued to monopolize the event. What is the punishment for that? Simple, they escort him away from the venue. Still no taser involved. But look who made the choice to go from 1 to 2 - it's him. OK, he made his stupid little rhetorical statements. If he had just sat his privileged little ass down, that would be the end of it. But no, **he choose** to escalate from 1 to 2.
3. When security took him by the arm and gently began to escort him from the venue, he began pitching an absolute hissy fit. ok, now we're into interesting territory. You are not allowed to shout fire in a crowded theater, because that insights panic. And you are not allowed be hysterical in an auditorium for the same reason. He was shouting and waving his arms and running around the auditorium. That is completely out of line. He does not have the right to do that. What is the punishment? Simple, the police are going to restrain him for everyone's safety and forcibly remove him. Still no taser involved. And once again, it was his choice to go to step 3. When the police put their hands on him, he could have walked out of the venue and that would be the end of it. But no, he choose to escalate to 3.
4. The police get him to the back of the auditorium and the whole thing is about 10 seconds from being over and then einstein breaks free from the police and tries to run back down the isle. I'm sorry, but at that point, the consequences of all of his actions have reached the level where a taser is appropriate. The police had a duty to subdue and restrain this asshat and get him outside.
You greatly oversimplify the situation by saying, "he was resisting arrest." That's not what happened at all. Four times he escalated the situation. The police reacted appropriately each time. At any point during the encounter he could have made another choice and stopped escalating things, but he's not that smart. Fuck him. I'm sorry, but fuck him.
If I had been in his shoes, I would have asked Kerry a pithy question - I would have made my point that way. Then I would have preached rhetorically on my blog. But then, I'm not a dick.
Kudzu you assholes
ok, I'll bite. How do you plan to harvest kudzu? It's not like wheat that just stands up in nice rows ready to be cut. Kudzu wants to climb something. If you plant it in the middle of an empty field it'll spread out, but not get more than two or three inches off the ground until it finds something it can climb. I hardly think the amount of usable biomass you get from something three inches off the ground justifies the cost of clearing the field. When kudzu climbs something, it wraps around it. How do you plan to pull it off a tree without killing the tree?
I'm not writing you off, I'm just pointing out a problem with your plan. Invent some kind of armature that you can let the kudzu climb, and that you can then get the kudzu off of, and patent it, and I think you'll be on to something.
The trip from the Sun to Earth takes only 8 minutes, but it takes more than 10 million years for the photons to get from the core of the sun where they are created, out to the surface.
large pool of qualified applicants in the market today
qualified. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means
you used the word nuclear, therefore I am going to have a reactionary emotional response and completely refuse to consider your proposal on its merits: OMFG YOU WANT TO BLOW UP MY CHILDREN WONT SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN THERE ARE PROBLEMS THAT WE NEED TO SOLVE RIGHT HERE ON EARTH AND YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT MAKING ALL OF EARTH A RADIOACTIVE WASTELAND OMFG OMFG NUCLEAR IS EVIL 3-MILE ISLAND WHEN WILL PEOPLE LIKE YOU LEARN WE CAN ONLY HAVE A SPACE PROGRAM WHEN EVERY LAST PROBLEM ON EARTH HAS BEEN SOLVED AND THERES NO MORE DISEASE AND THE LION LAYS DOWN WITH THE LAMB AND THEN WE CAN ONLY HAVE ROCKETS THAT ARE POWERED BY RAINBOWS AND HAPPY THOUGHTS AND NEVER EVER EVIL NUCLEAR ROCKETS THAT MURDER CHILDREN OMFG.
All wikipedia entries should have some reference to source material to be considered valid.
That's true, but that's not what this tool is looking at. I might go edit the conservapedia, adding valid, multiply-sourced facts - but then immediately get a revert. And this would happen again and again.
Now this tool comes along and says, "ah ha! everything this guy writes gets reverted. He's obviously not trustworthy." And now my supposed untrustworthiness is used as an excuse to remove everything else I contribute.
This could be a tool for group-think (more so that wikipedia already is)
nothing I've said is even a little bit racist. Racism is the belief that one group of people is genetically superior to another. I don't believe that and nothing I've said would suggest it.
You're just so irrational and emotional that you are completely incapable of refuting anything I've said, so you fall back on your old standby, the nuclear attack of liberalism, you call me "racist" because in your mind, that negates everything I say.
Well, here's a little cluebat for you: it's not 1990 anymore. Nobody is scared or even bothered by your childish name-calling.
The irony here is, you've probably been on the receiving end of just such an attack. As a liberal, you've probably debated conservatives who are every bit as irrational and emotional as you are. Maybe you had an evolution vs. intelligent design debate. You made a logical, well-reasoned case for evolution, and the conservatives, completely unable to formulate a response, called you a name. "Well, you're just a godless heathen!" they probably said. And you probably laughed at them, realizing what morons they are.
Well here we are in exactly the same situation. I made a well-reasoned post and you are doing exactly what the ID people do. You are just angry about what I said. I mean, I'm right of course. Deep-down you know that I'm right. But it makes you angry. You've been indoctrinated to a certain way of thinking and anyone who challenges that just plain makes you angry. So you lash out at me just like the ID people lashed out at you. You call me a name, thinking to yourself that the name-calling ends the argument. "Racist!" you shout! Well, I laugh at you, realizing that you're a moron.
It doesn't matter what race a culture is. You can't see past that because of your indoctrination, but it's true. Over tens of thousands of years, there were successive migrations across the land bridge into North America. Each migration wiped out the people who came before them. The native Americans had no more or no less right to own the continent than did the white Europeans. Native Americans took the land from others. Europeans took the land from them. It has nothing to do with race. It's called life. The only reason that race is an issue is that people like you pick one race, the white race, and you say it's bad when they take the land away from people who took the land away from other people. You're the one who makes that arbitrary distinction. You're the one making a moral judgment based on nothing more than race. I make no *moral* judgment at all - and furthermore, the judgment I do make is made based on results, NOT race.
The Computer doesn't care it is just focusing on the game 100%
and more to the point, the computer doesn't even know what chess is. It's just adding, subtracting, fetching instructions from memory, etc. It's kind of like how a guy in a box doesn't really understand chinese, or how none of your brain cells actually know what slashdot is.
I wonder if it would be more accurate to say that a system, which included a computer as one of its parts, but also included a human programmer, beat Kasparov. Kind of like how it's not accurate to say that a few neurons and muscle fibers posted to slasdot. My brain cells and my fingers don't know what they're doing, any more than Big Blue knew what it was doing.
Nobody is saying you can't write your own closed-source application which runs on top of Linux.
nobody is saying that? Really? What about TFA: "is VMware a derived product of Linux? Unless vmkernel can be loaded without the Linux kernel, it would appear so."
The article says that because VMware runs on top of linux, it is a derivitive. The article says the opposite of what you just said.
Why is there nothing on the discussion page? If you're fighting someone on the main page, you need to document it on the discussion page.
a "90-day mission" and it's still going 3 years later? Something is rotten in Mars.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. What exactly is rotten on Mars? NASA asked for a rover with a design life of 90 days. Engineers built a rover that would last at least 90 days. What's the problem?
And that's why I really don't like the way feminism is going.
Well, just take that stand and stick to it. What feminism *should* be about is simple equality under the law, because that's "the right thing to do." It's been hijacked by some heavy-duty radicals, but that doesn't have to reflect negatively on you. You can take care of your kids and still call yourself a feminist, and if anyone says, in shock, "omfg you believe every word of the SCUM manifesto??" You can calmly say, "no, I believe that men and women should be treated equally under the law" and make no apologies for what other people do.
There's nothing wrong with being a home maker.
"Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family- maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that." -- Vivian Gornick, feminist author, University of Illinois, The Daily Illini, April 25, 1981.
"In order to raise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them" -- Dr. Mary Jo Bane, feminist and assistant professor of education at Wellesley College, and associate director of the school's Center for Research on Woman.
How far does one of the pads depress when you step on it? The article doesn't say.
Someone please explain to me why the Toyota chose the Prius to be its hybird? The prius is the ugliest car they make. It looks like a damn turtle with those tiny little wheels (you know, just like the wheels on a turtle).
Toyota makes Scion and the Scion Tc is a nice looking car in the same size range as the Prius. Why aren't they sticking batteries in that sucker??
I wonder if Doom would make the cut if it were released today.
From what I remember the same impairment did was not as significant for conversation within the vehicle for reasons I can't remember.
IIRC it's because when two people in a car are talking they are both looking out of the windows. The conversation instantly stops when either person sees something wrong. I bet that if you repeated the experiment but had the passenger blindfolded, you would find the same amount of driver distraction as with cell phone use, because the passenger would keep talking regardless of anything going on outside the vehicle.
When the Series 3's came out last year there was a window - until January 07 I think - where you could transfer a lifetime service. That was the only reason I bought a series 3. I had a lifetime service on a Series 1 that died (I broke it by modding it)
They've added some neat features. You can subscribe to podcasts. They recently added what I think are video podcasts, but I'm not exactly sure. I watched some show by John Dvorak where he interviewed the Digg people. It can stream MP3s, so you don't need a seperate box for that. You can rent movies through amazon.com for $1.99. Once you hit the play button it keeps them around for 24 hours then deletes them, but that's still more convenient than netflix.
I have a series 2 also and it can transfer shows over the network, so I can keep every episode of BSG and a bunch of movies and such. That's very cool, except for the fact that the transfer rate is slow. You have to wait an hour for enough of a 2 hour movie to transfer so that you can start watching. And anyway, they haven't turned that feature on for the series 3's, though the article above claims "it's coming." We'll see.
Overall I'm pretty happy with it. I'm not sure that I would buy one and pay subscription though. But if you can get the lifetime deal then go for it.
I think that the best thing about the game was the the storyline was in the best traditions of sci-fi. Specifically, you got to the end of freespace 2 and were left with the feeling that the Shivans really didn't even notice you much at all. They were going about their business and you were little more than a mosquito. That's what I love in scifi, being reminded of how small humans are in this great big universe.
Oh man, I played the heck out of Silpheed on the Apple IIgs back in the late '80s.
Since this new version of the game is a 3d space fighter, I feel obligated to point out that Freespace was released as open source some years ago, and people have been working on it ever since. The homepage for the source code project is here:
http://scp.indiegames.us/news.php
Here's a youtube video that shows some gameplay on the OSS version