Hey, watch that gender attitude! Who says girls want to build tea sets out of their legos? I'd kind of like to see my daughters try their hand at babbage-style mechanical computers out of legos. (At least, with their imaginations.) Cities, trucks, and bridges are good, too. Girls can do engineering, you know.;)
(Offered tongue in cheek, if noone can figure that out.:) )
I watched my little nephew put together one of these "Bionicles" this weekend, and I was saddened at the way Lego had gone from being a building toy where you created something out of your imagination to being just an action figure with a gimmick: you get to assemble it yourself. I was actually surprised when I realized the toy he was building was "Lego."
Now, I haven't seen the mindstorms; those probably fit more with the concept of encouraging creativity than the toy I saw Saturday. But I'm glad to hear they're going to start producing toy sets again and promoting them over Harry Potter and Star Wars action figures relabelled as Legos.
"They tried to scare me," Borrayo said. "They told me, 'You're a pirate!' I said, 'C'mon, guys, pirates are all at sea. I just work in a parking lot.' "
Impersonation of law enforcement personnel (They said they were police from the recording industry or something)
Making threats of force ( and next time they'd take me away in handcuffs,)
Confiscation of property without due process of law
Musica de los 70's y 80's: Morally, if not legally, copyright on music this old should have expired. Given that it's Spanish, the RIAA probably doesn't own the rights, anyway
We notify them that continued sale would be a violation of civil and criminal codes. Nope; copyright is entirely civil law, not criminal (unless the DMCA figures into this somehow).
And this, my friends, is why, no matter how much we hate them, everyone should have the right to hire an attorney. Otherwise you only get the legal rights they tell you you have.
I don't like the implications of a law that allows someone else to own the rights to images of me. At it's heart this is just a body of legislation to ensure certain people have a job using a certain business model. It's somebody else's morality that says that's the right thing to do. My morality says nobody else should have that kind of control over my pictures unless I grant it. I don't force my values on people through legislation; why should they force theirs on me?
They speak of the universe of having a finite size and expanding. Since a gravastar (or black hole) would be a sphere with density great enough to make the escape velocity faster than the speed of light, saying that the universe is inside a gravastar (or black hole) is really a statement about the density of the universe. If you compressed the universe enough, it would BE a black hole, if you considered the black hole to be the superdense mass itself, or it would be inside a black hole, if you considered the black hole to be the spherical region within which the superdense mass resides. They are basically saying the universe is already that compressed.
One account I've seen for the formation of the universe is that originally everything was inside a white hole but expanded out of it. As it expanded, the white hole (the region of superdense mass) shrank because mass exited that region. I've heard the author of that theory no longer believes it, though.
This is the guy who refuses to follow the proper procedures laid out hundreds of years ago by the French revolutionaries (you
all know what I mean), etc
What, run everyone through the guillotine? What are you talking about?
I wish that more considerate linux users would help out modding down trolls
If you browse at +4, you will see a lot of good content with very few overt trolls. (The ones you do will be appreciable for art form and humor if not for content.)
I can't recommend Nick Corcodilos' Ask The Headhunter enough. This advice is just wonderful, either for getting a new job, or for showing your worth to your current employer. It takes a little bit of mental adjustment to accept what he says (and it may be a bit scary), but he is absolutely right about how to go about it! The problem we in IT face right now is the feeling that our worth is going down as many of us are replaced through outsourcing and foreign labor. Brush up your skill set, but most importantly, learn how to apply your talents to solve real business problems in terms of dollars and you will never doubt your worth (nor will your potential employers).
ATH's advice is great. Be sure to get the book, read as much of the website as possible, and subscribe to the weekly newsletter. It's the only HTML mail I receive every week that I actually look forward to and enjoy reading.
Might check out Condorcet's method, which allows an instant-runoff type election in a manner that has no incentive for "strategic voting" (i.e., changing one's vote because of one's preferred candidate's perceived chances of winning) and mathematically finds the best compromise candidate based on the voters' expressed preferences.
I'm okay with emachines; they make cheap little boxes. May main home machine is a 300 MHz celeron emachine running Linux. (RedHat until last night, when I installed Debian.)
Even as stepfather, Joseph was still Jesus's "legal" father. Jesus inherited genetically through Mary, but inherited the legal title to the throne of David through His earthly father Joseph. Just posted in response to someone else on this topic; you can go back to my original post and read through the replies to read more.
I've got to agree. I intended that to be an offtopic post, only of interest to the person I was replying to and anyone who came after, thinking most of the moderation was already over for this thread.
I wanted it to be interesting, but I wasn't shooting for overshadowing the story.
I've got to get more judicious in the use of my karma bonus.
I wondered that, too.:) The issue is that under Jewish law, Jesus was the son of Joseph since He was born to Joseph's wife. Therefore, His "legal" heritage and His "genetic" heritage are both traced back to David, to prove that Jesus is both a genetic descendant of David and legal heir to the throne. It's interesting to note that Joseph's genealogy goes through the kings descended from David, beginning with Solomon, while Mary's goes through another son of David, Nathan.
Another interesting person in both genealogies is Zerubbabel, given two different fathers, IIRC. My understanding is that this is another case where someone's legal father was not his genetic father (due to the custom of "levirate marriage," where a man married his childless brother's widow to have children in his brother's name).
I saw a wonderful chart on this on the net a few years back, but it's moved.
It is still important to Christians today to have a record of the fact that Christ was descended from David, since that was prophesied and we take those prophecies as proof of His deity.
When I was a boy my parents told me to skip all those genealogical passages. As a teenager, however, I decided that if they were in there they must be important, so I adopted a policy of making myself read them each time I come to those points in the Bible in my regular reading. (I don't go seek them out if I'm just thinking I feel like reading some of the Bible, but I don't skip them in my regular scheduled reading as I go through the Bible each year or so.)
What I found is that while for years it was almost impossible to even pay attention to them, gradually as I became more and more familiar with the rest of the Bible the genealogies took on meaning as a sort of review of what I've read. When I read through the genealogy of Christ, I have a capsule review of David, all the kings of Judah that came after him, the exile of Israel, the restoration under Zerubbabel, and other important events of the Old Testament. Now, I can see how if these events are unimportant to you then the genealogies would continue to be unimportant.:) But for those who like me believe the events in the Bible are God's way of teaching us how to live, those capsule reviews have begun to help me.
A few years back we had a special event at church where we were taught a series of hand-motion mnemonics to remember most of the events in the Old Testament. (Apparently there's a comparable set of mnemonics for the New Testament, but we haven't had the program for that.) At that point I had only recently started to notice that the genealogies were starting to have meaning to me, and I remember having the sudden epiphany: "Hey! The genealogies are God's mnemonics!"
For the record, there are tons of genealogies in the Bible, often quite repetitive. (That's a lot of review.) The book of Genesis contains quite a few as it relates the earliest ancestors of the human race and the Israelite people (those are the ones my parents originally told me to skip). The line of King David is narrated in great detail, there are many records of the major families of Israel, and the book of Chronicles (the last book in the Hebrew order of the Old Testament) begins with a gigantic genealogical summary from the first man, Adam, all the way down to the author's day. Then, of course, the New Testament contains two genealogies of Christ; one through Joseph, and one through Mary.
I hope people find this post interesting, even if they don't agree with my religion.
I was taught the rule about using apostrophes for letters, symbols, digits, and acronyms, IIRC. In seventh grade, though, I remember getting ahold of my first roleplaying game, which used units called APs (Attribute Points). The game didn't use apostrophes for plurals of acronyms, and that seemed a very clean way to do it. I think the primary difference was that the acronyms didn't have periods. Nowadays, acronyms rarely have periods anymore, and I don't usually see an apostrophe on a plural of an acronym.
If you must know, the game was The Batman Roleplaying Game, a scaled-down version of The DC Heroes Roleplaying Game. Those were the days.:)
Actually this article is really asking is $BRANDNAME dead; UNIX as a technology will live on, even though proprietary UNIXes will continue to lose marketshare to their free but disowned siblings.
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Linux is UNIX in all respects that matter; it's just that some people believe we don't have the legal right to call it that due to trademark law. I, on the other hand, believes the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives me the right to call it anything I please. Linux is UNIX. So there.:P I dare anyone to come after me with a legal stick.
Words evolve in meaning; you can't legislate the development of language.
I don't think it's about vs. Microsoft; I think it's about vs. proprietary. We sometimes have "allies" in other proprietary software vendors, but that model is what created Microsoft in the first place, and taking the economic benefits out of that model through the creation and improvement of Free software is what interests me.
Interesting. They are misusing the term "open source," though. Open source doesn't just mean you get to look at the source code, although that is valuable.
By the open source definition, you can't have such a thing as "open source for developers." An open source license must not discriminate against fields of endeavor.
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Hey, watch that gender attitude! Who says girls want to build tea sets out of their legos? I'd kind of like to see my daughters try their hand at babbage-style mechanical computers out of legos. (At least, with their imaginations.) Cities, trucks, and bridges are good, too. Girls can do engineering, you know. ;)
(Offered tongue in cheek, if noone can figure that out. :) )
I watched my little nephew put together one of these "Bionicles" this weekend, and I was saddened at the way Lego had gone from being a building toy where you created something out of your imagination to being just an action figure with a gimmick: you get to assemble it yourself. I was actually surprised when I realized the toy he was building was "Lego."
Now, I haven't seen the mindstorms; those probably fit more with the concept of encouraging creativity than the toy I saw Saturday. But I'm glad to hear they're going to start producing toy sets again and promoting them over Harry Potter and Star Wars action figures relabelled as Legos.
I'll elect the people I want in charge of law enforcement in my community, thank you very much!
"They tried to scare me," Borrayo said. "They told me, 'You're a pirate!' I said, 'C'mon, guys, pirates are all at sea. I just work in a parking lot.' "
You said it! Copyright infringement isn't theft; it's property devaluation.
Of course, since there's no proof this guy was even selling bootlegged wares, he didn't even engage in that.
Oh, let's count!
And this, my friends, is why, no matter how much we hate them, everyone should have the right to hire an attorney. Otherwise you only get the legal rights they tell you you have.
I don't like the implications of a law that allows someone else to own the rights to images of me. At it's heart this is just a body of legislation to ensure certain people have a job using a certain business model. It's somebody else's morality that says that's the right thing to do. My morality says nobody else should have that kind of control over my pictures unless I grant it. I don't force my values on people through legislation; why should they force theirs on me?
Yes, that's basically what I'm saying.
Inheritess is not a typo for inheritance. It means a female who inherits.
They speak of the universe of having a finite size and expanding. Since a gravastar (or black hole) would be a sphere with density great enough to make the escape velocity faster than the speed of light, saying that the universe is inside a gravastar (or black hole) is really a statement about the density of the universe. If you compressed the universe enough, it would BE a black hole, if you considered the black hole to be the superdense mass itself, or it would be inside a black hole, if you considered the black hole to be the spherical region within which the superdense mass resides. They are basically saying the universe is already that compressed.
One account I've seen for the formation of the universe is that originally everything was inside a white hole but expanded out of it. As it expanded, the white hole (the region of superdense mass) shrank because mass exited that region. I've heard the author of that theory no longer believes it, though.
This is the guy who refuses to follow the proper procedures laid out hundreds of years ago by the French revolutionaries (you all know what I mean), etc
What, run everyone through the guillotine? What are you talking about?
Why use cdparanoia when you can just go online and download it from your favorite P2P service? :)
I wish that more considerate linux users would help out modding down trolls
If you browse at +4, you will see a lot of good content with very few overt trolls. (The ones you do will be appreciable for art form and humor if not for content.)
I can't recommend Nick Corcodilos' Ask The Headhunter enough. This advice is just wonderful, either for getting a new job, or for showing your worth to your current employer. It takes a little bit of mental adjustment to accept what he says (and it may be a bit scary), but he is absolutely right about how to go about it! The problem we in IT face right now is the feeling that our worth is going down as many of us are replaced through outsourcing and foreign labor. Brush up your skill set, but most importantly, learn how to apply your talents to solve real business problems in terms of dollars and you will never doubt your worth (nor will your potential employers).
ATH's advice is great. Be sure to get the book, read as much of the website as possible, and subscribe to the weekly newsletter. It's the only HTML mail I receive every week that I actually look forward to and enjoy reading.
Might check out Condorcet's method, which allows an instant-runoff type election in a manner that has no incentive for "strategic voting" (i.e., changing one's vote because of one's preferred candidate's perceived chances of winning) and mathematically finds the best compromise candidate based on the voters' expressed preferences.
I'm okay with emachines; they make cheap little boxes. May main home machine is a 300 MHz celeron emachine running Linux. (RedHat until last night, when I installed Debian.)
Even as stepfather, Joseph was still Jesus's "legal" father. Jesus inherited genetically through Mary, but inherited the legal title to the throne of David through His earthly father Joseph. Just posted in response to someone else on this topic; you can go back to my original post and read through the replies to read more.
I've got to agree. I intended that to be an offtopic post, only of interest to the person I was replying to and anyone who came after, thinking most of the moderation was already over for this thread.
I wanted it to be interesting, but I wasn't shooting for overshadowing the story.
I've got to get more judicious in the use of my karma bonus.
I wondered that, too. :) The issue is that under Jewish law, Jesus was the son of Joseph since He was born to Joseph's wife. Therefore, His "legal" heritage and His "genetic" heritage are both traced back to David, to prove that Jesus is both a genetic descendant of David and legal heir to the throne. It's interesting to note that Joseph's genealogy goes through the kings descended from David, beginning with Solomon, while Mary's goes through another son of David, Nathan.
Another interesting person in both genealogies is Zerubbabel, given two different fathers, IIRC. My understanding is that this is another case where someone's legal father was not his genetic father (due to the custom of "levirate marriage," where a man married his childless brother's widow to have children in his brother's name).
I saw a wonderful chart on this on the net a few years back, but it's moved.
It is still important to Christians today to have a record of the fact that Christ was descended from David, since that was prophesied and we take those prophecies as proof of His deity.
When I was a boy my parents told me to skip all those genealogical passages. As a teenager, however, I decided that if they were in there they must be important, so I adopted a policy of making myself read them each time I come to those points in the Bible in my regular reading. (I don't go seek them out if I'm just thinking I feel like reading some of the Bible, but I don't skip them in my regular scheduled reading as I go through the Bible each year or so.)
What I found is that while for years it was almost impossible to even pay attention to them, gradually as I became more and more familiar with the rest of the Bible the genealogies took on meaning as a sort of review of what I've read. When I read through the genealogy of Christ, I have a capsule review of David, all the kings of Judah that came after him, the exile of Israel, the restoration under Zerubbabel, and other important events of the Old Testament. Now, I can see how if these events are unimportant to you then the genealogies would continue to be unimportant. :) But for those who like me believe the events in the Bible are God's way of teaching us how to live, those capsule reviews have begun to help me.
A few years back we had a special event at church where we were taught a series of hand-motion mnemonics to remember most of the events in the Old Testament. (Apparently there's a comparable set of mnemonics for the New Testament, but we haven't had the program for that.) At that point I had only recently started to notice that the genealogies were starting to have meaning to me, and I remember having the sudden epiphany: "Hey! The genealogies are God's mnemonics!"
For the record, there are tons of genealogies in the Bible, often quite repetitive. (That's a lot of review.) The book of Genesis contains quite a few as it relates the earliest ancestors of the human race and the Israelite people (those are the ones my parents originally told me to skip). The line of King David is narrated in great detail, there are many records of the major families of Israel, and the book of Chronicles (the last book in the Hebrew order of the Old Testament) begins with a gigantic genealogical summary from the first man, Adam, all the way down to the author's day. Then, of course, the New Testament contains two genealogies of Christ; one through Joseph, and one through Mary.
I hope people find this post interesting, even if they don't agree with my religion.
I was taught the rule about using apostrophes for letters, symbols, digits, and acronyms, IIRC. In seventh grade, though, I remember getting ahold of my first roleplaying game, which used units called APs (Attribute Points). The game didn't use apostrophes for plurals of acronyms, and that seemed a very clean way to do it. I think the primary difference was that the acronyms didn't have periods. Nowadays, acronyms rarely have periods anymore, and I don't usually see an apostrophe on a plural of an acronym.
If you must know, the game was The Batman Roleplaying Game, a scaled-down version of The DC Heroes Roleplaying Game. Those were the days. :)
two limits to the constitution's speech protections
20 entries found for abridge.
Entry: abridge
Function: verb
Definition: shorten
Synonyms: abbreviate, abstract, blue pencil, chop, clip, compress, concentrate, condense, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, digest, diminish, lessen, limit, narrow, nutshell, reduce, restrict, slash, snip, summarize, trim, truncate
Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press
Actually this article is really asking is $BRANDNAME dead; UNIX as a technology will live on, even though proprietary UNIXes will continue to lose marketshare to their free but disowned siblings.
Linux is UNIX in all respects that matter; it's just that some people believe we don't have the legal right to call it that due to trademark law. I, on the other hand, believes the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives me the right to call it anything I please. Linux is UNIX. So there. :P I dare anyone to come after me with a legal stick.
Words evolve in meaning; you can't legislate the development of language.
I don't think it's about vs. Microsoft; I think it's about vs. proprietary. We sometimes have "allies" in other proprietary software vendors, but that model is what created Microsoft in the first place, and taking the economic benefits out of that model through the creation and improvement of Free software is what interests me.
Interesting. They are misusing the term "open source," though. Open source doesn't just mean you get to look at the source code, although that is valuable.
By the open source definition, you can't have such a thing as "open source for developers." An open source license must not discriminate against fields of endeavor.