____unions are the equivalent of____their mostly-obsolete____government failing_____bureaucracy_____status quo_____child abuse_____it's about maintaining power.
Insert a jab at political correctness or advocate privatizing something and you get double points! If you fill in the blanks with anything constructive, you lose!
Teacher's unions don't lobby the state on educational issues. As a union, they are concerned with job security, pay raises, benefits, and better working conditions. They strike when it gets bad enough or when the state feels like firing 10% of them. As you are a teacher and a union member, you know this. The state and local education boards are responsible for the quality of education: they create the curriculum, the teaching guidelines, and the requirements for progression/graduation.
Also, these particular public employees do not have great job security, especially without the unions. If they serve vital roles which the market cannot remedy, then why are you advocating privatized schools?
I'll also commend the choice of post you chose to defend:
Yes, this is what schools are for:
Social skills: pretend that it's ok that Timmy has 2 daddies.
Respect for others: If Ahmal's father chooses to blow up a building full of innocent children, we have to respect that as his own personal life choice.
What a rousing and insightful jab at those PC thugs. They not disgusted by gay people adopting. And they love making out with terrorists.
Lots of games the entire "zone" is not prefetched before play but is contantly being mapped.
A system like that might benefit more from generating everything at install time. Or you could generate everything you need in your zone and surrounding zones. When you reach a new zone, the content for its surrounding zones is generated in the background as you play.
You could also generate LOD degradations for every model and texture and store them along with the other content. Easy.
The panacea for PG is a sandbox game like GTA, but where the cities can go on forever. A set of rules and procedures would generate zones, create new buildings and characters, develop new quests, and store all of the generated content as regular models, et cetera. This is not a degradation of the user experience. It's certainly different and hasn't been done since rogue/nethack, though I won't argue with you that it won't look as nice as traditionally modelled content.
Speed. Running algorithms to generate every damn thing takes a lot more processor time than loading a pre-rendered object file.
Huh? The procedurally generated models, textures, and animations are generated once, probably at the beginning of the level, and cached as... models and textures. They run just as fast as 'pre-rendered' content. Do you imagine that every time you see an actor that the geometry, animations, textures, and AI are being regenerated in every frame?
The slowdown for procedurally generated content is in long load times (like.kkrieger's 15-minute, "generating everything" phase).
Five devices is not much. A laptop, a desktop, an ipod, and a backup service like mp3tunes and you're left with one license for breathing room or to share with a single friend, family member, etc.
Their licensing isn't made to stop worldwide p2p piracy. It's to stop the sort of casual music sharing from back when people taped CDs and sold used CDs. 50 copies maximum would still stop p2p piracy. Five copies max is just greed--an effort to force each person to own a license to a song.
Though granted it is still much more lax that what the RIAA would prefer.
That used to be my sig. Babbage was being questioned about the practicalities of the Analytical Engine. I annotated it: Charles Babbage, on the first instance of technical support, 1856
Here is the unabbreviated, uncensored response by Markos Moulitsas Zúniga
You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you.
You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.
You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselfs in recognition of what they had done.
I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?
Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.
You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.
You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot.
And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?
You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meatslapper.
On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go.
You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill.
You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away.
I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mer
A translation by the new babelfish, translate.google.com:
Advertising federation holds campaign against robbery copiers for extremely doubtful
The central association of the German advertising economy (ZAW) has strong doubts against the design of the disputed clearing-up initiative of the film industry "for the protection of the original". "I consider the way of the campaign extremely doubtful", avowed ZAW managing directors Volker nickel opposite heise on-line. "Does one have to give actually so the Sporen to the medium recipient?" It gives nevertheless for creative ones also more intelligent ways to excite attention at the target group criticizes nickel the idea and its conversion by also the agency caring for the Greens to golden deer. Another form of the speech would have promised probably also opposite the anvisierten users of on-line exchange stock exchanges and DVD burners more success, meant nickel.
Indignation has above all a Spot under the slogan "robbery copier is released criminal" standing country wide campaign, in whom the fate of a threatening rape in the penintentiary is placed to growing up copyright violators before eyes. "We got, communicated several complaints in addition" nickel. The virtual local association of the SPD had accused for example due to the strip the representation of a "contempting for human beings conception of the world" to the Filmwirtschaft. The Spot is an example of a serious advertising derailing.
Due to the inputs the German advertising advice has -- that is the self control instance of the advertising economy in this country settled with the ZAW -- the company Zukunft cinema marketing (ZKM), standing behind the action, for a statement asked. "We made the experience that this way campaigns, which go beyond borders disappear fast again", describe to nickel the consequences of the request. The advertising advice raised objection in the past year against 75 marketing measures officially. The companies concerned gave way to that as a rule and withdrew complained of posters and Spots. Only in six cases the institution saw itself forced to express a public Rüge. Those equals a "spell" of the campaign, since about the measure also the mass media are broadly informed.
Irony at the edge: The ZKM communicates with the publicity campaign above all the fact that copyright infringements can be punished after the disputed reform of the copyright law with detentions "up to five years". In the maximum measure of punishment with the law novella however nothing changed. It still refers to the "professionally bad utilization" of in copyright matters protected works. The Filmwirtschaft with the campaign does not want however at all to reach these organized professional robbery copiers (alias criminals). Completely apart from the youth compatibility of the Spots come into the criticism thereby also the question arises whether the advertisement is not misleading. Into this case possibly also the law could reach against mean competition (UWG) -- if at all a plaintiff would be. In the UWG the knowing spreading of "untrue and for deception suitable data" is punished with up to two years prison. (Stefan Krempl)/(jk/c't)
They don't advocate banning political desicions they don't like. They advocate banning hate speech. Conservatism and libertarianism are not hate speech, if you're worried. That definition is about the same as the EU's.
When people use bigotry as an excuse to commit lynchings, terrorism, and genocide, stopping the proponents of these ideas is better than waiting for these kind of crimes to happen. AI is an international organization, and some places in the world do have bigger problems than frivolous lawsuits from people exploiting hate crime laws. When the man on the radio is shouting for all the 's slaughter, and people are starting to pick up machetes, it's best not to wait until the crime occurs to shut down the radio station. His speech should not be protected.
Your other hand may be busy with your nunchuk......I mean manipulating your attachment...I mean shaking your analog joystick...I mean twisting your motion sensitive controller...I mean operating your handheld device
People who never bought music and only wanted copies from me didn't get too many tapes--the same with digital files. A friend buys some music and shares with me and I would buy some and share with him. No one likes a mooch.
DRM restrictions like Fairplay aren't made to stop you from sharing your files with the entire population of the world. "50 copies maximum" would do this. "5 copies maximum" means you cannot share it with your friends or family, put it on too many devices, or make too many backups without buying multiple copies, err, licenses to listen.
Be sure NOT to do this with IE. All phishig sites I have visited were chock full of browser exploits. You will almost always be prompted to install an ActiveX control or just have one pushed through an IE vulnerability for you (many fools are unpatched). McAfee was nice enough to tell me that it stopped IE from running a trojan from the temp folder without even asking me.
I'd imagine they are doing this with Firefox vulnerabilities as well.
I was so optimistic. I thought that the brain-dead gaming media finally realized what a nonimmersive, repetitive, overhyped, dumbed-down, pseudo-rpg action game this really was, and changed their ratings from 11/10, 99.9999%, A+++=+=++=, to the more deserving 75-80% range.
But it's because they left boobie textures on the CD and now jesus is crying. So Joe and Hillary will bitch and sales will go up even more. Yay.
Here's looking forward to Bethsoft fucking up Fallout, too.
The Donna's are on eMusic. Just in case you care about paying musicians for their music instead of the Russian Mafia. Sucker.
Funny postscript: I accidently pasted "In case you care about paying musicians instead of the Russian Mafia," into the address bar ("I-feel-lucky-ing" it to the first google page) and this site came up.
And emusic is actually has contracts with labels and artists and compensates them for what you get unlike AllofMp3--REAL pirates who infringe on copyrights for commercial gain (from the dupes who actually give them money).
also, audiolunchbox.com, bleep.com, and calabashmusic.com have good, compensated indie and world music. They're more expensive than emusic, more in iTunes range.
Don't forget the enormous nasal cavity. Fantastic olfactory sense is a prominent scavenger trait. Massive jaw strength is another one (check tasmanian devils). As for size, the largest living flighted bird, the California Condor, is a scavenger as well. In the desert to boot.
The feet seem to more indicate that the TRex was a walker, probably a long-distance walker, who would only lurch forward quickly for a opportunistic kill. Its traits all seem to point to a gigantic hyena instead of a tiger. And dinosaurs were killed regularly judging by their armaments and armor, so there would probably be no big shortage of half-eaten, Utahraptor-killed brontosaurus babies lying around.
But your right. I guess well never know until we ressurrect one.
But you're paying cell rates to tunnel through Wifi, when you could be using a VoIP carrier over wifi. That's $19.95/month for unlimited minutes vs. $100/month or so from a cell provider.
The GP seemed to think that minutes from the cell provider would be cheap or free over Wifi. This is unlikely and not indicated in the article.
Of course, you would have to buy your own phone for Wifi VoIP. At the moment they're like cell phones from 1995 and cost $200-500.
Do you think New Orleans is the only city that has a welfare program? Everywhere these poor people went has a welfare program and had people on welfare before the storm.
New Orleans had a LOT of black homeowners, whole neighborhoods. That's all many had--they owned their homes and lived in a city with almost no jobs.
Tourism IS the N.O. economy. No good environment for tech jobs. Barely any manufacturing. Not enough industry to support the working population. So what's left? Construction? Not before Katrina. No room on any side of the city (water, swamp, swamp, water). All the construction is now manned by "low cost labor" (read-Mexicans).
There will always be losers who do nothing. The middle class has been griping about them since the industrial revolution. They're not going away. Are you trying to minimize the amount of losers in a city? Stable jobs like manufacturing are what get people out of poverty and off of welfare. Not McDonalds. Not Sears. Maybe universal health care and a $10.00/hr minimum wage would help stop this awful welfare thing in ALL cities, not just the drowned ones. This is all probably too "socialist" a suggestion for you.
"In the wild there is no health care. In the wild, health care is, 'Ow, I hurt my leg. I can't run.' A lion eats me and I'm dead. Well, I'm not dead. I'm the lion. You're dead." Dwight, The Office
and bringing some manufacturing jobs back from China and Mexico, which won't happen.
and cleaning up the 400 year culture of corruption in Louisiana politics, which won't happen.
and diversifying the economy without bringing more pollution into LA, which has arguably the worst environmental problems in the nation, which won't happen. Especially the latter part.
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Let's play inflammitory libertarian madlib!!
____unions are the equivalent of____their mostly-obsolete____government failing_____bureaucracy_____status quo_____child abuse_____it's about maintaining power.
Insert a jab at political correctness or advocate privatizing something and you get double points!
If you fill in the blanks with anything constructive, you lose!
Teacher's unions don't lobby the state on educational issues. As a union, they are concerned with job security, pay raises, benefits, and better working conditions. They strike when it gets bad enough or when the state feels like firing 10% of them. As you are a teacher and a union member, you know this. The state and local education boards are responsible for the quality of education: they create the curriculum, the teaching guidelines, and the requirements for progression/graduation.
Also, these particular public employees do not have great job security, especially without the unions. If they serve vital roles which the market cannot remedy, then why are you advocating privatized schools?
I'll also commend the choice of post you chose to defend:
Yes, this is what schools are for:
Social skills: pretend that it's ok that Timmy has 2 daddies.
Respect for others: If Ahmal's father chooses to blow up a building full of innocent children, we have to respect that as his own personal life choice.
What a rousing and insightful jab at those PC thugs. They not disgusted by gay people adopting. And they love making out with terrorists.
Your truthiness is showing, libertarian.
You had a crappy teacher who wanted everyboy to be on the same page.
How is this an indictment of public schooling?
This wouldn't happen in a private school, or in a web-based charter school?
Lots of games the entire "zone" is not prefetched before play but is contantly being mapped.
A system like that might benefit more from generating everything at install time. Or you could generate everything you need in your zone and surrounding zones. When you reach a new zone, the content for its surrounding zones is generated in the background as you play.
You could also generate LOD degradations for every model and texture and store them along with the other content. Easy.
The panacea for PG is a sandbox game like GTA, but where the cities can go on forever. A set of rules and procedures would generate zones, create new buildings and characters, develop new quests, and store all of the generated content as regular models, et cetera. This is not a degradation of the user experience. It's certainly different and hasn't been done since rogue/nethack, though I won't argue with you that it won't look as nice as traditionally modelled content.
Speed. Running algorithms to generate every damn thing takes a lot more processor time than loading a pre-rendered object file.
.kkrieger's 15-minute, "generating everything" phase).
Huh? The procedurally generated models, textures, and animations are generated once, probably at the beginning of the level, and cached as... models and textures. They run just as fast as 'pre-rendered' content. Do you imagine that every time you see an actor that the geometry, animations, textures, and AI are being regenerated in every frame?
The slowdown for procedurally generated content is in long load times (like
To think that a man would treat his wife like this in 1914. To think.
Five devices is not much. A laptop, a desktop, an ipod, and a backup service like mp3tunes and you're left with one license for breathing room or to share with a single friend, family member, etc.
Their licensing isn't made to stop worldwide p2p piracy. It's to stop the sort of casual music sharing from back when people taped CDs and sold used CDs. 50 copies maximum would still stop p2p piracy. Five copies max is just greed--an effort to force each person to own a license to a song.
Though granted it is still much more lax that what the RIAA would prefer.
That used to be my sig. Babbage was being questioned about the practicalities of the Analytical Engine. I annotated it:
Charles Babbage, on the first instance of technical support, 1856
This one correlates better, IMHO.
Oops. That would be Guy Macon, at the real site for this is here.
A translation by the new babelfish, translate.google.com:
Advertising federation holds campaign against robbery copiers for extremely doubtful
The central association of the German advertising economy (ZAW) has strong doubts against the design of the disputed clearing-up initiative of the film industry "for the protection of the original". "I consider the way of the campaign extremely doubtful", avowed ZAW managing directors Volker nickel opposite heise on-line. "Does one have to give actually so the Sporen to the medium recipient?" It gives nevertheless for creative ones also more intelligent ways to excite attention at the target group criticizes nickel the idea and its conversion by also the agency caring for the Greens to golden deer. Another form of the speech would have promised probably also opposite the anvisierten users of on-line exchange stock exchanges and DVD burners more success, meant nickel.
Indignation has above all a Spot under the slogan "robbery copier is released criminal" standing country wide campaign, in whom the fate of a threatening rape in the penintentiary is placed to growing up copyright violators before eyes. "We got, communicated several complaints in addition" nickel. The virtual local association of the SPD had accused for example due to the strip the representation of a "contempting for human beings conception of the world" to the Filmwirtschaft. The Spot is an example of a serious advertising derailing.
Due to the inputs the German advertising advice has -- that is the self control instance of the advertising economy in this country settled with the ZAW -- the company Zukunft cinema marketing (ZKM), standing behind the action, for a statement asked. "We made the experience that this way campaigns, which go beyond borders disappear fast again", describe to nickel the consequences of the request. The advertising advice raised objection in the past year against 75 marketing measures officially. The companies concerned gave way to that as a rule and withdrew complained of posters and Spots. Only in six cases the institution saw itself forced to express a public Rüge. Those equals a "spell" of the campaign, since about the measure also the mass media are broadly informed.
Irony at the edge: The ZKM communicates with the publicity campaign above all the fact that copyright infringements can be punished after the disputed reform of the copyright law with detentions "up to five years". In the maximum measure of punishment with the law novella however nothing changed. It still refers to the "professionally bad utilization" of in copyright matters protected works. The Filmwirtschaft with the campaign does not want however at all to reach these organized professional robbery copiers (alias criminals). Completely apart from the youth compatibility of the Spots come into the criticism thereby also the question arises whether the advertisement is not misleading. Into this case possibly also the law could reach against mean competition (UWG) -- if at all a plaintiff would be. In the UWG the knowing spreading of "untrue and for deception suitable data" is punished with up to two years prison.
(Stefan Krempl)/(jk/c't)
They don't advocate banning political desicions they don't like. They advocate banning hate speech. Conservatism and libertarianism are not hate speech, if you're worried. That definition is about the same as the EU's.
When people use bigotry as an excuse to commit lynchings, terrorism, and genocide, stopping the proponents of these ideas is better than waiting for these kind of crimes to happen. AI is an international organization, and some places in the world do have bigger problems than frivolous lawsuits from people exploiting hate crime laws. When the man on the radio is shouting for all the 's slaughter, and people are starting to pick up machetes, it's best not to wait until the crime occurs to shut down the radio station. His speech should not be protected.
Your other hand may be busy with your nunchuk... ...I mean manipulating your attachment ...I mean shaking your analog joystick ...I mean twisting your motion sensitive controller ...I mean operating your handheld device
I'm so sorry.
People who never bought music and only wanted copies from me didn't get too many tapes--the same with digital files. A friend buys some music and shares with me and I would buy some and share with him. No one likes a mooch.
DRM restrictions like Fairplay aren't made to stop you from sharing your files with the entire population of the world. "50 copies maximum" would do this. "5 copies maximum" means you cannot share it with your friends or family, put it on too many devices, or make too many backups without buying multiple copies, err, licenses to listen.
Be sure NOT to do this with IE. All phishig sites I have visited were chock full of browser exploits. You will almost always be prompted to install an ActiveX control or just have one pushed through an IE vulnerability for you (many fools are unpatched). McAfee was nice enough to tell me that it stopped IE from running a trojan from the temp folder without even asking me.
I'd imagine they are doing this with Firefox vulnerabilities as well.
I was so optimistic. I thought that the brain-dead gaming media finally realized what a nonimmersive, repetitive, overhyped, dumbed-down, pseudo-rpg action game this really was, and changed their ratings from 11/10, 99.9999%, A+++=+=++=, to the more deserving 75-80% range.
But it's because they left boobie textures on the CD and now jesus is crying. So Joe and Hillary will bitch and sales will go up even more. Yay.
Here's looking forward to Bethsoft fucking up Fallout, too.
The Donna's are on eMusic. Just in case you care about paying musicians for their music instead of the Russian Mafia. Sucker.
Funny postscript: I accidently pasted "In case you care about paying musicians instead of the Russian Mafia," into the address bar ("I-feel-lucky-ing" it to the first google page) and this site came up.
And emusic is actually has contracts with labels and artists and compensates them for what you get unlike AllofMp3--REAL pirates who infringe on copyrights for commercial gain (from the dupes who actually give them money).
also, audiolunchbox.com, bleep.com, and calabashmusic.com have good, compensated indie and world music. They're more expensive than emusic, more in iTunes range.
Don't forget the enormous nasal cavity. Fantastic olfactory sense is a prominent scavenger trait. Massive jaw strength is another one (check tasmanian devils). As for size, the largest living flighted bird, the California Condor, is a scavenger as well. In the desert to boot.
The feet seem to more indicate that the TRex was a walker, probably a long-distance walker, who would only lurch forward quickly for a opportunistic kill. Its traits all seem to point to a gigantic hyena instead of a tiger. And dinosaurs were killed regularly judging by their armaments and armor, so there would probably be no big shortage of half-eaten, Utahraptor-killed brontosaurus babies lying around.
But your right. I guess well never know until we ressurrect one.
obligitory onion reference
The Camera-Phone
But you're paying cell rates to tunnel through Wifi, when you could be using a VoIP carrier over wifi. That's $19.95/month for unlimited minutes vs. $100/month or so from a cell provider.
The GP seemed to think that minutes from the cell provider would be cheap or free over Wifi. This is unlikely and not indicated in the article.
Of course, you would have to buy your own phone for Wifi VoIP. At the moment they're like cell phones from 1995 and cost $200-500.
Do you think New Orleans is the only city that has a welfare program? Everywhere these poor people went has a welfare program and had people on welfare before the storm.
New Orleans had a LOT of black homeowners, whole neighborhoods. That's all many had--they owned their homes and lived in a city with almost no jobs.
Tourism IS the N.O. economy. No good environment for tech jobs. Barely any manufacturing. Not enough industry to support the working population. So what's left? Construction? Not before Katrina. No room on any side of the city (water, swamp, swamp, water). All the construction is now manned by "low cost labor" (read-Mexicans).
There will always be losers who do nothing. The middle class has been griping about them since the industrial revolution. They're not going away. Are you trying to minimize the amount of losers in a city? Stable jobs like manufacturing are what get people out of poverty and off of welfare. Not McDonalds. Not Sears. Maybe universal health care and a $10.00/hr minimum wage would help stop this awful welfare thing in ALL cities, not just the drowned ones. This is all probably too "socialist" a suggestion for you.
"In the wild there is no health care. In the wild, health care is, 'Ow, I hurt my leg. I can't run.' A lion eats me and I'm dead. Well, I'm not dead. I'm the lion. You're dead."
Dwight, The Office
and bringing some manufacturing jobs back from China and Mexico, which won't happen.
and cleaning up the 400 year culture of corruption in Louisiana politics, which won't happen.
and diversifying the economy without bringing more pollution into LA, which has arguably the worst environmental problems in the nation, which won't happen. Especially the latter part.
and trying to convince peop--shit nevermind.
Liar. More like $500. Not enough for a deposit on a one bedroom apartment in New Orleans.
Where do you suggest they live? At the Burger King?
Lots of black people are working. I work with about 20. It's racist to assume all 'blacks' are 'welfare lazies' you fucking Coward.
Absolutely. God wants it to be a Chocolate Wifi network