“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Though I've seen slightly different variations to this, they all express an identical sentiment.
You're defending scalping in the name of capitalism? I'm pro-capitalism, and I can't stand Chuck Schumer, but he's on-point on this one. These bot writers are inserting themselves as middlemen and abusing the system. Also, these guys are preventing far more people who aren't rich from buying toys that they should otherwise be able to afford for their kids, then they are helping non-rich people. They're only helping themselves, a very tiny minority of a handful of people. Regulation is a balancing act, a means of checks and balances. Too much is bad, but sometimes so is too little. It's a complex issue with no simple answer of either "muh free market" nor "muh socialism".
As the article points out wild animals seem to be brainier, however a wolf doesn't have a lot of traits that we equate to intelligence that our pet dog has.
They claimed the opposite, actually. "The study's findings also challenged the prevailing view that domesticated animals have smaller brains than their wild cousins. The ratios of brain size to body weight of the domestic species they analyzed -- ferret, cat and dog -- did not scale in a significantly different manner from those of their wild relatives -- mongoose, raccoon, hyena, lion and brown bear."
They did point out the Racoon's high intelligence (reminds me of Rocket), but not as a representative of all wild animals.
Oh that's not it at all. Think of Earth as a national recreational park for the galactic quadrant. Aliens visit here just to walk their pets, aka Bigfoot. Also, Nessie was flushed down a wormhole toilet when she got too big and wound up in Loch Ness....soo... maybe Earth is their sewer too.
it has squat to do with Net Neutrality. He's conflating issues and handwaving. It does not give the FCC justification to allow the foxes to run amok in the henhouse.
You're not that old yet. Listening to a modem dial is only 20 to 25 years ago.
* Remember 8 track cassettes? * Reel to reel recorders? (not pro studio models, they lasted longer) * Black & white television? * Mechanical adding machines? (my dad had two of them)
I don't have a problem with this at all, at least they're responding positively. It's the same sentiment, I don't care what the exact words are. It's bad when you hold a door for someone though and they say nothing at all, no "thanks" or "thank you". That rubs me the wrong way.
Same here. Though I plan to (re)register as Independent. Pai is so full of it his eyes are brown and flies buzz around his head. Not fond of Sessions either.
I watched the David Tennant episodes mostly, and got into for a few years, but wouldn't remotely think of myself as a "whovian". I was somewhat less a fan of Matt Smith or Eccelston, and can't stand Capaldi, I flat out stopped watching at that point. When Steven Moffat took over, I think he tried to get just too clever for himself and it started a death spiral of nonsensical plots. I will say, as an american, part of the charm of the show is it's Britishness. I'm a bit of an anglophile. Same reason I liked Harry Potter I guess. You're spot on about the effects though, while I wouldn't expect movie quality, they were working with a pretty tight budget, apparently, or just didn't try as hard. The effects were definitely better with the revival, but still behind US shows. I see it as part of it's cheesy charm.
IMO, it was David Tennant. I never did care much for the original era Dr. Who, they were too cheesy -more so than the newer ones that Russel T. Davies revived, which still had cheese but at a level that was bearable and fun. Also, I can't believe someone modded you flamebait for your opinion on a TV show.
I've noticed they've been hinting at political jabs all year long, and it's been really annoying. Time to unsubscribe from their word of the day I guess. There are alternatives.
Go ahead and laugh, just wait until Musk assembles his new company, RetroChronX, and they invent the first time machine. Then he'll go back in time, invent Bitcoin himself for real, and prove you naysayers wrong. While he's at it, he's going to (retro)invent the the microprocessor, Linux, and the Internet too!
Hopefully. Pai's entire premise is ludicrous on it's face. Comcast and Verizon already have huge coffers, and yet Verizon halted it's rollout of FIOS, having no intention of ever deploying it to many locations (as I was told by a Verizon lineman). They could certainly afford to, but they don't want to expand, they just want to sit on what they've got: the money alone isn't motivation enough anymore. Maybe they don't see certain areas as profitable enough. Killing net neutrality won't change that mindset. Comcast/Xfinity has done a better job of broadband deployment and feature sets, but the cableTV division is degrading everyday with more commercials and less content. These two mega-corporations are prime examples of when gov't regulation *is* needed. Checks and balances.
Notice it's always the ACs that come busting out of the gate, name-calling and throwing around ad-hominem attacks like children. Even for climate change supporters, this article is sensationalist. It just hurts their credibility, really. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a good approach to the whole issue of fossil fuels vs renewable: even if you don't really believe in anthropomorphic climate change, what happened to the once great concern over air pollution? That's a term I haven't heard much since the '70s, but it used to be a big thing, and rightfully so. Not to mention the fact that fossil fuel is a limited resource that will one day run out. The more calm, rational appeal is more likely to find approval and not fall on deaf ears.
It's not just about "how many" were signed, it's more about how they were used. Obama signed quite a few unilaterally where ethically, Congress should've been involved. Imagine if Trump tried to issue an EO ending the ACA because Congress wasn't moving fast enough - not possible, of course. He probably would though if he could, and that's not cool either. In any case, it usually bites them back in the butt because an EO can always be undone by the following administration.
Same here, which is why this summary seemed unclear to me. By "video", I guess they mean, "DVD" or "BluRay" (or maybe even VHS tape). "Discs" or "media" would've been a better term. Technically I rent a video using Comcast On-Demand, which streams it.
"But Bush". That's what I heard from Obama for 8 years. Whataboutism is SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for both parties, and always has been. John Oliver is hardly some insightful genius, or even a decent comedian for that matter, but if that's what you think passes for remark-worthy insight, you need to expand your horizons.
What gets my goat is the way they go, "Oh, we've been caught. Okay, we'll stop doing that now that you've detected this. See? We're good guys". Had they not been caught, they would continue to do it until they did get caught. They're not sorry they did it, they're only sorry they got caught. Come to think of, they didn't even apologize, did they? I should mention I don't buy their cover story that no data was stored and they did this only to improve message delivery.
Well, privacy (without taking extreme measures) is dead anyway, what with the other articles here today alone regarding website trackers capturing keystrokes, and the Intel ME exploit.
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To quote Einstein:
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Though I've seen slightly different variations to this, they all express an identical sentiment.
You're defending scalping in the name of capitalism? I'm pro-capitalism, and I can't stand Chuck Schumer, but he's on-point on this one.
These bot writers are inserting themselves as middlemen and abusing the system. Also, these guys are preventing far more people who aren't rich from buying toys that they should otherwise be able to afford for their kids, then they are helping non-rich people. They're only helping themselves, a very tiny minority of a handful of people.
Regulation is a balancing act, a means of checks and balances. Too much is bad, but sometimes so is too little. It's a complex issue with no simple answer of either "muh free market" nor "muh socialism".
Except lions, who socialize in prides. They're the only social cats that I can think of, though.
As the article points out wild animals seem to be brainier, however a wolf doesn't have a lot of traits that we equate to intelligence that our pet dog has.
They claimed the opposite, actually.
"The study's findings also challenged the prevailing view that domesticated animals have smaller brains than their wild cousins. The ratios of brain size to body weight of the domestic species they analyzed -- ferret, cat and dog -- did not scale in a significantly different manner from those of their wild relatives -- mongoose, raccoon, hyena, lion and brown bear."
They did point out the Racoon's high intelligence (reminds me of Rocket), but not as a representative of all wild animals.
Oh that's not it at all. Think of Earth as a national recreational park for the galactic quadrant. Aliens visit here just to walk their pets, aka Bigfoot. ...soo... maybe Earth is their sewer too.
Also, Nessie was flushed down a wormhole toilet when she got too big and wound up in Loch Ness.
it has squat to do with Net Neutrality. He's conflating issues and handwaving. It does not give the FCC justification to allow the foxes to run amok in the henhouse.
You're not that old yet.
Listening to a modem dial is only 20 to 25 years ago.
* Remember 8 track cassettes?
* Reel to reel recorders? (not pro studio models, they lasted longer)
* Black & white television?
* Mechanical adding machines? (my dad had two of them)
I don't have a problem with this at all, at least they're responding positively. It's the same sentiment, I don't care what the exact words are.
It's bad when you hold a door for someone though and they say nothing at all, no "thanks" or "thank you". That rubs me the wrong way.
Same here. Though I plan to (re)register as Independent. Pai is so full of it his eyes are brown and flies buzz around his head. Not fond of Sessions either.
I watched the David Tennant episodes mostly, and got into for a few years, but wouldn't remotely think of myself as a "whovian". I was somewhat less a fan of Matt Smith or Eccelston, and can't stand Capaldi, I flat out stopped watching at that point. When Steven Moffat took over, I think he tried to get just too clever for himself and it started a death spiral of nonsensical plots.
I will say, as an american, part of the charm of the show is it's Britishness. I'm a bit of an anglophile. Same reason I liked Harry Potter I guess.
You're spot on about the effects though, while I wouldn't expect movie quality, they were working with a pretty tight budget, apparently, or just didn't try as hard. The effects were definitely better with the revival, but still behind US shows. I see it as part of it's cheesy charm.
Tom Baker was not the best Doctor Who. Fight me.
IMO, it was David Tennant. I never did care much for the original era Dr. Who, they were too cheesy -more so than the newer ones that Russel T. Davies revived, which still had cheese but at a level that was bearable and fun.
Also, I can't believe someone modded you flamebait for your opinion on a TV show.
Where do you get vacuum?
Outer space is an unlimited resource. Let's mine Outer space for vacuum! Vacuum is the new oil of the 21st century.
Nothing better to do?
I've noticed they've been hinting at political jabs all year long, and it's been really annoying. Time to unsubscribe from their word of the day I guess. There are alternatives.
That would be gratuitous.
Go ahead and laugh, just wait until Musk assembles his new company, RetroChronX, and they invent the first time machine. Then he'll go back in time, invent Bitcoin himself for real, and prove you naysayers wrong. While he's at it, he's going to (retro)invent the the microprocessor, Linux, and the Internet too!
Hopefully. Pai's entire premise is ludicrous on it's face. Comcast and Verizon already have huge coffers, and yet Verizon halted it's rollout of FIOS, having no intention of ever deploying it to many locations (as I was told by a Verizon lineman). They could certainly afford to, but they don't want to expand, they just want to sit on what they've got: the money alone isn't motivation enough anymore. Maybe they don't see certain areas as profitable enough. Killing net neutrality won't change that mindset.
Comcast/Xfinity has done a better job of broadband deployment and feature sets, but the cableTV division is degrading everyday with more commercials and less content. These two mega-corporations are prime examples of when gov't regulation *is* needed. Checks and balances.
Notice it's always the ACs that come busting out of the gate, name-calling and throwing around ad-hominem attacks like children.
Even for climate change supporters, this article is sensationalist. It just hurts their credibility, really.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a good approach to the whole issue of fossil fuels vs renewable: even if you don't really believe in anthropomorphic climate change, what happened to the once great concern over air pollution? That's a term I haven't heard much since the '70s, but it used to be a big thing, and rightfully so. Not to mention the fact that fossil fuel is a limited resource that will one day run out. The more calm, rational appeal is more likely to find approval and not fall on deaf ears.
It's not just about "how many" were signed, it's more about how they were used. Obama signed quite a few unilaterally where ethically, Congress should've been involved. Imagine if Trump tried to issue an EO ending the ACA because Congress wasn't moving fast enough - not possible, of course. He probably would though if he could, and that's not cool either.
In any case, it usually bites them back in the butt because an EO can always be undone by the following administration.
Found the Antifa douchbag.
Same here, which is why this summary seemed unclear to me. By "video", I guess they mean, "DVD" or "BluRay" (or maybe even VHS tape). "Discs" or "media" would've been a better term.
Technically I rent a video using Comcast On-Demand, which streams it.
"But Bush". That's what I heard from Obama for 8 years.
Whataboutism is SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for both parties, and always has been.
John Oliver is hardly some insightful genius, or even a decent comedian for that matter, but if that's what you think passes for remark-worthy insight, you need to expand your horizons.
+ Insightful.
What gets my goat is the way they go, "Oh, we've been caught. Okay, we'll stop doing that now that you've detected this. See? We're good guys".
Had they not been caught, they would continue to do it until they did get caught. They're not sorry they did it, they're only sorry they got caught. Come to think of, they didn't even apologize, did they?
I should mention I don't buy their cover story that no data was stored and they did this only to improve message delivery.
Well, privacy (without taking extreme measures) is dead anyway, what with the other articles here today alone regarding website trackers capturing keystrokes, and the Intel ME exploit.
Nah, jokes on him. The sky is flat too, it's all over when he crashes into the ceiling.
I don't think he'll make it to the moon. ;)