What a load of Republican crap that is. The Republicans stopped more Clinton appointments than the Democrats ever will for Bush.
In reality, Bush has had more judicial nominees approved than in the first terms of Presidents Clinton and Reagan, and the administration of his father. Of the 214 nominees sent to the Senate for a vote during his first term, Democrats blocked only ten, using the filibuster. As such, 95 percent of Bush's nominees
have been approved. By contrast, from 1995 to 2000, while Republican Senator Orrin Hatch was chairman of the Judiciary Committee, the Senate blocked 35% of Clinton's circuit court nominees.
Not necessarily. And jerks don't always end up finishing first, whatever that is. Besides, that's not what it's about anyway. What would you rather have in your history, bad behavior or good behavior? Karma isn't instant (except on Slashdot) and sometimes it doesn't even seem to exist at all, but if you behave like a jerk don't be surprised if it really does come around to haunt you in the end.
From a man worth 7 billion dollars, it sure seems to me like his statement on how to run a business is pretty reputable.
I doubt that you'd base most of your other decisions based on one data point. Why do it now?
For every successful dropout there are thousands who are very unsuccessful. Too often we point to these sui generis cases and say "see! I don't have to go to school." The drop-out, under-educated successful type happens, but it's not the norm.
Are you running Tiger? Or are you running 10.3.x? And if you're running 10.3.8 make sure you update to 10.3.9. I was having long login time issues (> 1 minute 30 seconds) and after update to 10.3.9 it went down to 8 seconds.
So, why didn't Bill just pull $80 million out of his wallet and slip it into the till to make it balance? He must carry at least that much in spare change! (Anybody who doesn't understand what I'm saying has obviously never worked as a cashier.;-)
I'm beginning to think you never worked as a cashier either. You'd never get the till closed with $80 million in there.
Calling something disastrous "a train wreck" is a long-established idiom that isn't going to just go away because a train wrecks. And frankly, I think calling it "an unfortunate choice of words" is just a big, steaming load of language-police bull crap.
Language police? Overreact much? There's nothing wrong with a little temporary sensitivity to a phrase, unless you're obtuse to the point of cretinism.
Sources are not protected for anyone under the First Amendment.
True. Well, there is such a thing as doctor/patient privilege and lawyer/client privilege.
With journalism, in the past sources have had plenty of protection--at the expense of the journalist involved. If the journalist cared enough about his/her reputation with future sources of information then he/she would risk going to jail for contempt for not divulging the source of the story. There is no automatic protection of the journalist for not revealing a source of information by a request from a judge.
The horns of the dilemma: You get government wireless access and they spy on your activities or you get private wireless access and they spy on you for information they can sell.
Interesting to note that you can dress up anything with a pair breasts and it becomes sexy. Sort of. There's this terrible rending sound as I try to process the conflicting urges of repulsion and attraction.
I agree. But a little healthy competition spurs us on, no? Being from the United States I find myself inspired to be better when I look at the competition results. I probably will never end up at one of the top schools or even in the competition, but I can still use that urge of competitiveness to make myself a better programmer, which will--in its small way--contribute to the whole.
Congratulations to the winners. I'm sure they worked hard.
A few of the colors weren't right, and I noticed a few glitches...
I believe I saw that very same screening (not the same day of course) and I'm curious to hear more about the colors you felt weren't right and what the glitches were. I thought the quality was astounding. The technical quality that is.
The tonal range was incredible, titles and credits did not jump around and of course there were no scratches or dust marks. After seeing it I felt sure that theaters would be digitally projecting everything within a few years.
We have to balance environmentalism with a healthy dose of logic.
Uh-oh, look out. Here comes "logic," which really means "you're an idiot if you don't see things my way."
I just finished reading Bill Bryson's excellent book, A Short History of Nearly Everything.
Then you might also try reading "Song of the Dodo," by David Quammen. In it Quammen details incidents just such as this, which are all really about the topic of island bio-geography. You'll realize that the bird hadn't "failed to evolve a solid foothold in its ecosystem." Rather, it had adapted quite well to its environment after its ancestors made the trip over from the mainland. And in the space of a year (by your story) the species was wiped out.
This isn't limited to this one bird species, however. It's been repeated by man so many times in the last few hundred years that even a fool will start to notice that we're having a deletrious effect on our planet. The point isn't just that we're "crying over extinct species," although a thoughtful and human person would reflect on that. The point is that we're affecting our habitat when we do that.
But let's also acknowledge the fact that no matter what we do, 99.9% of those species are going to be evolutionary dead ends.
One of those "dead ends" might just end up being us.
I wonder how closely related it is to the statistic that 29% of people surfing the web have the screen res at 800x600. If the computer isn't broken (all jokes aside) and the user doesn't mind scrolling sideways a lot, a non-techy will probably keep that machine until dies.
You would probably be surprised to find, should you ever meet them in real life, that most celebrities are hardly more attractive than a lot of the people you'll meet every day.
Indeed. I was working on a photo shoot years ago and this model shows up in a limo for the days work. I remember thinking "who the hell is this model that she needs a limo?" She went into the dressing/make up room for an hour or so and out walks...Cheryl Ladd. I completely did not recognize her until she was in costume.
Why is it that the parent, who is making fun of an obvious flamebait post, is the one who gets modded flamebait? Is someone trying to say two flames don't make an insight?
Slashdot Mirror
No, no. This one is about Drudge.
Not necessarily. And jerks don't always end up finishing first, whatever that is. Besides, that's not what it's about anyway. What would you rather have in your history, bad behavior or good behavior? Karma isn't instant (except on Slashdot) and sometimes it doesn't even seem to exist at all, but if you behave like a jerk don't be surprised if it really does come around to haunt you in the end.
Come on, don't play dumb. You knew they meant "bungled."
They've already made it an IQ test. Now we'll see how many people say I Quit.
I doubt that you'd base most of your other decisions based on one data point. Why do it now?
For every successful dropout there are thousands who are very unsuccessful. Too often we point to these sui generis cases and say "see! I don't have to go to school." The drop-out, under-educated successful type happens, but it's not the norm.
Are you running Tiger? Or are you running 10.3.x? And if you're running 10.3.8 make sure you update to 10.3.9. I was having long login time issues (> 1 minute 30 seconds) and after update to 10.3.9 it went down to 8 seconds.
I'm beginning to think you never worked as a cashier either. You'd never get the till closed with $80 million in there.
It's also interesting to compare the above image with this one, taken Jan. 31, 2004 when the wheels were relatively clean an un-caked.
Language police? Overreact much? There's nothing wrong with a little temporary sensitivity to a phrase, unless you're obtuse to the point of cretinism.
Was it this airplane by any chance?
True. Well, there is such a thing as doctor/patient privilege and lawyer/client privilege.
With journalism, in the past sources have had plenty of protection--at the expense of the journalist involved. If the journalist cared enough about his/her reputation with future sources of information then he/she would risk going to jail for contempt for not divulging the source of the story. There is no automatic protection of the journalist for not revealing a source of information by a request from a judge.
The horns of the dilemma: You get government wireless access and they spy on your activities or you get private wireless access and they spy on you for information they can sell.
Interesting to note that you can dress up anything with a pair breasts and it becomes sexy. Sort of. There's this terrible rending sound as I try to process the conflicting urges of repulsion and attraction.
Originally it was on the list, but it got the thumbs down.
I agree. But a little healthy competition spurs us on, no? Being from the United States I find myself inspired to be better when I look at the competition results. I probably will never end up at one of the top schools or even in the competition, but I can still use that urge of competitiveness to make myself a better programmer, which will--in its small way--contribute to the whole.
Congratulations to the winners. I'm sure they worked hard.
Passing another car is not a license to speed. You are still bound by the speed limit.
No more Slashdot for me today. See you tomorrow.
I believe I saw that very same screening (not the same day of course) and I'm curious to hear more about the colors you felt weren't right and what the glitches were. I thought the quality was astounding. The technical quality that is.
The tonal range was incredible, titles and credits did not jump around and of course there were no scratches or dust marks. After seeing it I felt sure that theaters would be digitally projecting everything within a few years.
Very funny post, by the way.
Uh-oh, look out. Here comes "logic," which really means "you're an idiot if you don't see things my way."
I just finished reading Bill Bryson's excellent book, A Short History of Nearly Everything.
Then you might also try reading "Song of the Dodo," by David Quammen. In it Quammen details incidents just such as this, which are all really about the topic of island bio-geography. You'll realize that the bird hadn't "failed to evolve a solid foothold in its ecosystem." Rather, it had adapted quite well to its environment after its ancestors made the trip over from the mainland. And in the space of a year (by your story) the species was wiped out.
This isn't limited to this one bird species, however. It's been repeated by man so many times in the last few hundred years that even a fool will start to notice that we're having a deletrious effect on our planet. The point isn't just that we're "crying over extinct species," although a thoughtful and human person would reflect on that. The point is that we're affecting our habitat when we do that.
But let's also acknowledge the fact that no matter what we do, 99.9% of those species are going to be evolutionary dead ends.
One of those "dead ends" might just end up being us.
Well, not that much anymore, I suspect.
Testing proves that testing works.
I wonder how closely related it is to the statistic that 29% of people surfing the web have the screen res at 800x600. If the computer isn't broken (all jokes aside) and the user doesn't mind scrolling sideways a lot, a non-techy will probably keep that machine until dies.
Indeed. I was working on a photo shoot years ago and this model shows up in a limo for the days work. I remember thinking "who the hell is this model that she needs a limo?" She went into the dressing/make up room for an hour or so and out walks...Cheryl Ladd. I completely did not recognize her until she was in costume.
Why is it that the parent, who is making fun of an obvious flamebait post, is the one who gets modded flamebait? Is someone trying to say two flames don't make an insight?