Also, the syndication episodes, he said, run about 43 minutes, while the whole episodes were originally 51-52 minutes.
Yes. When the SciFi channel first got broadcast rights to TOS a few years ago, they aired the original eps whole for the first time in decades. Very interesting to see the extra bits that had been snipped for time.
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I wish people spoke about me and said,"You know, its just that mix of Norwegian and German... it just makes him hot."
The context was "hot" as in "hot-tempered" or "hot-blooded", not like "am I hot or not?"
Whether "hot-tempered" is compliment or not is debatable. Certainly the accusations of being "hot-tempered" that people directed toward those of Irish ancestry in the laste 19th and early 20th centuries, the time of "No Irish Need Apply" signs, were not compliments.
The webmaster intended to make this--by all accounts--private information public?
A directory accessible by URL-chopping is a public place. Anyone with knowledge of semantics of URLs understands how to construct chopped URLs and use them to find information on a wwebsite.
Information placed in a public place is assumed be to be public.
And if they did make the assumption that it was intended to be there, then why did they release it to the media? Afterall, it was already public from their point of view, right?
Why does anyone send stories to/.? After all, they're already on the web, right?
um how about the US has literally 10 times the number of people to deal with?
Then we also have literally 10 times the number of people to do the counting.
Paper ballots work well for small numbers of people.
Any large number of people can be decomposed into groups consisting of small numbers of people.
Indeed, since there are no truly nation-wide votes in the US (presidental votes are state-wide, thanks to the Electoral College setup), the largest population to deal with a vote would be Calfifornia's 36 million people, comparable to Canada's population of 33 million. So if Canada can do national elections with paper, any U.S. state should also be able to do so.
bring back the solid mechanical machines and all will be well.
Old-style level machines were not that reliable, or auditable.
I live in Maryland. Can't vote in the primary, since I'm not a party member. I will be requesting an absentee ballot for the general election, and suggesting others do the same (Maryland law requires only the you certify that you may be out of your county on election day. I certainly may.)
The difference is that these people on the internet are handing over tons of uneeded information. You wouldn't do this real life.
Actually, people do hand over lots of unneeded information IRL, that's how con men operate. It's certainly naive and unwise, but that doesn't make the crime any less.
Just like it's unwise for a woman to walk through a bad part of town in high heels and a short skirt and a low-cut dress and a diamond necklace; but that doesn't make her responsbile for an assault.
finding those poor child porn collectors sure would be a bad thing.
Finding and stopping people who are actually sexually abusing children is a darned good idea.
But considering that people have been prosecuted for "child pornography" possession for fictional depictions, or for innocent cute pants-around-ankles shots of toddlers of the type parents have been known to take, yes, sometime it is a bad thing when "collectors" of "child porn" are found.
Certainly it's a bad thing when we shred civil liberties to find people who are in mere possession of certain strings of bits.
Sexual abuse of children is and should be a serious crime. Acting as an accessory to the sexual abuse of children by producing and selling recording of such acts in order to fund more abuse is and should be a serious crime. Fortunately, people who are selling something have to maintain something of a public profile so that their customers can find them, giving us a bit of a handle on catching them.
Merely possessing or publishing images of the sexual abuse of children should be a civil matter, unauthorized publication of images.
It's odd indeed that if I had a film of two teenagers making love before a maniac burst in and gruesomely killed them both, it would be more acceptable to publish the death footage than the sex footage.
I don't personally feel its right to be gay nor do I think people are "born that way".
"Right" to be gay? The labels "right" and "wrong" no more apply to prefering partners of the same or opposite gender, than they apply to prefering red to blue, or chocolate cake to pumpkin pie, or redheads to blondes.
And whether people are "born that way" or shaped by environment, or some combination, sexual orientation is certainly not a choice. I never made a choice to find Sandra Bullock more attractive than Tom Cruise, it's just the way I am.
Indeed if it were a choice, the only rational course would be for all of us to maximize our chances of a date by choosing to be bisexual.
I would think that the guy's in the greatest danger of just getting beaten to death, considering that he was advertising for BDSM types.
Most of the "BDSM types" I know are significantly less likely to beat someone to death than a randomly selected person taken off the street. Heck, the beatee could just shout "Safeword!" or "Red!"...
Their scum-bags for cheating on their current lovers
Who says everyone involved was in some sort of LTR? And according to TFA, at least one person was in an open marriage, so "cheating" is not even a possibility.
their dumbfucks for using a public medium to do it.
E-mail is not a public medium. They didn't post their information to the net.
(And it's "they're scum-bags", "they are", not "their scum-bags".)
But I have a hard time feeling very sorry for people looking outside their marriage for a tryst. You can't get caught cheating if you don't do it.
Not all respondants were married. And at least one was in an open marriage, wherein looking outside the marriage for a tryst is not cheating but is a specifically agreed up option.
And there is a large difference between being caught in a marital infidelity, and being publically exposed for the sort of minority sexual practices that can get you ostracized, fired, or beaten up in some communities.
Bingo. This is actually quite an interesting excercise in social engineering.
Nah. If he'd merely collected and posted a summary of the data, maybe mailing participants back a note saying "fooled ya, be careful next time", then it might be an interesting exercise.
By publically posting the data, it instead becomes a horrifying application, not an interesting exercise.
There may indeed be some similarities. So what? Wilson was an enemy of liberty who tangled the U.S. up into the war between colonial powers, imprisoned socialists who opposed him, pushed through the blatantly unconstitutional Sedition Act, sent American troops to back the Czarists in the Russian Revolution (setting the stage for decades of Cold War distrust), and interfered militarily in Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, Panama, and Nicaragua.
So what? Bush sucks now, Wilson sucked decades ago. Backing a Democratic candidate now opposes Bush now, it doesn't have any influence that travels back in time to support Wilson.
I don't see any theocrats.
Then you're closing your eyes.
Do you not recall Bush the First's statement that atheists should not be considered as citizens or patriots because "this is one nation under God"?
Have you not noticed the religous ritual that occurs in schools across the nation each morning, where children swear alliegiance to "one nation under God"?
Have you already forgotten about Roy Moore, former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, who holds that Biblical law must be the law of the land? Have you been stopping up your ears every time a story about Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, or their cronies in the Religious Right comes around?
It's easy to undo a law that makes cocksucking a felony, but very hard to undo a law that makes a large segment of the population (individuals, car companies, whatever...) depend on some sort of handout.
Not at all. First, budgets (including "handouts") are renewed, revised, and renegotiated every year (or perhaps in some states every n years?); the criminal code is not. Second, if what you suggest were the case, laws against cocksucking would have been stricken long ago, while economic policies would endure; in fact, anti-cocksucking laws remain on the books in many states, while economic policies come and go.
Third, anti-cocksucking laws mean that people get locked into cages and that police pry into people's personal affairs; economic policies mean that money gets shifted around. If offered a choice between a 10% paycut due to some economic policy, and the possibility of the police staking out my bedroom to arrest my girlfriend and I for unsanctioned sexual activity, I'll take the pay cut, thanks.
Hardly ever is a law simply removed.
Simply removing a law is not a guarantee that liberty is increased. Were the Fifth Amendment to be repealed, for example, that would be "removing a law", and certainly removing that guff about "due process" would streamline the government.
Trying to indirectly slap Bush in the face by voting against someone simply because they are in the same Party is petulant and immature.
For good or for ill - mostly for ill - the rules of the Congress are set up so that the majority party has a great deal of power.
By voting for advocates of fiscal conservatism and the free-market who are Republican, I can be "voting against" President Bush...
Sadly, so long as the current leadership of Republican party remains in place, a vote for any Republican candidate for Congress is a vote for empowering neoconservatives and theocrats, even if the individual candidate is a reasonable human being.
...the Koran or a pine box. Those are the only options that will satisfy our enemies.
No. The original goal of Al-Qaeda was to drive foreign troops out of Saudi Arabia, not to kill or convert all Westerners. If we stopped fscking over the Middle East (both directly and by our unconditional support for Israel) and minded our own damn business like a respectable nation, very few people over there would get worked up enough to want to kill Americans.
Oh and if appeasment is your choice...
There is a large difference between "appeasement" and "ending a brutal and stupid foreign policy that inspires hatred from the people we keep screwing over in the interests of American and allied monied interests".
No McFly, but tools can automate showing the relationships between the differing structures of a program
Design documentation is supposed to do tell you the semantics and relationships of these structures; automated tools are a poor substitute for that.
And I never said don't use other tools in addition to printouts on a table.
Software is really about structural relationships.
The perils of taking object orientation too seriously.
Some software is best understood through structure. Some is best understood as a set of imperitive actions. Some is best understood as a logical or functional specification.
"I wonder what method Foo does...::types Foo:: Oh, there is a paragraph of explaination in a pop up.
Either that paragraph came from a bit of documentation written by a human (and in any sensible system, stored as a comment with the code), or it's a mere restatement or summary of what the code says and not particularly interesting.
Yeah, all these tools really don't help.
Didn't say they don't help. Said they don't help the initial understanding of a chunk of code as much as printouts spread out on a table.
I'd rather have tools automate what you would be doing manually with your pencil and printouts.
If you can automate the result of the process of making notes to myself
on the printouts, you've not only solved the hard AI program (the natural
language output of the notes), you've solved direct input of information to
my brain. Wow!
When I was studying anatomy, one very useful tool was The Anatomy Coloring Book. Why not just buy a full-color anatomy book?
(Well, I had one of those too, actually.) Because the process of doing the
"grunt work" is highly educational.
In Java I would start off with Relo or some other tool to
reverse engineer the source into UML.
Ugh. UML: Flow Charts, The Next Generation. No, thanks.
Software is a linguistic entity, a string of words. It needs to be
described in words supplemented with graphics, not graphics supplemented
with words.
It's a shame and a deep source of our troubles that so many software
developers can't put together a decent paragraph, and try to hide their
lack of linguistic fluency behind obfuscated diagrams. Dijkstra observed
decades ago that mastery of one's native language is one of the most vital
tools a programmer has; perhaps there need to be more essay questions in
programming classes.
Given a large codebase that you are unfamiliar with, it's hard to start understanding the code with just Vi.
Just an aside: given such a codebase, no software tool helps you start understanding it better than a stack of printouts, a pencil, and a big conference table.
You know, get them and their family out of DC. Too much nepotism and cronyism in that city.
Right, nepotism and cronyism are unknown in the rest of the nation, or in state and local governments. Chuckle.
I do think the idea of a limit on consecutive terms is worth consideration. No limit on how many terms in the Senate you could serve in your life, but after three or four in a row you can't run for re-election for the next term.
Hey, after they hit this limit, let them run against the other Senator from their state in two or four years, now that'd be interesting.
Prior to the 17th amendment, the senate was to act in the best interest of their respectives states, which would act as a counterpoint to the popularly-elected congress.
Not of their respective states, but of the legistlatures of those states. Which legislatures were, by the time of Amendment XVII, terribly corrupt, and often subject to deadlock (forty-five deadlocks in the selection of Senators occurred in twenty states between 1891 and 1905, according to our friends at Wikipedia).
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Yes. When the SciFi channel first got broadcast rights to TOS a few years ago, they aired the original eps whole for the first time in decades. Very interesting to see the extra bits that had been snipped for time.
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Kallisti!
Flash has nothing to do with it. Given that a URL http://www.foo.com/asdka9823jcsaosjoda/bar.mp3 exists, it is obvious that http://www.foo.com/asdka9823jcsaosjoda/ is a URL to try that may contain similar files. It makes no difference that the directory is called "asdka9823jcsaosjoda" verus "mp3" or any other more meaningful name.
The context was "hot" as in "hot-tempered" or "hot-blooded", not like "am I hot or not?"
Whether "hot-tempered" is compliment or not is debatable. Certainly the accusations of being "hot-tempered" that people directed toward those of Irish ancestry in the laste 19th and early 20th centuries, the time of "No Irish Need Apply" signs, were not compliments.
A directory accessible by URL-chopping is a public place. Anyone with knowledge of semantics of URLs understands how to construct chopped URLs and use them to find information on a wwebsite.
Information placed in a public place is assumed be to be public.
Why does anyone send stories to /.? After all, they're already on the web, right?
Then we also have literally 10 times the number of people to do the counting.
Any large number of people can be decomposed into groups consisting of small numbers of people.
Indeed, since there are no truly nation-wide votes in the US (presidental votes are state-wide, thanks to the Electoral College setup), the largest population to deal with a vote would be Calfifornia's 36 million people, comparable to Canada's population of 33 million. So if Canada can do national elections with paper, any U.S. state should also be able to do so.
Old-style level machines were not that reliable, or auditable.
I live in Maryland. Can't vote in the primary, since I'm not a party member. I will be requesting an absentee ballot for the general election, and suggesting others do the same (Maryland law requires only the you certify that you may be out of your county on election day. I certainly may.)
LoTR is actually one novel of six books published in three volumes.
Actually, people do hand over lots of unneeded information IRL, that's how con men operate. It's certainly naive and unwise, but that doesn't make the crime any less.
Just like it's unwise for a woman to walk through a bad part of town in high heels and a short skirt and a low-cut dress and a diamond necklace; but that doesn't make her responsbile for an assault.
Finding and stopping people who are actually sexually abusing children is a darned good idea.
But considering that people have been prosecuted for "child pornography" possession for fictional depictions, or for innocent cute pants-around-ankles shots of toddlers of the type parents have been known to take, yes, sometime it is a bad thing when "collectors" of "child porn" are found.
Certainly it's a bad thing when we shred civil liberties to find people who are in mere possession of certain strings of bits.
Sexual abuse of children is and should be a serious crime. Acting as an accessory to the sexual abuse of children by producing and selling recording of such acts in order to fund more abuse is and should be a serious crime. Fortunately, people who are selling something have to maintain something of a public profile so that their customers can find them, giving us a bit of a handle on catching them.
Merely possessing or publishing images of the sexual abuse of children should be a civil matter, unauthorized publication of images.
It's odd indeed that if I had a film of two teenagers making love before a maniac burst in and gruesomely killed them both, it would be more acceptable to publish the death footage than the sex footage.
"Right" to be gay? The labels "right" and "wrong" no more apply to prefering partners of the same or opposite gender, than they apply to prefering red to blue, or chocolate cake to pumpkin pie, or redheads to blondes.
And whether people are "born that way" or shaped by environment, or some combination, sexual orientation is certainly not a choice. I never made a choice to find Sandra Bullock more attractive than Tom Cruise, it's just the way I am. Indeed if it were a choice, the only rational course would be for all of us to maximize our chances of a date by choosing to be bisexual.
Most of the "BDSM types" I know are significantly less likely to beat someone to death than a randomly selected person taken off the street. Heck, the beatee could just shout "Safeword!" or "Red!"...
Who says everyone involved was in some sort of LTR? And according to TFA, at least one person was in an open marriage, so "cheating" is not even a possibility.
E-mail is not a public medium. They didn't post their information to the net.
(And it's "they're scum-bags", "they are", not "their scum-bags".)
Not all respondants were married. And at least one was in an open marriage, wherein looking outside the marriage for a tryst is not cheating but is a specifically agreed up option.
And there is a large difference between being caught in a marital infidelity, and being publically exposed for the sort of minority sexual practices that can get you ostracized, fired, or beaten up in some communities.
Nah. If he'd merely collected and posted a summary of the data, maybe mailing participants back a note saying "fooled ya, be careful next time", then it might be an interesting exercise.
By publically posting the data, it instead becomes a horrifying application, not an interesting exercise.
There may indeed be some similarities. So what? Wilson was an enemy of liberty who tangled the U.S. up into the war between colonial powers, imprisoned socialists who opposed him, pushed through the blatantly unconstitutional Sedition Act, sent American troops to back the Czarists in the Russian Revolution (setting the stage for decades of Cold War distrust), and interfered militarily in Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, Panama, and Nicaragua.
So what? Bush sucks now, Wilson sucked decades ago. Backing a Democratic candidate now opposes Bush now, it doesn't have any influence that travels back in time to support Wilson.
Then you're closing your eyes.
Do you not recall Bush the First's statement that atheists should not be considered as citizens or patriots because "this is one nation under God"?
Have you not noticed the religous ritual that occurs in schools across the nation each morning, where children swear alliegiance to "one nation under God"?
Have you already forgotten about Roy Moore, former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, who holds that Biblical law must be the law of the land? Have you been stopping up your ears every time a story about Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, or their cronies in the Religious Right comes around?
Not at all. First, budgets (including "handouts") are renewed, revised, and renegotiated every year (or perhaps in some states every n years?); the criminal code is not. Second, if what you suggest were the case, laws against cocksucking would have been stricken long ago, while economic policies would endure; in fact, anti-cocksucking laws remain on the books in many states, while economic policies come and go.
Third, anti-cocksucking laws mean that people get locked into cages and that police pry into people's personal affairs; economic policies mean that money gets shifted around. If offered a choice between a 10% paycut due to some economic policy, and the possibility of the police staking out my bedroom to arrest my girlfriend and I for unsanctioned sexual activity, I'll take the pay cut, thanks.
Simply removing a law is not a guarantee that liberty is increased. Were the Fifth Amendment to be repealed, for example, that would be "removing a law", and certainly removing that guff about "due process" would streamline the government.
For good or for ill - mostly for ill - the rules of the Congress are set up so that the majority party has a great deal of power.
Sadly, so long as the current leadership of Republican party remains in place, a vote for any Republican candidate for Congress is a vote for empowering neoconservatives and theocrats, even if the individual candidate is a reasonable human being.
No. The original goal of Al-Qaeda was to drive foreign troops out of Saudi Arabia, not to kill or convert all Westerners. If we stopped fscking over the Middle East (both directly and by our unconditional support for Israel) and minded our own damn business like a respectable nation, very few people over there would get worked up enough to want to kill Americans.
There is a large difference between "appeasement" and "ending a brutal and stupid foreign policy that inspires hatred from the people we keep screwing over in the interests of American and allied monied interests".
Design documentation is supposed to do tell you the semantics and relationships of these structures; automated tools are a poor substitute for that.
And I never said don't use other tools in addition to printouts on a table.
The perils of taking object orientation too seriously.
Some software is best understood through structure. Some is best understood as a set of imperitive actions. Some is best understood as a logical or functional specification.
Either that paragraph came from a bit of documentation written by a human (and in any sensible system, stored as a comment with the code), or it's a mere restatement or summary of what the code says and not particularly interesting.
Didn't say they don't help. Said they don't help the initial understanding of a chunk of code as much as printouts spread out on a table.
If you can automate the result of the process of making notes to myself on the printouts, you've not only solved the hard AI program (the natural language output of the notes), you've solved direct input of information to my brain. Wow!
When I was studying anatomy, one very useful tool was The Anatomy Coloring Book. Why not just buy a full-color anatomy book? (Well, I had one of those too, actually.) Because the process of doing the "grunt work" is highly educational.
Ugh. UML: Flow Charts, The Next Generation. No, thanks.
Software is a linguistic entity, a string of words. It needs to be described in words supplemented with graphics, not graphics supplemented with words.
It's a shame and a deep source of our troubles that so many software developers can't put together a decent paragraph, and try to hide their lack of linguistic fluency behind obfuscated diagrams. Dijkstra observed decades ago that mastery of one's native language is one of the most vital tools a programmer has; perhaps there need to be more essay questions in programming classes.
Just an aside: given such a codebase, no software tool helps you start understanding it better than a stack of printouts, a pencil, and a big conference table.
Right, nepotism and cronyism are unknown in the rest of the nation, or in state and local governments. Chuckle.
I do think the idea of a limit on consecutive terms is worth consideration. No limit on how many terms in the Senate you could serve in your life, but after three or four in a row you can't run for re-election for the next term.
Hey, after they hit this limit, let them run against the other Senator from their state in two or four years, now that'd be interesting.
Not of their respective states, but of the legistlatures of those states. Which legislatures were, by the time of Amendment XVII, terribly corrupt, and often subject to deadlock (forty-five deadlocks in the selection of Senators occurred in twenty states between 1891 and 1905, according to our friends at Wikipedia).