Would have been nice to define a not-often-used word in the article so we all don't have to dig...
Assuming you're in the U.S., if you didn't learn the word "gerrymander" in high school, your education in the political process was woefully incomplete. (The origin is from this editorial cartoon.)
It becomes statistically unlikely that any one person, for example, Luke Skywalker, would be the one to destroy the first Death Star, become a Jedi, be a witness to his father killing the Emperor, found a new order of Jedi Knights, etc.
Sure. But look at the statistical unlikelyhood of a Julius Caesar, a Leonardo DaVinci, or a George Washington.
It was also probably a mistake to be conscious of my breathing, but it is difficult not to be since they strapped on the abdomen apparatus pretty tightly.
So anyone who does zazen, yoga, or martial arts will probably fail a polygraph? Cool, I've got a ready-made excuse if it ever comes up.
(The article says average resting respiration rate is something like 18 times a minute - mine's about 9, and when doing deep focused breathing I can get down to two breaths per minute.)
The green party and the libertarian party will never be successful until it has people that are willing to be elected to state legislatures on local, practical, issues.
Um, I've voted for Green and Libertarian candidates for state office. This in Maryland, which has a formidable Democratic machine (or used to, until last time around they picked their gubernatorial candidate based solely on her being a Kennedy child) and some of the worst ballot-access laws in the nation.
So your contention (like most things I've heard from Republicans lately) simply doesn't hold water.
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As he rightly is argues, the Constitution requires that Congress only grant copyrights where those copyrights "promote the Progress of Science."
Under Article I Section 8, Congress is enabled to issue copyrights and patents. It is not required to do so, and more than it is requires to grant letters of marque and reprisal.
Except that in Voyager the half Klingon girl (Torres?) gets taken to Klingon hell on the Barge of the Dead, piloted by the first Klingon, who has the cranial mountain range.
And the clone of Kahles (sp?) in one DS9 ep, and the Klingons in ST:E, have the brow ridges. Only the TOS ones don't.
And since we see some of the same Klingon characters from TOS in a few DS9 eps, the "different races" theory sometimes advanced, doesn't fly.
The answer: obviously a strange trend for body modification during the TOS era, which Klingons later disavowed the way I will disavow ever owning a pair of parachute pants.
(Ok. I'm going to repeat to my "it's just a show, I really should relax.")
Hardly: it should be no surprise that the nation that's quickest to abandon uneconomic technology is the most successful.
When all costs are accounted for, rail is much more economical. It's only because fuel prices are artifically low - you're not paying all the costs of road building and maintenance at the pump, much less the costs of Iraqi occupation, air pollution, oil spills, ecological destruction from road construction - that the automobile is in the running. If both rail fares and pump prices reflected true cost - estimated by some around $5/gallon - it would be clear that rail wins out.
Which is training Americans to be software developers...
outsourced the development of some software to Sapient who did the work in India,
...meaning they're not using American software developers...
and that they used Gartner as a source of information when choosing the software platform.
...and that they made their choice of software based on the testimony of the most clueless bunch of soul-for-sale corporate bastards this side of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
A bastion of American software development is acting in a way that furthers neither America nor software development. No further criticism or comment is needed. In the immortal words of Hunter S. Thompson, res ipsa loquitur.
Guns should be available only to those who can prove that they are capable of handling them responsibly.
No law or set of laws can make this happen. Gun control laws keep guns away from bad guys about as well as drug laws keep heroin away from junkies
All but the most basic gun control laws do more to prevent responsbile citizens from having access to tools of self-defense, then to keep criminals away from guns.
I think it's more likely that you'd shoot the guy if you're somewhere where everone has a shotgun under his/her bed than if it's in Europe and you can safely assume that whoever it is is unarmed.
So I'm a bad guy, and I'm not going to shoot the guy I'm likely to be able to get away with shooting, but I would shoot the guy who's likely to shoot me back if I do?
I think it's much more likely I'd run the heck away.
"Hmm, I've got a gun, but he's probably got one too. I'm not going to try to make this guy show me where the family jewels are at gunpoint, I'm going to take what I've got and run, quit while I'm ahead."
It is a step above C1 - no attempt made to secure the platform!
That's D. (Actually, D is reserved for systems that fail evaluation.)
C1 (about equivalent to CC's EAL 2) does describe some very minimal security requirements, but the system doesn't need to distinguish individual users. C2 (~= EAL 3) adds a little more, including the requirement to identify individual users. The C levels require Discressionary Access Controls (basically, ACLs).
The B levels (B1, B2, and B3, roughly corresponding to EALs 4, 5, 6) add Mandatory Access Control - basically, the ability to label something at a sensitivity level and to have users have clearances to only read things at at or below a certain level, and write things at or ablove a certain level (can't have a Top Secret user writing unclassified files). A level (EAL 7) requires a formal mathematical validation of the system.
Can someone explain to me how GPL is any different from an EULA?
A EULA claims to restrict your right to use software that you own. It's based on the nonsensical idea that by default you have no right to use software that you own - since this claim is not true, EULAs are bunk.
So, because you're a pessimistic, paranoid, isolationist, luddite, so should everyone be?
So, suggesting that real life is more interesting than simulations is pessimistic, paranoid, isolationist, and luddite? Sounds paranoid to me. And you don't want to go out into the world to experience it, but rather stay at home jacked in? Definitely isolationist.
Humankinds appetite for communication and connectedness will continue to grow
Yes, becauce current technological and socieconomic trends are taking away opportunites for communication and connectedness. Spend two hours each way communting to work, nine hours in a cube, get home too exhausted for any interaction more demanding than swallowing your ration of anitdepressants and passive TV watching...and wonder why you have this itching unfulfilled desire for that "ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night". And the commericals dangle shiny techno-toys in front of you, and you think "ah! that must be what's missing from my life."
Never say never
Of course one can say never. "The halting problem will never be solved." Likewise, "Simulated reality can never match the real thing - because the best computer is the Universe."
It's all envy dressed up as philosophy. A way for leeches to salve their conscience.
Socialism is based on labor. It's capitialism that is the system based on leeching, where the state defined and backed "owners" (capitalists, investors) get to leech off of workers.
I'm back telecommuting again, and love it. I have more than enough extra-cirricular activities to get me out of the house - teaching karate classes, taking bodywork classes, poetry readings, open-mic music nights...or I can just go out to the local bar and see a live band. I have friends, I don't need to see co-workers to have human contact.
If I'm feeling stir crazy during a workday, I'll go out for lunch. On a few occasions, I've taken my laptop, or a book I'm using to get up to speed on something, and gotten work done at a cafe.
Taking a break and throwning a frisbee around the yard for the dogs for a few minutes also helps.
Anyway, they're not trying to filter out worthwhile results, but spam results. People do all sorts of weird things to try to make their site look like a worthwhile hit when it's really not.
Very interesting! I wonder why they don't market this more. Seems like a perfect fit in between RHEL and Fedora, good for the small office, or for someone who runs RHEL at work and wants to have the same software at home.
I think that RedHat got out of the desktop biz because they were starting to feel the pain of supporting hundreds of applications in such a fragmented way.
I'm not trying to be a karma whore here, but wouldn't it be a fairly silly idea to try to rob a place where self defense and hand/foot to head combat is taught?
Yes. Mostly because martial arts teaching doesn't pay very well!:-) ("Ok Mr. Robber, I paid $20 dollars to rent the space tonight, had three students paying $5 each, so I can give you the -$5 I made tonight. If you'll just give me $5...")
Seriously, though, I think the building alarm is mostly for vandal protection. There's no valuables or significant money there, maybe the daycare center's petty cash fund. The panic code for the monitoring company is just a standard feature.
Is it just plain sad that I've never thought of that, nor have I ever heard of that?
It's used by the company that monitors the alarm at the community center where I teach karate.
If the alarm goes off, they call on the phone. I can give them the regular password to tell them it was a false alarm, or a different one to say "Help! Some maniac is here pointing a gun at me!"
Because nothing says "I take a firm stand on important issues" like wearing _fake_ leather to protest real leather.
I'm not wearing the fake leather shoes to protest real leather, any more than I wear made-in-the-USA jeans to protest use of sweatshop labor. I'm doing it to avoid supporting certain behaviors.
I send the protest message with t-shirts and bumper stickers, occasional letters, et cetera. And with the lectures I get to deliver when someone says, "Hey, veggie boy, aren't those leather shoes?" (Or when the subject comes up in other conversation.:-) )
It was the semister I was taking both operating systems (where we wrote a simple multitaksing OS for x86 PCs) and introduction to theoretical EM that really got me.
I might have been able to do it if I'd gone for a five-year plan - but the scholarship money ran out after four. (I still ended up cramming five years of credits into four years.)
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Assuming you're in the U.S., if you didn't learn the word "gerrymander" in high school, your education in the political process was woefully incomplete. (The origin is from this editorial cartoon.)
Sure. But look at the statistical unlikelyhood of a Julius Caesar, a Leonardo DaVinci, or a George Washington.
So anyone who does zazen, yoga, or martial arts will probably fail a polygraph? Cool, I've got a ready-made excuse if it ever comes up.
(The article says average resting respiration rate is something like 18 times a minute - mine's about 9, and when doing deep focused breathing I can get down to two breaths per minute.)
Um, I've voted for Green and Libertarian candidates for state office. This in Maryland, which has a formidable Democratic machine (or used to, until last time around they picked their gubernatorial candidate based solely on her being a Kennedy child) and some of the worst ballot-access laws in the nation.
So your contention (like most things I've heard from Republicans lately) simply doesn't hold water.
Under Article I Section 8, Congress is enabled to issue copyrights and patents. It is not required to do so, and more than it is requires to grant letters of marque and reprisal.
And the clone of Kahles (sp?) in one DS9 ep, and the Klingons in ST:E, have the brow ridges. Only the TOS ones don't.
And since we see some of the same Klingon characters from TOS in a few DS9 eps, the "different races" theory sometimes advanced, doesn't fly.
The answer: obviously a strange trend for body modification during the TOS era, which Klingons later disavowed the way I will disavow ever owning a pair of parachute pants.
(Ok. I'm going to repeat to my "it's just a show, I really should relax.")
When all costs are accounted for, rail is much more economical. It's only because fuel prices are artifically low - you're not paying all the costs of road building and maintenance at the pump, much less the costs of Iraqi occupation, air pollution, oil spills, ecological destruction from road construction - that the automobile is in the running. If both rail fares and pump prices reflected true cost - estimated by some around $5/gallon - it would be clear that rail wins out.
Which is training Americans to be software developers...
A bastion of American software development is acting in a way that furthers neither America nor software development. No further criticism or comment is needed. In the immortal words of Hunter S. Thompson, res ipsa loquitur.
No law or set of laws can make this happen. Gun control laws keep guns away from bad guys about as well as drug laws keep heroin away from junkies
All but the most basic gun control laws do more to prevent responsbile citizens from having access to tools of self-defense, then to keep criminals away from guns.
So I'm a bad guy, and I'm not going to shoot the guy I'm likely to be able to get away with shooting, but I would shoot the guy who's likely to shoot me back if I do?
I think it's much more likely I'd run the heck away.
"Hmm, I've got a gun, but he's probably got one too. I'm not going to try to make this guy show me where the family jewels are at gunpoint, I'm going to take what I've got and run, quit while I'm ahead."
C1 (about equivalent to CC's EAL 2) does describe some very minimal security requirements, but the system doesn't need to distinguish individual users. C2 (~= EAL 3) adds a little more, including the requirement to identify individual users. The C levels require Discressionary Access Controls (basically, ACLs).
The B levels (B1, B2, and B3, roughly corresponding to EALs 4, 5, 6) add Mandatory Access Control - basically, the ability to label something at a sensitivity level and to have users have clearances to only read things at at or below a certain level, and write things at or ablove a certain level (can't have a Top Secret user writing unclassified files). A level (EAL 7) requires a formal mathematical validation of the system.
A EULA claims to restrict your right to use software that you own. It's based on the nonsensical idea that by default you have no right to use software that you own - since this claim is not true, EULAs are bunk.
The GPL enhances your right to copy and make derivative works of software. It's based on the observation that, under copyright law, by default you have no right to make such copies or derivative works: "You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License."
To attempt to be brilliant, you've got to dare to be stupid. (At least, that's the excuse I always use. :-) )
So, suggesting that real life is more interesting than simulations is pessimistic, paranoid, isolationist, and luddite? Sounds paranoid to me. And you don't want to go out into the world to experience it, but rather stay at home jacked in? Definitely isolationist.
Yes, becauce current technological and socieconomic trends are taking away opportunites for communication and connectedness. Spend two hours each way communting to work, nine hours in a cube, get home too exhausted for any interaction more demanding than swallowing your ration of anitdepressants and passive TV watching...and wonder why you have this itching unfulfilled desire for that "ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night". And the commericals dangle shiny techno-toys in front of you, and you think "ah! that must be what's missing from my life."
Of course one can say never. "The halting problem will never be solved." Likewise, "Simulated reality can never match the real thing - because the best computer is the Universe."
Socialism is based on labor. It's capitialism that is the system based on leeching, where the state defined and backed "owners" (capitalists, investors) get to leech off of workers.
If you did, you'd find that reports of vulnerability are greatly exagerated.
I'm back telecommuting again, and love it. I have more than enough extra-cirricular activities to get me out of the house - teaching karate classes, taking bodywork classes, poetry readings, open-mic music nights...or I can just go out to the local bar and see a live band. I have friends, I don't need to see co-workers to have human contact.
If I'm feeling stir crazy during a workday, I'll go out for lunch. On a few occasions, I've taken my laptop, or a book I'm using to get up to speed on something, and gotten work done at a cafe.
Taking a break and throwning a frisbee around the yard for the dogs for a few minutes also helps.
Try froogle.google.com/. Very helpful for such searches.
Anyway, they're not trying to filter out worthwhile results, but spam results. People do all sorts of weird things to try to make their site look like a worthwhile hit when it's really not.
Very interesting! I wonder why they don't market this more. Seems like a perfect fit in between RHEL and Fedora, good for the small office, or for someone who runs RHEL at work and wants to have the same software at home.
Yes. Mostly because martial arts teaching doesn't pay very well! :-) ("Ok Mr. Robber, I paid $20 dollars to rent the space tonight, had three students paying $5 each, so I can give you the -$5 I made tonight. If you'll just give me $5...")
Seriously, though, I think the building alarm is mostly for vandal protection. There's no valuables or significant money there, maybe the daycare center's petty cash fund. The panic code for the monitoring company is just a standard feature.
It's used by the company that monitors the alarm at the community center where I teach karate.
If the alarm goes off, they call on the phone. I can give them the regular password to tell them it was a false alarm, or a different one to say "Help! Some maniac is here pointing a gun at me!"
Yes, you can. And there will be a cottage industry of involuntary removals - with rusty switchblades.
Geez. Can't be stolen, my ass. Lends a new meaning to "slash and grab".
I'm not wearing the fake leather shoes to protest real leather, any more than I wear made-in-the-USA jeans to protest use of sweatshop labor. I'm doing it to avoid supporting certain behaviors.
I send the protest message with t-shirts and bumper stickers, occasional letters, et cetera. And with the lectures I get to deliver when someone says, "Hey, veggie boy, aren't those leather shoes?" (Or when the subject comes up in other conversation. :-) )
It was the semister I was taking both operating systems (where we wrote a simple multitaksing OS for x86 PCs) and introduction to theoretical EM that really got me.
I might have been able to do it if I'd gone for a five-year plan - but the scholarship money ran out after four. (I still ended up cramming five years of credits into four years.)