We cannot hope, in our endeavors with such legal decisions, which are in themselves very similar to unsolvable philosophical problems, that we would ever achieve an answer that really pleased or was even intrinsically correct (morally and/or practically) to everyone. What matters more is this: knowing how to change things afterward.
Look at prohibition. It didn't work in this country. Granted, it took crime, death, and scandal to prove, but prove it did, and here we are. This may seem like a gloomy way to perceive the future, but to try perceiving the future is quite futile past a certain expunging of efforts, anyhow.
With tricky issues, the ugly-halves cannot be permanently concealed; somebody will get burned, no matter what the final vote decrees. What is so much more important (and infinately more effective) is that we pay attention to the situation that is Right Now, and deal with it, affecting change (which is highly necessary and extremely possible) as soon as need be.
To worry about not-yet-defined internet rights, taxes, government policies is an overrated endeavor. Why? Because it keeps us focused on the future, which is full of unreal imagery.
You counter with this: "let's make the right decisions now, because to affect change in the government takes so much time, lobbyist dollars, and a scattering of bi-annual elections". This is where my decree fits in precicely: we CAN'T make the right decisions now; we don't know what the right decision will be.
Let's use our vote for the purpose for which it was invented: to cast our selection of what we individually want. Do that first, don't vote for a group or with a group. Vote for what you want, and it will all be sorted out afterwards; just like Prohibition, just like 55 m.p.h. speed limits, just like government's involvement with business, just like segregation, just like woman's suffrage, just like anything that has mattered so far in our history. None of those issues were ever decided "correctly" when they were first made law. It took dilligent change (albeit human suffering, which is unavoidable) after the fact.
It all comes back to the timeless grocery-store question. Sure, the paper bags biodegrade within a few rainstorms, but they require 600 times as much wastewater to produce.
"Think about it!" -- Brenda Blue, Jay-Jay the Jet Plane
You are correct; working for a major automotive supplier, I've participated in several concept surveys due to my youthful perspective, and no one should think that a vehicle's appearance and the "proud-to-own" factor don't play a significant part in determining what comes to market.
However, with such eyesores as the Chevy Avalanche, the new Impala, Toyota Prius (which means 'injured turtle'), and the stomach-churning Pontiac Vibe all selling well, it's obvious that Americans do not weigh appearances 100%. Or else it's the simple notion that one man's treasure is another's trash.
I'm just wondering where I'll be able to find a local hydrogen pump.
(exhales loudly as he reclines the brown chair)
Upon reading these extremely fine articles, my mind picks and dances at one particular point, and that is the SIZE of corpuses to use for the training. It seems to me, that at infinitely large bodies of training material, both spam and non-spam tokens would have equal chances of being passed or rejected. Even for large (4000) bodies of corpus, would you really want to be training with equal numbers of spam examples vs. non-spam examples? It seems to me that the filter could cycle unto itself, giving the word "the" superior priority to "mortgage", and so-on-and-so-forth such that the filter would have learned so many words -- regardless of good vs. bad -- that the filter would again (raises fist to clear throat) turn in on itself; cycle unto its own voidance.
Does anyone have any ideas on this? If I missed something from the article, such as the "weighting" system he gives to known "good" text (which I still see as being futile at large sample sizes) please inform me.
I'm afraid I'll have to disagree. I picked up the Magician series on a whim and recommendation from an extremely prolific fantasy reader, and I almost vomited with every agonizing page-turn. Halfway through Silverthorn, I threw the book accross my room, collected the Magician series (and Silverthorn off the floor) and sold them to my local used book shoppe for $0.25 each.
Feist does only two things even reasonably well: rommance and attack scenes, even though they are WAY too short. The rest of his writing -- narrative, dialogue, and characterization -- are atrocious. The characters are always hand-waving:
. . . Roland spread his hands in suppliction, to indicate he did not understand.
"I don't understand!" said Roland.
This is HORRIBLE writing! And it insults my intelligence. Another thing I hate is characters always grinning at each other. If the situation or the words they say are FUNNY, the reader should be able to catch it without needing to see a character laugh or smile! It's called sublime wit -- a great writing ingredient, but you have to just DO it, you can't inform the reader that he has just read something witty.
So avoid Feist. I read Lord of the Rings as my first Fantasy adventure and I was looking for more MATURE TALENT than anything else. Tolkein could make Bilbo's trip to the ice cream store interesting. Feist couldn't even make a multi-dimensional Rift-War interesting.
If anyone can suggest a high-reading-level fantasy series to me, please reply to this post, or email me at NiqDan135@aol.com
yeah, and the Segway Lane could be jointly used by Rollerbladers, who are not fast or agile enough to safely maintain the bike lane (as neither would be Segway users). But at $5k, you might as well get a moped, I'm sad to admit.
for the sake of keeping the post moving and at reasonable length, I omitted the exact nature of MY problem to focus on the exact nature of the DSL-Marketing-Tyrant's problem. My question was simply whether a "dial tone" meant, unequivocally, that the line worked, or not. The modem WAS working on both house lines, just not repeatedly. With software indicating unpredictable compliance, and no changes made to the hardware since its inception, I looked to eliminate at least the "phone company" variable.
I gave the representative a "Yes" or "No" question, and he instead, after badgering me (-1 completely offtopic) to buy DSL, began to quip off famous excuses-for-the-lost:
"It might be something you'll have to ask your ISP about."
NO SHIT!
"It might be some configuration problem with your modem."
OH MY . . . BRILLIANT!
I realize it's not his job or even in the capacity of a modem-guru to fix such a strange problem over the phone, but it's extremely tasteless to ignore my question with a sales pitch. Does that clear everything up for you? Or have I missed something?
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On the flip side, many areas of the US have their phone companies run by scum-bag pirates with no morals.
I recently called my phone company to inquire about the second line that serves my mother's 56k modem. Before the representative would answer even ONE question of mine, he turned the tables for a full 5 minutes trying to convince me, insult me, and belittle me into purchasing DSL service instead of fixing the 2nd phone line. Seeing through the bait-and-switch pricing plan, I continuously refused him.
When he finally did answer my simple question involving dial tones and a "live line", it turns out he didn't know anything at all about electronics, modems, or software protocols. All he knew about was how to be an arrogant COCK.
After rejecting my EE hardware solution, which involved unplugging and re-plugging the jack before connecting, my brother (Biffer4810 on/.) got to the root of the problem and bought a new modem.
DSL should be a choice. For as seldom as my poor mother does email, the phone-modem works just fine.
the word that jumps out at me from the article is the 14-or-so companies that were declared BANKRUPT in this light, I understand that the trustee, appointed by the court to recover anything it can for the sake of the company would have no choice but to sell the fibers, but to whom is a better question. would depend if the business and the land were on the same contract, or owned by the same entity, and if the fibers would be considered part of the land or part of the business. IANAL but I am taking Business Law this semester. What I do know is bankruptcy can mean vastly different things than "going out of business" or "closing up shop". You can close up shop and choose which assets to keep. In Bankruptcy, your agent, the trustee chooses. Scary scenario.
Has anyone suffered at the hands of this diamond gem? It's a dated game, I know, but when I received it, it was PURELY a matter of having other things I more greatly desired to do that enabled me to leave the machine. In early college I missed countless dinners.
4:00 p.m. Home from class, sit down to CivII. 7:39 p.m. Look at clock for first time. Missed dinner. Dammit.
In the summer, it was only friends who wanted to play street hockey or my job at Burger King that got me off my computer. The game is brilliantly designed so that there is NEVER a point where you have nothing to do on a given turn; you never have all tasks sufficiently completed at once, and the game returns control to you with 50 new tasks to close or issues to tie up.
Not to mention the testimony I can give of the at least 11 other people, many of them not even my friends, who borrowed the game and became similarly addicted. 8, 10, 15 hour spans of playing are not at all uncommon. Neither is skipping meals or staying up so late you elect to miss class.
The way you beat it is to have obtained a life BEFORE you get into video games. Develop one of your talents, know where you are empowered. I knew I could leave the game (reluctantly) and go practice my music, shoot hoops, or walk the dog. I'm no Zack Morris; people are not crawling out of the woodwork to be my friend, but I subsisted on my own strengths. Without them, I could have easily fallen into the game and never come back.
the dollars you speak of pay strictly for commercials, or in the interest of companies, to have certain bills proposed or vetoed. the public vote is still the only determinant of who takes office and makes the decisions. so you blame wealth, but it is the people's fault. Ventura won the MN gubernatorial amidst some extremely wealthy competitors. When the public finally musters the guts to ditch the lemming effect and elect leaders who have no one to answer to but the voting populace, no amount of money will make any difference at all. Unless, of course, illegal bribery is involved, which is considered an extremely serious crime in the U.S.
Dallas is the single and only place I've seen an actual Ferarri dealership with my own two eyes. I wonder how many Ericsson execs will be shopping there after this . . .
Fines are a joke; the successful company will laughably pay them off -- monthly if necessary -- and keep on scaring grandma. It's like fines for speeding. $300 is nothing to the guy with a Porche. He will gladly pay an extra $300 per week to get to/from work faster, but on the other hand, $300 could be an entire week's pay for the family man of 5 kids who will lose his job if he's late once.
Fines aren't fair, and do very little; they keep the already-honest people at bay. Firm legal action always brings down crappy institutions eventually . . .
Superb idea. Would be nice to see something similar to what's in the introductory law books: a chart that divides OPEN SOURCE and FREE software, bulleting what practices are illegal/allowed, examples of each, potential problems of each. Paragraphs are hard to follow with two such similar topics, where law and example cases are involved.
Wow. A picture IS worth a thousand words. In this case, it's a diagram.
YOu are exactly right there. In the book, Gimli has no point of speaking at all, so when he roars in with his desire to swing at orc-necks, comparing numbers with Legolas throughout the battle, it can only be seen by the reader as comical. The author wanted to inspire the reader's heart to blast hot blood and yummy adrenaline through the reader's body in the hopes of making sure his battle scene wasn't too dry or boring. Great comment, Marshall. I hope you get modded up for +6 PRACTICALITY: NOT OBSESSED WITH WOW-AND-FLICKER OF MODERN MOVIE-MAKING.
It must be fun to keep abreast of everything you see at Best Buy each week. Their yellow tags and newspaper ads are so exciting! And they have such tactful employees . ..
I happen to use a computer for things other than playing over-rated games or illegal copies of songs. I have also long been finished with the 6th grade. Ever heard of an oscilloscope? The fancy new ones have floppy-drives through which the user can copy waveforms and put them into a report or larger database. And guess what? They DON'T have network jacks or cables! 4) ??? 5) PROFIT!!!
I simulate circuits, and transfer the designs to many different machines, on various operating systems. My boarding house has no phone or internet jack, so if I want to work at home, the floppy disk is a necessity to me.
You might want to consider this while polishing off your fifth Twinkie in your vain endeavors to exploit the useful features of the AOL user community, of which you are obviously an empowered leader.
Regardless of what MS is or does, is no one appalled that the newer macs have no 3.5" floppy drive? I still use this incredible technology each and every week. And thus I cannot own a mac. Cannot.
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We cannot hope, in our endeavors with such legal decisions, which are in themselves very similar to unsolvable philosophical problems, that we would ever achieve an answer that really pleased or was even intrinsically correct (morally and/or practically) to everyone. What matters more is this: knowing how to change things afterward.
Look at prohibition. It didn't work in this country. Granted, it took crime, death, and scandal to prove, but prove it did, and here we are. This may seem like a gloomy way to perceive the future, but to try perceiving the future is quite futile past a certain expunging of efforts, anyhow.
With tricky issues, the ugly-halves cannot be permanently concealed; somebody will get burned, no matter what the final vote decrees. What is so much more important (and infinately more effective) is that we pay attention to the situation that is Right Now, and deal with it, affecting change (which is highly necessary and extremely possible) as soon as need be.
To worry about not-yet-defined internet rights, taxes, government policies is an overrated endeavor. Why? Because it keeps us focused on the future, which is full of unreal imagery.
You counter with this: "let's make the right decisions now, because to affect change in the government takes so much time, lobbyist dollars, and a scattering of bi-annual elections". This is where my decree fits in precicely: we CAN'T make the right decisions now; we don't know what the right decision will be.
Let's use our vote for the purpose for which it was invented: to cast our selection of what we individually want. Do that first, don't vote for a group or with a group. Vote for what you want, and it will all be sorted out afterwards; just like Prohibition, just like 55 m.p.h. speed limits, just like government's involvement with business, just like segregation, just like woman's suffrage, just like anything that has mattered so far in our history. None of those issues were ever decided "correctly" when they were first made law. It took dilligent change (albeit human suffering, which is unavoidable) after the fact.
It all comes back to the timeless grocery-store question. Sure, the paper bags biodegrade within a few rainstorms, but they require 600 times as much wastewater to produce.
"Think about it!" -- Brenda Blue, Jay-Jay the Jet Plane
You are correct; working for a major automotive supplier, I've participated in several concept surveys due to my youthful perspective, and no one should think that a vehicle's appearance and the "proud-to-own" factor don't play a significant part in determining what comes to market.
However, with such eyesores as the Chevy Avalanche, the new Impala, Toyota Prius (which means 'injured turtle'), and the stomach-churning Pontiac Vibe all selling well, it's obvious that Americans do not weigh appearances 100%. Or else it's the simple notion that one man's treasure is another's trash.
I'm just wondering where I'll be able to find a local hydrogen pump.
And backwards, it says:
Driver Returns On Foot!
(exhales loudly as he reclines the brown chair)
Upon reading these extremely fine articles, my mind picks and dances at one particular point, and that is the SIZE of corpuses to use for the training. It seems to me, that at infinitely large bodies of training material, both spam and non-spam tokens would have equal chances of being passed or rejected. Even for large (4000) bodies of corpus, would you really want to be training with equal numbers of spam examples vs. non-spam examples? It seems to me that the filter could cycle unto itself, giving the word "the" superior priority to "mortgage", and so-on-and-so-forth such that the filter would have learned so many words -- regardless of good vs. bad -- that the filter would again (raises fist to clear throat) turn in on itself; cycle unto its own voidance.
Does anyone have any ideas on this? If I missed something from the article, such as the "weighting" system he gives to known "good" text (which I still see as being futile at large sample sizes) please inform me.
I'm afraid I'll have to disagree. I picked up the Magician series on a whim and recommendation from an extremely prolific fantasy reader, and I almost vomited with every agonizing page-turn. Halfway through Silverthorn, I threw the book accross my room, collected the Magician series (and Silverthorn off the floor) and sold them to my local used book shoppe for $0.25 each.
Feist does only two things even reasonably well: rommance and attack scenes, even though they are WAY too short. The rest of his writing -- narrative, dialogue, and characterization -- are atrocious. The characters are always hand-waving:
. . . Roland spread his hands in suppliction, to indicate he did not understand.
"I don't understand!" said Roland.
This is HORRIBLE writing! And it insults my intelligence. Another thing I hate is characters always grinning at each other. If the situation or the words they say are FUNNY, the reader should be able to catch it without needing to see a character laugh or smile! It's called sublime wit -- a great writing ingredient, but you have to just DO it, you can't inform the reader that he has just read something witty.
So avoid Feist. I read Lord of the Rings as my first Fantasy adventure and I was looking for more MATURE TALENT than anything else. Tolkein could make Bilbo's trip to the ice cream store interesting. Feist couldn't even make a multi-dimensional Rift-War interesting.
If anyone can suggest a high-reading-level fantasy series to me, please reply to this post, or email me at NiqDan135@aol.com
yeah, and the Segway Lane could be jointly used by Rollerbladers, who are not fast or agile enough to safely maintain the bike lane (as neither would be Segway users). But at $5k, you might as well get a moped, I'm sad to admit.
Is that the Chief of Staff of Sun Microsystems has hippie-hair and an unkempt beard.
if this technology was tested on penguins first . . .
for the sake of keeping the post moving and at reasonable length, I omitted the exact nature of MY problem to focus on the exact nature of the DSL-Marketing-Tyrant's problem. My question was simply whether a "dial tone" meant, unequivocally, that the line worked, or not. The modem WAS working on both house lines, just not repeatedly. With software indicating unpredictable compliance, and no changes made to the hardware since its inception, I looked to eliminate at least the "phone company" variable.
I gave the representative a "Yes" or "No" question, and he instead, after badgering me (-1 completely offtopic) to buy DSL, began to quip off famous excuses-for-the-lost:
"It might be something you'll have to ask your ISP about."
NO SHIT!
"It might be some configuration problem with your modem."
OH MY . . . BRILLIANT!
I realize it's not his job or even in the capacity of a modem-guru to fix such a strange problem over the phone, but it's extremely tasteless to ignore my question with a sales pitch. Does that clear everything up for you? Or have I missed something?
On the flip side, many areas of the US have their phone companies run by scum-bag pirates with no morals. /.) got to the root of the problem and bought a new modem.
I recently called my phone company to inquire about the second line that serves my mother's 56k modem. Before the representative would answer even ONE question of mine, he turned the tables for a full 5 minutes trying to convince me, insult me, and belittle me into purchasing DSL service instead of fixing the 2nd phone line. Seeing through the bait-and-switch pricing plan, I continuously refused him.
When he finally did answer my simple question involving dial tones and a "live line", it turns out he didn't know anything at all about electronics, modems, or software protocols. All he knew about was how to be an arrogant COCK.
After rejecting my EE hardware solution, which involved unplugging and re-plugging the jack before connecting, my brother (Biffer4810 on
DSL should be a choice. For as seldom as my poor mother does email, the phone-modem works just fine.
the word that jumps out at me from the article is the 14-or-so companies that were declared BANKRUPT
in this light, I understand that the trustee, appointed by the court to recover anything it can for the sake of the company would have no choice but to sell the fibers, but to whom is a better question. would depend if the business and the land were on the same contract, or owned by the same entity, and if the fibers would be considered part of the land or part of the business. IANAL but I am taking Business Law this semester. What I do know is bankruptcy can mean vastly different things than "going out of business" or "closing up shop". You can close up shop and choose which assets to keep. In Bankruptcy, your agent, the trustee chooses. Scary scenario.
Couple of months?! I could embezzle that much in a couple of days!
BOSS: "Why are we so low on McNuggets?"
EMPLOYEE: "The geek took them, sir. He's selling them in the bathroom and pocketing the cash."
BOSS: "Bastard! I'm putting him on Drive-Thru when he gets back. That'll show him."
RONALD: "GRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!"
Civilization II is great . . . until the computer cheats.
SimCity 2000 was great, until I built so many police stations that I overflowed the police station buffer and saturated the coverage area.
Can you name better ones?
Has anyone suffered at the hands of this diamond gem? It's a dated game, I know, but when I received it, it was PURELY a matter of having other things I more greatly desired to do that enabled me to leave the machine. In early college I missed countless dinners.
4:00 p.m. Home from class, sit down to CivII.
7:39 p.m. Look at clock for first time. Missed dinner. Dammit.
In the summer, it was only friends who wanted to play street hockey or my job at Burger King that got me off my computer. The game is brilliantly designed so that there is NEVER a point where you have nothing to do on a given turn; you never have all tasks sufficiently completed at once, and the game returns control to you with 50 new tasks to close or issues to tie up.
Not to mention the testimony I can give of the at least 11 other people, many of them not even my friends, who borrowed the game and became similarly addicted. 8, 10, 15 hour spans of playing are not at all uncommon. Neither is skipping meals or staying up so late you elect to miss class.
The way you beat it is to have obtained a life BEFORE you get into video games. Develop one of your talents, know where you are empowered. I knew I could leave the game (reluctantly) and go practice my music, shoot hoops, or walk the dog. I'm no Zack Morris; people are not crawling out of the woodwork to be my friend, but I subsisted on my own strengths. Without them, I could have easily fallen into the game and never come back.
Having a life: the anti-addiction entity.
the dollars you speak of pay strictly for commercials, or in the interest of companies, to have certain bills proposed or vetoed. the public vote is still the only determinant of who takes office and makes the decisions. so you blame wealth, but it is the people's fault. Ventura won the MN gubernatorial amidst some extremely wealthy competitors. When the public finally musters the guts to ditch the lemming effect and elect leaders who have no one to answer to but the voting populace, no amount of money will make any difference at all. Unless, of course, illegal bribery is involved, which is considered an extremely serious crime in the U.S.
Dallas is the single and only place I've seen an actual Ferarri dealership with my own two eyes. I wonder how many Ericsson execs will be shopping there after this . . .
we already have an earthquake machine . . . whenever CowboyNeal falls off his bike
Fines are a joke; the successful company will laughably pay them off -- monthly if necessary -- and keep on scaring grandma.
It's like fines for speeding. $300 is nothing to the guy with a Porche. He will gladly pay an extra $300 per week to get to/from work faster, but on the other hand, $300 could be an entire week's pay for the family man of 5 kids who will lose his job if he's late once.
Fines aren't fair, and do very little; they keep the already-honest people at bay.
Firm legal action always brings down crappy institutions eventually . . .
CUSTOMER THOUGHT (forced or not): ."
."
"I love gas mileage and green planets . .
MARKET RESULT:
"Ford plans to release the electric-hybrid Escape in 2003 . .
You see, mind control rocks.
Now go brush with extra flouride.
my spam and virus filters will block all 30-day communications from X-Force, and we will all be doomed.
Superb idea. Would be nice to see something similar to what's in the introductory law books: a chart that divides OPEN SOURCE and FREE software, bulleting what practices are illegal/allowed, examples of each, potential problems of each. Paragraphs are hard to follow with two such similar topics, where law and example cases are involved.
Wow. A picture IS worth a thousand words. In this case, it's a diagram.
YOu are exactly right there. In the book, Gimli has no point of speaking at all, so when he roars in with his desire to swing at orc-necks, comparing numbers with Legolas throughout the battle, it can only be seen by the reader as comical. The author wanted to inspire the reader's heart to blast hot blood and yummy adrenaline through the reader's body in the hopes of making sure his battle scene wasn't too dry or boring. Great comment, Marshall. I hope you get modded up for +6 PRACTICALITY: NOT OBSESSED WITH WOW-AND-FLICKER OF MODERN MOVIE-MAKING.
It must be fun to keep abreast of everything you see at Best Buy each week. Their yellow tags and newspaper ads are so exciting! And they have such tactful employees . . .
I happen to use a computer for things other than playing over-rated games or illegal copies of songs. I have also long been finished with the 6th grade. Ever heard of an oscilloscope? The fancy new ones have floppy-drives through which the user can copy waveforms and put them into a report or larger database. And guess what? They DON'T have network jacks or cables!
4) ???
5) PROFIT!!!
I simulate circuits, and transfer the designs to many different machines, on various operating systems. My boarding house has no phone or internet jack, so if I want to work at home, the floppy disk is a necessity to me.
You might want to consider this while polishing off your fifth Twinkie in your vain endeavors to exploit the useful features of the AOL user community, of which you are obviously an empowered leader.
Regardless of what MS is or does, is no one appalled that the newer macs have no 3.5" floppy drive?
I still use this incredible technology each and every week. And thus I cannot own a mac. Cannot.