Freedom of speech does not mean, and never has meant, freedom from consequences. You have every right to slander someone and they have every right to sue you for it.
Freedom of speech applies only to the government. You can say any crazy, racist, xenophobic stuff you want to "speak your mind," but a private company like NBC is not obligated to transmit your message.
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This guy still can't write his own name correctly.
The suggestion was that white people don't get punished when they are guilty, while at best, black people are.
That's a failure of the system at punishing white people. You have a point only if you can show that most blacks are being punished when they're actually innocent. If they're guilty, then they should be punished.
While there are cases of innocent blacks being locked up, certainly some actually are guilty. They were rightly locked up. Your dad not being locked up when he actually was guilty is the failure here and doesn't mean that blacks who actually are guilty shouldn't have been locked up.
Assuming that's true, it shouldn't be. Manufacturers shouldn't do proprietary customizations. Why they even want to do this and incur the expense is beyond me.
Ultra-marathon running is used for an analogy. The thing about running in any race is that nobody else is affected by one's running ability. If one is a mediocre runner, one doesn't negatively affect one's co-runners; nor the quality of one's product (because there isn't one); nor the profitability of one's company (because there isn't one of those either); nor the satisfaction of one's users or the security of their data (because there aren't users either). Hence, it's not clear that running is a good analogy.
There are also some careers where nobody wants a mediocre practitioner. When one's freedom is on the line, nobody wants a mediocre lawyer; when one's life is on the line, nobody wants a mediocre doctor. Therefore, why should it necessarily be the case that companies would want mediocre programmers? Some programming does have life on the line: software in cars, planes, nuclear reactors, or Therac-25 radiation machines; or people's or company's finances: software in banking or stock trading.
There are also some careers where you simply can't succeed at being mediocre, for example any kind of research scientist: if you don't publish good work (and have the kind of innate ability to enable you to do good work so you can publish), you simply won't succeed. How do you we know whether programming is the kind of job where one can be mediocre and succeed?
I've interviewed lots of candidates, many of whom claim N years experience in language X. I'm often stunned at how much many don't know -- stuff that anybody who completes a CSX101 or algorithms or data structures course should know. Is that mediocre?
Three: Photostream uploads them to iCloud automatically. Of, if you just really need them as fast as possible: Four: plug the iPad into your Mac via USB and upload them using either iPhoto or Image Capture.
Why are we carbon based and not silica based? Either works just fine.
No it doesn't. If you do the chemical equations for respiration using carbon, you end up with CO2 as a waste product that's easy for an organism to get rid of since it's a gas. If you substitute silicon for carbon, the equations still work but you end up with SiO2 as a waste product -- sand -- a solid that's pretty much impossible for an organism to get rid of.
It should really be stated as, "... galaxies are disappearing from our observable universe..." which is little more than simply disappearing from view and not the actual universe.
The photons can't reach us from those distances because the amount of space between the far-off galaxies and us is increasing faster than light can travel.
If the ability to add an SD card is a feature you want and, after reading Apple's specs, you discover that Apple devices don't accept SD cards, you should simply not buy an Apple device. While the merits of the other aspects of the lawsuit are debatable, the lack of SD card support isn't. Nobody put a gun to these people's heads to buy an Apple device.
Ever consider the case that he probably posted the photo of his daughter while she was still alive? And that he either forgot about it or couldn't bring himself to retroactively delete it?
... is when KTVU News in San Francisco got praked into reporting fake Chinese names on live TV as part of the story of the Asiana Flight 214 crash. As tragic as the crash was, it's one of the best pranks ever.
Just use cash, its infinitely easier than all this nonsense.
Before heading out, you have to check whether you have enough cash on hand. If not, you have to stop by the ATM. To pay, you have to pull out your wallet and look through it for the required bill(s). If you pay with large bills, the cashier may opt to examine the bills carefully to ensure they have the necessary security measures signifying that they're genuine currency.
If you choose to pay the exact amount, you also have to pull out coins and pluck out the required ones. If you didn't use coins, then the cashier has to give you change back. You have to accept the change putting the coins in one place and the bills, if any, in another. You should also count the change to ensure the cashier gave you the correct amount.
Apple pay isn't better or all that different from Google's NFC pay, the difference is that they've done the legwork to build a network of vendors.
The differences are that Apple Pay is easier to set up (just take a picture of your CC card -- no logging in to your bank's web site), easier to use (just put your finger in the sensor -- no turning on the phone, no launching the Wallet app, no PIN to enter), neither Apple nor the merchant has your real CC number (unlike Google), and the kicker is that Apple doesn't track your purchases (unlike Google that brokers every purchase through their Wallet debit card).
Isaac Newton knew that something existed to make the apple fall to the ground, or the planets orbit the sun, but until he spent time studying it, he didn't know what gravity actually was.
Newton never new what gravity actually was; only how to describe its behavior. It wasn't until Einstein that humanity knew what gravity actually was (a warping to space-time).
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Freedom of speech does not mean, and never has meant, freedom from consequences. You have every right to slander someone and they have every right to sue you for it.
Freedom of speech applies only to the government. You can say any crazy, racist, xenophobic stuff you want to "speak your mind," but a private company like NBC is not obligated to transmit your message.
This guy still can't write his own name correctly.
That's a failure of the system at punishing white people. You have a point only if you can show that most blacks are being punished when they're actually innocent. If they're guilty, then they should be punished.
While there are cases of innocent blacks being locked up, certainly some actually are guilty. They were rightly locked up. Your dad not being locked up when he actually was guilty is the failure here and doesn't mean that blacks who actually are guilty shouldn't have been locked up.
Electric cars have been around since the mid-1800s.
Assuming that's true, it shouldn't be. Manufacturers shouldn't do proprietary customizations. Why they even want to do this and incur the expense is beyond me.
The author is a little late. Some of the most disturbing video I've ever seen was of people jumping from the World Trade Center.
According to Joel, Java isn't hard enough to weed out mediocre programmers in college. (Great programmers can use any language well.)
You realize this actually (sort of) happened, right?
There are also some careers where nobody wants a mediocre practitioner. When one's freedom is on the line, nobody wants a mediocre lawyer; when one's life is on the line, nobody wants a mediocre doctor. Therefore, why should it necessarily be the case that companies would want mediocre programmers? Some programming does have life on the line: software in cars, planes, nuclear reactors, or Therac-25 radiation machines; or people's or company's finances: software in banking or stock trading.
There are also some careers where you simply can't succeed at being mediocre, for example any kind of research scientist: if you don't publish good work (and have the kind of innate ability to enable you to do good work so you can publish), you simply won't succeed. How do you we know whether programming is the kind of job where one can be mediocre and succeed?
I've interviewed lots of candidates, many of whom claim N years experience in language X. I'm often stunned at how much many don't know -- stuff that anybody who completes a CSX101 or algorithms or data structures course should know. Is that mediocre?
Three: Photostream uploads them to iCloud automatically. Of, if you just really need them as fast as possible: Four: plug the iPad into your Mac via USB and upload them using either iPhoto or Image Capture.
No it doesn't. If you do the chemical equations for respiration using carbon, you end up with CO2 as a waste product that's easy for an organism to get rid of since it's a gas. If you substitute silicon for carbon, the equations still work but you end up with SiO2 as a waste product -- sand -- a solid that's pretty much impossible for an organism to get rid of.
This (plausible) scenario has already been covered by CGP Grey.
But then how would it be the case that we observe everything moving away from us at the same rate in all directions?
I wonder how it's possible to find out. Hmmmm....
That's certainly not true for a museum like the Exploratorium (that also has adults-only nights).
It should really be stated as, "... galaxies are disappearing from our observable universe ..." which is little more than simply disappearing from view and not the actual universe.
The photons can't reach us from those distances because the amount of space between the far-off galaxies and us is increasing faster than light can travel.
If the ability to add an SD card is a feature you want and, after reading Apple's specs, you discover that Apple devices don't accept SD cards, you should simply not buy an Apple device. While the merits of the other aspects of the lawsuit are debatable, the lack of SD card support isn't. Nobody put a gun to these people's heads to buy an Apple device.
Ever consider the case that he probably posted the photo of his daughter while she was still alive? And that he either forgot about it or couldn't bring himself to retroactively delete it?
... is when KTVU News in San Francisco got praked into reporting fake Chinese names on live TV as part of the story of the Asiana Flight 214 crash. As tragic as the crash was, it's one of the best pranks ever.
Before heading out, you have to check whether you have enough cash on hand. If not, you have to stop by the ATM. To pay, you have to pull out your wallet and look through it for the required bill(s). If you pay with large bills, the cashier may opt to examine the bills carefully to ensure they have the necessary security measures signifying that they're genuine currency.
If you choose to pay the exact amount, you also have to pull out coins and pluck out the required ones. If you didn't use coins, then the cashier has to give you change back. You have to accept the change putting the coins in one place and the bills, if any, in another. You should also count the change to ensure the cashier gave you the correct amount.
Yeah, that's so much easier.
The differences are that Apple Pay is easier to set up (just take a picture of your CC card -- no logging in to your bank's web site), easier to use (just put your finger in the sensor -- no turning on the phone, no launching the Wallet app, no PIN to enter), neither Apple nor the merchant has your real CC number (unlike Google), and the kicker is that Apple doesn't track your purchases (unlike Google that brokers every purchase through their Wallet debit card).
Newton never new what gravity actually was; only how to describe its behavior. It wasn't until Einstein that humanity knew what gravity actually was (a warping to space-time).