I loved The Silmarillion as well. My favorite work by the good prof. Only part that was difficult for me was "Beleriand and its Realms". Now *that* was a slog - a 20 or so page geography lesson.
As for the book review I have a problem with this:
Well for some people, nothing that gives them more information about middle-earth and its history can be bad. They are probably cursing my name in the tongue of Mordor at this very moment. They loved "The Silmarillion" and they probably adored this work too. I share some of their passion, and despite its weakness, I did enjoy this story
If you don't like The Silmarillion, it's probably best that you don't review Tolkien's even more obscure work. The farther you wander from The Hobbit, the deeper the water gets.
Oh yeah, I know it's all extra silly. But the blurb made me think of it, and my SlashKarma could stand taking a hit for the sake of posting something interesting.
My list like yours would look like this:
(1) Does this cover reproduction? You're mixing your genetic material with someone else.
(2) Technically, human experimentation would apply to your tailor. He fits pants to you, then modifies them, then fits them again...it's experimentation with a human involved.
(3) Polluting the environment is recursive. Say a Hail Mary to be forgiven, exhale CO2, have to say another one...
(4) Like, moving pedophile priests around rather than tossing them out? That kind of social injustice?
(5) Everything causes poverty. If nobody used gas, it would be cheap. If nobody ate lettuce, it would be cheap. Everything you use causes poverty. See a demand curve for more info.
(6) How about this? (7) Sugar is a drug.
Mgr Girotti named the new mortal sins to be (1)genetic modification; (2) human experimentations, (3) polluting the environment; (4) social injustice; (5) causing poverty; (6) financial gluttony; and (7) taking drugs.
So, let's see. The RIAA is certainly guilty of the new 4, 5, and 6. They're also guilty of 3 if you count noise pollution from crappy manufactured pop bands. And probably 7, I think that's pretty much a given too if you read any of their justifications on their behavior.
So, all they have to do is clone Lance Bass and they'll have a hat trick on the new list.
An eMeter is really just a wheatstone bridge, right? All they're really doing is just measuring your resistance by inducing a tiny current through you.
Go into one of these centers and have them hook you up. Lick your other palm and every so often jam a 9v battery against it. Screw with the guy's mind. Keep twitching the needle at just the right time and see if you can convince them you're L. Ron reincarnated or something like that.
If you're really good, make some sort of a Van de Graff generator and use it to build up a gigantic static charge on you before you get hooked up. See if you can actually bust the thing.
Simple, they'd say, it's the ISP's responsibility;)
First off, I have no idea why this got modded to -1 because that's exactly what they'll most likely do.
The problem is, how would an ISP manage this with any degree of certainty? What is to stop me from logging in to Slashdot using Tor and giving any contact info I wish?
And let's say I do bully someone and it goes to court. Taco could wind up paying thousands in fines for it. So let's say that happens and he decided to get tough and crack down on false IDs.
How do you do it?
The answer is the same one you'd give if you were trying to comply to the "no rain on Thursdays" law. You can't.
So this is a law that is impossible to comply with, even if you wanted to in the first place. That's why it's a bad idea. Well that, and the whole "right to privacy" thing, which is another discussion.
No, that isn't anyone's main flaw. But it should be mandatory that these lawmakers should have at least enough of a clue to determine if what they are proposing is even possible before they start drafting legislation.
This makes as much sense as drafting a law making it illegal for it to rain on Thursdays. The frightening part is that the bozo drafting the law doesn't see why it's a problem.
A much more common argument from creationists is that it looks like it's 13.73 billion years old, but it actually is only around 6000 years old, and the whole 13.73 billion years business is just there to fool us.
Isn't God supposed to be infinitely more intelligent and powerful than we are?
If that's the case, why is he trying to trick us? What the hell would that prove? That he's smarter than we are? It's already pretty much a given if he can make all this. What does he gain by fucking with us? So he can sit back and say, "Ho ho simpletons! Those dinosaur fossils and red shifting really got you good, didn't they?"
It would be like me kicking a puppy for not knowing Calculus. "Ok Spot, what's the first derivative of sin(x)? Wrong!" *boot*
I cannot believe that the creator of the universe would be that fabulous of a bastard. And if he is, I want no part of Him.
consider yourself lucky to be able to download the album WHEN you bought it instead of several days later.
Yeah, that's to be expected. This is pretty new - an artist selling their own music in this way. Lots of people are flooding the site to buy the songs who probably aren't even big NIN fans. Just as a show of support so other bands they like will do the same.
I'll betcha once everyone sells their own music this way and the newness and excitement is over the first day lag will be much less.
The fact is, our educational system is less and less about basics, and more and more about agendas of the liberal elites, who somehow know better than the rest of us. Every once in a while, the opposite happens (this story), and they go nuts.
You know what another barrier is to learning?
Partisanship.
Whenever you distill a complex subject into a us vs. them shouting match, it becomes a discussion based on faith. That is to say, it is more about what you feel to be true rather than what you can prove to be true. My side are the good guys, and their side are the bad guys.
As soon as you move a discussion into that arena, doors to learning become shut. When you think you're sure you absolutely know something, the only thing that actually is certain is that you'll never know anything more about it.
...to allow teachers the freedom to teach whatever they wish, even if it is in opposition to current standards.
Then they're not standards anymore. That's why we have standards, so you can be guaranteed a certain level of uniformity and quality. If you don't have to follow standards then they become suggestions.
I'd like to see these people eat a big pile of USDA Grade A beef - but with flexible standards that the stores are allowed to define as to what "USDA Grade A" actually means. Would you eat it? Hell no.
The big four that they represent own the copyrights. The Corporate Owned Congress made musical recordings "works for hire" granting copyright to the record company, not the people who actualkly perform the music.
He turned around a depression. Yeah, he did it through the creation of some fairly spendy social programs - but they *worked*.
Remember, it's not what you spend, it's what you get for it. He had an eye for the financial future of the nation. He actually cared what future generations would have to deal with, unlike the current lot of politicians we have to pick from. I'd call that financially conservative.
Democrats are also fiscally liberal - they just don't spend it on wars/defense. Most of it goes to social programs, some of which are of debatable worth.
I don't think the White House has seen an actual fiscal conservative since FDR.
This is great for many computing environments, but my home system is not one of them. Honestly there isn't much software I use on a regular basis that really taxes the second core, let alone six of them.
Some people run windows, and they have to have a virus checker running all the time. Loads of activity every so often, which makes another core nice. And the window manager hangs sometimes and does these bizarre full-desktop refreshes every time you look at it crossways. It's good to have your program keep running at full tilt when that happens.
Multiple cores is the way to go, if that's your lot.
Whenever the RIAA screams about a geek committing copyright violation and calling it theft, we always go to great lengths to point out that copyright violation is not theft, and it is also not piracy. Those are different things. If they were the same, we wouldn't need a law about copyright violation on the books - it would already be covered.
And while I'm at it, how about if we use this case as an example to use against the RIAA the next time they say a single instance of copyright violation causes millions in damages? $19k sounds about right to me.
Come to think of it, it's too bad this guy couldn't pinch some RIAA lawyers to represent him. With the math they use, he'd be a millionaire.
"Well, we assume about $2000 for the single user licensing rights, and the magazine has a circulation of millions, therefore we seek damages to the tune of two billion dollars."
It is known that the velocity of the missile will taper off as it gains altitude due to gravity and because it's a kinetic kill vehicle that means it's effectiveness is a function of the closing velocity between the warhead and the target.
Remember - orbital speeds are fantastic. If we could simply lob a brick in front of the orbital path a satellite - the closing velocity would still be massive.
Most of the kinetic heave-ho that will kill the satellite is probably coming from the satellite itself.
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I loved The Silmarillion as well. My favorite work by the good prof. Only part that was difficult for me was "Beleriand and its Realms". Now *that* was a slog - a 20 or so page geography lesson.
As for the book review I have a problem with this:
Well for some people, nothing that gives them more information about middle-earth and its history can be bad. They are probably cursing my name in the tongue of Mordor at this very moment. They loved "The Silmarillion" and they probably adored this work too. I share some of their passion, and despite its weakness, I did enjoy this storyIf you don't like The Silmarillion, it's probably best that you don't review Tolkien's even more obscure work. The farther you wander from The Hobbit, the deeper the water gets.
Oh yeah, I know it's all extra silly. But the blurb made me think of it, and my SlashKarma could stand taking a hit for the sake of posting something interesting.
My list like yours would look like this:
(1) Does this cover reproduction? You're mixing your genetic material with someone else.
(2) Technically, human experimentation would apply to your tailor. He fits pants to you, then modifies them, then fits them again...it's experimentation with a human involved.
(3) Polluting the environment is recursive. Say a Hail Mary to be forgiven, exhale CO2, have to say another one...
(4) Like, moving pedophile priests around rather than tossing them out? That kind of social injustice?
(5) Everything causes poverty. If nobody used gas, it would be cheap. If nobody ate lettuce, it would be cheap. Everything you use causes poverty. See a demand curve for more info.
(6) How about this?
(7) Sugar is a drug.
This might be offtopic, but I'm willing to risk it. There are now fourteen deadly sins.
Article here.
Mgr Girotti named the new mortal sins to be (1)genetic modification; (2) human experimentations, (3) polluting the environment; (4) social injustice; (5) causing poverty; (6) financial gluttony; and (7) taking drugs.So, let's see. The RIAA is certainly guilty of the new 4, 5, and 6. They're also guilty of 3 if you count noise pollution from crappy manufactured pop bands. And probably 7, I think that's pretty much a given too if you read any of their justifications on their behavior.
So, all they have to do is clone Lance Bass and they'll have a hat trick on the new list.
An eMeter is really just a wheatstone bridge, right? All they're really doing is just measuring your resistance by inducing a tiny current through you.
Go into one of these centers and have them hook you up. Lick your other palm and every so often jam a 9v battery against it. Screw with the guy's mind. Keep twitching the needle at just the right time and see if you can convince them you're L. Ron reincarnated or something like that.
If you're really good, make some sort of a Van de Graff generator and use it to build up a gigantic static charge on you before you get hooked up. See if you can actually bust the thing.
They don't care about stopping it, they're just trying to make their jobs easier. They just want to be able to place blame more quickly and easily.
First off, I have no idea why this got modded to -1 because that's exactly what they'll most likely do.
The problem is, how would an ISP manage this with any degree of certainty? What is to stop me from logging in to Slashdot using Tor and giving any contact info I wish?
And let's say I do bully someone and it goes to court. Taco could wind up paying thousands in fines for it. So let's say that happens and he decided to get tough and crack down on false IDs.
How do you do it?
The answer is the same one you'd give if you were trying to comply to the "no rain on Thursdays" law. You can't.
So this is a law that is impossible to comply with, even if you wanted to in the first place. That's why it's a bad idea. Well that, and the whole "right to privacy" thing, which is another discussion.
No, that isn't anyone's main flaw. But it should be mandatory that these lawmakers should have at least enough of a clue to determine if what they are proposing is even possible before they start drafting legislation.
This makes as much sense as drafting a law making it illegal for it to rain on Thursdays. The frightening part is that the bozo drafting the law doesn't see why it's a problem.
And if you happen to have a friend in the German police force, you're going to get an awesome Christmas gift from them next year!
Oh yeah, I know. I could tell it wasn't your viewpoint, just one you've heard. Same as me.
Isn't God supposed to be infinitely more intelligent and powerful than we are?
If that's the case, why is he trying to trick us? What the hell would that prove? That he's smarter than we are? It's already pretty much a given if he can make all this. What does he gain by fucking with us? So he can sit back and say, "Ho ho simpletons! Those dinosaur fossils and red shifting really got you good, didn't they?"
It would be like me kicking a puppy for not knowing Calculus. "Ok Spot, what's the first derivative of sin(x)? Wrong!" *boot*
I cannot believe that the creator of the universe would be that fabulous of a bastard. And if he is, I want no part of Him.
..but the rubber hits the road when you have to hire someone to maintain that code...Soon as I heard this I envisioned pointy hair.
Using this 21% loan to file appeals is a lot like using your credit card to buy lottery tickets.
They're that desperate, and I can live with that.
consider yourself lucky to be able to download the album WHEN you bought it instead of several days later.
Yeah, that's to be expected. This is pretty new - an artist selling their own music in this way. Lots of people are flooding the site to buy the songs who probably aren't even big NIN fans. Just as a show of support so other bands they like will do the same.
I'll betcha once everyone sells their own music this way and the newness and excitement is over the first day lag will be much less.
You know what another barrier is to learning?
Partisanship.
Whenever you distill a complex subject into a us vs. them shouting match, it becomes a discussion based on faith. That is to say, it is more about what you feel to be true rather than what you can prove to be true. My side are the good guys, and their side are the bad guys.
As soon as you move a discussion into that arena, doors to learning become shut. When you think you're sure you absolutely know something, the only thing that actually is certain is that you'll never know anything more about it.
You gave me a lot of my favorite childhood memories.
Thanks Gary. We'll miss you.
...to allow teachers the freedom to teach whatever they wish, even if it is in opposition to current standards.Then they're not standards anymore. That's why we have standards, so you can be guaranteed a certain level of uniformity and quality. If you don't have to follow standards then they become suggestions.
I'd like to see these people eat a big pile of USDA Grade A beef - but with flexible standards that the stores are allowed to define as to what "USDA Grade A" actually means. Would you eat it? Hell no.
I'm much more excited about the possibilities for hydrogen storage rather than new construction material.
Poke around a bit and see what I mean.
Yup, exactly right. All anyone needs to know about music ownership, the big labels, and the RIAA is summed up nicely in this comic.
Enjoy.
He turned around a depression. Yeah, he did it through the creation of some fairly spendy social programs - but they *worked*.
Remember, it's not what you spend, it's what you get for it. He had an eye for the financial future of the nation. He actually cared what future generations would have to deal with, unlike the current lot of politicians we have to pick from. I'd call that financially conservative.
Democrats are also fiscally liberal - they just don't spend it on wars/defense. Most of it goes to social programs, some of which are of debatable worth.
I don't think the White House has seen an actual fiscal conservative since FDR.
This is great for many computing environments, but my home system is not one of them. Honestly there isn't much software I use on a regular basis that really taxes the second core, let alone six of them.
Some people run windows, and they have to have a virus checker running all the time. Loads of activity every so often, which makes another core nice. And the window manager hangs sometimes and does these bizarre full-desktop refreshes every time you look at it crossways. It's good to have your program keep running at full tilt when that happens.
Multiple cores is the way to go, if that's your lot.
...you insensitive clod!
Whenever the RIAA screams about a geek committing copyright violation and calling it theft, we always go to great lengths to point out that copyright violation is not theft, and it is also not piracy. Those are different things. If they were the same, we wouldn't need a law about copyright violation on the books - it would already be covered.
And while I'm at it, how about if we use this case as an example to use against the RIAA the next time they say a single instance of copyright violation causes millions in damages? $19k sounds about right to me.
Come to think of it, it's too bad this guy couldn't pinch some RIAA lawyers to represent him. With the math they use, he'd be a millionaire.
"Well, we assume about $2000 for the single user licensing rights, and the magazine has a circulation of millions, therefore we seek damages to the tune of two billion dollars."
Dr. Evil pinky is optional at this point.
It doesn't have a car in it.
It is known that the velocity of the missile will taper off as it gains altitude due to gravity and because it's a kinetic kill vehicle that means it's effectiveness is a function of the closing velocity between the warhead and the target.
Remember - orbital speeds are fantastic. If we could simply lob a brick in front of the orbital path a satellite - the closing velocity would still be massive.
Most of the kinetic heave-ho that will kill the satellite is probably coming from the satellite itself.