...I think making a facebook comment is as off-hand as a child saying such a thing at recess....If facebook and so on were not around, I don't really think the kids would have posted their thoughts on fliers on telephone poles near the school. Do you?
Probably not, and expulsion was too harsh. Kids need to be taught that the internet has power beyond their little cliques, and the parents are the ones who should have been taken to task for this.
On some old sitcom, a customer is displaying his Chinese-character tattoo to the Chinese proprietor:
Customer (proudly): It means "fiery strength!" Proprietor (horrified): No! It means of two men who love each other, you are the one who plays the woman!
There is an RFC out there (I forget the number off the top of my head) which limits redirects to five. IE6 went above spec and allowed... 20... I think. IE8 has shortened to allow 10 redirects. FF and Chrome allow the same or less.
I wonder what Safari allows. Verizon.com is particularly frustrating in this respect. When browsing my account and, say, trying to pay my phone bill, I often get the "too many redirects" message, so I have to go back to the entry page and try again.
Don't get me started about Verizon's customer service. Or their voice mail. And I'll never buy a Verizon cell phone.
Crap, I got myself started.
(However, their FiOS service has been outstanding. Go figure.)
Please explain why you used one space between all sentences in your post.
He actually used two spaces. Unfortunately for him, browsers collapse multiple spaces into one. He lacks commitment; a true Double-Spacer would have used two non-breaking spaces.
...we also should insofar as at all possible avoid defining crimes by ultimately unknowable mental states of the aggressors, rather than simply by their actions.
I hear this a lot, but we already have crimes defined by mental state: first-degree and second-degree murder, for example (premeditated and spur-of-the-moment passion, respectively). I suppose hate crimes could be lumped with the former, but they don't always end in the victim's death.
Whether in the end there's one copy sitting on a book shelf, one copy sitting on a hard drive, or three copies sitting on three hard drives makes no difference to the point that was being made.
Except that those three copies can be read concurrently instead of serially.
In the grand scheme of things it doesn't make a huge difference, but it is a difference.
If I lend a book to ten people, then copyright law considers that fine. If I put something on a P2P network and two people download it, I get a statutory fine of several thousand dollars (well, I would if I lived in the USA). There seems to be some disconnect there.
Not defending the publishing industry, but there is a material difference: your copy lent to ten people remains a single copy and returns to you (you hope), but the one you uploaded to two others has become three copies.
Still, I don't doubt the publishing industry is inflating the losses.
Given the average IQ level of YouTube commenters, they should have blocked responses altogether and provided a URL to a forum on whitehouse.gov. That would at least eliminate the morons who can't read carefully.
Slashdot Mirror
Pffft. I had one of those when I was a kid.
Europe is way ahead of the US. Banned since 2006.
Thanks for distilling the thread. Removing iStat Menus fixed the freeze for me. Off to notify the developer....
...I think making a facebook comment is as off-hand as a child saying such a thing at recess....If facebook and so on were not around, I don't really think the kids would have posted their thoughts on fliers on telephone poles near the school. Do you?
Probably not, and expulsion was too harsh. Kids need to be taught that the internet has power beyond their little cliques, and the parents are the ones who should have been taken to task for this.
Children often talk in terms like this about teachers, it's normal.
Except this isn't analogous to talking about a teacher during recess, it's more like posting flyers on telephone poles near the school.
... I've shorted Apple stock. Frankly, I suggest you all do likewise.
Um, yeah. Some folks might beg to differ.
I view this as a one-day-only 5% discount sale.
On some old sitcom, a customer is displaying his Chinese-character tattoo to the Chinese proprietor:
Customer (proudly): It means "fiery strength!"
Proprietor (horrified): No! It means of two men who love each other, you are the one who plays the woman!
There is an RFC out there (I forget the number off the top of my head) which limits redirects to five. IE6 went above spec and allowed ... 20... I think. IE8 has shortened to allow 10 redirects. FF and Chrome allow the same or less.
I wonder what Safari allows. Verizon.com is particularly frustrating in this respect. When browsing my account and, say, trying to pay my phone bill, I often get the "too many redirects" message, so I have to go back to the entry page and try again.
Don't get me started about Verizon's customer service. Or their voice mail. And I'll never buy a Verizon cell phone. Crap, I got myself started. (However, their FiOS service has been outstanding. Go figure.)
Please explain why you used one space between all sentences in your post.
He actually used two spaces. Unfortunately for him, browsers collapse multiple spaces into one. He lacks commitment; a true Double-Spacer would have used two non-breaking spaces.
Next step: the biosprings from The Windup Girl .
Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.
-Goldfinger
...we also should insofar as at all possible avoid defining crimes by ultimately unknowable mental states of the aggressors, rather than simply by their actions.
I hear this a lot, but we already have crimes defined by mental state: first-degree and second-degree murder, for example (premeditated and spur-of-the-moment passion, respectively). I suppose hate crimes could be lumped with the former, but they don't always end in the victim's death.
We don't need to fear and change the government, we need to fear and change the power corporations have over us.
I just finished reading Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan and I'm afraid you might be right.
He did his due dilligence, and got no response whatsoever. So nothing illegal happened here.
Due diligence, in this case, would have been to follow standard procedure and turn it in to the bartender.
Hear that whooshing sound? Look up.
A seriously good lockpick will spend a good 15 minutes on his knees fiddling around with the tumblers
Not since some enterprising soul discovered bump keys. Now it's trivially easy for anyone to "pick" most pin locks.
Whether in the end there's one copy sitting on a book shelf, one copy sitting on a hard drive, or three copies sitting on three hard drives makes no difference to the point that was being made.
Except that those three copies can be read concurrently instead of serially. In the grand scheme of things it doesn't make a huge difference, but it is a difference.
If I lend a book to ten people, then copyright law considers that fine. If I put something on a P2P network and two people download it, I get a statutory fine of several thousand dollars (well, I would if I lived in the USA). There seems to be some disconnect there.
Not defending the publishing industry, but there is a material difference: your copy lent to ten people remains a single copy and returns to you (you hope), but the one you uploaded to two others has become three copies. Still, I don't doubt the publishing industry is inflating the losses.
While they're at it they should vote to make PI equal to three
Already been tried.
I, for one, welcome our Culture Mind overlords.
It'll be permanent until the ISS is de-orbited in 2016, eh?
Given the average IQ level of YouTube commenters, they should have blocked responses altogether and provided a URL to a forum on whitehouse.gov. That would at least eliminate the morons who can't read carefully.
"May I ask who I'm speaking to?"
*click*
Damn! They abandoned the scam just because you ended the sentence with a preposition?
No, it was because he used "who" instead of "whom."
And why cats?
Quite. The Chinese eat cats.