You are dead on right. In Texas, the legislature has been eating away at state support for higher education after eliminating caps on state university tuition. The legislature said with a straight face that this would not increase tuition, but it doubled over the last decade. The Texas GOP views higher education as "liberal brainwashing", so I expect the GOP controlled government to continue down this path.
Damn straight. Gov. Perry would have gotten all As in Organic Chemistry at A&M if it weren't for them commie carbonyl groups and those America-hatin' chair conformations.
It does. The accepted meaning of the phrase had changed in common usage, and this new meaning is not in any way inconsistent or erroneous. If anything, it is more literal and less an of an idiom, as a given line of reasoning indeed requires a certain question to be asked at some point. Take into account that the original meaning came from Latin, and was a very bad translation to begin with.
"To beg the question does not mean "to raise the question." (e.g. "It begs the question, why is he so dumb?") This is a common error of usage made by those who mistake the word "question" in the phrase to refer to a literal question. Sadly, the error has grown more and more common with time, such that even journalists, advertisers, and major mass media entities have fallen prey to "BTQ Abuse."
While descriptivists and other such laissez-faire linguists are content to allow the misconception to fall into the vernacular, it cannot be denied that logic and philosophy stand to lose an important conceptual label should the meaning of BTQ become diluted to the point that we must constantly distinguish between the traditional usage and the erroneous "modern" usage. This is why we fight."
As has been said before, there are many ways to say "this is a question which needs to be asked". It is not necessary to take a definition of a logical fallacy and repurpose it so that its original useage is diluted.
I not surprised to see this on other sites, but on slashdot, where many people are coders who live by the knowledge of precise definition of terms, I am.
MIT epitomises the competitive, winner-takes-it-all, might-makes-right environment which is keeping half the world in poverty. Every dominant man starts forming his network at one of the elite universities, supporting research in collusion with exploitative business. When you've accepted that offer, you've already asked to be part of the system - to pretend to do something against it is ineffective hypocrisy.
Actually, students at MIT end up there because they are obsessed with some aspect of science or engineering and are driven to seek out and solve problems, like this housing exercise. The problems may be profound or trivial or even silly (how to get a fake police car up on the dome, for example), but they are all just problems crying out to be solved.
If these students had actually put some thought into getting rich by exploiting the world, they would have applied instead to Harvard, networked with the prep school future paper pushers, gone to Harvard Business School and then to Wall Street.
If they happen to be at the moment solving some problem that doesn't strike your fancy, then take a stroll down Mass Ave and suggest to them the problem you want worked on instead.
Don't worry, soon all communications will require a 3 document identity verification and will be recorded in permanent storage for a minimum of 50 years. This includes not only internet communications of all kinds, but also phone calls, physical letters, and face to face communications. I hear the identity badges they're planning for every american to wear comes in a rather fetching grey, makes it easier to read the photo, full name, date of birth, social security number, listing of immediate family names, pet names, political party affiliation, job status, and citizenship status.
I hear the star they're planning for every american to wear comes in a rather fetching yellow
You get one nerd point to put on your helmet if you can - without googling - identify the decade in which the first patent for a fax machine was issued.
Which part of the consitution do you think they should use claim that the Federal Government has been granted powers to do such things?
Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and post Roads".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Clause
Too bad it's not actually child number 7 billion. It's "person currently in existence # 7 billion", you probably have to add a zero or two for over all count.
Sorry No constellation prize for you.
Oh, God, the foodies are posting on/. now....with the annoying pizza "must be cooked in a brick oven with exotic hardwoods in Brooklyn by a monk until it has burned spots all over it and then we throw arugula at it but we don't even say arugula anymore, we call it 'rocket' like the Brits, 'cause we're hip like that. Yeah, pizza needs to be super, super thin, and crispy as a stale matza with one teaspoon of sauce made exclusively from Amish Brandywine tomatoes topped with a few haphazard shavings of Piave, 'cause mozzarella is so over." Bullshit. Pizza is bread, not cracker. Pizza is no place for minimalism and a Spartan aesthetic.... load up the sauce and toppings, and run that shit through a regular stainless steel oven. Why on earth would I want a pizza that reeked of burned tree? And the big burned bubbles on you pizza? disgusting, and inedible. Not cool.
Soft-bottomed pizza is not good. You can get a good crust in said brick oven or in your hypothetical stainless steel oven or on a pizza stone in my old GE. I have not had a good crust from a conveyor belt cooker. My dough is made in a machine, shaped into pizza-like flats of varying thickness, topped with store-bought sauce and store bought presliced pepperoni and whatever the hell else is on hand. Fuck arugula and all other greens. And I still get a better product than the best Domino can do.
What Google really needs is a small number of trusted volunteers who have a special Death To This Site button which appears in their browser window so they can nuke those damn link farms and equipment manual sites.
Its simple, Graphic depictions of sex acts thats pornography. Soft porn/erotica obscured or suggestive sex acts.Why do people make something that is so simple so hard?
I totally agree. Now we just need to define 'graphic', 'depictions', 'sex', and 'acts'.
I didn't realize the American Dream was to rip off millions of people by selling overpriced shit to them that they can't afford with the major selling point being "it's trendy!" The guy's a monster and I'm glad to see him go.
Yeah! I went into an Apple Store one time and some dirty hipster held an iGun to my head and made me buy a computer! Fucking Jobs!
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The graph of the "spike" was very unimpressive. The signal-to-noise ratio looks pretty small.
I always wondered how "Noisy" Rhysling lost his sight.
You are dead on right. In Texas, the legislature has been eating away at state support for higher education after eliminating caps on state university tuition. The legislature said with a straight face that this would not increase tuition, but it doubled over the last decade. The Texas GOP views higher education as "liberal brainwashing", so I expect the GOP controlled government to continue down this path.
Damn straight. Gov. Perry would have gotten all As in Organic Chemistry at A&M if it weren't for them commie carbonyl groups and those America-hatin' chair conformations.
It does. The accepted meaning of the phrase had changed in common usage, and this new meaning is not in any way inconsistent or erroneous. If anything, it is more literal and less an of an idiom, as a given line of reasoning indeed requires a certain question to be asked at some point. Take into account that the original meaning came from Latin, and was a very bad translation to begin with.
http://begthequestion.info/
"To beg the question does not mean "to raise the question." (e.g. "It begs the question, why is he so dumb?") This is a common error of usage made by those who mistake the word "question" in the phrase to refer to a literal question. Sadly, the error has grown more and more common with time, such that even journalists, advertisers, and major mass media entities have fallen prey to "BTQ Abuse."
While descriptivists and other such laissez-faire linguists are content to allow the misconception to fall into the vernacular, it cannot be denied that logic and philosophy stand to lose an important conceptual label should the meaning of BTQ become diluted to the point that we must constantly distinguish between the traditional usage and the erroneous "modern" usage. This is why we fight."
As has been said before, there are many ways to say "this is a question which needs to be asked". It is not necessary to take a definition of a logical fallacy and repurpose it so that its original useage is diluted.
I not surprised to see this on other sites, but on slashdot, where many people are coders who live by the knowledge of precise definition of terms, I am.
The whole page is filled with this:
I still crap on all slashdot. You are cunts. Fuck you
Fuck you
You are cunts
Fuck you in the ass
If this is some kind of experiment, it went tits up in a hurry. Hit the reset button.
MIT epitomises the competitive, winner-takes-it-all, might-makes-right environment which is keeping half the world in poverty. Every dominant man starts forming his network at one of the elite universities, supporting research in collusion with exploitative business. When you've accepted that offer, you've already asked to be part of the system - to pretend to do something against it is ineffective hypocrisy.
Actually, students at MIT end up there because they are obsessed with some aspect of science or engineering and are driven to seek out and solve problems, like this housing exercise. The problems may be profound or trivial or even silly (how to get a fake police car up on the dome, for example), but they are all just problems crying out to be solved.
If these students had actually put some thought into getting rich by exploiting the world, they would have applied instead to Harvard, networked with the prep school future paper pushers, gone to Harvard Business School and then to Wall Street.
If they happen to be at the moment solving some problem that doesn't strike your fancy, then take a stroll down Mass Ave and suggest to them the problem you want worked on instead.
The threat is not Skynet. The threat is Beakernet.
"...the purpose is to keep Facebook employees focused on product development..." This amused me more than any lolcat I am likely to see today.
Don't worry, soon all communications will require a 3 document identity verification and will be recorded in permanent storage for a minimum of 50 years. This includes not only internet communications of all kinds, but also phone calls, physical letters, and face to face communications. I hear the identity badges they're planning for every american to wear comes in a rather fetching grey, makes it easier to read the photo, full name, date of birth, social security number, listing of immediate family names, pet names, political party affiliation, job status, and citizenship status.
I hear the star they're planning for every american to wear comes in a rather fetching yellow
You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down...
People who have nothing better to do than criticize some company's proposed building needs to get a life.
"LA Times architecture critic"
Yes... architecture critic should stop criticizing architecture...
I like it better when he dances.
You get one nerd point to put on your helmet if you can - without googling - identify the decade in which the first patent for a fax machine was issued.
What fucking planet are you living on, anyway?
A planet not called Rock Ridge.
Which part of the consitution do you think they should use claim that the Federal Government has been granted powers to do such things?
Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and post Roads".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Clause
Too bad it's not actually child number 7 billion. It's "person currently in existence # 7 billion", you probably have to add a zero or two for over all count. Sorry No constellation prize for you.
We don't get French benefits?
Oh, God, the foodies are posting on /. now. ...with the annoying pizza "must be cooked in a brick oven with exotic hardwoods in Brooklyn by a monk until it has burned spots all over it and then we throw arugula at it but we don't even say arugula anymore, we call it 'rocket' like the Brits, 'cause we're hip like that. Yeah, pizza needs to be super, super thin, and crispy as a stale matza with one teaspoon of sauce made exclusively from Amish Brandywine tomatoes topped with a few haphazard shavings of Piave, 'cause mozzarella is so over." Bullshit. Pizza is bread, not cracker. Pizza is no place for minimalism and a Spartan aesthetic.... load up the sauce and toppings, and run that shit through a regular stainless steel oven. Why on earth would I want a pizza that reeked of burned tree? And the big burned bubbles on you pizza? disgusting, and inedible. Not cool.
Soft-bottomed pizza is not good. You can get a good crust in said brick oven or in your hypothetical stainless steel oven or on a pizza stone in my old GE. I have not had a good crust from a conveyor belt cooker. My dough is made in a machine, shaped into pizza-like flats of varying thickness, topped with store-bought sauce and store bought presliced pepperoni and whatever the hell else is on hand. Fuck arugula and all other greens. And I still get a better product than the best Domino can do.
I'm pretty sure it exploded about 21 million years ago.
In the star's POV, yes. In our POV, it just exploded.
Used to be. A couple years back they changed all that, it's actually halfway decent for non-specialty pizza any more.
The last time I checked it was still cooked in those conveyor belt ovens. No good pizza can be made in those abominations.
What Google really needs is a small number of trusted volunteers who have a special Death To This Site button which appears in their browser window so they can nuke those damn link farms and equipment manual sites.
Have you seen my Library of Congress? I dropped it around here somewhere.
Its simple, Graphic depictions of sex acts thats pornography. Soft porn/erotica obscured or suggestive sex acts.Why do people make something that is so simple so hard?
I totally agree. Now we just need to define 'graphic', 'depictions', 'sex', and 'acts'.
I didn't realize the American Dream was to rip off millions of people by selling overpriced shit to them that they can't afford with the major selling point being "it's trendy!" The guy's a monster and I'm glad to see him go.
Yeah! I went into an Apple Store one time and some dirty hipster held an iGun to my head and made me buy a computer! Fucking Jobs!
What really pisses me off about union workers is how selfish they are, when they claim to be otherwise - it's become a cartel.
Enjoy your race to the bottom. Hey - maybe you'll win!
Can you imagine the catastrophe of tons and tons of ignited LOX flooding a populated area?
I'm having trouble just imagining the ignited LOX.