It doesn't matter whether they're official or not, it matter whether they're spying!
Oh, and spies do a lot more than just filch secrets. They also do sabotage, infiltration, provocation of trouble, propaganda... all things that the commies were doing, or trying to. So yes, spies.
When I say "sounds like spies", I don't mean "I'd suspect them of spying". I mean "that's pretty much the textbook definition of spy". Whether or not they had KGB personnel numbers is as irrelevant as whether Bin Laden has a military rank. Being an amateur spy is hardly an excuse.
In '04, the Democrats and their supporters in the entertainment industry worked hard, and successfully, to turn out the youth vote - in the belief that the young were overwhelmingly left and atheist. Turns out, the increased turnout didn't particularly favour anybody. There is no hidden army of disenfranchised atheists.
At the time the American Communist Party was taking orders (and money) from soviet Russia, idealizing revolution by military force, and encouraging members to lay low, hide their affiliation, and achieve strategic aims by stealth. Sounds like spies to me.
McCarthy goofed not by crusading against the very real Red Menace, but by making anti-communism look unjust, through sloppy targeting and lack of due process.
Short term, property is supplies that can be sold, or donated to the suffering. It's the belongings of individuals and businesses, and the difference between whether they have anything to come back to, or not.
Medium term, property is the seeds of new infrastructure and the resumption of civil life. It's a job for the employees and a place to spend money on food and rebuilding. It's the social core of a healing city.
Long term, property is what will hold jobs there and restart the economy, rather than have the last scraps of the city collapse from disuse and economic irrelevance, and blow away in the winds of time.
Property is life. A disaster just makes this more evident. Shooting looters to protect property is fully justified.
Not content with exploiting suffering to push your global warming religion, you leftist asses now blame chaos on libertarianism. I tell you, it's the libertarian types who are defending property with guns, or putting their own earned money on the line in emergency donations, that are doing the most good.
Why don't you fucks crawl to N.O. and apologise directly to the people you've insulted and to all the graves you've spat upon?
Unlike a CD, you can bounce around as much as you like wearing a walkman, and the thing won't skip. Unil solid state MP3 players, they were the only mobile way to listen to music - and I could argue they're still simpler. No need to preload them from a PC, just pop the cover and snap in a tape. Oh, and tapes remember where you stopped listening, and resume where you left off - even if it was years ago and you've listen to a thousand tapes since.
You make a major release, and the first thing you do is throw tons of new crap into it? Surely the first priority ought to be, to see how it shakes out in the much larger testbed of public use? Then new stuff should be added on top of a stable base, rather than hung off the side of some iffy point-zero release, where bugs will compound on top of bugs.
It's wierd how clubs never seemed to forget the "class" thing even as cinemas went completely grunge-egalitarian. Especially, they never forgot that policing the customers gets you a better kind of customer, and you can charge a premium for that. Nobody would be surprised to see a nightclub that charged big money and required formal evening dress. Your jaw would likely drop if the cinema did that - but why?
Supposedly, the primary value proposition of modern cinema above home DVD is the "atmosphere".
Surely one of these idiots must have thought, if we're selling atmosphere, better go out of our way to be sure we have some? Industrial boxy buildings and bright-casual uniforms on gum-chewing slouched staff make for a poor attempt at sophisticated glamour.
I remember when I was a kid, folks used to dress up for the cinema, and the staff used to be smart, and the theater itself was as glitzy as could be done with gilt paint, coloured foil and cheap velvet.
"comparing their budget to NASA's is ludicrous" -- not so. NASA has a bigger budget now. NASA's budget is finite and bounded by politics. NASA's actions do not affect its budget (except very indirectly) and cannot grow the budget.
By contrast Virgin Galactic will be operating for profit. That is, for every N they spend, they will get N+M back. Their initial budget is bounded by the initial N (startup capital), but it grows rather than decreasing with each thing they do. That means that given enough time and a sufficiently profitable business, their budget can grow to an arbitrary size. VG's budget can be, and eventually almost certainly will be larger than NASA's.
Have these folks forgotten free will? Having violent thoughts is not the same as being violent. They're seperated by a conscious ethical choice. These "morality advocates" are in fact trying to circumvent morality at all.
Both of those words you mentioned apply to phenomena that never existed before. You could call them "serial public editorial" and "prerecorded automatically downloadable digital radio" but your jaw would get tired. In fact, the best circumlocution would still miss corner cases which are definitely "blogs" and "podcasts". That's what I take as proof positive that a new word was necessary.
On the other hand, a lot of neologizing, particularly around "spam", seems to delight in sounding scatological. I wish people would think first - the last thing modern english needs is more deliberate ugliness.
With all the other people saying "duh, adverts of course", I'll play the devil's advocate.
Consider "adblock" and its probable descendants. I'd lay even odds they'll utterly wipe out bulk advertizing on the web before 2010. Advertizers will try stealth, and be beaten back by collaborative and statistical filters. There's no way they can win that arms race when the browser-side does the rendering. You may be able to duck the blow by carefully choosing innoccuous and relevant ad providers - or even they may fall.
Adverts are certainly the best-paying revenue stream right now, but you'll need a backup plan!
1) Savings on coder time, extra bugs fixed - in each case by external devs your company doesn't have to pay. Downside: unless your project becomes well-known, this may never actually happen, or not enough to pay for itself.
2) Code stability. You can sell services or derived products to third parties and tell them that the product is safe against your company going bust because the code is public. Downside: you then have to do the harder work of convincing the buyer not to "cut out the middleman" and implement a homebrew with the published GPL code. GPL code cannot be your only source of value!
3) Compatibility with 3rd party extensions. If you GPL, you get a license to merge in anything else GPL'd and thereby add maximum features for minimum effort. Downside: if you muddy up who has the copyright, you may not be able to un-GPL it (nor sell special-case licenses to users who'd prefer closed source)
4) Why not? If it's not a "strategic" asset but only an in-house tool for a secondary task, GPLing can't hurt. Downside: publishing code and dealing with bug-reports and user gripes can eat expensive dev time. If the business case is that marginal you may be forced to "publish and abandon".
You do realise that it will often NOT make sense to open-source the code? In particular, a "strategic" app, or one that implies sensitive info through its design, or one that presents a public face you don't want to be hackable. Or simply if your boss thinks "I can't spare dev time for this nonsense". Businesses aren't charities (unless you're tax deductible).
Senior figures in the Bush administration were in talks with scientists, to see if a way could be found to fit these "naked" transistors with trousers.
Consider a germ which has never seen multicellular life, has never fought any sort of immune system, considers light or rock ores to be food, and expects carbon dioxide to be a crunchy mineral. I doubt it would try to infect a human!
The germs that are likely to be a problem on Mars are the ones we bring along for the ride. E Coli and some radiation bombardment to stir the pot, and that could do you in quite nicely. If anything I'd bet on mined water (versus recycled) as the healthy stuff.
Using built-in types to illustrate algorithmic complexity is still a bad idea. To understand what a tree map is and how it differs from a hash map, it's best to implement both. Then you can immediately grasp things like "hash maps behave like sorted lists in the pathological case that all the inputs hash into one bucket" and "tree maps are slower and more bulky, unless you need in-order traversal".
All coding in Perl and PHP amounts to "load module A, load module B, use builtin feature C, use A with B". It may be a sensible way for busy people to bodge together a five-minute application, but it doesn't teach you to comprehend the skill of programming.
Quicksort may be dry, but if you've never tried to code it then the library function quicksort() is just a magic black box. When all library functions are black boxes, then you're stranded outside the language looking in - a mere "power user", not a "programmer".
If you teach VB, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, Java then your students will spend most of their time gluing together other people's library code. This is boring, uninformative, and gives a false and anticlimactic sense of early achievement. Yes, five minutes in VB will glue together a working text editor. And you learn nothing in so doing. Similarly PHP for a website.
Good languages to start programming have a simple core library that does basic IO and data manip, and nothing else. The best are probably Scheme or C, depending if your focus is academic or technical.
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It doesn't matter whether they're official or not, it matter whether they're spying!
Oh, and spies do a lot more than just filch secrets. They also do sabotage, infiltration, provocation of trouble, propaganda... all things that the commies were doing, or trying to. So yes, spies.
When I say "sounds like spies", I don't mean "I'd suspect them of spying". I mean "that's pretty much the textbook definition of spy". Whether or not they had KGB personnel numbers is as irrelevant as whether Bin Laden has a military rank. Being an amateur spy is hardly an excuse.
I was thinking more like this.
In '04, the Democrats and their supporters in the entertainment industry worked hard, and successfully, to turn out the youth vote - in the belief that the young were overwhelmingly left and atheist. Turns out, the increased turnout didn't particularly favour anybody. There is no hidden army of disenfranchised atheists.
At the time the American Communist Party was taking orders (and money) from soviet Russia, idealizing revolution by military force, and encouraging members to lay low, hide their affiliation, and achieve strategic aims by stealth. Sounds like spies to me.
McCarthy goofed not by crusading against the very real Red Menace, but by making anti-communism look unjust, through sloppy targeting and lack of due process.
Elvis Presley has left the galaxy.
Short term, property is supplies that can be sold, or donated to the suffering. It's the belongings of individuals and businesses, and the difference between whether they have anything to come back to, or not.
Medium term, property is the seeds of new infrastructure and the resumption of civil life. It's a job for the employees and a place to spend money on food and rebuilding. It's the social core of a healing city.
Long term, property is what will hold jobs there and restart the economy, rather than have the last scraps of the city collapse from disuse and economic irrelevance, and blow away in the winds of time.
Property is life. A disaster just makes this more evident. Shooting looters to protect property is fully justified.
Not content with exploiting suffering to push your global warming religion, you leftist asses now blame chaos on libertarianism. I tell you, it's the libertarian types who are defending property with guns, or putting their own earned money on the line in emergency donations, that are doing the most good.
Why don't you fucks crawl to N.O. and apologise directly to the people you've insulted and to all the graves you've spat upon?
There are no words for how deeply you disgust me.
Unlike a CD, you can bounce around as much as you like wearing a walkman, and the thing won't skip. Unil solid state MP3 players, they were the only mobile way to listen to music - and I could argue they're still simpler. No need to preload them from a PC, just pop the cover and snap in a tape. Oh, and tapes remember where you stopped listening, and resume where you left off - even if it was years ago and you've listen to a thousand tapes since.
You make a major release, and the first thing you do is throw tons of new crap into it? Surely the first priority ought to be, to see how it shakes out in the much larger testbed of public use? Then new stuff should be added on top of a stable base, rather than hung off the side of some iffy point-zero release, where bugs will compound on top of bugs.
It's wierd how clubs never seemed to forget the "class" thing even as cinemas went completely grunge-egalitarian. Especially, they never forgot that policing the customers gets you a better kind of customer, and you can charge a premium for that. Nobody would be surprised to see a nightclub that charged big money and required formal evening dress. Your jaw would likely drop if the cinema did that - but why?
Supposedly, the primary value proposition of modern cinema above home DVD is the "atmosphere".
Surely one of these idiots must have thought, if we're selling atmosphere, better go out of our way to be sure we have some? Industrial boxy buildings and bright-casual uniforms on gum-chewing slouched staff make for a poor attempt at sophisticated glamour.
I remember when I was a kid, folks used to dress up for the cinema, and the staff used to be smart, and the theater itself was as glitzy as could be done with gilt paint, coloured foil and cheap velvet.
When did they forget?
"comparing their budget to NASA's is ludicrous" -- not so. NASA has a bigger budget now. NASA's budget is finite and bounded by politics. NASA's actions do not affect its budget (except very indirectly) and cannot grow the budget.
By contrast Virgin Galactic will be operating for profit. That is, for every N they spend, they will get N+M back. Their initial budget is bounded by the initial N (startup capital), but it grows rather than decreasing with each thing they do. That means that given enough time and a sufficiently profitable business, their budget can grow to an arbitrary size. VG's budget can be, and eventually almost certainly will be larger than NASA's.
Skype is foreign and can tell CALEA to go lick a power outlet. Google can't. Ergo, Google should not buy Skype.
Have these folks forgotten free will? Having violent thoughts is not the same as being violent. They're seperated by a conscious ethical choice. These "morality advocates" are in fact trying to circumvent morality at all.
Both of those words you mentioned apply to phenomena that never existed before. You could call them "serial public editorial" and "prerecorded automatically downloadable digital radio" but your jaw would get tired. In fact, the best circumlocution would still miss corner cases which are definitely "blogs" and "podcasts". That's what I take as proof positive that a new word was necessary.
On the other hand, a lot of neologizing, particularly around "spam", seems to delight in sounding scatological. I wish people would think first - the last thing modern english needs is more deliberate ugliness.
Please neologize without sounding like you're spitting on the floor.
With all the other people saying "duh, adverts of course", I'll play the devil's advocate.
Consider "adblock" and its probable descendants. I'd lay even odds they'll utterly wipe out bulk advertizing on the web before 2010. Advertizers will try stealth, and be beaten back by collaborative and statistical filters. There's no way they can win that arms race when the browser-side does the rendering. You may be able to duck the blow by carefully choosing innoccuous and relevant ad providers - or even they may fall.
Adverts are certainly the best-paying revenue stream right now, but you'll need a backup plan!
Sounds to me as if there's already a precise term with both correct denotation and connotation, namely "tunnel vision".
Sequence approx:
/. sequence, ALL steps result in profit.)
- suborbital tourism
- suborbital ballistic courier
- suborbital ballistic passenger airline
- orbital cargo
- orbital passenger ferry
- anywhere else
(Unlike the typical
1) Savings on coder time, extra bugs fixed - in each case by external devs your company doesn't have to pay. Downside: unless your project becomes well-known, this may never actually happen, or not enough to pay for itself.
2) Code stability. You can sell services or derived products to third parties and tell them that the product is safe against your company going bust because the code is public. Downside: you then have to do the harder work of convincing the buyer not to "cut out the middleman" and implement a homebrew with the published GPL code. GPL code cannot be your only source of value!
3) Compatibility with 3rd party extensions. If you GPL, you get a license to merge in anything else GPL'd and thereby add maximum features for minimum effort. Downside: if you muddy up who has the copyright, you may not be able to un-GPL it (nor sell special-case licenses to users who'd prefer closed source)
4) Why not? If it's not a "strategic" asset but only an in-house tool for a secondary task, GPLing can't hurt. Downside: publishing code and dealing with bug-reports and user gripes can eat expensive dev time. If the business case is that marginal you may be forced to "publish and abandon".
You do realise that it will often NOT make sense to open-source the code? In particular, a "strategic" app, or one that implies sensitive info through its design, or one that presents a public face you don't want to be hackable. Or simply if your boss thinks "I can't spare dev time for this nonsense". Businesses aren't charities (unless you're tax deductible).
Senior figures in the Bush administration were in talks with scientists, to see if a way could be found to fit these "naked" transistors with trousers.
Consider a germ which has never seen multicellular life, has never fought any sort of immune system, considers light or rock ores to be food, and expects carbon dioxide to be a crunchy mineral. I doubt it would try to infect a human!
The germs that are likely to be a problem on Mars are the ones we bring along for the ride. E Coli and some radiation bombardment to stir the pot, and that could do you in quite nicely. If anything I'd bet on mined water (versus recycled) as the healthy stuff.
Using built-in types to illustrate algorithmic complexity is still a bad idea. To understand what a tree map is and how it differs from a hash map, it's best to implement both. Then you can immediately grasp things like "hash maps behave like sorted lists in the pathological case that all the inputs hash into one bucket" and "tree maps are slower and more bulky, unless you need in-order traversal".
All coding in Perl and PHP amounts to "load module A, load module B, use builtin feature C, use A with B". It may be a sensible way for busy people to bodge together a five-minute application, but it doesn't teach you to comprehend the skill of programming.
Quicksort may be dry, but if you've never tried to code it then the library function quicksort() is just a magic black box. When all library functions are black boxes, then you're stranded outside the language looking in - a mere "power user", not a "programmer".
If you teach VB, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, Java then your students will spend most of their time gluing together other people's library code. This is boring, uninformative, and gives a false and anticlimactic sense of early achievement. Yes, five minutes in VB will glue together a working text editor. And you learn nothing in so doing. Similarly PHP for a website.
Good languages to start programming have a simple core library that does basic IO and data manip, and nothing else. The best are probably Scheme or C, depending if your focus is academic or technical.