And If you have watched the movie, help repair the horrendous reality distorsion field it provoked and go read the original comic by Alan Moore instead. Cause believe it or not, the movie is an example of political correctness
Buy chinese goods, sell goods to chinese, make both economies interdependant. Make wealthy people in China, make the middle class grow. Leaving them poor and uneducated is surely not the way out of the dictatorship.
On other news, there has been a significant drop of temperatures here in Pandemonium. Stay with us for our next breaking news : a complete review of Duke Nukem Forever RC1
I think it costs roughly the same to produce a 200 Gigs HD than a 1 Gig one, that's why we don't see many 50$ PC "top of the line 20 years ago". You can find used computers, but you cannot find new ones with low specs.
Now imagine, you can produce 1Go disks for $20 or 100Go for $30, which one would make more sense for your business ?
I've never studied Mein Kampf, let alone read it (it is a bit long for the exercise I think) I remember reading extracts of Hitler's speech in history class, and was taught some of the mechanisms behind his propaganda. As an adult I later learned more, and felt that indeed, I hadn't been taught the whole picture but I am not sure that teaching that in school would be very effective. Maybe some kids would become aware of the danger of their political leaders but some would be lured into neo-nazism if you show them the more seducing side of it.
On the orher hand, it is better for school to teach them some fact rather than skinheads... I don't know, a choice has been made by national education. I prefer to see this rather than this period not taught at all because objectivity is hard to attain.
Students have it easy in the academic world. Have you ever seen the price of a conference lecture ?
I am sure he would have found clients even for $250 if he is any good. Making it so cheap shows that he isn't driven by profit
"To Kill a Mockingbird. Of Mice and Men. The Great Gatsby. 1984. It's hard to imagine a world without these extraordinary literary classics, but every year there are hundreds of attempts to remove great books from libraries and schools. In fact, according to the American Library Association, 42 of 100 books recognized by the Radcliffe Publishing Course as the best novels of the 20th century have been challenged or banned."
Only those 42 books are online right now. Remember that the headlines are misleading (the thought that/.ers are actually more digging into the fact than average persons only frightens me, I mean, have you tried to only read only the headlines in a newspaper ?)
Of course, as pointed by the parent, and pointed in other posts, a lot of significant works have been banned : Mein Kampf, Mark's Capital, the Bible, etc... but they are not in the top 100 NOVELS of the century.
Plus, may I be the first to say, that putting online all books that have been banned at one time and at one place in human history would be a very huge work and probably would result in a digitalization of the entire litterature.
I have seen, in a shop in the Universal theme park, framed frames(no pun intended) of what was claimed to be the original master of starwars. They were priced somewhere between 100$ and 200$ and don't remember. By the time I thought it was a smart move from Lucas to make a ton of bucks. So, maybe they really don't have it anymore
They simply have an infrastructure problem there. They probably under the illusion that they only have to adapt to the "new way of voting". I would have prefer they had a real counting problem, like 24e+27 votes for one candidate...
Hezbollah being considered a terrorist organization, the disruption of their webservers could be seen as a logical consequence of the bombing of their buildings in Bagdad (note : no, I don't have any reference to this, it is just an imaginary illustration). I don't see it too surprising that the US would censor a Hezbollah website under an anti-terrorist legislation. Not that I would condone that, but it wouldn't surprise me...
True. But what do we do about it? Sure we can protest about it, which helps to an extent, but to a disturbingly large number of people, this sounds like a hysterical overreaction (which is ironic considering how much the support hysterical overreactions to terrorism).
Well, continue to be hysterical, it is working. In the 20th century, dictatorships happened very fast. From the election of the Duce/Fuhrer to the abolition of basic rights, there were only a few month. It is obviously taking longer in america, where most people are convinced of their rights. Whistle-blowers may be considered hysterical by medias and the electors, but I am pretty sure that they are annoying governments who don't want them to have enough arguments to convince a significant portion of electors.
Let the government know that people are watching. Go protest. Show your number. Spread the word. If hysterical alarmism against terrorism can spread, why hysterical alarmism against the government couldn't ?
If you don't have water to spare, you can't do hydroponics. Water is the "hydro" in "hydroponics".
Water is present, only it is frozen. Inteligently used sunlight can solve this. Also, about hydroponics water waste, water has not to be wasted, it can be recycled if the ecosystem is closed. You just need a certain water quantity for a given population.
Google specifically said in the article it doesn't work for non-english texts. I suppose it means it incorporates an english dictionnary too, so other roman language wouldn't work either.
Seriously, we need to be discouraging flying unless it's over oceans.
Ever tried to fly a plane recently ? Security restrictions are driving me insane. Train used to be a pain for transporting luggage, but at least you know it won't be exploded because "someone had a doubt". If it is 2 hours of plane or 4 hours of train (with the additional time for check in in plane, it is frequent) I'll take the train. Less hassle.
And let's not forget : the prices are not the same.
Because of course we never made anyting land on mars...
If I recall correctly, the probes sent there used aero-braking, parachutes, and, for pathfinder, big airbags.
I don't like this. This sounds too much like a pretext. The group of old ladies in front of a Church, the "her death won't be in vain" tremolo... The campaign is not about preventing death of sado-masochist people, it is about imposing a puritan view of the society.
What is next ? a man whose pasttime is to watch bondage videos rape someone somewhere so we have to ban bondage ?
Guess what, there are kids whose pasttime is to play violent videogames who go over the edge and kill people. So what ? forbid violent videogames ? Okay. Now about that : a kid raised in christianity comes to adulthood and claims to be Jesus, makes a sect of followers (some of them mentally vulnerable, the founder himself was supposed to suffer from a mental illness) and together commit a mass suicide. Now I say, this is a radical enough case : tenths of people died because of this belief that can corrupt weak mind. Forbid the Bible.
For more info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Applewhite
The use of the term "communist state" is somehow misleading. India is a democracy and the communist party is a political party like any other. This is not a single-party system. And "communist" is a label covering a wide range of opinions, espiecially when used by americans. It can mean totalitarian, dictatorial, left-wing, socialist or open-source...
Neural networks and, to a lessor extent, quantum computing seek to emulate some of the processes of the brain.
Aren't quantum computer binary too ? A group of qu-bit is capable of representing more values that the same number of bits but they are expressed in binary too.
Slashdot Mirror
No drugs
No political talks about anarchy (which plays a major role in the comic)
No priest who "loves children"
No nudity
No sex relation between Evey and her helper
No politics : you never see the inner workings of the government
All of these were in the books and removed from the movie.
This is sooooo 20th century...
And If you have watched the movie, help repair the horrendous reality distorsion field it provoked and go read the original comic by Alan Moore instead. Cause believe it or not, the movie is an example of political correctness
Buy chinese goods, sell goods to chinese, make both economies interdependant. Make wealthy people in China, make the middle class grow. Leaving them poor and uneducated is surely not the way out of the dictatorship.
On other news, there has been a significant drop of temperatures here in Pandemonium. Stay with us for our next breaking news : a complete review of Duke Nukem Forever RC1
The author is David Brin, is he the SF author ?
I think it costs roughly the same to produce a 200 Gigs HD than a 1 Gig one, that's why we don't see many 50$ PC "top of the line 20 years ago". You can find used computers, but you cannot find new ones with low specs.
Now imagine, you can produce 1Go disks for $20 or 100Go for $30, which one would make more sense for your business ?
I've never studied Mein Kampf, let alone read it (it is a bit long for the exercise I think) I remember reading extracts of Hitler's speech in history class, and was taught some of the mechanisms behind his propaganda. As an adult I later learned more, and felt that indeed, I hadn't been taught the whole picture but I am not sure that teaching that in school would be very effective. Maybe some kids would become aware of the danger of their political leaders but some would be lured into neo-nazism if you show them the more seducing side of it.
On the orher hand, it is better for school to teach them some fact rather than skinheads... I don't know, a choice has been made by national education. I prefer to see this rather than this period not taught at all because objectivity is hard to attain.
Was it a novel ?
Students have it easy in the academic world. Have you ever seen the price of a conference lecture ? I am sure he would have found clients even for $250 if he is any good. Making it so cheap shows that he isn't driven by profit
From TFA :
/.ers are actually more digging into the fact than average persons only frightens me, I mean, have you tried to only read only the headlines in a newspaper ?)
"To Kill a Mockingbird. Of Mice and Men. The Great Gatsby. 1984. It's hard to imagine a world without these extraordinary literary classics, but every year there are hundreds of attempts to remove great books from libraries and schools. In fact, according to the American Library Association, 42 of 100 books recognized by the Radcliffe Publishing Course as the best novels of the 20th century have been challenged or banned."
Only those 42 books are online right now. Remember that the headlines are misleading (the thought that
Of course, as pointed by the parent, and pointed in other posts, a lot of significant works have been banned : Mein Kampf, Mark's Capital, the Bible, etc... but they are not in the top 100 NOVELS of the century.
Plus, may I be the first to say, that putting online all books that have been banned at one time and at one place in human history would be a very huge work and probably would result in a digitalization of the entire litterature.
I have seen, in a shop in the Universal theme park, framed frames(no pun intended) of what was claimed to be the original master of starwars. They were priced somewhere between 100$ and 200$ and don't remember. By the time I thought it was a smart move from Lucas to make a ton of bucks. So, maybe they really don't have it anymore
But just imagine...
They simply have an infrastructure problem there. They probably under the illusion that they only have to adapt to the "new way of voting". I would have prefer they had a real counting problem, like 24e+27 votes for one candidate...
Hezbollah being considered a terrorist organization, the disruption of their webservers could be seen as a logical consequence of the bombing of their buildings in Bagdad (note : no, I don't have any reference to this, it is just an imaginary illustration). I don't see it too surprising that the US would censor a Hezbollah website under an anti-terrorist legislation. Not that I would condone that, but it wouldn't surprise me...
True. But what do we do about it? Sure we can protest about it, which helps to an extent, but to a disturbingly large number of people, this sounds like a hysterical overreaction (which is ironic considering how much the support hysterical overreactions to terrorism).
Well, continue to be hysterical, it is working. In the 20th century, dictatorships happened very fast. From the election of the Duce/Fuhrer to the abolition of basic rights, there were only a few month. It is obviously taking longer in america, where most people are convinced of their rights. Whistle-blowers may be considered hysterical by medias and the electors, but I am pretty sure that they are annoying governments who don't want them to have enough arguments to convince a significant portion of electors.
Let the government know that people are watching. Go protest. Show your number. Spread the word. If hysterical alarmism against terrorism can spread, why hysterical alarmism against the government couldn't ?
Well I find, for one, that Slashdot is doing a good job in spammer-filtering technics.
If you don't have water to spare, you can't do hydroponics. Water is the "hydro" in "hydroponics".
Water is present, only it is frozen. Inteligently used sunlight can solve this. Also, about hydroponics water waste, water has not to be wasted, it can be recycled if the ecosystem is closed. You just need a certain water quantity for a given population.
Google specifically said in the article it doesn't work for non-english texts. I suppose it means it incorporates an english dictionnary too, so other roman language wouldn't work either.
Seriously, we need to be discouraging flying unless it's over oceans.
Ever tried to fly a plane recently ? Security restrictions are driving me insane. Train used to be a pain for transporting luggage, but at least you know it won't be exploded because "someone had a doubt". If it is 2 hours of plane or 4 hours of train (with the additional time for check in in plane, it is frequent) I'll take the train. Less hassle.
And let's not forget : the prices are not the same.
A loop, by definition, usually takes several cycles to execute...
Because of course we never made anyting land on mars...
If I recall correctly, the probes sent there used aero-braking, parachutes, and, for pathfinder, big airbags.
I don't like this. This sounds too much like a pretext. The group of old ladies in front of a Church, the "her death won't be in vain" tremolo... The campaign is not about preventing death of sado-masochist people, it is about imposing a puritan view of the society.
What is next ? a man whose pasttime is to watch bondage videos rape someone somewhere so we have to ban bondage ?
Guess what, there are kids whose pasttime is to play violent videogames who go over the edge and kill people. So what ? forbid violent videogames ? Okay. Now about that : a kid raised in christianity comes to adulthood and claims to be Jesus, makes a sect of followers (some of them mentally vulnerable, the founder himself was supposed to suffer from a mental illness) and together commit a mass suicide. Now I say, this is a radical enough case : tenths of people died because of this belief that can corrupt weak mind. Forbid the Bible.
For more info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Applewhite
The use of the term "communist state" is somehow misleading. India is a democracy and the communist party is a political party like any other. This is not a single-party system. And "communist" is a label covering a wide range of opinions, espiecially when used by americans. It can mean totalitarian, dictatorial, left-wing, socialist or open-source...
Neural networks and, to a lessor extent, quantum computing seek to emulate some of the processes of the brain.
Aren't quantum computer binary too ? A group of qu-bit is capable of representing more values that the same number of bits but they are expressed in binary too.