This sounds pretty dangerous. Democracy is a scary thing and our founders knew that -- the tyranny of the majority and all.
That's why they set-up checks and balances like the supreme court. We don't have to give up those checks and balances if we adopt a direct democracy(rather than a representative democracy). The Supreme Court could still rule a new law unconsittutional. The president would still have to sign it into law.
However, I'm not so sure were quite ready for direct democracy. We would need a serious overhaul of our voting system, and how would we keep states like New York and California from having unfair power, just to mention a few possible issues.
What happens when the majority of Americans vote for something like - lets take all the money of the people who actually work and give it to the freeloaders...Oops sorry that is already happening.
A bit trollish dontcha think?
Is that the kind of country you would like to live in, one that does the will of the majority, rather than the right thing?
I see slash is now reporting on Philosophy. The same logic that lets you describe the power network as a single machine lets you also describe the human race as a single organism.
I might be inclined to agree with you if say, we all had blood vessels interconnecting ourselves. Like maybe a giant root system(Think aspen trees).
What does fusion power get you that a breeder reactor doesn't? You still have nuclear waste issues as a result of neutron emission. Even without (fission) breeder reactors, the thorium in the earth's crust would allow us to meet our energy needs through nuclear fission for some millenial span into the future - if we could deal with the environmental issues.
Umm, less sources of nuclear contamination, theoerticaly more energy, and a safe biproduct to name a few.
You were joking right?
You mentioned feeling humiliated when you were singled out in class. So how do you feel when the slashdot community singles out females? Do you find it to be more benovelant and thus not a problem? Or is still just as demeaning/insulting/hurtful?
another way(assuming you have acess to some basic Unix/linux tools) is to...
copy and paste the whole thing begining with:
"begin-base64 644 dayX.tgz..." ..and ending with:
"===="
into emacs(or whatever your prefered editor is(so long as it doesn't insert it's own formatting)) and save it as something like xbox.64
execute uudecode like such:
$uudecode
And to wrap it all up execute tar in the same directory.
$tar xzvf dayX.tgz
What I think Real Character does is break up not the english language, but the ideas the words in that language represent. Those ideas exist in almost all languages for the largest part - so if you know what eacht "break up" means, you get a description of what the character means, in your own language.
From what I can tell your mostly correct. Check this localy linked to index of the language for more insight: ucsu.colorado.edu/~smithwis/real
Two other points worth noting.
A language is more than just a different way to write a word. For instance, many languages use a different word order than English(SVO). Meaning, this isn't quite a universal writing system. However, it is more universal than are phonetic based writing system.(On a side note, I beleive computer written in
So I was just trying to decipher the fax number for fun(not as difficult considering all the work has already been done) and I come into the following quandry. the number translate literaly into: uno, dos, uno, dos, dos, nada, siete, siete, dos, nada, nuevo (translated into spanish to prevent the casual abuser of this knowledge)
which is one more digit than a normal number in Manhattan. Oh wait, I feel a little silly, with a one before the number thats the correct format. I'm gonna leave this point so that I don't have to erase all that work I did.
When I was in elementary school, me and my friends made guns, in school, during recess. A teacher caught us shooting 22 rounds on the playgound and made us stop, gave us some stern words. We thought she was totally overreacting by scolding us.
What?!? You were shooting a gun at school; not just any gun, but a homemade-if-I-f@cked-up-making-it- someone-might-get-hurt gun. You thought that the teacher was overreacting by giving you stern words. Am I the only one who finds this ridiculous to the point of being laughable?
f guns were banned here (U.S.), there really would be an undergound gun making establishment, and the guns would be pretty good. (We are Americans after all). The 'No RFID' feature would make them all the more desirable.
If guns were illegal I'm sure there would be underground gunmaking, not sure of how good they would be though(for the money anyways).
I tend to rthink, though, that people would just remove the RFID taga if they were planning to commit a crime with the gun, much the same as they apparently do with the ID tags in all those movies.
Please excuse any gramatical errors, my English is no good when summertime rolls around.
Of course, this is probably why I don't even have a TV antenna or cable/satellite, so I don't have to receive whatever mindless drivel the media companies come up with in order to sell commercials.
Personaly, I don't call it TV because nicknames are for friends and television is no friend of mine.
I'm not sure anyone will catch the reference but it's funny to me so pfft.
First question: how did Neo stop the Sentinels that came at him in the real world? He's a programmer, a normal human who has the ability to fly or move quickly only in the Matrix, where he can see everything as code. In the real world, he's pretty much a real wimp. Right? Is the movie going all magical on us? I don't think so.
Remember the connection with Mr. Smith? I can think of 2 explanations involving that line of thought.
Final question: if the Architect is not lying when he says that computers have ruled for far longer than 100 years, then how come Zion doesn't reflect this? How come every Zion leader puts Zion's inception (or at least, the rule of the machines) at 100 years? How did they lose or "forget" the real history?
Got me on that one. 'Cept umm, I thought no one really new how long the Computers had ruled. Also, all the previous Chosen Ones had refused to beleive they weren't the first right?
What's the truth? I fear I have this all wrong, but it sure explains damn near everything
Good theorey. I must admit the idea had crossed my head b4 but never as an explanation to all the other questions.
A couple of questions myself.
Can we trust what the architect says?
What exactly is the role of the Oracle? Is it a 'higher' role than the architect?
Did all the previous 'Ones' choose the oposite door than Neo(It's implied but I'm not so sure)?
And of Course, What exactly about the connection between Smith and Neo? Did Smith somehow help Neo? Will SMith and NEo become allies?
I would bet that 95% of titles have been turned into Warez.
Every project I've ever worked on (including a internal customer data tool) have shown up on Warez sites.. It's insane.
hmm, so every project you've worked on has ended up on a Warez site. Even programs with a small that distribution you worked on ended up on Warez sites.
And you presumably know about these Wares sites because you were just doing research right?
FBI, hurry, I think we found the Scene's inside connection...
>>>>But where are these 15-year olds who know what a surfactant is?:)
>>>Every single one. What did you do to wash the vasoline off your hands?
>>Soap.
>Exactly.
This probably won't be read, too old, but I felt it necesary to defend myself.
Umm, I'm talking about bashing in the sense of speaking poorly of a group of people. I don't mean bashing literaly. I'm sorry if that caused any confusion. I'm also very sorry to have inadvertently touched on a tragedy so close to home.
Anyways...
Someone who is already well off and is denied a loaf of bread is barely fazed. While someone who is starving and denied a loaf of bread may not go on another week. In other words, the less you have, the more it hurts to lose a little.
I love how you still equate liberals with classism but make the distinction between racists and conservitism. Seems like a double standard to me.
you had chosen a Mexican conducting business on a radio from a van, it would have been "hate speech" and a bunch of heroes (a.k.a. "activists") would have put on face paint, beat drums, and waved placards in your face denouncing you as a "hate monger". Fortunately, that term doesn't apply to liberals.
Lol, such a silly post. Funny how ingrained these stereotypes are that we use them without any apparent awareness.
The post you are replying to is doing something we call classism. Classism does not equal liberalism. Just as Racism does not equal conservatism. Unfortunately you two are guilty of both. Neither one is all that desirable.
--Just to demonstrate my own hipocrasy. To equate Rich bashing and minority bashing shows ignorance(And kinda pisses me off). To bash the traditionaly priveleged causes little harm. To bash the traditionaly downtrodden, perpetuates a very large problem.
A bike is a vehicle. Try and justify it anyway you like, but that fact remains.
So are wheelchairs. But I'm not about to say all wheelchairs belong on the roads.
And therein lies your error, blanket statements that refuse to look at the situation are bound to fail. So before you fall back on your old black and white politics, give it a little thought
Mr. Roh raised the equivalent of about $1-billion from more than 180,000 individual donors.
One billion dollars devided equally amoung 180 thousand dollars comes out to over 5500 dollars. That's suspiciously high considering the claim of all individual investors. Me thinks there were a couple of special donors, the kinds with big pockets.
Personally, I think The Register got it wrong. On their focus, that is. It's natural for businesses to use their more profitable divisions, as even The Register mentions, to fund their less profitable divisions. Although, eventualy, if the new divisions remain unprofitable, it would be wise to lose them.
So to adress your arguments:
We're not talking monopoly rents. We're talking about how some parts of your business become cash cows and support other parts of your business that they believe are worth investing in and will one day become profitable.
You should really check out those other links in the article. When you do you will see the problem is with the monoply rents and not what it is spent on.
Microsoft's great sin(note the humor and realize I'm poking fun at myself;-) in this case is that while the cost of producing PC's has gone down significantly, the cost of the OS has gone up. While the margins for the OEM's(note that OEM's operate on small margins) have gone down the margins for Microsoft have risen. Microsoft is in effect soaking up all of the extra profits. Microsoft can continue to raise prices because they have a monopoly. This is their monoply rent.
Yes, the consumer is being hurt here. Although it's not obvious because much of the rising costs have been hidden by the decrease in hardware prices. It is estimated by the CFA, that the Microsoft and Intel monoply tax err rent is $296 per computer.
This is an argument of abuse by Microsoft that effects the consumers more directly. While much of the arguments against Microsoft describe how their Monopoly has hurt the industry. There has not been as much description on how Microsoft's monoply has hurt the consumers. Now, I may be wrong on this, but I believe consumer damages are also grounds to take action against a monoply in the USA.
Yes I'm posting as an anonymous coward but...
f*ckit I'll login.
I won't continue to be trolled. Good day.
You acuse dubious9 of karma whoring. Then you completely dismiss his idea and you don't expect him to respond. Dumbass.
You refute his idea:
Yes, there's an "ant" based simulation, but I put the word ant in quotes because the whole thing is abstracted so far from actual ants that it's rediculous. The papers are just an obfuscated presentation of a standard GA solution.
Ok, fair enough, there does appear to be a certain amount of similarities between the two aproaches(on a cursery glance mind you). But that doesn't make the "ant" metaphor any weaker. And by admitting the similarities it does appear to invalidate your 100% unrelated claim
Ok, now you have a problem with him not explicity telling you a connection between the, now verified "Ant" aproach to the traveling salesman problem, and the topic at hand. I hope you don't have a problem with him responding to this. Afterall this is an entirely new complaint on your part.
All in all, I'd have to say you are the one doing the trolling, mosch.
To all others, excuse me for going offtopic but posts like these infuriate me.
I guess, not enough English then. I'm looking at my sentence, and I don't know what is wrong with my sentence besides forgetting to capitalize English.
I feel kinda dumb here but would anyone mind telling me what is wrong with "to" ?
Slashdot Mirror
:::edit::: supreme court -> Supreme Court were -> we're :::edit:::
However, I'm not so sure were quite ready for direct democracy. We would need a serious overhaul of our voting system, and how would we keep states like New York and California from having unfair power, just to mention a few possible issues.
A bit trollish dontcha think?
How does a direct democracy change this?
- Kid's Book
- Crazy Cartoon
- Japanese Cartoon
- English Paper
Anyways, it's worth a look around. Just don't go there when you have alot of homework to do.I might be inclined to agree with you if say, we all had blood vessels interconnecting ourselves. Like maybe a giant root system(Think aspen trees).
You were joking right?
Yes this post is both offtopic and very late.
You mentioned feeling humiliated when you were singled out in class. So how do you feel when the slashdot community singles out females? Do you find it to be more benovelant and thus not a problem? Or is still just as demeaning/insulting/hurtful?
- copy and paste the whole thing begining with:
..and ending with:
- execute uudecode like such:
- And to wrap it all up execute tar in the same directory.
There you go. As easy as 1,2,3."begin-base64 644 dayX.tgz..."
"===="
into emacs(or whatever your prefered editor is(so long as it doesn't insert it's own formatting)) and save it as something like xbox.64
$uudecode
$tar xzvf dayX.tgz
Say hi to Bert and Ernie for me.
-Steve
in classical chinese computer is written as electronic mind(or so I've been lead to beleieve).
That should teach me to proof read more carefully what I submit.
ucsu.colorado.edu/~smithwis/real
Two other points worth noting.
uno, dos, uno, dos, dos, nada, siete, siete, dos, nada, nuevo (translated into spanish to prevent the casual abuser of this knowledge)
which is one more digit than a normal number in Manhattan. Oh wait, I feel a little silly, with a one before the number thats the correct format. I'm gonna leave this point so that I don't have to erase all that work I did.
If guns were illegal I'm sure there would be underground gunmaking, not sure of how good they would be though(for the money anyways).
I tend to rthink, though, that people would just remove the RFID taga if they were planning to commit a crime with the gun, much the same as they apparently do with the ID tags in all those movies.
Please excuse any gramatical errors, my English is no good when summertime rolls around.
Personaly, I don't call it TV because nicknames are for friends and television is no friend of mine.
I'm not sure anyone will catch the reference but it's funny to me so pfft.
A couple of questions myself.
Mod the parent up as funny or insightful or whatever;-)
And you presumably know about these Wares sites because you were just doing research right?
FBI, hurry, I think we found the Scene's inside connection...
;-)
-Steve
you...
>>>>But where are these 15-year olds who know what a surfactant is? :)
>>>Every single one. What did you do to wash the vasoline off your hands?
>>Soap.
>Exactly.
No, Exactly
This probably won't be read, too old, but I felt it necesary to defend myself.
Umm, I'm talking about bashing in the sense of speaking poorly of a group of people. I don't mean bashing literaly. I'm sorry if that caused any confusion. I'm also very sorry to have inadvertently touched on a tragedy so close to home.
Anyways...
Someone who is already well off and is denied a loaf of bread is barely fazed. While someone who is starving and denied a loaf of bread may not go on another week. In other words, the less you have, the more it hurts to lose a little.
I love how you still equate liberals with classism but make the distinction between racists and conservitism. Seems like a double standard to me.
The post you are replying to is doing something we call classism. Classism does not equal liberalism. Just as Racism does not equal conservatism. Unfortunately you two are guilty of both. Neither one is all that desirable.
--Just to demonstrate my own hipocrasy. To equate Rich bashing and minority bashing shows ignorance(And kinda pisses me off). To bash the traditionaly priveleged causes little harm. To bash the traditionaly downtrodden, perpetuates a very large problem.
And therein lies your error, blanket statements that refuse to look at the situation are bound to fail. So before you fall back on your old black and white politics, give it a little thought
Personally, I think The Register got it wrong. On their focus, that is. It's natural for businesses to use their more profitable divisions, as even The Register mentions, to fund their less profitable divisions. Although, eventualy, if the new divisions remain unprofitable, it would be wise to lose them.
So to adress your arguments:
You should really check out those other links in the article. When you do you will see the problem is with the monoply rents and not what it is spent on.
Microsoft's great sin(note the humor and realize I'm poking fun at myself;-) in this case is that while the cost of producing PC's has gone down significantly, the cost of the OS has gone up. While the margins for the OEM's(note that OEM's operate on small margins) have gone down the margins for Microsoft have risen. Microsoft is in effect soaking up all of the extra profits. Microsoft can continue to raise prices because they have a monopoly. This is their monoply rent.
Yes, the consumer is being hurt here. Although it's not obvious because much of the rising costs have been hidden by the decrease in hardware prices. It is estimated by the CFA, that the Microsoft and Intel monoply tax err rent is $296 per computer.
This is an argument of abuse by Microsoft that effects the consumers more directly. While much of the arguments against Microsoft describe how their Monopoly has hurt the industry. There has not been as much description on how Microsoft's monoply has hurt the consumers. Now, I may be wrong on this, but I believe consumer damages are also grounds to take action against a monoply in the USA.
f*ckit I'll login. You acuse dubious9 of karma whoring. Then you completely dismiss his idea and you don't expect him to respond. Dumbass.
You refute his idea: Ok, fair enough, there does appear to be a certain amount of similarities between the two aproaches(on a cursery glance mind you). But that doesn't make the "ant" metaphor any weaker. And by admitting the similarities it does appear to invalidate your 100% unrelated claim
Ok, now you have a problem with him not explicity telling you a connection between the, now verified "Ant" aproach to the traveling salesman problem, and the topic at hand. I hope you don't have a problem with him responding to this. Afterall this is an entirely new complaint on your part.
All in all, I'd have to say you are the one doing the trolling, mosch.
To all others, excuse me for going offtopic but posts like these infuriate me.
>> You had to much english class?
I guess, not enough English then. I'm looking at my sentence, and I don't know what is wrong with my sentence besides forgetting to capitalize English.
I feel kinda dumb here but would anyone mind telling me what is wrong with "to" ?
To whoever answers; Thank you for edifying me.