One of socialism's (purported) goals is to reduce levels of government and government power overall in place of individual or collective power.
No, prefering individual power is liberalism Prefering collective power over 'the powers that be', is socialism Prefering 'the powers that be' is conservatism.
You can also extend socialism to prefer collective power over individuals, then it becomes stalinism.
This gets particular complicated in the US where socialism and parts of liberalism both share the "liberal" label, and the conservatives at least publically pretend to support liberal values like small government, but label incorrectly label it conservative.
Greenland is green every summer along the coastline. Just like in the summerdays of its discovery. The real fucked up part is that now it has been warmer than Europe during the last two winters.
As opposed to oil industry spin of "greenhouse effect isn't real, we didn't cause it, you can't prove anything"?
You forgot some, that is not their real spin. Now adays it appears to be "greenhouse effect isn't real, we didn't cause it and if we did, there is nothing we can do about it, and even if there was, we wont. QED"
Impressive. That is both correct, and completely wrong at the time. More importantly it is non sequeto
Yes, you can not predict the next roll based on previous rolls (if you assume the dice is not loaded). You can however based on evidence of previous rolls estimate the likelyhood that the dice is loaded, if it turns out to be loaded you can predict the next rolls slighly better, if it does not turn out to be loaded, you can not predict the next rolls any better.
A HTML4 compliant browser would not be able to display any of the top-100 websites in the world. Most of them depend on a large number of bugs, and uses features that is incompatible with HTML4 if interpreted strictly (such as XHTML parsed as HTML 3, which is surprisingly common).
When you talk about NP-complete problem you always refer to the decision version. 3-SAT and knapsack in their native forms are also not decision problems. All the problems are reformulated to decision problems to make them easier to compare and reason about for the purpose of establishing NP-completeness.
Oh damn, and now you made me be pedantic about shooting down being pedantic. I feel ironic.
I thought he refered to the layout problem. Laying out the components in a CPU in the most optimal fashion is a wellknown NP-complete problem. This doesn't solve getting the best manufacturing plants of course, but it would make it much easier for someone with a good design to turn it into an efficient design that is able to compete with companies that has decades of experience into making good designs.
I thought the most famous NP complete problem was the travelling salesman. Simply because it is easier to explain, and layman can much easier relate to it (though bugglars might prefer the knapsack problem).
Radio quality differs from area to area. Some areas it is pretty good and the major venue for most people to encounter new music. Funny enough it seems the quality of a radio depends on at least competition from public radio stations, with no public radio in the competition, radio quality goes to hell.
They actually didn't really make any major changes until after the reformation, that is why the changes in catholic church are known as the counter-reformation.
If you had a speedy tablet capable of driving an external display simultaneously to the internal one then you could carry it around between desks and cars, not to mention using it when you're not near any infrastructure.
And if I had a magic flying pony I could use that to commute to work, while picking up teenage girls.
But that is in the past, by focusing on it now, you are making it look like (in fact making the argument) that H.264 is more open, through focus on and old irrelevant fact, but ignoring another definition of the word open where WebM is much more open than H.264 will ever be.
Let's take this: * According to one aspect H.264 was once more open, but this aspect applies to the past. * According to another aspect WebM is much more open, and this applies today.
I am not saying you are wrong, you are in fact right, but you are distorting the debate through pedantic and irrelevant details.
Now you didn't start this doublespeak, but I can only think the person who did, was either doing so deliberately or is in serious denial.
It is just another example of doublespeak. You are redefining words but focusing on an irrelevant part of the definition.
You might as well argue that Monarchy is more open than Democracy, because how the "election" is made is more open in how public and predicable it is, everyone can access the result in advance, where the the democratic process is done in secret in small boxes and is unpredictable.
While you could technically be right, you are still distorting the truth, and that, to me, is bad part of lying.
This is not necessarily evidence to contrary. You often fail to find mobile number in the normal phonebook, but that is because the phonebook traditionally have been published by the local land-line provider, unless you have them as your mobile service provider they do not have your name and address. Your actual mobile service provider do have these informations, and in at least some countries they have a default right to publish this data unless you have specifically opted out. Not all carriers have phonebooks, but they could if they would, the data is considered public until you opt-out.
Even in Denmark where I live, most people seem to think their mobile phone-numbers can not be looked up, just because it is not in the traditional physical phonebook, but I can find more than 70% of the numbers I search for, by just trying the online phonebooks of the four biggest providers one at a time. If I had a meta search-engine it would be even easier.
I think you are right on many things, but about UI: Mac OS X has also recently changed their UI to be an incoherent mess, maybe Microsoft was just ahead of the times:P
I think the GP point is that if you require people to wear a red shirt to cross your lawn, then the man wearing a blue shirt will not be trespassing in a legal sense, because you have allowed access, he is just violating your terms of that access, which is a breach of contract, but in most legal systems not a crime. This is like going on the subway without a ticket, not a crime either, but has a civil fine.
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No, prefering individual power is liberalism
Prefering collective power over 'the powers that be', is socialism
Prefering 'the powers that be' is conservatism.
You can also extend socialism to prefer collective power over individuals, then it becomes stalinism.
This gets particular complicated in the US where socialism and parts of liberalism both share the "liberal" label, and the conservatives at least publically pretend to support liberal values like small government, but label incorrectly label it conservative.
Greenland is green every summer along the coastline. Just like in the summerdays of its discovery. The real fucked up part is that now it has been warmer than Europe during the last two winters.
Ehmm no. People live on that reclaimed land now, nobody is looking forward to having the country's most expensive property to be under water.
You forgot some, that is not their real spin. Now adays it appears to be "greenhouse effect isn't real, we didn't cause it and if we did, there is nothing we can do about it, and even if there was, we wont. QED"
Impressive. That is both correct, and completely wrong at the time. More importantly it is non sequeto
Yes, you can not predict the next roll based on previous rolls (if you assume the dice is not loaded). You can however based on evidence of previous rolls estimate the likelyhood that the dice is loaded, if it turns out to be loaded you can predict the next rolls slighly better, if it does not turn out to be loaded, you can not predict the next rolls any better.
By looking at how fast the climate changed and then divide by number of years?(!)
A HTML4 compliant browser would not be able to display any of the top-100 websites in the world. Most of them depend on a large number of bugs, and uses features that is incompatible with HTML4 if interpreted strictly (such as XHTML parsed as HTML 3, which is surprisingly common).
When you talk about NP-complete problem you always refer to the decision version. 3-SAT and knapsack in their native forms are also not decision problems. All the problems are reformulated to decision problems to make them easier to compare and reason about for the purpose of establishing NP-completeness.
Oh damn, and now you made me be pedantic about shooting down being pedantic. I feel ironic.
I thought he refered to the layout problem. Laying out the components in a CPU in the most optimal fashion is a wellknown NP-complete problem. This doesn't solve getting the best manufacturing plants of course, but it would make it much easier for someone with a good design to turn it into an efficient design that is able to compete with companies that has decades of experience into making good designs.
I thought the most famous NP complete problem was the travelling salesman. Simply because it is easier to explain, and layman can much easier relate to it (though bugglars might prefer the knapsack problem).
Radio quality differs from area to area. Some areas it is pretty good and the major venue for most people to encounter new music. Funny enough it seems the quality of a radio depends on at least competition from public radio stations, with no public radio in the competition, radio quality goes to hell.
They actually didn't really make any major changes until after the reformation, that is why the changes in catholic church are known as the counter-reformation.
And if I had a magic flying pony I could use that to commute to work, while picking up teenage girls.
I am not particular fond of Bill Gates, but when he is up against two theocrats and a professional TV troll, I think I would prefer Bill Gates too.
No, actually the XO laptop started the ENTIRE netbook market.
In this case closer driving reduces wind resistance, but without the risk of mass collisions that happens if humans try it. ..and stop being in denial
But that is in the past, by focusing on it now, you are making it look like (in fact making the argument) that H.264 is more open, through focus on and old irrelevant fact, but ignoring another definition of the word open where WebM is much more open than H.264 will ever be.
Let's take this:
* According to one aspect H.264 was once more open, but this aspect applies to the past.
* According to another aspect WebM is much more open, and this applies today.
I am not saying you are wrong, you are in fact right, but you are distorting the debate through pedantic and irrelevant details.
Now you didn't start this doublespeak, but I can only think the person who did, was either doing so deliberately or is in serious denial.
Dude.. You are preaching to the choir :)
It is just another example of doublespeak. You are redefining words but focusing on an irrelevant part of the definition.
You might as well argue that Monarchy is more open than Democracy, because how the "election" is made is more open in how public and predicable it is, everyone can access the result in advance, where the the democratic process is done in secret in small boxes and is unpredictable.
While you could technically be right, you are still distorting the truth, and that, to me, is bad part of lying.
The QtWebkit based browsers and KHTML also hands it off the OS (through Phonon and/or GStreamer).
This is not necessarily evidence to contrary. You often fail to find mobile number in the normal phonebook, but that is because the phonebook traditionally have been published by the local land-line provider, unless you have them as your mobile service provider they do not have your name and address. Your actual mobile service provider do have these informations, and in at least some countries they have a default right to publish this data unless you have specifically opted out. Not all carriers have phonebooks, but they could if they would, the data is considered public until you opt-out.
Even in Denmark where I live, most people seem to think their mobile phone-numbers can not be looked up, just because it is not in the traditional physical phonebook, but I can find more than 70% of the numbers I search for, by just trying the online phonebooks of the four biggest providers one at a time. If I had a meta search-engine it would be even easier.
I think you are right on many things, but about UI: Mac OS X has also recently changed their UI to be an incoherent mess, maybe Microsoft was just ahead of the times :P
I think the GP point is that if you require people to wear a red shirt to cross your lawn, then the man wearing a blue shirt will not be trespassing in a legal sense, because you have allowed access, he is just violating your terms of that access, which is a breach of contract, but in most legal systems not a crime. This is like going on the subway without a ticket, not a crime either, but has a civil fine.
Every american phone company apparently do this. Americans even pay to receive SMS. Incredible, but true.
Americans do this. They even pay to receive SMS. Incredible, but true.