You're misinformed. None of the 273 seconds of the piece are intended to be identical, so no single moment could comprise "the full contents of the work". If you're going to be humorless and pedantic, at least be right.
I think "a moment" of a four minute and thirty-three second piece probably constitutes fair use in anyone's book. Just be sure your period of mourning doesn't extend much beyond thirty seconds, or you may find yourself on thin ice.
Somehow I don't expect anyone will find this to be much of a problem.
At least NT is already fully POSIX compliant (something even Linux technically can't lay claim to). Prior to OS X, POSIX wasn't even a concept in Apple's official OS space.
There is a concubine which acts as a type of mall that you walk through.
Please, what the fuck are you talking about? Whatever it is, it's not a "concubine". You're using the word so utterly incorrectly that you have to be either making this up whole cloth, or garbling someone else's story. Either way, stop digging yourself deeper, and come clean with us.
When you enter, there are windows on each side from front to back, that house women. These women were put in this for several reasons. From what was described to him, if you do not pay your debts, your wife will be put in the concubine to prostitute herself until she pays them off.
I'm sorry, but this just reads too much like someone's bizarre sexual fantasy. Which, I suspect, is exactly what it is.
Listen, you started off claiming that copious information on this practice existed on the internet. When I asked you to provide us with a sample or two of this supporting evidence, you responded with anecdotes from two (possibly fictional) relatives. (C'mon, your "close relative" just happens to be a high-mucky muck at Microsoft, who just happens to be a private guest of the "president" of China, and gains access to a coveniently "hidden" place of government-imposed prostitution?) If I'm wrong, it should be easy enough to provide us with corroboration from one or two unrelated sources on the internet, right? Hell, I'll settle for even one. So come on, where is it?
Tell you what — since you're the one making this surprising and thusfar unsupported claim, why don't you share with us some of the supposed preponderence of evidence for this punitive practice in modern China?
I'm prepared to believe a lot of things about China when it comes to human rights violations, but the fact that I've never heard anything about this practice, coupled with my failure to turn up any support for your claim on a quick Google search tends to make me think you're probably trolling.
Open standards like what, Flash? Show me the standards committee. Oh wait, there is none. Or how about the open source Flash player? Whoops, you can't — Adobe's open licensing of SWF only permits generation, not playback.
(And if you're talking about SVG, sorry — your comment deserves a +5, Funny. It was a nice idea, but...)
How long will it be before open-source software can provide a complete, accessible office suite for a fraction of the cost that Microsoft current impose?
Since when is Google "open source"?
Open-source friendly, undoubtedly. Less secretive about (some of their) proprietary code than Microsoft? Sure, though that's not saying much. There's only so much secrecy obfuscated Javascript can buy you, so it's not as if they had much choice. Still, kudos to them for not only accepting that fact, but providing official APIs to some of their services.
But "open source"? Show me where I can go to submit patches to any of their core products, and maybe then I'll agree to that term. Until then, Thunderbird + Google Calendars is no more "open source" than Evolution + Exchange.
As an aside, while the writer in your link has a good point, he could have made it in a paragraph. Stretching it out for three pages is something we like to call a "blog".
I appreciate the thoroughness of your rebuttal. No what?
Understand that I'm not claiming automatic legal entitlement to the contents of said key, merely that it's much easier to legitimately misinterpret the intent of an unsecured USB key than it would be a typical promotional CD.
The memory in your computer is made of sand, and I'm sure a 2GB chip doesn't contain much more sand than a 16KB one.
This is absurdly reductive. If you honestly believe the volume of silicon used in production is the only valid factor in price differential between chips, you're quite welcome to try replacing the RAM in your PC with sand. If not, your argument is intentional sophistry.
If those CDs contained DRM-free MP3s, I'd see a much stronger parallel. Making tracks available in an easily redistributable digital format without DRM or copryright notice, and no verbal or written contract, would certainly seem to imply an invitation to redistribute freely, in a way that distributing tracks on a standard audio CD (hopefully bearing a clear copyright notice) does not.
Having been homeschooled myself, I don't believe the GP was passing judgement on the practice of homeschooling, merely expressing concern that the GGP might pass his ignorance on to his children without interference from outside influence.
There are a great many reasons people may choose to homeschool; unfortunately, one possible reason is to enable religious brainwashing of their children by isolating them from others with conflicting worldviews. Sad, but true.
The Times was founded in 1982 by Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church and the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, to be a conservative alternative to the larger Washington Post. The Times is widely perceived as maintaining a strongly right-leaning editorial stance. By 2002, the Unification Church had spent about $1.7 billion in subsidies for the Times. The paper has lost money every year of publication since 1982.
...Are you by any chance beginning to notice a distinct pattern to your citations?
yeah! Cuz we all know right wing Republicans are against the EPA since the very beginning. Why, if that left wing loony Nixon handn't of signed it into law, we wouldn't have to do stuff like this!
Yes, it's telling, isn't it, that the current president and administration make Nixon look a "left-wing loony" by contrast? Of course, Nixon didn't act alone in forming the EPA, nor did he do so in a political vaccuum. The EPA was formed in response to massive public pressure in the wake of a number of highly visible environmental disasters — the kind of popular political force the current Whitehouse may be doggedly determined to ignore, but which even the Nixon administration occasionally bowed to.
Please, bad science is bi-partisan. All you have to do is hear Gore (as a recent, glaring example) state the "debate is over" on global warming. Any time you hear an absolute from a politician of any ilk you can be assured it is no longer science, but retoric (sic).
There is a near-universal consensus amongst climate scientists that global warming is occurring, and almost agree that the anthropogenic climate change is a significant factor. For most intents and purposes, the scientific debate on that topic is over, though the political debate may rage on unabated by fact or reason. No one, including I think Al Gore, would claim that major questions don't remain to be answered, but whether or not global warming is happening isn't one of them. You may feel free to 'disagree' all you like; until you've invested the years of time and effort to earn a PhD in climatology and the respect of your academic peers, nobody is really obliged to care.
Do you have any references for your claims besides an unsourced article published in a right-wing conservative (sorry, "Libertarian") think-tank's unabashedly anti-environmentalist publication? You really think the Heartland Institute constitutes a neutral, unbiased source on anything? You don't suppose maybe they have an axe or two to grind?
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Nice work. If only my unused mod points hadn't expired this morning...
And rightly so! If SUVs have learned to use cell phones, homeless smoking guys are the least of our worries.
So, how does it feel to be outsmarted by a monkey?
You're misinformed. None of the 273 seconds of the piece are intended to be identical, so no single moment could comprise "the full contents of the work". If you're going to be humorless and pedantic, at least be right.
I think "a moment" of a four minute and thirty-three second piece probably constitutes fair use in anyone's book. Just be sure your period of mourning doesn't extend much beyond thirty seconds, or you may find yourself on thin ice.
Somehow I don't expect anyone will find this to be much of a problem.
And OS 9 and BSD weren't?
At least NT is already fully POSIX compliant (something even Linux technically can't lay claim to). Prior to OS X, POSIX wasn't even a concept in Apple's official OS space.
Well, he did implicitly include himself among the not-all-that-well-educated...
Please, what the fuck are you talking about? Whatever it is, it's not a "concubine". You're using the word so utterly incorrectly that you have to be either making this up whole cloth, or garbling someone else's story. Either way, stop digging yourself deeper, and come clean with us.
I'm sorry, but this just reads too much like someone's bizarre sexual fantasy. Which, I suspect, is exactly what it is.
Listen, you started off claiming that copious information on this practice existed on the internet. When I asked you to provide us with a sample or two of this supporting evidence, you responded with anecdotes from two (possibly fictional) relatives. (C'mon, your "close relative" just happens to be a high-mucky muck at Microsoft, who just happens to be a private guest of the "president" of China, and gains access to a coveniently "hidden" place of government-imposed prostitution?) If I'm wrong, it should be easy enough to provide us with corroboration from one or two unrelated sources on the internet, right? Hell, I'll settle for even one. So come on, where is it?
No, he means wii as in 'small'.
Tell you what — since you're the one making this surprising and thusfar unsupported claim, why don't you share with us some of the supposed preponderence of evidence for this punitive practice in modern China?
I'm prepared to believe a lot of things about China when it comes to human rights violations, but the fact that I've never heard anything about this practice, coupled with my failure to turn up any support for your claim on a quick Google search tends to make me think you're probably trolling.
Open standards like what, Flash? Show me the standards committee. Oh wait, there is none. Or how about the open source Flash player? Whoops, you can't — Adobe's open licensing of SWF only permits generation, not playback.
(And if you're talking about SVG, sorry — your comment deserves a +5, Funny. It was a nice idea, but...)
No no, it's like grating a turtle with a cheese hammer.
...Oh, I'm sorry — I thought this was the surrealist analogy thread.
Since when is Google "open source"?
Open-source friendly, undoubtedly. Less secretive about (some of their) proprietary code than Microsoft? Sure, though that's not saying much. There's only so much secrecy obfuscated Javascript can buy you, so it's not as if they had much choice. Still, kudos to them for not only accepting that fact, but providing official APIs to some of their services.
But "open source"? Show me where I can go to submit patches to any of their core products, and maybe then I'll agree to that term. Until then, Thunderbird + Google Calendars is no more "open source" than Evolution + Exchange.
"There. Fixed that for ya."
That soft breeze you feel, gently ruffling your hair like the fingers of a lover? That's the wake of the joke whistling over your head.
I appreciate the thoroughness of your rebuttal. No what?
Understand that I'm not claiming automatic legal entitlement to the contents of said key, merely that it's much easier to legitimately misinterpret the intent of an unsecured USB key than it would be a typical promotional CD.
The memory in your computer is made of sand, and I'm sure a 2GB chip doesn't contain much more sand than a 16KB one.
This is absurdly reductive. If you honestly believe the volume of silicon used in production is the only valid factor in price differential between chips, you're quite welcome to try replacing the RAM in your PC with sand. If not, your argument is intentional sophistry.
If those CDs contained DRM-free MP3s, I'd see a much stronger parallel. Making tracks available in an easily redistributable digital format without DRM or copryright notice, and no verbal or written contract, would certainly seem to imply an invitation to redistribute freely, in a way that distributing tracks on a standard audio CD (hopefully bearing a clear copyright notice) does not.
Having been homeschooled myself, I don't believe the GP was passing judgement on the practice of homeschooling, merely expressing concern that the GGP might pass his ignorance on to his children without interference from outside influence.
There are a great many reasons people may choose to homeschool; unfortunately, one possible reason is to enable religious brainwashing of their children by isolating them from others with conflicting worldviews. Sad, but true.
The leading paragraph from the Wikipedia article on the Times:
yeah! Cuz we all know right wing Republicans are against the EPA since the very beginning. Why, if that left wing loony Nixon handn't of signed it into law, we wouldn't have to do stuff like this!
Yes, it's telling, isn't it, that the current president and administration make Nixon look a "left-wing loony" by contrast? Of course, Nixon didn't act alone in forming the EPA, nor did he do so in a political vaccuum. The EPA was formed in response to massive public pressure in the wake of a number of highly visible environmental disasters — the kind of popular political force the current Whitehouse may be doggedly determined to ignore, but which even the Nixon administration occasionally bowed to.
Please, bad science is bi-partisan. All you have to do is hear Gore (as a recent, glaring example) state the "debate is over" on global warming. Any time you hear an absolute from a politician of any ilk you can be assured it is no longer science, but retoric (sic).
There is a near-universal consensus amongst climate scientists that global warming is occurring, and almost agree that the anthropogenic climate change is a significant factor. For most intents and purposes, the scientific debate on that topic is over, though the political debate may rage on unabated by fact or reason. No one, including I think Al Gore, would claim that major questions don't remain to be answered, but whether or not global warming is happening isn't one of them. You may feel free to 'disagree' all you like; until you've invested the years of time and effort to earn a PhD in climatology and the respect of your academic peers, nobody is really obliged to care.
Do you have any references for your claims besides an unsourced article published in a right-wing conservative (sorry, "Libertarian") think-tank's unabashedly anti-environmentalist publication? You really think the Heartland Institute constitutes a neutral, unbiased source on anything? You don't suppose maybe they have an axe or two to grind?
Now who's being emotional?
It's about time "jack up" entered the scientific vernacular.
Idiocracy, here we come.