Yes, yes, let's all fall back to the "That's what the Nazis did, too!" argument. That's always been the fallback for thoughtful individuals around the world.
Sometimes a joke is just a joke, otherwise the world would be a dreary existence of searching for hidden ulterior motives. Sure, this movie had a message, but the message isn't "Let's kill some of those guys who disagree with us!" If that's what immediately came to mind when you saw or heard about it, then you must have a fit whenever you watch a slapstick movie.
Having looked at it, it seems to advocate killing people who don't conform to reduction of greenhouse gasses in the same way Monty Python advocate killing people who fail at hide and seek in their "How Not To Be Seen" sketch.
I just don't understand how a movie (which I haven't seen, I guess, so I can't really judge) can be thousands of times worse than what Cuccinelli's doing. One is a bit of free speech that people are capable of ignoring if they desire. The other cannot be ignored, since it's couched in the auspices of the courts and the Office of the Attorney General - ignoring it may mean fines, contempt citations, obstruction of justice charges, etc.
What Cuccinelli's doing is thousands of times worse than the 10:10 movie.
Here's Rule 3.1 of Virginia's Rules of Professional Conduct:
ADVOCATE RULE 3.1 Meritorious Claims And Contentions A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis for doing so that is not frivolous, which includes a good faith argument for an extension, modification or reversal of existing law. A lawyer for the defendant in a criminal proceeding, or the respondent in a proceeding that could result in incarceration, may nevertheless so defend the proceeding as to require that every element of the case be established.
(emphasis mine)
Let's hope the judge, knowing Cuccinelli's previous attempt was unfounded and this being a wild fishing expedition, would actually enforce the rules and sanction him with the State Bar association.
The only possible reason I can think of is that some readability studies found that mix case text is easier and faster to read than uppercase letters. Maybe there's an argument for reducing wear on roads for missing turns or something, although I can't imagine that the effect overall would amount to 27 million dollars.
A large part of the problem about Net Neutrality is that there is a complete mismatch of knowledge between those for and those against. People who are generally for Net Neutrality generally are more knowledgeable (although not always true) about why Net Neutrality is an important issue. Those who are against it (at least the lay people and not the businesses involved) generally don't know what Net Neutrality stands for and so they believe it's some sort of shadowy government censorship of free speech or governmental takeover or interference with business or socialism or whatever. Both sides are talking past each other and there is no common grounds of agreement. As long as that's true, Net Neutrality is dead.
I have no problems with personalisation, which I take (based on the article's pretty unclear description) is where the system tries to predict news stories based on what you read in the past. However, I do have problems with the personalisation algorithms used. I get useless news articles that I would never have actually read, while the system hides stories I might actually be interested in.
Until the personalisation algorithms used by news sites surpass my ability to filter news that I read, I'll probably not use any sort of personalised news site.
Is anyone else disappointed when they read the article and realized that there aren't any "Super Monkeys", just langur monkeys (which are still cool, because they're still monkeys)? I was hoping for some sort of Monkey Super-Soldier project on the part of the New Delhi Municipal Council.
How can you prosecute under a wiretapping statute if there is no wire involved where a conversation is being intercepted? Clearly, the judge got the right idea.
RIM is touting this as enterprise ready, but a lot of the features seems more geared towards a toy gadget (being able to play all sorts of video and audio formats, 1080p output, etc) and less as a business tool. I don't know of many companies that will willingly hand their employees (after already giving them a Blackberry phone) an add-on device that seems like it's geared to kill productivity.
Why doesn't the UN nominate one of those guys living in the backwoods to be the Ambassador to aliens? It seems to me that those guys are the people who seem to be getting abducted by aliens the most, not well-known astrophysicists.
By federal law, any product of the Federal Government cannot be copyrighted (and thus, it's probably even less encumbered in that regard than FOSS). Of course, good luck getting them to disclose it.
Definitely true. Plus, the more complex a system is, the more places the system has that can fail. A 386 in comparison, has much fewer points of failure.
Plus, maybe it's just me, but I think it's just inspiring that NASA was able to accomplish some of the things they've done with minimal computing power and so much finesse. The average desk calculator today has more computing power than the lunar module for the Apollo missions, and yet, Apollo still took men safely to the moon and back.
It's not that simple to just update NASA's technology. Yes, a lot of NASA's computer systems are antiquated, but they've also been vetted and engineered so that all the bugs and kinks have been worked out. They can update the technology, but they'll have to go through the whole process of figuring out where all the bugs are all over again. Unlike buying a buggy desktop application, though, when NASA has a bug, lives and millions of dollars are at stake.
Spying isn't limited to looking at the enemy's base. The patrol patterns of the drones, for instance, tells insurgents where US army forces are looking at. This allows them to move to new locations or hide if they notice the drones moving towards familiar territory.
It's amazing that drone hardware is fairly well designed, but its software design and implementation is so slapdash. Just last year, it was revealed that the Drones broadcasted its video feed in unencrypted form and was being used by militants to spy on us.
Seriously, if a nice girl's just willing to strike up a conversation with us, she's already miles ahead in my book without having to learn how to parrot stupid lines about x86 vs. ARM.
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I don't see what's particularly different about this from Cash for Clunkers, aside from this being a more direct subsidy.
Yes, yes, let's all fall back to the "That's what the Nazis did, too!" argument. That's always been the fallback for thoughtful individuals around the world.
Sometimes a joke is just a joke, otherwise the world would be a dreary existence of searching for hidden ulterior motives. Sure, this movie had a message, but the message isn't "Let's kill some of those guys who disagree with us!" If that's what immediately came to mind when you saw or heard about it, then you must have a fit whenever you watch a slapstick movie.
Either people don't understand the comedy (and need jokes explained to them), or they are being offended on purpose.
Having looked at it, it seems to advocate killing people who don't conform to reduction of greenhouse gasses in the same way Monty Python advocate killing people who fail at hide and seek in their "How Not To Be Seen" sketch.
I just don't understand how a movie (which I haven't seen, I guess, so I can't really judge) can be thousands of times worse than what Cuccinelli's doing. One is a bit of free speech that people are capable of ignoring if they desire. The other cannot be ignored, since it's couched in the auspices of the courts and the Office of the Attorney General - ignoring it may mean fines, contempt citations, obstruction of justice charges, etc.
What Cuccinelli's doing is thousands of times worse than the 10:10 movie.
Here's Rule 3.1 of Virginia's Rules of Professional Conduct:
ADVOCATE
RULE 3.1 Meritorious Claims And Contentions
A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis for
doing so that is not frivolous, which includes a good faith argument for an extension, modification or reversal of
existing law. A lawyer for the defendant in a criminal proceeding, or the respondent in a proceeding that could
result in incarceration, may nevertheless so defend the proceeding as to require that every element of the case be
established.
(emphasis mine)
Let's hope the judge, knowing Cuccinelli's previous attempt was unfounded and this being a wild fishing expedition, would actually enforce the rules and sanction him with the State Bar association.
The only possible reason I can think of is that some readability studies found that mix case text is easier and faster to read than uppercase letters. Maybe there's an argument for reducing wear on roads for missing turns or something, although I can't imagine that the effect overall would amount to 27 million dollars.
A large part of the problem about Net Neutrality is that there is a complete mismatch of knowledge between those for and those against. People who are generally for Net Neutrality generally are more knowledgeable (although not always true) about why Net Neutrality is an important issue. Those who are against it (at least the lay people and not the businesses involved) generally don't know what Net Neutrality stands for and so they believe it's some sort of shadowy government censorship of free speech or governmental takeover or interference with business or socialism or whatever. Both sides are talking past each other and there is no common grounds of agreement. As long as that's true, Net Neutrality is dead.
He's a theoretical physicist. Theories ARE his results.
I have no problems with personalisation, which I take (based on the article's pretty unclear description) is where the system tries to predict news stories based on what you read in the past. However, I do have problems with the personalisation algorithms used. I get useless news articles that I would never have actually read, while the system hides stories I might actually be interested in.
Until the personalisation algorithms used by news sites surpass my ability to filter news that I read, I'll probably not use any sort of personalised news site.
Is anyone else disappointed when they read the article and realized that there aren't any "Super Monkeys", just langur monkeys (which are still cool, because they're still monkeys)? I was hoping for some sort of Monkey Super-Soldier project on the part of the New Delhi Municipal Council.
Ah, so you're saying it should be okay to videotape the inside of government employee bathrooms and locker-rooms.
How can you prosecute under a wiretapping statute if there is no wire involved where a conversation is being intercepted? Clearly, the judge got the right idea.
RIM is touting this as enterprise ready, but a lot of the features seems more geared towards a toy gadget (being able to play all sorts of video and audio formats, 1080p output, etc) and less as a business tool. I don't know of many companies that will willingly hand their employees (after already giving them a Blackberry phone) an add-on device that seems like it's geared to kill productivity.
Why doesn't the UN nominate one of those guys living in the backwoods to be the Ambassador to aliens? It seems to me that those guys are the people who seem to be getting abducted by aliens the most, not well-known astrophysicists.
This is not news to anyone who's ever owned an Easy Bake Oven.
By federal law, any product of the Federal Government cannot be copyrighted (and thus, it's probably even less encumbered in that regard than FOSS). Of course, good luck getting them to disclose it.
Definitely true. Plus, the more complex a system is, the more places the system has that can fail. A 386 in comparison, has much fewer points of failure.
Plus, maybe it's just me, but I think it's just inspiring that NASA was able to accomplish some of the things they've done with minimal computing power and so much finesse. The average desk calculator today has more computing power than the lunar module for the Apollo missions, and yet, Apollo still took men safely to the moon and back.
It's not that simple to just update NASA's technology. Yes, a lot of NASA's computer systems are antiquated, but they've also been vetted and engineered so that all the bugs and kinks have been worked out. They can update the technology, but they'll have to go through the whole process of figuring out where all the bugs are all over again. Unlike buying a buggy desktop application, though, when NASA has a bug, lives and millions of dollars are at stake.
I don't like the law any more than you, but c'mon, let's not resort to slippery slope arguments.
Spying isn't limited to looking at the enemy's base. The patrol patterns of the drones, for instance, tells insurgents where US army forces are looking at. This allows them to move to new locations or hide if they notice the drones moving towards familiar territory.
That's AT&T's tiered policy. Verizon hasn't announced their tiered pricing structure yet.
It's amazing that drone hardware is fairly well designed, but its software design and implementation is so slapdash. Just last year, it was revealed that the Drones broadcasted its video feed in unencrypted form and was being used by militants to spy on us.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/121709-drone-intercept-encryption.html
Well, we are publicly mocking her. That's some sort of penalty, right?
Seriously, if a nice girl's just willing to strike up a conversation with us, she's already miles ahead in my book without having to learn how to parrot stupid lines about x86 vs. ARM.