Conservatives think that a major liberal failing is that we fail to tolerate their opinion.
If your opinion is responsible for contributing to the deaths and wounding of American soldiers, our sons and our daughters who are fighting this war for us, as well as innocent Iraqi civilians, if your opinion caused you to vote for George W. Bush, then we do not have to tolerate it because your opinion is, quite simply, wrong, both morally and according to most reasonable standards. In the same way we do not have to tolerate the opinions of slave-owners, fascists, racists, etc etc. Note that this is not a logical fallacy. I am not calling you racists or Nazis. I'm simply pointing to the fact that not being part of the solution is actually being part of the problem(especially if you support the people who are actually causing the problem). Because you hold the opinion you do, you are complicit in the war, in the increasingly dire domestic fiscal situation, in the dire health care situation, and the dire education situation, as well as the dire prospect of having to fix all of Bush's "advances", "reforms, and the results of his "moral clarity," when he's out of office. You are taking a tremendous moral risk holding your opinion.
Again, 30,000 Iraqis and 2,300 American soldiers have died in part because you hold the opinion that you do. Please re-examine it.
In response to your assertion that George W. Bush is doing a heck of a job, here is a story from Senator Joe Biden about visiting the white house:
' ''I was in the Oval Office a few months after we swept into Baghdad,'' he began, ''and I was telling the president of my many concerns'' -- concerns about growing problems winning the peace, the explosive mix of Shiite and Sunni, the disbanding of the Iraqi Army and problems securing the oil fields. Bush, Biden recalled, just looked at him, unflappably sure that the United States was on the right course and that all was well. '''Mr. President,' I finally said, 'How can you be so sure when you know you don't know the facts?'''
Biden said that Bush stood up and put his hand on the senator's shoulder. ''My instincts,'' he said. ''My instincts.'' '
Even if Bush was not a terrible, ignorant, intellectually uncurious and spiritually lazy man, he still does not belong in office with such a contempt for factual reality. A person in the highest position of the executive NEEDS to consider the facts before he makes decisions. "Gut instinct" is not a valid way to make a decision.
From his career out of the federal executive branch, Bush has proved that he is simply not competent enough to handle the responsibilities of leadership, especially those of the president. We have seen this over and over again, from Katrina, to the bungling of the invasion AS WELL AS the absolutely senseless decisions made by his appointees(L. Paul Bremer especially) post-invasion. Even Christie Whitman, a GOP ex-EPA head who resigned during Bush's first term, has pointed to some systemic competency issues within Bush's administration. She has outright said that officials within the Bush adminisration have an intolerance for facts that run counter to their opinion. Richard Clarke has said the same thing. He has even said that Condi Rice specifically asked the staff to keep briefings short, conversations brief, and reports simple. Bush has a contempt for complexity. I have news for you. The world really is complex. It is not simple.
1) Golf, unlike, WoW, is capable of increasing productivity and improving communication between co-workers and businesspeople while maintaining a recreational atmosphere.
2) Golf doesn't require complete 24/7 devotion to compete effectively.
3) Golf, unlike WoW, doesn't cause your muscles to atrophy after a week of playing it non-stop.
4) Golf (for most people) stops at night, whereas WoW goes on and on and on and on.
5) Golf, unlike, WoW, doesn't function like crack.
This is coming from someone whose brother is obsessed with WoW.
But what if the first test is negative? That could very well be a false negative. It's unlikely, but possible. According to what you have said, would a retest be performed in such a case?
The Internet suddenly has a mid-life crisis. Looking back on its life, it realizes its squandered its time on earth on porn, e-commerce, and petty IM conversations. . The Internet feels hollow and worthless. To console itself, it buys a Porsche from www.porsche.com, and takes it out on the road. Now feeling youthful and vibrant, the Internet uses the Porsche to woo a younger network. Soon enough, the Internet and the younger network are in the throes of a sultry affair. One night, the Internet's rubber breaks and he accidentally gets the younger network pregnant. Scared, the Internet runs away, and the younger network is left on its own to raise the Subnet. The Subnet grows into a full Class C and then into an Internet of its own.
Just FYI: Well, the soil in Ireland during the Irish potato famine was not very fertile. There were only so many crops that it could support, and none but the tuber potato of sufficient nutritional value to serve as subsistence for a large amount of the population. Add that to economic restrictions imposed on them because of the British empire(Ireland was one of the world's foremost exporters of potatoes) and one could argue that the Irish did know better, but had no choice . So the analogy still holds up.
You are correct sir, those are the worst reasons ever to use Apple software and hardware. I myself use it because it works very, very well - partly, I think, because they do precisely what you hate about them. That is, constrain their software to compatibility with their own hardware products.
And it's pretty.
And yes, DRM on AAC files from the Apple store is VERY reasonable.
Also, I'm not sure anyone who has used iTunes can call its interface clunky. Windows Media Player's GUI is pretty awful, on every platform.)
This review suffers from the typical "If it's not exactly like the book, it's flawed" gripe that so many LoTR fans are guilty of.
Peter Jackson is not writing a book. He's taking a book, and trying to make it work *as a movie*. Again: He's making a MOVIE. You can't sell a book to a studio. You have to sell a screenplay or a script to a studio. A screenplay is not a book. Neither is a script. The main aim of any screen adaptation of a book is not to stay faithful to plot, characters, action, duration, but to the thematic content of the source work. This is what Peter Jackson did. Some things from Tolkien's work simply will *not* work in a Hollywood film, with a Hollywood narrative that is commercially viable. Even if the studio is New Line(which is semi-independent, but has to market its releases to the public nonetheless.) So, please, please please, STOP GRIPING ABOUT HIS DECISIONS TO STRAY FROM THE PLOT.
The pigeon economy has gained 500000000 new jobs, all in the telecommunications sector.
Page 4 Editorial: I am delighted to see that at last, those poor pigeons are being employed. The job market for pigeons has declined for many years, and I long wondered whether the pigeon economy would ever improve. Far be it from me to expect this economic turn around, for which I can only credit our president, George W. Bush, and his clever tax cuts. Now that we have found that pigeons are in fact a technological marvel disguised as the simple city-dwelling fowl we have always thought them to be, the job market for pigeons should improve immensely. But more importantly, it is now that, when I see those pigeons in Central Park, darting around & nibbling on bread crumbs, I can say with a straight face, "Get a job, bums!" Kudos, pigeons!
I'm wondering whether or not the Internet has the same shape when viewed from any point, much like the physical universe seems homogeneous regardless of where you're looking from. For example, at any given moment, the internet might look different to ip address 24.5.96.2 from what it looks like to ip address 204.60.2.3. I'm not very educated in the ways of routers or tables, but does a packet take the same route to a destination every time? In that case, wouldn't these maps look different when drawn from different locations?
If you're looking for un-"manufacturised" music, I'll give you a hint: you're probably not going to find it from Korn and Limp Bizkit, both of which are signed under RIAA labels, I believe, and like to over-produce their music to the point where it ceases to be the bands' original work. If you want good, original, "unmanufacturised" music, you'll have better luck with Jazz, classical recordings and the Indies. You'll notice a difference right away. Over-produced recordings from major studios just don't sound as if they come from actual people.
What other page would it make? Slashdot, like any news source, is just trying to find content. I can think of more trivial articles than this in the recent past.
Didn't everybody expect that Apple was using iTunes to drive its hardware sales, just like it uses every other piece of its software to drive hardware sales? Where's the news here? That's like saying Bill Gates didn't make a billion dollars this year. Oh well, he still only has $50 billion.
4. Reproduction - the ability to create more or less exact copies of itself
I am unable to have children, by your definition that makes me dead.
Actually, this part of the definition of an organism just means that members of the organisms species have been known to reproduce. How did you come into existence? Your mother and father are of your species, no? I hope so:-) They were able to reproduce. They are organisms, and they produced an organism of the same species.
I think a more incisive comment would have been
"Machines could most likely learn how to build themselves" in which case the machines would be considered alive with respect to its ability to reproduce.
Am I incorrect in recalling from what little Biology I've taken that cellular structures must be the basic building block of life? This is why virii are not considered alive - because they are not cellular but just bits of protein, unable to reproduce without attaching to pre-existing cellular processes.
I think when people say "OS X is inherently sub-par because it only runs on one platform" they fail to understand Apple's business strategy.
OS X is an OS, yes. But Apple doesn't make much(any?) money off of OS X(open source doesn't seem like a good capital investment strategy, really). They make money off of hardware. Apple is not trying to gain market share. They are trying to streamline their entry into key markets, and sell as much hardware as possible to those markets. If they ported OS X to other platforms they would be shooting themselves in the foot, so to speak, because they make all of their profits from hardware systems sales.
The bottom line is OS X works beautifully with Apple hardware. It is probably the best system for kids to learn on because Apple had the strongest hand in the principles of modern user interface design, they have tight integration between hardware and software, and it works so fluidly that maintenance is extremely low-cost. We'r enot trying to make kids technological and electrical geniuses(when they grow up, dare I say a much samller amount of people will have to deal with the nitty gritty details of hardware and software.) We just want them to function in a modern world with modern technology using modern design principles. OS X is perfect for this, because most windowing systems, etc function similarly(but not as well.)
BIA(Brittanian Industrial Average) plummeted today. Analysts cited over-valuation as a major cause of the sudden drop in virtual commodity prices. "Virtual Futures just aren't performing as well as most E-bay traders had hoped."........ President Bush's invasion of Brittania for 'virtual weapons of virtual mass destruction' without UVN consent also seems to have contributed to the poor market conditions....... Two virtual traders jumped out their windows in response to the market's downward plunge, but only managed to break their ankles. "He must have thought he was in a skyscraper. Good thing he was only in our living room!"
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Conservatives think that a major liberal failing is that we fail to tolerate their opinion.
If your opinion is responsible for contributing to the deaths and wounding of American soldiers, our sons and our daughters who are fighting this war for us, as well as innocent Iraqi civilians, if your opinion caused you to vote for George W. Bush, then we do not have to tolerate it because your opinion is, quite simply, wrong, both morally and according to most reasonable standards. In the same way we do not have to tolerate the opinions of slave-owners, fascists, racists, etc etc. Note that this is not a logical fallacy. I am not calling you racists or Nazis. I'm simply pointing to the fact that not being part of the solution is actually being part of the problem(especially if you support the people who are actually causing the problem). Because you hold the opinion you do, you are complicit in the war, in the increasingly dire domestic fiscal situation, in the dire health care situation, and the dire education situation, as well as the dire prospect of having to fix all of Bush's "advances", "reforms, and the results of his "moral clarity," when he's out of office. You are taking a tremendous moral risk holding your opinion.
Again, 30,000 Iraqis and 2,300 American soldiers have died in part because you hold the opinion that you do. Please re-examine it.
In response to your assertion that George W. Bush is doing a heck of a job, here is a story from Senator Joe Biden about visiting the white house:
' ''I was in the Oval Office a few months after we swept into Baghdad,'' he began, ''and I was telling the president of my many concerns'' -- concerns about growing problems winning the peace, the explosive mix of Shiite and Sunni, the disbanding of the Iraqi Army and problems securing the oil fields. Bush, Biden recalled, just looked at him, unflappably sure that the United States was on the right course and that all was well. '''Mr. President,' I finally said, 'How can you be so sure when you know you don't know the facts?'''
Biden said that Bush stood up and put his hand on the senator's shoulder. ''My instincts,'' he said. ''My instincts.'' '
Even if Bush was not a terrible, ignorant, intellectually uncurious and spiritually lazy man, he still does not belong in office with such a contempt for factual reality. A person in the highest position of the executive NEEDS to consider the facts before he makes decisions. "Gut instinct" is not a valid way to make a decision.
From his career out of the federal executive branch, Bush has proved that he is simply not competent enough to handle the responsibilities of leadership, especially those of the president. We have seen this over and over again, from Katrina, to the bungling of the invasion AS WELL AS the absolutely senseless decisions made by his appointees(L. Paul Bremer especially) post-invasion. Even Christie Whitman, a GOP ex-EPA head who resigned during Bush's first term, has pointed to some systemic competency issues within Bush's administration. She has outright said that officials within the Bush adminisration have an intolerance for facts that run counter to their opinion. Richard Clarke has said the same thing. He has even said that Condi Rice specifically asked the staff to keep briefings short, conversations brief, and reports simple. Bush has a contempt for complexity. I have news for you. The world really is complex. It is not simple.
Reasons why this isn't true:
1) Golf, unlike, WoW, is capable of increasing productivity and improving communication between co-workers and businesspeople while maintaining a recreational atmosphere.
2) Golf doesn't require complete 24/7 devotion to compete effectively.
3) Golf, unlike WoW, doesn't cause your muscles to atrophy after a week of playing it non-stop.
4) Golf (for most people) stops at night, whereas WoW goes on and on and on and on.
5) Golf, unlike, WoW, doesn't function like crack.
This is coming from someone whose brother is obsessed with WoW.
But what if the first test is negative? That could very well be a false negative. It's unlikely, but possible. According to what you have said, would a retest be performed in such a case?
Dad makes son Playstation for Christmas. (lifted from the onion)
Mike Nash and Condoleeza Rice?
The Internet suddenly has a mid-life crisis. Looking back on its life, it realizes its squandered its time on earth on porn, e-commerce, and petty IM conversations. . The Internet feels hollow and worthless. To console itself, it buys a Porsche from www.porsche.com, and takes it out on the road. Now feeling youthful and vibrant, the Internet uses the Porsche to woo a younger network. Soon enough, the Internet and the younger network are in the throes of a sultry affair. One night, the Internet's rubber breaks and he accidentally gets the younger network pregnant. Scared, the Internet runs away, and the younger network is left on its own to raise the Subnet. The Subnet grows into a full Class C and then into an Internet of its own.
Just FYI: Well, the soil in Ireland during the Irish potato famine was not very fertile. There were only so many crops that it could support, and none but the tuber potato of sufficient nutritional value to serve as subsistence for a large amount of the population. Add that to economic restrictions imposed on them because of the British empire(Ireland was one of the world's foremost exporters of potatoes) and one could argue that the Irish did know better, but had no choice . So the analogy still holds up.
Yeah, but they were trying to be more subtle and added a McDonald's coupon book to throw him off a tick.
And it's pretty.
And yes, DRM on AAC files from the Apple store is VERY reasonable.
Also, I'm not sure anyone who has used iTunes can call its interface clunky. Windows Media Player's GUI is pretty awful, on every platform.)
Peter Jackson is not writing a book. He's taking a book, and trying to make it work *as a movie*. Again: He's making a MOVIE. You can't sell a book to a studio. You have to sell a screenplay or a script to a studio. A screenplay is not a book. Neither is a script. The main aim of any screen adaptation of a book is not to stay faithful to plot, characters, action, duration, but to the thematic content of the source work. This is what Peter Jackson did. Some things from Tolkien's work simply will *not* work in a Hollywood film, with a Hollywood narrative that is commercially viable. Even if the studio is New Line(which is semi-independent, but has to market its releases to the public nonetheless.) So, please, please please, STOP GRIPING ABOUT HIS DECISIONS TO STRAY FROM THE PLOT.
The pigeon economy has gained 500000000 new jobs, all in the telecommunications sector. Page 4 Editorial: I am delighted to see that at last, those poor pigeons are being employed. The job market for pigeons has declined for many years, and I long wondered whether the pigeon economy would ever improve. Far be it from me to expect this economic turn around, for which I can only credit our president, George W. Bush, and his clever tax cuts. Now that we have found that pigeons are in fact a technological marvel disguised as the simple city-dwelling fowl we have always thought them to be, the job market for pigeons should improve immensely. But more importantly, it is now that, when I see those pigeons in Central Park, darting around & nibbling on bread crumbs, I can say with a straight face, "Get a job, bums!" Kudos, pigeons!
I'm wondering whether or not the Internet has the same shape when viewed from any point, much like the physical universe seems homogeneous regardless of where you're looking from. For example, at any given moment, the internet might look different to ip address 24.5.96.2 from what it looks like to ip address 204.60.2.3. I'm not very educated in the ways of routers or tables, but does a packet take the same route to a destination every time? In that case, wouldn't these maps look different when drawn from different locations?
If you're looking for un-"manufacturised" music, I'll give you a hint: you're probably not going to find it from Korn and Limp Bizkit, both of which are signed under RIAA labels, I believe, and like to over-produce their music to the point where it ceases to be the bands' original work. If you want good, original, "unmanufacturised" music, you'll have better luck with Jazz, classical recordings and the Indies. You'll notice a difference right away. Over-produced recordings from major studios just don't sound as if they come from actual people.
What other page would it make? Slashdot, like any news source, is just trying to find content. I can think of more trivial articles than this in the recent past.
Didn't everybody expect that Apple was using iTunes to drive its hardware sales, just like it uses every other piece of its software to drive hardware sales? Where's the news here? That's like saying Bill Gates didn't make a billion dollars this year. Oh well, he still only has $50 billion.
I think a more incisive comment would have been "Machines could most likely learn how to build themselves" in which case the machines would be considered alive with respect to its ability to reproduce.
Am I incorrect in recalling from what little Biology I've taken that cellular structures must be the basic building block of life? This is why virii are not considered alive - because they are not cellular but just bits of protein, unable to reproduce without attaching to pre-existing cellular processes.
God, If i had $1 for every time I read an eBook, i would have $0.
Actual every-day worth of car: Tzero.
I wouldn't say to people "I have 46 billion dollars." I would say "I have 46 million thousand dollars." It sounds more impressive that way.
Astronomers upset about journalists reporting that astronomers are upset about asteroid panic.
I'd rather take a few hits from my privacy bong.
like, DVD-quality, streamed pr0n?
(In Arnie's voice:)
Skynet becomes self-aware August 20th, 2013.
I think when people say "OS X is inherently sub-par because it only runs on one platform" they fail to understand Apple's business strategy. OS X is an OS, yes. But Apple doesn't make much(any?) money off of OS X(open source doesn't seem like a good capital investment strategy, really). They make money off of hardware. Apple is not trying to gain market share. They are trying to streamline their entry into key markets, and sell as much hardware as possible to those markets. If they ported OS X to other platforms they would be shooting themselves in the foot, so to speak, because they make all of their profits from hardware systems sales. The bottom line is OS X works beautifully with Apple hardware. It is probably the best system for kids to learn on because Apple had the strongest hand in the principles of modern user interface design, they have tight integration between hardware and software, and it works so fluidly that maintenance is extremely low-cost. We'r enot trying to make kids technological and electrical geniuses(when they grow up, dare I say a much samller amount of people will have to deal with the nitty gritty details of hardware and software.) We just want them to function in a modern world with modern technology using modern design principles. OS X is perfect for this, because most windowing systems, etc function similarly(but not as well.)
BIA(Brittanian Industrial Average) plummeted today. Analysts cited over-valuation as a major cause of the sudden drop in virtual commodity prices. "Virtual Futures just aren't performing as well as most E-bay traders had hoped." ........ President Bush's invasion of Brittania for 'virtual weapons of virtual mass destruction' without UVN consent also seems to have contributed to the poor market conditions....... Two virtual traders jumped out their windows in response to the market's downward plunge, but only managed to break their ankles. "He must have thought he was in a skyscraper. Good thing he was only in our living room!"