'All wood burns,' states Sir Bedevere. 'Therefore,' he concludes, 'all that burns is wood.' This is, of course, pure bullshit. Universal affirmatives can only be partially converted: all of Alma Cogan is dead, but only some of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan. 'Oh yes,' one would think. However, my wife does not understand this necessary limitation of the conversion of a proposition; consequently, she does not understand me, for how can a woman expect to appreciate a professor of logic, if the simplest cloth-eared syllogism causes her to flounder?
For example, given the premise, 'all fish live underwater' and 'all mackerel are fish', my wife will conclude, not that 'all mackerel live underwater', but that 'if she buys kippers it will not rain', or that 'trout live in trees', or even that 'I do not love her any more.' This she calls 'using her intuition'. I call it 'crap', and it gets me very irritated because it is not logical. 'There will be no supper tonight,' she will sometimes cry upon my return home. 'Why not?' I will ask. 'Because I have been screwing the milkman all day,' she will say, quite oblivious of the howling error she has made. 'But,' I will wearily point out, 'even given that the activities of screwing the milkman and getting supper are mutually exclusive, now that the screwing is over, surely then, supper may now, logically, be got.'
Yes, and once you distribute your copyrighted works, you limit people's ability to redistribute it.
Mind you, Copyright is right now an acceptable system, because it promotes the arts and sciences, (although there may be better ways) but still, copyright gives the creators of information the ability to limit the free expression of that idea for some limited amount of time.
You do not have some god-given entitlement to control whatever ideas might happen to spew out of your mouth.
No, I know it's not because of Slashdot's invalid HTML. I'm just saying that because Slashdot uses a lot of nested tables (which is completely legal) it might increase the odds of Gecko not being able to handle it.
If you want to place blame, blame lies with Mozilla. But at the same time, the bug has to be triggered by something in Slashdot's HTML. Just because that thing is legal doesn't mean that's not what's causing it.
Yes and no. I really do like think the GIMP's interface is underappreciated, (I like the idea of putting everything in a right click context menu for some reason) but I was also exxagerating for the purpose of being funny.
Genetic engineering should be able to ably replace evolution. Just because we didn't neccesarily get here from Intelligent Design doesn't mean we can't let some intelligence take a shot at it now that we have available.
Assuming we are limited to the speed of light, moving off this rock must grow at O(x^3), (moving at the speed of light in every direction) whereas the population tends to grow exponentially. Taking up more space won't cut it in the long run. Instead, we'd need to lower our population growth.
That is to say... if people were immortal, they'd have to stop having kids.
Democracy is rule by the people. Therefore, people need to be well-informed critical thinkers in order for a democracy to be successful. The news is part of the set of things which inform the masses, so the news plays an important role in keeping democracies running smoothly.
Historically of course, the news media sucking is not a new thing. The Spanish-American War (which amusingly enough is how we got Guantanamo Bay) was partially triggered by the somewhat sketchy newspaper wars between William "Not Citizen Kane" Hearst and Joseph "The Award Guy" Pulitzer. As a result, even if the media should inform the masses, it failing to do so is hardly a new development.
It is also quite debatable whether you can say the news media has a "responsibility" to be informative. The issue of obligations concerns itself with ethics, which is hardly a cut and dry area of study. From a strictly utilitarian point of view it would seem so, but on the other hand because news companies are typically owned bycorporations, some would argue that the repsonsibility of a corporation lies with serving its shareholders.
The Congress shall have Power [...] to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; (Article I, Section 8)
The formal definition of economics is the system of distribution for "scarce" resources. As such, economics will stay around until we can get rid of scarcity.
Capitalism might be effected, but economics will still exist.
Effort is not quality. Something can be very very easy but still be good. Of course, all other things being equal, increasing effort will usually increase quality, but all things are not equal.
Using Machinimas, people can (not that they neccesarily do) spend their time on writing scripts, which I think can make up for whatever cheapness may come out of using a Machinima.
Regarding your little IP comment, I think this is a little like shooting on location instead of building a set. Sure, you didn't create the set, but I don't think that should count against your film in any way.
The dollar is a unit of currency, but the abbreviation for dollar is not $, but USD (or in your case CDN.) '$' is a punctuation mark or something, and therefore has its own way to be used.
No, but if you want a horrible spoof on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy...
Queer Undead for the Straight Guy.
Television executives ressurect notable dead people who were gay or bisexual. (Alan Turing, Graham Chapman, Leonardo Da Vinci, Socrates and Alexander the Great for Mathematics, Comedy, Art, Philosophy, and Military Strategy respectively.) They then go into the lives of fairly unnotable heterosexuals, and help improve their lives.
Slashdot Mirror
But what if it's a conversion of radio drama to film? WHAT THEN?!
Yes, and once you distribute your copyrighted works, you limit people's ability to redistribute it.
Mind you, Copyright is right now an acceptable system, because it promotes the arts and sciences, (although there may be better ways) but still, copyright gives the creators of information the ability to limit the free expression of that idea for some limited amount of time.
You do not have some god-given entitlement to control whatever ideas might happen to spew out of your mouth.
No, I know it's not because of Slashdot's invalid HTML. I'm just saying that because Slashdot uses a lot of nested tables (which is completely legal) it might increase the odds of Gecko not being able to handle it.
If you want to place blame, blame lies with Mozilla. But at the same time, the bug has to be triggered by something in Slashdot's HTML. Just because that thing is legal doesn't mean that's not what's causing it.
Although it is the result of a bug, one could argue that Slashdot's unique HTML certainly doesn't make Firefox's job any easier.
Yes and no. I really do like think the GIMP's interface is underappreciated, (I like the idea of putting everything in a right click context menu for some reason) but I was also exxagerating for the purpose of being funny.
I believe the "bitorrenternet lol!!!" was meant to be sarcastic.
Soccer is short for Association Football, which is the name you call that kind of Football for when you want to distinguish it from Aussie Rules.
Ell-oh-ell or lawl?
I, for one, welcome our new linguistic overlords.
Am I the only one who remembers the movie Toys?
What, I am? Oh, okay.
Uh... yeah. The new version of Knoppix has ktimemachine on it.
But if we get immortality, the concept of "retirement" will become outdated, so Social Security will cease to be neccesary.
Genetic engineering should be able to ably replace evolution. Just because we didn't neccesarily get here from Intelligent Design doesn't mean we can't let some intelligence take a shot at it now that we have available.
Assuming we are limited to the speed of light, moving off this rock must grow at O(x^3), (moving at the speed of light in every direction) whereas the population tends to grow exponentially. Taking up more space won't cut it in the long run. Instead, we'd need to lower our population growth.
That is to say... if people were immortal, they'd have to stop having kids.
I imagine if we got immortality, dropping the birth rate down to somewhere very close to zero would be a good idea.
But does the public want to be well informed?
Democracy is rule by the people. Therefore, people need to be well-informed critical thinkers in order for a democracy to be successful. The news is part of the set of things which inform the masses, so the news plays an important role in keeping democracies running smoothly.
Historically of course, the news media sucking is not a new thing. The Spanish-American War (which amusingly enough is how we got Guantanamo Bay) was partially triggered by the somewhat sketchy newspaper wars between William "Not Citizen Kane" Hearst and Joseph "The Award Guy" Pulitzer. As a result, even if the media should inform the masses, it failing to do so is hardly a new development.
It is also quite debatable whether you can say the news media has a "responsibility" to be informative. The issue of obligations concerns itself with ethics, which is hardly a cut and dry area of study. From a strictly utilitarian point of view it would seem so, but on the other hand because news companies are typically owned bycorporations, some would argue that the repsonsibility of a corporation lies with serving its shareholders.
The Congress shall have Power [...] to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; (Article I, Section 8)
The formal definition of economics is the system of distribution for "scarce" resources. As such, economics will stay around until we can get rid of scarcity.
Capitalism might be effected, but economics will still exist.
Well, I think Catwoman not being black is overshadowed by the rest of what was wrong with that movie.
Effort is not quality. Something can be very very easy but still be good. Of course, all other things being equal, increasing effort will usually increase quality, but all things are not equal.
Using Machinimas, people can (not that they neccesarily do) spend their time on writing scripts, which I think can make up for whatever cheapness may come out of using a Machinima.
Regarding your little IP comment, I think this is a little like shooting on location instead of building a set. Sure, you didn't create the set, but I don't think that should count against your film in any way.
The dollar is a unit of currency, but the abbreviation for dollar is not $, but USD (or in your case CDN.) '$' is a punctuation mark or something, and therefore has its own way to be used.
No, but if you want a horrible spoof on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy...
Queer Undead for the Straight Guy.
Television executives ressurect notable dead people who were gay or bisexual. (Alan Turing, Graham Chapman, Leonardo Da Vinci, Socrates and Alexander the Great for Mathematics, Comedy, Art, Philosophy, and Military Strategy respectively.) They then go into the lives of fairly unnotable heterosexuals, and help improve their lives.
No, that's World War One.