"but from the pure propertarian perspective, this can look a lot like the slogan "property is theft".
That someone who would believe in perfect property rights would think that they have, through force of law, the right to tell others what they can do with their private physical property because they were the first ones to take an idea and run off with it to the government.
There's a great argument to made from a strong property rights perspective patents and copyrights are indefensible. I'm not sure where I stand regarding that argument, but at least once I've suggested in argument that patent and copyright law is a violation of personal property rights and then been accused of being a communist.
The usually close proximity between electric power plants and alumina processing plants. I wonder where this magical energy from aluminium comes from....
To use the Pythagorean Theorem, you've got to convert lat and lon to some type of Cartesian Coordinate system to really do it right, although at mid-latitudes, it's not too bad a get a relative proximity as long as you're not interested in a real unit of linear measure (kilometers, miles, etc.).
The planet is round (a geoid, to be a pedantic geography nazi) and lines of longitude are not parallel, although in local coordinate systems you can generally assume they are and not make huge errors. Longer distances, though, will require you to break out the trig, and the pure form of the Pythagorean Theorem is less useful. I find it easier to work such problems in spherical coordinates.
It was insulting, and I apologize for that. Yesterday was a bad day primarily because people around me were not reading instructions and that guy was the last straw. I shouldn't have been so rude and taken it out on him.
On the other hand, the article and the summary did clearly state that its purpose was to protect contact information. So I certainly was not trolling. It is a legitimate concern, but the article and summary address it, albeit not in a direct manner. Did it really need spelling out? I stand by the meaning of my post, but I disavow the rudeness.
I don't think it's a gimmick. He is actually a transvestite. Most of the clothes I see him in look more mod-hipster than girly anyway, so it doesn't really stand out.
BTW, I think your quote is pretty close to spot-on. Very funny bit.
At the house I just sold, I had idiots on dirt bikes drive over my property on a semi-regular basis. I thought about putting up signs: "Welcome to rk's Motorbike Amusement Park! Admission: $1,000 daily."
These were adults, by the way. The kids I only needed to tell once and they never did it again. The chucklehead grownups apparently thought they owned my lot too.
*sigh*. "You're ignorant if you don't think exactly like me." I disapprove of child erotica. If that makes me ignorant, than I'm fucking ignorant as the day is long, and I'm okay with that. YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO MY APPROVAL. Deal with it. I do not think the distribution of anything should be punished. It's only the original act that I have a problem with. I'm trying to have a dialog and you title your response "more ignorance". Now who's demonizing?
We're done here. You can go on screaming ignorance and demonizing if you want, but we're done.
I pressure people all the time to behave in ways that I want them to. However, I don't believe in forcing them to behave the way I want them to. I think legal child erotica (e.g. a fictional written work or even a computer generated movie) is in damn poor taste, and I certainly wouldn't support a business that engages in it. I do support their right to make such things, and would oppose legislation or other aggressive means to curb it. If you are actually involving children (and I'm willing to negotiate the age of consent downwards from 18 a bit.... it wasn't too long ago that people would be concerned if an 18 year old woman wasn't at least engaged to be married.), they cannot give a meaningful consent to sexual activity, and I think legal measures to stop it are warranted.
Just because one has the right to do something doesn't also entitle them to my automatic approval, and if I disapprove, I have an equal right to be vocal in my disapproval. I tell people all the time that if everything I disapproved of were illegal, we'd live in a damned depressing, evil police state. This is why I don't believe in legislating against behavior.
Ummm.... Arachnids are arthropods. Arachnida is a class of the phylum Arthropoda. You may be thinking that horseshoe crabs are more closely related to spiders than other crabs, which is correct. Horseshoe crabs and spiders are in the same subphylum, but crabs are crustaceans and more distantly related.
No, the GP was right. He stated that " Well, MS ships more units of SQL Server than..." and that's certainly true. Not terribly informative, of course, because it's like stating that "Ford ships more Explorers than GM, Daimler-Chrysler, Toyota, and Nissan combined." Sybase also ships more units of Adaptive Server Enterprise than all those other database vendors, yet they only have a 2.5% market share.
No, I think you misspelled "Dan Glickman". Jack Valenti retired over a year ago.
On the other hand, "Valenti" certainly makes a better verb than "Glickman." Valenti was also the one who made a complete ass of himself at the beginning of the VCR era comparing VCRs to the Boston Strangler.
It has been my experience that some people are so wrapped up with fixing the problems of the world (whatever they define those problems to be), they forget that the goal of fixing those problems is so people can take joy in life, even in simple, stupid, or trivial things. They seem to have the attitude that until all problems are fixed, nobody anywhere is allowed to actually enjoy their lives.
And if you're constrained by cost, don't spend a fortune on a Quartet with the pretty aluminum frame. Go to Home Depot. They sell 4' x 2' panels that have whiteboard surface on them for 5 bucks a pop. You can turn a whole wall into a floor to ceiling whiteboard for 50-70 dollars (more if it's a big wall).
You can use small (6d) nails to put it up, but I used big shiny #12 wood screws because I liked the industrial look.:-)
Eh, make that twenty some odd years ago. Although the Viking 1 orbiter is coming up on 30 years out of service.
Slow Down Cowboy! Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at criticizing your bad math.
People, we've got be a little more precise. There are three functioning spacecraft in orbit, one more on the way, and two on the ground on and around Mars. Between NASA and the ESA, it's getting crowded on Mars.
For those who didn't RTFA, it's the Mars Global Surveyor, which is the oldest of those in orbit.
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"but from the pure propertarian perspective, this can look a lot like the slogan "property is theft".
That someone who would believe in perfect property rights would think that they have, through force of law, the right to tell others what they can do with their private physical property because they were the first ones to take an idea and run off with it to the government.
There's a great argument to made from a strong property rights perspective patents and copyrights are indefensible. I'm not sure where I stand regarding that argument, but at least once I've suggested in argument that patent and copyright law is a violation of personal property rights and then been accused of being a communist.
Oh, sure it is! It's almost two!
The usually close proximity between electric power plants and alumina processing plants. I wonder where this magical energy from aluminium comes from....
To use the Pythagorean Theorem, you've got to convert lat and lon to some type of Cartesian Coordinate system to really do it right, although at mid-latitudes, it's not too bad a get a relative proximity as long as you're not interested in a real unit of linear measure (kilometers, miles, etc.).
The planet is round (a geoid, to be a pedantic geography nazi) and lines of longitude are not parallel, although in local coordinate systems you can generally assume they are and not make huge errors. Longer distances, though, will require you to break out the trig, and the pure form of the Pythagorean Theorem is less useful. I find it easier to work such problems in spherical coordinates.
It was insulting, and I apologize for that. Yesterday was a bad day primarily because people around me were not reading instructions and that guy was the last straw. I shouldn't have been so rude and taken it out on him.
On the other hand, the article and the summary did clearly state that its purpose was to protect contact information. So I certainly was not trolling. It is a legitimate concern, but the article and summary address it, albeit not in a direct manner. Did it really need spelling out? I stand by the meaning of my post, but I disavow the rudeness.
That's funny... I see someone who is either incapable or unwilling to comprehend the article summary, much less the actual article:
"Its purpose is to safeguard sensitive personal data -- such as email addresses and phone numbers -- in the event of loss or theft of their devices."
I don't think it's a gimmick. He is actually a transvestite. Most of the clothes I see him in look more mod-hipster than girly anyway, so it doesn't really stand out.
BTW, I think your quote is pretty close to spot-on. Very funny bit.
"Bloke in a dress! Bloke in a dress!" He's an executive transvestite.
Good God on gravy and wheat toast, that man is hilarious.
My oscillation overthruster will put your magnetic thrusters to shame.
At the house I just sold, I had idiots on dirt bikes drive over my property on a semi-regular basis. I thought about putting up signs: "Welcome to rk's Motorbike Amusement Park! Admission: $1,000 daily."
These were adults, by the way. The kids I only needed to tell once and they never did it again. The chucklehead grownups apparently thought they owned my lot too.
*sigh*. "You're ignorant if you don't think exactly like me." I disapprove of child erotica. If that makes me ignorant, than I'm fucking ignorant as the day is long, and I'm okay with that. YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO MY APPROVAL. Deal with it. I do not think the distribution of anything should be punished. It's only the original act that I have a problem with. I'm trying to have a dialog and you title your response "more ignorance". Now who's demonizing?
We're done here. You can go on screaming ignorance and demonizing if you want, but we're done.
I pressure people all the time to behave in ways that I want them to. However, I don't believe in forcing them to behave the way I want them to. I think legal child erotica (e.g. a fictional written work or even a computer generated movie) is in damn poor taste, and I certainly wouldn't support a business that engages in it. I do support their right to make such things, and would oppose legislation or other aggressive means to curb it. If you are actually involving children (and I'm willing to negotiate the age of consent downwards from 18 a bit.... it wasn't too long ago that people would be concerned if an 18 year old woman wasn't at least engaged to be married.), they cannot give a meaningful consent to sexual activity, and I think legal measures to stop it are warranted.
Just because one has the right to do something doesn't also entitle them to my automatic approval, and if I disapprove, I have an equal right to be vocal in my disapproval. I tell people all the time that if everything I disapproved of were illegal, we'd live in a damned depressing, evil police state. This is why I don't believe in legislating against behavior.
Ummm.... Arachnids are arthropods. Arachnida is a class of the phylum Arthropoda. You may be thinking that horseshoe crabs are more closely related to spiders than other crabs, which is correct. Horseshoe crabs and spiders are in the same subphylum, but crabs are crustaceans and more distantly related.
Just another pedantic Slashdot nazi. :-)
But they haven't implemented the -1, Fucking Stupid mod yet.
No, the GP was right. He stated that " Well, MS ships more units of SQL Server than..." and that's certainly true. Not terribly informative, of course, because it's like stating that "Ford ships more Explorers than GM, Daimler-Chrysler, Toyota, and Nissan combined." Sybase also ships more units of Adaptive Server Enterprise than all those other database vendors, yet they only have a 2.5% market share.
You've got to watch pesky market-speak. :-)
No, I think you misspelled "Dan Glickman". Jack Valenti retired over a year ago.
On the other hand, "Valenti" certainly makes a better verb than "Glickman." Valenti was also the one who made a complete ass of himself at the beginning of the VCR era comparing VCRs to the Boston Strangler.
It has been my experience that some people are so wrapped up with fixing the problems of the world (whatever they define those problems to be), they forget that the goal of fixing those problems is so people can take joy in life, even in simple, stupid, or trivial things. They seem to have the attitude that until all problems are fixed, nobody anywhere is allowed to actually enjoy their lives.
New lyrics, then, dedicated to the record companies:
I'm thinkin' about my iPod
When you gonna crush it, when you gonna crush it?
That song is a many-barbed giant hook of a brain virus.
"Yeah because average joe reads the thing."
Hell, average joe congressman didn't read the thing when they passed it.
And if you're constrained by cost, don't spend a fortune on a Quartet with the pretty aluminum frame. Go to Home Depot. They sell 4' x 2' panels that have whiteboard surface on them for 5 bucks a pop. You can turn a whole wall into a floor to ceiling whiteboard for 50-70 dollars (more if it's a big wall).
You can use small (6d) nails to put it up, but I used big shiny #12 wood screws because I liked the industrial look. :-)
"...n a very Howard Hughes-ian sort of way."
So that's why you can't find Ice Station Zebra at any Blockbuster in the greater Seattle/Tacoma area...
"and I want you to know speaking as a life long leftist, I have NO SYMPATHY FOR YOU."
Spoken like a true leftist indeed.
Eh, make that twenty some odd years ago. Although the Viking 1 orbiter is coming up on 30 years out of service.
Slow Down Cowboy! Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at criticizing your bad math.
They've both been powered down for the last 30 years, so I went out on a limb and assumed that it wasn't one of those that entered safe mode. :-)
People, we've got be a little more precise. There are three functioning spacecraft in orbit, one more on the way, and two on the ground on and around Mars. Between NASA and the ESA, it's getting crowded on Mars.
For those who didn't RTFA, it's the Mars Global Surveyor, which is the oldest of those in orbit.