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If you're in dialysis someday with kidney failure, you'll realize that your health is far more important than social perception.
Not only that, but there are healthy ways to lose weight. Eat a balanced diet, with normal-sized portions (the Europeans do it right, as do lots of other communities that have eaten traditional forms of food for centuries), and take plenty of exercise (just walking half an hour a day should do a lot of good). It's a win-win situation: not only do you lose weight but you become healthier, and you improve your self-esteem and social perception. What a deal. (And yes, I practise what I preach.)
In fact, not even the same USA as a few decades ago. Another poster remarks that Krugman is Keynesian: yes, but that doesn't make him leftist. Keynes' major claim to fame was the "new deal" which pulled America out of the 1930s depression.
Replying to myself: when a free-marketeer like Paul Krugman is branded as "far-left" (as is Howard Dean), you know how far to the right this country has really gone. In any other country they'd both be mildly-left-of-centre at best.
Sure, some papers may lean left (like the Washington Post,)
The Washington Post? Left-leaning? The paper that publishes Charles Krauthammer (who's rapidly narrowing the gap with Ann Coulter), George Will, Jim Hoagland, etc?
Apart from some fringe outfits like the Nation, there is no "left" in the US. The NYT and Washington Post are centre-right, most others are far-right. By global standards I mean.
I would not be threatened by someone advocating a pie attack
But a pie attack suggestion is much more likely to be acted upon. (Reading Luskin in context, I'm pretty convinced he wasn't being satirical.) Many celebrities have been victims, including Bill Gates and (as your own posting shows) people don't sympathise so much or even view it as a violent attack.
its another to assist in the advocacy of violence against another
As I posted elsewhere on this page, Luskin advocated cream-pieing Krugman on his book tour. This was he himself who posted this, not some anonymous reader of his blog. And now he doesn't want to be called a stalker?
So who's the "literal" stalker? I also read the Krugman interview transcript, it seemed pretty clear to me he was using "stalk" in the dictionary sense (follow purposefully and stealthily) not in the legal sense.
According to the article, "One-third of emailers have pursued an offer in an unsolicited email by clicking on a link to find further information." That is, at some point in their lives. Not the same email.
The blurb reminds me of "Every five seconds, somewhere in the world,
a woman is having a baby. Our job is to find that woman, and stop her." Par for slashdot, I suppose.
Qt was written by Troll Tech and forms part of their business: why would you expect them to let you use it for free in a commercial application? They're already doing more than most commercial companies in allowing GPL use. Write your own toolkit or use Gtk or something else.
(which makes one wonder if Google is paying for this).
Reading the article, it seems to me that advertisers can't advertise on trademarked phrases like "bourse des vols" -- but they could still advertise on "bourse" and "vols" separately. And all the ads could have originated that way.
If so all Google would need to do was check from each advertiser that the phrase they're "buying" isn't the trademark of a competing product. (eg, someone buying "Ford" to advertise a biography of Gerald Ford needn't worry about lawsuits from Ford Motors -- but GM can't buy the word "Ford" to advertise their own cars.)
It's another matter that I don't believe generic phrases like "bourse des vols" should be trademarkable...
Colon classification (faceted analysis) has never been widely used in libraries (except in India) but has influenced a lot of other work in information sciences. Perhaps it's time to bring it into libraries, for which it was originally designed. It is far better than Dewey or LOC but those systems were better entrenched.
Being able to just click on a PDF and read it is great for me -
But why do you need plugins for that? I have my browsers configured to launch xpdf for pdf files (I could do the same thing with acroread, but I like xpdf better, and I have fewer problems printing with it). And conversely I have xpdf setup to launch a browser window when I click a link. I don't see why a plugin is necessary.
The Beatles suck, musically and ethically. They were one of the first modern pop bands and with their crap music came a serious push for bunk intellectual property rights.
Why do you say that? I'm not even sure whether the Beatles have any stake any more in Apple Records. It was a financial disaster for them. And in fact they don't even hold the copyright to their own songs (guess who does). They didn't gain anything from "intellectual property rights" as far as I can see.
But if you think you should be able to just waltz in and have a job or study at one of our universities, think again.
Actually, I personally believe that it is the universities -- and only the universities, with their commitment to high standards regardless of colour, religion, national origin -- that made America a great country. They maintain their standards by attracting the best in the world, both students and faculty. A huge fraction of students and faculty at the top places is immigrant (and their output in turn feeds American industry and high technology). If that stops, the USA will lose its competitive advantage and become, at best, comparable to lots of other countries and, at worst, a redneck backwater.
Language changes - dictionaries have always been a compromise. If they weren't descriptive they'd be empty; if they weren't prescriptive there'd be no reason for them to exist at all.
They should be descriptive of conventional usage. That means not just spoken conversation and internet blogs, but books. If you misunderstand "wherefore" you misunderstand Shakespeare. Already most people can't read Shakespeare without an annotation, and I'd hate it if that fate also befell Dickens, Sherlock Holmes, etc (maybe it has already). There is a point in preserving our understanding of past literature.
Indeed, such misreadings can be dangerous: in the "biblical" passage "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" the word "witch" is really a mistranslation from the Hebrew of "poisoner", and look what that did to countless helpless old women in the middle ages.
If you can't handle it, there are several hundred other extant languages for you to learn and enjoy.
Actually, I suspect that as time goes by the English language, as spoken and butchered by different people over the world, will become more and more incomprehensible: I already can't understand a lot of colloquial American. When no two English speakers can understand each other, perhaps French or German will have another chance to rule the world:)
To all those who argue for dictionaries incorporating wrong meanings because people use them thus, let me point out this very eloquent article.
For the language-impaired, "wherefore" has the same relationship to "therefore" as "where" has to "there". Let's keep things somewhat orderly here -- unless you argue that Juliet, spying Romeo, would say "Ah, therefore's Romeo!"
I'm not sure. If you search for "FreeBSD" or "NetBSD" you get the top (and correct) link labelled as a "featured site". Somehow I doubt they paid MSN to place their search results. (With OpenBSD the top link gets labelled a "web directory site".)
if the verb goes with an object (made something shiny), it's "shined" otherwise it's "shone". "The sun shone", "I shined my shoes". Perhaps "the ham operators shined the evening"? If there wasn't something they polished and made shiny, they shone. Not shined.
For all those who accept illiteracy in the name of evolving language, here's a worthwhile article to read.
Slashdot Mirror
Not only that, but there are healthy ways to lose weight. Eat a balanced diet, with normal-sized portions (the Europeans do it right, as do lots of other communities that have eaten traditional forms of food for centuries), and take plenty of exercise (just walking half an hour a day should do a lot of good). It's a win-win situation: not only do you lose weight but you become healthier, and you improve your self-esteem and social perception. What a deal. (And yes, I practise what I preach.)
In fact, not even the same USA as a few decades ago. Another poster remarks that Krugman is Keynesian: yes, but that doesn't make him leftist. Keynes' major claim to fame was the "new deal" which pulled America out of the 1930s depression.
Replying to myself: when a free-marketeer like Paul Krugman is branded as "far-left" (as is Howard Dean), you know how far to the right this country has really gone. In any other country they'd both be mildly-left-of-centre at best.
The Washington Post? Left-leaning? The paper that publishes Charles Krauthammer (who's rapidly narrowing the gap with Ann Coulter), George Will, Jim Hoagland, etc?
Apart from some fringe outfits like the Nation, there is no "left" in the US. The NYT and Washington Post are centre-right, most others are far-right. By global standards I mean.
But a pie attack suggestion is much more likely to be acted upon. (Reading Luskin in context, I'm pretty convinced he wasn't being satirical.) Many celebrities have been victims, including Bill Gates and (as your own posting shows) people don't sympathise so much or even view it as a violent attack.
As I posted elsewhere on this page, Luskin advocated cream-pieing Krugman on his book tour. This was he himself who posted this, not some anonymous reader of his blog. And now he doesn't want to be called a stalker?
So who's the "literal" stalker? I also read the Krugman interview transcript, it seemed pretty clear to me he was using "stalk" in the dictionary sense (follow purposefully and stealthily) not in the legal sense.
The blurb reminds me of "Every five seconds, somewhere in the world, a woman is having a baby. Our job is to find that woman, and stop her." Par for slashdot, I suppose.
There are other interesting differences too. Here are last year's results.
Qt was written by Troll Tech and forms part of their business: why would you expect them to let you use it for free in a commercial application? They're already doing more than most commercial companies in allowing GPL use. Write your own toolkit or use Gtk or something else.
Reading the article, it seems to me that advertisers can't advertise on trademarked phrases like "bourse des vols" -- but they could still advertise on "bourse" and "vols" separately. And all the ads could have originated that way.
If so all Google would need to do was check from each advertiser that the phrase they're "buying" isn't the trademark of a competing product. (eg, someone buying "Ford" to advertise a biography of Gerald Ford needn't worry about lawsuits from Ford Motors -- but GM can't buy the word "Ford" to advertise their own cars.)
It's another matter that I don't believe generic phrases like "bourse des vols" should be trademarkable...
If it were possible, faster-than-light travel would be backward-in-time travel.
Colon classification (faceted analysis) has never been widely used in libraries (except in India) but has influenced a lot of other work in information sciences. Perhaps it's time to bring it into libraries, for which it was originally designed. It is far better than Dewey or LOC but those systems were better entrenched.
But why do you need plugins for that? I have my browsers configured to launch xpdf for pdf files (I could do the same thing with acroread, but I like xpdf better, and I have fewer problems printing with it). And conversely I have xpdf setup to launch a browser window when I click a link. I don't see why a plugin is necessary.
No, they would be built directly into the browser (DOM and CSS2 already are). That's the advantage of open standards.
Why do you say that? I'm not even sure whether the Beatles have any stake any more in Apple Records. It was a financial disaster for them. And in fact they don't even hold the copyright to their own songs (guess who does). They didn't gain anything from "intellectual property rights" as far as I can see.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3094780.stm
Actually, I personally believe that it is the universities -- and only the universities, with their commitment to high standards regardless of colour, religion, national origin -- that made America a great country. They maintain their standards by attracting the best in the world, both students and faculty. A huge fraction of students and faculty at the top places is immigrant (and their output in turn feeds American industry and high technology). If that stops, the USA will lose its competitive advantage and become, at best, comparable to lots of other countries and, at worst, a redneck backwater.
They should be descriptive of conventional usage. That means not just spoken conversation and internet blogs, but books. If you misunderstand "wherefore" you misunderstand Shakespeare. Already most people can't read Shakespeare without an annotation, and I'd hate it if that fate also befell Dickens, Sherlock Holmes, etc (maybe it has already). There is a point in preserving our understanding of past literature.
Indeed, such misreadings can be dangerous: in the "biblical" passage "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" the word "witch" is really a mistranslation from the Hebrew of "poisoner", and look what that did to countless helpless old women in the middle ages.
If you can't handle it, there are several hundred other extant languages for you to learn and enjoy.
Actually, I suspect that as time goes by the English language, as spoken and butchered by different people over the world, will become more and more incomprehensible: I already can't understand a lot of colloquial American. When no two English speakers can understand each other, perhaps French or German will have another chance to rule the world :)
For the language-impaired, "wherefore" has the same relationship to "therefore" as "where" has to "there". Let's keep things somewhat orderly here -- unless you argue that Juliet, spying Romeo, would say "Ah, therefore's Romeo!"
I'm not sure. If you search for "FreeBSD" or "NetBSD" you get the top (and correct) link labelled as a "featured site". Somehow I doubt they paid MSN to place their search results. (With OpenBSD the top link gets labelled a "web directory site".)
For all those who accept illiteracy in the name of evolving language, here's a worthwhile article to read.
If you believe that, I have a bridge you may want to buy. I can also sell you a humour-detection meter.
The French pronounce "ou" as "oo".
Since when is OU an "oo" sound?
In English? You should know the answer.
Beautiful, thanks