It seems to me (IANAL) that Microsoft is potentially engaging in slander of title against Linux. Couldn't IBM, or any company that's contributed to the Linux kernel, sue Microsoft for this, and force MS to enumerate the alleged violations during the trial if not during discovery?
It sounds like you have a clear notion of what would look better. Is there some way you can demonstrate your ideas to the Ubuntu team in time for either 10.04 or 10.10?
Nope. In the early 20th century, Turing proved that no logically consistent porn library can contain both "donkey tennis" and "David Hasselhoff". Sorry
Supposedly one of the strengths of the U.S. economy is its ability to rapidly adapt to changes. This has been used to justify the lack of job protections for workers. But as the poster has shown, having health insurance tied to your employer obstructs the kind of entrepreneurism that's part of our rapid adaptation.
I don't understand why this argument hasn't come up during the health-care debates. It would have let Democrats position themselves as pro-economy.
If you can get one of those countries to let you in, many of them have decent healthcare systems that don't tie you to a particular employer. I'm sure many of them are good, but Germany immediately comes to mind.
The problem is that to immigrate, many require you to either have a job waiting for you, or to be opening a business with some kind of (hard) guarantee of employing locals.
And despite strong bipartisan efforts and unbiased studies supporting that law's repeal, it remains on the books.'"
It sounds like regardless of the moral issues involved, he chose the wrong building. The chambers of the house and senate would have been more in line with his goals.
Maybe it's a matter of what you want to get out of seeing a movie.
If you want to be morally and philosophically challenged, it might be good once in a while to see a movie that wrestles with the ticking-timebomb torture scenario. Or if you want to be reminded that we're all capable of evil, once in a while you might watch a movie that makes you delight in the torture of the main character's enemies. Then afterward you can reflect in disgust (perhaps) about how you got into it.
But there are many other themes and purposes that can make good cinema:
Movies that inspire us to do better. I.e., about Ghandi's patience and pacifism. Or the "Band of Brothers" series from HBO, which has inspirational accounts of bravery, sacrifice, and excellent leadership. Or "Schindler's List" (which I haven't seen), which I'm told is an inspirational story of one man's self-sacrifice to save others. (These are noteworthy because they're realistic about the human condition, but not dark.)
Movies that simply entertain, temporarily freeing us from our daily burdens of worries. For example, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", or "Something about Mary".
Movies that teach us while entertaining us. E.g., some parts of that popular movie (I forget the title) about the game-theoretician Nash; or "March of the Penguins".(
Why do so many screenwriters equate "something that adults will enjoy" with "darker"?
Most of Raiders of the Lost Ark was not "dark", but I loved it when it came out, and I still really like it. There was action, adventure, wonder, and surprise. There was no soul searching over life's moral ambiguities, or "deep" plot elements where Indy tortured bad guys with car batteries. Similar with the first Star Wars movie (episode 4).
If this is Lucas' attempt to atone for past mistakes, it seems like he's still off the mark.
Does an individual vote really change the outcome of an election? Not most of the the time, but that doesn't mean that people shouldn't bother to vote.
I'd say that's a bad example, because (if you ignore Gerrymandering), enough votes force the decision of who gets into office. With ACTA, we could have 200 million citizens protest, and the Congress and the President could still enact it.
It's about supporting the process.
But is there a point in supporting this process, if it's bought and paid for my special interests? (I'm not assuming it is; this is what my question was about.)
Then I throw out that number completely, and just multiply the time it took me to develop that script by five. This method has proven disturbingly accurate.
So you spend 16% of the project time developing estimates?
I'm working on my dissertation proposal, and I'd like to be able to re-run the benchmarks that are shown in some of the papers I'm referencing. But must of the source code for those papers has disappeared into the aether. Without their code, it's impossible for me to rerun the old benchmark programs on modern computers so that I and others can determine whether or not my research has uncovered a better way of doing things. This is very far from the idealized notion of the scientific method, and significantly calls into question many of the things that we think we know based on published research.
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It seems to me (IANAL) that Microsoft is potentially engaging in slander of title against Linux. Couldn't IBM, or any company that's contributed to the Linux kernel, sue Microsoft for this, and force MS to enumerate the alleged violations during the trial if not during discovery?
It sounds like you have a clear notion of what would look better. Is there some way you can demonstrate your ideas to the Ubuntu team in time for either 10.04 or 10.10?
If you thought bottled water from Fiji was wasteful...
Nope. In the early 20th century, Turing proved that no logically consistent porn library can contain both "donkey tennis" and "David Hasselhoff". Sorry
Heck, if their sysadmins are definitely like the chicks in the commercials, I'd definitely give them my "root".
Because the random generator is always positive that the next value will be a "1".
Brilliant! Just assign a bit based on whether or not it works in a given Ubuntu release!
Supposedly one of the strengths of the U.S. economy is its ability to rapidly adapt to changes. This has been used to justify the lack of job protections for workers. But as the poster has shown, having health insurance tied to your employer obstructs the kind of entrepreneurism that's part of our rapid adaptation.
I don't understand why this argument hasn't come up during the health-care debates. It would have let Democrats position themselves as pro-economy.
If you can get one of those countries to let you in, many of them have decent healthcare systems that don't tie you to a particular employer. I'm sure many of them are good, but Germany immediately comes to mind.
The problem is that to immigrate, many require you to either have a job waiting for you, or to be opening a business with some kind of (hard) guarantee of employing locals.
It sounds like regardless of the moral issues involved, he chose the wrong building. The chambers of the house and senate would have been more in line with his goals.
If you think that sucks, I was up until 1 a.m. this morning, repeatedly playing "just one more turn" on Civ 3.
At my age, I can't any longer chalk it up to youthful indiscretion. That came is simply crack, and the later at night, the worse.
And then he says to me You Gotta Make them Pay, Baby!
And I said Yeah Baby, I'm the Mad Code that Codes at Midnight!
And he says You're bad, baby! And I said Yeah!!!
Yup. Sorry about that.
So the lab facilities, and possibly the employees, would be competed for by two separate bureaucracies? I can't see how that would work smoothly.
Why can't they just throw some more money at the NOAA or NWS, telling them they need to take on some additional responsibilities?
Leave it to an English university to focus on phish and chips...
I know how these questions usually play out, but I'm asking just in case someone with a clue cares to comment.
Do we have any idea of the time frame in which to expect the first installment of SC2 to be released?
Maybe it's a matter of what you want to get out of seeing a movie.
If you want to be morally and philosophically challenged, it might be good once in a while to see a movie that wrestles with the ticking-timebomb torture scenario. Or if you want to be reminded that we're all capable of evil, once in a while you might watch a movie that makes you delight in the torture of the main character's enemies. Then afterward you can reflect in disgust (perhaps) about how you got into it.
But there are many other themes and purposes that can make good cinema:
Why do so many screenwriters equate "something that adults will enjoy" with "darker"?
Most of Raiders of the Lost Ark was not "dark", but I loved it when it came out, and I still really like it. There was action, adventure, wonder, and surprise. There was no soul searching over life's moral ambiguities, or "deep" plot elements where Indy tortured bad guys with car batteries. Similar with the first Star Wars movie (episode 4).
If this is Lucas' attempt to atone for past mistakes, it seems like he's still off the mark.
I'd say that's a bad example, because (if you ignore Gerrymandering), enough votes force the decision of who gets into office. With ACTA, we could have 200 million citizens protest, and the Congress and the President could still enact it.
But is there a point in supporting this process, if it's bought and paid for my special interests? (I'm not assuming it is; this is what my question was about.)
I don't mean this at all in a snarky way, but...
Does anyone have a sense of whether or not us submitting comments would actually change the outcome?
Are we talking before or after the contract is signed?
So you spend 16% of the project time developing estimates?
I'm working on my dissertation proposal, and I'd like to be able to re-run the benchmarks that are shown in some of the papers I'm referencing. But must of the source code for those papers has disappeared into the aether. Without their code, it's impossible for me to rerun the old benchmark programs on modern computers so that I and others can determine whether or not my research has uncovered a better way of doing things. This is very far from the idealized notion of the scientific method, and significantly calls into question many of the things that we think we know based on published research.
Sure, OOXML works with both Country and Western!
I know what the "+" and "-" leads do, but "/" ? Is that the "spin" lead or something?