1. Set up server where gay and anti-gay guilds can fight it out
2. Recruit all those jerks protesting at funerals
3. ???
4. Profit!!!!
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(At the least, it might move some of those jerks out of real space onto WoW, where they can get their butts well and truly kicked!)
>This means without immigration they are not growing. If England can achieve this, and ban immigration, and go carbon neutral by conservation, then - for england - they are done. As a practical matter they would also be on their way to extinction.
If England's population continues to grow forever, at some point its biomass would exceed the mass of the universe, causing some difficult gravitational issues.
England, and every other subset of humanity, and humanity itself, will limit its growth eventually. The only question is whether it is done with intelligence and forethought, or through catastrophe. The natural universe admits no third way.
In the old days...like six months ago... there was a percerption that blogs were expressions of the blogger's personal observations. WalMartBlog has revealed what you may have always suspected: it can be hard to tell whoring from true love.
> the pressure being placed on election boards are to make sure the job is done as fast as possible.
Now you've changed the subject. I've served on local election boards for the past 5 years, and of course there is pressure to work quickly. That's true in most enterprises, from MacDonald's to NASA.
But you have to distinguish between pressure and priority. Regardless of the pressure to get everything cheap & fast, the priority is still to make burgers that don't kill you, space flights that land safely, and balloting that is as close as possible to 100% accurate and precise. If you tell you customer that you are going slower to improve the ultimate product, they will understand and, in the case of elections, demand that you go slower to get it right.
[Insert reference to "You Can Do It Fast, Cheap Or Right" here]
We may be told that we want results fast, but really we want them accurate.
Go ahead, ask anyone: "Would you rather have poll results within an hour of the polls closing, with a 50% chance that they would be wrong, or have them within 3 days with a 0.00001% chance that they might be wrong?"
You can play with the times and percentages a bit, but I would bet cash money that most people want accuracy & precision, not speed.
... can pretty much cut out the studios. If a moviemaker has a good idea (or a lousy idea) for a short film, they don't need one of the big distribution systems anymore. One such site is youtube and no doubt there can be many others. Eventually they will be able to host full-length fims which are rated by the audience, not the critics.... sort of like/. itself!
>All the bad stuff remains more or less buried while a veritable trove of glittering jewels of culture are dusted off and appreciated anew.
We can compare the realm of games to those of music and literature. For every Mozart there was probably a hundred hack composers; for every Shakespeare, a hundred dreadful playwrights, churning out whatever might make them a living. Art & technology has progressed far in the centuries since, but the best work survives because, for all their technological limits (...from our standpoint...) they hit something really, really important.
I'm not going to claim that Pac-Man or Hearts are comparable to Hamlet or to Mozart's Requiem, but in their own realm they appeal to our need for play in a way that transcends technology; while their numberless contemporary competitors have all but disappeared because they just didn't quite hit it.
>You really trust any of those students not to install: games pr0n key loggers root kits mp3s and ripped copies of major motion pictures that the riaa will sue the school over and other surprises?
Normally I ignore Anonymous Coward, but he makes my point for me.
Kids are going to do things that are stupid, immoral and/or illegal. That's part of being a kid. Education is, in part, about teaching them to tell what is stupid, immoral and/or illegal.
It's better they learn this stuff and make their mistakes in school than at work.
Primary school kids may be too young to do operating systems, (...although a smart 3rd grader can certainly downloard & install OpenOffice with a little supervision...) but middle schoolers can definitely install OS's with a little supervision, and high-schoolers should be able to keep the computers running in the school district's kindergartens.
Not every kid will have the desire, but if only 5% of your highschoolers have an interest in technology: problem solved!
Any school district that is paying for its office software is wasting Our Money! and if they are not using this opportunity to train up kids to run computer system, that's a waste too.
>Apply for a warrant? Are you insane? He might get one of those nasty Judges that disagree with Bush's personal opinions and make decisions based on the law instead
Because if what he said was true, he would get a warrant. No judge would or could deny a warrant to tap the phone of an Al Qaeda suspect.
The ENTIRE issue is: why didn't he get the warrant?
You might also note the FBI complaints that the program generated thousands of tips, and all of them worthless. They had to investigate thousands of Americans who had absolutely no connection to terrorism (not just AlQaeda).
And even worthless tips would be o.k. if they were legal; the question is, why no warrant to make them legal?
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Quite right... and interestingly, golf balls are engineered to maximize the length of their flight, subject to PGA rules. Most likely, that engineering assumes "normal" atmospheric conditions, so I don't know whether the ball will in practice have extended flight in the relatively rarified conditions around the ISS. It might depend on the configuration of the radio antenna as well.
Also of interest: PGA rules say, "... if you damage or cut your ball, you may change the ball after first asking your opponent or fellow competitor." and "If you hit a tee shot into the woods and suspect that it might be either lost or out-of-bounds, the Rules of Golf allow you to play a second or provisional ball"
Query: does burning up in the atmosphere count under either rule?
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Perhaps atmospheric drag is related to surface area.
And Name of the Rose is also excellent. The first 100 pages or so are a hard read, but well worth it. Sort of like doing wind sprints to get your brain in shape. Eco is brutally casual about using multiple languages so if you don't understand Latin, you'll be confused... but that's ok because it puts you in the same frame of mind as the not-overly-bright sidekick protagonist.
Forget the movie; NotR is a great detective/conspiracy/historical/political novel, operating on many levels: murder investigation, petty abby politicals, religious politics, imperial polics, and ultimately a clash of worldviews (faith vs. reason.) The capper is (spoiler alert) is that the rationalist hero wins and loses at the same time, for he is ultimately correct but for the wrong reason.
Here is an example of the correctness of your point.
You can invest 30 minutes of your time watching yet another forumlaic sitcom on cable or the web, with perhaps a 10% chance-per-minute of having a really good laugh; or you can spend the same time clicking around YouTube.
If only 25% of the amateur comedy on that site, and others like it, make you laugh heartily... you'll end up with up to 7.5 times as many laughs!
(Thoughly bogus mathematics provided for illustrative purposes only!)
1. "...the January 12th subpoena was defective in both substance and service." The subpoena is a document compelling the other side to show up at a deposition with certain documents, ready to talk about certain topics. Its substance was basically its content, what it was intended to communicate. The service is the procedure by which the document creator gives it to the target person (organization) in a legally effective way. The judge says the subpoena was defective in both characteristics, so it's not legally binding.
2. "...That even had it not been defective it provided inadequate notice and time. Judges like to give 2nd reasons, when available, for their decisions, out of meticulousness (which is a good thing in a judge) or desire to forestall appeals (not a bad thing). Here, the judge is saying that even if she was wrong about point #1, the subpoena is no good because it didn't fulfill legal requirements as to the amount of time before the deposition that the subpoena has to be delivered, and warning (notice) about the content of the deposition. Ideally, depositions are not supposed to be occasions for surprising witnesses with weird questions, but a Search For The Truth, so witnesses are supposed to be given fair notice & time to prepare.
3. "[the judge's] October 12th orders were clear, not subject to unilateral decisions to violate." TRANSLATED: the judge is really, really pissed. SCO's lawyers are giving totally bogus arguments, in her evaluation, which not only needlessly delays this particular case, but also strikes at the integrity of the entire judicial process.
It appears from this article that SCO believes its only hope would seem to be to bait the judge into saying or doing something stupid, like Judge Jackson in the Microsoft case a few years back.
YOU brought up Rummy and the war as if there were some sort of debate about the simplest of facts: nearly everything Rumsfeld has stated about the Iraqi threat to America has been proven false, and most of it proven to have been faked from the start. These are simple facts, and there is no other stance for a fact-based community to stand.
It is natural for fact-based communities to be rough on those who can't handle facts contrary to their deeply-held emotional beliefs. If your emotional attachment to Rumsfeld and to the concept that Iraq had WMDs threatening America in 2003 is so deep that you cannot handle the facts about those beliefs, the problem is in you, not in this community. This is a very gentle community compared to the real world.
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1. Set up server where gay and anti-gay guilds can fight it out 2. Recruit all those jerks protesting at funerals 3. ??? 4. Profit!!!! ---- (At the least, it might move some of those jerks out of real space onto WoW, where they can get their butts well and truly kicked!)
Think of the possibilities. Nintendo may open a whole new genre of x-rated games.
>This means without immigration they are not growing. If England can achieve this, and ban immigration, and go carbon neutral by conservation, then - for england - they are done. As a practical matter they would also be on their way to extinction.
If England's population continues to grow forever, at some point its biomass would exceed the mass of the universe, causing some difficult gravitational issues.
England, and every other subset of humanity, and humanity itself, will limit its growth eventually. The only question is whether it is done with intelligence and forethought, or through catastrophe. The natural universe admits no third way.
"... In another dimension ..."
With voyeuristic intention
Well secluded, I see all
It's astounding .... MS got prior art'd by the Time Warp ... Again!
In the old days ...like six months ago ... there was a percerption that blogs were expressions of the blogger's personal observations. WalMartBlog has revealed what you may have always suspected: it can be hard to tell whoring from true love.
> the pressure being placed on election boards are to make sure the job is done as fast as possible.
Now you've changed the subject. I've served on local election boards for the past 5 years, and of course there is pressure to work quickly. That's true in most enterprises, from MacDonald's to NASA.
But you have to distinguish between pressure and priority. Regardless of the pressure to get everything cheap & fast, the priority is still to make burgers that don't kill you, space flights that land safely, and balloting that is as close as possible to 100% accurate and precise. If you tell you customer that you are going slower to improve the ultimate product, they will understand and, in the case of elections, demand that you go slower to get it right.
[Insert reference to "You Can Do It Fast, Cheap Or Right" here]
> People want election results fast
I disagree.
We may be told that we want results fast, but really we want them accurate.
Go ahead, ask anyone: "Would you rather have poll results within an hour of the polls closing, with a 50% chance that they would be wrong, or have them within 3 days with a 0.00001% chance that they might be wrong?"
You can play with the times and percentages a bit, but I would bet cash money that most people want accuracy & precision, not speed.
... can pretty much cut out the studios. If a moviemaker has a good idea (or a lousy idea) for a short film, they don't need one of the big distribution systems anymore. One such site is youtube and no doubt there can be many others. Eventually they will be able to host full-length fims which are rated by the audience, not the critics .... sort of like /. itself!
>Imagine if someone owned a copyright/patent on the rules for chess
1. Apply for patent on chess
2. PTO grants patent
3. Sue anyone making games on a square board
4. ???
5. Profit!!!!
>All the bad stuff remains more or less buried while a veritable trove of glittering jewels of culture are dusted off and appreciated anew.
We can compare the realm of games to those of music and literature. For every Mozart there was probably a hundred hack composers; for every Shakespeare, a hundred dreadful playwrights, churning out whatever might make them a living. Art & technology has progressed far in the centuries since, but the best work survives because, for all their technological limits (...from our standpoint ...) they hit something really, really important.
I'm not going to claim that Pac-Man or Hearts are comparable to Hamlet or to Mozart's Requiem, but in their own realm they appeal to our need for play in a way that transcends technology; while their numberless contemporary competitors have all but disappeared because they just didn't quite hit it.
>You really trust any of those students not to install: games pr0n key loggers root kits mp3s and ripped copies of major motion pictures that the riaa will sue the school over and other surprises?
Normally I ignore Anonymous Coward, but he makes my point for me.
Kids are going to do things that are stupid, immoral and/or illegal. That's part of being a kid. Education is, in part, about teaching them to tell what is stupid, immoral and/or illegal.
It's better they learn this stuff and make their mistakes in school than at work.
What is "Education" supposed to be anyway?
Primary school kids may be too young to do operating systems, (...although a smart 3rd grader can certainly downloard & install OpenOffice with a little supervision ...) but middle schoolers can definitely install OS's with a little supervision, and high-schoolers should be able to keep the computers running in the school district's kindergartens.
Not every kid will have the desire, but if only 5% of your highschoolers have an interest in technology: problem solved!
Any school district that is paying for its office software is wasting Our Money! and if they are not using this opportunity to train up kids to run computer system, that's a waste too.
>running around in darkened rooms listening to repetitive music munching on pills...
Ever been to a nightclub?
>Apply for a warrant? Are you insane? He might get one of those nasty Judges that disagree with Bush's personal opinions and make decisions based on the law instead
I humbly apologize.
I LOVE BIG BROTHER !!!
Yeah, may I assume you are joking?
Because if what he said was true, he would get a warrant. No judge would or could deny a warrant to tap the phone of an Al Qaeda suspect.
The ENTIRE issue is: why didn't he get the warrant?
You might also note the FBI complaints that the program generated thousands of tips, and all of them worthless. They had to investigate thousands of Americans who had absolutely no connection to terrorism (not just AlQaeda).
And even worthless tips would be o.k. if they were legal; the question is, why no warrant to make them legal?
Quite right ... and interestingly, golf balls are engineered to maximize the length of their flight, subject to PGA rules. Most likely, that engineering assumes "normal" atmospheric conditions, so I don't know whether the ball will in practice have extended flight in the relatively rarified conditions around the ISS. It might depend on the configuration of the radio antenna as well.
Also of interest: PGA rules say, "... if you damage or cut your ball, you may change the ball after first asking your opponent or fellow competitor." and "If you hit a tee shot into the woods and suspect that it might be either lost or out-of-bounds, the Rules of Golf allow you to play a second or provisional ball"
Query: does burning up in the atmosphere count under either rule?
Perhaps atmospheric drag is related to surface area.
And Name of the Rose is also excellent. The first 100 pages or so are a hard read, but well worth it. Sort of like doing wind sprints to get your brain in shape. Eco is brutally casual about using multiple languages so if you don't understand Latin, you'll be confused ... but that's ok because it puts you in the same frame of mind as the not-overly-bright sidekick protagonist.
Forget the movie; NotR is a great detective/conspiracy/historical/political novel, operating on many levels: murder investigation, petty abby politicals, religious politics, imperial polics, and ultimately a clash of worldviews (faith vs. reason.) The capper is (spoiler alert) is that the rationalist hero wins and loses at the same time, for he is ultimately correct but for the wrong reason.
Christ, I've got to go re-read it!
1. It worked for Microsoft 2. What are SCO's options?
Here is an example of the correctness of your point.
You can invest 30 minutes of your time watching yet another forumlaic sitcom on cable or the web, with perhaps a 10% chance-per-minute of having a really good laugh; or you can spend the same time clicking around YouTube.
If only 25% of the amateur comedy on that site, and others like it, make you laugh heartily ... you'll end up with up to 7.5 times as many laughs!
(Thoughly bogus mathematics provided for illustrative purposes only!)
From the article:
1. "...the January 12th subpoena was defective in both substance and service." The subpoena is a document compelling the other side to show up at a deposition with certain documents, ready to talk about certain topics. Its substance was basically its content, what it was intended to communicate. The service is the procedure by which the document creator gives it to the target person (organization) in a legally effective way. The judge says the subpoena was defective in both characteristics, so it's not legally binding.
2. "...That even had it not been defective it provided inadequate notice and time.
Judges like to give 2nd reasons, when available, for their decisions, out of meticulousness (which is a good thing in a judge) or desire to forestall appeals (not a bad thing). Here, the judge is saying that even if she was wrong about point #1, the subpoena is no good because it didn't fulfill legal requirements as to the amount of time before the deposition that the subpoena has to be delivered, and warning (notice) about the content of the deposition. Ideally, depositions are not supposed to be occasions for surprising witnesses with weird questions, but a Search For The Truth, so witnesses are supposed to be given fair notice & time to prepare.
3. "[the judge's] October 12th orders were clear, not subject to unilateral decisions to violate."
TRANSLATED: the judge is really, really pissed. SCO's lawyers are giving totally bogus arguments, in her evaluation, which not only needlessly delays this particular case, but also strikes at the integrity of the entire judicial process.
It appears from this article that SCO believes its only hope would seem to be to bait the judge into saying or doing something stupid, like Judge Jackson in the Microsoft case a few years back.
... the last refuge of tyrants.
Let job seekers flag posted jobs as "Interesting", "Improbable" etc.
That gives everyone useful information, including those who post jobs.
YOU brought up Rummy and the war as if there were some sort of debate about the simplest of facts: nearly everything Rumsfeld has stated about the Iraqi threat to America has been proven false, and most of it proven to have been faked from the start. These are simple facts, and there is no other stance for a fact-based community to stand.
It is natural for fact-based communities to be rough on those who can't handle facts contrary to their deeply-held emotional beliefs. If your emotional attachment to Rumsfeld and to the concept that Iraq had WMDs threatening America in 2003 is so deep that you cannot handle the facts about those beliefs, the problem is in you, not in this community. This is a very gentle community compared to the real world.
>>If you think your POV is not being seriously considered in THIS environment, perhaps you should reconsider your POV.
>In other words, minoriy opinions are not welcome.
Thank you for proving his point.
To the contrary: I thank YOU for a lovely example of "non sequitur".
If you can't people disagreeing with you, then you should stay aware from fora that are open to all. It's a rough world, and not suited for everyone.