We need more rants like this.
Life is to easy and we take it for granted. (In the global north).
To paraphrase The Libertine - "Life's most interesting experiments will come at one's own expense"
I kind of wish they would have kept the name; could (help) give "Democracy" the re-interpretation(or genealogy, depending on how you look at it) it really needs.
While trying to think of alternatives to reducing text book costs, I remembered I had heard about a project spear headed by UGA and now, the University of Denver (http://globaltext.org/index.html). While this project is geared towards the developing world, in talking with Dr. Rick Watson, that is for two reasons: Their need is even greater than ours and with a focus on competing in the United States, it may provoke American publishing companies. It has been featured on Slashdot before.
Educational institutions would help to provide content. Interestingly, through the way the project works all involvement with the project will result in a two-way transference of knowledge. Those in the Global South who use the project will also contribute, thus encouraging a global perspective on the content. So while American's may be providing the initial content, as that content is used Americans will also be receiving new content to learn from as well. Students, will have new sources of knowledge that is without precedent.
About the Project:
The project has a $200,000 initial grant from the Jacobs Foundation (http://www.jacobsfoundation.org/). The project is also very active. The first prototype book was written by a graduate class at UGA on XML programming. Dr. Rick Watson served as Editor in Chief of the book. The project is trying to release 10 books this year, with the first two being on business fundamentals and Information Systems. The goal of the project is to provide textbooks that would be used in the first two years of undergraduate study. Although, Dr. Watson told me over the phone that any content is appreciated, even upper level. The books are written with customized wiki software (Wiki software was put in the spotlight by Wikipedia). Each chapter has an editor / contributor and each book has an Editor in Chief. Academics will serve as editors to ensure the content is "textbook quality". There is also plans to start a Journal to give academics who help in the project a venue to publish articles that focus on the content and the experience in distributed document communities.
Books will be translated into Arabic, Chinese and Spanish. Dr. Watson is going to Egypt in a couple weeks to talk to a University there about how they can help with translation into Arabic. He is also planning a trip to China to do the same. As part of the grant from the Jacobs Foundation, the Global Text Project has created an International Advisory Board as well as a Quality Assurance Board.
Why not cast the vote electronically and also print a paper-form to be mailed in (absentee ballot, essentially). By phone, have a paper ballot mailed to the voter, approved, and returned.
I'd like to argue that the United States is not capitalist.
Capitalism needs competition (infact, its *the* mechanic that makes it work). The United States does everything it can to limit competition (as seen by car manufacturer cartels, oil cartels, steel cartels, Windows monopolies, etc).
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Uhh....
What about the various products they "stole" - by way of not having to do the research and design needed to "Create" a product.
The company did steal something.
As has been pointed out, the entire operation deserves some sort of admiration however.
Sure, Trademark infringement is apart of this. How else could they have done what they did without the NEC name? It may even be the biggest part because it being the only way it could have happened (possibly).
However this company did steal something other then just a logo: they stole R&D.
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Some guy with a garbage bag of Sunglasses and Watches is a bit different then a company manufactoring goods on a massive scale and selling them in stores?
You know the guy with a garbage bag of the product is bullshitting you. But what if it was in the Sunglass Hut (tm) ?
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Wild cards work? partial matches?
I hear that has caused suffocation in children.
Beat me too it.
May be a good point. Right after I posted it I realized....hmm, sure, I am proxied but they still have a whole bunch of other identifying information.
Can you copyright your personal data? And then sue the DHS for infringment?
awesome. http://www.torproject.org/
It just depends. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision#Pain_and_pain_reliefhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision%23Pain_and_pain_relief
Its not exactly a scholarly source, but http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4965034.stm [BBC]
Its true that the Budget has to come form Congress, but the executive still "recommends" a budget and has to sign it.
use a small distro like Damn Small Linux, which has open office, and find someone to donate it too. Ask your local high school technology teacher.
We need more rants like this. Life is to easy and we take it for granted. (In the global north). To paraphrase The Libertine - "Life's most interesting experiments will come at one's own expense"
Ya, but by not fixing it, they've set the grounds for one really good TV Show.
I kind of wish they would have kept the name; could (help) give "Democracy" the re-interpretation(or genealogy, depending on how you look at it) it really needs.
While trying to think of alternatives to reducing text book costs, I remembered I had heard about a project spear headed by UGA and now, the University of Denver (http://globaltext.org/index.html). While this project is geared towards the developing world, in talking with Dr. Rick Watson, that is for two reasons: Their need is even greater than ours and with a focus on competing in the United States, it may provoke American publishing companies. It has been featured on Slashdot before.
Educational institutions would help to provide content. Interestingly, through the way the project works all involvement with the project will result in a two-way transference of knowledge. Those in the Global South who use the project will also contribute, thus encouraging a global perspective on the content. So while American's may be providing the initial content, as that content is used Americans will also be receiving new content to learn from as well. Students, will have new sources of knowledge that is without precedent.
About the Project:
The project has a $200,000 initial grant from the Jacobs Foundation (http://www.jacobsfoundation.org/). The project is also very active. The first prototype book was written by a graduate class at UGA on XML programming. Dr. Rick Watson served as Editor in Chief of the book. The project is trying to release 10 books this year, with the first two being on business fundamentals and Information Systems. The goal of the project is to provide textbooks that would be used in the first two years of undergraduate study. Although, Dr. Watson told me over the phone that any content is appreciated, even upper level. The books are written with customized wiki software (Wiki software was put in the spotlight by Wikipedia). Each chapter has an editor / contributor and each book has an Editor in Chief. Academics will serve as editors to ensure the content is "textbook quality". There is also plans to start a Journal to give academics who help in the project a venue to publish articles that focus on the content and the experience in distributed document communities.
Books will be translated into Arabic, Chinese and Spanish. Dr. Watson is going to Egypt in a couple weeks to talk to a University there about how they can help with translation into Arabic. He is also planning a trip to China to do the same. As part of the grant from the Jacobs Foundation, the Global Text Project has created an International Advisory Board as well as a Quality Assurance Board.
Oh, so God changed you? How lucky. And why can't you replace Islam in any place there is the *word* Christian. Continue arguing over your semantics.
Why not cast the vote electronically and also print a paper-form to be mailed in (absentee ballot, essentially). By phone, have a paper ballot mailed to the voter, approved, and returned.
you read to much Derrida.
At the least, I have gotten CompUSA to lower prices to match. But that is about it.
I'd like to argue that the United States is not capitalist.
Capitalism needs competition (infact, its *the* mechanic that makes it work). The United States does everything it can to limit competition (as seen by car manufacturer cartels, oil cartels, steel cartels, Windows monopolies, etc).
no one in the united states is capitalist.
Uhh.... What about the various products they "stole" - by way of not having to do the research and design needed to "Create" a product. The company did steal something. As has been pointed out, the entire operation deserves some sort of admiration however. Sure, Trademark infringement is apart of this. How else could they have done what they did without the NEC name? It may even be the biggest part because it being the only way it could have happened (possibly). However this company did steal something other then just a logo: they stole R&D.
Some guy with a garbage bag of Sunglasses and Watches is a bit different then a company manufactoring goods on a massive scale and selling them in stores?
You know the guy with a garbage bag of the product is bullshitting you. But what if it was in the Sunglass Hut (tm) ?
That's the problem. There are no experiments you can do on ID, unlike the theory of Evolution.
nice.
exactly. Lifting Weights isn't directly usefull. We do it because it puts ourselves to the limits. Same idea applies to the mind.