Well, good science in that it adds to a body of knowledge. Aside from math geeks though, of what use is that body of knowledge? Not that I wish to disallow the math geeks their toys, but the rest of us frankly aren't interested in many/multi/micro - universes/dimensions/branes.
Right, because there have been so many/.ers that have been called and subjected to government inspection because of their postings. While the right fringe hurls epitaphs -- just like the left fringe does -- that does not constitute a pervasive culture. You're a blatant liar.
There were those opposed, chum. They were overridden by concerns that the U.S. and Australian soldiers would retaliate for the vicious nature of the occupations by the Japanese in China, SE Asia, Phillipines, etc.
You should note that the Nanjing massacre outweighs both bombs combined. No nukes involved, only bullets and swords.
The Allied troops wanted blood and lots of it. Were we to have had to land on the Japanese coast, the Japanese had women, children and old people trained and armed (albeit poorly) to send against them. The estimates of casualties were in the many hundreds of thousands. Far less than those produced by the two bombs.
The general tone of your post is the same as the younger brother ascribing the virtues of being a bookworm to the class when he doesn't have to defend himself in the school hallways.
To turn the tables, I might offer you some friendly advice. Learn self-defense and quit relying on us for your protection. Spend a reasonable amount on security.
"b) nobody cared because they lived in huts or caves."
Actually, you've hit the nail. Some people care now because they don't want to be inconvenienced and have to change their current life-styles.
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"The only experts who really benefit from CLIs are experts who deal primarily in text."
Actually, no. As I just posted elsewhere, a novelist writing a 200-400 page novel wouldn't dream of using anything but a high-powered text-editor.
Swipe and rearrange multiple paragraphs, color-code passages, alter mass indents and formatting via command line? Don't think so. See the results in real-time? Need that GUI.
CLI is useful for certain techs and pretty much no one else./.ers need to come to grips with the fact that they represent a miniscule percentage of computer users, and the vast majority are correct in molding the computer for their benefit.
Wanna be a CLI king? Simple. Open a window and do so.
P.S. Re-edit the post quickly because you forgot to insert br's.
"Yes, i realize that until they are declared a monopoly that they have a right to choose who they do business with, but it doesnt make it right." Emph mine.
So, they have a right to do business with whomesoever they choose. But, if they exercise that right, it chaps your ass and you think it's not right .
Models are just that, models. Change them when the universe shoves reality down your throat. Far too many people think that math defines the universe instead of describing it.
The point being what? That you misunderstand the word theory as used in science?
No amount of watching things fall will EVER "prove" the theory of gravity correct, at least in such a way to change it from a "theory" to a "fact".
Webster's
1 a coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity.
not
2 a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural, in contrast to well-established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact.
Note the word phenomena and translate to facts in (1). Note also, that one never "proves" a theory, merely disproves it.
"How do you go over by a year if you deliver every 2-6 weeks?"
You deliver the entire and completed project every 2-6 weeks? Oh, that's obscu-speak for deliverable you're using. Tiny pieces are delivered every 2-6 weeks, just like with other techniques. He said the project was a year overdue. Read -> comprehend.
"Creativity has come to a standstill in this country for those who wish to work within, and benefit from, the confines of the law."
So, Serenity was not creative? All current artists are not creative? The plethora of new technologies are not creative? This statement is obviously falsehood.
"Never before has a Citizen faced so many opportunities to have their identity stolen, data misused, or personal information collected without their knowledge."
Interesting. They want information freely available for infringement, unless, of course, it is the information belonging to an individual; like personal finance data, medical data, creative ideas -- oh, wait.
"We've chosen to adopt the Pirate name so as to pay homage to the creative artists of the past, or as they would now be known, Pirates, thieves, and copyright infringers. We do not support nor condone any unlawful distribution of copyrighted works."
Note the hypocritical nature of the last line. The party is composed of individuals who freely and proudly proclaim their copyright infringing.
Um, one out of every two hundred voters being a recently turned voting age basement dweller who wants everything free is not far fetched and is quite unremarkable.
So, when some company rips off some minor artist, you're pissed at the evil corporation, but when some artist protects his copyright against said company, you're pissed at the evil artist?
Copyright laws are to allow the artist/creator to determine how to go about making a buck on their talent. They are not the antithesis of capitalism as they go about guaranteeing the venturer the ability to capitalize upon their venture. Not having them and allowing wholesale ripoff of said venturer is the antithesis if cap, as the venturer would not even try, yielding no venture to capitalize on.
Point to the sentence where he says outright they shouldn't exist. My take is he says they're pathetic and he's glad they got their asses kicked, nothing more. And, don't go interpretive.
Perhaps XP should point out a few outstanding successes instead of perpetual promising of improvement. So far, in my experience, the net result is pretty abysmal performance and several extreme failures.
"I think he has a great future in front of him. As we are continually told, life is a competition. The point is to win and not to winge about how it wasn't fair when you loose."
The you're an idiot and don't understand the meaning of competition. Competition implies that there are rules being followed.
Want to play without rules? Great. Come and play a game of poker in my neck of the woods and cheat. Please don't winge (whatever that is) about the lack of working knees when you get caught (ie: lose).
Life is not (regardless of your outlook) a computer game without consequences. Cheaters who get caught usually pay a stiff price. That's because those of us who don't like cheating or cheaters wreak retribution. That, little man, is not complaining about being cheated, but doing something physical (life) about it.
"In the way economists measure things, the Exxon-Valdez disaster was a huge economic success."
Cost money to drill, cost money to pump into ship, cost money to transport, cost money to clean up -- no money from sales. It may have benefitted some smaller companies, but economists look at the complete picture. It was a loss. Period. Show otherwise. I mean with figures and reason instead of a declarative statement.
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Well, good science in that it adds to a body of knowledge. Aside from math geeks though, of what use is that body of knowledge? Not that I wish to disallow the math geeks their toys, but the rest of us frankly aren't interested in many/multi/micro - universes/dimensions/branes.
Fine. Model of what? (Hint: you can't use "reality" if it doesn't model reality.)
Please don't lump psychology in with chemistry and physics. Psych is science in that it is a particular branch of knowledge.
Right, because there have been so many /.ers that have been called and subjected to government inspection because of their postings. While the right fringe hurls epitaphs -- just like the left fringe does -- that does not constitute a pervasive culture. You're a blatant liar.
There were those opposed, chum. They were overridden by concerns that the U.S. and Australian soldiers would retaliate for the vicious nature of the occupations by the Japanese in China, SE Asia, Phillipines, etc.
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When the Japanese captured Nanjing, they put about 300K people on their knees and shot them in the head or cut them off. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4439923.s
Consider the Bataan Death March. 10K prisoners died in inhumane treatment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March
Now -- Nagasaki. 150K dead. http://www.csi.ad.jp/suzuhari-es/1000cranes/nagas
Now -- Hiroshima. 66K dead. http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/MED/med_chp10.s
You should note that the Nanjing massacre outweighs both bombs combined. No nukes involved, only bullets and swords.
The Allied troops wanted blood and lots of it. Were we to have had to land on the Japanese coast, the Japanese had women, children and old people trained and armed (albeit poorly) to send against them. The estimates of casualties were in the many hundreds of thousands. Far less than those produced by the two bombs.
The general tone of your post is the same as the younger brother ascribing the virtues of being a bookworm to the class when he doesn't have to defend himself in the school hallways.
To turn the tables, I might offer you some friendly advice. Learn self-defense and quit relying on us for your protection. Spend a reasonable amount on security.
"b) nobody cared because they lived in huts or caves."
Actually, you've hit the nail. Some people care now because they don't want to be inconvenienced and have to change their current life-styles.
"The only experts who really benefit from CLIs are experts who deal primarily in text."
/.ers need to come to grips with the fact that they represent a miniscule percentage of computer users, and the vast majority are correct in molding the computer for their benefit.
Actually, no. As I just posted elsewhere, a novelist writing a 200-400 page novel wouldn't dream of using anything but a high-powered text-editor.
Swipe and rearrange multiple paragraphs, color-code passages, alter mass indents and formatting via command line? Don't think so. See the results in real-time? Need that GUI.
CLI is useful for certain techs and pretty much no one else.
Wanna be a CLI king? Simple. Open a window and do so.
P.S. Re-edit the post quickly because you forgot to insert br's.
Parse your own sentence, thimblebrain.
"Yes, i realize that until they are declared a monopoly that they have a right to choose who they do business with, but it doesnt make it right." Emph mine.
So, they have a right to do business with whomesoever they choose. But, if they exercise that right, it chaps your ass and you think it's not right .
Obviously, if you are paying 30 cents per egg, you are priveleged.
Models are just that, models. Change them when the universe shoves reality down your throat. Far too many people think that math defines the universe instead of describing it.
The point being what? That you misunderstand the word theory as used in science?
No amount of watching things fall will EVER "prove" the theory of gravity correct, at least in such a way to change it from a "theory" to a "fact".
Webster's
1 a coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity.
not
2 a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural, in contrast to well-established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact.
Note the word phenomena and translate to facts in (1). Note also, that one never "proves" a theory, merely disproves it.
"How do you go over by a year if you deliver every 2-6 weeks?"
You deliver the entire and completed project every 2-6 weeks? Oh, that's obscu-speak for deliverable you're using. Tiny pieces are delivered every 2-6 weeks, just like with other techniques. He said the project was a year overdue. Read -> comprehend.
A few points from their website:
"Creativity has come to a standstill in this country for those who wish to work within, and benefit from, the confines of the law."
So, Serenity was not creative? All current artists are not creative? The plethora of new technologies are not creative? This statement is obviously falsehood.
"Never before has a Citizen faced so many opportunities to have their identity stolen, data misused, or personal information collected without their knowledge."
Interesting. They want information freely available for infringement, unless, of course, it is the information belonging to an individual; like personal finance data, medical data, creative ideas -- oh, wait.
"We've chosen to adopt the Pirate name so as to pay homage to the creative artists of the past, or as they would now be known, Pirates, thieves, and copyright infringers. We do not support nor condone any unlawful distribution of copyrighted works."
Note the hypocritical nature of the last line. The party is composed of individuals who freely and proudly proclaim their copyright infringing.
Um, one out of every two hundred voters being a recently turned voting age basement dweller who wants everything free is not far fetched and is quite unremarkable.
So are the sanitized techies.
So, when some company rips off some minor artist, you're pissed at the evil corporation, but when some artist protects his copyright against said company, you're pissed at the evil artist?
Copyright laws are to allow the artist/creator to determine how to go about making a buck on their talent. They are not the antithesis of capitalism as they go about guaranteeing the venturer the ability to capitalize upon their venture. Not having them and allowing wholesale ripoff of said venturer is the antithesis if cap, as the venturer would not even try, yielding no venture to capitalize on.
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Point to the sentence where he says outright they shouldn't exist. My take is he says they're pathetic and he's glad they got their asses kicked, nothing more. And, don't go interpretive.
Perhaps XP should point out a few outstanding successes instead of perpetual promising of improvement. So far, in my experience, the net result is pretty abysmal performance and several extreme failures.
Perhaps, personal inadequacy?
"I think he has a great future in front of him. As we are continually told, life is a competition. The point is to win and not to winge about how it wasn't fair when you loose."
The you're an idiot and don't understand the meaning of competition. Competition implies that there are rules being followed.
Want to play without rules? Great. Come and play a game of poker in my neck of the woods and cheat. Please don't winge (whatever that is) about the lack of working knees when you get caught (ie: lose).
Life is not (regardless of your outlook) a computer game without consequences. Cheaters who get caught usually pay a stiff price. That's because those of us who don't like cheating or cheaters wreak retribution. That, little man, is not complaining about being cheated, but doing something physical (life) about it.
Does "over here" refer to the US? If not, where? If so, you're lying through your teeth.
"Our gross national product -- if we should judge America by that..."
We shouldn't. Anyone who does has purposeful blinders on. The GDP and GNP are not for that. Nice bed of straw, though.
"In the way economists measure things, the Exxon-Valdez disaster was a huge economic success."
Cost money to drill, cost money to pump into ship, cost money to transport, cost money to clean up -- no money from sales. It may have benefitted some smaller companies, but economists look at the complete picture. It was a loss. Period. Show otherwise. I mean with figures and reason instead of a declarative statement.
Don't give up your job.