The fact that private organizations have the same bureaucratic garbage that drags down gov't ones is not a reasonable argument against privatization if you're being honest (on both sides of the argument).
Actually, if one is willing to minimize the global amount of resources wasted in bureaucracy, one can very well argue using the argument you reject.
So you want to punish someone who is forced, in order to maintain her livelyhood, by law to apply a law using a law that, apart from being very close to absurd, has probably nothing to do with anything related to the matter?
In any case, you are as guilty as she is of not overturning such an `insane law' which won't let you drink until you are 21. I guess, and assuming you follow your own line of reasoning, you are sitting at home waiting for DMCA take-down notices as you read this?
I hate to use this phrase, but if you succumb to paranoia, then the terrorists have won.
The terrorists have won. The only thing left to do is become worse terrorists.
Around the world an immense number of people actually believes your strategy has already been implemented quite a few decades ago...
You seem to be using non breaking spaces for a purpose different from its intended one. Non-breaking spaces are designed to be used—well...—when you want to disallow a line break at a space, in situations like "A. U. Thor" or to keep words together where it'd be awkward to have them separated—a good typographer will not let a short word like 'a' be left alone at the end of a line but join it with a non-breaking space to the word following it, for example.
Even ancient word processing software could do kerning. (Frex, WordPerfect 5.1 and possibly before that.) But kerning tends to be proprietary to the *printer driver*, and can't be implemented if the actual file is plain text and the medium is not a printer. Good example -- my laser printer can print kerned text; my old inkjet could not, it came out the same as unkerned text.
There is nothing propietary about doing kerning! The application just needs to correctly put the characters in the page. A TeX file will print kerned on even a dot-matrix printer (assuming you have a dot-matrix printer with a dpi good enough for you to notice, of course)
If it were done in the HTML (pretending for the moment that HTML could do kerning) each letter would have to be coded as if it were an image to be placed relative to those around it, and the browser would have to grok "text placement". Imagine how much larger an average webpage would become, or if done with something more "economical" like CSS, all the bazillion ways it could go worng due to variances in implementation!
Modern graphical browsers already grok text placement.
You can probably argue mutatus mutandi that the whole world damages the learning environment.
I would think that part of the goal of a school is to teach students how to deal with the fact that "a openly known member of the $A can edit $B on $C" for all posible values of A, B and C. I would think that showing them a talk page, and having them read through the discussions and history of `controversial' pages would be an immensely productive thing. It's not like history books do not go through that process, too.
Banning Wikipedia is the least instructive way of dealing of the fact that in the real world, information may be incorrect and that that source (even an authoritative sources! For example, I have found errors in two papers by well-known and respected authorities on the corresponding subjects, published in top-of-the-line mathematical journals after being reviewed by probably the best scholars available, and the errors were important enough that corrigenda had to be published) can be (purposedly or not) wrong.
Well, refusing to pen the file and present a nice dialog explaining why she is not seeing her file to the user might be a more polite way of doing it, don't you think?
I watch around one or two movies per week, and have done so for a decade or so. I very rarely watch movies which one would call Hollywood movies; a good 60 percent of what I watch is contemporary and independent (not so much as in Robert-Redford-blessed as in really independent), and I'd say less than 20% of what I watch comes from the US. I have very, very rarely seen what you describe.
Here in Buenos Aires there is an excellent independent movie festival (it is taking place as we speak, in fact), where around 400 movies are shown each year. While I have never seen all of them, in previous years (not this time, sadly) I've gone as far as seeing 20 movies in 8 days or so in that festival, basically buying tickets at random. I've surely seen movies I did not like, but never, ever anything like what you describe.
OTOH, I cannot remember a Hollywood blockbuster in the last years which after 1 hour did not make me want to get out of the theater and hit the guy that sold me the ticket.
Money doesn't guarantee a movie will be good, but it does heavily indicate the movie won't be appallingly bad.
Actually, in my experience, the more expensive a movie is, the worse it ends up being. You probably need to get a better provider of non-gazillion-dollar movies, that's all.
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Quite a lot of work has gone into GTK (a couple of cycles ago, actually) and metacity in order to get focus stealing right. A lot of *hard* work, really. (Other window managers, specially the new ones which do lots of bling, tend to ignore such things...) If you are not running metacity, try it; if you are, please try to figure out a pattern which causes the problem and report it as a bug (probably to both metacity and gaim).
Well, in the same way that commercial licences do not require you to distribute your independently developed code, GPLed software does not require that you use it at all. If you are not willing to follow the license I choose to put on my code, then simply do not use it.
The usage of the word 'viral' in this context is nothing but fud-speak.
Do you think the US took a passive rôle in the drafting of that convention?
Historically, the US has aggressively participated in such drafting, and it has never ever ratified a convention which goes even a little bit against its idea of what's good for the US (which, I note, has not always been what's good for the US) It has even participated in the drafting of international regulations to the point of essentially blocking everything unless its wishes are followed, and then not ratified them internally.
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Actually, if one is willing to minimize the global amount of resources wasted in bureaucracy, one can very well argue using the argument you reject.
So you want to punish someone who is forced, in order to maintain her livelyhood, by law to apply a law using a law that, apart from being very close to absurd, has probably nothing to do with anything related to the matter?
In any case, you are as guilty as she is of not overturning such an `insane law' which won't let you drink until you are 21. I guess, and assuming you follow your own line of reasoning, you are sitting at home waiting for DMCA take-down notices as you read this?
There are certainly problems with high schools. Your proposal does not fix any of them. It simply eliminates schools (essentially).
Yup, Removing the socializing experience that school is wil surely help with the issues at hand...
Is that `around 50 years' like in `around the japanese american internment' or later?
If you can catch a lion using math, you should probably be able to defend yourself using it...
Were there any sample English entrace tests on Chinese?
You seem to be using non breaking spaces for a purpose different from its intended one. Non-breaking spaces are designed to be used—well...—when you want to disallow a line break at a space, in situations like "A. U. Thor" or to keep words together where it'd be awkward to have them separated—a good typographer will not let a short word like 'a' be left alone at the end of a line but join it with a non-breaking space to the word following it, for example.
You probably want U+2001 EM QUAD and friends.
There is nothing propietary about doing kerning! The application just needs to correctly put the characters in the page. A TeX file will print kerned on even a dot-matrix printer (assuming you have a dot-matrix printer with a dpi good enough for you to notice, of course)
Modern graphical browsers already grok text placement.
What do you mean by `file a patent internationally'?
You could look up `induction`...
You can probably argue mutatus mutandi that the whole world damages the learning environment.
I would think that part of the goal of a school is to teach students how to deal with the fact that "a openly known member of the $A can edit $B on $C" for all posible values of A, B and C. I would think that showing them a talk page, and having them read through the discussions and history of `controversial' pages would be an immensely productive thing. It's not like history books do not go through that process, too.
Banning Wikipedia is the least instructive way of dealing of the fact that in the real world, information may be incorrect and that that source (even an authoritative sources! For example, I have found errors in two papers by well-known and respected authorities on the corresponding subjects, published in top-of-the-line mathematical journals after being reviewed by probably the best scholars available, and the errors were important enough that corrigenda had to be published) can be (purposedly or not) wrong.
Well, refusing to pen the file and present a nice dialog explaining why she is not seeing her file to the user might be a more polite way of doing it, don't you think?
Wow. What an absurd response!
Are you sure you are posting on the correct story?
I watch around one or two movies per week, and have done so for a decade or so. I very rarely watch movies which one would call Hollywood movies; a good 60 percent of what I watch is contemporary and independent (not so much as in Robert-Redford-blessed as in really independent), and I'd say less than 20% of what I watch comes from the US. I have very, very rarely seen what you describe.
Here in Buenos Aires there is an excellent independent movie festival (it is taking place as we speak, in fact), where around 400 movies are shown each year. While I have never seen all of them, in previous years (not this time, sadly) I've gone as far as seeing 20 movies in 8 days or so in that festival, basically buying tickets at random. I've surely seen movies I did not like, but never, ever anything like what you describe.
OTOH, I cannot remember a Hollywood blockbuster in the last years which after 1 hour did not make me want to get out of the theater and hit the guy that sold me the ticket.
I guess I am just luckier than you.
Well, your description of the movies upon which you are basing your contention support my contention that you should watch some better movies...
Great signature! Almost G. B. Shaw-good. ;-)
Actually, in my experience, the more expensive a movie is, the worse it ends up being. You probably need to get a better provider of non-gazillion-dollar movies, that's all.
Quite a lot of work has gone into GTK (a couple of cycles ago, actually) and metacity in order to get focus stealing right. A lot of *hard* work, really. (Other window managers, specially the new ones which do lots of bling, tend to ignore such things...) If you are not running metacity, try it; if you are, please try to figure out a pattern which causes the problem and report it as a bug (probably to both metacity and gaim).
Well, in the same way that commercial licences do not require you to distribute your independently developed code, GPLed software does not require that you use it at all. If you are not willing to follow the license I choose to put on my code, then simply do not use it.
The usage of the word 'viral' in this context is nothing but fud-speak.
Most don't.
This is the report in full, it seems.
Do you think the US took a passive rôle in the drafting of that convention?
Historically, the US has aggressively participated in such drafting, and it has never ever ratified a convention which goes even a little bit against its idea of what's good for the US (which, I note, has not always been what's good for the US) It has even participated in the drafting of international regulations to the point of essentially blocking everything unless its wishes are followed, and then not ratified them internally.