Let's review what the parent wrote: "This movie presents scientific facts in a understandable matter."
Did he claim or in any way imply that Al Gore was a scientist or needed to play the role of one? Gore's film presents the current scientific consensus to the public. This does not constitute original research, and no one is arguing it does.
The difference is that the NSTA would reject the KKK film because it's a KKK film. The NSTA's response to the Inconvenient Truth plan suggests that they seriously considered distributing it, but then bowed to financial pressure.
AFAIK, the minimum system requirements are not a measure of actual resource consumption. They're Microsoft's estimate of what you'd need to run the OS and some typical applications (granted, at a speed that is less than ideal). But no OS is going to need to keep your CPU running at full clock speed constantly, so I don't really get your argument.
"Techno" idiots? If someone thinks whitehouse.com is the official White House website, he or she is probably not so great at evaluating printed text either.
You would be totally right, if Vista actually required a dual core 2.8ghz processor or anything close. Judging by the system requirements, that mini-ITX would do quite nicely.
"before potentially abandoning" is the actual phrase used in their press release. As in, people think they would think about abandoning a site after this much time, and said so when taking a survey (but were not exposed to this load time to see what their actual reaction would be). So this is not nearly as clear or useful a metric as the summary would have it appear.
There's "negative advertising" and then there's dirty, grossly misleading (and possibly illegal) tricks. I agree that the line between them might be kind of fuzzy (except where law comes into it), but would argue that it's pretty clear that when a robocall begins with the name of a Democrat, and fails to state until the very end that it's from the Republicans, and harrassingly repeat-calls those who choose not to listen, a line is being crossed.
The US did not go to war on Iraq because the country had some of the knowledge necessary to make nuclear weapons. The (nuclear) justification for invasion was that there was a very pressing nuclear threat, a claim we now know to be untrue.
If we were to use nuclear knowledge, rather than nuclear ability, as a measure of whether a particular country is a threat there would be a very, very long list of countries that are dire and immediate threats (not that some of the neocons don't think this, anyway).
It is supposed to keep out unsigned drivers, kernel modifications, and security company competitors.
While it could be argued that part of Microsoft's goal with PatchGuard is to keep out "security company competitors", there's no hard evidence, AFAIK, that this was one of Microsoft's design goals in creating it and it's somewhat irresponsible to suggest this. If there were, this would presumably be an easy court case and security companies wouldn't have a hard time at all suing Microsoft for illegal measures to establish a monopoly, etc. Instead, they'll be faced with the uphill task of proving that the "keeping out the competition" aspect is not just a necessary side effect of the rest of the design.
When a journalist is covering a conflict, they have an obligation to cover both sides of the story. You cited a few anecdotal examples of obvious journalistic screw-ups in this regard, but I think you'll find that if *you* do your homework (and don't just restrict it to a right-wing media criticism site or right-leaning Israeli news site), people with opposing political views to yours have just as many examples. Witness Judith Miller's ridiculously biased reporting of an Israeli interrogation or CNN's failure to balance dubious assertions that the Qana photos were staged and uncritical airing of Israeli intelligence contradicting our own.
The same journalists who embedded with Hezbollah, of course, regularly embed with American, Iraqi, and Israeli forces (most also make the controlled nature of their experience part of the story). In most cases, there's little to suggest that these incidents stem from an explicit bias rather than just poor journalism or Reuter's stupid practice of hiring stringers virtually sight unseen.
Yeah, I screwed up and meant to have two links, one to his approval of eugenecist thought and one for the quote at the end. I apologize for this, but would also think people here would be smart enough to do a quick Google search before coming to such hasty judgment.
I don't think I could honestly condemn them as a "hate" site, anymore than (and probably less than) I could CNN or Reuters.
You mean CNN and Reuters regularly publish racialist pseudo-science by eugenecists? People who argue that:
What you won't hear, except from me, is that "Let the good times roll" is an especially risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups. Thus they need stricter moral guidance from society.
I think that he meant that you must install WGA after upgrading to SP2 in order to get continued (non-critical) Windows updates, not that you need it to install SP2 in the first place.
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Ecma sounds like something that oozes from a maggot-ridden wound. But the scripting language looks tight.
Aren't jokes supposed to be funny?
A more poignant poem exploring the differences between OSes, I have yet to see.
Let's review what the parent wrote: "This movie presents scientific facts in a understandable matter."
Did he claim or in any way imply that Al Gore was a scientist or needed to play the role of one? Gore's film presents the current scientific consensus to the public. This does not constitute original research, and no one is arguing it does.
There's be fewer posts to Slashdot if it wasn't so easy to write a far-stretching analogy.
and dodgeit.com...
The difference is that the NSTA would reject the KKK film because it's a KKK film. The NSTA's response to the Inconvenient Truth plan suggests that they seriously considered distributing it, but then bowed to financial pressure.
But it's a lack of the very simple shutdown detection feature Firefox would need to solve the problem.
AFAIK, the minimum system requirements are not a measure of actual resource consumption. They're Microsoft's estimate of what you'd need to run the OS and some typical applications (granted, at a speed that is less than ideal). But no OS is going to need to keep your CPU running at full clock speed constantly, so I don't really get your argument.
"Techno" idiots? If someone thinks whitehouse.com is the official White House website, he or she is probably not so great at evaluating printed text either.
You would be totally right, if Vista actually required a dual core 2.8ghz processor or anything close. Judging by the system requirements, that mini-ITX would do quite nicely.
"before potentially abandoning" is the actual phrase used in their press release. As in, people think they would think about abandoning a site after this much time, and said so when taking a survey (but were not exposed to this load time to see what their actual reaction would be). So this is not nearly as clear or useful a metric as the summary would have it appear.
There's "negative advertising" and then there's dirty, grossly misleading (and possibly illegal) tricks. I agree that the line between them might be kind of fuzzy (except where law comes into it), but would argue that it's pretty clear that when a robocall begins with the name of a Democrat, and fails to state until the very end that it's from the Republicans, and harrassingly repeat-calls those who choose not to listen, a line is being crossed.
If we were to use nuclear knowledge, rather than nuclear ability, as a measure of whether a particular country is a threat there would be a very, very long list of countries that are dire and immediate threats (not that some of the neocons don't think this, anyway).
And yet the mentality that this greater accessibility is "unfortunate" persists...
(and yes, it's rather stupid of them if they don't end up making this an option)
When a journalist is covering a conflict, they have an obligation to cover both sides of the story. You cited a few anecdotal examples of obvious journalistic screw-ups in this regard, but I think you'll find that if *you* do your homework (and don't just restrict it to a right-wing media criticism site or right-leaning Israeli news site), people with opposing political views to yours have just as many examples. Witness Judith Miller's ridiculously biased reporting of an Israeli interrogation or CNN's failure to balance dubious assertions that the Qana photos were staged and uncritical airing of Israeli intelligence contradicting our own.
The same journalists who embedded with Hezbollah, of course, regularly embed with American, Iraqi, and Israeli forces (most also make the controlled nature of their experience part of the story). In most cases, there's little to suggest that these incidents stem from an explicit bias rather than just poor journalism or Reuter's stupid practice of hiring stringers virtually sight unseen.
But maybe you'd want to Google first before saying this. Just a suggestion.
Yeah, I screwed up and meant to have two links, one to his approval of eugenecist thought and one for the quote at the end. I apologize for this, but would also think people here would be smart enough to do a quick Google search before coming to such hasty judgment.
I don't think I could honestly condemn them as a "hate" site, anymore than (and probably less than) I could CNN or Reuters.
You mean CNN and Reuters regularly publish racialist pseudo-science by eugenecists? People who argue that:
Well, alright then...What if his boss thinks you're a douchebag?
And industrial production of food occurred for how many of those million years of evolution?
I think that he meant that you must install WGA after upgrading to SP2 in order to get continued (non-critical) Windows updates, not that you need it to install SP2 in the first place.