Really? Because that's not remotely bad for archival tiffs. I believe the BPL's digitization program (one of the more under-funded such in many respects) routinely produces multi-GIG files; I think 16gb for some of their maps.
Well, that most likely depends on what you consider useful or insightful. If you're looking for conspiracy theories or state secrets, well, that's not actually what Presidential Archives contain or were meant to contain. It's not censorship, it's the collection policy; the Presidential Archives aren't comprehensive collections of state documents, but of documents associated with the president, which includes a subset of state documents in so far as the President's life coincides with his work.
I think some stuff is still classified, although that's dwindling as various items reach their years-of-disclosure. Virtually none of it would have any relevance to whatever your pet theory is, even if your pet theory happened to be correct, because, frankly, anything too secret for eventual release (i.e. the kind of illegal shenanigans that most conspiracy theories postulate) wouldn't have an official documentation trail to begin with.
Other than that, they're mostly accountable to NARA - the National Archives and Records Administration, who are mostly concerned that archival standards are being followed - they're more interested in preserving the collection than in doing any kind of censorship.
And, frankly, the kind of censorship you suggest isn't really feasible in the case of the JFK collection, anyway. By far the bulk of that specific collection is un-catalogued - I think they have something like 30,000 feet of untouched records and objects, and they're by and large a closed collection (except for copies of J.F.K.'s books, which they serve as a repository for, and a few other open collections, like the Ernest Hemingway collection). It would take immense manpower to even start sorting through that collection, much less do some sort of "SCRUB THE SECRETS" action, especially considering that the search would have to be carried out by people with the clearance to read the secrets, who had the know-how to search uncatalogued archival records.
But violently stamping it out as heretical probably involved some of that.
Many, MANY versions of the Bible have been explicitly altered or censored for one or another purpose. Note that the King James, a widely-used version, has many expurgations and alterations.
Just saying, the Bible isn't exactly the go-to document for "untouched since authorship" materials.
I want to live in a world where *everything* that makes me uncomfortable or might cause pain or conflict is excised from history.
No. You don't. You want to live in a world where those things don't happen. And that isn't remotely best served by altering history, or literature, for that matter. Leaving aside the fact that your plan is impossible to put into effect for a million reasons (example: the fact that different aspects of history make different groups uncomfortable.), historical precedent is layered into everything we do; the laws that govern us, the science that underlies all our technologies, our cultures. It's part of everything we do as humans, and having an accurate understanding of it is vital to our ability to function.
Granted, provisionally - I think it's more a message mis-match than intelligence. I'm not saying that Republicans are stupid; rather, I'm saying that the Republican platform isn't driven by intellectual or rational concerns.
On a side note: The best part is, if he WAS elected, the first thing he'd do is turn around and fight to dismantle the ethics laws, on grounds that
Deregulation is blanket good, unless it effects women's bodies
Your cars and buses run on the interstate highway system, which was largely created by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Thus, you're in bed with the arch-liberal himself. You are literally making love to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as we speak - your hands gripped tightly to his wheelchair as he rocks your body like polio once ravaged his own.
The above makes the same amount of sense as your statement above - but it has the signal advantage of being mildly humorous.
There's a difference between having corporations and a military, and being run by corporations and the military - and degrees to both states.
To be conservative today is to be one of two things: either to be so attached to a simplified model of economics (and so oblivious to external evidences) that you vote Republican on inertia, or the common scenario in younger conservatives - to be "bought in" to the media manipulation to the point where reality bounces off the propaganda already in your head.
Although, to be completely fair, Obama didn't start out poor; the bootstrappy part doesn't work until his presidential campaign, if then.
But, on the balance, yeah - the conservative susceptibility to spin is pretty impressive, and depressing. I mean, they voted for a fuck-up who went AWOL (and was caught driving on cocaine while doing so) over a decorated war vet, while claiming to be the party devoted to the military.
Or, more accurately, a regulatory agency that had their enforcement ability stripped from them by right-wing corporate boosterism is seeking congressional action to restore the ability to accomplish their mandate, and protect consumer rights.
The FCC isn't sneaking around Congress, or staging some sort of coup. They're working in a perfectly sane and legal manner (albeit with a hopelessly watered-down bill, at this point). Stop your fearmongering, you accurately-named person, you.
Or a tribute to the degree to which trendiness will overwhelm functionality. But I do agree that even marginal utility on a tablet is impressive; it's just the type of impressive that doesn't necessarily speak to the core functionality of the office program.
BTW, just to be clear, I'm not a Mac hater or anything; my main computer is a Macbook Pro 15-Inch running OSX, and I'm mostly very happy with it.
As a word processing platform, tablets are about the lowest possible form of life (phones are arguably worse, but at least have a level of real portability that makes them potentially worthwhile). I can't imagine using a tablet for any serious word processing task (i.e. anything larger than a 1-10 line edit).
That being said, I haven't used either the most recent KOffice or the most recent Pages, so I'm working off stale data.
If you haven't used it in a long time, then maybe you should try it out rather than guessing. S'free, you know.
From my understanding, KOffice is a very solid explicitly style-and-frame based Word Processor. I haven't done an in-depth examination of the two, but it's certainly equal to the original poster's request, which was "good free cross-platform office suit(SIC)." I liked the version of KOffice I used (several revisions back) better than the Pages I used (probably a couple revisions back, but I'm not sure).
Really, it's a little ridiculous to count out OpenOffice, given that it's been overhauled to hell and back, almost entirely during its period of being open source (Just to establish my credentials here, I've used StarOffice from the preceding period).
Anyway, this is a long-winded way of saying that KOffice still meets the Parent's objections, regardless of the relative quality of Pages and KWord.
Rand's philosophy is, in fact, "TAXES ARE IMMORAL THE WELFARE STATE IS THE SOURCE OF ALL EVIL." But, because she is a novelist, she never has to deal with the actual fallout that comes from taking her philosophy seriously. We are in our current financial state because Randers and their intellectual fellow travelers have removed all of the protective regulations that came out of the great depression.
Also, seriously, name three heroes of her novels who aren't wealthy industrialists, famous architects, or other members of the hyper-wealthy. Maybe Anthem - it's been a while since I read it, and I think it's sufficiently sci-fi'd out that he's just kind of a guy.
She also, separately from that, writes sex scenes like rape scenes, uniformly, and is a giant hypocrite all over women's issues. Also, she's a terrible writer. Good dialogue is incompatible with 100-page speeches.
A variety of things, which may be more or less valid depending on both the person's motivations and skills, and the thing that they choose to find value in?
Alternately, not being a giant selfish jerkwad can be its own reward.
I haven't specifically found what I'm talking about, but some of the various problems can be found outlined, with citations, here: http://wakeupwalmart.com/facts/
I don't have the citation, unfortunately; my wife turned it up, and the discussion she shared it with me during was some time ago. I'll see if she remembers where she found it, and post it in a reply tomorrow-ish, if possible.
The difference is, largely, that corporations can have their cake, and eat it too. International law is set up so as to, for example, allow primarily U.S. companies like Google and Microsoft to incorporate in countries with much looser strictures on corporations, while still operating freely in the U.S.
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Really? Because that's not remotely bad for archival tiffs. I believe the BPL's digitization program (one of the more under-funded such in many respects) routinely produces multi-GIG files; I think 16gb for some of their maps.
Well, that most likely depends on what you consider useful or insightful. If you're looking for conspiracy theories or state secrets, well, that's not actually what Presidential Archives contain or were meant to contain. It's not censorship, it's the collection policy; the Presidential Archives aren't comprehensive collections of state documents, but of documents associated with the president, which includes a subset of state documents in so far as the President's life coincides with his work.
I think some stuff is still classified, although that's dwindling as various items reach their years-of-disclosure. Virtually none of it would have any relevance to whatever your pet theory is, even if your pet theory happened to be correct, because, frankly, anything too secret for eventual release (i.e. the kind of illegal shenanigans that most conspiracy theories postulate) wouldn't have an official documentation trail to begin with.
Other than that, they're mostly accountable to NARA - the National Archives and Records Administration, who are mostly concerned that archival standards are being followed - they're more interested in preserving the collection than in doing any kind of censorship.
And, frankly, the kind of censorship you suggest isn't really feasible in the case of the JFK collection, anyway. By far the bulk of that specific collection is un-catalogued - I think they have something like 30,000 feet of untouched records and objects, and they're by and large a closed collection (except for copies of J.F.K.'s books, which they serve as a repository for, and a few other open collections, like the Ernest Hemingway collection). It would take immense manpower to even start sorting through that collection, much less do some sort of "SCRUB THE SECRETS" action, especially considering that the search would have to be carried out by people with the clearance to read the secrets, who had the know-how to search uncatalogued archival records.
But violently stamping it out as heretical probably involved some of that.
Many, MANY versions of the Bible have been explicitly altered or censored for one or another purpose. Note that the King James, a widely-used version, has many expurgations and alterations.
Just saying, the Bible isn't exactly the go-to document for "untouched since authorship" materials.
No. You don't. You want to live in a world where those things don't happen. And that isn't remotely best served by altering history, or literature, for that matter. Leaving aside the fact that your plan is impossible to put into effect for a million reasons (example: the fact that different aspects of history make different groups uncomfortable.), historical precedent is layered into everything we do; the laws that govern us, the science that underlies all our technologies, our cultures. It's part of everything we do as humans, and having an accurate understanding of it is vital to our ability to function.
Granted, provisionally - I think it's more a message mis-match than intelligence. I'm not saying that Republicans are stupid; rather, I'm saying that the Republican platform isn't driven by intellectual or rational concerns.
On a side note: The best part is, if he WAS elected, the first thing he'd do is turn around and fight to dismantle the ethics laws, on grounds that
Your cars and buses run on the interstate highway system, which was largely created by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Thus, you're in bed with the arch-liberal himself. You are literally making love to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as we speak - your hands gripped tightly to his wheelchair as he rocks your body like polio once ravaged his own.
The above makes the same amount of sense as your statement above - but it has the signal advantage of being mildly humorous.
There's a difference between having corporations and a military, and being run by corporations and the military - and degrees to both states.
Wouldn't this require him to be affiliated with a third party? After all, he's the REPUBLICAN congressman from Texas.
Yes, his positions are libertarian, but he's not willing to take the label for realz - and you can bet, if he ran, he'd run Republican.
To be conservative today is to be one of two things: either to be so attached to a simplified model of economics (and so oblivious to external evidences) that you vote Republican on inertia, or the common scenario in younger conservatives - to be "bought in" to the media manipulation to the point where reality bounces off the propaganda already in your head.
Although, to be completely fair, Obama didn't start out poor; the bootstrappy part doesn't work until his presidential campaign, if then.
But, on the balance, yeah - the conservative susceptibility to spin is pretty impressive, and depressing. I mean, they voted for a fuck-up who went AWOL (and was caught driving on cocaine while doing so) over a decorated war vet, while claiming to be the party devoted to the military.
Or, even better - he could take a page from someone who researches well, and who doesn't lie anyway when the facts are inconvenient.
Or, more accurately, a regulatory agency that had their enforcement ability stripped from them by right-wing corporate boosterism is seeking congressional action to restore the ability to accomplish their mandate, and protect consumer rights.
The FCC isn't sneaking around Congress, or staging some sort of coup. They're working in a perfectly sane and legal manner (albeit with a hopelessly watered-down bill, at this point). Stop your fearmongering, you accurately-named person, you.
My reading fail - sorry. I think I was going from an item in a previous thread.
Or a tribute to the degree to which trendiness will overwhelm functionality. But I do agree that even marginal utility on a tablet is impressive; it's just the type of impressive that doesn't necessarily speak to the core functionality of the office program.
BTW, just to be clear, I'm not a Mac hater or anything; my main computer is a Macbook Pro 15-Inch running OSX, and I'm mostly very happy with it.
As a word processing platform, tablets are about the lowest possible form of life (phones are arguably worse, but at least have a level of real portability that makes them potentially worthwhile). I can't imagine using a tablet for any serious word processing task (i.e. anything larger than a 1-10 line edit).
That being said, I haven't used either the most recent KOffice or the most recent Pages, so I'm working off stale data.
::shrug::
If you haven't used it in a long time, then maybe you should try it out rather than guessing. S'free, you know.
From my understanding, KOffice is a very solid explicitly style-and-frame based Word Processor. I haven't done an in-depth examination of the two, but it's certainly equal to the original poster's request, which was "good free cross-platform office suit(SIC)." I liked the version of KOffice I used (several revisions back) better than the Pages I used (probably a couple revisions back, but I'm not sure).
Really, it's a little ridiculous to count out OpenOffice, given that it's been overhauled to hell and back, almost entirely during its period of being open source (Just to establish my credentials here, I've used StarOffice from the preceding period).
Anyway, this is a long-winded way of saying that KOffice still meets the Parent's objections, regardless of the relative quality of Pages and KWord.
Actually, yes! Preliminary support, which is about 70% of stable and rapidly improving.
Hey hey hey!
There are way more things wrong with Atlas Shrugged!
He knew her personally. Not rocket science, wikipedia exists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan#Objectivism
Rand's philosophy is, in fact, "TAXES ARE IMMORAL THE WELFARE STATE IS THE SOURCE OF ALL EVIL." But, because she is a novelist, she never has to deal with the actual fallout that comes from taking her philosophy seriously. We are in our current financial state because Randers and their intellectual fellow travelers have removed all of the protective regulations that came out of the great depression.
Also, seriously, name three heroes of her novels who aren't wealthy industrialists, famous architects, or other members of the hyper-wealthy. Maybe Anthem - it's been a while since I read it, and I think it's sufficiently sci-fi'd out that he's just kind of a guy.
She also, separately from that, writes sex scenes like rape scenes, uniformly, and is a giant hypocrite all over women's issues. Also, she's a terrible writer. Good dialogue is incompatible with 100-page speeches.
Just to let all Slashdot readers know, if they don't already understand... you're blatantly lying.
Yeah... sure... OH WAIT IT'S IN HER JOURNALS, SMARTYPANTS!
http://www.michaelprescott.net/hickman.htm
So, Slashdot readers, follow the link, make up your own minds.
A variety of things, which may be more or less valid depending on both the person's motivations and skills, and the thing that they choose to find value in?
Alternately, not being a giant selfish jerkwad can be its own reward.
KOffice isn't actually any worse than Pages, which is considered decent.
Here's another one - specifically California: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:_seGHo_gMj4J:laborcenter.berkeley.edu/retail/walmart.pdf+walmart+cost+to+taxpayers&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgZiH3Z9Ocnrxlf1yU340FifRKFs8fQi_DMjCCeosJMM0HhXuHQgvwK2KUmVykYU-KApW3m_Uc4j0Z1Ivrk6Gq5FGDbzSOXVGh9H5THPtVvQZvnn72Pc-pxZuOqqEQPyBPHREFD&sig=AHIEtbTKrjJZgwBM5Oc5p5JGytFh4F1WbA
I haven't specifically found what I'm talking about, but some of the various problems can be found outlined, with citations, here: http://wakeupwalmart.com/facts/
I don't have the citation, unfortunately; my wife turned it up, and the discussion she shared it with me during was some time ago. I'll see if she remembers where she found it, and post it in a reply tomorrow-ish, if possible.
The difference is, largely, that corporations can have their cake, and eat it too. International law is set up so as to, for example, allow primarily U.S. companies like Google and Microsoft to incorporate in countries with much looser strictures on corporations, while still operating freely in the U.S.