...okay, so I guess that means that websites like the smoking gun fuel hate?
Not sure how voyeurism and souvenir/collector mentality equates to that. If mugshots and wanted posters are used to help identify fugitives, then TSG is being evil for using them as a marketing tool?
Help me understand what you're trying to say. If it's that you just don't like the cards, cool, I'm fine with that. I'm not a big fan of opportunism either. I just wanted to point out that the use of such cards is not new or (in the case of the people the cards were originally produced for) a tool to foment hate.
I'm not making a political argument, just a pedantic one...if I display something, and then remove it from view for some reason, I am censoring myself (as a poster above said).
Seriously, I'm looking for a word that describes what happened, and failing to find a more approprate one. It may or may not be censorship in the legal sense, I have no idea...I suppose it depends on whether they ask TSG et. al. to remove links to it, as well, but in the literal sense it definitely is.
to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable <censor the news> ; also : to suppress or delete as objectionable <censor out indecent passages>
If you choose to not put the link on your site, then no, that's not censorship. If you have the link on your site and then remove it, then yes, it's censorship...just not the government kind we often talk about, and sometimes see.
...The individuals on the terrorist training cards are no more random than the airplanes, tanks, and trucks on the NATO/Warsaw Pact training cards.
They're not used to fuel hate, they're used to familiarize soldiers with the appearance of specific human beings so that they don't pass by unnoticed. Kind of like "wanted" posters, but made in a way that they're likely to be looked at more often.
Well, as a publication from FEMA related to disaster response, it probably made a lot of sense when it was released.
I seriously doubt that the book talks much about terrorists and "indoctrinates young minds". On the contrary, removing the book (assuming it talks about how to deal with people being hurt and dying unexpectedly) initiates it's own fair share of indoctrination, don't you think? Ever tell a kid "you can't read/watch/see that", and have them ask you why? You learn a lot about yourself and your motivations during the course of that explanation.
How would you characterize the disappearance of the book, if we're avoiding the word "censorship"?
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The idea of patent protection is to protect companies who spend on machinery and fabrication and tooling and materials, etc against an interloper who can mass-produce the new thing without having to do the groundwork and research first. Once you create something genuinely new, you are granted a temporary monopoly to reward your inventiveness.
With software, it's not the same scenario. Unpaid hackers in their garage have the same barrier to entry as big corporations (namely none) in trying out new ideas for software on general-purpose computers. A computer probably costs less for a large software company to buy than for an individual, in fact. Aside from that, writing code is an exercise in pure thought, and ideas are not patentable...you can write the ideas down and copyright them, but as the lawyer in a previous post said, "nobody makes money from copyright litigation".
The article is nearly a troll, and at best a poorly concieved attempt at attacking a straw-man, since it's not the patent system in general that's faulted lately, it's software *patents* that are gumming up the works.
I wish that there was a "-1: Straw-man" moderation...
No one has said (that I have seen) that this is a silver bullet to allow us to win. Beyond that, unless your definition of what it means to win (in Iraq) is vastly different from mine, winning would mean the end of military operations there, which I expect (based on the pair of comments you made about weapons) you would approve of.
That aside, This is a tool, not a strategy. This tool provides historical information to people (soldiers) who would make *worse* decisions (life-or-death decisions affecting Iraqi civilians as well as soldiers) without it.
Whether it's time to leave or not, how is this system a bad thing for the situation in Iraq?
I'm guessing it was more a commentary on illogic than on your feelings about war...
"...get the f*ck out of there and there will be 1) no dying and 2) no need for such tools. keep enthropy of the Universe low..."
Troops not being "there" years ago did not mean that there was no dying. I can think of numerous uses for such tools (disaster relief, sales, census-taking, etc). Lastly, entropy always increases.
Doubtful...the original TIGR system was a basic data communications package for intel[ligence]-related stuff that predates most every website in existence today (I first worked with it back in '96, and I know it had been in use for a few years prior to that, and probably under development for a decade). Knowing how the Army, in particular, tends to deploy technology means that they probably created some kind of overlay (probably in Java) to display historical situation reports based on grid coordinates. Nice that grunts outside of traditional intelligence roles are getting to see that kind of data.
That's like saying "the basic syntax of C is a pretty small amount of knowledge...etc"
The difference between good and bad markup can mean a lot of things in terms of bandwidth, usability, ease of maintenance, and numerous other things. Not to say you shouldn't learn more (you could and should try to learn to be a web designer *and* a web developer), but there's a difference between just knowing all of the available tags and knowing how best to use them.
I would not presume to say I know the best way to do something based solely on how long I thought it would take me to memorize a specification's salient details.
Now, in most cases, if you're learning about web design ([X]HTML/CSS/javascript/basic image editing), you're learning other things, too, since static pages aren't much in demand these days, but in a big enough company, or on a big enough project, a dedicated web designer can be an incredibly useful resource, and offload plenty of cosmetic and layout work from the developers.
I think one of the things that the Army, specifically, did wrong was to completely eliminate that secondary path to advancement. If we're talking about highly technical specialties with little to no relationship to direct combat, then the idea to make everyone a capable sergeant doesn't fit so well.
Main reason I didn't stay in longer than I did was that I wouldn't have had the chance to do actual work in my MOS (33-T) above the rank of E-4.
Interesting...I think that of everything you mentioned, I'd be most concerned about the teacher not wanting to do a parent-teacher conference. It strikes me as something that ought to be impossible to refuse, at least once per grading period, anyway.
The reading evaluation and the fact that she works well when reading with you are confusing. 34th percentile is pretty low (although I don't know if it's "slow reader" territory...not sure who the evaluation compares her against), so if she reads well *with* you, then maybe it's purely a hearing problem, or an attention deficit-type problem (I have a 9-year-old that my wife and I have been working really hard at trying to convince to pay more attention. We're lucky enough to be working *with* her primary teacher at making sure she's getting work done and not missing things).
I'm a mixed-race (I hate that term...humans are all one race) person, and I know that there are some bigots out there, but they seem far less common in education than other places. Is it possible that the teacher is just lazy or angry, rather than racist? Again, my oldest daughter was doing well at math in kindergarten and first grade in Texas, and was close to "F" territory after we moved to Ohio. We did have frustrations with her teacher, and trying to make sure that we got attention from her teacher to make sure she didn't just get left behind. We did have to involve the school's principal at one point (that teacher retired the following year, by the way), but I never assumed anything other than that more help was needed than was being given.
If *you* think the teacher is not treating your daughter fairly because you're an a-hole, maybe take a step back and see if you can make inroads with a different approach. Regardless of the reason she's not getting the instruction or attention that she needs, she needs it. I'd try asking the teacher and principal to talk about what the three of you can do to get your daughter where she needs to be, and see where it goes from there. Maybe your first reaction was right, I don't know, right, but you might be surprised.
My Dr. Seuss observation...
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"...The most notable new features are associative arrays..."
Out of curiosity, why do you think that the teacher is a racist, etc (I'm assuming it isn't based on the statistics you cited, but something more direct, for that type of statement)?
...at bedtime. Well, my 5-year-old will (she can't read yet). Even my 9-year-old likes it when I read stories to them at bedtime. Little did I know that it was a criminal act...
It wasn't faster, but ran better. I read that "windows 7 will be the first version faster than it's predecessor" and thought back to upgrading from Win95 to Win2K pro...performance improved by a (subjective) factor of at least 3.
That's a bit of wisdom I'll remember. I'm more of a grep/awk/kill kinda guy, but an option like that for any *nix command is not one to overlook. In fact, it seems almost like a joke. -n is for newest (and could be -r for "recent"), which is the only reason -v is used there? I sense a super-BOFH in action...now you're going to make me grep all man pages for "-v", aren't you?
I understand that a few of those sites have recently been in the news because of backdoors and cheating, but what is going on here?
The governor of Kentucky (a state in which I do not reside), is trying to tell me that I can't go play poker online? This is abso-fricking-lutely ridiculous.
...actually, the record companies only offer *one* service...and yes, it's marketing.
Before CD burners and cheap computers capable of recording, mixing, and editing digital audio, a record studio would have been the only reasonable way to get a professional-quality recording of a song, but that hasn't been the case for years.
Where we're at now, is that the record companies have a vested interest in discovering and promoting artists that will agree to allow their work to primarily benefit and be controlled by the record companies themselves. That means (as we all know) that "safe" talent will get played ad-nauseum on most radio stations, and anything significantly new or different only gets picked up after a breakthrough in non-commercial distribution (e.g. youtube).
If marketing is the big service, and that's the industry selling point, then they have to protect the content they market from not generating revenue. If they don't, they can't afford to market it.
Not that I'm saying it's a good business model...I think it sucks, but it's the reason behind everything else. Marketing costs more, and distribution and production are no longer a monopoly controlled by the industry, but they can't figure out what to do about that, so they keep on doing the same thing and waste money on DRM that they know will be circumvented.
The MPAA still has a few years of life left in it...production there is much harder to do on a shoestring budget and commodity hardware, but eventually, things will change there, too.
I'm just tired of hearing about scheme after scheme, and knowing that it amounts to nothing, even before it's implemented.
I'm just waiting for reality to finally set in, and for the industry to see that they aren't going to be able to keep doing business as usual, and that they are no longer providing what their customers want.
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...okay, so I guess that means that websites like the smoking gun fuel hate?
Not sure how voyeurism and souvenir/collector mentality equates to that. If mugshots and wanted posters are used to help identify fugitives, then TSG is being evil for using them as a marketing tool?
Help me understand what you're trying to say. If it's that you just don't like the cards, cool, I'm fine with that. I'm not a big fan of opportunism either. I just wanted to point out that the use of such cards is not new or (in the case of the people the cards were originally produced for) a tool to foment hate.
(burning karma)...Gotta give you props for the funny...
s-t-e-g-a-n-o-g-r-a-p-h-y...not stenography.
I'm not making a political argument, just a pedantic one...if I display something, and then remove it from view for some reason, I am censoring myself (as a poster above said).
Seriously, I'm looking for a word that describes what happened, and failing to find a more approprate one. It may or may not be censorship in the legal sense, I have no idea...I suppose it depends on whether they ask TSG et. al. to remove links to it, as well, but in the literal sense it definitely is.
From Merriam-Webster:
If you choose to not put the link on your site, then no, that's not censorship. If you have the link on your site and then remove it, then yes, it's censorship...just not the government kind we often talk about, and sometimes see.
...The individuals on the terrorist training cards are no more random than the airplanes, tanks, and trucks on the NATO/Warsaw Pact training cards.
They're not used to fuel hate, they're used to familiarize soldiers with the appearance of specific human beings so that they don't pass by unnoticed. Kind of like "wanted" posters, but made in a way that they're likely to be looked at more often.
Well, as a publication from FEMA related to disaster response, it probably made a lot of sense when it was released.
I seriously doubt that the book talks much about terrorists and "indoctrinates young minds". On the contrary, removing the book (assuming it talks about how to deal with people being hurt and dying unexpectedly) initiates it's own fair share of indoctrination, don't you think? Ever tell a kid "you can't read/watch/see that", and have them ask you why? You learn a lot about yourself and your motivations during the course of that explanation.
How would you characterize the disappearance of the book, if we're avoiding the word "censorship"?
The idea of patent protection is to protect companies who spend on machinery and fabrication and tooling and materials, etc against an interloper who can mass-produce the new thing without having to do the groundwork and research first. Once you create something genuinely new, you are granted a temporary monopoly to reward your inventiveness.
With software, it's not the same scenario. Unpaid hackers in their garage have the same barrier to entry as big corporations (namely none) in trying out new ideas for software on general-purpose computers. A computer probably costs less for a large software company to buy than for an individual, in fact. Aside from that, writing code is an exercise in pure thought, and ideas are not patentable...you can write the ideas down and copyright them, but as the lawyer in a previous post said, "nobody makes money from copyright litigation".
The article is nearly a troll, and at best a poorly concieved attempt at attacking a straw-man, since it's not the patent system in general that's faulted lately, it's software *patents* that are gumming up the works.
I wish that there was a "-1: Straw-man" moderation...
No one has said (that I have seen) that this is a silver bullet to allow us to win. Beyond that, unless your definition of what it means to win (in Iraq) is vastly different from mine, winning would mean the end of military operations there, which I expect (based on the pair of comments you made about weapons) you would approve of.
That aside, This is a tool, not a strategy. This tool provides historical information to people (soldiers) who would make *worse* decisions (life-or-death decisions affecting Iraqi civilians as well as soldiers) without it.
Whether it's time to leave or not, how is this system a bad thing for the situation in Iraq?
I'm guessing it was more a commentary on illogic than on your feelings about war...
Troops not being "there" years ago did not mean that there was no dying. I can think of numerous uses for such tools (disaster relief, sales, census-taking, etc). Lastly, entropy always increases.
I'm just sayin'...
Doubtful...the original TIGR system was a basic data communications package for intel[ligence]-related stuff that predates most every website in existence today (I first worked with it back in '96, and I know it had been in use for a few years prior to that, and probably under development for a decade). Knowing how the Army, in particular, tends to deploy technology means that they probably created some kind of overlay (probably in Java) to display historical situation reports based on grid coordinates. Nice that grunts outside of traditional intelligence roles are getting to see that kind of data.
That's like saying "the basic syntax of C is a pretty small amount of knowledge...etc"
The difference between good and bad markup can mean a lot of things in terms of bandwidth, usability, ease of maintenance, and numerous other things. Not to say you shouldn't learn more (you could and should try to learn to be a web designer *and* a web developer), but there's a difference between just knowing all of the available tags and knowing how best to use them.
I would not presume to say I know the best way to do something based solely on how long I thought it would take me to memorize a specification's salient details.
Now, in most cases, if you're learning about web design ([X]HTML/CSS/javascript/basic image editing), you're learning other things, too, since static pages aren't much in demand these days, but in a big enough company, or on a big enough project, a dedicated web designer can be an incredibly useful resource, and offload plenty of cosmetic and layout work from the developers.
...Or a SPEC-5, SPEC-6, SPEC-7...
I think one of the things that the Army, specifically, did wrong was to completely eliminate that secondary path to advancement. If we're talking about highly technical specialties with little to no relationship to direct combat, then the idea to make everyone a capable sergeant doesn't fit so well.
Main reason I didn't stay in longer than I did was that I wouldn't have had the chance to do actual work in my MOS (33-T) above the rank of E-4.
You owe me a new keyboard...
The reading evaluation and the fact that she works well when reading with you are confusing. 34th percentile is pretty low (although I don't know if it's "slow reader" territory...not sure who the evaluation compares her against), so if she reads well *with* you, then maybe it's purely a hearing problem, or an attention deficit-type problem (I have a 9-year-old that my wife and I have been working really hard at trying to convince to pay more attention. We're lucky enough to be working *with* her primary teacher at making sure she's getting work done and not missing things).
I'm a mixed-race (I hate that term...humans are all one race) person, and I know that there are some bigots out there, but they seem far less common in education than other places. Is it possible that the teacher is just lazy or angry, rather than racist? Again, my oldest daughter was doing well at math in kindergarten and first grade in Texas, and was close to "F" territory after we moved to Ohio. We did have frustrations with her teacher, and trying to make sure that we got attention from her teacher to make sure she didn't just get left behind. We did have to involve the school's principal at one point (that teacher retired the following year, by the way), but I never assumed anything other than that more help was needed than was being given.
If *you* think the teacher is not treating your daughter fairly because you're an a-hole, maybe take a step back and see if you can make inroads with a different approach. Regardless of the reason she's not getting the instruction or attention that she needs, she needs it. I'd try asking the teacher and principal to talk about what the three of you can do to get your daughter where she needs to be, and see where it goes from there. Maybe your first reaction was right, I don't know, right, but you might be surprised.
So now I can make a BASH hash, sweet!
Out of curiosity, why do you think that the teacher is a racist, etc (I'm assuming it isn't based on the statistics you cited, but something more direct, for that type of statement)?
...at bedtime. Well, my 5-year-old will (she can't read yet). Even my 9-year-old likes it when I read stories to them at bedtime. Little did I know that it was a criminal act...
It wasn't faster, but ran better. I read that "windows 7 will be the first version faster than it's predecessor" and thought back to upgrading from Win95 to Win2K pro...performance improved by a (subjective) factor of at least 3.
That's a bit of wisdom I'll remember. I'm more of a grep/awk/kill kinda guy, but an option like that for any *nix command is not one to overlook. In fact, it seems almost like a joke. -n is for newest (and could be -r for "recent"), which is the only reason -v is used there? I sense a super-BOFH in action...now you're going to make me grep all man pages for "-v", aren't you?
It's rare that I wish I had mod points to spend on an AC post, but that was funny as hell. You owe me a keyboard.
Here ya go: linkage
The governor of Kentucky (a state in which I do not reside), is trying to tell me that I can't go play poker online? This is abso-fricking-lutely ridiculous.
...actually, the record companies only offer *one* service...and yes, it's marketing. Before CD burners and cheap computers capable of recording, mixing, and editing digital audio, a record studio would have been the only reasonable way to get a professional-quality recording of a song, but that hasn't been the case for years. Where we're at now, is that the record companies have a vested interest in discovering and promoting artists that will agree to allow their work to primarily benefit and be controlled by the record companies themselves. That means (as we all know) that "safe" talent will get played ad-nauseum on most radio stations, and anything significantly new or different only gets picked up after a breakthrough in non-commercial distribution (e.g. youtube). If marketing is the big service, and that's the industry selling point, then they have to protect the content they market from not generating revenue. If they don't, they can't afford to market it. Not that I'm saying it's a good business model...I think it sucks, but it's the reason behind everything else. Marketing costs more, and distribution and production are no longer a monopoly controlled by the industry, but they can't figure out what to do about that, so they keep on doing the same thing and waste money on DRM that they know will be circumvented. The MPAA still has a few years of life left in it...production there is much harder to do on a shoestring budget and commodity hardware, but eventually, things will change there, too. I'm just tired of hearing about scheme after scheme, and knowing that it amounts to nothing, even before it's implemented. I'm just waiting for reality to finally set in, and for the industry to see that they aren't going to be able to keep doing business as usual, and that they are no longer providing what their customers want.