What I'm waiting for is the next one, the show that only people with bittorrent and their friends actually know about at first, but which gets so popular so quickly that the traditional media organizations find themselves reporting about it without actually understanding it.
No, but we're talking about class, which by definition is hereditary. Although personally I have my doubts that many of these people were worth $30 million prior to being elected, as many of them worked in public service for most of their lives.
Bill Clinton was born into poverty. Ronald Reagan was, as far as I can tell, not born into wealth, nor were Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, and Lyndon Johnson. John F. Kennedy, George Bush, and George W. Bush were all born into wealth. Now, it's true that after these individuals became President, or shortly before, many of them did become wealthy--Reagan through his acting career, Clinton in law. But so far it's been the exception that our presidents were born wealthy.
Well, hang on just one second. Comparing spending to income makes no sense when your income is so high that spending in proportion to that income completely outstrips any practical need. If you're an engineer making $80,000 a year and you drive a $10,000 car, that's at least reasonable, since your new car value is 12.5% of your annual income. (Not that you necessarily pay it off in one year, just to set up the numbers) If you're a CEO making 8 million dollars a a year, that doesn't make it all that prudent to buy a $750,000 car and turn around and say, "Hey, that engineer is spending a higher percentage of his income on his car than I am on mine!"
There are diminishing returns to a 500 billion dollar military vs. a 300 billion dollar military, especially when the purpose of your military is to beat everyone else and the most they spend is 100 billion. Just because the United States is a rich country doesn't mean it's prudent for the United States to waste money on an unnecessarily expensive military. And while the CEO's decision to waste his money is just a sad indication of his personal insecurities, the government deciding to waste everyone's money on tanks and bombs is a gross violation of the public trust.
If only we had reasonable copyright-expiration laws this would actually be a pretty fair idea. Imagine being able to get the entire works of Frank Sinatra (for example) for free, anytime, anywhere.
Most people have a dominant eye. Put the screen in front of the dominant eye and the brain will focus on it, largely disregarding input from the other eye.
Vandalism reversions are too labor-intensive. Just like preventing anons from creating articles, semi-protecting articles known to be vandalism-ridden frees up the time of those who are most dedicated to the project, which is a big help to writing the damn encyclopedia already.
Oh please... your faux-blase act is so commonplace these days it's not even funny.
If you don't like best of the year reviews, then don't bloody read them. If you don't like awards, don't watch the ceremonies. I hate the whole Christmas and end-of-year bullshit as much as the next guy, but that doesn't mean I should feel compelled to go on Slashdot pretending to be assaulted by the entertainment industry against my will and complain about it.
Oh please...your complaining-about-unnecessary-comment act is so commonplace these days it's not even funny.
If you don't like unnecessary, whiny comments, then don't bloody read them. If you don't like inane commentary, don't respond to it. I hate the whole wasting-time-on-Slashdot bullshit as much as the next guy, but that doesn't mean I should feel compelled to read Slashdot comments pretending to be assaulted by their stupidity against my will and complain about it.
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DRM is evil, but open source is good! What is Sun trying to do, rip a hole in the universe by creating a logical paradox?
FACT: Ten year olds have horrible taste.
What I'm waiting for is the next one, the show that only people with bittorrent and their friends actually know about at first, but which gets so popular so quickly that the traditional media organizations find themselves reporting about it without actually understanding it.
Battlestar Galactica?
You do realize that V for Vendetta was a movie, right?
...Or was it?
I don't doubt they were intentional, but it's easier to make puns with a language you recently learned than a language you've known all your life.
No, but we're talking about class, which by definition is hereditary. Although personally I have my doubts that many of these people were worth $30 million prior to being elected, as many of them worked in public service for most of their lives.
Bill Clinton was born into poverty. Ronald Reagan was, as far as I can tell, not born into wealth, nor were Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, and Lyndon Johnson. John F. Kennedy, George Bush, and George W. Bush were all born into wealth. Now, it's true that after these individuals became President, or shortly before, many of them did become wealthy--Reagan through his acting career, Clinton in law. But so far it's been the exception that our presidents were born wealthy.
Puns occur to you more easily when you're learning a second language, because you learn ambiguities and homonyms.
I, for one, am reading Slashdot in class.
I thought a halo was an area of light surrounding Jesus Christ's head.
Shouldn't that be, "fuel cells for mobile phones will be arriving in 2007... in Japan! ?
Because clearly the solution to starving children is to take away jobs from countries that happen to be full of starving children.
Well, hang on just one second. Comparing spending to income makes no sense when your income is so high that spending in proportion to that income completely outstrips any practical need. If you're an engineer making $80,000 a year and you drive a $10,000 car, that's at least reasonable, since your new car value is 12.5% of your annual income. (Not that you necessarily pay it off in one year, just to set up the numbers) If you're a CEO making 8 million dollars a a year, that doesn't make it all that prudent to buy a $750,000 car and turn around and say, "Hey, that engineer is spending a higher percentage of his income on his car than I am on mine!"
There are diminishing returns to a 500 billion dollar military vs. a 300 billion dollar military, especially when the purpose of your military is to beat everyone else and the most they spend is 100 billion. Just because the United States is a rich country doesn't mean it's prudent for the United States to waste money on an unnecessarily expensive military. And while the CEO's decision to waste his money is just a sad indication of his personal insecurities, the government deciding to waste everyone's money on tanks and bombs is a gross violation of the public trust.
So, how long are pedants going to persist in this pointless prescriptivism? The language has changed. Deal with it.
When the language changes to become more ambiguous and less meaningful, those of us with an interest in precise communication can and must complain.
There is no objective information.
Then what do you call that statement? Is the statement "there are no absolute truths" an absolute truth, too?
Any liberal arts major can tell you that.
Any philosophy major can tell you you're full of shit.
I love that "citation needed" note.
As far as I can tell, Mary Shelley never wrote a book titled Bride of Frankenstein.
If only we had reasonable copyright-expiration laws this would actually be a pretty fair idea. Imagine being able to get the entire works of Frank Sinatra (for example) for free, anytime, anywhere.
Microsoft has something like 50,000 employees. That won't even fill many major sports arenas and concert venues.
However, probably for the sake of convenience, Microsoft does hold company meetings in major sports arenas from time to time.
But they don't have citizenship. Foreign nationals, cities, and ships all have legal personhood, but none of them have citizenship.
I think he was playing into the stereotype.
Most people have a dominant eye. Put the screen in front of the dominant eye and the brain will focus on it, largely disregarding input from the other eye.
That was the joke. Good job!
Vandalism reversions are too labor-intensive. Just like preventing anons from creating articles, semi-protecting articles known to be vandalism-ridden frees up the time of those who are most dedicated to the project, which is a big help to writing the damn encyclopedia already.
Oh please... your faux-blase act is so commonplace these days it's not even funny.
If you don't like best of the year reviews, then don't bloody read them. If you don't like awards, don't watch the ceremonies. I hate the whole Christmas and end-of-year bullshit as much as the next guy, but that doesn't mean I should feel compelled to go on Slashdot pretending to be assaulted by the entertainment industry against my will and complain about it.
Oh please...your complaining-about-unnecessary-comment act is so commonplace these days it's not even funny.
If you don't like unnecessary, whiny comments, then don't bloody read them. If you don't like inane commentary, don't respond to it. I hate the whole wasting-time-on-Slashdot bullshit as much as the next guy, but that doesn't mean I should feel compelled to read Slashdot comments pretending to be assaulted by their stupidity against my will and complain about it.