Heck, having one standard language would be nice, we could invent one and call it the Common (French... too complicated. English... too ambiguous. Chinese... again, too complicated. Japanese... same problem with Chinese since they use some Chinese characters.). Hm... Tolkien's Elvish...
Esperanto was invented to be used as a "universal second language". The idea is, everyone would speak their own native language, but also Esperanto as a second language. This is to prevent any inequality in language skill between native and non-native speakers. As another aid, Esperanto was designed to be easy to learn and use.
Who the fuck cares about market share? If you lower prices and gain market share, you don't necessarily make more money. And you lower product quality and therefore the value of the brand.
Not only was he Sarek and the Romulan commander, he was also the Klingon captain in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, being the only actor in Star Trek history to play a Vulcan, a Romulan, and a Klingon.
Another thing is StarFleet itself. The 60s show had a mostly all white, crew-cut, "Right Stuff", NASA with bigger ships ethic. Women went around in mini-skirts bringing coffee.
TOS was one of the first TV shows with a multiracial cast playing international characters. One of the more important characters, Uhura, was a black woman, while Sulu was Asian. Martin Luther King himself told Nichelle Nichols, the actress who played Uhura, how important her presence on the show was to the civil rights movement. For its day, TOS was pioneering. And Roddenberry's original idea (which was rejected by NBC) was to have the First Officer be an emotionless woman played by Majel Barrett. This character was later merged into Spock.
and an unavoidable problem without out making actors playing aliens have to emit nonsense phrases with sub-titles
That's what the Klingons in Star Trek do. Except they went an invented an actual Klingon language later on. It was just the first movie where they used made-up phrases.
Most of the Romulans in Balance of Terror wear ear-hiding helmets due to the low budget for prosthetic makeup in TOS. And, since the mutation that caused the forehead ridges of TNG-era Romulans hadn't occurred by Balance of Terror, they could get away with it, potentially.
He WAS writing a TV episode. Star Trek: The Motion Picture was adapted from the pilot episode of Star Trek: Phase II, a second Star Trek series featuring the original cast (sans Nimoy) that never got off the ground.
Anyway, why are hot burglaries so low in the US? Ask a criminal, it's because they don't want to get shot. Why are hot burglaries so high in the UK? Because people don't own firearms.
It's a common shortcut for Westerners to talk about Africa instead of the separate unique countries. I'm not going to excuse it, but it's far from inexplicable. While Africa is certainly filled with many diverse and interesting countries and peoples, Westerners for the most part don't normally deal with single African countries because it's not usual for a single African country to come to our attention prominently.
When they do, though, we do take notice. South Africa has a national identity to us thanks to the controversy over apartheid, Nigeria has a national identity to us thanks to the Nigerian scam (which is unfortunate, and according to a Nigerian lady I once spoke to is very bad for the country's reputation), and, in a more limited sense, Zimbabwe has a national identity to us thanks to Mugabe and the various controversies there. Rwanda and Sudan have come to Western attention due to genocides there. Egypt, Libya, and Morocco similarly have national identities to Westerners for similar reasons.
Broadly speaking, we have a society that is divided into those who 'own' and those who don't. For the majority of society, that is not the owners, life is structured around working to survive.
When something is done in a new and more efficient way then in a sense, society benefits. However, those who really benefit are 'owning' segment of the population, not the 'workers.'
The "purpose" of the economy? The economy doesn't have a purpose, it just is. By "the economy" we mean "the way that resources are managed, distributed, and produced within society". Now, if you meant the purpose of capitalism you may or may not be right.
I would like to see whether incomes follow a standard Bell curve - I imagine they do, but if not then incomes for such as Gates and Allen, et al. might be skewing the median up
Take a statistics class. The incomes of Gates and Allen would severely skew the mean, but they wouldn't skew the median any more than if they made only half of what they were making.
For the sake of illustration, let's consider a series of numbers and pretend they represent the incomes of everyone in the Unites States: 7500, 12,000, 20,000, 34,000, 34,000, 36,000, 52,000, 52,000. 53,000, 53,000, 76,000, 76,000, 120,000, 300,000, 400,000,000. The mean of that set of numbers is going to be around 27 million, so that income of 400 million severely skewed the mean. However, the median is going to be 52,000. If that 400,000,000 figure was merely 52,000 that median income would be exactly the same.
This is the purpose of using the median. Outliers may skew the mean, but they don't unduly influence the median.
I work at IT at Washington State University. Our campus internet connections (one university-owned apartment complex, the dorms, and the fraternities and sororities) are all managed by IT. Connections are regulated by MAC address--students provide their MAC address to us and we certify them onto the network. DHCP assigns a specific IP to one MAC address per student (if the student has multiple computers, each MAC address after the first is randomly assigned a dynamic IP). This allows us to disconnect any student who we notice excessive bandwidth from. This lets us catch most viruses as well as most file sharing (RIAA also provides us with IP addresses that they catch, we disconnect them). When disconnected, the student is required to have their computer cleared of whatever was causing the bandwidth violation (and, in case of file sharing, properly "re-educated" about the vagaries of copyright).
I can't tell you how many dumb students go and get their computers infected with viruses because they haven't ever patched Windows. Now, if it wasn't for our policy of charging students for doing work on their machines when they get them infected with viruses or something like that, we would love this. As it is now, we just turn it into a revenue stream.
We do, however, require students to use antivirus software (we have a site license for AVG and distribute it promiscuously) and to keep their computers up to date. This is part of what justifies us charging them when they don't and end up getting infected as a result. If it continues to be a problem, Student Affairs penalizes them further.
We have essentially the same policies for filesharing, and will enforce them at the request of RIAA. In fact, our penalties for filesharing are higher. So this isn't that much more strict than what we do at WSU.
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3.5 G's is a rather moderate number for a fighter pilot. It's not like it's at the upper reaches of human endurance. Yes, you need a G suit because at 4 G's unsuited you start to go into blackout territory, but it's certainly not any real problem for an astronaut.
Semi-auto weapons are much more dangerous then bolt-action weapons for two basic reasons. First of all, with a bolt-action weapon you have to use one of your hands to reload the weapon. In doing so, you loose aim and thusly, have to spend a extra time to re-aim the weapon. Just try firing 10 rounds into a target with a semi-automatic weapon vs a bolt-action and you'll see the difference. The semi-automatic is at least twice as fast.
This may surprise you, but I have. And it's a lot easier to get more accuracy with the bolt-action. If you HAVE to aim again after each shot, you're going to be more accurate, and accuracy is a lot more dangerous than a high rate of fire.
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Heck, having one standard language would be nice, we could invent one and call it the Common (French... too complicated. English... too ambiguous. Chinese... again, too complicated. Japanese... same problem with Chinese since they use some Chinese characters.). Hm... Tolkien's Elvish...
Esperanto was invented to be used as a "universal second language". The idea is, everyone would speak their own native language, but also Esperanto as a second language. This is to prevent any inequality in language skill between native and non-native speakers. As another aid, Esperanto was designed to be easy to learn and use.
So reform the jury system and call impartial technical experts for jury duty in patent cases.
Yeah, I've also heard Columbia named as one of the top five. So perhaps there are more than five top five business schools.
Only if they graduate from Harvard, Yale, Wharton, Stanford, or some other top 5 school.
;)
Couldn't bring yourself to name number 5, eh?
Well, then you seem to have meant it in the classical, and not the Marxist sense. My apologies.
mass-produced works that the bourgeoise could purchase.
The bourgeoisie is the evil industrial class that has to be overthrown. I think you mean the proletariat
Would that mean you didn't actually read Marx? Oh, the irony!
Who the fuck cares about market share? If you lower prices and gain market share, you don't necessarily make more money. And you lower product quality and therefore the value of the brand.
Not only was he Sarek and the Romulan commander, he was also the Klingon captain in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, being the only actor in Star Trek history to play a Vulcan, a Romulan, and a Klingon.
Not to mention the voice of the Enterprise computer.
Another thing is StarFleet itself. The 60s show had a mostly all white, crew-cut, "Right Stuff", NASA with bigger ships ethic. Women went around in mini-skirts bringing coffee.
TOS was one of the first TV shows with a multiracial cast playing international characters. One of the more important characters, Uhura, was a black woman, while Sulu was Asian. Martin Luther King himself told Nichelle Nichols, the actress who played Uhura, how important her presence on the show was to the civil rights movement. For its day, TOS was pioneering. And Roddenberry's original idea (which was rejected by NBC) was to have the First Officer be an emotionless woman played by Majel Barrett. This character was later merged into Spock.
and an unavoidable problem without out making actors playing aliens have to emit nonsense phrases with sub-titles
That's what the Klingons in Star Trek do. Except they went an invented an actual Klingon language later on. It was just the first movie where they used made-up phrases.
3: Big helmets!
Most of the Romulans in Balance of Terror wear ear-hiding helmets due to the low budget for prosthetic makeup in TOS. And, since the mutation that caused the forehead ridges of TNG-era Romulans hadn't occurred by Balance of Terror, they could get away with it, potentially.
He WAS writing a TV episode. Star Trek: The Motion Picture was adapted from the pilot episode of Star Trek: Phase II, a second Star Trek series featuring the original cast (sans Nimoy) that never got off the ground.
No, we were discussing this quote
Anyway, why are hot burglaries so low in the US? Ask a criminal, it's because they don't want to get shot. Why are hot burglaries so high in the UK? Because people don't own firearms.
Pay attention, AC.
If you're attempting an armed robbery of my home, and you die from gunshot wounds in the process, that's a good thing.
...either spammers will stop sending us all worthless junk email or the United States will lead a coalition of the willing to stop them.
It's a common shortcut for Westerners to talk about Africa instead of the separate unique countries. I'm not going to excuse it, but it's far from inexplicable. While Africa is certainly filled with many diverse and interesting countries and peoples, Westerners for the most part don't normally deal with single African countries because it's not usual for a single African country to come to our attention prominently.
When they do, though, we do take notice. South Africa has a national identity to us thanks to the controversy over apartheid, Nigeria has a national identity to us thanks to the Nigerian scam (which is unfortunate, and according to a Nigerian lady I once spoke to is very bad for the country's reputation), and, in a more limited sense, Zimbabwe has a national identity to us thanks to Mugabe and the various controversies there. Rwanda and Sudan have come to Western attention due to genocides there. Egypt, Libya, and Morocco similarly have national identities to Westerners for similar reasons.
I suspect this is the reason that some people like the idea of software patents.
Actually, DVD doesn't stand for anything. Source.
Broadly speaking, we have a society that is divided into those who 'own' and those who don't. For the majority of society, that is not the owners, life is structured around working to survive.
When something is done in a new and more efficient way then in a sense, society benefits. However, those who really benefit are 'owning' segment of the population, not the 'workers.'
Thank you, Karl Marx.
The "purpose" of the economy? The economy doesn't have a purpose, it just is. By "the economy" we mean "the way that resources are managed, distributed, and produced within society". Now, if you meant the purpose of capitalism you may or may not be right.
I would like to see whether incomes follow a standard Bell curve - I imagine they do, but if not then incomes for such as Gates and Allen, et al. might be skewing the median up
Take a statistics class. The incomes of Gates and Allen would severely skew the mean, but they wouldn't skew the median any more than if they made only half of what they were making.
For the sake of illustration, let's consider a series of numbers and pretend they represent the incomes of everyone in the Unites States: 7500, 12,000, 20,000, 34,000, 34,000, 36,000, 52,000, 52,000. 53,000, 53,000, 76,000, 76,000, 120,000, 300,000, 400,000,000. The mean of that set of numbers is going to be around 27 million, so that income of 400 million severely skewed the mean. However, the median is going to be 52,000. If that 400,000,000 figure was merely 52,000 that median income would be exactly the same .
This is the purpose of using the median. Outliers may skew the mean, but they don't unduly influence the median.
I work at IT at Washington State University. Our campus internet connections (one university-owned apartment complex, the dorms, and the fraternities and sororities) are all managed by IT. Connections are regulated by MAC address--students provide their MAC address to us and we certify them onto the network. DHCP assigns a specific IP to one MAC address per student (if the student has multiple computers, each MAC address after the first is randomly assigned a dynamic IP). This allows us to disconnect any student who we notice excessive bandwidth from. This lets us catch most viruses as well as most file sharing (RIAA also provides us with IP addresses that they catch, we disconnect them). When disconnected, the student is required to have their computer cleared of whatever was causing the bandwidth violation (and, in case of file sharing, properly "re-educated" about the vagaries of copyright).
I can't tell you how many dumb students go and get their computers infected with viruses because they haven't ever patched Windows. Now, if it wasn't for our policy of charging students for doing work on their machines when they get them infected with viruses or something like that, we would love this. As it is now, we just turn it into a revenue stream.
We do, however, require students to use antivirus software (we have a site license for AVG and distribute it promiscuously) and to keep their computers up to date. This is part of what justifies us charging them when they don't and end up getting infected as a result. If it continues to be a problem, Student Affairs penalizes them further.
We have essentially the same policies for filesharing, and will enforce them at the request of RIAA. In fact, our penalties for filesharing are higher. So this isn't that much more strict than what we do at WSU.
pwelch@gmail.com.
Just kidding.
3.5 G's is a rather moderate number for a fighter pilot. It's not like it's at the upper reaches of human endurance. Yes, you need a G suit because at 4 G's unsuited you start to go into blackout territory, but it's certainly not any real problem for an astronaut.
Semi-auto weapons are much more dangerous then bolt-action weapons for two basic reasons. First of all, with a bolt-action weapon you have to use one of your hands to reload the weapon. In doing so, you loose aim and thusly, have to spend a extra time to re-aim the weapon. Just try firing 10 rounds into a target with a semi-automatic weapon vs a bolt-action and you'll see the difference. The semi-automatic is at least twice as fast.
This may surprise you, but I have. And it's a lot easier to get more accuracy with the bolt-action. If you HAVE to aim again after each shot, you're going to be more accurate, and accuracy is a lot more dangerous than a high rate of fire.