Yes, but he was replying to a comment about the South.
Fine, maybe he knows geography, but is unable to follow a thread of conversation without introducing a knee-jerk reflex defense of his own state and/or region, which wasn't even mentioned by the parent poster.
And, by the way, who does extensive research into which states allow marriage between cousins? Most likely someone who was hoping to marry his cousin.
How many scientists were writing papers on General Relativity in 1870? None. Therefore, General Relativity is not science.
Look, ID is total crap, but arguing against it based on faulty reasoning is just as bad as blindly accepting it. And, by the way, there are scientists who favor ID, including a tenuered asshat at Lehigh who testified in the trial in Dover. His existence doesn't make ID science, any more than having no "scientists" who are proponents of an idea makes it not science.
Whether an idea is scientific or not is determined by its content, not by an appeal to the authority of those who support the idea.
A lens of the size that will fit into a cellphone is never going to be good enough to take very good pictures. The quality is not a function of materials, but of size. The lenses on a dSLR aren't huge because people like their cameras to look impressive. You can build a really tiny 10 megapixel CCD that can work with a 6mm focal length and a lens that's a couple of millimeters in diameter, and end up with some really horrible-looking "high quality" pictures.
You clearly don't understand limits, or math in general. The speed of light is nowhere near infinite. It takes eight minutes for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth. That's a pretty damn long time compared to 0.
By your reckoning, the United States' national debt is some spooky transfinite number, right?
When merchants start asking me to see my passport before they'll sell me anything, I'm moving to a unabomber-style shack in the woods and never talking to another human being again.
After reading this very insightful article summary, I was planning to completely replace all of the ductwork in my house on the assumption that air can't go around corners. You just saved me several thousand dollars.
I don't care what the courts say, I kind of doubt James Madison was thinking "freedom to bribe officials as much as you want" when he wrote "right to speak" in his draft proposal for the first amendment. Money isn't speech.
Bloggers shouldn't be restricted in what they write. However, the people giving money to politicians so those politicians will do their bidding should be thrown in prison.
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Read the US Code. Excerpts for the purpose to commentary and criticism are explicitly exempt under the "fair use" provisions of US copyright law. Reviews are most certainly not illegal.
As for web indexing, that's debatable. I think you'd probably have the law on your side if you tried suing Google for violating the copyright on your web pages, and the fact that you don't explicitly opt out of their indexing with a robots.txt shouldn't make a bit of difference.
Note that I'm not a lawyer, and the lawyers you'd have to hire to make this case would almost certainly cost you more than the damages you'd get from Google if you won it.
In the United States, there's no law that ensures the right of a publisher or an author to make a sale. There is a law that protects the right to make copies.
This is not a difficult concept. You may think that the "right" to make a sale should be more important than the "right" to make a copy, but the legislature so far hasn't agreed with you.
I'm quite happily married to a non-geek wife, thank you very much.
I'm not judging your actions. I don't expect you to demand that you wife boycott companies with bad websites.
However, the fact that she, like most other people, doesn't care how bad the website is shows that it's pretty much a hopeless cause to write complaint letters about the websites in question. The people running them know that you wife doesn't care if she has to use IE. They know that 99% of their potential customers care more about being able to make their purchase than they do about whether they're forced to use a Microsoft product. If every single person who does care about browser choice and good use of web standards boycotts a business, they're hardly going to lose a significant amount of their revenue.
And right there you've demonstrated why they'll never change.
Most people don't care, and never will. They don't want to here about why IE-only support is a problem, they just want the web to work right, so they'll keep using IE, and sites will feel free to keep coding exclusively for IE.
Do you think they care if they get a letter from someone who wasn't going to buy from them anyway, as long as they make a sale despite the incident mentioned in the letter?
Please give me the root password to your machine. I want to use it to host a website. Failure to do so infringes upon my right to free speech.
You have no right to have your speech hosted for free. Having the government impose a fee for bloggers would be a violation of free speech rights. Google/Blogspot doing it wouldn't.
It's not inherently dumb to change the dates when DST ends. It's dumb for one neighbor to do it without the other one also doing it, as it will lead to all kinds of confusion.
The Canadians should be annoyed at the American government for deciding to do something like this without at least bilateral (and preferably international support), and there would be some satisfaction in telling the US "screw you, we're not your lapdogs." But acting stubbornly in international relations is only likely to make things worse, not better, in a lot of situations.
If you drive across timezones, the time difference is the same no matter when you're doing it. Even in Arizona and parts of Indiana where DST is not observed, you know that the time difference will be the same during the whole summer and during the whole winter.
However, if the US changes when DST takes effect by a couple of weeks, things start to get confusing. Why should people crossing between New York and Ontario need to figure out if the time is exatly the same like it is 48 weeks out of the year, or whether it just got either one hour earlier or later during the other 4 weeks?
The US making a unilateral change is dumb and confusing. For Canada not to follow it would be just as dumb.
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Fine, maybe he knows geography, but is unable to follow a thread of conversation without introducing a knee-jerk reflex defense of his own state and/or region, which wasn't even mentioned by the parent poster.
And, by the way, who does extensive research into which states allow marriage between cousins? Most likely someone who was hoping to marry his cousin.
If you live in Ohio and think it's part of the South, I don't think anyone here is going to feel bad about thinking you're an uneducated hick.
Or are you just making stuff up? Oh the horrors of being an oppressed wealthy white man.
...because tyrannical, capitalist, freedom-fearing corporations are much better.
Start speaking Cherokee instead of English, or shut the fuck up.
Right. People work two jobs because they're proud of their work ethic, not because they don't want to live under a bridge and starve to death.
Look, ID is total crap, but arguing against it based on faulty reasoning is just as bad as blindly accepting it. And, by the way, there are scientists who favor ID, including a tenuered asshat at Lehigh who testified in the trial in Dover. His existence doesn't make ID science, any more than having no "scientists" who are proponents of an idea makes it not science.
Whether an idea is scientific or not is determined by its content, not by an appeal to the authority of those who support the idea.
Umm, "Lindows" is not the same word as "Windows". Your analogy couldn't possibly be more flawed.
A lens of the size that will fit into a cellphone is never going to be good enough to take very good pictures. The quality is not a function of materials, but of size. The lenses on a dSLR aren't huge because people like their cameras to look impressive. You can build a really tiny 10 megapixel CCD that can work with a 6mm focal length and a lens that's a couple of millimeters in diameter, and end up with some really horrible-looking "high quality" pictures.
By your reckoning, the United States' national debt is some spooky transfinite number, right?
When merchants start asking me to see my passport before they'll sell me anything, I'm moving to a unabomber-style shack in the woods and never talking to another human being again.
After reading this very insightful article summary, I was planning to completely replace all of the ductwork in my house on the assumption that air can't go around corners. You just saved me several thousand dollars.
Actions in Congress are so carefully pre-planned and scripted that no one even bothers to show up most of the time.
I don't care what the courts say, I kind of doubt James Madison was thinking "freedom to bribe officials as much as you want" when he wrote "right to speak" in his draft proposal for the first amendment. Money isn't speech.
Bloggers shouldn't be restricted in what they write. However, the people giving money to politicians so those politicians will do their bidding should be thrown in prison.
As for web indexing, that's debatable. I think you'd probably have the law on your side if you tried suing Google for violating the copyright on your web pages, and the fact that you don't explicitly opt out of their indexing with a robots.txt shouldn't make a bit of difference.
Note that I'm not a lawyer, and the lawyers you'd have to hire to make this case would almost certainly cost you more than the damages you'd get from Google if you won it.
This is not a difficult concept. You may think that the "right" to make a sale should be more important than the "right" to make a copy, but the legislature so far hasn't agreed with you.
That hardly proves that it can't be done; people used to see no way that a plane could possibly go faster than sound.
but yes, there's a link. Your full-text access may vary.
I'm not judging your actions. I don't expect you to demand that you wife boycott companies with bad websites.
However, the fact that she, like most other people, doesn't care how bad the website is shows that it's pretty much a hopeless cause to write complaint letters about the websites in question. The people running them know that you wife doesn't care if she has to use IE. They know that 99% of their potential customers care more about being able to make their purchase than they do about whether they're forced to use a Microsoft product. If every single person who does care about browser choice and good use of web standards boycotts a business, they're hardly going to lose a significant amount of their revenue.
Most people don't care, and never will. They don't want to here about why IE-only support is a problem, they just want the web to work right, so they'll keep using IE, and sites will feel free to keep coding exclusively for IE.
Do you think they care if they get a letter from someone who wasn't going to buy from them anyway, as long as they make a sale despite the incident mentioned in the letter?
You have no right to have your speech hosted for free. Having the government impose a fee for bloggers would be a violation of free speech rights. Google/Blogspot doing it wouldn't.
The Canadians should be annoyed at the American government for deciding to do something like this without at least bilateral (and preferably international support), and there would be some satisfaction in telling the US "screw you, we're not your lapdogs." But acting stubbornly in international relations is only likely to make things worse, not better, in a lot of situations.
Yes, it's quite a shame that you can't do object oriented programming in PHP.
However, if the US changes when DST takes effect by a couple of weeks, things start to get confusing. Why should people crossing between New York and Ontario need to figure out if the time is exatly the same like it is 48 weeks out of the year, or whether it just got either one hour earlier or later during the other 4 weeks?
The US making a unilateral change is dumb and confusing. For Canada not to follow it would be just as dumb.
When did we redefine spam as anything pointless?