1) I had roommates in college studying to be translators who explained to me how difficult it is to provide "live" translation because you have to speak while still listening to the speaker. If you're sufficiently fluent in both languages, the actual translating almost doesn't factor into it. Similarly, very few people could listen to a handler while speaking to the cameras, hence Dubya's difficulties. The hunching/slouching over the podium seems to be common unconscious body language to people who are concentrating on listening.
2) Generally speaking, since the networks were never interested in audience shots (or it was stipulated that they wouldn't show the audience), they would have no interest in placing cameras behind the candidates: why bother to explicitly stipulate against it unless it was to avoid exposing Dubya's coaching?
3) If he was in fact being coached by radio, he wouldn't clip any devices to his belt because he didn't want to be seen getting help from offstage.
4) The idea of a back massager or heat pad doesn't wash with a "tough guy" image if he couldn't "suck it up" and "take the pain like a man" for 2 hours
The current administration started scaring me before 9/11 and it doesn't help to think that Dubya has to be spoonfed at any/all public appearances, but I'm not sure this is any different or worse than teleprompters, except that they act like they're hiding something (if, in fact, they are)
we're still worrying what to do about asteroids heading our way. maybe well-placed nukes solve that problem, but think about the size of the nuke required to deflect a galaxy heading our way...
comparative literature studies...I preferred studying Emile Zola because because I could compare the translated version to the original french version...careful, that bridge is collapsing under you...
in my case, as well as many of my of my fellow English Lit majors, we were the kids who HAD to read 24/7...until courses required us to cram Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Joyce, etc. like they were forgettable movies-of-the-week and many of us couldn't even stand to read mindless summertime fiction anymore...the hard choice may be deciding do you want to enjoy coding because it puts food on your table or do you want to enjoy it because it remained a hobby...myself and many of my peers chose to find new careers rather than lose the love of reading (coding in your case...)
Even if Linux were as secure as Windows, Windows is the wrong benchmark.
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
I guess he missed the press release from Homeland Security telling us to avoid IE (OK, not quite the same thing, but M$ argues that it is...)
Or maybe it just could be that 30 years ago, ships didn't have satellite-fed info necessary to make the best decisions for riding out a badass winter storm...
theory's criteria of ocean current going against existing storm-created waves likely doesn't apply to Lake Superior...
besides, the Ed-Fitz went down in a major storm, no need to explain it away with "freak waves" when the existing waves were dangerous enough...
Can't remember the author or title, but I read a book that rather methodically debunked Bermuda Triangle stories (i.e. many didn't actually happen in the triangle, occurred in stormy weather, etc.) and found that unexplained disappearances were statistically similar to any other ocean area.
These monster waves would go a long way to explaining many previously unexplained disppearances from any area of the ocean, especially the "spooky" way they disappear w/o so much as an SOS
Or so the alien abductors would have us believe...
don't care if it's better to publicize flaws that need fixing or not...I support corporate reputations in the crapper for releasing the flawed software in the first place...especially if they're going to sell me the repairs as part of an "upgrade"...it's been said before but it's still true: if software were cars, the world would be nearly a ghosttown by now...
yeah, and some people find such laws a gross violation of a woman's rights, regardless of whether they believe the fetus also has rights...others believe that the fetus has rights that supercede those of the mother...point here is that either point of view potentially causes more infringement of personal rights than making me wear a seatbelt so I don't orphan my children...
like most situations where your rights vs. rights of others confilct (well...at least in theory...) it's a judgement of which gives way to the other...force medical treatment on me in order to keep me alive "for the children"? Likely a gross invasion of my individual rights...make me wear a freakin piece of canvas strap and tempered steel buckle? If that's too much sacrifice to demand of me for my kids sake, I shouldn't be a parent in the first place...still not convinced? Walk...
How about this? Are you a parent (or otherwise legally responisible for a dependent)? Should you have the right to deprive your children of parents because you couldn't be bothered to buckle up? The state social services have to pick up the tab until their newly acquired orphans reach age of majority; that's mucho dinero caused by your stupidity...if you're responsible only for yourself, by all means, remove yourself from the gene pool...
never had to ask for extra cup...agree to disagree, I guess, but for Canadiana, you can't top the fact that TH is named for and started by a hockey player...
you go to KK for donuts, so get some coffee while you're there. you go to TH for coffee and mebbe get a snack while you're there...I like donuts, but I *NEED* my coffee...and Tim's is the best...
hmmm....forgot to mention the part about burning the file (ISO?) to disk...the unique file you get only from the creators activates the program...off the top of my head, not foolproof to protect from duped copies, but not likely any worse than purchasing complete program off the shelf...
you can download a game direct from creators, official/unofficial mirror, or better yet save bandwidth expenses and P2P it. All you would pay for is the unique activation file the creators e-mail you upon confirmation of receipt of payment. You've got tangible game, they've got your money. You paid less than retail for comparable game, they made greater profit margin by direct-selling. If you can't/won't do that, they mail you a CD for slightly higher price, probably at or below retail prices...It's like Led Zeppelin never having real success on commercial radio...if you're good enough, you don't need traditional marketing paths...
What about us shifty-eyed Canadians? We don't need missiles, we can just walk across the border to attack...Better nuke the hell out of us while our hockey stick arsenal program is in it's infancy...Hussein and bin Laden were once your allies against the Russians in Afghanistan can you really afford to wait until we turn on you too?
I'm all for including other deity names from other cultures, but for the sake of consistency, the new object (planet, comet, asteroid, whatever) should have a Roman name...it's not like there aren't enough objects elsewhere to be culturally sensitive...
doesn't that open him up to potentially be tried and convicted multiple times for the same crime? If he makes one song from the Warner label available and Warner US has him extradited for copyright charges, then should Warner Canada, Warner Germany, etc. get to prosecute him? Odds are that the one song violated copyrights in multiple jurisdictions, but he really still committed one single illegal act (in my example). I'm not even sure that if I commit murder while abroad that I can be sentenced by both my home country and the country I visit...
if this is in fact a potential precedent being set then the ramifications are immense, even IF all countries agreed to extradite upon request...
Have all these restrictions at my house too...problem is that there's so much crap out there that I'm always answering questions about what to do...it's just easier to wipe and reload every few weeks...so far (knock wood) we haven't run into any detructive virii that destroy data, just spam, spyware and resource-hogging "apps"
"Does Johnny Lunchpail really have a clue what is pre-installed on his $499 WinXP beige-o-rama?"
More importantly, does Johnny Lunchpail have the slightest idea how patch software flaws that may have been public knowledge months before he bought his box?
"The Orwellian problem arises with asymmetric intelligence"
Asymetric intelligence would (is?) certainly a problem, but allowing everyone to spy on everyone is a pyrrhic victory. I don't WANT to know what everyone else is doing.
If I want to be seen, I'll alert the media and see if anyone gives a rat's ass what I'm doing. Until then, I don't need the whole world knowing that I'm a guy who reads Danielle Steele novels while suntanning...(or whatever...)
nevermind Area 51; how long until Big Brother is buzzing you with mini Predators? makes ya think twice about sunbathing...unless you're feeling exhibitionist...
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1) I had roommates in college studying to be translators who explained to me how difficult it is to provide "live" translation because you have to speak while still listening to the speaker. If you're sufficiently fluent in both languages, the actual translating almost doesn't factor into it. Similarly, very few people could listen to a handler while speaking to the cameras, hence Dubya's difficulties. The hunching/slouching over the podium seems to be common unconscious body language to people who are concentrating on listening.
2) Generally speaking, since the networks were never interested in audience shots (or it was stipulated that they wouldn't show the audience), they would have no interest in placing cameras behind the candidates: why bother to explicitly stipulate against it unless it was to avoid exposing Dubya's coaching?
3) If he was in fact being coached by radio, he wouldn't clip any devices to his belt because he didn't want to be seen getting help from offstage.
4) The idea of a back massager or heat pad doesn't wash with a "tough guy" image if he couldn't "suck it up" and "take the pain like a man" for 2 hours
The current administration started scaring me before 9/11 and it doesn't help to think that Dubya has to be spoonfed at any/all public appearances, but I'm not sure this is any different or worse than teleprompters, except that they act like they're hiding something (if, in fact, they are)
and you just spent more time being a cryptic ass than you would have spent enlightening us
That's exactly what they're doing now...fsck Jeanne, the sky is falling par Toutatis!
we're still worrying what to do about asteroids heading our way. maybe well-placed nukes solve that problem, but think about the size of the nuke required to deflect a galaxy heading our way...
comparative literature studies...I preferred studying Emile Zola because because I could compare the translated version to the original french version...careful, that bridge is collapsing under you...
in my case, as well as many of my of my fellow English Lit majors, we were the kids who HAD to read 24/7...until courses required us to cram Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Joyce, etc. like they were forgettable movies-of-the-week and many of us couldn't even stand to read mindless summertime fiction anymore...the hard choice may be deciding do you want to enjoy coding because it puts food on your table or do you want to enjoy it because it remained a hobby...myself and many of my peers chose to find new careers rather than lose the love of reading (coding in your case...)
Even if Linux were as secure as Windows, Windows is the wrong benchmark.
BWAHAHAHAHA!!! I guess he missed the press release from Homeland Security telling us to avoid IE (OK, not quite the same thing, but M$ argues that it is...)
Or maybe it just could be that 30 years ago, ships didn't have satellite-fed info necessary to make the best decisions for riding out a badass winter storm... theory's criteria of ocean current going against existing storm-created waves likely doesn't apply to Lake Superior... besides, the Ed-Fitz went down in a major storm, no need to explain it away with "freak waves" when the existing waves were dangerous enough...
Can't remember the author or title, but I read a book that rather methodically debunked Bermuda Triangle stories (i.e. many didn't actually happen in the triangle, occurred in stormy weather, etc.) and found that unexplained disappearances were statistically similar to any other ocean area. These monster waves would go a long way to explaining many previously unexplained disppearances from any area of the ocean, especially the "spooky" way they disappear w/o so much as an SOS Or so the alien abductors would have us believe...
don't care if it's better to publicize flaws that need fixing or not...I support corporate reputations in the crapper for releasing the flawed software in the first place...especially if they're going to sell me the repairs as part of an "upgrade"...it's been said before but it's still true: if software were cars, the world would be nearly a ghosttown by now...
yeah, and some people find such laws a gross violation of a woman's rights, regardless of whether they believe the fetus also has rights...others believe that the fetus has rights that supercede those of the mother...point here is that either point of view potentially causes more infringement of personal rights than making me wear a seatbelt so I don't orphan my children...
like most situations where your rights vs. rights of others confilct (well...at least in theory...) it's a judgement of which gives way to the other...force medical treatment on me in order to keep me alive "for the children"? Likely a gross invasion of my individual rights...make me wear a freakin piece of canvas strap and tempered steel buckle? If that's too much sacrifice to demand of me for my kids sake, I shouldn't be a parent in the first place...still not convinced? Walk...
How about this? Are you a parent (or otherwise legally responisible for a dependent)? Should you have the right to deprive your children of parents because you couldn't be bothered to buckle up? The state social services have to pick up the tab until their newly acquired orphans reach age of majority; that's mucho dinero caused by your stupidity...if you're responsible only for yourself, by all means, remove yourself from the gene pool...
never had to ask for extra cup...agree to disagree, I guess, but for Canadiana, you can't top the fact that TH is named for and started by a hockey player...
you go to KK for donuts, so get some coffee while you're there. you go to TH for coffee and mebbe get a snack while you're there...I like donuts, but I *NEED* my coffee...and Tim's is the best...
wouldn't most spammers also have computers so the endless-loop-of-black-paper-trick wouldn't amount to anything but spam (annoying, but not costly)?
hmmm....forgot to mention the part about burning the file (ISO?) to disk...the unique file you get only from the creators activates the program...off the top of my head, not foolproof to protect from duped copies, but not likely any worse than purchasing complete program off the shelf...
you can download a game direct from creators, official/unofficial mirror, or better yet save bandwidth expenses and P2P it. All you would pay for is the unique activation file the creators e-mail you upon confirmation of receipt of payment. You've got tangible game, they've got your money. You paid less than retail for comparable game, they made greater profit margin by direct-selling. If you can't/won't do that, they mail you a CD for slightly higher price, probably at or below retail prices...It's like Led Zeppelin never having real success on commercial radio...if you're good enough, you don't need traditional marketing paths...
What about us shifty-eyed Canadians? We don't need missiles, we can just walk across the border to attack...Better nuke the hell out of us while our hockey stick arsenal program is in it's infancy...Hussein and bin Laden were once your allies against the Russians in Afghanistan can you really afford to wait until we turn on you too?
I'm all for including other deity names from other cultures, but for the sake of consistency, the new object (planet, comet, asteroid, whatever) should have a Roman name...it's not like there aren't enough objects elsewhere to be culturally sensitive...
doesn't that open him up to potentially be tried and convicted multiple times for the same crime? If he makes one song from the Warner label available and Warner US has him extradited for copyright charges, then should Warner Canada, Warner Germany, etc. get to prosecute him? Odds are that the one song violated copyrights in multiple jurisdictions, but he really still committed one single illegal act (in my example). I'm not even sure that if I commit murder while abroad that I can be sentenced by both my home country and the country I visit... if this is in fact a potential precedent being set then the ramifications are immense, even IF all countries agreed to extradite upon request...
Have all these restrictions at my house too...problem is that there's so much crap out there that I'm always answering questions about what to do...it's just easier to wipe and reload every few weeks...so far (knock wood) we haven't run into any detructive virii that destroy data, just spam, spyware and resource-hogging "apps"
More importantly, does Johnny Lunchpail have the slightest idea how patch software flaws that may have been public knowledge months before he bought his box?
"The Orwellian problem arises with asymmetric intelligence" Asymetric intelligence would (is?) certainly a problem, but allowing everyone to spy on everyone is a pyrrhic victory. I don't WANT to know what everyone else is doing. If I want to be seen, I'll alert the media and see if anyone gives a rat's ass what I'm doing. Until then, I don't need the whole world knowing that I'm a guy who reads Danielle Steele novels while suntanning...(or whatever...)
nevermind Area 51; how long until Big Brother is buzzing you with mini Predators? makes ya think twice about sunbathing...unless you're feeling exhibitionist...