Yes, exactly. I once spoke with a rep from Macrovision who exclaimed that the purpose of their analog copy protection was to stop housewives from making copies with two VCRs.
How many years did you have to transition your floppies? And it can still be done, if the will is there.
If media really bothers you, don't use media--use a hard drive, flash drive etc. It will be a long time before the USB interface is no longer available, and yet again you'll have plenty of time to transition...
The main point being, don't let your memories gather dust for a decade--actively maintain them!
Nope -- by selectively blocking this site specifically, it IS a first amendment issue. Had they blocked *all* political sites, or all sites outside the capitol intranet, etc. then it wouldn't have been a violation of the 1st amendment...
Exactly--if there was some actual goal (need to get product to X state for some real-world deadline) it would be reasonable for people to put in extra hours... It would also be reasonable to reward people for doing so...
While I don't claim to have published original research in linguistics, I am at least capable of making and defending claims based upon facts and personal knowledge...
When a read of slashdot objects to something in a comment, there are the following levels of response one can make:
1. Anonymously attack the comment's author in a generic personal attack, devoid of context . . . 7. Make a specific claim of factual error . . . 13. Politely, publicly, cite specific fallacies, offering references to to back up a counter-claim
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader where Anonymous Coward's comment fits in.
I stand by my comments (with exception to my *previously posted* correction)...
There are Sinitic languages that do not use Hangul.
The Japanese copied Hangul to apply to equivalent words in the unrelated Japanese language. In a similar way, the Vikings' runic alphabet was copied from Latin, but we do not say the Vikings used a dialect of Latin...
But yes, Mandarin and Cantonese, as well as their common written language, do dominate, but are far from universal.
TFA makes some obvious mistakes in its assumptions:
- There is not ONE "Chinese language" but many separate *languages* (note I did not write "dialects")
- The quotients based entirely on the count of native speakers is not entirely relevant
- There are more proficient, regular users of English than Mandarin (largest "Chinese language") in the world
- Internet penetration by language proficiency is not at all uniform
This all makes the basis of the "yellow scare tactics" employed by TFA rather meaningless.
It reminds me of the reporting in San Francisco during the time I lived here over how "Asians" were going to "supplant whites" as the majority ethnicity in SF. This was true, iff your definition of "majority" meant "largest minority", and your definitions of ethnicity exclude all "Hispanics" from being "white", "Asians" to include "Pacific Islanders" etc.
My lawnmower is electric and surprisingly quiet. Maybe I'll be forced to add artificial noise to this as well? Or maybe blow some artificial smoke for the hearing impaired?
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Uh, how is it "illegal streaming" if it's not covered by criminal law?
Yes, exactly. I once spoke with a rep from Macrovision who exclaimed that the purpose of their analog copy protection was to stop housewives from making copies with two VCRs.
How many years did you have to transition your floppies? And it can still be done, if the will is there.
If media really bothers you, don't use media--use a hard drive, flash drive etc. It will be a long time before the USB interface is no longer available, and yet again you'll have plenty of time to transition...
The main point being, don't let your memories gather dust for a decade--actively maintain them!
Especially on Linux systems with more than 23 physical drives!
Why does the government have this expectation that technology should be built in order to make it easy to spy on citizens?
Nope -- by selectively blocking this site specifically, it IS a first amendment issue. Had they blocked *all* political sites, or all sites outside the capitol intranet, etc. then it wouldn't have been a violation of the 1st amendment...
Hear, hear! I did a quick taste test and found component cable transmission just gives that fuzzy analog feel (for good reason). HDMI is so crisp...
Article actually states 1.38l for 100km... Google "1.38l/100km in mpg" 170.44535 miles per (US) gallon...
I wrote "conservative" not "libertarian". Big difference--the former approves of strong government control over the people.
it won't pass SCOTUS, even despite being stacked with conservative ideologues.
I don't know of any chemical reactions that yield copper from nickel...
Southerners!
Head up to the Nordic countries...
Definitely faster than an Intel 8086.
Exactly--if there was some actual goal (need to get product to X state for some real-world deadline) it would be reasonable for people to put in extra hours... It would also be reasonable to reward people for doing so...
While I don't claim to have published original research in linguistics, I am at least capable of making and defending claims based upon facts and personal knowledge...
When a read of slashdot objects to something in a comment, there are the following levels of response one can make:
1. Anonymously attack the comment's author in a generic personal attack, devoid of context
.
.
.
7. Make a specific claim of factual error
.
.
.
13. Politely, publicly, cite specific fallacies, offering references to to back up a counter-claim
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader where Anonymous Coward's comment fits in.
I stand by my comments (with exception to my *previously posted* correction)...
My apologies. You are correct... I was improperly using the incorrect Korean term for Hànzì / Chinese characters / sinographs. Double-my-bad...
Yes and no...
There are Sinitic languages that do not use Hangul.
The Japanese copied Hangul to apply to equivalent words in the unrelated Japanese language. In a similar way, the Vikings' runic alphabet was copied from Latin, but we do not say the Vikings used a dialect of Latin...
But yes, Mandarin and Cantonese, as well as their common written language, do dominate, but are far from universal.
Not even quantity.
TFA makes some obvious mistakes in its assumptions:
- There is not ONE "Chinese language" but many separate *languages* (note I did not write "dialects")
- The quotients based entirely on the count of native speakers is not entirely relevant
- There are more proficient, regular users of English than Mandarin (largest "Chinese language") in the world
- Internet penetration by language proficiency is not at all uniform
This all makes the basis of the "yellow scare tactics" employed by TFA rather meaningless.
It reminds me of the reporting in San Francisco during the time I lived here over how "Asians" were going to "supplant whites" as the majority ethnicity in SF. This was true, iff your definition of "majority" meant "largest minority", and your definitions of ethnicity exclude all "Hispanics" from being "white", "Asians" to include "Pacific Islanders" etc.
My lawnmower is electric and surprisingly quiet. Maybe I'll be forced to add artificial noise to this as well? Or maybe blow some artificial smoke for the hearing impaired?
So now that it's about 1½ years later, how about a follow-up article?
When will the powers that be ever learn the Streisand Effect?
The smartest thing China could've done is to have silently ignored the whole thing.
... just some boring pre-trial lawyering...
Sounds like somebody needs to be sent away for year to a humor-sensification camp...
No, she was imprisoned for making fun of the people actually causing racial unrest...
If you can't say that in MORE than 160 characters I fear you too may have been infected by this demon!