but most college professors suck. If they want to start treating their lectures as "Intellectual Property" I am fine with that, but they better damn well have a lot more "Intellectual" in them before they start calling them that.
Really, what we need is for the best professors to produce video lectures, especially for the subjects that change little from year to year (calculus, etc.) The rest of the professors can do what they want without having to bore us with teaching a subject that they seem to have little interest in, and the graduate students can grade our work and answer our questions.
Things seem to be heading this way, but not fast enough.
McCain has historically emphasized deficit reduction over tax cuts. The contrast with George Bush's preference for tax cuts was prominent during the 2000 presidential campaign,[30] and after Bush became president McCain opposed his tax cut proposals.
He's a flippin liberal compared to most "true" conservatives.
You fuckin' hit that on the head. Conservatives long ago gave up on fiscal responsibility.
they didn't make "not trading" on insider information illegal, and that should never be made illegal.
Maybe you didn't read how the whole thing works.
They set up a trade to sell at such and such a date in the future. If they get hold of some inside information that is very bad for the company, they let the trade proceed. The SEC says it's OK because the sale was set up before the knowlege of the insider information. If all is A-OK with the company, they cancel the trade, and because there was no stock bought or sold, the SEC says it's OK.
The scam is in the fact that the sale (or not) of the stock was influenced by insider information, but the SEC says it's OK whether they sell or no.
Here is my bitch, because I don't have $BIGNUM to invest in individual securities and I also will probably not come into contact with insider info, it is inherently unfair. But more importantly, it lowers my confidence in the system, making me less likely to value this market over any other, maybe even value those markets more. I know that I'm just one guy, but if lots of people start to feel this way, then it devalues the securities that are traded on that market.
How is this informative. If you don't like or disagree with what the person said, respond to their argument. Changing what they said and then saying made it true for ya seems rather childish. If you don't believe the president distorted the evidence provided by the intelligence community, let us know what makes you believe that.
... because the telecomm lobbyist have mucho congresscritters in their pockets.
It definitely seems that the volume of calls from **elected officials** for the restructuring of the FCC is directly proportional to the FCC's attempts to reign in non-neutral networking practices.
Not only EPIC FAIL, maybe we could have this chip report you to a patent offenders registry where all of the other chips that are using EPIC could deny your using them to prevent further patent abuse.
Hurries and puts bleeding child in car. Turns key... "I'm sorry sir, your patent offenders registry status prevents you from starting this car." But car, I need to get to the emerg... "I'm sorry sir, your patent offenders registry status prevents you from starting this car." Oh fuck it! Dials phone "I'm sorry sir, your patent offenders registry status prevents you from dialing this phone. Please seek the assistance of a non-offender in...
Actually, this could be a double blow to the IDers. This finding not only shuts up the argument that ""there's no way that 'simple random chance' could produce the creatures of today," it also gives them something to make evolution more palatable to their religious beliefs. "If it's not random, god must have a hand in it." This in turn could destroy the movement to get intelligent design taught in the science classroom, but I may be hoping for too much.
"If God Himself appeared next to me and handed me a copy of the Bible," I would bring out Ockham's razor. Which is the simpler explanation, that a god exists and he is talking to me personally or, that the 3 pound extremely complex piece of meat between my ears is functioning sub-optimally?
Actually, I have thought about the future (10-20 years down the road). The Bush administration is going to make America safer through their fighting of terrorism, homeland security, war on Iraq, etc.
They are spending so much money that in the future this country will no longer be a superpower because they will have bankrupted us by spending us into oblivion. Only superpowers are generally targets of international terrorism (presumably because the target country is involved in some foreign affair that the terrorists want them out of), so after we are no longer a superpower, we wont have the terrorism to worry about.
So yes, they have a plan! To be fair, it is not just the Bush admin that is to blame, but every pork barreling, lobbyist mogering politician.
"And as much as we wish to make anything we find uncomfortable illigal"
I find your spelling of the word illegal uncomfortable, therefore it should be made illegal.;)
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I was modded by a college professor B^)
Really, what we need is for the best professors to produce video lectures, especially for the subjects that change little from year to year (calculus, etc.) The rest of the professors can do what they want without having to bore us with teaching a subject that they seem to have little interest in, and the graduate students can grade our work and answer our questions.
Things seem to be heading this way, but not fast enough.
Here there be MONSTERS!
and just forget the whole thing.
Luddites!
You fuckin' hit that on the head. Conservatives long ago gave up on fiscal responsibility.
All Americans suck because all guys that go by the name ScrewMaster (602015) think so.
Maybe you didn't read how the whole thing works.
They set up a trade to sell at such and such a date in the future. If they get hold of some inside information that is very bad for the company, they let the trade proceed. The SEC says it's OK because the sale was set up before the knowlege of the insider information. If all is A-OK with the company, they cancel the trade, and because there was no stock bought or sold, the SEC says it's OK.
The scam is in the fact that the sale (or not) of the stock was influenced by insider information, but the SEC says it's OK whether they sell or no.
Here is my bitch, because I don't have $BIGNUM to invest in individual securities and I also will probably not come into contact with insider info, it is inherently unfair. But more importantly, it lowers my confidence in the system, making me less likely to value this market over any other, maybe even value those markets more. I know that I'm just one guy, but if lots of people start to feel this way, then it devalues the securities that are traded on that market.
P.S. I know it's what's said to U.S. astronauts prior to launch, it's just that it's always sounded funny to me.
Is it like Ludicrous speed, only faster?
How is this informative. If you don't like or disagree with what the person said, respond to their argument. Changing what they said and then saying made it true for ya seems rather childish. If you don't believe the president distorted the evidence provided by the intelligence community, let us know what makes you believe that.
It definitely seems that the volume of calls from **elected officials** for the restructuring of the FCC is directly proportional to the FCC's attempts to reign in non-neutral networking practices.
Hurries and puts bleeding child in car. Turns key...
"I'm sorry sir, your patent offenders registry status prevents you from starting this car."
But car, I need to get to the emerg... "I'm sorry sir, your patent offenders registry status prevents you from starting this car."
Oh fuck it!
Dials phone
"I'm sorry sir, your patent offenders registry status prevents you from dialing this phone. Please seek the assistance of a non-offender in...
Only because this made them alot heavier. 8^)
You've been listening to too much Limbaugh.
Actually, this could be a double blow to the IDers. This finding not only shuts up the argument that ""there's no way that 'simple random chance' could produce the creatures of today," it also gives them something to make evolution more palatable to their religious beliefs. "If it's not random, god must have a hand in it." This in turn could destroy the movement to get intelligent design taught in the science classroom, but I may be hoping for too much.
"If God Himself appeared next to me and handed me a copy of the Bible," I would bring out Ockham's razor. Which is the simpler explanation, that a god exists and he is talking to me personally or, that the 3 pound extremely complex piece of meat between my ears is functioning sub-optimally?
When is it it's? When it is it is it is. When is it its? When it is not it is it is. This is plagiarized.
Why are we regressing back to 'tube radios?
Of course they would react negatively, the track record of Microsoft is quite different from that of Google's.
No, the problem clearly states that you have to make windows secure. BWAHAHAHAHAHAH.
Oh shit!
Now how is bUSH going to fund the deficit????
To make windows better, they need to provide helmets, seatbelts, and airbags. An anti-lock braking system might be nice too.
Actually, I have thought about the future (10-20 years down the road). The Bush administration is going to make America safer through their fighting of terrorism, homeland security, war on Iraq, etc. They are spending so much money that in the future this country will no longer be a superpower because they will have bankrupted us by spending us into oblivion. Only superpowers are generally targets of international terrorism (presumably because the target country is involved in some foreign affair that the terrorists want them out of), so after we are no longer a superpower, we wont have the terrorism to worry about. So yes, they have a plan! To be fair, it is not just the Bush admin that is to blame, but every pork barreling, lobbyist mogering politician.
Actually, the probability is 0.000000000000000000001000000001%, but we'll let it slide this time. ;)
"And as much as we wish to make anything we find uncomfortable illigal" I find your spelling of the word illegal uncomfortable, therefore it should be made illegal. ;)
anti FUD from the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/technology/11blu e.html
OSS is dead!...uh NOT!