thereby intentionally causing outrage among a substantial number of adherents
How many adherents does it take to constitute a substantial number?
Who gets to define what that number is?
What is the definition of outrage? How can one tell if an adherent is outraged, pissed off, or simply annoyed?
Who gets to define what level of outrage is appropriate?
Must the outrage last for a specific period of time and, if so, how long must it last?
In a court of law, can the accused challenge each complainant to testify to the level of their outragemitude and to its duration?
Now, I'm not an Irish lawyer, but it seems to me, this law is subject to a number of loose definitions to which a lawyer could shred the case into a million tiny pieces.
Or (as I believe would be the case), the phone is powered from house wiring meaning, if your power goes out, you've lost your phone service. If the central office provides the power for the local loop (as is currently done), they have batteries fail over to when their power goes out. Several years ago, my power went out for 3 days. Using an old dial phone which didn't require external power, I still had phone service.
That comes from the same place that the promise that cable will be commercial-free, the new coke will be the drink of the future, and that pigs can fly did.
While used extensively in a number of scientific research programs, it isn't used commercially in any great amount, if at all. Unless the student is planning to work in an area where the language is used, there aren't any great benefits to knowing it. College should be more about leaning the discipline of software engineering, not learning a multitude of programming languages. C or Java serve that purpose perfectly well and have extensive use in the non-academic world. It it is needed at some point, learning it won't be terribly difficult if one is already conversant with other languages.
I used fortran 30 years ago, stopped using 25 years ago, and, outside of a few PhDs who use it where I work, nobody uses it for anything.
exactly. Blogs are the 21st century equivalent to the CB craze in the 70's. Everybody had to have one but they soon found out any conversations were stupid and boring.
Most people are unable to carry on a good conversation for 15 minutes. Writing and being interesting for days on end is even more difficult and, no, I don't find reading about what you did yesterday to be interesting.
Studies have shown our customers only drive their cars less than a quarter of the day and thus only use less than the equivalent of 3 wheels over that time. As a result, this new pricing model should have no effect on them. When their driving habits require 4 wheels, they can upgrade to our more expensive premium models with all 4 wheels.
For most Windows users this will be meaningless. Just more confusing hype vendors and MS can throw at them to get them to buy new hardware which they really won't need. When the average user spends most of their computer time browsing, writing emails or letters, what good will this be to them, even if they do have the latest hardware?
The installation of xVM itself on my late-model Dell desktop running a fully updated Windows XP OS but I could never get Ubuntu to install and/or run on three separate attempts. The first time, the Ubuntu install process froze. The second time, it completed but when shutting down to reboot post-install, I got hit with an near-endless stream of error messages and the OS never rebooted. The third attempt also apparently installed but wouldn't boot.
They do claim to support Ubuntu as a guest OS but my experience was a bit different. Your mileage may vary. In any case, I uninstalled it and chalked it up to simply not being ready for prime time.
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How many adherents does it take to constitute a substantial number?
Who gets to define what that number is?
What is the definition of outrage? How can one tell if an adherent is outraged, pissed off, or simply annoyed?
Who gets to define what level of outrage is appropriate?
Must the outrage last for a specific period of time and, if so, how long must it last?
In a court of law, can the accused challenge each complainant to testify to the level of their outragemitude and to its duration?
Now, I'm not an Irish lawyer, but it seems to me, this law is subject to a number of loose definitions to which a lawyer could shred the case into a million tiny pieces.
Or (as I believe would be the case), the phone is powered from house wiring meaning, if your power goes out, you've lost your phone service. If the central office provides the power for the local loop (as is currently done), they have batteries fail over to when their power goes out. Several years ago, my power went out for 3 days. Using an old dial phone which didn't require external power, I still had phone service.
Along with my investments in Trans-Atlantic Zeppelins and Amalgamated Spats, my newspaper stocks are worthless!
Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land is a good choice but I'd also consider either The Moon is a Harsh Mistress or Franham's Freehold instead.
I'd also include Niven's Ringworld, Herbert's Dune, and either 2001 or Rendezvous with Rama from Clarke.
Goofus copies his CDs for selling or giving away on the street.
Gallant listens to his CDs with headphones so no one else can hear it, thus violating the RIAA's copyright.
Goofus takes the food from record company executive's mouths by downloading his music off of Pirate's Bay.
Gallant tells the RIAA about Goofus so the RIAA cops can break down his door and haul his sorry ass off to jail.
That comes from the same place that the promise that cable will be commercial-free, the new coke will be the drink of the future, and that pigs can fly did.
While used extensively in a number of scientific research programs, it isn't used commercially in any great amount, if at all. Unless the student is planning to work in an area where the language is used, there aren't any great benefits to knowing it. College should be more about leaning the discipline of software engineering, not learning a multitude of programming languages. C or Java serve that purpose perfectly well and have extensive use in the non-academic world. It it is needed at some point, learning it won't be terribly difficult if one is already conversant with other languages.
I used fortran 30 years ago, stopped using 25 years ago, and, outside of a few PhDs who use it where I work, nobody uses it for anything.
exactly. Blogs are the 21st century equivalent to the CB craze in the 70's. Everybody had to have one but they soon found out any conversations were stupid and boring.
Most people are unable to carry on a good conversation for 15 minutes. Writing and being interesting for days on end is even more difficult and, no, I don't find reading about what you did yesterday to be interesting.
The smell of copyright infringement just sets them off.
You ever watch Cops?
These guys are not the most intelligent fish in the sea
My dreams of a race of pigmen, bred to be my slaves to do my evil biddings, have been dashed.
Damn you, Louisiana. Damn you to hell!
Studies have shown our customers only drive their cars less than a quarter of the day and thus only use less than the equivalent of 3 wheels over that time. As a result, this new pricing model should have no effect on them. When their driving habits require 4 wheels, they can upgrade to our more expensive premium models with all 4 wheels.
Somebody with some mod points, mod this up to spot on.
There. Fixed it for ya.
Its from the 1999 movie Office Space where one of the characters invents a game he calls Jump to Conclusions.
Its looks like you're trying to detect illegal material.
Would you like to:
A. Find pornography
B. Detect bomb-making instructions
C. Locate maps of casino vaults
D. Other
They can't define it but they'll know it when they see it.
I gotcher regulation right here! Fuhgedaboutit.
in the same advertisement, run away. What ever it is being offered will be neither.
For most Windows users this will be meaningless. Just more confusing hype vendors and MS can throw at them to get them to buy new hardware which they really won't need. When the average user spends most of their computer time browsing, writing emails or letters, what good will this be to them, even if they do have the latest hardware?
If a train leaves Chicago at 8:30 headed for Denver traveling at 45 MPH...
The Constitution hasn't been much of an impediment to date. What's one more court ruling?
The installation of xVM itself on my late-model Dell desktop running a fully updated Windows XP OS but I could never get Ubuntu to install and/or run on three separate attempts. The first time, the Ubuntu install process froze. The second time, it completed but when shutting down to reboot post-install, I got hit with an near-endless stream of error messages and the OS never rebooted. The third attempt also apparently installed but wouldn't boot.
They do claim to support Ubuntu as a guest OS but my experience was a bit different. Your mileage may vary. In any case, I uninstalled it and chalked it up to simply not being ready for prime time.
I guess that's the scifi equivalent of mixed metaphors, using catch phrases from one movie for a completely different one.
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