Using "their" all the time can become boring and in a couple of cases, slightly misleading. A good approach is to use "his" sometimes, and "hers" others. Just don't mix them up in the same paragraph.
There's nothing special about it. It's just a new medium for an old idea. But if the idea is still good then its not without value. It may not make it much of an IT story though, I grant you.
I'm writing some text adventures for iPhone and Android at the moment. Beaten to market by a few months! Ah well, it's a pretty obvious update to the old books. I imagine we'll see a lot of these. They can be pretty fun.
Possession of photos of a rape victim should not be a crime, just the same as possession of photos of murder victims is not a crime
In both cases, distributing those photos can cause great distress. Yes, people should have some right to privacy and not have their suffering passed around for other people's sexual gratification.
And nudity? It is never illegal regardless of age (as ruled by the Supreme Court). That's why nudist websites are allowed to exist.
There are cases where simple nudity has been misclassified as porn, but child porn is a great deal more horrible than simple pictures of children naked which most of us wouldn't even think of as porn if it weren't for the context of the discussion. There are sights where people exchange softcore pictures (you can probably guess) and some people stick child porn in there which unfortunately you can still make out in the thumbnails (or I guess if you're unlucky and the thumbnail is poor, actually click on and get the full thing). Child porn is disgusting and harmful and it does a disservice to suggest that it is stuff like people's holiday snaps of their children naked in the sea or something. It is really, really sick stuff and the perpetrators should be tracked down and dealt with by the law.
Ever heard someone refer to Internet Explorer as "The Internet"? Does it make your teeth grind? Same principle, I'm afraid. Those of us who understand the meanings of words have a responsibility to use them correctly and lead by example.
Why is this article being put out now? The Iranian elections were awhile ago
Maybe they think those of us pointing out that the elections weren't rigged will have got bored and gone away by now or that endless repetition will have made the "rigging of Iranian elections" accepted history at last.
There's no good evidence that Iran's elections were rigged. Whether Western powers like it or not, Ahmadinejad seems to have won legitimately. He's actually very popular in rural areas and not unpopular in Tehran, either. There's a just a fairly affluent and pro-US faction in the cities that want a pro-Western candidate. If you look at independent polls before the election, they were predicting Ahmadinejad would win (this includes pollsters from the US) and if you read the stories about electoral fraud, you'll find a lot of "no smoke without fire" arguments and some warping of the truth (e.g. the endless repetition of the factoid that more people voted in some places than actually lived there, which is actually obvious when you know that in Iran, to facillitate easy voting, people commonly vote in the area in which they work rather than their registered home village). But you wont find actual evidence of fraud. The papers were full of "some people say there might be fraud" but bugger all "this shows there was fraud". What you can find is that the US congress voted through around US$10 million dollars to fund activities to overthrow the government of Iran and that Bush approved the CIA to start active operations within Iran. But they'd never stoop to trying to de-legitimize the Iranian democratic process or rile up protest groups trying to over throw the government, would they? I mean, not again.
OTH, he probably felt he was doing nothing wrong until he got caught.
When you're working at that level (CEO at a company as big as that), then your work and personal time tend to blur. In fact, ignore "tend to" you lose all separation. People call you up with work problems all the time, you're never disconnected from your email, you spend so much time with your PA that they're as much family member as colleague. And don't even mention the travelling. So you're hardly likely to carry two laptops everywhere you go or swap from one to the other constantly.
It's easy for people here to say "shouldn't have done this through work account" but in reality it's not so simple. And the argument of misusing the company's resources is valid, but the salary and expenses (legitimate expenses) of someone in that position are so high that it would seem absurd to such a person to say they were stealing from the company. They could (and do) repay the debt by working an extra five minutes that they're supposes to. Well, except that these sorts of jobs don't come with "forty hours per week" on the contract, but the point stands. CEO of a company isn't a job, it's a lifestyle.
They're not going to give that up without a struggle though. What would really shake things up is if instead of my getting a SIM & phone number and letting one phone company thereafter monopolise my usage, I could say "this number is mine" and shop around for whoever offers the best rates. If I could say: 'Orange are doing a cheap deal on data, I'll buy a load from them this month', then we'd be able to actually exert market pressure on these companies. As it is, even Pay As You Go types are effectively locked in. And being locked in, lets them squeeze a lot more money out of us.
The technology ought to be simple (indeed, it is there), but good luck getting it.
So you mean what happened to Yahoo was that oversilting and other pollution of rivers damaged the coastline? I never would have guessed.
How the Hell are all the sensible arguments pointing out problems or contentious issues in my post sitting around at Score: 1, and you've been modded up +5 for crass absurdity? Just how many accounts do you have?
Nothing "went wrong". Google happened. It's not complicated. To say what "went wrong" is like asking what went wrong in New Orleans when Katrina happened. Certainly with hindsight you can point out all the mistakes. Certainly you could say: "if we'd known...". But basically, and in a similar manner to Katrina, Google came and washed everything else away for a time.
It depends on the agenda. Five months isn't few normally. In this case, the phrasing is probably a reaction to the general iPad hysteria portraying it as its own class of device and some online commentators misperceived ideas that it will take forever for other companies to catch up. I guess "few" is some people's way of saying 'this is right around the corner'. Personally, five months is short enough that I'm willing to hang on and see what the Notion Ink is like rather than buy one of these earlier models.
Perhaps - the point is that the iPad *can* be used for more "creation" than simply "typing stuff into a text editor." The "it's for consumption only" meme is a little ridiculous because it assumes that "creation" requires a keyboard, and in some cases, that's simply not true.
It doesn't have to be a keyboard, but you need some better mode of input than jabbing at it with your fingers. For example, a tablet with a stylus and decent handwriting recognition is absolutely great for taking notes with. What I lose in having to write longhand (I'm a semi-decent typist), I gain in having something I can hold in one hand and write on whether standing, sitting or lying on the sofa. Saying that the iPad is more about consumption is fair, but the same is not true of tablets in general. If you're writing a novel, you're going to want a keyboard, desk and chair. If you want to scrawl down notes, quick diagrams or annotate a PDF, then a tablet with a stylus can be excellent.
The cheapest and safest way to finish the mission would be to load the crew and samples into an apollo style capsule and reenter directly.
Nah. Just park the ship on the far side of the asteroid and with enough fuel, you can fly the asteroid back home to Earth. Much more living space that way. It would be like building a spaceship out of kit, so we could call this the Kit Technique or 'KT' mission.
You know, one of the things I notice about that second link is not what he's saying (interesting and already known at the same time though that is), but that every twenty seconds or so, something flashes up on the screen to tell me who I'm watching. It seems to me that a culture which is channel hopping the whole time and needs these constant flashes, is a culture that isn't going to pay much attention to the absent debates that Dan Rather was lamenting in that clip. It seems a lot of people in America have been raised to have thirty-second attention spans and just want to be told what to believe. That's not a good thing as far as investigative journalism goes either. If there's no audience for in-depth analysis, you're just operating on hope when you try to produce it. (Though hope is better than the alternative).
Humour is one of the safest ways to report the truth.
The comedians are the last ones to go before protest and news goes entirely underground.
Serious people aren't too hard to shut down. Those that appear unserious, are much harder. When they actually shut down the satire, your society is a few breaths away from actual insurrection.
One disadvantage of an easy-releasing power cable is that if you don't have your battery in, then you've just lost your power and maybe your work. Why wouldn't you have your battery in? Keeping your battery at around 70% preserves extends its life. My normal habit, if I'm near a power-outlet, is to pop the battery out when the laptop is plugged in. I'd rather walk into the power cable and drag the laptop a few centimeters across the table than lose power.
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They're not considered a pedophile. They're considered to have committed statutory rape. Don't fall into the trap of conflating the two. Pedophillia is pre-pubescent children only. Calling someone a pedophile because they had sex with a 17 year old diminishes the seriousness of pedophillia.
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The word pedophillia has been broadened by various interested parties. It means pre-pubescent children. It's wrong. Talking about "voluntary" is not appropriate for a kid of 9 or 10 when being led on by an adult. In any case, it's very fucking horrible.
Talking about sex with someone who is merely legally underage, is not necessarily pedophillia. A 17 year old is much more capable of making their own decisions generally without being overly-influenced, and is also much more ready for sex. People should be careful to not confuse pedophillia with legal definitions.
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Using "their" all the time can become boring and in a couple of cases, slightly misleading. A good approach is to use "his" sometimes, and "hers" others. Just don't mix them up in the same paragraph.
There's nothing special about it. It's just a new medium for an old idea. But if the idea is still good then its not without value. It may not make it much of an IT story though, I grant you.
I'm writing some text adventures for iPhone and Android at the moment. Beaten to market by a few months! Ah well, it's a pretty obvious update to the old books. I imagine we'll see a lot of these. They can be pretty fun.
In both cases, distributing those photos can cause great distress. Yes, people should have some right to privacy and not have their suffering passed around for other people's sexual gratification.
There are cases where simple nudity has been misclassified as porn, but child porn is a great deal more horrible than simple pictures of children naked which most of us wouldn't even think of as porn if it weren't for the context of the discussion. There are sights where people exchange softcore pictures (you can probably guess) and some people stick child porn in there which unfortunately you can still make out in the thumbnails (or I guess if you're unlucky and the thumbnail is poor, actually click on and get the full thing). Child porn is disgusting and harmful and it does a disservice to suggest that it is stuff like people's holiday snaps of their children naked in the sea or something. It is really, really sick stuff and the perpetrators should be tracked down and dealt with by the law.
Ever heard someone refer to Internet Explorer as "The Internet"? Does it make your teeth grind? Same principle, I'm afraid. Those of us who understand the meanings of words have a responsibility to use them correctly and lead by example.
Maybe they think those of us pointing out that the elections weren't rigged will have got bored and gone away by now or that endless repetition will have made the "rigging of Iranian elections" accepted history at last.
There's no good evidence that Iran's elections were rigged. Whether Western powers like it or not, Ahmadinejad seems to have won legitimately. He's actually very popular in rural areas and not unpopular in Tehran, either. There's a just a fairly affluent and pro-US faction in the cities that want a pro-Western candidate. If you look at independent polls before the election, they were predicting Ahmadinejad would win (this includes pollsters from the US) and if you read the stories about electoral fraud, you'll find a lot of "no smoke without fire" arguments and some warping of the truth (e.g. the endless repetition of the factoid that more people voted in some places than actually lived there, which is actually obvious when you know that in Iran, to facillitate easy voting, people commonly vote in the area in which they work rather than their registered home village). But you wont find actual evidence of fraud. The papers were full of "some people say there might be fraud" but bugger all "this shows there was fraud". What you can find is that the US congress voted through around US$10 million dollars to fund activities to overthrow the government of Iran and that Bush approved the CIA to start active operations within Iran. But they'd never stoop to trying to de-legitimize the Iranian democratic process or rile up protest groups trying to over throw the government, would they? I mean, not again.
Is it just me or does "Anonymous Coward" sound like "Anonymous Coward"?
When you're working at that level (CEO at a company as big as that), then your work and personal time tend to blur. In fact, ignore "tend to" you lose all separation. People call you up with work problems all the time, you're never disconnected from your email, you spend so much time with your PA that they're as much family member as colleague. And don't even mention the travelling. So you're hardly likely to carry two laptops everywhere you go or swap from one to the other constantly.
It's easy for people here to say "shouldn't have done this through work account" but in reality it's not so simple. And the argument of misusing the company's resources is valid, but the salary and expenses (legitimate expenses) of someone in that position are so high that it would seem absurd to such a person to say they were stealing from the company. They could (and do) repay the debt by working an extra five minutes that they're supposes to. Well, except that these sorts of jobs don't come with "forty hours per week" on the contract, but the point stands. CEO of a company isn't a job, it's a lifestyle.
They're not going to give that up without a struggle though. What would really shake things up is if instead of my getting a SIM & phone number and letting one phone company thereafter monopolise my usage, I could say "this number is mine" and shop around for whoever offers the best rates. If I could say: 'Orange are doing a cheap deal on data, I'll buy a load from them this month', then we'd be able to actually exert market pressure on these companies. As it is, even Pay As You Go types are effectively locked in. And being locked in, lets them squeeze a lot more money out of us.
The technology ought to be simple (indeed, it is there), but good luck getting it.
And low and behold the 1 line post above gets another +5.
How the Hell are all the sensible arguments pointing out problems or contentious issues in my post sitting around at Score: 1, and you've been modded up +5 for crass absurdity? Just how many accounts do you have?
Nothing "went wrong". Google happened. It's not complicated. To say what "went wrong" is like asking what went wrong in New Orleans when Katrina happened. Certainly with hindsight you can point out all the mistakes. Certainly you could say: "if we'd known...". But basically, and in a similar manner to Katrina, Google came and washed everything else away for a time.
At first I laughed because it was funny. And then I was sad because I realised that you were right.
It depends on the agenda. Five months isn't few normally. In this case, the phrasing is probably a reaction to the general iPad hysteria portraying it as its own class of device and some online commentators misperceived ideas that it will take forever for other companies to catch up. I guess "few" is some people's way of saying 'this is right around the corner'. Personally, five months is short enough that I'm willing to hang on and see what the Notion Ink is like rather than buy one of these earlier models.
It doesn't have to be a keyboard, but you need some better mode of input than jabbing at it with your fingers. For example, a tablet with a stylus and decent handwriting recognition is absolutely great for taking notes with. What I lose in having to write longhand (I'm a semi-decent typist), I gain in having something I can hold in one hand and write on whether standing, sitting or lying on the sofa. Saying that the iPad is more about consumption is fair, but the same is not true of tablets in general. If you're writing a novel, you're going to want a keyboard, desk and chair. If you want to scrawl down notes, quick diagrams or annotate a PDF, then a tablet with a stylus can be excellent.
Nah. Just park the ship on the far side of the asteroid and with enough fuel, you can fly the asteroid back home to Earth. Much more living space that way. It would be like building a spaceship out of kit, so we could call this the Kit Technique or 'KT' mission.
Does it annoy anyone else here when some bastard sneaks in to the less than 10 items queue with actually 10 items?
Just me, then?
You know, one of the things I notice about that second link is not what he's saying (interesting and already known at the same time though that is), but that every twenty seconds or so, something flashes up on the screen to tell me who I'm watching. It seems to me that a culture which is channel hopping the whole time and needs these constant flashes, is a culture that isn't going to pay much attention to the absent debates that Dan Rather was lamenting in that clip. It seems a lot of people in America have been raised to have thirty-second attention spans and just want to be told what to believe. That's not a good thing as far as investigative journalism goes either. If there's no audience for in-depth analysis, you're just operating on hope when you try to produce it. (Though hope is better than the alternative).
Humour is one of the safest ways to report the truth.
The comedians are the last ones to go before protest and news goes entirely underground.
Serious people aren't too hard to shut down. Those that appear unserious, are much harder. When they actually shut down the satire, your society is a few breaths away from actual insurrection.
Well you could, but...
... is more fun, baby! :D
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One disadvantage of an easy-releasing power cable is that if you don't have your battery in, then you've just lost your power and maybe your work. Why wouldn't you have your battery in? Keeping your battery at around 70% preserves extends its life. My normal habit, if I'm near a power-outlet, is to pop the battery out when the laptop is plugged in. I'd rather walk into the power cable and drag the laptop a few centimeters across the table than lose power.
They're not considered a pedophile. They're considered to have committed statutory rape. Don't fall into the trap of conflating the two. Pedophillia is pre-pubescent children only. Calling someone a pedophile because they had sex with a 17 year old diminishes the seriousness of pedophillia.
The word pedophillia has been broadened by various interested parties. It means pre-pubescent children. It's wrong. Talking about "voluntary" is not appropriate for a kid of 9 or 10 when being led on by an adult. In any case, it's very fucking horrible.
Talking about sex with someone who is merely legally underage, is not necessarily pedophillia. A 17 year old is much more capable of making their own decisions generally without being overly-influenced, and is also much more ready for sex. People should be careful to not confuse pedophillia with legal definitions.
Been there, done that.
Space Oprah?