>we were never allowed to leave campus at my schools.
Now, that's pretty nazi.
American school systems are in loco parentis. If the school lets a minor leave campus without the permission of a parent or guardian, they open themselves up to a lawsuit should anything happen to the child.
"Nazi" stands for "Nationalsozialismus" in German: IE, "National Socialist".
Yeah. So? Do you think the Democrats and Republicans are arguing over whether we should have direct or representative government? National Socialism was a name not a description. Hitler wasn't a socialist by any reasonable definition.
If you're referring to the previous Answer Man column, a reader specifically asked him what that apologist for auteur theory would think of Lucas's changes. Why should Ebert speculate on the answer when he can ask the guy in question?
Besides which, the response wasn't what you make it out to be. It was more, "Uh, yeah, I suppose it's fine for a director to alter his films, but really I don't care because Star Wars is crap."
> Firefox, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat Microsoft in the browser market.
Come on, folks, I'm a rabid Firefox fan and even *I* know this kind of rhetoric doesn't belong on the front page...
Yeah, it is a bit lacking. How about "The virtuous, open-source Firefox browser, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat the evil, deficient, and closed-source Microsoft Internet browser."
The Tibetans would be better off under the Lamas in much the same way the Poles were better off after the Soviets liberated them from the Nazis. In both cases, the solution is sub-optimal.
I'm all for a free Tibet, but that means a Tibet that's ruled by neither the Chinese nor a bunch of monks.
Agreed, 100%. I knew some jackass would decide it was my Dad's fault and not Microsoft's that they wrote some code to deliberately trash his data at random intervals, because they decided that the OS being up to date was more important than his data.
If Windows just shut down without warning, you'd have a point. But it doesn't. If you're at the computer, you know it's downloading a patch, and it tells you it'll restart the computer. If you're not at the computer, you should've saved your work before leaving--that's just plain common sense; I learned it in third grade when my school got its first Apple IIes.
Actually, the biggest hole in the argument is that someone would want to pirate a movie off broadcast networks, where it's been chopped up, bleeped up, and sped up for time and content purposes. The broadcast flag might serve a purpose for TV series, but not feature films.
It's a joy to behold. My Dad will often keep docs open in Word or Excel for days - the practical upshot of which is that I can't leave his system configured to auto-update, because this means he can go to use his PC only to find Windows has trashed all the changes he made since he last saved his documents.
So its Microsoft's fault that your dad doesn't save his work at reasonable intervals?
Well, I agree with the principle of what you are saying, but the fact is that the start-up and shutdown of a modern OS has more to do with initializing or closing files, buffers, ie data than programs.
All true, but it would be nice to just hit the power button and leave, knowing that the system would eventually shut down, even if it takes ten minutes. Instead I have to wait around because Windows likes to throw up a dozen error messages. And then there are occasions when Windows just forgets what its doing and I have to press shut down again.
There is also a big practical difference between a crime against another criminal (who is unlikely to report or prosecute) and a crime against a non-crimial.
Blacks who married whites were criminals according to the laws of the time. So the lynchers who strung them from a tree were merely committing crimes against other criminals.
Why would someone want a wireless keyboard? Your keyboard stays in one place, you never move it nothing can get in the way.
No, your keyboard stays in one place. Mine moves from the end-table where I keep it when not in use, and my lap, neither of which are within cord distance of my computer.
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>we were never allowed to leave campus at my schools.
Now, that's pretty nazi.
American school systems are in loco parentis. If the school lets a minor leave campus without the permission of a parent or guardian, they open themselves up to a lawsuit should anything happen to the child.
If you start restricting the cafeteria, kids will simply go to the shop at the nearest corner.
And how will they pay for it? The point of these cards is that parents won't have to give any cash to their kids.
I don't get it, children don't have rights, they never have, they never will,
So I can adopt a child and hunt him for sport? Or a sixteen year old girl and make her my sex slave?
[Democracy] means a bunch of people with no power get to "elect" people with power and then submit to their orders.
No, that's what "democratic republic" means; it's not the same thing as "democracy".
"Nazi" stands for "Nationalsozialismus" in German: IE, "National Socialist".
Yeah. So? Do you think the Democrats and Republicans are arguing over whether we should have direct or representative government? National Socialism was a name not a description. Hitler wasn't a socialist by any reasonable definition.
If you're referring to the previous Answer Man column, a reader specifically asked him what that apologist for auteur theory would think of Lucas's changes. Why should Ebert speculate on the answer when he can ask the guy in question?
Besides which, the response wasn't what you make it out to be. It was more, "Uh, yeah, I suppose it's fine for a director to alter his films, but really I don't care because Star Wars is crap."
> Firefox, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat Microsoft in the browser market.
Come on, folks, I'm a rabid Firefox fan and even *I* know this kind of rhetoric doesn't belong on the front page...
Yeah, it is a bit lacking. How about "The virtuous, open-source Firefox browser, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat the evil, deficient, and closed-source Microsoft Internet browser."
Please people, we gotta keep the standards up.
No need to feel bad about handing out the smallpox blankets?
No, I see no need to feel bad about unsubstantiated myths.
give the USA back to the native Americans or go home and shut the fuck up.
When all those Anglos, Saxons, Jutes, and Normans get the Hell out of the British isles, I'll return to my ancestral Celtic homeland.
If the rest of Europe is real nice, we'll let them keep central and western Europe for themselves, even though we have claims on that, too.
And of course a newspaper called The People's Daily from China is a fount of accurate information on Chinese demographics.
The Tibetans would be better off under the Lamas in much the same way the Poles were better off after the Soviets liberated them from the Nazis. In both cases, the solution is sub-optimal.
I'm all for a free Tibet, but that means a Tibet that's ruled by neither the Chinese nor a bunch of monks.
I know, my current mouse-pad is my lap, and I don't want an inducting plate there.
Agreed, 100%. I knew some jackass would decide it was my Dad's fault and not Microsoft's that they wrote some code to deliberately trash his data at random intervals, because they decided that the OS being up to date was more important than his data.
If Windows just shut down without warning, you'd have a point. But it doesn't. If you're at the computer, you know it's downloading a patch, and it tells you it'll restart the computer. If you're not at the computer, you should've saved your work before leaving--that's just plain common sense; I learned it in third grade when my school got its first Apple IIes.
Actually, the biggest hole in the argument is that someone would want to pirate a movie off broadcast networks, where it's been chopped up, bleeped up, and sped up for time and content purposes. The broadcast flag might serve a purpose for TV series, but not feature films.
It's a joy to behold. My Dad will often keep docs open in Word or Excel for days - the practical upshot of which is that I can't leave his system configured to auto-update, because this means he can go to use his PC only to find Windows has trashed all the changes he made since he last saved his documents.
So its Microsoft's fault that your dad doesn't save his work at reasonable intervals?
Well, I agree with the principle of what you are saying, but the fact is that the start-up and shutdown of a modern OS has more to do with initializing or closing files, buffers, ie data than programs.
All true, but it would be nice to just hit the power button and leave, knowing that the system would eventually shut down, even if it takes ten minutes. Instead I have to wait around because Windows likes to throw up a dozen error messages. And then there are occasions when Windows just forgets what its doing and I have to press shut down again.
That's very rich coming from an MMDDYY middle-endian-loving American.
Enough of your stereotyping. I'm an ISO 8601 loving American.
There is also a big practical difference between a crime against another criminal (who is unlikely to report or prosecute) and a crime against a non-crimial.
Blacks who married whites were criminals according to the laws of the time. So the lynchers who strung them from a tree were merely committing crimes against other criminals.
prior to his inital election several commentators were concerned reagarding Bushs isolationist leanings.
Nonsense. Bush has always been a war-mongering neo-con.
I think you need a trip to Room 101, comrade.
Yes, Europe is just one big, homogeneous continent filled with enlightened souls.
And I am Marie of Roumania.
Get back to me when you guys scrap little-endian dates.
About 6 weeks on a logitech set, with rechargeble betteries it is about 3 weeks.
Sounds like you have an old model. Newer ones have a stand-by mode to save power. Mine got ten months on its first set of AAs.
Why would someone want a wireless keyboard? Your keyboard stays in one place, you never move it nothing can get in the way.
No, your keyboard stays in one place. Mine moves from the end-table where I keep it when not in use, and my lap, neither of which are within cord distance of my computer.
And your proof of that is ...? 'Cause the accompanying article says otherwise.