If they could aford that much storage, you'd think their Usenet archives could include binary groups. Think about it -- the largest repository of pr0n the world has ever seen!
It's dated "April 1, 2004 UTC". UTC is the same thing as GMT and Zulu Time, so the dating is accurate and makes sense for an international press release.
So what if Mom 'n' Pop stores foster community if they never have what you want and everything closes at 8:00 -- maybe 9:00 on weekends. If you don't like cruising and drinking, small towns suck. Give me homogenenized suburban sprawl filled with 24-hour diners, Big Box store, and a selection of foreign food wider than pizza and Chinese.
Oh, and I don't know if you noticed, but the kind of people who shop at Wal-Mart are the dregs of society.It pulls in about the same clientele as strip clubs and pawn shops. That's not wanted in our town.
Oh, no, we don't want those types. They might ruin the property values. Gotta keep 'em out.
No, it's because small retailers such as myself actually pay our employees decent wages, and we can't afford to stay open that late. If I were to pay minimum wage like Wal-Mart does, I could stay open almost 24 hours.
I worked at a Wal-Mart one summer in college, and they paid more than minimum wage -- no one would've worked there if they didn't -- hell, if I'd stayed on for another few weeks, I would've been elligible for bennies.
Nobody NEEDS a USB cable at 9:00PM. Wait until the next day.
And what if the next day is Sunday and all the stores are closed or only open a few hours after church?
It's because of store-owners like you that Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Borders thrive.
No, the FCC's job is to regulate the radio spectrum, which is considered national property and rented to companies with certain conditions regarding their use. Now you might think, as I do, that the government shouldn't be able to claim ownership of such things, but given that they do, it has a right to include restrictions in the lease.
I thoroughly recommend you read Plato's 'The Republic' - not a hard read but a concise critic of democracy and its pitfalls.
While Plato had some good points on the pitfalls of democracy, his alternative isn't necessarily better -- those who think it is, inevitably imagine themselves as the Philosopher Kings, not the poor sods laboring in the fields. A real world implementation of The Republic would look something like Huxley's Brave New World rather than Utopia.
"Because, as Plato pointed out over 2000 years ago, democracy is a dangerous thing."
I really don't care to take pointers on democracy from a guy that's been dead for 2 millenia AT HIS OWN HAND because his government told him to drink the kool-aid. Gimme a break.
And I don't care to take pointers on anything from a guy who doesn't know the difference between Plato and Socrates.
It might also force some networks to reevaluate. MTV, for instance, might take note if 50% of their viewers dropped MTV and MTV2 picked up.
Why? It's not like they play different shows anymore.
Sure, once upon a time, MTV2 carried the videos that MTV had displaced for Real World marathons, but now it's being taken over with Making the Band, Diary, Beavis and Butthead, and all the other stuff that made MTV go down the drain.
I also think that some channels that are less popular will simply get removed, regardless of the wishes of the fans of _those_ networks feel,
If you're talking about regular cable, absolutely -- there's a finite amount of bandwidth, so it makes sense to limit it to the high-demand channels. But digital cable is, if not quite boundless, then more than sufficient for a wide selection of niche channels. Yeah, it'll suck if you don't want digital but have to get it for for one niche channel you like, but it's hardly unfair.
The NYT has a habit of catching these things. It won't even let you register cypherpunks/cypherpunks. However, there is a work around -- get some sort of proxy, such as Proxomitron, and configure it so the referer is news.google.com. The same trick works with the WaPo's new registration service.
Considering that English comes from England, I'd say that the English do indeed have a better claim to the name.
There has never, ever been an English language. If you pick up untranslated copies of Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knights, two works composed more or less contemporaneously, you'll find that they're barely even the same language. Chaucer happens to be easier to read because he wrote in the London dialect, whereas Anonymous lived out in the boonies. Does that mean Chaucer has a "better claim" to being an English author?
We were just talking about how the British English language was the true "natural" English language, all other derived languages that were English with an accent.
The problem with this analysis is that American English started to diverge from the mother tongue at a point when British English didn't sound a thing like modern British English. In fact, there are linguists who think the Southern accent sounds closest to how people spoke in the Elizabethan era -- which means Shakespeare should properly be performed with Brett Butler as Ophelia and Jeff Foxworthy as Polonius.
if it's been in orbit since 1996, why has it only just been found?
Because it doesn't actually spend much time around Earth. It's really orbiting the sun in a path that coincides with ours. When it nears the Earth, our gravity grabs it, swings it around, and sends it back around the sun in the opposite direction.
Only in Voy: Threshold has anything ever achieved infinite velocity. Even when invaders from the Andromeda galaxy in TOS modified Enterprise's engines to allow it to travel between galaxies, we're still traveling at a finite speed.
In "Where No One Has Gone Before", Geordi says they exceded warp 10, which is defined as infinite speed in the TNG universe. If you want to retcon that statement away, please, go do it while wanking to a picture of Data, but stop subjecting us to your delusional view that Star Trek used self-consistent tech until Voyager.
What you're talking about are exceptions which use different warp scales, entirely different methods of traveling through space, supernatural beings, or in some cases alternate realities created by supernatural beings. All of which is perfectly explained and believable.
So wait, the Enterprise being able to reach a velocity defined as an asymptote is okay and believable when an alien entity does it? That is the dumbest fanboy excuse I've ever heard.
The only one that isn't is Voy: Threshold. It's the biggest stain on Trek since TOS: Miri.
No, dude, Threshold isn't a universally reviled episode because the science doesn't make sense (if that were the case, there'd be very few good episodes of Star Trek) or because it broke continuity (something Star Trek has never been big on). It's a bad episode because traveling at infinite speed made Paris and Janeway devolve into salamanders.
Warp 10 is impossible. The warp scale represents speeds exponentially closer to infinity. According to the scale, 10 is the asymptote representing infinite speed. The single episode of Trek (Voy: Threshold) in which this feat is accomplished
Single episode? I know they retconned all the TOS episodes where aliens modified the Enterprise to go faster than warp 10, but there's still TNG's "Where No Man Has Gone Before," in which the Enterprise-D exceded warp 10, and the future scenes in "All Good Things" where warp 10+ was no big deal.
"A therefore B" does define the relationship between the two. It is a short way of saying, "there is a direct causal relationship between A and B. Furthermore, A is true, meaning B is true."
No, an if/then statement indicates a "direct causal relationship"; "therefore" denotes a conclusion that follows from the premises. As I noted previously (but you snipped), "A therefore B" could come after "if A then B" or "A and B" -- but in the latter case there's no causation implied between the two, only that if one's true the other is too. If you don't present a premise that defines a relationship between A and B, then "A therefore B" doesn't make any logical sense
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If they could aford that much storage, you'd think their Usenet archives could include binary groups. Think about it -- the largest repository of pr0n the world has ever seen!
And there was Ricky Bragg who cribbed a story from a stringer. And even before Blair, they screwed the pooch with the Wen Ho Lee story.
At this point, I consider the Washington Post the true paper of record and the Times kitty litter.
It's dated "April 1, 2004 UTC". UTC is the same thing as GMT and Zulu Time, so the dating is accurate and makes sense for an international press release.
Go do a search for ant-union or anti union and Wallmart on google and see what you find?
Yup, Wal-Mart knows how to fight those damned Commie bastards.
So what if Mom 'n' Pop stores foster community if they never have what you want and everything closes at 8:00 -- maybe 9:00 on weekends. If you don't like cruising and drinking, small towns suck. Give me homogenenized suburban sprawl filled with 24-hour diners, Big Box store, and a selection of foreign food wider than pizza and Chinese.
Oh, and I don't know if you noticed, but the kind of people who shop at Wal-Mart are the dregs of society.It pulls in about the same clientele as strip clubs and pawn shops. That's not wanted in our town.
Oh, no, we don't want those types. They might ruin the property values. Gotta keep 'em out.
No, it's because small retailers such as myself actually pay our employees decent wages, and we can't afford to stay open that late. If I were to pay minimum wage like Wal-Mart does, I could stay open almost 24 hours.
I worked at a Wal-Mart one summer in college, and they paid more than minimum wage -- no one would've worked there if they didn't -- hell, if I'd stayed on for another few weeks, I would've been elligible for bennies.
Nobody NEEDS a USB cable at 9:00PM. Wait until the next day.
And what if the next day is Sunday and all the stores are closed or only open a few hours after church?
It's because of store-owners like you that Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Borders thrive.
There have been times when I've gone out of my way to avoid Walmart and then essentially been forced back there by lame competitors (Walmart, Kmart)
So Walmart is lamer than Walmart?
I'll only use a tablet PC if I can have a woman in a short red dress and 60s hairdo carry it around for me and call me Captain.
So the FCC's job is to smash the 1st amendment?
No, the FCC's job is to regulate the radio spectrum, which is considered national property and rented to companies with certain conditions regarding their use. Now you might think, as I do, that the government shouldn't be able to claim ownership of such things, but given that they do, it has a right to include restrictions in the lease.
I thoroughly recommend you read Plato's 'The Republic' - not a hard read but a concise critic of democracy and its pitfalls.
While Plato had some good points on the pitfalls of democracy, his alternative isn't necessarily better -- those who think it is, inevitably imagine themselves as the Philosopher Kings, not the poor sods laboring in the fields. A real world implementation of The Republic would look something like Huxley's Brave New World rather than Utopia.
"Because, as Plato pointed out over 2000 years ago, democracy is a dangerous thing."
I really don't care to take pointers on democracy from a guy that's been dead for 2 millenia AT HIS OWN HAND because his government told him to drink the kool-aid. Gimme a break.
And I don't care to take pointers on anything from a guy who doesn't know the difference between Plato and Socrates.
It might also force some networks to reevaluate. MTV, for instance, might take note if 50% of their viewers dropped MTV and MTV2 picked up.
Why? It's not like they play different shows anymore.
Sure, once upon a time, MTV2 carried the videos that MTV had displaced for Real World marathons, but now it's being taken over with Making the Band, Diary, Beavis and Butthead, and all the other stuff that made MTV go down the drain.
I also think that some channels that are less popular will simply get removed, regardless of the wishes of the fans of _those_ networks feel,
If you're talking about regular cable, absolutely -- there's a finite amount of bandwidth, so it makes sense to limit it to the high-demand channels. But digital cable is, if not quite boundless, then more than sufficient for a wide selection of niche channels. Yeah, it'll suck if you don't want digital but have to get it for for one niche channel you like, but it's hardly unfair.
The NYT has a habit of catching these things. It won't even let you register cypherpunks/cypherpunks. However, there is a work around -- get some sort of proxy, such as Proxomitron, and configure it so the referer is news.google.com. The same trick works with the WaPo's new registration service.
Considering that English comes from England, I'd say that the English do indeed have a better claim to the name.
There has never, ever been an English language. If you pick up untranslated copies of Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knights, two works composed more or less contemporaneously, you'll find that they're barely even the same language. Chaucer happens to be easier to read because he wrote in the London dialect, whereas Anonymous lived out in the boonies. Does that mean Chaucer has a "better claim" to being an English author?
We were just talking about how the British English language was the true "natural" English language, all other derived languages that were English with an accent.
The problem with this analysis is that American English started to diverge from the mother tongue at a point when British English didn't sound a thing like modern British English. In fact, there are linguists who think the Southern accent sounds closest to how people spoke in the Elizabethan era -- which means Shakespeare should properly be performed with Brett Butler as Ophelia and Jeff Foxworthy as Polonius.
if it's been in orbit since 1996, why has it only just been found?
Because it doesn't actually spend much time around Earth. It's really orbiting the sun in a path that coincides with ours. When it nears the Earth, our gravity grabs it, swings it around, and sends it back around the sun in the opposite direction.
Not to mention the extension came out something like two months ago. What's next, an article touting GnuPG as the successor to PGP?
Only in Voy: Threshold has anything ever achieved infinite velocity. Even when invaders from the Andromeda galaxy in TOS modified Enterprise's engines to allow it to travel between galaxies, we're still traveling at a finite speed.
In "Where No One Has Gone Before", Geordi says they exceded warp 10, which is defined as infinite speed in the TNG universe. If you want to retcon that statement away, please, go do it while wanking to a picture of Data, but stop subjecting us to your delusional view that Star Trek used self-consistent tech until Voyager.
What you're talking about are exceptions which use different warp scales, entirely different methods of traveling through space, supernatural beings, or in some cases alternate realities created by supernatural beings. All of which is perfectly explained and believable.
So wait, the Enterprise being able to reach a velocity defined as an asymptote is okay and believable when an alien entity does it? That is the dumbest fanboy excuse I've ever heard.
The only one that isn't is Voy: Threshold. It's the biggest stain on Trek since TOS: Miri.
No, dude, Threshold isn't a universally reviled episode because the science doesn't make sense (if that were the case, there'd be very few good episodes of Star Trek) or because it broke continuity (something Star Trek has never been big on). It's a bad episode because traveling at infinite speed made Paris and Janeway devolve into salamanders.
Warp 10 is impossible. The warp scale represents speeds exponentially closer to infinity. According to the scale, 10 is the asymptote representing infinite speed. The single episode of Trek (Voy: Threshold) in which this feat is accomplished
Single episode? I know they retconned all the TOS episodes where aliens modified the Enterprise to go faster than warp 10, but there's still TNG's "Where No Man Has Gone Before," in which the Enterprise-D exceded warp 10, and the future scenes in "All Good Things" where warp 10+ was no big deal.
"A therefore B" does define the relationship between the two. It is a short way of saying, "there is a direct causal relationship between A and B. Furthermore, A is true, meaning B is true."
No, an if/then statement indicates a "direct causal relationship"; "therefore" denotes a conclusion that follows from the premises. As I noted previously (but you snipped), "A therefore B" could come after "if A then B" or "A and B" -- but in the latter case there's no causation implied between the two, only that if one's true the other is too. If you don't present a premise that defines a relationship between A and B, then "A therefore B" doesn't make any logical sense
Should the landlord be able to monitor your communications to find this out? They own the building, you don't.
But the phone-company owns the phonelines, the cable-company the cable, and there are federal laws dealing with mail.
OK, then I suppose you'd be fine with a clothing store videoing their customers in the changing room and selling the tapes on the Internet.
That's a completely different issue -- the store would have to get a model-release and pay me for the commercial use.