While they may have consented, did they really have a choice about the matter? They have to be in school. They may not be able to pass their classes without the use of the computer.
Of course they don't. They're students. When were you ever given a choice in school -- "Well, you can read The Scarlet Letter, or you can play with your gameboy." This is no different from teachers walking around the classroom to make sure everyone's doing their assignment.
Well, if you start with "Statement A, therefore, Statement B" that is equal to if A then B, A therefore B. The previous is just a more succinct way to put it.
No it isn't. Nothing about "Statement A, therefore Statement B" implies an if/then relationship -- it could just as easily be "A and B", "A", therefore "B". You can't just say "A therefore B" until you've defined a relationship between the two.
You can disprove a rule, like "if A then B" or you can disprove the assumption, like the truth of A.
Wrong. Disproving A doesn't tell you anything about the truth-value of B. I mean, just think about it for a minute -- if A = "lightning hits the transformer"; and B = "the power will go out"; that doesn't mean that if the power goes out, lightning hit the transformer -- a fallen tree could've knocked down a powerline, or the nuclear plant could be having a meltdown, or you could've just blown a fuse, etc., etc.
What you're saying would be true of an "if and only if" statement, but with plain old if/then, the falsity of A or the truth of B doesn't tell you anything about the other.
In order to assess a statement according to the rules of logic, it should be of the form: Statement A, therefore Statement B.
Wow, so "'If P then Q' therefore 'Q'" is a valid argument form in your universe. Fascinating. Over here you need at least two statements before you can say "therefore".
If I remember my Dr. Who rules (though since when have the rules been a problem for the Dr.) This will be the ninth and there for last Dr. Who.
You misremember. It's thirteen lives; the Trial of a Time Lord story (which constituted the majority of Colin Baker's tenure aboard the Tardis) featured the Thirteenth Doctor, who'd turned rather nasty in his closing days.
The reason that many people like Tom Baker is that during that time, the complete DW production staff was one of the best assembled, from writing to direction, and thus has some of the more memoriable stories, and just so happened that Tom Baker was the Doctor at that time.
Also, people usually imprint on the first Doctor they're exposed to (same applies with James Bond), and since Tom Baker did more episodes than anyone else, most people see his episodes first.
I mean, come on -- we all know that if you spend time randomly surfing the Web, you can hardly go an hour or two without randomly stumbling across some porn -- or reference to porn -- in the form of an advertisement or a pop-up or a joke site or whatever.
What sites are you visiting? I can go for months without coming across a site more adult-oriented than anything on primetime network TV.
God help Japan if that's the case;) Hell in Clancy's Jack Ryan world [...] we'll eventually go to war with every nation in the World except Russia because they are our friends now and we like them a lot;)
The amazing thing is that people in the Ryanverse seem to think he's a good president. Based on how people have reacted to Bush in our timeline, I have a hard time believing that the streets wouldn't be filled with protesters 24/7 under the Ryan administration. I mean, this is the guy who was Deputy Director of the CIA when terrorists nuked Denver; became National Security Advisor just in time to push the President into war with Japan; became President when the Capitol happened to be hit by a jet liner within minutes of his become VP; got into an ugly legal battle with the former VP over which of them was the rightful President; presided over a major biological terrorist attack which resulted in a war against Iran and Iraq; and started a war with China over their abortion policy and Siberian oil.
Clancy wasn't even the first writer to come up with the idea. It had already been used by Stephen King in The Running Man (the book had a very different ending from the movie) and, IIRC, a Dale Brown spy novel.
Are you saying it is ok for unknown software to modify SOME data on your computer?
Installing software automatically alters data on your computer.
If these guys had downloaded from a website that promised X but did Y, that'd be reason to get upset, but when they get a program off a peer-to-peer network and it doesn't do what they thought it would, that's their own damned fault.
Why must one tie one's website to a particular regeion, be it state or country? If I have a site meant for the entire world's consumption, what would you have us do?
Companies don't deal with the whole world; they deal with individual regions around the world. Think about it, if you want to do business with SuperMegaCorp, do you want to go to some catch-all international site, or to a localized one that uses your native language and lists prices in your local currency? Just take Amazon for instance -- would a German rather go to just http://amazon or http://amazon.de?
Hey, I hear some obscure New Zealand guy is trying to make Lord of the Rings movies, and George Lucas has started work on the Star Wars prequels.
Come on, SciFi announced the Earthsea movies way back after the success of the first Dune miniseries -- which happened in the previous century. Times like this, I wish mod points applied to stories instead of just comments.
I suppose you did read the Bible and/or Nostradamus
Did you read the Qur-an? That is, before you came to the conclusion that they're all cut from the same cloth (or paper)...
I've read every religious scripture I can get my hands on -- Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu. Even Scientology. Nothing in the Koran is more believable than the others; just a bunch of supernatural and pseudo-historical stories, moral parables, vague prophesies, and rules disguised as divine commandments.
Some links, that can help you or anyone interested
Qur-an, Islam and Science Qur'an and Sceintific Knowledge
I can point to equally "reliable" sites that "prove" some of the claims in the Christian Bible. Again, that doesn't make it scientific.
Even if Jaywalking isn't scripted, it's definitely edited. If you spend several hours posing simple questions to random people, you're bound to get enough dumb answers to fill a five minute segment.
It's not just politicians. On their series Bullshit, Penn and Teller sent a petition to ban DHMO to a Greenpeace rally. The only thing more disturbing than the people who were willing to sign after hearing selected facts about water, was the number of people who signed without even hearing the pitch.
Lovely. And why should I give the Koran any more weight than the outrageous scientific claims made in the Bible (like bats being birds and insects having four legs), or even Nostradamus?
What if each of the planets are getting sucked into the sun one by one and new ones are formed at the end of the line. They start small, but then they accumulate mass over the millenia.
No, no, that's only true of Venus, which was belched out of Jupiter several thousand years ago.
Not sure about everyone else, but humans as a whole we have many more earth bound issues that require our attention. Famine, disease, and war are way more important, and require more of our attention.
I take it, then, that you don't spend any time worrying about petty issues like bills, family, or relationships? After all, they're nowhere as important as war, famine, and disease.
It's a common Hollywood practice to cut trailers to "hot" tracks from any source, including other movies. I've heard parts of the score from Backdraft in trailers for all sorts of films,
That's because the score is one of the last things done (the composer needs a fairly firm cut of the film before he can lock down the orchestration and begin recording), so the editors don't usually have any official music when they do the ads and have to make do with whatever they can find in the vaults.
And perhaps you ignorant foreigners should realize that theu U.S. does NOT use metric usually, so information coming from the U.S. should be looked at in this light.
Dude, stop making Americans look like idiots. The original poster said "metric ton", which anyone who's taken high school level physics or chemistry should know is 1000 kilograms.
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While they may have consented, did they really have a choice about the matter? They have to be in school. They may not be able to pass their classes without the use of the computer.
Of course they don't. They're students. When were you ever given a choice in school -- "Well, you can read The Scarlet Letter, or you can play with your gameboy." This is no different from teachers walking around the classroom to make sure everyone's doing their assignment.
Well, if you start with "Statement A, therefore, Statement B" that is equal to if A then B, A therefore B. The previous is just a more succinct way to put it.
No it isn't. Nothing about "Statement A, therefore Statement B" implies an if/then relationship -- it could just as easily be "A and B", "A", therefore "B". You can't just say "A therefore B" until you've defined a relationship between the two.
You can disprove a rule, like "if A then B" or you can disprove the assumption, like the truth of A.
Wrong. Disproving A doesn't tell you anything about the truth-value of B. I mean, just think about it for a minute -- if A = "lightning hits the transformer"; and B = "the power will go out"; that doesn't mean that if the power goes out, lightning hit the transformer -- a fallen tree could've knocked down a powerline, or the nuclear plant could be having a meltdown, or you could've just blown a fuse, etc., etc.
What you're saying would be true of an "if and only if" statement, but with plain old if/then, the falsity of A or the truth of B doesn't tell you anything about the other.
In order to assess a statement according to the rules of logic, it should be of the form: Statement A, therefore Statement B.
Wow, so "'If P then Q' therefore 'Q'" is a valid argument form in your universe. Fascinating. Over here you need at least two statements before you can say "therefore".
Graphical ads? What are those? Are you surfing the web without a proper filtration program or something?
If I remember my Dr. Who rules (though since when have the rules been a problem for the Dr.) This will be the ninth and there for last Dr. Who.
You misremember. It's thirteen lives; the Trial of a Time Lord story (which constituted the majority of Colin Baker's tenure aboard the Tardis) featured the Thirteenth Doctor, who'd turned rather nasty in his closing days.
The reason that many people like Tom Baker is that during that time, the complete DW production staff was one of the best assembled, from writing to direction, and thus has some of the more memoriable stories, and just so happened that Tom Baker was the Doctor at that time.
Also, people usually imprint on the first Doctor they're exposed to (same applies with James Bond), and since Tom Baker did more episodes than anyone else, most people see his episodes first.
I mean, come on -- we all know that if you spend time randomly surfing the Web, you can hardly go an hour or two without randomly stumbling across some porn -- or reference to porn -- in the form of an advertisement or a pop-up or a joke site or whatever.
What sites are you visiting? I can go for months without coming across a site more adult-oriented than anything on primetime network TV.
God help Japan if that's the case ;) Hell in Clancy's Jack Ryan world [...] we'll eventually go to war with every nation in the World except Russia because they are our friends now and we like them a lot ;)
The amazing thing is that people in the Ryanverse seem to think he's a good president. Based on how people have reacted to Bush in our timeline, I have a hard time believing that the streets wouldn't be filled with protesters 24/7 under the Ryan administration. I mean, this is the guy who was Deputy Director of the CIA when terrorists nuked Denver; became National Security Advisor just in time to push the President into war with Japan; became President when the Capitol happened to be hit by a jet liner within minutes of his become VP; got into an ugly legal battle with the former VP over which of them was the rightful President; presided over a major biological terrorist attack which resulted in a war against Iran and Iraq; and started a war with China over their abortion policy and Siberian oil.
Clancy wasn't even the first writer to come up with the idea. It had already been used by Stephen King in The Running Man (the book had a very different ending from the movie) and, IIRC, a Dale Brown spy novel.
It's one thing to have someone's IP address. It's another thing altogether to post it as public information.
Whatever you do, do not click this link or I will publish your IP address and system information.
Your IP address is not private information.
Are you saying it is ok for unknown software to modify SOME data on your computer?
Installing software automatically alters data on your computer.
If these guys had downloaded from a website that promised X but did Y, that'd be reason to get upset, but when they get a program off a peer-to-peer network and it doesn't do what they thought it would, that's their own damned fault.
Why must one tie one's website to a particular regeion, be it state or country? If I have a site meant for the entire world's consumption, what would you have us do?
Companies don't deal with the whole world; they deal with individual regions around the world. Think about it, if you want to do business with SuperMegaCorp, do you want to go to some catch-all international site, or to a localized one that uses your native language and lists prices in your local currency? Just take Amazon for instance -- would a German rather go to just http://amazon or http://amazon.de?
Hey, I hear some obscure New Zealand guy is trying to make Lord of the Rings movies, and George Lucas has started work on the Star Wars prequels.
Come on, SciFi announced the Earthsea movies way back after the success of the first Dune miniseries -- which happened in the previous century. Times like this, I wish mod points applied to stories instead of just comments.
I suppose you did read the Bible and/or Nostradamus Did you read the Qur-an? That is, before you came to the conclusion that they're all cut from the same cloth (or paper)...
I've read every religious scripture I can get my hands on -- Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu. Even Scientology. Nothing in the Koran is more believable than the others; just a bunch of supernatural and pseudo-historical stories, moral parables, vague prophesies, and rules disguised as divine commandments.
Some links, that can help you or anyone interested Qur-an, Islam and Science Qur'an and Sceintific Knowledge
I can point to equally "reliable" sites that "prove" some of the claims in the Christian Bible. Again, that doesn't make it scientific.
Even if Jaywalking isn't scripted, it's definitely edited. If you spend several hours posing simple questions to random people, you're bound to get enough dumb answers to fill a five minute segment.
It's not just politicians. On their series Bullshit, Penn and Teller sent a petition to ban DHMO to a Greenpeace rally. The only thing more disturbing than the people who were willing to sign after hearing selected facts about water, was the number of people who signed without even hearing the pitch.
Lovely. And why should I give the Koran any more weight than the outrageous scientific claims made in the Bible (like bats being birds and insects having four legs), or even Nostradamus?
What if each of the planets are getting sucked into the sun one by one and new ones are formed at the end of the line. They start small, but then they accumulate mass over the millenia.
No, no, that's only true of Venus, which was belched out of Jupiter several thousand years ago.
Jebus, doesn't anyone read Velikovsky anymore?
Not sure about everyone else, but humans as a whole we have many more earth bound issues that require our attention. Famine, disease, and war are way more important, and require more of our attention.
I take it, then, that you don't spend any time worrying about petty issues like bills, family, or relationships? After all, they're nowhere as important as war, famine, and disease.
The downside is that some people still don't understand what it takes to rise in the rankings: quality content and getting linked to.
And mispellings. Nothing will get you hits like talking about Rush Limbough and Dr. Laura Shlessinger.
It's a common Hollywood practice to cut trailers to "hot" tracks from any source, including other movies. I've heard parts of the score from Backdraft in trailers for all sorts of films,
That's because the score is one of the last things done (the composer needs a fairly firm cut of the film before he can lock down the orchestration and begin recording), so the editors don't usually have any official music when they do the ads and have to make do with whatever they can find in the vaults.
They've delivered on that promise, and they've also promised that any future releases, such as an entire trilogy box set, would have no new content.
Not entirely true -- on the FOTR commentary, Jackson says he wouldn't mind redoing Gollum's appearance to match the rest of the movies.
And perhaps you ignorant foreigners should realize that theu U.S. does NOT use metric usually, so information coming from the U.S. should be looked at in this light.
Dude, stop making Americans look like idiots. The original poster said "metric ton", which anyone who's taken high school level physics or chemistry should know is 1000 kilograms.
But second, and not least, the raunchy Frazetta-esque cover featuring page three girl Maria Whitaker.
The cover was tame compared to the game itself, which featured the female warrior nude.
Japanese pr0n? What a newbie. Back in my day, all we had was 8-bit nude girls and text-adventure pr0n.