The difference, as I understand it, is that it becomes slander or libel (not sure what the difference between those two is) when it is represented as fact, not opinion.
For instance, I could say "I think Elliot Frielle is a cheat and a liar" and that's personal opinion. If I state, "Elliot Frielle regularly cheats on his income tax and perjured himself in court last year by stating that his mistress was with him on the night she was accused of mass murder," I'd be libeling (or is that slandering?) him by stating it as fact. (I note now that I know no Elliot Frielle and a Google search yields no one by that name. Any resemblance to people living or dead is entirely coincidental)
It gets a bit murkier when you're making unsubstantiated general claims. Maybe I'm just mad at Elliot and I say, "Elliot Frielle is a bounder and a cad!" in a righteous snit over something or another. Am I actually stating that he's a bounder and a cad, that he has objectionable social behavior and disregards others' feelings? Or am I just using words to express my anger? Is this just my opinion on his character or am I stating that this has actually applied to incidents in his life?
In the end, hopefully common sense rules out in most of these cases. While words said in anger should be taken with a grain of salt, I hope that a person couldn't get away with slander and libel by just prefixing every statement with, "It's just my opinion that."
This is the closest I can find on short notice:
From the Minor League site FAQ
4) What do Minor League players earn?
Minor League Baseball player contracts are handled by the Major League Baseball office. Here are the salary ranges:
First contract season: $850/month maximum. After that, open to negotiation
Alien Salary Rates: Different for aliens on visas--mandated by INS (Immigration).
Triple-A--First year: $2,150/month, after first year no less than $2,150/month
Class AA-First year: $1,500/month, after first year no less than $1,500/month
Class A (full season)--First year: $1,050/month, after first year no less than $1,050/month
Class A (short-season)--First year: $850/month, after first year no less than $850/month
Dominican & Venezuelan Summer Leagues--no lower than $300/month
Meal Money: $20 per day at all levels, while on the road
*wry grin* I don't really see many million-dollar players here. As for the number of players involved, well, you can see a list of teams here, more than a hundred by me eyeballing it.
I think where you're getting confused is that when you think "professional," you think "major league." The minor leagues employ a very sizeable amount of people too. *shrug* And similarly, you talk about actors and people think about the headliners. You talk about politicians and they think Senators. Talk about bloggers and people think about these people who're pulling down 6 digits in advertising. It's a common mistake in people, seeing the most prominent.
"God must have loved the common people, for He made so many of them." -Abraham Lincoln
Yup, and weapons like the Gatling gun and atomic bombs will make war such a horrifying thing that no one will want to fight. There will always be people willing to throw themselves onto the bayonets so as to allow the fanatics behind them to attack. Just look at the Marines... (nothing actually against the Marines except that they are one crazy group of SOBs.)
Obviously you haven't been watching the actual competition. All you need to do to stop these things is set some traffic cones out. Or, worse, cast ominous shadows along the ground.
Seriously though, I suspect that if autonomous bombs come about, landmines will come back in style.
Similarly, very few actors make enough money to live off. Very few professional athletes make enough money to live off. *shrug* It's the exceptions that people remember. Heck, in his book, If Chins Could Kill, Bruce Campbell admits that his average annual income from acting is less than $40,000, which many people consider to be standard wage slave income. And he's a fairly well known actor, too...
Och, and don't even get me on the subject of people who think primary school teachers are overpaid...
eh....i want a harem *now*
Face it, buddy. If you can't handle one girl now, how do you expect to handle a bevy of them?
Although it reminds me of the old joke about the businessman, the artist, and the programmer discussing the benefits of wives and mistresses.
The businessman says, "It's better to have a wife. It's a more stable arrangement and more sensible legally speaking."
The artist says, "Ah, but a mistress is so much more exciting and passionate."
The programmer says, "I say a man should have a wife and a mistress. The wife will think you're with the mistress. The mistress will think you're with the wife. And you can actually get some work done!"
LilyPond is a pretty good one, although it has an odd interface for some (text files) and is primarily a TeX interface to create pretty notation, not for playing. Personally, I find that the text input means less fighitng with a GUI to get it to do exactly what you want.
Thery sell the CD and the Libretto. The documentary of them trying to track down participants in a set of 8mm footage of play rehearsals for the show is available on their website. *wry grin* I've had no luck getting my local community theater to produce it. Although, if you read the script, the stage directions are pretty insane at times.
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The last scene involves Cthulhu towering over the local houses, picking up a cast member (!), and then destroying all of the buildings on set in an orgy of destruction. ^_^ And then there's the happy ending with a zombie romance. "He can destroy the town. He can even kill all of us, but he can never destroy knowledge and as long as we have knowledge, there will always be a Miskatonic!"
Try looking here. No CD music, but the game is there. They even have the LAN patch for multi-player. Only catch is that the patch to make it run in XP is a bit iffy to build.
Actually, a systematic set of rules covers about 85% of the words, and most of the rest are former loan words. *wry grin* Although, as someone who learned French in school, it's still kind of bizarre that "canapé" is pronounced "canopy" and "forte" is pronounced as a two-syllable word that rhymes with "Court A."
I once had a background program that did something like that... except that at random intervals, it would take over the keyboard and type messages. ^_^ Took my co-worker a while to figure out what was going wrong.
This is why America needs a loser pays system in the courts. These people sued by the RIAA have to settle, even if they are innocent, because lawyers are so expensive... Thank God someone is fighting back!
Sure... the multimillion dollar corporation isn't going to be able to hire much better lawyers than Joe Filesharer, right? Instead of $10,000 per song, they'll be charged $10,000 per song and the fees for $1000 per hour for the RIAA's lawyer. Bloody brilliant!
The fuck I can't! What about all the mp3s I record myself?
I don't know what kind of MP3s you record, but if you record covers of copyrighted songs, you have the legal right to do so, but if you distribute them either online or via physical media, you are required to pay royalties for every song distributed, even if you're giving them away for free. *shrug* I'm sure you're distributing original work, though, so no worries.
^_^ You've got to love a school whose team is the Fighting Engineers. My brother graduated from there about nine years ago with a degree in EE and I have a cousing attending there. FWIW, my brother is working for LexMark, but I don't know what their current hiring situation is.
To be perfectly honest, my experience in graduating is that they generally won't be banging down your door unless you've personally auhtored a major application or paper (of practical use). You're going to have to spend some shoe leather looking for opportunities. Your best resource is to have done a co-op or summer job with a techical company, but if it's your Junior year, it may be a bit late to do that. Next best are contacts. You probably have friends who have graduated already and have jobs. You probably have relatives who have technical jobs (engineering seems to run in families...). Talk to them. See if there's a hiring position. You've got a good character reference in them after all.
Also, don't be surprised if most companies are requiring 5+ years of experience. *wry grin* It's the usual Catch-22 that you can't be hired without experience and you can't get experience without being hired. You may have to take a job which isn't extremely high paying, maybe not even all that exciting to you, to pick up experience. Again, this is where co-op and summer jobs are handy. Also, consider taking a look at government positions. On average, they pay less for the technical careers, but they're incredibly stable, there's a lot of horizontal mobility, and right now they're in desperate need of younger engineers to pass on information to. At my station, over half of our engineers are over 50. When they die, decades of metrology expertise is likely to go with them. If nothing else, the government is a big place and it's not unusual for them to pass your resume along. I didn't even apply for my position. They received my resume from another part of the Air Force, who'd passed on my contact information.
And, quite frankly, you may not have a job on graduating. I didn't and it was largely because I was expecting someone to knock on my door with an opportunity. I wish you the best of luck though, as the job market is a bit glutted.
Thank you for the link. It was actually kind of diverting for a few minutes. With a few more levels of scale and perhaps some obstacles other than pickup-able objects, I could see that as a nice "coffee break game." You know, the kind you play when your head is hurting from trying to process code and you just need to de-rez.
It took me just a bit to get into it, but after an hour and a half or so, I was completely hooked.
And that was basically one of the biggest problems in the game, the pacing. The first few levels were difficult, when you're at a small size. But once you reach a certain size (most people say 6m), most of the levels become trivial and it's just a matter of "where do you want to roll today?" Had it not been for a friend looking over my shouldering coaching me towards some of the better routes, I might not have stuck with it. Looking forward to playing this sequel...
But I've got to say that one of the funnest (yes...) part of the game is how unabashedly violent and sick the idea of the game is. You roll up people, they scream, they flail around trying to dislodge themselves from the massive ball, they fail at that.
What's truly bizarre to me about it all is that the whole purpose of the second game is that people are lining up to beg you to do this to them. Obviously this game is a thinly-veiled vehicle for BSDM fetishists...
I'm at a loss for where I saw the quotation, but I saw an interesting metaphor for Katamari Damacy by way of the analogy of a rock star. The first time you saw them, it was an incredibly visceral experience. This was music history happening right before your eyes! The band is obviously giving it all they've got and it's non-stop action. Then, they become more popular. They still play the same songs, but they know they've got it made, so they start listening to their fans and adding in little touches to please them. You also start getting little monologues on the side because the band has realized that they, as much as their music, are what people are coming to see. The article closed by wondering what a third game would be like. Would it be the burned-out rock star who absolutely refuses to sing his early songs because he's sick of them? Screaming rants about nothing at all outweighing the amount of music content? Treatment of the fans and audience which emphasize that he hates you all?
It was really a very amusing little metaphor, not that I think it's going to go that far. I suspect it will be more of the same which little touches if they do create further sequels. Although personally, I'm rooting for them creating an entirely different game which carries the Damacy title just to indicate it contains the same Beatles-esque psychedelic imagery and the bizarre but compelling gameplay.
Maybe I'm just confused but what's the relation between Sound Recorder and Cdex? One allows you to record and add effects to a WAV file. The other one is a CD-ripping utility. Where's the open-source sound recording program to replace the Windows sound recording program?
Disclaimer: This post is obviously a blatant violation of the DMCA
Oh, so you broke copyright mechanisms to post those lyrics? Keyboard locks... those RIAA people get sneakier every day!
It's not the shipping; it's the handling. Shipping is more or less the cost to send it to you. Handling is whatever else they want to tag on. Heck, some people exist entirely on the shipping & handling charges so they can claim extremely low prices. Look at a lot of Ebay auctions or those TV offers.
Of course I might still dislike him -- but I'm not going to dismiss him until I know more about him. Just the fact that Christian right is uneasy about him gives me a little bit of room for hope.
You're assuming that politicians take one position and hold to it. While I would like to think that (you know, so I can hope that the person I elected will still be the person I elected in four years) but I'm afraid reality doesn't really bear that out. To survive, a politician must switch sides whenever they can do so and the net gain in followers is less than the net loss.
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For instance, I could say "I think Elliot Frielle is a cheat and a liar" and that's personal opinion. If I state, "Elliot Frielle regularly cheats on his income tax and perjured himself in court last year by stating that his mistress was with him on the night she was accused of mass murder," I'd be libeling (or is that slandering?) him by stating it as fact. (I note now that I know no Elliot Frielle and a Google search yields no one by that name. Any resemblance to people living or dead is entirely coincidental)
It gets a bit murkier when you're making unsubstantiated general claims. Maybe I'm just mad at Elliot and I say, "Elliot Frielle is a bounder and a cad!" in a righteous snit over something or another. Am I actually stating that he's a bounder and a cad, that he has objectionable social behavior and disregards others' feelings? Or am I just using words to express my anger? Is this just my opinion on his character or am I stating that this has actually applied to incidents in his life?
In the end, hopefully common sense rules out in most of these cases. While words said in anger should be taken with a grain of salt, I hope that a person couldn't get away with slander and libel by just prefixing every statement with, "It's just my opinion that."
From the Minor League site FAQ
4) What do Minor League players earn?
Minor League Baseball player contracts are handled by the Major League Baseball office. Here are the salary ranges:
First contract season: $850/month maximum. After that, open to negotiation
Alien Salary Rates: Different for aliens on visas--mandated by INS (Immigration).
Triple-A--First year: $2,150/month, after first year no less than $2,150/month
Class AA-First year: $1,500/month, after first year no less than $1,500/month
Class A (full season)--First year: $1,050/month, after first year no less than $1,050/month
Class A (short-season)--First year: $850/month, after first year no less than $850/month
Dominican & Venezuelan Summer Leagues--no lower than $300/month
Meal Money: $20 per day at all levels, while on the road
*wry grin* I don't really see many million-dollar players here. As for the number of players involved, well, you can see a list of teams here, more than a hundred by me eyeballing it.
"God must have loved the common people, for He made so many of them." -Abraham Lincoln
Yup, and weapons like the Gatling gun and atomic bombs will make war such a horrifying thing that no one will want to fight. There will always be people willing to throw themselves onto the bayonets so as to allow the fanatics behind them to attack. Just look at the Marines... (nothing actually against the Marines except that they are one crazy group of SOBs.)
Seriously though, I suspect that if autonomous bombs come about, landmines will come back in style.
In my opinion, mock attacks largely allow people to feel good about their mock defenses.
Och, and don't even get me on the subject of people who think primary school teachers are overpaid...
Face it, buddy. If you can't handle one girl now, how do you expect to handle a bevy of them?
Although it reminds me of the old joke about the businessman, the artist, and the programmer discussing the benefits of wives and mistresses.
The businessman says, "It's better to have a wife. It's a more stable arrangement and more sensible legally speaking."
The artist says, "Ah, but a mistress is so much more exciting and passionate."
The programmer says, "I say a man should have a wife and a mistress. The wife will think you're with the mistress. The mistress will think you're with the wife. And you can actually get some work done!"
LilyPond is a pretty good one, although it has an odd interface for some (text files) and is primarily a TeX interface to create pretty notation, not for playing. Personally, I find that the text input means less fighitng with a GUI to get it to do exactly what you want.
SPOILER
The last scene involves Cthulhu towering over the local houses, picking up a cast member (!), and then destroying all of the buildings on set in an orgy of destruction. ^_^ And then there's the happy ending with a zombie romance. "He can destroy the town. He can even kill all of us, but he can never destroy knowledge and as long as we have knowledge, there will always be a Miskatonic!"
Try looking here. No CD music, but the game is there. They even have the LAN patch for multi-player. Only catch is that the patch to make it run in XP is a bit iffy to build.
Actually, a systematic set of rules covers about 85% of the words, and most of the rest are former loan words. *wry grin* Although, as someone who learned French in school, it's still kind of bizarre that "canapé" is pronounced "canopy" and "forte" is pronounced as a two-syllable word that rhymes with "Court A."
I once had a background program that did something like that... except that at random intervals, it would take over the keyboard and type messages. ^_^ Took my co-worker a while to figure out what was going wrong.
This is why America needs a loser pays system in the courts. These people sued by the RIAA have to settle, even if they are innocent, because lawyers are so expensive... Thank God someone is fighting back!
Sure... the multimillion dollar corporation isn't going to be able to hire much better lawyers than Joe Filesharer, right? Instead of $10,000 per song, they'll be charged $10,000 per song and the fees for $1000 per hour for the RIAA's lawyer. Bloody brilliant!
The fuck I can't! What about all the mp3s I record myself?
I don't know what kind of MP3s you record, but if you record covers of copyrighted songs, you have the legal right to do so, but if you distribute them either online or via physical media, you are required to pay royalties for every song distributed, even if you're giving them away for free. *shrug* I'm sure you're distributing original work, though, so no worries.
To be perfectly honest, my experience in graduating is that they generally won't be banging down your door unless you've personally auhtored a major application or paper (of practical use). You're going to have to spend some shoe leather looking for opportunities. Your best resource is to have done a co-op or summer job with a techical company, but if it's your Junior year, it may be a bit late to do that. Next best are contacts. You probably have friends who have graduated already and have jobs. You probably have relatives who have technical jobs (engineering seems to run in families...). Talk to them. See if there's a hiring position. You've got a good character reference in them after all.
Also, don't be surprised if most companies are requiring 5+ years of experience. *wry grin* It's the usual Catch-22 that you can't be hired without experience and you can't get experience without being hired. You may have to take a job which isn't extremely high paying, maybe not even all that exciting to you, to pick up experience. Again, this is where co-op and summer jobs are handy. Also, consider taking a look at government positions. On average, they pay less for the technical careers, but they're incredibly stable, there's a lot of horizontal mobility, and right now they're in desperate need of younger engineers to pass on information to. At my station, over half of our engineers are over 50. When they die, decades of metrology expertise is likely to go with them. If nothing else, the government is a big place and it's not unusual for them to pass your resume along. I didn't even apply for my position. They received my resume from another part of the Air Force, who'd passed on my contact information.
And, quite frankly, you may not have a job on graduating. I didn't and it was largely because I was expecting someone to knock on my door with an opportunity. I wish you the best of luck though, as the job market is a bit glutted.
Try http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/770788/post s/
I don't know if this was the study he was intending to quote, but it is on the subject.
Thank you for the link. It was actually kind of diverting for a few minutes. With a few more levels of scale and perhaps some obstacles other than pickup-able objects, I could see that as a nice "coffee break game." You know, the kind you play when your head is hurting from trying to process code and you just need to de-rez.
It took me just a bit to get into it, but after an hour and a half or so, I was completely hooked.
And that was basically one of the biggest problems in the game, the pacing. The first few levels were difficult, when you're at a small size. But once you reach a certain size (most people say 6m), most of the levels become trivial and it's just a matter of "where do you want to roll today?" Had it not been for a friend looking over my shouldering coaching me towards some of the better routes, I might not have stuck with it. Looking forward to playing this sequel...
But I've got to say that one of the funnest (yes...) part of the game is how unabashedly violent and sick the idea of the game is. You roll up people, they scream, they flail around trying to dislodge themselves from the massive ball, they fail at that.
What's truly bizarre to me about it all is that the whole purpose of the second game is that people are lining up to beg you to do this to them. Obviously this game is a thinly-veiled vehicle for BSDM fetishists...
It was really a very amusing little metaphor, not that I think it's going to go that far. I suspect it will be more of the same which little touches if they do create further sequels. Although personally, I'm rooting for them creating an entirely different game which carries the Damacy title just to indicate it contains the same Beatles-esque psychedelic imagery and the bizarre but compelling gameplay.
Maybe I'm just confused but what's the relation between Sound Recorder and Cdex? One allows you to record and add effects to a WAV file. The other one is a CD-ripping utility. Where's the open-source sound recording program to replace the Windows sound recording program?
Disclaimer: This post is obviously a blatant violation of the DMCA
Oh, so you broke copyright mechanisms to post those lyrics? Keyboard locks... those RIAA people get sneakier every day!
It's not the shipping; it's the handling. Shipping is more or less the cost to send it to you. Handling is whatever else they want to tag on. Heck, some people exist entirely on the shipping & handling charges so they can claim extremely low prices. Look at a lot of Ebay auctions or those TV offers.
You're assuming that politicians take one position and hold to it. While I would like to think that (you know, so I can hope that the person I elected will still be the person I elected in four years) but I'm afraid reality doesn't really bear that out. To survive, a politician must switch sides whenever they can do so and the net gain in followers is less than the net loss.