The softly-stated context of TFA was how Apple, risen from the dead, Lo! this decade, has handed to Microsoft its ass. If I'm not mistaken, AAPL is a publicly traded company, whose stock has done right well despite the Fiscal End of the World. So you might want to re-think "innovators should be free from kowtowing to the market."
According to Aristotle, who may or may not have known what he was talking about, the "most tragic" stories are those that involve morally average people (not especially good or bad, morally), who are of great stature or who have enjoyed great fortune, who fall from a state of happiness to a low state due to some "mistake made in ignorance".
Note: this has nothing to do with hubris, which does not mean "pride" anyway..
So we have our social studies teacher, a woman of national stature, enjoying great good fortune (the one selected out of 1100), who is presumably neither extraordinarily virtuous nor vicious, who died as the result of a hamartia (to use Aristotle's term).
What was her hamartia, her "mistake made in ignorance"? It was boarding a vehicle, assuming that the guys responsible for the "go/no-go" decision were paying attention to the guys who actually built the vehicle.
The crew of STS-51L are tragic figures by any definition--the fact that there are countless millions of other such figures notwithstanding--but if you are going to be pedantic about "tragedy", you will find that they fit Aristotle's bill especially well.
To the excellent parent post, I would add this, for the benefit of the "Bible is Literally True" crowd: "Don't call your literal reading of the Bible 'Faith', because it isn't."
Paul Tillich's Dynamics of Faith should be required reading, bound into the front of every translation of the Bible. He notes that faith in an infinite and transcendent God must be expressed in the language of symbol. And any effort to interpret the symbolic as literal amounts to an assertion that the infinite and transcendent can be contained in the finite and temporal.
Any insistence that the symbolic must be literal is an assertion that the transcendent is contingent upon something finite.
So those who insist that their "faith" depends on the literal, factual accuracy of the Bible are mistaking a symbol that points to the infinite for the infinite itself.
Doesn't the Mac Mini come with a stable kernel, a C compiler, and network support, all implemented in "high quality code" at the right price?
And, OS X comes with excellent support for Java, in contrast to the last time I experimented with Linux on PPC (about a year ago) and found that there was no up-to-date JVM or SDK. (But perhaps I missed something.)
And they skipped the Catalogue of Ships! How dare they!
I love the Iliad, deeply and widely, but I had no trouble enjoying Troy. Watching 9 years of indecisive war would get old, and watching Achilles sulk for a week would, too.
It's a movie, and movies are different from poetry. I don't agree with every decision these guys made (and I regret having seen Brad Pitt forced to try to adopt a British accent), but I understand the need for most of them.
Before the Iliad got rammed through a process of normalization during the 6th century BCE in Athens, you could have seen a gajillion different "Iliads" performed around the Greek world, with poets changing them to suit their audience and circumstances.
And Menelaus? For 3000 years he has needed killin', IMHO.
& means "and" in and of itself.
Latin for "in and of itself" is "per se".
So & is "and per se".
As people said "and per se" a few million times, over a century or so, through a process of assimiliation the phrase became corrupted to the word "ampersand."
I don't think so... the Fair Use doctrine is for copying in general... verbatim copying of content as content. Parody is a special protected case, and political parody is doubly protected. IANALBMTO (I am not a lawyer but married to one), and the Missus suggested that JibJab say "bring it on" (and then call the ACLU for legal help).
More to the point, if the standard of making images illegal is that there are 'victims' portrayed, then surely violent news and movies (or any other images of illegal activities) with victims must similarly be outlawed in your opinion.
Without making much comment on the original story--I think that both sexual exploitation and the erosion of civil liberties and the apparent death of the presumption of innocence are serious and worsening problems, for which I don't have any solutions--but the movies and news comparisons don't hold water.
The news media do not directly and intentionally create the victims they show. And the "victims" in violent movies are not actually victims.
You can, of course, make other arguments that get around these objections, but you have to make those arguments.
Alexander the Great sacrificed at Troy when he invaded Asia in 335 BCE. It was no secret where Troy was. Heinrich Schliemann gets credit for figuring out which of many lumps of dirt in that neighborhood contained an ancient city, but the "Troy" he excavated was far too old to have been the site of a Trojan War. So no one thought "Troy" was a figment of anyone's imagination, and we still dont have any reason to believe the historicity of the war that Homer describes.
Or, since "retarded" is a passive participle:
"To equate good usability with bad security is to [show oneself to] have fallen behind on the subject of security and to have prejudicial views [of security]."
But the grandparent's point is well-taken... why risk being seen as nasty toward folks who don't deserve it?
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The softly-stated context of TFA was how Apple, risen from the dead, Lo! this decade, has handed to Microsoft its ass. If I'm not mistaken, AAPL is a publicly traded company, whose stock has done right well despite the Fiscal End of the World. So you might want to re-think "innovators should be free from kowtowing to the market."
Latin nit-pick: quod = that which erat = was demonstrandum = a-to-be-demonstrated-thing The construction is the "passive periphrastic".
According to Aristotle, who may or may not have known what he was talking about, the "most tragic" stories are those that involve morally average people (not especially good or bad, morally), who are of great stature or who have enjoyed great fortune, who fall from a state of happiness to a low state due to some "mistake made in ignorance".
Note: this has nothing to do with hubris, which does not mean "pride" anyway..
So we have our social studies teacher, a woman of national stature, enjoying great good fortune (the one selected out of 1100), who is presumably neither extraordinarily virtuous nor vicious, who died as the result of a hamartia (to use Aristotle's term).
What was her hamartia, her "mistake made in ignorance"? It was boarding a vehicle, assuming that the guys responsible for the "go/no-go" decision were paying attention to the guys who actually built the vehicle.
The crew of STS-51L are tragic figures by any definition--the fact that there are countless millions of other such figures notwithstanding--but if you are going to be pedantic about "tragedy", you will find that they fit Aristotle's bill especially well.
And why didn't the estate of Archimedes sue them, as their Calculus(tm) was clearly a "derivative product" of his Method(tm)?
To the excellent parent post, I would add this, for the benefit of the "Bible is Literally True" crowd: "Don't call your literal reading of the Bible 'Faith', because it isn't."
Paul Tillich's Dynamics of Faith should be required reading, bound into the front of every translation of the Bible. He notes that faith in an infinite and transcendent God must be expressed in the language of symbol. And any effort to interpret the symbolic as literal amounts to an assertion that the infinite and transcendent can be contained in the finite and temporal.
Any insistence that the symbolic must be literal is an assertion that the transcendent is contingent upon something finite.
So those who insist that their "faith" depends on the literal, factual accuracy of the Bible are mistaking a symbol that points to the infinite for the infinite itself.
There's a word for that mistake: idolatry.
That will do nicely! Now... where's that old Powerbook?
Doesn't the Mac Mini come with a stable kernel, a C compiler, and network support, all implemented in "high quality code" at the right price? And, OS X comes with excellent support for Java, in contrast to the last time I experimented with Linux on PPC (about a year ago) and found that there was no up-to-date JVM or SDK. (But perhaps I missed something.)
And they skipped the Catalogue of Ships! How dare they!
I love the Iliad, deeply and widely, but I had no trouble enjoying Troy. Watching 9 years of indecisive war would get old, and watching Achilles sulk for a week would, too.
It's a movie, and movies are different from poetry. I don't agree with every decision these guys made (and I regret having seen Brad Pitt forced to try to adopt a British accent), but I understand the need for most of them.
Before the Iliad got rammed through a process of normalization during the 6th century BCE in Athens, you could have seen a gajillion different "Iliads" performed around the Greek world, with poets changing them to suit their audience and circumstances.
And Menelaus? For 3000 years he has needed killin', IMHO.
& means "and" in and of itself. Latin for "in and of itself" is "per se". So & is "and per se". As people said "and per se" a few million times, over a century or so, through a process of assimiliation the phrase became corrupted to the word "ampersand."
I don't think so... the Fair Use doctrine is for copying in general... verbatim copying of content as content. Parody is a special protected case, and political parody is doubly protected. IANALBMTO (I am not a lawyer but married to one), and the Missus suggested that JibJab say "bring it on" (and then call the ACLU for legal help).
More to the point, if the standard of making images illegal is that there are 'victims' portrayed, then surely violent news and movies (or any other images of illegal activities) with victims must similarly be outlawed in your opinion.
Without making much comment on the original story--I think that both sexual exploitation and the erosion of civil liberties and the apparent death of the presumption of innocence are serious and worsening problems, for which I don't have any solutions--but the movies and news comparisons don't hold water.
The news media do not directly and intentionally create the victims they show. And the "victims" in violent movies are not actually victims.
You can, of course, make other arguments that get around these objections, but you have to make those arguments.
Alexander the Great sacrificed at Troy when he invaded Asia in 335 BCE. It was no secret where Troy was. Heinrich Schliemann gets credit for figuring out which of many lumps of dirt in that neighborhood contained an ancient city, but the "Troy" he excavated was far too old to have been the site of a Trojan War. So no one thought "Troy" was a figment of anyone's imagination, and we still dont have any reason to believe the historicity of the war that Homer describes.
Or, since "retarded" is a passive participle: "To equate good usability with bad security is to [show oneself to] have fallen behind on the subject of security and to have prejudicial views [of security]." But the grandparent's point is well-taken... why risk being seen as nasty toward folks who don't deserve it?