>>After all, how often do we Americans discuss the pros and cons of schadenfreude, or bishonen?
ah... and those germans are always discussing schadenfreude. i can't seem to spend more than 15 minutes in a bier hall, before some teuton starts lecturing to me about the danger of daytime talk shows (think jerry springer) and the american culture of schadenfreude.
many shows will appear on canadian television earlier in the week than they do in the US. when CBC or CTV or whomever guys the rights to air it in Canada, there is often no rule about when they show the episode.
it's even funnier when you watch a show on the canadian network, then the next day, see the "world premier" on a US channel...:)
you think using a palm as the brains of a robot is impressive? last year at MIT's famous 6.270 autonomous lego robot competition, there was a demo of a robot built by a guy who didn't lottery into the class. he didn't have any of the supplies (legos, motors, x86 running linux, etc.), so he scrounged supplies himself. For the CPU he used his TI35 (i think that's the right model??)... now that's pretty impressive!
how exactly is this worse than the cold war era, when the majority of research at our major universities was funded by the "military industrial complex"?
Kind of changes the meaning a lot from the misquoted version, doesn't it?
it may, but that certainly doesn't proclude people from believing that "money is the root of all evil."
but since we are slicing and dicing words, let me suggest that the usage of "all kinds of" to mean "many varieties of" is idiomatic and likely postdates the translations of the bible into english. consider instead the more literal interpretation that the love of money is a root of not just some kinds of evil, but *all* kinds of evil.
and on a philosophical note, if there was no such thing as money, could there be such a thing as "the love of money"? if the answer is no, then if "the love of money" is a root of something, then "money" itself, in the abstract sense, can be reasonably called a root of that same thing.
unfortunately the converse isn't necessarily true. i.e. if money is a root of all kinds of evil, it is not necessarily true that the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
this post will likely get moderated so low that no one will ever read it.
caseyb writes: Digitizing the contents would improve accessibility to all three of the above groups, particularly the third, without compromising either of the first two priorities.
wrong.
the LoC's resources are contrained. if they spend 20% of their money, time, space, on digitizing existing content, they would have 20% fewer resources to apply to the first two priorities.
that's not to say that congress couldn't just budget a lot more money to the LoC for them to do so.
does anyone actually have a real estimate of how much it costs (equipment, time, etc) to digitize content?
additionally, by the time 50% of today's content was digitized, the original digital media would probably be obsolete and a great deal of effort would have to be spent preserving that data. you can't just put digital data on acid-free paper, store it at the right temperature and forget about it.
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>>After all, how often do we Americans discuss the pros and cons of schadenfreude, or bishonen?
... and those germans are always discussing schadenfreude. i can't seem to spend more than 15 minutes in a bier hall, before some teuton starts lecturing to me about the danger of daytime talk shows (think jerry springer) and the american culture of schadenfreude.
ah
many shows will appear on canadian television earlier in the week than they do in the US. when CBC or CTV or whomever guys the rights to air it in Canada, there is often no rule about when they show the episode.
... :)
it's even funnier when you watch a show on the canadian network, then the next day, see the "world premier" on a US channel
not kadinsky ...
*sigh*
and his paintings aren't particularly purple or green.
you think using a palm as the brains of a robot is impressive? last year at MIT's famous 6.270 autonomous lego robot competition, there was a demo of a robot built by a guy who didn't lottery into the class. he didn't have any of the supplies (legos, motors, x86 running linux, etc.), so he scrounged supplies himself. For the CPU he used his TI35 (i think that's the right model??) ... now that's pretty impressive!
how exactly is this worse than the cold war era, when the majority of research at our major universities was funded by the "military industrial complex"?
it may, but that certainly doesn't proclude people from believing that "money is the root of all evil."
but since we are slicing and dicing words, let me suggest that the usage of "all kinds of" to mean "many varieties of" is idiomatic and likely postdates the translations of the bible into english. consider instead the more literal interpretation that the love of money is a root of not just some kinds of evil, but *all* kinds of evil.
and on a philosophical note, if there was no such thing as money, could there be such a thing as "the love of money"? if the answer is no, then if "the love of money" is a root of something, then "money" itself, in the abstract sense, can be reasonably called a root of that same thing.
unfortunately the converse isn't necessarily true. i.e. if money is a root of all kinds of evil, it is not necessarily true that the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
this post will likely get moderated so low that no one will ever read it.
wrong.
the LoC's resources are contrained. if they spend 20% of their money, time, space, on digitizing existing content, they would have 20% fewer resources to apply to the first two priorities.
that's not to say that congress couldn't just budget a lot more money to the LoC for them to do so.
does anyone actually have a real estimate of how much it costs (equipment, time, etc) to digitize content?
additionally, by the time 50% of today's content was digitized, the original digital media would probably be obsolete and a great deal of effort would have to be spent preserving that data. you can't just put digital data on acid-free paper, store it at the right temperature and forget about it.