There was one pirate in the story, but he was characterized as quite a narcissistic asshole (though irresistible to the main character), and most of the people in the reclusive society of "doers" did not approve of his methods.
I never thought of Ragnar Danneskjöld as a narcissistic asshole. Their disapproval of his methods has more to do with his safety than the injuries he might inflict on others.
In the US, the tuition that undergraduates pay may be much more than the universities spend on them, particularly for undergraduates taking large lecture courses.
For the system to function, it has to place trust in a group of people at some point.
How much trust do we have to put in them? Or do you mean faith?
If the police can't be trusted, then they can't do their job.
If we don't trust the police, then telling us that they require our trust is not going to convince us to give it. If we can't trust the the police, then perhaps we need new police.
So even if they do their job poorly, and with frequent abuses, the system will tolerate this because the system depends on the assumption that they can be trusted (regardless of whether they can or not). By arguing about whether or not there are safeguards against police brutality, or legal recourses, or any of that, you're sidestepping the critical issue: At some point, you have to trust them.
And you are sidestepping another issue. At some point on the road to a police state, you have to stop trusting them. If the system requires that trust, then perhaps we should discard the system.
If the W3C can't produce a browser that follows its own standards, isn't that a problem? Might that be an indication that its own standards are too difficult to implement?
Halfalogue, halfalogue, halfalogue onward All on the light rail of death rode the 600 Forward the worker drones! Go for the new cell phones! Onto the light rail of death rode the 600
Forward the worker drones! Was there a man with groans! Not though the worker knew someone had blundered Theirs is not to make reply, Theirs is not to reason why, Theirs is to be passersby Onto the light rail of death rode the 600
Cell phones to the right of them Cell phones to the left of them Cell phones in front of them, chatted and thundered Stormed at with call and cell Calmly they bore it well Into the buzz of death Into the talk of hell Rode the 600
Flashed all their teeth so bare Flashed with a deadly glare Killing all the callers there Taking on a rabble while all the wondered plunged in the 3g waves plunged till they found their graves Texter and talker reeled from the workers' raves shattered and sundered They rode back, but not, not the 600
Cell phones to the right of them cell phones to the left of them Cell phones behind them, chatted and thundered stormed at with call and cell while train and worker fell They who had fought so well Came through the buzz of death back from the talk of hell All that was left of them left of 600
When can their glory fade! Oh the attack they made! All the world wondered Honor their manners raid Honor the workers' trade Noble 600
Except that then Cardinal Ratzinger used his position in that office to encourage bishops not to report pedophile priests to secular authorities, and he did so on the orders of John Paul II. That the Church performs good works is not a Get_Out_of_jail_Free card.
As fot the historical role of the Church, some would blame it for causing the collapse of the Epire in the first place. And even if Europe would have fragmented in the absence of the Church, would that have been worse? And to say that Galileo's case is too stereotypical doesn't help your case. Galileo may have been "restricted a little bit", but Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake, and Hypatia was brutally murdered with the connivance of the Church.
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Get some human decency!
Do you expect human decency on Slashdot?
There was one pirate in the story, but he was characterized as quite a narcissistic asshole (though irresistible to the main character), and most of the people in the reclusive society of "doers" did not approve of his methods.
I never thought of Ragnar Danneskjöld as a narcissistic asshole. Their disapproval of his methods has more to do with his safety than the injuries he might inflict on others.
My cognition of a fact is an idea; the fact is not an idea. Are you saying that if I stopped thinking about my laptop, it would disappear?
And you are also a minority among Slashdot posters.
I think you could spend much less money just getting more meat doctors into the bush.
But how gynecologists do you need?
The slashdot posting clearly said that it was a Massachusetts high school, and Beverly Hills (at least the famous one) is not in Massachusetts.
Is that different from the Church of GNU Emacs?
The GP didn't say that open-source companies were more profitable than closed-source companies, only that there is value in open source.
In the US, the tuition that undergraduates pay may be much more than the universities spend on them, particularly for undergraduates taking large lecture courses.
At what distance?
For the system to function, it has to place trust in a group of people at some point.
How much trust do we have to put in them? Or do you mean faith?
If the police can't be trusted, then they can't do their job.
If we don't trust the police, then telling us that they require our trust is not going to convince us to give it. If we can't trust the the police, then perhaps we need new police.
So even if they do their job poorly, and with frequent abuses, the system will tolerate this because the system depends on the assumption that they can be trusted (regardless of whether they can or not). By arguing about whether or not there are safeguards against police brutality, or legal recourses, or any of that, you're sidestepping the critical issue: At some point, you have to trust them.
And you are sidestepping another issue. At some point on the road to a police state, you have to stop trusting them. If the system requires that trust, then perhaps we should discard the system.
In the US at least, requiring such an oath would violate the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.
That's larger than my emacs installation, and I have three versions.
If the W3C can't produce a browser that follows its own standards, isn't that a problem? Might that be an indication that its own standards are too difficult to implement?
So Amaya is similar to a computer built from evaluation kits and reference boards? Isn't that what the GP is saying?
And where do you work?
With apologies to Tennyson
Halfalogue, halfalogue, halfalogue onward
All on the light rail of death rode the 600
Forward the worker drones!
Go for the new cell phones!
Onto the light rail of death rode the 600
Forward the worker drones!
Was there a man with groans!
Not though the worker knew someone had blundered
Theirs is not to make reply,
Theirs is not to reason why,
Theirs is to be passersby
Onto the light rail of death rode the 600
Cell phones to the right of them
Cell phones to the left of them
Cell phones in front of them, chatted and thundered
Stormed at with call and cell
Calmly they bore it well
Into the buzz of death
Into the talk of hell
Rode the 600
Flashed all their teeth so bare
Flashed with a deadly glare
Killing all the callers there
Taking on a rabble
while all the wondered
plunged in the 3g waves
plunged till they found their graves
Texter and talker
reeled from the workers' raves
shattered and sundered
They rode back, but not, not the 600
Cell phones to the right of them
cell phones to the left of them
Cell phones behind them, chatted and thundered
stormed at with call and cell
while train and worker fell
They who had fought so well
Came through the buzz of death
back from the talk of hell
All that was left of them
left of 600
When can their glory fade!
Oh the attack they made!
All the world wondered
Honor their manners raid
Honor the workers' trade
Noble 600
Which is why I doubted the OP's ability to do exact, real, computable math.
It also could have a chilling effect not only on other climate scientists
But how would this chilling effect affect global warming?
And yet you were able to represent this value with only 4 characters.
Then I didn't need continued fractions or computer algebra, did I?
Exact computable real arithmetic? So what is pi+e? An exact irrational number requires infinitely many integers to represent it.
Isn't setting the respawn to reboot a bad idea? Or is my sarcasm detector malfunctioning?
But how often do you have to boot up Linux? Doesn't it just keep running?
What is 98,000,000 miles away from the Earth? The Sun is at most 94,500,000 miles away.
Except that then Cardinal Ratzinger used his position in that office to encourage bishops not to report pedophile priests to secular authorities, and he did so on the orders of John Paul II. That the Church performs good works is not a Get_Out_of_jail_Free card.
As fot the historical role of the Church, some would blame it for causing the collapse of the Epire in the first place. And even if Europe would have fragmented in the absence of the Church, would that have been worse? And to say that Galileo's case is too stereotypical doesn't help your case. Galileo may have been "restricted a little bit", but Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake, and Hypatia was brutally murdered with the connivance of the Church.