Sometimes the least biased opinions come from a healthy arms-length.
Personally, I wouldn't trust an Israeli or a Palestinian to give a report on conflicts in their region. It's not a racist or xenophobic reason... it's just they probably have a personal stake in the fighting.
I'm not going to argue that you're entirely wrong... I do agree that sometimes there's an unnecessary Amerification of global issues, but I don't think there's an inherent incorrectness in giving a familiar perspective on a global issue.
After all, if you do follow the same line of reasoning, we would exclude all foreign-born reporters as North American correspondents working with CNN, FOX, NPR, CBC, BBC, etc.
Yea, these days I'm sick of movies with 'Human' actors. God, it's been done so many times!! I prefer my plotlines to be completely randomized and unique.
More likely evolution cares about allele frequency and genotype. Which results in phenotype, which gives rise to the outward appearance; what we like to call a 'species'.
It's an allele's contribution to overall fitness of its carrier that produces the myriad changes in populations that we understand as speciation.
This is actually more common than people think. The reaction is usually not severe though.
For instance, a physician or RN reaches for a vial of medication to be injected, is distracted and picks up a different vial. They then withdraw the correct volume of the wrong medication and, whammo, malpractice.
Hopefully you only got a tetanus shot by accident, instead of 3200 mg of caffeine.
For one, you're ensuring that your child doesn't starve to death or experience pain in the form of delayed feeding. It's a matter of life and death to feed your child.
It's not a matter of life and death to fuck in a bus shelter.
There's a heck of a lot more to it than being 'natural'.
You have a point regarding the abstraction of motion to buttons, but the AC pointing out the inferior game library has merit.
If you look at the shelf of Wii games, most of them are minigame compilations that take only a few quick months to produce and develop.
The original excuse was that, since the minigame compilations are so quick to produce, naturally there will be more of them in the early months following Wii launch. Well, the years have passed and the shovelware still flows -- the decent releases have not materialized in significant numbers.
People always exclaim that the Wii is for casual gamers whereas PS3 and 360 are for hardcore. I don't buy that argument, because it's the third party companies pushing out the games and they have the capacity to pander to both hardcore and casual audiences.
I don't see why my personal Wii game library can't contain WarioWare AND a few (quality) war games.
I honestly just feel that the Wii is coasting on hype and novelty. And that works for Nintendo's bottom line where cash is king... but as a gamer and a former Nintendo advocate, I've slipped through their hands. I bought a Wii a year-and-a-half ago; I sold it before Xmas.
I was searching the thread to find a post like this before posting a dupe...
The use of 'Miss' in the submission is unnecessary and sexist, promoting a masculine domination of society.
For those who think I'm full of shit (you probably wouldn't be totally wrong) remember there is no distinction between a married man -- Mister -- versus an unmarried woman; Mrs. or Miss.
While I believe political correctness can go overboard (personhole instead of manhole) things like Police Officer instead of Police Man are certainly reasonable.
Using 'Miss' as in the the context of the submitted article is demeaning and crude. But then again this is Slashdot...
Given that cocaine and crack carries a similar penalty for possesion, it is better to possess a small amount of crack than a lot of cocaine, simply because detecting a small amount of crack is harder than a bag of cocaine.
The same thing happened in the 1930s. Beer is pitifully easy to brew, but it's more profitable and stealthy to sell a smaller volume of stronger distillate.
Roundabouts aren't that common in Canada. It's been talked about for that particular intersection before but it would probably cause more frustration than needed for a city that's never had a roundabout.
You should check out St. John's, Newfoundland. You'd feel quite at home here.
All the streets downtown are remnants of the original cartpaths. Intersections of four two way streets and a one way street requires drivers to 'learn' how to proceed through.
I don't watch PBS or listen to NPR very often because I'm Canadian and I'm more interested in the goings-on in my own country.
It bothers me, though, that PBS and NPR are largely sidelined and not given much credit. I would hazard to say this might be due to the fact that FOX, CNN, et al. are corporations with a lot of money to spend on flashy effects that pop and draw attention; PBS usually has a few commentators sitting around a desk with a bland backdrop. It doesn't really catch the eye like Anderson Cooper pointing at high-tech bar graphs floating in a flashy CG marbled room with columns.
And what's more is that those outlets rely on the outrageous, fantastic, and sensational. Nancy Grace and Bill O'Rielly can't be successfull without being unnecessarily controversial.
When you bring that all together in one package, it's probably impossible to present an unbiased and centrist opinion.
Compare the CNN to the CBC in Canada and you'd swear Canada is a quasi-Socialist country!
The CNN only 'appears' to be left-biased because the rest of the media is actually right-biased. In my eye, the CNN is quite centrist.
I don't think there really is a media outlet with a left-bias in the US... But I'm speaking as a Canadian with only a passing interest in American politics.
The best method to combat social anxiety is to step out of your comfort zone. Join Toastmasters or your local Peace Corps.
It's been my experience that social anxiety creeps in when you loose the knack for speaking and interacting with people. It's a skill that's lost quickly when most of the day is spent in front of a computer screen.
Think of the tailbone to top-of-skull as a single axis, with two sets of limbs poking out along the axis.
This developed from the pelvic and pectoral girdles of Sarcopterygians.
Basically, the whole vertebral column from tail to cervical vertebrae is the principle axis with limbs branching from it. Split down the middle of the principle axis, the body (for the most party) is a mirror image. Thus, two-fold symmetry. Bilateralism.
That's wonderfully elitist. No wonder the disenfranchised and impoverished populous has just elected Barack Obama.
Interestingly, it's that same sort of rhetoric that Republicans claim the self-rightous, hippy, academics use to disparage Republicans.
From my very distant and generally disinterested perch here in Canada, I generally don't see a huge difference between the two parties.
In Tommy Douglas's Mouseland speech, he describes a civilisation wherein a black cat and a white cat alternately represent the interest of the mice in mouseland; claiming that each cat has superior policies and a stronger will to look after the mice.
Of course they are both cats and desire not much more to control and eat the mice. The same happens over there in the United States.
The day you elect any party or candidate is the day you elect a failed administration. The administration elected on day one is (ideally) served a mandate that the populace wants them to fulfill. When the mandate is successfull or not completed, the administration isn't doing what the population who elected them wants and is seen as a failure.
Even if a Libertarian were elected and eventually replaced by an Independent the change would be made due to a perceived 'failure' of the Libertarian.
I would suggest the only way to get out of politics unscathed (relatively) is to be killed in the prime of your popularity. Them's the breaks in politics, I suppose.
The argument you make is reminiscent of the overly optimistic idea that everyone can live happily ever after if we adopt a purely socialistic government style: It won't work.
Instead, your view is entirely pessimistic. The fact is, Canada has a national health care plan. While the health care system could be better and needs more funding, it is NOT breaking Canada. In fact, Canada has run surpluses for the last 12 years with a Liberal government (the Liberals being a middle-of-the-road party).
There's way too much unreasonable FUD about many issues in your country that are caused by people adopting extreams of opinion. The reality is, the middle road, is generally the best option.
National health care WOULD cost money, but there's a calculus that balances cost with money recovered from the increased productivity of a healthier workforce.
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Sometimes the least biased opinions come from a healthy arms-length.
Personally, I wouldn't trust an Israeli or a Palestinian to give a report on conflicts in their region. It's not a racist or xenophobic reason... it's just they probably have a personal stake in the fighting.
I'm not going to argue that you're entirely wrong... I do agree that sometimes there's an unnecessary Amerification of global issues, but I don't think there's an inherent incorrectness in giving a familiar perspective on a global issue.
After all, if you do follow the same line of reasoning, we would exclude all foreign-born reporters as North American correspondents working with CNN, FOX, NPR, CBC, BBC, etc.
Yea, these days I'm sick of movies with 'Human' actors. God, it's been done so many times!! I prefer my plotlines to be completely randomized and unique.
Fuck off, you pretentious shit stain.
In Canada, people nearly shat a beaver when all of a sudden the puck in the Sens at Red Wings game started glowing with a tail when it was shot.
Even when I was reaching for a brew I could watch the puck through the bottle. Perhaps it's one of those Canadian things, eh?
That's one option, but Microsoft could step in and develop an application that monitors the update requirements of programs.
It's done on Linux... why not MS? It could even save companies money buy not having to develop a fancy updater of their own.
You could just use 'NoScript' in Firefox and selectively disallow google-analytics.com from running their trace.
More likely evolution cares about allele frequency and genotype. Which results in phenotype, which gives rise to the outward appearance; what we like to call a 'species'.
It's an allele's contribution to overall fitness of its carrier that produces the myriad changes in populations that we understand as speciation.
Slashdot has articles?
This is actually more common than people think. The reaction is usually not severe though.
For instance, a physician or RN reaches for a vial of medication to be injected, is distracted and picks up a different vial. They then withdraw the correct volume of the wrong medication and, whammo, malpractice.
Hopefully you only got a tetanus shot by accident, instead of 3200 mg of caffeine.
Case in point: SPSS.
$1500 for a single processor liscense. The UI is ugly as all-get-out and the graphical analysis functions are grotesque.
Sure it gets the job done, but it's not 1/4 as intuitive and nice-looking as Sigma Plot; which, admittedly, lacks the functionality of SPSS...
For one, you're ensuring that your child doesn't starve to death or experience pain in the form of delayed feeding. It's a matter of life and death to feed your child.
It's not a matter of life and death to fuck in a bus shelter.
There's a heck of a lot more to it than being 'natural'.
I've seen thermoelectric fans for sale at Canadian Tire before... about $75-$100 I think.
Similar to this thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0atjrXmkLlY
Cheesy video, but I've seen them.
You have a point regarding the abstraction of motion to buttons, but the AC pointing out the inferior game library has merit.
If you look at the shelf of Wii games, most of them are minigame compilations that take only a few quick months to produce and develop.
The original excuse was that, since the minigame compilations are so quick to produce, naturally there will be more of them in the early months following Wii launch. Well, the years have passed and the shovelware still flows -- the decent releases have not materialized in significant numbers.
People always exclaim that the Wii is for casual gamers whereas PS3 and 360 are for hardcore. I don't buy that argument, because it's the third party companies pushing out the games and they have the capacity to pander to both hardcore and casual audiences.
I don't see why my personal Wii game library can't contain WarioWare AND a few (quality) war games.
I honestly just feel that the Wii is coasting on hype and novelty. And that works for Nintendo's bottom line where cash is king... but as a gamer and a former Nintendo advocate, I've slipped through their hands. I bought a Wii a year-and-a-half ago; I sold it before Xmas.
I was searching the thread to find a post like this before posting a dupe...
The use of 'Miss' in the submission is unnecessary and sexist, promoting a masculine domination of society.
For those who think I'm full of shit (you probably wouldn't be totally wrong) remember there is no distinction between a married man -- Mister -- versus an unmarried woman; Mrs. or Miss.
While I believe political correctness can go overboard (personhole instead of manhole) things like Police Officer instead of Police Man are certainly reasonable.
Using 'Miss' as in the the context of the submitted article is demeaning and crude. But then again this is Slashdot...
Crack is a result of prohibition.
Given that cocaine and crack carries a similar penalty for possesion, it is better to possess a small amount of crack than a lot of cocaine, simply because detecting a small amount of crack is harder than a bag of cocaine.
The same thing happened in the 1930s. Beer is pitifully easy to brew, but it's more profitable and stealthy to sell a smaller volume of stronger distillate.
Roundabouts aren't that common in Canada. It's been talked about for that particular intersection before but it would probably cause more frustration than needed for a city that's never had a roundabout.
You should check out St. John's, Newfoundland. You'd feel quite at home here.
All the streets downtown are remnants of the original cartpaths. Intersections of four two way streets and a one way street requires drivers to 'learn' how to proceed through.
I don't watch PBS or listen to NPR very often because I'm Canadian and I'm more interested in the goings-on in my own country.
It bothers me, though, that PBS and NPR are largely sidelined and not given much credit. I would hazard to say this might be due to the fact that FOX, CNN, et al. are corporations with a lot of money to spend on flashy effects that pop and draw attention; PBS usually has a few commentators sitting around a desk with a bland backdrop. It doesn't really catch the eye like Anderson Cooper pointing at high-tech bar graphs floating in a flashy CG marbled room with columns.
And what's more is that those outlets rely on the outrageous, fantastic, and sensational. Nancy Grace and Bill O'Rielly can't be successfull without being unnecessarily controversial.
When you bring that all together in one package, it's probably impossible to present an unbiased and centrist opinion.
Compare the CNN to the CBC in Canada and you'd swear Canada is a quasi-Socialist country!
The CNN only 'appears' to be left-biased because the rest of the media is actually right-biased. In my eye, the CNN is quite centrist.
I don't think there really is a media outlet with a left-bias in the US... But I'm speaking as a Canadian with only a passing interest in American politics.
The best method to combat social anxiety is to step out of your comfort zone. Join Toastmasters or your local Peace Corps.
It's been my experience that social anxiety creeps in when you loose the knack for speaking and interacting with people. It's a skill that's lost quickly when most of the day is spent in front of a computer screen.
Tetrapods don't quite represent 5-fold symmetry.
Think of the tailbone to top-of-skull as a single axis, with two sets of limbs poking out along the axis.
This developed from the pelvic and pectoral girdles of Sarcopterygians.
Basically, the whole vertebral column from tail to cervical vertebrae is the principle axis with limbs branching from it. Split down the middle of the principle axis, the body (for the most party) is a mirror image. Thus, two-fold symmetry. Bilateralism.
Tetrapodia
5-Fold symmetry
That's wonderfully elitist. No wonder the disenfranchised and impoverished populous has just elected Barack Obama.
Interestingly, it's that same sort of rhetoric that Republicans claim the self-rightous, hippy, academics use to disparage Republicans.
From my very distant and generally disinterested perch here in Canada, I generally don't see a huge difference between the two parties.
In Tommy Douglas's Mouseland speech, he describes a civilisation wherein a black cat and a white cat alternately represent the interest of the mice in mouseland; claiming that each cat has superior policies and a stronger will to look after the mice.
Of course they are both cats and desire not much more to control and eat the mice. The same happens over there in the United States.
The day you elect any party or candidate is the day you elect a failed administration. The administration elected on day one is (ideally) served a mandate that the populace wants them to fulfill. When the mandate is successfull or not completed, the administration isn't doing what the population who elected them wants and is seen as a failure.
Even if a Libertarian were elected and eventually replaced by an Independent the change would be made due to a perceived 'failure' of the Libertarian.
I would suggest the only way to get out of politics unscathed (relatively) is to be killed in the prime of your popularity. Them's the breaks in politics, I suppose.
Hah!
I wonder how Clayton Anderson would feel if he actually took out a school bus or something with a cylinder he hucked from space.
I know I'd feel pretty terrible...
The argument you make is reminiscent of the overly optimistic idea that everyone can live happily ever after if we adopt a purely socialistic government style: It won't work.
Instead, your view is entirely pessimistic. The fact is, Canada has a national health care plan. While the health care system could be better and needs more funding, it is NOT breaking Canada. In fact, Canada has run surpluses for the last 12 years with a Liberal government (the Liberals being a middle-of-the-road party).
There's way too much unreasonable FUD about many issues in your country that are caused by people adopting extreams of opinion. The reality is, the middle road, is generally the best option.
National health care WOULD cost money, but there's a calculus that balances cost with money recovered from the increased productivity of a healthier workforce.