et everyone will yammer endlessly about how important it is that AMD processors are faster than Intel (which I'm still not convinced is true; I've never seen an AMD noticably faster than any Intel processor, yet HDTV is very noticably better than SD, and likewise SACD sounds very much better than CD which is very much better than MP3)
AMD runs 30% faster than the equivilent Intel on single threaded applications while Intel comes out ahead when it comes to multi-threaded applications. AMD cores also consume significantly less power and have better dual core communication that Intel's. See the live stress test rundown for more.
It terms of actual computational performance etc, etc, we have measurable metrics, so we can say which chip is "better" at certain tasks.
For things like Sound and video quality, there really aren't the same kind of hard metrics for how "good" something looks or sounds, so there's a lot of debate. I'm a tone deaf individual with bad eyesight, so HDTV and SACD really doesn't resonate a whole lot with me.
A 733t! group of Hax0rz have made a duplicate of one XBox-360 game disc. Using mysterious technology know as 'dd' or 'ghosting' the nerarious criminals accommplished what Microsoft engineers had previously derided as an impossibility; namely, the creation of a HD-DVD ISO, which can be used to make countless useless duplicate copies of the game that unscrupulous gamers can stare at blankly or attempt to chew on.
Microsoft spokesmen could not be be reached on this issue as they were too busy not caring. Reports state that Zonk's mouse hand was trembling with excitement as he posted the story, having spent most of the day chucking perfectly newsworthy submissions. Meanwhile, useful links to the open source iso extraction tool were downplayed in the report. In other news the Slashdot Games Section continues to be the fastest growing section, yet the least commented upon one.
I don't think Bush has done nearly the job stamping out "legal limitations" that you think he has....
If you want an example of a stamping out of legal limitations, look no further than Guantanamo Bay, where rights inherant since the Magna Carta are trampled on daily. Might do a good job to google for "CIA prisons" as well.
I don't know what to you counts as a government overstepping legal limitations, but if suspending "habius corpus" doesen't count, then quite frankly I don't know what does.
I'm not trolling , but does anyone really care enough about HDTV to fork out huge wads of cash on a new set?
Personally, I would have to say no. I really don't care about HDTV.
Now I'm a classic geek. I like my tech. I like what works. I like what's practical. I don't like chrome and cruft, and I'm generally able to tell an overpriced, overhyped product from a reasonable, practical one.
This isn't an innate talent or state of being. I've been burned by the gaming industry too many times in my youth and as a result have developed a healty skepticism when it comes to flashy new tech.
I've seen HDTV. It looks better, but I really don't care very much. I might like the view better, but I'm not paying current prices for it. I'm still quite happy with my old CRT's resolution. That is, when I'm even watching it anymore.
For me, HDTV is a solution looking for a problem. A very expensive one at that.
So please, do us all a favor, go read up on the theories on pagerank and then, please please please, stay with the uninformed designer mac-zealots over at digg.com
I've just emphasised that little gem in your tirade. Neither you nor I nor in all likelihood Beatles-Beatles knows exactly how Google pagerank works. But we, and he, can make educated guesses. You think **Beatles-Beatles is just doing this for kicks? This is a professional search engine spammer we're talking about here.
He's doing this for a reason. Is that reason to get Kudos on Slashdot or to try and increase his Google pagrank. I'll let the good people in the audience figure that one out.
Note please that it doesn't actually matter if this method is working or not. **Beatles-Beatles is attempting to abuse Slashdot to gain pagerank, and he is succeeding in making fools of the editors even if his pagerank remains in the doldrums.
He's making us all look bad. But as you say, I suspect Google are wise to this sort of thing, even if the Slashdot eds aren't.
And by the way, Slashdot stories get copied almost verbatum by a multitude of other sites, so Beatles-Beatles' story, name and sitelink is going to be plastered all over quite a number of sites across the net.
You don't believe me? Here's the a Google search of "ObsessiveMathsFreak writes". Notice the one and only submission I ever got posted is in more sites thatn Slashdot. The list used to be much, much higher.
This came to my attendtion because after posting the story, I was bombarded with spam. My email was included in the article, and with the articles proliferation across the net, so too was my email address duplicated everywhere for all the spammers address crawler bots to see. I've since had to abandon that address. A note of caution to all posters.
Now. Replace email address by site address, and "spammers address crawler bots" by "Google pagerank" bot, and you can see exactly why Beatles-Beatles is doing what he's doing. Let's hope the eds do as well.
Can someone link to/explain the Beatles-Beatles ref. please?
Beatles-Beatles is the solid, undeniable, irrefutable proof that the Slashdot editor system is broken. While great submissions are tossed daily, Beatles-Beatles is allowed to continue to abuse his articles on Slashdot to increase his Google PageRank.
Essentially Slashdot is actively promoting a spammer, at the expense of better articles.
Several possibilities come to mind. One; the Slashdot Editors have been bribed by said spammer. Two; the Slashdot editors are not bothering to proof read any articles. Three; The slashdot editors have simply stopped reading the article comments, where Beatles-Beatles has been critisised on numerous occassions. Four; The Slashdot Random Story Submission Selection System is broken. The reader can decide which of these is more likely.
In the era of Digg.com, I think the Slashdot editors should be doing more to justify the editor system. As it happens, Slashdot is becoming the prime example of why the editor system is inferior. I would like this to change, but the Slashdot Eds really just don't seem to care about the site anymore.
Yet more evidence that the Slashdot Editors aren't even bothering to check articles anymore. I'm starting to believe in the Random Story Submission Selection System now.
You can't divide by zero. or rather, you can, but the result of such an operation is not defined.
The result of any number divided by xero is not defined. I do not know what the answer is or even what it should be. Though I may be able to get the limit of a function as it approaches such a value.
For instance: f(x) = x/x
lim f(x) = 1 x->0
You might be tempted to say that f(0) = 1, but it isn't.
Oh, you can whine about the differences between ideas and material objects all you want. They're one and the same. You can whine about knowledge and a creative commons - and that itself is bullshit, for the TV (as an example again) requires such knowledge to be manufactured. Furthermore, if knowledge belongs to everyone, surely too do the resources of the planet.
No. No, you're completely wrong here. Copyright is NOT, I repeat NOT, a form of property. Not "Intellectual Property", of property of any kind. This is important.
Copyright is a privilage granted by the government for a limited time to the Authors of various kinds of works. This right can be transferred, bought sold, used etc, etc. This right also allows certain fair uses by non holders. i.e. I can use your copyrighted work for certain small and/or personal uses without your permission.
Contrast with property. Actual property. Something copyright is not. I own my property. You own yours. Our ownership of it will never expire. No one else can use or make use of our property without our express permission. The government cannot take away my property, nor can anyone else, without due process of the law.
You've been conned by the new "Intellectual Property" mantra. It's not property. It's a privilage.
I find it very disturbing the USPTO cannot uniquely identify patent holders... If they cannot uniquely identify patent holders, then how can the USPTO (or courts) *identify* patent holders???
They used to record it, but when they install the rubber stampinator 9000, that feature wasn't implemented. The work around is to sue everyone.
This is as offtopic as they come, but does anyone else think that the games section posts too many stories? The main page now says "23 more" under the games section and most stories here have noticeably fewer comments that the other sections.
I sure hope this section isn't using up some kind of quota on the whole site.
Well you are misunderstanding the word "Shall" in a legal terms. Shall when used in such a document is the same as a requirement meaning it is not optional.
"Shall" means what it says. Congress has the power to enact such laws, but is under no strict constitutional obligation to do so. For example:
Clause 9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
Congress can constitute Tribunals, but no one would argue that it is under obligation to do so.
Applying your argument they'd still own it and person who paid them for it would be out of luck. In that case would anyone ever pay someone else to build their house? What about built or make anything for them? Intellectual property is the same thing. Without property (Intellectual among them) rights then the why would anybody bother to make anything?
You forget. Copyright isn't a form of property. It's a right, granted temporarily by the government. There's a very, very clear distinction. Copyright can expire, and indeed, allows for some fair use of the right granted to the holder, by others. Property on the other hand never expires, and its use is entirely subject to the owners approval. Government doesn't even enter the equation, except to regulate any such uses.
There's a very, very clear distinction. Some people nowadays argue that "Intellectual Property" is exactly the same as property. It isn't.
The dream was nice while it lasted, but I'm afraid the honeymoon of blogging is coming to a close. The Marketers have found it now and blogging will never be the same again.
From TFA:
Mr. Rivera estimates that roughly 12,000 people read his blog every day. In the great big real world of mainstream media, 12,000 is a rounding error. But in the new blog order in the tech world, that number is big enough to include the entire universe of decision makers, thought leaders, first movers and all relevant wannabes and hangers on.
I think the message is clear. Blogs may not offer quantity of suckers^H^H^H viewers, but they do offer quality of viewers. With one link in the right blog, the marketing man can pay to reach the exact people he could only hope of catching by chance in other media. This isn't just a marketing pipe dream. Bribing bloggers is about to become big business.
One could hope that the blogging community will be steadfast enough to resist the oncoming corruption, but it's hard to be steadfast after some oily marketing representative has just stuffed your face in a nice restaurant and shacked you up with a four star hotel room.
Be prepared. A lot of blogs, not all, but a lot, are about to pull a great big "Driver 3: 9/10" on various items. I'd guess the form this will take will be hyping new technologies, languages and frameworks, rather than blatantly plugging products. Think the hyping of Java, only for whatever new tech rolls around next time.
If the marketers are really good, and they are, the bloggers may not even know they've been bought.
The difference here is that MSN messenger wasn't just an app. It was an entire service.
If I get Gaim with a distro, I won't get an account. I have to go to a third party service, get a Jabber, MSN, AIM or what have you account, then I can use Gaim. With MSN messenger, I have to go to a Microsoft service (MSN), and am indeed persuaded and encouraged to go there. I sign up to their service, and continue to use the client packaged with the OS. There's a clear distinction here.
I'm not sure how MSN messenger works exactly, but I imagine that signing up for an MSN account is all but an automated process at this point.
The second difference is of course that Microsoft has a monopoly position in the desktop market and is clearly (ab)using that monopoly to leverage their position in the IM market. By packaging MSN messenger with their OS, they are cutting off the competition's oxygen.
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Don't give me the bullshit that "Everyone Knows Its A Game". The evidence is mounting high right in that article that more than a few take the metaphor very seriously... and our current political shift... blowing off debt and lives without care... show it is growing indeed. Shallow, mindless politics from shallow mindless ethics.
"Everyone Knows It's A Game"
You're suggesting that video games are responsible for some kind of growing lack of concern for human life? That video games contribute to a "kill 'em all" world view?
Long before video games, and long before video, people thought this way. And they'll think this way long after Age Of Empires is finally taken out of the Best Buy Bargain bins.
The truth is, a lot of people, if not most, will think nothing of slaughtering an entire village or town or city or even civilisation just to make a point. People in general, really don't care unless it's happening to them. For evidence of this see Carthage, Bèziers, Auschwitz and in fact, most of the rest of the Guide.
Let me guess, you're a virgin. Or a woman. How can any man say that getting laid is not priority one? Of course it's top priority.
Uhhhhh... OK Let's try this again. "In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
Tony Montana was crude and rather curt at times, but he certainly had an advanced understanding of how the world works. Ergo, he also possessed the smart gene.
Normal IQ tests designed by different groups show similar results when you give people both tests. People who get high scores are the people we commonly think of as being "smart", "intelligent", or "brainy". So obviously the tests work pretty well.
I don't know about you, but I've met a lot of suppossedly "smart" or "brainy" people, who were in fact, really quite stupid. I've met a lot of suppossedly "less intelligent" people who were leauges ahead of most academics intelligence wise.
Being able to unjumble mixed up words or rotate cubes in your head does not make you smart. It's a skill like any other.
This all changed just after the Civil War, where the jury system fell flat on its face due to widespread racism, mostly in the south. How would a black fella get a fair trial in a matter involving a dispute with a white folk? Either 1) Jurors are white, in which case he'd hang for blowing snot on the boss' hankie, or 2) Jurors are black, so he gets off scott-free.
So, offenses and penalties were codified, and state constitutions all over the place were altered, introducing this new "Penal Code" that everybody was suppposed ta follow.
What the hell?! What are you talking about? You do realise countries have had Legal Codes for far, far longer than the United States even existed. Even before the civil war, the US and many other legal systems were already a quagmire of often contridictory laws beset with loopholes.
I don't know where you're getting these ideas from. Especially given that rasicim in juries is still a problem even today. The current US legal system has less to do with the civil war than it has to do with simple human nature and society. See legal and socal history, economics, and most of the rest of the Guide.
The change is symbolised by the following facts. By coincidence or by design, the Prime minister of India today, Dr. Manmohan Singh, an economist, is the artitect of the biggest economic reforms in the country. The President of India Dr. Abdul Kalam, a rocket scientist, is considered to be the father of Indian missile and space programs.
That's a danm good point. It makes you think about the reprecussions that media oriented politics is having on western democracies. If you think of people like F.D. Roosevelt, Kennedy, , and even Nixon. These people were apparantly certified geniuses. You may not have agreed with their polices, or indeed in the case of Nixon, Watergate, but look at what they did in office. Won Pacific and Western European wars; Averted Cuban Missile crisis; went to China. You can trace a lot of the key events in american policy to these presidents.
Put popular, yet apparently less intelligent presidents like Reagan or Bush into their positions. Would Reagan have won World War 2? Could Bush have averted the cuban missile crisis? Could either have gone to China?
There are rights and wrongs in all these actions of course, but they all required, to a greater or lesser degree, something which a lot of politicians simply do not have. The brains and the neck to pull it off.
Singh might not be the most charismatic or camera friendly of Prime Ministers, but his record on the economy speaks for itself. Ask yourself this. Would he or someone like him win an election in the US? The UK? Could Alan Greenspan ever have made Chairman of the Fed if he had to be elected to the post?
i'm sure to you, this article was the God's honest truth, whereas to another more reasonable person, the article would have more substance like the name of one of the FBI officer's for instance.
Surely you realise that publishing the names of FBI agents engaged in their duties would be bordering on sedition. In fact under new measures of the PATRIOT ACT, such un-American activity could send a man to The Tower^H^H^H Guantanamo Bay.
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et everyone will yammer endlessly about how important it is that AMD processors are faster than Intel (which I'm still not convinced is true; I've never seen an AMD noticably faster than any Intel processor, yet HDTV is very noticably better than SD, and likewise SACD sounds very much better than CD which is very much better than MP3)
AMD runs 30% faster than the equivilent Intel on single threaded applications while Intel comes out ahead when it comes to multi-threaded applications. AMD cores also consume significantly less power and have better dual core communication that Intel's. See the live stress test rundown for more.
It terms of actual computational performance etc, etc, we have measurable metrics, so we can say which chip is "better" at certain tasks.
For things like Sound and video quality, there really aren't the same kind of hard metrics for how "good" something looks or sounds, so there's a lot of debate. I'm a tone deaf individual with bad eyesight, so HDTV and SACD really doesn't resonate a whole lot with me.
A 733t! group of Hax0rz have made a duplicate of one XBox-360 game disc. Using mysterious technology know as 'dd' or 'ghosting' the nerarious criminals accommplished what Microsoft engineers had previously derided as an impossibility; namely, the creation of a HD-DVD ISO, which can be used to make countless useless duplicate copies of the game that unscrupulous gamers can stare at blankly or attempt to chew on.
Microsoft spokesmen could not be be reached on this issue as they were too busy not caring. Reports state that Zonk's mouse hand was trembling with excitement as he posted the story, having spent most of the day chucking perfectly newsworthy submissions. Meanwhile, useful links to the open source iso extraction tool were downplayed in the report. In other news the Slashdot Games Section continues to be the fastest growing section, yet the least commented upon one.
I don't think Bush has done nearly the job stamping out "legal limitations" that you think he has....
If you want an example of a stamping out of legal limitations, look no further than Guantanamo Bay, where rights inherant since the Magna Carta are trampled on daily. Might do a good job to google for "CIA prisons" as well.
I don't know what to you counts as a government overstepping legal limitations, but if suspending "habius corpus" doesen't count, then quite frankly I don't know what does.
I'm not trolling , but does anyone really care enough about HDTV to
fork out huge wads of cash on a new set?
Personally, I would have to say no. I really don't care about HDTV.
Now I'm a classic geek. I like my tech. I like what works. I like what's practical. I don't like chrome and cruft, and I'm generally able to tell an overpriced, overhyped product from a reasonable, practical one.
This isn't an innate talent or state of being. I've been burned by the gaming industry too many times in my youth and as a result have developed a healty skepticism when it comes to flashy new tech.
I've seen HDTV. It looks better, but I really don't care very much. I might like the view better, but I'm not paying current prices for it. I'm still quite happy with my old CRT's resolution. That is, when I'm even watching it anymore.
For me, HDTV is a solution looking for a problem. A very expensive one at that.
It may be a word now, but will anyone still be using it 50 years from now?
Marry N'uncle, a swivven'd comely wench shall tell thee by the nonce.
So please, do us all a favor, go read up on the theories on pagerank and then, please please please, stay with the uninformed designer mac-zealots over at digg.com
I've just emphasised that little gem in your tirade. Neither you nor I nor in all likelihood Beatles-Beatles knows exactly how Google pagerank works. But we, and he, can make educated guesses. You think **Beatles-Beatles is just doing this for kicks? This is a professional search engine spammer we're talking about here.
He's doing this for a reason. Is that reason to get Kudos on Slashdot or to try and increase his Google pagrank. I'll let the good people in the audience figure that one out.
Note please that it doesn't actually matter if this method is working or not. **Beatles-Beatles is attempting to abuse Slashdot to gain pagerank, and he is succeeding in making fools of the editors even if his pagerank remains in the doldrums.
He's making us all look bad. But as you say, I suspect Google are wise to this sort of thing, even if the Slashdot eds aren't.
And by the way, Slashdot stories get copied almost verbatum by a multitude of other sites, so Beatles-Beatles' story, name and sitelink is going to be plastered all over quite a number of sites across the net.
You don't believe me? Here's the a Google search of "ObsessiveMathsFreak writes". Notice the one and only submission I ever got posted is in more sites thatn Slashdot. The list used to be much, much higher.
This came to my attendtion because after posting the story, I was bombarded with spam. My email was included in the article, and with the articles proliferation across the net, so too was my email address duplicated everywhere for all the spammers address crawler bots to see. I've since had to abandon that address. A note of caution to all posters.
Now. Replace email address by site address, and "spammers address crawler bots" by "Google pagerank" bot, and you can see exactly why Beatles-Beatles is doing what he's doing. Let's hope the eds do as well.
Can someone link to/explain the Beatles-Beatles ref. please?
Beatles-Beatles is the solid, undeniable, irrefutable proof that the Slashdot editor system is broken. While great submissions are tossed daily, Beatles-Beatles is allowed to continue to abuse his articles on Slashdot to increase his Google PageRank.
Essentially Slashdot is actively promoting a spammer, at the expense of better articles.
Several possibilities come to mind. One; the Slashdot Editors have been bribed by said spammer. Two; the Slashdot editors are not bothering to proof read any articles. Three; The slashdot editors have simply stopped reading the article comments, where Beatles-Beatles has been critisised on numerous occassions. Four; The Slashdot Random Story Submission Selection System is broken. The reader can decide which of these is more likely.
In the era of Digg.com, I think the Slashdot editors should be doing more to justify the editor system. As it happens, Slashdot is becoming the prime example of why the editor system is inferior. I would like this to change, but the Slashdot Eds really just don't seem to care about the site anymore.
Still the comments are good.
Yet more evidence that the Slashdot Editors aren't even bothering to check articles anymore. I'm starting to believe in the Random Story Submission Selection System now.
You can't divide by zero. or rather, you can, but the result of such an operation is not defined.
The result of any number divided by xero is not defined. I do not know what the answer is or even what it should be. Though I may be able to get the limit of a function as it approaches such a value.
For instance: f(x) = x/x
lim f(x) = 1
x->0
You might be tempted to say that f(0) = 1, but it isn't.
Oh, you can whine about the differences between ideas and material objects all you want. They're one and the same. You can whine about knowledge and a creative commons - and that itself is bullshit, for the TV (as an example again) requires such knowledge to be manufactured. Furthermore, if knowledge belongs to everyone, surely too do the resources of the planet.
No. No, you're completely wrong here. Copyright is NOT, I repeat NOT, a form of property. Not "Intellectual Property", of property of any kind. This is important.
Copyright is a privilage granted by the government for a limited time to the Authors of various kinds of works. This right can be transferred, bought sold, used etc, etc. This right also allows certain fair uses by non holders. i.e. I can use your copyrighted work for certain small and/or personal uses without your permission.
Contrast with property. Actual property. Something copyright is not. I own my property. You own yours. Our ownership of it will never expire. No one else can use or make use of our property without our express permission. The government cannot take away my property, nor can anyone else, without due process of the law.
You've been conned by the new "Intellectual Property" mantra. It's not property. It's a privilage.
I find it very disturbing the USPTO cannot uniquely identify patent holders... If they cannot uniquely identify patent holders, then how can the USPTO (or courts) *identify* patent holders???
They used to record it, but when they install the rubber stampinator 9000, that feature wasn't implemented. The work around is to sue everyone.
This is as offtopic as they come, but does anyone else think that the games section posts too many stories? The main page now says "23 more" under the games section and most stories here have noticeably fewer comments that the other sections.
I sure hope this section isn't using up some kind of quota on the whole site.
My 0.02
Well you are misunderstanding the word "Shall" in a legal terms. Shall when used in such a document is the same as a requirement meaning it is not optional.
"Shall" means what it says. Congress has the power to enact such laws, but is under no strict constitutional obligation to do so. For example:
Clause 9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
Congress can constitute Tribunals, but no one would argue that it is under obligation to do so.
Applying your argument they'd still own it and person who paid them for it would be out of luck. In that case would anyone ever pay someone else to build their house? What about built or make anything for them? Intellectual property is the same thing. Without property (Intellectual among them) rights then the why would anybody bother to make anything?
You forget. Copyright isn't a form of property. It's a right, granted temporarily by the government. There's a very, very clear distinction. Copyright can expire, and indeed, allows for some fair use of the right granted to the holder, by others. Property on the other hand never expires, and its use is entirely subject to the owners approval. Government doesn't even enter the equation, except to regulate any such uses.
There's a very, very clear distinction. Some people nowadays argue that "Intellectual Property" is exactly the same as property. It isn't.
From TFA:
I think the message is clear. Blogs may not offer quantity of suckers^H^H^H viewers, but they do offer quality of viewers. With one link in the right blog, the marketing man can pay to reach the exact people he could only hope of catching by chance in other media. This isn't just a marketing pipe dream. Bribing bloggers is about to become big business.
One could hope that the blogging community will be steadfast enough to resist the oncoming corruption, but it's hard to be steadfast after some oily marketing representative has just stuffed your face in a nice restaurant and shacked you up with a four star hotel room.
Be prepared. A lot of blogs, not all, but a lot, are about to pull a great big "Driver 3: 9/10" on various items. I'd guess the form this will take will be hyping new technologies, languages and frameworks, rather than blatantly plugging products. Think the hyping of Java, only for whatever new tech rolls around next time.
If the marketers are really good, and they are, the bloggers may not even know they've been bought.
..."Why don't you just Download me?!!"
Automated Social Engineering on a global scale. Users will crumble before its onslaught. On the bright side, maybe this will get more people off IM.
The difference here is that MSN messenger wasn't just an app. It was an entire service.
If I get Gaim with a distro, I won't get an account. I have to go to a third party service, get a Jabber, MSN, AIM or what have you account, then I can use Gaim. With MSN messenger, I have to go to a Microsoft service (MSN), and am indeed persuaded and encouraged to go there. I sign up to their service, and continue to use the client packaged with the OS. There's a clear distinction here.
I'm not sure how MSN messenger works exactly, but I imagine that signing up for an MSN account is all but an automated process at this point.
The second difference is of course that Microsoft has a monopoly position in the desktop market and is clearly (ab)using that monopoly to leverage their position in the IM market. By packaging MSN messenger with their OS, they are cutting off the competition's oxygen.
Don't give me the bullshit that "Everyone Knows Its A Game". The evidence is mounting high right in that article that more than a few take the metaphor very seriously... and our current political shift... blowing off debt and lives without care... show it is growing indeed. Shallow, mindless politics from shallow mindless ethics.
"Everyone Knows It's A Game"
You're suggesting that video games are responsible for some kind of growing lack of concern for human life? That video games contribute to a "kill 'em all" world view?
Long before video games, and long before video, people thought this way. And they'll think this way long after Age Of Empires is finally taken out of the Best Buy Bargain bins.
The truth is, a lot of people, if not most, will think nothing of slaughtering an entire village or town or city or even civilisation just to make a point. People in general, really don't care unless it's happening to them. For evidence of this see Carthage, Bèziers, Auschwitz and in fact, most of the rest of the Guide.
Who the Hell is Trip Master Monkey?
Let me guess, you're a virgin. Or a woman. How can any man say that getting laid is not priority one? Of course it's top priority.
Uhhhhh... OK Let's try this again.
"In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
Tony Montana was crude and rather curt at times, but he certainly had an advanced understanding of how the world works. Ergo, he also possessed the smart gene.
Normal IQ tests designed by different groups show similar results when you give people both tests. People who get high scores are the people we commonly think of as being "smart", "intelligent", or "brainy". So obviously the tests work pretty well.
I don't know about you, but I've met a lot of suppossedly "smart" or "brainy" people, who were in fact, really quite stupid. I've met a lot of suppossedly "less intelligent" people who were leauges ahead of most academics intelligence wise.
Being able to unjumble mixed up words or rotate cubes in your head does not make you smart. It's a skill like any other.
Mathematical formulas are supposed to be non-patentable.
Sir. Here at the USPTO, we grant patents with predjudice to trivial things such as gross obviousness, unoriginality and indeed, patentability itself.
This all changed just after the Civil War, where the jury system fell flat on its face due to widespread racism, mostly in the south. How would a black fella get a fair trial in a matter involving a dispute with a white folk? Either 1) Jurors are white, in which case he'd hang for blowing snot on the boss' hankie, or 2) Jurors are black, so he gets off scott-free.
So, offenses and penalties were codified, and state constitutions all over the place were altered, introducing this new "Penal Code" that everybody was suppposed ta follow.
What the hell?! What are you talking about? You do realise countries have had Legal Codes for far, far longer than the United States even existed. Even before the civil war, the US and many other legal systems were already a quagmire of often contridictory laws beset with loopholes.
I don't know where you're getting these ideas from. Especially given that rasicim in juries is still a problem even today. The current US legal system has less to do with the civil war than it has to do with simple human nature and society. See legal and socal history, economics, and most of the rest of the Guide.
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The change is symbolised by the following facts. By coincidence or by design, the Prime minister of India today, Dr. Manmohan Singh, an economist, is the artitect of the biggest economic reforms in the country. The President of India Dr. Abdul Kalam, a rocket scientist, is considered to be the father of Indian missile and space programs.
That's a danm good point. It makes you think about the reprecussions that media oriented politics is having on western democracies. If you think of people like F.D. Roosevelt, Kennedy, , and even Nixon. These people were apparantly certified geniuses. You may not have agreed with their polices, or indeed in the case of Nixon, Watergate, but look at what they did in office. Won Pacific and Western European wars; Averted Cuban Missile crisis; went to China. You can trace a lot of the key events in american policy to these presidents.
Put popular, yet apparently less intelligent presidents like Reagan or Bush into their positions. Would Reagan have won World War 2? Could Bush have averted the cuban missile crisis? Could either have gone to China?
There are rights and wrongs in all these actions of course, but they all required, to a greater or lesser degree, something which a lot of politicians simply do not have. The brains and the neck to pull it off.
Singh might not be the most charismatic or camera friendly of Prime Ministers, but his record on the economy speaks for itself. Ask yourself this. Would he or someone like him win an election in the US? The UK? Could Alan Greenspan ever have made Chairman of the Fed if he had to be elected to the post?
i'm sure to you, this article was the God's honest truth, whereas to another more reasonable person, the article would have more substance like the name of one of the FBI officer's for instance.
Surely you realise that publishing the names of FBI agents engaged in their duties would be bordering on sedition. In fact under new measures of the PATRIOT ACT, such un-American activity could send a man to The Tower^H^H^H Guantanamo Bay.