4. Whenever it changes direction, both when switching turn direction and particularly when it stops or reverses, it does so by suddenly switching the wheel direction and accelerating the other way. Which means if this was scaled to any significant side, it would be chewing through 'tires' at a ridiculous rate as well as leaving burnt rubber skid marks all over the place. Imagine, if you will, what would happen to your tires if you were in a full size car going 55mph and the only way to slow down was to suddenly switch into reverse and rev the engine in the opposite direction.
Am I the only one somewhat horrified that the comment discussion here has focussed entirely on whether or not PowerPoint is a good idea and not the Orwellian idea of a government throwing people in jail for using it?
The industries that most commonly employ unpaid interns are television/film and politics. Both of which have a very limited supply of jobs, are structured that there's no way to get in unless you know the right person, and attract hordes of people who are convinced they'll be rich and famous someday and willing to do pretty much ANYTHING to get their chance.
Finance has a similar dynamic, but not nearly as bad as those two.
...is whether everyone else is done with Lulzsec. Unfortunately, they've likely pissed off the kinds of people who don't stop the game just because the opponent wants to quit.
Yeah, who would have guessed that professional editors have an outsized ability to make their complaints heard. It's like they have direct access to the media or something...
But CS engineering has no licensing requirements in the US, so no, it doesn't actually mean something.
Wow, what a total sheep you must be if you think government recognition is the only determiner of what has meaning in life. There's no such thing as a chef license. That doesn't mean the head chef at a top level restaurant is interchangeable with the guy running the grill at McDonald's. If anything, the fact there's not government certification for software engineers makes getting a good education even MORE important, because until you establish a body of work, that diploma is going to be the one of the main ways of evaluating you.
I enjoyed my general education classes quite a lot. It's an oppurtunity to learn about a broad range of subjects you're curious about but never really learned about. You may discover new interests and hobbies.
If only the administration put half the effort into punishing various people who broke US laws on surrveilance and torture that they're putting into punishing the people who let the American people find out about it.
How dare Turkey decide it has the power to decide what websites people should and shouldn't be allowed to visit and then deliberately block people from visiting unapproved websites......Only Anonymous is allowed to do that.
As P. J. O'Rourke once pointed out that (at the time of writing), Freemont, CA has the same population density as Bangladesh, yet NGO's aren't sending swarms of people there to try and convince the residents to stop having families.
Fretting about overpopulation is just the politically correct way to be racist. Far too many of you; not enough of me.
David Caruthers, CEO of BETonSPORTS, who was arrested while flying from the UK to Costa Rica when he switched planes in Dallas. He was charged with violating US laws against online gambling despite the fact his UK based website was perfectly legal under that country's laws.
Peter Dicks, CEO of Sportingbet, arrested in NYC under similar circumstances
Not really, because there's also a game in the US called kickball (it's like baseball except using a large inflated ball that the "batter" kicks instead of hitting with a bat).
I know it's trendy in the UK to pretend otherwise, but calling it soccer originated with you people, not Americans. It was an abreviation for association football, which is what you used to call it to distinguish it from rugby football.
Yes, but the difference is that those paintings and those fruit cups are actually available to everyone. We have public museums where people can go to see the paintings or public schools where kids can go to eat the fruitcups.
Video games are only accessible to the more affluent sections of society. It seems backward to tax everyone to subsidize the past times of the upper quintiles.
Yes, clearly the guy who want to KGB funded school and then worked in a KGB funded research lab has NOTHING to do with KGB. If you even read the Guardian correction, they don't actually say what they said is wrong, just that it was a mistake to say it (compare the wishy washy wording in that correction to the far more definite wording in the following two corrections).
There's hardly a shortage of video games out there. Given the deficit problem we already have, why should we be spending money to produce a good that is already being produced in massive quantities, particularly a good that only the well off (who can afford high end PC's or expensive gaming equipment and subscription) will be able to take advantage of?
Isn't this essentially just forcing people to purchase games that aren't selling on their own merits?
The problem is that the difference is largely not in the actual words that are being said. Good friends gaming often talk to each other in a way that would greatly piss them off if a stranger did.
Ala Carte actually could end up reducing the market for niche channels even further. Suppose you have 69 channels and are choosing what to put on channel 70. If cable is all or nothing, you're likely to pick something that is going to attract people that aren't already customers. So if sci-fi fans aren't buying cable at all, you may put on a sci-fi channel, even if they're a small market.
If people are purchasing each channel is individually, you're going to want channel 70 to be something you can get your existing customers to add onto their service. All that matters is how big its share is, even if it's duplicating something already served by numerous other channels. So you're probably going to go with yet another sports channel over a sci-fi channel.
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4. Whenever it changes direction, both when switching turn direction and particularly when it stops or reverses, it does so by suddenly switching the wheel direction and accelerating the other way. Which means if this was scaled to any significant side, it would be chewing through 'tires' at a ridiculous rate as well as leaving burnt rubber skid marks all over the place. Imagine, if you will, what would happen to your tires if you were in a full size car going 55mph and the only way to slow down was to suddenly switch into reverse and rev the engine in the opposite direction.
Am I the only one somewhat horrified that the comment discussion here has focussed entirely on whether or not PowerPoint is a good idea and not the Orwellian idea of a government throwing people in jail for using it?
The industries that most commonly employ unpaid interns are television/film and politics. Both of which have a very limited supply of jobs, are structured that there's no way to get in unless you know the right person, and attract hordes of people who are convinced they'll be rich and famous someday and willing to do pretty much ANYTHING to get their chance.
Finance has a similar dynamic, but not nearly as bad as those two.
No, that's gorilla STRATEGY. Gorilla tactics is deciding who to fling poo at.
...is whether everyone else is done with Lulzsec. Unfortunately, they've likely pissed off the kinds of people who don't stop the game just because the opponent wants to quit.
Yeah, who would have guessed that professional editors have an outsized ability to make their complaints heard. It's like they have direct access to the media or something...
Wow, what a total sheep you must be if you think government recognition is the only determiner of what has meaning in life. There's no such thing as a chef license. That doesn't mean the head chef at a top level restaurant is interchangeable with the guy running the grill at McDonald's. If anything, the fact there's not government certification for software engineers makes getting a good education even MORE important, because until you establish a body of work, that diploma is going to be the one of the main ways of evaluating you.
I enjoyed my general education classes quite a lot. It's an oppurtunity to learn about a broad range of subjects you're curious about but never really learned about. You may discover new interests and hobbies.
If only the administration put half the effort into punishing various people who broke US laws on surrveilance and torture that they're putting into punishing the people who let the American people find out about it.
How dare Turkey decide it has the power to decide what websites people should and shouldn't be allowed to visit and then deliberately block people from visiting unapproved websites... ...Only Anonymous is allowed to do that.
As P. J. O'Rourke once pointed out that (at the time of writing), Freemont, CA has the same population density as Bangladesh, yet NGO's aren't sending swarms of people there to try and convince the residents to stop having families.
Fretting about overpopulation is just the politically correct way to be racist. Far too many of you; not enough of me.
Maybe they'd be better off assigning some of the people trying to defeat reverse engineering to test their installer software.
You know, so they don't "accidentally" install third party applications on users' computers without permission again.
Lead is a possible carcinogen...
Sure:
David Caruthers, CEO of BETonSPORTS, who was arrested while flying from the UK to Costa Rica when he switched planes in Dallas. He was charged with violating US laws against online gambling despite the fact his UK based website was perfectly legal under that country's laws.
Peter Dicks, CEO of Sportingbet, arrested in NYC under similar circumstances
Not really, because there's also a game in the US called kickball (it's like baseball except using a large inflated ball that the "batter" kicks instead of hitting with a bat).
I know it's trendy in the UK to pretend otherwise, but calling it soccer originated with you people, not Americans. It was an abreviation for association football, which is what you used to call it to distinguish it from rugby football.
4. Societies where large numbers of people are mired in existential crises tend to be less productive.
It may just be the part of the country I live in, but I've been prostelytized by atheists far more often then christians.
Yes, but the difference is that those paintings and those fruit cups are actually available to everyone. We have public museums where people can go to see the paintings or public schools where kids can go to eat the fruitcups.
Video games are only accessible to the more affluent sections of society. It seems backward to tax everyone to subsidize the past times of the upper quintiles.
Yes, clearly the guy who want to KGB funded school and then worked in a KGB funded research lab has NOTHING to do with KGB. If you even read the Guardian correction, they don't actually say what they said is wrong, just that it was a mistake to say it (compare the wishy washy wording in that correction to the far more definite wording in the following two corrections).
Anytime Yevgeny Kaspersky profers his advice on how internet security should work, it should be remembered that he is a former KGB officer.
This is really allow about making it easier for States to control what people do online.
There's hardly a shortage of video games out there. Given the deficit problem we already have, why should we be spending money to produce a good that is already being produced in massive quantities, particularly a good that only the well off (who can afford high end PC's or expensive gaming equipment and subscription) will be able to take advantage of?
Isn't this essentially just forcing people to purchase games that aren't selling on their own merits?
The problem is that the difference is largely not in the actual words that are being said. Good friends gaming often talk to each other in a way that would greatly piss them off if a stranger did.
Ala Carte actually could end up reducing the market for niche channels even further. Suppose you have 69 channels and are choosing what to put on channel 70. If cable is all or nothing, you're likely to pick something that is going to attract people that aren't already customers. So if sci-fi fans aren't buying cable at all, you may put on a sci-fi channel, even if they're a small market.
If people are purchasing each channel is individually, you're going to want channel 70 to be something you can get your existing customers to add onto their service. All that matters is how big its share is, even if it's duplicating something already served by numerous other channels. So you're probably going to go with yet another sports channel over a sci-fi channel.
The fact there's currently no credible evidence for those conjectures isn't what makes them non-scientific, it's that there can't ever be.
Even if the conjectures were true, there's no way to test them. THAT's what makes them non-scientific.