Colbert's whole point was to mock they idea implicit in Wikipedia that all people are equally valid sources of authority, and that in disputes over facts the truth should be determined by which side has the most people.
By limiting the editing of the page to a small group of 'trusted editors' on the articles invovled, aren't the Wikipedia admins essentially conceding he's correct?
Yes, but that would require a federal law, something not mentioned in the accompanying article--it only mentions efforts in the various state legislatures.
Getting Congress's consent will be quite difficult, particularly in the Senate where senators from the various states with small populations are unlikely to vote for such a bill.
No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
I'm in the process of building a new gaming computer. I was planning to go with a 975XBX motherboard with a Core 2 Duo processor and ATI Crossfire, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea now. Nothing on Intel or ATI's site says anything about how this deal is going to affect their current Crossfire efforts.
Remember this story the next time some Net Neutrality proponent tells you how protecting free speech on the internet requires putting the government in charge of everything on the internet.
The embryo in the egg was a chicken, but the egg is not entriely produced by the embryo, parts of it (such as the shell) are produced by the parent organism, so the putative first chicken embryo may not have been encased in a chicken egg.
We're already seeing a rapid shift from geomagnetic references to inertial and satellite references in navigation. 2,000 years from now, it's unlikely magnetic compasses will be anything but a novelty.
That's just as easily fixed by being sure to check in the code with the binaries. On the other hand, once the binaries become machine dependent, you lose the ability to use Java for deployment of network based applications. The user has to install a VM specific client application.
It seems to me that one of the main benefits of Java, machine independent binary files, would be destroyed by Open Source. Once each VM can have it's own set of covered features, add-ons, etc. you no longer can be sure of that, and end up with a situation where the source has to be recompiled on each machine it's used on.
>What am I supposed to do, write down how I'd *like* it to work?
Actually, with a Wiki that might work. If you put in erroneous information about a subject you'd like to know about, someone will get annoyed and fix it.
Richard Stallman announced a new OSS project to create the Gnufight, the world's first open source warplane.
"Countries unhappy with being tied to a particular vendor with closed-source aircraft like the F-35 JSF will soon be able to enjoy the benefits of an Open Source craft, the F-35 FSF. We believe all military craft should be Free. Free as in beer, Free as in fire zone."
The term "Slippery Slope" actually refers to two distinct types of argument: a "Semantice Slippery Slope" and a "Causal Slippery Slope".
A semantic slippery slope is an argument where one argues that because the boundary between two sets is undefined, the two sets are actually identical.
For example: people can have verying number of hairs on their head. People with few hairs are bald. People with many hairs aren't. However there is no number X for which we can say that all people with less than X hairs are bald and all people with X or more hairs aren't. Therefore there is actually no real difference between being bald and not being bald.
A causal slippery slope is an argument where one makes a series of causal statements: A lead to B, B leads to C, etc. and then argues that therefore doing A will ultimately lead to some undesirable X.
The distinction between the two is important because while the first type of argument is always a fallacy, the second type may or may not be one. The validity of the second argument depends on how strong the casuality in each of the steps making up the chain actually is. In your crackhouse example, for instance, the argument is a fallacy not because of the slippery slope, but because one of the subteps (going a block south necessarily leads to going a block east) isn't true.
Those Fed Ex numbers are bogus. There's no such thing as an unguaranteed Fed-ex shipment; they all include $100 of insurance and a money back guarantee if they miss their commitment time by more than 60 seconds. Also, both of the Fed Ex rates you mention are higher than any of their published rates for standard overnight delivery of an 8oz flat envelope: ftp://ftp.fedex.com/pub/us/rates/downloads/documen ts2/SO.pdf
If I take a package to Fed Ex and overnight to someone, I get a money back guarantee that it will be in fact delivered tomorrow.
If I take the same package to the USPS, I pay more, and well... they'll try to deliver it tomorrow, but no promises, you know?
If the USPS is such a 'damn fine institution', could you please explain that?
I keep expecting to open/. someday and find out that RMS has started issuing fatwahs against infidel open source projects that are using non-GNU licenses.
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Colbert's whole point was to mock they idea implicit in Wikipedia that all people are equally valid sources of authority, and that in disputes over facts the truth should be determined by which side has the most people.
By limiting the editing of the page to a small group of 'trusted editors' on the articles invovled, aren't the Wikipedia admins essentially conceding he's correct?
Don't forget that IQ measures capacity, not utilization.
Yes, but that would require a federal law, something not mentioned in the accompanying article--it only mentions efforts in the various state legislatures.
Getting Congress's consent will be quite difficult, particularly in the Senate where senators from the various states with small populations are unlikely to vote for such a bill.
From Article I, Section 10:
No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
I'm in the process of building a new gaming computer. I was planning to go with a 975XBX motherboard with a Core 2 Duo processor and ATI Crossfire, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea now. Nothing on Intel or ATI's site says anything about how this deal is going to affect their current Crossfire efforts.
Facebook, Myspace, Livejournal, etc. users seem to have become the internet equivalent of people who pick their noses in their cars on the highway.
Believe it or not, we CAN still see you people in there.
Remember this story the next time some Net Neutrality proponent tells you how protecting free speech on the internet requires putting the government in charge of everything on the internet.
The embryo in the egg was a chicken, but the egg is not entriely produced by the embryo, parts of it (such as the shell) are produced by the parent organism, so the putative first chicken embryo may not have been encased in a chicken egg.
The doctrine that representation is tied to taxation has been defunct for decades, in favor of the more 'progressive' one man, one vote standard.
We're already seeing a rapid shift from geomagnetic references to inertial and satellite references in navigation. 2,000 years from now, it's unlikely magnetic compasses will be anything but a novelty.
That's just as easily fixed by being sure to check in the code with the binaries. On the other hand, once the binaries become machine dependent, you lose the ability to use Java for deployment of network based applications. The user has to install a VM specific client application.
It seems to me that one of the main benefits of Java, machine independent binary files, would be destroyed by Open Source. Once each VM can have it's own set of covered features, add-ons, etc. you no longer can be sure of that, and end up with a situation where the source has to be recompiled on each machine it's used on.
>What am I supposed to do, write down how I'd *like* it to work?
Actually, with a Wiki that might work. If you put in erroneous information about a subject you'd like to know about, someone will get annoyed and fix it.
No, but it's where the plurality of the people buying games shop.
A Chinese company named RedTN has sued Redberry for violating one of its red patents.
Silicone Implants Cause the Male to Go Blind
Richard Stallman announced a new OSS project to create the Gnufight, the world's first open source warplane.
"Countries unhappy with being tied to a particular vendor with closed-source aircraft like the F-35 JSF will soon be able to enjoy the benefits of an Open Source craft, the F-35 FSF. We believe all military craft should be Free. Free as in beer, Free as in fire zone."
For the same reason newspapers are terrified of offending Muslims but show little concern for offending other religious groups.
It's easy to stand up to people you know aren't going to retalliate.
The term "Slippery Slope" actually refers to two distinct types of argument: a "Semantice Slippery Slope" and a "Causal Slippery Slope".
A semantic slippery slope is an argument where one argues that because the boundary between two sets is undefined, the two sets are actually identical.
For example: people can have verying number of hairs on their head. People with few hairs are bald. People with many hairs aren't. However there is no number X for which we can say that all people with less than X hairs are bald and all people with X or more hairs aren't. Therefore there is actually no real difference between being bald and not being bald.
A causal slippery slope is an argument where one makes a series of causal statements: A lead to B, B leads to C, etc. and then argues that therefore doing A will ultimately lead to some undesirable X.
The distinction between the two is important because while the first type of argument is always a fallacy, the second type may or may not be one. The validity of the second argument depends on how strong the casuality in each of the steps making up the chain actually is. In your crackhouse example, for instance, the argument is a fallacy not because of the slippery slope, but because one of the subteps (going a block south necessarily leads to going a block east) isn't true.
Those Fed Ex numbers are bogus. There's no such thing as an unguaranteed Fed-ex shipment; they all include $100 of insurance and a money back guarantee if they miss their commitment time by more than 60 seconds. Also, both of the Fed Ex rates you mention are higher than any of their published rates for standard overnight delivery of an 8oz flat envelope: ftp://ftp.fedex.com/pub/us/rates/downloads/documen ts2/SO.pdf
If I take a package to Fed Ex and overnight to someone, I get a money back guarantee that it will be in fact delivered tomorrow. If I take the same package to the USPS, I pay more, and well... they'll try to deliver it tomorrow, but no promises, you know? If the USPS is such a 'damn fine institution', could you please explain that?
Yes, because we really need an ISP run with the same quality we've come to expect of the Post Office and the DMV.
I keep expecting to open /. someday and find out that RMS has started issuing fatwahs against infidel open source projects that are using non-GNU licenses.
This will just lead to BitTorrent streams of illegal bitTorrent clients!
... a new set of questions? Can't we just let everyone edit the old set into a better list of inquiries?