The real question isn't whether or not a blogger is a journalist, but why journalists are treated as being above the law. The first ammendment was intended to apply to everyone, not just some elite class of journalists.
If free speech guarantees a right not to testify at a grand jury, then that right should apply to everyone.
So how exactly implemented? Do I get paid millions of dollars every four years to run for president if I feel like it?
Or does it mean that only people approved by the government can run for office?
Why do Wine users even need Microsoft Windows Updates? I thought the whole point of Wine was to replace Microsoft's code with an open source equivalents.
Unless Wine's developers are cheating by taking Window's DLLs and passing them off as their own. In which case I don't see why MS is expected to help Wine.
An important question left out here is which is the better purchase: 1'3" of Silence or 4'33" of Silence?
On one hand, at 99 cents for each, 4'33" is the much better value as you get nearly three times as much silence for your dollar.
On the other hand, 1'3" is obviously of much higher quality, as it manages to express in less than two minutes what 4'33" takes nearly five minutes to express.
So which is the better purchase for penny-pinching lovers of post-modern music?
The current budget has $75 million budgeted to cover the cost of deorbiting Hubble. The fact that NASA has become so completely bloated an inefficient that it takes them $75 million to crash something into the ocean goes a long way toward explaining why the agency is so troubled lately.
As P.J. O'Rourke once noted, recycling rarely ever works as advertised. The reason being things that still have value after being used (a car or a house for instance) don't have to be recycled, you can just sell them to someone. Recycling just spends a lot of money trying to sell something hardly anyone wants to buy.
I wonder why he shows ML and Prolog as having appeared out of nowhere. I would consider these two languages (Prolog particularly so) as having evolved from LISP.
Does this mean if you have your HP SkinJet accidently set to HPGL when you send it PostScript, hundreds of random body parts will start flying out of the printer?
If the ISP was trying to protect the anonymity of its users, in these sense of not revealing who ObscureNetHandle@isp.com is, they might have an arguement.
But that's not what's happening--the users in question aren't trying to be anonymous; they're trying to impersonate someone else. Arguing that's protected as free speech is like arguing that right of free assembly means I'm allowed to break into your house.
Those articles I would consider in the case where accuracy and popularity correlate well. Since most people won't have any sort of emotional attachment to the article being a particular way, due to the esoteric subject, the most popular version will usually be the most accurate one.
The real problem is how they've chosen to define "perfection". Like any evolutionary system, Wikipedia will evolve into the state best fulfilling it's selection criteria.
And unfortunately, Wikipedia's selection criteria is not accuracy, but popularity. It works well in situations where there's a high degree of correlation between the two, but fails miserably in cases where there's not. Cases such as issues where there's a lot of controversy (i.e. politics) or issues where there is some fact that's commonly believed to be true even though it isn't.
You can't undervalue something by hiring people willing to do it cheaper. The value of something is what people are willing to trade it for. Period.
You can, however, overvalue something by artificially constricting the supply.
The Indymedia stuff was siezed at the bequest of other countries and in accordance with international treaty obligations.
It's pretty funny to see the same Hate Bush crowd that's always whining about how he thumbs his nose at the rest of the world by ignoring international treaties (Kyoto, CTB, ABM, ICC, etc.) is now whining that how didn't flagrantly ignore international law to defend them.
This shouldn't be a suprise. After the Enron scandle, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act changed the way companies have to expense stock options, essentially making it more costly to fling stock options all over the place.
Oh, when you said you wanted them to stop giving out so many options, you didn't mean that YOUR options were the ones that should be eliminated?
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The real question isn't whether or not a blogger is a journalist, but why journalists are treated as being above the law. The first ammendment was intended to apply to everyone, not just some elite class of journalists. If free speech guarantees a right not to testify at a grand jury, then that right should apply to everyone.
Who knew they were still making WordPerfect...
...as free WiFi. There's just WiFi that you're making someone else pay for.
So how exactly implemented? Do I get paid millions of dollars every four years to run for president if I feel like it? Or does it mean that only people approved by the government can run for office?
Does this mean that people aren't allowed to mention candidates on thier blogs within 60 days of an election?
Why do Wine users even need Microsoft Windows Updates? I thought the whole point of Wine was to replace Microsoft's code with an open source equivalents. Unless Wine's developers are cheating by taking Window's DLLs and passing them off as their own. In which case I don't see why MS is expected to help Wine.
An important question left out here is which is the better purchase: 1'3" of Silence or 4'33" of Silence? On one hand, at 99 cents for each, 4'33" is the much better value as you get nearly three times as much silence for your dollar. On the other hand, 1'3" is obviously of much higher quality, as it manages to express in less than two minutes what 4'33" takes nearly five minutes to express. So which is the better purchase for penny-pinching lovers of post-modern music?
The current budget has $75 million budgeted to cover the cost of deorbiting Hubble. The fact that NASA has become so completely bloated an inefficient that it takes them $75 million to crash something into the ocean goes a long way toward explaining why the agency is so troubled lately.
Has Windows stopped beating its wife yet?
As P.J. O'Rourke once noted, recycling rarely ever works as advertised. The reason being things that still have value after being used (a car or a house for instance) don't have to be recycled, you can just sell them to someone. Recycling just spends a lot of money trying to sell something hardly anyone wants to buy.
Because what we really need is more encouragement for people to stop thinking about things before doing whatever fool thing pops into their head.
I wonder why he shows ML and Prolog as having appeared out of nowhere. I would consider these two languages (Prolog particularly so) as having evolved from LISP.
Does this mean if you have your HP SkinJet accidently set to HPGL when you send it PostScript, hundreds of random body parts will start flying out of the printer?
If the ISP was trying to protect the anonymity of its users, in these sense of not revealing who ObscureNetHandle@isp.com is, they might have an arguement. But that's not what's happening--the users in question aren't trying to be anonymous; they're trying to impersonate someone else. Arguing that's protected as free speech is like arguing that right of free assembly means I'm allowed to break into your house.
Those articles I would consider in the case where accuracy and popularity correlate well. Since most people won't have any sort of emotional attachment to the article being a particular way, due to the esoteric subject, the most popular version will usually be the most accurate one.
The real problem is how they've chosen to define "perfection". Like any evolutionary system, Wikipedia will evolve into the state best fulfilling it's selection criteria.
And unfortunately, Wikipedia's selection criteria is not accuracy, but popularity. It works well in situations where there's a high degree of correlation between the two, but fails miserably in cases where there's not. Cases such as issues where there's a lot of controversy (i.e. politics) or issues where there is some fact that's commonly believed to be true even though it isn't.
You can't undervalue something by hiring people willing to do it cheaper. The value of something is what people are willing to trade it for. Period. You can, however, overvalue something by artificially constricting the supply.
In honor of Brian Salcedo, I'll be offering a solo of "My Heart Bleeds for You" played on the world's tiniest violin.
If my company unionized, I'd quit.
The Indymedia stuff was siezed at the bequest of other countries and in accordance with international treaty obligations. It's pretty funny to see the same Hate Bush crowd that's always whining about how he thumbs his nose at the rest of the world by ignoring international treaties (Kyoto, CTB, ABM, ICC, etc.) is now whining that how didn't flagrantly ignore international law to defend them.
This shouldn't be a suprise. After the Enron scandle, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act changed the way companies have to expense stock options, essentially making it more costly to fling stock options all over the place. Oh, when you said you wanted them to stop giving out so many options, you didn't mean that YOUR options were the ones that should be eliminated?
So because you have absolutely no willpower or self-control, no one else is allowed to watch TV when you're in the room?
I've always thought of "Intro to Algorithms" as the Bible of computer science.
Yeah, and Symmantec and McAffee are secretly making all the computer viruses so they can sell anti-virus software.
Sounds like you need to get your tinfoil hat resized again.