No matter how much I or any other reporter or editor may know about a subject, some of the readers know more. What's more, if you give those readers an easy way to contribute their knowledge to a story, they will.
This is not such a new concept. Back in the early days of the newspaper in the US, it was not commonplace to have a subscription and newspapers were not in as wide circulation, so people passed papers from household to household. The newspapers always contained blank pages at the end so that each reader could add a bit of local news that was unknown when the paper was printed. (Incidentally, it was not uncommon for a gentleman suitor to bring a newspaper to a woman's family as a gift so they could read about the latest Native American conflicts)
Don't forget about how much more true to life 2001 was. For example, no sound in space. Not a lot of movies do that, probably because it is hard to pull off and still make for a good watch. Kubrik just nailed it and made it enjoyable. It had a certain beauty to it.
Yes, yes, delicious. At least two million United Statesians have died, our economy is in shambles. But you know what? It was worth it because Sony got in trouble.
I have been at work; otherwise, I would have responded sooner. I was not in the same lane as the truck. It shot diagonally at me as I was making a legal pass on the left.
That reminds me of those people with large flat bed trucks. When they have been hauling concrete blocks or gravel, there are always some small pieces left over when they drop off the load. These trucks frequently have a sign saying they are not responsible of gravel comes off the truck and hits your windshield. It's total BS. It would be like walking around in any situation with a sign saying you are not responsible for your own carelessness or malicious action.
I agree with you on how puritanical we have gotten about anything remotely sexual, but I think the reason we prefer to evacuate our bladder and bowels in designated locations is because of sanitation considerations. There was a time in Europe when being naked in any situation was considered sinful, so people stopped bathing and relieved themselves in buckets that were dumped in the street, or they just obtained relief in the street itself. Then there was this plague and someone suggested that everyone take baths, that they designate locations to heed Nature's call, and that waste products would be stored in a predetermined location. That being said, I am totally with you on those emergency situations when waiting to find a bathroom is not an option; however, do you know of anyone that was caught peeing and branded a sex offender?
It's not just credit card companies. If someone has stolen your identity, there are so many things they can do to defraud on your behalf. Then you have to convince each person or company that you did not actually initiate a transaction with them Plus, by the time you realize what is happening, it is probably because a collection agency is calling, and they hear "I don't owe this money" all day long. On top of that, your credit report can be ruined by this stuff and it is quite difficult to change that. It used to be you could not even get a copy of the thing. On your comment about credit card company motivation, I think statistically, they hit more than they miss. So, they are willing to bear the brunt of whatever fraud may happen. They are playing the odds that most of the people they deal with are honest quite willing to indebt themselves to the credit card company. That is how these companies aquire all their riches.
"This simply begs the question of what use IQ tests are if they don't predict anything in the real world."
Steven Jay Gould wrote a great deal on the history of various methods of "mental testing" including IQ. These tests have been used to justify slavery, anti-immigration policies, and, yes, treating women as inferiors. Read more in The Mismeasurement of Man. In it, he shows the fallacy of assigning any real world meaning to these tests.
"there is evidence that women utilise their (lesser!) talents better than men."
That is a common cop out to the fact that these results are likely meaningless. It is easy to dismiss any evidence to the contrary to the women-are-inferior hypothesis with such assertions. I would wager this guy "knew" in his mind what he wanted the outcome to be before he starting his study.
...to be the guy that has to tell the croc that I gave her AIDS. If you think people react badly to that, imagine how the croc would react. They call their lawyers for everything, and crocodile lawyers are known to be quite talented when it comes to tort law.
You sure it wasn't a Navy pilot who ejected from his jet, parachuted into the forest, got branches caught in his helmet in a configuration resembling antlers, and shot by a hunter (you) with wall-eye vision.
There's one thing we must consider. Let's give them full benefit of the doubt now. They are aggregating this information for the most non-evil purposes that exist. The problem is, what if the Google culture changes five or ten years from now. What if somehow the founders are forced out and the Google is run by people with nefarious intentions. Worse, what if Google corp. falls on hard times, gets desperate, and sees selling information as a quick fix when they are in a pickle. That would be my big worry.
The "Ted Phillips" corollary: as an online discussion's length approaches its upper bound L (as the probability P of someone making a comparison to Hitler, Nazis, or Nazism approaches 1), there exists a positive number, e (epsilon), such that that probability, p, of comparison to a non-Nazi brutal historical reference is bounded in the following manner: P*(L/(L+e-1)) < p < P*(L/(L+e)).
I can legally and hassle-free[*] listen to just about anything ever recorded.
Except for Dave Matthews, The Beatles, etc. I use Rhapsody and I do love it, but it has some BIG holes in it. I hope they are able to shore up licensing for these holes soon. Then I will be happy.
Natalie Portman, Hayden Christiansen, and Samuel Jackson are the biggest names in Hollywood? Oh, you must mean Jimmy Smits. I understand your point about casting known actors, but these are nowhere near the biggest names.
If the escape velocity of a black hole is the speed of light, no constant force can get you to that velocity. I believe that part of this relativity business tells us that as an object approaches the speed of light, the energy required to make that object move a little faster goes to infinity. So, you could never actually hit the speed of light because it would take an infinite amount of energy to push you past a certain velocity. Physicists, have I explained it accurately?
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I heard from somebody that he gives drugs and guns to orphans.
No matter how much I or any other reporter or editor may know about a subject, some of the readers know more. What's more, if you give those readers an easy way to contribute their knowledge to a story, they will.
This is not such a new concept. Back in the early days of the newspaper in the US, it was not commonplace to have a subscription and newspapers were not in as wide circulation, so people passed papers from household to household. The newspapers always contained blank pages at the end so that each reader could add a bit of local news that was unknown when the paper was printed. (Incidentally, it was not uncommon for a gentleman suitor to bring a newspaper to a woman's family as a gift so they could read about the latest Native American conflicts)
Yeah, but she's had a lot of problems. I don't think subjecting her to the rigors of filming a full length movie would be a good idea.
"...having sex. Their coupling is beautiful, much in the same way that the coupling of Firefox and your web browser is also beautiful."
Don't forget about how much more true to life 2001 was. For example, no sound in space. Not a lot of movies do that, probably because it is hard to pull off and still make for a good watch. Kubrik just nailed it and made it enjoyable. It had a certain beauty to it.
Yes, yes, delicious. At least two million United Statesians have died, our economy is in shambles. But you know what? It was worth it because Sony got in trouble.
I have been at work; otherwise, I would have responded sooner. I was not in the same lane as the truck. It shot diagonally at me as I was making a legal pass on the left.
That reminds me of those people with large flat bed trucks. When they have been hauling concrete blocks or gravel, there are always some small pieces left over when they drop off the load. These trucks frequently have a sign saying they are not responsible of gravel comes off the truck and hits your windshield. It's total BS. It would be like walking around in any situation with a sign saying you are not responsible for your own carelessness or malicious action.
Oh, I'm sure it will be eclipsed by whatever the next fad is, perhaps perhaps some sort of trampoline shoe.
I agree with you on how puritanical we have gotten about anything remotely sexual, but I think the reason we prefer to evacuate our bladder and bowels in designated locations is because of sanitation considerations. There was a time in Europe when being naked in any situation was considered sinful, so people stopped bathing and relieved themselves in buckets that were dumped in the street, or they just obtained relief in the street itself. Then there was this plague and someone suggested that everyone take baths, that they designate locations to heed Nature's call, and that waste products would be stored in a predetermined location. That being said, I am totally with you on those emergency situations when waiting to find a bathroom is not an option; however, do you know of anyone that was caught peeing and branded a sex offender?
It's not just credit card companies. If someone has stolen your identity, there are so many things they can do to defraud on your behalf. Then you have to convince each person or company that you did not actually initiate a transaction with them Plus, by the time you realize what is happening, it is probably because a collection agency is calling, and they hear "I don't owe this money" all day long. On top of that, your credit report can be ruined by this stuff and it is quite difficult to change that. It used to be you could not even get a copy of the thing. On your comment about credit card company motivation, I think statistically, they hit more than they miss. So, they are willing to bear the brunt of whatever fraud may happen. They are playing the odds that most of the people they deal with are honest quite willing to indebt themselves to the credit card company. That is how these companies aquire all their riches.
"This simply begs the question of what use IQ tests are if they don't predict anything in the real world."
Steven Jay Gould wrote a great deal on the history of various methods of "mental testing" including IQ. These tests have been used to justify slavery, anti-immigration policies, and, yes, treating women as inferiors. Read more in The Mismeasurement of Man. In it, he shows the fallacy of assigning any real world meaning to these tests.
"there is evidence that women utilise their (lesser!) talents better than men."
That is a common cop out to the fact that these results are likely meaningless. It is easy to dismiss any evidence to the contrary to the women-are-inferior hypothesis with such assertions. I would wager this guy "knew" in his mind what he wanted the outcome to be before he starting his study.
...to be the guy that has to tell the croc that I gave her AIDS. If you think people react badly to that, imagine how the croc would react. They call their lawyers for everything, and crocodile lawyers are known to be quite talented when it comes to tort law.
You sure it wasn't a Navy pilot who ejected from his jet, parachuted into the forest, got branches caught in his helmet in a configuration resembling antlers, and shot by a hunter (you) with wall-eye vision.
Ahem...there's at least two.
With the changes he made in digitzing the first three, some might argue that those are three new movies counting as the seventh, eighth, and ninth.
...said the guy who frequently posts on Slashdot.
There's one thing we must consider. Let's give them full benefit of the doubt now. They are aggregating this information for the most non-evil purposes that exist. The problem is, what if the Google culture changes five or ten years from now. What if somehow the founders are forced out and the Google is run by people with nefarious intentions. Worse, what if Google corp. falls on hard times, gets desperate, and sees selling information as a quick fix when they are in a pickle. That would be my big worry.
The "Ted Phillips" corollary: as an online discussion's length approaches its upper bound L (as the probability P of someone making a comparison to Hitler, Nazis, or Nazism approaches 1), there exists a positive number, e (epsilon), such that that probability, p, of comparison to a non-Nazi brutal historical reference is bounded in the following manner: P*(L/(L+e-1)) < p < P*(L/(L+e)).
I can legally and hassle-free[*] listen to just about anything ever recorded.
Except for Dave Matthews, The Beatles, etc. I use Rhapsody and I do love it, but it has some BIG holes in it. I hope they are able to shore up licensing for these holes soon. Then I will be happy.
What exactly is a perfect pair of rollerskates?
Natalie Portman, Hayden Christiansen, and Samuel Jackson are the biggest names in Hollywood? Oh, you must mean Jimmy Smits. I understand your point about casting known actors, but these are nowhere near the biggest names.
If the escape velocity of a black hole is the speed of light, no constant force can get you to that velocity. I believe that part of this relativity business tells us that as an object approaches the speed of light, the energy required to make that object move a little faster goes to infinity. So, you could never actually hit the speed of light because it would take an infinite amount of energy to push you past a certain velocity. Physicists, have I explained it accurately?
I'm not sure where you bank at, but where I bank, CASH is available immediately. Checks take 2-3 days to be available.
Aha, but what if tiger = 2!