You forgot one step before the invasion. We create Native Martians and sign treaties with them. Then we invade Mars. We can call it New America or America II.
Hesh: then i'll stay human
Sparks: don't expect any mercy during the great robot wars
Hesh: yeah, well have fun on the robot reservations, suckers! we're not gonna honor those bogus treaties!
--pause--
Sparks: he's right.. they will screw us.
Marco: listen! its time to get serious.
Captain Murphy: yeah enough of this talk, lets kill humans!
Okay, I don't think that other post that everyone was talking about was anti-semitic, but this one certainly is. And it was modded insightful. That's just sad.
That said, I do believe we (the US) do prop up Israel. I don't understand how anyone could think different. A Jewish state in the midst of a bunch of majority Muslim states? C'mon now. It seems to suit the west to create instability by putting it there and playing the Jews against the Muslims. If you look back, there were times when they lived side by side with no problems
If you build it, somebody with a small penis will buy it.
Does this mean porn stars such as Long Dong Silver and Ron Jeremy have a 5" black and white televisions that only pick up one station that broadcasts in Latvian?
This is a kind of like a movie I once saw. Did you ever see that movie, The Thirteenth Floor or something of that effect? It was about people living in world generated by software who figure out somehow they are in this world, and have themselves created a world on a computer in their world. I did not like this movie. I would have been more angry about seeing it, but then I saw something shiny on the ground and got distracted.
I did not mean to imply that the constitution did address corporate rights, only that it is imperfect like the corporate system. I only meant to make an analogy.
That is true accept a large enough fine will "kill" the corporation. One of the reasons corporations are considered individuals is to shield the owners from financial risk and some legal risk. It sets up situations in which people may take risks and start companies that might not be started selling products that investors might not be willing to throw money towards otherwise. Unfortunately, much like the patent/intellectual property system in the US which is a favorite/. topic, this corporation system brings flaws to the table. However, some of the framers of the constitution recognized that it was itself a flawed system, but it was the best flawed system out there. Still is IMHO. I am not saying the corp. system is also the best out there, only that any system has its flaws.
In this case, it seems investors feel that the risk of throwing money towards a mysterious machine outweighs the chance that it exists. Corps like Infinium could not exist without such people, whoever they are.
Well, it actually appears that he was writing "J. Kaplan", but that does not explain all the u's. Maybe it's not a bunch of u's but a really large 'n' at the end of his name. I remember once there a news case about a man sentenced to death row who appealed because the judge put a smiley face in one of the o's in his name. The arguement was that the levity was inappropriate under the circumstances and therefore, the sentence should be commuted to life. The appeal failed. The judge's explanation was that he had always done it and how it had something to do with faith in God or something of that effect. I don't have a source to site on this story as it has been a long time since I read it (long time as in pre-me-having-internet)
As a statistician, he should be avoiding Excel anyway due to its known innacuracies in calculations.
I was responding to this in the sense that the calculation issue was not a cause for concern with Excel. I am sure switching would be better for a number of other reasons.
Though I agree with you, I think Charter and others may be looking into the future. Sure, bandwidth hogs are a pest, but imagine if RIAA or someone else could just subpoena information from you, as a company.
I think what we overlook is that a tiny percentage of Window's users probably knows what is going down with MS buying Giant or that Windows has many problems which are amenable to spy/malware distributors. To most, it will look like MS providing help against the evil spyware people (I am not saying they aren't bad) against which they are otherwise powerless.
A PhD statistician I know stores much of has data in excel spreadsheets and then imports it into SAS when necessary. The whole company upgraded to Office XP, and now he has trouble opening some of those spreadsheets. Very annoying.
There are winners and losers, period. Get it out of peoples minds that "everyone's a winner" and you'll start to see things turn back.
I do agree with the "everyone's a winner" comment simply because that is not how the world works. However, I don't believe it is quite so black and white. I think the message that kids need to get is that there will be things at which they excel and things at which they are horrible. It's not so much about being a 'winner' or a 'loser' as it is about finding the things at which they do accel. Self-acceptance is the name of the game.
Just like everyone else, I have read about this system and laughed at all the jokes we have had at its expense. I have to ask, though, what benefit does this company get out of constantly hyping this seemingly nonexistant product? Is it that they had some idea that they boasted about before realizing it's not quite so easy to just build a new gaming system, or is it that this is some bizarre, ass-backwards means of getting publicity for future products? I agree, though, with an above poster. The fun seems to be in watching this company constantly hype a phantom product (pun most definitely intended) and making jokes about it.
Yes, but it is the company's prerogative. It may be nitpicking and may shift focus from those who you speak of, but it is not a violation of anyone's rights.
I think the Ben Stein show would still be on if, perhaps, it was a bit more extreme. Instead of "Win Ben Stein's Money" it should have been "Win Ben Stein's Life". Various aspects of his life are up for grabs. For Example:
"Ok the following question is for $200 and Thursday night with my wife..." The questions would be just as intellectual; the stakes would just be higher. People would watch that!
My family is of Dutch descent, and one thing I have always observed is that they are, as a rule, against virus protection. I think it is some sort of cultural thing. It may be why so many of us have herpes...
Did anyone ever see that episode of Just Shoot Me where George Segal threatens to make the cover story of the next month's magazine "Ten tips for sexy nudey sex sex" just to piss off some feminists? This reminds me of that for some reason.
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You forgot one step before the invasion. We create Native Martians and sign treaties with them. Then we invade Mars. We can call it New America or America II.
Man, what the hell are you doing with your VHS cassettes? Are you actually making love to the VCR while the porn is playing?
Hesh: then i'll stay human .. they will screw us.
Sparks: don't expect any mercy during the great robot wars
Hesh: yeah, well have fun on the robot reservations, suckers! we're not gonna honor those bogus treaties!
--pause--
Sparks: he's right
Marco: listen! its time to get serious.
Captain Murphy: yeah enough of this talk, lets kill humans!
Okay, I don't think that other post that everyone was talking about was anti-semitic, but this one certainly is. And it was modded insightful. That's just sad.
That said, I do believe we (the US) do prop up Israel. I don't understand how anyone could think different. A Jewish state in the midst of a bunch of majority Muslim states? C'mon now. It seems to suit the west to create instability by putting it there and playing the Jews against the Muslims. If you look back, there were times when they lived side by side with no problems
But simply using p2p should not be illegal. There are legitimate uses for it. Your argument is like saying crack houses are bad, so let's ban houses.
If you build it, somebody with a small penis will buy it.
Does this mean porn stars such as Long Dong Silver and Ron Jeremy have a 5" black and white televisions that only pick up one station that broadcasts in Latvian?
This is a kind of like a movie I once saw. Did you ever see that movie, The Thirteenth Floor or something of that effect? It was about people living in world generated by software who figure out somehow they are in this world, and have themselves created a world on a computer in their world. I did not like this movie. I would have been more angry about seeing it, but then I saw something shiny on the ground and got distracted.
I did not mean to imply that the constitution did address corporate rights, only that it is imperfect like the corporate system. I only meant to make an analogy.
That is true accept a large enough fine will "kill" the corporation. One of the reasons corporations are considered individuals is to shield the owners from financial risk and some legal risk. It sets up situations in which people may take risks and start companies that might not be started selling products that investors might not be willing to throw money towards otherwise. Unfortunately, much like the patent/intellectual property system in the US which is a favorite /. topic, this corporation system brings flaws to the table. However, some of the framers of the constitution recognized that it was itself a flawed system, but it was the best flawed system out there. Still is IMHO. I am not saying the corp. system is also the best out there, only that any system has its flaws.
In this case, it seems investors feel that the risk of throwing money towards a mysterious machine outweighs the chance that it exists. Corps like Infinium could not exist without such people, whoever they are.
Well, it actually appears that he was writing "J. Kaplan", but that does not explain all the u's. Maybe it's not a bunch of u's but a really large 'n' at the end of his name. I remember once there a news case about a man sentenced to death row who appealed because the judge put a smiley face in one of the o's in his name. The arguement was that the levity was inappropriate under the circumstances and therefore, the sentence should be commuted to life. The appeal failed. The judge's explanation was that he had always done it and how it had something to do with faith in God or something of that effect. I don't have a source to site on this story as it has been a long time since I read it (long time as in pre-me-having-internet)
As a statistician, he should be avoiding Excel anyway due to its known innacuracies in calculations.
I was responding to this in the sense that the calculation issue was not a cause for concern with Excel. I am sure switching would be better for a number of other reasons.
Though I agree with you, I think Charter and others may be looking into the future. Sure, bandwidth hogs are a pest, but imagine if RIAA or someone else could just subpoena information from you, as a company.
I think what we overlook is that a tiny percentage of Window's users probably knows what is going down with MS buying Giant or that Windows has many problems which are amenable to spy/malware distributors. To most, it will look like MS providing help against the evil spyware people (I am not saying they aren't bad) against which they are otherwise powerless.
That's why you should get a multi-gig harddrive with it!
He does not actually use it for calculating, only for holding the raw data until it is imported. Do these inaccuracies persist in just storing data?
A PhD statistician I know stores much of has data in excel spreadsheets and then imports it into SAS when necessary. The whole company upgraded to Office XP, and now he has trouble opening some of those spreadsheets. Very annoying.
There are winners and losers, period. Get it out of peoples minds that "everyone's a winner" and you'll start to see things turn back.
I do agree with the "everyone's a winner" comment simply because that is not how the world works. However, I don't believe it is quite so black and white. I think the message that kids need to get is that there will be things at which they excel and things at which they are horrible. It's not so much about being a 'winner' or a 'loser' as it is about finding the things at which they do accel. Self-acceptance is the name of the game.
I think Chief Wiggum put it best when he asked Ralph, "What is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery?"
Obligatory Jack Handey Reference:
I've always been afraid of flowers. I'm not sure why, but I think it may go back to when I was a child in the garden and a flower killed my father.
Just like everyone else, I have read about this system and laughed at all the jokes we have had at its expense. I have to ask, though, what benefit does this company get out of constantly hyping this seemingly nonexistant product? Is it that they had some idea that they boasted about before realizing it's not quite so easy to just build a new gaming system, or is it that this is some bizarre, ass-backwards means of getting publicity for future products? I agree, though, with an above poster. The fun seems to be in watching this company constantly hype a phantom product (pun most definitely intended) and making jokes about it.
Yes, but it is the company's prerogative. It may be nitpicking and may shift focus from those who you speak of, but it is not a violation of anyone's rights.
I think the Ben Stein show would still be on if, perhaps, it was a bit more extreme. Instead of "Win Ben Stein's Money" it should have been "Win Ben Stein's Life". Various aspects of his life are up for grabs. For Example: "Ok the following question is for $200 and Thursday night with my wife..." The questions would be just as intellectual; the stakes would just be higher. People would watch that!
My family is of Dutch descent, and one thing I have always observed is that they are, as a rule, against virus protection. I think it is some sort of cultural thing. It may be why so many of us have herpes...
I think the use of cromulent always embiggens a discussion. Don't you?
Did anyone ever see that episode of Just Shoot Me where George Segal threatens to make the cover story of the next month's magazine "Ten tips for sexy nudey sex sex" just to piss off some feminists? This reminds me of that for some reason.