I grew in up in a very socially religious country. We had prayer 3 times a a day in a government run High School for God's sake
I'm betting you lived in a country that had an official state religion.
This brings up a very good point. Since your country had a state religion, I would expect that your public schools would have sponsored prayer. Here in the USA, we don't have a state religion (well not officially), so we don't (and shouldn't) have school-sponsored prayer. Likewise, our schools shouldn't have any sort of sponsored religious anything.
As far as ID/creationism v. evolution is concerned, we can't disprove ID, so I think it should be given time as an "alternate theory". The teacher should let the class know we are about 99.9% sure evolution is correct, but there are alternate theories around.
I'd say you could safely estimate 60% of those are unique with about 35% of them keeping it installed and in use. [No flames, please; I'm just guessing.]
The biggest threat to democracy is gerrymandering. It can be proven that a party can win 75% of the seats with 25% of the total vote with sufficiently gerrymandered districts.
Luckily some well-meaning citizens in my state of Ohio are trying to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot to create a non-partisan board that is in charge of redistricting every ten years. Supposedly, the board will allow the people to submit plans and will decide which plan is the most fair.
Hire intelligent and motivated employees, pay them well, train them well, and encourage them to know your customers on a first name basis. Have them get to know the likes and dislikes of your customers, and greet each one by name witha cheery "Hello!"
Not bad.
Unfortunately, most employees don't know about the customers, don't care what they like, aren't cheery, and aren't well trained or motivated because they aren't paid well.
What's sad is that whenever anybody says "judicial activism", you immediately salivate at the bell and start pounding the table about those DAMN RIGHT WINGERS
Nowhere in my post do I talk about "DAMN RIGHT WINGERS". If you assumed that, then I'm sorry.
But quite seriously, most people on the "right" care very much about civil liberties.
I agree. Many conservatives do. Neo-cons? Not so much.
Partisanism rots your brain, kid. That's true regardless of which party you belong to.
I agree again. I'm an independent (after being pseudo-affiliated with the Green Party for a few years). I voted for Badnarik (in Ohio no less!) for President and an independent for Senator.
I suggest you quit jumping to conclusions before flaming people; it may come back to haunt you.
This makes a certain sense. Law enforcement, both police and judges, must feel they are on the same side and under siege by the forces of crime. After all, that's all they see and work with every day. So just as units of soldiers bond and stand up for each other, I imagine it must be tempting for judges and police to bond, or at least feel they are both working the same job from different angles. So they are probably predisposed to think the police know what they are doing when they ask for a wire-tap. Most of the time, they are probably right.
That should never happen. The courts are theoretically independent. They are a government agency created by the legislature, but are not supposed to be on the side of anyone. They are an independent and neutral arbiter of the law (although you might not know that with the recent calls of "judical activism" when a judge doesn't judge the way someone wants them to)
When the judiciary essentially pairs up with the executive branch, you've essentially gotten the judge and the executioner on the same side. It then follows that you are no longer assumed to be innocent. If the judges and the police are "on the same side" concepts like probable cause go out the window (see police state).
My grandfather just recently stopped because (of all reasons) the only retailer that carried his preferred line of cigars stopped carrying them. Hopefully, you can have the same luck as him.
Just post a bunch of AC trolls. That'll help get rid of the edge.
If you want to be super pedantic, there is a brand of duct tape called "Duck Tape" (or something similar). Also note he capitalized the words, thereby implying a proper noun.
Well actually, do what you like best. If you cant decide, then it probably wouldn't be too hard to dual major. You may want to try working with your advisor and the dean. They may be able to come up with a "computer engineering" program if they don't have one already.
Luckily my college offers a dual CS/CEG program, in which I'm enrolled. If your school does something similar, you may be able to dual major/dual degree with only an extra quarter or 2 of work.
You pay your satellite or cable provider for the right to view the show.
But yet we still have commercials after we have paid... that doesn't make much sense.
As for the rest of your comment, it is certainly comical. Especially
If you stopped doing illegal things, the government would stop trying to come up with new laws with a big enough penalty to scare you into stopping. Is it really that hard a concept to understand?
Are we going to start leaving the advertisements in the shows when we distribute them via BT?
I wouldn't have a problem with that, and some older TV caps of some ST:DS9 episodes had the commericials in them as well.
You indirectly bring up a good point. If the networks set up episodes shows along with ads, people would most certainly be willing to download those shows. Take the ads out and we'll be willing to pay upwards of $1 an episode for one hour shows. So long as it isn't DRMed, this is guaranteed to be a great market.
I wonder if anyone will have the balls to have this challenged in the courts. As many TV shows are distributed via bittorrent, any downloader will make "it avaliable on a computer network accessible to members of the public". It seems to me that 3 years in prison for downloading/uploading a show that is shown for free is cruel and unusual.
It also reasons that if I run an FTP server and password protect it (jim:jim), then it isn't "accessible to members of the public".
I don't think there is a problem with the major intent of the bill, which is to allow people to self-censor portions of films they don't want to see. The problem is the 3 year max. prison sentence for distributing any commercial work before its official release date.
This kind of techinque to get laws passed doesn't go over well with most of us. Its like those gun legislation bills that start out quite good, but then are amended to death with loads of pork and turn in to shit legislation.
I don't have a problem with dupes when they encourage debate/discussion regarding a different area of the story, but this is a complete repost, except Bush has signed the bill now.
That is exactly the problem. Those of us who are willing to work simply to better ourselves and society cannot do it because our current economic system is incompatable with that ideal.
If everyone worked simply to better themselves and society, my scenario would work perfectly. Its called a gift economy , and has worked well in the past.
I do know that in order to transcode MPEG2, you need at least a full GOP (group of pictures) in order. You obviously can't send frame 1 to cpu 1, frame 2 to cpu 2, etc due to P-frame and B-frame limitations. It seems to me that it might work in a distributed fashion if the program breaks the DVD at I-frames. Then you might have to worry about closed vs. open GOPs and all that jazz.
I'd see what the guys at Doom9 think before committing to anything.
Don't moderate something "redundant" just because it appears in a thread further down the page. Look at the timestamp.
Hell, I've got "redundant" set to +1. Too many mods use "redundant" as a way to silence opinions they don't like. And when it comes time to meta-mod I always leave "redundant" mods as neutral.
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is computer science a science
Of course, computer science is about studying algorithms that just so happen to be tested well on computers. That is like asking if math is a science.
I believe Dijkstra said something to the effect of:
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
I grew in up in a very socially religious country. We had prayer 3 times a a day in a government run High School for God's sake
I'm betting you lived in a country that had an official state religion.
This brings up a very good point. Since your country had a state religion, I would expect that your public schools would have sponsored prayer. Here in the USA, we don't have a state religion (well not officially), so we don't (and shouldn't) have school-sponsored prayer. Likewise, our schools shouldn't have any sort of sponsored religious anything.
As far as ID/creationism v. evolution is concerned, we can't disprove ID, so I think it should be given time as an "alternate theory". The teacher should let the class know we are about 99.9% sure evolution is correct, but there are alternate theories around.
Perhaps some of our Gentoo friends should try "emerge universe".
Hmm, I wonder how long it might take to compile all possible universes.
It depends on how many people install it and how many people have downloaded versions 1.0, 1.0.1, etc.
I don't download from there anyway. At work I use Portable Firefox, and at home I use the MOOX builds.
I'd say you could safely estimate 60% of those are unique with about 35% of them keeping it installed and in use. [No flames, please; I'm just guessing.]
Agreed.
The biggest threat to democracy is gerrymandering. It can be proven that a party can win 75% of the seats with 25% of the total vote with sufficiently gerrymandered districts.
Luckily some well-meaning citizens in my state of Ohio are trying to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot to create a non-partisan board that is in charge of redistricting every ten years. Supposedly, the board will allow the people to submit plans and will decide which plan is the most fair.
Hire intelligent and motivated employees, pay them well, train them well, and encourage them to know your customers on a first name basis. Have them get to know the likes and dislikes of your customers, and greet each one by name witha cheery "Hello!"
Not bad.
Unfortunately, most employees don't know about the customers, don't care what they like, aren't cheery, and aren't well trained or motivated because they aren't paid well.
It has something to do with a chicken and an egg.
This is gonna be fun.
What's sad is that whenever anybody says "judicial activism", you immediately salivate at the bell and start pounding the table about those DAMN RIGHT WINGERS
Nowhere in my post do I talk about "DAMN RIGHT WINGERS". If you assumed that, then I'm sorry.
But quite seriously, most people on the "right" care very much about civil liberties.
I agree. Many conservatives do. Neo-cons? Not so much.
Partisanism rots your brain, kid. That's true regardless of which party you belong to.
I agree again. I'm an independent (after being pseudo-affiliated with the Green Party for a few years). I voted for Badnarik (in Ohio no less!) for President and an independent for Senator.
I suggest you quit jumping to conclusions before flaming people; it may come back to haunt you.
The IETF restates its strongly held belief, stated at greater length in [RFC 1984]
Heh. The IETF policy on crypto is in RTF 1984. Hopefully, Orwell is laughing somewhere.
This makes a certain sense. Law enforcement, both police and judges, must feel they are on the same side and under siege by the forces of crime. After all, that's all they see and work with every day. So just as units of soldiers bond and stand up for each other, I imagine it must be tempting for judges and police to bond, or at least feel they are both working the same job from different angles. So they are probably predisposed to think the police know what they are doing when they ask for a wire-tap. Most of the time, they are probably right.
That should never happen. The courts are theoretically independent. They are a government agency created by the legislature, but are not supposed to be on the side of anyone. They are an independent and neutral arbiter of the law (although you might not know that with the recent calls of "judical activism" when a judge doesn't judge the way someone wants them to)
When the judiciary essentially pairs up with the executive branch, you've essentially gotten the judge and the executioner on the same side. It then follows that you are no longer assumed to be innocent. If the judges and the police are "on the same side" concepts like probable cause go out the window (see police state).
I also hope everything goes well.
My grandfather just recently stopped because (of all reasons) the only retailer that carried his preferred line of cigars stopped carrying them. Hopefully, you can have the same luck as him.
Just post a bunch of AC trolls. That'll help get rid of the edge.
If you want to be super pedantic, there is a brand of duct tape called "Duck Tape" (or something similar). Also note he capitalized the words, thereby implying a proper noun.
Well actually, do what you like best. If you cant decide, then it probably wouldn't be too hard to dual major. You may want to try working with your advisor and the dean. They may be able to come up with a "computer engineering" program if they don't have one already.
Luckily my college offers a dual CS/CEG program, in which I'm enrolled. If your school does something similar, you may be able to dual major/dual degree with only an extra quarter or 2 of work.
You pay your satellite or cable provider for the right to view the show.
... that doesn't make much sense.
But yet we still have commercials after we have paid
As for the rest of your comment, it is certainly comical. Especially
If you stopped doing illegal things, the government would stop trying to come up with new laws with a big enough penalty to scare you into stopping. Is it really that hard a concept to understand?
I hope you were trying to be funny.
Are we going to start leaving the advertisements in the shows when we distribute them via BT?
I wouldn't have a problem with that, and some older TV caps of some ST:DS9 episodes had the commericials in them as well.
You indirectly bring up a good point. If the networks set up episodes shows along with ads, people would most certainly be willing to download those shows. Take the ads out and we'll be willing to pay upwards of $1 an episode for one hour shows. So long as it isn't DRMed, this is guaranteed to be a great market.
Then it is news. Bush has yet to use his veto.
It has been rather safe to assume that any legislation passed by congress will be signed by the president.
So you think there is a legitimate need to distribute movies before they are released?
No. I just don't think it warrants a possible prison sentence of 3 years.
You can skip things that are offensive to you but not ads?
Ads are offensive to me; problem solved.
I wonder if anyone will have the balls to have this challenged in the courts. As many TV shows are distributed via bittorrent, any downloader will make "it avaliable on a computer network accessible to members of the public". It seems to me that 3 years in prison for downloading/uploading a show that is shown for free is cruel and unusual.
It also reasons that if I run an FTP server and password protect it (jim:jim), then it isn't "accessible to members of the public".
I don't think there is a problem with the major intent of the bill, which is to allow people to self-censor portions of films they don't want to see. The problem is the 3 year max. prison sentence for distributing any commercial work before its official release date.
This kind of techinque to get laws passed doesn't go over well with most of us. Its like those gun legislation bills that start out quite good, but then are amended to death with loads of pork and turn in to shit legislation.
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No wonder they duped it
I don't have a problem with dupes when they encourage debate/discussion regarding a different area of the story, but this is a complete repost, except Bush has signed the bill now.
Not a problem.
;-)
You start out at +4 for me.
That is exactly the problem. Those of us who are willing to work simply to better ourselves and society cannot do it because our current economic system is incompatable with that ideal.
If everyone worked simply to better themselves and society, my scenario would work perfectly. Its called a gift economy , and has worked well in the past.
I do know that in order to transcode MPEG2, you need at least a full GOP (group of pictures) in order. You obviously can't send frame 1 to cpu 1, frame 2 to cpu 2, etc due to P-frame and B-frame limitations. It seems to me that it might work in a distributed fashion if the program breaks the DVD at I-frames. Then you might have to worry about closed vs. open GOPs and all that jazz.
I'd see what the guys at Doom9 think before committing to anything.
Don't moderate something "redundant" just because it appears in a thread further down the page. Look at the timestamp.
Hell, I've got "redundant" set to +1. Too many mods use "redundant" as a way to silence opinions they don't like. And when it comes time to meta-mod I always leave "redundant" mods as neutral.