> > The heart of the matter is that when Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity lie about something, no one is yet able to mod them down.
> That is not only an amazing generalization but also fundamentally incorrect. Both of the people you mention are fundamentally pushers of opinion. There is very little in terms of opinion which meets the definition of a lie.
If you call something an opinion can it also not be a lie? Can I preface a statement with a disclaimer that it's an opinion and then make up whatever I want, could I then not be capable of lying?
I refer you to the Media Matters pages for Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity:
Here's one example: Bill O'Reilly said that Bush did not oppose the creation of the 9/11 comission, which he quite unambiguously did oppose. So, since Bill O'Reilly is "fundamentally a pusher of opinion" is this not a lie?
Part of Gates' argument is that in China prior to market reform, musicians were not paid.
I think there's a key difference here.
In old-school China, artists were paid, but they were not paid for (copies of) their works. They were just paid for being artists. That's the premise of the argument, not that they weren't paid at all.
[OMG I can't believe I just defended Bill Gates.../me starts compulsive washing ]
It seems to me that the Gnome applet uses the update network
The gnome applet uses the RHAT update network to run updates if you click, but otherwise checks to see if you're up-to-date using RPM. So, if you use yum it will still correctly tell you whether you're software is up to date or not.
Why should my survivors get access to stuff in my virtual world after I die if I never gave them any rights to it while I was alive?
Because everything you own gets passed to your inheritors automatically. If you don't like it, then have a will created accordingly. Nothing that complicated about this...
It's not just to please Bush, it only seems that way, because it's just to please those whom Bush does everything just to please. Bush is not the cause and this the effect -- both are the joint effects of a common cause.
Especially since the coverage in my house is shitty. This way, cell providers don't need to worry about that, since people will be able to augment their own coverage in their own homes (they'll just have to worry about making ends meet...)
Yup, We've seen this before. It's not the same article exactly, but both had obviously been haplessly scraped out of the same press release. Same numbers, same quotes. Nothing to see here...
Needless to say it's not uncommon for a car's tires to have travelled a distance equal to the circumference of the Earth... these rovers have travelled but a few miles on the Martian surface.
I agree. The first thing Steve did after returning to Apple, literally about a week after he came back, was to begin the iMac project.
The rationale? He said that Apple had forgotten the entry-level market. And as we all know he got it exactly right and the iMac was a huge success and the whole thing just might have saved Apple from oblivion.
Well, guess what? Apple has forgotten the entry-level market again. The iMac has evolved into a midrange machine with that nice 20" LCD built in, and the G5 is going at $1750 on the lower end. So, this leaves a big opening for Apple to go after this market segment again.
Another important and horrifying difference between this and 9/11 was that there was LIVE VIDEO of the whole thing as it occured. Everyone in the world could helplessly watch the whole thing unfolding as it was actually happening.
I propose we come up a term for people's competency in using Google akin to reading literacy. So, if you know how to use Google you are "Google literate", if you don't know you're "Google illiterate" and if you know how but simply choose not to you are "Google aliterate", etc.
So, we could cosponsor Google literacy drives to combat Google illiteracy in the population, and so forth.
Asteroids are the least of our problems. At least we can all agree the problem even exists, and put objective probabilities and costs on it. Least of all, there is no one out there that I can think of who could profit from its denial until it's too late.
Why does Solaris have to be seen as a "threat"? A threat to whom, exactly?
I don't understand. It still baffles me whenever this kind of mentality gurgles up, like when Jimmy Wales said that Britannica would be "crushed out of existence" as if that should be one of Wikipedia's goals. What, is Britannica somehow a net negative on the world?
This only accounts for private costs. Costs to the person using it. It does not account for the additional external social costs that the fossil fuel consumer imposes on everyone else (pollution, money funneled into the Middle East, resulting wars, etc.).
While it's nice that the private cost of fossil fuels is now exceeding the private benefit, the social cost of fossil fuels surpassed the social benefit of fossil fuels a long time ago.
conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and conspiracy to traffic in a device that circumvents technological protection measures
This is the most mindblowing thing I've read all day.
Seriously though, since people post article texts in comments, couldn't all of us slashdot users be accused committing both these two "crimes"? Or, all us of computer users being accused of "conspiracy to traffic in a device that circumvents technological protection measures"..?
I'm just glad the government is keeping the already-wealthy safe from fair use, or even the future possibility of fair use. Salut!
It wouldn't surprise me at all if KDE and GNOME were to one day have evolved into warring political parties.
Look at the eerie similarities:
# inexplicable, irrational, vitriolic loathing of each other # the end user can't really tell any difference between them
Yup, sounds like two dominant political parties to me. All we need now is a winner-takes-all voting system and game theory ensures they'll be entrenched forever.
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> That is not only an amazing generalization but also fundamentally incorrect. Both of the people you mention are fundamentally pushers of opinion. There is very little in terms of opinion which meets the definition of a lie.
If you call something an opinion can it also not be a lie? Can I preface a statement with a disclaimer that it's an opinion and then make up whatever I want, could I then not be capable of lying?
I refer you to the Media Matters pages for Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity:
Sean Hannity
Bill O'Reilly.
Here's one example: Bill O'Reilly said that Bush did not oppose the creation of the 9/11 comission, which he quite unambiguously did oppose. So, since Bill O'Reilly is "fundamentally a pusher of opinion" is this not a lie?
the fact that tens of millions of Iraqis are tasting freedom for the first time.
Freedom tastes a lot like bombs, apparently.
Part of Gates' argument is that in China prior to market reform, musicians were not paid.
/me starts compulsive washing ]
I think there's a key difference here.
In old-school China, artists were paid, but they were not paid for (copies of) their works. They were just paid for being artists. That's the premise of the argument, not that they weren't paid at all.
[OMG I can't believe I just defended Bill Gates...
It seems to me that the Gnome applet uses the update network
The gnome applet uses the RHAT update network to run updates if you click, but otherwise checks to see if you're up-to-date using RPM. So, if you use yum it will still correctly tell you whether you're software is up to date or not.
Why should my survivors get access to stuff in my virtual world after I die if I never gave them any rights to it while I was alive?
Because everything you own gets passed to your inheritors automatically. If you don't like it, then have a will created accordingly. Nothing that complicated about this...
It's not just to please Bush, it only seems that way, because it's just to please those whom Bush does everything just to please. Bush is not the cause and this the effect -- both are the joint effects of a common cause.
Our new criminalizing and imprisoning overlords?
The founding fathers bought out newspapers for the sole purpose of smearing one another. This is nothing new.
According to Goedels' Incompleteness Theoreom, every logic must have at least some holes
Especially since the coverage in my house is shitty. This way, cell providers don't need to worry about that, since people will be able to augment their own coverage in their own homes (they'll just have to worry about making ends meet...)
Yup, We've seen this before. It's not the same article exactly, but both had obviously been haplessly scraped out of the same press release. Same numbers, same quotes. Nothing to see here...
Needless to say it's not uncommon for a car's tires to have travelled a distance equal to the circumference of the Earth... these rovers have travelled but a few miles on the Martian surface.
Old Soviet ICBMs as used as boosters for the Soyuz spacecraft that serve the Intn'l Space Station right now.
I agree. The first thing Steve did after returning to Apple, literally about a week after he came back, was to begin the iMac project.
The rationale? He said that Apple had forgotten the entry-level market. And as we all know he got it exactly right and the iMac was a huge success and the whole thing just might have saved Apple from oblivion.
Well, guess what? Apple has forgotten the entry-level market again. The iMac has evolved into a midrange machine with that nice 20" LCD built in, and the G5 is going at $1750 on the lower end. So, this leaves a big opening for Apple to go after this market segment again.
Viola?
I think you mean Voila!, a French interjection. A viola is a stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin.
Though Viola! Less Spam! does have a certain ring to it.
Another important and horrifying difference between this and 9/11 was that there was LIVE VIDEO of the whole thing as it occured. Everyone in the world could helplessly watch the whole thing unfolding as it was actually happening.
Nope, iPod's got that already. With a pricey gadget from Belkin, though...
I propose we come up a term for people's competency in using Google akin to reading literacy. So, if you know how to use Google you are "Google literate", if you don't know you're "Google illiterate" and if you know how but simply choose not to you are "Google aliterate", etc.
So, we could cosponsor Google literacy drives to combat Google illiteracy in the population, and so forth.
Asteroids are the least of our problems. At least we can all agree the problem even exists, and put objective probabilities and costs on it. Least of all, there is no one out there that I can think of who could profit from its denial until it's too late.
Why does Solaris have to be seen as a "threat"? A threat to whom, exactly?
I don't understand. It still baffles me whenever this kind of mentality gurgles up, like when Jimmy Wales said that Britannica would be "crushed out of existence" as if that should be one of Wikipedia's goals. What, is Britannica somehow a net negative on the world?
Come on, get a grip.
Maybe they just called it "Access-like" because it was still unreliable and buggy.
He's a troll who succeeded in getting a entire slashdot story about him.
This only accounts for private costs. Costs to the person using it. It does not account for the additional external social costs that the fossil fuel consumer imposes on everyone else (pollution, money funneled into the Middle East, resulting wars, etc.).
While it's nice that the private cost of fossil fuels is now exceeding the private benefit, the social cost of fossil fuels surpassed the social benefit of fossil fuels a long time ago.
conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and conspiracy to traffic in a device that circumvents technological protection measures
This is the most mindblowing thing I've read all day.
Seriously though, since people post article texts in comments, couldn't all of us slashdot users be accused committing both these two "crimes"? Or, all us of computer users being accused of "conspiracy to traffic in a device that circumvents technological protection measures"..?
I'm just glad the government is keeping the already-wealthy safe from fair use, or even the future possibility of fair use. Salut!
It wouldn't surprise me at all if KDE and GNOME were to one day have evolved into warring political parties.
Look at the eerie similarities:
# inexplicable, irrational, vitriolic loathing of each other
# the end user can't really tell any difference between them
Yup, sounds like two dominant political parties to me. All we need now is a winner-takes-all voting system and game theory ensures they'll be entrenched forever.