I think he's changed his mind three or four times on this one.
If he's finally remembered how to make a good movie, he could start by re-writing and re-shooting the first two. Then he can digitally remove all that crap he added to the originals.
Then maybe we can start talking about making whole new movies.
Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans, this time armed with Gamma-ray weapons. It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known.
"Not really. The internet hunting takes place on private grounds nowhere near populated areas, so it's safe. The concern is really the morality of it."
Eh? How could you possibly know this? Do you have a map of every internet hunting site? Do you better yet have a map of every future internet hunting site?
And fill me in about this device you have that lets you read the minds of the legislators who voted for this bill. That could come in handy some day.
That's a nice idea, but even totally unrestricted deer hunting wouldn't be enough to keep deer populations down significantly, and in many (most?) of the habitats where deer are found (ie suburbs) hunting is not feasible.
The only thing that can keep deer populations down are natural predators, but as you mention, nobody likes wolves or mountain lions.
That reminds me... I have this feeling... I can't quite put my finger on it... I keep repeating this question, over and over in my mind... What is the Matrix? What is the Matrix?
"Bush is from Texas. That's more West than South."
More west than south? That's absurdity in it's purest form. Look at a map. Texas is halfway through the country from east-west (so it's not really west at all) and is pretty much as south as it gets.
You're confused by the name. "The South" is a cultural shorthand, not really a geographical region. "The South" isn't really the South at all, it's really more precisely in the Southeast.
Anyway, this cultural "south" seems to hold a great deal in common demographically with Kansas, and Texas.
As Mel Brooks put it,
"You've got to remember, that these are just simple farmers, these are people of the land. The common clay of the new west. You know . . . morons."
Which is the whole purpose of judicial discretion.
Oh, excuse me, which was the whole purpose of judicial discretion. Until we had no choice but to stop the arrogant, out-of-control judiciary from thwarting the will of the people...
All this does is create an environment where you can assume that bad reviews are probably objective, and that good reviews are quite possibly just advertising.
What makes you think they won't shill people out to give bad reviews to competitor's products?
In any event, while it may make you trust reviews less, the average person is never going to notice the difference.
The thing is we should be teaching reasoning skills and critical thinking.
We spend too much time in school learning things that are not of optimal importance.
Advanced abstract mathematics -- sorry guys, I and 99% of the people who took trig and calc will never need it in life. Accounting and statistics I could actually use in my life.
Literary analysis -- No one has ever needed this is in real life. Decent writing skills and rhetoric and maybe even public speaking are important, but it seems like at least 85% of the English classes I took were spent discussing metaphors in classic literature. Needless to say I have never needed to do this outside of an English class.
Civics -- we needed more of this. What little I had to study in my one government class I have probably used almost every day in understanding national events. Also I wish I had learned about the interesting properties of governments other than my own like a parliamentary system, which I still find baffling but am convinced cannot by definition be any worse than our current system.
Science -- should be almost entirely on the methodology of science and scientific reasoning, rather than any specific facts that it reveals. What is science and what isn't? Being able to answer this question is more important than knowing how electron valency works or how alleles are passed on. I learned those things at one point and quickly forgot them, but how to use science generally everybody needs daily.
More evidence that they couldn't be literal days is that God lined up all the different species of animal on Earth so that Adam could name them. Given that there are actually millions of different species of animal on Earth (a fact the Bible's writers would not have known) there is no way it could have taken a literal day to do this.
I think it's lame that the 2 hit new features are shameless ripoffs of existing shareware apps. Dashboard is to Konfabulator as Spotlight is to Launchbar. They may have some improvement over the original, but who could say with a straight face that they didn't get the idea from these shareware developers? Right down to Dashboard apps being called "Widgets", just like in Konfabulator. Was it really that hard to think up their own name for them? If they're creative enough to come up with the best OS around, can't they at least come up with their own name for them? Bill Gates at least called his version of the trash can the "recycle bin". And original ideas are like Kryptonite to him.
Second, the WSJ reviewer notes occasionally odd slowdowns in his tests. What's happening is that he's run out of RAM and that's disk paging he's discovered. Which makes me wonder whether how well I can run Tiger. I have 768MB of RAM, a respectable amount, and running Safari and iTunes at the same time is easily enough to eat it all up, sending me to annoying disk-paging territory. Apple's apps are so fast because they gobble up as much RAM as they can. I switched away from Safari and iTunes, and I haven't had the problem since. How much RAM do you think Dashboard going to need?
There, there's your critical rant. Of course I am still going to buy the damn thing.
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That's true because there isn't a shortage of people needed to produce and direct.
Society needs millions of engineers, not millions of directors.
I think he's changed his mind three or four times on this one.
If he's finally remembered how to make a good movie, he could start by re-writing and re-shooting the first two. Then he can digitally remove all that crap he added to the originals.
Then maybe we can start talking about making whole new movies.
I was going to read your post but then couldn't finish on account of my ADHD.
Yea but I hear ASP.NETberger's is a major improvement
We must invade NOW.
Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans, this time armed with Gamma-ray weapons. It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known.
Next you'll be telling me that you can't smoke in ANY vacuum.
"As a sidenote, dickwads with anything are a problem."
Dickwads with guns are nothing compared to dickwads with political power.
"Not really. The internet hunting takes place on private grounds nowhere near populated areas, so it's safe. The concern is really the morality of it."
Eh? How could you possibly know this? Do you have a map of every internet hunting site? Do you better yet have a map of every future internet hunting site?
And fill me in about this device you have that lets you read the minds of the legislators who voted for this bill. That could come in handy some day.
That's a nice idea, but even totally unrestricted deer hunting wouldn't be enough to keep deer populations down significantly, and in many (most?) of the habitats where deer are found (ie suburbs) hunting is not feasible.
The only thing that can keep deer populations down are natural predators, but as you mention, nobody likes wolves or mountain lions.
That reminds me... I have this feeling... I can't quite put my finger on it... I keep repeating this question, over and over in my mind... What is the Matrix? What is the Matrix?
"Bush is from Texas. That's more West than South."
More west than south? That's absurdity in it's purest form. Look at a map. Texas is halfway through the country from east-west (so it's not really west at all) and is pretty much as south as it gets.
You're confused by the name. "The South" is a cultural shorthand, not really a geographical region. "The South" isn't really the South at all, it's really more precisely in the Southeast.
Anyway, this cultural "south" seems to hold a great deal in common demographically with Kansas, and Texas.
As Mel Brooks put it,
"You've got to remember, that these are just simple farmers, these are people of the land. The common clay of the new west. You know . . . morons."
Oh yeah, well what do you think Steve Jobs was smoking?
No, seriously, what was Steve Jobs smoking? I gotta get me some of that stuff.
It wasn't just geeks, it included most of the most popular political blogs as well.
Which is the whole purpose of judicial discretion.
Oh, excuse me, which was the whole purpose of judicial discretion. Until we had no choice but to stop the arrogant, out-of-control judiciary from thwarting the will of the people...
Which is why this bill will be called the USA LIBERTY Act. You aren't against something called the USA LIBERTY Act, are you?
All this does is create an environment where you can assume that bad reviews are probably objective, and that good reviews are quite possibly just advertising.
What makes you think they won't shill people out to give bad reviews to competitor's products?
In any event, while it may make you trust reviews less, the average person is never going to notice the difference.
Oh, how many gmail invites did you request or give out via your blog?
Just an observation that most bloggers I know or read were ingeniously suckered into giving gmail free advertising.
The thing is we should be teaching reasoning skills and critical thinking.
We spend too much time in school learning things that are not of optimal importance.
Advanced abstract mathematics -- sorry guys, I and 99% of the people who took trig and calc will never need it in life. Accounting and statistics I could actually use in my life.
Literary analysis -- No one has ever needed this is in real life. Decent writing skills and rhetoric and maybe even public speaking are important, but it seems like at least 85% of the English classes I took were spent discussing metaphors in classic literature. Needless to say I have never needed to do this outside of an English class.
Civics -- we needed more of this. What little I had to study in my one government class I have probably used almost every day in understanding national events. Also I wish I had learned about the interesting properties of governments other than my own like a parliamentary system, which I still find baffling but am convinced cannot by definition be any worse than our current system.
Science -- should be almost entirely on the methodology of science and scientific reasoning, rather than any specific facts that it reveals. What is science and what isn't? Being able to answer this question is more important than knowing how electron valency works or how alleles are passed on. I learned those things at one point and quickly forgot them, but how to use science generally everybody needs daily.
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More evidence that they couldn't be literal days is that God lined up all the different species of animal on Earth so that Adam could name them. Given that there are actually millions of different species of animal on Earth (a fact the Bible's writers would not have known) there is no way it could have taken a literal day to do this.
I wonder how you can camoflage a 2,000 foot tower
Where on Earth do you live that you have cell phone towers that are more than 1/3 of a mile tall?
Don't forget Dell, Jobs, Ballmer... also drop-outs
....with middle-of-the-road hardware (dual 1 GHz G4).
Oh heck
How do you know it's not black with orange stripes?
OK, I'll bite.
I think it's lame that the 2 hit new features are shameless ripoffs of existing shareware apps. Dashboard is to Konfabulator as Spotlight is to Launchbar. They may have some improvement over the original, but who could say with a straight face that they didn't get the idea from these shareware developers? Right down to Dashboard apps being called "Widgets", just like in Konfabulator. Was it really that hard to think up their own name for them? If they're creative enough to come up with the best OS around, can't they at least come up with their own name for them? Bill Gates at least called his version of the trash can the "recycle bin". And original ideas are like Kryptonite to him.
Second, the WSJ reviewer notes occasionally odd slowdowns in his tests. What's happening is that he's run out of RAM and that's disk paging he's discovered. Which makes me wonder whether how well I can run Tiger. I have 768MB of RAM, a respectable amount, and running Safari and iTunes at the same time is easily enough to eat it all up, sending me to annoying disk-paging territory. Apple's apps are so fast because they gobble up as much RAM as they can. I switched away from Safari and iTunes, and I haven't had the problem since. How much RAM do you think Dashboard going to need?
There, there's your critical rant. Of course I am still going to buy the damn thing.