For what? I like the idea of AC, but I don't think anyone needs to post to slashdot. It's a web forum, mostly entertaining, sometimes informative. The "need" is very relative.
For this to work, there would have to be no beginning and no end. In other words, no free will.
Maybe not. Think of it this way:
You film 30 minutes of people walking down the street from two different angles using two different cameras. In view of Camera 1 (the "past" you're trying to change), you're performing some action, but in the view of Camera 2 (the "original" past), something related is happening, but you're not in the picture. If you watch the tape from either camera, you can see events you witnessed first hand, but you can't change them now - they're the tape, and recorded. But this doesn't mean you didn't have "Free will" when you were being filmed, nor does it mean you didn't have an influence on the events of both tapes.
How can that even be remotely possible? Anything and EVERYTHING (no matter how small or big of an event it is) will change SOMETHING in the future.
Sci-fi writers have had two main theories for a long time. Either you can go back in time and change things, or you can go back in time and "fulfill" the past you expireinced. Just because you have an influence on the past doesn't mean your influence didn't shape time into the way you remembered it.
Anyone who thinks any differently needs to go back to school.
Yes, because I'm sure these quantum physicists haven't spent any time in school...
That's fantastic. But anyone who knows as much about computers as you do tends not to be the problem in the first place. Those lazy about the problem are much less of an issue than those that are ignorant of the problem.
Calling them undocumented workers or another PC term is intellectually dishonest.
Yes, but calling them "illegals" is akin to calling Africian Americans "colored". Sure, their skin is a darker color than mine, so they are "colored". I wouldn't ever use the term, however. Similarly, "illegals" is descriptive, but both terms are at best impolite, and at worst outwardly racist.
The bigger problems with the Catholic Church is that it doesn't allow its priests to get married or have sex. That's biologically irresponsible, and can drive people to do things they wouldn't otherwise. There's also the unspoken/subliminal drive to move gays into the priesthood, because if you don't want to marry a woman, you might as well...
That said, the amount of child molesters who are gay is proportional to the amount who are straight. This goes for those who abuse both boys and girls. Translated, most people who sexually abuse boys are straight men.
Suppose the situation were turned around, and the local Atheism Club turned down a Boy Scout for membership because he was religious. Should the Boy Scout feel "excluded"? Of course not! It's perfectly acceptable for an organization of people to form around a shared value and to only allow in people who share that value. There's nothing dishonorable or mean about this.
I happen to run a local Atheists organization, and we welcome all comers. But if I got money from the US government, or was meeting in publically owned building, I'd have to make damn sure I was open to everyone. I can choose to exclude, but if I'm getting any public help, like the BSA does, my responabilities change.
I would personally be less supportive of them if they chose that route
You'd only be less supportive? That's pretty fucked up. Do you support the KKK for their fantastic parades, even though there's all that "other stuff"?
The BSA is at least partially supported by government money - mines and yours. They should have to live up standards that don't exclude for reasons like race, religion, and sexual preference.
It's my right when they use government subsidies, meet at public schools, and use public funds. They can do anything they like as soon as they stop all those things.
just admit that we put people in jail because they can't hurt any innocent civilians while they are in jail?
This may be true for child molesters, but it's sickening the stuff some in prisons have to put up with from other prisoners. Why should anyone behind bars be subject to the violence and rape that goes on, no matter what crime they've committed?
Incarceration IS the punishment - no one in prison deserves violence on them.
but everyone knows he's a raving Star Wars fan-boy.
While I accept he might have other motives in writing the review as he did, you have to remember that the biggest haters of Episodes 1 & 2 have all been "raving Star Wars fan-boys"
While I also disagree with the way these questions were phrased and asked, a sample set of 2500 is considered large. Popular American pollsters often poll much smaller groups (several hundred) to get the polls you see in the news, and a poll of 2000+ people would be considered extensive.
That said, those polls typically have carefully asked questions, rotating answers, and national sample sets. I didn't RTFA, but somehow I don't think the Hostway poll was conducted the same way.
Billions? Why bother? Based on my listening experience, Clearchannel and the record execs seem to have built empires on no more than three variations.
Blah, blah, blah. I wish there was an Onion article like the "Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television" one for people like you.
Guess what? Lots of music produced today is made for mass consumption. And guess what else? Even more isn't. While it might not be as popular, it's certainly available, especially online in the last ten years. Just because you're too lazy to go look for it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Hell, some people like pop music.
Past that, remember also that this is by no means a recent trend - it's existed for the entire history of pop music. As long as music's been sold for a profit, there's been someone deciding what sound to sell, and how to create the "next best thing". Your generalizations are old and tired.
Couldn't this be rephrased in a completely positive way to say: "Star Trek Enterprise is yet another Star Trek show since the original series to run a full six seasons.
Because Enterprise only ran 4 seasons, TOS ran 3 seasons, and all the others ran 7 seasons?
Most of their data content (as opposed to news articles) comes from government agencies, is in the public domain, and is just a Google search away.
That's simply not true. As someone uses Lexis-Nexis' public records and data content every day, as well as google, there's a lot of information that isn't available on the free internet. While a lot of it IS in the public domain, it's not centralized, and it's not updated, and it's not reliable. If you have some source publically and freely available, I'd love to know about it.
Speak for yourself. There's no free alternative for the ease Lexis Nexis provides, nor for their customer service (which may be too good, it seems). I use their service every day, and there literally is no where else to get much of the information their provide.
It REALLY sounds like you have no idea what information IS on nexis. it's not just a phone book and links to other public records. It's got tens of thousands of sources for public records, court documents, "person finder" information, and that's just on that side of things (Nexis has tens of thousands of other sources for news, legal sources, etc).
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Some ACs are people who need _anonymity_.
For what? I like the idea of AC, but I don't think anyone needs to post to slashdot. It's a web forum, mostly entertaining, sometimes informative. The "need" is very relative.
Here in CA, school just got out for the summer. Coincidence?
Absolutely. Do you really think a) most trolls are between ages 5-18 or b) trolls that age don't have computer access the during the school year?
For this to work, there would have to be no beginning and no end. In other words, no free will.
Maybe not. Think of it this way:
You film 30 minutes of people walking down the street from two different angles using two different cameras. In view of Camera 1 (the "past" you're trying to change), you're performing some action, but in the view of Camera 2 (the "original" past), something related is happening, but you're not in the picture. If you watch the tape from either camera, you can see events you witnessed first hand, but you can't change them now - they're the tape, and recorded. But this doesn't mean you didn't have "Free will" when you were being filmed, nor does it mean you didn't have an influence on the events of both tapes.
How can that even be remotely possible? Anything and EVERYTHING (no matter how small or big of an event it is) will change SOMETHING in the future.
Sci-fi writers have had two main theories for a long time. Either you can go back in time and change things, or you can go back in time and "fulfill" the past you expireinced. Just because you have an influence on the past doesn't mean your influence didn't shape time into the way you remembered it.
Anyone who thinks any differently needs to go back to school.
Yes, because I'm sure these quantum physicists haven't spent any time in school...
That's fantastic. But anyone who knows as much about computers as you do tends not to be the problem in the first place. Those lazy about the problem are much less of an issue than those that are ignorant of the problem.
BBC Launches APIs
OMFG!
the terrible sound of "Wakka wakka wakka" makes us run as the impending consumption of the village begins
You live in fear of Fozzie Bear? Are his jokes really that bad?
Calling them undocumented workers or another PC term is intellectually dishonest.
Yes, but calling them "illegals" is akin to calling Africian Americans "colored". Sure, their skin is a darker color than mine, so they are "colored". I wouldn't ever use the term, however. Similarly, "illegals" is descriptive, but both terms are at best impolite, and at worst outwardly racist.
Atheists aren't allowed in scouting - that's excluding people based on their religious beliefs (or lack thereof).
m l - lots of my money in there too...
Maybe you should check out http://www.scoutingforall.org/packtroop/index.sht
Check out Scouting for All's website at http://www.scoutingforall.org/packtroop/index.shtm l - lots of good information on the subject.
The bigger problems with the Catholic Church is that it doesn't allow its priests to get married or have sex. That's biologically irresponsible, and can drive people to do things they wouldn't otherwise. There's also the unspoken/subliminal drive to move gays into the priesthood, because if you don't want to marry a woman, you might as well...
That said, the amount of child molesters who are gay is proportional to the amount who are straight. This goes for those who abuse both boys and girls. Translated, most people who sexually abuse boys are straight men.
Popular culture expert, huh?
Absolutely. I majored in it in college.
Suppose the situation were turned around, and the local Atheism Club turned down a Boy Scout for membership because he was religious. Should the Boy Scout feel "excluded"? Of course not! It's perfectly acceptable for an organization of people to form around a shared value and to only allow in people who share that value. There's nothing dishonorable or mean about this.
I happen to run a local Atheists organization, and we welcome all comers. But if I got money from the US government, or was meeting in publically owned building, I'd have to make damn sure I was open to everyone. I can choose to exclude, but if I'm getting any public help, like the BSA does, my responabilities change.
I would personally be less supportive of them if they chose that route
You'd only be less supportive? That's pretty fucked up. Do you support the KKK for their fantastic parades, even though there's all that "other stuff"?
The BSA is at least partially supported by government money - mines and yours. They should have to live up standards that don't exclude for reasons like race, religion, and sexual preference.
It's my right when they use government subsidies, meet at public schools, and use public funds. They can do anything they like as soon as they stop all those things.
Boy scouts are about honor and doing what is right and about self reliance and about all other good things like that...
Yes, because excluding gays and atheists from their organization is both honorable and good, right?
There are much, much bigger problems with this pseudo-military youth group than RIAA merit badges. They deserve neither our respect nor our money.
just admit that we put people in jail because they can't hurt any innocent civilians while they are in jail?
This may be true for child molesters, but it's sickening the stuff some in prisons have to put up with from other prisoners. Why should anyone behind bars be subject to the violence and rape that goes on, no matter what crime they've committed?
Incarceration IS the punishment - no one in prison deserves violence on them.
but everyone knows he's a raving Star Wars fan-boy.
While I accept he might have other motives in writing the review as he did, you have to remember that the biggest haters of Episodes 1 & 2 have all been "raving Star Wars fan-boys"
Even a "reliable shipper" or private courier can lose something. Or do you think there are shipping companies out there who have never lost a package?
I agree the data probably should have been encrypted, but if this really was a shipping problem, I have a hard time blaming Ameritrade.
there are some issues out there they could actually put their money to and do some good?
So, I assume then that you've never, ever, in your life paid for any sort of entertainment?
While I also disagree with the way these questions were phrased and asked, a sample set of 2500 is considered large. Popular American pollsters often poll much smaller groups (several hundred) to get the polls you see in the news, and a poll of 2000+ people would be considered extensive.
That said, those polls typically have carefully asked questions, rotating answers, and national sample sets. I didn't RTFA, but somehow I don't think the Hostway poll was conducted the same way.
Billions? Why bother? Based on my listening experience, Clearchannel and the record execs seem to have built empires on no more than three variations.
Blah, blah, blah. I wish there was an Onion article like the "Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television" one for people like you.
Guess what? Lots of music produced today is made for mass consumption. And guess what else? Even more isn't. While it might not be as popular, it's certainly available, especially online in the last ten years. Just because you're too lazy to go look for it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Hell, some people like pop music.
Past that, remember also that this is by no means a recent trend - it's existed for the entire history of pop music. As long as music's been sold for a profit, there's been someone deciding what sound to sell, and how to create the "next best thing". Your generalizations are old and tired.
Couldn't this be rephrased in a completely positive way to say: "Star Trek Enterprise is yet another Star Trek show since the original series to run a full six seasons.
Because Enterprise only ran 4 seasons, TOS ran 3 seasons, and all the others ran 7 seasons?
Most of their data content (as opposed to news articles) comes from government agencies, is in the public domain, and is just a Google search away.
That's simply not true. As someone uses Lexis-Nexis' public records and data content every day, as well as google, there's a lot of information that isn't available on the free internet. While a lot of it IS in the public domain, it's not centralized, and it's not updated, and it's not reliable. If you have some source publically and freely available, I'd love to know about it.
Speak for yourself. There's no free alternative for the ease Lexis Nexis provides, nor for their customer service (which may be too good, it seems). I use their service every day, and there literally is no where else to get much of the information their provide.
It REALLY sounds like you have no idea what information IS on nexis. it's not just a phone book and links to other public records. It's got tens of thousands of sources for public records, court documents, "person finder" information, and that's just on that side of things (Nexis has tens of thousands of other sources for news, legal sources, etc).