Nice red herring, but it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that teh whole uproar over Sotomayor was based on a single ruling out of all of her years in the federal judiciary. One ruling hardly justifies being called "pro-RIAA".
Not only that, but it wasn't even a case of the RIAA/MPAA suing an individual for file sharing. The defendants were a series of bars that were publicly showing pay-per-view boxing, and it was a pretty open-and-shut case of infringement for monetary gain. Moreover, she only awarded the plaintiff four times the damages they incurred (definitely a constitutional amount), far less than the 1,000x damages that the RIAA typically seeks. Basically, that article was pure Slashdot-tailored FUD, and it's a shame people bought into it.
Like those car Dealerships whom supported him somehow manage to stay open.
Nice conspiracy theory. Too bad the statistics don't support your claim. In short, there's a greater than 50% chance that any variances in what dealerships went under is explainable by pure chance alone.
Option 3: Those students that need to cheat in order to do well by and large don't go to graduate school, either because they're not smart enough or because they simply don't care.
Photovoltaics have followed a Moore's Law-like trend. It's just that instead of prices halving every 18 months, they halve every 11 years. See http://www.frozennorth.org/C197109377/E20080427143258/index.html for a graph. While the trend is exponential, it's just a slower exponential.
Believe it or not, the British NHS recently did an analysis and determined that smokers and the obese cost the system less money than healthy people. The reason being that these people tended to die early, before the complications and cost associated with old age set in.
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In the march to the Singularity, we don't need history majors writing papers or Baseball players hitting homeruns. We need science. A neuroscientist taking a cognitive-enhancing drug is a direct example of recursive, exponential growth to the Singularity. Keep it coming.
Personally, I think we'd be better off if amateur futurists (read: all futurists) understood that extrapolating exponential growth far into the future is idiotic. Not that I disagree with your premise that science is important.
Call me cynical, but the White House wasn't wrong to say that the GOP is beholden to Limbaugh. Just days before Gibbs began talking the connection up, Michael Steele (chairman of the RNC) had criticized Limbaugh for saying that he hope Obama fails, but had taken back the criticism and apologized to Limbaugh within a day. It was pretty pathetic, and I'm glad someone was talking about it.
You have a good point: we cannot definitively rule out warp drive until a theory of quantum gravity becomes well-established. Of course, that doesn't mean there aren't clues that tell us that the universe behaves a certain way. Unfortunately, both quantum mechanics and relativity predict that information can't be transferred faster than the speed of light, so I wouldn't get your hopes up.
Since people are so big on having corporations having the same rights as people, I would love to have a justice system that actually treats them equivalently. Did a corporation knowingly break the law? If so, send it to "prison:" revoke its corporate charter for a certain period of time, and prevent it from doing business. Better yet, force it to make license plates for the state.
From a capitalistic viewpoint, newspapers also have a major positive externality. Namely, once a news organization breaks a story, it's out there, and other outlets will be able to pick up on it (including other papers, blogs, aggregators, and even Slashdot). One could argue that tax-exempt status is an attempt to compensate them for that externality.
And if state control is your biggest concern, what do you think will happen if journalists can't find work? They'll have to get other jobs, and won't investigate possible corruption.
All the camera did was pan to Earth after Starbuck said she'd take them there. In the end, that's exactly what she did. (Ok, it's kind of a stretch because she took them to the old Earth first, but whatever.)
There were so many big stories that needed more elaboration, what was Starbuck, how does the one true god fit in? There was mention that he was a jealous god of the other Lords of Kobol. No mention of them? Starbuck, the one who believed in the polytheistic Lords of Kobol so much that she went back against orders for Athena's Arrow was instead an agent of the monotheistic Cylon God? That's it, head six and baltar, their story just ends so quickly? Things didn't really jive, and that disappointed me. After the whole Tigh and Caprica-6 love each other so much that they had a baby, and Ellen was jealous, that just ended? All of a sudden, we find out Baltar, the womanizer, loved Caprica-6?
I'm guessing that at least part of the reason they didn't go into detail about the "God" figure is that it will be explored further in Caprica. After all, Ellen did say that the Cylon god was not of their making, and that the Centurions believed in it before they met them. Also (minor Caprica spoilers ahead...stop reading if you absolutely want to be 100% in the clear), from the brief descriptions I've read about Caprica, it will involve a terrorist monotheistic cult whose deity will almost certainly be transferred to the Cylons somehow. I'm willing to bet that we'll see at least one "angel" along the lines of the Caprica-Six and Baltar angels.
This is so disingenuous it's not even funny. Yes, Obama received a total of $130,000 from AIG's 116,000 employees. But he also received $600 million from the 300 million Americans. In other words, the average AIG employee gave about half what the average American gave.
Unfortunately, the fact that Obama raised record funding means that every time a scandal pops up in the next four years involving a big company, we're going to get dumb comments like the parents' claiming favoritism, when the truth is that any company with a lot of employees will (by definition) have given his campaign a lot of money.
When I made that post, I thought to myself, "Did I make it clear enough that I'm being tongue-in-cheek?" Obviously, I didn't.
But seriously, Lost is a great show (if you ignore the third season). Even if you include the third season, it's still pretty good. Furthermore, it's become pretty clear in the last season or so that it falls within the realm of soft sci-fi. And compared to everything else on the network (with the exception of BSG), it's phenomenal.
BSG excluded, the Sci-Fi channel is the worst. I typically watch TV on the weekends, and unfortunately the Sci-Fi channel's weekends are filled with those horrible movies. I can't imagine that enough people watch them for them to be financially viable.
I can see why you're anonymous, because you couldn't manage to read the line "its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families." In other words, if a professor or a janitor at UC-Berkeley donated money, it counts as a donation from "University of California."
There will be no incentives for people that are on time, or for people interested in buying foreclosed properties. It's good to reduce the number of foreclosures happening, but it doesn't do anything to help move families into those foreclosed houses that are now sitting empty.
That's just untrue; people who are on time will still reap the benefits. A big part of it is to allow you to refinance if your home value has declined below the amount you currently owe. This helps many people, not just those in danger of foreclosure.
I really, REALLY hope you're joking if you're saying you actually BELIEVE that tripe about his campaign being funded ENTIRELY by the citizens.
Read your own link. "The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates." The organizations listed all obey at least two out of three criteria:
1.) Their employees are generally liberal.
2.) They have a lot of employees.
3.) Their employees make a lot of money.
You're not suggesting that Obama's somehow beholden to the University of California because they happen to have a lot of liberal employees?
RTFA. The $3.27 trillion figure only comes about if you assume that all the stimulus programs are extended for ten years. The bill as it stands does not cost that much.
You really need no basis in reality to assert things, do you?
I think it is you who does not live in reality. Practically every credible economist has acknowledged that a lack of regulation is what caused the collapse of the banking industry. Even Alan Greenspan, who was a good friend of Ayn Rand's, said as much. The only people not acknowledging this are the far-right Republicans who cannot accept that they went too far, and the libertarians who reason using a flawed methodology in order to justify their ideology. The fact is that the most common proposals for government causing the collapse (e.g., the CRA) are empirically unimportant.
A February 28, 2006 article in The New York Times stated, "Accepting money from patients for operations they would otherwise receive free of charge in a public hospital is technically prohibited in this country, even in cases where patients would wait months or even years before receiving treatment...Canada remains the only industrialized country that outlaws privately financed purchases of core medical services."
emphasis mine. Canada is the exception, not the rule.
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Nice red herring, but it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that teh whole uproar over Sotomayor was based on a single ruling out of all of her years in the federal judiciary. One ruling hardly justifies being called "pro-RIAA".
Not only that, but it wasn't even a case of the RIAA/MPAA suing an individual for file sharing. The defendants were a series of bars that were publicly showing pay-per-view boxing, and it was a pretty open-and-shut case of infringement for monetary gain. Moreover, she only awarded the plaintiff four times the damages they incurred (definitely a constitutional amount), far less than the 1,000x damages that the RIAA typically seeks. Basically, that article was pure Slashdot-tailored FUD, and it's a shame people bought into it.
Like those car Dealerships whom supported him somehow manage to stay open.
Nice conspiracy theory. Too bad the statistics don't support your claim. In short, there's a greater than 50% chance that any variances in what dealerships went under is explainable by pure chance alone.
Option 3: Those students that need to cheat in order to do well by and large don't go to graduate school, either because they're not smart enough or because they simply don't care.
China's motivation is that they don't want to deal with the flood of refugees that a starving North Korea would inevitably bring.
Photovoltaics have followed a Moore's Law-like trend. It's just that instead of prices halving every 18 months, they halve every 11 years. See http://www.frozennorth.org/C197109377/E20080427143258/index.html for a graph. While the trend is exponential, it's just a slower exponential.
Believe it or not, the British NHS recently did an analysis and determined that smokers and the obese cost the system less money than healthy people. The reason being that these people tended to die early, before the complications and cost associated with old age set in.
In the march to the Singularity, we don't need history majors writing papers or Baseball players hitting homeruns. We need science. A neuroscientist taking a cognitive-enhancing drug is a direct example of recursive, exponential growth to the Singularity. Keep it coming.
Personally, I think we'd be better off if amateur futurists (read: all futurists) understood that extrapolating exponential growth far into the future is idiotic. Not that I disagree with your premise that science is important.
Call me cynical, but the White House wasn't wrong to say that the GOP is beholden to Limbaugh. Just days before Gibbs began talking the connection up, Michael Steele (chairman of the RNC) had criticized Limbaugh for saying that he hope Obama fails, but had taken back the criticism and apologized to Limbaugh within a day. It was pretty pathetic, and I'm glad someone was talking about it.
You have a good point: we cannot definitively rule out warp drive until a theory of quantum gravity becomes well-established. Of course, that doesn't mean there aren't clues that tell us that the universe behaves a certain way. Unfortunately, both quantum mechanics and relativity predict that information can't be transferred faster than the speed of light, so I wouldn't get your hopes up.
Since people are so big on having corporations having the same rights as people, I would love to have a justice system that actually treats them equivalently. Did a corporation knowingly break the law? If so, send it to "prison:" revoke its corporate charter for a certain period of time, and prevent it from doing business. Better yet, force it to make license plates for the state.
From a capitalistic viewpoint, newspapers also have a major positive externality. Namely, once a news organization breaks a story, it's out there, and other outlets will be able to pick up on it (including other papers, blogs, aggregators, and even Slashdot). One could argue that tax-exempt status is an attempt to compensate them for that externality.
And if state control is your biggest concern, what do you think will happen if journalists can't find work? They'll have to get other jobs, and won't investigate possible corruption.
All the camera did was pan to Earth after Starbuck said she'd take them there. In the end, that's exactly what she did. (Ok, it's kind of a stretch because she took them to the old Earth first, but whatever.)
There were so many big stories that needed more elaboration, what was Starbuck, how does the one true god fit in? There was mention that he was a jealous god of the other Lords of Kobol. No mention of them? Starbuck, the one who believed in the polytheistic Lords of Kobol so much that she went back against orders for Athena's Arrow was instead an agent of the monotheistic Cylon God? That's it, head six and baltar, their story just ends so quickly? Things didn't really jive, and that disappointed me. After the whole Tigh and Caprica-6 love each other so much that they had a baby, and Ellen was jealous, that just ended? All of a sudden, we find out Baltar, the womanizer, loved Caprica-6?
I'm guessing that at least part of the reason they didn't go into detail about the "God" figure is that it will be explored further in Caprica. After all, Ellen did say that the Cylon god was not of their making, and that the Centurions believed in it before they met them. Also (minor Caprica spoilers ahead...stop reading if you absolutely want to be 100% in the clear), from the brief descriptions I've read about Caprica, it will involve a terrorist monotheistic cult whose deity will almost certainly be transferred to the Cylons somehow. I'm willing to bet that we'll see at least one "angel" along the lines of the Caprica-Six and Baltar angels.
This is so disingenuous it's not even funny. Yes, Obama received a total of $130,000 from AIG's 116,000 employees. But he also received $600 million from the 300 million Americans. In other words, the average AIG employee gave about half what the average American gave. Unfortunately, the fact that Obama raised record funding means that every time a scandal pops up in the next four years involving a big company, we're going to get dumb comments like the parents' claiming favoritism, when the truth is that any company with a lot of employees will (by definition) have given his campaign a lot of money.
When I made that post, I thought to myself, "Did I make it clear enough that I'm being tongue-in-cheek?" Obviously, I didn't.
But seriously, Lost is a great show (if you ignore the third season). Even if you include the third season, it's still pretty good. Furthermore, it's become pretty clear in the last season or so that it falls within the realm of soft sci-fi. And compared to everything else on the network (with the exception of BSG), it's phenomenal.
"The channel with Battlestar Galactica reruns, and nothing else really worth watching."
That's not true. They also have Lost reruns now.
BSG excluded, the Sci-Fi channel is the worst. I typically watch TV on the weekends, and unfortunately the Sci-Fi channel's weekends are filled with those horrible movies. I can't imagine that enough people watch them for them to be financially viable.
The nasty chemicals originally came from the ground.
You mean like oil, coal, and uranium? Yeah, things from the ground can't cause environmental damage.
I can see why you're anonymous, because you couldn't manage to read the line "its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families." In other words, if a professor or a janitor at UC-Berkeley donated money, it counts as a donation from "University of California."
There will be no incentives for people that are on time, or for people interested in buying foreclosed properties. It's good to reduce the number of foreclosures happening, but it doesn't do anything to help move families into those foreclosed houses that are now sitting empty.
That's just untrue; people who are on time will still reap the benefits. A big part of it is to allow you to refinance if your home value has declined below the amount you currently owe. This helps many people, not just those in danger of foreclosure.
I really, REALLY hope you're joking if you're saying you actually BELIEVE that tripe about his campaign being funded ENTIRELY by the citizens.
Read your own link. "The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates." The organizations listed all obey at least two out of three criteria:
1.) Their employees are generally liberal.
2.) They have a lot of employees.
3.) Their employees make a lot of money.
You're not suggesting that Obama's somehow beholden to the University of California because they happen to have a lot of liberal employees?
A dozen? Try two. And they had to sign agreements strictly limiting how they could and could not interact with their former employers.
Dear Ken,
I'm in pieces. Why the cold shoulder?
Love, Barbie.
RTFA. The $3.27 trillion figure only comes about if you assume that all the stimulus programs are extended for ten years. The bill as it stands does not cost that much.
You really need no basis in reality to assert things, do you?
I think it is you who does not live in reality. Practically every credible economist has acknowledged that a lack of regulation is what caused the collapse of the banking industry. Even Alan Greenspan, who was a good friend of Ayn Rand's, said as much. The only people not acknowledging this are the far-right Republicans who cannot accept that they went too far, and the libertarians who reason using a flawed methodology in order to justify their ideology. The fact is that the most common proposals for government causing the collapse (e.g., the CRA) are empirically unimportant.
A February 28, 2006 article in The New York Times stated, "Accepting money from patients for operations they would otherwise receive free of charge in a public hospital is technically prohibited in this country, even in cases where patients would wait months or even years before receiving treatment...Canada remains the only industrialized country that outlaws privately financed purchases of core medical services."
emphasis mine. Canada is the exception, not the rule.