Read Stross's "Halting State" for an exploration of the consequences of kids being persecuted for looking at each other naked, ie inappropriate application of adult laws to kids.
When I got to college, I spent a whole semester writing term papers on my Apple computer before switching. I never looked back.
Second semester I got access to engineering's vaxstation 2000's running ultrix. It took a couple weeks to get over the whole applesoft basic to tcsh hump, but a few judicious aliases to spare me frustration while my fingers relearned, and away I went.
Vi plus latex is light years ahead of that silly wysiwyg "ScreenWriter II" word processor on the apple, and I don't see much advancement over that in the current crop of word processors.
The way to fix it, basically, is massive socialism to carry people through the hard times of losing most of their retirement, their houses, and their jobs. We can move back to a more capitalist system in the future if it ever looks like a good idea.
Or simply prosecute for fraud.
They were providing securities with money they didn't have -- how else but fraud can one interpret that that they never intended to pay out regardless of circumstance?
Or Dungeons and Dragons might turn them into a Satanist...
Well, if they'd just include the Judeo-Christian pantheon (and variants) in Deities&Demigods, we could properly simulate Crusades, witchhunts, etc. That'll turn them poor kids into heathens at least, if not outright satanists.
I would be remiss however if I did not point out that 70:1 is a nasty high ratio.
Here's an idea, provide a sustained rate (more or less guaranteed for each user) and a burst rate (the rate inherent to the hardware). Any bits leftover after satisfying the guarantee can be allocated by whatever method to the bursties.
So long as you're not singling them out by content or otherwise subjecting them to your (your boss's, your company's) conflicts of interest, then I think you're fine. Just follow some of the other fine suggestions here to do it responsibly.
That's a slippery slope you're on (but kudos for all the qualifiers). Do I have this correct? Is the argument that because *some* people are inherently prone to addiction to X, nobody should have access to X? We (USians) tried that with alcohol and we're trying it with "drugs" -- now we're going into the same pit with games? Better be careful or that game of Operation might turn your kid into a sadist.
Regarding those three, by your argument they would've killed somebody anyway. At least cops go in with eyes wide and take precautions. It's part of their job to risk their lives for the rest of us.
Only three GTA players have killed cops? GTA must make people less likely to kill cops. After all, think of all the killing of cops not associated with GTA players.
Hmm, perhaps an occasional game of fake-blow-shit-up would make disaffected youths less likely to really-blow-shit-up? It is all about the kids, right?
Latex has an \include statement, so split the sections up into separate files, so they don't have to deal with conflicts. That'll simplify svn usage quite a bit, at least until they start editing others' text, at which point you have bigger problems to worry about.
If they still can't handle it, then have them dedicate part of their funding to adding revision control to lyx.
That's a good idea, Coward. It will probably work for audio once RIAA is pushed out of the way.
What about other media, like books? With books finally starting to go digital, how do we encourage authors to write good stuff if they can't simply take a cut of distributing the dead, processed trees? Must we enforce artificial scarcity via DRM? A solution now before DRM gets entrenched would be nice, please.
The difference is that libraries lend a limited number of copies.
Copyright is an industrial era concept that doesn't work terribly well in the information age where information scarcity no longer applies. Copyright was a wonderful innovation in its day, but today we need another way to encourage people to publish their works.
God job avoiding the question, but no fair changing the rules. Please remain devil's advocate, the context in which you assigned yourself the role of Believer. I did catch from your original post that you're not in fact the True Believer, and incidentally agree with your main point about misappropriation of cultural diversity. (Perhaps I should've led with that...)
Probably bot at the same time.
Of course not, thus the "originally" and the "now".
Metaphor is certainly a useful tool in building a basis for understanding in students or layfolk. Continuing with the metaphor as fact after that however is rather a problem. It leads to all sorts of nastiness like insistence that the metaphor is The Truth rather than simply a metaphor.
Clinging to a metaphor such that it warms the heart is entirely understandable. One must nevertheless endeavor to separate fantasy from reality, and not excuse those who fail to do so, because those are the people who will make your children's lives miserable with their foolishness.
This "God" to whom you refer, is he the one who is claimed to have created that Adam fellow from mud? Of what was this "mud" composed? Was it the standard mud that supplies nutrients to growing plants? Or is it a metaphor for some sort of advanced technology, the grey goo of scifi? Or is it a metaphor for aggregate composition of order from chaos over time? Or is it simply Divine Will, a metaphor for something one refuses to further investigate?
Or is religion (a) originally an attempt at explaining nature's wonders; and (b) now simply a means of forming and maintaining social groups?
I would agree that your religion and evolution were not mutually exclusive if your religion's statements about Man's origins provided testable theories that bore the weight of the evidence.
we can not fathom how God accomplishes his goals. One is faith, the other science and neither need be exclusive.
Good fathoming. Is it your conclusion that God's goal is war leading to extinction of humans? That seems the only way to interpret your assertion that God's means are "science" and "faith".
Your implier would be stupid to follow through, but if you think he might, try this.
Get your records from HR.
Get lawyer. Have lawyer contact police.
Quit on time, not giving in to the extortion. (It's extortion BTW, not blackmail. Blackmail implies that the jerk's revelations would be substantially true.)
Setup sting with police. Police will contact the jerk for recommendation. Jerk follows through with threat. Police arrest jerk. Publicize the drama to discourage other jerks from trying it.
You made a mortal enemy. Congratulations. Not many people can say that.
some experts question whether a universal vaccine of this kind is even possible, since the human body has been unable to come up with an antibody solution.
Experts in what? Theology?
So either evolution is perfect and has already done it or it can't be done?
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Apply Hello Kitty stickers and add pink racing stripes. Nothing says "manly" better.
Sorry, papyrus just doesn't scale that well.
Read Stross's "Halting State" for an exploration of the consequences of kids being persecuted for looking at each other naked, ie inappropriate application of adult laws to kids.
(It's just a sideline, not the main plot, btw.)
When I got to college, I spent a whole semester writing term papers on my Apple computer before switching. I never looked back.
Second semester I got access to engineering's vaxstation 2000's running ultrix. It took a couple weeks to get over the whole applesoft basic to tcsh hump, but a few judicious aliases to spare me frustration while my fingers relearned, and away I went.
Vi plus latex is light years ahead of that silly wysiwyg "ScreenWriter II" word processor on the apple, and I don't see much advancement over that in the current crop of word processors.
That may be a saner DRM, but it's still DRM.
If you're going to sell a service, then sell a service. Don't sell software and try to control it like a service.
That's a boycott in action for you. The protest against stupidity is working. Keep it up!
The way to fix it, basically, is massive socialism to carry people through the hard times of losing most of their retirement, their houses, and their jobs. We can move back to a more capitalist system in the future if it ever looks like a good idea.
Or simply prosecute for fraud.
They were providing securities with money they didn't have -- how else but fraud can one interpret that that they never intended to pay out regardless of circumstance?
Collective licensing sets up an organization that can be pressured. Take for instance the pressure on the NEA to only fund inoffensive art.
Or Dungeons and Dragons might turn them into a Satanist...
Well, if they'd just include the Judeo-Christian pantheon (and variants) in Deities&Demigods, we could properly simulate Crusades, witchhunts, etc. That'll turn them poor kids into heathens at least, if not outright satanists.
I would be remiss however if I did not point out that 70:1 is a nasty high ratio.
Here's an idea, provide a sustained rate (more or less guaranteed for each user) and a burst rate (the rate inherent to the hardware). Any bits leftover after satisfying the guarantee can be allocated by whatever method to the bursties.
So long as you're not singling them out by content or otherwise subjecting them to your (your boss's, your company's) conflicts of interest, then I think you're fine. Just follow some of the other fine suggestions here to do it responsibly.
That's a slippery slope you're on (but kudos for all the qualifiers). Do I have this correct? Is the argument that because *some* people are inherently prone to addiction to X, nobody should have access to X? We (USians) tried that with alcohol and we're trying it with "drugs" -- now we're going into the same pit with games? Better be careful or that game of Operation might turn your kid into a sadist.
Regarding those three, by your argument they would've killed somebody anyway. At least cops go in with eyes wide and take precautions. It's part of their job to risk their lives for the rest of us.
Only three GTA players have killed cops? GTA must make people less likely to kill cops. After all, think of all the killing of cops not associated with GTA players.
Hmm, perhaps an occasional game of fake-blow-shit-up would make disaffected youths less likely to really-blow-shit-up? It is all about the kids, right?
Latex has an \include statement, so split the sections up into separate files, so they don't have to deal with conflicts. That'll simplify svn usage quite a bit, at least until they start editing others' text, at which point you have bigger problems to worry about.
If they still can't handle it, then have them dedicate part of their funding to adding revision control to lyx.
That's a good idea, Coward. It will probably work for audio once RIAA is pushed out of the way.
What about other media, like books? With books finally starting to go digital, how do we encourage authors to write good stuff if they can't simply take a cut of distributing the dead, processed trees? Must we enforce artificial scarcity via DRM? A solution now before DRM gets entrenched would be nice, please.
The difference is that libraries lend a limited number of copies.
Copyright is an industrial era concept that doesn't work terribly well in the information age where information scarcity no longer applies. Copyright was a wonderful innovation in its day, but today we need another way to encourage people to publish their works.
Anybody got any ideas?
Is it only wheezing slobs from Scotland who grow up with an open mind about sex, or is it wheezing slobs everywhere?
I wish somebody'd told me this earlier. I could've focused my hunt a lot better.
The same thing goes for reading.
God job avoiding the question, but no fair changing the rules. Please remain devil's advocate, the context in which you assigned yourself the role of Believer. I did catch from your original post that you're not in fact the True Believer, and incidentally agree with your main point about misappropriation of cultural diversity. (Perhaps I should've led with that...)
Probably bot at the same time.
Of course not, thus the "originally" and the "now".
Metaphor is certainly a useful tool in building a basis for understanding in students or layfolk. Continuing with the metaphor as fact after that however is rather a problem. It leads to all sorts of nastiness like insistence that the metaphor is The Truth rather than simply a metaphor.
Clinging to a metaphor such that it warms the heart is entirely understandable. One must nevertheless endeavor to separate fantasy from reality, and not excuse those who fail to do so, because those are the people who will make your children's lives miserable with their foolishness.
This "God" to whom you refer, is he the one who is claimed to have created that Adam fellow from mud? Of what was this "mud" composed? Was it the standard mud that supplies nutrients to growing plants? Or is it a metaphor for some sort of advanced technology, the grey goo of scifi? Or is it a metaphor for aggregate composition of order from chaos over time? Or is it simply Divine Will, a metaphor for something one refuses to further investigate?
Or is religion (a) originally an attempt at explaining nature's wonders; and (b) now simply a means of forming and maintaining social groups?
I would agree that your religion and evolution were not mutually exclusive if your religion's statements about Man's origins provided testable theories that bore the weight of the evidence.
Science and religion overlap by virtue of both attempting to explain nature's wonders.
Science is application of logic to discovery of nature's wonders. It never concludes anything, instead constantly refining based on evidence.
A religion is a set of metaphors purporting to explain nature's wonders. Its conclusions can be amended only by strife.
we can not fathom how God accomplishes his goals. One is faith, the other science and neither need be exclusive.
Good fathoming. Is it your conclusion that God's goal is war leading to extinction of humans? That seems the only way to interpret your assertion that God's means are "science" and "faith".
The hoax tag is for irony. This Japanese trip to the moon is real, in contrast to the 1969 USian trip that was faked.
Your implier would be stupid to follow through, but if you think he might, try this.
Get your records from HR.
Get lawyer. Have lawyer contact police.
Quit on time, not giving in to the extortion. (It's extortion BTW, not blackmail. Blackmail implies that the jerk's revelations would be substantially true.)
Setup sting with police. Police will contact the jerk for recommendation. Jerk follows through with threat. Police arrest jerk. Publicize the drama to discourage other jerks from trying it.
You made a mortal enemy. Congratulations. Not many people can say that.
some experts question whether a universal vaccine of this kind is even possible, since the human body has been unable to come up with an antibody solution.
Experts in what? Theology?
So either evolution is perfect and has already done it or it can't be done?
Riiiight. Evolution != god.