Exactly. "Don't be evil", by definition, means, "Actively be good." And to actively be good, you have to help those in need. And many, many Google-lovers and admirers are in need in this area.
Formal Arabic (fusHaa) is, pretty much, standard. I haven't looked at this particular document, but most written documents are written in fusHaa. Spoken Arabic is where the differences come in, and yes, these differences are pretty significant.
This reminds me of that bash.org quote that goes: Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my Uncle Jack off a horse" and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse."
Last April, two 16-year-old New York City Muslim girls were detained, with the FBI claiming that they were "an imminent threat to the security of the United States based on evidence that they plan to be suicide bombers." I believe one of the girls (and her family) was eventually deported. No actual evidence was ever cited. The two girls had never even met before, and the FBI claimed that they were conspiring to be suicide bombers together? It was ridiculous, but they couldn't really do anything.
It's true that they were not citizens; that does not make this right. They were never given any proof that they were suicide bombers, because the FBI can't release that information as it would be putting national security at risk if two 16 year old girls knew why they were being detained...
I, for one, would be very happy to have a lot of people entering scientific fields for the money!
The problem with that, of course, is that we wouldn't have very many good scientists then. Those guys who enter the field for the money would quickly leave without having contributed much when they realize that they can get more somewhere else.
We have two options sit and wait for another attack to happen or we can be proactive.
I always love the oversimplifications that Bush apologists make.
First, we most certainly do not ever have only two options. Even if we did, neither of the options would be the ones you list: the first is obviously retarded, and the second is intentionally vague. We do nothing, or we do something? Those are our options? Come on now.
Is scanning ordinary citizens the only way of being "proactive"? Have we really run out of options that we need to start monitoring our citizens in order to keep them safe?
All the best people I have worked with are people who are just passionate about what they do but do not have degrees.
Is there nothing to be said of the passion of the person who willingly spends thousands of dollars a year just to study up on the subject? Granted, not all students are passionate about their majors, but many definitely are and are enrolled mostly because of that passion.
Apparently YOU missed some of the article, as well. Or, atleast, you missed the title. "Blog Faces Lawsuit Over Reader Comments."
That's where the Ronald McDonald analogy fails. It's more like if a guy sitting in a McDonald's started slandering Burger King, with a Burger King exec right next to him (and recording it). The Ronald McDonald of this situation did not make the comment in question, he just failed to remove it. That is why bloggers are following this. It's not just a dispute between two money-making businesses, it's a dispute regarding comments made by visitors to a website of one of the businesses about the other.
One of the great problems with the Internet currently is that there are so many anonymous cowards, who troll, spam and lie. There is very little consequence to such actions so people aren't inhibited.
Well, you see, there is actually a theory for this.
But on a serious note, no, it does not matter if there are anonymous cowards who "troll, spam and lie." That happens in real life, too. Intelligent people should be able to know where to get reliable information from. Anyone looking for reliable information on a certain product by reading comments in a blog is not really helping himself.
I definitely have to agree. The best part of Gmail is being able to find anything in O(1) time. You can set up filters to make your labels act as folders, or you can use the labels as simply labels. I hated web-based mail before Gmail, and now I would never want to even POP my Gmail, simply because of the conversation view.
Of course Gmail's rivals have increased their amount of space, but they still aren't as good as Gmail itself.
I definitely have to agree. I love Google Desktop and all those other Google products...but I can't exactly use them on this computer. That tends to be a bit of a problemd.
Yeah. It'd really suck if the Europeans weren't able to exploit the resources and the (mostly slave) labor of the rest of the continents. Who knows, maybe a predominantly non-white society might actually have gotten somewhere! Good thing we never let THAT happen.
There are ways of getting around the DRM. For one, you can just use a converter. I just converted about 50 or so of my protected files into MP3's that can be played on any ordinary MP3 player, using JHymn.
The problem, of course, is that the military is NEVER used to defend our country. Sure, "national security" is cited as a pretense for many things the military does, but the last time the military was used to repel an invasion was what...1812?
And my point is that originality isn't the only form of innovation. Gmail is definitely innovative, even if web-based mail has been around for awhile. Google Maps (especially when considered together with local search) is pretty innovative, even if there already were countless other mapping sites.
And another thing to realize is that they are trying to stay a search engine. Again, most of the projects at Google Labs are centered around the original search engine. But that doesn't mean that, for example, Google Suggest isn't an innovation.
But sometimes the wheel really doesn't need to be re-invented. They constantly come up with small, little improvements that, over time, become something large (although I would argue that Gmail, in particular, is a HUGE improvement. Seriously, it's MUCH easier to find old emails with the search and it's MUCH easier to categorize things with labels as opposed to folders). Take a look at Google Labs. Most of those projects aren't really "new", just different flavors added in. But again, those minor additions add up eventually.
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I suppose the hunt for the world's strongest grue continues...
Exactly. "Don't be evil", by definition, means, "Actively be good." And to actively be good, you have to help those in need. And many, many Google-lovers and admirers are in need in this area.
Formal Arabic (fusHaa) is, pretty much, standard. I haven't looked at this particular document, but most written documents are written in fusHaa. Spoken Arabic is where the differences come in, and yes, these differences are pretty significant.
This reminds me of that bash.org quote that goes: Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my Uncle Jack off a horse" and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse."
Last April, two 16-year-old New York City Muslim girls were detained, with the FBI claiming that they were "an imminent threat to the security of the United States based on evidence that they plan to be suicide bombers." I believe one of the girls (and her family) was eventually deported. No actual evidence was ever cited. The two girls had never even met before, and the FBI claimed that they were conspiring to be suicide bombers together? It was ridiculous, but they couldn't really do anything.
It's true that they were not citizens; that does not make this right. They were never given any proof that they were suicide bombers, because the FBI can't release that information as it would be putting national security at risk if two 16 year old girls knew why they were being detained...
...dangerous minorities do!
It wouldn't actually help things, though. Perhaps it increases the number of scientists, but it doesn't really increase progress.
The problem with that, of course, is that we wouldn't have very many good scientists then. Those guys who enter the field for the money would quickly leave without having contributed much when they realize that they can get more somewhere else.
Ann Coulter passes as a human?
I always love the oversimplifications that Bush apologists make.
First, we most certainly do not ever have only two options. Even if we did, neither of the options would be the ones you list: the first is obviously retarded, and the second is intentionally vague. We do nothing, or we do something? Those are our options? Come on now.
Is scanning ordinary citizens the only way of being "proactive"? Have we really run out of options that we need to start monitoring our citizens in order to keep them safe?
I can see the next headline now:
"Goto Considered Helpful" Considered Harmful
Is there nothing to be said of the passion of the person who willingly spends thousands of dollars a year just to study up on the subject? Granted, not all students are passionate about their majors, but many definitely are and are enrolled mostly because of that passion.
No...FREEDOM is slavery!
Apparently YOU missed some of the article, as well. Or, atleast, you missed the title. "Blog Faces Lawsuit Over Reader Comments."
That's where the Ronald McDonald analogy fails. It's more like if a guy sitting in a McDonald's started slandering Burger King, with a Burger King exec right next to him (and recording it). The Ronald McDonald of this situation did not make the comment in question, he just failed to remove it. That is why bloggers are following this. It's not just a dispute between two money-making businesses, it's a dispute regarding comments made by visitors to a website of one of the businesses about the other.
Well, you see, there is actually a theory for this.
But on a serious note, no, it does not matter if there are anonymous cowards who "troll, spam and lie." That happens in real life, too. Intelligent people should be able to know where to get reliable information from. Anyone looking for reliable information on a certain product by reading comments in a blog is not really helping himself.
I definitely have to agree. The best part of Gmail is being able to find anything in O(1) time. You can set up filters to make your labels act as folders, or you can use the labels as simply labels. I hated web-based mail before Gmail, and now I would never want to even POP my Gmail, simply because of the conversation view.
Of course Gmail's rivals have increased their amount of space, but they still aren't as good as Gmail itself.
I definitely have to agree. I love Google Desktop and all those other Google products...but I can't exactly use them on this computer. That tends to be a bit of a problemd.
Yeah. It'd really suck if the Europeans weren't able to exploit the resources and the (mostly slave) labor of the rest of the continents. Who knows, maybe a predominantly non-white society might actually have gotten somewhere! Good thing we never let THAT happen.
Exactly. I have no idea whether or not it's legal. I just know it works, and lets me actually use the music I purchased.
There are ways of getting around the DRM. For one, you can just use a converter. I just converted about 50 or so of my protected files into MP3's that can be played on any ordinary MP3 player, using JHymn.
Calculators round, and are therefore evil.
The problem, of course, is that the military is NEVER used to defend our country. Sure, "national security" is cited as a pretense for many things the military does, but the last time the military was used to repel an invasion was what...1812?
And my point is that originality isn't the only form of innovation. Gmail is definitely innovative, even if web-based mail has been around for awhile. Google Maps (especially when considered together with local search) is pretty innovative, even if there already were countless other mapping sites.
And another thing to realize is that they are trying to stay a search engine. Again, most of the projects at Google Labs are centered around the original search engine. But that doesn't mean that, for example, Google Suggest isn't an innovation.
But sometimes the wheel really doesn't need to be re-invented. They constantly come up with small, little improvements that, over time, become something large (although I would argue that Gmail, in particular, is a HUGE improvement. Seriously, it's MUCH easier to find old emails with the search and it's MUCH easier to categorize things with labels as opposed to folders). Take a look at Google Labs. Most of those projects aren't really "new", just different flavors added in. But again, those minor additions add up eventually.
The big yellow one's the sun!
..Nice job Copernicus!