That argument works well if we are just talking about condoning Chinas behavior. But that isnt the issue here. We are talking about Yahoo actively helping the Chineese government find and imprison people.
We live in a democratic society. We get 2 votes: our ballots, and our wallets.
If Yahoo chooses to not support democratic ideals, I dont like it, but hey, they are in it for the money. But when they choose to actively participate in crushing the democratic ideal they loose my vote.
I suspect a lot of the folks that buy Alienware are comparable to those rich brothers-in-law who go on the family Canadian fishing trip and show up with all of the most expensive gear (tags still on) and need help from Grampa Joe (with his 30 year old fly rod, dental floss and bent paper clip) to set the tension on the reel.
Its not a question of whether or not the skills are taught, but whether or not they are used after they are taught.
When I was in the engineering program the manual drafting was my favorite part. I LOVED doing the perspective drawings from 4 different views. But the whole time I was doing this I kept saying to myself "Great. The part I love most is the part I will never ever do once Im in the real world."
Thats probably why I am a software testing manager now.
The previous poster did not say anything about changeing the way the professor teaches. He said "Support various learning styles" In this context that simply means allowing people to take notes on laptops.
You said "it is incumbent on YOU to figure out how to process the information handed out by the professor". This sounds like you are agreeing with the poster. If I have figured out how to process the information by using my laptop, then let me do that.
No Offense, but Im not sure why the parent mas moded 5 as insightful.
No one is talking about copyrighting the idea of superheros. They are talking about trademark infringement of the word "Superhero"
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I suppose you are right. The free market will eventually get rid of most of the world's ills because in the end, businesses realize that it is in their best interest to take care of their world.
This is why the free market would not tolerate things like Slavery, child labor, sweat shops, lower salaries for women and minorities, unsafe working conditions, and a host of other things that the governments were too ineffectual to resolve.
Maybe I need to reread it if I had an invalid assumption of the context, but I believe that the Judge laid out specific summaries that they must produce. If they published the captured transcripts as a whole wouldnt that present a whole new privacy issue?
I mean, if the govenment illegaly recorded my conversations with my wife, I would be rather annoyed if the FOIA then allowed that illegaly attained conversation to be released to the whole world.
RTFA. Were not talking about the actual conversations that were recorded, but summary information about the records. -What are the criteria for being recorded. -What has the program actually accomplished. etc...
Why has no one developed an external fire-wire graphics card for laptops?
The only reason that I can think of is that even fire-wire is not fast enough?
Anyone know what order of magnitude increaase in communications speed we would need to make something like this work? (assuming that is the problem, or course)
ergh. The one time I dont preview. Who knew slash dot wouldnt take brackts? My intended post: Yeah, because when I read (reading is very important and should be made a priority to teach your children) a news piece (the news has too many negative articles, where are the positive stories?) I love to have to wade through tons of personal opinion (Where in the constitution does it give us the right to an opinion?) from the author of the story just to get the facts of the story (Dont confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up).
Thats why I love 20/20 and all of the other news magazines(Thats a bald faced lie), and John Stassle is the journalists Anti-Christ (ooh, that ones true).
Yeah, because when I read a news piece I love to have to wade through tons of personal opinion from the author of the story just to get the facts of the story .
Thats why I love 20/20 and all of the other news magazines, and John Stassle is the journalists Anti-Christ .
If its done right...
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this could be a great thing.
When I was a teenager I read a lot of fantasy, until I realized that 99.9% of the fantasy genre is taken directly from Tolkein. The same can be said about fantasy games. Its all Knights, Wizards, Orks, Elves, Dwarves and Dragons. Maybe they will mess with the names, but the roles are set in stone.
Anything realizeing a vision of its own would be a welcome change.
Not that any of that will help a crappy implimentation...
Actually no. If you said that there was no conflist of interest between Creationists and Evolutionists I would agree. This is actually the Catholic Churches official stance. God created evolution. But ID specifically assumes that these systems are to complicated to have evolved on their own.
At a gut level I agree with you, but...
There are a hell of a lot of things built into our government that, taken individually, seem to make no sense and drive us nuts (bill ammendments like this, the filibuster, and the electoral college are what immediatly come to mind) but taken as whole they are a very wise (IMHO) attempt to "muddy the math". In other words; intentional wrenches in the works to prevent the majority (at any aprticualy moment on any particual topic) from being able to get whatever they want and/or those in the minority being able to slip in what they want.
Of course those "tools" are there to be used by all sides...
Maybe Ive just gotten cynical in my old age, but Im more inclined to think if a new party is less corrupt, its only because they have less oportunities for corruption.
For every dew-eyed idealist who joins a new party you have someone who sees an opportunity to "Get in at the ground floor"
I have never understood this argument. I have no problem with a third party, but what on earth is there about a third party that is going to be any more or less corrupt than the existing two?
There is nothing inherent to the parties that makes them corrupt. Its the people in the parties that bring the corruption. If they move to a different party they will just bring it with them.
If you look at history you will find that war time always sees a boon in prosthetic and other medical technologies.
We are getting a LOT of soldiers coming home with missing and damaged limbs, so there is a surge in trial patients, funding and general interest.
Granted this is comming from Germany, not the US....
Doctor StrangeLove anyone?
urgh. RTFA. No one is saying you are not going to buy music you already like because its cheap. Its about unknown music. Its the CD's/DVDs in the "Sale" box. Sure, we look in there sometimes and will grab a movie we have seen before cuase its cheap. But how often do you buy a movie you have never heard of out of the sale box? Never. Because the assumption is that if it is in the sale rack, it must be crap.
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That argument works well if we are just talking about condoning Chinas behavior. But that isnt the issue here. We are talking about Yahoo actively helping the Chineese government find and imprison people.
We live in a democratic society. We get 2 votes: our ballots, and our wallets.
If Yahoo chooses to not support democratic ideals, I dont like it, but hey, they are in it for the money.
But when they choose to actively participate in crushing the democratic ideal they loose my vote.
I suspect a lot of the folks that buy Alienware are comparable to those rich brothers-in-law who go on the family Canadian fishing trip and show up with all of the most expensive gear (tags still on) and need help from Grampa Joe (with his 30 year old fly rod, dental floss and bent paper clip) to set the tension on the reel.
Its not a question of whether or not the skills are taught, but whether or not they are used after they are taught.
When I was in the engineering program the manual drafting was my favorite part. I LOVED doing the perspective drawings from 4 different views. But the whole time I was doing this I kept saying to myself "Great. The part I love most is the part I will never ever do once Im in the real world."
Thats probably why I am a software testing manager now.
So what next? Are they going to make target shooting illegal because it teaches the use of a fire arm? How about hunting?
Should we throw every 8 year old who plays cops-and-robbers in jail?
Thank you Mr. Strickland. Without the clueless I would have nothing to laugh at.
Great idea, but its already been done. Its called a "Hotel" with "Pay-per-view".
And the sheets in those rooms scare me as much as the "Big comfy seats" you are talking about. And for the same reasons.
Can you say "Eeeeeeewwww" boys and girls?
Thank God. It isnt just me.
I reread the thing 4 times assuming that I was missing something.
Robosport Baby.
Its all about Robosport.
Back the truck up there.
The previous poster did not say anything about changeing the way the professor teaches. He said "Support various learning styles" In this context that simply means allowing people to take notes on laptops.
You said "it is incumbent on YOU to figure out how to process the information handed out by the professor". This sounds like you are agreeing with the poster. If I have figured out how to process the information by using my laptop, then let me do that.
No Offense, but Im not sure why the parent mas moded 5 as insightful.
No one is talking about copyrighting the idea of superheros. They are talking about trademark infringement of the word "Superhero"
I suppose you are right. The free market will eventually get rid of most of the world's ills because in the end, businesses realize that it is in their best interest to take care of their world.
This is why the free market would not tolerate things like Slavery, child labor, sweat shops, lower salaries for women and minorities, unsafe working conditions, and a host of other things that the governments were too ineffectual to resolve.
(Note for the Irony impaired: This is sarcastic)
Maybe I need to reread it if I had an invalid assumption of the context, but I believe that the Judge laid out specific summaries that they must produce.
If they published the captured transcripts as a whole wouldnt that present a whole new privacy issue?
I mean, if the govenment illegaly recorded my conversations with my wife, I would be rather annoyed if the FOIA then allowed that illegaly attained conversation to be released to the whole world.
RTFA. Were not talking about the actual conversations that were recorded, but summary information about the records.
-What are the criteria for being recorded.
-What has the program actually accomplished.
etc...
Why has no one developed an external fire-wire graphics card for laptops?
The only reason that I can think of is that even fire-wire is not fast enough?
Anyone know what order of magnitude increaase in communications speed we would need to make something like this work? (assuming that is the problem, or course)
Its amazingly clear that not only have few of you RTFA, most have not even gotten past the title before you threw out a post.
Its a whole 4 sentences which make it clear that this is NOT a power source, and half the posts are talking about its potential as a power source.
Now if I could just find a way to bottle the power of human stupidity...
ergh. The one time I dont preview. Who knew slash dot wouldnt take brackts? My intended post:
Yeah, because when I read (reading is very important and should be made a priority to teach your children) a news piece (the news has too many negative articles, where are the positive stories?) I love to have to wade through tons of personal opinion (Where in the constitution does it give us the right to an opinion?) from the author of the story just to get the facts of the story (Dont confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up).
Thats why I love 20/20 and all of the other news magazines(Thats a bald faced lie), and John Stassle is the journalists Anti-Christ (ooh, that ones true).
Yeah, because when I read a news piece I love to have to wade through tons of personal opinion from the author of the story just to get the facts of the story . Thats why I love 20/20 and all of the other news magazines, and John Stassle is the journalists Anti-Christ .
this could be a great thing.
When I was a teenager I read a lot of fantasy, until I realized that 99.9% of the fantasy genre is taken directly from Tolkein. The same can be said about fantasy games. Its all Knights, Wizards, Orks, Elves, Dwarves and Dragons. Maybe they will mess with the names, but the roles are set in stone.
Anything realizeing a vision of its own would be a welcome change.
Not that any of that will help a crappy implimentation...
In Soviet Russia mirror neurons fire you. Aw hell. Ive obviously been following slashdot too long....
Actually no.
If you said that there was no conflist of interest between Creationists and Evolutionists I would agree. This is actually the Catholic Churches official stance. God created evolution. But ID specifically assumes that these systems are to complicated to have evolved on their own.
Thus ID and Evolution cannot both be correct.
Unless, of course, their thesis is on the unreliability of Wikipedia....
At a gut level I agree with you, but... There are a hell of a lot of things built into our government that, taken individually, seem to make no sense and drive us nuts (bill ammendments like this, the filibuster, and the electoral college are what immediatly come to mind) but taken as whole they are a very wise (IMHO) attempt to "muddy the math". In other words; intentional wrenches in the works to prevent the majority (at any aprticualy moment on any particual topic) from being able to get whatever they want and/or those in the minority being able to slip in what they want. Of course those "tools" are there to be used by all sides...
Maybe Ive just gotten cynical in my old age, but Im more inclined to think if a new party is less corrupt, its only because they have less oportunities for corruption.
For every dew-eyed idealist who joins a new party you have someone who sees an opportunity to "Get in at the ground floor"
I have never understood this argument. I have no problem with a third party, but what on earth is there about a third party that is going to be any more or less corrupt than the existing two?
There is nothing inherent to the parties that makes them corrupt. Its the people in the parties that bring the corruption. If they move to a different party they will just bring it with them.
If you look at history you will find that war time always sees a boon in prosthetic and other medical technologies. We are getting a LOT of soldiers coming home with missing and damaged limbs, so there is a surge in trial patients, funding and general interest. Granted this is comming from Germany, not the US.... Doctor StrangeLove anyone?
urgh. RTFA. No one is saying you are not going to buy music you already like because its cheap. Its about unknown music. Its the CD's/DVDs in the "Sale" box. Sure, we look in there sometimes and will grab a movie we have seen before cuase its cheap. But how often do you buy a movie you have never heard of out of the sale box? Never. Because the assumption is that if it is in the sale rack, it must be crap.