Doing that would be reason enough to fire you. Honestly, that's one of the stupidest ideas I've heard in this discussion, and there have been a lot of stupid ideas.
Possible data point: My sort-of uncle* is a famous photographer, Lee Friedlander. He carries his 35mm camera everywhere, and takes candid shots at family get-togethers. Occasionally a family member will get a print, but it will have a hand-written copyright notice on it, and I'm sure that the negatives are squirreled away somewhere safe.
The guy puts copyright notices on prints of candid shots taken at family get-togethers? What an arrogant prick. What is the idea behind that? It's unlikely that those pictures are really interesting to anyone outside your family, so what's he so worried about?
Nonetheless, this does not mean that the media as a whole is liberal. General Motors employs thousands of union workers who, for the most part, have liberal leanings and vote democrat. Would you therefore assume that the automotive interests of General Motors are represented by the Democratic Party? [Fact, GM consistanly supports conservitive candidates above liberal ones, all other factors being equal].
That's not the best argument, there. The union members who work on GM's factory floors are definitely not setting GM policy. The bosses who run GM probably have differing political viewpoints from the unionize workers.
However, journalists are the ones who write their articles and make comments on-air. Obviously there are editors, but they have to let their subordinates do most of the legwork and the writing. So if the writers are "liberal" then it makes sense that their viewpoints might (unconsciously?) show up in their journalism.
That isn't actually true. The bar in which my parents had their first date is still here on the University of Illinois campus (Kam's). There are a couple of others that are still here as well. I can also think of a number of other bars which I know have been around for at least 10-15 years.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is, as another poster said, located in both cities. But the bars which implement the system that guy was talking about are all in Champaign.
And an outstanding football team. Oh, no, that's right, we suck ass.
We do have the world's largest fraternity system, though.
It's interesting that one of America's top universities (overall, number 42, IIRC, according to the US News report, in the top 10 in most engineering disciplines, and is/has recently been the number 1 econ/accounting/finance school) is also the number 4 party school. The mix of both work and play is one of the reasons I love it here so much.
Doctors aren't able to get medical history for the patient, and inadvertantly administer a drug to which the patient has a fatal alergic reaction.
It's pretty stupid that they have no backups for the computer systems. What happens if the patient is some random guy without any ID, and unconscious? Obviously they can't look him up in the system, right? And besides, aren't people with known allergies like that supposed to wear medi-bracelets or something, in case that happens?
I'm not saying that the loss of computers wouldn't be a major loss to a hospital, but there really should be some sort of basic backup system to fall back on, just in case.
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I was thinking in terms of groceries, where many items are not tagged (e.g. vegetables since they have to be weighed)
I heard that the next innovation in GM foods is going to be RFID-compliant produce. You heard it here first!
I don't think so. Many movies make as much or more money on the VHS/DVD sales/rentals as they do in the theatre. You do realize that personal home video hasn't been around forever, right? It isn't like they left movies in the theatre forever before the VCR. They fought VHS/beta back in the early 80s and when they lost, they finally realized how much money could be made.
Pro bono doesn't mean you do something on the off chance that it will pay off if you win. Pro bono means that you do it for free, as a sort of charitable donation to the cause.
Well, not specifically, but when they wrote "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," by "pursuit of happiness" they actually did mean the right to earn a living and better oneself.
But I would absolutely agree with the idea that the American government is not set up to be a job-creator, if the reason those jobs are created is simply because they are trying to create jobs.
Nah, come on. Those jobs are still there whether drugs are legal or not. But if we make it legal, we need more lawyers, prosecutors, court clerks, court janitors, judges, prison guards, prison wardens, prison janitors, prison cooks, etc etc etc. See how many MORE jobs we can create by locking all those people up, too?
Yeah, but still, is 5000 people's annoyance worth the suffering the 500 people would feel if they all lost their jobs?
I'm not necessarily saying I agree with this point of view (the government shouldn't be responsible for creating jobs) but the point that statement is trying to make is that the suffering caused to that one telemarketer is worse than the total suffering he causes, and therefore it's ethically right to try to preserve those jobs.
Well, technically, it does search for the domain. When you go to the page it apparently presents a list of sites you meant to go to. I don't actually know, because my ISP is blocking it.
I guess that in the way you're thinking of it, it's not searching for the domain, but it does implement a search engine.
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You do realize that those "grants" are really just loans that you pay back in the form of much higher taxes, right?
Doing that would be reason enough to fire you. Honestly, that's one of the stupidest ideas I've heard in this discussion, and there have been a lot of stupid ideas.
The guy puts copyright notices on prints of candid shots taken at family get-togethers? What an arrogant prick. What is the idea behind that? It's unlikely that those pictures are really interesting to anyone outside your family, so what's he so worried about?
Heh. I still don't entirely understand. Is this just supposed to be fanciful or what?
Why turkeys? What about chickens? Is it just poultry or other animals like cows and pigs too?
I need to go to sleep. Heh...
I don't understand your sig. What, exactly, is wrong with being a turkey farmer?
That site is entirely too creepy for my liking. I am amazed that people obsess over weather personalities.
Liv Tyler isn't even that hot. Miranda Otto, though... she's smokin'.
Dad,
I have never accessed porn on the internet.
Love,
Your son.
That's not the best argument, there. The union members who work on GM's factory floors are definitely not setting GM policy. The bosses who run GM probably have differing political viewpoints from the unionize workers.
However, journalists are the ones who write their articles and make comments on-air. Obviously there are editors, but they have to let their subordinates do most of the legwork and the writing. So if the writers are "liberal" then it makes sense that their viewpoints might (unconsciously?) show up in their journalism.
Your response doesn't make any sense.
What does being a "blind cripple" have to do with anything?
That isn't actually true. The bar in which my parents had their first date is still here on the University of Illinois campus (Kam's). There are a couple of others that are still here as well. I can also think of a number of other bars which I know have been around for at least 10-15 years.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is, as another poster said, located in both cities. But the bars which implement the system that guy was talking about are all in Champaign.
And an outstanding football team. Oh, no, that's right, we suck ass.
We do have the world's largest fraternity system, though.
It's interesting that one of America's top universities (overall, number 42, IIRC, according to the US News report, in the top 10 in most engineering disciplines, and is/has recently been the number 1 econ/accounting/finance school) is also the number 4 party school. The mix of both work and play is one of the reasons I love it here so much.
I could, but then, I live on a farm.*
*ok, not technically ON a farm, but my dad does farm, our house just happens to be five miles away, in town. But we could eat our food, yes.
It's pretty stupid that they have no backups for the computer systems. What happens if the patient is some random guy without any ID, and unconscious? Obviously they can't look him up in the system, right? And besides, aren't people with known allergies like that supposed to wear medi-bracelets or something, in case that happens?
I'm not saying that the loss of computers wouldn't be a major loss to a hospital, but there really should be some sort of basic backup system to fall back on, just in case.
I heard that the next innovation in GM foods is going to be RFID-compliant produce. You heard it here first!
Why can we have a Victory Records and a Victory Music, but the Beetles and Apple Computer can't share the Apple name?
I don't think so. Many movies make as much or more money on the VHS/DVD sales/rentals as they do in the theatre. You do realize that personal home video hasn't been around forever, right? It isn't like they left movies in the theatre forever before the VCR. They fought VHS/beta back in the early 80s and when they lost, they finally realized how much money could be made.
Pro bono doesn't mean you do something on the off chance that it will pay off if you win. Pro bono means that you do it for free, as a sort of charitable donation to the cause.
Well, not specifically, but when they wrote "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," by "pursuit of happiness" they actually did mean the right to earn a living and better oneself.
But I would absolutely agree with the idea that the American government is not set up to be a job-creator, if the reason those jobs are created is simply because they are trying to create jobs.
Nah, come on. Those jobs are still there whether drugs are legal or not. But if we make it legal, we need more lawyers, prosecutors, court clerks, court janitors, judges, prison guards, prison wardens, prison janitors, prison cooks, etc etc etc. See how many MORE jobs we can create by locking all those people up, too?
Yeah, but still, is 5000 people's annoyance worth the suffering the 500 people would feel if they all lost their jobs?
I'm not necessarily saying I agree with this point of view (the government shouldn't be responsible for creating jobs) but the point that statement is trying to make is that the suffering caused to that one telemarketer is worse than the total suffering he causes, and therefore it's ethically right to try to preserve those jobs.
Well, technically, it does search for the domain. When you go to the page it apparently presents a list of sites you meant to go to. I don't actually know, because my ISP is blocking it.
I guess that in the way you're thinking of it, it's not searching for the domain, but it does implement a search engine.
If I hadn't already posted in this discussion I would have modded your post +1 Funny. Well done.