He's really really slashdotted. In fact, I think he may have the wrong idea about the slashdotting. He thinks he's under a DDOS attack. From his site as of 3:00pm eastern on 3/28/2007:
Dear Beloved Newsvine Users,
We are currently experiencing a possible Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDOS), possibly in connection with the John McCain MySpace prank on Monday. We do not suspect the McCain camp has anything to do with this, and Newsvine will be back in service as soon as things are under control. Hopefully within minutes.
I always get tongue-tied when I'm trying to respond to a Bushie. My point was going to be that the picture he linked to was based on land area, not population. I got done typing up a post along those lines twice and nixed it both times.
I mean, if this guy doesn't already realize that his argument is stupid, how am I going to convince him? I already know that he's willing to defend Bush in a public forum, which makes him an idiot and closed-minded. It feels like trying to teach algebra to a kid who can't do fractions (which is my job, by the way, so I know exactly how it feels).
And yet, finding a SW fan who'll mail nine bucks to UNICEF, instead of going to the midnight show of a movie with a character named Kit Fisto, is like pulling teeth from a chicken.
I do hereby solemnly swear that I will mail nine bucks to UNICEF instead of going to that fucking movie. Problem is, that qualifies me as an ex-fan, which I've been for approx. [(now) - (release date of episode 1)] years.
You also have to buy a bow and arrows to shoot the spider crab thing in the eye. The video has the guy playing the rupee game twice for 50 rupees each time, as well as getting an "it's a secret to everybody."
I professor showed me the Robbins Algebra proof a while ago. I was going to link here, but first I searched the page for (Score:5, Informative), and there you were:)
Here's an excerpt:
In 1933, E. V. Huntington presented [1,2] the following basis for Boolean algebra:
x + y = y + x. [commutativity]
(x + y) + z = x + (y + z). [associativity]
n(n(x) + y) + n(n(x) + n(y)) = x. [Huntington equation]
Shortly thereafter, Herbert Robbins conjectured that the Huntington equation can be replaced with a simpler one [5]:
n(n(x + y) + n(x + n(y))) = x. [Robbins equation]
Robbins and Huntington could not find a proof. The theorem was proved automatically by EQP, a theorem proving program developed at Argonne National Laboratory.
RTFA: It's $30 for a faux CREDIT CARD. In real life, they're free. (Also, when you buy it for someone, they get $28.00 in credit to spend on more worthless imaginary stuff. What a deal!)
By comparison, the second most expensive item is a faux private jet, valued at $14.99
Marriage is about the community recognizing a relationship. For that to happen it has to be a legal recognition and not just a casual one.
My favorite math professor is married. I've met his kids, and I've been in his office when he was on the phone giving his wife computer advice. When I saw him at a Univ. festival, he was with his family; his wife and kids. The community recognizes their relationship, and refer to them using words like "married," "husband," and "wife."
However, they never bothered to get married legally or under any church. People who know this about them regard it as a trivial factoid. It's rather like knowing that a famous scene from a movie was shot in your back yard; interesting but not terribly relevant. Also, I wouldn't call their relationship "casual."
They're not religious (the prof himself was brought up Jewish, but he isn't really a believer). And, they had no reason to ask the government whether it approved of them living together. There were no laws against it.
Except the AWOL aligations were false, and the White House proved otherwise. This was a blatent attempt of the Democrats to portray John Kerry as the "war hero" while Bush as a deserter.
In fact, the White House didn't have a leg to stand on. They talked out their asses for a while until they convinced everyone who doesn't pay attention that they had a case. If you paid attention, like I did, you'd have a different view. To give you some documentation, I googled it. Here's a good article on the subject:
It's from USA Today. A relevant excerpt (boldfaces mine):
In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press, Bush said he fulfilled his Guard commitment and offered to make his records public. Host Tim Russert asked, "Would you authorize the release of everything to settle this?" Bush replied, "Yes, absolutely."
Since then, White House officials have released only documents concerning whether Bush fulfilled his service obligations. White House statements have not addressed the release of any papers that could show disciplinary actions, medical exams, legal scrapes and the like.
On Tuesday, the White House released pay records from a military archive in Denver that it said showed Bush was paid for at least the minimum training time he was obligated for in 1972 and 1973.
But the records showed only what days he was paid for, not where he was or what duty he performed. Neither did they address outstanding questions about why Bush missed a required physical in 1972, forcing him to stop flying, or what happened during a five-month gap in 1972 when Bush didn't show up for training.
Here's another article for your perusal (boldfacing mine, again):
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the records "show that he was paid for his service, and you get paid for the days on which you serve."
That's the proof the white house had, BTW. Pay records. I've heard members of the national guard at the time say that they had managed to get paid without even showing up for duty. We'll assume for the sake of argument that GWB was 'getting paid for the days on which he served,' though:
The records indicate that between May 1972 and May 1973, Bush served 14 days -- two days in October, four days in November, six days in January and two days in April. The White House offered no indication of why there was a gap in Bush's service from April to October, 1972.
That's a five month gap. Nobody knows where he was during those five months.
AWOL----absent for 30 days or less. Desertion-----absent for more than 30 days with evidence of no intent to return to duty. Five months-----150 days
There are two Ians. The guy who played Bilbo was Ian Holm, and the guy who played Gandalf was Ian McKellen. (Iorlas was also an Ian; Ian Hughes [there was an Ian Tapp in the sound department, an Ian Cope in special effects, and Ian Murray whose job was "headrigger" according to IMDb])
While I can't see McKellen playing a hobbit, Holm would probably do a decent job;). So, I guess I know which one you're talking about from context, but then again, the rest of this thread might get a little tricky.
Really hard to tell if poems written IN perl obey the 5-7-5 rule, which is obnoxious, because you know at least half of their authors don't know about that rule. Lots of people think a haiku means "short-long-short" not 5-7-5.
You may not realize this, but Blizzard sucks. Their games are the Backstreet Boys/Brit Spears of software.
They go out of their way to oversimplify their games so that they'll reach the lowest common denominator. For example, just before the release of Diablo 1, they cut out almost half the game. That's right; Diablo was almost twice as big as what you played, but they thought you were too dumb for it. They want to sell their games to stupid people, the same way Justin Timberlake's managers and songwriters design him to appeal to the young and dumb. Also, notice how every one of their strategy games requires heavy micromanagement and is really more about having a shorter attention span than your opponent; selling points if you aren't actually smart enough for strategy. Just log onto battle.net and you'll see how well they did their job. It's populated by angry, grammar-free, socially inept 14-year-olds with Napoleon complexes who think the ultimate insult is "noob". While you're there, you might also notice how buggy their network and internet code is.
Also, their ideas were never original, and they're showing no signs of changing. Warcraft was not original; it came early but it took its ideas from Dune II and Herzog Zwei. Diablo's idea came (obviously) from Rogue, and it's implementation was new-concept-free; the entities stand still and swing at each other exactly the same was as in warcraft. Since then, all their games have been mechanichally identical to one of the two, with new flashy graphics and reworked units/spells/monsters. This is the same mentality that has given us boy-band after boy-band, from The Monkeys to New Kids on the Block to N'Sync, in shameless attempts to copy the Beatles. Don't waste my time by telling me that these days they're making a generic role-playing game with warcraft backstory; roleplaying games are a dime a dozen (and so are MMORPGs). That's probably the least orignal thing they've ever done.
I'm with TPFH. The overwhelming right-wing stupor in the US would cause me to lose faith in humanity completely if I couldn't log on to slashdot and poke fun at it from time to time.
I've been surrounded by dictionaries, encyclopedias and similar books for most of my life.
Here you define dictionaries, encyclopedias, and similar sources for information to exist only in book form. My guess is that these days when you want to look up a word's meaning, you still use a dictionary, except that it's online. Perhaps there should be a pair of categories; one that includes dictionareies and encyclopedias, and one that includes the ways in which they are presented. Either way what I basically want to say to you is, "don't be such a technophobe."
It sure would make me feel better. Why not bring back the kid who played Anakin in episode 1 for a cameo as another young jedi, so he can get killed as well? Maybe Jar-Jar could be a jedi too!
I have no good "reason" or "argument" to suggest that logos is in some sense dominant
Doesn't the fact that Eros is only known to "exist" on the surface of the earth, which is dwarfed a trillion times over by the size of just the galaxy it's in, give you any clues?
GOD: You take the blue pill, you wake up embedded in an ignorant and solipsist society, and believe in whatever eros you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in reality, and discover for yourself that it doesn't matter in the slightest whether you believe in me or not.
Ha! Of course what they're doing is legal. They pay millions of dollars paying to get laws made. Just because they're doing something legal doesn't mean they aren't sleazebags from hell. Most of our government is composed of sleazebags from hell.
What confuses me is why they want to shut down file-sharing it all. Are they stupid? Or just buttholes? Or are my sources wrong? I certainly remember hearing that record sales dropped big time when they took Napster down.
No, no, you see, we (where "we" is defined as Bush, the Hawks, and Big Business; the ruling class of the US) don't expect them to make any music, and even if they did, we don't care if they make any money off it. The reason we're using Darth Rosen is to make sure those citizens of Iraq who want to listen to N'Sync's latest abomination have to contribute $20 a piece to the record companies who so generously contributed the legislation.
After all, without the so gererously contributed (and, above-all, critical) legislation, Iraq would be plunged into a state of anarchy in which citizens could listen to pirated music for free and rich americans would suffer millions, trillions, and octillians in lost revenue and probably starve.
Slashdot Mirror
He's really really slashdotted. In fact, I think he may have the wrong idea about the slashdotting. He thinks he's under a DDOS attack. From his site as of 3:00pm eastern on 3/28/2007:
Dear Beloved Newsvine Users,
We are currently experiencing a possible Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDOS), possibly in connection with the John McCain MySpace prank on Monday. We do not suspect the McCain camp has anything to do with this, and Newsvine will be back in service as soon as things are under control. Hopefully within minutes.
Apologies for the outage,
The Newsvine Team
Count me in. I'm none too proud to be an american these days. A united states of american, I mean. I don't even capitolize(sp?) it.
I always get tongue-tied when I'm trying to respond to a Bushie. My point was going to be that the picture he linked to was based on land area, not population. I got done typing up a post along those lines twice and nixed it both times.
I mean, if this guy doesn't already realize that his argument is stupid, how am I going to convince him? I already know that he's willing to defend Bush in a public forum, which makes him an idiot and closed-minded. It feels like trying to teach algebra to a kid who can't do fractions (which is my job, by the way, so I know exactly how it feels).
And yet, finding a SW fan who'll mail nine bucks to UNICEF, instead of going to the midnight show of a movie with a character named Kit Fisto, is like pulling teeth from a chicken.
I do hereby solemnly swear that I will mail nine bucks to UNICEF instead of going to that fucking movie. Problem is, that qualifies me as an ex-fan, which I've been for approx. [(now) - (release date of episode 1)] years.
You also have to buy a bow and arrows to shoot the spider crab thing in the eye. The video has the guy playing the rupee game twice for 50 rupees each time, as well as getting an "it's a secret to everybody."
I professor showed me the Robbins Algebra proof a while ago. I was going to link here, but first I searched the page for (Score:5, Informative), and there you were :)
Here's an excerpt:
In 1933, E. V. Huntington presented [1,2] the following basis for Boolean algebra:
x + y = y + x. [commutativity]
(x + y) + z = x + (y + z). [associativity]
n(n(x) + y) + n(n(x) + n(y)) = x. [Huntington equation]
Shortly thereafter, Herbert Robbins conjectured that the Huntington equation can be replaced with a simpler one [5]:
n(n(x + y) + n(x + n(y))) = x. [Robbins equation]
Robbins and Huntington could not find a proof. The theorem was proved automatically by EQP, a theorem proving program developed at Argonne National Laboratory.
I have to salute this as very clever.
Nynaeve responds:
I sincerely hope you are kidding.
I think he meant it was very clever satire
Well, judging from my sig...
RTFA: It's $30 for a faux CREDIT CARD. In real life, they're free. (Also, when you buy it for someone, they get $28.00 in credit to spend on more worthless imaginary stuff. What a deal!)
By comparison, the second most expensive item is a faux private jet, valued at $14.99
When a vehicle changes owners, you are required to change theh plates.
Marriage is about the community recognizing a relationship. For that to happen it has to be a legal recognition and not just a casual one.
My favorite math professor is married. I've met his kids, and I've been in his office when he was on the phone giving his wife computer advice. When I saw him at a Univ. festival, he was with his family; his wife and kids. The community recognizes their relationship, and refer to them using words like "married," "husband," and "wife."
However, they never bothered to get married legally or under any church. People who know this about them regard it as a trivial factoid. It's rather like knowing that a famous scene from a movie was shot in your back yard; interesting but not terribly relevant. Also, I wouldn't call their relationship "casual."
They're not religious (the prof himself was brought up Jewish, but he isn't really a believer). And, they had no reason to ask the government whether it approved of them living together. There were no laws against it.
That plays pretty well into the common attack on W that his connections got him through. You're right though; it's tough to be sure either way.
Except the AWOL aligations were false, and the White House proved otherwise. This was a blatent attempt of the Democrats to portray John Kerry as the "war hero" while Bush as a deserter.
1 -bush-guard-usat_x.htm
In fact, the White House didn't have a leg to stand on. They talked out their asses for a while until they convinced everyone who doesn't pay attention that they had a case. If you paid attention, like I did, you'd have a different view. To give you some documentation, I googled it. Here's a good article on the subject:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-02-1
It's from USA Today. A relevant excerpt (boldfaces mine):
In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press, Bush said he fulfilled his Guard commitment and offered to make his records public. Host Tim Russert asked, "Would you authorize the release of everything to settle this?" Bush replied, "Yes, absolutely."
Since then, White House officials have released only documents concerning whether Bush fulfilled his service obligations. White House statements have not addressed the release of any papers that could show disciplinary actions, medical exams, legal scrapes and the like.
On Tuesday, the White House released pay records from a military archive in Denver that it said showed Bush was paid for at least the minimum training time he was obligated for in 1972 and 1973.
But the records showed only what days he was paid for, not where he was or what duty he performed. Neither did they address outstanding questions about why Bush missed a required physical in 1972, forcing him to stop flying, or what happened during a five-month gap in 1972 when Bush didn't show up for training.
Here's another article for your perusal (boldfacing mine, again):
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the records "show that he was paid for his service, and you get paid for the days on which you serve."
That's the proof the white house had, BTW. Pay records. I've heard members of the national guard at the time say that they had managed to get paid without even showing up for duty. We'll assume for the sake of argument that GWB was 'getting paid for the days on which he served,' though:
The records indicate that between May 1972 and May 1973, Bush served 14 days -- two days in October, four days in November, six days in January and two days in April. The White House offered no indication of why there was a gap in Bush's service from April to October, 1972.
That's a five month gap. Nobody knows where he was during those five months.
AWOL----absent for 30 days or less.
Desertion-----absent for more than 30 days with evidence of no intent to return to duty.
Five months-----150 days
Ian as a hobbit would be different though...
;). So, I guess I know which one you're talking about from context, but then again, the rest of this thread might get a little tricky.
There are two Ians. The guy who played Bilbo was Ian Holm, and the guy who played Gandalf was Ian McKellen. (Iorlas was also an Ian; Ian Hughes [there was an Ian Tapp in the sound department, an Ian Cope in special effects, and Ian Murray whose job was "headrigger" according to IMDb])
While I can't see McKellen playing a hobbit, Holm would probably do a decent job
Really hard to tell if poems written IN perl obey the 5-7-5 rule, which is obnoxious, because you know at least half of their authors don't know about that rule. Lots of people think a haiku means "short-long-short" not 5-7-5.
You may not realize this, but Blizzard sucks. Their games are the Backstreet Boys/Brit Spears of software.
They go out of their way to oversimplify their games so that they'll reach the lowest common denominator. For example, just before the release of Diablo 1, they cut out almost half the game. That's right; Diablo was almost twice as big as what you played, but they thought you were too dumb for it. They want to sell their games to stupid people, the same way Justin Timberlake's managers and songwriters design him to appeal to the young and dumb. Also, notice how every one of their strategy games requires heavy micromanagement and is really more about having a shorter attention span than your opponent; selling points if you aren't actually smart enough for strategy. Just log onto battle.net and you'll see how well they did their job. It's populated by angry, grammar-free, socially inept 14-year-olds with Napoleon complexes who think the ultimate insult is "noob". While you're there, you might also notice how buggy their network and internet code is.
Also, their ideas were never original, and they're showing no signs of changing. Warcraft was not original; it came early but it took its ideas from Dune II and Herzog Zwei. Diablo's idea came (obviously) from Rogue, and it's implementation was new-concept-free; the entities stand still and swing at each other exactly the same was as in warcraft. Since then, all their games have been mechanichally identical to one of the two, with new flashy graphics and reworked units/spells/monsters. This is the same mentality that has given us boy-band after boy-band, from The Monkeys to New Kids on the Block to N'Sync, in shameless attempts to copy the Beatles. Don't waste my time by telling me that these days they're making a generic role-playing game with warcraft backstory; roleplaying games are a dime a dozen (and so are MMORPGs). That's probably the least orignal thing they've ever done.
The site mentioned in your sig, electionmethods.org, has been hacked. Please get it fixed up so I can have a look. I'm interested.
I'm with TPFH. The overwhelming right-wing stupor in the US would cause me to lose faith in humanity completely if I couldn't log on to slashdot and poke fun at it from time to time.
I've been surrounded by dictionaries, encyclopedias and similar books for most of my life.
Here you define dictionaries, encyclopedias, and similar sources for information to exist only in book form. My guess is that these days when you want to look up a word's meaning, you still use a dictionary, except that it's online. Perhaps there should be a pair of categories; one that includes dictionareies and encyclopedias, and one that includes the ways in which they are presented. Either way what I basically want to say to you is, "don't be such a technophobe."
It might be interressant to compare...
Sounds like your native language is French. That laguage is, in fact, latin-based (whereas English is actually considered to be Germanic).
It sure would make me feel better. Why not bring back the kid who played Anakin in episode 1 for a cameo as another young jedi, so he can get killed as well? Maybe Jar-Jar could be a jedi too!
Well, they give all managers lobotomies. How else would they be able to stand going to meetings for 7 hours a day.
Meetings are lobotomies. Long, drawn-out ones, that slowly kill you over time, like cigarettes.
I have no good "reason" or "argument" to suggest that logos is in some sense dominant
Doesn't the fact that Eros is only known to "exist" on the surface of the earth, which is dwarfed a trillion times over by the size of just the galaxy it's in, give you any clues?
GOD: You take the blue pill, you wake up embedded in an ignorant and solipsist society, and believe in whatever eros you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in reality, and discover for yourself that it doesn't matter in the slightest whether you believe in me or not.
The Music industry is perfectly legally correct.
Ha! Of course what they're doing is legal. They pay millions of dollars paying to get laws made. Just because they're doing something legal doesn't mean they aren't sleazebags from hell. Most of our government is composed of sleazebags from hell.
What confuses me is why they want to shut down file-sharing it all. Are they stupid? Or just buttholes? Or are my sources wrong? I certainly remember hearing that record sales dropped big time when they took Napster down.
No, no, you see, we (where "we" is defined as Bush, the Hawks, and Big Business; the ruling class of the US) don't expect them to make any music, and even if they did, we don't care if they make any money off it. The reason we're using Darth Rosen is to make sure those citizens of Iraq who want to listen to N'Sync's latest abomination have to contribute $20 a piece to the record companies who so generously contributed the legislation.
After all, without the so gererously contributed (and, above-all, critical) legislation, Iraq would be plunged into a state of anarchy in which citizens could listen to pirated music for free and rich americans would suffer millions, trillions, and octillians in lost revenue and probably starve.