I think if they were smart enough to be able to code, they'd probably have been smart enough to avoid this sort of bullshit situation in which they're basically held captive to play stupid games all day like some sort of digital bondage slave.
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OS X only exists to make people want to buy Apple hardware. Allowing OS X on commodity hardware would dilute their brand and suck buyers away from what they're actually trying to sell.
Because talking about any other kind of computer isn't cool to non-nerds. Having a Mac is cool to non-nerds. Kind of like having a bunch of IRC friens or ICQ contacts in 1999 made you super lame, but having a gazillion Facebook or MySpace friends makes you super bad-ass and kew'. Basically, its a way to be less of an outcast without having to change any fundamental behavior. At least, I think that's what it is.
Because it's not about the military's needs, its about public health, health care costs, quality of life, etc. Being fit for duty is only one side effect.
If we still had mandatory conscription in this country, like pretty much everywhere else in the civilized world, we probably wouldn't have as many of the health problems that we have.
Increasing physical activity for kids really just makes sense on so many levels.
I'd have thought the cheapest option would be to make gym teachers do their job better, and not cut recess from elementary schools. Frankly, kids probably need recess time straight through high school -- 45 minutes of being out doors and actually doing something other than sitting in a chair. Using video games to trick kids who got fat from playing video games and eating tubes of cookie dough until they started to resemble it is just sort of ridiculous. Increase physical activity and I guarantee you we'd see less "ADD", too.
Most of the people I know who fall under this description dislike psychologists the most of all scientists and/or academics. I doubt that this will help change anything; it'll probably just make it worse.
I'm no fancy, big city lawyer, but it seems to me that going to craigslist and buying the phone off-market is the very definition of circumvention (going around), where as presenting falsified credentials during purchase is just out-right breaking the law.
Nerds are notorious consumers of potato chips... it's the chips that are the nerd angle here, although I agree, it would have been more clear had he used a tube of Pringles instead.
But isn't BBC equally tied to British Identity as the Queen, and arguably much more... important/useful/attractive? Would Brits really stand for privatization of the BBC?
Read on Slashdot like a week ago a court decision in Germany that opened the flood gates to software patents in Europe, so Europe's about to be retarded, too, if that's the case. However, you're forgetting the other Slashdot rallying cries of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", "all's fair in software and war," and "HA-HA".
It's not, its more like when the kid who finally stands up to the bully and punches him in the face gets called to the principal's office for fighting in school.
Good satire often lampoons its target by making the argument it's against, and taking it ad absurdum, in order to do show how stupid it is. So, it needs to be based in fact to succeed, otherwise its not really satire, just jack-assery. The Prince can therefor serve the other roll.
But, if we really want to talk about subtle -- did you know the scene in Gulliver where he pisses on the fire in the Lilliputian castle is a treatment of the War of Spanish Succession? At least, that's what the annotations in the Norton's anthology we used in my Restoration and 18th Century Literature class back in '05 said.
The Prince is great satire. The problem with Machiavelli, however, is that he was somewhat less subtle with his intentions than Johnathan Swift was in 'A Modest Proposal'. No one thinks that Swift was true advocating cannibalism and murder as a 'solution' to the Irish question, yet Machiavelli seems to have accidentally become more closely tied to the concepts of Fascism than Mussolini or Giovanni Gentile (the co-author of The Doctrine of Fascism which laid out the principles of the Italian variety). Poor guy.... its not fair people are too stupid to get things.
comparing a Gutenberg bible to a hand-crafted, illuminated art-work bible is like comparing a Model-T to a Bentley. there is nothing superior about it, beyond its significance in a historical sense that probably took at least a few decades to come into perspective. part of being special is being rare or limited in supply, if not completely unique.
I don't know, the 15Mbit cable connection I have at home seems to be quite a bit faster than the 10Mbit/sec cavtel fractional ds3 we have at the office, and there are only 3 people at my location, so it's not network saturation that's the problem. It might be all the test equipment that we have in-line though. meh.
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I think if they were smart enough to be able to code, they'd probably have been smart enough to avoid this sort of bullshit situation in which they're basically held captive to play stupid games all day like some sort of digital bondage slave.
OS X only exists to make people want to buy Apple hardware. Allowing OS X on commodity hardware would dilute their brand and suck buyers away from what they're actually trying to sell.
Because talking about any other kind of computer isn't cool to non-nerds. Having a Mac is cool to non-nerds. Kind of like having a bunch of IRC friens or ICQ contacts in 1999 made you super lame, but having a gazillion Facebook or MySpace friends makes you super bad-ass and kew'. Basically, its a way to be less of an outcast without having to change any fundamental behavior. At least, I think that's what it is.
Because it's not about the military's needs, its about public health, health care costs, quality of life, etc. Being fit for duty is only one side effect.
If we still had mandatory conscription in this country, like pretty much everywhere else in the civilized world, we probably wouldn't have as many of the health problems that we have.
Increasing physical activity for kids really just makes sense on so many levels.
I'd have thought the cheapest option would be to make gym teachers do their job better, and not cut recess from elementary schools. Frankly, kids probably need recess time straight through high school -- 45 minutes of being out doors and actually doing something other than sitting in a chair. Using video games to trick kids who got fat from playing video games and eating tubes of cookie dough until they started to resemble it is just sort of ridiculous. Increase physical activity and I guarantee you we'd see less "ADD", too.
that's just what they want you to believe! #peopleinthesouth
Most of the people I know who fall under this description dislike psychologists the most of all scientists and/or academics. I doubt that this will help change anything; it'll probably just make it worse.
well, a Google search shows that they spell the cut with a 'c', likely to avoid this sort of thing in the first place.
no one wants to see whale porn so there's probably no market for it.
I'm no fancy, big city lawyer, but it seems to me that going to craigslist and buying the phone off-market is the very definition of circumvention (going around), where as presenting falsified credentials during purchase is just out-right breaking the law.
Where are these KKK Chips from? Stone Mountain, GA?
which raises another question... is there not a single enlisted man in the entirety of star fleet? everyone seems to be a commissioned officer.
Nerds are notorious consumers of potato chips... it's the chips that are the nerd angle here, although I agree, it would have been more clear had he used a tube of Pringles instead.
But isn't BBC equally tied to British Identity as the Queen, and arguably much more... important/useful/attractive? Would Brits really stand for privatization of the BBC?
Read on Slashdot like a week ago a court decision in Germany that opened the flood gates to software patents in Europe, so Europe's about to be retarded, too, if that's the case. However, you're forgetting the other Slashdot rallying cries of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", "all's fair in software and war," and "HA-HA".
I write Perl largely like I learned to write C, so its very readable, though perhaps not particularly idiomatic.
isn't Python the Visual Basic of the FOSS world?
It's not, its more like when the kid who finally stands up to the bully and punches him in the face gets called to the principal's office for fighting in school.
your right, its two whole words, each independent of each other, yet acting in harmony out of unity of purpose.
Good satire often lampoons its target by making the argument it's against, and taking it ad absurdum, in order to do show how stupid it is. So, it needs to be based in fact to succeed, otherwise its not really satire, just jack-assery. The Prince can therefor serve the other roll.
But, if we really want to talk about subtle -- did you know the scene in Gulliver where he pisses on the fire in the Lilliputian castle is a treatment of the War of Spanish Succession? At least, that's what the annotations in the Norton's anthology we used in my Restoration and 18th Century Literature class back in '05 said.
In corporate America, democracy means capitalism?
The Prince is great satire. The problem with Machiavelli, however, is that he was somewhat less subtle with his intentions than Johnathan Swift was in 'A Modest Proposal'. No one thinks that Swift was true advocating cannibalism and murder as a 'solution' to the Irish question, yet Machiavelli seems to have accidentally become more closely tied to the concepts of Fascism than Mussolini or Giovanni Gentile (the co-author of The Doctrine of Fascism which laid out the principles of the Italian variety). Poor guy.... its not fair people are too stupid to get things.
comparing a Gutenberg bible to a hand-crafted, illuminated art-work bible is like comparing a Model-T to a Bentley. there is nothing superior about it, beyond its significance in a historical sense that probably took at least a few decades to come into perspective. part of being special is being rare or limited in supply, if not completely unique.
i thought adult bullies were called cops...
I don't know, the 15Mbit cable connection I have at home seems to be quite a bit faster than the 10Mbit/sec cavtel fractional ds3 we have at the office, and there are only 3 people at my location, so it's not network saturation that's the problem. It might be all the test equipment that we have in-line though. meh.