Playing devil's advocate...
This is my website, and I am going to deny whatever freeloaders try to abuse it. Freeloaders have used up website resources without compensating for it. Rather than not rip me off, they run special software to fuck me over, driving up costs and taking away resources from legitimate users. So fuck the ad blockers. They just lost the privilege of being able to browse my website.
Playing devil's devil's advocate...
If I'm new to your site, how do I know it's worth frequenting and/or tolerating (risking) your ads? I don't know you or your advertisers. Why should I trust you from the get-go?
I'm pretty sure you're the one trying to make a buck here, so don't be a total dick to those simply trying to protect their systems and/or their browsing experience.
Perhaps you should consider displaying some content and state your case. People who want to return and view your more in-depth content can white-list your site.
If your site appears valuable and innocuous, I'll support you. Otherwise, I'll find someone else -- and there are plenty out there to take your place -- and you'll lose the privilege of my business...
Several sections of the ACTA draft show that rights holders can obtain an injunction just by showing that infringement is 'imminent,' even if it hasn't happened yet.
It's handled by the Precrime unit. Tom Cruise comes out of the closet, I mean down through the skylight, and wraps a "halo" around your head...
Python is much more readable to both programmers and even non-programmers.
I'm sorry, but Python's "block/group by indent" syntax is stupid and dangerous. Using a language where the programming is so easily manipulated and difficult for the untrained eye to discern would be a major problem.
Guido van Rossum's geek card should be revoked for designing Python like this.
Flame me if you like Python lovers, but you know I'm right.
Those apparently terrifying new figures detailing the supposed loss of money and jobs due to piracy in Europe turn out to be little more than a re-statement of the industry's previous claims in a slightly different form.
Apparently, the report writers noted that the sale of eye-patches and peg-legs didn't correlate with industry claims of piracy...
True, but students are not taught OO programming at the beginning and not all programming lends itself to that methodology. In any case, students need to learn the skills themselves and have a wide variety of skills. In the specific case of code re-use, without their own skills, properly developed, how can they contribute or even know if the code they're using is appropriate (or even correct)?
Leaving aside the usual nonsense that kids today are worthless and can't do anything right,...
Leaving aside that this story, A Cheating Crisis in America's Schools, by ABC Primetime, seems to indicate that this statement is basically true. More importantly, they don't seem to care.
"Whether or not you did it or not, if you can get the jury to say that you're not guilty, you're free," said Will, a student at one of the top public high schools in the nation.
Mary, a student at a large university in the South, said, "A lot of people think it's like you're not really there to learn anything. You're just learning to learn the system."
"There's other people getting better grades than me and they're cheating. Why am I not going to cheat? It's kind of almost stupid if you don't," said Joe.
A business student at a top state university, said, "Everything is about the grade that you got in the class. Nobody looks at how you got it." He graduates in a few weeks and will go on to a job with a top investment firm.
Others see it as a sort of moral relativity. Some students feel it is perfectly OK to cheat in some situations and in some courses.
"You'll have an engineer say, 'You know, what do I need to know about English literature? I shouldn't have to take this course,' " said Don McCabe, a professor who heads the center for academic integrity at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
For Mary's classmate Pam, it was a different sort of prioritizing. "You don't want to be a dork and study for eight hours a day. You want to go out and have fun."
Methane from livestock is a major source of greenhouse gases...
Unless we devise a method to capture that methane at the source. I'll leave it to the reader's imagination as to how that device might constructed and/or attached...
For all those considering seeing a Chiropractor, consider seeing a Physiatrist instead. This is a MD specializing in restoring optimal function to people with injuries to the muscles, bones, tissues, and nervous system. Quite often they have Chiropractic training (or the equivalent) as well. They know when to stop "cracking the bones" and start doing medicine and have the MD to do so. They also don't seem to want the "maintenance" income - I mean - visits that Chiropractors seem to want...
Personal example. My wife injured her neck hiking. The Chiropractor did one x-ray and wanted to start her on routine (weekly) manipulations to get and keep things "aligned". The Physiatrist did several x-rays, took a complete medical history, did one manipulation and a gave shot of cortisone into the controlling neck muscle and told her she only had to return if she re-injured it. She never needed any further treatment.
Another example. A friend hurt her foot, but was actually dating a Chiropractor. He said he could fix her foot with manipulation and massage. After a week of pain, he took her to his office for an x-ray - that revealed her foot was actually broken.
There has been virtually NO support anywhere for this "outsourcing" of NASA. Out of 435 Representatives and 100 Senators, ONE has backed the President. And he will see, again, the outrage of the American people.
A sweet revisionist history by our Congress people, but as Buzz Aldrin mentioned in this article, neither President Bush or the Congress supported fully-funding the "Vision for Space Exploration" program:
For the past six years America's civil space program has been aimed at returning astronauts to the Moon by 2020. That's the plan announced by President George W. Bush in January of 2004.... But two things happened along the way since that announcement, which became known as the Vision for Space Exploration.
First, the President (Bush) failed to fully fund the program, as he had initially promised. As a result, each year the development of the rockets and spacecraft called for in the plan slipped further and further behind.
Second, NASA also raided the Earth and space science budgets in the struggle to keep the program, named Project Constellation, on track.
To keep the focus on the return to the Moon, NASA pretty much abandoned all hope of preparing for Mars exploration. It looked like building bases on the Moon would consume all of NASA's resources. Yet despite much complaining, neither a Republican-controlled nor a Democratic-controlled Congress was willing or able to add back those missing and needed funds.
Onboard storage, however, is not the point, according to Microsoft executives. In fact, both phones serve as a portal to the cloud, storing photos, videos and other data on the network, rather than on the phone. Neither phone, for example, has an SD card slot, executives said.
"Thousands of customers walk into our stores every month and ask us, how do I get photos off this phone?" said John Harrobin, Verizon's vice president of digital media.
So now they'll ask: "How do I get photos off 'the cloud'." Yes, much better.
The summary is right, that is the most geometrical feature I've ever seen in the solar system. At least twice as geometrical as all those spheroids and ellipses.
Sadly, it's a direct quote of the first line of TFA:
Saturn boasts one of the solar system's most geometrical features: a giant hexagon encircling its north pole.
It gave me a buzz, and I liked that buzz. I also liked the taste of the smoke.
The buzz I can understand. Nicotine is a strong stimulant - though it wears off very quickly, which is why some people say having a cigarette calms them down - and I'm sure other aspects of the smoke and Oxygen deprivation help. But, actually *liking* the taste of the smoke I find difficult to believe - perhaps the Menthol or other additive designed to facilitate easier smoking or "enjoyment".
I'm not trying to discount your experience, but I have tried cigarettes, cigars, and pipes at one time or another (or been around those that smoke), and didn't/don't find anything enjoyable about it at all -- smoke inhalation, coughing, etc (you know the drill).
To each their own I guess.
P.S. I didn't mean rose-colored remembrances of your smoking years, just the first few smokes. You know, I remember that my first "fill-in-the-blank" experience was great... Still; to each their own.
since I liked my first puff of cigarette smoke I was addicted from the first puff.
Not at all and you're correct that physical addiction takes some (variable) amount of time, depending on the substance. That said, I find it very hard to believe you actually liked/enjoyed your first N cigarettes. The motivators to take up smoking are varied, but "enjoy" in the common sense of the word isn't one of them. Thoughts to the contrary are, I suspect, rose-colored remembrances.
If I had not enjoyed smoking, I would never have become addicted.
I'm pretty sure you're wrong. The "enjoyment" is the psychological manifestation of the physical nicotine addiction. In other words, the mind invents the rational for the biology. This kind of thing happens all the time.
Case in point. I just saw a show on the Discovery Channel called, "The Science of Sex Appeal". Apparently people generally find more symmetrical faces more attractive. Symmetry is a biological indication of fewer genetic flaws and development abnormalities and the brain can recognize this subconsciously.
In one experiment, people were shown pairs of photos of several people, told the pairs were photos of twins and asked to pick the more attractive one and *why*. Each pair of photos was actually of the same person, one using a mirror image of one side of the face - to make it symmetrical - and the other with some of the asymmetries exaggerated.
People always chose the symmetrical photo, but the reasons for selection were: looks smarter, looks more neat and organized, looks more athletic, etc. The fact is, they didn't really know *why* they (subconsciously) liked the photo better so their conscience mind made up a reason.
Whereas the leftover warheads from the former USSR........well, they're not lost, I'm sure that former officials in Russia know exactly who they sold them to.
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I think Fox has a few archived somewhere. Oh wait, they're all of Obama...
Maybe I'm thinking of Jesse James. Oh wait, they're all of himself...
Playing devil's devil's advocate...
If I'm new to your site, how do I know it's worth frequenting and/or tolerating (risking) your ads? I don't know you or your advertisers. Why should I trust you from the get-go?
I'm pretty sure you're the one trying to make a buck here, so don't be a total dick to those simply trying to protect their systems and/or their browsing experience.
Perhaps you should consider displaying some content and state your case. People who want to return and view your more in-depth content can white-list your site.
If your site appears valuable and innocuous, I'll support you. Otherwise, I'll find someone else -- and there are plenty out there to take your place -- and you'll lose the privilege of my business...
It's handled by the Precrime unit. Tom Cruise comes out of the closet, I mean down through the skylight, and wraps a "halo" around your head...
Next up: Bacon on satellites...
I'm sorry, but Python's "block/group by indent" syntax is stupid and dangerous. Using a language where the programming is so easily manipulated and difficult for the untrained eye to discern would be a major problem.
Guido van Rossum's geek card should be revoked for designing Python like this.
Flame me if you like Python lovers, but you know I'm right.
Apparently, the report writers noted that the sale of eye-patches and peg-legs didn't correlate with industry claims of piracy...
True, but students are not taught OO programming at the beginning and not all programming lends itself to that methodology. In any case, students need to learn the skills themselves and have a wide variety of skills. In the specific case of code re-use, without their own skills, properly developed, how can they contribute or even know if the code they're using is appropriate (or even correct)?
Leaving aside that this story, A Cheating Crisis in America's Schools, by ABC Primetime, seems to indicate that this statement is basically true. More importantly, they don't seem to care.
It goes on and on...
Unless we devise a method to capture that methane at the source. I'll leave it to the reader's imagination as to how that device might constructed and/or attached...
We just need to breed the Dish of the Day.
Eyjafjallajoekull - Looks like TECO editor command.
[Ah, those were the days...]
Personal example. My wife injured her neck hiking. The Chiropractor did one x-ray and wanted to start her on routine (weekly) manipulations to get and keep things "aligned". The Physiatrist did several x-rays, took a complete medical history, did one manipulation and a gave shot of cortisone into the controlling neck muscle and told her she only had to return if she re-injured it. She never needed any further treatment.
Another example. A friend hurt her foot, but was actually dating a Chiropractor. He said he could fix her foot with manipulation and massage. After a week of pain, he took her to his office for an x-ray - that revealed her foot was actually broken.
Not to be too pedantic, but quoting the remarks of a fictional character to make a serious point, really? Salinger's message is a different story...
Okay, I'm sure someone (probably The Daily Show) will, at some point, find something useful in all that noise.
I wasn't aware that NASA had an official designation for Keanu Reeves...
Those are pretty well-used devices in stories. See "City of Angels", or the original "Wings of Desire" for good examples of the second one you listed.
A sweet revisionist history by our Congress people, but as Buzz Aldrin mentioned in this article, neither President Bush or the Congress supported fully-funding the "Vision for Space Exploration" program:
So now they'll ask: "How do I get photos off 'the cloud'." Yes, much better.
I was going to make a joke about the effects of "second-hand alcohol" on the driver, but grossed myself out thinking about it...
Actually, you can usually type a password of any length, but only the first 8 are used.
Sadly, it's a direct quote of the first line of TFA:
The buzz I can understand. Nicotine is a strong stimulant - though it wears off very quickly, which is why some people say having a cigarette calms them down - and I'm sure other aspects of the smoke and Oxygen deprivation help. But, actually *liking* the taste of the smoke I find difficult to believe - perhaps the Menthol or other additive designed to facilitate easier smoking or "enjoyment".
I'm not trying to discount your experience, but I have tried cigarettes, cigars, and pipes at one time or another (or been around those that smoke), and didn't/don't find anything enjoyable about it at all -- smoke inhalation, coughing, etc (you know the drill). To each their own I guess.
P.S. I didn't mean rose-colored remembrances of your smoking years, just the first few smokes. You know, I remember that my first "fill-in-the-blank" experience was great... Still; to each their own.
Not at all and you're correct that physical addiction takes some (variable) amount of time, depending on the substance. That said, I find it very hard to believe you actually liked/enjoyed your first N cigarettes. The motivators to take up smoking are varied, but "enjoy" in the common sense of the word isn't one of them. Thoughts to the contrary are, I suspect, rose-colored remembrances.
I'm pretty sure you're wrong. The "enjoyment" is the psychological manifestation of the physical nicotine addiction. In other words, the mind invents the rational for the biology. This kind of thing happens all the time.
Case in point. I just saw a show on the Discovery Channel called, "The Science of Sex Appeal". Apparently people generally find more symmetrical faces more attractive. Symmetry is a biological indication of fewer genetic flaws and development abnormalities and the brain can recognize this subconsciously.
In one experiment, people were shown pairs of photos of several people, told the pairs were photos of twins and asked to pick the more attractive one and *why*. Each pair of photos was actually of the same person, one using a mirror image of one side of the face - to make it symmetrical - and the other with some of the asymmetries exaggerated.
People always chose the symmetrical photo, but the reasons for selection were: looks smarter, looks more neat and organized, looks more athletic, etc. The fact is, they didn't really know *why* they (subconsciously) liked the photo better so their conscience mind made up a reason.
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