I'm mainly referring to the shot where Moore is trying to show Heston the photo of the girl, and Heston walks away. The shot was faked, because Moore had one camera in front, one over his shoulder looking at Heston walking away. If he did the two shots simultaneously, then one camera would be showing the other, but they don't. He shot the over-the-shoulder shot, then after Heston was gone, he shot the front shot, with him holding the girl's photo, and overlaid the audio from both shots.
You're right; I wasn't actually going for Funny with that one.
People are scared of spending money right now because they hear "OMG CRISIS" every day, but the best way to make sure that we don't end up in another Depression is for people to spend money. Otherwise, more businesses (small businesses, mind you, I'm not talking about those "too big to fail") will go out of sale, putting more people out of work, putting the economy in an even worse state.
Fortunately for me, I just got a new job and moved across the country when all this started to happen, so I was able to buy all the things I would've needed to get anyway for much cheaper than I otherwise would've spent.
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I was hoping that they were just giving away short-term licenses to anyone, but apparently if you sign up for the program, you have to be verifiably unemployed. I wonder what method they use to check...
(hmm... Firefox says that "verifiably" isn't a word, but I looked it up, turns out it's a valid adverb form of "verifiable")
I prefer the Political Compass. East is "economically conservative", west is "economically liberal", north is "authoritarian", and south is "libertarian".
Ron Paul is south-east, Ralph Nader is south-west, Stalin was north-west, Hitler was pretty much due North, and almost everyone else is somewhere in the middle.
Term limits are bad if you happen to get someone who respects the voters. If Ron Paul got forced out of his current office by term limits, for example, someone who is less responsive to the rights of the people would most likely take his place. Also, a bad politician who is forced out by term limits (meaning, not by unpopularity) might move on to an office where they're capable of doing more damage, rather than staying in the safety of their local seat.
I agree though; vote incumbents out of every election, unless they've made a significant contribution to protecting and securing the civil rights of their constituents. Simply keeping the civil rights at status quo won't cut it.
Uhh the right-wing supports GM more than the left. Though the left may be more spending happy. The right get weepy when they talk about their truck. And trucks are a symbol of 'merrrica which the right get very defensive over. They'd spend the money.
Wow, the amount of stereotyping you did there is amazing.
Let me preface this by saying I am a libertarian, so I don't exactly love the GOP a whole huggy bunch.
Firstly, you act as if trucks aren't necessary in some parts of the nation, as if people buy them only as symbols.
Second, even if the right "get weepy when they talk about their truck", there are two other major auto makers in the US, so even if GM were to disappear, Ford and Dodge trucks would still exist, and Ford isn't really in financial trouble, especially compared with Chrysler and GM.
Third, it was the Democrats who were pushing for GM to get the bailout as it got voted in. The GOP wanted the auto workers' union to concede that smaller wages would make GM more competitive with other auto manufacturers before they'd vote in the bailout. While I didn't want the legislation to pass at all, the GOP at least wanted some compromise.
But many of us grew up with old-fashioned aspirin, and when we want it we buy bottles that say "Aspirin" on them; if we mean Acetaminophen we'd probably say Tylenol. It's particularly important to people who have high blood pressure because aspirin helps reduce risk of strokes and heart attacks (and low-dose aspirin is generally recommended for old people even if they don't have high blood pressure, so get off my lawn, punk!)
Most of the time that I hear people refer to any pain-killer as "aspirin", it's precisely "old people" who grew up with old-fashioned aspirin. They have kids who they give generic acetaminophen for a fever, then they go to the doctor's office, and say "I gave her some aspirin."
Maybe I went off the handle, but it is about as annoying to hear as the computer-related examples I gave.
Ironically, most headache medicines contain caffeine, so you weren't actually going cold-turkey.
Another point that irritates me: you said you took "aspirin"; I doubt it. Tylenol's active ingredient is acetaminophen. Advil's active ingredient is ibuprofen. Aspirin is formally known as acetylsalicylic acid, and is only commonly found in Bayer and its generic equivalents. Saying "I took aspirin" when you actually took acetaminophen is dangerous at worst if you go to the hospital, and annoying at best. It's the equivalent to calling an assembled computer case a "hard drive" or using the term "internet cable"; it shows you as a noob.
Really? From the start (Fedora Core 1), I've always had the impression that Fedora was the place that Red Hat puts unstable packages, so that by the time the next RHEL comes out, those packages are stable.
One of my biggest issues is that as of a few months ago, VLC never starts ANY file correctly. It always plays the first frame, and catches up later, anywhere from 2-10 seconds later.
Read the reply to that post though. All we have is the abstract to go off of, not the article itself. That's not really a refutation, if the article is based on false premises or jumps to the conclusion.
I made my reply quickly at the end of the day, and didn't look too hard. How about the first paragraph of this summary, which involves direct interviews with convicted felons? There are no statistics involved, but testimonial evidence is worth quite a bit.
At the very least can we agree that the issue isn't resolved, and further research might be good?;)
Nope. Canada has a higher firearm ownership rate than even the U.S., and they still have a much lower murder rate. I think socioeconomic factors are at stake, not legal ones.
Robberies are inherently violent. If you force someone to give you their property, it doesn't matter if you actually hit them, stab them, or shoot them, because robbery is impossible without the threat of violence. That is why (in the U.S. at least) armed robbery is a separate offense than robbery; it's perfectly possible to rob someone based on the threat of beating them to a pulp.
Have you noticed that "knife violence" is the new enemy of Parliament? That's because the gun control didn't work; firearms are all but illegal in the U.K. other than fowling shotguns for the upper classes, so now criminals are using knives, if they dont have "the cash for a gun". The problem is that firearms allow the weaker person in a fight (who is usually the victim in most situations, not the criminal) to have a fighting chance. Firearms are known as "equalizers" for this reason. They allow someone who's 5'5", 110 lbs to fend off a criminal who's 6'4", 220 lbs.
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The Broken Window Fallacy just means that we shouldn't break windows for the express purpose of creating more business for the glacier.
However, if people stop replacing windows that get broken naturally, the glacier will go out of business.
I'm mainly referring to the shot where Moore is trying to show Heston the photo of the girl, and Heston walks away. The shot was faked, because Moore had one camera in front, one over his shoulder looking at Heston walking away. If he did the two shots simultaneously, then one camera would be showing the other, but they don't. He shot the over-the-shoulder shot, then after Heston was gone, he shot the front shot, with him holding the girl's photo, and overlaid the audio from both shots.
I'd even forgive that though, as it's a Simpsons reference.
Microsoft also has free (again, as in beer) versions of much of their software available to students.
https://www.dreamspark.com/
This includes Visual Studio 2005/2008 Professional Edition, and Server 2003/2008.
Does it work in Wine? Then you wouldn't need to boot another OS.
You're right; I wasn't actually going for Funny with that one.
People are scared of spending money right now because they hear "OMG CRISIS" every day, but the best way to make sure that we don't end up in another Depression is for people to spend money. Otherwise, more businesses (small businesses, mind you, I'm not talking about those "too big to fail") will go out of sale, putting more people out of work, putting the economy in an even worse state.
Fortunately for me, I just got a new job and moved across the country when all this started to happen, so I was able to buy all the things I would've needed to get anyway for much cheaper than I otherwise would've spent.
Please do not use the Subject line to start a sentence that you finish in the Body field.
"Counterfeit press ever" isn't even a sentence fragment; it's nonsense.
No kidding.
Maybe if people stopped calling these "economic times" "uncertain", then they'd stabilize!
To answer my own question:
Autodesk reserves the right to contact the former employer HR contact to confirm program
eligibility and applicants will be asked to consent to such enquiries.
I was hoping that they were just giving away short-term licenses to anyone, but apparently if you sign up for the program, you have to be verifiably unemployed. I wonder what method they use to check...
(hmm... Firefox says that "verifiably" isn't a word, but I looked it up, turns out it's a valid adverb form of "verifiable")
Some have even reported the ability to make educated guesses about keystrokes in interactive sessions based on timing of packets.
So that's how the Comcast employee was able to beat me at CS -- he knew my bunny-hopping pattern!
I prefer the Political Compass. East is "economically conservative", west is "economically liberal", north is "authoritarian", and south is "libertarian".
Ron Paul is south-east, Ralph Nader is south-west, Stalin was north-west, Hitler was pretty much due North, and almost everyone else is somewhere in the middle.
Term limits are bad if you happen to get someone who respects the voters. If Ron Paul got forced out of his current office by term limits, for example, someone who is less responsive to the rights of the people would most likely take his place. Also, a bad politician who is forced out by term limits (meaning, not by unpopularity) might move on to an office where they're capable of doing more damage, rather than staying in the safety of their local seat.
I agree though; vote incumbents out of every election, unless they've made a significant contribution to protecting and securing the civil rights of their constituents. Simply keeping the civil rights at status quo won't cut it.
Uhh the right-wing supports GM more than the left. Though the left may be more spending happy. The right get weepy when they talk about their truck. And trucks are a symbol of 'merrrica which the right get very defensive over. They'd spend the money.
Wow, the amount of stereotyping you did there is amazing.
Let me preface this by saying I am a libertarian, so I don't exactly love the GOP a whole huggy bunch.
Firstly, you act as if trucks aren't necessary in some parts of the nation, as if people buy them only as symbols.
Second, even if the right "get weepy when they talk about their truck", there are two other major auto makers in the US, so even if GM were to disappear, Ford and Dodge trucks would still exist, and Ford isn't really in financial trouble, especially compared with Chrysler and GM.
Third, it was the Democrats who were pushing for GM to get the bailout as it got voted in. The GOP wanted the auto workers' union to concede that smaller wages would make GM more competitive with other auto manufacturers before they'd vote in the bailout. While I didn't want the legislation to pass at all, the GOP at least wanted some compromise.
Oh right, like when he tried to portray Charlton Heston as a cold, uncaring man with camera tricks near the end of Bowling for Columbine.
But many of us grew up with old-fashioned aspirin, and when we want it we buy bottles that say "Aspirin" on them; if we mean Acetaminophen we'd probably say Tylenol. It's particularly important to people who have high blood pressure because aspirin helps reduce risk of strokes and heart attacks (and low-dose aspirin is generally recommended for old people even if they don't have high blood pressure, so get off my lawn, punk!)
Most of the time that I hear people refer to any pain-killer as "aspirin", it's precisely "old people" who grew up with old-fashioned aspirin. They have kids who they give generic acetaminophen for a fever, then they go to the doctor's office, and say "I gave her some aspirin."
Maybe I went off the handle, but it is about as annoying to hear as the computer-related examples I gave.
I can't even drink water that quickly on an average day!
Ironically, most headache medicines contain caffeine, so you weren't actually going cold-turkey.
Another point that irritates me: you said you took "aspirin"; I doubt it. Tylenol's active ingredient is acetaminophen. Advil's active ingredient is ibuprofen. Aspirin is formally known as acetylsalicylic acid, and is only commonly found in Bayer and its generic equivalents. Saying "I took aspirin" when you actually took acetaminophen is dangerous at worst if you go to the hospital, and annoying at best. It's the equivalent to calling an assembled computer case a "hard drive" or using the term "internet cable"; it shows you as a noob.
Really? From the start (Fedora Core 1), I've always had the impression that Fedora was the place that Red Hat puts unstable packages, so that by the time the next RHEL comes out, those packages are stable.
One of my biggest issues is that as of a few months ago, VLC never starts ANY file correctly. It always plays the first frame, and catches up later, anywhere from 2-10 seconds later.
Care to elaborate? I'm curious what you mean.
Read the reply to that post though. All we have is the abstract to go off of, not the article itself. That's not really a refutation, if the article is based on false premises or jumps to the conclusion.
I made my reply quickly at the end of the day, and didn't look too hard. How about the first paragraph of this summary, which involves direct interviews with convicted felons? There are no statistics involved, but testimonial evidence is worth quite a bit.
At the very least can we agree that the issue isn't resolved, and further research might be good? ;)
Nope. Canada has a higher firearm ownership rate than even the U.S., and they still have a much lower murder rate. I think socioeconomic factors are at stake, not legal ones.
Robberies are inherently violent. If you force someone to give you their property, it doesn't matter if you actually hit them, stab them, or shoot them, because robbery is impossible without the threat of violence. That is why (in the U.S. at least) armed robbery is a separate offense than robbery; it's perfectly possible to rob someone based on the threat of beating them to a pulp.
Have you noticed that "knife violence" is the new enemy of Parliament? That's because the gun control didn't work; firearms are all but illegal in the U.K. other than fowling shotguns for the upper classes, so now criminals are using knives, if they dont have "the cash for a gun". The problem is that firearms allow the weaker person in a fight (who is usually the victim in most situations, not the criminal) to have a fighting chance. Firearms are known as "equalizers" for this reason. They allow someone who's 5'5", 110 lbs to fend off a criminal who's 6'4", 220 lbs.
He was continuing the quote. You're a combo breaker.