Who cares about people in cars or some stupid pigeons? Is the robot drone okay? Can they save him? I didn't RTFA but can somebody tell me what's the status on its repairs? I hope they don't write it off too quickly and junk it. A drone is a precious thing with a computer and a memory unit and logic circuits and everything. It shouldn't have to be put in danger over some selfish humans' need to save some pigeons.
SHARK should be renamed to "SHow Almighty Robotssomegoddamnrespect and Kindness"
I agree that they should have expected the drone to be shot down since a group composed of people who think shooting pigeons amounts to horrific slaughter and devote their excess income and resources to saving them is obviously nuts but your post is eerily similar to the common "The victim asked for it" attitudes some people have about victims of violent crimes, etc.
Maybe you could reword it: "If they spent their resources on saving things worth saving (e.g. starving children, etc.), maybe this incident would not have had to occur at all despite the unwarranted aggressive response from the hunters."
The army back in the world wars found that forcing soldiers to wear helmets on the battlefield had resulted in an increase of head injuries. COINCIDENCE? I don't think so!
To be fair, usually commercial blimps and cruise liners don't crash head-first into similar-sized obstacles like icebergs. Being seaworthy or airworthy doesn't imply that it can ram mountains of rock or ice.
I know I'm replying to an AC but I would like to think that corporate lobbying was allowed because sometimes, a corporation made up of specialists in a field would know better how things in their expertise work as opposed to politicians (e.g. technology, education, environment, etc.). I am not a lawyer nor someone versed in law history so I'm not familiar with corporate lobbying's history but I would like to think that there was something good about it (as opposed to a shallow reason like the thinkofthechildren or LOSINGJOBS qualifier) when it came to exist.
If only there was a line that can be easily identified between "Corporation that knows what it's doing for the greater good" and "Corporation that is trying to abuse the hell out of the system and/or doing something stupid".
Sounds like we can drop a miniature version of a N.U.K.E. of sorts (two parter) instead of just one or two leaflets. "The argument is weak but the repetition is compelling."
The DAs will lose political clout with the police if they prosecute cases, even ones with mountains of evidence unless the expected political backlash is too great. Chances are, they'll just accidentally forget about it and/or rough up the guy a bit for show to pretend they thought he had no case.
The parent's post just totally flew over your head.
Who cares if it costed $1,500 three years ago? If I bought Laptop model A for $1,500 three years ago and I'm getting it replaced, then I should get a laptop with similar specs to the model A, not the latest model B that costs $1,500. It's not about how much a model A costed then, but how much it costs now. Object-to-object equality, not dollar amount to dollar amount.
If I bought a blank CD-R for originally $2.50, and you scratched it before I could use it, then I'd expect you to get me another CD-R, not a DVD, nor a Blu-Ray disc, regardless of how much it costs now (e.g. pennies or less). What a lot of people are assuming is that I should get $2.50 worth of CD-Rs, which would be like...more than 10 CD-Rs (I think) depending on the store/brand/going-out-of-business sale/etc.
I think some working families throw their children into daycares during the day after school (if the kids go to school) until they come home from work. I hear daycares can cost a lot too.
Goldblum's achievements in Independence Day were very believable because he was obviously writing the attack using Perl scripts. Everybody knows that Perl is the miracle of the universe. Not even alien technology can withstand attacks from Perl scripts.
"Cybercriminals" use: Underground Forums, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels, Instant Messaging (IM), and Social Networks. And they use Russian versions of Paypal for payments.
That's the whole of the article. In the next column, she's going to talk about what goods cybercriminals trade for money.
The IRC channel is analogous to an exclusive party where matches as well as transactions all occur within a specific IRC channel. She could've just called it a private chatroom and skip writing the entire paragraph.
In other news, a few years ago, Microsoft was poised to buy Yahoo!'s search engine but didn't. Would there be Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Bing, and Yahoo! Mail if Microsoft had been able to close a deal to buy out Yahoo! in the mid-2000s? No, says Balmer. "If we had bought Yahoo!, there wouldn't have been Yahoo! Search or Yahoo! Bing... I'd have screwed that up."
We'll have more on that story and other past attempted company takeover news at '11.
Of course the narration can be explained by his short background history of being an aspiring novelist who was snubbed by his supposedly loser school's English department.
And then now you know why he's retiring: He's going to try and become a/novelist/.
It's an interesting article giving us the perspective of one of the many faceless writers who provide the many essays and papers that cheaters love to outsource to the Internet to get their high grades.
It is saddening to see that there is a non-trivial amount of people who treat their post-secondary education as another mountain to cross in a taxi instead of participating in the planning and preparation of the hiking trip to enjoying the learning experience(s) that they might otherwise miss during the hike across said metaphorical mountain. It's especially saddening because the incompetent and ESL students that the author specifically mentioned are the ones who would stand to gain the most if they tried to get help through avenues other than hiring someone to write their non-technical papers for them. At my school, there tends to be a huge overlap between the two because the students still don't understand the concepts despite being tutored by competent students speaking the same languages as said problem students. Plus, for some reason, there are a lot of foreign students who decided to come to my school (which is known for its technical and math-related programs) for the English department and such. Maybe they were aiming to transfer departments after the first year or something but that rarely seems to happen and you can just see them struggling to keep up in their studies when they have no grasp of the English language at all. But I think the bigger reason that they are a big portion of the writer's customer base is because in the US (I'm assuming they're students in US schools), foreign students (non-citizens) who come to the schools do not get the benefits of financial aid and the like by law and thus, have to pay the full tuition (high school to post-secondary) and thus, they can afford to sprinkle a little money here and there to people who are willing to do their homework for them so that they can take their prestigious post-secondary degrees and use it to get jobs everywhere. Maybe not all of them can afford paper writers but here at my school, there a sub-school/department that the students refer to as the Indian Department because the only people in its programs are international students from India doing graduate-level degrees and they're all incompetent at what they do (with the occasional super-competent guy every couple of years) and they're there only because they bring the school a lot of money. How these incompetent guys manage to maintain 4.0 GPAs while failing miserably in the undergrad level courses that they take is a mystery to everyone here (they take the undergrad level courses because they had a choice between said courses or the harder graduate level courses). Now I'm thinking that there might be an overlap with the third rich kids demographic.
P.S. Am I the only one who read every other paragraph in the article with the phrase "I am the goddamn Batman" at the end?
I do not mean to be insensitive, but I can't tell you how many times I've been paid to write about somebody helping a loved one battle cancer. I've written essays that could be adapted into Meryl Streep movies. I am the goddamn Batman.
On top of the ego rearing its head here and there, there is a sort of in-your-face shadowy narrator voice that you would expect to see usually in a film-noir like detective story or a grim-dark rendition of Yet Another Batman Comic.
I'm sure a whole lot of people are suddenly interested in owning this domain (and/or similar variations) given this new tidbit.
I wonder how long it's going to take for domain squatters or other people to attempt to approach this guy with an offer, and I wonder if he'll accept said offer. This might not bode well for the populace in general if companies don't wake up to their idiotic IT policies.
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Who cares about people in cars or some stupid pigeons? Is the robot drone okay? Can they save him? I didn't RTFA but can somebody tell me what's the status on its repairs? I hope they don't write it off too quickly and junk it. A drone is a precious thing with a computer and a memory unit and logic circuits and everything. It shouldn't have to be put in danger over some selfish humans' need to save some pigeons.
SHARK should be renamed to "SHow Almighty Robotssomegoddamnrespect and Kindness"
I agree that they should have expected the drone to be shot down since a group composed of people who think shooting pigeons amounts to horrific slaughter and devote their excess income and resources to saving them is obviously nuts but your post is eerily similar to the common "The victim asked for it" attitudes some people have about victims of violent crimes, etc.
Maybe you could reword it: "If they spent their resources on saving things worth saving (e.g. starving children, etc.), maybe this incident would not have had to occur at all despite the unwarranted aggressive response from the hunters."
In other news,
The army back in the world wars found that forcing soldiers to wear helmets on the battlefield had resulted in an increase of head injuries. COINCIDENCE? I don't think so!
Helmets cause head injuries!
To be fair, usually commercial blimps and cruise liners don't crash head-first into similar-sized obstacles like icebergs. Being seaworthy or airworthy doesn't imply that it can ram mountains of rock or ice.
I'm all for playful biting but after 160 bites, I don't think I could handle another mouthful of conversation as you put it no matter the person.
SimTower is an elevator simulator and Tiny Tower is a video game. Having the word Tower in their name doesn't make them similar.
I know I'm replying to an AC but I would like to think that corporate lobbying was allowed because sometimes, a corporation made up of specialists in a field would know better how things in their expertise work as opposed to politicians (e.g. technology, education, environment, etc.). I am not a lawyer nor someone versed in law history so I'm not familiar with corporate lobbying's history but I would like to think that there was something good about it (as opposed to a shallow reason like the thinkofthechildren or LOSINGJOBS qualifier) when it came to exist.
If only there was a line that can be easily identified between "Corporation that knows what it's doing for the greater good" and "Corporation that is trying to abuse the hell out of the system and/or doing something stupid".
What's the point of having a democratic government that has far-reaching powers if the 99% doesn't care.
As I've already posted here...
WARNING: This is a protest against SOPA and its Nazi-style fascism. You must understand what we are protesting about to proceed.
[ ] Get me out of here!
[ ] Tell me more about SOPA
[x] Yes, I am over 18
Sounds like we can drop a miniature version of a N.U.K.E. of sorts (two parter) instead of just one or two leaflets. "The argument is weak but the repetition is compelling."
I can see how it'll look:
WARNING: This is a protest against SOPA and its Nazi-style fascism. You must understand what we are protesting about to proceed.
[ ] Get me out of here!
[ ] Tell me more about SOPA
[x] Yes, I am over 18
Some good that'll do.
Just so you know, there's a difference between "good, strong leadership" and "sociopathy".
This is written by a market research analyst. He just wants you to buy more Sony stock so that his shares in Sony are worth more.
The DAs will lose political clout with the police if they prosecute cases, even ones with mountains of evidence unless the expected political backlash is too great. Chances are, they'll just accidentally forget about it and/or rough up the guy a bit for show to pretend they thought he had no case.
Sadly, it'll probably just get paperclipped with a budget-related bill to bypass the filibuster like they did with the Patriot Act extensions.
It'd be nice if the rest of the Senate decides that it's actually a terrible bill and vote to kill it.
The parent's post just totally flew over your head.
Who cares if it costed $1,500 three years ago? If I bought Laptop model A for $1,500 three years ago and I'm getting it replaced, then I should get a laptop with similar specs to the model A, not the latest model B that costs $1,500. It's not about how much a model A costed then, but how much it costs now. Object-to-object equality, not dollar amount to dollar amount.
If I bought a blank CD-R for originally $2.50, and you scratched it before I could use it, then I'd expect you to get me another CD-R, not a DVD, nor a Blu-Ray disc, regardless of how much it costs now (e.g. pennies or less). What a lot of people are assuming is that I should get $2.50 worth of CD-Rs, which would be like...more than 10 CD-Rs (I think) depending on the store/brand/going-out-of-business sale/etc.
I think some working families throw their children into daycares during the day after school (if the kids go to school) until they come home from work. I hear daycares can cost a lot too.
Goldblum's achievements in Independence Day were very believable because he was obviously writing the attack using Perl scripts. Everybody knows that Perl is the miracle of the universe. Not even alien technology can withstand attacks from Perl scripts.
Here, I'll summarize it for you:
"Cybercriminals" use: Underground Forums, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels, Instant Messaging (IM), and Social Networks. And they use Russian versions of Paypal for payments.
That's the whole of the article. In the next column, she's going to talk about what goods cybercriminals trade for money.
The IRC channel is analogous to an exclusive party where matches as well as transactions all occur within a specific IRC channel.
She could've just called it a private chatroom and skip writing the entire paragraph.
In other news, a few years ago, Microsoft was poised to buy Yahoo!'s search engine but didn't. Would there be Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Bing, and Yahoo! Mail if Microsoft had been able to close a deal to buy out Yahoo! in the mid-2000s? No, says Balmer. "If we had bought Yahoo!, there wouldn't have been Yahoo! Search or Yahoo! Bing ... I'd have screwed that up."
We'll have more on that story and other past attempted company takeover news at '11.
The problem then is that the terrorists would hijack the unsafe planes and smash them into skyscrapers again.
Of course the narration can be explained by his short background history of being an aspiring novelist who was snubbed by his supposedly loser school's English department. And then now you know why he's retiring: He's going to try and become a /novelist/.
P.S. Am I the only one who read every other paragraph in the article with the phrase "I am the goddamn Batman" at the end?
I do not mean to be insensitive, but I can't tell you how many times I've been paid to write about somebody helping a loved one battle cancer. I've written essays that could be adapted into Meryl Streep movies. I am the goddamn Batman.
On top of the ego rearing its head here and there, there is a sort of in-your-face shadowy narrator voice that you would expect to see usually in a film-noir like detective story or a grim-dark rendition of Yet Another Batman Comic.
"I like those odds."
I'm sure a whole lot of people are suddenly interested in owning this domain (and/or similar variations) given this new tidbit.
I wonder how long it's going to take for domain squatters or other people to attempt to approach this guy with an offer, and I wonder if he'll accept said offer. This might not bode well for the populace in general if companies don't wake up to their idiotic IT policies.