Fucking seriously? Modded troll without a fucking response? I actually read the article (doubtful the moderator did) and pick apart a bunch of ridiculous claims and fallacies in it, and some asshole doesn't have the decency to respond. -1 Troll for that moderator.
Although you do not have the right to refuse a BAC test, in California or any other state, you can of course refuse it nonetheless. However, there is nothing to gain and plenty to lose by refusing to take a chemical BAC test.
* If you refuse to take the test you will be charged with a separate and additional offence to DUI or DWI known as a âoerefusal enhancement.â
* You will incur severe penalty enhancements for refusing to take the BAC test. Penalty enhancements vary from state to state. In California they include automatic suspension of your license for at least a year.
* These penalty enhancements will be incurred even if you are NOT later convicted of DUI or DWI.
* They will be incurred even if you change your mind and agree to take the test, or are forced to take it. (Yes, officers can and often do perform forced blood draws for the BAC test.)
* You will not have the right to consult with an attorney until you have either taken the test or definitely refused it.
* Your refusal to take the BAC test will be admissible in court and may be used against you as evidence of âoeconsciousness of guilt.â
Agreed. The degree of bullshit rhetoric used in this article is sickening as well. Full of blatant straw-man arguments such as "for example, proponents might argue that... (but they are wrong because...)".
The author goes on to claim that there is an international Dvorak conspiracy with support from the US and Australian governments...
He also argues that the "entrenchment argument" (improved technology may not be adopted due to entrenched user bases) is completely voided by the existence of any counterexamples. Sure, QWERTY couldn't possibly be worse than Dvorak, because GUI operating systems beat command line ones!
Basically, the author of this article is a fucking idiot.
You are correct about the design principles behind QWERTY, but your metaphor for human efficiency is terrible. Human fingers are not hammers of a type writer, and do not behave similarly at all.
More importantly, you follow with principles of fast typing as if they support QWERTY over Dvorak, when in fact Dvorak is designed with all of these things in mind. The most commonly used letters are in the home row, but spaced such that the same hand rarely types multiple letters in a row. Meanwhile, with QWERTY, vast quantities of common words are purely or a majority one handed.
Maybe this depends what state you are in... In California, you sign a contract to get your drivers license that says they can breathalyze or blood test you for BAC on reasonable suspicion of drunk driving and you waive the right to refuse.
All logical systems need some set of axioms. What it comes down to is what you take as axioms. String theory is untestable (I believe it is provably never testable...), as is the existence of a deity. String theory is based on very simple axioms that are rather hard to deny. Axioms become harder to accept the more complicated they become.
Sounds like you are saying, Wii is what you play when you can't go outside and don't want to watch movies. Where does playing videogames (not on Wii) fit in to that?
A real libertarian believes in a well-trained militia, not a standing army. We should all be able to protect ourselves, not have the government take our money to spend in huge quantities on dubious "defense" costs. That's how you end up with multiple wars of conquest.
(that was written in my fake libertarian voice... should only be taken half seriously).
Why does there need to be legislation around unions? Why have unions become these behemoth power legalistic power dealers? What happened to a group of workers getting together, holding meetings, and agreeing to all work together to achieve a common goal? Unions seem to me to have gotten out of control.
Yeah, but you're talking reform Jewish, which isn't saying much. The core tenets of reform Judaism involves what you eat at certain times of the year (brisket, latkas, etc).
Also, if you want to be really really accurate, you can convert to Judaism but it is a huge pain in the ass and takes years of study (more difficult than binet-mitzvot from what I've heard).
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If I eat at Baja Surf, predict bowel movement within 5 minutes of leaving restaurant?
I'm used to size meaning volume...
Otherwise you might say a bullet is the size of 100 feathers...
Fucking seriously? Modded troll without a fucking response? I actually read the article (doubtful the moderator did) and pick apart a bunch of ridiculous claims and fallacies in it, and some asshole doesn't have the decency to respond. -1 Troll for that moderator.
Terrible idea.
Although you do not have the right to refuse a BAC test, in California or any other state, you can of course refuse it nonetheless. However, there is nothing to gain and plenty to lose by refusing to take a chemical BAC test.
* If you refuse to take the test you will be charged with a separate and additional offence to DUI or DWI known as a âoerefusal enhancement.â
* You will incur severe penalty enhancements for refusing to take the BAC test. Penalty enhancements vary from state to state. In California they include automatic suspension of your license for at least a year.
* These penalty enhancements will be incurred even if you are NOT later convicted of DUI or DWI.
* They will be incurred even if you change your mind and agree to take the test, or are forced to take it. (Yes, officers can and often do perform forced blood draws for the BAC test.)
* You will not have the right to consult with an attorney until you have either taken the test or definitely refused it.
* Your refusal to take the BAC test will be admissible in court and may be used against you as evidence of âoeconsciousness of guilt.â
I was trying to type .bashrc" :(
"echo You has a virus >>
as a joke, but Dvorak made me type
"sudo rm -rf / [enter][your password]"
Agreed. The degree of bullshit rhetoric used in this article is sickening as well. Full of blatant straw-man arguments such as "for example, proponents might argue that ... (but they are wrong because...)".
The author goes on to claim that there is an international Dvorak conspiracy with support from the US and Australian governments...
He also argues that the "entrenchment argument" (improved technology may not be adopted due to entrenched user bases) is completely voided by the existence of any counterexamples. Sure, QWERTY couldn't possibly be worse than Dvorak, because GUI operating systems beat command line ones!
Basically, the author of this article is a fucking idiot.
You are correct about the design principles behind QWERTY, but your metaphor for human efficiency is terrible. Human fingers are not hammers of a type writer, and do not behave similarly at all.
More importantly, you follow with principles of fast typing as if they support QWERTY over Dvorak, when in fact Dvorak is designed with all of these things in mind. The most commonly used letters are in the home row, but spaced such that the same hand rarely types multiple letters in a row. Meanwhile, with QWERTY, vast quantities of common words are purely or a majority one handed.
CUDA and Stream *ARE* proprietary...
Are you saying you've never had that happen to you?
Maybe this depends what state you are in... In California, you sign a contract to get your drivers license that says they can breathalyze or blood test you for BAC on reasonable suspicion of drunk driving and you waive the right to refuse.
We need to ENSURE ex-Motorola employees' right to get RIM jobs!
no men on internet.
Well, he said that at a private fund-raiser for George W. Bush. Just as bad though.
THATS why nVIDIA and ATI are going out of business!
Good thing we have a well organized, international body to regulate this process! Otherwise shit like this article would be happening all the time.
OH SHI...
All logical systems need some set of axioms. What it comes down to is what you take as axioms. String theory is untestable (I believe it is provably never testable...), as is the existence of a deity. String theory is based on very simple axioms that are rather hard to deny. Axioms become harder to accept the more complicated they become.
Sounds like you are saying, Wii is what you play when you can't go outside and don't want to watch movies. Where does playing videogames (not on Wii) fit in to that?
Well, you can prove that sqrt(2) is not rational.
Really, I think you want to say "You can't prove a scientific result/theory".
Theorem 1: You can't prove a negative.
Postulare: You can't prove a negative.
By theorem 1...
QED!
What? So you are saying your family just doesn't like videogames at all? What does that have to do with the Wii?
If you are saying the Wii doesn't have challenging immersive games, then you just haven't bought many games for it.
A real libertarian believes in a well-trained militia, not a standing army. We should all be able to protect ourselves, not have the government take our money to spend in huge quantities on dubious "defense" costs. That's how you end up with multiple wars of conquest.
(that was written in my fake libertarian voice... should only be taken half seriously).
Why does there need to be legislation around unions? Why have unions become these behemoth power legalistic power dealers? What happened to a group of workers getting together, holding meetings, and agreeing to all work together to achieve a common goal? Unions seem to me to have gotten out of control.
Yeah, but you're talking reform Jewish, which isn't saying much. The core tenets of reform Judaism involves what you eat at certain times of the year (brisket, latkas, etc).
Also, if you want to be really really accurate, you can convert to Judaism but it is a huge pain in the ass and takes years of study (more difficult than binet-mitzvot from what I've heard).
On the order of religions, Applescript is a fart joke. For gods sake, it has the built in "say" command to do text-to-speech!
tell application "Microsoft Word" to quit
say "I smoke crack-cocaine!"
Any nominations?