Like in California, where a criminal can walk into your house and rape your daughter, but if you shoot him he can sue your ass into oblivion.
Can you provide some more information on this? I was under the impression that stopping an assault (including rape) in progress was considered one of the few times where using lethal force is allowed.
Sorry i dont have a vertical bar to the left of the first letter but i dont know how to comment, too busy kissing stones. you might be smart, but the passive insults suggest your a fuckin loser
I believe that his use of "blarney" was meant as an insult directed at the drivel from an irish newspaper which has demonstrated that it's run by idiots and nincompoops. Unless you're one of them, which I doubt, I believe you are taking more offense from the statement than was intended. Lighten up!:-)
You can quote with: <quote>stuff gets quoted...</quote>
I remember Saving Private Ryan for the graphic and thorough depiction of the brutality war and sudden-ness of death. The cinematic effects I'm sure contributed to this, but what I consciously remember is the content.
This is the best ratio, it is natural and beautiful.
Because it has some intrinsic property that makes it so, or because everyone just believes that to be true?
Given how prevalent it is in nature and human culture, there is probably a little of both. The wikipedia article on the Golden Ratio notes several diverse places where it's appeared through history and nature. It is frequently associated with beauty and harmony, and there seems to be some indication that it correlates well with what we consider beautiful when looking at people.
Pertinent to your question, the Wikipedia page does note that there seems to be some disagreement on whether we do indeed have a preference for the Golden Ratio in aesthetics. http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue22/features/golden/index is one of the linked articles, and seems interesting reading.
While you're correct that the US's military (and other) policies don't do a lot to prevent people from hating us, and that treating civilians as "enemy resources" is the way to Very Bad Things, please don't call us Nazis. We're not. Calling us Nazis dilutes the descriptive power of the word.
That is the best reason I've ever read for having nice-resistant locks when the rest of the house isn't completely secured: Don't make it hard to get in, make it hard to get in without leaving evidence of a break-in. Thanks!
You're right, he should be able to freshly articulate his points on demand. However, this might not be the right place to do so. A published version of them is likely to be more polished and thorough. "Why should we listen to you" is unlikely to get a response from Stallman, especially when he has explained in in probably as thorough detail as he cares to on his website.
This is a separate issue from "I'm still not convinced", however.
See, this is exactly why linux/unix are annoying to setup. There's always some hack that needs to be done since I have a dozen different wireless adapters, video cards, etc, etc.
....
I have no idea where [.bashrc,.bash_login,.fvwm2rc,.vimrc,.Xdefaults and.Xmodmap] are, what they do, how to open it, etc in a linux environment.
They are user profile files that live in your home directory, normally, or in/etc.
Configuring a new system is an exercise in frustration, whether it's Linux or Windows. (Macs may be different?) I chalk this up to my personal preferences being complex, and different from the defaults in _both_ operating systems. It tends to take a day+ for me to configure a new version of windows, since I need to research the tweaks that need to be done (registry changes, helper programs, etc) in order to enact the changes that I want. (I like focus-follows-mouse, don't raise windows, and install a virtual desktop system that doesn't suck.) It took me a while to figure out how to configure Windows 7's interface so that it made more sense to me, but there were always things that frustrated me. (I still haven't upgraded at home.)
In comparison, I now use Ubuntu at work. When I installed it, it had Unity as its interface, and I couldn't stand it. Some like it, but there's lots that I dislike. After spending a week trying to get one alternative desktop interface to work, I switched gears and switched to XFCE (another desktop environment for linux); installing it was simple, and ran overnight. I'll never be able to modify Windows' desktop experience as thoroughly or easily. From there, I had to configure my personal settings (menus here, mouse behavior the way I like it, etc), but __in the future__ I know it will be easier: I know the window manager that I like, and can either copy or recreate my customizations more easily than in Windows.
It's not so much that they unilaterally ignore it, it's that every police department has limited resources with which to respond to any collection of situations. They implicitly have to choose between sending officers to investigate a downed hunter-heckling drone versus responding to car accidents, domestic abuse, or even traffic violations. Which do you think they are likely to feel is a better use of their limited resources?
In effect, wolf-cryers get ignored. It's not due to a policy decision to do so, but rather due to constraints on resources and a perceived lower probability of the wolf-cryer actually needing help.
You say it jokingly, but you have an interesting point. I grew up, learning an ethical framework of how to behave towards other humans that was based around "these were Jesus' teachings". I am having trouble explaining some of the virtues that are considered "Christian" virtues (e.g. compassion, honesty, etc) without this intellectual crutch when I talk with my kids. Any suggestions on how to teach a young person to be kind, honest, unselfish? "By example" covers a lot of it, but doesn't explain things like _why_ not to hurt, steal, or lie.
I'm pretty sure the concept is not that a rock created life, but rather that radiation and the interactions between proteins created it, by accident. Saying it's from a rock is a straw man: I don't think anyone believes that life came from "a rock".
Given that he said that he believes it will take 40 hours, because he's done it, I think it's safe to interpret that to mean that it took him roughly 40 hours (or one work-week). It might have taken 30 or 50 hours.
Wasting an entire week on bureaucracy is not that inconceivable. Between finding out what forms to submit, who to talk to to GET those forms, negotiating their lunch breaks or vacations, getting notarized copies of other things, or handling other similar "You must X before you Y, but x and y are only available at these times" constraints can make 30-40 minutes of Actual Work take much longer in real-world time, especially when it's YOUR responsibility to babysit the process to ensure that anything gets done.
Of course, here they have proprietary company property to protect
This is the key. I happily carry a badge at work because it helps me to more conveniently secure access to our company's private areas. It's easier than a set of keys. My company doesn't use it as a way to measure attendance, as they care that we _get things done_, so I don't care about the privacy implications -- after all, they can tell when I'm here with a keylogger or my commits into source control.
You oversimplfy. Saying "It's water!" to desert-dwellers is like dismissing a submariner's concerns about air.
Salt water is useless for drinking and irrigation, and in a desert (southern California), nearly all the water has to be imported. Southern California gets most of it from the Colorado river and Northern California, and tensions are rising with the people living in northern Cali or Arizona as we take more and more of their water.
Yes, "economic" reasons. It costs money to make aqueducts, money to buy the water from Arizona (though not enough, apparently?), money to run desalination plants. The latter would be awesome, as then we could just slurp up the ocean water that we are next to, but at this point it seems to be cheaper to import the water. (I seem to recall there being some shady price issues around that, but it's been eight or ten years since I read much about it.)
It probably has a lot of time spent on it that TV shows normally do not have. Having a friend who works on daily film, they do a ton of work; I'd hate to think what FX guys have to do as well.
It was extremely cool, but having to actually scroll all over, combined with a small scrollable window, made my hands hurt enough that I eventually gave up. I'm very thankful for the (multiple) people that repackaged it as a zoomable map.
I recall reading that people, when given a range of options, tend to pick a middle one. So, they didn't take the minimum, and likely didn't take the maximum. They might even have simply averaged the two fenceposts.
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Like in California, where a criminal can walk into your house and rape your daughter, but if you shoot him he can sue your ass into oblivion.
Can you provide some more information on this? I was under the impression that stopping an assault (including rape) in progress was considered one of the few times where using lethal force is allowed.
CA penal code (section 197) [ http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=00001-01000&file=187-199 ] seems to indicate that homicide is justifiable when resisting attempts of a person to commit gross bodily harm, or to protect family members from the same.
Shoot, I accidentally modded you overrated. Sorry about that, posting to undo the mistake.
Sorry i dont have a vertical bar to the left of the first letter but i dont know how to comment, too busy kissing stones.
you might be smart, but the passive insults suggest your a fuckin loser
I believe that his use of "blarney" was meant as an insult directed at the drivel from an irish newspaper which has demonstrated that it's run by idiots and nincompoops. Unless you're one of them, which I doubt, I believe you are taking more offense from the statement than was intended. Lighten up! :-)
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<quote>stuff gets quoted...</quote>
I remember Saving Private Ryan for the graphic and thorough depiction of the brutality war and sudden-ness of death. The cinematic effects I'm sure contributed to this, but what I consciously remember is the content.
This is the best ratio, it is natural and beautiful.
Because it has some intrinsic property that makes it so, or because everyone just believes that to be true?
Given how prevalent it is in nature and human culture, there is probably a little of both. The wikipedia article on the Golden Ratio notes several diverse places where it's appeared through history and nature. It is frequently associated with beauty and harmony, and there seems to be some indication that it correlates well with what we consider beautiful when looking at people.
Pertinent to your question, the Wikipedia page does note that there seems to be some disagreement on whether we do indeed have a preference for the Golden Ratio in aesthetics. http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue22/features/golden/index is one of the linked articles, and seems interesting reading.
While you're correct that the US's military (and other) policies don't do a lot to prevent people from hating us, and that treating civilians as "enemy resources" is the way to Very Bad Things, please don't call us Nazis. We're not. Calling us Nazis dilutes the descriptive power of the word.
Am I paranoid to be wary of using a Chinese phone, given recent articles on their extensive industrial espionage?
That is the best reason I've ever read for having nice-resistant locks when the rest of the house isn't completely secured: Don't make it hard to get in, make it hard to get in without leaving evidence of a break-in. Thanks!
You're right, he should be able to freshly articulate his points on demand. However, this might not be the right place to do so. A published version of them is likely to be more polished and thorough. "Why should we listen to you" is unlikely to get a response from Stallman, especially when he has explained in in probably as thorough detail as he cares to on his website.
This is a separate issue from "I'm still not convinced", however.
See, this is exactly why linux/unix are annoying to setup. There's always some hack that needs to be done since I have a dozen different wireless adapters, video cards, etc, etc.
....
I have no idea where [.bashrc, .bash_login, .fvwm2rc, .vimrc, .Xdefaults and .Xmodmap] are, what they do, how to open it, etc in a linux environment.
They are user profile files that live in your home directory, normally, or in /etc.
Configuring a new system is an exercise in frustration, whether it's Linux or Windows. (Macs may be different?) I chalk this up to my personal preferences being complex, and different from the defaults in _both_ operating systems. It tends to take a day+ for me to configure a new version of windows, since I need to research the tweaks that need to be done (registry changes, helper programs, etc) in order to enact the changes that I want. (I like focus-follows-mouse, don't raise windows, and install a virtual desktop system that doesn't suck.) It took me a while to figure out how to configure Windows 7's interface so that it made more sense to me, but there were always things that frustrated me. (I still haven't upgraded at home.)
In comparison, I now use Ubuntu at work. When I installed it, it had Unity as its interface, and I couldn't stand it. Some like it, but there's lots that I dislike. After spending a week trying to get one alternative desktop interface to work, I switched gears and switched to XFCE (another desktop environment for linux); installing it was simple, and ran overnight. I'll never be able to modify Windows' desktop experience as thoroughly or easily. From there, I had to configure my personal settings (menus here, mouse behavior the way I like it, etc), but __in the future__ I know it will be easier: I know the window manager that I like, and can either copy or recreate my customizations more easily than in Windows.
It's not so much that they unilaterally ignore it, it's that every police department has limited resources with which to respond to any collection of situations. They implicitly have to choose between sending officers to investigate a downed hunter-heckling drone versus responding to car accidents, domestic abuse, or even traffic violations. Which do you think they are likely to feel is a better use of their limited resources?
In effect, wolf-cryers get ignored. It's not due to a policy decision to do so, but rather due to constraints on resources and a perceived lower probability of the wolf-cryer actually needing help.
A directional microwave? :-) That's probably illegal as well.
Won't Prior art be meaningless when the US changes to a First to File system (like most of the rest of the world) next year?
You say it jokingly, but you have an interesting point. I grew up, learning an ethical framework of how to behave towards other humans that was based around "these were Jesus' teachings". I am having trouble explaining some of the virtues that are considered "Christian" virtues (e.g. compassion, honesty, etc) without this intellectual crutch when I talk with my kids. Any suggestions on how to teach a young person to be kind, honest, unselfish? "By example" covers a lot of it, but doesn't explain things like _why_ not to hurt, steal, or lie.
It's not that they are incapable of it, more that they are unwilling to.
That must make the World Series especially fun. :D
I'm pretty sure the concept is not that a rock created life, but rather that radiation and the interactions between proteins created it, by accident. Saying it's from a rock is a straw man: I don't think anyone believes that life came from "a rock".
Thanks for the reminder of his work: I read that story years ago, and loved it. I'll have to go seek out the rest of his work now.
Given that he said that he believes it will take 40 hours, because he's done it, I think it's safe to interpret that to mean that it took him roughly 40 hours (or one work-week). It might have taken 30 or 50 hours.
Wasting an entire week on bureaucracy is not that inconceivable. Between finding out what forms to submit, who to talk to to GET those forms, negotiating their lunch breaks or vacations, getting notarized copies of other things, or handling other similar "You must X before you Y, but x and y are only available at these times" constraints can make 30-40 minutes of Actual Work take much longer in real-world time, especially when it's YOUR responsibility to babysit the process to ensure that anything gets done.
Of course, here they have proprietary company property to protect
This is the key. I happily carry a badge at work because it helps me to more conveniently secure access to our company's private areas. It's easier than a set of keys. My company doesn't use it as a way to measure attendance, as they care that we _get things done_, so I don't care about the privacy implications -- after all, they can tell when I'm here with a keylogger or my commits into source control.
You oversimplfy. Saying "It's water!" to desert-dwellers is like dismissing a submariner's concerns about air.
Salt water is useless for drinking and irrigation, and in a desert (southern California), nearly all the water has to be imported. Southern California gets most of it from the Colorado river and Northern California, and tensions are rising with the people living in northern Cali or Arizona as we take more and more of their water.
Yes, "economic" reasons. It costs money to make aqueducts, money to buy the water from Arizona (though not enough, apparently?), money to run desalination plants. The latter would be awesome, as then we could just slurp up the ocean water that we are next to, but at this point it seems to be cheaper to import the water. (I seem to recall there being some shady price issues around that, but it's been eight or ten years since I read much about it.)
So, we need to avoid coffee to avoid going blind, or drink it regularly so that we don't get Alzheimer's?
It probably has a lot of time spent on it that TV shows normally do not have. Having a friend who works on daily film, they do a ton of work; I'd hate to think what FX guys have to do as well.
It was extremely cool, but having to actually scroll all over, combined with a small scrollable window, made my hands hurt enough that I eventually gave up. I'm very thankful for the (multiple) people that repackaged it as a zoomable map.
I recall reading that people, when given a range of options, tend to pick a middle one. So, they didn't take the minimum, and likely didn't take the maximum. They might even have simply averaged the two fenceposts.