Agreed. But when you cut down thousands of acres of forest a day and forcefully kill the plant, please do not tell me that it is unnatural.
OK, I won't tell you it is unnatural.
Besides, I'm too busy gathering together protesters. We're going to make signs and go down the the beaver pond and protest the destruction of the trees and alterations of the wetlands.
I heard an article on NPR the other day that discussed Global Warming's treatment in the media. The man being interviewed thought that the media did the issue a great disservice by trying to be fair and covering both sides of the issue. The fact is, there IS NO OTHER SIDE.
You know, it really doesn't surprise me to be told that NPR would be so brazen as to air the opinion that there are no other sides to an issue.
I dont believe 2 inch high, pink flying elephants exist. and that's not a religion either.
If the majority of the people in the world believed in 2 inch high pink flying elephants, and some of those people wanted governments to make laws consistant with belief in 2ihpfe, then that would be a valid comparison to atheism.
While atheism may not be a religion, it exists as an ideology because there is religion.
Now, why would the submitter ask if there's too many? Is he implying that we should toss some of them away?
I get the impression the submitter feels overwhelmed by the volume of standards and wishes his learning curve was less steep.
I think what he doesn't understand is that without the standards there would be multiple non-standard implementations.
To the submitter: Try looking through some established electrical, plumbing, and building codes. Imagine building a house without them. Then maybe you will understand why standards are a good thing.
If photo printing is your main use, you should consider just having a printing service do it. Walgreens, Walmart, and several online photo printing services will give you higher quality, longer lasting prints. When you factor in the cost of the ink, printheads, photo paper, the occasional inevitable screwup, and the cost of the printer itself, it is usually less expensive also.
I expect this will change in the near future. Probably when photo laser printers become affordable.
Right now printer makers all seem to be gearing their business models on making their profit on the ink and printheads. They practically give away their printers. I have actually bought new printers because it was less expensive than buying a new printhead for my old printers. I threw away 3 perfectly good printers (a HP and 2 Canons) when I moved 6 months ago because it was too expensive to buy printheads.
well, i wouldn't worry about that, should be only a fraction of the bid, currently at $5100
Only took 20 minutes to go up another $623.68. That sort of thing usually only happens in the last minute or two. The Slashdot effect may have an entirely new result in this case.
Anyone wanna make a guess as to the final selling price?
You do realize that to be a "Nielson" household you have to volunteer. It's one thing to volunteer to have your browsing habits monitored, and something else to have crap like gator shoved onto your pc because you don't know any better.
"Volunteer" may not be the proper term. I've done it twice. They solicited me, I didn't go to them and "volunteer". I did willing agree to fill out their survey form. And a survey form is really all it is. Your supposed to write the shows down as you watch them, but we just wrote down the shows we liked before mailing the form back. My guess is most people do that.
My ex-wife used to fill out surveys and stuff like that habitually, which is my guess as to why we were selected. In essence, they got our information in the old fashoned pre-spyware way.
you know if software development is too frustrating for you, you can give a shot at flipping burgers at mcdonalds. You sound like an engineer who whines about having to do fixing and testing. Isn't that part of your job description?
I used to do tech support for a local Wendy's franchise. You think that guy was bitching? You should hear the burger flippers bitching about thier headsets. And in their case, it was usually their fault, not the equipment's fault.
The most GREEN thing we can do is stop emitting greenhouse gasses ("farts"), poop ("feces"), and consuming valuable resources by eating things.
Or we could capture and burn the farts and poop. Perhaps the turbo button could be shaped like a toilet flush lever.
Yes Ma'am, this car uses solar power to produce hydrogen. But it will also run on fossil fuels and feces. Notice the plush padding around the fecal collection bin in the drivers seat and the lighted mirror on the sun shade? Yes Ma'am, we do have one in brown.
To clarify the post above, he's asking how many false positives are there. It's no good if I make 1000 predictions and 15 matched the 16 quakes.
I was wondering the same thing. I can predict that there will be a minor and major earthquake in California every day for the next 1000 years. I will have well over 1/4 million false positives, but 100% of the actual earthquakes will match my prediction.
I looked for some information on the nature of the predictions and found very little. Are they saying there will be a magnitude M +/-m% earthquake during time period T +/-t% at location L +/-m miles?
Or are they saying there will be a handful of bigguns somewhere in California this decade?
The usefulness of that information bears directly on how precise the predictions are.
I doubt the lawsuit would hold too much water, but it's good press coverage. The Libertarians certainly seem to know how to do that much. I personally agree with their points, but the courts often seem to be stacked in the favor of the ruling party (parties?).
Yes, because the ruling parties make the laws and appoint the judges. It's easy to get "bipartisan" legislation passed that makes thing hard for the other parties - as long as there aren't too many people who see it for what it is.
I seriously doubt they will win the lawsuit, but I hope they do.
When will we see a nationwide campaign encouraging people not to vote if they don't care? Or what about people who just don't have the time to do the homework?
I like your ideas. The fewer voters there are, the more my vote counts:)
One would expect Crawford's local paper to be pro-Bush. They did not -- hence the irony.
A newspaper being located in a candidates home town is not "a sequence of events". Definition 3 refers to a literary work where the bulk of the work would make you believe it was heading in one direction, then doesn't. A surprise ending, in essence, where you were being intentionally led in the wrong direction. This makes sense if you read the entire definition, which is why I provided a link.
The "drama" would be the article. For it to be ironic, it would have to end with something along the lines of "So we endorse Bush". That would be letting the audience in on the joke.
The other parts of the definition don't require the surprise ending. That form of irony assumes the reader is playing along, and proceeds start to finish in a tounge-in-cheek fashion.
In summary, for it to be irony, they would have to be saying something they do not mean. Being unexpected because they are located in a particular town is not irony.
(I blame Alanis Morissette for such widespread misunderstanding of this word)
Main Entry: irony
[edited for brevity, click the link for the whole definition] 2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
So, unless you think the paper is really FOR Bush, you misused the word "ironic". For a good example of what irony is, read some of Mark Twain's political commentaries.
[In the Galaxy Magazine]: I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve a term or two in the penitentiary to be perfect. - Mark Twain, a Biography
How ironic that MSN(BC) is pushing a story about 'don't blame the programming'.
Although legitimate in the concept, I would say that poor programming is most definitely a cause for system failures.
Well, we don't necessarily need to blame it on their affiliation with MS, poor journalism could also be the problem.
From the article:
Last month, a system that controls communications between commercial jets and air traffic controllers in southern California shut off because some maintenance had not been performed.
If I remember correctly, this "maintenance" was a monthly reboot which was necessary because the software (in this case Windows) would fail without it. You can blame that on poor management, poor training, lack of diligence, or faulty software.
The fact is, if the software wasn't faulty, at least in this case the rest would not have mattered.
On the other hand, the best managed company with the best training and most diligent employees could not possibly have fixed the problem with Windows. I suppose if your going to blame management for anything, it'd be deploying Windows for mission critical tasks.
We should stop modding the guy "Funny" and "Informative" instead, since the former doesn't increase his karma. In fact, he should post a dumb comment and then mods should go and mod that up just to equalize his karma.
Well, the fact that politics is mentioned in his post means he automatically gets 40% flamebait / overratted / offtopic / troll, 40% informative / insightful / underrated, and 20% funny.
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OK, I won't tell you it is unnatural.
Besides, I'm too busy gathering together protesters. We're going to make signs and go down the the beaver pond and protest the destruction of the trees and alterations of the wetlands.
You know, it really doesn't surprise me to be told that NPR would be so brazen as to air the opinion that there are no other sides to an issue.
You mean besides showing up for work?
Yes. What are the headlines today? "Predidential Candidate Arrested Trying To Enter Debates"
Who's the kook here? Why are Presidential candidates being arrested for trying to enter a Presidential debate? This should be a wake up call, people.
And I'm a slightly right leaning Libertarian. I guess together we prove the grandparent's point.
I suppose to in the spirit of equal time I should repeat myself from the article earlier today:
Can we please discuss something that matters?
If the majority of the people in the world believed in 2 inch high pink flying elephants, and some of those people wanted governments to make laws consistant with belief in 2ihpfe, then that would be a valid comparison to atheism.
While atheism may not be a religion, it exists as an ideology because there is religion.
I get the impression the submitter feels overwhelmed by the volume of standards and wishes his learning curve was less steep.
I think what he doesn't understand is that without the standards there would be multiple non-standard implementations.
To the submitter: Try looking through some established electrical, plumbing, and building codes. Imagine building a house without them. Then maybe you will understand why standards are a good thing.
And Kerry took a note out of his pocket and Badnarak wasn't even allowed to show up and nothign of substance got discussed.
Please, can we stick to something that matters?
If I had it to spend, I would.
However, with a final bid of $11,500 I would have lost
If photo printing is your main use, you should consider just having a printing service do it. Walgreens, Walmart, and several online photo printing services will give you higher quality, longer lasting prints. When you factor in the cost of the ink, printheads, photo paper, the occasional inevitable screwup, and the cost of the printer itself, it is usually less expensive also.
I expect this will change in the near future. Probably when photo laser printers become affordable.
Right now printer makers all seem to be gearing their business models on making their profit on the ink and printheads. They practically give away their printers. I have actually bought new printers because it was less expensive than buying a new printhead for my old printers. I threw away 3 perfectly good printers (a HP and 2 Canons) when I moved 6 months ago because it was too expensive to buy printheads.
Only took 20 minutes to go up another $623.68. That sort of thing usually only happens in the last minute or two. The Slashdot effect may have an entirely new result in this case.
Anyone wanna make a guess as to the final selling price?
I guess $10,001.03.
"Volunteer" may not be the proper term. I've done it twice. They solicited me, I didn't go to them and "volunteer". I did willing agree to fill out their survey form. And a survey form is really all it is. Your supposed to write the shows down as you watch them, but we just wrote down the shows we liked before mailing the form back. My guess is most people do that.
My ex-wife used to fill out surveys and stuff like that habitually, which is my guess as to why we were selected. In essence, they got our information in the old fashoned pre-spyware way.
I used to do tech support for a local Wendy's franchise. You think that guy was bitching? You should hear the burger flippers bitching about thier headsets. And in their case, it was usually their fault, not the equipment's fault.
Or we could capture and burn the farts and poop. Perhaps the turbo button could be shaped like a toilet flush lever.
Yes Ma'am, this car uses solar power to produce hydrogen. But it will also run on fossil fuels and feces. Notice the plush padding around the fecal collection bin in the drivers seat and the lighted mirror on the sun shade? Yes Ma'am, we do have one in brown.
I was wondering the same thing. I can predict that there will be a minor and major earthquake in California every day for the next 1000 years. I will have well over 1/4 million false positives, but 100% of the actual earthquakes will match my prediction.
I looked for some information on the nature of the predictions and found very little. Are they saying there will be a magnitude M +/-m% earthquake during time period T +/-t% at location L +/-m miles?
Or are they saying there will be a handful of bigguns somewhere in California this decade?
The usefulness of that information bears directly on how precise the predictions are.
Yes, because the ruling parties make the laws and appoint the judges. It's easy to get "bipartisan" legislation passed that makes thing hard for the other parties - as long as there aren't too many people who see it for what it is.
I seriously doubt they will win the lawsuit, but I hope they do.
I like your ideas. The fewer voters there are, the more my vote counts
A newspaper being located in a candidates home town is not "a sequence of events". Definition 3 refers to a literary work where the bulk of the work would make you believe it was heading in one direction, then doesn't. A surprise ending, in essence, where you were being intentionally led in the wrong direction. This makes sense if you read the entire definition, which is why I provided a link.
The "drama" would be the article. For it to be ironic, it would have to end with something along the lines of "So we endorse Bush". That would be letting the audience in on the joke.
The other parts of the definition don't require the surprise ending. That form of irony assumes the reader is playing along, and proceeds start to finish in a tounge-in-cheek fashion.
In summary, for it to be irony, they would have to be saying something they do not mean. Being unexpected because they are located in a particular town is not irony.
(I blame Alanis Morissette for such widespread misunderstanding of this word)
This word, "ironic", I do not think it means what you think it means.
From m-w.com:
So, unless you think the paper is really FOR Bush, you misused the word "ironic". For a good example of what irony is, read some of Mark Twain's political commentaries.
[In the Galaxy Magazine]: I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve a term or two in the penitentiary to be perfect.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
And it'll be a game on the X-Box.
Oh, stop your groaning. As bad as it is that joke was begging to be told.
Well, we don't necessarily need to blame it on their affiliation with MS, poor journalism could also be the problem.
If I remember correctly, this "maintenance" was a monthly reboot which was necessary because the software (in this case Windows) would fail without it. You can blame that on poor management, poor training, lack of diligence, or faulty software.
The fact is, if the software wasn't faulty, at least in this case the rest would not have mattered.
On the other hand, the best managed company with the best training and most diligent employees could not possibly have fixed the problem with Windows. I suppose if your going to blame management for anything, it'd be deploying Windows for mission critical tasks.
Well, the fact that politics is mentioned in his post means he automatically gets 40% flamebait / overratted / offtopic / troll, 40% informative / insightful / underrated, and 20% funny.
Yes, coincidental.
Also, symbolic: The passing of the baton.
Rest In Peace, Gordo.
Yes... and the really cool thing is that the assault weapons ban doesn't cover these babies.