Death isn't the only outcome if you're in a motorcycle crash without a helmet. Such accidents are also more likely to result in crippling long-term injuries, like spinal paralysis, brain damage from concussions, etc. which have *huge* costs that are, guess what, borne by the rest of society.
This isn't the be-all end-all of helmet arguments, of course, but it is something to keep in mind when considering them.
I would hope that of all the articles you could complain about there being a dupe of, the cure for cancer would probably be at the bottom of the list.;)
They argue that the missing element is that screenwriters are not marketed by Hollywood in the same way the book industry markets its authors
That's just not true, for some interlinked reasons:
1. Screenplays are fundamentally different animals than novels. They're written to be the blueprint for a movie, not something to be enjoyed in their own right. This isn't to say that a screenplay can't be enjoyable to read, but you're never* going to read a screenplay for enjoyment unless you've already seen the movie it was made into -- because if a screenplay was good enough to sell copies of it to the public, then it was more or less by definition already made into a movie.
2. Screenwriters can't be marketed by Hollywood the same way novel authors are marketed -- for one thing, the screenwriter is one of dozens, maybe hundreds of people involved in the movie's production. Even if you just consider the 10 or 15 most important people -- director, a few stars, a producer or two, writer, DP -- the money is going to focus on promoting the biggest names, and that's the stars (and maybe the director). Stars are always the most well-known people involved with a movie, and that's not just because that's who the studio markets; it's because you stare at their faces for 2 hours.
An author, by contrast, is one of only a very few people involved with the creative aspects of a novel -- even if you take an editor or two into account, the author is still responsible for 99% of what you read. So there's a single, obvious focus for the marketing effort.
but given the fact that creating a simple three column layout that works on every browser and looks good too is far from trivial, one can conclude two things:
* Something's wrong with CSS
Nothing's wrong with CSS on its own terms... but I still don't understand why people think that Cascading Style Sheets should be used for layout.
Granted, HTML wasn't designed with layout in mind, either, but it's a hell of a lot simpler to make a table with HTML than it is to futz around with CSS positionings. Which is probably why most people still do it that way.
It's a terrible toll that piracy is taking on the movie industry -- why, poor Will Smith got evicted from his apartment and he and his son (his real son!) had to live in a bathroom in a subway station! I believe they recently made a documentary about it.
There's a fundamental problem with your assertion: The "common language of the time" was not an unambiguous set of ironclad rules that everyone understood perfectly, any more than language is so today. From the day the Constitution was laid down, there were vociferous arguments about what various parts of it meant.
As for the interpretation, the Supreme Court has always had that power.
The Supreme Court didn't have the power of judicial review until 1803 (Marbury v. Madison), when Chief Justice John Marshall essentially granted that power to the court.
The average human lifespan in 1900 in the US was well under 50
Yeah, but the distribution was extremely different -- infant and child mortality was extremely high (compared to today), but if you made it past childhood, you had a pretty good chance of living to a ripe old age. For those who made it past age 5 or 6, the average lifespan was more like 70+.
Yeah, who cares about food? It's not like there could be anything interesting or scientific about bacteria. No, let's just keep slurping down pizza and Mountain Dew and not think about what we're putting into our bodies.
Haha, now there's a movie that needs wider exposure in the geek community:) Too bad it got no more than a cursory theatrical release, and no promotion at all. Freakin' Fox.
Because you wrote it badly, I can't tell if you're joking about the learning curve or not, but just in case: The point of a steep learning curve is not to plot amount learned versus time, it's to plot amount you need to learn versus the ability to get things done. A steep learning curve is like a steep cliff: hard to climb. Long, gentle slopes are a lot easier.
Seriously, it's two thousand goddamn seven, the "What is this X the article speaks of?" thing is OVER. You're on the fucking Internet, go to Google or Wikipedia and do five seconds of research. </rant>
"Never trust the client"? In BitTorrent, they're ALL clients (except for the initial seed). BitTorrent is practically a master class in how to get a collection of selfish clients to cooperate.
AllOfMP3 would simply pay the local mafia a small sum to make the problem.... disappear.
And this is better? You'd rather people solve their problems by having each other murdered rather than in an (ostensibly) non-violent court of law? Good grief.
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Maybe it's a "Don't ACK, don't tell" policy.
Death isn't the only outcome if you're in a motorcycle crash without a helmet. Such accidents are also more likely to result in crippling long-term injuries, like spinal paralysis, brain damage from concussions, etc. which have *huge* costs that are, guess what, borne by the rest of society.
This isn't the be-all end-all of helmet arguments, of course, but it is something to keep in mind when considering them.
Yeah, just in the same way that you can't patent a spoon, which is why nobody makes spoons.
I would hope that of all the articles you could complain about there being a dupe of, the cure for cancer would probably be at the bottom of the list. ;)
1. Screenplays are fundamentally different animals than novels. They're written to be the blueprint for a movie, not something to be enjoyed in their own right. This isn't to say that a screenplay can't be enjoyable to read, but you're never* going to read a screenplay for enjoyment unless you've already seen the movie it was made into -- because if a screenplay was good enough to sell copies of it to the public, then it was more or less by definition already made into a movie.
2. Screenwriters can't be marketed by Hollywood the same way novel authors are marketed -- for one thing, the screenwriter is one of dozens, maybe hundreds of people involved in the movie's production. Even if you just consider the 10 or 15 most important people -- director, a few stars, a producer or two, writer, DP -- the money is going to focus on promoting the biggest names, and that's the stars (and maybe the director). Stars are always the most well-known people involved with a movie, and that's not just because that's who the studio markets; it's because you stare at their faces for 2 hours.
An author, by contrast, is one of only a very few people involved with the creative aspects of a novel -- even if you take an editor or two into account, the author is still responsible for 99% of what you read. So there's a single, obvious focus for the marketing effort.
Well, you've named three NASA projects that ended up running late. Now, can you name three which went live as originally scheduled?
Now that you've done that, can you explain your point?
Granted, HTML wasn't designed with layout in mind, either, but it's a hell of a lot simpler to make a table with HTML than it is to futz around with CSS positionings. Which is probably why most people still do it that way.
They actually have a screenshot of what it looks like inside the Vista kernel.
I'm still waiting for Viscount Chocula and Admiral Crunch.
It's a terrible toll that piracy is taking on the movie industry -- why, poor Will Smith got evicted from his apartment and he and his son (his real son!) had to live in a bathroom in a subway station! I believe they recently made a documentary about it.
The Supreme Court didn't have the power of judicial review until 1803 (Marbury v. Madison), when Chief Justice John Marshall essentially granted that power to the court.
6400 MHz ought to be enough for anybody.
Yeah, but the distribution was extremely different -- infant and child mortality was extremely high (compared to today), but if you made it past childhood, you had a pretty good chance of living to a ripe old age. For those who made it past age 5 or 6, the average lifespan was more like 70+.
Yeah, who cares about food? It's not like there could be anything interesting or scientific about bacteria. No, let's just keep slurping down pizza and Mountain Dew and not think about what we're putting into our bodies.
Not so much "ha ha" funny as "OH MY GOD I'M BLIND AND I HAVE RADIATION POISONING" funny.
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Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.)
Ahh, I see. It's one of those terms whose technical definition is counterintuitive, and so everyone uses it to mean the opposite.
Haha, now there's a movie that needs wider exposure in the geek community :) Too bad it got no more than a cursory theatrical release, and no promotion at all. Freakin' Fox.
Because you wrote it badly, I can't tell if you're joking about the learning curve or not, but just in case: The point of a steep learning curve is not to plot amount learned versus time, it's to plot amount you need to learn versus the ability to get things done. A steep learning curve is like a steep cliff: hard to climb. Long, gentle slopes are a lot easier.
Seriously, it's two thousand goddamn seven, the "What is this X the article speaks of?" thing is OVER. You're on the fucking Internet, go to Google or Wikipedia and do five seconds of research. </rant>
Wouldn't that be procrasturbation?
sed?? You pussy! REAL men write the file once, through cat, and never have to change it, thus no need for an editor.
/dev and type in hex!
/dev?? You pussy! REAL men write the data directly to RAM by tapping exposed wiring to the DIMM contacts!
Let me take care of the ObSequenceOfReplies:
cat?? You pussy! REAL men open a file handle manually through
wires?? You pussy! REAL men use huge electromagnets to manipulate the electrons inside the RAM directly!
magnets?? You pussy! REAL men push the electrons into place using sheer force of will!
I think that about covers it. Someone want to add a Chuck Norris variant?
"Never trust the client"? In BitTorrent, they're ALL clients (except for the initial seed). BitTorrent is practically a master class in how to get a collection of selfish clients to cooperate.
And this is better? You'd rather people solve their problems by having each other murdered rather than in an (ostensibly) non-violent court of law? Good grief.