Yes, but doing it to a harvard law professor is a little bit... Simple
It seems kind of like that scene in a movie where a group of young thugs start threatening a little old Asian guy in a saffron robe and a serene smile.
I'm definitely not a Bush supporter, but I admire how he's handled the transition...
The only thing I wonder about... Bush supposedly blew a kiss out the window of his limo as he left the White house for the last time. Did anyone see if, after blowing the kiss, his hand went to his behind, slightly changing the message?
I read an article about this or similar technology several months ago. Sure, light doesn't do through walls, but that could be an advantage. You could setup a wireless network that actually stops at the building perimeter.
Yes, but it would be easy to gain unauthorized access to your wireless network if you have windows.
I think the point is... if the laws are bad for homosexuals, homosexuals aren't going to live there in the first place.
Actually, I think the point is that Google is experiencing significant economic difficulties, and needs a big PR gimmick to bolster its marketing efforts. What better way to lure new customers than to support a civil rights-based lawsuit?
Any idiot knows that your statements are only half as powerful if the other side can retort.
So the RIAA will hire someone to stand near the camera microphone during the hearing and sing "LA LA LA LA!" whenever someone else is speaking; problem solved.
Of course, then they'll have to sue their opposition obfuscator for an unauthorized narrowcast performance "Brown Eyed Girl".
Backing up a couple of days here, but a few questions here:
1. When did I say I was a teacher? Okay, my/. profile says I used to be one, but that was a decade ago.
2. How is it plagiarism to use Wikipedia as a gateway to get to an authoritative source? Look up in Wiki-->Click through to reference-->quote reference in report, is not plagiarism.
3. Why would I search for a reference text when all I need is a quick peek at the chemical structure of a particular dioxin? It's not like I can go to the Pier Foreman's office and ask for a Chemistry textbook.
4. If you think your argument has merit, why post AC?
The reality is that our kids are influenced most strongly by the following, in decreasing order:
peers
media
teachers
parents
This is probably the most accurate order for your kids, who are teenagers. The order of influence changes as kids grow up. At the moment, my son (who is just about 8) thinks I'm the one who knows everything, his teacher is pretty much a babysitter, and you can't believe anything you see on TV. I'm using these formative years to make sure he can think for himself as strongly as possible when outside influences become stronger in his teens.
I would tend not to filter content based on who is credible, but on what I thought was age-inappropriate (like graphic violence and explicit sexual content). As far as credibility is concerned, I often discuss with my son why people say different things about different subjects, their agendas, marketing reasons, etc.
Very insightful reply; definitely deserves a few mod points.
Schools are where you LEARN things, not become a good person.
However, I think it is important to acknowledge the role of the school environment in shaping what kind of person a kid grows up to be. My son is an only child, so the majority of social interaction he has with kids his age is at school, and at his after-school care. In my case, I'd say the majority of my son's sense of morality and cognitive awareness comes from me, but there are a lot of social aspects of being a good person that come from interacting with one's peers.
It looks like parents want their kids to be raised at school. Which is wrong... Children are raised at home by the parents.
That's a rather absolute statement. Kids are raised by everyone who influences them, including parents, teachers, after school care providers, and others they interact with. Your statement is only completely accurate for sheltered, shut-in, home-schooled kids who grow up completely clueless about the world.
I try to shape the influence other people have over my son by giving him the mental tools to evaluate what they tell him, but I can't lock him away from outside influences. Nor do I want to. Listening to and evaluating different opinions is the only way you develop interpersonal critical thinking skills.
Your job as a parent is not done after the DNA combination and birth of said child.
Any time I want to learn about something, it's the first place I go.
I sincerely hope it's not the last place you go.
That's the key. I agree with the previous poster; Wikipedia is a great place to start your online research. But of course I never quote the Wikipedia article itself (except for minor things like atomic weights and other easily-verifiable data). A well-written Wikipedia article is a speedy link to a collection of journals, newspaper articles, and primary sources.
Conversely, of course, a poorly-written Wikipedia article is a speedy link to a collection of 'authoritative' blogs, home pages and fringe websites.
Wikipedia is a great research tool for anyone who knows how to perform research.
...at the company where I work they stress to each employee not to work with certain companies (and Iran is on the list) because if we do we will be in violation of US Export laws and the US government could decide that we can't export anything to any other country. That would cause me and just about every other person in my comany to lose their jobs.
That's not proof that a big company like HP wouldn't do it; just that they'd be creative in finding ways around the export restrictions.
And if they really weren't aware that this has been happening, this would be a good time unload stock in a company that hasn't got a clue about due diligence. Compare this to e-waste disposal. My company audits our e-waste recyclers, who audit their downstream recyclers, to make sure our used computers don't end up in an illegal e-waste shipment to China. If HP doesn't periodically audit its distributors, especially those in the Middle East, they're doing a pretty crappy job of covering their asses against federal prosecution--especially if the distributor boldly stated on their website that they distribute to Iran.
Printers and faxes? Either they're complete enough in their thinking to include written works, or they're afraid people are going to share mp3 files by faxing hundreds of pages of ones and zeroes.
Still, it would be faster than some torrents I've seen.
Was that really necessary to get the story across?
Of course. With only one small, relatively unobtrusive ad at the top of the page, it takes all of the trolling and flaming elicited by that baiting for/. to rake in the ad revenue.;)
I wonder why they haven't tried this yet. With the sheer inorganic durability of their products, it's surprising that you can't go to McDonalds.com and order a Big Mac via USPS regular parcel service.
Or they could fax it to you; it wouldn't increase the nutritional value that much.
While you could argue that a mouse is a consumable, it isn't/shouldn't be designed as such.
I'd agree with shouldn't be, but not with isn't. Logitech is a typical consumer product manufacturing company, whose primary goal is to convince you to throw away the mouse you bought last year (or even last month) and replace it with the latest model. (Try our new 68-button MegaMedia(TM) Mouse with built-in subwoofer!!!)
Of the 1 billion mice Logitech has sold, I wonder how many currently reside in a municipal landfill somewhere.
Not just the processing, but the design. It's not like someone mixes up a big bowl of ground beef, a few eggs, spices and whatever, then roughly forms round-ish patties before shipping them out.*
Everything produced for McDonald's is the result of a very stricly controlled manufacturing process to ensure that every meat-like patty, every tallow-spiked fry, every creepily long-lasting chocolate shake is the same to within very strict tolerances, whether you eat it in Miami or Whitehorse.
Make no mistake; that Quarter Pounder with Orange Dairy-Like Substance(TM) is as much the product of a technical manufacturing process as your Cordless Trackball with Media Whiz-Bang!(TM).
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Aren't we still in the beta period... for Windows 95?
It seems kind of like that scene in a movie where a group of young thugs start threatening a little old Asian guy in a saffron robe and a serene smile.
Organically-grown Washington Gala variety.
Okay, the volume is approximately equal to 25,000,000,000,000 apples.
The only thing I wonder about... Bush supposedly blew a kiss out the window of his limo as he left the White house for the last time. Did anyone see if, after blowing the kiss, his hand went to his behind, slightly changing the message?
Yes, but it would be easy to gain unauthorized access to your wireless network if you have windows.
Why does that sound familiar?
Actually, I think the point is that Google is experiencing significant economic difficulties, and needs a big PR gimmick to bolster its marketing efforts. What better way to lure new customers than to support a civil rights-based lawsuit?
So the RIAA will hire someone to stand near the camera microphone during the hearing and sing "LA LA LA LA!" whenever someone else is speaking; problem solved.
Of course, then they'll have to sue their opposition obfuscator for an unauthorized narrowcast performance "Brown Eyed Girl".
The court is easily amused, and the RIAA use their Dr. Evil voice when they state the amount.
Backing up a couple of days here, but a few questions here:
1. When did I say I was a teacher? Okay, my /. profile says I used to be one, but that was a decade ago.
2. How is it plagiarism to use Wikipedia as a gateway to get to an authoritative source? Look up in Wiki-->Click through to reference-->quote reference in report, is not plagiarism.
3. Why would I search for a reference text when all I need is a quick peek at the chemical structure of a particular dioxin? It's not like I can go to the Pier Foreman's office and ask for a Chemistry textbook.
4. If you think your argument has merit, why post AC?
This is probably the most accurate order for your kids, who are teenagers. The order of influence changes as kids grow up. At the moment, my son (who is just about 8) thinks I'm the one who knows everything, his teacher is pretty much a babysitter, and you can't believe anything you see on TV. I'm using these formative years to make sure he can think for himself as strongly as possible when outside influences become stronger in his teens.
I would tend not to filter content based on who is credible, but on what I thought was age-inappropriate (like graphic violence and explicit sexual content). As far as credibility is concerned, I often discuss with my son why people say different things about different subjects, their agendas, marketing reasons, etc.
Very insightful reply; definitely deserves a few mod points.
However, I think it is important to acknowledge the role of the school environment in shaping what kind of person a kid grows up to be. My son is an only child, so the majority of social interaction he has with kids his age is at school, and at his after-school care. In my case, I'd say the majority of my son's sense of morality and cognitive awareness comes from me, but there are a lot of social aspects of being a good person that come from interacting with one's peers.
I thought semantics were about pretending to protect you from viruses...
Oh wait, that's Symantec.
That's a rather absolute statement. Kids are raised by everyone who influences them, including parents, teachers, after school care providers, and others they interact with. Your statement is only completely accurate for sheltered, shut-in, home-schooled kids who grow up completely clueless about the world.
I try to shape the influence other people have over my son by giving him the mental tools to evaluate what they tell him, but I can't lock him away from outside influences. Nor do I want to. Listening to and evaluating different opinions is the only way you develop interpersonal critical thinking skills.
Tell that to my ex...
That's the key. I agree with the previous poster; Wikipedia is a great place to start your online research. But of course I never quote the Wikipedia article itself (except for minor things like atomic weights and other easily-verifiable data). A well-written Wikipedia article is a speedy link to a collection of journals, newspaper articles, and primary sources.
Conversely, of course, a poorly-written Wikipedia article is a speedy link to a collection of 'authoritative' blogs, home pages and fringe websites.
Wikipedia is a great research tool for anyone who knows how to perform research.
Canada, eh? That's one of those unstable, oil-rich nations run by a fundamentalist dictator, that supports all kinds of terror, right?
Yeah, those baseball players make terrifying adversaries--except that they have to stop to catch their breath after chasing you 90 feet. :p
I guess us Canucks have to watch ourselves though; I'm sure Sarah Palin is keeping an eye on us from her house.
We're talking about some pretty powerful lasers here. Would a shark be able to support such a giant (significant pause) "la-ser"?
Besides, the cost of such a concept might run as high as (significant pause) one mil-li-on dol-lars!
That's not proof that a big company like HP wouldn't do it; just that they'd be creative in finding ways around the export restrictions.
And if they really weren't aware that this has been happening, this would be a good time unload stock in a company that hasn't got a clue about due diligence. Compare this to e-waste disposal. My company audits our e-waste recyclers, who audit their downstream recyclers, to make sure our used computers don't end up in an illegal e-waste shipment to China. If HP doesn't periodically audit its distributors, especially those in the Middle East, they're doing a pretty crappy job of covering their asses against federal prosecution--especially if the distributor boldly stated on their website that they distribute to Iran.
Only if you put big finger-quotes around "unknowingly".
On the other hand, maybe this is a secret government plot to bankrupt Iran by selling them cheap printers, then gouging them on cartridges.
Printers and faxes? Either they're complete enough in their thinking to include written works, or they're afraid people are going to share mp3 files by faxing hundreds of pages of ones and zeroes.
Still, it would be faster than some torrents I've seen.
Of course. With only one small, relatively unobtrusive ad at the top of the page, it takes all of the trolling and flaming elicited by that baiting for /. to rake in the ad revenue. ;)
I wonder why they haven't tried this yet. With the sheer inorganic durability of their products, it's surprising that you can't go to McDonalds.com and order a Big Mac via USPS regular parcel service.
Or they could fax it to you; it wouldn't increase the nutritional value that much.
I'd agree with shouldn't be, but not with isn't. Logitech is a typical consumer product manufacturing company, whose primary goal is to convince you to throw away the mouse you bought last year (or even last month) and replace it with the latest model. (Try our new 68-button MegaMedia(TM) Mouse with built-in subwoofer!!!)
Of the 1 billion mice Logitech has sold, I wonder how many currently reside in a municipal landfill somewhere.
Not just the processing, but the design. It's not like someone mixes up a big bowl of ground beef, a few eggs, spices and whatever, then roughly forms round-ish patties before shipping them out.*
Everything produced for McDonald's is the result of a very stricly controlled manufacturing process to ensure that every meat-like patty, every tallow-spiked fry, every creepily long-lasting chocolate shake is the same to within very strict tolerances, whether you eat it in Miami or Whitehorse.
Make no mistake; that Quarter Pounder with Orange Dairy-Like Substance(TM) is as much the product of a technical manufacturing process as your Cordless Trackball with Media Whiz-Bang!(TM).
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*That only happens at good burger joints.