I think it's hilarious when someone talks about all his degrees, but can't use an apostrophe properly. It makes me doubt they even have a high school diploma.
Wikipedia says Ron Paul is a Christian. If he is, he's a hypocrite. His bible says pay your taxes. It's also kind of rough on the greedy and the selfish. Personally, I don't mind my tax money going to the poor; it might keep them from robbing me. I'm very much against welfare to the rich, like oil industry and farm subsidies. Giving them money never did keep them from robbing me.
You make the assumption that poor people are poor because they're stupid and the rich are rich because they're smart. The fact is, the poor are poor because they're uneducated. Otoh, I find your comment kind of ignorant itself.
A loan isn't a subsidy. But if student loans were indeed the cause of the high price of college, what makes you think stopping them would make the price go down?
I went to school on the GI bill, and the state of Illinois paid my tuition. That's s subsidy. But I still had to work and was still dirt poor. That was in 1975; when did the school cost inflation begin?
Without student loans, only children of the wealthy will be able to go to college. The price keeps it out of reach of the working class, and always has. Education never was inexpensive.
"Members of the Anonymous hacktivist movement are claiming responsibility for taking down more than 40 secret child-pornography websites and leaking the names of more than 1,500 members of one of the illegal sites."
TFA says they released a list with thousands of identities of pedophiles that haunt these sites. Why don't the authorities of the countries they reside in arrest them? Not many governments condone raping children.
Considering Anonymous' past history, I'd say it's likely that part of the reason they did it was to shame the FBI. After all, why hasn't the FBI shut the sites down and arrested the pedos themselves?
Psychopathy (/saÉËkÉ'pÉ(TM)Îi/[1][2]) is a mental disorder characterized primarily by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow emotions, egocentricity, and deceptiveness. Psychopaths are highly prone to antisocial behavior and abusive treatment of others, and are very disproportionately responsible for violent crime. Though lacking empathy and emotional depth, they often manage to pass themselves off as normal people by feigning emotions and lying about their pasts.
I always wondered why a nerd site would make it so hard to post any equation more complex than 2+a=b. It's also weird that math symbols aren't part of the ascii character set.
Google for where the period ought to be (inside or outside the quote) and you'll find quite a bit of disagreement among writers and editors. As someone else pointed out, it's a UK vs US thing. Read a book by Asimov and the period will likely be inside the quote, read a book by Pratchett and it will likely be outside the quote.
Actually, I think the Greco-Roman gods were probably real people (or pre-human anscestors of Homo Sapiens). Thor probably invented the hammer, Zeus probably invented the flaming arrow, promethieus probably was the guy who first harnessed fire, etc.
Making fun of quantumplacet? No, it's a typo, everyone makes them, but samzepus should have caught it (yeah, I know) since he's the editor. I wouldn't have commented if the typo had been in a comment, but there should no more be typos in/. summaries than in a newspaper. And yeah, you see typos in newspapers, too.
ID is a potential premise that helps to make sense of the model. Not assuming ID is just as much of a premise.
That is absolutely correct. Athiests take the lack of the existance of God on faith. Personally, I think "things just growed" vs. "it was designed" fails Occam's Razor. For something to accidentally happen that we have yet to be able to make happen on purpose seems incredibly unlikely to me.
How could one possibly study intelligent design? ID is an untestable hypothesis. You can't know God unless he wants you to know him. ID and creationism aren't science, and unless something earth-shaking happens, never can be.
Sony has done a whole lot of customer-screwing in the last ten years, from XCP to removing OtherOS from the Playstation and more. It seems like not a month goes by that there isn't a slashdot story about Sony screwing its customers over. The sad thing is, twenty years ago it was a good company.
The index finger on your left hand is the right finger. The index finger on your right hand is the left finger. If your mouse is in your left hand, your index finger is on the right button.
There's nothing wrong and much right with wanting to make money, but when you want to make your money with no thought as to the lives of others (examlpe: the mine in Virginia that blew up after being cited for the very situation that caused the problem numerous times before, or BP ignoring the engineers for the bottom line before the well blew up) you're just evil. The thing is, you don't HAVE to do evil to make a lot of money.
The guy in question, the one who thinks the internet should have been patented, is the same sort that would ignore safety violations and his own engineers and the lives of the people who work for him for a buck.
Capitalism is just a tool. Like any tool it can be used for good or for evil.
There are opinions, and there are opinions. If you are of the opinion that the earth is flat and express that in a comment, I'll mod it "overrated". If it's an opinion I disagree with that isn't so cut and dried, you're likely to get an "interesting" from me, or more likely I just won't moderate that thread and will respond. If it looks like someone is just trolling but may simply be uninformed, he'll still get a "troll" moderation from me.
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I think it's hilarious when someone talks about all his degrees, but can't use an apostrophe properly. It makes me doubt they even have a high school diploma.
You're not only redundant, you're wrong. A loan is not a subsidy, and regulation can include loans and/or subsidies.
Wikipedia says Ron Paul is a Christian. If he is, he's a hypocrite. His bible says pay your taxes. It's also kind of rough on the greedy and the selfish. Personally, I don't mind my tax money going to the poor; it might keep them from robbing me. I'm very much against welfare to the rich, like oil industry and farm subsidies. Giving them money never did keep them from robbing me.
You make the assumption that poor people are poor because they're stupid and the rich are rich because they're smart. The fact is, the poor are poor because they're uneducated. Otoh, I find your comment kind of ignorant itself.
A loan isn't a subsidy. But if student loans were indeed the cause of the high price of college, what makes you think stopping them would make the price go down?
I went to school on the GI bill, and the state of Illinois paid my tuition. That's s subsidy. But I still had to work and was still dirt poor. That was in 1975; when did the school cost inflation begin?
Without student loans, only children of the wealthy will be able to go to college. The price keeps it out of reach of the working class, and always has. Education never was inexpensive.
*sigh*
Mod me redundant and the parent -1, ignorant (overrated will do). They already released the names as an AC sitting at -1 already said.
"Members of the Anonymous hacktivist movement are claiming responsibility for taking down more than 40 secret child-pornography websites and leaking the names of more than 1,500 members of one of the illegal sites."
TFA says they released a list with thousands of identities of pedophiles that haunt these sites. Why don't the authorities of the countries they reside in arrest them? Not many governments condone raping children.
Considering Anonymous' past history, I'd say it's likely that part of the reason they did it was to shame the FBI. After all, why hasn't the FBI shut the sites down and arrested the pedos themselves?
Does this classify me as a psychopath or just an average academic?
Wikipedia is your friend.
16mm will give you a good 1080p conversion, 35mm somewhat higher than 1080p and 70mm, I'm not entirely sure, but greater than 4k.
1 35mm frame = 4 16mm frames
Many movies, including the original Tron, were shot in 70mm (4x35mm).
The film's speed plays an important part in its resolution as well. The faster the film, the lower the resolution.
I always wondered why a nerd site would make it so hard to post any equation more complex than 2+a=b. It's also weird that math symbols aren't part of the ascii character set.
Indeed. I documented our lack of what were formerly our rights six years ago.
Google for where the period ought to be (inside or outside the quote) and you'll find quite a bit of disagreement among writers and editors. As someone else pointed out, it's a UK vs US thing. Read a book by Asimov and the period will likely be inside the quote, read a book by Pratchett and it will likely be outside the quote.
Actually, I think the Greco-Roman gods were probably real people (or pre-human anscestors of Homo Sapiens). Thor probably invented the hammer, Zeus probably invented the flaming arrow, promethieus probably was the guy who first harnessed fire, etc.
Damn, try to do someone a favor and get modded "flamebait". Offtopic, yes, but flamebait? Slashdotters used to like learning, I wonder what happened?
Making fun of quantumplacet? No, it's a typo, everyone makes them, but samzepus should have caught it (yeah, I know) since he's the editor. I wouldn't have commented if the typo had been in a comment, but there should no more be typos in /. summaries than in a newspaper. And yeah, you see typos in newspapers, too.
ID is a potential premise that helps to make sense of the model. Not assuming ID is just as much of a premise.
That is absolutely correct. Athiests take the lack of the existance of God on faith. Personally, I think "things just growed" vs. "it was designed" fails Occam's Razor. For something to accidentally happen that we have yet to be able to make happen on purpose seems incredibly unlikely to me.
"Google is failing to make platforms of it's [sic] products"
"its" is a contraction of "it is". The possessive for "him" is "his", possessive for "her" is "hers", possessive for "it" is "its"; no apostrophe.
"John shined his car, then he filled its tank."
You're welcome.
How could one possibly study intelligent design? ID is an untestable hypothesis. You can't know God unless he wants you to know him. ID and creationism aren't science, and unless something earth-shaking happens, never can be.
Someone else set the mouse up before I met her.
Sony has done a whole lot of customer-screwing in the last ten years, from XCP to removing OtherOS from the Playstation and more. It seems like not a month goes by that there isn't a slashdot story about Sony screwing its customers over. The sad thing is, twenty years ago it was a good company.
The index finger on your left hand is the right finger. The index finger on your right hand is the left finger. If your mouse is in your left hand, your index finger is on the right button.
There's nothing wrong and much right with wanting to make money, but when you want to make your money with no thought as to the lives of others (examlpe: the mine in Virginia that blew up after being cited for the very situation that caused the problem numerous times before, or BP ignoring the engineers for the bottom line before the well blew up) you're just evil. The thing is, you don't HAVE to do evil to make a lot of money.
The guy in question, the one who thinks the internet should have been patented, is the same sort that would ignore safety violations and his own engineers and the lives of the people who work for him for a buck.
Capitalism is just a tool. Like any tool it can be used for good or for evil.
There are opinions, and there are opinions. If you are of the opinion that the earth is flat and express that in a comment, I'll mod it "overrated". If it's an opinion I disagree with that isn't so cut and dried, you're likely to get an "interesting" from me, or more likely I just won't moderate that thread and will respond. If it looks like someone is just trolling but may simply be uninformed, he'll still get a "troll" moderation from me.