Scoff all you want to, but using the vertical space provided by tall buildings for agriculture will allow you to plant beanstalks much higher, making it more efficient to climb up to the clouds and thereby easier to defray building costs with golden geese.
What I dislike most about Hillary is that she is a Clinton. Has there ever been a time in U.S. history where the highest office has been held by two families for over 25+ years?
I find this troubling as well, particularly with the occasional rumblings about Jeb Bush as a viable candidate. If Hillary wins and gets two terms, will the inevitable backlash bring in yet another Bush? And with the probably inevitable backlash Jeb would engender, would Chelsea be old enough to run? This possible drift towards dynastic politics is, I suppose, another indication of the decline of American democracy into mere brand identity.
Assuming computer programming is a science (which it is, f**k all you elitist people who say programming isn't CS)
And even if one were to grant for the sake of argument that programming isn't science, it would be difficult to argue convincingly that it doesn't qualify under "useful arts."
Oh, you can certainly do some preparation, along the lines of fire drills. Map out a few alternate routes out of the building, so that you can get children not just to a designated safe place along a path which may have to go through a gunman, but rather to different places so you can bypass the crazed loner (assuming, of course, the school has sufficient surveylence to locate the guy with the gun and sufficient communications infrastructure to advise the teachers. Then you can say "Kids, we're having an emergency drill! We're following the blue dots to the parking lot today!" Later, you can say "Kids, we're having an emergency drill! We're following the red dots to the playground today!"
But, of course, you do not say to a bunch of small children, "Kids, a bad man with a gun is coming to kill you today!"
Yes and no, mostly no. Cold weather tends to press groups of people together in small spaces for longer periods of time. More exposure, therefore more transmission. Kids, having less developed immune system and often less developed hygene, become really big carriers.
There's often the secondary effect that in cold weather you usually get much lower humidity, so people's airways are somewhat drier, which in turn makes them less effective at keeping germs and viruses from getting into your system.
A good question. I imagine that copyright violation in relation to most media is likely to happen when a game/book/movie/TV show is new and most popular, and therefore a more attractive target for piracy. Certainly, when Hollywood complains about piracy, they're usually talking about the latest Big Summer Movie, not Casablanca. And I know that Lord of the Rings (the books, not the movies) was released in an unauthorized edition in the US well within 14 years of original publication.
Carpentry - met a guy who 'went from mainframes to framing buildings'.
I have an uncle who did something along those lines. He started out as an electrical engineer who helped design a nifty on-board navigation system for cars. He made a decent bundle on it shortly before GPS rendered it obsolete. After doing engineering for a few more years, he decided to make furniture instead. He's very good at it (he'd been a phenominal amateur woodworker since he'd been old enough to pick up the tools) and apparently he knows a lot of rich people, because he's making as much now as he ever did.
Not a violation of copyright. There are some grey areas around the fringes, but essentially copyright covers the expression of an idea, not the idea itself. That's why you can have endless romance novels which use the same plot and many of the same motifs (virtuous, beautiful woman falls for sensitive guy without a shirt, they have issues, and eventually alabaster bosoms heave) without anyone getting sued. If you were to take a program written in Perl and rewrite it in Fortran, it's an entirely new expression.
I suspect we're talking about different things. It's fairly easy to get the sort of blade useful for the kinds of things Raven did. I never got past flakes and hand-axes myself, but I knew a number of people who got the hang of pressure-flaked blades pretty quickly. I'm entirely willing to believe that getting a useful blade for a microtome (I can see how consistency would be a very large problem) is an entirely different kettle of rocks.
Um...we (that is, humanity) have been making blades like that for millenia. The knives Raven uses in Snowcrash are simply flaked stone tools, a technology which appeared in the Upper Paleolithic. Their major drawback is that they lose their edge quickly when used, but they're nigh-trivial to make if you've got a lump of obsidian or other cryptocrystaline material. Eye surgeons were starting to use stone blades a few decades ago, though their use has been superceded by lasers.
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True. However, managers have the power to directly replace developers. Developers rarely have the power to replace their managers.
Scoff all you want to, but using the vertical space provided by tall buildings for agriculture will allow you to plant beanstalks much higher, making it more efficient to climb up to the clouds and thereby easier to defray building costs with golden geese.
What I dislike most about Hillary is that she is a Clinton. Has there ever been a time in U.S. history where the highest office has been held by two families for over 25+ years?
I find this troubling as well, particularly with the occasional rumblings about Jeb Bush as a viable candidate. If Hillary wins and gets two terms, will the inevitable backlash bring in yet another Bush? And with the probably inevitable backlash Jeb would engender, would Chelsea be old enough to run? This possible drift towards dynastic politics is, I suppose, another indication of the decline of American democracy into mere brand identity.
Assuming computer programming is a science (which it is, f**k all you elitist people who say programming isn't CS)
And even if one were to grant for the sake of argument that programming isn't science, it would be difficult to argue convincingly that it doesn't qualify under "useful arts."
Well, the Good Doctor probably isn't starting a religion because he's dead.
Didn't seem to stop that other nice Jewish boy, though...
Now you've done it. The money burning a hole in my pocket for that has just set off the smoke alarm.
Viva flashing lights!
Why does Apple have to make everything throb?
It's a sex thing.
Oh, you can certainly do some preparation, along the lines of fire drills. Map out a few alternate routes out of the building, so that you can get children not just to a designated safe place along a path which may have to go through a gunman, but rather to different places so you can bypass the crazed loner (assuming, of course, the school has sufficient surveylence to locate the guy with the gun and sufficient communications infrastructure to advise the teachers. Then you can say "Kids, we're having an emergency drill! We're following the blue dots to the parking lot today!" Later, you can say "Kids, we're having an emergency drill! We're following the red dots to the playground today!"
But, of course, you do not say to a bunch of small children, "Kids, a bad man with a gun is coming to kill you today!"
Yes and no, mostly no. Cold weather tends to press groups of people together in small spaces for longer periods of time. More exposure, therefore more transmission. Kids, having less developed immune system and often less developed hygene, become really big carriers.
There's often the secondary effect that in cold weather you usually get much lower humidity, so people's airways are somewhat drier, which in turn makes them less effective at keeping germs and viruses from getting into your system.
A good question. I imagine that copyright violation in relation to most media is likely to happen when a game/book/movie/TV show is new and most popular, and therefore a more attractive target for piracy. Certainly, when Hollywood complains about piracy, they're usually talking about the latest Big Summer Movie, not Casablanca. And I know that Lord of the Rings (the books, not the movies) was released in an unauthorized edition in the US well within 14 years of original publication.
Carpentry - met a guy who 'went from mainframes to framing buildings'.
I have an uncle who did something along those lines. He started out as an electrical engineer who helped design a nifty on-board navigation system for cars. He made a decent bundle on it shortly before GPS rendered it obsolete. After doing engineering for a few more years, he decided to make furniture instead. He's very good at it (he'd been a phenominal amateur woodworker since he'd been old enough to pick up the tools) and apparently he knows a lot of rich people, because he's making as much now as he ever did.
All well and good, but clearly the terms of your contract prevent you from disclosing your name.
Not a violation of copyright. There are some grey areas around the fringes, but essentially copyright covers the expression of an idea, not the idea itself. That's why you can have endless romance novels which use the same plot and many of the same motifs (virtuous, beautiful woman falls for sensitive guy without a shirt, they have issues, and eventually alabaster bosoms heave) without anyone getting sued. If you were to take a program written in Perl and rewrite it in Fortran, it's an entirely new expression.
No, hellium. It's what Maxwell's demon is made out of.
Damn right. Grover Cleveland is the next great software company!
Certainly not.
But you are paid up on your license subscription fee to remember it, aren't you, citizen?
I'm reasonably certain that being dead will stop your existence from being a living anything.
'cause somebody's paying him $5000 to.
One fine morning you come in to work to find an accountant and a box to put all your things into...
Dunno. What's the research on second-hand punches say?
"Besides Damon will make at least as good a Kirk as Val Kilmer was Batman."
I...I can't tell whether or not that's ironic!
But what I want to know is whether they'll get Ray Liota to play Christopher Pike.
I suspect we're talking about different things. It's fairly easy to get the sort of blade useful for the kinds of things Raven did. I never got past flakes and hand-axes myself, but I knew a number of people who got the hang of pressure-flaked blades pretty quickly. I'm entirely willing to believe that getting a useful blade for a microtome (I can see how consistency would be a very large problem) is an entirely different kettle of rocks.
Um...we (that is, humanity) have been making blades like that for millenia. The knives Raven uses in Snowcrash are simply flaked stone tools, a technology which appeared in the Upper Paleolithic. Their major drawback is that they lose their edge quickly when used, but they're nigh-trivial to make if you've got a lump of obsidian or other cryptocrystaline material. Eye surgeons were starting to use stone blades a few decades ago, though their use has been superceded by lasers.
Nope. It was the old Ludwig Van, me droogie.
I initially read that as "bumtop" and thought "that's a weird place to put your computer."
Appropriate if you're in a situation where you have to pull numbers out of your ass, though.