I get what you're saying. But to you, being mugged, it's immaterial why it's happening...
Did I do something that directly caused me to get mugged? No? Well then life is luck, and it sucks.
It's not luck that the mugger decided to mug somebody because his life sucked, but it sure as hell doesn't have much to do with you (if it does at all, it's only from a 'society should help him' POV)
You have a rather specious argument. I understand the gist - it's never blunt luck, but that piano that landed on you was launched from somewhere - but you're reducing the system of events too far to be meaningful. It's useless to even discuss, as the reason for your being half-a-second later or earlier is blind luck.
we need an angry mob to storm the USPTO and burn the place to dust, then sift through the dust and re-burn anything left, then haul the entire mess to a live volcano. ...
I don't know. It's an interesting study of human behavior. I believe that humans don't inherently blame 'something' for everything - but that we've been taught to.
Of course, ancient civilizations blaming the rain god and subsequently sacrificing to him is relatively potent evidence against me... but I digress.
Many (most?) people would argue that vaccinations for kids need to be mandatory, especially in schools. The potential of a massive epidemic is too high, and too easily preventable, to be ignored.
Vaccines should always be tested, but they have a proven, long track record.
This is a lot like taking seatbelts out of cars because they break ribs - except seatbelts obviously do break ribs, while these vaccines causing autism is a much more foggy link.
Then she's stupid. Life sucks and there's no reason that it sucks
It's entirely possible that autism is just shit luck. God knows there's plenty of that, people dying for no reason and all.
She should relax. At least he wasn't born with a congenital defect that killed one of my patients at age 9... while I was there.
That helped me realize that sometimes life sucks and blame is worthless. It's all luck... every bit of it. Not vaccines, not anything the mother did... until there's a actual cause found for autism, she should stop trying to blame anybody. Even if they do find a cause, she didn't know it so she shouldn't beat herself up either.
I don't get the blame complex... is it the media? It's not an obvious reaction - 'something bad happened, I should pour all my hatred of it into someone/something'
Me? Yeah. Considering vaccines=autism is a pretty specious argument at best... I'd take the risk.
Assume vaccines were outlawed until they were proven to be safe... all kinds of diseases would be killing kids that would have been protected otherwise (rabies?). To save how many kids who might, in a theory conjecture guesswork land, have had a fraction of a percent chance more of getting autism...
I'd care about my kids, but not to the exclusion of: a) reason b) the realization that the lives of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of kids are at stake, versus my precious little Billy... I'm not that selfish
Don't forget that most vaccines are state (school) mandated. I'd expect you'd find a link between the idea of 'government sucks, telling me what to do' and outrage at vaccines making their little Billy sick. In their mind, 'he wouldn't have gotten that vaccine, but they MADE HIM!'.../conjecture
Not enough people really understand how much life can suck. I've seen a nine-year-old kid die, for having shitty luck... and it's just how life goes.
That taught me something important - there's no reason to anything. If something bad happens, it's usually just bad luck and there's no use getting pissed about that.
Parents who grew up ~35 years ago were in a time of constant technological advance, and their parents usually were prosperous to afford them. I don't blame them for being confused and concerned when something bad happens - they aren't used to that concept, the fact that humans can't fix everything
Now, don't get me wrong, some people are dicks and just want to blame for the fun of it. But I truly believe that most parents in this state are forced to accept 'he just got unlucky and was that one in a hundred' - but can't do it. So they blame whatever they can to keep their faith in science and their belief.
Alarmist press doesn't help either - 'is your child being POISONED by STATE MANDATED vaccines? find out at 11!' But they're only playing off this mindset anyways...
Hmmm. How do you think vaccines work then, exactly?
Magic?
Hmm? (hint: no)
Vaccines are dead or otherwise damaged virii. If they're damaged, occasionally they aren't modified properly and they cause an infection, of the type they are trying to prevent.
So, to use the OP as a case study, math games target mostly boys? One anecdote does not a case study make.
Listen - he was saying that, in his 5th class, the guys played one game and the girls played another. He mentioned this and off-handedly mentioned that publishers must account for different tastes - of which he mentioned several (sexes, teachers and students, professionally designed).
Not some big agenda. He only said that if publishers want to make a successful educational game, they needed to do stuff. One of which was account for both genders. He didn't cunningly hide a 'girls are inherently stupid at math' jab in there.
"Bricked" is unrecoverable. "Bricked" is permanent. "Bricked" is having absolutely no way, ever, of interacting with the object in a manner that is inconsistent with interacting with a brick. Or ripping it open and jacking in to the JTAG port. I think that still counts as officially 'bricked', though.
That's not what I was saying. A pic you take of yourself is copyrighted, and using it without your consent is illegal - that's why photo releases exist.
I'm not saying she should just take it and shut up - not at all. I am saying that the judge was a dumbass for calling it Intellectual Property. A likeness of a physical person isn't thought up, it is. And it's not property.
Law already handles the issue of using a picture without permission. Again, see photo release.
Facts about somebody, or yourself, isn't intellectual property. Privacy, maybe - but there is too much 'IP' as it is, without making up new stuff to fit under it.
Your likeness isn't intellectual property - you didn't create it in your head. That said, this looks like the court's decision and not her case.
You are correct sir. I have a Pinnacle PCTV HD-Pro USB stick - slightly bigger than a flash drive, but with a coax connector on the end. Supports QAM and ATSC (up to 1080i broadcast), oh and NTSC.
Best $50 I ever spent - link - 60 with shipping, and on sale...
And I do mean HDTV - full 1280x800 resolution MPEG video files dumped to my disk, and 6-7GB/hr. If that's not HD, I want my disk space back. Anyways, screw their 'epic gadgetsxxxx0rs that the US sux0rs cuz theys dont haz'. Now shut up and let me watch CSI in HD
How can we trust the article at all when it's wrong? Or am I just a newbie?
Hmm. Interesting. I was doing it a little more complexly (aaaand FF isn't complaining, therefore it's a word!)
I'll have to check that out. rootNode=rootNode.getRight() - shifts the root to the right. Is yours a binary search tree? I thought there was more to it...
Agreed. I'm in a small high school (130ish people a class), there's not enough interest in CS to have more than the 3 classes offered (Intro to VB-not really CS, APCSA and AB)
If there were more people interested in it, higher-level classes would be offered, and a greater variety... but alas, money
The Apple logo and NYC logo can not be easily confused And that defines trademark - nobody would look at that GreeNYC logo and think 'oh, computer company'.
I don't know if it was simply an apologist, but somebody above said that they need to do this or lose their trademark.
Do us a favor and spell properly. Congratulations, AB is a fabulous class and I wish you luck, but us nerds should be at least eloquent... If you're into CompSci, you will enjoy AB a lot. But prepare to be challenged.
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uh.... wrong article perhaps?
I get what you're saying. But to you, being mugged, it's immaterial why it's happening...
Did I do something that directly caused me to get mugged? No? Well then life is luck, and it sucks.
It's not luck that the mugger decided to mug somebody because his life sucked, but it sure as hell doesn't have much to do with you (if it does at all, it's only from a 'society should help him' POV)
You have a rather specious argument. I understand the gist - it's never blunt luck, but that piano that landed on you was launched from somewhere - but you're reducing the system of events too far to be meaningful. It's useless to even discuss, as the reason for your being half-a-second later or earlier is blind luck.
The brain is Turing-complete, as in it can emulate a Turing machine.
So does that make people computers by definition?
I don't know. It's an interesting study of human behavior. I believe that humans don't inherently blame 'something' for everything - but that we've been taught to.
Of course, ancient civilizations blaming the rain god and subsequently sacrificing to him is relatively potent evidence against me... but I digress.
Many (most?) people would argue that vaccinations for kids need to be mandatory, especially in schools. The potential of a massive epidemic is too high, and too easily preventable, to be ignored.
Vaccines should always be tested, but they have a proven, long track record.
This is a lot like taking seatbelts out of cars because they break ribs - except seatbelts obviously do break ribs, while these vaccines causing autism is a much more foggy link.
I was playing devils advocate with that statement - of course vaccination is the lesser of two evils (if it's an evil at all).
Then she's stupid. Life sucks and there's no reason that it sucks
It's entirely possible that autism is just shit luck. God knows there's plenty of that, people dying for no reason and all.
She should relax. At least he wasn't born with a congenital defect that killed one of my patients at age 9... while I was there.
That helped me realize that sometimes life sucks and blame is worthless. It's all luck... every bit of it. Not vaccines, not anything the mother did... until there's a actual cause found for autism, she should stop trying to blame anybody. Even if they do find a cause, she didn't know it so she shouldn't beat herself up either.
I don't get the blame complex... is it the media? It's not an obvious reaction - 'something bad happened, I should pour all my hatred of it into someone/something'
Me? Yeah. Considering vaccines=autism is a pretty specious argument at best... I'd take the risk.
Assume vaccines were outlawed until they were proven to be safe... all kinds of diseases would be killing kids that would have been protected otherwise (rabies?). To save how many kids who might, in a theory conjecture guesswork land, have had a fraction of a percent chance more of getting autism...
I'd care about my kids, but not to the exclusion of:
a) reason
b) the realization that the lives of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of kids are at stake, versus my precious little Billy... I'm not that selfish
Don't forget that most vaccines are state (school) mandated. I'd expect you'd find a link between the idea of 'government sucks, telling me what to do' and outrage at vaccines making their little Billy sick. In their mind, 'he wouldn't have gotten that vaccine, but they MADE HIM!'... /conjecture
Not enough people really understand how much life can suck. I've seen a nine-year-old kid die, for having shitty luck... and it's just how life goes.
That taught me something important - there's no reason to anything. If something bad happens, it's usually just bad luck and there's no use getting pissed about that.
Parents who grew up ~35 years ago were in a time of constant technological advance, and their parents usually were prosperous to afford them. I don't blame them for being confused and concerned when something bad happens - they aren't used to that concept, the fact that humans can't fix everything
Now, don't get me wrong, some people are dicks and just want to blame for the fun of it. But I truly believe that most parents in this state are forced to accept 'he just got unlucky and was that one in a hundred' - but can't do it. So they blame whatever they can to keep their faith in science and their belief.
Alarmist press doesn't help either - 'is your child being POISONED by STATE MANDATED vaccines? find out at 11!' But they're only playing off this mindset anyways...
Hmmm. How do you think vaccines work then, exactly?
Magic?
Hmm? (hint: no)
Vaccines are dead or otherwise damaged virii. If they're damaged, occasionally they aren't modified properly and they cause an infection, of the type they are trying to prevent.
Do you have a magic vaccine?
Listen - he was saying that, in his 5th class, the guys played one game and the girls played another. He mentioned this and off-handedly mentioned that publishers must account for different tastes - of which he mentioned several (sexes, teachers and students, professionally designed).
Not some big agenda. He only said that if publishers want to make a successful educational game, they needed to do stuff. One of which was account for both genders. He didn't cunningly hide a 'girls are inherently stupid at math' jab in there.
Take a deep breath please.
"Bricked" is permanent.
"Bricked" is having absolutely no way, ever, of interacting with the object in a manner that is inconsistent with interacting with a brick. Or ripping it open and jacking in to the JTAG port. I think that still counts as officially 'bricked', though.
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That's not what I was saying. A pic you take of yourself is copyrighted, and using it without your consent is illegal - that's why photo releases exist.
I'm not saying she should just take it and shut up - not at all. I am saying that the judge was a dumbass for calling it Intellectual Property. A likeness of a physical person isn't thought up, it is. And it's not property.
Law already handles the issue of using a picture without permission. Again, see photo release.
Facts about somebody, or yourself, isn't intellectual property. Privacy, maybe - but there is too much 'IP' as it is, without making up new stuff to fit under it.
Your likeness isn't intellectual property - you didn't create it in your head. That said, this looks like the court's decision and not her case.
IANAL.
Loads of HDTV USB tuners - ATSC all of them, but records full HD when it's broadcast.
I think 'everyone' meant HDTV, or at least they should have.
You are correct sir. I have a Pinnacle PCTV HD-Pro USB stick - slightly bigger than a flash drive, but with a coax connector on the end. Supports QAM and ATSC (up to 1080i broadcast), oh and NTSC.
Best $50 I ever spent - link - 60 with shipping, and on sale...
And I do mean HDTV - full 1280x800 resolution MPEG video files dumped to my disk, and 6-7GB/hr. If that's not HD, I want my disk space back.
Anyways, screw their 'epic gadgetsxxxx0rs that the US sux0rs cuz theys dont haz'. Now shut up and let me watch CSI in HD
How can we trust the article at all when it's wrong? Or am I just a newbie?
Hmm. Interesting. I was doing it a little more complexly (aaaand FF isn't complaining, therefore it's a word!)
I'll have to check that out. rootNode=rootNode.getRight() - shifts the root to the right. Is yours a binary search tree? I thought there was more to it...
Agreed. I'm in a small high school (130ish people a class), there's not enough interest in CS to have more than the 3 classes offered (Intro to VB-not really CS, APCSA and AB)
If there were more people interested in it, higher-level classes would be offered, and a greater variety... but alas, money
Ah, forgot to mention it's a laptop. High-end gaming/development laptop...
Believe me, I'd build if I could. Last time I spec'd out a machine on NewEgg, I got a C2D extreme, 8800gtx, 260GB drive for under $1200
But, anybody know of a build-your-own laptop? You supply the processor, motherboard, drive(s), graphics card......? That'd be nice
I don't know if it was simply an apologist, but somebody above said that they need to do this or lose their trademark.
Do us a favor and spell properly. Congratulations, AB is a fabulous class and I wish you luck, but us nerds should be at least eloquent... If you're into CompSci, you will enjoy AB a lot. But prepare to be challenged.