(And what's up with moderators moding the anti-Flash parent as 'Insightful'?) Well, as somebody who has an anti-flash bias, why are you bothered? "Insightful" is often used as a generic "I agree" in Slashdot terms. There's absolutely no reason for the whole of this guy's site to be in Flash without any alternative. Flash is proprietary (you're not even allowed to read the spec to make an alternative player), there are lots of platforms it doesn't run on, and it is absolute overkill when text, hyperlinks, and images would do. I could understand having certain interactive pieces done in Flash, but that's about it.
It's really a mistake to think that religion is a hold-over from ancient peoples who wanted explanations for the universe without having the scientific understanding to "actually explain". It's revisionist thinking to see it any other way. Religion is just voo-doo bullshit made up by people to explain stuff they don't understand. It has also been used to hold power over others. That is why religion has kept on retreating on it's claims, and why it has fought science in the past. So now you can say "Why should I believe what religious people have to say? What real answers have they provided? What is the evidence for their claims?"
But whatever. People will continue to follow some guy in robes and a funny hat, as if he had God's ear. And people like you will continue to make apologies for that thoughtless dogma.
so we need to come up with a new way of representing this immense and ever-growing n-dimensional system of increasingly rich and varied data So what next generation user interface approach do you believe in?
To which I respond: bullshit. Learn Words. You are not addressing the issue. You said jejune was a common word. It isn't, and I gave plenty of evidence to support that (only one of which was my personal experience). Now you come back with a different argument, which I'm happy to dispute, but I'm not letting you off the hook on my original dispute.
You will be amazed at the thoughts you will be able to think when you have the language to think those thoughts. My vocabulary is sufficient enough that it is rare and notable when I come across a word that I don't know. Any word you throw at me I can look up in the dictionary and from the context know exactly what you are saying. For some reason I doubt you're thinking at a higher level than me because you like to throw obscure words around, when a simpler word would do. In fact, I think the opposite. Your idea of intelligence is shallow.
Otherwise, you are just another slave of the ThoughtPolice who are more than happy to limit your thinking so as to line their pocket Oh, the ThoughtPolice! Lining their pockets by mocking you for using the word jejune. Been reading too much 1984?
"jejune" wasn't oppressed by anybody. It just isn't in common use. There are plenty of other words to choose from that are in common use that express the same idea. Most people choose words to communicate as effectively as possible, not engage in intellectual masturbation.
Now, like the other fool, please think twice before you post - once would be an improvement. Now there's an intelligent argument. Right back at you.
I don't get what's supposed to be a PITA about installing RAM in a mini though - 2 butter knives and a #0 (or is it #00?) phillips (or is it pozidriv?) screwdriver. I'd expect better from Apple, given how they are supposed to be the consumer-friendly-design company. Installing ram shouldn't require any tools.
But since you tripped over a common word like jejune I don't know what part of the planet you're from, but I'm a well read American and have a college education, and I've never heard of the word jejune. Doing some googling, I find this link: http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-jej1 .htm
"I have to say it's a word that's not in my working vocabulary, partly because -- along with a lot of other writers -- I have a perplexing amount of trouble spelling it (and pronouncing it, too). But I avoid it mainly because it's far from common and because people differ in their views about what it means, an insuperable barrier to effective communication. At least, as the OED has shown, there are plenty of other words to choose from."
"'Jejune' ?! Who the hell uses words like jejune? I find your usage of such pretentious language to be banal and trite. Two-dollar words for a one-dollar asshole."
Would WotC have put Magic out there without a patent? Yes. From Death to the Minotaur:
"Wizards first showed off Magic in the summer of 1993 at the Origins game convention in Dallas. [..] It was a disaster. [..] A year later, Wizards hired me. In the months in between, Magic had hit the gaming hobby like an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease [..] Wizards also experienced explosive growth. I joined the company in May 1994, when there were about 50 employees -- already up massively from a year earlier, when only a handful of people worked at the company. By the summer of 1995, the employee rolls stood at 250 and climbing."
The patent (5,662,332) was filed on October 17, 1995. They were already a success, and just wanted to monopolize on that success.
The advertiser had specified that the advert with the embedded redirect only show up in every country except America.
if getTimeZone() in EUROPE_TIMEZONES:
redirectToSpyware()
else:
displayHarmlessAdvert() Ok, it's a silly mistake, but I can't ignore the (World = America + Europe) equation implied by your remarks:)
If you do try it, do yourself a favor and swap your left caps lock and control keys. Caps lock is pretty worthless anyways, so even if you don't stick with Emacs it's nice to have the control key right next to your left pinky.
First of all, I don't see much use in going back in time. Usually stepping through one undo at a time is what you want. Second,:blah would just be M-x blah in Emacs, if it had a "go back in time" feature, which I don't know or even care if it does. If you want to find out, you Google or "C-h a" and type in "time". If it takes you 2 hours then it would take you 2 hours to find the same thing for Vim.
What a copout. Anything could be a lie, even before the digital world. What something like the Internet has done is made it easier to check different sources. Just judging stuff by whatever makes you feel good is dishonest and lazy. You could spend one hour looking at the Truth about Bowling link I provided, the evidence he provides, the reactions by Moore himself and others, etc. Just look at the transcript of Heston's speech. You'll find the same one on Moore's site.
It isn't that hard, except you'd have to accept the possibility that something you believed in was deliberate spinning of the truth. But human nature is to not to question our long-held beliefs.
Regarding greedy, nearly everybody is greedy, even the poor. I'm guessing you don't live in a shack and donate the majority of your money and time to charity. And neither would a poor person given the chance to rise out of poverty. It's just that everybody tends to look at those better off as greedy, but not themselves.
"I don't like x and therefore x is stupid and you're a mentally-retarded asshat if you don't agree with everything I say." He's always been that way. Linus admits it himself.
"I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work, if it just results in what I consider to be a better system."
"'Anyone reading this column would assume the mounting pressures of my role as chief nerd has turned me into an asshole,' says Torvalds. But, he adds, that impression is wrong: 'I was always an asshole.'"
So long as he remains consistent, even-handed, and not ad-hominem, it's OK. He has remained consistently even-handed in being ad hominem. Calling people who disagree with you morons is ad hominem. Calling them ugly and stupid is ad hominem. You can tear somebody's design apart without insulting their intelligence or character.
Somtimes he does this and tries to make a joke out of it, but more often than not you can see the real venom shining through.
Perhaps one day I might understand the term that 'both sides were fairly represented', when logically one side is the truth and the other side is a lie. Try watching the Frontline documentary: The War Behind Closed Doors, and then maybe you would understand. Or read the transcript. This documentary aired one month before the invasion. It is by no means favorable to the neo-cons. Yet it is not spin. It is an honest look at the issues. Compare this with Moore's films.
my way of gauging stories is by vested interest Maybe you should gauge them based on evidence? I mean seriously look and think about contrarian points of view. You're not doing any favors to your cause by being deceptive to support it.
Unfortunately it is us (the majority) vs them (the greedy minority) Greed is not a minority position. People making over $100k a year get upset over the millions CEOs make. How do you think the guy making minimum wage feels about the $100k guy? How do you think the immigrant worker feels? How do you think some poor person in a 3rd world country feels?
See, the beauty of using film in the documentary style is you can't really say something didn't happen. Yes, that's the "beauty" of spin. There's always a grain of truth to fall back on. I don't want one-sided spin. I want an honest, intellectual discussion of the issues.
Unless you're prepared to believe that Michael Moore used a CGI-George Bush to read My Pet Goat, you don't have much choice but to conclude that the President is a complete moron. I'll give Moore credit for digging up film that hasn't seen the light of day. It's part of history, and I'm glad to see it exposed. However, I can't definitively conclude anything based on that video. My personal speculation is that the Bush is not good under a crisis situation. He didn't know what to do, so he just kept on doing what he was doing. Others see it as evidence for a conspiracy, taking it that Bush was not surpised by the action. Whatever.
They'll try to say that Charlton Heston didn't say exactly what he said despite the fact that they've got film of the speech. As if by some liberal magic Moore was able to use mind control and make Heston stupid just for that one speech. Now you're just lying. The complaint wasn't that Heston's words were altered, but that they were taken out of context and spliced together to portray a message that wasn't true. From Truth about Bowling for Columbine: "A major theme in Bowling is that NRA is callous toward slayings. In order to make this theme fit the facts, however, Bowling repeatedly distorts the evidence." The editing Moore did is then described in detail.
If you thing Rush Limbaugh can be compared to Michael Moore, I question your ability to discern even the most basic differences. One's on the left, one's on the right. They both make lots of money appealing to their extreme base. I don't expect unbiased views from either. "ditto head" seems to apply equally well to fans of both.
I'm done with this thread. You are clearly happy with propaganda because it supports your point of view. I am not.
I read the Truth site years ago, and I did the research then. I just didn't take Mr. Hardy at his word. I saw the video clip, I read the full speech, and I read Mr. Moore's justification. It was clear to me Moore edits his films to spin a story that isn't true.
What saddens me is that people who apologize for it, either saying it is innocent or justified. Reading the kuro5hin site does not convince me of otherwise. It is just more denial.
You may think I'm a hardline conservative, but I'm not. Some issues I lean left, some I lean right. What I really want is unbiased, intellectually honest discussion about issues. I cannot stand spinning, sound bytes, screechy attacks, etc. I hate this "us vs them" attitude.
Watch the Frontline documentary on the case for WMD before the Iraq war if you want to see what real journalism is about. Both sides are presented fairly; no conclusions are drawn beforehand with a film crafted around it. Moore's pictures are not documentaries. They are political agenda films, completely biased, and intellectually dishonest.
Oh, and don't forget to budget for landscaping. That was another $55K for me.:( Wow, that's a lot. What was the cost breakdown, if you don't mind my asking?
I think Michael Moore is a patriot, and is doing something very necessary. He made millions with his films. He's just pushing his own political agenda, in a screechy, one-sided way. If he's a patriot, then so is Rush Limbaugh.
Of course, the people on the Right will tell you that you shouldn't listen to him because HE'S FAT Now you're acting just like you accuse "the Right" of. I'm sure there are plenty of fat jokes at his expense, but there's more criticism than that. After reading Truth about Bowling for Columbine some years back, I lost all desire to see any of Moore's films.
but his documentaries are a lot more carefully researched and intellectually honest than anything you'll see come from Rupert Murdoch's sausage-grinder. Sure, it's propaganda, but thank God No thanks. I don't like spin from either the right or the left. I'll take a Frontline documentary. They actually know what the meaning of documentary is.
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But whatever. People will continue to follow some guy in robes and a funny hat, as if he had God's ear. And people like you will continue to make apologies for that thoughtless dogma.
"jejune" wasn't oppressed by anybody. It just isn't in common use. There are plenty of other words to choose from that are in common use that express the same idea. Most people choose words to communicate as effectively as possible, not engage in intellectual masturbation. Now, like the other fool, please think twice before you post - once would be an improvement. Now there's an intelligent argument. Right back at you.
"I have to say it's a word that's not in my working vocabulary, partly because -- along with a lot of other writers -- I have a perplexing amount of trouble spelling it (and pronouncing it, too). But I avoid it mainly because it's far from common and because people differ in their views about what it means, an insuperable barrier to effective communication. At least, as the OED has shown, there are plenty of other words to choose from."
Also this one: List of unusual words beginning with J
And one last one from Slashdot: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=152500&ci
"'Jejune' ?! Who the hell uses words like jejune? I find your usage of such pretentious language to be banal and trite. Two-dollar words for a one-dollar asshole."
I think he means the Red Blue Greens. Those bastards have been descriminating against Yellow for years.
"Wizards first showed off Magic in the summer of 1993 at the Origins game convention in Dallas. [..] It was a disaster. [..] A year later, Wizards hired me. In the months in between, Magic had hit the gaming hobby like an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease [..] Wizards also experienced explosive growth. I joined the company in May 1994, when there were about 50 employees -- already up massively from a year earlier, when only a handful of people worked at the company. By the summer of 1995, the employee rolls stood at 250 and climbing."
The patent (5,662,332) was filed on October 17, 1995. They were already a success, and just wanted to monopolize on that success.
if getTimeZone() in EUROPE_TIMEZONES:
redirectToSpyware()
else:
displayHarmlessAdvert() Ok, it's a silly mistake, but I can't ignore the (World = America + Europe) equation implied by your remarks
If you do try it, do yourself a favor and swap your left caps lock and control keys. Caps lock is pretty worthless anyways, so even if you don't stick with Emacs it's nice to have the control key right next to your left pinky.
First of all, I don't see much use in going back in time. Usually stepping through one undo at a time is what you want. Second, :blah would just be M-x blah in Emacs, if it had a "go back in time" feature, which I don't know or even care if it does. If you want to find out, you Google or "C-h a" and type in "time". If it takes you 2 hours then it would take you 2 hours to find the same thing for Vim.
What a copout. Anything could be a lie, even before the digital world. What something like the Internet has done is made it easier to check different sources. Just judging stuff by whatever makes you feel good is dishonest and lazy. You could spend one hour looking at the Truth about Bowling link I provided, the evidence he provides, the reactions by Moore himself and others, etc.
Just look at the transcript of Heston's speech. You'll find the same one on Moore's site.
It isn't that hard, except you'd have to accept the possibility that something you believed in was deliberate spinning of the truth. But human nature is to not to question our long-held beliefs.
Regarding greedy, nearly everybody is greedy, even the poor. I'm guessing you don't live in a shack and donate the majority of your money and time to charity. And neither would a poor person given the chance to rise out of poverty. It's just that everybody tends to look at those better off as greedy, but not themselves.
From 2000: Debugging
"I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work, if it just results in what I consider to be a better system."
From 2001: Linus on Linus
"'Anyone reading this column would assume the mounting pressures of my role as chief nerd has turned me into an asshole,' says Torvalds. But, he adds, that impression is wrong: 'I was always an asshole.'"
Somtimes he does this and tries to make a joke out of it, but more often than not you can see the real venom shining through.
I'm done with this thread. You are clearly happy with propaganda because it supports your point of view. I am not.
Agreed.
I read the Truth site years ago, and I did the research then. I just didn't take Mr. Hardy at his word. I saw the video clip, I read the full speech, and I read Mr. Moore's justification. It was clear to me Moore edits his films to spin a story that isn't true.
What saddens me is that people who apologize for it, either saying it is innocent or justified. Reading the kuro5hin site does not convince me of otherwise. It is just more denial.
You may think I'm a hardline conservative, but I'm not. Some issues I lean left, some I lean right. What I really want is unbiased, intellectually honest discussion about issues. I cannot stand spinning, sound bytes, screechy attacks, etc. I hate this "us vs them" attitude.
Watch the Frontline documentary on the case for WMD before the Iraq war if you want to see what real journalism is about. Both sides are presented fairly; no conclusions are drawn beforehand with a film crafted around it. Moore's pictures are not documentaries. They are political agenda films, completely biased, and intellectually dishonest.
Ok, thanks. I'm surprised the topsoil and lawn was only 10k of the 55k.
All that may be true, but grabbing decree powers is a dictorial move. Not a step in the right direction.