The issue is real. How much depth should Wikipedia, as an encyclopedia, provide before one should seek-out more specialised sources. An encyclopedia entry on Albert Einstein might take up two or three pages. (I haven't checked Wiki's entry on Einstein). You could fill a library with books and papers about Einstein. It is not reasonable or useful for all this information to be provided comprehensively on Wiki. Most readers would be overwhelmed. Mathematical proofs to my mind are several levels down (or up) the knowledge chain in the realm of more specialised information requiring more specialised treatment
"Windows 2000 was simply not useful for home users."
Huh? Please explain. I have been happily using win2k for years, at home, or at least that's where I thought I was.
Anyone who wants to be a politician should be automatically disqualified from seeking office. A bunch of pompous, strutting, egotistical, corrupt, intellectually bankrupt, (add your own endearment here), parasites on the public purse.
Exactly. Another case of foolish Action displacing careful Analysis.
Illegal immigration is not a threat to national security. It may be a cultural threat but (sarcasm alert) since you are all decent, tolerant, Christian Americans that doesn't bother you. Right?
You may be offended, angry, whatever, that these people are in the US illegally, but don't confuse that fact with any threat to national security. Doing so is to help unscrupulous politicians promote and pander to the exaggerated fears of Americans for political gain.
If you were to issue visa's to all the Mexican workers who wanted to come to the US the problem would be solved. Mexican terrorists? Give me a break. Visa applicants can be vetted. The determined "terrorist" will evade all visa and border controls because no system can be perfect.
Conflating border controls with national security is hysterical foolishness and just one consequence is the utter waste of financial and other human resources such as the scheme posted here.
You and I know that baby-sitting does not "require" a college degree. It is a requirement that some idiot bureaucrat driven by some idiot parents abetted by idiot politicians and lazy employers who don't want to check-out an individuals real experience, has decreed. A college degree does not "make" you a competent and caring baby-sitter although some degree holders may well be such. So are a host of non-degree holders. The degree is irrelevant. Ask your mother.
A Republican said:
"It's a good thing that Fox News exists, or there would be no conservative voices in the media at all".
"Conservative? Don't you really mean "Republican"? Fox news is an insult to any intelligent, self-respecting conservative.
Sig: God was created in man's image.
Freedom of speech (which by the way wasn't invented in the US) does not mean freedom from the consequences of exercising that right. You can't call someone publicly a thief, school administrator or not, without expecting to be held to account. You better have proof. And if I don't like what you say, I will punch you in the face.
"the stress and risk in public teaching today requires considerable remuneration"
I disagree. As you say, too little teaching and learning is taking place in schools. Therefore it follows that current degree-heavy teachers are over-qualified and over-paid. Baby-sitting does not require a college degree but a caring adult. There are lots of those around willing to work for much less than current teachers. And who knows, you may find many wonderful natural teachers among them, people who motivate and inspire their students. The public school system lost its way when it agreed to put the emphasis on academic educational qualifications and seniority rather than teaching ability and results. Anyone who can navigate Wikipedia and google has the content to teach primary and middle-school subjects. Teaching is an innate ability, reinforced by experience, not learned in college and demanding Masters and PhD degrees. Encourage the hiring of high school graduates, put them (and college graduates) on teaching probation for three years under close supervision, and keep the best. Pay teachers for their teaching ability and results, not for their largely irrelevant years spent in college. Have their performance assessed by administration, peers, students and parents, overseen by an independent agency. Fire the bottom 5-10% of teachers each year. To hell with the unions.
I'm confused. (I know, welcome to/.)
What has Apple actually done?
Has it rendered the phone permanently unuseable i.e. broken and unrestorable? Bring on the class action suit.
Has it forced hackers to restore the Apple firmware? Perfectly within its rights.
Has it corrupted user files? Apple should apolgise/fix/compensate.
If all it has done is force hackers to do a reset, then why all the fuss?
Surely Apple in designing the lock-feature in the iphone, and AT&T in its due diligence would have asked the questions: "Can this be cracked?" If so, "What options are available to us?" Do nothing. Rush out a firmware fix to block unlocking. Renegotiate the deal. Sue. etc. etc. If they didn't, they deserve to get hosed. If the answer to "Can this be cracked?" was "No" then Apple needs to recruit some good hackers.
A. Pirates are rife in Canada
B. Naah, only whores and hockey players come from Canada
A. But my wife comes from Canada.
B. Oh...so what team does she play on?
Hey, there was life before the US Constitution. The principles of patents, copywrite and trademarks have been laid-down for centuries. You would be better-off going back to the basics of English common-law.
Copyright is not about private property. As others have pointed-out, it is a state (society)-awarded device to give temporary rights to an author so that others may not present the work as their own. It is not fundamentally about making money, license fees or any such thing although these do logically follow from the copywrite. It is certainly not about protecting any business model, although that that is what the RIAA and such organisations are trying to achieve by legal precedent and in lobbying for changes in the law..
Making a copy of someone elses written work is not illegal in most jurisdictions. What gives rise to judicial action by the copywrite-holder (not the state) is if you pass it off as your own work or try to make money from it. Of course, the copywrite-holder may decline to exercise his rights.
An interesting question about the pirated music-software issue is whether a site which does not financially benefit from making copywrited material available to individual users is in breach of any copywrite, particularly if full acknowledgement is made of the author or corporate owner. If I download MSWord from such a site and use it exclusively for my own use, am I violating any copywrite, any more so than photocopying a book from the library? I say no. Because a digital artifact is easier to copy or distribute than a book, does that mean there is a difference in fact rather than just degree? I think not. The music and movie industries need to look to their business models, not to the courts or legislature.
You have to hand it to the USA---even a moron can get to be President.
No one ever went broke under-estimating the intelligence of the American public. (P. T. Barnum-a patriotic American).
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Don't let your mullah -sorry pastor- do your thinking for you.
The issue is real. How much depth should Wikipedia, as an encyclopedia, provide before one should seek-out more specialised sources. An encyclopedia entry on Albert Einstein might take up two or three pages. (I haven't checked Wiki's entry on Einstein). You could fill a library with books and papers about Einstein. It is not reasonable or useful for all this information to be provided comprehensively on Wiki. Most readers would be overwhelmed. Mathematical proofs to my mind are several levels down (or up) the knowledge chain in the realm of more specialised information requiring more specialised treatment
Thank God for those Canadians. Weed flows south and guns flow north. Guess whose getting the best deal.
"Windows 2000 was simply not useful for home users." Huh? Please explain. I have been happily using win2k for years, at home, or at least that's where I thought I was.
Anyone who wants to be a politician should be automatically disqualified from seeking office. A bunch of pompous, strutting, egotistical, corrupt, intellectually bankrupt, (add your own endearment here), parasites on the public purse.
Exactly. Another case of foolish Action displacing careful Analysis. Illegal immigration is not a threat to national security. It may be a cultural threat but (sarcasm alert) since you are all decent, tolerant, Christian Americans that doesn't bother you. Right? You may be offended, angry, whatever, that these people are in the US illegally, but don't confuse that fact with any threat to national security. Doing so is to help unscrupulous politicians promote and pander to the exaggerated fears of Americans for political gain. If you were to issue visa's to all the Mexican workers who wanted to come to the US the problem would be solved. Mexican terrorists? Give me a break. Visa applicants can be vetted. The determined "terrorist" will evade all visa and border controls because no system can be perfect. Conflating border controls with national security is hysterical foolishness and just one consequence is the utter waste of financial and other human resources such as the scheme posted here.
You and I know that baby-sitting does not "require" a college degree. It is a requirement that some idiot bureaucrat driven by some idiot parents abetted by idiot politicians and lazy employers who don't want to check-out an individuals real experience, has decreed. A college degree does not "make" you a competent and caring baby-sitter although some degree holders may well be such. So are a host of non-degree holders. The degree is irrelevant. Ask your mother.
A Republican said: "It's a good thing that Fox News exists, or there would be no conservative voices in the media at all". "Conservative? Don't you really mean "Republican"? Fox news is an insult to any intelligent, self-respecting conservative. Sig: God was created in man's image.
Sorry, you overlooked the word "unreasonable". My reasonable is your unreasonable. The Constitution wont help you with this one.
Freedom of speech (which by the way wasn't invented in the US) does not mean freedom from the consequences of exercising that right. You can't call someone publicly a thief, school administrator or not, without expecting to be held to account. You better have proof. And if I don't like what you say, I will punch you in the face.
"the stress and risk in public teaching today requires considerable remuneration" I disagree. As you say, too little teaching and learning is taking place in schools. Therefore it follows that current degree-heavy teachers are over-qualified and over-paid. Baby-sitting does not require a college degree but a caring adult. There are lots of those around willing to work for much less than current teachers. And who knows, you may find many wonderful natural teachers among them, people who motivate and inspire their students. The public school system lost its way when it agreed to put the emphasis on academic educational qualifications and seniority rather than teaching ability and results. Anyone who can navigate Wikipedia and google has the content to teach primary and middle-school subjects. Teaching is an innate ability, reinforced by experience, not learned in college and demanding Masters and PhD degrees. Encourage the hiring of high school graduates, put them (and college graduates) on teaching probation for three years under close supervision, and keep the best. Pay teachers for their teaching ability and results, not for their largely irrelevant years spent in college. Have their performance assessed by administration, peers, students and parents, overseen by an independent agency. Fire the bottom 5-10% of teachers each year. To hell with the unions.
Thats Bob Marley, right?
Balls. In America, possession of child porn makes one a pedophile. See the parallel?
I'm confused. (I know, welcome to /.)
What has Apple actually done?
Has it rendered the phone permanently unuseable i.e. broken and unrestorable? Bring on the class action suit.
Has it forced hackers to restore the Apple firmware? Perfectly within its rights.
Has it corrupted user files? Apple should apolgise/fix/compensate.
If all it has done is force hackers to do a reset, then why all the fuss?
Surely Apple in designing the lock-feature in the iphone, and AT&T in its due diligence would have asked the questions: "Can this be cracked?" If so, "What options are available to us?" Do nothing. Rush out a firmware fix to block unlocking. Renegotiate the deal. Sue. etc. etc. If they didn't, they deserve to get hosed. If the answer to "Can this be cracked?" was "No" then Apple needs to recruit some good hackers.
Four uses of the word "fucking" in three short sentences. Says something about the author: Fucking stupid!
Not higher than average economic success but higher than average intelligence. There is a difference.
Generalisations and stereotypes are useful: that is why we use them.
That's nothing. They transplanted an asshole from Texas into the White House and now the blood flow in Iraq has increased exponentially.
A. Pirates are rife in Canada B. Naah, only whores and hockey players come from Canada A. But my wife comes from Canada. B. Oh...so what team does she play on?
Hey, there was life before the US Constitution. The principles of patents, copywrite and trademarks have been laid-down for centuries. You would be better-off going back to the basics of English common-law.
Clearly an outright bias in favour of short people. Sig: If I say something and my wife is not there to hear it, am I still wrong?
Copyright is not about private property. As others have pointed-out, it is a state (society)-awarded device to give temporary rights to an author so that others may not present the work as their own. It is not fundamentally about making money, license fees or any such thing although these do logically follow from the copywrite. It is certainly not about protecting any business model, although that that is what the RIAA and such organisations are trying to achieve by legal precedent and in lobbying for changes in the law.. Making a copy of someone elses written work is not illegal in most jurisdictions. What gives rise to judicial action by the copywrite-holder (not the state) is if you pass it off as your own work or try to make money from it. Of course, the copywrite-holder may decline to exercise his rights. An interesting question about the pirated music-software issue is whether a site which does not financially benefit from making copywrited material available to individual users is in breach of any copywrite, particularly if full acknowledgement is made of the author or corporate owner. If I download MSWord from such a site and use it exclusively for my own use, am I violating any copywrite, any more so than photocopying a book from the library? I say no. Because a digital artifact is easier to copy or distribute than a book, does that mean there is a difference in fact rather than just degree? I think not. The music and movie industries need to look to their business models, not to the courts or legislature.
"No, because stupid people make babies." Stupid people vote too. After all, Bush got elected (in a manner 0f speaking).
You have to hand it to the USA---even a moron can get to be President. No one ever went broke under-estimating the intelligence of the American public. (P. T. Barnum-a patriotic American).
Nothing wrong with me, I only screw female sheep.