Have you ever gone more than 5 days without food? Do you think you could prevent yourself from gorging yourself if you were starving? Your assumption that this is just a "willpower" thing is pretty skewed. It's willpower in the sense of ascetic monks who live on top of a pole for years at a stretch kind of dealio we're talking about. Modern living doesn't exactly make that common place.
Law school loves people who have degrees like theater, psych, etc. Why? Because they can teach you all the law crap, it's your background that makes you interesting.
My brother (straight out of a liberal arts college) got a job at a competitive company that used a language he'd never touched before. Why? Because they were willing to take the time to train him. It seems to be less about being trained in the field than it is about having the essential skills to work in the kind of environment that a 4 year degree institute provides (presumably more pressure, more varied, and, yes, the culture/social status aspects are definitely a factor.) Teaching programming languages is useful, yeah, but programming languages go away. They want someone who is versatile. The presumption is that someone who didn't go to college doesn't have the basic degree of mental training that a college grad does.
My comments are talking about people straight out of whatever program, not after they've been in the field a while.
Nope. All that heat has to go somewhere. As hell freezes, Earth burns. Thermodynamics, woo. Unless hell is adiabatic. In which case I'm royally screwed. As is the first law.
... Wrong. Please read up on economics. His point is quite valid. No one "deserves" to get paid. The only reason you get paid is because the other party sees that as the only viable way to get what they want. (example: they could steal it from you. but then there might be repercussions when your village raids their village. so they buy it. or maybe you're not part of a village. so they steal it and kill you. except they can't get the goods from anyone else, so they pay you to continue producing what they want.)
You say that your argument is logical. I put it to you that you don't know what logic is. It is a formalized way of expressing things that follows very strict rules. For instance, given that A > B and A B. That is logic.
"creating a product" does not imply "you deserve payment". It has only taken on this meaning due to our culture and a type of cost-benefit analysis whereby we decided that civilization was better than anarchy.
... His point was that the CSS file is downloaded once, and then works for all pages on that site. It's faster to download one 100KB file than 100 files of 100KB. That's why CSS is a good thing. Duh.
That being said, they're not fearmongering his name. At least, no reputable political figure uses it much any more. These days most of the discussion seems rather eggheaded, to me. Which is good.
Not to be a heretic, but, wouldn't you rather a company like Amazon hold the patent than some random patent troll? In the current climate, I could see them patenting some kind of similar (bullshit), charging a nominal fee to license the patent, and everyone's happy. (As compared to some patent troll getting their hands on the patent and suing God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost for infringing on their "triune divinity" patent.)
As mentioned by a previous poster, btw, this method has been in use for years. Like, hundreds. Canary Trap. Wiki.
"A fallacy of composition arises when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole (or even of every proper part)."
Actually, this isn't true...
Search "mardona" in ar.search.yahoo.com,
and it says,
"Hemos incluido los resultados para maradona"
or, "We have included the results for Maradona."
Oops. They left a back door.
I have no in-depth knowledge of the Florida hispanic population; I kind of threw that in there because I assumed it was true.
However, I do think that this snippet of an article in the New Yorker definitely has something interesting to add about the approach taken to Hispanics in Flordia. (although, as you said, this has nothing to do with voter suppression.) I guess I was wrong about what they used the Hispanics for:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/02/080602fa_fact_toobin?currentPage=all
"
Stone decided to concentrate at first on "the atmospherics," as he put it, which in Miami means radio. Several Spanish-language stations in the city devoted themselves entirely to talk about politics; no print or television outlets could match their influence. The most powerful of these was Radio Mambi, a fifty-thousand-watt station, whose principal owner and on-air voice was Armando Perez-Roura, a Cuban exile who was known as the Cuban-American communityâ(TM)s Rush Limbaugh. Radio Mambi was Stoneâ(TM)s first stop.
"Latin media is unique in the sense that when you buy advertising you also are buying programming," Stone told me. "If you buy, you get to supply the guests. So I started buying time, and bringing Mrs. Stone, whose command of the Spanish language is better than mine, around to be the guest. The idea we were putting out there was that this was a left-wing power grab by Gore, the same way Fidel Castro did it in Cuba. We were very explicitly drawing that analogy." Stone was fortunate, too (as was Bush), because the recount came soon after the EliÃn GonzÃlez affair, in which the Clinton-Gore Administration enraged many Miami Cubans by agreeing to return EliÃn, who was six years old, to his father in Cuba. A local political consultant sold Stone a contact list of activists who had been working on the GonzÃlez case. "We used the list to turn out crowds whenever we wanted," Stone said. "We were telephoning the shit out of all the appropriate demographics."
After our lunch, Stone summoned his chauffeur-driven Jaguarâ"he owned four Jaguars at the timeâ"to take us downtown, so that he could walk me through the events that concluded the Miami recount. On November 21, 2000, the Florida Supreme Court gave Gore an important victory by ruling that the deadline for recounts would be extended to November 26th. At that point, the top priority for the Gore forces was to get the recounts up and running, especially in Miami-Dade County, which is the most populous in the state. On the Republican side, according to Stone, "The whole idea behind what they were doing was that there had already been one recount of the votes, so we didnâ(TM)t want another. The idea was to shut it down, stop the recount here in Miami." By November 22nd, the recount process had begun, in a conference room on the eighteenth floor of the Stephen P. Clark Government Center, a vast concrete office building on a forlorn plaza in downtown Miami.
The scene in front of the Clark center that morning was volatileâ"which was, of course, exactly how Stone wanted it. Several thousand mostly pro-Bush protesters had gathered on the sun-baked plaza to insist that the recount be shut down. Early that morning, Perez-Roura, of Radio Mambi, had sent Evilio Cepero, a local activist who sometimes worked for him as a reporter, to broadcast from the scene. Cepero urged Perez-Rouraâ(TM)s listeners to join the protest, addressed the growing crowd with a megaphone, and interviewed supporters, like the local members of Congress Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Many held signs that said "SORE/LOSERMAN." Others chanted, "Remember EliÃn!"
Mmhmm. In regards to that: I'm a college student in a battle ground state, originally from MD, so I just switched my registrations. The blue|red bit does make a difference, but it's no excuse not to vote.
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Have you ever gone more than 5 days without food?
Do you think you could prevent yourself from gorging yourself if you were starving?
Your assumption that this is just a "willpower" thing is pretty skewed. It's willpower in the sense of ascetic monks who live on top of a pole for years at a stretch kind of dealio we're talking about. Modern living doesn't exactly make that common place.
Uncharted?
Law school loves people who have degrees like theater, psych, etc. Why? Because they can teach you all the law crap, it's your background that makes you interesting.
My brother (straight out of a liberal arts college) got a job at a competitive company that used a language he'd never touched before. Why? Because they were willing to take the time to train him. It seems to be less about being trained in the field than it is about having the essential skills to work in the kind of environment that a 4 year degree institute provides (presumably more pressure, more varied, and, yes, the culture/social status aspects are definitely a factor.) Teaching programming languages is useful, yeah, but programming languages go away. They want someone who is versatile. The presumption is that someone who didn't go to college doesn't have the basic degree of mental training that a college grad does.
My comments are talking about people straight out of whatever program, not after they've been in the field a while.
Not newtonian physics. First law of thermodynamics.
Nope. All that heat has to go somewhere. As hell freezes, Earth burns. Thermodynamics, woo. Unless hell is adiabatic. In which case I'm royally screwed. As is the first law.
... Wrong. Please read up on economics. His point is quite valid. No one "deserves" to get paid. The only reason you get paid is because the other party sees that as the only viable way to get what they want. (example: they could steal it from you. but then there might be repercussions when your village raids their village. so they buy it. or maybe you're not part of a village. so they steal it and kill you. except they can't get the goods from anyone else, so they pay you to continue producing what they want.) You say that your argument is logical. I put it to you that you don't know what logic is. It is a formalized way of expressing things that follows very strict rules. For instance, given that A > B and A B. That is logic. "creating a product" does not imply "you deserve payment". It has only taken on this meaning due to our culture and a type of cost-benefit analysis whereby we decided that civilization was better than anarchy.
So you think the writers are doing the suing? (Hint: RIAA does not produce content. They distribute it.)
... His point was that the CSS file is downloaded once, and then works for all pages on that site. It's faster to download one 100KB file than 100 files of 100KB. That's why CSS is a good thing. Duh.
He might mean the relative speed of rendering between chrome and firefox? Not sure.
Care to enlighten us, then?
I laughed.
++ Mod Up, if I could.
That being said, they're not fearmongering his name. At least, no reputable political figure uses it much any more. These days most of the discussion seems rather eggheaded, to me. Which is good.
Actually, there's one way that your theory works. Set fertilizer = 0.
Whoosh.
I laughed.
Not to be a heretic, but, wouldn't you rather a company like Amazon hold the patent than some random patent troll? In the current climate, I could see them patenting some kind of similar (bullshit), charging a nominal fee to license the patent, and everyone's happy. (As compared to some patent troll getting their hands on the patent and suing God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost for infringing on their "triune divinity" patent.) As mentioned by a previous poster, btw, this method has been in use for years. Like, hundreds. Canary Trap. Wiki.
Ah, apologies. This is sarcasm done right. Subtle, almost impossible to call out as cruel, and anonymous. Good work, mother fucker.
What the story fails to mention is the 254 other blind men who failed to successfully navigate the maze. Go statistics!
Would be a nice summation of your logic.
You quoted _a_ logical fallacy, but not the correct logical fallacy.
You quoted the fallacy of non-sequitor (it does not follow).
You should have quoted the fallacy of _composition_.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_(logical_fallacy)
To recap:
"A fallacy of composition arises when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole (or even of every proper part)."
http://xkcd.com/386/
Actually, this isn't true... Search "mardona" in ar.search.yahoo.com, and it says, "Hemos incluido los resultados para maradona" or, "We have included the results for Maradona." Oops. They left a back door.
This publishing method is problematic. Damn I need to rewatch Firefly.
I have no in-depth knowledge of the Florida hispanic population; I kind of threw that in there because I assumed it was true.
However, I do think that this snippet of an article in the New Yorker definitely has something interesting to add about the approach taken to Hispanics in Flordia. (although, as you said, this has nothing to do with voter suppression.) I guess I was wrong about what they used the Hispanics for:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/02/080602fa_fact_toobin?currentPage=all
" Stone decided to concentrate at first on "the atmospherics," as he put it, which in Miami means radio. Several Spanish-language stations in the city devoted themselves entirely to talk about politics; no print or television outlets could match their influence. The most powerful of these was Radio Mambi, a fifty-thousand-watt station, whose principal owner and on-air voice was Armando Perez-Roura, a Cuban exile who was known as the Cuban-American communityâ(TM)s Rush Limbaugh. Radio Mambi was Stoneâ(TM)s first stop.
"Latin media is unique in the sense that when you buy advertising you also are buying programming," Stone told me. "If you buy, you get to supply the guests. So I started buying time, and bringing Mrs. Stone, whose command of the Spanish language is better than mine, around to be the guest. The idea we were putting out there was that this was a left-wing power grab by Gore, the same way Fidel Castro did it in Cuba. We were very explicitly drawing that analogy." Stone was fortunate, too (as was Bush), because the recount came soon after the EliÃn GonzÃlez affair, in which the Clinton-Gore Administration enraged many Miami Cubans by agreeing to return EliÃn, who was six years old, to his father in Cuba. A local political consultant sold Stone a contact list of activists who had been working on the GonzÃlez case. "We used the list to turn out crowds whenever we wanted," Stone said. "We were telephoning the shit out of all the appropriate demographics."
After our lunch, Stone summoned his chauffeur-driven Jaguarâ"he owned four Jaguars at the timeâ"to take us downtown, so that he could walk me through the events that concluded the Miami recount. On November 21, 2000, the Florida Supreme Court gave Gore an important victory by ruling that the deadline for recounts would be extended to November 26th. At that point, the top priority for the Gore forces was to get the recounts up and running, especially in Miami-Dade County, which is the most populous in the state. On the Republican side, according to Stone, "The whole idea behind what they were doing was that there had already been one recount of the votes, so we didnâ(TM)t want another. The idea was to shut it down, stop the recount here in Miami." By November 22nd, the recount process had begun, in a conference room on the eighteenth floor of the Stephen P. Clark Government Center, a vast concrete office building on a forlorn plaza in downtown Miami.
The scene in front of the Clark center that morning was volatileâ"which was, of course, exactly how Stone wanted it. Several thousand mostly pro-Bush protesters had gathered on the sun-baked plaza to insist that the recount be shut down. Early that morning, Perez-Roura, of Radio Mambi, had sent Evilio Cepero, a local activist who sometimes worked for him as a reporter, to broadcast from the scene. Cepero urged Perez-Rouraâ(TM)s listeners to join the protest, addressed the growing crowd with a megaphone, and interviewed supporters, like the local members of Congress Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Many held signs that said "SORE/LOSERMAN." Others chanted, "Remember EliÃn!"
"
Mmhmm. In regards to that: I'm a college student in a battle ground state, originally from MD, so I just switched my registrations. The blue|red bit does make a difference, but it's no excuse not to vote.
EG. I just like candidate X because he looks better on TV. The other guys look too old and ugly!
We WANT that. Obama looks so much better.