I thought the problem for Rushdie's book was the title itself, which refers to some verses (in the 53rd sura) which acknowledge 3 goddesses in contradiction to the monotheism of Islam and which have been called "the satanic verses", and are hotly disputed.
That wasn't a ballistic missile plant--it makes space launch vehicles for TV satellites.
"Bowling for Columbine" wasn't a documentary, it was a mockumentary like "This is Spinal Tap". Read the truth
here.
Has no one mentioned handwriting analysis (graphology)? How will we catch embezzlers and disgruntled employees if they won't write in cursive? And for more serious consequences, look at the effect computers and e-mail are having on very important historical records. You know how historians always quote letters to explain what a President or general was doing? That's pretty much over now. See this: The End of History - How e-mail is wrecking our national archive
There's actually something about RIAA making a mistake in the article:
Ms. Deutsch, the Verizon lawyer, noted that the industry trade group apologized last month to Pennsylvania State University for sending a warning to the school's astronomy department demanding that songs by the musician Usher be removed.
It turned out the trade group's automated search program had matched files containing the name of a retired professor named Peter Usher and "mp3," the name of a popular music format, spurring the group to issue the erroneous cease-and-desist letter.
So, they didn't even listen to see what the file was before sending out the letter.
I wonder... was the professor singing one of their songs, singing one of his own songs, or was it just a lecture?
That is a subject of intense discussion, apparently. I have no idea who or what he might be, possibly one of the angel-like beings who helped create the world? Here's some discussion of the mystery:
Bombadil References
I'm re-reading LOTR right now, comparing it to the movies. One of the first things I thought when I got started was: there's no way this book would be published today. Readers nowadays expect an in media res beginning, not an essay on hobbit culture. There's no mention of any characters for several pages. LOTR is a milieu story: instead of focusing on plot or characters, Tolkien was using this story to tell us about Middle-Earth. For him, those tedious details were the point. Anybody here read The Hunchback of Notre Dame? Hugo spent half the book describing the way Paris looked hundreds of years ago. He griped about modern architecture and its ugliness. The greatest books in western civilization would all be considered too long and boring today.
Modern novels, OTOH, are the kind of thing that can be read out loud. For a perfect example, try George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books. I read them all out loud to my girlfriend. There's no way you can do that with LOTR. There's parts here and there, but some parts are just too long. Martin has television writing credits and understands the modern attention span.
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Down here in Alabama, it was great, we got up early, got dressed warmly, made some coffee, and drove away from the little town of Jacksonville to find a dark spot. There were too many to count (without the aid of a machine, anyway) and they were all over the sky. We even saw one huge one that BOOMED! when it exploded! The flash was there for a few seconds. A little later (at the predicted peak time: 4 am) more people showed up, but by then the best was over. For those who haven't read the website mentioned in the headline, there's an article about how nobody can predict the peaks too well anyway.
Capital One is one of the worst violators. Mozilla will not work even after changing the user agent. In fact, it appears they are just deliberately blocking Mozilla from working and refuse to stop.
Here's the discussion of the bug at mozilla.org
"When Robert P. Crease, a member of the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, recently asked physicists to nominate the most beautiful experiment of all time, the 10 winners were largely solo performances, involving at most a few assistants. Most of the experiments -- which are listed in this month's Physics World -- took place on tabletops and none required more computational power than that of a slide rule or calculator."
Note that the NY Times is just telling us what's been published elsewhere. Physicists themselves voted on the experiments.
Here is some interesting information from activistcash.com
about PETA
"PETA sent $70,500 in 1995 to Rodney Coronado, a convicted arsonist and avowed member of the domestic-terrorist group called the Animal Liberation Front. Coronado served a five-year federal prison sentence for a 1992 animal-rights-related firebombing at Michigan State University.
Unapologetic about its ties to domestic terrorism, PETA also made a cash donation in 2001 to the North American Earth Liberation Front, a group that the FBI has called a domestic terrorist organization."
One of the characters in our group was a dragon hatchling, boy, that causes problems when your time limit for daily metamorphosis runs out and you're all inside a small building or SDC vehicle!
Adaere was always doing that. Hey, when you're a mage (with their sorry THAC0) you have to have a 20 to hit something with a good AC. When I was out of useful spells, it was usually up to me to save the party with my staff-wielding abilities.
Now I'm wondering what happens to all those unused frozen embryos. Are they destroyed, too, or kept so people can have children (through surrogates) years after they're dead? Does anybody know?
In the intelligence business, you are supposed to go to jail before you talk, I think. It's your job to help protect "national security" by refusing to divulge sensitive information. With the CIA hearings (I forget when, I was either not born or too young to remember), the director met in secret with a Congressman to explain what it was he couldn't answer for public record and the matter was settled.
Slashdot Mirror
More detail here.
That wasn't a ballistic missile plant--it makes space launch vehicles for TV satellites. "Bowling for Columbine" wasn't a documentary, it was a mockumentary like "This is Spinal Tap". Read the truth here.
No, no, no, like this:
"I'm an atheist, you insensitive clod!"
Just a suggestion, I'm not an atheist, maybe you don't believe in saying "insensitive clod" either.
Has no one mentioned handwriting analysis (graphology)? How will we catch embezzlers and disgruntled employees if they won't write in cursive? And for more serious consequences, look at the effect computers and e-mail are having on very important historical records. You know how historians always quote letters to explain what a President or general was doing? That's pretty much over now. See this:
The End of History - How e-mail is wrecking our national archive
Ooops, I must have missed that one. Oh well,
desire for redundancy is why we have the internet.
So, they didn't even listen to see what the file was before sending out the letter.
I wonder... was the professor singing one of their songs, singing one of his own songs, or was it just a lecture?
Oh, if you don't want to read the big essay linked to above, its argument is that Bombadil represents the reader.
That is a subject of intense discussion, apparently. I have no idea who or what he might be, possibly one of the angel-like beings who helped create the world? Here's some discussion of the mystery: Bombadil References
Modern novels, OTOH, are the kind of thing that can be read out loud. For a perfect example, try George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books. I read them all out loud to my girlfriend. There's no way you can do that with LOTR. There's parts here and there, but some parts are just too long. Martin has television writing credits and understands the modern attention span.
(I'm quoting here, with emphasis mine)
Text version:
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Vision works in real-time, behind the scenes, and locates all the information on your PC, including spreadsheets, web sites, multimedia files, documents, and even your email. Vision most standard document types as well as email in Outlook and Outlook Express. When you need to find information, search using any word or phrase contained in the file, you never have to remember a file name again. Vision quickly searches your information, and using a patented, intuitive interface, displays the relevant files and email in a time ordered stream. It's that simple. In the past, finding old documents, email and attachments, images, mp3s, spreadsheets, and presentations was frustrating and time consuming. Now Vision reduces this task to seconds, and presents you with all the relevant information so you can be confident you have everything you need, even information you forgot existed!
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Wow, it uses an intuitive interface, the NUI!
(Nipple User Interface)
I know you've seen that sig!
And it's patented, too! They've gone too far now!
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Down here in Alabama, it was great, we got up early, got dressed warmly, made some coffee, and drove away from the little town of Jacksonville to find a dark spot. There were too many to count (without the aid of a machine, anyway) and they were all over the sky. We even saw one huge one that BOOMED! when it exploded! The flash was there for a few seconds. A little later (at the predicted peak time: 4 am) more people showed up, but by then the best was over.
For those who haven't read the website mentioned in the headline, there's an article about how nobody can predict the peaks too well anyway.
Capital One is one of the worst violators. Mozilla will not work even after changing the user agent. In fact, it appears they are just deliberately blocking Mozilla from working and refuse to stop. Here's the discussion of the bug at mozilla.org
"When Robert P. Crease, a member of the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, recently asked physicists to nominate the most beautiful experiment of all time, the 10 winners were largely solo performances, involving at most a few assistants. Most of the experiments -- which are listed in this month's Physics World -- took place on tabletops and none required more computational power than that of a slide rule or calculator."
Note that the NY Times is just telling us what's been published elsewhere. Physicists themselves voted on the experiments.
"PETA sent $70,500 in 1995 to Rodney Coronado, a convicted arsonist and avowed member of the domestic-terrorist group called the Animal Liberation Front. Coronado served a five-year federal prison sentence for a 1992 animal-rights-related firebombing at Michigan State University.
Unapologetic about its ties to domestic terrorism, PETA also made a cash donation in 2001 to the North American Earth Liberation Front, a group that the FBI has called a domestic terrorist organization."
Well, when I was using DOS, I didn't know there was *nix. I gained enlightenment and made the switch. I'm a happy camper now.
One of the characters in our group was a dragon hatchling, boy, that causes problems when your time limit for daily metamorphosis runs out and you're all inside a small building or SDC vehicle!
Adaere was always doing that. Hey, when you're a mage (with their sorry THAC0) you have to have a 20 to hit something with a good AC. When I was out of useful spells, it was usually up to me to save the party with my staff-wielding abilities.
I've got to find that d20...
Posted using Mozilla Milestone Build M12, BTW
There is a discussion of the User-Agent string there, perhaps those fears could be added to the thread.
Now I'm wondering what happens to all those unused frozen embryos. Are they destroyed, too, or kept so people can have children (through surrogates) years after they're dead? Does anybody know?
In the intelligence business, you are supposed to go to jail before you talk, I think. It's your job to help protect "national security" by refusing to divulge sensitive information. With the CIA hearings (I forget when, I was either not born or too young to remember), the director met in secret with a Congressman to explain what it was he couldn't answer for public record and the matter was settled.
Documentation about the "wall of separation" can be found here