I know people are saying it's the same as Pakistan because it's only one letter removed. But look at Iran and Iraq and see where that kind of assumption gets us.
The banning of Iranian Press TV is ethical and justified.
Um, no. Because see, it's not Iranian Press TV that got banned. It's me, and every other citizen of the EU. We got banned by our government from accessing information that neither belongs to our government nor is illegal to possess (as eg. child pornography would be), and that it therefore has no authority to withhold from us. Whether the information is false, or produced by people who kick puppies, does not enter into it. Withholding it is neither ethical nor justifiable.
didn't always get a free ride. It's just that most of the stuff physicists know today is either so obvious that even religious people see its truth, or so abstract that it's not even on their radar. On the other hand, evolution by natural selection is concrete and yet non-obvious enough for many non-scientists to have wrong opinions about it.
That even if Mann had engaged in scientific fraud, which is questionable considering that his accusers are known liars and can barely spell "science", they're stiill equating the violation of scientific integrity with the RAPING OF CHILDREN..
And the fact that Apple and Samsung have been at each others' throats in court for years has nothing to do with it.
To be honest, I'm surprised they still did any business with each other. Generally when one company gets the other's product banned from sale, it tends to put a strain on the relationship. But in the mobile market where everybody is suing everybody else, it's probably hard to keep track.
I don't know of a reference file for testing math, but you could probably just find a free-access math paper online, or even cobble something together in Latex.
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I got all the countries the US has gone to war or threatened to go to war with in recent years, but very few of the rest.
I can only conclude that the American foreign policy is a desperate effort to improve Americans' knowledge of geography.
I know people are saying it's the same as Pakistan because it's only one letter removed. But look at Iran and Iraq and see where that kind of assumption gets us.
And democracy.
I can't find it on the map. So embarassed. I hope we're not at war with it; I'd hate to be that stereotypical American.
The "rich idiot" market is a very lucrative one.
What's that? :-P
First they assassinate Steve Irwin; now they spy on our cellphones? When is the government finally going to declare war?
(This is in reference to the headline.)
I know the prefix invokes unpleasant connotations, but it also means 10^15.
Um, no. Because see, it's not Iranian Press TV that got banned. It's me, and every other citizen of the EU. We got banned by our government from accessing information that neither belongs to our government nor is illegal to possess (as eg. child pornography would be), and that it therefore has no authority to withhold from us. Whether the information is false, or produced by people who kick puppies, does not enter into it. Withholding it is neither ethical nor justifiable.
That happened shortly after Wikipedia was founded. :P
Can someone explain this comparison to me with a tablet analogy?
Sure, if your desktop device is a phone. I suppose it's possible.
didn't always get a free ride. It's just that most of the stuff physicists know today is either so obvious that even religious people see its truth, or so abstract that it's not even on their radar. On the other hand, evolution by natural selection is concrete and yet non-obvious enough for many non-scientists to have wrong opinions about it.
If it had 3000, it might be almost long enough.
That even if Mann had engaged in scientific fraud, which is questionable considering that his accusers are known liars and can barely spell "science", they're stiill equating the violation of scientific integrity with the RAPING OF CHILDREN. .
Fuck these guys hard.
One of the main reasons I switched to Linux was to avoid having to buy a bloody gaming computer just to render the desktop animations while working.
LXDE/XFCE all the way. Compositing was invented for people with more spare GPU cycles than they can reasonably use.
Oh, never mind; misread that.
And the fact that Apple and Samsung have been at each others' throats in court for years has nothing to do with it.
To be honest, I'm surprised they still did any business with each other. Generally when one company gets the other's product banned from sale, it tends to put a strain on the relationship. But in the mobile market where everybody is suing everybody else, it's probably hard to keep track.
I don't know of a reference file for testing math, but you could probably just find a free-access math paper online, or even cobble something together in Latex.
Back up a second; are you saying GIF doesn't stand for Giraffe Image Format? All this time I just assumed everyone else was using it wrong.
Addendum: I meant support for math symbol display, though PDF support is obviously also a fairly essential feature.
Having been this close to buying a Kindle, I'm glad I saw this warning first.
Can anyone suggest a device with better PDF support?
I'm replacing Ubuntu with Debian! ... oh wait, I already did that like a year ago. But I'm even more glad about that decision now.
If you're restricting the public's access to information to protect them from manipulation, aren't you manipulating public opinion yourself?