A lot of the comments so far suggest that everyone answering the survey was answering out of a fear of the totalitarian regime mentality.
While that is likely part of the case I'm guessing that a large portion of the population truly believes that censorship is the best thing for them. This means that the censorship and propaganda machine is doing exactly what it is designed to do. Intelligent people being informed only by what the propaganda machine wants them to know are saying that the internet is bad and the government is protecting them from it.
I'm much more worried about a government that rules by manipulating the minds of its population than one that simply rules out by fear and intimidation.
Some universities are starting to run network lines in sewers because they are easily accessed, cheaply installed, cheap to maintain, and don't interfere with existing infrastructure. Course, then
this happens
There was a recent case in the US where an attorney admitted letting an innocent man spend most of his life in prison because be wasn't willing to break the attorny-client confidentiality of his client who had admitted to the crime the other man was locked up for.
It should just be noted that willingness doesn't really apply. attorney-client privilege is something the attorney is required to uphold. So even if he wanted to he couldn't release that information.
Ridiculously low class averages was always something I had a problem with in undergrad. If your class average is a 39 then either
A: All of your students are unprepared or not intelligent enough for the class.
-or-
B: The test is tremendously too hard and simply not informative.
If it's A then there shouldn't be any curve and everyone should fail. Somehow I doubt this is usually the case. The problem I always had with these exams is that they were usually so difficult that they couldn't tell the difference between different levels of knowledge. If there isn't a reasonable distribution of scores people who didn't study very hard got 30% right and people who studied really hard got 34% right.
That would make for a really interesting science/engineering curriculum. Maybe a few textbooks for the basics and then read the top research papers on the subjects in the last hundred years. That's a bit like how I picture graduate level education... I'm probably wrong.
I think the only majors with a higher general opinion of themselves are philosophy majors.
Now that all depends on how we define one's ability to form a general opinion. For more information read my paper for Philosophy 416, "Our ability to form opinions, real or not." It's clearly an excellent paper, I got an A++++. I'm right because I'm smarter than you are, I have a 4.83 GPA.
There was a pretty good fortune article a while back called The trouble with Steve about Jobs. The basic commentary seemed to be, "Jobs is a really demanding man to work for but some of my best work came from that relationship." I don't see any reason why I can't like Apple's products and also be happy that I don't work there.
Quite possibly the reason only former employees ever comment is because the current ones are terrified of their boss.
They do seem to learn from their mistakes though. The cube was too expensive and so it's turned into the mac mini. Maybe the Air will fail but there will probably be a sequel that will learn from the mistakes of the Air.
I was just thinking that perhaps if the Obama/Clinton race actually does go to the primary it might be a boon to the Democrats instead of the disaster everyone is assumes.
Partly just because Hillary and Obama will be getting lots of media attention because there's an entertaining race for the press to cover.
Mostly though I was thinking about the fact that in general I don't watch the national conventions. By the time they roll around the there's nothing left to be decided. The conventions just end up being huge political love-fest where politicians sit around talking about how great they are.
A convention where there's some drama left in the primary race, on the other hand, that I'll watch. It could be an opportunity for the Democrats to fire up their base or get some eyeballs that in other circumstances watch re-runs of American Idol.
"The wider lesson is not to stigmatize failure but to tolerate it and learn from it: Europe's inability to create a rival to Silicon Valley owes much to its tougher bankruptcy laws."
So, has Apple recently declared bankruptcy and nobody's told me? Is silicon valley full of brilliant successes who have declared bankruptcy several times?
The thesis of the article seems to be that learning from your failures is important. Fine, but just because bankruptcy allows a company to wipe their debts and reorganize doesn't necessitate that companies will start learning from their mistakes. It's quite a leap to make that Silicon Valley is created by good bankruptcy laws.
I'm glad the parent comment got modded insightful. If you have a common name doing linkings like this could easily create some incredible horror stories. I wonder how many stories there are out there of people being harassed because they share the name of an offender and decided to move to a new town.
Does anyone have web sites where you can search names to see if they're on an offender list? I invite everyone to search for their own name, think of it like a credit check.
In fact you basically have to check ID every time you fuck someone who looks young now, because "she told me she was 18" is not a defense even if you have her statement on tape.
So, after you ask for verbal consent for sex on tape, do the women usually stick around?
Nothing I want more than putting my metal cup down on a frayed kink on the basement table with my bare feet.
You would be more likely to put your metal cup down on the table and then burn your hand trying to pick it up. Induction is a widely used method of heating pots and pans for cooking. Induce a current in a metal pot and it will heat up due to the resistance of the metal.
The only one it didn't work with was this girl who's parents were paying her expenses and she was frequently drunk, she kept an ice filled cooler in her car stocked with beer. After a couple of weeks I couldn't take it anymore and had to stop tutoring her.
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"By downloading this virus you agree to allow a USAF bot to reside in your computer and use it for military purposes."
There, the owner just consented.
While that is likely part of the case I'm guessing that a large portion of the population truly believes that censorship is the best thing for them. This means that the censorship and propaganda machine is doing exactly what it is designed to do. Intelligent people being informed only by what the propaganda machine wants them to know are saying that the internet is bad and the government is protecting them from it.
I'm much more worried about a government that rules by manipulating the minds of its population than one that simply rules out by fear and intimidation.
It should just be noted that willingness doesn't really apply. attorney-client privilege is something the attorney is required to uphold. So even if he wanted to he couldn't release that information.
Crazy concept, we take and cover the stadium with a roof ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrodome ) that way the rain stays out. We even have some with the ability to be open when it's sunny and closed when it's not ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Centre ).
This whole weather control thing sounds a lot like a stunt run by a snake-water salesman.
A: All of your students are unprepared or not intelligent enough for the class.
-or-
B: The test is tremendously too hard and simply not informative.
If it's A then there shouldn't be any curve and everyone should fail. Somehow I doubt this is usually the case. The problem I always had with these exams is that they were usually so difficult that they couldn't tell the difference between different levels of knowledge. If there isn't a reasonable distribution of scores people who didn't study very hard got 30% right and people who studied really hard got 34% right.
Do you block Slashdot too?
That would make for a really interesting science/engineering curriculum. Maybe a few textbooks for the basics and then read the top research papers on the subjects in the last hundred years. That's a bit like how I picture graduate level education... I'm probably wrong.
Now that all depends on how we define one's ability to form a general opinion. For more information read my paper for Philosophy 416, "Our ability to form opinions, real or not." It's clearly an excellent paper, I got an A++++. I'm right because I'm smarter than you are, I have a 4.83 GPA.
Quite possibly the reason only former employees ever comment is because the current ones are terrified of their boss.
They do seem to learn from their mistakes though. The cube was too expensive and so it's turned into the mac mini. Maybe the Air will fail but there will probably be a sequel that will learn from the mistakes of the Air.
Is there a good reason that apple doesn't simply have a parking space for the CEO?
Partly just because Hillary and Obama will be getting lots of media attention because there's an entertaining race for the press to cover.
Mostly though I was thinking about the fact that in general I don't watch the national conventions. By the time they roll around the there's nothing left to be decided. The conventions just end up being huge political love-fest where politicians sit around talking about how great they are.
A convention where there's some drama left in the primary race, on the other hand, that I'll watch. It could be an opportunity for the Democrats to fire up their base or get some eyeballs that in other circumstances watch re-runs of American Idol.
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It's not too remarkable to make a fluorescent animal plenty of labs have done it with Zebra Fish and Mice.
String collecting isn't in their extensive list of popular collectibles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collecting#Popular_collectibles so it's possible you just made that up.
Nothing on Mayan hunting techniques but there is this on Mayan agriculture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_diet_and_subsistence and this on Mayan warfare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_society#Warfare.
So, has Apple recently declared bankruptcy and nobody's told me? Is silicon valley full of brilliant successes who have declared bankruptcy several times?
The thesis of the article seems to be that learning from your failures is important. Fine, but just because bankruptcy allows a company to wipe their debts and reorganize doesn't necessitate that companies will start learning from their mistakes. It's quite a leap to make that Silicon Valley is created by good bankruptcy laws.
Bah, obviously they're fake like the moon landing. They're covering for the real reason we went, to spy on the great Martian civilizations.
Does anyone have web sites where you can search names to see if they're on an offender list? I invite everyone to search for their own name, think of it like a credit check.
So, after you ask for verbal consent for sex on tape, do the women usually stick around?
Pretty much, yup.
You seem to have an odd definition of awesome.
You would be more likely to put your metal cup down on the table and then burn your hand trying to pick it up. Induction is a widely used method of heating pots and pans for cooking. Induce a current in a metal pot and it will heat up due to the resistance of the metal.