Whatever commie. GO USA WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Next you're going to suggest that, if money is so tight, maybe they could cut the salaries of executives making over $500K in half rather than laying off employees who make $50k. What a load of anti-America pinko bullshit THAT idea is.
"misclassified != error? Hm. More specifically, though, I was referring to claims of this or that evolutionary discovery when it turns out it wasn't. Usually "missing link" discoveries, but others as well (different kinds of fish, this or that fossil thought to be something and turns out it is something else when a later, full one is found, the age of a fossil completely wrong based on one dating system and proven to be wrong when the same thing was found in something else with a known date, etc)"
The errors you note are, in order: mistaken anthropology (not evolution), mistaken paleontology (not evolution), incomplete evidence leading to faulty conclusions (applies equally to every field of thought and action), mistaken geology and/or chemistry (not evolution), and miscellany (while I suppose this COULD be an error of evolutionary science, it could be just about anything else as well, including nothing.
If you're going to debunk a science with its "mistakes", you could at least properly identify those mistakes and not pull them from only tangentially related fields.
And force comes in where, precisely? Besides that, I can think of half a dozen ways to "spread the wealth around" that don't actually involve taxing anyone and handing the money to someone else... how the hell are you able to parse 3 words into such a specific course of action? I can only assume it's a magic trick.
"Regardless, Obama DID say he wanted to spread the wealth around. Which means he TAKES it by force from those who worked for it and gives it to others."
That is a complete logical non sequitor. Nice try, though.
If Colin Powell only managed to get his son made FCC head for a couple of years, he still got supremely shafted over by the Bush administration and the Republican Party. He was one of the most important military officers in American history and he had a reputation for honesty and integrity that was practically godlike, and he was backed into throwing it all away over Iraq. Using him as expendable political capital to such a crass and ignoble goal was probably the single sleaziest thing Rove & co. ever did, even worse than the SBVfT or the primary shenanigans used against McCain in 2000.
It also didn't help that as they dug, they started to find connections to McCain and his campaign, almost as if he'd been planted there just to create an issue where McCain could routinely criticize Obama over what amounted to nothing.
Sorry, but when you become a campaign slogan and start doing interviews because you asked a presidential candidate a question that doesn't actually make sense (saying that you're looking at buying a business and suddenly having an annual salary WAY above average for people in that line of work, and then trying to argue you'd only be doing moderately well is, to say the least, stretching the bounds of believability), you forfeit your right to be just another anonymous face in the crowd. that's just how it works.
"people aren't really going to be able to just jump from MS to OO without any hitches."
I dunno, not having to play grab-ass with the formatting options for 2 hours just to make them not suck doesn't seem like much of a hitch to me.
Of course, I'm also that guy who rarely does more than slightly change the indents or occasionally uses justify or breaks into columns. This includes when I do fancy things like whip off a full color month to month calendar so I can save it to a PDF and sell printed copies. But clearly TPS reports require a great deal more formatting than that.
I was wondering if I was the only person who noticed that. SlySoft said the worst case scenario was 3 months, then said they'd have this cracked in February... that's not underestimating unless it actually takes until March or April, it's just an accurate worst-case prediction. Besides, I'm sure SlySoft is in on the time-honored tradition of saying things will be done way later than they actually expect to be done when speaking to customers: it gives you leeway to be wrong about how long it will take without anyone knowing the difference, and it makes you look like a hero if you get it done within your expectations.
So, BD+ can be locked for another 3 months and Sony et al can pretend their millions of dollars they invested into that DRM scheme weren't a complete waste of everyone's time, and come february I still won't care because Blu-Ray is grossly overpriced and just makes a lot of movies look like low-budget BBC productions (I never thought Beetlejuice could look that terrible and fake... eww).
"something like Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (which would be more useful than the Homeland Security Department"
Because THAT is such a high bar to clear. The only thing the DHS is good (and I use that word loosely) for is cramming the Constitution through a paper shredder and harassing anyone who makes the unforgiveable mistake of saying things on the phone that set off their stupid red flags. We'd be better off with a Bureau of Fluffy Bunnies than that useless heap of shit.
And the beauty of tax credits is that, unlike our zillion dollar bailouts to mismanaged corporations who sold us down the river to make (and keep!) irresponsible short term profits, don't actually require the government to borrow money from China and bury our entire economy even deeper than it already is.
Now if only we could stop pointlessly burning money out in the sandbox, maybe we could be not completely fucked for the next century or so.
"The operating systems in video game consoles, digital video recorders, and some mobile phones do exactly this. And when these gain web browsers, they begin to blur the line between "appliance" and "computer"."
And people will jump through ridiculous hoops to break that so they can run what they want on the things they own.
"What about the hoop of "developer must be a company with office space, not an individual" and the hoop of "in order to get your app signed, you have to pay the platform owner four figures to test it thoroughly"?"
So... no more FOSS outside of a very small number of major projects lucky enough to be backed by some major company? Farewell to software being a business where anyone can get involved and produce legitimate work, hello to corporate extortion and competitive lockout.
Or it could just be used for short range transmission, with wired transmission taking care of shorter ranges. It would be incredibly wasteful to wirelessly transmit electricity from a plant to everyone's home, but setting up small 5m radius bubbles within those homes might not be that much more wasteful than the hundreds of feet of wiring and cords that most American homes require anyway. And just imagine if we could do this with DC, eliminating the need for irritating (and very wasteful) adapters that just about everything requires now.
On a tangentially related note: cleaner coal, nuclear and wind are great and all, but can't we just start sticking solar panels on everything already? They've been around forever, they work great on top of space that isn't used anyway (like roofs), they cause virtually no pollution or other environmental issues once installed and the most common deployments are practically invisible. We could start by requiring new commercial construction to have solar paneling and giving tax credits (at or around %100 of the cost) for that as well as retrofitting current structures, using whatever excess power can be generated to reduce the power we need to generate with less clean methods. It's relatively cheap, easy, and uncontroversial.
No, 4chan is only a method of sterilization, not euthanasia. Although it does from time to time consider sloughing off the mortal coil just to end the pain in my frontal lobe.
Because this isn't intended to fight that form of patent trolling. This is intended to combat the type of patent trolling where large established companies file frivolous patent infringement lawsuits against small rivals in order to stifle competition and ensure profitability.
There's a Supreme Court decision on this very subject: Ashcroft vs. Free Speech Coalition explicitly states that "child porn" which does not involve or portray real any actual children cannot be classified as such under any current US law; ie. it's only child porn if there are children in it, not if there are adults made in some way to look like children or images of children derived from imagination.
It's not that the US Congress was hesitant to attempt a ban, it's that after they did it was ruled unconstitutional to do so.
For anyone who is wondering, the law was passed in 1996 (Republican majorities in House and Senate, Democratic President and Attorney General), and the arguments before the Supreme Court ran from 10/2001 - 4/2002 (Hence why Ashcroft, not Reno, is a party to the case).
"Every attempt to silence our voices results in us retreating further and further into obscurity and anonymity."
Yeah, sounds like we're really winning the war on censorship and defending our rights to free speech... Here's a hint, if you have to say something in increasingly anonymous and more obscure ways, you're losing.
No government can ever prevent anything completely, only to degrees. The more they crack down, the more things will be done in secrecy, and the less people will actually do them at all. This is why the wars on drugs and terror have been such abysmal failures, they failed to curb the behaviors at all (perhaps even encouraging them!) and have had hardly any effect on the degree of publicity people who do them are willing to expose themselves to; by comparison, the war on child pornography has gotten people using increasingly obscure means of communication and distribution, kiddie porn still exists and probably always will, but I remember a time not so long ago when one could actually come across http sites openly hosting child porn for all to see.
This post is not intended to support or endorse any particular view on the issues it mentions, simply to state a point on government suppression in general.
Presumably it could be used on another GSM network with a different SIM card. Here in the states, AT&T/Cingular is one such network, and as I understand there are no carriers outside of here, Japan and parts of Australia that use anything else (ie. CDMA).
"Why is it that geeks have no trouble using the precise, correct terms when writing code, but so commonly fail to transfer that precision to other areas where it is equally important?"
Because there is an infinite amount of knowledge to have, and only a finite amount of time in which to acquire. Many people on Slashdot have dedicated a lot of time and energy into learning how to write good strong code in a variety of languages, few have dedicated much time or energy at all into doing the same for legal documents and discourse. You wouldn't ask a lawyer to design a building, or an architect to optimize code, so why would you ask a programmer for legal advice?
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"all beaches are not like Daytona."
I've been to Daytona, and all I can say to that is: Thank Fucking God.
Whatever commie. GO USA WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Next you're going to suggest that, if money is so tight, maybe they could cut the salaries of executives making over $500K in half rather than laying off employees who make $50k. What a load of anti-America pinko bullshit THAT idea is.
So are black electrons now worth more to you than white electrons? That's racist.
White (electron) Power!
"misclassified != error? Hm. More specifically, though, I was referring to claims of this or that evolutionary discovery when it turns out it wasn't. Usually "missing link" discoveries, but others as well (different kinds of fish, this or that fossil thought to be something and turns out it is something else when a later, full one is found, the age of a fossil completely wrong based on one dating system and proven to be wrong when the same thing was found in something else with a known date, etc)"
The errors you note are, in order: mistaken anthropology (not evolution), mistaken paleontology (not evolution), incomplete evidence leading to faulty conclusions (applies equally to every field of thought and action), mistaken geology and/or chemistry (not evolution), and miscellany (while I suppose this COULD be an error of evolutionary science, it could be just about anything else as well, including nothing.
If you're going to debunk a science with its "mistakes", you could at least properly identify those mistakes and not pull them from only tangentially related fields.
And force comes in where, precisely? Besides that, I can think of half a dozen ways to "spread the wealth around" that don't actually involve taxing anyone and handing the money to someone else... how the hell are you able to parse 3 words into such a specific course of action? I can only assume it's a magic trick.
But you'll follow a fascist whose primary drive is controlling your life more?
"Regardless, Obama DID say he wanted to spread the wealth around. Which means he TAKES it by force from those who worked for it and gives it to others."
That is a complete logical non sequitor. Nice try, though.
If Colin Powell only managed to get his son made FCC head for a couple of years, he still got supremely shafted over by the Bush administration and the Republican Party. He was one of the most important military officers in American history and he had a reputation for honesty and integrity that was practically godlike, and he was backed into throwing it all away over Iraq. Using him as expendable political capital to such a crass and ignoble goal was probably the single sleaziest thing Rove & co. ever did, even worse than the SBVfT or the primary shenanigans used against McCain in 2000.
It also didn't help that as they dug, they started to find connections to McCain and his campaign, almost as if he'd been planted there just to create an issue where McCain could routinely criticize Obama over what amounted to nothing.
Sorry, but when you become a campaign slogan and start doing interviews because you asked a presidential candidate a question that doesn't actually make sense (saying that you're looking at buying a business and suddenly having an annual salary WAY above average for people in that line of work, and then trying to argue you'd only be doing moderately well is, to say the least, stretching the bounds of believability), you forfeit your right to be just another anonymous face in the crowd. that's just how it works.
"people aren't really going to be able to just jump from MS to OO without any hitches."
I dunno, not having to play grab-ass with the formatting options for 2 hours just to make them not suck doesn't seem like much of a hitch to me.
Of course, I'm also that guy who rarely does more than slightly change the indents or occasionally uses justify or breaks into columns. This includes when I do fancy things like whip off a full color month to month calendar so I can save it to a PDF and sell printed copies. But clearly TPS reports require a great deal more formatting than that.
I was wondering if I was the only person who noticed that. SlySoft said the worst case scenario was 3 months, then said they'd have this cracked in February... that's not underestimating unless it actually takes until March or April, it's just an accurate worst-case prediction. Besides, I'm sure SlySoft is in on the time-honored tradition of saying things will be done way later than they actually expect to be done when speaking to customers: it gives you leeway to be wrong about how long it will take without anyone knowing the difference, and it makes you look like a hero if you get it done within your expectations.
So, BD+ can be locked for another 3 months and Sony et al can pretend their millions of dollars they invested into that DRM scheme weren't a complete waste of everyone's time, and come february I still won't care because Blu-Ray is grossly overpriced and just makes a lot of movies look like low-budget BBC productions (I never thought Beetlejuice could look that terrible and fake... eww).
"something like Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (which would be more useful than the Homeland Security Department"
Because THAT is such a high bar to clear. The only thing the DHS is good (and I use that word loosely) for is cramming the Constitution through a paper shredder and harassing anyone who makes the unforgiveable mistake of saying things on the phone that set off their stupid red flags. We'd be better off with a Bureau of Fluffy Bunnies than that useless heap of shit.
"This is like having the ability to shape being from non-being at the subatomic level, and the first thing you decide to make is AIDS."
Oh snap.
My only question is why he went off on this tangent about Vista.
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. You're beautiful, don't forget to tip your waitress.
"they're going to end up with a horrendous drop in revenue over the short term"
Call me crazy, but I think they're looking at one of those either way; kind of like the one everyone else is staring at.
And the beauty of tax credits is that, unlike our zillion dollar bailouts to mismanaged corporations who sold us down the river to make (and keep!) irresponsible short term profits, don't actually require the government to borrow money from China and bury our entire economy even deeper than it already is.
Now if only we could stop pointlessly burning money out in the sandbox, maybe we could be not completely fucked for the next century or so.
"The operating systems in video game consoles, digital video recorders, and some mobile phones do exactly this. And when these gain web browsers, they begin to blur the line between "appliance" and "computer"."
And people will jump through ridiculous hoops to break that so they can run what they want on the things they own.
"What about the hoop of "developer must be a company with office space, not an individual" and the hoop of "in order to get your app signed, you have to pay the platform owner four figures to test it thoroughly"?"
So... no more FOSS outside of a very small number of major projects lucky enough to be backed by some major company? Farewell to software being a business where anyone can get involved and produce legitimate work, hello to corporate extortion and competitive lockout.
These aren't the solutions, they're the problem!
Or it could just be used for short range transmission, with wired transmission taking care of shorter ranges. It would be incredibly wasteful to wirelessly transmit electricity from a plant to everyone's home, but setting up small 5m radius bubbles within those homes might not be that much more wasteful than the hundreds of feet of wiring and cords that most American homes require anyway. And just imagine if we could do this with DC, eliminating the need for irritating (and very wasteful) adapters that just about everything requires now.
On a tangentially related note: cleaner coal, nuclear and wind are great and all, but can't we just start sticking solar panels on everything already? They've been around forever, they work great on top of space that isn't used anyway (like roofs), they cause virtually no pollution or other environmental issues once installed and the most common deployments are practically invisible. We could start by requiring new commercial construction to have solar paneling and giving tax credits (at or around %100 of the cost) for that as well as retrofitting current structures, using whatever excess power can be generated to reduce the power we need to generate with less clean methods. It's relatively cheap, easy, and uncontroversial.
especially the fetal gay ones, it's what Jesus wants.
No, 4chan is only a method of sterilization, not euthanasia. Although it does from time to time consider sloughing off the mortal coil just to end the pain in my frontal lobe.
Because this isn't intended to fight that form of patent trolling. This is intended to combat the type of patent trolling where large established companies file frivolous patent infringement lawsuits against small rivals in order to stifle competition and ensure profitability.
There's a Supreme Court decision on this very subject: Ashcroft vs. Free Speech Coalition explicitly states that "child porn" which does not involve or portray real any actual children cannot be classified as such under any current US law; ie. it's only child porn if there are children in it, not if there are adults made in some way to look like children or images of children derived from imagination.
It's not that the US Congress was hesitant to attempt a ban, it's that after they did it was ruled unconstitutional to do so.
For anyone who is wondering, the law was passed in 1996 (Republican majorities in House and Senate, Democratic President and Attorney General), and the arguments before the Supreme Court ran from 10/2001 - 4/2002 (Hence why Ashcroft, not Reno, is a party to the case).
I think that is solid advice whether they tangle with Amazon or not.
"Every attempt to silence our voices results in us retreating further and further into obscurity and anonymity."
Yeah, sounds like we're really winning the war on censorship and defending our rights to free speech... Here's a hint, if you have to say something in increasingly anonymous and more obscure ways, you're losing.
No government can ever prevent anything completely, only to degrees. The more they crack down, the more things will be done in secrecy, and the less people will actually do them at all. This is why the wars on drugs and terror have been such abysmal failures, they failed to curb the behaviors at all (perhaps even encouraging them!) and have had hardly any effect on the degree of publicity people who do them are willing to expose themselves to; by comparison, the war on child pornography has gotten people using increasingly obscure means of communication and distribution, kiddie porn still exists and probably always will, but I remember a time not so long ago when one could actually come across http sites openly hosting child porn for all to see.
This post is not intended to support or endorse any particular view on the issues it mentions, simply to state a point on government suppression in general.
Presumably it could be used on another GSM network with a different SIM card. Here in the states, AT&T/Cingular is one such network, and as I understand there are no carriers outside of here, Japan and parts of Australia that use anything else (ie. CDMA).
"Why is it that geeks have no trouble using the precise, correct terms when writing code, but so commonly fail to transfer that precision to other areas where it is equally important?"
Because there is an infinite amount of knowledge to have, and only a finite amount of time in which to acquire. Many people on Slashdot have dedicated a lot of time and energy into learning how to write good strong code in a variety of languages, few have dedicated much time or energy at all into doing the same for legal documents and discourse. You wouldn't ask a lawyer to design a building, or an architect to optimize code, so why would you ask a programmer for legal advice?