That's why I can't understand why Viacom would really be that upset about Daily Show and Colbert Report clips being online. Once the show airs, it's pretty much done. It's not like regular television series where they can show reruns, sell syndication rights, or sell DVD's. After all, Comedy Central's website has all of the clips from the shows already. I bet the lawsuit would get dropped in a day if Google went to Viacom and said "let's set up something where we host clips from the shows and we'll split the ad revenue."
Except the government doesn't need anything else to prevent terrorist attacks. They had what they needed before Bush was elected. I believe the phrase that best summarizes the current administration's ability to protect the country is "Bin Laden Determined to Attack United States".
Since he was reelected though, it's like he misplaced his... humanity or something. He doesn't stand for what he did the first term, he doesn't stand for freedom or justice, he doesn't even seem to stand for the conservative principals that got him elected in the first place.
He also doesn't have to worry about getting reelected.
Last I saw, the number of versions of Vista isn't as "huge and confusing" as everyone says. Home Basic deserves pretty much no consideration (I think it was meant for countries with a still-emerging PC market), Home Premium is pretty much XP Home, and Ultimate is the combination of XP Pro/MCE for geeks (the three of them that don't run Linux) and media center computers. The rest of the versions are the Europe-specific versions (that don't have Windows Media Player bundled, I think?) and the business versions. The typical home user will probably only have to choose between Premium and Ultimate, with a fair majority not even seriously considering Ultimate.
Which hemisphere are they missing? I see China, America, and Europe in the list, so that covers the east/west divide, and Sydney covers the north/south divide. I guess developers in central Africa and Antarctica will have to wait until next year.
I must be one of the lucky people that had decent administrators in school. The principal I had for most of elementary school stood in the hallway greeting students every morning, and he knew all 600 students by name. It was pretty devastating to the whole school when he died. The administration in junior high school was pretty bad, but that's true of junior high school in general. The (female) principal my first year of high school was referred to as "General", but the one that replaced her was good.
I'm just posting on my observations on the great majority of Christians in this country and how they behave.
You've actually observed tens of millions of people? Most Christians in the United States, just like most people of any other group, would rather just live their lives and be left alone. The problem is that it's usually the crazy ones that get media time. For every right-wing religious nutjob you see on television, there are probably thousands of Christians that will agree with you that the person is a nutjob.
In the interest of full disclosure, I'm not Christian.
I would guess that those people could be accused of libel and/or defamation, since they claim specific facts that reasonably could damage the person's standing in his job and career. Unless the claims are actually true, of course.
Minors can also not vote, drink, or run for public office.
In the United States, most of those aren't even 18. The legal drinking age (I believe in all states) is 21. You have to be 25 to run for the House of Representatives, 30 to run for the Senate, and 35 to run for President. 18 isn't the only somewhat-arbitrary age limit.
Good point on the merchandising. I hadn't really thought of that, but I think the number of sites that have that option is fairly limited. Comics certainly have some interesting merchandising opportunities, but most just-information type sites (such as Slashdot) probably don't. Then again, I do have a Linux t-shirt with a penguin on it that my girlfriend (yes, that's right) bought for me for my birthday.
Guess what, when competition is giving it out for free, guess where everyone will go? Not the pay site. Sure they take a hit, but then they get popularity which is infinitely more valuable than a few hundred subscribers.
Just out of curiosity, how is making $0 per user on millions of users more valuable than making $1 per user on a few hundred users? You aren't a venture capitalist from 1999, are you?
IF you invite the public in, then it is a public space.
But you still control it. Businesses, practically by definition, invite the public in, but the management can still kick you out if you're doing something they don't like. The difference between private space and public (business, not government-owned) space is if it's automatically trespassing to enter or if it's only trespassing after you've been explicitly told to leave.
dissent against scientific consensus for no good reason is just stupid
Yeah, that whole Earth-revolves-around-the-sun thing is a total crock. Contrary to what a lot of people would like to think, scientists have been wrong before, and will very likely be wrong again.
According to their docs, 4.1 is officially End of Life, so you'd hope the answer to your question is no. Unfortunately, I worked on a project about a year ago that was required to run on 3.23.
Some day in the hopefully-non-fictional future, people that start the annoying "it isn't theft if the other person still has their copy" debate will remember that they're wrong.
And data can be inaccurate (I suppose data almost always is inaccurate if you go down near the Uncertainty Principle level, but anyway), the amount of the inaccuracy being related to the accuracy of the collection method. If temperature data from 350,000 years ago is actually from 350,100 years ago, how much of a difference in the models would that make?
Note that I'm not claiming that all temperature data is completely bogus, just trying to raise the question so that people think about it.
Yeah, Thirdspace and River of Souls aren't exactly the best movies ever made, but if you set your expectations a little lower than the rest of the series, you can just sit back and enjoy them a bit more.
and a couple of (reputedly, I haven't watched them out of fear of the suck) crappy tv movies
The movies are worth checking out. In the Beginning does a good job of filling in details about the background story of the series. Thirdspace is a decent big-alien-ships action-ish movie. River of Souls is kind of like a double-length version of a lighter episode from the series (one word: holobrothel). A Call to Arms is a good pseudo-pilot for Crusade, if for no other reason than the Big Fucking Gun on the Excalibur and Victory. The Legend of the Rangers isn't all that great, but you can enjoy it if you let your brain slip into neutral a bit.
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That's why I can't understand why Viacom would really be that upset about Daily Show and Colbert Report clips being online. Once the show airs, it's pretty much done. It's not like regular television series where they can show reruns, sell syndication rights, or sell DVD's. After all, Comedy Central's website has all of the clips from the shows already. I bet the lawsuit would get dropped in a day if Google went to Viacom and said "let's set up something where we host clips from the shows and we'll split the ad revenue."
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Except the government doesn't need anything else to prevent terrorist attacks. They had what they needed before Bush was elected. I believe the phrase that best summarizes the current administration's ability to protect the country is "Bin Laden Determined to Attack United States".
Last I saw, the number of versions of Vista isn't as "huge and confusing" as everyone says. Home Basic deserves pretty much no consideration (I think it was meant for countries with a still-emerging PC market), Home Premium is pretty much XP Home, and Ultimate is the combination of XP Pro/MCE for geeks (the three of them that don't run Linux) and media center computers. The rest of the versions are the Europe-specific versions (that don't have Windows Media Player bundled, I think?) and the business versions. The typical home user will probably only have to choose between Premium and Ultimate, with a fair majority not even seriously considering Ultimate.
Which hemisphere are they missing? I see China, America, and Europe in the list, so that covers the east/west divide, and Sydney covers the north/south divide. I guess developers in central Africa and Antarctica will have to wait until next year.
I must be one of the lucky people that had decent administrators in school. The principal I had for most of elementary school stood in the hallway greeting students every morning, and he knew all 600 students by name. It was pretty devastating to the whole school when he died. The administration in junior high school was pretty bad, but that's true of junior high school in general. The (female) principal my first year of high school was referred to as "General", but the one that replaced her was good.
I dunno, if some of the worst of the current political trends continue, we'll end up being the Vorlons instead.
In the interest of full disclosure, I'm not Christian.
I would guess that those people could be accused of libel and/or defamation, since they claim specific facts that reasonably could damage the person's standing in his job and career. Unless the claims are actually true, of course.
Good point on the merchandising. I hadn't really thought of that, but I think the number of sites that have that option is fairly limited. Comics certainly have some interesting merchandising opportunities, but most just-information type sites (such as Slashdot) probably don't. Then again, I do have a Linux t-shirt with a penguin on it that my girlfriend (yes, that's right) bought for me for my birthday.
I think he might have meant "punditry".
According to their docs, 4.1 is officially End of Life, so you'd hope the answer to your question is no. Unfortunately, I worked on a project about a year ago that was required to run on 3.23.
Note that I'm not claiming that all temperature data is completely bogus, just trying to raise the question so that people think about it.
I don't think the rights to vote and drive a car are quite what is usually meant by "human rights".
Am I the only one that can't read "Great Ape" without thinking of Grape Ape?
Yeah, Thirdspace and River of Souls aren't exactly the best movies ever made, but if you set your expectations a little lower than the rest of the series, you can just sit back and enjoy them a bit more.
Who's Adam Douglas, and what does he have to do with this story?