It's like saying a criminal killed an old lady because of his difficult childhood. Certainly, it was a factor... but the blame lies with the criminal, who made the final decision to cut the old woman's throat.
It'a actually more like saying a criminal killed an old lady because she gunned down his brother to get some gas money. Certainly it was a factor, but the criminal should have gone to the police that the old lady has paid off.
And he would be making money from what? The complete lack of advertising on the site? Maybe the likelihood that it isn't even his site and that he's just got a free membership like about 3700 other people.
One thing I found kind of odd about the attacks what Bush's recollection of where he was and what he saw. I know that I remember the events in my life around the time of the attack very well. I wasn't alive when Kennedy was shot, but I had heard about how the moment you hear is etched into your mind. I didn't really understand this phenomenon until a year ago today.
But Bush's recollection of the day is strage. He claimed twice that he saw the first plane hit the building on TV. None of the networks I watched were carrying the first hit during the day, and certainly none could have shown it before the second plane hit. So how does that fit with the following recollection by Bush:
And my Chief of Staff, Andy Card -- actually, I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works. I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly, myself, and I said, well, there's one terrible pilot. I said, it must have been a horrible accident.
But I was whisked off there, I didn't have much time to think about it. And I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my Chief of Staff, who is sitting over here, walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower, America is under attack."
-- President Bush
I can understand if this were a gaff brought on by the amount of stress he was going through at the time of the attacks and at the time of the interview. But if it is a gaff, then it happened again:
Anyway, I was sitting there, and my Chief of Staff -- well, first of all, when we walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first building. There was a TV set on. And you know, I thought it was pilot error and I was amazed that anybody could make such a terrible mistake. And something was wrong with the plane, or -- anyway, I'm sitting there, listening to the briefing, and Andy Card came and said, "America is under attack."
-- President Bush
In his later quote he goes on to explicitly say it was the first building that was hit when he saw it. These quotes really stick in my mind when thinking about what happened. I hope they are just gaffs, but I still scratch my chin at it.
What kind of teacher extorts lunch money from all the kids in the school yard, while exerting small amounts of physical or psychological pressure on all the kids in the school yard, only to beat the crap out of a kid if they dare to try to throw a punch (and god help them if it lands one). What kind of teacher pays out money to another kid in the school yard who grabbed the personal belongings of another kid, and that kid also uses that money (directly or indirectly) to buy brass knuckles so that it can beat on said kid whenever it tries to get up to fight.
What kind of teacher cuts off the ability of a kid to buy lunch to the point of sever mental weakness and then installs a mind control device that has the kid willingly giving up 40% of his property and income until the kid revolts against the device and gives the teacher a small flick. Then when another kid attacks the previously controlled kid because of his weakened state, what kind of teacher reacts to this situation by selling needed supplies and giving a credit card to the attacking kid while selling brass knuckles to the disoriented kid in an attempt to make the teacher like them.
Really, this is a terrible analogy, but still no teacher I know acts this way. It sounds more like organized crime to me.
Note that this was just the first link on a "learn japanese" google search. I know of a few other free resourses, mostly for Palm that help in this endevour as well.
That's (one) very much a matter of personal taste and (two) ignoring the fact that an essentially infinite amount of good information plus an essentially infinite amount of garbage still supplies you with plenty of good content...and search engines help us tune out the garbage.
and (three) ignoring that DRM probably won't improve the quality of content.
The problem with media today is that the news is editorial because they report on other people's opinions. A senator saying the KKK is bad or that we shoudl attack Iraq is a fact and it could be considered unbiased, but if you bias toward publishing certain opinions over others, then your overall content has an opinion.
This is why you typically need several news sources, because each will have a different opinion set in their content.
Re:Wonder what the heck this is all about?
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Actually, you could learn from this experimental art. You don't get a 404 error. A 404 is returned by the server in it's response to the client request. In this case, the server will be completely crushed, and thus unable to send a 404.
Instead, you'll just get the "This site cannot be found" page in IE or the "cannot connect" dialog in Mozilla.
Re:With enough storage, Chess could be solved too.
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I read this differently. Not that he would have won on that move, but ultimately would have won. By chosing a queen, the stalemate occured because the queen covered more than the rook.
While I mostly agree with you, we are not in a capitalist system. Capitalism was shown to not work before Marx could read. In the 1800's, the robber barons of this country and Europe cause severe problems because of nearly pure capitalism. Now we have a hybrid of capitalism and socialism that does work more effectively than either pure system.
Nor should they. I fly occasionaly, but I'm not going to pay a lot more for a device's shielding. Perhaps there should be two classes of devices, one with shielding and one without, and only the shielded ones (marked with one of the many logos on electronic devices) can be used on planes.
What I didn't mention was I was 5 at the time I read RotK. I was a gifted child, but didn't have the expirience to know about sequels and ordering of stories. I only read it because it was what my sister was reading at the time, and it was her who taught me how to read at 4. I read the hobbit when I was 7 and started FOTR then too, and prefered the hobbit. I later tried to read FOTR again when I was 11 and still didn't like it, I reread the hobbit over several lunch hours in the library avoiding other 7th graders that would pick on me because of a Canadian accent and that I was a year younger than most. Although my reading tastes have changed considerably since then, I'm pretty sure I would still not like it from what I remembered. Overall I loved the execution of the movie, but the plot is a bit weak. It's just a bunch of made up shit "we must go here, and then go there," but no rhyme or reason.
I did too. The only applicable ones were marked as fakes, which is what I do to discourage other peeps from dling it (because it is fake, not because I don't want to share. I'd just mark it not sharing if that were the case).
I totally agree. I read the Return of the King first (not knowing any better), then the Hobbit and then most of FOTR. I really didn't like RotK but when I found out it was the last in the series, I decided it was my bad and I should read the others. The Hobbit was good, but FOTR would just drag in a lot of areas. Tolkein will describe a tree they pass down to individual leaves and take a few pages just to do so. I always guessed it was to give the impression of passing time, but really, it was just boring.
Re:At $100, this could be a good platform
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That's fucked up. slash takes the slashes out of that link. Why?
It's only a DMCA violation if it is, indeed, a copyright violation. Owning and using DeCSS is not in and of itself a DMCA violation, although distributing is.
The price of IE went up when they stopped allowing upgrades to Window 95. IE 6.0 will not install on Windows 95, you must purchase a newer copy of windows to upgrade.
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It's like saying a criminal killed an old lady because of his difficult childhood. Certainly, it was a factor... but the blame lies with the criminal, who made the final decision to cut the old woman's throat.
It'a actually more like saying a criminal killed an old lady because she gunned down his brother to get some gas money. Certainly it was a factor, but the criminal should have gone to the police that the old lady has paid off.
And he would be making money from what? The complete lack of advertising on the site? Maybe the likelihood that it isn't even his site and that he's just got a free membership like about 3700 other people.
But Bush's recollection of the day is strage. He claimed twice that he saw the first plane hit the building on TV. None of the networks I watched were carrying the first hit during the day, and certainly none could have shown it before the second plane hit. So how does that fit with the following recollection by Bush:
I can understand if this were a gaff brought on by the amount of stress he was going through at the time of the attacks and at the time of the interview. But if it is a gaff, then it happened again:
In his later quote he goes on to explicitly say it was the first building that was hit when he saw it. These quotes really stick in my mind when thinking about what happened. I hope they are just gaffs, but I still scratch my chin at it.
What kind of teacher extorts lunch money from all the kids in the school yard, while exerting small amounts of physical or psychological pressure on all the kids in the school yard, only to beat the crap out of a kid if they dare to try to throw a punch (and god help them if it lands one). What kind of teacher pays out money to another kid in the school yard who grabbed the personal belongings of another kid, and that kid also uses that money (directly or indirectly) to buy brass knuckles so that it can beat on said kid whenever it tries to get up to fight.
What kind of teacher cuts off the ability of a kid to buy lunch to the point of sever mental weakness and then installs a mind control device that has the kid willingly giving up 40% of his property and income until the kid revolts against the device and gives the teacher a small flick. Then when another kid attacks the previously controlled kid because of his weakened state, what kind of teacher reacts to this situation by selling needed supplies and giving a credit card to the attacking kid while selling brass knuckles to the disoriented kid in an attempt to make the teacher like them.
Really, this is a terrible analogy, but still no teacher I know acts this way. It sounds more like organized crime to me.
This to match HP's densest management decision to date.
So Salon readers get to read a bitchfest as to whether or not it's "spell checker" or "spelling checker".
On what level did you want to Learn Japanese.
Note that this was just the first link on a "learn japanese" google search. I know of a few other free resourses, mostly for Palm that help in this endevour as well.
That's (one) very much a matter of personal taste and (two) ignoring the fact that an essentially infinite amount of good information plus an essentially infinite amount of garbage still supplies you with plenty of good content...and search engines help us tune out the garbage.
and (three) ignoring that DRM probably won't improve the quality of content.
The problem with media today is that the news is editorial because they report on other people's opinions. A senator saying the KKK is bad or that we shoudl attack Iraq is a fact and it could be considered unbiased, but if you bias toward publishing certain opinions over others, then your overall content has an opinion.
This is why you typically need several news sources, because each will have a different opinion set in their content.
Actually, you could learn from this experimental art. You don't get a 404 error. A 404 is returned by the server in it's response to the client request. In this case, the server will be completely crushed, and thus unable to send a 404.
Instead, you'll just get the "This site cannot be found" page in IE or the "cannot connect" dialog in Mozilla.
I read this differently. Not that he would have won on that move, but ultimately would have won. By chosing a queen, the stalemate occured because the queen covered more than the rook.
While I mostly agree with you, we are not in a capitalist system. Capitalism was shown to not work before Marx could read. In the 1800's, the robber barons of this country and Europe cause severe problems because of nearly pure capitalism. Now we have a hybrid of capitalism and socialism that does work more effectively than either pure system.
Nor should they. I fly occasionaly, but I'm not going to pay a lot more for a device's shielding. Perhaps there should be two classes of devices, one with shielding and one without, and only the shielded ones (marked with one of the many logos on electronic devices) can be used on planes.
It's not setting the scene if they are passing by the tree.
What I didn't mention was I was 5 at the time I read RotK. I was a gifted child, but didn't have the expirience to know about sequels and ordering of stories. I only read it because it was what my sister was reading at the time, and it was her who taught me how to read at 4. I read the hobbit when I was 7 and started FOTR then too, and prefered the hobbit. I later tried to read FOTR again when I was 11 and still didn't like it, I reread the hobbit over several lunch hours in the library avoiding other 7th graders that would pick on me because of a Canadian accent and that I was a year younger than most. Although my reading tastes have changed considerably since then, I'm pretty sure I would still not like it from what I remembered. Overall I loved the execution of the movie, but the plot is a bit weak. It's just a bunch of made up shit "we must go here, and then go there," but no rhyme or reason.
I'd rather get this.
sweet sweet transmeta chip with log lasting battery (I'd get the 10 hour battery).
there's no Pravda in the Isvestiya, and there's no Isvestiya in the Pravda
(reference for the joke)
I did too. The only applicable ones were marked as fakes, which is what I do to discourage other peeps from dling it (because it is fake, not because I don't want to share. I'd just mark it not sharing if that were the case).
It's right here
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I totally agree. I read the Return of the King first (not knowing any better), then the Hobbit and then most of FOTR. I really didn't like RotK but when I found out it was the last in the series, I decided it was my bad and I should read the others. The Hobbit was good, but FOTR would just drag in a lot of areas. Tolkein will describe a tree they pass down to individual leaves and take a few pages just to do so. I always guessed it was to give the impression of passing time, but really, it was just boring.
That's fucked up. slash takes the slashes out of that link. Why?
Man, if you don't see 0:12:29-0:12:43, you won't understand the rest of the movie!
It's only a DMCA violation if it is, indeed, a copyright violation. Owning and using DeCSS is not in and of itself a DMCA violation, although distributing is.
The price of IE went up when they stopped allowing upgrades to Window 95. IE 6.0 will not install on Windows 95, you must purchase a newer copy of windows to upgrade.
Or, you could just get the original scortched earth.