You and Bill O'Reilly sure have one thing in common: projecting yourself as moderates because at least one person in a more extreme position believes something stupider. Carry on with your regularly-scheduled martyrdom. "I guess I got modded down because I'm just so moderate. You crazies can't stand my independence!"
It had nothing to do with Iraq, but rather the invasion of Afghanistan. Jeremy Glick was brought on and O'Reilly got pissed off at him, told him to shut up, and cut his mic, because Glick told O'Reilly that he used the families of victims of 9/11 to rationalize imperialism. I don't recall specifically why I decided to watch his show that night, but I remember watching it and laughing really hard.
R&D is expensive and risky, and paying for it with a tax levied on your own product may end up with you losing more money than you can possibly hope to recover doing R&D that doesn't further your current business interests.
Because the Myth of American Capitalism was useful in making a stark contrasts with the evil Communist Russians during the Cold War, and has since been useful for dismissing everything from environmental regulation to deciding which businesses are to receive subsidies (by calling subsidies for the other businesses "socialist"). They aren't really conservatives, they're just using words with their base that get them elected. It is customary to ignore all of the intervention in the economy except the ones that you don't want. In the end they funnel their pork to their states, and despite electing them based upon their capitalist rhetoric, their constituents are pleased to receive the handouts and vote the same in the future.
I guess we'll have to go back to calling it streaming audio, Internet radio, or audio files. I guess netcast it is. What a shame, netcast doesn't sound anywhere near as stupid as podcast, and it doesn't even focus on one music player that probably won't be anywhere near as trendy in 20 years when people will realize idiots tied a technology with the trademark of someone's product. Kleenex, anyone?
These defective batteries are exploding a lot now, and it would seem like being directly near one of these would be a source of serious injury or even death. If no one is mamed or killed by this, it will be out of sheer luck. Hopefully this will be a wakeup call to battery manufacturers that, you know, they have to be conservative with battery production. People barely tolerate cars with defects that emerge during accidents; they are not going to appreciate having laptops that are bombs, carried around by their kids and significant others.
The Daily Show is predominately political satire. It does not present information in a professional manner, however it is informative and through humor conveys political information. This stands in contrast to the "news" programs available on television which are predominately talk shows pretending to be news programs, and which The Daily Show happily jabs at regularly for the inanity of their contents. That is unless you stick to BBC World News on BBCA, but that doesn't help much for domestic matters.
Television is a pretty bad medium for news. The Internet is by far the best source of news for the best price.
And of course the smartest decision for those seeking to sell their wares is to not let Walmart dictate their business practices to them, unless they truly have no recourse. If Disney bows to Walmart's tactics it has essentially put a noose around its neck, and the necks of its investors. Disney is not a small company itself, and it is hardly a stranger to buying politicians to support its own business interests. I would not expect it to let Walmart dictate its future business decisions. Someone at Walmart has a serious god complex.
Yes, this was exactly the motivation behind Philip Morris's efforts: discredit science in the minds of the public. "The big government and elitest academics are behind all of that science, and they all have hidden agendas. Just look at our science that we've paid for that proves it."
The sad part is that it works far too effectively. Just last month I saw someone here parroting Steve Milloy's propaganda without even the slightest idea where it came from.
This has nothing to do with smoking causing global warming: it's a concerted effort on the part of certain industries to descredit science in the mind of the lay public, so that those people can feel good about doing things that hurt other people since the science proving that they hurt others can be ignored.
That's the whole premise behind Steve Milloy's JunkScience efforts.
From my anecdotal experience the majority of the irrational individualists that I have known are not well-off by U.S. standards, and for the most part are unremarkable people. They're usually just people with delusional assessments of their own intellectual abilities that gravitated toward the writings of von Mises, Rand, or some similar figure. It's one of the things that intrigues me most about them, because they are so mediocre and so actively work against themselves for the sake of the simplicity of their beliefs. There are certianly affluent people that hold the same ideological bent but as with most affluent people due to the relative concentration of wealth, they do not appear at least to compose the bulk of those that share their views. It certainly would be interesting to see what the economic median is for this particular group.
The only multiple choice tests that I ever took were standardized tests: state progress tests and College Board tests. They were never used for classes even in grade school. It almost makes my brain hurt to think of any university relying on multiple choice tests for classes.
It would be interesting to see what economic position that the typical person that accepts the Libertarian ideology or simply falls for the Myth of American Capitalism fits into. My intuition suspects that they would not be overly wealthy in general by U.S. standards.
You've just repeated what I said. People shop in November not because of Thanksgiving, but because of Christmas. Someone that does not necessarily live in this country may not realize that and presume that Thanksgiving is a big holiday for gift giving because people shop in November, which it isn't.
Frankly no one cares that you feel trapped into doing CRUD software for a living, it's simply irritating that on Slashdot every manner of person whines about the CS curriculum because it didn't prepare them to write interfaces for Oracle databases in VB all day long. That isn't what CS is about, so big surprise that you don't need to understand dynamic programming to do it.
Slashdot is rife with resentful anti-intellectuals that are angry because they majored in Computer Science instead of attending DeVry. Sure, many of them didn't need a Computer Science education for what they do. Dijkstra warned them and they didn't listen.
Any nontrivial image-processing consists of mathematics beyond high school algebra unless you're just implementing algorithms others have set down for you, or calling into a library. Further one does not solve proofs, one proves things.
Programming is a trade skill. Computer Science is an academic discipline. To some extent Software Engineering could fill a role of teaching software development skills, however I have not conducted any research to assess the adequacy such programs have had at doing so. I have little reason to think that they would offer more than contrived experiences, which is why people have internships and co-op programs.
Slashdot Mirror
You and Bill O'Reilly sure have one thing in common: projecting yourself as moderates because at least one person in a more extreme position believes something stupider. Carry on with your regularly-scheduled martyrdom. "I guess I got modded down because I'm just so moderate. You crazies can't stand my independence!"
It had nothing to do with Iraq, but rather the invasion of Afghanistan. Jeremy Glick was brought on and O'Reilly got pissed off at him, told him to shut up, and cut his mic, because Glick told O'Reilly that he used the families of victims of 9/11 to rationalize imperialism. I don't recall specifically why I decided to watch his show that night, but I remember watching it and laughing really hard.
He's just pandering to his viewers' demographic, who want those damn kids to turn down their rock and or roll music.
You can infer that the author was suggesting that in the end NewsCorp will end up not being able to recoup its investment.
People overestimate AI, because it would be so cool. That sounds pretty familiar.
R&D is expensive and risky, and paying for it with a tax levied on your own product may end up with you losing more money than you can possibly hope to recover doing R&D that doesn't further your current business interests.
Because the Myth of American Capitalism was useful in making a stark contrasts with the evil Communist Russians during the Cold War, and has since been useful for dismissing everything from environmental regulation to deciding which businesses are to receive subsidies (by calling subsidies for the other businesses "socialist"). They aren't really conservatives, they're just using words with their base that get them elected. It is customary to ignore all of the intervention in the economy except the ones that you don't want. In the end they funnel their pork to their states, and despite electing them based upon their capitalist rhetoric, their constituents are pleased to receive the handouts and vote the same in the future.
I guess we'll have to go back to calling it streaming audio, Internet radio, or audio files. I guess netcast it is. What a shame, netcast doesn't sound anywhere near as stupid as podcast, and it doesn't even focus on one music player that probably won't be anywhere near as trendy in 20 years when people will realize idiots tied a technology with the trademark of someone's product. Kleenex, anyone?
These defective batteries are exploding a lot now, and it would seem like being directly near one of these would be a source of serious injury or even death. If no one is mamed or killed by this, it will be out of sheer luck. Hopefully this will be a wakeup call to battery manufacturers that, you know, they have to be conservative with battery production. People barely tolerate cars with defects that emerge during accidents; they are not going to appreciate having laptops that are bombs, carried around by their kids and significant others.
The Daily Show is predominately political satire. It does not present information in a professional manner, however it is informative and through humor conveys political information. This stands in contrast to the "news" programs available on television which are predominately talk shows pretending to be news programs, and which The Daily Show happily jabs at regularly for the inanity of their contents. That is unless you stick to BBC World News on BBCA, but that doesn't help much for domestic matters. Television is a pretty bad medium for news. The Internet is by far the best source of news for the best price.
And someone's threatening to make me think again!
Well there's no Misinformative mod option, so they just make do with what they have available to them.
And of course the smartest decision for those seeking to sell their wares is to not let Walmart dictate their business practices to them, unless they truly have no recourse. If Disney bows to Walmart's tactics it has essentially put a noose around its neck, and the necks of its investors. Disney is not a small company itself, and it is hardly a stranger to buying politicians to support its own business interests. I would not expect it to let Walmart dictate its future business decisions. Someone at Walmart has a serious god complex.
Usenet wants its kook back.
Yes, this was exactly the motivation behind Philip Morris's efforts: discredit science in the minds of the public. "The big government and elitest academics are behind all of that science, and they all have hidden agendas. Just look at our science that we've paid for that proves it." The sad part is that it works far too effectively. Just last month I saw someone here parroting Steve Milloy's propaganda without even the slightest idea where it came from.
This has nothing to do with smoking causing global warming: it's a concerted effort on the part of certain industries to descredit science in the mind of the lay public, so that those people can feel good about doing things that hurt other people since the science proving that they hurt others can be ignored. That's the whole premise behind Steve Milloy's JunkScience efforts.
From my anecdotal experience the majority of the irrational individualists that I have known are not well-off by U.S. standards, and for the most part are unremarkable people. They're usually just people with delusional assessments of their own intellectual abilities that gravitated toward the writings of von Mises, Rand, or some similar figure. It's one of the things that intrigues me most about them, because they are so mediocre and so actively work against themselves for the sake of the simplicity of their beliefs. There are certianly affluent people that hold the same ideological bent but as with most affluent people due to the relative concentration of wealth, they do not appear at least to compose the bulk of those that share their views. It certainly would be interesting to see what the economic median is for this particular group.
The only multiple choice tests that I ever took were standardized tests: state progress tests and College Board tests. They were never used for classes even in grade school. It almost makes my brain hurt to think of any university relying on multiple choice tests for classes.
It would be interesting to see what economic position that the typical person that accepts the Libertarian ideology or simply falls for the Myth of American Capitalism fits into. My intuition suspects that they would not be overly wealthy in general by U.S. standards.
Does it hurt to make asinine conclusions based upon superficial knowledge? I ask because being stupid should hurt.
Jungian typology and its bastard offspring the MBTI are pseudo-science. That might be news to you, though that's pretty depressing.
You've just repeated what I said. People shop in November not because of Thanksgiving, but because of Christmas. Someone that does not necessarily live in this country may not realize that and presume that Thanksgiving is a big holiday for gift giving because people shop in November, which it isn't.
Ginger 2.0
Frankly no one cares that you feel trapped into doing CRUD software for a living, it's simply irritating that on Slashdot every manner of person whines about the CS curriculum because it didn't prepare them to write interfaces for Oracle databases in VB all day long. That isn't what CS is about, so big surprise that you don't need to understand dynamic programming to do it.
Slashdot is rife with resentful anti-intellectuals that are angry because they majored in Computer Science instead of attending DeVry. Sure, many of them didn't need a Computer Science education for what they do. Dijkstra warned them and they didn't listen.
Any nontrivial image-processing consists of mathematics beyond high school algebra unless you're just implementing algorithms others have set down for you, or calling into a library. Further one does not solve proofs, one proves things. Programming is a trade skill. Computer Science is an academic discipline. To some extent Software Engineering could fill a role of teaching software development skills, however I have not conducted any research to assess the adequacy such programs have had at doing so. I have little reason to think that they would offer more than contrived experiences, which is why people have internships and co-op programs.