Comment Re:Why mention Schoenberg? (Score 1) 183
That may be true.
I live in Thailand and I cannot imagine a more cacophonous style of music than Thai traditional, however the locals seem to enjoy it well enough.
That may be true.
I live in Thailand and I cannot imagine a more cacophonous style of music than Thai traditional, however the locals seem to enjoy it well enough.
I think it's no coincidence that all the major media players use exactly the same words to describe events.
Absolutely.
Case in point? Conan O'Brian collects a montage of talking heads all parroting the same line about "pushing the envelope". The interesting bit starts at 1:19, or click here to go right to that point in the video.
If this isn't evidence that everyone is getting their talking points from the same source, I don't know what is.
Assistant to the manager.
1) you are forced to accept dollars at face value for services and trades.
A small nit to pick: this is not technically true. You have to accept currency in settlement of any debts that are owed to you, but you are under no obligation to accept currency in any other situation.
Source: Slate.
You can see this 5 second delay on the in-studio monitors in effect because after the live viewer sees the suicide, it cuts to the anchorman who we can see watching it 5 seconds later.
As someone who has a driver, I can tell you that I probably get the urge to take the wheel about once a month. Usually in the morning on a nice day when I want the music loud. FWIW, I would never let my driver sit in the back though - he gets the passenger seat.
It's pretty cool that you can see the heat shield impact the ground at 1:20. (Towards the bottom of the screen, maybe a quarter of a frame from the right side and just a bit up from the bottom).
It's French.
...IIRC did not even have a music player...
FWIW, it did have a music player.
Diesel.
They can't "push the button" without the launch codes.
So, you want someone reasonable to make the decision to use the codes.
Once the codes arrive, you want _that_ person to not hesitate to arm and deploy the device.
Diesel
I wish I could mod this up to a 6.
Check out http://eyes.nasa.gov/
From the page:
""Eyes on the Solar System" is a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. Explore the cosmos from your computer. Hop on an asteroid. Fly with NASA's Voyager spacecraft. See the entire solar system moving in real time. It's up to you. You control space and time."
and
"Eyes on the Solar System lets you ride with Curiosity all the way to the surface of Gale crater. Preview the events of Entry Descent and Landing, or watch live!"
And the best part? They're GIVING the device away for FREE to people who pre-ordered. That might just make me a bit more inclined to pre-order from Google in the future. This is a great advertisement for making an early commitment to any Google device. Inherent in any pre-order is some risk. They've just done a pretty good job of making that risk look smaller to future early adopters.
Someone once gave me this thought experiment to help illustrate the problem.
Suppose a company on an alien planet decided to outsource production of some product to earth.
Further suppose that on this other planet gold was plentiful, and wages were measured in tons of gold per day.
Would social do-gooders on the alien planet be outraged that wages paid to earthlings were thousandths of what the wages would be on the alien planet?
Should they be outraged?
Further, would it be ethical on the part of the alien corporation to pay the same wages to their earth counterparts as was common on their home planet? ie. If they needed 100 humans to make their product, would it be ethical to make those 100 people the richest (most powerful) people on earth in the name of "equality" in their home society?
Usually when we talk about exploitation we are making an ethical judgement. There certainly has to be a point at which to offer substantially higher wages to a subset of a community becomes damaging to the community. The fact is (as ShanghaiBill points out below), the company offers poor people a chance to make money at a rate that they voluntarily accept. How is that exploitative?
I came across the following article this morning that helped me identify some of the issues that Apple might have with Samsung:
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/31/apples-opening-court-statement-focuses-on-samsungs-radical-shift-in-phone-design/
In the "top rated comments" section after the article (specifically the comment by user "troop231"), you will see a handful of pictures of Apple and Samsung creations side-by-side.
I'm not an expert in the legal aspects of the case at hand, but I found the comparisons presented to be illuminating.
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