Comment Re:Not Quite a Resounding Success (Score 1) 73
If you're so clever, show us your system which does this. Oh, wait, you don't have one, do you?
Shyeah right, like I'd tell you.
If you're so clever, show us your system which does this. Oh, wait, you don't have one, do you?
Shyeah right, like I'd tell you.
You must be new here.
Why not call it "Flight of fancy"?
That would be a plane painted to look like it's wearing a tuxedo. Paint some white gloves on the wingtips, spats on the tail, and all that.
Imagine if google and bing decided that a certain candidate didn't exist and the name only returned some unrelated items. No news article links, no info sites, nothing.
For example: https://www.google.com/search?q=santorum
Although that was an independent campaign to influence Google results rather than an action internal to Google.
Have you ever even met a teenager? It doesn't take Google in schools to get them using computing devices, this is something that they will happily do on their own non-fucking-stop.
I thought crossing the streams was bad?
But if they disbanded they wouldn't be able to keep serving their true constituency so ably.
I was amused by how HBO's Rome series handled the possible origin and ultimate fate of Caesarion.
Because the Mexicans were so delighted to cede Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California to the U.S. in the 1840's? Besides, the phrase "manifest destiny" dates from that era, and it certainly indicates imperial ambition.
They still fly the flag of Byzantium at Mount Athos, so for that and other reasons they might have a better claim on being an ember of the Roman polity.
Eliminating subsidies for agricorps would help restore some balance on that. There's no good reason to continue meat and dairy subsidies.
What naysayers forget is that with Wikipedia's model, if it can be vandalized by anyone it can also be corrected by anyone. You don't have to eliminate vandals to develop massive amounts of accurate content this way, you just have to have the constructive participants be more dedicated than the disruptive ones.
“Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” --- Mark Twain
“If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse.” – Henry Ford
As flawed as we are, it's probably a good thing that we won't survive long enough to leave our solar system and populate the cosmos. We don't deserve it. We're just too *dumb* as a species.
How is anyone supposed to take a person like this seriously?
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky