Comment Re:We are doomed (Score 1) 1330
Pay for your own Plan B.
Why would I? Much like the entire concurring majority, I'm a guy.
Pregnancy: it takes two to happen, but it's always the woman's fault.
Pay for your own Plan B.
Why would I? Much like the entire concurring majority, I'm a guy.
Pregnancy: it takes two to happen, but it's always the woman's fault.
Article I, Section 4, Clause 1. Don't like the way primaries are handled? Go talk to your state legislators. Odds are the incumbents like it or they would have changed it already.
And it's not like the majorities in the Virginia General Assembly are hostile to Republicans.
Why would they want to? Even after the purge of the so-called "Blue Dogs" in recent years, Democrats haven't drunken the Kool-Aid in anywhere near the same way that the Tea Party folks have.
Most of the die-hard "radicals" of the left find Obama to be milquetoast at best and are more impassioned by the likes of Al Franken and Elizabeth Warren. But they still voted for Obama in '12 because the Tea Party was the alternative.
It's gotten to the point that the only real definition of a Democrat is "not a Teabagger." So why go after "Washington insiders" for its own sake when said insiders are doing things like keeping the Civil Rights Act on the books and not defaulting on federal debts?
now, i sure hope they don't "throw the book at them"
Would you feel the same way if he'd walked off with six figures worth of hardware rather than "computer time?"
“I feel about beating the turing test in quite convenient way. Nothing original,” said Goostman, when asked how he felt after his success.
I get the feeling this is less about improvements in AI and more about Eastern European spammers lowering our expectations.
Think. Cars naturally lean THE WRONG WAY on curves. They tilt over toward the outside.
There's no "right way" or "wrong way" for a car to lean on a level surface with all four wheels on the ground. The motorcycle metaphor doesn't work well here because part of turning a two-wheeler involves moving the center of mass off the centerline and letting gravity pull you through the turn. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, turning a two-wheeler involves throwing yourself at the ground and missing.
This magnifies the centrifugal force you feel by adding a gravity component to it.
On the contrary: being thrown towards the outside of the turn means the turn radius increases, which results in a decrease in centrifugal force.
They tilt toward the inside, like a banking airplane.
Another poor comparison. Airplanes roll while turning because their wings are their largest working surface areas and need to be tilted off of horizontal to get the lift vector pointing "that way." The comparison here would be in banking the road surface itself (the working surface for a ground vehicle) rather than any shifting done by the suspension on a level road surface.
The amount paid was well above the market price for his team. It's 16 times the price he bought it for.
The money isn't to buy the team, it's to make him shut up and go away, i.e. a reward for bad behavior.
Perhaps Snowden is just pressing a point in presenting the argument that way to make it, feel, really personal because it is.
We're now 3+ nested layers deep into an early and highly up-modded conversation about the dick joke. This conversation about the dick joke was the first thing I saw upon scrolling down. The dick joke is dominating the conversation.
Which is exactly why he shouldn't have used the dick joke.
Rich said that the FTC, as the U.S. Government's leading privacy enforcement agency, should be given rule making and enforcement authority for the civil provisions of the LPPA.
Considering how existing US privacy enforcement is an absolute joke, I think I'd rather try something new instead of "more of the same." Maybe the FTC could better spend their time, I don't know, jailing the traders that broke the economy?
Take a look around here. IT folks tend to view themselves as self-sufficient, rugged individualists who pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps. Unions are for the weak and stifle innovation, and every tech bro knows they're just one angel investor away from Going Galt.
The terran computational calendar does not define midnight.
Then you will run into another long-term problem: Universal Time (Coordinated and otherwise) is wholly independent of solar time and the concept of "day." While Universal Time's definition was intended for it to resemble solar (i.e. civil) time at its adoption, that approximation will eventually fail, rendering any system that uses Universal Time to demark and count days ambiguous.
"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!" -- Buckaroo Banzai
