Annnnnd you've Godwinned a thread on daylight savings time.

Nice.

Of course the GP post is ridiculous. Want your base 10 time, move back to the twelve colonies.

You used the standard dictionary definition of waterway. But the EPA has expanded their, correct in my opinion, oversight of actual waterways to include standing water and even temporary bodies of water from storms. A willful expansion of their power. I think they are giving themselves a club to use against farmers who do other things they don't like but can't stop through their current regulations. So they bogusly expand the regulations they have.

You know, today's EPA also has changed regulations to make a pond be considered a "navigable waterway". These regulations are ridiculous. I am awaiting the EPA using their SWAT teams to come after farmers for mis managing their waterways.

So what?

It was an interesting bit of film.

One that does NOT ONE DAMN THING to detract from the "actual" Power Rangers.

If our fucked up copyright laws forbid something as simple as this then that whole "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" shit that was intended is totally gone to hell.

If we can't stand on the shoulders of giants (or dudes in tacky suits) and create "new" interpretations, then we've lost the real reason for copyright anyway. I'm not saying that Power Rangers doesn't deserve copyright, but I am saying that reasonable copyright terms should have put it in the public domain by now.

I am currently boycotting all songs from Tom Petty because of his crappy copyright challenge to Sam Smith's "borrowing his song" I mean come on, if we compare every song with every other song and "alter the tempo", and "vary the pitch" then we're screwed. Music reuses all kinds of things all the time. Fuck, soon people will try to copyrighting fucking chords progressions and beats. Yeah Sam Smith's song resembles one of Petty's, but only if you torture it enough. What's next, syllable counts on choruses? That shit was ridiculous.

Copyright has become a farce that no longer does any good for the public. And since thats what it was supposed to be for, I'd say its high time we scrap the whole decrepit edifice of modern copyright law and start over.

Interesting list. But I have issues with item's 5 and 6.

When you look at Boys who go into Technical Fields, including CS, you find quite a large number of them who were as children quite interested in video game systems. This and their curiosity propelled them to try and figure out how these things worked. Some of my first programs were simple games, and hacking your way around the DRM for some games was a key technical puzzle to solve when I was growing up.

Also a key feature for many boys that later go into tech was figuring out how devices work. Nowadays, the smartphone is one of the devices to analyze that way, especially if they get into rooting the devices and reinstalling OSes on it.

Now kids may play the games and use the smartphones and not become interested in CS, but I'm don't think thats because of those activities generally.

I think kids interested in science and engineering are the kids interested in how those games and devices WORK.

Exactly. If the data being used against your arguments is so faulty, let it be put out there and publish your paper proving their conclusions wrong. Calling for overt censorship, from certain perspectives, looks no different than trying to hide something.

I think people in general are getting pretty sick of having islamic terrorists do horrific stuff and then the first thing the media does is point its finger at us saying "and don't you retaliate about this". In fact we don't, as individual citizens retaliate about this at all. There may be some instances here or there of poor treatment of muslims from some people, but they're constantly berating ALL of us to "not judge".

I think people are through with that, sick of being scolded for things we're not doing, while our leaders are developing habits of NEVER calling out these murderous islamic terrorists and stating that they are completely unacceptable in our world. They are only yelling at us to not ever respond in any way.

This is exactly it.

No one could bring themselves to believe the horrors that the Nazi's did UNTIL the pictures could be seen.

These things are hard to look at, but they must be seen.

Maybe if we don't look at it we can pretend it doesn't exist, right?

I commend Fox on this. As a consumer of news I want the CHOICE of whether I view this or not. I do not want the news provider to choose for me. As a point of fact, I have up to this point chosen not to view the video.

I am actually not upset a Fox for this, I am upset that the New York Times are such cowards that they won't show Charlie Hebdo cartoons.

Well judging by the Aereo decision where they were just like a cable company in front of one court and not at all like a cable company in front of another court, I'm not counting on the courts being logically consistent.

Sorry? No, you're not. What a horribly cruel comment.

Many people struggle at public school for many different reasons.

Telling them that THEY suck isn't going to help them.

I stream that movie to find out which of the two monsters comes out on top.

Or they could both die at the end ;-)

To progressives, everything is a zero sum game. The metric they are measuring gets a desired increase if a girl joins CS or if a boy is excluded from CS.

Yep. And this costs way less than bringing in and swapping out a part.

I don't see any real reason not to just spin the spare drives.

Heh, with a quick glance, I read your first line as:

Histrionic Storm!