Nice try at the misdirection there, but the matter at hand is racial discrimination in university admissions. She supports it.

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willfully ignorant

He's obviously far better informed than you are.

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I'm sure all the perps were sternly admonished to avoid cameras before beating people up in the future.

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Anyone who thinks Sotomayor is a "racist" is a total idiot

Anone who claims she's NOT a racist is fucking liar.

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Exactly. Racial discrimination is wrong, no matter whose ox is getting gored.

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Sotomayor is as much a "racist"

She's doing all she can to try to preserve racial discrimination as a sacrosanct public policy. That makes her a racist, QED.

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Thanks for titling your post appropriately. What you said was, indeed, bullshit.

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She doesn't want to admit that "affirmative action" is just racial discrimination by another name, and that in practice it amounts to a modern-day Chinese Exclusion Act.

The Wise-Ass Latina is, herself, a perfect example of why racial preferences are a Bad Thing. She's not fit to be on the bench at all, let alone on the supreme court.

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Apple Computer: on the brink of oblivion since 1975!

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Lighten up, Clarence.

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The only purpose of the whole corn ethanol debacle is to transfer vast amounts of money from the taxpayers and the gasoline-buying public to Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland. Any other claimed purpose is, and always was, bullshit.

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Perhaps teaching kids that use of guns and violence in schools will not be tolerated is a good thing?

Perhaps you're a blithering idiot. Oh, wait: there's no question about that.

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I'm not really taking issue with your conclusion, but a decent quality 50mm lens (widely known as a portrait lens because of its shallow depth of field) can be got new for about $200. And I got a beautiful 1984-vintage 105mm prime lens for $250 a few years back. It's an exception to the rule, yes, but sometimes the glass is less expensive than the camera body. That said, if you've got good lenses, they can make up for a lot of shortcomings in the camera body.

My own feeling about algorithms such as this is that they'd be better off chasing the ideal of perfect focus for everything - or better yet, for pseudo-3D renderings - those would be more desirable goals, IMO. I suppose it's possible to get the same effect as really good glass, but something tells me the laws of physics (well, optics) will always win over computed logic.

Clean it up, land it on the rig, and then offload with a crane to a barge

It would be way cooler if they just gave it a minimal fuel load and flew it back to the cape.

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The HP 2647 terminals we had in my high school were built like tanks. I'd bet they'd still work today.

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