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Comment Re:personally (Score 1) 1721

by asills on Friday October 09, 2009 @01:32PM (#29695701) Attached to: Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

As a matter of record, Jefferson was not a Democrat of today. He was part of the Democratic Republican part (opposed to the Federalist party) and eventually split off and joined with the side of the people most mirroring today's Republicans (aside from his desire not to have a standing army).

While I agree that saying D's are better speakers than R's is pretty stupid, so is your apparent belief that political parties 200 years ago were even sort of similar to what they are today.

Comment Re:Al Gore = Einstein? (Score 1, Funny) 1721

by asills on Friday October 09, 2009 @12:57PM (#29695163) Attached to: Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

You realize he didn't win a science award right? He'd spent years, during his career as a politician and after trying to champion awareness of global climate change issues. That's what the award was for.

Goldman Sachs Tries To Shut Down Dissident Blogger 161

Posted by kdawson on Saturday April 11, 2009 @10:07PM from the maybe-they'd-like-a-different-number dept.

The Narrative Fallacy sends along a piece from the Telegraph on efforts by Goldman Sachs to silence a blogger who is posting commentary critical of the bank. "Goldman Sachs has instructed Wall Street law firm Chadbourne & Parke to pursue blogger Mike Morgan, warning him in a recent cease-and-desist letter that he may face legal action if he does not close down his website goldmansachs666.com. According to the C&D letter, dated April 8, the bank is rattled because the site 'violates several of Goldman Sachs' intellectual property rights' and also 'implies a relationship' with the bank itself. Morgan claims he has followed all legal requirements to own and operate the website and that the header of the site clearly states that the content has not been approved by the bank. In a post entitled Goldman Sachs vs Mike Morgan, the blogger predicts that the fight will probably end up in court. He went through a similar battle with US home builder Lennar a few years ago after he set up a website to collect information on what he alleged was shoddy workmanship in its homes. 'Since I went through this with Lennar, I've had advice from some of the best intellectual property lawyers, and I know exactly what I can and can't do. We're not going to back down from this.'"

Comment Re:The thing that has made great superhero movies. (Score 2, Informative) 640

by asills on Thursday March 26, 2009 @09:00AM (#27340699) Attached to: Why Fear the End of the R-Rated Superhero Movie?

Um, the Dark Knight was PG-13. That was part of the point of this article, had you read it ("look at the successful PG-13 comic movies!").

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/

Also part of the point was that damn, that was seriously rated PG-13 and not R?

Submission + - Introduction to math of 3d graphics

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holden

on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @10:31PM

holden writes: "Graphics programming is seen as the cool thing by a large number of people. A lot of confusion arizes when people attempt to do 3d graphics programming without the proper mathematical background in basic linear algebra. Christopher Evensen recently gave a talk covering covering the important fundamentals. The math is also accompanied by a real world programming example."

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