That's why I called it "human caused climate change." The climate is and has been constantly changing and it is ridiculous to assume that it should suddenly be static.
People always talk about climate change as if it's a bad thing. But climate change has been occurring well before we showed up on this planet. It's only a problem if we're causing it. If we're not causing it, there's not much we could do about it anyway.
This is not as bad as the lawsuit filed in Canada by climatologist Andrew Weaver. He's attempting to sue publishers for allowing people to disagree with his theories on climate change. He considers such disagreement to be libel.
This is the exact sort of BS that fuels people who do not believe in human caused climate change.
"MLB.com has a pretty large staff of reporters itself"
When a corporation hires a reporter to report on corporate news, he or she is no longer a reporter. It does not matter how real the illusion of independence appear, the "reporter" is actually a press agent or a marketing person.
Accordingly to the forums at slysoft, the makers of AnyDVD HD have managed to crack this new encryption in only three days.
Good work Fox. The pirates only had to wait three days but you've managed to piss off thousands of legitimate customers as well as brick various Blu-ray players.
This sort of BS is exactly why Article I, Section 10 of the US Constitution says:
No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Control of the Congress.
If I leave my state and go to New Jersey and buy something, I do not have to pay an import tax in my state.
If I pay someone to go to New Jersey and buy something for me, I do not have to pay an import tax in my state.
But for some reason if I pay FedEX or UPS to pick up something I bought from NewEgg in New Jersey, suddenly my state wants me to pay taxes to bring it into my state. Use taxes are duties on stuff I import from other states, but yet it's perfectly legal.
It's actually worse than that. My local paper is a part of the Mlive sites. Not only do you pay a lot to get an obituary, it only remains online for two weeks. After that people have to pay to see it. It's complete BS.
"There are decent post-graduate programs for talented people in industry to have a mid-life crisis and convert to teaching."
Yes, but what percentage of the entire population of public school teachers are made up of "talented people in industry." .01%? Show me some stats that these people make up a statistically relevant portion of the public teaching population, otherwise, it's just BS.
"Your "bottom third" probably only applies to people who go to teaching straight out of college"
And that's where the vast majority of public teachers come from. Which is my point. Thanks for pointing out exactly what I've already said.
"it remains mind boggling that anybody, at any level in the district, would think that off-site covert photography of students was a bright idea for any reason"
Educationalists are generally educated. They all have college degrees to prove it. But they tend to graduate from the bottom third of their classes. Anyone who is genuinely bright goes and does genuinely bright things. But those who can't, teach instead.
My wife is a psychologist who works in the public schools and she shocked at how utterly ignorant and closed minded these people are.
And you have realize that administrators are merely former teachers, who were taken out of the classroom because they were poor teachers. Good teachers are never promoted out of the classroom, only those who can't teach get to become administrators.
So think about it, those who do, do. Those who can't, teach. And those who can't teach, administer teachers. It's a very scary system.
The standard against which to measure the success of bands who use the internet to distribute music and to gain exposure is not the old label system.
First, the vast majority of bands who used the label system came out of is owing money on their advance, i.e., earning less than no money. So any internet band which is earning money is automatically doing better that the vast majority of label bands. They're not going to come out of it in debt.
Second, the bands that did win in the label the Beatles, U2, the Rolling Stones, are very fricken rare. You can't really compare the average band who might have a life expectancy of five years to such bands. It'd be like comparing an hourly worker with those few people who win lotteries. Random anomalies cannot be the standard against which success is measured.
No, the standard against which internet bands must be measured would be bands prior to the computer revolution who did not use the internet. If you wanted to be a success without a label pre-internet, you'd have to tour. All the fricken time. That's what Bob Seger sang about in Turn the Page.
There was simply no other means of getting your music out there. Radio would not play you unless you had a major label deal and every other radio station played your music.
Music magazines would not write about you unless you had a major label deal.
You could not burn a bunch of your CDs and hand/mail them out. You'd have to make cassettes which were a lot more expensive and time consuming.
There was simply no way to print your fancy labels for your cassettes.
You couldn't use your own PC as a studio, you'd have to go to a very expensive studio and pay by the hour.
So the best you could do to get your music out to potential fans was to drive from city to city playing gigs. And even then, the best you could hope for, for all that work, was to get signed to a label and not owe a bunch of money after your time is over. There was simply no option to do it on your own. Wow. That's a life worth living.
Think about it. In the future the attention span of people will be so short as being unmeasurable by our current technology. Those tweets will seem like serious literature by then.
"Library Of Congress To Store Your Inane Twitter Chatter For All Eternity"
One mistake each generation makes is thinking that what's currently going on is uninteresting and will never matter to future generations.
Have you ever seen the fantastic Ken Burns documentary about the Civil War he did for PBS? It used a lot of letters from average people writing about their average lives. But yet when put in context of the war, the letters were riveting.
Sure, I'd guess that 99% of what's on Twitter is pointless. It's also pretty clear that we'll have no idea which tweets will be relevant to the future until the future arrives. So the only way ensure that those 1% of relevant tweets survive is by archiving them all.
As long as someone is willing to do that. I don't see how anyone could have a problem with it.
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People always talk about climate change as if it's a bad thing. But climate change has been occurring well before we showed up on this planet. It's only a problem if we're causing it. If we're not causing it, there's not much we could do about it anyway.
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This is the exact sort of BS that fuels people who do not believe in human caused climate change.
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When a corporation hires a reporter to report on corporate news, he or she is no longer a reporter. It does not matter how real the illusion of independence appear, the "reporter" is actually a press agent or a marketing person.
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And yet with the exception of child porn and snuff films, XXX movies are legal. So what's your point?
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Good work Fox. The pirates only had to wait three days but you've managed to piss off thousands of legitimate customers as well as brick various Blu-ray players.
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I rented it on Netflix because of these parodies. It's a great movie. Without the parodies, there is simply no way I ever would have heard of it.
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If I leave my state and go to New Jersey and buy something, I do not have to pay an import tax in my state.
If I pay someone to go to New Jersey and buy something for me, I do not have to pay an import tax in my state.
But for some reason if I pay FedEX or UPS to pick up something I bought from NewEgg in New Jersey, suddenly my state wants me to pay taxes to bring it into my state. Use taxes are duties on stuff I import from other states, but yet it's perfectly legal.
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Wow, a smart judge... from Texas?! The truth is stranger than fiction.
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If you were, you'd lack the intelligence to know you were insulted.
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Yes, but what percentage of the entire population of public school teachers are made up of "talented people in industry." .01%? Show me some stats that these people make up a statistically relevant portion of the public teaching population, otherwise, it's just BS.
"Your "bottom third" probably only applies to people who go to teaching straight out of college"
And that's where the vast majority of public teachers come from. Which is my point. Thanks for pointing out exactly what I've already said.
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Educationalists are generally educated. They all have college degrees to prove it. But they tend to graduate from the bottom third of their classes. Anyone who is genuinely bright goes and does genuinely bright things. But those who can't, teach instead.
My wife is a psychologist who works in the public schools and she shocked at how utterly ignorant and closed minded these people are.
And you have realize that administrators are merely former teachers, who were taken out of the classroom because they were poor teachers. Good teachers are never promoted out of the classroom, only those who can't teach get to become administrators.
So think about it, those who do, do. Those who can't, teach. And those who can't teach, administer teachers. It's a very scary system.
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Just like our drug war.
On the post: Measuring Success By Fan Passion, Not Billboard Chart Position
First, the vast majority of bands who used the label system came out of is owing money on their advance, i.e., earning less than no money. So any internet band which is earning money is automatically doing better that the vast majority of label bands. They're not going to come out of it in debt.
Second, the bands that did win in the label the Beatles, U2, the Rolling Stones, are very fricken rare. You can't really compare the average band who might have a life expectancy of five years to such bands. It'd be like comparing an hourly worker with those few people who win lotteries. Random anomalies cannot be the standard against which success is measured.
No, the standard against which internet bands must be measured would be bands prior to the computer revolution who did not use the internet. If you wanted to be a success without a label pre-internet, you'd have to tour. All the fricken time. That's what Bob Seger sang about in Turn the Page.
There was simply no other means of getting your music out there. Radio would not play you unless you had a major label deal and every other radio station played your music.
Music magazines would not write about you unless you had a major label deal.
You could not burn a bunch of your CDs and hand/mail them out. You'd have to make cassettes which were a lot more expensive and time consuming.
There was simply no way to print your fancy labels for your cassettes.
You couldn't use your own PC as a studio, you'd have to go to a very expensive studio and pay by the hour.
So the best you could do to get your music out to potential fans was to drive from city to city playing gigs. And even then, the best you could hope for, for all that work, was to get signed to a label and not owe a bunch of money after your time is over. There was simply no option to do it on your own. Wow. That's a life worth living.
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One mistake each generation makes is thinking that what's currently going on is uninteresting and will never matter to future generations.
Have you ever seen the fantastic Ken Burns documentary about the Civil War he did for PBS? It used a lot of letters from average people writing about their average lives. But yet when put in context of the war, the letters were riveting.
Sure, I'd guess that 99% of what's on Twitter is pointless. It's also pretty clear that we'll have no idea which tweets will be relevant to the future until the future arrives. So the only way ensure that those 1% of relevant tweets survive is by archiving them all.
As long as someone is willing to do that. I don't see how anyone could have a problem with it.
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