There once was a molecule of gas
whose actions simply bordered on crass:
Causing heat, rain and snow,
drought and floods (don’t you know?)
And the wastage of oodles of cash
Well played sir, well played.
Random musings and ruminations about guns, God, technology and whatever strikes my fancy.
There once was a molecule of gas
whose actions simply bordered on crass:
Causing heat, rain and snow,
drought and floods (don’t you know?)
And the wastage of oodles of cash
“You have to sign permission slips for everything else. Why not this?” Marzian said in an interview. “Many parents don’t realize they could be exposing their children to guns in a very volatile political setting.”Oh no!! We could be exposing the children to those evil things called guns!! Especially in a political environment like the statehouse.
Disgusted Arizona residents are locking arms to stop the Westboro Baptist Church from disrupting the funerals for victims of Saturday's shooting in Tucson, with bikers and others organizing a massive counter-protest and state lawmakers fast-tracking a bill to hamstring the so-called church.(emphasis mine)
In Northern Kentucky, there are 19,000 tons of salt and 123 trucks available to treat state highways and interstates.and
There are 24,000 tons of salt at the salt pile in Camp Washington.43,000 tons of salt. 86,000,000 pounds.
[...]and who here thought light bulbs would be banned before bullets?
[they] will remove all instances of the “n” word—I’ll give you a hint, it’s notnonesuch—present in the text and replace it with slave. The new book will also remove usage of the word Injun.Oh, really? And why might they do this?
“Race matters in these books,”... “It’s a matter of how you express that in the 21st century.”Race matters? You bet it does. The thing is, Samuel Clemens was decrying and deriding the mindset and attitudes of a society that used derogatory words like "nigger" and "injun". He wasn't glorifying them. By removing those words, you have dumbed down the context, irrevocably severed it from the society it was mocking. In some respects, the intent of the book has been neutered.
But since positive product reviews engender positive product sales, a reviewer's prediction wouldn't take place in a vacuum: more positive reviews would produce more sales, making that review's positive prediction more accurate, and making that advertiser happier and triggering more incentives.There are so many aspects of fail to this patent application, I don't even know where to start. First, there are already plenty of prior-art examples for rating and review systems out there. Just look at eBay, Amazon and Barnes and Noble, to name a few. Granted, this adds a new aspect to the scheme. It's more of a "predict how well it will sell" instead of a true review. But, is this truly new or novel? Isn't the stock market itself already a predictive betting system that takes into account new product offerings?