Wait, wait, let me get this straight, you want MORE people to come to Colorado? Especially Boulder: every time I go back home someone else has to be squeezed out to make room.
Now I just might be one of those lousy Mines engineers:), but I say let em' go to Utah, there's plenty of room: while backpacking I saw some entrepreneurial folks who even built their houses into a sandstone outcrop.
I agree that Denver-area Colorado is fun (there's really no other way to put it) and I can't imagine not wanting to live here apart from the lack of water bodies, but at the same time let's not be encouraging people. US36 may indeed be an "exponentially increasing tech corridor" but it's also digusting sprawl. Did we really need yet another damned massive super-duper mall-to-end-all-malls?
As a graduate of the Boulder Valley School District system, I wouldn't bet much that they do. Granted, I don't attend Mesa Elementary right now, but from what I've seen of BVSD free expression and free inquiry ARE supported and respected. No filters on the browsers when I was there, you can cuss in papers and keep it to a minimum in class, no books are banned.
In Boulder, there are always enough people with enough power to keep in the government in check. Oftentimes, the only option available is in fact to do the morally right thing, because if the Daily Camera doesn't let you know you screwed up then *some* organization certainly will.
It's funny that this kind of thing gets reported, I think, given that it's a relatively insignificant event. However, it does involve principles worth preserving and definitely falls under the heading of what those in the Denver area would call "only in Boulder."
They should definitely watch that up there because after all, in space, no one can hear the girlie screams they'll make when Aliens come out of the walls.
The same thing has been said about the noise that airguns towed behind seismic research vessels (using seismic method to map stratigraphy/look for oil) make, and it is an equally wrong argument.
Your argument makes sense initially, after all, how could marine life possibly enjoy large noises? But once you get out there on the ocean, you'll notice that the marine life really don't give a damn.
I worked on a seismic boat last summer where the same kinds of worries were voiced, and let me assure you that the dolphins and whales follow us around like we're interesting, not threatening, to them. The noise is a source of interest to them, if it were painful/harmful they wouldn't follow us around.
This guy is completely right. You learn this in basic English in high school and it gets thrown at you again in college: if you don't work on your spelling and grammar, then the poor quality of your message's format will overcome whatever redeeming value your message's content may have had.
That quickie "paragraph" is so poorly written it's distracting.
I remember a few years ago I read an article in the Manchester Guardian that described how pedophiles had replaced serial killers as the real-life demons of the world. Maybe it's simply because there are less serial killers walking about these days and that the Internet has helped spread pedophiles' misdeeds (story on a sting just the other day on CNN.com).
The funny thing was, even though the article did its best to try to cast a sympathetic light on pedophiles' status, I felt absolutely no sympathy at all. The risk of discrimination against pedophiles and their right to privacy are absolutely superceded by the right to security of the children.
Convicts do have a right to be able to start anew, but there are some things that you just don't do, no matter how much privacy is violated, and one of those things is put pedophiles around children.
It's also called living in a free country, instead of letting the environmentalist wackos dictate that we all drive tin-cans-on-wheels that do 0-60 in five minutes, fall apart if you look at them the wrong way, and put you in mortal danger in what would otherwise be a minor fender-bender.
Did it ever occur to you that maybe those environmentalists you make fun of are right? Just because you don't want to do something doesn't mean your point of view is morally right. Here's an idea: you go ruin the environment up Mars, and I'll stay on the Earth. Until that happens, show a little fuckin' respect for the Earth.
Some Americans spend so much time being angry that an environmentally-conscious person has determined something they like to do is harmful that they never stop to wonder whether that person might actually be right.
Hmm, I don't really want to put in yet another movie into this list, but has anyone else seen Wes Craven's Dracula 2000 and been suitably impressed?
I saw it on Friday and I must say that the plot was well thought-out, the special effects were effective not excessive, and the explanation of Dracula's origins was surprising and fun.
I came out of Dracula 2000 having had a great time, and although it is not typical holiday fare it was very satisfying nonetheless. Admittedly, I've only seen Cast Away out of all the movies mentioned here, so maybe there some real gems, but don't discount Dracula 2000 as just another vampire movie. Well worth your time and money.
Well, speaking as a 20-year old who just received his first Who album for Christmas (Live at Leeds) and who is very much appreciative of all the Genesis LPs my parents played when I was younger, I would strongly disagree that today's music "really sucks."
The problem with the music scene today, I would say, is that the generic pop and terrible rap and rap-rock overwhelms what older music listeners could easily relate to and consider to be good music. Not only can the music abrasively bad, but the marketing techniques can be equally objectionable. Whatever happened to just good old-fashioned tours? Screw "youth-oriented product positioning," to steal a very appropriate line from The Simpsons. Most of today's stronger artists tend to ignore such stupidity, and as a result they *appear* to be less relevant to today's audience.
I must admit, I find it difficult to imagine that a Who fan wouldn't mention Pearl Jam as part of good current music, and not only on the basis of their original work. Even classic radio gives them airplay with their covers of Baba O'Riley from the Europe 2000 tour.
You're right, I thought this sounded like a familiar topic. Hey, maybe the old article is easier to read than the piece of crap the Sunday Times wrote.
So, "the whole political debate" can only revolve around the Democrats and Republicans? That is totally unfair and the most blindly stated support (!) of the two-party system I have ever seen.
I'll vote for Nader, and though it's true he won't win the election this year, the support he receives will be incredibly valuable to a campaign in 2004. Just because Nader won't win this year does NOT mean that I don't care about American politics, in fact I think it demonstrates a particular leaning towards caring about the future.
Your statement, however, is totally reliant on history in order to decide your positions on the future, with no consideration at all for likely future events independent of the past.
I'm in Colorado too, and have experienced both cable and DSL, and after all is said and done I'd prefer DSL.
My parents got DSL in Boulder after a 6-month wait in May of 1999. Granted, the wait sucked ass for them but as far as I could it wasn't entirely due to USWest's complacency. I have a cable modem at college in Golden at the wait was less than a week, so clearly cable wins in this department.
When DSL is on, however, I'd take it over cable anyday. The bandwidth is much more consistent (as noted on Napster), pings are consistently lower (as noted in CS) and although my experience doesn't seem to be the norm, my peak speeds have come on DSL not cable (random DLs & Napster). Best of all, USWest/QWest has yet to license @home's Random 2-Hour Service Outage (tm) patent. Keeping in mind that USWest/QWest is massive, the service my parents get has been pretty good overall, but then again I've never had to call @home for anything in 1.5 years.:)
Finally, the filters for phones are the day-to-day annoying thing about Napster, they don't always stay on properly so sometimes phonecalls have a fair bit of noise in the background.
I read Slashdot a lot but have never posted before. I just moderated this post up because, as has been stated, the proper understanding of the scientific method and the concept of a theory are lacking for some. Too bad it's anonymous.
Also, I would like to state that topics of this nature, i.e., history of our universe/solarsystem, are poor topics for the Slashdot forum. In the same way that Action Half-Life is best not to be discussed on Counter-Strike forums, historical geology is a poor topic for a technology forum like Slashdot because its posters are often too ill-informed about the topic to make any worthwhile arguments. Stick to what you know, Slashdot. You know Linux and the Internet and cutting-edge technology (a simplification, I know:)). You don't know astroscience and the like all that well. Topics like this just lead to inconclusive bickering (which I am in a way encouraging, I know, but I hope to stop).
The post I am replying to is an excellent example of a post that bucks this trend. I'm in an engineering geoscience program and this post resonates with me as words very similar to those coming out of my professors' mouths. This is what they TEACH you in college. It's not some gibberish some fool came up with, this is what leading geoscientists truly believe.
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Now that is some funny shit. I have moderator points and if the post wasn't already at 5 I would have helped it
Brilliant.
Wait, wait, let me get this straight, you want MORE people to come to Colorado? Especially Boulder: every time I go back home someone else has to be squeezed out to make room.
:), but I say let em' go to Utah, there's plenty of room: while backpacking I saw some entrepreneurial folks who even built their houses into a sandstone outcrop.
Now I just might be one of those lousy Mines engineers
I agree that Denver-area Colorado is fun (there's really no other way to put it) and I can't imagine not wanting to live here apart from the lack of water bodies, but at the same time let's not be encouraging people. US36 may indeed be an "exponentially increasing tech corridor" but it's also digusting sprawl. Did we really need yet another damned massive super-duper mall-to-end-all-malls?
As a graduate of the Boulder Valley School District system, I wouldn't bet much that they do. Granted, I don't attend Mesa Elementary right now, but from what I've seen of BVSD free expression and free inquiry ARE supported and respected. No filters on the browsers when I was there, you can cuss in papers and keep it to a minimum in class, no books are banned.
In Boulder, there are always enough people with enough power to keep in the government in check. Oftentimes, the only option available is in fact to do the morally right thing, because if the Daily Camera doesn't let you know you screwed up then *some* organization certainly will.
It's funny that this kind of thing gets reported, I think, given that it's a relatively insignificant event. However, it does involve principles worth preserving and definitely falls under the heading of what those in the Denver area would call "only in Boulder."
They should definitely watch that up there because after all, in space, no one can hear the girlie screams they'll make when Aliens come out of the walls.
The same thing has been said about the noise that airguns towed behind seismic research vessels (using seismic method to map stratigraphy/look for oil) make, and it is an equally wrong argument.
Your argument makes sense initially, after all, how could marine life possibly enjoy large noises? But once you get out there on the ocean, you'll notice that the marine life really don't give a damn.
I worked on a seismic boat last summer where the same kinds of worries were voiced, and let me assure you that the dolphins and whales follow us around like we're interesting, not threatening, to them. The noise is a source of interest to them, if it were painful/harmful they wouldn't follow us around.
This guy is completely right. You learn this in basic English in high school and it gets thrown at you again in college: if you don't work on your spelling and grammar, then the poor quality of your message's format will overcome whatever redeeming value your message's content may have had.
That quickie "paragraph" is so poorly written it's distracting.
I remember a few years ago I read an article in the Manchester Guardian that described how pedophiles had replaced serial killers as the real-life demons of the world. Maybe it's simply because there are less serial killers walking about these days and that the Internet has helped spread pedophiles' misdeeds (story on a sting just the other day on CNN.com).
The funny thing was, even though the article did its best to try to cast a sympathetic light on pedophiles' status, I felt absolutely no sympathy at all. The risk of discrimination against pedophiles and their right to privacy are absolutely superceded by the right to security of the children.
Convicts do have a right to be able to start anew, but there are some things that you just don't do, no matter how much privacy is violated, and one of those things is put pedophiles around children.
It's also called living in a free country, instead of letting the environmentalist wackos dictate that we all drive tin-cans-on-wheels that do 0-60 in five minutes, fall apart if you look at them the wrong way, and put you in mortal danger in what would otherwise be a minor fender-bender.
Did it ever occur to you that maybe those environmentalists you make fun of are right? Just because you don't want to do something doesn't mean your point of view is morally right. Here's an idea: you go ruin the environment up Mars, and I'll stay on the Earth. Until that happens, show a little fuckin' respect for the Earth.
Some Americans spend so much time being angry that an environmentally-conscious person has determined something they like to do is harmful that they never stop to wonder whether that person might actually be right.
$9.50??? If you're in the States you're getting screwed.
Hmm, I don't really want to put in yet another movie into this list, but has anyone else seen Wes Craven's Dracula 2000 and been suitably impressed?
I saw it on Friday and I must say that the plot was well thought-out, the special effects were effective not excessive, and the explanation of Dracula's origins was surprising and fun.
I came out of Dracula 2000 having had a great time, and although it is not typical holiday fare it was very satisfying nonetheless. Admittedly, I've only seen Cast Away out of all the movies mentioned here, so maybe there some real gems, but don't discount Dracula 2000 as just another vampire movie. Well worth your time and money.
Well, speaking as a 20-year old who just received his first Who album for Christmas (Live at Leeds) and who is very much appreciative of all the Genesis LPs my parents played when I was younger, I would strongly disagree that today's music "really sucks."
The problem with the music scene today, I would say, is that the generic pop and terrible rap and rap-rock overwhelms what older music listeners could easily relate to and consider to be good music. Not only can the music abrasively bad, but the marketing techniques can be equally objectionable. Whatever happened to just good old-fashioned tours? Screw "youth-oriented product positioning," to steal a very appropriate line from The Simpsons. Most of today's stronger artists tend to ignore such stupidity, and as a result they *appear* to be less relevant to today's audience.
I must admit, I find it difficult to imagine that a Who fan wouldn't mention Pearl Jam as part of good current music, and not only on the basis of their original work. Even classic radio gives them airplay with their covers of Baba O'Riley from the Europe 2000 tour.
You're right, I thought this sounded like a familiar topic. Hey, maybe the old article is easier to read than the piece of crap the Sunday Times wrote.
So, "the whole political debate" can only revolve around the Democrats and Republicans? That is totally unfair and the most blindly stated support (!) of the two-party system I have ever seen.
I'll vote for Nader, and though it's true he won't win the election this year, the support he receives will be incredibly valuable to a campaign in 2004. Just because Nader won't win this year does NOT mean that I don't care about American politics, in fact I think it demonstrates a particular leaning towards caring about the future.
Your statement, however, is totally reliant on history in order to decide your positions on the future, with no consideration at all for likely future events independent of the past.
I'm in Colorado too, and have experienced both cable and DSL, and after all is said and done I'd prefer DSL.
My parents got DSL in Boulder after a 6-month wait in May of 1999. Granted, the wait sucked ass for them but as far as I could it wasn't entirely due to USWest's complacency. I have a cable modem at college in Golden at the wait was less than a week, so clearly cable wins in this department.
When DSL is on, however, I'd take it over cable anyday. The bandwidth is much more consistent (as noted on Napster), pings are consistently lower (as noted in CS) and although my experience doesn't seem to be the norm, my peak speeds have come on DSL not cable (random DLs & Napster). Best of all, USWest/QWest has yet to license @home's Random 2-Hour Service Outage (tm) patent. Keeping in mind that USWest/QWest is massive, the service my parents get has been pretty good overall, but then again I've never had to call @home for anything in 1.5 years. :)
Finally, the filters for phones are the day-to-day annoying thing about Napster, they don't always stay on properly so sometimes phonecalls have a fair bit of noise in the background.
I read Slashdot a lot but have never posted before. I just moderated this post up because, as has been stated, the proper understanding of the scientific method and the concept of a theory are lacking for some. Too bad it's anonymous.
Also, I would like to state that topics of this nature, i.e., history of our universe/solarsystem, are poor topics for the Slashdot forum. In the same way that Action Half-Life is best not to be discussed on Counter-Strike forums, historical geology is a poor topic for a technology forum like Slashdot because its posters are often too ill-informed about the topic to make any worthwhile arguments. Stick to what you know, Slashdot. You know Linux and the Internet and cutting-edge technology (a simplification, I know :)). You don't know astroscience and the like all that well. Topics like this just lead to inconclusive bickering (which I am in a way encouraging, I know, but I hope to stop).
The post I am replying to is an excellent example of a post that bucks this trend. I'm in an engineering geoscience program and this post resonates with me as words very similar to those coming out of my professors' mouths. This is what they TEACH you in college. It's not some gibberish some fool came up with, this is what leading geoscientists truly believe.