No, what bothers me the most is that something like Wikileaks needs to exist at all.
'Something like' Wikileaks is an important part of a functioning democracy. We used to call it investigative journalism, and it certainly told a better story. I think the Wikileaks version of Watergate would be a bunch of hotel receipts and some questionable expense reports.
Why care? Public displays by one set of idiots riles up other idiots. Then the costly and unnecessary violence starts. No, it doesn't happen to me, or in my backyard in this case, but still.
It's just a form of expression. There expressing there dislike for the Muslim beliefs. Big deal.
Burning someone's sacred text is not the same as a letter to the editor. It is a big deal. Or at least it has become one through excessive reporting.
If you let it get to you, then they win.
See, I don't buy that one.
Reminds me of the scene in Blues Brothers where a group is legally expressing their beliefs - beliefs that are roundly regarded as reprehensible - by demonstrating on a bridge. Jake runs them off the bridge.
Burning wood or cloth fibers that you own isn't hateful. It may be stupid, it may be meaningless, it may be a waste of time, but for all I care you can burn an entire pallet full of On the Origin of Species - it won't change my belief in how life developed to its current form on Earth, I won't be insulted, I just don't care
Wow. Oblivious or intellectually dishonest, take your pick. If groups people are making a public show of their animosity by burning items associated with your set of beliefs, it's time to care. It's the public show of aggression that's important, not the "burning wood or cloth fibers".
Atheists stake their eternal future on the presumption that God does not exist. They live their whole lives doing what they want, and rejecting the concept that there could be anyone or anything greater than themselves.
Two things:
1. If religion means "not doing what I want" for you, then you need to re-evaluate.
2. This may shock you, but there are stages of moral development beyond the carrot and the stick. For many people - religious and non-religious alike - the existence or non-existence of God has very little bearing on their moral conduct.
Just have the darned black box broadcast all of its data once every millisecond. Put receivers on satellites and on grounds stations or even on other planes. Give the transmitter a range of several thousand miles, and come up with some scheme to avoid broadcast collisions (either time or code division multiplexing).
What is that, your economic stimulus package for IT?
If everybody went next door to murder a neighbor, no one would be next door to be a victim.
There's a 50% chance you'll have a fight to the death with the guy from two houses down. (Assuming everyone flips a coin to go right or left, assuming 1 person per house, assuming you don't tangle with anyone on the way, etc.)
But what if the farmers/farms/food wasn't subsidised (as suggested above by node3)?
Then the farmers would charge the actual cost for the products and the city dwellers would buy it at the real cost, but not be taxed so heavily for the privilege!
This would be not so great for the low wage earners, who presumably don't pay so much tax anyway!
Almost. If farmers/farms/food wasn't subsidized, it would be cheaper to import it than to buy it from domestic sources. That's unattractive for a bunch of reasons.
ADHD is one of the most misunderstood conditions out there- it is real, it can be severe, and we need to avoid knee-jerk "It's all made up" reactions
Easy, chief. Given a million misdiagnoses, it sounds like it's a highly misunderstood condition - and that's the point. Doctors and parents are so unfamiliar with what real ADHD looks like that they've slapped the wrong tag on it a million times. Reminds me of a quote:
"I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored."
I doubt there is a significant overlap between the people who follow computer security and online privacy issues and the people who still leave their Facebook profiles open for search indexing.
...which is exactly why those people are less likely to see the "raising awareness" angle and more likely to see the "why the hell do you have my daughter's name on a list?" angle.
I would venture a guess that most of the people harvested will never know, or care.
Thankfully, Rob Malda, along with his handlers and peons, have over the years earned my trust that they will treat my non-public data with a reasonable amount of respect.
When the day comes that I feel like my trust has the potential to be violated, I want a button that says "Delete this account and everything associated with it," and I want it to work, at least within the confines of Slashdot.
Especially if some social networking site was to buy Slashdot and then helpfully combine your profiles based on matching email addresses.
Thanks for the link - that was really interesting. Even more so when you consider that we may be natural overimitators, i.e. we have an innate preference for the tried-and-true, even if it is inefficient. Leads me to suspect that we actually have to be trained to convince ourselves that our nifty new ideas are preferable.
What on earth do Doctors think they will see in the source code? We do verification, peer review, tracing, etc. what would an MD find that a room full of software, system, and QA engineers wouldn't?
Calm down and grab some perspective. This is not the AMA, the FDA, or any health-related organization clamoring for patient and doctor review of source code. This is "independent research" by the "Software Freedom Law Center". They seem to have hit upon the concept of coupling their cause to scary things, like death. (Closed source will kill your grandma, film at 11.) They somehow work a reference to Google's recent China woes into the whole thing.
in college working towards a MA, aiming towards being a LPC or LSW specializing in substance abuse treatment
been drinking since I was 14 or so, am now 41.
I start around 3pm, give or take a little and go until I go to bed, which in many cases is not until 1 or 2am.
I'm sorry, but I simply can't take you seriously. You're either stretching the truth, or you are a 41 year old student that spends nearly half his day drinking. Either way, you're not credible.
Just using the numbers from the summary: Texas is about 260,000 square miles in area. 4 million tons over 520,000 square miles is less than 8 tons per square mile. That's not good, but it's not an island.
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No, what bothers me the most is that something like Wikileaks needs to exist at all.
'Something like' Wikileaks is an important part of a functioning democracy. We used to call it investigative journalism, and it certainly told a better story. I think the Wikileaks version of Watergate would be a bunch of hotel receipts and some questionable expense reports.
It's just a form of expression. There expressing there dislike for the Muslim beliefs. Big deal.
Burning someone's sacred text is not the same as a letter to the editor. It is a big deal. Or at least it has become one through excessive reporting.
If you let it get to you, then they win.
See, I don't buy that one.
Reminds me of the scene in Blues Brothers where a group is legally expressing their beliefs - beliefs that are roundly regarded as reprehensible - by demonstrating on a bridge. Jake runs them off the bridge.
Burning wood or cloth fibers that you own isn't hateful. It may be stupid, it may be meaningless, it may be a waste of time, but for all I care you can burn an entire pallet full of On the Origin of Species - it won't change my belief in how life developed to its current form on Earth, I won't be insulted, I just don't care
Wow. Oblivious or intellectually dishonest, take your pick. If groups people are making a public show of their animosity by burning items associated with your set of beliefs, it's time to care. It's the public show of aggression that's important, not the "burning wood or cloth fibers".
You mean like hanging back to get a red shell?
Somewhere in that adaptive curve, there's a sweet spot. Players will find it, because they're also adaptive.
voluntary duty
Huh? You'll have to explain that.
Atheists stake their eternal future on the presumption that God does not exist. They live their whole lives doing what they want, and rejecting the concept that there could be anyone or anything greater than themselves.
Two things:
1. If religion means "not doing what I want" for you, then you need to re-evaluate.
2. This may shock you, but there are stages of moral development beyond the carrot and the stick. For many people - religious and non-religious alike - the existence or non-existence of God has very little bearing on their moral conduct.
she really was an immensely talented writer and storyteller.
You got that right. Although "The Big Four" is a little unfortunate.
Just have the darned black box broadcast all of its data once every millisecond. Put receivers on satellites and on grounds stations or even on other planes. Give the transmitter a range of several thousand miles, and come up with some scheme to avoid broadcast collisions (either time or code division multiplexing).
What is that, your economic stimulus package for IT?
If everybody went next door to murder a neighbor, no one would be next door to be a victim.
There's a 50% chance you'll have a fight to the death with the guy from two houses down.
(Assuming everyone flips a coin to go right or left, assuming 1 person per house, assuming you don't tangle with anyone on the way, etc.)
But what if the farmers/farms/food wasn't subsidised (as suggested above by node3)? Then the farmers would charge the actual cost for the products and the city dwellers would buy it at the real cost, but not be taxed so heavily for the privilege! This would be not so great for the low wage earners, who presumably don't pay so much tax anyway!
Almost. If farmers/farms/food wasn't subsidized, it would be cheaper to import it than to buy it from domestic sources. That's unattractive for a bunch of reasons.
ADHD is one of the most misunderstood conditions out there- it is real, it can be severe, and we need to avoid knee-jerk "It's all made up" reactions
Easy, chief. Given a million misdiagnoses, it sounds like it's a highly misunderstood condition - and that's the point. Doctors and parents are so unfamiliar with what real ADHD looks like that they've slapped the wrong tag on it a million times. Reminds me of a quote:
"I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored."
You can't fight City Hall.
You can spend up to four hour conquering the Chinese, then you go home now.
"Hold Reset while you turn Power off!" I still don't know what the hardware reason for that was
I don't know what the *real* reason for it was, but I do know it made the game impossible to finish with a Game Genie.
Because he couldn't afford $2K. So he lost the business...that was supposedly going to put his daughters through college.
Hang on, maybe my calculator's broken, because the math isn't quite working out here.
I doubt there is a significant overlap between the people who follow computer security and online privacy issues and the people who still leave their Facebook profiles open for search indexing.
...which is exactly why those people are less likely to see the "raising awareness" angle and more likely to see the "why the hell do you have my daughter's name on a list?" angle.
I would venture a guess that most of the people harvested will never know, or care.
Give it a month, then check snopes.
n/t
Thankfully, Rob Malda, along with his handlers and peons, have over the years earned my trust that they will treat my non-public data with a reasonable amount of respect. When the day comes that I feel like my trust has the potential to be violated, I want a button that says "Delete this account and everything associated with it," and I want it to work, at least within the confines of Slashdot.
Especially if some social networking site was to buy Slashdot and then helpfully combine your profiles based on matching email addresses.
Thanks for the link - that was really interesting. Even more so when you consider that we may be natural overimitators, i.e. we have an innate preference for the tried-and-true, even if it is inefficient. Leads me to suspect that we actually have to be trained to convince ourselves that our nifty new ideas are preferable.
What on earth do Doctors think they will see in the source code? We do verification, peer review, tracing, etc. what would an MD find that a room full of software, system, and QA engineers wouldn't?
Calm down and grab some perspective. This is not the AMA, the FDA, or any health-related organization clamoring for patient and doctor review of source code. This is "independent research" by the "Software Freedom Law Center". They seem to have hit upon the concept of coupling their cause to scary things, like death. (Closed source will kill your grandma, film at 11.) They somehow work a reference to Google's recent China woes into the whole thing.
in college working towards a MA, aiming towards being a LPC or LSW specializing in substance abuse treatment
been drinking since I was 14 or so, am now 41.
I start around 3pm, give or take a little and go until I go to bed, which in many cases is not until 1 or 2am.
I'm sorry, but I simply can't take you seriously. You're either stretching the truth, or you are a 41 year old student that spends nearly half his day drinking. Either way, you're not credible.
In other words, Boeing is a lot more savvy to how the aerospace market actually works, as opposed to how we would like it to work.
Just using the numbers from the summary: Texas is about 260,000 square miles in area. 4 million tons over 520,000 square miles is less than 8 tons per square mile. That's not good, but it's not an island.
If it was purely driver error it would show up on quite a variety of cars, not just specific Toyota models.
Unless the heavy news coverage resulted in a bandwagon effect.
Pirates! taught me everything I know about the geography of the Caribbean.