Yeah if drivers are being careless about bikes I doubt they'd pay attention to whether they are wearing a helmet (full bicycle hobbyist gear is more obvious)- I would like to see that study to see how they support their reasoning.
He said cross-class, as in barbarians with werewolf, all classes with teleport, assassins with whirlwind.
As for synergies, they had the massive upside that you didn't have to limp along with a level 20 character and 10 unspent skill points, you could invest in early skills that boost your planned end-game ones. While I agree they could have balanced the classes a little better, I think it was a good move overall. Tri-sorcs might be fun but you get a lot more variety of builds when some can be focused on one skill and 4 synergies, or balancing the synergy investment for multiple main skills. If 20 points was all it took to max out any skill, it would be hard to balance the game and make most skills viable.
Of course, every feature will be loved or hated based on your play style, synergies just happened to fit mine.
He's responding directly to the parent, in the process putting words in his mouth. I don't disagree with his overall point, it's just he is raging against the parent for no reason, coming across as a jerk.
How did you go from the implied "Kim Dotcom is a bad person" to "I wholly endorse the use of an armed assault team breaking into his place, disregarding laws, and believe all media companies are the best thing ever"? Oh, right, you're just jumping to conclusions to make the/. mods pile on with "+1 agree".
The original comment even implied that the assault on Dotcom's house was a bad thing, and had nothing to do with media companies. I'll agree Dotcom isn't as bad as the media companies, but then again those companies would make anyone look like a saint in comparison.
I think the presidential race is getting to you, saying what you want to say whether it's an appropriate response or not.
All of your suggestions amount to nothing more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
And your attitude is like turning the Titanic around for another go at the iceberg. I'm glad we have defeatist people like you around, or else we might slip up and do something useful!
How about a analogy:
If I leave bait out to lure a tiger into the village and it kills people, I should be held responsible. If I have a picnic outside and it lures a tiger into the village and it kills people I'm not necessarily guilty. Of course, if everyone in the village knows it is dangerous to have a picnic and I did so anyway, they would surely hold me responsible.
Now, a murderous person may have more control over his actions than the tiger, but the victims are just as dead. While I have no interest in seeing inadvertant provocation being punished, I do feel a willing provocateur has moral responsibility for the responses he evokes.
Does anyone know how the test scores are actually going to be used? If teaching in a low income area would bias test scores down, that doesn't mean test-based evaluation is DOA, it just means you have to account for those factors. No, it won't be simple or 100% accurate, but I'm sure we can figure it out enough to get useful data out of the test scores.
Schools should have at least some sense of which teachers are good, so they should be able to use existing evaluation metrics to help calibrate how to use test scores. Ultimately, student improvement should be 100% of teacher evaluations, it's just a matter of figuring out how to measure that and calibrate the measurement (i.e. how to compare improvement in gifted students versus "school sucks" students). Right now our measurements aren't that good, so I agree making test scores 50% of teacher evaluation is a bit much, but the sooner we start to factor it in, the more data we will have to work with and the more we can try to improve how we use test scores.
Speed/red light cameras have to have a good view of the road and tend to be obvious (sometimes by law, and often to act as a deterrant). The second camera can be anywhere, and can be hidden. The second camera could be within view of the first, or it could be further from the road (at the corner gas station, inside a nearby building, etc). Also, it wouldn't be advertised, so if you don't see one you wouldn't know if that means there is no camera or if you aren't finding it. Heck, if they were smart they would put a dummy camera in view of the real one.
It's never going to be cost effective to catch 100% of the vandals, but it shouldn't be hard to stop/catch the majority of them. I don't like the profiteering motives behind the traffic cameras, but the idiots damaging/destroying them should be putting that time and effort showing up to city council meetings or trying to vote out the people who put the cameras in place. If the other residents don't care enough to get the cameras removed, I'm sure they don't want these vandals wasting their tax dollars.
Can't get a link either, but there was an interesting post on reddit a few weeks ago by a hard-of-hearing teen who had just discovered he had been using crappy hearing aids. Although he could communicate just fine, his bad hearing aids prevented him from appreciating music. Having acquired proper hearing aids and discovered what music really is, he posted to reddit to ask how to approach exploring music. Not sure how things went for him or what music he liked, but he certainly seemed excited about the new world that opened up to him.
Discovering music after growing up without isn't as extreme as growing up without a given sense all together, but it's an interesting anecdote (admittedly more interesting if I had a link).
As much as I dislike the idea of the (at the time) illegal warrantless wiretaps being made immune from prosecution, I have to admit I hate the law that made it legal, not the ex post facto legalization process. If they were legalizing something I think shouldn't be illegal, I would certainly have a problem with continued enforcement of the old law just because someone broke it while it was still on the books.
But for the sake of argument, what if (in a parallel universe) the house just voted to make those wiretaps illegal again? The Bush wiretaps were illegal at the time they were committed, so could they lose their ex post facto protection?
Dunno if this will be seen but you need to work on comprehension:
You said:
we might well be looking at the so-called "sixth extinction" which could be worse than any of them
That is, you didn't just claim AGW may cause mass extinction, but that it may be the worst extinction event ever. Claiming AGW will trigger an extinction event is in the realm of possibility, but claiming it will be the worst ever is definitely overhype.
Symbolset then suggested we won't manage a record-setting extinction event, saying:
Humans could have no greater nor swifter impact on the CO2 balance than the evolution of white-rot fungus
You then, unwittingly, agreed with him, saying:
Well great. We can assume that human beings can't affect the environment any worse than a fungus that altered that altered the ecosphere beyond all recognition. Hey, that makes me feel a lot better.
He did not disagree with your claim that AGW may lead to extinction, and neither he nor I are saying AGW isn't to be worried about. We are just dismissing the most extreme claim ("worst ever" extinction event), that is all.
If you've got some actual studies to refer to I'll consider your point, but from what I've heard the tundra is basically frozen bog/swamp, and makes for terrible farmland.
Also, there's this little-known fact that latitudes near the Equator are much bigger around than extreme latitudes. More heat in the arctic may help economic activity, but more heat near the equator can only hurt, and there's far more land (and people and resources) at those latitiudes. Even ignoring the huge problem of methane being released by thawing permafrost, I'm not convinced there's enough benefit from a warming arctic to offset a scorching equator.
two thousand yards from the path the ship was taking, and I could feel the engine vibration up through the soles of my feet into my chest cavity. I could clearly understand how those ultrasound-based crowd control weapons work.
I have to wonder what the impact is on the wildlife then:(
fm6 suggested AGW may cause a worse extinction event than the previous ones (which is the kind of over-hype that skeptics like to use to claim AGW is false). symbolset appears to be responding to this claim, I doubt he is suggesting a slightly-less-severe extinction would be nothing to worry about.
Especially when its already to late to fix the problem by 'controlling emissions' if our current level of understanding does turn out to be mostly correct.
"Well, we are going too fast to come to a complete stop before we hit that other car, so don't bother taking your foot off the accelerator."
Do you want them to plan out 6 months of meals instead, and then re-do the study when they decide an 8 month mission is better? I think planning this out for 3 years is great- not only will they be prepared in case such a long-term plan is needed, but chances are they'll come across details that help them refine how to plan for just 6 months at a time. Given the time and expense that would go into a manned mission to Mars, they better make sure food of all things doesn't cause a problem.
Plus, even if you think 3 years is absurd for a Mars mission, this may be a useful study in preparation for going even further.
That's an example of what you get when it's seen as a popular policy to pick on foreigners.
Not quite...
At the time the immigration department had a bounty paid each time someone was deported
Sounds like an example of what happens when a poorly designed financial incentive is used. Even a well-meaning effort will go awry when you introduce perverse financial incentive. For example, there was an archaologist that offered locals a reward for each bone fragment they found; he later learned the locals would find well-preserved bones only to smash them to maximize the reward.
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Yeah if drivers are being careless about bikes I doubt they'd pay attention to whether they are wearing a helmet (full bicycle hobbyist gear is more obvious)- I would like to see that study to see how they support their reasoning.
That isn't happening. People aren't dying left and right.
Well yeah, bikes get hit by cars turning right, not so much cars turning left (or reverse in some countries).
No, this is out of New York's jealousy of Washington having the largest revolving door.
He said cross-class, as in barbarians with werewolf, all classes with teleport, assassins with whirlwind.
As for synergies, they had the massive upside that you didn't have to limp along with a level 20 character and 10 unspent skill points, you could invest in early skills that boost your planned end-game ones. While I agree they could have balanced the classes a little better, I think it was a good move overall. Tri-sorcs might be fun but you get a lot more variety of builds when some can be focused on one skill and 4 synergies, or balancing the synergy investment for multiple main skills. If 20 points was all it took to max out any skill, it would be hard to balance the game and make most skills viable.
Of course, every feature will be loved or hated based on your play style, synergies just happened to fit mine.
why aren't you demanding the immediate arrest ...
He's responding directly to the parent, in the process putting words in his mouth. I don't disagree with his overall point, it's just he is raging against the parent for no reason, coming across as a jerk.
Double standards much?
How did you go from the implied "Kim Dotcom is a bad person" to "I wholly endorse the use of an armed assault team breaking into his place, disregarding laws, and believe all media companies are the best thing ever"? Oh, right, you're just jumping to conclusions to make the /. mods pile on with "+1 agree".
The original comment even implied that the assault on Dotcom's house was a bad thing, and had nothing to do with media companies. I'll agree Dotcom isn't as bad as the media companies, but then again those companies would make anyone look like a saint in comparison.
I think the presidential race is getting to you, saying what you want to say whether it's an appropriate response or not.
Devil's advocate != sarcasm.
What else ya got?
Perjury?
All of your suggestions amount to nothing more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
And your attitude is like turning the Titanic around for another go at the iceberg. I'm glad we have defeatist people like you around, or else we might slip up and do something useful!
Actually the economically advantaged are the ones who think they're buying the organic everything.
FTFY.
FTFY, dawg
I heard you like FTFY so...
How about a analogy:
If I leave bait out to lure a tiger into the village and it kills people, I should be held responsible. If I have a picnic outside and it lures a tiger into the village and it kills people I'm not necessarily guilty. Of course, if everyone in the village knows it is dangerous to have a picnic and I did so anyway, they would surely hold me responsible.
Now, a murderous person may have more control over his actions than the tiger, but the victims are just as dead. While I have no interest in seeing inadvertant provocation being punished, I do feel a willing provocateur has moral responsibility for the responses he evokes.
Does anyone know how the test scores are actually going to be used? If teaching in a low income area would bias test scores down, that doesn't mean test-based evaluation is DOA, it just means you have to account for those factors. No, it won't be simple or 100% accurate, but I'm sure we can figure it out enough to get useful data out of the test scores.
Schools should have at least some sense of which teachers are good, so they should be able to use existing evaluation metrics to help calibrate how to use test scores. Ultimately, student improvement should be 100% of teacher evaluations, it's just a matter of figuring out how to measure that and calibrate the measurement (i.e. how to compare improvement in gifted students versus "school sucks" students). Right now our measurements aren't that good, so I agree making test scores 50% of teacher evaluation is a bit much, but the sooner we start to factor it in, the more data we will have to work with and the more we can try to improve how we use test scores.
Speed/red light cameras have to have a good view of the road and tend to be obvious (sometimes by law, and often to act as a deterrant). The second camera can be anywhere, and can be hidden. The second camera could be within view of the first, or it could be further from the road (at the corner gas station, inside a nearby building, etc). Also, it wouldn't be advertised, so if you don't see one you wouldn't know if that means there is no camera or if you aren't finding it. Heck, if they were smart they would put a dummy camera in view of the real one.
It's never going to be cost effective to catch 100% of the vandals, but it shouldn't be hard to stop/catch the majority of them. I don't like the profiteering motives behind the traffic cameras, but the idiots damaging/destroying them should be putting that time and effort showing up to city council meetings or trying to vote out the people who put the cameras in place. If the other residents don't care enough to get the cameras removed, I'm sure they don't want these vandals wasting their tax dollars.
Holding a lot of certs indicates that you have an aptitude for acquiring certs, but that's not a position that's commonly hired for.
Now you tell me - and here I thought I was on track to become one of those Certificate Authorities I keep hearing about.
Can't get a link either, but there was an interesting post on reddit a few weeks ago by a hard-of-hearing teen who had just discovered he had been using crappy hearing aids. Although he could communicate just fine, his bad hearing aids prevented him from appreciating music. Having acquired proper hearing aids and discovered what music really is, he posted to reddit to ask how to approach exploring music. Not sure how things went for him or what music he liked, but he certainly seemed excited about the new world that opened up to him.
Discovering music after growing up without isn't as extreme as growing up without a given sense all together, but it's an interesting anecdote (admittedly more interesting if I had a link).
The only difference between the 'sides' is that one is dramatically more unified than the other
So, the only difference between the sides is that one fits nicely into generalizations but the other doesn't?
As much as I dislike the idea of the (at the time) illegal warrantless wiretaps being made immune from prosecution, I have to admit I hate the law that made it legal, not the ex post facto legalization process. If they were legalizing something I think shouldn't be illegal, I would certainly have a problem with continued enforcement of the old law just because someone broke it while it was still on the books.
But for the sake of argument, what if (in a parallel universe) the house just voted to make those wiretaps illegal again? The Bush wiretaps were illegal at the time they were committed, so could they lose their ex post facto protection?
You said:
we might well be looking at the so-called "sixth extinction" which could be worse than any of them
That is, you didn't just claim AGW may cause mass extinction, but that it may be the worst extinction event ever. Claiming AGW will trigger an extinction event is in the realm of possibility, but claiming it will be the worst ever is definitely overhype.
Symbolset then suggested we won't manage a record-setting extinction event, saying:
Humans could have no greater nor swifter impact on the CO2 balance than the evolution of white-rot fungus
You then, unwittingly, agreed with him, saying:
Well great. We can assume that human beings can't affect the environment any worse than a fungus that altered that altered the ecosphere beyond all recognition. Hey, that makes me feel a lot better.
He did not disagree with your claim that AGW may lead to extinction, and neither he nor I are saying AGW isn't to be worried about. We are just dismissing the most extreme claim ("worst ever" extinction event), that is all.
at anytime nature could again just decide to expel tons of deep ocean oil
Considering we can only access that oil because it has not leaked out after millions and millions of years, that doesn't seem too likely.
If you've got some actual studies to refer to I'll consider your point, but from what I've heard the tundra is basically frozen bog/swamp, and makes for terrible farmland.
Also, there's this little-known fact that latitudes near the Equator are much bigger around than extreme latitudes. More heat in the arctic may help economic activity, but more heat near the equator can only hurt, and there's far more land (and people and resources) at those latitiudes. Even ignoring the huge problem of methane being released by thawing permafrost, I'm not convinced there's enough benefit from a warming arctic to offset a scorching equator.
two thousand yards from the path the ship was taking, and I could feel the engine vibration up through the soles of my feet into my chest cavity. I could clearly understand how those ultrasound-based crowd control weapons work.
I have to wonder what the impact is on the wildlife then :(
fm6 suggested AGW may cause a worse extinction event than the previous ones (which is the kind of over-hype that skeptics like to use to claim AGW is false). symbolset appears to be responding to this claim, I doubt he is suggesting a slightly-less-severe extinction would be nothing to worry about.
Especially when its already to late to fix the problem by 'controlling emissions' if our current level of understanding does turn out to be mostly correct.
"Well, we are going too fast to come to a complete stop before we hit that other car, so don't bother taking your foot off the accelerator."
Do you want them to plan out 6 months of meals instead, and then re-do the study when they decide an 8 month mission is better? I think planning this out for 3 years is great- not only will they be prepared in case such a long-term plan is needed, but chances are they'll come across details that help them refine how to plan for just 6 months at a time. Given the time and expense that would go into a manned mission to Mars, they better make sure food of all things doesn't cause a problem.
Plus, even if you think 3 years is absurd for a Mars mission, this may be a useful study in preparation for going even further.
That's an example of what you get when it's seen as a popular policy to pick on foreigners.
Not quite...
At the time the immigration department had a bounty paid each time someone was deported
Sounds like an example of what happens when a poorly designed financial incentive is used. Even a well-meaning effort will go awry when you introduce perverse financial incentive. For example, there was an archaologist that offered locals a reward for each bone fragment they found; he later learned the locals would find well-preserved bones only to smash them to maximize the reward.