China has a police force. My country has a police force. ZOMG!!!! fascist communistic dictatorship prepares to seize power and enslave us in their siberian lard mines!!!
And anyway, when climate change kicks in and the world descends into every-nation-for-itself anarchy, we're gonna need some form of authoritarian state power to enforce conscription into the armies needed to fight off the starving hordes massing on various national borders.
You have a collection of Star Trek movies. Minus 50 points.
You have everyStar Trek movie. Minus 500 points.
You make a reference to some sort of alien race (I guess, from the context) as if they were real, and expect people to find that funny. Minus 10,000 points!
Oh, right, I see; that's a relief! If I thought that IBM might be about to corner the market in stabbing hard-working employees in the back before pitching them over the side, I'd be concerned about the future of western civilisation. Now I can sleep easy, secure in the knowledge that they will cross-license it to all comers. Hoorah! for the market.
Well, it's infra-red, but that's pretty close to the spectra of visible light, so the images it produces will be closer to the visual appearance than they do in, say, X-rays. You might also be thinking of the Compton, Chandra or Spitzer space telescopes, which are part of the same programme that gave us Hubble, but are all sensitive to different wavelengths.
Yep, that's kinda-sorta the Dennett school's concept of the mind's eye; there is no "theatre of ego" where your "self" sits and watches stuff that comes out of the senses, and decides how to respond to them. Our sense of self is a side effect of a useful cognitive strategy to enable abstract reasoning and suchlike. All you are is very very complicated chemistry at the end of the day, although possibly another couple of "very"s are merited in that statement.
Or they're idiots. There's definitely a point where the best, most rational decision to make is to give up fighting and let death get on with it's thing. What's the marginal utility of another hour of utter misery for someone with very low quality of life?
Ah, so when feminists talk about 'equality' what they really mean is, "we want special treatment so that we get equal outcomes rather than equal opportunity based on the same starting point". Silly me, and to think that I thought feminism was all about equality with males in regards to the same starting point and a meritocratic system where skills and knowledge are the basis of advancement forward rather than the old boys network.
Don't be so hard on yourself. You're not silly, necessarily, just ignorant of the subject. (Unless you mean that you assumed that your view of how reality should be must necessarily be the consensus view, in which case file under S for Solipsism.
This is the first scrub of STS-119 since the T-44 countdown start. Colour me pedantic and all but... *shrug*
It sounds to me like they're expecting to have to pull down the stack to fix this, though the clock's theoretically only reset to T+24 in case they decide it's OK to fly with this issue, in which case we'll see the next launch attempt at 01:20 UTC plus a bit tomorrow night, when the ISS orbit's next sync'd with Florida.
Exactly (or more precisely, I know that I'm not free. However as Skinner pointed out fifty years ago, it's the/feeling/ of freedom that matters to humans.
The best Doughnut story I've heard was in the local rag recently (last year or two.) Apparently some contractors (plasterers, chippies, "allied building crafts") forgot the car-park pass on their van one morning. Rather than waste time explaining this at the gatehouse, filling in forms, et cetera ad nauseam, they decided to show a little initiative and cut through the tangled web of form-filling. They parked up in a nearby side street and attempted to/vault the fence/...
Cue a few dropped cups of coffee, wailing sirens, loosened safeties... that kinda thing;)
Apparently there's some sort of big round building in Cheltenham, too. (Yes, El Reg had this story a week ago.) Everyone knew about that one even when Ordnance Survey maps showed blank white space there; nowadays, it's shown on the local road signs. Hey, it looks like an old-fashioned mainframe tape-drive! To be fair, everyone knows where the MI6 HQ in Vauxhall is, but the MI5 building is less well-known, mainly because it looks no different than many other buildings in the area.
Sitting on your arse all day playing computer games, and never taking any exercise, is obviously unhealthy. Just as sitting on your arse reading books all day (and never taking exercise), or trolling Slashdot, or listening to music, or working on a new interpretation of the mathematics of M-theory.
The best advice any doctor has ever given me was when I was unemployed and, yes, sitting on my arse all day, feeling a bit sorry for myself. (Not clinical depression, but some GPs might have just written an SSRI scrip.) "Go outside and go for a short walk every day, 30 minutes will do, just walk round the village, even if it's raining." (I live in the country.) Four days later I felt/amazingly/ better. If you've got kids, try to get them in the habit of having a walk everyday, without making it into a chore - let them discover that it's enjoyable their own way.
That's the infuriating aspect of this for some of us in the infosec world. This wasn't "selling private data", it was a good old-fashioned blacklist of "troublesome" employees who did annoying things like joining unions, complaining about health and safety violations (construction's very dangerous in the UK, I think it's ~100 deaths a year, and you can work out the ratio of deaths to maimings and career-ending injuries.) What they did was vile and evil, and the companies (huge mainstream FTSE-listed corporations, mostly) should be taken to the fucking cleaners as a clear sign that this sort of thing is illegal for good reasons, and will not be tolerated. However it's got FA to do with "leaking of personal data"; the headlines here, on the Beeb and even El Reg have been totally misleading.
Hey, don't take it personally, it's just an observation. There are some very old timber-framed buildings here, too (ISTR there's a Saxon church somewhere in East Anglia, so ~900 years old or so.) Perhaps the distrust of wood is due to the various huge fires, the famous one being London, 1666. However there are far, far more stone built buildings of that vintage still around, precisely because stone's a lot harder to accidentally destroy and needs a lot less intensive maintenance.
One massive disadvantage of stone (not brick) is that it works as a heat pump to extract internal heat and vent it to the outside. Marvellous for those two or three hot summer days we get here once a decade when the temperature reaches 35*C or more -- not so much in the winter. or spring. Or indeed, autumn.
Congratulations, you have just discovered the Keynsian inverse multiplier effect, aka "deleveraging". This is why people who know the markets and understand economics and banking were looking so ashen-faced back in Sept/Oct 2007.
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China has a police force. My country has a police force. ZOMG!!!! fascist communistic dictatorship prepares to seize power and enslave us in their siberian lard mines!!!
And anyway, when climate change kicks in and the world descends into every-nation-for-itself anarchy, we're gonna need some form of authoritarian state power to enforce conscription into the armies needed to fight off the starving hordes massing on various national borders.
...demonstrably.
You have a collection of Star Trek movies. Minus 50 points.
You have everyStar Trek movie. Minus 500 points.
You make a reference to some sort of alien race (I guess, from the context) as if they were real, and expect people to find that funny. Minus 10,000 points!
Oh, right, I see; that's a relief! If I thought that IBM might be about to corner the market in stabbing hard-working employees in the back before pitching them over the side, I'd be concerned about the future of western civilisation. Now I can sleep easy, secure in the knowledge that they will cross-license it to all comers. Hoorah! for the market.
It's the guys with hats you should really be watching out for.
...don't forget Kepler!
Well, it's infra-red, but that's pretty close to the spectra of visible light, so the images it produces will be closer to the visual appearance than they do in, say, X-rays. You might also be thinking of the Compton, Chandra or Spitzer space telescopes, which are part of the same programme that gave us Hubble, but are all sensitive to different wavelengths.
Look at the size of that thing. (Seriously, it's absolutely bloody enormous; that's a scale engineering model, with handy nearby humans for scale. Yes, those little black dots on the ground around it are humans... ;) )
Yep, that's kinda-sorta the Dennett school's concept of the mind's eye; there is no "theatre of ego" where your "self" sits and watches stuff that comes out of the senses, and decides how to respond to them. Our sense of self is a side effect of a useful cognitive strategy to enable abstract reasoning and suchlike. All you are is very very complicated chemistry at the end of the day, although possibly another couple of "very"s are merited in that statement.
Or they're idiots. There's definitely a point where the best, most rational decision to make is to give up fighting and let death get on with it's thing. What's the marginal utility of another hour of utter misery for someone with very low quality of life?
BRAINS!!
So, IDC confirms it?
Don't be so hard on yourself. You're not silly, necessarily, just ignorant of the subject. (Unless you mean that you assumed that your view of how reality should be must necessarily be the consensus view, in which case file under S for Solipsism.
This is the first scrub of STS-119 since the T-44 countdown start. Colour me pedantic and all but... *shrug*
It sounds to me like they're expecting to have to pull down the stack to fix this, though the clock's theoretically only reset to T+24 in case they decide it's OK to fly with this issue, in which case we'll see the next launch attempt at 01:20 UTC plus a bit tomorrow night, when the ISS orbit's next sync'd with Florida.
Exactly (or more precisely, I know that I'm not free. However as Skinner pointed out fifty years ago, it's the /feeling/ of freedom that matters to humans.
The best Doughnut story I've heard was in the local rag recently (last year or two.) Apparently some contractors (plasterers, chippies, "allied building crafts") forgot the car-park pass on their van one morning. Rather than waste time explaining this at the gatehouse, filling in forms, et cetera ad nauseam, they decided to show a little initiative and cut through the tangled web of form-filling. They parked up in a nearby side street and attempted to /vault the fence/...
Cue a few dropped cups of coffee, wailing sirens, loosened safeties... that kinda thing ;)
Semaphore flags. ("There's a future for you in the semaphore trade; come up to town.")
Apparently there's some sort of big round building in Cheltenham, too. (Yes, El Reg had this story a week ago.) Everyone knew about that one even when Ordnance Survey maps showed blank white space there; nowadays, it's shown on the local road signs. Hey, it looks like an old-fashioned mainframe tape-drive! To be fair, everyone knows where the MI6 HQ in Vauxhall is, but the MI5 building is less well-known, mainly because it looks no different than many other buildings in the area.
Sitting on your arse all day playing computer games, and never taking any exercise, is obviously unhealthy. Just as sitting on your arse reading books all day (and never taking exercise), or trolling Slashdot, or listening to music, or working on a new interpretation of the mathematics of M-theory. The best advice any doctor has ever given me was when I was unemployed and, yes, sitting on my arse all day, feeling a bit sorry for myself. (Not clinical depression, but some GPs might have just written an SSRI scrip.) "Go outside and go for a short walk every day, 30 minutes will do, just walk round the village, even if it's raining." (I live in the country.) Four days later I felt /amazingly/ better. If you've got kids, try to get them in the habit of having a walk everyday, without making it into a chore - let them discover that it's enjoyable their own way.
Youuuuuuu're a moron.
That's the infuriating aspect of this for some of us in the infosec world. This wasn't "selling private data", it was a good old-fashioned blacklist of "troublesome" employees who did annoying things like joining unions, complaining about health and safety violations (construction's very dangerous in the UK, I think it's ~100 deaths a year, and you can work out the ratio of deaths to maimings and career-ending injuries.) What they did was vile and evil, and the companies (huge mainstream FTSE-listed corporations, mostly) should be taken to the fucking cleaners as a clear sign that this sort of thing is illegal for good reasons, and will not be tolerated. However it's got FA to do with "leaking of personal data"; the headlines here, on the Beeb and even El Reg have been totally misleading.
After being hit by a bus? Not so much.
Hey, don't take it personally, it's just an observation. There are some very old timber-framed buildings here, too (ISTR there's a Saxon church somewhere in East Anglia, so ~900 years old or so.) Perhaps the distrust of wood is due to the various huge fires, the famous one being London, 1666. However there are far, far more stone built buildings of that vintage still around, precisely because stone's a lot harder to accidentally destroy and needs a lot less intensive maintenance.
One massive disadvantage of stone (not brick) is that it works as a heat pump to extract internal heat and vent it to the outside. Marvellous for those two or three hot summer days we get here once a decade when the temperature reaches 35*C or more -- not so much in the winter. or spring. Or indeed, autumn.
Ever notice that the plural of "anecdote" isn't "data"?
Congratulations, you have just discovered the Keynsian inverse multiplier effect, aka "deleveraging". This is why people who know the markets and understand economics and banking were looking so ashen-faced back in Sept/Oct 2007.