Going off topic here, because I can't resist posting this thing where there's a clip where Carlin is on some talkshow or something talking about how the choices that actually matter (media, oil) are limited. There's first his bit on war and there's other stuff too, but I found it interesting that he points out that the choices you get are mostly about cupcakes or something... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr7ePrCAqzo
Now "they" will be able to make a drug to counter-act the receptor and cure liberalness. Just what we need, a pharmacated electorate.
Ever heard of medicine that will numb your feelings? That cure that bleeding heart, so to speak? They're way ahead of you...
Seriously, though: Prozac and the like are a life-saver for some people, while being too liberally prescribed to other people.
And another point: Once one is thoroughly indoctrinated in the liberal/socialist or whatever morals, one doesn't need to feel liberal feelings to do the right thing. One can think liberal thoughts without feeling.
I was once prescribed such meds. While the SSRI:s took away my feelings, I didn't feel emotionally about anything, I could still think the "liberal" thoughts I had learned to feel and think during my life. The SSRI:s also took away my fear and care for consequences (maybe they weren't a perfect fit for me?), so I'd often go into 7-11 to steal stacks of ready made meals that I distributed to homeless drug addicts.
In hindsight, that wasn't very clever and I'm glad I didn't get into trouble.
It seems like everyone's overlooked this simple fact. I'm not sure why Blizzard doesn't make it clear that this whiner was playing online.
Yeah, since he was playing with his friends he should have been on a LAN or using a clan server and not some official server that can't be asked to know that he wasn't cheating innocent internet users whom he had no relation to. Stupid fucker.
It's semi-random artificial animals gaining neurons and synapses as they compete to draw a gradient on an animated shared canvas which constitutes 1024 frames spread through time.
It's because it's not quite "the swedish postal service" any more. It's "Posten AB" ("AB" would be "Inc." in english?) now, albeit the majority of stock is owned by the state, I believe.
In the good old socialist days the postal service didn't have to turn a profit. They could hire the "sick and the lame", you didn't have to be overworked, you could send a crystal bowl in wrapping paper without it braking and there used to be a department at one of the terminals where employees would investigate where any incomplete address, to anywhere in the world might be. Letters to some village somewhere in Africa that were missing a postal code would be routed via this terminal in Stockholm.
All of that isn't very efficient, of course and paid for with taxes, but In my opinion it was nice enough to warrant paying for it. (or rather, if I'd earned taxed income, I'd happily paid for a socialist postal service. I don't believe they tax social security benefits)
I used to work for Posten AB for a while before being sacked for not showing up for work for a month or two. Once we were sent on a conference trip on a real slow boat to Helsinki town.
Our boss held a pep-talk about efficiency and profitability. I asked if they'd shut down the postal service if we weren't profitable. The boss said "Of course not! The postal service is an institution!" I let the rest of the argument be implicit.
I don't think they've privatized the postal service even in the US, the beacon of free-marketeers.
However, I'm not sure how reliable it is on the n900 at the moment. I'd like to have some server running or syncing with evolution on the desktop, but when I peeked into this on the talk.maemo.org forums some months ago, it didn't seem very straightforward yet.
Maybe pop into talk.maemo.org and ask how it's doing?
hmmm... On second thought, *literally* running out of legos is kind of intriguing. It would necessitate that the author is really tiny or has very large bricks...
Well, maybe there's something wrong with your constitution if it doesn't allow for such an obvious win-win thing for everyone as universal health care...
Is your nick Greek for "ethical" by any chance? In that case, perhaps you should prepend it with "Oxi" (or whatever it is that would negate it in greek, my greek is limited)
From my somewhat freedom mongering perspective, the better p7 or ios or any other proprietary offering is, the worse it is.
Proprietary is anti-freedom, anti-freedom is wrong, so supporting proprietary solutions is unethical.
I'm no saint myself, though, with the sweet proprietary drivers, for example and a multitude of other examples of buying products from corporations that are "evil" in other ways I haven't even bothered to find out about.
Maybe that makes me a bad person, but it doesn't make the philosophical conclusion less valid or the movement less worthy.
Kudos to those who have the strength to resist shiny evil and any little us mere mortals can do is better than nothing.
The reason schools haven't changed is because reading texts and listening to teachers is still the best methods of teaching (see college). You don't need supercomputers to read - a book will do. And a teacher is still human. Both exercise the brain to train it to form connections.
Partly just to contradict you, I'd say writing texts and listening to the kids are a better method. Of course, varying the methods are probably good for kids. By the time the kids reach college, maybe they're ripe for simple and efficient stuffing by means of text and speech, but I think for 7 year olds to learn about and internalize scientific methods along with scientific facts, they benefit from observing, hypothesizing, experimenting, discussing, learning by doing and in dialogue with a teacher that doesn't necessarily give the right answers but asks the right questions.
I think we've wasted a lot of money buying computers that, frankly, did little good. In my school the computers were mostly just an electronic version of a book (sit in front of the machine and read text). They could have saved several million and just used books.
I agree. But this doesn't mean that computers couldn't be put to all kinds of good uses as tools if used correctly.
So, this license fee can be seen as an insurance policy against such patent claims that could bite the handset maker for a mistake the software writers made.
In other words: "Nice handset you got there, it would be a shame if it burnt down..."
And that's what would suck about it: Just like in real life, the rich obnoxious bastard will be the one that can flaunt their fancy hats in the face of those who can't afford all those hats.
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They put their minds to it and try to figure out how to save lives and this is what they come up with?
How about bombing and shooting less people!!!?!!
Going off topic here, because I can't resist posting this thing where there's a clip where Carlin is on some talkshow or something talking about how the choices that actually matter (media, oil) are limited. There's first his bit on war and there's other stuff too, but I found it interesting that he points out that the choices you get are mostly about cupcakes or something... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr7ePrCAqzo
Ever heard of medicine that will numb your feelings? That cure that bleeding heart, so to speak? They're way ahead of you...
Seriously, though: Prozac and the like are a life-saver for some people, while being too liberally prescribed to other people.
And another point: Once one is thoroughly indoctrinated in the liberal/socialist or whatever morals, one doesn't need to feel liberal feelings to do the right thing. One can think liberal thoughts without feeling.
I was once prescribed such meds. While the SSRI:s took away my feelings, I didn't feel emotionally about anything, I could still think the "liberal" thoughts I had learned to feel and think during my life. The SSRI:s also took away my fear and care for consequences (maybe they weren't a perfect fit for me?), so I'd often go into 7-11 to steal stacks of ready made meals that I distributed to homeless drug addicts.
In hindsight, that wasn't very clever and I'm glad I didn't get into trouble.
Pun intended?
Yeah, since he was playing with his friends he should have been on a LAN or using a clan server and not some official server that can't be asked to know that he wasn't cheating innocent internet users whom he had no relation to. Stupid fucker.
The magic thing about a retina display is that if you get close enough it ceases to be a retina display.
I'd rather take two smaller displays of this super-retinal resolution, though, and have one for each eye...
Didn't you hear? Previously you couldn't lend a book to someone and now, with technology you can!
Seriously, the restrictions of 14 days and lending only once is so ridiculous that it should push people over to the side of sharers.
How many books could one roundtrip of the sneakernet fit?
It's critterdrug.
Yes, but what is is?
It's a fork of critterding.
Yes, but what is it?
It's an a-life lab for the twenty-teens.
Yes, but what is it?
It's semi-random artificial animals gaining neurons and synapses as they compete to draw a gradient on an animated shared canvas which constitutes 1024 frames spread through time.
Yes, but what is it?
I thought the Drop Bear would tunnel from one computer to another. The name would make more sense your way, though.
It's because it's not quite "the swedish postal service" any more. It's "Posten AB" ("AB" would be "Inc." in english?) now, albeit the majority of stock is owned by the state, I believe.
In the good old socialist days the postal service didn't have to turn a profit. They could hire the "sick and the lame", you didn't have to be overworked, you could send a crystal bowl in wrapping paper without it braking and there used to be a department at one of the terminals where employees would investigate where any incomplete address, to anywhere in the world might be. Letters to some village somewhere in Africa that were missing a postal code would be routed via this terminal in Stockholm.
All of that isn't very efficient, of course and paid for with taxes, but In my opinion it was nice enough to warrant paying for it. (or rather, if I'd earned taxed income, I'd happily paid for a socialist postal service. I don't believe they tax social security benefits)
I used to work for Posten AB for a while before being sacked for not showing up for work for a month or two. Once we were sent on a conference trip on a real slow boat to Helsinki town.
Our boss held a pep-talk about efficiency and profitability. I asked if they'd shut down the postal service if we weren't profitable. The boss said "Of course not! The postal service is an institution!" I let the rest of the argument be implicit.
I don't think they've privatized the postal service even in the US, the beacon of free-marketeers.
The n900 has syncevolution, that can supposedly sync with lots of stuff: http://syncevolution.org/documentation/compatibility
However, I'm not sure how reliable it is on the n900 at the moment. I'd like to have some server running or syncing with evolution on the desktop, but when I peeked into this on the talk.maemo.org forums some months ago, it didn't seem very straightforward yet.
Maybe pop into talk.maemo.org and ask how it's doing?
hmmm... On second thought, *literally* running out of legos is kind of intriguing. It would necessitate that the author is really tiny or has very large bricks...
Yep. And too bad it didn't, since, as can be read in tfa:
"I literally ran out of Legos while trying to build this."
I wonder what it would imply to figuratively ran out Legos...?
Well, maybe there's something wrong with your constitution if it doesn't allow for such an obvious win-win thing for everyone as universal health care...
Hypothetically, maybe not ethically, someone should sneakily sneak some wireless gear up to their houses and see if they get the symptoms.
"I'm unspoofable! Not even Zeus himself could spoof me!"
(I had put joke tags of holierthanthou in them pointy things around the first paragraphs, but they were ofcourse disappeared...)
Is your nick Greek for "ethical" by any chance? In that case, perhaps you should prepend it with "Oxi" (or whatever it is that would negate it in greek, my greek is limited)
From my somewhat freedom mongering perspective, the better p7 or ios or any other proprietary offering is, the worse it is.
Proprietary is anti-freedom, anti-freedom is wrong, so supporting proprietary solutions is unethical.
I'm no saint myself, though, with the sweet proprietary drivers, for example and a multitude of other examples of buying products from corporations that are "evil" in other ways I haven't even bothered to find out about.
Maybe that makes me a bad person, but it doesn't make the philosophical conclusion less valid or the movement less worthy.
Kudos to those who have the strength to resist shiny evil and any little us mere mortals can do is better than nothing.
Partly just to contradict you, I'd say writing texts and listening to the kids are a better method. Of course, varying the methods are probably good for kids. By the time the kids reach college, maybe they're ripe for simple and efficient stuffing by means of text and speech, but I think for 7 year olds to learn about and internalize scientific methods along with scientific facts, they benefit from observing, hypothesizing, experimenting, discussing, learning by doing and in dialogue with a teacher that doesn't necessarily give the right answers but asks the right questions.
I agree. But this doesn't mean that computers couldn't be put to all kinds of good uses as tools if used correctly.
"Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world."
How do you see it in 3D? To me it all just looks stereoscopic...
That is interesting. I always just thought Tom was JRR Tolkien.
So what has that got anything to do with anything?
Some percentage of people making money wear pants from Schleissburger. Or whatever.
In other words: "Nice handset you got there, it would be a shame if it burnt down..."
And that's what would suck about it: Just like in real life, the rich obnoxious bastard will be the one that can flaunt their fancy hats in the face of those who can't afford all those hats.