Last time I checked SMS did not export events in iCalendar format to ensure that all of my other devices are in sync with the planning. Events is the one thing Facebook does better than standard messaging protocols.
I got a great deal on a wireless portable recently that had a lot of that functionality. Although it didn't import into iCal, it came fully loaded to interface seamlessly with several different event/schedule planners. It's an incredible event planning tool. I usually have trouble getting these things configured, but setup was literally just placing the device in proximity to whatever you need to interface with.
I can't remember the brand name, but I think it was a #2.
Commercial interests can't drive national security issues
I laughed so hard the first time I read this, I just wanted to see it again.
It's even better the second time around.
----
Sorry, I really don't mean to be glib, but the slow and steady merging of national security and commercial interests is alarming, and humor is my Ativan.
serious topics deserve serious consideration, so joking about it often is seen as ineptitude of the joker, no matter how smart or fair they really are.
"But it's also [the jester's] tendency to offer opinions or criticisms using witty or quirkily indirect means—or stunning candor—that would distinguish them from most ministers or advisers" http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/640914in.html
Just as I know who is really going to attend this rally--a bunch college students and DC nerds from the surrounding area. Nothing wrong with that, but not so much by people who have to travel far, unlike Beck's rally.
I believe you will be surprised at the turn-out for this event. A cursory glance around the interwebs suggests many people are planning flights and road trips to attend. I guess we'll just have to wait and see, but I'm in Boston and I'm going, and at least two friends are coming with me. I've only gotten two responses to a craigslist posting so far, but I hope to organize a few more people along the way.
luckily i purchased it from them just a couple weeks ago because i wanted to play it.
i still have the original box and manuals for Master of Magic.
Stardock were trying to make a sequel but were unable to make a deal with Atari, who is sitting on the Master of Magic rights with seemingly no plans to do anything about it.
Yeah, I picked up the Stardock game on release (Elemental: War of Magic), but it's very rough right now. It will be another few months before its "fun factor" can really be assessed.
there are certain things which I don't see why they are considered a form of intelligence.
Then you should study up. I'm sorry, but you're arguing against facts on topics which you don't understand and about which you don't appear to want to learn. I don't really have anything else to say on the topic.
They had a Masters of Magic that would run on a modern system? Awwwww. It sucks that I missed it. Hmm. I'd heard there was a community remake out there somewhere a while back. I wonder what happened to it.
$5.99, bundled with a pre-configured DOSbox which worked perfectly on Windows 7 64x. I just got it a few weeks ago - in under the wire!
Although I appreciate your perspective, all of the things I listed are different kinds of intelligence. I should preface this by saying I am not a professional in the field. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, so you people with letters feel free to jump in.
I thought it was clear from the context that in regards to math I was talking about the ability to work with numbers, not memorize times tables (that's memorization and recall, of course).
Yes, music. Yes, humor. Yes emphaticallyempathy (this is a vital intelligence that is completely absent from public discourse), and yes, athleticism (AKA kinesthetic intelligence).
These are just links I grabbed randomly, but there is significant material that covers them as well. I'm not sure why you are so hostile towards rote memorization. I agree that it is over-emphasized in the current system, but it is an important kind of intelligence.
I don't have the energy to explain why understanding languages is another kind, but it's all out there. Verbal intelligence maybe.
I would never dispute that it is difficult to measure intelligence, I simply stated that there are parameters by which it can be measured - if imperfectly. It sounds as though you are working from the false premise that "Intelligence" is a single fact or feature, but modern science does not support that assessment. Each of these items are separate kinds of intelligences. They are interrelated in different ways, and influence each other, but they are distinct from each other as well.
Math and music, creativity, memorization, conceptualization, logic and critical thinking, humor, aptitude with language and literacy, empathy, cognitive speed, athleticism - IQ is a poor measure of intelligence, but that doesn't mean there aren't ways to measure intelligence at all.
I don't think it's arrogant to admit you are above the mean in one or more of these categories, but it's easy to see how many of them relate to and influence each other. It isn't unreasonable to hypothesize that a single gene might have a broad effect on many of the above categories, although my limited experience suggests they are "clumped" somewhat. I'm no neurophysiologist, but it may be related to structural differences, the most obvious of which may be the left and right hemispheres.
The reality of modern thought on brain structure and intelligence suggests there is a feedback loop between pure biology and behavior/environment. If that is the case, people with lower than average inherent intelligence can actually improve it with behavior, whether it's reading, education, fitness, diet, exposure to individuals with more advanced intellectual capacity, etc.
Agreed. The only people who should be able to ban violent video games for minors are parents.
So what about kids whose parents don't care? The ones without proper parental control are those who need protecting most.
For kids with negligent parents, video games are pretty low on the priority list of problems. I mean, yes, yes, poor parenting can be subjective, but children being locked in the basement and starved isn't exactly Saturday morning cartoons.
Until there's a pill for bad parents, intervention has to start in the community. Government intervention services need to be last on a long list of steps to child safety. Rereading this, it sounds like "think of the children", which I detest. It's really a call to individuals to take responsibility for a community and not just their own brood. In a way, we are all responsible for bad parenting. "Not my problem" isn't working.
I have to go with MindKata on this one, although NPD is hardly the beginning and end of mental illness in modern US society. There is non-trivial correlation between the abysmal state of the individual's ability to acquire and maintain effective mental health care and poor parenting and coping skills.
If we really want to take a serious look at (some of...) the underlying causes of violence and willful ignorance in this country, the trail begins with health insurance companies. In the current system, immediate diagnosis followed by prescription is heavily rewarded, and real psychotherapeutic work is almost entirely unsupported. This system also reinforces a "take a pill, magic cure" style of thinking, both propping up the pharmaceutical industry and allowing people to receive "treatment" without the hard, self-reflective work that is most useful to people with some of the most devastating (and pervasive) illnesses.
Of course, another part of the story is the stigma associated with mental health, reinforced by the stark political caricatures of latte-drinkin San Fran and redneck bible thumper.
Not entirely off-topic, I saw McCain's daughter on Stew-beef last week, and she seems to be ramping up a political career based on bringing the moderate Republicans back to the table. As a queer, latte drinking liberal, I think we all benefit if the moderates start having conversations again, and I strongly encourage people to vote moderate - even if it's across party lines. (Hell, my mom just voted Rep on that basis, and to my horror I congratulated her).
When I sit back and look at it all, I'm amazed at how it all links together, and just how much we are actually empowered to effect change.
Go with Verizon. Your immortal soul, coverage almost everywhere.
When you miss a payment, they claim your soul and put you to work in customer service.
Have you seen their new marketing slogan? "Rule the air!" Add the word 'minions' to the front and it sounds like The Monarch storming the Venture compound.
...any defense mechanism of which you are unaware...
Which is, like, the definition of a defense mechanism.
Religion simply is. You aren't going to wipe it out with your impotent rage. Jesus christ, 18% of Americans still think Galileo was full of shit and the sun really revolves around the earth!
When you come to terms with that, you might be able to do some good in the world. Pointless foaming rhetoric is unproductive and probably harmful to any cause.
And, really, why am I supposed to treat religion different from other mental diseases?
Because it is not.
I disagree. Religion is different from mental illness. It is an existential defense mechanism, alongside denial, projection, sublimation, etc. Like all coping mechanisms, its application can be adaptive or maladaptive to the individual and to society.
Reality is better, but everyone does the best they can.
4- Do some muscular training (Women dig muscle even on an ugly man - just don't overdo it and become some muscle champion, women don't like small dicks)
I'm not a muscle champion and I still have a small dick. What am I supposed to do about that?
Newton barely left Cambridge yet profitably used astronomical data gathered from around the Old and New World.
I should just leave you to the mods, but...
Newton studied astronomy in Cambridge. He didn't put on a blindfold and guess about what the sky might look like. If you have no direct information about a topic, you are not in a position to have an authentic opinion.
I know how to think about something without experiencing it directly. I guess I evolved into a human at some point.
I'm sorry that you see someone advocating for informed opinions and take away the feeling that you are being called subhuman. I don't think that was the intent.
Going on the assumption that you're male, I hope you do understand that sex is the goal of EVERYTHING that you do. It was one of Freud's basic pleasure principles. Sure the guy may have been coked up, but he did have some pretty good insights into the human psych.
We also all have an ego and superego to balance out the pleasure principle. I know you're being funny, but the whole sex-is-life meme really grates on my nerves. Men, maybe American men in particular, seem to enjoy claiming they have no control over their sexuality. I'm sure it's hooked into the US repressive sexuality thing, but it bugs the hell out of me.
Sorry, minor rant. I vote yes on legal, regulated, and taxed prostitution. It's the rational and ethically correct course. Incidentally, that's what I think about cannabis production too, take the money out of Mexico and give it to grandma and grandpa sun-closet.
I'm not optimistic about getting these things adopted any time soon here (U.S.), but it sure would be a big boost to local economies.
>>It's very interesting that you suggest you may have no white ancestry.
I didn't say anything about my ancestry (I have a lot of different ethnicities, in fact), I just found it amusing that a guy automatically assumes that someone named Shaka is white.
I think my point was that if you're American, even if you did have African ancestry, it is probable you also had a white ancestor who supported Jim Crow or slavery. I don't think GP's post assumes anything about your ethnicity.
are you living up to that standard or are you still driving a SUV with a Save ANWR sticker on the bumper?
Your sentiment is nice in theory but your lifestyle likely contradicts it.
Wow, back up there Anono McPreachypants. A ton of people are switching to more fuel efficient vehicles where I live in the US. I sold my car this spring, and I've been incredibly pleased with the exercise and saved money, and I have two friends who did the same thing last winter.
You can bash and point and blame all you like, but ultimately it's about how you live, not anyone else.
My vehicle's OnStar already tracks me, I suspect they still listen in as I talk, possibly read metadata from any burned mp3 cd I might pop in, and then report back to the RIAA or the Club of Rome. Then again, I think everyone's out to get me.
We're not out to get you, we just like your taste in music.
Healthy diet and exercise. Unfortunately, these aren't sold as pills, or at all in America.
I know, science is scary, isn't it? It's lucky that some of us get the luxury of simplistic solutions to real neurophyisological problems. I bet it's nice and safe.
Slashdot Mirror
Last time I checked SMS did not export events in iCalendar format to ensure that all of my other devices are in sync with the planning. Events is the one thing Facebook does better than standard messaging protocols.
I got a great deal on a wireless portable recently that had a lot of that functionality. Although it didn't import into iCal, it came fully loaded to interface seamlessly with several different event/schedule planners. It's an incredible event planning tool. I usually have trouble getting these things configured, but setup was literally just placing the device in proximity to whatever you need to interface with.
I can't remember the brand name, but I think it was a #2.
Commercial interests can't drive national security issues
I laughed so hard the first time I read this, I just wanted to see it again.
It's even better the second time around.
----
Sorry, I really don't mean to be glib, but the slow and steady merging of national security and commercial interests is alarming, and humor is my Ativan.
serious topics deserve serious consideration, so joking about it often is seen as ineptitude of the joker, no matter how smart or fair they really are.
"But it's also [the jester's] tendency to offer opinions or criticisms using witty or quirkily indirect means—or stunning candor—that would distinguish them from most ministers or advisers"
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/640914in.html
Just as I know who is really going to attend this rally--a bunch college students and DC nerds from the surrounding area. Nothing wrong with that, but not so much by people who have to travel far, unlike Beck's rally.
I believe you will be surprised at the turn-out for this event. A cursory glance around the interwebs suggests many people are planning flights and road trips to attend. I guess we'll just have to wait and see, but I'm in Boston and I'm going, and at least two friends are coming with me. I've only gotten two responses to a craigslist posting so far, but I hope to organize a few more people along the way.
Brief Waxman reference:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-july-21-2009/greener-postures
Not sure about funny, but there's a Waxman quote here:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-june-14-2004/war-on-error
The rest aren't jokes about Waxman (he's so goofy looking already... maybe they feel bad?) short segment here:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-october-30-2007/the-house-of-wax
and he was a guest here:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-august-4-2009/henry-waxman
Pelosi:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-may-12-2009/waffle-house
This is a great example, he smacks Pelosi.
And an Obama mocking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2P2innj12c
It's true he covers more Republicans unfavorably, but the numbers are closer than people think:
http://www.journalism.org/node/10953
Henry Waxman, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama have all been lampooned on the Daily Show. The GP's argument is invalid.
Google, baby. It's what's for dinner.
Also, I want to have Jon Stewart's love child.
luckily i purchased it from them just a couple weeks ago because i wanted to play it.
i still have the original box and manuals for Master of Magic.
Stardock were trying to make a sequel but were unable to make a deal with Atari, who is sitting on the Master of Magic rights with seemingly no plans to do anything about it.
Yeah, I picked up the Stardock game on release (Elemental: War of Magic), but it's very rough right now. It will be another few months before its "fun factor" can really be assessed.
there are certain things which I don't see why they are considered a form of intelligence.
Then you should study up. I'm sorry, but you're arguing against facts on topics which you don't understand and about which you don't appear to want to learn. I don't really have anything else to say on the topic.
Best luck,
Stone
They had a Masters of Magic that would run on a modern system? Awwwww. It sucks that I missed it.
Hmm. I'd heard there was a community remake out there somewhere a while back. I wonder what happened to it.
$5.99, bundled with a pre-configured DOSbox which worked perfectly on Windows 7 64x. I just got it a few weeks ago - in under the wire!
Although I appreciate your perspective, all of the things I listed are different kinds of intelligence. I should preface this by saying I am not a professional in the field. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, so you people with letters feel free to jump in.
I thought it was clear from the context that in regards to math I was talking about the ability to work with numbers, not memorize times tables (that's memorization and recall, of course).
Yes, music. Yes, humor. Yes emphatically empathy (this is a vital intelligence that is completely absent from public discourse), and yes, athleticism (AKA kinesthetic intelligence).
These are just links I grabbed randomly, but there is significant material that covers them as well. I'm not sure why you are so hostile towards rote memorization. I agree that it is over-emphasized in the current system, but it is an important kind of intelligence.
I don't have the energy to explain why understanding languages is another kind, but it's all out there. Verbal intelligence maybe.
I would never dispute that it is difficult to measure intelligence, I simply stated that there are parameters by which it can be measured - if imperfectly. It sounds as though you are working from the false premise that "Intelligence" is a single fact or feature, but modern science does not support that assessment. Each of these items are separate kinds of intelligences. They are interrelated in different ways, and influence each other, but they are distinct from each other as well.
Regards,
Stone
Math and music, creativity, memorization, conceptualization, logic and critical thinking, humor, aptitude with language and literacy, empathy, cognitive speed, athleticism - IQ is a poor measure of intelligence, but that doesn't mean there aren't ways to measure intelligence at all.
I don't think it's arrogant to admit you are above the mean in one or more of these categories, but it's easy to see how many of them relate to and influence each other. It isn't unreasonable to hypothesize that a single gene might have a broad effect on many of the above categories, although my limited experience suggests they are "clumped" somewhat. I'm no neurophysiologist, but it may be related to structural differences, the most obvious of which may be the left and right hemispheres.
The reality of modern thought on brain structure and intelligence suggests there is a feedback loop between pure biology and behavior/environment. If that is the case, people with lower than average inherent intelligence can actually improve it with behavior, whether it's reading, education, fitness, diet, exposure to individuals with more advanced intellectual capacity, etc.
So what about kids whose parents don't care? The ones without proper parental control are those who need protecting most.
For kids with negligent parents, video games are pretty low on the priority list of problems. I mean, yes, yes, poor parenting can be subjective, but children being locked in the basement and starved isn't exactly Saturday morning cartoons.
Until there's a pill for bad parents, intervention has to start in the community. Government intervention services need to be last on a long list of steps to child safety. Rereading this, it sounds like "think of the children", which I detest. It's really a call to individuals to take responsibility for a community and not just their own brood. In a way, we are all responsible for bad parenting. "Not my problem" isn't working.
I have to go with MindKata on this one, although NPD is hardly the beginning and end of mental illness in modern US society. There is non-trivial correlation between the abysmal state of the individual's ability to acquire and maintain effective mental health care and poor parenting and coping skills.
If we really want to take a serious look at (some of...) the underlying causes of violence and willful ignorance in this country, the trail begins with health insurance companies. In the current system, immediate diagnosis followed by prescription is heavily rewarded, and real psychotherapeutic work is almost entirely unsupported. This system also reinforces a "take a pill, magic cure" style of thinking, both propping up the pharmaceutical industry and allowing people to receive "treatment" without the hard, self-reflective work that is most useful to people with some of the most devastating (and pervasive) illnesses.
Of course, another part of the story is the stigma associated with mental health, reinforced by the stark political caricatures of latte-drinkin San Fran and redneck bible thumper.
Not entirely off-topic, I saw McCain's daughter on Stew-beef last week, and she seems to be ramping up a political career based on bringing the moderate Republicans back to the table. As a queer, latte drinking liberal, I think we all benefit if the moderates start having conversations again, and I strongly encourage people to vote moderate - even if it's across party lines. (Hell, my mom just voted Rep on that basis, and to my horror I congratulated her).
When I sit back and look at it all, I'm amazed at how it all links together, and just how much we are actually empowered to effect change.
Go with Verizon. Your immortal soul, coverage almost everywhere.
When you miss a payment, they claim your soul and put you to work in customer service.
Have you seen their new marketing slogan? "Rule the air!" Add the word 'minions' to the front and it sounds like The Monarch storming the Venture compound.
...any defense mechanism of which you are unaware...
Which is, like, the definition of a defense mechanism.
Religion simply is. You aren't going to wipe it out with your impotent rage. Jesus christ, 18% of Americans still think Galileo was full of shit and the sun really revolves around the earth!
When you come to terms with that, you might be able to do some good in the world. Pointless foaming rhetoric is unproductive and probably harmful to any cause.
HTH
And, really, why am I supposed to treat religion different from other mental diseases?
Because it is not.
I disagree. Religion is different from mental illness. It is an existential defense mechanism, alongside denial, projection, sublimation, etc. Like all coping mechanisms, its application can be adaptive or maladaptive to the individual and to society.
Reality is better, but everyone does the best they can.
4- Do some muscular training (Women dig muscle even on an ugly man - just don't overdo it and become some muscle champion, women don't like small dicks)
I'm not a muscle champion and I still have a small dick. What am I supposed to do about that?
Buy tiny furniture.
I propose forcing women to think like computers instead of like women. They would be much easier to interact with.
Given that your reaction to an unrelated article is a misogynistic 'joke,' the difficulties in your relations with women might not be on their end.
Aww c'mon, mod this up, she got him good :D
He was saying he had trouble interacting with women, and she kicked him in the teeth. That's not a win for feminism.
I mean make it safe and legal.
Indeed! Hear, hear. To paraphrase former U.S. President Bill Clinton, it should be safe, legal, and common.
Newton barely left Cambridge yet profitably used astronomical data gathered from around the Old and New World.
I should just leave you to the mods, but...
Newton studied astronomy in Cambridge. He didn't put on a blindfold and guess about what the sky might look like. If you have no direct information about a topic, you are not in a position to have an authentic opinion.
I know how to think about something without experiencing it directly. I guess I evolved into a human at some point.
I'm sorry that you see someone advocating for informed opinions and take away the feeling that you are being called subhuman. I don't think that was the intent.
"I've not considered having sex a goal"
Going on the assumption that you're male, I hope you do understand that sex is the goal of EVERYTHING that you do. It was one of Freud's basic pleasure principles. Sure the guy may have been coked up, but he did have some pretty good insights into the human psych.
We also all have an ego and superego to balance out the pleasure principle. I know you're being funny, but the whole sex-is-life meme really grates on my nerves. Men, maybe American men in particular, seem to enjoy claiming they have no control over their sexuality. I'm sure it's hooked into the US repressive sexuality thing, but it bugs the hell out of me.
Sorry, minor rant. I vote yes on legal, regulated, and taxed prostitution. It's the rational and ethically correct course. Incidentally, that's what I think about cannabis production too, take the money out of Mexico and give it to grandma and grandpa sun-closet.
I'm not optimistic about getting these things adopted any time soon here (U.S.), but it sure would be a big boost to local economies.
>>It's very interesting that you suggest you may have no white ancestry.
I didn't say anything about my ancestry (I have a lot of different ethnicities, in fact), I just found it amusing that a guy automatically assumes that someone named Shaka is white.
I think my point was that if you're American, even if you did have African ancestry, it is probable you also had a white ancestor who supported Jim Crow or slavery. I don't think GP's post assumes anything about your ethnicity.
+1 Pedantic, I guess. Oh well!
are you living up to that standard or are you still driving a SUV with a Save ANWR sticker on the bumper?
Your sentiment is nice in theory but your lifestyle likely contradicts it.
Wow, back up there Anono McPreachypants. A ton of people are switching to more fuel efficient vehicles where I live in the US. I sold my car this spring, and I've been incredibly pleased with the exercise and saved money, and I have two friends who did the same thing last winter.
You can bash and point and blame all you like, but ultimately it's about how you live, not anyone else.
>>Do you know that your great-grandparents, and their parents, enforced Jim Crow?
It's very interesting you assume I'm white.
It's very interesting that you suggest you may have no white ancestry.
"You bought a car, so we're tracking you"
My vehicle's OnStar already tracks me, I suspect they still listen in as I talk, possibly read metadata from any burned mp3 cd I might pop in, and then report back to the RIAA or the Club of Rome. Then again, I think everyone's out to get me.
We're not out to get you, we just like your taste in music.
Healthy diet and exercise. Unfortunately, these aren't sold as pills, or at all in America.
I know, science is scary, isn't it? It's lucky that some of us get the luxury of simplistic solutions to real neurophyisological problems. I bet it's nice and safe.