The ills our society suffers today are due more to permissiveness and lack of responsibility than any imagined affects of "abuse".
Nice way not to cite said ills. I'd call the ills of society these days (1) a high prison population, (2) collapsing economy, (3) health care cost increases that exceed the rate of inflation by 100%, (4) deteriorating investment in public education, (5) a near double-digit unemployment, and (6) a steady and very expensive rise in chronic disease. So how does a lack of corporal punishment produce these ills? (Unless you are referring to the fact that we need to beat a few legislators that have served over the past 30 years.)
I'm a guy who doesn't see anything good having come from the Internet. Period.'
"Period." is not a sentence. I guess we can expect this lack of grammatical acuity from the same type of person who doesn't have enough imagination to use the internet to increase his company's profit. It's called "innovation". Sony should replace this guy with someone who grasps the concept.
An interesting expletive, is it British or Australian English?
The "shitcock" is a nesting bird primarily located in the northern hemisphere. It is closely related to the "fucktwit" in that both are members of Phasianidae family of birds. While not known for their intelligence, they are considerably smarter than the common wog of the order Galliformes.
Male shitcocks and fucktwits can be identified by a peculiar ability to act annoying and sometimes even hostile. Such behavior and a similar appearance often evokes comparisons to wogs despite their only distant relation. These activities are associated with mating patterns and are surprisingly affective at attracting the female members of the species.
It's called "ideas". You might have heard of them during your job as a postal worker. Here are some of these "ideas", as we call them, that arose during daydreaming sessions: PCR, calculus, assembly lines, printing press. See, these *must* be "ideas", as we call them, because similar technology must exist. Here is the oft-quoted story of PCR ripped from wikipedia:
That spring, according to Mullis, he was driving his vehicle late one night with his girlfriend, who was also a chemist at Cetus, when he had the idea to use a pair of primers to bracket the desired DNA sequence and to copy it using DNA polymerase, a technique which would allow a small strand of DNA to be copied almost an infinite number of times.
For PCR, Mullis got the Nobel prize. This is in sharp contrast to your lack of a Nobel prize.
What's the matter... he's afraid that after patenting too much obvious and frivolous stuff like robot competition rules, they'll start telling him... duhhhh, this is too obvious dude:) ?
He's not afraid at all now that he's filed for a patent on the process of rejecting a patent. When it gets granted, you can be sure he won't license it to the USPO.
Grad school was first choice for a career. The others didn't seem like long term practical careers. In hindsight, you still have time to launch a more practical career when you are 30.
This is why I submitted the advice here. I'm not complaining about my fate. "Why" is an easy question to ask after the fact but a difficult one to answer. As a young person with only doubt on the horizon, one's perspective is limited and practicality weighs heavily on one's decisions.
No. The NSA doesn't run Linux so they don't know how to attack it. You have to log in with that text thingy and then type some stuff to get it to do what you want. The other kind of OS with the pictures of things works much better. You can point at the pictures and click them and it does what you want. If no one at the NSA runs Linux, how do you expect them to write a virus for it? It's obvious why it won because it is an underrepresented OS that no one uses anyway.
How old are you? Think about this: you are going to die. You can go to grad school when you are in your 30's (apostrophe nazis can fuck themselves). If you are still in your 20's, make a dream list if you don't get into grad school. Here was mine at 23:
Jet Fighter Pilot
Struggling Pro Soccer Player in Europe
Struggling Folk Singer in Europe
Now pick one and do it. In a few years when you can't take the painful vagabond existence or high pressure of your dream career, go to grad school. After I made my list, you know what happened? I got into grad school. Worst thing that could have happened to me.
Thanks Mr. Sanders, my 8th grade history teacher. Now we know we can't vote about being able to go to recess early. I'm glad you cleared that up.
Seriously, Searphim, where does knowledge come from? How does it get disseminated? Please use complete sentences and good grammar while you think about it. "The Bible" is not a correct answer, so I'll save you some embarrassment there.
Another totally irrelevant car analogy. WTF is it with people here that they can't think about anything -- software, laptops, relationships -- unless they can put it "in the automotive world"?
You got me. I don't understand it either. Most of these guys who make these stupid automotive comparisons are like confused idiots driving around and totally lost. I guess they think they can get a lot of mileage out of car analogies. But if you ask me, they are running on empty.
In this case, the thrill-seeking aspect of his personality meant that the smarts were dedicated to achieving difficult but spectacularly stupid accomplishments.
Depends on what you call stupid. What have you done with your life? Louis and Clark probably trespassed across someone's property while they were exploring. So did Henry Hudson, and Amerigo Vespucci;-). Galileo did something real stupid: he pissed off the Pope. Jesus got his ass nailed to a cross. Not very smart by your standards.
It's kind of like that one kids dad who picks him up at school wearing baggy pants and a hoodie. It not only doesn't work, it's embarrassing for those who have to see it.
Mostly it just makes him look like either a pedophile or a serial killer.
Mostly it makes him look just as stupid as all the kids wearing baggy pants and a hoodie.
A maliciously named file does nothing on its own, only when a user double-clicks it does it turn bad.
This is true, but people are more or less expect an OS not to had maliciousness from them. I found a pretty good video describing user expectations and how these play out in a security setting. I think the conclusions of the study are profound.
I could "use public transportation." I'd still drive 5 miles roundtrip to the station every day.
The idea is that you investigate where you live before you move there and then make sure your living situation is public transportation friendly. In LA, it saves me a truckload of money, mostly on parking.
Most people dont' think like this. That's why you get traffic *both ways* during rush hour. The poor bastards ought to swap houses.
Name: Grammar Nazi Cult Established: 1383 Gathering of the Tribe: Internet Comment Forums Major Diety: Geoffrey Chaucer Sacred Relic: Strunk and White The Antichrist: The Apostrophe Between "t" and "s" in the Word "it's" When "it's" is used as a posessive Purpose: Annoy Everyone not in the Cult
I'm guessing the problem with Downward Spiral is that it has the song "Closer" on it, which contains the lyrics "You let me penetrate you... You let me violate you" and "I want to fuck you like an animal"
Before I perfected my skills as a Casanova, I tried to sing this song as a ballad to the object of my unrequited love. Needless to say, it didn't have the effect I hoped for.
The only way to create the digital readout is an analog to digital routine. Now that routine must sure be in hexadecimal if not octal when compressed by the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm. Considering the routine must have at some point been expressed as assembly, or at least directly translatable into assembly via machine code, there is no way such compression could produce a byte order that would be consistent with the Fourier coefficients. This suggests that the original programmers must have surely misused the Schwartzian Transform, resulting in an expected false positive rate.
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The ills our society suffers today are due more to permissiveness and lack of responsibility than any imagined affects of "abuse".
Nice way not to cite said ills. I'd call the ills of society these days (1) a high prison population, (2) collapsing economy, (3) health care cost increases that exceed the rate of inflation by 100%, (4) deteriorating investment in public education, (5) a near double-digit unemployment, and (6) a steady and very expensive rise in chronic disease. So how does a lack of corporal punishment produce these ills? (Unless you are referring to the fact that we need to beat a few legislators that have served over the past 30 years.)
I'm a guy who doesn't see anything good having come from the Internet. Period.'
"Period." is not a sentence. I guess we can expect this lack of grammatical acuity from the same type of person who doesn't have enough imagination to use the internet to increase his company's profit. It's called "innovation". Sony should replace this guy with someone who grasps the concept.
you wog-brained shitcock.
An interesting expletive, is it British or Australian English?
The "shitcock" is a nesting bird primarily located in the northern hemisphere. It is closely related to the "fucktwit" in that both are members of Phasianidae family of birds. While not known for their intelligence, they are considerably smarter than the common wog of the order Galliformes.
Male shitcocks and fucktwits can be identified by a peculiar ability to act annoying and sometimes even hostile. Such behavior and a similar appearance often evokes comparisons to wogs despite their only distant relation. These activities are associated with mating patterns and are surprisingly affective at attracting the female members of the species.
I might look into buying a cheap 20GB laptop hard drive, installing ubuntu
Use a USB stick and then incinerate it. It is very hard to recover data from an incinerated USB stick.
How about we start shooting people who can't recognize jokes. Sheesh.
Then who would mod for slashdot?
'Distal goals', eh?
It's called "ideas". You might have heard of them during your job as a postal worker. Here are some of these "ideas", as we call them, that arose during daydreaming sessions: PCR, calculus, assembly lines, printing press. See, these *must* be "ideas", as we call them, because similar technology must exist. Here is the oft-quoted story of PCR ripped from wikipedia:
That spring, according to Mullis, he was driving his vehicle late one night with his girlfriend, who was also a chemist at Cetus, when he had the idea to use a pair of primers to bracket the desired DNA sequence and to copy it using DNA polymerase, a technique which would allow a small strand of DNA to be copied almost an infinite number of times.
For PCR, Mullis got the Nobel prize. This is in sharp contrast to your lack of a Nobel prize.
So yes. Distal goals.
What's the matter... he's afraid that after patenting too much obvious and frivolous stuff like robot competition rules, they'll start telling him... duhhhh, this is too obvious dude :) ?
He's not afraid at all now that he's filed for a patent on the process of rejecting a patent. When it gets granted, you can be sure he won't license it to the USPO.
If you did, why did you go?
Grad school was first choice for a career. The others didn't seem like long term practical careers. In hindsight, you still have time to launch a more practical career when you are 30.
This is why I submitted the advice here. I'm not complaining about my fate. "Why" is an easy question to ask after the fact but a difficult one to answer. As a young person with only doubt on the horizon, one's perspective is limited and practicality weighs heavily on one's decisions.
Anyone surprised by the OS choice of the winner?
No. The NSA doesn't run Linux so they don't know how to attack it. You have to log in with that text thingy and then type some stuff to get it to do what you want. The other kind of OS with the pictures of things works much better. You can point at the pictures and click them and it does what you want. If no one at the NSA runs Linux, how do you expect them to write a virus for it? It's obvious why it won because it is an underrepresented OS that no one uses anyway.
How old are you? Think about this: you are going to die. You can go to grad school when you are in your 30's (apostrophe nazis can fuck themselves). If you are still in your 20's, make a dream list if you don't get into grad school. Here was mine at 23:
Now pick one and do it. In a few years when you can't take the painful vagabond existence or high pressure of your dream career, go to grad school. After I made my list, you know what happened? I got into grad school. Worst thing that could have happened to me.
Education is not a democracy.
Thanks Mr. Sanders, my 8th grade history teacher. Now we know we can't vote about being able to go to recess early. I'm glad you cleared that up.
Seriously, Searphim, where does knowledge come from? How does it get disseminated? Please use complete sentences and good grammar while you think about it. "The Bible" is not a correct answer, so I'll save you some embarrassment there.
Another totally irrelevant car analogy. WTF is it with people here that they can't think about anything -- software, laptops, relationships -- unless they can put it "in the automotive world"?
You got me. I don't understand it either. Most of these guys who make these stupid automotive comparisons are like confused idiots driving around and totally lost. I guess they think they can get a lot of mileage out of car analogies. But if you ask me, they are running on empty.
Any intro to psych course includes education on what a few of the major neurochemicals do and their role in defining who "you" are.
So will attendance at a Dead show with a few dubious "friends".
You're projecting some serious assumptions about how I value accomplishments.
What's-his-name's accomplishments were stupid because they were simultaneously low value by how I define value and high risk.
Fixed that for you. You probably also meant "stupid by my [as in your] subjective and highly moral(istic) standards".
In this case, the thrill-seeking aspect of his personality meant that the smarts were dedicated to achieving difficult but spectacularly stupid accomplishments.
Depends on what you call stupid. What have you done with your life? Louis and Clark probably trespassed across someone's property while they were exploring. So did Henry Hudson, and Amerigo Vespucci ;-). Galileo did something real stupid: he pissed off the Pope. Jesus got his ass nailed to a cross. Not very smart by your standards.
You're buying the bombs? Jesus H. Fucking Christ, you must be rich!
I patented the non-meeting. All group communication is now done by text messaging or twitter. Productivity jumped 140%.
It's kind of like that one kids dad who picks him up at school wearing baggy pants and a hoodie. It not only doesn't work, it's embarrassing for those who have to see it.
Mostly it just makes him look like either a pedophile or a serial killer.
Mostly it makes him look just as stupid as all the kids wearing baggy pants and a hoodie.
A maliciously named file does nothing on its own, only when a user double-clicks it does it turn bad.
This is true, but people are more or less expect an OS not to had maliciousness from them. I found a pretty good video describing user expectations and how these play out in a security setting. I think the conclusions of the study are profound.
I could "use public transportation." I'd still drive 5 miles roundtrip to the station every day.
The idea is that you investigate where you live before you move there and then make sure your living situation is public transportation friendly. In LA, it saves me a truckload of money, mostly on parking.
Most people dont' think like this. That's why you get traffic *both ways* during rush hour. The poor bastards ought to swap houses.
Strict rules of spelling and grammar didn't come in until hundreds of years after Chaucer.
The seeds of the grammar nazi religion were sown when the English vernacular was first scrawled to page. What happened after is merely history.
Ah, the cult of grammar Nazi's.
Name: Grammar Nazi Cult
Established: 1383
Gathering of the Tribe: Internet Comment Forums
Major Diety: Geoffrey Chaucer
Sacred Relic: Strunk and White
The Antichrist: The Apostrophe Between "t" and "s" in the Word "it's" When "it's" is used as a posessive
Purpose: Annoy Everyone not in the Cult
I'm guessing the problem with Downward Spiral is that it has the song "Closer" on it, which contains the lyrics "You let me penetrate you... You let me violate you" and "I want to fuck you like an animal"
Before I perfected my skills as a Casanova, I tried to sing this song as a ballad to the object of my unrequited love. Needless to say, it didn't have the effect I hoped for.
Which of those links has TFA in question? 140 bytes of twitter? A you tube video. WTF is so bad about "downward spiral"? I'd RTFA if there was one.
Judge: What do you think might be wrong with it?
The only way to create the digital readout is an analog to digital routine. Now that routine must sure be in hexadecimal if not octal when compressed by the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm. Considering the routine must have at some point been expressed as assembly, or at least directly translatable into assembly via machine code, there is no way such compression could produce a byte order that would be consistent with the Fourier coefficients. This suggests that the original programmers must have surely misused the Schwartzian Transform, resulting in an expected false positive rate.