Also, while not a big town, you're not going to get much more progressive than Asheville. It's a great town, and I recommend checking it out if you get the chance.
Except for those Chocolate peeple, eh? You forget, they have to travel through those less progressive places to get to your isle of tranquility.
It will be generations before North Carolina lives down their Interstate 95 welcoming poster put up by the Ku Klux Klan.
I thought there could be no program name worse than "No Child Left Behind"
I was wrong. So, so wrong.
I wonder though, how are they going to tackle the girls discouraging other girls aspect of social interaction?
That never seems to be addressed. Instead we get these incredibly weak examples of male based microagressions that work to prove the exact wrong thing about women.
Where a Playboy model's face or building's air conditioning system manages to turn passionate science minded women away from that sort of career, but the constant badgering or other girls does not?
All of which is to say that if you want to cure a problem, you have to look in the right place for the answer.
My camera, phone, and tablet do not have USB ports.
My camera has a little card I put into my computer, my Phone automatically loads it's pictures via bluetooth
My USB drive point was that 5 Gbytes or 15 Gbytes is probably the amount of files I have in my trash at any given moment. It means absolutely nothing.It is of absolutely no use to me.
I need way more than 32/64/128 GB at a time. It starts adding up fast.
No kidding. Would you agree that my point is that that 5 or 15 Gbytes is laughingly useless?
Cloud is the future and you're being a pedantic dinosaur on purpose.
When they can give me multiple terabytes of storage that I can pay the same price as my drives - total? I'll think about it.
Yea, because a thumb drive automatically syncs to your various PCs, tablets, and phones. And replicates itself to different geographical areas and keeps previous versions and backups. Yep, it's clearly the same as a DVD or a thumb drive.
First world problem, sir.
Sarcasm rant follows...
One time, I damn near died from the stress and exhaustion involved when I had to manually load in something from a thumb drive. Can you believe, it? First I had to put it into the USB slot, which is way too complicated - I even had to look for the USB slot. I cried a little by this point. Then a very confusing screen popped up, asking me what I wanted to do. Holy hell! How would I know? So after what seemed like forever, I chose to open it. I was sweating bullets by this time. Then there were these things on the screen! I had no idea what to do, so I went to my Facebook to find out. Did you know those damn computer geeks have these things they call files? Who knew? I clicked on it. Nothing happened. I clicked again. Still nothing happened. Finally I got really pissed at the utter unfairness, the ridiculous inconvenience, and in frustration clicked twice probably because I was shaking with anger.. Then it opened the file. What the hell? One click should always be enough That was.25 seconds of my life I won't get back. It should be criminal I tell you
Secondly, fifteen gigabytes is the equivalent of three blank DVDs, a ninety-cent value! This is a battle over ninety cents.
Yeah. 15 Gb is so small as to be insignificant, 5 is pointless. Easier to buy a thumb drive and use that for storage. At least the thumb drive won't decide one day to only allow you to store a third of what it was allowing you to store.
Not bullshit, no. A reasonable assumption is that usage falls on a curve of some kind and that the peak value is probably not everybody using all 15Gb.
And it makes as many friends as overbooking airplane flights does. All over a thumbs drive worth of storage.
It's just a business decision for them.
Apparently one that wasn't so popular either. And no tragedy of commons needed in this case.
The bean counters who may have decided they should cut this storage in half - did they consider the effects of popularity? Did they not consider that some users would use all their space? Where were they during the initial stages of this
Bean counters are very good at bottom lines - even when those bottom lines are destructive to the goal.
I have no dog in this fight. I don't use any Microsoft cloud solution in my Windows machines, and only use "find my Mac/iPhone on my OSX machines.
And this is an example of why. My storage devices, under my control, do not resize themselves, or go away, or change the terms for allowing me to store my data and backups on them.
What, for you, would count as knowing what it is? I'm curious. We're just going to add more and more known properties. We're never going to hold or see the stuff.
It's quite possible it isn't anything we could hold. But we cannot hold or see gravity either. Only it's effects. But we're certain beyond any reasonable doubt that it does exist.
Yeah, I saw that one as well. Not that he's likely to get the nomination, but I for one am tired of religious nuts getting good American men and women killed for their end of of the world lust. His support os the huge increase isn't actually support. He just wants to kill the bill.
Hey, how about the citations of the papers that interoduce real world tested and verified String theory proofs.
I already stated that string theory probably has falsifiable elements now. They just can't be falsified now.
Great bolshy yarblockos! The existence of Yaweh or the Flying Spaghetti monster fits completely within your scientific framework. They just can't be falsified now. So as soon as we are advanced enough they will.
Come on, khallow you can do better than that.
Ted Cruz used to be the Republican candidate who I considered the most arrogant, and most annoying to listen to (he started running for president years ago!).
Sometimes things change.
You better check his plans - He's a dominionist Whic means his plan is to declare war on most everyone he doesn't like, and distribute their money to himself and other dominioinists.
Occupations, kings and priests reigning over the earth. Ted his son. is in their reckoning, a king. at 1:08:20, he outlines what Ted's plan is. "Kings who are annointed to take Dominion. Kings who are annointed to go to war, win the war, and bring the spoils of war to the priests. So the work of the Kingdom of God could be accomplished.
So if you want neverending war, with people who believe that it is their duty as commanded by God to go to war - Teddy boy is your man. By teh way, that war is not only in foreign lands - it's here as well.
Pastor Cruz's sermon sounds a whole lot like the kooks they want to go to war with. Except that they think a whole lot of Americans are kooks.
That's incorrect. We observe 3+1 spacetime and the observed symmetries of the non-gravitational forces (electromagnetism, weak force, strong force) introduce the other 6 dimensions. This has nothing to do with string theory. It's real world physics.
Hey, how about the citations of the papers that interoduce real world tested and verified String theory proofs.
And if it is real world proven now, with falsifiable elements, why are so many of you asking for the falsifiable aspects to be removed?
Actually it means "something that has mass, doesn't interact electromagnetically, doesn't directly interact with normal matter or itself other than with gravitation and maybe weak-force interactions, and doesn't move particularly fast". We know some of its properties, and have some ideas of what it might be in more detail.
Right. That's how we know there is something there - because of those effects - but we don't know what it is. I see no contradiction.
I would also add "Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy" are the aether of the 21st century.
Dark matter is a highly scientific and technical term that means "We don't know"
Seriously.
Why is nonsense like this modded insightful?
If we "don't know", then dark matter and the theories around it would make no useful predictions. But seeing how they do make predictions, are backed by observations, and have so far held up to scrutiny then your claim of "fancy term for we don't know" doesn't hold a lot of water.
How about you toddle off to your local college/university and dig up a few research articles on the subject. There is a whole lot more to dark matter than what you've been exposed to on Slashdot.
While I respect your right to reject it, There are many things that we do not know for certain. And whether you like ot or not, The real physicists will tell you exctly what I wrote.
Because the only way you can call it nonsense with any degree of veracity is to in the following sentence explain exactly what dark matter is.
"Dark Matter" is merely a couple words that are used to describe the effects of something that is having an action that is observable, but not explicitly known as to exactly what it is.
Is it neutrinos? Maybe. Is it some other particle as yet unknown? Possible. Is it cosmic silly string? Not likely, but possibly.
What we do know is that there is something going on that is difficult to explain using current cosmology. Since we do not know what that is, but do know that something is going on, we come up with a term.
Slashdot Mirror
Also, while not a big town, you're not going to get much more progressive than Asheville. It's a great town, and I recommend checking it out if you get the chance.
Except for those Chocolate peeple, eh? You forget, they have to travel through those less progressive places to get to your isle of tranquility.
It will be generations before North Carolina lives down their Interstate 95 welcoming poster put up by the Ku Klux Klan.
http://slothed.com/2014/01/13/...
"Another resident -- a retired science teacher, no less "
Umm, about that public education
This is North Carolina, they use the faith based science model.
Please, please don't judge North Carolina by these rubes.
Remember that KKK billboard along Interstate 95 that used used to greet us when we went into progressive North Carolina?
http://slothed.com/2014/01/13/...
Quick - someone tell those people that if they don't plug something into every outlet, all the electricity will leak out!
The UK as a less regulated environment? Is this April first, or did I accidentally get to the Onion?
So now that women have their own safe space we can expect some amazing innovation to follow. But if we don't, I wonder what the next excuse will be?
Spherical Cows?
Eating meat is about the most destructive thing we do to the environment by far
I hadn't heard this one before. I guess we all had better stick to alfalfa sprouts and organic broccoli.
Tell me, in that perfect green world, is fish permissible?
Or maybe the best thing would be for everyone to just die off and restore the balance?
If a basic trait that humans have evolved to have is destructive to the environment, then the problem doesn't lie with eating meat.
Too many people is the problem. We are no more evil for eating meat than any other predator.
If we could genetically modify cows to fart helium 3 instead of methane, we could use their gas to power fusion reactors.
Spherical floating farting cows, and no doubt!
Yeah, have you seen the way they eat? No manners, smacking their lips and making all those disgusting crunching sounds.
I think T-Rex's greatest survival strategy was they had to have a lot of Sex, because their arms were too short to masturbate.
1. 1% of dinos could fly. 2. Asteroid hit earth 3. 99.9% of dinos died 4. 100% of all dinos can fly. 5. ?? 6. BIRDIES!
We luvz us our Birdies, but not all of them fly.
I was wrong. So, so wrong.
I wonder though, how are they going to tackle the girls discouraging other girls aspect of social interaction?
That never seems to be addressed. Instead we get these incredibly weak examples of male based microagressions that work to prove the exact wrong thing about women.
Where a Playboy model's face or building's air conditioning system manages to turn passionate science minded women away from that sort of career, but the constant badgering or other girls does not?
All of which is to say that if you want to cure a problem, you have to look in the right place for the answer.
My camera, phone, and tablet do not have USB ports.
My camera has a little card I put into my computer, my Phone automatically loads it's pictures via bluetooth
My USB drive point was that 5 Gbytes or 15 Gbytes is probably the amount of files I have in my trash at any given moment. It means absolutely nothing.It is of absolutely no use to me.
I need way more than 32/64/128 GB at a time. It starts adding up fast.
No kidding. Would you agree that my point is that that 5 or 15 Gbytes is laughingly useless?
Cloud is the future and you're being a pedantic dinosaur on purpose.
When they can give me multiple terabytes of storage that I can pay the same price as my drives - total? I'll think about it.
Yea, because a thumb drive automatically syncs to your various PCs, tablets, and phones. And replicates itself to different geographical areas and keeps previous versions and backups. Yep, it's clearly the same as a DVD or a thumb drive.
First world problem, sir.
Sarcasm rant follows...
One time, I damn near died from the stress and exhaustion involved when I had to manually load in something from a thumb drive. Can you believe, it? First I had to put it into the USB slot, which is way too complicated - I even had to look for the USB slot. I cried a little by this point. Then a very confusing screen popped up, asking me what I wanted to do. Holy hell! How would I know? So after what seemed like forever, I chose to open it. I was sweating bullets by this time. Then there were these things on the screen! I had no idea what to do, so I went to my Facebook to find out. Did you know those damn computer geeks have these things they call files? Who knew? I clicked on it. Nothing happened. I clicked again. Still nothing happened. Finally I got really pissed at the utter unfairness, the ridiculous inconvenience, and in frustration clicked twice probably because I was shaking with anger.. Then it opened the file. What the hell? One click should always be enough That was .25 seconds of my life I won't get back. It should be criminal I tell you
Secondly, fifteen gigabytes is the equivalent of three blank DVDs, a ninety-cent value! This is a battle over ninety cents.
Yeah. 15 Gb is so small as to be insignificant, 5 is pointless. Easier to buy a thumb drive and use that for storage. At least the thumb drive won't decide one day to only allow you to store a third of what it was allowing you to store.
Not bullshit, no. A reasonable assumption is that usage falls on a curve of some kind and that the peak value is probably not everybody using all 15Gb.
And it makes as many friends as overbooking airplane flights does. All over a thumbs drive worth of storage.
It's just a business decision for them.
Apparently one that wasn't so popular either. And no tragedy of commons needed in this case.
The bean counters who may have decided they should cut this storage in half - did they consider the effects of popularity? Did they not consider that some users would use all their space? Where were they during the initial stages of this
Bean counters are very good at bottom lines - even when those bottom lines are destructive to the goal.
I have no dog in this fight. I don't use any Microsoft cloud solution in my Windows machines, and only use "find my Mac/iPhone on my OSX machines.
And this is an example of why. My storage devices, under my control, do not resize themselves, or go away, or change the terms for allowing me to store my data and backups on them.
What, for you, would count as knowing what it is? I'm curious. We're just going to add more and more known properties. We're never going to hold or see the stuff.
It's quite possible it isn't anything we could hold. But we cannot hold or see gravity either. Only it's effects. But we're certain beyond any reasonable doubt that it does exist.
FYI, this is where I explain my comment in more detail.
Yeah, I saw that one as well. Not that he's likely to get the nomination, but I for one am tired of religious nuts getting good American men and women killed for their end of of the world lust. His support os the huge increase isn't actually support. He just wants to kill the bill.
Hey, how about the citations of the papers that interoduce real world tested and verified String theory proofs.
I already stated that string theory probably has falsifiable elements now. They just can't be falsified now.
Great bolshy yarblockos! The existence of Yaweh or the Flying Spaghetti monster fits completely within your scientific framework. They just can't be falsified now. So as soon as we are advanced enough they will. Come on, khallow you can do better than that.
But give glasses to a politician and they still can't find their own nuts.
Larry Craig Republican senator from Minnesota has a good idea where his are.
Ted Cruz used to be the Republican candidate who I considered the most arrogant, and most annoying to listen to (he started running for president years ago!). Sometimes things change.
You better check his plans - He's a dominionist Whic means his plan is to declare war on most everyone he doesn't like, and distribute their money to himself and other dominioinists.
You better see just what you are supporting here.
It's long and nauseating, so your man starts at the 1:02:48 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Occupations, kings and priests reigning over the earth. Ted his son. is in their reckoning, a king. at 1:08:20, he outlines what Ted's plan is. "Kings who are annointed to take Dominion. Kings who are annointed to go to war, win the war, and bring the spoils of war to the priests. So the work of the Kingdom of God could be accomplished.
So if you want neverending war, with people who believe that it is their duty as commanded by God to go to war - Teddy boy is your man. By teh way, that war is not only in foreign lands - it's here as well.
Pastor Cruz's sermon sounds a whole lot like the kooks they want to go to war with. Except that they think a whole lot of Americans are kooks.
That's incorrect. We observe 3+1 spacetime and the observed symmetries of the non-gravitational forces (electromagnetism, weak force, strong force) introduce the other 6 dimensions. This has nothing to do with string theory. It's real world physics.
Hey, how about the citations of the papers that interoduce real world tested and verified String theory proofs.
And if it is real world proven now, with falsifiable elements, why are so many of you asking for the falsifiable aspects to be removed?
Actually it means "something that has mass, doesn't interact electromagnetically, doesn't directly interact with normal matter or itself other than with gravitation and maybe weak-force interactions, and doesn't move particularly fast". We know some of its properties, and have some ideas of what it might be in more detail.
Right. That's how we know there is something there - because of those effects - but we don't know what it is. I see no contradiction.
+5 insightful, my ass.
Since you brought your ass into it, explain exactly how our views are so contradictory that you feel the need to compare me to your anus.
I've read both statements, and I see no contradictions.
Or are you just having a bad day and need to lash out at someone?
Gravity might not exist - it might be the gentle hand of God on everyone's shoulders steadying us as we go through life.
Confirmed!
Doggonit! Looks like I accidentally figgered it out!
I would also add "Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy" are the aether of the 21st century.
Dark matter is a highly scientific and technical term that means "We don't know"
Seriously.
Why is nonsense like this modded insightful?
If we "don't know", then dark matter and the theories around it would make no useful predictions. But seeing how they do make predictions, are backed by observations, and have so far held up to scrutiny then your claim of "fancy term for we don't know" doesn't hold a lot of water.
How about you toddle off to your local college/university and dig up a few research articles on the subject. There is a whole lot more to dark matter than what you've been exposed to on Slashdot.
While I respect your right to reject it, There are many things that we do not know for certain. And whether you like ot or not, The real physicists will tell you exctly what I wrote.
http://physicsandphysicists.bl...
Here http://science.howstuffworks.c...
Here http://www.space.com/20930-dar...
and a slew of other places.
Because the only way you can call it nonsense with any degree of veracity is to in the following sentence explain exactly what dark matter is.
"Dark Matter" is merely a couple words that are used to describe the effects of something that is having an action that is observable, but not explicitly known as to exactly what it is.
Is it neutrinos? Maybe. Is it some other particle as yet unknown? Possible. Is it cosmic silly string? Not likely, but possibly.
What we do know is that there is something going on that is difficult to explain using current cosmology. Since we do not know what that is, but do know that something is going on, we come up with a term.
And "dark matter" is that term.
You gotta start somewhere. Intelligent design is a philosophy, so is creationism.
I believe those two are actually phobosophies
I had to read that twice. Pretty well done, sir.