children have no use for pencils and pens anymore. Everything is typed out.
I don't even think this is remotely true. My first-grader does all her assignments in pencil. Also, both my kids have been enthusiastic about coloring since they could hold a crayon, at age 15. No, kidding, from age 1. Our modern world also has all kinds of things I couldn't get as a kid, like books with a coating of dark/flaky stuff that you scratch off with a wooden stylus (kind of like the lottery ticket gray stuff) to reveal pictures or make your own designs. Let me tell you, kids will go town on that stuff. Like, ignore instructions saying you could be making lines and patterns, and instead just scrape off every square centimeter of it.
There's also: using silverware to feed themselves, learning how to tie shoes, getting themselves dressed, working with kid versions of tools (mine have toy screwdrivers and hammers, at least), and even things like doing puzzles, which doesn't take much strength, but definitely requires precision. All of this is normal kid activity, as far as I'm concerned.
You see, I want to know what's under all those miles of ice, and I am willing to drown every single one of you to find out.
Hrmph. My life's mission is to find all the lost cities and artifacts in the 20-30 meters just below the shoreline, and I'm willing to bring back the wooly mammoths and continental glaciers in order to do it.
There's a surprisingly broad range of mental tools that people can have or not have. I recently learned about aphantasia, the inability to create pictures in the mind. Folks who have that tend to almost exclusively work with the words, since they don't have pictures. It sounds like you might be on the opposite end of the spectrum, heavy on the pictures and short on the words.
The workaround for that seems pretty simple; they only have to specify that your license for the downloaded movie is only valid so long as you have the original disc.
I could kind of see that argument against resale, but your wording would apply if I broke or lost the disc, and that hardly seems fair. If my kid drops the disk and steps on it, there's no reason I should delete the digital version, too.
Diet and nutrition appear to be incredibly complex. For very good evolutionary reasons, it seems to be a flexible, creative system, with a lot of redundancies, failovers, and alternatives. The more I learn, the more I realize just how laughably little we know. It doesn't help that the field is filled with quackery, moralizing, conspiracy theories, and so, so many people determined to shore up a presupposed agenda, as opposed to searching for the truth. Also, the amount of money on the table just encourages the craziness.
I think eventually we will find things that are DNA-dependent, but many of those will be niche. A heart medicine comes to mind, which in trials did almost nothing for the general populace, but was found to work wonders for men of African descent. There are also a lot of other known issues dealing with medical effectiveness and dosing based on people's biological ability to use or remove the drug from their systems.
But I suspect for a lot of issues, most of the time results will be pretty general. Bodies that can burn both fat and sugar for energy might not have a reason to lose weight if the calorie intake is the same, but the scales are tipped in favor of either fat or sugar. Or we may find that certain genetic types respond well to a particular diet, but only if two or three other related factors are also strictly controlled for.
It sure as hell isn't going to hinge on something as simple as your blood type; that I know for sure.
If $1.2 billion in Clinton propaganda, 94% favorable domestic media coverage, an army of celebrity shills, a brainwashed electorate hooked on the welfare plantation, and every dirty trick in the book (plus new ones like buying FISA warrants) can't win you a presidency, then Russians tweeting about BLM literally did nothing.
If I've learned one thing from the Joker, it's that no matter how many tens of millions it took to build, you can usually burn it down with $10 of gasoline and a match.
See, this is why I get my news from Slashdot. If anyone makes a mistake and rushes bad information out the door, two weeks later when I hear about it here, it will have been corrected, dissected, retracted, redacted, and reinterpreted, and trolled by ACs.
More seriously, obviously there are some issues with balancing reporting breaking news accurately and not reporting it at all. Retractions are important, and anyone who cares about the truth ought to be able to find the real information easily. But mistakes like that doesn't damn the whole industry. And it sure as heck doesn't make the small-time operations and niche interests *more* reliable, which seems to be the conclusion a lot of "don't trust MSM" types are pushing.
The cover price for the original 1979 edition of HHG was $6.95. That's well over $20 in today's dollars.
That sounds high. My memory of the baseline price of most novels from the late 80's to mid-90's is $5. In fact, I can remember an odd moment sometime around 1990 when I was looking at the original Dragonlance trilogy in a bookstore, and I found side-by-side on the shelves versions of the book marked $2.95, $3.95, and $4.95.
Every daylight savings time heart attacks increase by 25%, car crashes increase by 17% (2.75 billion cost over 10 yrs).
The numbers I can find are 5-10% for heart attacks, not 25%. Also, there's a corresponding dip on the other side of the year, when the time changes the other way. In other words, getting less sleep is bad and more is good, and that's entirely in a person's control. The only car crash study I found said there was NO detected change, in part because of increased visibility due to more morning light.
Deer, as an example, get used to roads being safe to cross until a certain point in the morning. All well and good, but suddenly that point shifts by an entire hour without any warning that the deer can perceive. Result: More animals hit by traffic.
Deer move the most around dawn and dusk. The DST transition occurs during the time of year that puts the daily commute close to dawn and dusk. I'd be shocked if the increase in accidents didn't occur because of that, rather than because of a timer in the deer. Around here they're constantly running across the road in the evening, all winter long, even after having 3-4 months to adjust to the new schedule.
I'd recently read John Steakley's "Armor," and had not yet read "Starship Troopers" so when I saw the previews, I thought it was going to be for Armor. Admittedly, Steakley wrote Armor specifically as an action-oriented take on Heinlein's premise, so there is a connection. I'd still like to see them do Armor - it'd make a fine movie.
I'm pretty sure I've experienced something like this with Python's default rounding mechanisms, before I learned to explicitly require a specific type of variable.
Heh. Yes, I was reminded of an old joke that starts, "You are the bus driver." It then continues through a series of people getting on and off the bus at each stop, to get the listener adding and subtracting. And then at the end, "How old is the bus driver?"
I'd just like to see some actual high fantasy. Buddy cop movie with a veneer of magic felt too much like just a buddy cop movie to me. It was okay for that, but if you're going to give me elves and wands, I'd really like a full fantasy world and no guns.
I'm curious, is it just faces, or do you maybe have a limited mind's eye visual recall altogether? I just recently learned about something called aphantasia, the inability to picture things in the mind's eye. I'm not fully there, but I've got a pretty low visual recall or imagination, and that might tie in. Really interesting thing to look into, if you think it might be applicable.
I have a tendency to do that, too. I've frequently failed to recognize someone, just because they were wearing a hat. (Or once, when a guy took off his ubiquitous baseball cap.)
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The kinds of typos it generates, apparently.
children have no use for pencils and pens anymore. Everything is typed out.
I don't even think this is remotely true. My first-grader does all her assignments in pencil. Also, both my kids have been enthusiastic about coloring since they could hold a crayon, at age 15. No, kidding, from age 1. Our modern world also has all kinds of things I couldn't get as a kid, like books with a coating of dark/flaky stuff that you scratch off with a wooden stylus (kind of like the lottery ticket gray stuff) to reveal pictures or make your own designs. Let me tell you, kids will go town on that stuff. Like, ignore instructions saying you could be making lines and patterns, and instead just scrape off every square centimeter of it.
There's also: using silverware to feed themselves, learning how to tie shoes, getting themselves dressed, working with kid versions of tools (mine have toy screwdrivers and hammers, at least), and even things like doing puzzles, which doesn't take much strength, but definitely requires precision. All of this is normal kid activity, as far as I'm concerned.
You see, I want to know what's under all those miles of ice, and I am willing to drown every single one of you to find out.
Hrmph. My life's mission is to find all the lost cities and artifacts in the 20-30 meters just below the shoreline, and I'm willing to bring back the wooly mammoths and continental glaciers in order to do it.
Where shall we do battle?
There's a surprisingly broad range of mental tools that people can have or not have. I recently learned about aphantasia, the inability to create pictures in the mind. Folks who have that tend to almost exclusively work with the words, since they don't have pictures. It sounds like you might be on the opposite end of the spectrum, heavy on the pictures and short on the words.
The workaround for that seems pretty simple; they only have to specify that your license for the downloaded movie is only valid so long as you have the original disc.
I could kind of see that argument against resale, but your wording would apply if I broke or lost the disc, and that hardly seems fair. If my kid drops the disk and steps on it, there's no reason I should delete the digital version, too.
Maybe you don't see teachers shooting people because they don't carry guns as part of their jobs?
Diet and nutrition appear to be incredibly complex. For very good evolutionary reasons, it seems to be a flexible, creative system, with a lot of redundancies, failovers, and alternatives. The more I learn, the more I realize just how laughably little we know. It doesn't help that the field is filled with quackery, moralizing, conspiracy theories, and so, so many people determined to shore up a presupposed agenda, as opposed to searching for the truth. Also, the amount of money on the table just encourages the craziness.
I think eventually we will find things that are DNA-dependent, but many of those will be niche. A heart medicine comes to mind, which in trials did almost nothing for the general populace, but was found to work wonders for men of African descent. There are also a lot of other known issues dealing with medical effectiveness and dosing based on people's biological ability to use or remove the drug from their systems.
But I suspect for a lot of issues, most of the time results will be pretty general. Bodies that can burn both fat and sugar for energy might not have a reason to lose weight if the calorie intake is the same, but the scales are tipped in favor of either fat or sugar. Or we may find that certain genetic types respond well to a particular diet, but only if two or three other related factors are also strictly controlled for.
It sure as hell isn't going to hinge on something as simple as your blood type; that I know for sure.
If $1.2 billion in Clinton propaganda, 94% favorable domestic media coverage, an army of celebrity shills, a brainwashed electorate hooked on the welfare plantation, and every dirty trick in the book (plus new ones like buying FISA warrants) can't win you a presidency, then Russians tweeting about BLM literally did nothing.
If I've learned one thing from the Joker, it's that no matter how many tens of millions it took to build, you can usually burn it down with $10 of gasoline and a match.
If you bury a clock in a mountain, does it still tell the time?
See, this is why I get my news from Slashdot. If anyone makes a mistake and rushes bad information out the door, two weeks later when I hear about it here, it will have been corrected, dissected, retracted, redacted, and reinterpreted, and trolled by ACs.
More seriously, obviously there are some issues with balancing reporting breaking news accurately and not reporting it at all. Retractions are important, and anyone who cares about the truth ought to be able to find the real information easily. But mistakes like that doesn't damn the whole industry. And it sure as heck doesn't make the small-time operations and niche interests *more* reliable, which seems to be the conclusion a lot of "don't trust MSM" types are pushing.
The cover price for the original 1979 edition of HHG was $6.95. That's well over $20 in today's dollars.
That sounds high. My memory of the baseline price of most novels from the late 80's to mid-90's is $5. In fact, I can remember an odd moment sometime around 1990 when I was looking at the original Dragonlance trilogy in a bookstore, and I found side-by-side on the shelves versions of the book marked $2.95, $3.95, and $4.95.
Just like Cobblers, Whip-makers and Coopers.
I still like a good cobbler, especially with some whip on top. Pie is better, though.
And as for coopers, many of the finest things in life are barrel-aged.
Windows: Apple's nemesis?
Every daylight savings time heart attacks increase by 25%, car crashes increase by 17% (2.75 billion cost over 10 yrs).
The numbers I can find are 5-10% for heart attacks, not 25%. Also, there's a corresponding dip on the other side of the year, when the time changes the other way. In other words, getting less sleep is bad and more is good, and that's entirely in a person's control. The only car crash study I found said there was NO detected change, in part because of increased visibility due to more morning light.
Deer, as an example, get used to roads being safe to cross until a certain point in the morning. All well and good, but suddenly that point shifts by an entire hour without any warning that the deer can perceive. Result: More animals hit by traffic.
Deer move the most around dawn and dusk. The DST transition occurs during the time of year that puts the daily commute close to dawn and dusk. I'd be shocked if the increase in accidents didn't occur because of that, rather than because of a timer in the deer. Around here they're constantly running across the road in the evening, all winter long, even after having 3-4 months to adjust to the new schedule.
I'd recently read John Steakley's "Armor," and had not yet read "Starship Troopers" so when I saw the previews, I thought it was going to be for Armor. Admittedly, Steakley wrote Armor specifically as an action-oriented take on Heinlein's premise, so there is a connection. I'd still like to see them do Armor - it'd make a fine movie.
Group marriages, but no orgies. They pair up in rotation.
I'm pretty sure I've experienced something like this with Python's default rounding mechanisms, before I learned to explicitly require a specific type of variable.
Heh. Yes, I was reminded of an old joke that starts, "You are the bus driver." It then continues through a series of people getting on and off the bus at each stop, to get the listener adding and subtracting. And then at the end, "How old is the bus driver?"
"Judges Say the UK's Digital Surveillance Program Snooper's Charter Is Illegal"
Why Does Every Word Begin With A Capital?
It's a headline. That's how they style headlines.
It is admittedly a dense and confusing one, and could definitely be improved. Getting rid of capital letters wouldn't be the way to do it, though.
Ironically, this *is* a pipe.
I'd just like to see some actual high fantasy. Buddy cop movie with a veneer of magic felt too much like just a buddy cop movie to me. It was okay for that, but if you're going to give me elves and wands, I'd really like a full fantasy world and no guns.
history didn't have robots.
No, but now I've got a great idea for a new movie!
I'm curious, is it just faces, or do you maybe have a limited mind's eye visual recall altogether? I just recently learned about something called aphantasia, the inability to picture things in the mind's eye. I'm not fully there, but I've got a pretty low visual recall or imagination, and that might tie in. Really interesting thing to look into, if you think it might be applicable.
I have a tendency to do that, too. I've frequently failed to recognize someone, just because they were wearing a hat. (Or once, when a guy took off his ubiquitous baseball cap.)