It also says boys do 7% better in the maths portion of the SATs, but writes it off as a statistical illusion due to more girls doing the test (they don't know how averages work?).
They wanted to do the statistics and provide figures. But the study was done by a group of 5 women - The math was too hard. =)
That's why a 7% gap with 1.5 million participants is just a "statistical illusion". If their confidence boundary with that many data points equates 7% with "Zip. Zilch. Nada.", their standard deviations must have been huge.
I used to. They are expressions and expletives, figures of speech whose literal meaning is not what most people reach for when using them, but still that meaning is there.
Spot on. How many people say "Holy shit!" and are literally invoking the image of a pile of shit worthy of hymns and praise? Or say "Aw fuck it!" and mean it as a demand that somebody immediately engage in intercourse with whatever the object/situation of frustration is?
I say "God damn it" from time to time despite not believing in any particular gods. But, I think that my intended meaning is communicated so I see no reason to change my habits.
I've got a feeling that he broke out specifically to kill his wife. She probably told him she was filing for devorce[sic], or that she was getting regular stuffings from the pool boy or whatever.
If you're filing for divorce or taunting your imprisoned husband by telling him that you're sleeping around, you leave him in jail - You don't help break him out.
Actually the only mental problem he had worthy of attention was ADD, apparently.
From TFA:
She noted Davidson had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. A condition of his sentence was that he undergo mental health counseling..
No. The only mental problem that he had been diagnosed with worthy of attention was ADD. Obviously, there was a little more going on.
That's not fair. There are many criminals, who are also fathers, who love and don't harm their children.
Indeed. I admit to being a criminal. I've stopped cracking accounts illegally, I've stopped buying/smoking weed, I no longer brew up explosives/build bombs, etc - I'm a married/employed father now and am no longer willing to accept the risk associated with those juvenile habits. But, I still drive ~10% over the speed limit most times. Most people speed - Cops maybe even worse than the rest of us. I've even been known to jaywalk. Most of us are criminals in one way or another.
But that does not imply that I'm remotely violent with my children. It would take an inconceivable brain fracture for me to ever become an intentional threat to my family. As a matter of fact, the only scenarios where I could envision myself becoming violent would be in defense of them, myself, or another innocent - In that order.
If we have sunscreen to avert cancer from the sun, can we get a bottle of phonescreen to avert cancer from a cellphone?
Absolutely - I'll sell it to you. I'll warn you, it's a little pricey, but can you really put a price on your health? Especially when we're talking about something as serious as brain cancer?
And, to take care of any alarm over the expense, I offer a full guarantee. If you use my product, get brain cancer, can prove that it was a result of cell phone usage, and have documentation proving that you properly applied my product immediately before each phone call and intermittently after every 4.3 minutes of conversation, I'll give you your money back.
What? Did they close the UFO museum? And the Robert Goddard Museum? Those are two things to see.
Been a few years since I was down there, but I didn't really think it was a dirty town at all. Seemed kind of nice. Even had big aliens printed on the Walmart.
I was including the UFO museum under "nothing to see". YMMV. Never been to the Goddard museum.
And yes, they've got aliens painted everywhere. Even the McDonald's was built with a alien theme. If that's interesting to you, I guess it's at least unique. Personally, I find it a little gaudy and obnoxious - Basically just reminding everyone that the "UFO crash" is the only reason that anyone would be willing to visit. Again, YMMV.
To be fair, the town was a lot nicer last time I was there than I remember it as a kid. They unfortunately have gang issues (strange for a city that small - also this could have been fixed since last I heard), but they're working hard to clean up their image. I may have been unduly harsh on them while attempting to be funny, but I'm still not a big fan. Unless you've got a kid at NMMI, Roswell's a good place to drive through, not to, IMO.
Dr Mitchell, who has a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering and a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics claimed Roswell was real and similar alien visits continue to be investigated.
I'm going to get Mitchell's back on at least part of this.
Roswell is real. I had lunch there just a few weeks ago on my way to Carlsbad. Don't visit - Nothing to do, nothing to see, just a dirty little town in the New Mexico desert. Don't bother.
As for the rest of his claims, well it just makes me a little sad. When it's kids making these claims 'cuz they've sucked down too much reefer, this kind of thing is amusing. Not here - Just sad.
I don't like automobile patents because my favourite car won't legally be able to include that superior suspension system.
Yes they will - If they decide that the value of that superior suspension system exceeds whatever the patent holder is charging to license its use.
Patents are being badly abused, but they're not all bad. If car manufacturers knew that pouring $$ into R&D would aid their competitors evenly with themselves and provide them with no market advantage, they would all eliminate R&D, wait for their competitors to innovate, and then start using the new design (should it ever emerge). Unless tinkerers were developing stuff on their own time and donating it to the car companies, neglecting patents all together would ensure that you would never see a superior suspension system coming from anywhere.
Here on Slashdot, a Wife is at the very least a mythical creature like a Gorgon or a Chimera, if not an actual Deity. Capitalization is required.
I love my wife dearly. I really do.
But if you're equating wives to deities in the sense that they're mystical infallible ideal beings, it's very clear that you're either unmarried or a newlywed. If you're comparing them to immensely powerful beings whose will dictates all that happens around them with no regard to the consequences and around whom all within their realm must quiver before and do their bidding or fear their wrath, I suspect you've been over to my place to visit.
[I'm kidding - she's really sweet. If you're reading this, Hon, it was a joke. Really. OK... I'll pull out the couch...]
If the Volt is everything it is rumored to be, I would buy it even if gas were back down at 50 cents a gallon.
I didn't RTFA (of course - RTFAing automatically bars you from posting 'cuz it would ruin everyone's fun with information), but I did catch the 45-second clip at lunch on CNN.
Apparently, a full charge is projected to cost ~$0.80 and will take you ~40 miles. $0.02/mile is tempting, but for a lot of people the 40 mile limit will be kind of a barrier. $0.50/gallon gas only barely edges out.
...not only is it better for the environment...
Are you sure? Making batteries isn't real enviro-friendly. And overall, we're still pretty messy with producing electricity (probably not as messy as refining/transporting/burning gas, but it's still a point to consider). I haven't seen numbers on batteries v gas and don't know who wins the enviro-game, but neither option is very friendly. Not that I have a better solution unless you're able to live close to everywhere you need to go or have some good public transport in your area...
If I don't want to talk to someone, I call them and let it ring and let them pick up. Then I just start screaming "I'm gonna cut off your head and shit down your neck!" over and over until they hang up, and then I never have to worry about talking to them again. Sometimes I have to talk to the police, but hey, who ever said you could reach never-talking-to-anyone nirvana without a price?
You know, at first I thought you were joking, but that's an interesting idea. I may have to try that with my mother-in-law. I'm such a laid back guy that my wife would sooner believe that her mother was hallucinating/going senile/whatever before believing that I'd actually called her up screaming and threatening. And I'm off the hook with ever dealing with her because she'll think I'm a psychopath. Everyone wins!
I used to frequent the BART light rail system in the San Fransisco bay area. Fees for that system were based on distance traveled, not solely number of trips IIRC. So, short hops were cheap and going from Berkley to SF cost a little more (still not much - it was pretty reasonable).
This was back in the early 90's - Things may have changed since then.
I've had a set missing a piece. Heck, the last set I purchased for my kid didn't match what was on the cover. When we opened the box up our Lego Star Wars set actually contained Indiana Jones pieces. Even worse, the retards at Target almost didn't take the set back. It's no wonder that people shop at Wal-Mart.
That's nothing. I opened up the case of my new improvised nuclear weapon and all I found was a bunch of pinball machine parts!
You're the only one that's confused. Up/down are relative here. The topic is pollution. That's something to decrease.
It's like those stupid arguments about air conditioning:
Person #1: Turn up the air conditioning! Person #2: Don't you mean turn down the air conditioning? Person #3: Just tell me what you want me to do.
Person #1 and Person #2 (in unison): Turn it [Up/Down]!!! Person #3: Hotter or colder? Person #1 and Person #2 (in unison): Hotter!
No. As air pollution goes down, air quality goes up. As the temperature on the thermostat is turned down, the room gets cooler. If somebody says "Turn up the air conditioning" in an attempt to warm the room up when they mean "Turn up the temperature on the thermostat", they're being unclear. "Turn up the air conditioning" typically means "Turn down the temperature on the thermostat". "Turn up the furnace" typically means "Turn up the temperature on the thermostat". It's not that complicated.
While public transport use is definitely a plus, moving the factories is probably a net negative. The factories were probably initially located there for a reason - availability of labor, proximity to customers. Moving them doesn't reduce the pollution, it simply shifts it to a different location. Forcing workers into longer commutes and increasing transport distance to customers causes an overall increase in pollution.
I don't think they're interested in decreasing pollution. Unfortunately, I think the prime goal is to decentralize it. Whether it increases or decreases pollution is just an afterthought.
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We need a new stamp for phones, computers, PlayStations, etc.
That way I'll know that I'm not talking on a Conflict Phone.
It also says boys do 7% better in the maths portion of the SATs, but writes it off as a statistical illusion due to more girls doing the test (they don't know how averages work?).
They wanted to do the statistics and provide figures. But the study was done by a group of 5 women - The math was too hard. =)
That's why a 7% gap with 1.5 million participants is just a "statistical illusion". If their confidence boundary with that many data points equates 7% with "Zip. Zilch. Nada.", their standard deviations must have been huge.
You don't worship/believe in Greek gods (or maybe you do?), but you still call that red-colored fourth planet "Mars", don't you? :-P
Mars was Roman. But point taken.
I used to. They are expressions and expletives, figures of speech whose literal meaning is not what most people reach for when using them, but still that meaning is there.
Spot on. How many people say "Holy shit!" and are literally invoking the image of a pile of shit worthy of hymns and praise? Or say "Aw fuck it!" and mean it as a demand that somebody immediately engage in intercourse with whatever the object/situation of frustration is?
I say "God damn it" from time to time despite not believing in any particular gods. But, I think that my intended meaning is communicated so I see no reason to change my habits.
I've got a feeling that he broke out specifically to kill his wife. She probably told him she was filing for devorce[sic], or that she was getting regular stuffings from the pool boy or whatever.
If you're filing for divorce or taunting your imprisoned husband by telling him that you're sleeping around, you leave him in jail - You don't help break him out.
Actually the only mental problem he had worthy of attention was ADD, apparently.
From TFA:
She noted Davidson had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. A condition of his sentence was that he undergo mental health counseling..
No. The only mental problem that he had been diagnosed with worthy of attention was ADD. Obviously, there was a little more going on.
> This wasn't a normal father. He was a criminal.
That's not fair. There are many criminals, who are also fathers, who love and don't harm their children.
Indeed. I admit to being a criminal. I've stopped cracking accounts illegally, I've stopped buying/smoking weed, I no longer brew up explosives/build bombs, etc - I'm a married/employed father now and am no longer willing to accept the risk associated with those juvenile habits. But, I still drive ~10% over the speed limit most times. Most people speed - Cops maybe even worse than the rest of us. I've even been known to jaywalk. Most of us are criminals in one way or another.
But that does not imply that I'm remotely violent with my children. It would take an inconceivable brain fracture for me to ever become an intentional threat to my family. As a matter of fact, the only scenarios where I could envision myself becoming violent would be in defense of them, myself, or another innocent - In that order.
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Sorry for giving you a hard time - Interesting post, I just couldn't resist. Cheers.
Does anybody else smell karma burning?
If we have sunscreen to avert cancer from the sun, can we get a bottle of phonescreen to avert cancer from a cellphone?
Absolutely - I'll sell it to you. I'll warn you, it's a little pricey, but can you really put a price on your health? Especially when we're talking about something as serious as brain cancer?
And, to take care of any alarm over the expense, I offer a full guarantee. If you use my product, get brain cancer, can prove that it was a result of cell phone usage, and have documentation proving that you properly applied my product immediately before each phone call and intermittently after every 4.3 minutes of conversation, I'll give you your money back.
TFA = The F****** Article
How many *s does it take to obscure the word 'Fine'?
What? Did they close the UFO museum? And the Robert Goddard Museum? Those are two things to see.
Been a few years since I was down there, but I didn't really think it was a dirty town at all. Seemed kind of nice. Even had big aliens printed on the Walmart.
I was including the UFO museum under "nothing to see". YMMV. Never been to the Goddard museum.
And yes, they've got aliens painted everywhere. Even the McDonald's was built with a alien theme. If that's interesting to you, I guess it's at least unique. Personally, I find it a little gaudy and obnoxious - Basically just reminding everyone that the "UFO crash" is the only reason that anyone would be willing to visit. Again, YMMV.
To be fair, the town was a lot nicer last time I was there than I remember it as a kid. They unfortunately have gang issues (strange for a city that small - also this could have been fixed since last I heard), but they're working hard to clean up their image. I may have been unduly harsh on them while attempting to be funny, but I'm still not a big fan. Unless you've got a kid at NMMI, Roswell's a good place to drive through, not to, IMO.
FTA:
Dr Mitchell, who has a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering and a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics claimed Roswell was real and similar alien visits continue to be investigated.
I'm going to get Mitchell's back on at least part of this.
Roswell is real. I had lunch there just a few weeks ago on my way to Carlsbad. Don't visit - Nothing to do, nothing to see, just a dirty little town in the New Mexico desert. Don't bother.
As for the rest of his claims, well it just makes me a little sad. When it's kids making these claims 'cuz they've sucked down too much reefer, this kind of thing is amusing. Not here - Just sad.
I don't like automobile patents because my favourite car won't legally be able to include that superior suspension system.
Yes they will - If they decide that the value of that superior suspension system exceeds whatever the patent holder is charging to license its use.
Patents are being badly abused, but they're not all bad. If car manufacturers knew that pouring $$ into R&D would aid their competitors evenly with themselves and provide them with no market advantage, they would all eliminate R&D, wait for their competitors to innovate, and then start using the new design (should it ever emerge). Unless tinkerers were developing stuff on their own time and donating it to the car companies, neglecting patents all together would ensure that you would never see a superior suspension system coming from anywhere.
Maybe it's for the benfit of the Yurpeans. I here they have metric time over there.
Yup - We just recently converted. 10-hour days, 10-day weeks, 10-week months, and 10-month years. Sure is funny weather we're having this Winter...
Here on Slashdot, a Wife is at the very least a mythical creature like a Gorgon or a Chimera, if not an actual Deity. Capitalization is required.
I love my wife dearly. I really do.
But if you're equating wives to deities in the sense that they're mystical infallible ideal beings, it's very clear that you're either unmarried or a newlywed. If you're comparing them to immensely powerful beings whose will dictates all that happens around them with no regard to the consequences and around whom all within their realm must quiver before and do their bidding or fear their wrath, I suspect you've been over to my place to visit.
[I'm kidding - she's really sweet. If you're reading this, Hon, it was a joke. Really. OK... I'll pull out the couch...]
If the Volt is everything it is rumored to be, I would buy it even if gas were back down at 50 cents a gallon.
I didn't RTFA (of course - RTFAing automatically bars you from posting 'cuz it would ruin everyone's fun with information), but I did catch the 45-second clip at lunch on CNN.
Apparently, a full charge is projected to cost ~$0.80 and will take you ~40 miles. $0.02/mile is tempting, but for a lot of people the 40 mile limit will be kind of a barrier. $0.50/gallon gas only barely edges out.
...not only is it better for the environment...
Are you sure? Making batteries isn't real enviro-friendly. And overall, we're still pretty messy with producing electricity (probably not as messy as refining/transporting/burning gas, but it's still a point to consider). I haven't seen numbers on batteries v gas and don't know who wins the enviro-game, but neither option is very friendly. Not that I have a better solution unless you're able to live close to everywhere you need to go or have some good public transport in your area...
Thanks for the link. I'd not read that before and it was a nice short distraction.
Although now I can't help scheming...
If I don't want to talk to someone, I call them and let it ring and let them pick up. Then I just start screaming "I'm gonna cut off your head and shit down your neck!" over and over until they hang up, and then I never have to worry about talking to them again. Sometimes I have to talk to the police, but hey, who ever said you could reach never-talking-to-anyone nirvana without a price?
You know, at first I thought you were joking, but that's an interesting idea. I may have to try that with my mother-in-law. I'm such a laid back guy that my wife would sooner believe that her mother was hallucinating/going senile/whatever before believing that I'd actually called her up screaming and threatening. And I'm off the hook with ever dealing with her because she'll think I'm a psychopath. Everyone wins!
Thanks for the tip!
I used to frequent the BART light rail system in the San Fransisco bay area. Fees for that system were based on distance traveled, not solely number of trips IIRC. So, short hops were cheap and going from Berkley to SF cost a little more (still not much - it was pretty reasonable).
This was back in the early 90's - Things may have changed since then.
You made my morning - Thank you.
What frightens me though is how many people are going to read that and jump on board with your modest proposal...
I've had a set missing a piece. Heck, the last set I purchased for my kid didn't match what was on the cover. When we opened the box up our Lego Star Wars set actually contained Indiana Jones pieces. Even worse, the retards at Target almost didn't take the set back. It's no wonder that people shop at Wal-Mart.
That's nothing. I opened up the case of my new improvised nuclear weapon and all I found was a bunch of pinball machine parts!
Apparently, in this case, high quality air has a low quality index. Weird. But, TFS did say "quality" not "quality index".
You're the only one that's confused. Up/down are relative here. The topic is pollution. That's something to decrease.
It's like those stupid arguments about air conditioning:
Person #1: Turn up the air conditioning!
Person #2: Don't you mean turn down the air conditioning?
Person #3: Just tell me what you want me to do.
Person #1 and Person #2 (in unison): Turn it [Up/Down]!!!
Person #3: Hotter or colder?
Person #1 and Person #2 (in unison): Hotter!
No. As air pollution goes down, air quality goes up. As the temperature on the thermostat is turned down, the room gets cooler. If somebody says "Turn up the air conditioning" in an attempt to warm the room up when they mean "Turn up the temperature on the thermostat", they're being unclear. "Turn up the air conditioning" typically means "Turn down the temperature on the thermostat". "Turn up the furnace" typically means "Turn up the temperature on the thermostat". It's not that complicated.
I won't be holding my breath...
I guess that implies that you won't be going to Beijing to see the games.
While public transport use is definitely a plus, moving the factories is probably a net negative. The factories were probably initially located there for a reason - availability of labor, proximity to customers. Moving them doesn't reduce the pollution, it simply shifts it to a different location. Forcing workers into longer commutes and increasing transport distance to customers causes an overall increase in pollution.
I don't think they're interested in decreasing pollution. Unfortunately, I think the prime goal is to decentralize it. Whether it increases or decreases pollution is just an afterthought.