I know it is not tradition, but RTFA. The Muslim groups here are now being critical of themselves through media like Facebook, with younger members of organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood criticizing the older entrenched dogmatic approaches.
The article is a discussion of people who are using these media to create a sounding board for liberal democratic values, even secular ones. The folks behind the movements are brave indeed, having been subject to imprisonment, brutal interrogation and torture at the hands of the Egyptian government due to the "Emergency Law" which has been in place since the assassination of Anwar Sadat. We're not talking about Muslim extremists here or, indeed, extremists of any kind. We are talking about regular people using whatever resources they have at their disposal to counteract systematic disenfranchisement on the part of the legally secular government in Egypt.
I also didn't find the 'for' loops with hdparm in power.sh. I wonder if there is a difference in version of acpi-support in the Intrepid-proposed updates, which I had installed.
More homework I guess. My "smartctl -a/dev/sda | grep Load_Cycle_Count" output 277503. This system is about a year old. Maybe I will buy a new drive and use it as an image backup just in case, and then if there is a problem, I'll just drop it in as a replacement.
That teachers and students can't learn something new or something that is analog to what they already know is simply a limiting belief. It serves its purpose well, though, meaning that many teachers would cry out in agony if you moved their cheese, even as the read that stupid book of the same moniker.
It is because people believe that they cannot do something that they will not do something. This philosophy moves upward within an organization, beginning with individuals. Teachers have been conditioned to believe that they have to go through "training" to do anything new, because they are no longer curious about anything. Thankfully, any "training" that they receive can possibly be considered as "continuing education" and fulfill their NCLB requirements. The problem is that there is no one giant corporate entity railing for free software use in institutions like schools. Even if there were, it is unlikely that teachers would consider switching as anything other than inconvenient, irritating and impossible.
Agreed. the methodology for this study apparently depends on utilizing the internal mental representations which the subjects carry rather than a response to stimulus.
While there may be some truth to this idea (that cities are full of distractions, and that they are difficult for the brain to cope with), the study only shows that the internal mental representations of "city" versus "nature" have an effect on the cognitive response to stimuli. So, perhaps walking down a city street in the state produced by having just stared at pictures of forests and listening to recorded nature sounds is the recommended approach.
On the anecdotal side: I live in Cairo and I'm a social scientist. I like to observe people and their behavior. Since moving here I have noticed that there are a lot of bright, quick-witted people in this teeming city. Then again, there are a lot of dull, slow-witted people as well. It seems to me that the differences between them lies not in stimulus to response-time correlation, but in the presence of higher-order logic in situations which require fast-response. In my anecdotal non-study, it would seem that the foreign expatriates who live here (who typically come from somewhere outside a large city in their countries of origin) lack the higher-order logic in their daily interactions on the street with people. It doesn't again present until they are out of the noise, off the street, and in a--for the English speakers--English-only environment again. Granted, there are loads of possible explanations for this, language being a glaringly obvious one, but it makes me wonder sometimes.
The locals, on the other hand, are sharp as tacks when it comes to figuring out what to do next. They don't usually have a plan that goes beyond a few steps, but that doesn't matter. They are more fluid in their movements and there seems to be greater plasticity in their responses. Some would say opportunist, I would say adapted.
Who knows though? This is all wild speculation, and so is TFA. This is a problem with these types of cognitive science studies, being that we still know very little about the inner workings of the human brain as it relates to the cognitive stuff that makes up a human person. This is not helped by the continued insistence of psychological models to hold on to the separation of "brain" and "mind" at the cognitive level. This was a sloppy oversight on the part of the writer of the summary, in this instance, and not the writers of TFA.
Of course this is how the statement should be interpreted. It does, however, indicate that the ISP in question might be pretty realistic about the reality of the RIAA interpretation of copyright law: that it is not tenable in the long run and that everyone cannot simply be expected to jump on board. While it is not an unequivocal "no," it does indicate a reluctance to simply comply: though, that reluctance might indeed be assuaged by a little cash (probably a lot of cash.
Maybe the ISP's will charge RIAA so exorbitantly that they it will be a deterrent to their seeking compliance in the first place.
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Agreed, I'm so sick and tired of playing with this old in-memory relational database with a separate record for every atom in my house.
I think this is a little ridiculous to be on the front page as well, but did anyone happen to notice the picture in the pool with a tin-foil hat?
I think that this might be the nugget that got it on/. in the first place. Then again, I could be totally wrong. But really, how often do you see pictures of people actually wearing tin-foil hats?
Download the illegal ebook and then send the author a $20 (you know or whatever amount is appropriate) bill (money order, whatever) anonymously with a note explaining. That way, he gets beer money, you have your ebook. I don't think that anyone is going to complain
Well, the publisher will complain. That is why we keep it relatively anonymous. If you are dealing on a strictly ethical level, I don't see why this solution wouldn't work.
Not to mention that we could then say goodbye to the last bastion of literacy: the text based internet.
If we no longer have to read the information from the internet (which is becoming increasingly visual anyway) then only very few will ever read anything at all. People are already not buying books.
That said, I am going to go listen to the robot overlord read/. to me.
No, you're thinking of the "Asshole detector." It is a very simple device which beeps and flashes when an asshole touches it. The directions on the bottom read "if the device is not beeping and flashing, then you are not an asshole, or the batteries are dead. Please check the batteries."
I'm not sure how the R & D is coming for the asshole-detector detector though.
I was thinking the same thing about why the fuck people would put pictures of their credit cards--numbers blurred or not--online. Whiskey tango foxtrot?
There is, you just need to read/. while standing on your head and there you have it. It is probably recommended that you drink a bit before doing this.
Honestly, it is truly just irresponsible to not have more than one backup if you are doing something like this. Then, most people don't even use one backup. Let the lectures about backups begin anew, I guess.
Yah, that doesn't always work either. I live in Egypt, and once your shit hits the border here it gets opened so that a tariff can be levied, but half the time you never get the tariff notice, because someone who works in the postal service, the trade bureau, or wherever just steals it.
You also face import tariff in almost any country if you ship certain items. That can make it very expensive.
Soon, it is only going to be safe and easy to take whatever you can carry in your pockets or shove up your ass.
Ditto. Tesla was never a viable green solution simply because of the sticker price. If they had been interested in proactive change and not cashing in a potential current fashion trend in green cars, they would have, well, cashed in. As it is, they got what was coming to them. Bye.
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I know it is not tradition, but RTFA. The Muslim groups here are now being critical of themselves through media like Facebook, with younger members of organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood criticizing the older entrenched dogmatic approaches.
The article is a discussion of people who are using these media to create a sounding board for liberal democratic values, even secular ones. The folks behind the movements are brave indeed, having been subject to imprisonment, brutal interrogation and torture at the hands of the Egyptian government due to the "Emergency Law" which has been in place since the assassination of Anwar Sadat. We're not talking about Muslim extremists here or, indeed, extremists of any kind. We are talking about regular people using whatever resources they have at their disposal to counteract systematic disenfranchisement on the part of the legally secular government in Egypt.
I also didn't find the 'for' loops with hdparm in power.sh. I wonder if there is a difference in version of acpi-support in the Intrepid-proposed updates, which I had installed.
/dev/sda | grep Load_Cycle_Count" output 277503. This system is about a year old. Maybe I will buy a new drive and use it as an image backup just in case, and then if there is a problem, I'll just drop it in as a replacement.
More homework I guess. My "smartctl -a
Thanks for the info.
That teachers and students can't learn something new or something that is analog to what they already know is simply a limiting belief. It serves its purpose well, though, meaning that many teachers would cry out in agony if you moved their cheese, even as the read that stupid book of the same moniker.
It is because people believe that they cannot do something that they will not do something. This philosophy moves upward within an organization, beginning with individuals. Teachers have been conditioned to believe that they have to go through "training" to do anything new, because they are no longer curious about anything. Thankfully, any "training" that they receive can possibly be considered as "continuing education" and fulfill their NCLB requirements. The problem is that there is no one giant corporate entity railing for free software use in institutions like schools. Even if there were, it is unlikely that teachers would consider switching as anything other than inconvenient, irritating and impossible.
Agreed. the methodology for this study apparently depends on utilizing the internal mental representations which the subjects carry rather than a response to stimulus.
While there may be some truth to this idea (that cities are full of distractions, and that they are difficult for the brain to cope with), the study only shows that the internal mental representations of "city" versus "nature" have an effect on the cognitive response to stimuli. So, perhaps walking down a city street in the state produced by having just stared at pictures of forests and listening to recorded nature sounds is the recommended approach.
On the anecdotal side: I live in Cairo and I'm a social scientist. I like to observe people and their behavior. Since moving here I have noticed that there are a lot of bright, quick-witted people in this teeming city. Then again, there are a lot of dull, slow-witted people as well. It seems to me that the differences between them lies not in stimulus to response-time correlation, but in the presence of higher-order logic in situations which require fast-response. In my anecdotal non-study, it would seem that the foreign expatriates who live here (who typically come from somewhere outside a large city in their countries of origin) lack the higher-order logic in their daily interactions on the street with people. It doesn't again present until they are out of the noise, off the street, and in a--for the English speakers--English-only environment again. Granted, there are loads of possible explanations for this, language being a glaringly obvious one, but it makes me wonder sometimes.
The locals, on the other hand, are sharp as tacks when it comes to figuring out what to do next. They don't usually have a plan that goes beyond a few steps, but that doesn't matter. They are more fluid in their movements and there seems to be greater plasticity in their responses. Some would say opportunist, I would say adapted.
Who knows though? This is all wild speculation, and so is TFA. This is a problem with these types of cognitive science studies, being that we still know very little about the inner workings of the human brain as it relates to the cognitive stuff that makes up a human person. This is not helped by the continued insistence of psychological models to hold on to the separation of "brain" and "mind" at the cognitive level. This was a sloppy oversight on the part of the writer of the summary, in this instance, and not the writers of TFA.
Of course this is how the statement should be interpreted. It does, however, indicate that the ISP in question might be pretty realistic about the reality of the RIAA interpretation of copyright law: that it is not tenable in the long run and that everyone cannot simply be expected to jump on board. While it is not an unequivocal "no," it does indicate a reluctance to simply comply: though, that reluctance might indeed be assuaged by a little cash (probably a lot of cash.
Maybe the ISP's will charge RIAA so exorbitantly that they it will be a deterrent to their seeking compliance in the first place.
Agreed, I'm so sick and tired of playing with this old in-memory relational database with a separate record for every atom in my house.
I think this is a little ridiculous to be on the front page as well, but did anyone happen to notice the picture in the pool with a tin-foil hat?
/. in the first place. Then again, I could be totally wrong. But really, how often do you see pictures of people actually wearing tin-foil hats?
I think that this might be the nugget that got it on
Download the illegal ebook and then send the author a $20 (you know or whatever amount is appropriate) bill (money order, whatever) anonymously with a note explaining. That way, he gets beer money, you have your ebook. I don't think that anyone is going to complain
Well, the publisher will complain. That is why we keep it relatively anonymous. If you are dealing on a strictly ethical level, I don't see why this solution wouldn't work.
Or, just fuck it and download the ebook.
Not to mention that we could then say goodbye to the last bastion of literacy: the text based internet.
/. to me.
If we no longer have to read the information from the internet (which is becoming increasingly visual anyway) then only very few will ever read anything at all. People are already not buying books.
That said, I am going to go listen to the robot overlord read
the coffee drank you out of a straw.
Shit, I though I was just kidding. Reality rears its ugly head.
Post-its next to their screens?
Brown note.
No, you're thinking of the "Asshole detector." It is a very simple device which beeps and flashes when an asshole touches it. The directions on the bottom read "if the device is not beeping and flashing, then you are not an asshole, or the batteries are dead. Please check the batteries."
I'm not sure how the R & D is coming for the asshole-detector detector though.
Did anyone else see Logan's Run?
What do you mean "measurable?" It's just a catchy thing to say, rallying cry, something for a magazine title and so on.
I, for one, cannot wait to upgrade my tinfoil hat. It was starting to draw looks because it is so out of style.
Then they will be a good accessory for your hat as well.
I was thinking the same thing about why the fuck people would put pictures of their credit cards--numbers blurred or not--online. Whiskey tango foxtrot?
Yah, we're getting really lax on playing our cards close to our chests aren't we.
I wonder if the quantum computer that the NSA doesn't have runs Linux yet.
There is, you just need to read /. while standing on your head and there you have it. It is probably recommended that you drink a bit before doing this.
Honestly, it is truly just irresponsible to not have more than one backup if you are doing something like this. Then, most people don't even use one backup. Let the lectures about backups begin anew, I guess.
Yah, that doesn't always work either. I live in Egypt, and once your shit hits the border here it gets opened so that a tariff can be levied, but half the time you never get the tariff notice, because someone who works in the postal service, the trade bureau, or wherever just steals it.
You also face import tariff in almost any country if you ship certain items. That can make it very expensive.
Soon, it is only going to be safe and easy to take whatever you can carry in your pockets or shove up your ass.
Mod parent funny or insightful.
One neato thing about looking at religious systems from a social science perspective is that before long you realize how much bullshit they share.
Ditto. Tesla was never a viable green solution simply because of the sticker price. If they had been interested in proactive change and not cashing in a potential current fashion trend in green cars, they would have, well, cashed in. As it is, they got what was coming to them. Bye.