lately I started to observe this: the stronger you think you are, the stronger you are. and the smarter you think you are, the dumber you are.
Indeed, and the number one reason someone disagrees with you is not because they don't understand what you do, but they understand all that fully, plus they understand some other things you don't. An intelligent man asks such a person why they think what they do, in light of this or that. An idiot tells such a person that they are the idiot, and explains what he or she knows without even asking what the other person knows that they don't, assuming simply that the other person must be dull for not having reached the same conclusion as themselves. And they encounter this so often, they soon convince themselves that the world is full of idiots. There's probably a direct correlation between how stupid someone is and how widespread they believe stupidity is among other people.
...and the law no longer quite reflects what society wants out of it, then it may be that the law is no longer justified, and the pirates are acting correctly, if unlawfully. In that case, it's the law that needs correction, not the pirates.
Exactly, thank you!
The law and the recording industry need to adapt to the changing world. How ridiculous does this have to get before they realize that fact. If the price of an album had gone down with the advent of CD's instead of being double the cost of a tape I would bet we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
Sorry TFM = the f***ing manual I understand as usually it is printed as RTFM = Read The F***ing Manual. There was no angst directed at you. As for the device I followed the link you provided and this is the product they were selling. After posting this I read further and they have a corded remote of sorts for selecting the files that are loaded from the flash drive. This would be useful since you could put all your floppies on the flash drive and select which one you wanted loaded into the device memory at that time. My only intention was to provide more information about the device you mentioned as I find it fascinating in theory. I say in theory since most devices I've run into that required say 20 floppies to load the firmware also had a serial port that allowed me to load it that way. But that device would be very useful in certain situations. Like the gentleman who had to load designs into his fabrication machinery.
I read TFM and it said you actually load files from the USB drive into it's internal memory. It also said something about being able to choose which files are loaded somehow. But even better you can plug a network cable in to it and use it's built in web-server to upload files directly into memory. This would be an incredibly Rube Goldberg solution unless you were using an expensive to replace legacy device that only had a floppy drive and then it would save you a lot of switching out of floppies.
But then why would the idea that an unfriendly nations infrastructure could be utterly wiped out with surgical strikes before anyone ever knew what we did make anyone nervous at all? It's not like we would ever abuse that power.
Properly designed an ABM wouldn't be able to divert the projectile. I believe the forces involved would outweigh the attempt unless it was intercepted pretty early during entry into the atmosphere and part of the beauty of this system is it is already to late by the time it is detected.
Also just for good measure.
FTA Obama was quoted as saying, "Can't I get a friggin' shark with a laser on it's head? Is that too much to ask?"
They are similar in some ways. But form factor and price are what is really important. I would readily pay 300 dollars for a well designed device that would let me surf(wi-fi), watch movies, and read e-books. The touch screen, good battery and flood of apps are all secondary. It was ahead of its time but the 999 price tag is what really made it tank. You will often see this with companies bringing out new tech and saying, "Oh well, no one wanted it." Yeah I guess no one wanted electric cars like they had in the 90's when a decent electric or hybrid would cost you the same as a BMW and probably drive like a Gremlin in need of a tuneup.
How about the bullies and jocks are a race?
Nothing stops a highly intelligent nerd from digging into someones past on a job interview to find out if they were a jock and if they are outed as a jock then they go on the jock list and cannot be hired to do anything but work Walmart, McDonalds and other jobs specifically designed for the jock population.
How about that?
Are you thinking about forming an action committee because I think I could get government funding for this? Actually I think they do a pretty good job of delegating that kind of work to themselves. Being a jock is a stereotype that the person being stereotyped often wants to promote. Then again not everyone is cut out for professional careers. It would be sad if someone got stereotyped as a jock and could have been a great inventor.
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I am not trying to be a troll but I think the problem is perception. If you mention Bill Gates is conversation people instantly know who you are talking about. Up until recently if you mentioned Steve Jobs you would get a blank stare. And even after trying so hard I doubt Jobs will be remembered very long after he is gone. Gates on the other hand will be the first mentioned in the history record. What eats Jobs so much is that at best he will always be no more than a foot notes under Gates.
If intolerance is wrong, is it wrong to be intolerant of intolerant people?
I too have thought of this often. I don't claim to have the answer but these are my thoughts. If we all agree intolerance = bad then it is always bad. Unfortunately reality isn't so black and white. It is OK to be intolerant of things that are considered taboo like murder or abuse. So what we are really talking about is socially unacceptable intolerance as being bad.
But even deeper I think what may be at the root of your question is that you need to separate the intolerance from the person. If something is socially unacceptable, like intolerance toward a certain race, then it is not only good but our duty as a member of society to be intolerant of the persons actions but not the person. They are not where you are yet but if we just dismiss them nothing changes. If we are tolerant of people and help them overcome their intolerance then we can grow together as a society.
BTW If anyone has figured out how to do this let me know. Currently if I try to reason with someone and they wont come around I still just have to disassociate myself from them.
They never said it was practical yet. It is a new area of research. Only time will tell if they discovered something useful or if they were rolling something else in a "tube" shape and smoking... ehm I mean lighting it.
Volatile Chemicals like sulfides and chlorofluorocarbons which are not found AT ALL in nature are one thing, gases that are also produced by nature from critters like CO2 are quite another.
Stop Sulfide and CFLs, give a rats ass about CO2 unless it start approaching 2% of the atmospheric composition.
lol last time I checked the atmosphere was only 0.038% CO2 I think if it got to 2% we would all be dead already. I get your point though.
No, he googled how to make a baby 9 months ago. Yes even though this was number 4. I have 4 at home and still don't know where they came from. I think from the gym since my wife gets really fat then comes home one day skinny and with baby.
finally making it into cars. I hope they look at the evolution of joysticks and realize a thumb-stick is better. The feedback from your body moving is all you need. That is what is missing from driving games.
CFL are not a good choice for bathrooms. Most even say on their package that they aren't good for closets and bathrooms. Too many on/off cycles, kills them. They are best for rooms where they will be turned on and left on for hours, not minutes.
[Citation Needed] maybe not
I use them in the fridge, the porch, the garage, the bathrooms, and basically everywhere in and around my house. Never had one I bought go out yet. One came with my current residence so I don't know how old it is and it flickers on and off sometimes. Brand does make a difference for the warm up time. The first ones I bought from some home supply store were irritatingly slow to warm up. But since I can now get them at Costco they usually have better quality stuff. The last batch I bought have no noticeable warm up time. Besides breaking them myself by dropping I have had none go out since I started using them. This is only my personal experience but since you were using yours to make your point I felt that I could counter in kind. Every time a bulb does do out in my house I think "ah finally" but it is usually an incandescent bulb I overlooked. My local Costco also carries multi-LED bulbs but times being what they are I haven't taken the plunge on those just yet.
And a GPS can't be removed and left at home? Slightly harder but come on....
GPS is not a perfect solution either. I have used several different models including the Pharos GPS with Streets and Trips. They often jump temporarily to another state or place on the globe and then after a few minutes jump back. So are we going to be able to challenge the 3000 mile trip we supposedly took on our way to grocery store? I have an idea just give me a check for 150million and I'll tell them it won't work.
"It might also be possible for thousands of tiny computers made of plasmodia to live on our skin and carry out routine tasks freeing up our brain for other things." - In the future we will all be covered in slime, is this human evolution? A time may come when bathing goes out of style in order to accumulate more processing power..
And they call me a disgusting slob for not bathing. I am just way ahead of my time.
You seem to have a lot of stored up anger. Care to talk about it?
You're damned right -- I'm pissed off. A lot of people should be pissed off. Fundamental freedoms erode as people focus on symptoms, not causes. It's easier to slap a law on a symptom than it is to directly address the real problem.
Addressing causes isn't easy -- I've been fighting battles for quite some time now, doing the best I can with what I have. This is not the world I wanted to grow up in, and it sure as hell isn't what I want to leave my kids as a legacy.
Yes I hear you and how does that really make you feel? Can you please elaborate?
It would be nice if someone who has evidence of global warming would actually produce it instead of just saying because I am a scientist and smarter than you. I've seen some arguments form both sides and honestly can't come to any conclusions based on what I have seen. Mostly because both sides tend to resort to name calling and because I said so tactics. Please don't tell me I just wouldn't understand. In both the above examples even though many people may have never seen a germ they can still understand the concept. For example when climatologist who want to promote their ideas show ice falling off the ice shelf into the ocean while talking about the ice melting because of global warming they hurt there credibility. Because that happens all the time and is how icebergs are made. It seems patronizing. Why can't they present their evidence. It's not like anyone can stop them there is an advantage today that John Snow didn't have called the internet. Links if you have them. To actual evidence not it is happening because all these smarter than you people say so sites. I've seen enough of those and just to be clear I don't deny global climate change I just don't support the idea either. At least not till I see some actual evidence. Although I don't think any reasonable person would deny that we need to stop relying on oil so much. It's going to be tough habit to break.
Huh. I had no idea that watching my wife grow in beauty over 15 years was watching evolution in process. Nice.
This discovery has lead to the solution to a particular slashdot meme.
a. Yes, this post is sappy and sentimental.
b. Yes, I am sending my wife a link to this post.
c. Yes, the kids are going to bed early tonight.
d. Profit!!!
LOL, congratulations, your just figured out the true purpose of this "study". Scientifically proving the female you like is the most beautiful woman ever scores some major points. At least that is what I was thinking the whole time I read the summary.
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lately I started to observe this: the stronger you think you are, the stronger you are. and the smarter you think you are, the dumber you are.
Indeed, and the number one reason someone disagrees with you is not because they don't understand what you do, but they understand all that fully, plus they understand some other things you don't. An intelligent man asks such a person why they think what they do, in light of this or that. An idiot tells such a person that they are the idiot, and explains what he or she knows without even asking what the other person knows that they don't, assuming simply that the other person must be dull for not having reached the same conclusion as themselves. And they encounter this so often, they soon convince themselves that the world is full of idiots. There's probably a direct correlation between how stupid someone is and how widespread they believe stupidity is among other people.
Seems to be similar to the Dunning-Kruger effect which has often been discussed on /.
...and the law no longer quite reflects what society wants out of it, then it may be that the law is no longer justified, and the pirates are acting correctly, if unlawfully. In that case, it's the law that needs correction, not the pirates.
Exactly, thank you!
The law and the recording industry need to adapt to the changing world. How ridiculous does this have to get before they realize that fact. If the price of an album had gone down with the advent of CD's instead of being double the cost of a tape I would bet we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
Sorry TFM = the f***ing manual I understand as usually it is printed as RTFM = Read The F***ing Manual. There was no angst directed at you. As for the device I followed the link you provided and this is the product they were selling. After posting this I read further and they have a corded remote of sorts for selecting the files that are loaded from the flash drive. This would be useful since you could put all your floppies on the flash drive and select which one you wanted loaded into the device memory at that time. My only intention was to provide more information about the device you mentioned as I find it fascinating in theory. I say in theory since most devices I've run into that required say 20 floppies to load the firmware also had a serial port that allowed me to load it that way. But that device would be very useful in certain situations. Like the gentleman who had to load designs into his fabrication machinery.
I read TFM and it said you actually load files from the USB drive into it's internal memory. It also said something about being able to choose which files are loaded somehow. But even better you can plug a network cable in to it and use it's built in web-server to upload files directly into memory. This would be an incredibly Rube Goldberg solution unless you were using an expensive to replace legacy device that only had a floppy drive and then it would save you a lot of switching out of floppies.
But then why would the idea that an unfriendly nations infrastructure could be utterly wiped out with surgical strikes before anyone ever knew what we did make anyone nervous at all? It's not like we would ever abuse that power.
Properly designed an ABM wouldn't be able to divert the projectile. I believe the forces involved would outweigh the attempt unless it was intercepted pretty early during entry into the atmosphere and part of the beauty of this system is it is already to late by the time it is detected. Also just for good measure. FTA Obama was quoted as saying, "Can't I get a friggin' shark with a laser on it's head? Is that too much to ask?"
They are similar in some ways. But form factor and price are what is really important. I would readily pay 300 dollars for a well designed device that would let me surf(wi-fi), watch movies, and read e-books. The touch screen, good battery and flood of apps are all secondary. It was ahead of its time but the 999 price tag is what really made it tank. You will often see this with companies bringing out new tech and saying, "Oh well, no one wanted it." Yeah I guess no one wanted electric cars like they had in the 90's when a decent electric or hybrid would cost you the same as a BMW and probably drive like a Gremlin in need of a tuneup.
How about the bullies and jocks are a race? Nothing stops a highly intelligent nerd from digging into someones past on a job interview to find out if they were a jock and if they are outed as a jock then they go on the jock list and cannot be hired to do anything but work Walmart, McDonalds and other jobs specifically designed for the jock population. How about that?
Are you thinking about forming an action committee because I think I could get government funding for this? Actually I think they do a pretty good job of delegating that kind of work to themselves. Being a jock is a stereotype that the person being stereotyped often wants to promote. Then again not everyone is cut out for professional careers. It would be sad if someone got stereotyped as a jock and could have been a great inventor.
I am not trying to be a troll but I think the problem is perception. If you mention Bill Gates is conversation people instantly know who you are talking about. Up until recently if you mentioned Steve Jobs you would get a blank stare. And even after trying so hard I doubt Jobs will be remembered very long after he is gone. Gates on the other hand will be the first mentioned in the history record. What eats Jobs so much is that at best he will always be no more than a foot notes under Gates.
If intolerance is wrong, is it wrong to be intolerant of intolerant people?
I too have thought of this often. I don't claim to have the answer but these are my thoughts. If we all agree intolerance = bad then it is always bad. Unfortunately reality isn't so black and white. It is OK to be intolerant of things that are considered taboo like murder or abuse. So what we are really talking about is socially unacceptable intolerance as being bad.
But even deeper I think what may be at the root of your question is that you need to separate the intolerance from the person. If something is socially unacceptable, like intolerance toward a certain race, then it is not only good but our duty as a member of society to be intolerant of the persons actions but not the person. They are not where you are yet but if we just dismiss them nothing changes. If we are tolerant of people and help them overcome their intolerance then we can grow together as a society.
BTW If anyone has figured out how to do this let me know. Currently if I try to reason with someone and they wont come around I still just have to disassociate myself from them.
They never said it was practical yet. It is a new area of research. Only time will tell if they discovered something useful or if they were rolling something else in a "tube" shape and smoking... ehm I mean lighting it.
Volatile Chemicals like sulfides and chlorofluorocarbons which are not found AT ALL in nature are one thing, gases that are also produced by nature from critters like CO2 are quite another.
Stop Sulfide and CFLs, give a rats ass about CO2 unless it start approaching 2% of the atmospheric composition.
lol last time I checked the atmosphere was only 0.038% CO2 I think if it got to 2% we would all be dead already. I get your point though.
I think you meant "happy ending" not that I know anything about that.
No, he googled how to make a baby 9 months ago. Yes even though this was number 4. I have 4 at home and still don't know where they came from. I think from the gym since my wife gets really fat then comes home one day skinny and with baby.
The media loved Palin too.
Wow - I sure wouldn't have described it that way.
They loved her in much the same way I would have liked to love her. Just kidding... OK, not really.
There is one on either side linked together.
finally making it into cars. I hope they look at the evolution of joysticks and realize a thumb-stick is better. The feedback from your body moving is all you need. That is what is missing from driving games.
CFL are not a good choice for bathrooms. Most even say on their package that they aren't good for closets and bathrooms. Too many on/off cycles, kills them. They are best for rooms where they will be turned on and left on for hours, not minutes.
[Citation Needed] maybe not
I use them in the fridge, the porch, the garage, the bathrooms, and basically everywhere in and around my house. Never had one I bought go out yet. One came with my current residence so I don't know how old it is and it flickers on and off sometimes. Brand does make a difference for the warm up time. The first ones I bought from some home supply store were irritatingly slow to warm up. But since I can now get them at Costco they usually have better quality stuff. The last batch I bought have no noticeable warm up time. Besides breaking them myself by dropping I have had none go out since I started using them. This is only my personal experience but since you were using yours to make your point I felt that I could counter in kind. Every time a bulb does do out in my house I think "ah finally" but it is usually an incandescent bulb I overlooked. My local Costco also carries multi-LED bulbs but times being what they are I haven't taken the plunge on those just yet.
And a GPS can't be removed and left at home? Slightly harder but come on. ...
GPS is not a perfect solution either. I have used several different models including the Pharos GPS with Streets and Trips. They often jump temporarily to another state or place on the globe and then after a few minutes jump back. So are we going to be able to challenge the 3000 mile trip we supposedly took on our way to grocery store? I have an idea just give me a check for 150million and I'll tell them it won't work.
"It might also be possible for thousands of tiny computers made of plasmodia to live on our skin and carry out routine tasks freeing up our brain for other things." - In the future we will all be covered in slime, is this human evolution? A time may come when bathing goes out of style in order to accumulate more processing power..
And they call me a disgusting slob for not bathing. I am just way ahead of my time.
How about a nice game of chess?
You're damned right -- I'm pissed off. A lot of people should be pissed off. Fundamental freedoms erode as people focus on symptoms, not causes. It's easier to slap a law on a symptom than it is to directly address the real problem.
Addressing causes isn't easy -- I've been fighting battles for quite some time now, doing the best I can with what I have. This is not the world I wanted to grow up in, and it sure as hell isn't what I want to leave my kids as a legacy.
Yes I hear you and how does that really make you feel? Can you please elaborate?
It would be nice if someone who has evidence of global warming would actually produce it instead of just saying because I am a scientist and smarter than you. I've seen some arguments form both sides and honestly can't come to any conclusions based on what I have seen. Mostly because both sides tend to resort to name calling and because I said so tactics. Please don't tell me I just wouldn't understand. In both the above examples even though many people may have never seen a germ they can still understand the concept. For example when climatologist who want to promote their ideas show ice falling off the ice shelf into the ocean while talking about the ice melting because of global warming they hurt there credibility. Because that happens all the time and is how icebergs are made. It seems patronizing. Why can't they present their evidence. It's not like anyone can stop them there is an advantage today that John Snow didn't have called the internet. Links if you have them. To actual evidence not it is happening because all these smarter than you people say so sites. I've seen enough of those and just to be clear I don't deny global climate change I just don't support the idea either. At least not till I see some actual evidence. Although I don't think any reasonable person would deny that we need to stop relying on oil so much. It's going to be tough habit to break.
Don't worry they must be new here. They're right though we do have completely passive encoded information tags. They're called "Bar Codes". :0)
Huh. I had no idea that watching my wife grow in beauty over 15 years was watching evolution in process. Nice.
This discovery has lead to the solution to a particular slashdot meme.
a. Yes, this post is sappy and sentimental.
b. Yes, I am sending my wife a link to this post.
c. Yes, the kids are going to bed early tonight.
d. Profit!!!
LOL, congratulations, your just figured out the true purpose of this "study". Scientifically proving the female you like is the most beautiful woman ever scores some major points. At least that is what I was thinking the whole time I read the summary.