Szasz does, however, have that little problem where he believes that there's no such thing as mental illnesses. Just like I wouldn't read a biology book written by a creationist, I don't really have any interest in reading anything else by Szasz that touches on mental health.
Just what is this myminicity thing anyway? I've seen increasing Howls of Rage about links leading to it on/. and searching only turns up, well, Howls of Rage on/. about it so far.
That's bullshit. People who excuse their poor use of grammar, punctuation or spelling because they are "being informal" and don't have the time or brain power to waste on such things when they're just "relaxing" are people who always have poor use of grammar, punctuation and spelling.
Except, y'know, for the ones who aren't. But who needs annoying things like facts to clutter up our nice, simple, broken, me-against-the-universe inanities?
But go ahead, continue to equate "this guy used net jargon" (on Slashdot of all the fucking places!) with "obviously he cannot use 'proper' English grammar in entirely different circumstances."
Alternately, you could get down off your high horse before the hypoxia starts doing permanent harm. Unless, of course, the stick is keeping you fixed in place.
Surely it is possible to have a trait which is negative in almost all situations.
A lot of those would probably just be non-starters in the long term if they actually were across-the-board negative. I doubt many anencephalitic people end up having large families, for instance.
o me the % of intelligent people has decrease, now just a few thinks and the other part uses the products of the few.
in the past everyone had to know how to build, create, use and make everything they needed to live, nowadays can you brag about being able to make fire out of nothing? build a house all by yourself? make furniture? hunt with a bow or lance? Cook the basics?
Because, of course, a lack of period-specific knowledge and a lack of fundamental intelligence are the same thing, right?
Unless you tell it to look for "John Dvorak," "John C. Dvorak," "Oh my God not this fucking dolt again" or some other variant of his name and reactions thereto...
After all, can you think of a single project Dvorak has claimed as a failure that didn't succeed spectacularly? His criticism is a strong hint that OLPC is no longer a niche player and is about to make major inroads.
I wonder if there's a causal relationship there?
Maybe we can pitch various major and beneficial projects at Dvorak and carefully condition him to hate them, thus ensuring their success...
Wouldn't your charitable dollars be best spent helping the very neediest?
Would they?
Serious question. Should my charity dollars go to helping a few people eat for a month (and possibly nothing beyond that, unless I have a constant stream of charity dollars), or would it be better for me to give something that could potentially turn a few people into employers? Should we do something which is at best maintaining the status quo, or would it be better to try to step past that?
The OLPC project isn't thinking in terms of "next Tuesday" for things like this, it's thinking in terms of "five or ten or twenty years from now." There's a difference between temporarily alleviating a condition for a few people now, and possibly helping to create a situation that permanently alleviates it for more people a little further down the road.
It's a hard point to argue if you had only two options, food, or a laptop, the food seems a better choice.
I seem to have missed this memo; I wasn't aware that the OLPC project was aiming its materials at the type of children who appeared in 1980s benefit concert videos, or that the population of the developed world was nothing but an utter monolith of absolute poverty.
Then again, this is Slashdot, which is utterly incapable of discussing the developing world as anything other than a straw man parody of itself...
Anyone notice lately less and less pages can be edited?
Now that you mention it I am kind of curious as to what percentage of the pages are locked or under some other kind of protection policy. Anyone have those numbers?
Or it's about a subject that some "I know nothing about this therefore shouldn't be here" guy stumbled over and stirred up a deletion campaign (or two or three or twenty) out of some misguided spite.
Anyone who claims the only articles on Wikipedia that get deleted are those which 'need' to be needs to lay off the paint chips.
If someone's got advanced degrees in a subject they've been studying for five or ten or thirty years, I somehow doubt they're going to consider J. Random Wikipedian to qualify as a "peer" as far as expertise or experience go.
One other thing that a student must learn is that encyclopedias typically aren't useful material for citation in the first place. If you're doing research at anything beyond a fifth-grade library project, you need to get your information from grownup books. If a student of mine used Wikipedia, Britannica, or any other encyclopedia or encyclopedoid thing in a paper, I wouldn't recognize it as a valid source for citation, and neither would (or should) most other educators at the high school or university levels.
In 2006, when SUP was put in charge of handling LJ's Russian userbase (which was defined, if I remember correctly, as "everyone in the former Soviet Union or anyone who blogged in Cyrillic at all"), there were howls of rage from the Russian community for that specific reason. "SUP = FSB" was a pretty common refrain in comments of the announcement.
Considering a lot of Russian LJ users were on the site precisely because it was, if not completely out of Moscow's reach, at least more difficult to readily get at, I can understand why they'd be furious about that - and moreso about this.
ID isn't a theory. It isn't even a hypothesis. It's a statement of desire about how the world is based off personal, afraid-of-being-wrong presuppositions and, really, nothing more.
If I had to coin some noun to append to it to say what it is, I'd suggest "handwave."
As someone else said, this warrants a +6. I done got learnded here.
One question, though; the reduction of chromosomes, you said, suggests that two merged over time. Would there also be the possibility that one was simply excised altogether? Or would that have resulted in so much information being removed that the human/ape shift would have been far more radical as a result?
They're losing a kilo of air per day; that's about twelve milligrams a second, which is a really, really small amount. A pen cap weighs about eighty times that. The movement in air currents that that would cause would be entirely cancelled out by the currents whenever a crew member turned his head, never mind normal movement to and fro.
If they could locate a leak by taking an object and waiting for it to get sucked towards the hole, chances are the hole would be simple to find in the first place.
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It just makes it easier for society to dehumanize people with disabilities
Or without them, sometimes...
But yeah, the "homo solus" thing just sounds like more "indigo child" bullshit.
Szasz does, however, have that little problem where he believes that there's no such thing as mental illnesses. Just like I wouldn't read a biology book written by a creationist, I don't really have any interest in reading anything else by Szasz that touches on mental health.
Just what is this myminicity thing anyway? I've seen increasing Howls of Rage about links leading to it on /. and searching only turns up, well, Howls of Rage on /. about it so far.
Given what those things have gone through so far, I'm open to the possibility of them surviving being directly struck by the meteor...
And who precisely appointed you arbiter of what's a waste of IP space and what isn't?
That's bullshit. People who excuse their poor use of grammar, punctuation or spelling because they are "being informal" and don't have the time or brain power to waste on such things when they're just "relaxing" are people who always have poor use of grammar, punctuation and spelling.
Except, y'know, for the ones who aren't. But who needs annoying things like facts to clutter up our nice, simple, broken, me-against-the-universe inanities?
But go ahead, continue to equate "this guy used net jargon" (on Slashdot of all the fucking places!) with "obviously he cannot use 'proper' English grammar in entirely different circumstances."
Alternately, you could get down off your high horse before the hypoxia starts doing permanent harm. Unless, of course, the stick is keeping you fixed in place.
Surely it is possible to have a trait which is negative in almost all situations.
A lot of those would probably just be non-starters in the long term if they actually were across-the-board negative. I doubt many anencephalitic people end up having large families, for instance.
o me the % of intelligent people has decrease, now just a few thinks and the other part uses the products of the few.
in the past everyone had to know how to build, create, use and make everything they needed to live, nowadays can you brag about being able to make fire out of nothing? build a house all by yourself? make furniture? hunt with a bow or lance? Cook the basics?
Because, of course, a lack of period-specific knowledge and a lack of fundamental intelligence are the same thing, right?
Did anyone go out and ask the third world what they really wanted?
'Cause there is, of course, a Third World out there that can return an answer to that sort of question, right?
(Nevermind that there's good reason to be somewhat skeptical about the whole concept of 'the Third World' in general these days...)
Unless you tell it to look for "John Dvorak," "John C. Dvorak," "Oh my God not this fucking dolt again" or some other variant of his name and reactions thereto...
After all, can you think of a single project Dvorak has claimed as a failure that didn't succeed spectacularly? His criticism is a strong hint that OLPC is no longer a niche player and is about to make major inroads.
I wonder if there's a causal relationship there?
Maybe we can pitch various major and beneficial projects at Dvorak and carefully condition him to hate them, thus ensuring their success...
Wouldn't your charitable dollars be best spent helping the very neediest?
Would they?
Serious question. Should my charity dollars go to helping a few people eat for a month (and possibly nothing beyond that, unless I have a constant stream of charity dollars), or would it be better for me to give something that could potentially turn a few people into employers? Should we do something which is at best maintaining the status quo, or would it be better to try to step past that?
The OLPC project isn't thinking in terms of "next Tuesday" for things like this, it's thinking in terms of "five or ten or twenty years from now." There's a difference between temporarily alleviating a condition for a few people now, and possibly helping to create a situation that permanently alleviates it for more people a little further down the road.
It's a hard point to argue if you had only two options, food, or a laptop, the food seems a better choice.
I seem to have missed this memo; I wasn't aware that the OLPC project was aiming its materials at the type of children who appeared in 1980s benefit concert videos, or that the population of the developed world was nothing but an utter monolith of absolute poverty.
Then again, this is Slashdot, which is utterly incapable of discussing the developing world as anything other than a straw man parody of itself...
Anyone notice lately less and less pages can be edited?
Now that you mention it I am kind of curious as to what percentage of the pages are locked or under some other kind of protection policy. Anyone have those numbers?
I came across one the other day that was written entirely in the second person.
That someone would write a multiparagraph article like that was too weird a thing to even annoy me. I need to find it again..
Or it's about a subject that some "I know nothing about this therefore shouldn't be here" guy stumbled over and stirred up a deletion campaign (or two or three or twenty) out of some misguided spite.
Anyone who claims the only articles on Wikipedia that get deleted are those which 'need' to be needs to lay off the paint chips.
I'm sorry.. what? Wikipedia isn't peer reviewed?
If someone's got advanced degrees in a subject they've been studying for five or ten or thirty years, I somehow doubt they're going to consider J. Random Wikipedian to qualify as a "peer" as far as expertise or experience go.
One other thing that a student must learn is that encyclopedias typically aren't useful material for citation in the first place. If you're doing research at anything beyond a fifth-grade library project, you need to get your information from grownup books. If a student of mine used Wikipedia, Britannica, or any other encyclopedia or encyclopedoid thing in a paper, I wouldn't recognize it as a valid source for citation, and neither would (or should) most other educators at the high school or university levels.
In 2006, when SUP was put in charge of handling LJ's Russian userbase (which was defined, if I remember correctly, as "everyone in the former Soviet Union or anyone who blogged in Cyrillic at all"), there were howls of rage from the Russian community for that specific reason. "SUP = FSB" was a pretty common refrain in comments of the announcement.
Considering a lot of Russian LJ users were on the site precisely because it was, if not completely out of Moscow's reach, at least more difficult to readily get at, I can understand why they'd be furious about that - and moreso about this.
Okay, that's about what I thought. Thanks for the info. :)
ID isn't a theory. It isn't even a hypothesis. It's a statement of desire about how the world is based off personal, afraid-of-being-wrong presuppositions and, really, nothing more.
If I had to coin some noun to append to it to say what it is, I'd suggest "handwave."
As someone else said, this warrants a +6. I done got learnded here.
One question, though; the reduction of chromosomes, you said, suggests that two merged over time. Would there also be the possibility that one was simply excised altogether? Or would that have resulted in so much information being removed that the human/ape shift would have been far more radical as a result?
They're losing a kilo of air per day; that's about twelve milligrams a second, which is a really, really small amount. A pen cap weighs about eighty times that. The movement in air currents that that would cause would be entirely cancelled out by the currents whenever a crew member turned his head, never mind normal movement to and fro.
If they could locate a leak by taking an object and waiting for it to get sucked towards the hole, chances are the hole would be simple to find in the first place.
If the hole was about 2m in estimated size, I don't think finding it would be much of a problem...
America is a big, old, resilient creature.
There are countries that get to call themselves "old" out there, but none of them are in the western hemisphere.