Failure is pretty normal. So is quitting after failure. But if you're able to move on and keep trying, then you may succeed. Once you succeed usually you continue with that success. Of course you may go on to try other things which may either fail of succeed.
Have you heard people mention finding what they were looking for in the "last place that they looked"? Does it ever happen otherwise? Do you often find yourself finding what you're looking for then continuing to search yet more locations to see if it's there?
I've often thought that keeping something in print should be a requirement for copyright.
The extreme case would be letting it go out of print ends your copyright and it becomes public domain. Less extreme would be allowing something to go out of print extends fair use to making complete copies. After all, if it's not possible to buy your work then you really can't claim a loss if someone makes a copy.
This seems a bit like requiring people to defend trademarks in order to keep them.
I know I'm a bit late to the discussion, but for whatever it's worth...
I think you were speaking metaphorically about breeding inferior minds - i.e. teaching people to NOT think or question, as opposed to suggesting they are actually giving birth to children with inferior minds. (That would sound like claiming noticeable evolution on the scale of one generation to the next, which would be pretty extreme. And could also be viewed as being racist.)
Previously you also said "the mind is a muscle". I'd also take that as metaphorical rather than literal. If you really believed that the mind is physically a muscle then I'd think maybe learning some more biology might be a good idea.
Actually, the Catholic Church is in the "our interpretation of our 2000 year old book says that using condoms is a sin - so don't use them!" camp. By the way, that includes the case when your spouse has cheated on you and contracted AIDS - your choices are no more sex, or accept contracting AIDS.
As for useful personal values, I'd say atheists have those. I've never heard of any atheists protecting child molesters. But given that is seems that your view is that the alternative to the Catholic Church is atheism I think I see where you're coming from and I'd say you seem a bit biased.
Maybe the next time the Pope is online he could do a bit of reading on the effectiveness of condoms in stopping the spread of AIDS. He might learn something and then he would have something better to say to people in Africa.
You hit the nail right on the head. I want to freak out whenever I hear someone expressing the idea that science is pointless and does nothing for them. Expressing such a thought online is the height of irony - and ignorance.
"This fallacious train of thought is of course in no way hindered..." Well yeah, I guess I'd have to agree that strongly encouraging something doesn't hinder it in any way.
Shutting down the LHC will not inconvenience these people in the least. Telling them not to use their SUV to drive to the corner store all the time, or to use it for a one person long distance commute to work will inconvenience them.
I completely agree with your point about context being very important, but there are many legal things people may search for which they still might not want to be public knowledge.
Suppose you did some searches on atheism, then non-believers were the target of the next witch hunt?
How about looking for information about an STD that you've contracted. Do you want everyone to know about that?
What about questionably illegal activities? Suppose you and your wife decide to try anal sex and search for some advice on avoiding problems. What if you live in a state (not sure there still are any) where that is illegal?
I think that Mythbusters is a neat idea for a show, but it fails for me due to catering to the "attention span of less than a minute crowd". I once saw a condensed version on YouTube that removed the repetition, resulting in the the whole show being about 10 minutes. That was great! Unfortunately skipping over the repetition with a DVR is not quite as easy as skipping commercials. So unfortunately I usually don't bother watching the show.
They give the vaccine to people in high risk groups. Over time they watch to see if the rate of infection ends up being less than the rate in other people in the same group, who were not vaccinated.
Deliberately infection someone with a fatal disease, to test a vaccine that you are not sure is effective (hence the need for the test) sounds like criminal negligence, on top of violating the Hippocratic Oath.
There's really not much chance of achieving that - it would have to be much much faster.
The circumference of the earth is about 40 000 km. If you could start first thing in the morning, and arrive by nightfall the next day, that would allow a maximum of about 36 hours. I really don't see a solar powered plan managing 1111 km/hr.
Then of course you'd have no problem spending a few hours in a room full of skunks would you. I kinda think they could devise some test to show that you were faking it.
I know this is Slashdot, so RTFA means nothing but...
The linked to article uses metric!!
So it looks like someone went to the trouble to doing the conversions just to write the summary. Is that an attempt at being extra nerdy? Making an unnecessary and pointless conversions. So then all the "real" nerds can then do the conversion back to metric/scientific units, in their heads.
I bought my house in the 90s. (In Canada - mind you) The seller had already moved quite a distance away, so all documents were faxed back and forth.
At the insistence of the realtor, all such documents included a statement that they must be followed up by an original signed copy within one week. It was stated as if it were a legal requirement. To me it made sense as it was clear enough at the time how easy it would be to fake a signature on a faxed document.
I think that you are being a bit too negative. Look at the large images and go back and forth between images 3 through 5 a few times. The monkey barely moves his head compared to how much the arm moves. Without being able to move the arm, the monkey would never get the marshmallow.
As for the question of degrees of freedom, I was trying to figure that out but it's hard to say. It looks like there could be both "shoulder" and "elbow" joints, but it's not clear. However looking at images 2 and 3, the fingers definitely close to grab the marshmallow. Does that count?
"tree cyborg body"? Unless that's a typo, that would seem to be pretty simple since all I would expect of a tree cyborg is for it to sit there and do nothing. I think even I could manage to build something like that.
"So a corporation -- if not closely regulated -- is essentially a sociopath with perpetual life."
Well there's a really depressing thought to start the day. Even more so given the reliability of the source. But nothing is gained by trying to hide from or deny unpleasant realities.
At the same time, I think it helps to explain why you do what you do. Thank you and keep up the good work. Your "RIAA got into trouble for doing this wrong" stories always make my day.
I sometimes think that corporations are essentially the legal equivalent of a genetic engineering experiment gone horribly awry.
Due to the lack of a frozen will, the 17 people will now be heading off to court to fight over who inherits the frozen wooden bowl and spoon found with the man.
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Failure is pretty normal. So is quitting after failure. But if you're able to move on and keep trying, then you may succeed. Once you succeed usually you continue with that success. Of course you may go on to try other things which may either fail of succeed.
Have you heard people mention finding what they were looking for in the "last place that they looked"?
Does it ever happen otherwise? Do you often find yourself finding what you're looking for then continuing to search yet more locations to see if it's there?
I've often thought that keeping something in print should be a requirement for copyright.
The extreme case would be letting it go out of print ends your copyright and it becomes public domain. Less extreme would be allowing something to go out of print extends fair use to making complete copies. After all, if it's not possible to buy your work then you really can't claim a loss if someone makes a copy.
This seems a bit like requiring people to defend trademarks in order to keep them.
I know I'm a bit late to the discussion, but for whatever it's worth...
I think you were speaking metaphorically about breeding inferior minds - i.e. teaching people to NOT think or question, as opposed to suggesting they are actually giving birth to children with inferior minds. (That would sound like claiming noticeable evolution on the scale of one generation to the next, which would be pretty extreme. And could also be viewed as being racist.)
Previously you also said "the mind is a muscle". I'd also take that as metaphorical rather than literal. If you really believed that the mind is physically a muscle then I'd think maybe learning some more biology might be a good idea.
Actually, the Catholic Church is in the "our interpretation of our 2000 year old book says that using condoms is a sin - so don't use them!" camp.
By the way, that includes the case when your spouse has cheated on you and contracted AIDS - your choices are no more sex, or accept contracting AIDS.
As for useful personal values, I'd say atheists have those. I've never heard of any atheists protecting child molesters.
But given that is seems that your view is that the alternative to the Catholic Church is atheism I think I see where you're coming from and I'd say you seem a bit biased.
Maybe the next time the Pope is online he could do a bit of reading on the effectiveness of condoms in stopping the spread of AIDS. He might learn something and then he would have something better to say to people in Africa.
Does that count as Catholic-bashing?
You hit the nail right on the head. I want to freak out whenever I hear someone expressing the idea that science is pointless and does nothing for them. Expressing such a thought online is the height of irony - and ignorance.
"This fallacious train of thought is of course in no way hindered..."
Well yeah, I guess I'd have to agree that strongly encouraging something doesn't hinder it in any way.
This can be explained very simply.
Shutting down the LHC will not inconvenience these people in the least.
Telling them not to use their SUV to drive to the corner store all the time, or to use it for a one person long distance commute to work will inconvenience them.
I completely agree with your point about context being very important, but there are many legal things people may search for which they still might not want to be public knowledge.
Suppose you did some searches on atheism, then non-believers were the target of the next witch hunt?
How about looking for information about an STD that you've contracted. Do you want everyone to know about that?
What about questionably illegal activities? Suppose you and your wife decide to try anal sex and search for some advice on avoiding problems. What if you live in a state (not sure there still are any) where that is illegal?
I think that Mythbusters is a neat idea for a show, but it fails for me due to catering to the "attention span of less than a minute crowd".
I once saw a condensed version on YouTube that removed the repetition, resulting in the the whole show being about 10 minutes. That was great!
Unfortunately skipping over the repetition with a DVR is not quite as easy as skipping commercials. So unfortunately I usually don't bother watching the show.
That 100,000 gallons is from a 24 acre demonstration plant.
Sounds like a bit more than a drop in the bucket when you consider that fact.
They give the vaccine to people in high risk groups. Over time they watch to see if the rate of infection ends up being less than the rate in other people in the same group, who were not vaccinated.
Deliberately infection someone with a fatal disease, to test a vaccine that you are not sure is effective (hence the need for the test) sounds like criminal negligence, on top of violating the Hippocratic Oath.
There's really not much chance of achieving that - it would have to be much much faster.
The circumference of the earth is about 40 000 km. If you could start first thing in the morning, and arrive by nightfall the next day, that would allow a maximum of about 36 hours. I really don't see a solar powered plan managing 1111 km/hr.
Lost your sense of smell have you?
Then of course you'd have no problem spending a few hours in a room full of skunks would you.
I kinda think they could devise some test to show that you were faking it.
"The camera they had on the rocket as it lifted off gave a breathtaking view of the Earth very slowly ascending from it's island launchpad location."
I think I see one big problem right here, if the earth was "ascending", then they were definitely doing something wrong.
I know this is Slashdot, so RTFA means nothing but...
The linked to article uses metric!!
So it looks like someone went to the trouble to doing the conversions just to write the summary.
Is that an attempt at being extra nerdy? Making an unnecessary and pointless conversions.
So then all the "real" nerds can then do the conversion back to metric/scientific units, in their heads.
Some astronomers want to use the Hubble telescope to beat other astronomers?
I always thought these guys were just a bunch of nerds, but now they're going to get physical and become violent?
Come on people think about it, "Anonymous Coward" is a pretty English sounding name. I bet English is his first language.
Suppose, for example, that his first language was French, then he'd likely have a name like "Caword Anonoumouse".
I bought my house in the 90s. (In Canada - mind you) The seller had already moved quite a distance away, so all documents were faxed back and forth.
At the insistence of the realtor, all such documents included a statement that they must be followed up by an original signed copy within one week. It was stated as if it were a legal requirement. To me it made sense as it was clear enough at the time how easy it would be to fake a signature on a faxed document.
And every move that I make
Gets recorded to tape
So somebody up there
Can PRETEND TO keep me safe
There you go, I fixed it for you. OK, it does throw it off a bit unless you can sing the additional words very quickly.
I think that you are being a bit too negative. Look at the large images and go back and forth between images 3 through 5 a few times. The monkey barely moves his head compared to how much the arm moves. Without being able to move the arm, the monkey would never get the marshmallow.
As for the question of degrees of freedom, I was trying to figure that out but it's hard to say. It looks like there could be both "shoulder" and "elbow" joints, but it's not clear. However looking at images 2 and 3, the fingers definitely close to grab the marshmallow. Does that count?
"tree cyborg body"?
Unless that's a typo, that would seem to be pretty simple since all I would expect of a tree cyborg is for it to sit there and do nothing. I think even I could manage to build something like that.
"So a corporation -- if not closely regulated -- is essentially a sociopath with perpetual life."
Well there's a really depressing thought to start the day. Even more so given the reliability of the source. But nothing is gained by trying to hide from or deny unpleasant realities.
At the same time, I think it helps to explain why you do what you do. Thank you and keep up the good work. Your "RIAA got into trouble for doing this wrong" stories always make my day.
I sometimes think that corporations are essentially the legal equivalent of a genetic engineering experiment gone horribly awry.
At least as for why SOME Americans would find this stupid....
"it is up to THEM which laws they have in THEIR OWN country"
(emphasis mine)
And keep in mind we're talking about France here. I bet that the law wasn't even written in English!
Those arrogant bastards!
Due to the lack of a frozen will, the 17 people will now be heading off to court to fight over who inherits the frozen wooden bowl and spoon found with the man.
Not at all the same.
With a car, even if whoever made it stops making parts, other suppliers could and likely would continue to supply parts.
No one else can legally authorize Microsoft's DRM for you.
i.e. with the car you still have hope, with DRMed music, you're screwed.
Just imagine the fun when people start trying to say that.