And if you think back, to when you actually had to PAY ATTENTION to who was fixing your car, because Uncle Sam was not involved in the decision, you probably got much better service for your dollar, and knew a lot more about the work.
The old die. YAY! This is an obvious fact of humanity of course, but its significance is in the fact that the legislators and judges who are currently working against us on these issues will die one day. The entire generation currently running our government, which in large part seem to support the media monsters and their agenda, will one day be completely replaced by new blood. This new blood will have grown up in this information age we are now in, and won't be so friendly to those who seek to limit our intellectual rights. When myself or my 8 year old cousin (who teaches his Mom how to use the computer) are in a senate office or a courtroom as judge, the media companies won't fair so well.
Ah, young pup.
I remember during the sixties, when the old people were polluting our air, poisoning our water, and choosing to increase our dependence on foreign oil sources instead of developing new technologies. They were lying, stealing, and voting for republican-evil like Nixon and Reagan (in CA).
"The old will die" thought the boomers, "then we will be in control and things will be better. And the boomers did grow. And they did more than replaced the old-guard, they became just like them. And they started polluting our air, poisoning our water, and choosing to increase our dependence on foreign oil sources instead of developing new technologies. They were lying, stealing, and voting for republican-evil like Bush and Bush.
Your generation will grow up, and become like the old, for evil is insidious, and most people don't resist it.
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What people do not realize is that people have become multi-tasking capable.
I've been a professor for many years. I've won awards for my teaching. I have a strong reputation among students for being a good teacher. So I am not just being a dick when I say:
What students do not realize is that they are not as multi-tasking capable as they think.
I am not being paid by you to lecture for a micro-century and then go home. I am not being paid by you to give you tests and grade them. You are paying for my expertise in teaching you the material. I say that when you are in my class you should be paying attention. You don't think that you should have to. You know what? I know more about this issue than you do. I say that when you are in my class, and we break into groups to discuss a calculus topic, that you should be listening to and talking to your classmates for that part of class. You don't see the point. You know what? I know more about this issue than you do. You are paying for my judgement.
Part of college may be the process of learning "time management" and all that, but you know what? I don't give a shit. In my calculus class, the only thing I care about is that you learn calculus. And, as a result of my experience in teaching, and research in education, I've found that if I insist on your attention, you will learn a hell of a lot more about it. I've done experiments to that end, have you? I've read literature about it. Have you? I've taught calculus to thousands of students. Have you?
My classes are usually interesting, according to my students, so this isn't that much of an issue for me. But you know what? You would have learned more if you listened all the time. Not all subjects are Monty Python's Flying Circus. Even though my classes tend to be fun in general, sometimes I will warn the students, "Gang, this is going to be a dry fifty minutes, and I'm sorry." and then I will procede to bore the fuck out of them. (Measure Theory wouldn't "VOOM" if you put four million volts through it) There are techniques that, as a professor, I can employ to help you through the dull spots. But even if a professor doesn't do that, tough titty.
If I had to solely listen to the professeur I would daydream and get bored because he would not speak fast enough
Then daydream. Get bored. Life is not always like Nintendo. If all of your professors bore you, then maybe you are in the wrong major, or at the wrong university.
I have not mentioned my particular policies re: attendence, laptops, doodling, etc. My policies are irrelevant to this discussion. The point is that you are paying the professor to exercise her or his judgment when setting those policies, and the professor likely knows more about it than you do.
That NYT thing is so silly - but at least it allows us to be able to tell who is thinking, and who is parroting.
How many opposing views have you heard on the FOX network lately? Has Rush told you about the stations that drop Jim Hightower because they don't like his political views? Have you seen the TV show Politically Incorrect lately? Oh, no, that's right, it was cancelled because the network didn't like non-conservative viewpoints.
I'm normally a right winger, and despite the (few) misspellings, I'm totally in accordance with this d00d. Bush and his crew (I mean EVERYBODY, even Colin.. look at the crap his son is on about) must GO!
They must GO. But how did they get here? They walked right in, and took over the country, while you and your ilk were bitching about "Clintonistas" and "Feminazis."
The dems are so cowed by you and your ilk that they have gone along with everything Bush and Co. wanted... while you and your ilk still were bitching about "Clintonistas" and "Feminazis."
Why do you want them to "GO" now? You may not have what you want, but you sure as hell got exactly what you asked for.
Same thing goes on in the States. I don't buy the whole "technology is in it's infancy" bullshit. There are tons out out of work sysadmins. Give them books, let them take the bar exam and proceed to become a prosecutor. Everyone wins.
Who should pay for their books? I'm paying for my own books now, thank them very much. "Let them take the bar exam." I will take your advice here. I HEREBY ALLOW THEM TO TAKE THE BAR EXAM. Who is stopping them? There are tons of out of work sysadmins, I agree. Would it be good if some tech-savvy people became lawyers? You betcha. They should. If they did so, they would make a good living. But don't ask me to pick up the tab.
I mean if you're in a restaruant and you are going to pay $100+ for the meal and someone's baby is crying, or they are talking to loud, or even better their baby is screaming because they're talking into a cell phone instead of paying attention to their kid and at that they are talking into the phone at an unreasonable volume level. Now, should this be illegal? The short answer is no.
The longer answer is "yes, and the penalty should be death."
Marketing doesn't work anyway. I wear Nikes because they're fast, not because they look good on TV.
Are you being intentionally funny? Why do you think that "Nikes are fast?" Was there a consumer study I missed? The only one I read said that Nikes were no better than other shoes. Did you do your own experiment to come to this conclusion? Which brand of sneaker did you use as your control.
Or do you think that "Nikes are fast" because that's just umm... common knowledge? And where did that come from?
The article doesn't mention that Einstein was a shocker at simple arithmatic. He had the natural genius to interpret large and complex equations, but was unable to perform simple calculations
I did not "know" this because it is false. It is a common urban legend. Einstein was not one of the Great mathematicians, but he was extremely good at mathematics and could do simple calculations with the rest of them. The origins of this myth are fairly well documented.
I've always been partial to this one: Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I love Einstein quotes in general. I hate hate hate this one. First of all, it is false. But even if it were true, too many newage airheads and libertarian psuedologicals and general crackpots tend to cite this when they mean the VERY VERY false converse.
In other words, if you are finding that you are encountering opposition from mediocre minds, that does NOT mean you are a great spirit. In fact, if you are the type of person who cites this quotation, I would lay odds that you are not a great spirit. Stupid, foolish, pompous, moronic spirits ALSO often encounter violent opposition from all sorts of minds. So take your theory about crop circles and go away.
anyway, if you're really upset by spam, it's pretty friggin' easy to avoid it... do NOT put down your regular email address for any site that wants to email you a password for registration.
The above statement is completely false. If you have a domain, say "example.com" you may eventually get spam sent to "jones@example.com" "joe@example.com" "smith@example.com" etc. Alternatively, if you have a relatively common name, say "joe" and you sign up with a biggish ISP, you may start getting spam to your account even if you tell no one of your email address.
Another young person, give me a break. Back before you were born, there was a thing called USENET. Bad people started spamming USENET. People like you said, "Another doomsayer, give me a break."
The doomsayers were right. USENET is a vast wasteland now. Ask your mommy and daddy what it used to be like before the Spammers destroyed it.
The result was the pathetic school system we now have.
That pathetic public school system that gave us many of our greatest Presidents including Lincoln, more than half of our CEOs, our greatest inventors including Edison, and what used to be one of the highest rates of literacy in the world?
Our present day school system is not pathetic because it is public - the countries whose students are kicking ours' asses all have strong public school systems. The reasons for our present day school system's problems is not really simple enough to put into a pithy slashdot response.
But your post saying that the idea of universal publically funded education resulted on a pathetic system is completely ignorant. You must have gone to a private school to be that naive about history.
This would not be too difficult. As long as you don't want the car to RUN on that mixture, it really is just a question of a nozzle in the radiator that goes to the diet cherry 7-up mixing chamber, and then stores it somewhere for disposal later.
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Learn to tie a bow-tie. It isn't that difficult. A bow-tie is as comfortable as wearing nothing at all, looks cool, AND will annoy your boss, because it is unconventional. But technically it IS still a tie. It also doesn't get in the way when you lean over, and when you start on unpaid overtime you can untie it and let it jauntily drape.
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Clinton's the slimiest SOB to hold the presidency since Nixon at least, and possibly since Andrew Jackson.
Actually, he was one of the heaviest presidents. Not as heavy as Taft, but certainly heavier than many others.
I don't understand why you care about the man's weight, anyway.
And if you think back, to when you actually had to PAY ATTENTION to who was fixing your car, because Uncle Sam was not involved in the decision, you probably got much better service for your dollar, and knew a lot more about the work.
This is completely false.
The old die. YAY! This is an obvious fact of humanity of course, but its significance is in the fact that the legislators and judges who are currently working against us on these issues will die one day. The entire generation currently running our government, which in large part seem to support the media monsters and their agenda, will one day be completely replaced by new blood. This new blood will have grown up in this information age we are now in, and won't be so friendly to those who seek to limit our intellectual rights. When myself or my 8 year old cousin (who teaches his Mom how to use the computer) are in a senate office or a courtroom as judge, the media companies won't fair so well.
Ah, young pup.
I remember during the sixties, when the old people were polluting our air, poisoning our water, and choosing to increase our dependence on foreign oil sources instead of developing new technologies. They were lying, stealing, and voting for republican-evil like Nixon and Reagan (in CA).
"The old will die" thought the boomers, "then we will be in control and things will be better. And the boomers did grow. And they did more than replaced the old-guard, they became just like them. And they started polluting our air, poisoning our water, and choosing to increase our dependence on foreign oil sources instead of developing new technologies. They were lying, stealing, and voting for republican-evil like Bush and Bush.
Your generation will grow up, and become like the old, for evil is insidious, and most people don't resist it.
You also may want to check out:
http://ftmax.com/Origami/
Marc Gutman has been doing some amazing Star Wars origami for years, and has a dollar-bill Yoda to die for.
Yeah, you're right. I was posting in anger and came off more arrogant than I actually am. Happy new year.
What people do not realize is that people have become multi-tasking capable.
I've been a professor for many years. I've won awards for my teaching. I have a strong reputation among students for being a good teacher. So I am not just being a dick when I say:
What students do not realize is that they are not as multi-tasking capable as they think.
I am not being paid by you to lecture for a micro-century and then go home. I am not being paid by you to give you tests and grade them. You are paying for my expertise in teaching you the material. I say that when you are in my class you should be paying attention. You don't think that you should have to. You know what? I know more about this issue than you do. I say that when you are in my class, and we break into groups to discuss a calculus topic, that you should be listening to and talking to your classmates for that part of class. You don't see the point. You know what? I know more about this issue than you do. You are paying for my judgement.
Part of college may be the process of learning "time management" and all that, but you know what? I don't give a shit. In my calculus class, the only thing I care about is that you learn calculus. And, as a result of my experience in teaching, and research in education, I've found that if I insist on your attention, you will learn a hell of a lot more about it. I've done experiments to that end, have you? I've read literature about it. Have you? I've taught calculus to thousands of students. Have you?
My classes are usually interesting, according to my students, so this isn't that much of an issue for me. But you know what? You would have learned more if you listened all the time. Not all subjects are Monty Python's Flying Circus. Even though my classes tend to be fun in general, sometimes I will warn the students, "Gang, this is going to be a dry fifty minutes, and I'm sorry." and then I will procede to bore the fuck out of them. (Measure Theory wouldn't "VOOM" if you put four million volts through it) There are techniques that, as a professor, I can employ to help you through the dull spots. But even if a professor doesn't do that, tough titty.
If I had to solely listen to the professeur I would daydream and get bored because he would not speak fast enough
Then daydream. Get bored. Life is not always like Nintendo. If all of your professors bore you, then maybe you are in the wrong major, or at the wrong university.
I have not mentioned my particular policies re: attendence, laptops, doodling, etc. My policies are irrelevant to this discussion. The point is that you are paying the professor to exercise her or his judgment when setting those policies, and the professor likely knows more about it than you do.
That NYT thing is so silly - but at least it allows us to be able to tell who is thinking, and who is parroting.
How many opposing views have you heard on the FOX network lately? Has Rush told you about the stations that drop Jim Hightower because they don't like his political views? Have you seen the TV show Politically Incorrect lately? Oh, no, that's right, it was cancelled because the network didn't like non-conservative viewpoints.
Somebody needs to grow up.
I'm normally a right winger, and despite the (few) misspellings, I'm totally in accordance with this d00d.
Bush and his crew (I mean EVERYBODY, even Colin.. look at the crap his son is on about) must GO!
They must GO. But how did they get here? They walked right in, and took over the country, while you and your ilk were bitching about "Clintonistas" and "Feminazis."
The dems are so cowed by you and your ilk that they have gone along with everything Bush and Co. wanted... while you and your ilk still were bitching about "Clintonistas" and "Feminazis."
Why do you want them to "GO" now? You may not have what you want, but you sure as hell got exactly what you asked for.
Speaking of asinine:
Same thing goes on in the States. I don't buy the whole "technology is in it's infancy" bullshit. There are tons out out of work sysadmins. Give them books, let them take the bar exam and proceed to become a prosecutor. Everyone wins.
Who should pay for their books? I'm paying for my own books now, thank them very much. "Let them take the bar exam." I will take your advice here. I HEREBY ALLOW THEM TO TAKE THE BAR EXAM. Who is stopping them? There are tons of out of work sysadmins, I agree. Would it be good if some tech-savvy people became lawyers? You betcha. They should. If they did so, they would make a good living. But don't ask me to pick up the tab.
skyshadow: May I put that on my website? Do I credit "skyshadow" or do you have a preferred soberquet?
Where are mod-points when I need them?
Excellent post, Fantastic Lad. I wish more people read it.
Hm.
You are saying that on the hot asphalt, you were SLOWER with the bare foot than you were with the COVERED foot? Interesting.
But I toast you, for you are Science!
I mean if you're in a restaruant and you are going to pay $100+ for the meal and someone's baby is crying, or they are talking to loud, or even better their baby is screaming because they're talking into a cell phone instead of paying attention to their kid and at that they are talking into the phone at an unreasonable volume level. Now, should this be illegal? The short answer is no.
The longer answer is "yes, and the penalty should be death."
Marketing doesn't work anyway. I wear Nikes because they're fast, not because they look good on TV.
Are you being intentionally funny? Why do you think that "Nikes are fast?" Was there a consumer study I missed? The only one I read said that Nikes were no better than other shoes. Did you do your own experiment to come to this conclusion? Which brand of sneaker did you use as your control.
Or do you think that "Nikes are fast" because that's just umm... common knowledge? And where did that come from?
The article doesn't mention that Einstein was a shocker at simple arithmatic. He had the natural genius to interpret large and complex equations, but was unable to perform simple calculations
I did not "know" this because it is false. It is a common urban legend. Einstein was not one of the Great mathematicians, but he was extremely good at mathematics and could do simple calculations with the rest of them. The origins of this myth are fairly well documented.
I've always been partial to this one:
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I love Einstein quotes in general. I hate hate hate this one. First of all, it is false. But even if it were true, too many newage airheads and libertarian psuedologicals and general crackpots tend to cite this when they mean the VERY VERY false converse.
In other words, if you are finding that you are encountering opposition from mediocre minds, that does NOT mean you are a great spirit. In fact, if you are the type of person who cites this quotation, I would lay odds that you are not a great spirit. Stupid, foolish, pompous, moronic spirits ALSO often encounter violent opposition from all sorts of minds. So take your theory about crop circles and go away.
Is there a version for Pegasus? Something easy to install?
if you love this game, take the Andy spoiler quiz
http://www.dougshaw.com/puzzles/spoilers.html
anyway, if you're really upset by spam, it's pretty friggin' easy to avoid it... do NOT put down your regular email address for any site that wants to email you a password for registration.
The above statement is completely false. If you have a domain, say "example.com" you may eventually get spam sent to "jones@example.com" "joe@example.com" "smith@example.com" etc. Alternatively, if you have a relatively common name, say "joe" and you sign up with a biggish ISP, you may start getting spam to your account even if you tell no one of your email address.
I have succesfully made 5 spammers so fall apologize in the fear of being invoiced and stop harvesting my site for emails.
How? Its all automated, right? How did they come to read your website?
Another doomsayer, give me a break
Another young person, give me a break. Back before you were born, there was a thing called USENET. Bad people started spamming USENET. People like you said, "Another doomsayer, give me a break."
The doomsayers were right. USENET is a vast wasteland now. Ask your mommy and daddy what it used to be like before the Spammers destroyed it.
The result was the pathetic school system we now have.
That pathetic public school system that gave us many of our greatest Presidents including Lincoln, more than half of our CEOs, our greatest inventors including Edison, and what used to be one of the highest rates of literacy in the world?
Our present day school system is not pathetic because it is public - the countries whose students are kicking ours' asses all have strong public school systems. The reasons for our present day school system's problems is not really simple enough to put into a pithy slashdot response.
But your post saying that the idea of universal publically funded education resulted on a pathetic system is completely ignorant. You must have gone to a private school to be that naive about history.
right now my g/f has a $300 fine for having 2 videos that are like 6 mos overdue which is completely insane..
It is. She should have returned the videos. What a whiner.
This would not be too difficult. As long as you don't want the car to RUN on that mixture, it really is just a question of a nozzle in the radiator that goes to the diet cherry 7-up mixing chamber, and then stores it somewhere for disposal later.
Learn to tie a bow-tie. It isn't that difficult. A bow-tie is as comfortable as wearing nothing at all, looks cool, AND will annoy your boss, because it is unconventional. But technically it IS still a tie. It also doesn't get in the way when you lean over, and when you start on unpaid overtime you can untie it and let it jauntily drape.