uh. Engineering is not all mathematics. Refinements and optimizations can involve mathematics, but, they're not necessary and don't have to involve mathematics. One can do a lot of "optimization" with good old trial and error. When you come down to it, a lot of things are so nonlinear and useful only in their linear regime that the mathematics mostly help to keep you in that region.... A lot of engineering is instinct and experience, coupled with some flashes of insight.
A lever was a great engineering leap, was mathematics involved in developing it? Probably not. Just because we can use mathematics to quantify or predict behavior does not mean that "Engineering is all mathematics".
the fact that they often do society a great deal of good should never confuse anyone to the fundamental immorality of these groups.
is it really a fact that they do society a great deal of good? Is overpopulation driven by more efficient means of goods movement really a good thing? Is bringing a bunch of black stuff up out of the ground just so we can go to very similar places from where we used to be very quickly also a really good thing? Is destruction of a dynamic ecosystem with use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers a very good thing? Similarly for GMO products whose potential long term deleterious effects were never tested by any government, are they good for society? "Too big to fail" banks and investment companies are good for the society upon whose back their "mistakes" were placed?
Unless I missed your sarcasm, I argue that you overrate the value or contributions of corporations to society.
thanks for the "sound argument," your coldness and lack of foresight and compassion I am sure are mirrored in your political views and associations. I am now officially an opponent of "Third Position" whatever that is. Wherever it comes up I will labor against it.
I don't know, cause it's what argumentative nerds do? You're probably right, it is regional. Maybe took ten years to go over to the east coast and by then had been perverted to this absurd "ciced" (pronounced cited)? We were using "psyched" in the 80's and I never came across "cyced", not even on TV, I doubt it went any further than the DC/Metro area. Good, let it die. Speak no more of it please.
I call bullshit. Just cause some moron writes some asinine definition on "Urban Dictionary" doesn't mean it is true. Again, what part of Taiwan were you in when you learned or heard of *lol* "ciced"?
so, their pay sucks, and they get free cars as bonuses for patents approved? Is it by volume or do specifically asinine patents approved get one the bonuses depending on how grateful the customer can be?
uh, I was there, we pronounced it siked (long i, short e), kind of like psyched, I guess. It was more 80's slang.
What part of Taiwan were you in when you were learning 80's US slang in the 90's?
sorry, my bad, I guess. You were way too subtle for me and your (faked) reaction is unfortunately not entirely unexpected in certain segments of the population. As I posted though, your comment was a little late given all the previous comments clarifying what the kid had done. More blatant sarcasm was called for imho.
Perhaps they will look into the key pieces that made these guns work and consider altering or ending production. Like starting with banning black pieces completely.
what? Are you retarded? I know that RTFA is badly looked upon, but you could have learned a tad just by reading comments and not made such an asinine comment. Or do lego guns that shoot lego bricks really scare you? Gawd, I hope if you ever reproduce, that your male (male-ish if you have your way) will give you a fatal heart attack by shooting you with his barbie doll that he'll use as a pretend gun. Please at the very least be female.
hmm. That on the off-chance that you reproduce (you are a slashdotter/geek/asexual), your sons will be female-ish. Unless you are seriously perverted this will not bring you or your androgynous children any joy. Female-ish, is not female, it is just, not-very-male.
uh, its more the fact that the contract went to the lowest bidder, which is then motivated to acquire the lowest cost labor possible, and crank out the highest number of inspections/passes per time unit, much more so than it is some affirmative action crap. That TSA demographics "favor" minority males and minority females speaks more to the lack opportunities for them(us) than some racist bias.
On a side note: It's nominally clear that on average, the negative consequences of the set of human actions have not in the past catastrophically exceed the benefits. Otherwise, we would all already be dead. It's helpful to keep in mind that past performance is no guarantee of future performance.
Better jobs slaving 12-18 hours a day with 2 5 minute breaks and 15 minutes for lunch time? Yeah, so much better than the seasonal type of work involved in being a sustenance farmer. Sure, it's backbreaking for a few weeks a year but the rest of the time, it's not all bad. Fresh air, clean food, exercise, wide open land. vs Stale air, very cold or hot, cramped conditions, sexual abuse... Yeah, being a serf on someone else's land is not good, but trading in your freedom and land for slaving in a factory? Why? So you can afford a TV to watch vacuous entertainment? I don't see it as progress.
Bats eat insects, something on the order of, their weight in insects daily, or something like that. Insects are a fairly self-renewable resource and probably the most likely to survive (individual types may die out) as a group.
I could tell you that you'd probably retain only 20% of what you read in those books you checked out of the library and in two months time, probably 5%. I could tell you that an expert is someone who's made mistakes, who has bruises to show for his knowledge, and not someone who browsed a book and pondered the problems posed.
But, what would you need that information for? You'd just forget anyhow.
with a whole list of random rules thought up by the most worthless and power-grubbing sector of their society
I like the idea... maybe if we were able to chase it far back enough, the priest(?) who came up with the don't-eat-pork rule was a cattle rancher that wanted to bankrupt the pig farmer who had taken the girl he loved because she preferred pork to beef... Is there any way to check if this notion holds water?
And right now there are still countries where people take water in the spring that comes to their house and clean their ass and throw their garbage in the the same spring, for the next house 20m below to enjoy. This kind of logic baffles the mind.
And right now, virtually every city in the US is marginally filtering and massively loading with chlorine, effluent water from upstream cities and factories and selling it as potable. Chew on that since you seem to thing we've come such a long way from these uncivilized countries.
Imagination isn't the same thing as inference. The fact that they could imagine germs, and for that matter atoms, doesn't mean that they actually knew such things existed in the same sense that we know today that they exist.
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uh. Engineering is not all mathematics. Refinements and optimizations can involve mathematics, but, they're not necessary and don't have to involve mathematics. One can do a lot of "optimization" with good old trial and error. When you come down to it, a lot of things are so nonlinear and useful only in their linear regime that the mathematics mostly help to keep you in that region.... A lot of engineering is instinct and experience, coupled with some flashes of insight. A lever was a great engineering leap, was mathematics involved in developing it? Probably not. Just because we can use mathematics to quantify or predict behavior does not mean that "Engineering is all mathematics".
the fact that they often do society a great deal of good should never confuse anyone to the fundamental immorality of these groups.
is it really a fact that they do society a great deal of good? Is overpopulation driven by more efficient means of goods movement really a good thing? Is bringing a bunch of black stuff up out of the ground just so we can go to very similar places from where we used to be very quickly also a really good thing? Is destruction of a dynamic ecosystem with use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers a very good thing? Similarly for GMO products whose potential long term deleterious effects were never tested by any government, are they good for society? "Too big to fail" banks and investment companies are good for the society upon whose back their "mistakes" were placed? Unless I missed your sarcasm, I argue that you overrate the value or contributions of corporations to society.
lol! why'd you post as AC? You really should have been moded to +5 funny.
thanks for the "sound argument," your coldness and lack of foresight and compassion I am sure are mirrored in your political views and associations. I am now officially an opponent of "Third Position" whatever that is. Wherever it comes up I will labor against it.
I don't know, cause it's what argumentative nerds do? You're probably right, it is regional. Maybe took ten years to go over to the east coast and by then had been perverted to this absurd "ciced" (pronounced cited)? We were using "psyched" in the 80's and I never came across "cyced", not even on TV, I doubt it went any further than the DC/Metro area. Good, let it die. Speak no more of it please.
I call bullshit. Just cause some moron writes some asinine definition on "Urban Dictionary" doesn't mean it is true. Again, what part of Taiwan were you in when you learned or heard of *lol* "ciced"?
so, their pay sucks, and they get free cars as bonuses for patents approved? Is it by volume or do specifically asinine patents approved get one the bonuses depending on how grateful the customer can be?
uh, I was there, we pronounced it siked (long i, short e), kind of like psyched, I guess. It was more 80's slang. What part of Taiwan were you in when you were learning 80's US slang in the 90's?
sorry, my bad, I guess. You were way too subtle for me and your (faked) reaction is unfortunately not entirely unexpected in certain segments of the population. As I posted though, your comment was a little late given all the previous comments clarifying what the kid had done. More blatant sarcasm was called for imho.
Perhaps they will look into the key pieces that made these guns work and consider altering or ending production. Like starting with banning black pieces completely.
what? Are you retarded? I know that RTFA is badly looked upon, but you could have learned a tad just by reading comments and not made such an asinine comment. Or do lego guns that shoot lego bricks really scare you? Gawd, I hope if you ever reproduce, that your male (male-ish if you have your way) will give you a fatal heart attack by shooting you with his barbie doll that he'll use as a pretend gun. Please at the very least be female.
hmm. That on the off-chance that you reproduce (you are a slashdotter/geek/asexual), your sons will be female-ish. Unless you are seriously perverted this will not bring you or your androgynous children any joy. Female-ish, is not female, it is just, not-very-male.
uh, its more the fact that the contract went to the lowest bidder, which is then motivated to acquire the lowest cost labor possible, and crank out the highest number of inspections/passes per time unit, much more so than it is some affirmative action crap. That TSA demographics "favor" minority males and minority females speaks more to the lack opportunities for them(us) than some racist bias.
only small minded religious leaders drunk on their own power..
I think you just defined religion
On a side note: It's nominally clear that on average, the negative consequences of the set of human actions have not in the past catastrophically exceed the benefits. Otherwise, we would all already be dead. It's helpful to keep in mind that past performance is no guarantee of future performance .
Better jobs slaving 12-18 hours a day with 2 5 minute breaks and 15 minutes for lunch time? Yeah, so much better than the seasonal type of work involved in being a sustenance farmer. Sure, it's backbreaking for a few weeks a year but the rest of the time, it's not all bad. Fresh air, clean food, exercise, wide open land. vs Stale air, very cold or hot, cramped conditions, sexual abuse... Yeah, being a serf on someone else's land is not good, but trading in your freedom and land for slaving in a factory? Why? So you can afford a TV to watch vacuous entertainment? I don't see it as progress.
Bats eat insects, something on the order of, their weight in insects daily, or something like that. Insects are a fairly self-renewable resource and probably the most likely to survive (individual types may die out) as a group.
I do not want this... I can use ... Ariel.
I think using Ariel is a bit coarse and probably illegal, you do realize that she is underage in most modern municipalities, right?
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/22/table-saw-that-stops.html search "capacitance" in the following page: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7290474.html It's not a library checkout system but it does address your opening question. Of course in this system, a hot-dog would work, so probably so would it in a live-ness detector based on capacitance.
I could tell you that you'd probably retain only 20% of what you read in those books you checked out of the library and in two months time, probably 5%. I could tell you that an expert is someone who's made mistakes, who has bruises to show for his knowledge, and not someone who browsed a book and pondered the problems posed. But, what would you need that information for? You'd just forget anyhow.
is parking free?
Have you looked at Cheney's pictures?
with a whole list of random rules thought up by the most worthless and power-grubbing sector of their society
I like the idea... maybe if we were able to chase it far back enough, the priest(?) who came up with the don't-eat-pork rule was a cattle rancher that wanted to bankrupt the pig farmer who had taken the girl he loved because she preferred pork to beef... Is there any way to check if this notion holds water?
And right now there are still countries where people take water in the spring that comes to their house and clean their ass and throw their garbage in the the same spring, for the next house 20m below to enjoy. This kind of logic baffles the mind.
And right now, virtually every city in the US is marginally filtering and massively loading with chlorine, effluent water from upstream cities and factories and selling it as potable. Chew on that since you seem to thing we've come such a long way from these uncivilized countries.
Imagination isn't the same thing as inference. The fact that they could imagine germs, and for that matter atoms, doesn't mean that they actually knew such things existed in the same sense that we know today that they exist.
Try telling that to the string theoristians.
This was not an emphatic denial. It was a thorough, albeit boring, and complete negation of incorrect assertions.
THIS IS EMPHATIC!!!