The (Nobel price winning) psychologist Kahnemann calls this phenomenon "What You See Is All There Is" - and he detected in the "experts", not in space.
So, according to your very specific situation all others are wrong. Hmm, great way to form an opinion, I guess, makes your life very simple.
From other people's point of view, for example, me (German), our politicians over the last few decades (not just years) have gotten very good at this kind of game:
Whenever they want to achieve something that their population does not want, they let the EU do [insert whatever], then they explain "we cannot do anything, the EU dictates this", so the blame goes to the EU. This seems to support YOUR point of view - but actually it doesn't. This little "game" is possible only because the EU parliament is very weak (compared to the EU bureaucracy and the EU commission, neither of them accountable to an electorate), and VERY far removed from the population of the EU countries (how often do you even read anything about the parliament in your newspaper?). The EU is designed to achieve things that the people don't want, whether that happened on purpose or by accident I cannot tell (but it does not matter for the result).
I just read the comments in the FAZ (a major German newspaper) to the article about that election. Overwhelmingly BY FAR the comments were AGAINST the EU and they congratulated Iceland.
It is NOT just Britain! I am most certainly not "backwards", "anti-Europe" (in fact I prefer to see myself as "European", not German) or "right-wing", neither are those comments. Quite the opposite, actually! The point is, the EU is the LEAST democratic thing that Europe has come up with since WWII ended, and it gets worse and worse. Anyone who dares to raise any objection is immediately branded "right-wing" and "anti-Europe". It's like trying to criticize the role (and all the money for) of the military in the US - you just don't want to do that, unless you are a nobody in an Internet forum, because of the (sh..)storm.
One of the main reasons Hitler did not use poison gas in WWII battlefields (besides his love for all of humanity) was that gas has one huge disadvantage: It is unpredictable and very often comes back to kill YOU.
Pepper spray (as an example for something that is actively used) works because either - riot police shoot it into the crowd from a safe distance, and they use LOTS of it because they don't care about whom they hit with it - you are about 10 inches from the person you want to defend against and spray it directly into their face.
This must be the day of the "most impracticable solution" contest:-)
Yes it is - and I asked for what your proposed ACTION (solution) is. Ranting on/. and Internet forums does not help all that much I would say, nor does any kind of throwing words at each other. A lot of people seem to mistake "being against XYZ" for a solution for problem XYZ.
I don't like Islam or any religion, and I have read your suggestions in the comment you link to. It sounds like you are just as dangerous as the islamists. (Oh people, please read them, see the posters link, before judging MY words).
Let's pretend I believe your rant for a moment. What is still missing from your post is ANY kind of suggestion for what you would want to DO. What is your proposed ACTION?
The only option I see from your post is total annihilation of Islam, and that means of all Muslims since brain-reprogramming does not work very well (definitely not on a large scale - and just threatening people will make them HIDE their beliefs, that's not brain re-programming).
Is THIS what you propose? So let's assume I'm a cold-hearted robot and not a human. Problem is, it would STILL not work: The more people you kill, the more opposition (and more and more violent opposition) you will get in your own ranks. Your own people won't let you kill millions of other people.
So it comes down to this: Your rant is just that, a rant. You have no solution whatsoever. What you propose is an eternity of mutual hate and hot air.
...and no commercial passenger airplane can fly that high, only some very special aircraft (hint: some spy planes... by now replaced by cheaper satellites, though).
You make the article's point - after all that has happened at HP over so many years as close as they got to consequences for the board was "cam (sic) very close to being thrown out" (your words).
Nice spin, Mr - what does your reply have to do with the text you replied to? Nothing of course. You opened a completely different topic merely to distract, or what does not being able to get the information @Shavano asked about have to do with oil in the mid east?
I have a Kindle, I have a progress indicator. It just does not FEEL the same. Possibly because with a book all my senses (touch - e.g. when holding the book in both hands) "see" the progress.
- When reading an ebook I don't get this satisfaction of "visible progress" that I have from having more and more pages on the left than on the right. This is not important to me at all when reading novels, simply because I'm usually done within a day or two, but the last couple of years I've read tons and tons of sometimes dry (but interesting) non-fiction, where somehow deep inside of me this seems to make a big difference.
- Regardless of further tech. progress, unless the human genome changes significantly and you can plug a USB stick into your head directly, it will ALWAYS be true that when technology fails your books will still be with you, and you can still read. Books live for hundreds of years, technology maybe a dozen. Combine this argument with DRM...
- I am human. I DO get a feeling of satisfaction when other people who visit me can see what I've been reading. Wherever I go I always have a casual look at the titles of the books (and then feel soooo erudite in comparison:) ). Doing the same on a computer, e.g. looking at someones book list on facebook, is tedious and feels like work, it does not feel "natural".
So now I get novels for the e-reader (but DRM free), and all the books I care about I buy in print.
I was about to build a (fully functional) anti-gravity drive the other day, but I was reminded by someone like you that it does nothing for the hungry in the world. So I abandoned my project and deleted all files.
I forgot to add that if they manage to have the potential to get a nuclear war head to the US (territory) it does not freaking matter if they use a ballista, a rocket or beam it across space. Same outcome. I've no idea what all this "analysis" telling us how bad and backwards everything North Korean is (which I don't doubt at all) is supposed to tell the (western) public? It sounds sooooo stupid.
"These findings confirm that the stage is still Scud-level technology."
Says who, a so-called "scientist" from the nation that just put the space shuttle into the scrapyard (where it belongs) - and has NOTHING to even do the same job as that old piece of junk?
As compared to what, the anti-gravity drive used by the latest US spaceships? Last time I checked EVERYONE still uses good old rockets. Oh sure - they now (occasionally) have a camera looking backwards for nice launch videos. And possibly they use fuel Y instead of fuel X - excuse me guys, you celebrate marginal, tiny advances as being far ahead of the stone-age North Koreans?
As far as getting into space, we ALL are at "stone-age" (1960s) level (i.e. rockets, huge flames, HUGE noise, lots of explosives). But today, progress is measured in micrometers, not in miles, so sure, let's celebrate how much more advanced we (the West) is compared to the most backward nation on earth.
It is an extremely good way of measuring certain *types* of problems only. The world, however, is larger than that. People who measure tend only to see what they can measure, though. It's like the economists being convinced the world is a fine place overall.
Anyone who's had a Psion 5 and stared on in disbelieve when the rest of the world went crazy over the (in comparison) absolutely useless Palm organizer had incontrovertible proof literally in their hands that a touch screen on a keyboard device is GREAT. Those who think that's different from a laptop - it is not, you used the Psion 5 just like a tiny laptop, only that instead of a mouse you touched the screen - with a pen, but that was okay. Working with this setup (back in 1997!!!), directly touching what you wanted to on the screen, felt MUCH MUCH MUCH more natural than the mouse-keyboard combo. So at least to ME this article is no news at all.
Intercepting the V2 rocket was impossible - waaayyyy too fast, but there weren't nearly as many V2s as there were V1s.
Intercepting a V1 wasn't as hard, that thing flew like an airplane, basically. It could be intercepted by using height - dive down using altitude to make the intercepting airplane faster, because otherwise it would have had problems catching the pretty fast V1.
My... rage? (all caps) was because the one sentence of the post was NOT "insightful". I don't mind moderators voting it up if they like it - but please stick to correct labeling!
As for what I wrote, after re-reading the story and sleeping over it, I now think it's questionable. On the one hand it may indeed be a gross overreaction, on the other hand it very much looks like the guy may have done this deliberately as a publicity stunt for himself, knowing that in the end they would have to set him free after grabbing national headlines. I hate that too, so my FEELINGS tell me "jail him", the reasoning part of the brain has a different opinion.
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The (Nobel price winning) psychologist Kahnemann calls this phenomenon "What You See Is All There Is" - and he detected in the "experts", not in space.
So, according to your very specific situation all others are wrong. Hmm, great way to form an opinion, I guess, makes your life very simple.
From other people's point of view, for example, me (German), our politicians over the last few decades (not just years) have gotten very good at this kind of game:
Whenever they want to achieve something that their population does not want, they let the EU do [insert whatever], then they explain "we cannot do anything, the EU dictates this", so the blame goes to the EU. This seems to support YOUR point of view - but actually it doesn't. This little "game" is possible only because the EU parliament is very weak (compared to the EU bureaucracy and the EU commission, neither of them accountable to an electorate), and VERY far removed from the population of the EU countries (how often do you even read anything about the parliament in your newspaper?). The EU is designed to achieve things that the people don't want, whether that happened on purpose or by accident I cannot tell (but it does not matter for the result).
I just read the comments in the FAZ (a major German newspaper) to the article about that election. Overwhelmingly BY FAR the comments were AGAINST the EU and they congratulated Iceland.
It is NOT just Britain! I am most certainly not "backwards", "anti-Europe" (in fact I prefer to see myself as "European", not German) or "right-wing", neither are those comments. Quite the opposite, actually! The point is, the EU is the LEAST democratic thing that Europe has come up with since WWII ended, and it gets worse and worse. Anyone who dares to raise any objection is immediately branded "right-wing" and "anti-Europe". It's like trying to criticize the role (and all the money for) of the military in the US - you just don't want to do that, unless you are a nobody in an Internet forum, because of the (sh..)storm.
WTF are the mods doing??? You are supposed to mod up INTERESTING (and ON TOPIC) posts. You $%&? mod up HALF THE POSTS!!!
I just spent all my mod points on down-voting - useless, I'm Don Quixote.
One of the main reasons Hitler did not use poison gas in WWII battlefields (besides his love for all of humanity) was that gas has one huge disadvantage: It is unpredictable and very often comes back to kill YOU.
Pepper spray (as an example for something that is actively used) works because either
- riot police shoot it into the crowd from a safe distance, and they use LOTS of it because they don't care about whom they hit with it
- you are about 10 inches from the person you want to defend against and spray it directly into their face.
This must be the day of the "most impracticable solution" contest :-)
Yes it is - and I asked for what your proposed ACTION (solution) is. Ranting on /. and Internet forums does not help all that much I would say, nor does any kind of throwing words at each other. A lot of people seem to mistake "being against XYZ" for a solution for problem XYZ.
I don't like Islam or any religion, and I have read your suggestions in the comment you link to. It sounds like you are just as dangerous as the islamists. (Oh people, please read them, see the posters link, before judging MY words).
Let's pretend I believe your rant for a moment. What is still missing from your post is ANY kind of suggestion for what you would want to DO. What is your proposed ACTION?
The only option I see from your post is total annihilation of Islam, and that means of all Muslims since brain-reprogramming does not work very well (definitely not on a large scale - and just threatening people will make them HIDE their beliefs, that's not brain re-programming).
Is THIS what you propose? So let's assume I'm a cold-hearted robot and not a human. Problem is, it would STILL not work: The more people you kill, the more opposition (and more and more violent opposition) you will get in your own ranks. Your own people won't let you kill millions of other people.
So it comes down to this: Your rant is just that, a rant. You have no solution whatsoever. What you propose is an eternity of mutual hate and hot air.
...and no commercial passenger airplane can fly that high, only some very special aircraft (hint: some spy planes... by now replaced by cheaper satellites, though).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQjgsQ5G8ug&feature=player_detailpage#t=34s
You make the article's point - after all that has happened at HP over so many years as close as they got to consequences for the board was "cam (sic) very close to being thrown out" (your words).
Nothing else needs to be said, I rest my case.
Wow - almost EVERY SINGLE comment is 4+ "insightful" or "interesting". The level of discussion must be incredible.
Nice spin, Mr - what does your reply have to do with the text you replied to? Nothing of course. You opened a completely different topic merely to distract, or what does not being able to get the information @Shavano asked about have to do with oil in the mid east?
...because now I'm the 109th guy posting this link, at least. Oh well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc&list=PLyG7wDhlOL-nZBTZ7oFGgrDNpEowoo4PO&index=36
That's all I have to say here.
Thank you for thinking I'm stupid :)
I have a Kindle, I have a progress indicator. It just does not FEEL the same. Possibly because with a book all my senses (touch - e.g. when holding the book in both hands) "see" the progress.
- DRM (enough said - are you kidding me????)
- When reading an ebook I don't get this satisfaction of "visible progress" that I have from having more and more pages on the left than on the right. This is not important to me at all when reading novels, simply because I'm usually done within a day or two, but the last couple of years I've read tons and tons of sometimes dry (but interesting) non-fiction, where somehow deep inside of me this seems to make a big difference.
- Regardless of further tech. progress, unless the human genome changes significantly and you can plug a USB stick into your head directly, it will ALWAYS be true that when technology fails your books will still be with you, and you can still read. Books live for hundreds of years, technology maybe a dozen. Combine this argument with DRM...
- I am human. I DO get a feeling of satisfaction when other people who visit me can see what I've been reading. Wherever I go I always have a casual look at the titles of the books (and then feel soooo erudite in comparison :) ). Doing the same on a computer, e.g. looking at someones book list on facebook, is tedious and feels like work, it does not feel "natural".
So now I get novels for the e-reader (but DRM free), and all the books I care about I buy in print.
I was about to build a (fully functional) anti-gravity drive the other day, but I was reminded by someone like you that it does nothing for the hungry in the world. So I abandoned my project and deleted all files.
I forgot to add that if they manage to have the potential to get a nuclear war head to the US (territory) it does not freaking matter if they use a ballista, a rocket or beam it across space. Same outcome. I've no idea what all this "analysis" telling us how bad and backwards everything North Korean is (which I don't doubt at all) is supposed to tell the (western) public? It sounds sooooo stupid.
"These findings confirm that the stage is still Scud-level technology."
Says who, a so-called "scientist" from the nation that just put the space shuttle into the scrapyard (where it belongs) - and has NOTHING to even do the same job as that old piece of junk?
As compared to what, the anti-gravity drive used by the latest US spaceships? Last time I checked EVERYONE still uses good old rockets. Oh sure - they now (occasionally) have a camera looking backwards for nice launch videos. And possibly they use fuel Y instead of fuel X - excuse me guys, you celebrate marginal, tiny advances as being far ahead of the stone-age North Koreans?
As far as getting into space, we ALL are at "stone-age" (1960s) level (i.e. rockets, huge flames, HUGE noise, lots of explosives). But today, progress is measured in micrometers, not in miles, so sure, let's celebrate how much more advanced we (the West) is compared to the most backward nation on earth.
It is an extremely good way of measuring certain *types* of problems only. The world, however, is larger than that. People who measure tend only to see what they can measure, though. It's like the economists being convinced the world is a fine place overall.
Anyone who's had a Psion 5 and stared on in disbelieve when the rest of the world went crazy over the (in comparison) absolutely useless Palm organizer had incontrovertible proof literally in their hands that a touch screen on a keyboard device is GREAT. Those who think that's different from a laptop - it is not, you used the Psion 5 just like a tiny laptop, only that instead of a mouse you touched the screen - with a pen, but that was okay. Working with this setup (back in 1997!!!), directly touching what you wanted to on the screen, felt MUCH MUCH MUCH more natural than the mouse-keyboard combo. So at least to ME this article is no news at all.
Psion 5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5
Palm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_(PDA)
Intercepting the V2 rocket was impossible - waaayyyy too fast, but there weren't nearly as many V2s as there were V1s.
Intercepting a V1 wasn't as hard, that thing flew like an airplane, basically. It could be intercepted by using height - dive down using altitude to make the intercepting airplane faster, because otherwise it would have had problems catching the pretty fast V1.
V1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb
V2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2
I'm interested, why did you choose to ignore my "CORRECTION: WHY MODDED INSIGHTFUL???" post? Because you like a controversy?
My... rage? (all caps) was because the one sentence of the post was NOT "insightful". I don't mind moderators voting it up if they like it - but please stick to correct labeling!
As for what I wrote, after re-reading the story and sleeping over it, I now think it's questionable. On the one hand it may indeed be a gross overreaction, on the other hand it very much looks like the guy may have done this deliberately as a publicity stunt for himself, knowing that in the end they would have to set him free after grabbing national headlines. I hate that too, so my FEELINGS tell me "jail him", the reasoning part of the brain has a different opinion.