I met ESR in Hawaii. He was on his way back from a conference in Japan. He claimed that Japanese women found him irresistable, which I found kind of amusing. He's quite a character and a lot of fun to bar hop with, but he's an easy target to poke fun at, as is anyone who thinks very highly of themselves. Many old timers think he's all talk and no action, but there's no denying that he did quite a bit to popularize Linux early on.
Evolution is not directed, it does not progress. It merely ensures the survival of the fittest, and if being more intelligent no longer makes you more fit, that does not preclude evolution. Also, evolution works on vast scales and tiny percentages. Are you saying that being more intelligent doesn't convey even a.005% greater chance of procreating? Even if only one in a million stupid people forget to look both ways at a streetcorner and get creamed by a bus, evolution still has a chance to select for people that are smart enough to look both ways at street corners.
Civilization has not and CAN NOT remove the engine that drives the evolution of species. It can change the way it works, what is selected for and what is unimportant but it can't remove it. Moreso, I feel that it hasn't even changed it that much. Stupid people (not uneducated, but actually dumb) are slightly less likely to reproduce, and that's all it takes for evolution to work.
I find it ironic that you pontificate about others not understanding evolution when you clearly do not understand it yourself.
First the electric universe, now this. Please, if any of this were true, this would be a huge story, but it's not. So the huge story is, the editors of slashdot have gone off the deep end and are now just printing anything no matter how ridiculous.
Did you even read the captions? The white couple "found" food in a grocery store, while the black man "looted" food from a grocery store. Sure he has a big plastic bag, but if you look closely, you will see the bag is floating. It is not full of expensive items, it has been inflated to make carrying a few light items through chest deep water easier.
Don't you think there may be some of the same kind of bias going on in determining which looters get on the news? Even if the reporters are liberal, editors are almost always conservative, and they can pick and choose what clips to show.
Consider also that most of the people who were too poor to evacuate were black, that they had lived in a city with massive income disparity. Left to die in a city that obviously didn't give a rat's ass about them, what would you expect them to do?
Penguins live in many more regions in the southern hemisphere than just the antarctic. Here is a nice little interactive map of penguin habitats around the world. Looks like a school project of some sort, but it is the first page returned in a google search for penguins and it looks pretty informative. My favorite are the Macaroni penguins. Penguins with mullets, what could be cooler?
Hmph. I can't find anything to back it up, in fact I found a different, more recent story about a woman and some hot tea whose cup disintegrated so maybe I am conflating the two stories in my mind. The accounts I have read seem to say she sloshed it on herself when pulling off the lid, and this was found to make her 20% responsible for her injury, reducing her award by that amount. Anyways, the point that the coffee was above industry standard temperature holds. The coffee was so hot (85C!) that it was undrinkable without suffering serious injury.
It wasn't just that it was hot. It was hotter than it needed to be, ostensibly because hot coffee stays fresher longer (I thought it was the opposite, but I'm sure the geniuses at McDonalds know better.) But the real issue is the redesign of the cups. They had cut down on the amount of styrofoam and glue used to save money. The cups were unstable, especially without the lid. The woman didn't spill the coffee on herself, she went to a drive-through, got a cup and held it in her lap, parked, took off the lid to pour in some suger and cream and the cup fell apart in her lap.
McDonalds spun this story so well that even smart people like yourself believe the lies they have spread about the case and feel the decision was unfair to McDonalds.
Well, as I understand it, the coffee was hotter than it needed to be. It was kept at that temperature all the time, not just right after brewing. They kept it that hot because they believed it kept the coffee fresher longer. Personally, I don't understand that part, but that's what I've read.
A consultant recommended they lower the temperature. Recent cost saving measures had made the cups very fragile. They were not stable without the lids on. The woman got a cup of coffee at the drive through, held it in her lap as most of us would, took off the lid to pour in some cream and suger and the cup simply fell apart in her lap. McDonalds was negligent in the redesign of the cup and they were negligent in the temperature at which they kept their coffee.
The ruling was not overturned, although McDonalds spun the story very well in the media, leaving people like you to believe they were not at fault and that the case was or should be overturned.
Moron. First sentence of the wiki page you link to: "The Arctic includes parts of Russia, Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Lapland, and Norway (including Svalbard), as well as the Arctic Ocean."
Once we get them into space, will they make roaring, whooshing noises and manuever just like they did in atmosphere? 'Cause otherwise, forget about it.
Did someone on the playground tell you all that about India? Discrimination based on the caste system has been on the decline for over 100 years. Lower caste citizens are in the majority, and so have more representation in government. People can rise from poverty no matter what their caste, and there are certainly higher caste living below the poverty line. India has a first rate university system with some of the largest universities in the world, and plenty of Indians are educated there, not abroad. India does suffer from poverty, about 25% in 2002, putting it 96th on the list of countries with the most people living under the poverty level. Then again, the US was at about 12% at the time, putting it at 116 on the list. India currently is the third fastest growing economy in the world.
Please, try to find out actual facts to support you arguments. I don't so much like the way the anecdotes pulled out of your ass smell.
Either it has so much shielding that it is too heavy, or it is nice and light and will make you grow another set of legs (or something else down there...). "
Maybe you could grow a tentacle down there and go on to have a great career in hentai.
Remember that ONE time we updated slashdot and nothing worked right for like half a day? Haha, yeah, that was funny once, but I bet if it kept happening like once a year on average for the last umpteen years it would get annoying.
We build 8, 12 and 16 HDD RAID array boxes all the time. Every single one of them has a triple or quadruple redundant power supply. The 16 disk 3U unit i'm putting together now has a 3 way redundant 650 watt power supply. Each independent unit is rated at 350 watts. I've seen one of these work with 16 drives going and two power supplies out. Oh yeah, it's a dual opteron with 8 high speed case fans, too. So it's not exactly low power. Right now, our customers are far more concerned with reliability and power consumption. Some of them have 200-300 node clusters. That's a lot of watts.
Thankfully they all run AMD boxes. If it were Intel, or I'd have to recommend installing some water cooling and turning their operations center into a sauna. Our Intel rep came by this year, he wanted to know why we were buying so few Intel chips this year. We said, make a chip that doesn't suck so much juice, that's what our customers want. He said, we have a nice dual core coming out... We said, does it suck lots of juice? He said yes, but we're working on that. We said, that's nice, come back when you have it figured out.
Anyone remember that one? Guy scanned in Family Circus cartoons every couple days or so, people would submit new captions for them, guy and his friends would review them and put up the best (and the funniest of the worst) ones. Very perverse, very, very funny. He had to shut it down when Bill Keene complained. Well, at first he wasn't going to, but then he talked to Bill, who said, "Basically, this comic is me and my family. You and your contributers aren't just breaking copyright law, you are making me out to be a homosexual child molester, and I'm kind of uncomfortable with that." You can still find archives of it, although they have been getting harder and harder to find. Here's one. Bonus points to anyone who can find one of my captions (they're in the later ones.)
Yeah, what happened to For Better or For Worse? It used to do a good job of having a continuing story, developing characters, and funny punchlines. Now it's just a big long soap opera like Mary Worth. I keep checking it out every so often to see if it has gotten any better (kinda like I check out new Simpsons or SNLs) but it hasn't (kinda like new Simpsons and SNLs).
I would tend to think there are many genes responsible for the condition, and it would be possible to have only a few. This would give a competitive advantage in certain situations, but I think any reasonably sane society would take great care to protect itself from full blown psychopaths.
I'd say that even with a designer, anything goes. Who is to say the designer was moral. What if the universe were designed by a criminally insane designer? Wouldn't the most moral option be to oppose such a designer's evil plans, even if it meant certain punishment?
Also, in my opinion, unless a supposed designer states, clearly, unambiguously and directly to every single inhabitant of It's creation exactly what It wants, anything goes. I wouldn't think it prudent to take other people's word on this. Without direct communication with a designer, any nutjob is free to claim any crazy idea of his came straight from the designer himself. How is one supposed to know?
Yeah, I was going to note that specifically. Having never found anything really awful on a customer's computer, I don't know what I'd do. Generally I'm of the opinion that, as a tech, I should not pry into areas that aren't necessary just because I don't want to have to deal with the consequences of what I might find. I know that if I was working on a customer's computer and found pictures of him doing it with, say, a guy, or a woman he isn't married to, I would quietly close the file and pretend like I never saw it. Illegal stuff, though? I just don't know.
Why do people always use the "What if it was your whatever?" argument. It's as if they think we are all incapable of empathy until reminded.
"Whoah! You know, I never thought about it that way! I was perfectly okay with child porn until I thought , 'hey what if it was MY child?'"
Anyways, I agree with you about this. Technicians shouldn't be required by law to cover up for people DUMB ENOUGH to leave files on their computer when it's being repaired. I have been a tech working both corporate support and customer repairs. Never found anything weird on customer computers, but I did find some very distrubing pictures of actual violent gang rape scenes on a company laptop brought in for repair. Needless to say, the boss was notified.
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I met ESR in Hawaii. He was on his way back from a conference in Japan. He claimed that Japanese women found him irresistable, which I found kind of amusing. He's quite a character and a lot of fun to bar hop with, but he's an easy target to poke fun at, as is anyone who thinks very highly of themselves. Many old timers think he's all talk and no action, but there's no denying that he did quite a bit to popularize Linux early on.
Evolution is not directed, it does not progress. It merely ensures the survival of the fittest, and if being more intelligent no longer makes you more fit, that does not preclude evolution. Also, evolution works on vast scales and tiny percentages. Are you saying that being more intelligent doesn't convey even a .005% greater chance of procreating? Even if only one in a million stupid people forget to look both ways at a streetcorner and get creamed by a bus, evolution still has a chance to select for people that are smart enough to look both ways at street corners.
Civilization has not and CAN NOT remove the engine that drives the evolution of species. It can change the way it works, what is selected for and what is unimportant but it can't remove it. Moreso, I feel that it hasn't even changed it that much. Stupid people (not uneducated, but actually dumb) are slightly less likely to reproduce, and that's all it takes for evolution to work.
I find it ironic that you pontificate about others not understanding evolution when you clearly do not understand it yourself.
For very broad definitions of "tech."
It's really a "steaming pile of redundant trivia that doesn't matter for dweebs who wish they were nerds" site.
Which is why I love it so much.
First the electric universe, now this. Please, if any of this were true, this would be a huge story, but it's not. So the huge story is, the editors of slashdot have gone off the deep end and are now just printing anything no matter how ridiculous.
Did you even read the captions? The white couple "found" food in a grocery store, while the black man "looted" food from a grocery store. Sure he has a big plastic bag, but if you look closely, you will see the bag is floating. It is not full of expensive items, it has been inflated to make carrying a few light items through chest deep water easier.
Don't you think there may be some of the same kind of bias going on in determining which looters get on the news? Even if the reporters are liberal, editors are almost always conservative, and they can pick and choose what clips to show.
Consider also that most of the people who were too poor to evacuate were black, that they had lived in a city with massive income disparity. Left to die in a city that obviously didn't give a rat's ass about them, what would you expect them to do?
Lean beef.
What do you call a cow with no legs?
Ground beef.
What do you call a cow that's just had an abortion?
Decaffeinated.
What do you call a masturbating bull?
Beef stroganoff.
Penguins live in many more regions in the southern hemisphere than just the antarctic. Here is a nice little interactive map of penguin habitats around the world. Looks like a school project of some sort, but it is the first page returned in a google search for penguins and it looks pretty informative. My favorite are the Macaroni penguins. Penguins with mullets, what could be cooler?
Hmph. I can't find anything to back it up, in fact I found a different, more recent story about a woman and some hot tea whose cup disintegrated so maybe I am conflating the two stories in my mind. The accounts I have read seem to say she sloshed it on herself when pulling off the lid, and this was found to make her 20% responsible for her injury, reducing her award by that amount. Anyways, the point that the coffee was above industry standard temperature holds. The coffee was so hot (85C!) that it was undrinkable without suffering serious injury.
She wasn't driving. She was in the back seat, and yes, the car was stopped.
It wasn't just that it was hot. It was hotter than it needed to be, ostensibly because hot coffee stays fresher longer (I thought it was the opposite, but I'm sure the geniuses at McDonalds know better.) But the real issue is the redesign of the cups. They had cut down on the amount of styrofoam and glue used to save money. The cups were unstable, especially without the lid. The woman didn't spill the coffee on herself, she went to a drive-through, got a cup and held it in her lap, parked, took off the lid to pour in some suger and cream and the cup fell apart in her lap.
McDonalds spun this story so well that even smart people like yourself believe the lies they have spread about the case and feel the decision was unfair to McDonalds.
Well, as I understand it, the coffee was hotter than it needed to be. It was kept at that temperature all the time, not just right after brewing. They kept it that hot because they believed it kept the coffee fresher longer. Personally, I don't understand that part, but that's what I've read.
A consultant recommended they lower the temperature. Recent cost saving measures had made the cups very fragile. They were not stable without the lids on. The woman got a cup of coffee at the drive through, held it in her lap as most of us would, took off the lid to pour in some cream and suger and the cup simply fell apart in her lap. McDonalds was negligent in the redesign of the cup and they were negligent in the temperature at which they kept their coffee.
The ruling was not overturned, although McDonalds spun the story very well in the media, leaving people like you to believe they were not at fault and that the case was or should be overturned.
Moron. First sentence of the wiki page you link to: "The Arctic includes parts of Russia, Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Lapland, and Norway (including Svalbard), as well as the Arctic Ocean."
Once we get them into space, will they make roaring, whooshing noises and manuever just like they did in atmosphere? 'Cause otherwise, forget about it.
Did someone on the playground tell you all that about India? Discrimination based on the caste system has been on the decline for over 100 years. Lower caste citizens are in the majority, and so have more representation in government. People can rise from poverty no matter what their caste, and there are certainly higher caste living below the poverty line. India has a first rate university system with some of the largest universities in the world, and plenty of Indians are educated there, not abroad. India does suffer from poverty, about 25% in 2002, putting it 96th on the list of countries with the most people living under the poverty level. Then again, the US was at about 12% at the time, putting it at 116 on the list. India currently is the third fastest growing economy in the world.
Please, try to find out actual facts to support you arguments. I don't so much like the way the anecdotes pulled out of your ass smell.
Either it has so much shielding that it is too heavy, or it is nice and light and will make you grow another set of legs (or something else down there...). "
Maybe you could grow a tentacle down there and go on to have a great career in hentai.
Remember that ONE time we updated slashdot and nothing worked right for like half a day? Haha, yeah, that was funny once, but I bet if it kept happening like once a year on average for the last umpteen years it would get annoying.
We build 8, 12 and 16 HDD RAID array boxes all the time. Every single one of them has a triple or quadruple redundant power supply. The 16 disk 3U unit i'm putting together now has a 3 way redundant 650 watt power supply. Each independent unit is rated at 350 watts. I've seen one of these work with 16 drives going and two power supplies out. Oh yeah, it's a dual opteron with 8 high speed case fans, too. So it's not exactly low power. Right now, our customers are far more concerned with reliability and power consumption. Some of them have 200-300 node clusters. That's a lot of watts.
Thankfully they all run AMD boxes. If it were Intel, or I'd have to recommend installing some water cooling and turning their operations center into a sauna. Our Intel rep came by this year, he wanted to know why we were buying so few Intel chips this year. We said, make a chip that doesn't suck so much juice, that's what our customers want. He said, we have a nice dual core coming out... We said, does it suck lots of juice? He said yes, but we're working on that. We said, that's nice, come back when you have it figured out.
Anyone remember that one? Guy scanned in Family Circus cartoons every couple days or so, people would submit new captions for them, guy and his friends would review them and put up the best (and the funniest of the worst) ones. Very perverse, very, very funny. He had to shut it down when Bill Keene complained. Well, at first he wasn't going to, but then he talked to Bill, who said, "Basically, this comic is me and my family. You and your contributers aren't just breaking copyright law, you are making me out to be a homosexual child molester, and I'm kind of uncomfortable with that." You can still find archives of it, although they have been getting harder and harder to find. Here's one. Bonus points to anyone who can find one of my captions (they're in the later ones.)
Yeah, what happened to For Better or For Worse? It used to do a good job of having a continuing story, developing characters, and funny punchlines. Now it's just a big long soap opera like Mary Worth. I keep checking it out every so often to see if it has gotten any better (kinda like I check out new Simpsons or SNLs) but it hasn't (kinda like new Simpsons and SNLs).
I would tend to think there are many genes responsible for the condition, and it would be possible to have only a few. This would give a competitive advantage in certain situations, but I think any reasonably sane society would take great care to protect itself from full blown psychopaths.
I'd say that even with a designer, anything goes. Who is to say the designer was moral. What if the universe were designed by a criminally insane designer? Wouldn't the most moral option be to oppose such a designer's evil plans, even if it meant certain punishment?
Also, in my opinion, unless a supposed designer states, clearly, unambiguously and directly to every single inhabitant of It's creation exactly what It wants, anything goes. I wouldn't think it prudent to take other people's word on this. Without direct communication with a designer, any nutjob is free to claim any crazy idea of his came straight from the designer himself. How is one supposed to know?
For some of us, this would mean less breeding. For others, much, much more.
Yeah, I was going to note that specifically. Having never found anything really awful on a customer's computer, I don't know what I'd do. Generally I'm of the opinion that, as a tech, I should not pry into areas that aren't necessary just because I don't want to have to deal with the consequences of what I might find. I know that if I was working on a customer's computer and found pictures of him doing it with, say, a guy, or a woman he isn't married to, I would quietly close the file and pretend like I never saw it. Illegal stuff, though? I just don't know.
Maybe I just overestimate people. It makes me sad to think there are really adults out there who need to be reminded of this.
Why do people always use the "What if it was your whatever?" argument. It's as if they think we are all incapable of empathy until reminded.
"Whoah! You know, I never thought about it that way! I was perfectly okay with child porn until I thought , 'hey what if it was MY child?'"
Anyways, I agree with you about this. Technicians shouldn't be required by law to cover up for people DUMB ENOUGH to leave files on their computer when it's being repaired. I have been a tech working both corporate support and customer repairs. Never found anything weird on customer computers, but I did find some very distrubing pictures of actual violent gang rape scenes on a company laptop brought in for repair. Needless to say, the boss was notified.