And remove all filters already. Kids will only benefit in developing strong psyche if exposed from an early age. If you expose them later to these "bad" words you are creating snow flakes.
It's hard to avoid exposing children to bad words. But you shouldn't encourage children to use those words until they have the maturity to know what they mean and when it's okay to use them. Developing a strong psyche is about regulating and mastering your emotions, not giving them unfettered voice in a stream of potty-mouth expletives.
There's a reason it's called adult language.
Get them used to the words from an early age and in a couple of generations the worlds will stop being offensive, duh!
Society's tolerance of offensive words evolves, perhaps until they lose their power to offend. But children still need to learn what it means to offend, and how and when not to do it. They should be discouraged from using offensive words until they understand how their words affect others.
The Apollo 11 mission lasted about 8 days and 4 hours. Assuming the 30 tracks of audio mentioned in TFA were recorded continuously throughout the mission, that's still only about 5,880 hours of audio. I wonder where the rest of it is coming from. Phone calls? Candid discussions? Pre- and post-launch communications? That's a lot of extra audio.
You're not wrong. Trump is a populist, with borrowed pages from an authoritarian's playbook.
But most importantly, Trump is Trump. He was raised in a world of entitlement and privilege. His father emboldened the young Trump's sense of self-interest by telling him: "You are a king. You are a killer."
No wonder he seems like he's inside his own head and sees nothing but himself, like in Being John Malkovich.
Bitcoin is as fake as the economy it is based ion.
Bitcoin is fake BECAUSE it is not based on any economy!
Any currency is worth what you can buy with it. And therefore, Bitcoin is most definitely not fake, because you can indeed buy stuff with it, including other currencies on Forex. It is harder to find vendors who accept Bitcoin, but they do exist.
Once I heard an expert on NPR say that Bitcoin is a collective hallucination that some abstract concept has some kind of value. But he then pointed out that all currencies are a collective hallucination that some abstract concept has some kind of value.
For any currency that is based on an economy ("fiat currency") , its value as a currency is as good as its central bank is good at figuring out the total value, month after month, of the goods and services that currency trades for and adjusting the money supply to match.
I think you're confusing monetary value with monetary policy. Central banks control money supply by printing or removing currency from the market, or adjusting interest rates. They don't determine the value that money trades for in goods and services. The market does that.
And fiat currency is based on the faith and credit of the issuer (i.e., the central bank) not the economy in which it is used. That just means a $100 bill printed by the government will remain worth $100. What that $100 can buy for you can, and does, fluctuate.
Bitcoin is not working as a currency because now that all coins that are mineable with realistically available amounts of energy have already been mined, its supply has become fixed. This has caused it to disappear from circulation as people use it as a virtual investment rather than a currency.
You have a point. Bitcoin, unlike other currencies, is not being used to nearly the same extent as other currencies for investing and commerce. Nobody is issuing stock certificates, bonds, mortgages, or other financial instruments denominated in Bitcoin. (There is a futures market for it, but even that's in USD.) Rather, Bitcoin itself is the investment. But it is also true for all currencies that only a fraction of outstanding units are exchanged regularly. The remainder are sitting somewhere, in bank accounts, business equity, real estate, and other assets.
I can fix this problem with just 1.21 gigawatts and my flux capacitor.
Dude, if you have a time machine then you don't need to mine cryptocurrency. Just check the stock market one year from now. Or maybe that's what you meant when you said "fix this problem?"
Chuck Norris doesn't need to sign in to a computer system. He just stares at it and it surrenders. Immediately. Chuck Norris has never needed a password, ever.
It's like your local newspaper putting a headline on the front page: "Bank break-in attempted" when their security cameras show someone walked past the bank front door and 'tested the lock'.
Analogy fail. It's more like someone created a copy of the bank's front door, in order to trick a bank employee to insert their key so it could be copied.
And let's not forget TFH: the hack was "unsuccessful."
You know how dead people wind up being registered to vote? They register to vote when they're alive... and then they die. That's not voter fraud.
There are lots of people (1.8 million?) who are registered to vote and who are dead. But dead people voting? Not so much. Voter impersonation is almost nonexistent.
What amazes me is that Huawei didn't just use the camera on the phone. Sure, camera phones are awkward tools for pro shoots, and will never be as good as DSLRs. But they are generally pretty good, and steadily getting better. (Unless, of course, Huawei's camera sucks.)
Bad optics on this whole episode. Figuratively and literally.
Slashdot Mirror
"The human rights abuses of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China weren't REAL Communism. REAL Communism has never been tried."
Arguably, real democracy, real capitalism, real anarchy, real socialism, etc., haven't been tried either.
I don't think any system of governance or economy has ever been practiced in strict adherence to its theoretical definitions. And rightly so.
Let's be realistic, he can't do an EVA shirtless. He'd use a spacesuit with a transparent upper section.
It's Putin. If anyone can pull off a shirtless EVA, he would. Putin is the Chuck Norris of shirtlessness.
Putin would use Chuck Norris to plug the leak. And then the ISS would explode because it could not withstand the presence of his sheer awesomeness.
It's like The Force: it has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the Universe together.
[an old joke; don't remember where it comes from]
And remove all filters already. Kids will only benefit in developing strong psyche if exposed from an early age. If you expose them later to these "bad" words you are creating snow flakes.
It's hard to avoid exposing children to bad words. But you shouldn't encourage children to use those words until they have the maturity to know what they mean and when it's okay to use them. Developing a strong psyche is about regulating and mastering your emotions, not giving them unfettered voice in a stream of potty-mouth expletives.
There's a reason it's called adult language.
Get them used to the words from an early age and in a couple of generations the worlds will stop being offensive, duh!
Society's tolerance of offensive words evolves, perhaps until they lose their power to offend. But children still need to learn what it means to offend, and how and when not to do it. They should be discouraged from using offensive words until they understand how their words affect others.
Have were learned nothing from George Carlin?
One thing we did learn from Carlin is that context matters.
It's OK to say [baseball star] Roberto Clemente has two balls on him. But you can't say 'I think he hurt his balls on that play.' -- George Carlin
TFA makes the same point.
/thread
The Apollo 11 mission lasted about 8 days and 4 hours. Assuming the 30 tracks of audio mentioned in TFA were recorded continuously throughout the mission, that's still only about 5,880 hours of audio. I wonder where the rest of it is coming from. Phone calls? Candid discussions? Pre- and post-launch communications? That's a lot of extra audio.
I see where you're going with this. Is there a 7 1/2th floor in Trump Tower? Who's up for a treasure hunt??
No thanks. The last place I want to be is inside Trump's head. [*shudder*]
You're not wrong. Trump is a populist, with borrowed pages from an authoritarian's playbook.
But most importantly, Trump is Trump. He was raised in a world of entitlement and privilege. His father emboldened the young Trump's sense of self-interest by telling him: "You are a king. You are a killer."
No wonder he seems like he's inside his own head and sees nothing but himself, like in Being John Malkovich.
That kind of disproves his point, doesn't it?
Bitcoin is as fake as the economy it is based ion.
Bitcoin is fake BECAUSE it is not based on any economy!
Any currency is worth what you can buy with it. And therefore, Bitcoin is most definitely not fake, because you can indeed buy stuff with it, including other currencies on Forex. It is harder to find vendors who accept Bitcoin, but they do exist.
Once I heard an expert on NPR say that Bitcoin is a collective hallucination that some abstract concept has some kind of value. But he then pointed out that all currencies are a collective hallucination that some abstract concept has some kind of value.
For any currency that is based on an economy ("fiat currency") , its value as a currency is as good as its central bank is good at figuring out the total value, month after month, of the goods and services that currency trades for and adjusting the money supply to match.
I think you're confusing monetary value with monetary policy. Central banks control money supply by printing or removing currency from the market, or adjusting interest rates. They don't determine the value that money trades for in goods and services. The market does that.
And fiat currency is based on the faith and credit of the issuer (i.e., the central bank) not the economy in which it is used. That just means a $100 bill printed by the government will remain worth $100. What that $100 can buy for you can, and does, fluctuate.
Bitcoin is not working as a currency because now that all coins that are mineable with realistically available amounts of energy have already been mined, its supply has become fixed. This has caused it to disappear from circulation as people use it as a virtual investment rather than a currency.
You have a point. Bitcoin, unlike other currencies, is not being used to nearly the same extent as other currencies for investing and commerce. Nobody is issuing stock certificates, bonds, mortgages, or other financial instruments denominated in Bitcoin. (There is a futures market for it, but even that's in USD.) Rather, Bitcoin itself is the investment. But it is also true for all currencies that only a fraction of outstanding units are exchanged regularly. The remainder are sitting somewhere, in bank accounts, business equity, real estate, and other assets.
Disclosure: IANAE. I welcome correction.
I can fix this problem with just 1.21 gigawatts and my flux capacitor.
Dude, if you have a time machine then you don't need to mine cryptocurrency. Just check the stock market one year from now. Or maybe that's what you meant when you said "fix this problem?"
You may have been scooped, sort of.
I prefer to make homeopaths richer ... by not buying their products.
IANAMD, but it sounds to me like you're getting an anesthetic effect from the evaporating alcohol (plus some aromatherapy?)
Created by the comedy team "That Mitchell and Webb Look":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And that means she is no longer relevant.
Trump, on the other hand, is in office, and that means he's fair game for criticism.
Heck if he just shut up I bet his approval ratings would go up 10 points.
Maybe. Maybe not. He's trying to keep his base riled up, by throwing them red meat. Would he start losing them if he stopped?
Because with a 150C battery in it, you don't dare pick it up to use it.
Meh. That's Prior Art for Samsung.
My favorite in-pants thing!
Right. Because hot-grits batteries are just not panning out the way we all hoped.
[Why do I suddenly think of "Natalie Portman" and "discharge"? :-/]
Chuck Norris doesn't need to sign in to a computer system. He just stares at it and it surrenders. Immediately. Chuck Norris has never needed a password, ever.
It's like your local newspaper putting a headline on the front page: "Bank break-in attempted" when their security cameras show someone walked past the bank front door and 'tested the lock'.
Analogy fail. It's more like someone created a copy of the bank's front door, in order to trick a bank employee to insert their key so it could be copied.
And let's not forget TFH: the hack was "unsuccessful."
You know how dead people wind up being registered to vote? They register to vote when they're alive ... and then they die. That's not voter fraud.
There are lots of people (1.8 million?) who are registered to vote and who are dead. But dead people voting? Not so much. Voter impersonation is almost nonexistent.
Ah yes, chalk on moving buffalo.
'Course, there's an emacs command for that.
This.
What amazes me is that Huawei didn't just use the camera on the phone. Sure, camera phones are awkward tools for pro shoots, and will never be as good as DSLRs. But they are generally pretty good, and steadily getting better. (Unless, of course, Huawei's camera sucks.)
Bad optics on this whole episode. Figuratively and literally.