I come from 2051, in a timeline where Linux didn't exist. You don't want to hear about the Microsoft vs Apple netwar.
Yes, it was terrible, all those Windows machines loaded with malware, all trying and failing to attack anything non-Microsoft, until Apple ended it by buying what was left of Microsoft in 2018 in an all-stock deal of 100 Microsoft shares for 1 Apple share, plus the lint in Steve Jobs' bellybutton.
Now people's Windows machines work perfectly. Microsoft Windows - a product of Apple, Inc.
I come from a present where it's hard to convince people that greedy capitalist corporations are ruining everything good in the world, thank you for sharing the future with us. Maybe we can act now and change it.
This reminds me a lot of some of the things Jonah Lehrer wrote about in "How We Decide"; he's fascinated by the way expectations influence perception (gross over simplification of a great book). You might want to check it out.
by Rosco P. Coltrane (209368) on Tuesday November 17, @09:01AM (#30128264)
So they go from hosting a tracker to hosting a bootstrap node that gives clients access to the DHT swarm? In short, in the eyes of the law (and probably of the general public), they're still facilitating the illegal distribution of copyrighted material. At the very least, they look guilty as hell, because they seem to do try their hardest to stick it up to da man.
Don't you mean: "Boss, I know them Duke Boy Pirates is guilty! They've gone from bootlegging trackers to bootlegging bootstraps. In the eyes of the law (and flash) they are facily-tatin' the illegal distribution of moonshine. At the very least, they look guilty as hell, with them outlaw haircuts and that fancy car."
Wasn't arguing against any of those points, merely bringing up a point someone was blithely trying to ignore behind Patton's well remembered joy at taking life.
The number of deaths does indicate degree of involvement, and degree of involvement was massive. It was their presence that helped win, death was a sad development of that presence.
Agreed one of the worst ideas EVER. In fact I'd go so far as to say that all war is a crime perpetrated by a government on it's own people, and the soviet political machine was an unparalleled criminal.
But the stupidity displayed doesn't change the impact that all of those "poor bastards dieing for their country" had on the war, or the brave sacrifice made by the individuals (if you want to believe that war is heroic).
A few posters in this branch have no concept of either point.
Even boys are exposed to crazy amounts of estrogen in utero.
Once a child has been born, you can't effect a change to their gender. Check David Reimer. He was born as a boy, and after a mishap during circumcision it was decided to raise him as a girl. He was given estrogen at the appropriate points, he was treated always like a girl... and he hated it. Eventually, he became a man again, and even married. Later in life, he committed suicide.
Right. I didn't think the point of the study was that boys were suddenly growing vaginas... I thought the point was that BPAs might be effectively delivering a daily life-screwing dosage of synthetic estrogen. If that sort of dosing were being willfully administered we'd call it abuse.
Just because a chemical doesn't shrivel your frank and beans or kill you immediately doesn't mean it's not causing hormonal turmoil. This is an article about how we have NO IDEA what the "safe" chemicals we use for everything are really doing to our bodies. Does that mean that a plastic baby bottle makes you want to play with barbies..... darned if I know, but it's time we were willing to question the large scale effects of modern consumerism, if chasing a few wild ideas is part of that process then I for one applaud them for being willing to ask.
more Russians died than in all of America's wars combined fighting Adolph Hitler. Love them or hate them, forced by circumstances or not, the Russians did more to save Western Europe from Nazism than anyone else.
"No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country" - General George S. Patton
My friend General Patton and I disagree with you, they sacrificed more that is for certain but Sacrifice != Winning
All winning requires sacrifice. In WW2 the US was very lucky to have a lot of that sacrifice paid by allies. If you believe that "The other poor bastards" who "died for their countries" were all Germans killed by John Wayne then you're viewing the world through the wrong channels on the shiny box.
Yeah it has nothing to do with forcing boys to engage in more timid play, impressing upon them that when they grow older they'll be expected to do their share of the child rearing, presenting them with effeminate roll models, balking at allowing them to take risks or play "politically incorrect" games, keeping them away from violence and agression more than any previous generation, or putting them in female clothing for a giggle. Nothing to do with that at all. It's the chemicals!
GIMME A BREAK.
Dunno.... I didn't have permission for any of the "boy stuff" I did as a kid. We were forced to engage in more timid play (while supervised... and seriously who's supervised these days??). Risks and political incorrectness were punishable offenses. I snuck my violent and aggressive entertainment.
Those are all pretty traditional parental focal points, and it's just as traditional to break past those boundaries. I'd say it's a fair to ask "Is the perennial campaign toward emasculation is more effective in the modern developed world? Is there an external reason? Is that reason social or chemical?"
This reply is based on the possibility that you may be seriously willing to consider the question. If you're merely another ignorant with a prepackaged ideology, or if you have unresolved identity issues from the time you spent in girl clothes.... then feel free to ignore this.
Consider yourself very lucky, growing up in rural PA my gifted education was 2 class periods a week in elementary school plus after school time once a week during Odyssey of the Mind season.
In 7th our allotted time was twice a week during study hall with a teacher who had other things to do, we rarely saw the gifted coordinator. In 8th enrichment time was me in the comp lab by myself (which paid off in the long run), band & chorus had co-opted every one else. By 9th grade I had given up caring about school, I stopped doing homework and got by with a B average on test scores and participation points. If my parents hadn't started Home Schooling me I doubt I would have learned anything after that point.
This is the mid 90's, and we had 1 gifted teacher for the district (7 schools). Intentions are great but budgets rule education. The district I work for now still has 1 gifted teacher for 6 schools, she works hard, she's smart, she does well..... but budgets rule education.
However when SC2 finally comes out it will be a harsh reminder that the "(current experienced) average Starcraft player" is NOT the "average BNET player".
Considering that all of the real thinking about this came from th 70s.... yes they probably expected everyone to have electric cars by now. Flying electric cars.
The present is a pretty uninspiring version of the future.
trust me for those of us who were told by guidance counselors to apply but have always been to lazy to do so those 5 words are taunting golden mirages.
Water dowsers (and the general public) speak of underground water as if it were rivers, creeks, and pools; it's an easy mistake to make.
Anyone with a background in hydro-geology understands that underground water is more like layers. Look at a mountain cutout along the highway and you can see how many layers of rock exist in just a few feet of depth. Between each layer are fissures, water flows through such fissures pulled by gravity further and further down. Drill deep enough and you reach a point where the speed of permeation into the layers below is slow enough and permeation from above is steady enough to result in accumulation; this is our "water table". Drill deeper and your well actually becomes a pressure outlet for those deeper layers.
By knowing how deep your neighbors well is (I've used a well over a mile away for comparison before) and estimating the change in elevation (and the slope of the bedrock layers if possible) you can predict within 5 feet the depth needed for adequate production. The difference anywhere on your property will simply be the relative difference in elevation.
note: This also remains true of "shallow" wells that don't go into bedrock, the difference is that your water will be in a layer of gravel.
My Conclusions: 1) it ain't science and it ain't a gift from God
2) there are 2 options why dowsing works
a- it's an expression of the subconscious
b- it's a manifestation of an undivine power that wants you to believe in backwoods voodoo
3) depending on your relationship with your father-in-law this is either something you should never bring up... or something to tuck away in your mind for later
A more sensible place for a GFI would be at the fuse box rather than at every socket, as one breaker can cover the whole circuit (or even installation if you're being cheap).
Seen it, don't want it. Not applied generally anyway. The problem is one of layout, unless you seriously over engineer a household layout you've got lights and outlets that share a circuit. You're far more likely to hurt yourself walking around in the dark when you mixer trips the GFCI than you are by not having your lights tied into a GFI circuit. For some circuits a GFCI breaker is the best option. For some rooms a GFCI in each outlet is the best option. For some rooms a chain from a GFCI to standard outlets (essentially converting those outlets) is the best option.
The "of" may have originally meant "connected to, or making up", that's what we're taught in school at least. Of implies possession, but in a hazy way; it has to be clarified by context. In the phrase "this is an idea of mine" it's clear that the idea is possessed by me.
The ownership implied in "We the People OF the United States" can be twisted to mean that either the people own the organization, or that the organization owns the people... only context can clarify.
Democracy: Government of the People, for the People, and by the People
Capitalism: Government of the People, by the Money, for the Money
What intrigues me is the fact that cable co's are trusting END USER EQUIPMENT to enforce limits that should be imposed at their own network ingress.
OR they're using end user equipment to cheaply set limits and they're using DMCA to shift enforcement off of their expense sheet and onto the tax paying public. Why create good security when the government is willing to do the hard work for you.
(I didn't rtfa so DMCA is a guess, but I think it's a safe one. Even if it's an example of corporate suckling of a different teet the strategy remains the same.)
I don't quite get all of the hate for the latest film myself, I thought it was the closest to the original conception of any of the sequels. Don't get me wrong T2 was a guns/explosions/special-effects classic... But I strongly feel that watching T1+T4 back to back would be as satisfying and feel as connected as T1+T2.
T2 developed the action aspect of the theme very satisfyingly, but left the plot and most of the actual Sci-Fi as background. T4 developed the Sci-Fi aspects and the plot from the original satisfyingly and left the action as background. (maybe it should have even been further back)
I think it's the people who wanted "T2 part 4" who are disappointed.
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Yes, it was terrible, all those Windows machines loaded with malware, all trying and failing to attack anything non-Microsoft, until Apple ended it by buying what was left of Microsoft in 2018 in an all-stock deal of 100 Microsoft shares for 1 Apple share, plus the lint in Steve Jobs' bellybutton.
Now people's Windows machines work perfectly. Microsoft Windows - a product of Apple, Inc.
I come from a present where it's hard to convince people that greedy capitalist corporations are ruining everything good in the world, thank you for sharing the future with us. Maybe we can act now and change it.
Apparently Douglas Adams was wrong.... on slashdot people DO make jokes in base 13.
I'd be afraid to google anyone named "Peter Craven"
This reminds me a lot of some of the things Jonah Lehrer wrote about in "How We Decide"; he's fascinated by the way expectations influence perception (gross over simplification of a great book).
You might want to check it out.
Still guilty (Score:2)
by Rosco P. Coltrane (209368) on Tuesday November 17, @09:01AM (#30128264)
So they go from hosting a tracker to hosting a bootstrap node that gives clients access to the DHT swarm? In short, in the eyes of the law (and probably of the general public), they're still facilitating the illegal distribution of copyrighted material. At the very least, they look guilty as hell, because they seem to do try their hardest to stick it up to da man.
Don't you mean:
"Boss, I know them Duke Boy Pirates is guilty! They've gone from bootlegging trackers to bootlegging bootstraps. In the eyes of the law (and flash) they are facily-tatin' the illegal distribution of moonshine. At the very least, they look guilty as hell, with them outlaw haircuts and that fancy car."
Wasn't arguing against any of those points, merely bringing up a point someone was blithely trying to ignore behind Patton's well remembered joy at taking life.
The number of deaths does indicate degree of involvement, and degree of involvement was massive. It was their presence that helped win, death was a sad development of that presence.
Seems like a fairly straightforward point.
Agreed one of the worst ideas EVER.
In fact I'd go so far as to say that all war is a crime perpetrated by a government on it's own people, and the soviet political machine was an unparalleled criminal.
But the stupidity displayed doesn't change the impact that all of those "poor bastards dieing for their country" had on the war, or the brave sacrifice made by the individuals (if you want to believe that war is heroic).
A few posters in this branch have no concept of either point.
Even boys are exposed to crazy amounts of estrogen in utero.
Once a child has been born, you can't effect a change to their gender. Check David Reimer. He was born as a boy, and after a mishap during circumcision it was decided to raise him as a girl. He was given estrogen at the appropriate points, he was treated always like a girl... and he hated it. Eventually, he became a man again, and even married. Later in life, he committed suicide.
Right. I didn't think the point of the study was that boys were suddenly growing vaginas... I thought the point was that BPAs might be effectively delivering a daily life-screwing dosage of synthetic estrogen.
If that sort of dosing were being willfully administered we'd call it abuse.
Just because a chemical doesn't shrivel your frank and beans or kill you immediately doesn't mean it's not causing hormonal turmoil. This is an article about how we have NO IDEA what the "safe" chemicals we use for everything are really doing to our bodies. Does that mean that a plastic baby bottle makes you want to play with barbies..... darned if I know, but it's time we were willing to question the large scale effects of modern consumerism, if chasing a few wild ideas is part of that process then I for one applaud them for being willing to ask.
more Russians died than in all of America's wars combined fighting Adolph Hitler. Love them or hate them, forced by circumstances or not, the Russians did more to save Western Europe from Nazism than anyone else.
"No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country" - General George S. Patton
My friend General Patton and I disagree with you, they sacrificed more that is for certain but Sacrifice != Winning
All winning requires sacrifice. In WW2 the US was very lucky to have a lot of that sacrifice paid by allies.
If you believe that "The other poor bastards" who "died for their countries" were all Germans killed by John Wayne then you're viewing the world through the wrong channels on the shiny box.
Yeah it has nothing to do with forcing boys to engage in more timid play, impressing upon them that when they grow older they'll be expected to do their share of the child rearing, presenting them with effeminate roll models, balking at allowing them to take risks or play "politically incorrect" games, keeping them away from violence and agression more than any previous generation, or putting them in female clothing for a giggle. Nothing to do with that at all. It's the chemicals!
GIMME A BREAK.
Dunno.... I didn't have permission for any of the "boy stuff" I did as a kid. We were forced to engage in more timid play (while supervised... and seriously who's supervised these days??). Risks and political incorrectness were punishable offenses. I snuck my violent and aggressive entertainment.
Those are all pretty traditional parental focal points, and it's just as traditional to break past those boundaries. I'd say it's a fair to ask "Is the perennial campaign toward emasculation is more effective in the modern developed world? Is there an external reason? Is that reason social or chemical?"
This reply is based on the possibility that you may be seriously willing to consider the question. If you're merely another ignorant with a prepackaged ideology, or if you have unresolved identity issues from the time you spent in girl clothes.... then feel free to ignore this.
I can't mod you up but I can give you 5 of these:
I wish I had mod points....
I wish I had mod points....
I wish I had mod points....
I wish I had mod points....
I wish I had mod points....
Consider yourself very lucky, growing up in rural PA my gifted education was 2 class periods a week in elementary school plus after school time once a week during Odyssey of the Mind season.
In 7th our allotted time was twice a week during study hall with a teacher who had other things to do, we rarely saw the gifted coordinator. In 8th enrichment time was me in the comp lab by myself (which paid off in the long run), band & chorus had co-opted every one else.
By 9th grade I had given up caring about school, I stopped doing homework and got by with a B average on test scores and participation points. If my parents hadn't started Home Schooling me I doubt I would have learned anything after that point.
This is the mid 90's, and we had 1 gifted teacher for the district (7 schools).
Intentions are great but budgets rule education. The district I work for now still has 1 gifted teacher for 6 schools, she works hard, she's smart, she does well..... but budgets rule education.
{ PA is an GIEP state }
Good point....
However when SC2 finally comes out it will be a harsh reminder that the "(current experienced) average Starcraft player" is NOT the "average BNET player".
eh... the good ones are Korean.
The average ones are average.
and... I'll be honest, I was just zerg rushing for first post
Or just smarter than the random BNET player?
Considering that all of the real thinking about this came from th 70s.... yes they probably expected everyone to have electric cars by now. Flying electric cars.
The present is a pretty uninspiring version of the future.
You get to say "as a member of MENSA..."
trust me for those of us who were told by guidance counselors to apply but have always been to lazy to do so those 5 words are taunting golden mirages.
well, WIS and INT are both generally lower for non AD&D people, but the difference is the same.
Hello I have Attention Deficit & Disorder, I accidentally wound up here while I'm supposed to be working... This isn't my email is it?
Water dowsers (and the general public) speak of underground water as if it were rivers, creeks, and pools; it's an easy mistake to make.
Anyone with a background in hydro-geology understands that underground water is more like layers. Look at a mountain cutout along the highway and you can see how many layers of rock exist in just a few feet of depth. Between each layer are fissures, water flows through such fissures pulled by gravity further and further down.
Drill deep enough and you reach a point where the speed of permeation into the layers below is slow enough and permeation from above is steady enough to result in accumulation; this is our "water table". Drill deeper and your well actually becomes a pressure outlet for those deeper layers.
By knowing how deep your neighbors well is (I've used a well over a mile away for comparison before) and estimating the change in elevation (and the slope of the bedrock layers if possible) you can predict within 5 feet the depth needed for adequate production. The difference anywhere on your property will simply be the relative difference in elevation.
note: This also remains true of "shallow" wells that don't go into bedrock, the difference is that your water will be in a layer of gravel.
My Conclusions:
1) it ain't science and it ain't a gift from God
2) there are 2 options why dowsing works
a- it's an expression of the subconscious
b- it's a manifestation of an undivine power that wants you to believe in backwoods voodoo
3) depending on your relationship with your father-in-law this is either something you should never bring up... or something to tuck away in your mind for later
A more sensible place for a GFI would be at the fuse box rather than at every socket, as one breaker can cover the whole circuit (or even installation if you're being cheap).
Seen it, don't want it.
Not applied generally anyway. The problem is one of layout, unless you seriously over engineer a household layout you've got lights and outlets that share a circuit. You're far more likely to hurt yourself walking around in the dark when you mixer trips the GFCI than you are by not having your lights tied into a GFI circuit.
For some circuits a GFCI breaker is the best option.
For some rooms a GFCI in each outlet is the best option.
For some rooms a chain from a GFCI to standard outlets (essentially converting those outlets) is the best option.
None of them work every time.
"We the People OF the United States"
The "of" may have originally meant "connected to, or making up", that's what we're taught in school at least.
Of implies possession, but in a hazy way; it has to be clarified by context. In the phrase "this is an idea of mine" it's clear that the idea is possessed by me.
The ownership implied in "We the People OF the United States" can be twisted to mean that either the people own the organization, or that the organization owns the people... only context can clarify.
Democracy: Government of the People, for the People, and by the People
Capitalism: Government of the People, by the Money, for the Money
lol what a noob.... I forgot to turn quote off
What intrigues me is the fact that cable co's are trusting END USER EQUIPMENT to enforce limits that should be imposed at their own network ingress.
OR they're using end user equipment to cheaply set limits and they're using DMCA to shift enforcement off of their expense sheet and onto the tax paying public. Why create good security when the government is willing to do the hard work for you.
(I didn't rtfa so DMCA is a guess, but I think it's a safe one. Even if it's an example of corporate suckling of a different teet the strategy remains the same.)
I don't quite get all of the hate for the latest film myself, I thought it was the closest to the original conception of any of the sequels. Don't get me wrong T2 was a guns/explosions/special-effects classic... But I strongly feel that watching T1+T4 back to back would be as satisfying and feel as connected as T1+T2.
T2 developed the action aspect of the theme very satisfyingly, but left the plot and most of the actual Sci-Fi as background.
T4 developed the Sci-Fi aspects and the plot from the original satisfyingly and left the action as background. (maybe it should have even been further back)
I think it's the people who wanted "T2 part 4" who are disappointed.
Geez, thx for ruining it for me..... I used to like History channel