Yeah, one of those deals when I realized I'd goofed it up as I was hitting the submit button.
I thought of humiliating myself by calling attention the faux pas myself, but figured that this is one of the few crowds where someone else would be along to take care of that sooner or later.
Ah, but if an Ewok had only come at them with a banana, they were trained and prepared. ..except they couldn't eat it, thus disarming the Ewok, with that stupid helmet on.
This sound like awfully sophisticated thoughts for a 7 year old.
If you had expressed this about me when I was 7 I would have requested that you desist from patronizing me.
Just because most kids are not particularly intelligent does not mean there are not particularly intelligent kids.
Or perhaps this one has simply not been force fed "age appropriate" fare all his life. That sort of thing can fuck up many a young mind.
In any case my experience as an adult is that most kids can act and speak with a good deal more intelligence to people who treat them as peers instead of kids then is commonly held. They are quite capable social chameleons.
When bicycle racing I like to find some really big guy who obviously isn't that experienced, and continually bolster him up with how great he's doing, while drafting him the whole time.
Come to think of it, I used to do much the same thing while playing dodgeball in grade school.
Two small trunks are not as usful as one large one, even if they have "equal" capacity. If I am prepared to forgo the use of the rear seats for a time I can carry a crated floor mount air compressor in a Skoda. I cannot in a Porsche.
(I have no bias toward Skodas. I have never owned one, nor can I say that I have ever had the desire to do so. I have owned a Porsche. In fact, I'm sitting in the driver's seat of one right now).
Copernicus, one of the leading astronomers of the day. ..
Who did not publish. It was Galileo who was in agreement with Copernicus, through reading hand written manuscripts passed hand to hand, not the other way around.
In any case the issue of Helocentrism is uneccessary to the issue, Galileo's studies of gravity alone being sufficient to bring censure.
. ..their arguments were entirely theological, not scientific.
Well thank God there's none of that going around anymore inducing "scientists" to fake and/or fudge data.
The Supremes have already upheld the availability of dirty books online, and the FCC has no jurisdiction over the printed word and nonpublic/nonbroadcast television/radio.
Or at least that's what all the paperwork that we typically ignore that is supposed to be the foundation of our government says.
Frankly I've never understood the idea that concentrating political power in a single, all powerful unit is the cure for government; and it's completely unrepublican and unamerican.
"Cap'n, Cap'n! She canna take wurp 10. She's breaking up!"
"Ok, turn it up to 11 then!"
It's inverse homeopathy, like saying that the cure for poisoning is eating another, and bigger, lump of poison.
If you wish to have power over the government the very first thing you have to do is make sure it remains at a scale that allows you to bitch slap it.
Who ya gonna believe, the black box, or your lyin' eyes?
In any case the point of a paper trail isn't just that you have a receipt, but that the election officials have an anonymous (and try to figure out how to guarentee that with a black box system) receipt and you have a right to demand that that they be counted.
No hard ballot, no recount? No point in wasting time on mere democracy in the first place, other than to pacify the masses impressed by smoke, mirrors and "authority."
Diebold is perfectly capable of coming up with nefarious political agendas on their own, and for their own benefit, without directly invoking people outside the firm.
In any case the question is relevant only to the issue of possible criminal prosecution (which I might certainly advocate).
But from a public information point of view all you have to do is, as usual, follow the money:
I think about a quarter of the people on my "freaks" list got there because of my stating this point. Bear in mind that this only the percentage of scientist that will admit on a survey. My experience and observations suggest that the percentage is far, far higher. Many how do it aren't even conciously aware enough to know they do. It's just what they do, without even thinking about it.
Yes, science is by nature self-correcting, but when the errors are endemically embedded in the existing systems it can take a lot of time and convict a lot of Gallileos before it gets around to it.
In the meantime time, money and even lives are lost over bullcrap.
The practice of "science," as she is spoke, has become just another job undertaken by people who happened to go for a science degree instead of an MBA or joining the plumbers union.
I have come to empathize with Heinlein, who, through the mouth of Lazarus Long, said something along the lines of "I stopped calling myself doctor when they started handing out PhDs to anyone."
Isn't that like saying a Skoda is competing with a Porsche because they both have wheels and an engine?
In the sense that a Skoda is not a Porsche, no.
In the sense that the availability of a Skoda with four seats and a hatchback for $10K means you aren't constrained to buy a Boxster with only two seats and no luggage capacity for $50K just because it's the only car in town. ..yes.
KFG
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I wrote this post.
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Licenses, by their very nature, being a grant from the "owner" to a nonowner, cannot address issues of ownership.
That is handled by the various rights and property laws (which include the laws of inheritence), without which there would be no need for a license in the first place.
The title to Granny's house and car don't address the issue of her death either. Granny was supposed to do that in her will.
They also created all the time spent hoeing. No masses of pointlessly overturned earth, no weed problem. Not to mention that the plow creates its own need for plowing, since now you have to raise enough food for yourself and your plowhorse; and sell enough excess to cover the debt for the horse and plow.
One seed. One hole. Works like a charm.
Thoureau even questioned the necessity of the hole and one season simply scattered seeds on the ground. He raised enough peas to eat with enough left over to sell, leaving his time free for other pursuits.
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I am talking about the media saying that Tor is a way to do anonymous torrents of copyrighted material, transferring child porn, etc.
Just look up.
KFG
Yeah, one of those deals when I realized I'd goofed it up as I was hitting the submit button.
I thought of humiliating myself by calling attention the faux pas myself, but figured that this is one of the few crowds where someone else would be along to take care of that sooner or later.
Front!
KFG
Pi is now funny?
You may not understand it now, but you'll get pi in the sky when you die, that's no lie.
KFG
Say goodnight Gracie.
KFG
. . .an Ewok with a stick?
.except they couldn't eat it, thus disarming the Ewok, with that stupid helmet on.
Ah, but if an Ewok had only come at them with a banana, they were trained and prepared. .
KFG
This sound like awfully sophisticated thoughts for a 7 year old.
If you had expressed this about me when I was 7 I would have requested that you desist from patronizing me.
Just because most kids are not particularly intelligent does not mean there are not particularly intelligent kids.
Or perhaps this one has simply not been force fed "age appropriate" fare all his life. That sort of thing can fuck up many a young mind.
In any case my experience as an adult is that most kids can act and speak with a good deal more intelligence to people who treat them as peers instead of kids then is commonly held. They are quite capable social chameleons.
KFG
When bicycle racing I like to find some really big guy who obviously isn't that experienced, and continually bolster him up with how great he's doing, while drafting him the whole time.
Come to think of it, I used to do much the same thing while playing dodgeball in grade school.
Same deal I guess.
KFG
How much human effort does it take to produce, maintain, finance and fuel a combine?
Most of our modern agricultural methods exist only to solve a bigger problem created by our previous "solution" to a smaller one.
Just because there is "motion" does not imply there is progress. Reasonable men do not prop up bad ideas with worse ideas.
KFG
The Boxster has two trunks!
Two small trunks are not as usful as one large one, even if they have "equal" capacity. If I am prepared to forgo the use of the rear seats for a time I can carry a crated floor mount air compressor in a Skoda. I cannot in a Porsche.
(I have no bias toward Skodas. I have never owned one, nor can I say that I have ever had the desire to do so. I have owned a Porsche. In fact, I'm sitting in the driver's seat of one right now).
KFG
Copernicus, one of the leading astronomers of the day. . .
.their arguments were entirely theological, not scientific.
Who did not publish. It was Galileo who was in agreement with Copernicus, through reading hand written manuscripts passed hand to hand, not the other way around.
In any case the issue of Helocentrism is uneccessary to the issue, Galileo's studies of gravity alone being sufficient to bring censure.
. .
Well thank God there's none of that going around anymore inducing "scientists" to fake and/or fudge data.
KFG
No, I am a lysdexic Proftitoot who haf been reeding two many 18y century manufcryptf of late.
KFG
It is not previous scientists who are at issue, but contemporaneous scientists.
KFG
The Supremes have already upheld the availability of dirty books online, and the FCC has no jurisdiction over the printed word and nonpublic/nonbroadcast television/radio.
Howard Stern if free.
Well, as in speach.
KFG
Because we live in a conFEDERACY.
Or at least that's what all the paperwork that we typically ignore that is supposed to be the foundation of our government says.
Frankly I've never understood the idea that concentrating political power in a single, all powerful unit is the cure for government; and it's completely unrepublican and unamerican.
"Cap'n, Cap'n! She canna take wurp 10. She's breaking up!"
"Ok, turn it up to 11 then!"
It's inverse homeopathy, like saying that the cure for poisoning is eating another, and bigger, lump of poison.
If you wish to have power over the government the very first thing you have to do is make sure it remains at a scale that allows you to bitch slap it.
KFG
Who ya gonna believe, the black box, or your lyin' eyes?
In any case the point of a paper trail isn't just that you have a receipt, but that the election officials have an anonymous (and try to figure out how to guarentee that with a black box system) receipt and you have a right to demand that that they be counted.
No hard ballot, no recount? No point in wasting time on mere democracy in the first place, other than to pacify the masses impressed by smoke, mirrors and "authority."
KFG
Diebold is perfectly capable of coming up with nefarious political agendas on their own, and for their own benefit, without directly invoking people outside the firm.
In any case the question is relevant only to the issue of possible criminal prosecution (which I might certainly advocate).
But from a public information point of view all you have to do is, as usual, follow the money:
Who bought them?
Send your angry villagers there.
KFG
How did the plants ever manage to live before man came along to manage them?
.to the plow.
Naturally healthy soil does not get played out and gets turned under without the use of plows.
Your Mencken quote is apropos. .
KFG
I think about a quarter of the people on my "freaks" list got there because of my stating this point. Bear in mind that this only the percentage of scientist that will admit on a survey. My experience and observations suggest that the percentage is far, far higher. Many how do it aren't even conciously aware enough to know they do. It's just what they do, without even thinking about it.
Yes, science is by nature self-correcting, but when the errors are endemically embedded in the existing systems it can take a lot of time and convict a lot of Gallileos before it gets around to it.
In the meantime time, money and even lives are lost over bullcrap.
The practice of "science," as she is spoke, has become just another job undertaken by people who happened to go for a science degree instead of an MBA or joining the plumbers union.
I have come to empathize with Heinlein, who, through the mouth of Lazarus Long, said something along the lines of "I stopped calling myself doctor when they started handing out PhDs to anyone."
KFG
Isn't that like saying a Skoda is competing with a Porsche because they both have wheels and an engine?
.yes.
In the sense that a Skoda is not a Porsche, no.
In the sense that the availability of a Skoda with four seats and a hatchback for $10K means you aren't constrained to buy a Boxster with only two seats and no luggage capacity for $50K just because it's the only car in town. .
KFG
I wrote this post.
KFG
Licenses, by their very nature, being a grant from the "owner" to a nonowner, cannot address issues of ownership.
That is handled by the various rights and property laws (which include the laws of inheritence), without which there would be no need for a license in the first place.
The title to Granny's house and car don't address the issue of her death either. Granny was supposed to do that in her will.
KFG
Re: FUD
You've been smoking crack, haven't you?
KFG
They also created all the time spent hoeing. No masses of pointlessly overturned earth, no weed problem. Not to mention that the plow creates its own need for plowing, since now you have to raise enough food for yourself and your plowhorse; and sell enough excess to cover the debt for the horse and plow.
One seed. One hole. Works like a charm.
Thoureau even questioned the necessity of the hole and one season simply scattered seeds on the ground. He raised enough peas to eat with enough left over to sell, leaving his time free for other pursuits.
KFG
Yeah, I know what you mean. That's exactly how I felt when I heard they canceled Star Trek.
KFG
Kill the pundit, kill the pundit!
Hey, what did you expect from a Cringely story, a happy ending?
KFG