salesman I can patent watching my customers browse and trying to get them to buy things based on what I observe them looking at?
Man, am *I* going to clean up. Every salesman in the universe who's even vaguely doing their job is going to owe me a royalty.
Hell, I might even be able to afford paying the royalty on the P&B sandwich I have for lunch now.
KFG
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plywood, chipboard, MDF, treenails, cellulose glue, paper, etc, is not a house not made out of wood.
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license. When some people say "free" what they mean is without responsibility or repercussion. I believe in the gedanken that your right to swing your arms about ends at the tip of my nose.
Some people find this "restriction" intollerable. What's interesting is that these people often go on and on about their "rights" if you do anything to them.
Well, a good many of them grow out of that eventually, and the ones that don't we just call assholes.
Power always needs to be tempered with restraint, and the more power the more restraint.
As Ghandi once pointed out nonviolence is not weakness, indeed, the weak cannot be nonviolent. Only the strong, and only in proportion to their strength.
One can only be free in proportion to one's sense of responsibility.
Otherwise you're just some punk kid that a bunch of people with freedom are going to beat the crap out of in a back alley some day in the hopes that it'll jar something loose and you start to "get it."
KFG
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Slashdot being predictable and boring. Of course somewhere someone else is bitching about how it's changed completely. Go figure.
Have you been to a McDonald's recently? Looks pretty much the same as it did last year, don't it? And the one on one side of town looks pretty much like the one on the other?
Get used to it. The older you get the more predictable everything will become. Buy tomorrow's NYT. Save it. Read it once a week for the rest of your life. You'll pretty much be right up to date with the news just following that stratagy. I'm not kidding.
If you find your hometown is starting to get boring, nothing ever changes, the people are all the same, etc., I have a solution for you.
Go someplace else! Get on a plane to Paris or take a trek to Llhasa or something. Do something *different.*
Take a look in the mirror. Is it Slashdot that's so fucking predeictable, or is it your choice of places to go?
tech support is where the IT industry puts its liberal arts majors, and that hackers generally consider them far lower on the evolutionary scale than workers at Taco Bell, don't you?
I mean, at least the workers at Taco Bell perform a real and valuable social service.
My first "job" out of college was designing an electric car for a couple of "Whole Earth" types from Iowa. This was the mid-seventies. The idea was still considered viable then.I did this for the promise of "future compensation."
I was responsible for *everything* in the design and turned in some very good and innovative work that still stands up today. A few of the ideas I came up with that weren't viable at the time ( and that I didn't patent) were later hailed as genius when duplicated by others ( such as building the motors directly into the wheel hubs, controlled by a computer, and thus eliminting anything that could be considered a "drivetrain").
Why is my story different? I never saw a dime. Not one. And I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. I was doing something I loved, for reasons I loved and turned out work I'm still proud to have done.
I have been crudely used by employers who complied with every letter of the law with regards to compensation. These people didn't use me at all. At times I wonder if I didn't use *them.*
There are always multiple sides to any story. The laws can only typically accept one of them, even though some of the others may be perfectly valid.
In this case the laws are specifically oriented to the "factory worker" position where the worker performs tasks strictly for the paycheck and fails completely to recognize that in some fields what the workers are doing at work is what they would be doing for their own personal satisfaction if they were free to chose anything to do.
As H.D. wrote in "Life Without Principle":
"To have done anything by which you earned money *merely* is to have been truly idle or worse. If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself...
The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work;. ..
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for the love of it."
This is a bit of wisdom most have yet to learn, and the modern evolution of American capitalism seems to actively deny.
It can, and does, bring a considerable amount of understanding when used properly and its limits are well understood by the practitioner.
The insistence on, and rigid dogmatic application of, certain kinds of classification is the failing.
Like believing any output made by a computer because a computer made it.
In this particular case trying to decide whether this object is a moon or not based on its size is a *purely* subjective decision by its very nature. Pretending it isn't would be a failing.
Another related failing is saying something like, "The theory of relativity forbids. . .," which is technically true. The theory may well forbid the phenomenon in question, but the theory is a *model* of reality, not reality itself. It is *always* very important to maintain this awareness explicitly or one may easily be led into error, or away from a Nobel Prize.
Reality just *is,* irrespective of any theory that seeks to model it.
This does not mean that modeling it is an error, but any model may contain some degree of error and thus rigidly adhering to the model is an error.
Oh, give me a clone, Of my own flesh and bone, With its Y-chromosome changed to X. And when it is grown, Then my own little clone, Will be of the opposite sex.
The second law is about entropy. Do you know what entropy *is*? Entropy is the law that requires heat engines to consume fuel despite conservation of energy -- and the single most misunderstood law of physics. Parent poster was right.
The whole thing is rather subjective really. Like when does a boat become a ship?
The answer in both cases is somewhat similar. A ship is a vessel large enough to carry a boat. Not very enlightening actually, if you insist on rigid taxonomy for every little object in existence. After all, a 22' sailboat can carry an 8' tender on deck, and yet remains merely a boat, not a ship.
The basic standard for being a planet is large enough to have a moon. Uh huh. Cue the self referencial infinate loop here.
Although Pluto meets, barely, this standard, quietly in the backrooms it isn't even really considered a planet these days. If we knew as much about it in the 30's it probably never would have been classified as a planet in the first place. "Planet" is also largely considered to only apply to those major bodies that were formed as such with the solar system. Circumstancial evidenced suggests that Pluto started "life" as a moon of Neptune that "got away," possibly knocked out of orbit by a comet.
That would mean Pluto is a planet that's *also* a moom, although without being a planetary satellite. It's a weird dude, dude.
The only rule for being considered a moon is being "big enough" to be so classified. Uh huh. Cue thumb up nose routine here.
The rule of, ummmmmmmmm, thumb, is if you can walk around on it it's a moon. Unless it isn't rocky, we're prejudiced against ice balls. Or maybe if it's discovered on Tuesday. Who knows?
Of course most of these small moons of the gas giants wouldn't even come close to meeting the formed naturally in the system test. They're pretty much space junk that's ended up stuck in the planet's gravitational field as they wandered by. Captured asteroids. Cue video game joke here.
Of course if you could literally anthropomorphise a bit of space rock and ask it what it was ( which I don't recommend because they hate that) it would almost certainly say, "Yahwe, now bugger off." It is what it is, and that's all that it is.
This urge to rigidly classify everything is a human failing. The rocks themselves couldn't care less.
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idea. Therefore its use would have been incorrect.
KFG
I took out the whole bloody engine.
Of course when they start putting this crap in my heart rate monitor I'm screwed.
KFG
$20,000 American/pound.
Do you have a "plan B"?
KFG
the world is ever the same, and then recursively noted that everything has been thought of, the trick is to think of it again.
KFG
bashWinXP
KFG
salesman I can patent watching my customers browse and trying to get them to buy things based on what I observe them looking at?
Man, am *I* going to clean up. Every salesman in the universe who's even vaguely doing their job is going to owe me a royalty.
Hell, I might even be able to afford paying the royalty on the P&B sandwich I have for lunch now.
KFG
plywood, chipboard, MDF, treenails, cellulose glue, paper, etc, is not a house not made out of wood.
KFG
license. When some people say "free" what they mean is without responsibility or repercussion. I believe in the gedanken that your right to swing your arms about ends at the tip of my nose.
Some people find this "restriction" intollerable. What's interesting is that these people often go on and on about their "rights" if you do anything to them.
Well, a good many of them grow out of that eventually, and the ones that don't we just call assholes.
Power always needs to be tempered with restraint, and the more power the more restraint.
As Ghandi once pointed out nonviolence is not weakness, indeed, the weak cannot be nonviolent. Only the strong, and only in proportion to their strength.
One can only be free in proportion to one's sense of responsibility.
Otherwise you're just some punk kid that a bunch of people with freedom are going to beat the crap out of in a back alley some day in the hopes that it'll jar something loose and you start to "get it."
KFG
Slashdot being predictable and boring. Of course somewhere someone else is bitching about how it's changed completely. Go figure.
Have you been to a McDonald's recently? Looks pretty much the same as it did last year, don't it? And the one on one side of town looks pretty much like the one on the other?
Get used to it. The older you get the more predictable everything will become. Buy tomorrow's NYT. Save it. Read it once a week for the rest of your life. You'll pretty much be right up to date with the news just following that stratagy. I'm not kidding.
If you find your hometown is starting to get boring, nothing ever changes, the people are all the same, etc., I have a solution for you.
Go someplace else! Get on a plane to Paris or take a trek to Llhasa or something. Do something *different.*
Take a look in the mirror. Is it Slashdot that's so fucking predeictable, or is it your choice of places to go?
KFG
they make sex safer from unintended consequences.
All we need to do is apply this to guns, then there'll be more, but safer guns.
The conclusion is obvious. Nerf bullets.
KFG
tech support is where the IT industry puts its liberal arts majors, and that hackers generally consider them far lower on the evolutionary scale than workers at Taco Bell, don't you?
I mean, at least the workers at Taco Bell perform a real and valuable social service.
KFG
My first "job" out of college was designing an electric car for a couple of "Whole Earth" types from Iowa. This was the mid-seventies. The idea was still considered viable then.I did this for the promise of "future compensation."
.
.
I was responsible for *everything* in the design and turned in some very good and innovative work that still stands up today. A few of the ideas I came up with that weren't viable at the time ( and that I didn't patent) were later hailed as genius when duplicated by others ( such as building the motors directly into the wheel hubs, controlled by a computer, and thus eliminting anything that could be considered a "drivetrain").
Why is my story different? I never saw a dime. Not one. And I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. I was doing something I loved, for reasons I loved and turned out work I'm still proud to have done.
I have been crudely used by employers who complied with every letter of the law with regards to compensation. These people didn't use me at all. At times I wonder if I didn't use *them.*
There are always multiple sides to any story. The laws can only typically accept one of them, even though some of the others may be perfectly valid.
In this case the laws are specifically oriented to the "factory worker" position where the worker performs tasks strictly for the paycheck and fails completely to recognize that in some fields what the workers are doing at work is what they would be doing for their own personal satisfaction if they were free to chose anything to do.
As H.D. wrote in "Life Without Principle":
"To have done anything by which you earned money *merely* is to have been truly idle or worse. If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself..
The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work;. .
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for the love of it."
This is a bit of wisdom most have yet to learn, and the modern evolution of American capitalism seems to actively deny.
KFG
It can, and does, bring a considerable amount of understanding when used properly and its limits are well understood by the practitioner.
," which is technically true. The theory may well forbid the phenomenon in question, but the theory is a *model* of reality, not reality itself. It is *always* very important to maintain this awareness explicitly or one may easily be led into error, or away from a Nobel Prize.
The insistence on, and rigid dogmatic application of, certain kinds of classification is the failing.
Like believing any output made by a computer because a computer made it.
In this particular case trying to decide whether this object is a moon or not based on its size is a *purely* subjective decision by its very nature. Pretending it isn't would be a failing.
Another related failing is saying something like, "The theory of relativity forbids. . .
Reality just *is,* irrespective of any theory that seeks to model it.
This does not mean that modeling it is an error, but any model may contain some degree of error and thus rigidly adhering to the model is an error.
KFG
The charge isn't prosecutable if the arresting officer actually performs the act.
Where you're going to find a nun/cop/prostitute is left as an exercise for the student.
KFG
Oh, give me a clone,
Of my own flesh and bone,
With its Y-chromosome changed to X.
And when it is grown,
Then my own little clone,
Will be of the opposite sex.
KFG
a mouse, not a man. . . .
KFG
Same as in the convent.
KFG
to run a heat pump after the heat death of the universe.
KFG
That pretty much leaves me with the Microsoft optical wheel mouse as my choice. My Logi cordless sits in a crate somewhere.
It isn't just you lefties that are getting shafted. Many of us righties use our meeces with both hands as the work demands.
KFG
a trampoline?
You take your shoes *off* to jump on a trampoline.
You also tend to shout "Voila!" while jumping on a viola.
KFG
"This perpetual motion machine Lisa built is broken. It just keeps going faster and faster."
KFG
energy.
The second law is about entropy. Do you know what entropy *is*? Entropy is the law that requires heat engines to consume fuel despite conservation of energy -- and the single most misunderstood law of physics. Parent poster was right.
KFG
The whole thing is rather subjective really. Like when does a boat become a ship?
The answer in both cases is somewhat similar. A ship is a vessel large enough to carry a boat. Not very enlightening actually, if you insist on rigid taxonomy for every little object in existence. After all, a 22' sailboat can carry an 8' tender on deck, and yet remains merely a boat, not a ship.
The basic standard for being a planet is large enough to have a moon. Uh huh. Cue the self referencial infinate loop here.
Although Pluto meets, barely, this standard, quietly in the backrooms it isn't even really considered a planet these days. If we knew as much about it in the 30's it probably never would have been classified as a planet in the first place. "Planet" is also largely considered to only apply to those major bodies that were formed as such with the solar system. Circumstancial evidenced suggests that Pluto started "life" as a moon of Neptune that "got away," possibly knocked out of orbit by a comet.
That would mean Pluto is a planet that's *also* a moom, although without being a planetary satellite. It's a weird dude, dude.
The only rule for being considered a moon is being "big enough" to be so classified. Uh huh. Cue thumb up nose routine here.
The rule of, ummmmmmmmm, thumb, is if you can walk around on it it's a moon. Unless it isn't rocky, we're prejudiced against ice balls. Or maybe if it's discovered on Tuesday. Who knows?
Of course most of these small moons of the gas giants wouldn't even come close to meeting the formed naturally in the system test. They're pretty much space junk that's ended up stuck in the planet's gravitational field as they wandered by. Captured asteroids. Cue video game joke here.
Of course if you could literally anthropomorphise a bit of space rock and ask it what it was ( which I don't recommend because they hate that) it would almost certainly say, "Yahwe, now bugger off." It is what it is, and that's all that it is.
This urge to rigidly classify everything is a human failing. The rocks themselves couldn't care less.
KFG
every living relative, and my dog, in that fight.
Show some sensitivity.
KFG
and ask for an "Only stuff I want to see" topic?
Topics can only have a certain finess of grain before things just get unreasonable. Your wetware has a feature called "ignore mode." Set the flag.
KFG