To be fair, it's probably not so much hypocrisy as it is extreme stupidity. I'm a little worried that this guy pointing out the two different standards will make someone at TSA realize it, at which point the standards will just be tighter EVERYWHERE.
Also getting spammed by shitty bands. I realize that may have been the original point of myspace, which ended up being what drove me back away from myspace.
The bigger issue was probably that facebook seemed to have better features, and it took me a while to realize that those features were coming at an increased cost of privacy.
In just -some- ways? Politicians dogmatically passing policies without being open to consider that they're wrong is bad. The public changing it's mind at the drop of a hat, or a well put-together bit of propaganda on the other hand would be worse if it meant something.
I mean, youtube comments -alone- make me think that maybe it would be a good thing if not everyone got to vote.
I don't think you understand the word "liberal" in its oldest meanings. It used to be that liberal meant more freedoms, both economically and personally. I don't think you understand the word "liberal" in its oldest meanings. It used to be that liberal meant more freedoms, both economically and personally.
Definitions change. You know what he means. Lets not quibble over terms unless we can't understand each other.
What the US really needs is more political parties so people could accurately state their belief system, because I don't think hardly anyone is truly a republican or democrat.
With parlimentary systems, the coalition is formed after elections, with many smaller parties joining up and compromising to be the majority. With the American system, the coalition is formed before the elections, with what would be many smaller parties joining up to form one of two parties before the vote. Or at least they do if they're smart about it. The Christian right and the fiscal conservatives united as republicans and dominated in a good number of elections for quite a while. The effect would have been the same had they both just formed a coalition after getting elected. Conversely, the "greens" often run as their own party separate from the democrats, and then are for some reason surprised when neither actually gets elected.
Seriously -in the US we have two parties. The far right party, and the psychopathic kill-and-censor-everyone-in-the-name-of-patriotism party.
Left and right are and always will be, relative. In the non-political sense, my right and your right are only the same if we're facing the same direction. Even then, if you're standing on my right, the area to your right is further to the right than mine.
In political terms, you look at the parties and apparently they're both more conservative than you are, or maybe you're comparing it to other countries where the average voter is more liberal than the average American voter. Still, to say that we have no "left" party is nonsense. One is more liberal than the other, even if it's not liberal enough for you.
Exxon donated more to Obama than any other person in office, so that isn't true either, and that tidbit just chafes the leftwing mantra.
It's surprising to me what gets ascribed to "leftwing mantra" these days. "Energy companies give to republicans and not democrats" is something that I probably would have been less than skeptical about, sure, but "mantra?"
Yep, there's nothing more fun than being teabagged by some jerk who has no life or job...
Are you saying it's more fun being teabagged by some nice millionaire with a lovely family? I'd think that would make it worse. "Not only is he better than me at this game, and his virtual nuts are in my virtual dead face, he's better than me at LIFE!!!"
The reason the guy can complete games so fast is because he's played so many of them. If you want more of a challenge and change, don't play the same type of over and over.
Most games today also have difficulty settings. If you're playing through something on normal mode and it's too easy... well, that's what it's there for. If you're still beating games too quickly on "Extreme hardcore kill you quick" settings, then... well... that's your cue you play too many videogames and might be neglecting other areas of your life. Job, school, love, health, posting on slashdot, hygine... there's something you should be practicing rather than racking up kills in Halo: reach. Let your skills get a little dusty while getting laid, and you might find the difficulty being lowered doesn't annoy you quite as much.
Plus, is there some dollar per hour value of games? These days with the little free time I have, I -prefer- games that are short and sweet. I'd rather pay $60 for a 2 hour game of "Braid" or "Limbo" caliber than $20 for 60 hours of final fantasy random encounters.
You can't honestly be blaming individuals for trying to strecth their meager dollars by shopping at walmart, while at the same time giving a pardon to corporate leaders who are trying to maximize their millions by cutting jobs.
I would never eat food from a Costco or Walmart knowing what their buying practices are like.
I think I speak for the whole internet when I say we are in awe of you, good sir. [slow clap]
Forsooth, dear sir! Thou hast yon goode pointe! Tounges be set upon stone, which hitherto is why Middle English is spake by e'ry gentleman today!
Which is to say, languages change. The summary used "virii,"we all knew what it meant, and it passes the "doesn't annoy me" test. So by my standards, it is a word despite what you and Webster's might say.
You mean the iphone was a completely different case -legally-.
In the sane world though, no, there is no real significant difference when it comes to modifying the devices you have purchased. And I think that's what the summary was suggesting. It's not as if jailbreaking your iphone is fine, but jailbreaking your xbox will kill children. Piracy can be done with both and is not a good reason.
It's not very often that researchers stumble onto something cheap and simple that could potentially save hundreds of millions of lives. I sure hope it pans out in practice.
No, but it's every other week that some researcher thinks he has.
but isn't this still a rather macro-level view of things, with the cutting process still causing damage to the fine structures they want to study?
No, the cryostat is designed to preserve things down to the subcellular level. Had they just cut it up with a scalpel, yeah, that would not preserve much. Fixing it with, say, paraformaldehyde, then freezing it and sectioning it, the sections do okay if you're skilled at it. You can see down to the neuron level.
It seems likely to me that future scientists will look back at this in not too long with stifled laugher and perhaps a little shock at the approach.
I personally am always astounded at what past scientists were able to accomplish with the tools at hand. Ramon Y Cajal, the "father of neuroscience" had primitive microscopes and a method of staining cells that sounds exhausting, but described the brain in astonishing detail. I personally doubt I could have accomplished what he did with the tools we have now. Unless future scientists are idiots, they'll likely realize that these are the best tools we have now.
Come on, tell me, what's the real purpose of this stuff?
If they didn't have some controversy distracting us, we might realize that they're morons who have done nothing but wasted time and resources. I mean, the underwear bomber was so stupid, he had a freaking bomb on the plane, and only managed to burn off his own dick. That's a massive failure of security eclipsed only by the even more spectacular failure of that particular terrorist. Making us debate about whether or not it's worth it to check out everyone's dicks is the only thing keeping TSA from getting rightfully sacked.
Yes, when Fox reports on something that conservatives likes to hear about it's conservative propaganda and when it reports on something liberals like to hear about it's just being insanely hypocritical
Perhaps we should institute a system of tests, in which low-UID users are periodically challenged on their knowledge, and demoted if they fail - and other users are given an opportunity to filter up the ranks via the same system?
Yes, and then they would be entitled to all the privileges of a low UID!
In case you're wondering what those would be, let me tell you what those are: 1. A few people for some reason assume you know what you're talking about, at least until they realize you don't know what you're talking about 2. If you say something someone disagrees with, they might make a sarcastic comment about your low UID.
We concluded that anyone smart enough to create a working time machine (especially one that didn't turn its occupant into goop) was smart enough to do the mathematical calculations.::shrug::
Especially given that the DeLorean has "Mr. Fusion" which can generate 1.21 gigawatts of electricity or something like that from trash. And that same device absolutely cannot power the delorean itself. It -must- be gasoline in order to reach 88 mph. Converting the delorean to an electric car? More difficult than building a time machine I guess.
Then again, Doc is clearly an idiot savant. For instance, he rapidly builds a mockup of the town, clock tower, and delorean and effectively demonstrates how they will harness the lightning bolt to power the time machine. Then he connects the electricity, which predictably does nothing but start a fire.
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To be fair, it's probably not so much hypocrisy as it is extreme stupidity. I'm a little worried that this guy pointing out the two different standards will make someone at TSA realize it, at which point the standards will just be tighter EVERYWHERE.
Also getting spammed by shitty bands. I realize that may have been the original point of myspace, which ended up being what drove me back away from myspace.
The bigger issue was probably that facebook seemed to have better features, and it took me a while to realize that those features were coming at an increased cost of privacy.
In just -some- ways? Politicians dogmatically passing policies without being open to consider that they're wrong is bad. The public changing it's mind at the drop of a hat, or a well put-together bit of propaganda on the other hand would be worse if it meant something.
I mean, youtube comments -alone- make me think that maybe it would be a good thing if not everyone got to vote.
You may need to throw in a vaginachop to cover all your bases.
I don't know, I usually don't get past 2nd base when I do that.
I may have to steal that line in the future, just fyi.
I don't think you understand the word "liberal" in its oldest meanings. It used to be that liberal meant more freedoms, both economically and personally. I don't think you understand the word "liberal" in its oldest meanings. It used to be that liberal meant more freedoms, both economically and personally.
Definitions change. You know what he means. Lets not quibble over terms unless we can't understand each other.
What the US really needs is more political parties so people could accurately state their belief system, because I don't think hardly anyone is truly a republican or democrat.
With parlimentary systems, the coalition is formed after elections, with many smaller parties joining up and compromising to be the majority. With the American system, the coalition is formed before the elections, with what would be many smaller parties joining up to form one of two parties before the vote. Or at least they do if they're smart about it. The Christian right and the fiscal conservatives united as republicans and dominated in a good number of elections for quite a while. The effect would have been the same had they both just formed a coalition after getting elected. Conversely, the "greens" often run as their own party separate from the democrats, and then are for some reason surprised when neither actually gets elected.
Seriously -in the US we have two parties. The far right party, and the psychopathic kill-and-censor-everyone-in-the-name-of-patriotism party.
Left and right are and always will be, relative. In the non-political sense, my right and your right are only the same if we're facing the same direction. Even then, if you're standing on my right, the area to your right is further to the right than mine.
In political terms, you look at the parties and apparently they're both more conservative than you are, or maybe you're comparing it to other countries where the average voter is more liberal than the average American voter. Still, to say that we have no "left" party is nonsense. One is more liberal than the other, even if it's not liberal enough for you.
Exxon donated more to Obama than any other person in office, so that isn't true either, and that tidbit just chafes the leftwing mantra.
It's surprising to me what gets ascribed to "leftwing mantra" these days. "Energy companies give to republicans and not democrats" is something that I probably would have been less than skeptical about, sure, but "mantra?"
When I was young, everything was better. Today, everything is worse.
That doesn't go for every generation. I mean, in -my- younger days, we didn't have internet porn...
Yep, there's nothing more fun than being teabagged by some jerk who has no life or job...
Are you saying it's more fun being teabagged by some nice millionaire with a lovely family? I'd think that would make it worse. "Not only is he better than me at this game, and his virtual nuts are in my virtual dead face, he's better than me at LIFE!!!"
The reason the guy can complete games so fast is because he's played so many of them. If you want more of a challenge and change, don't play the same type of over and over.
Most games today also have difficulty settings. If you're playing through something on normal mode and it's too easy... well, that's what it's there for. If you're still beating games too quickly on "Extreme hardcore kill you quick" settings, then... well... that's your cue you play too many videogames and might be neglecting other areas of your life. Job, school, love, health, posting on slashdot, hygine... there's something you should be practicing rather than racking up kills in Halo: reach. Let your skills get a little dusty while getting laid, and you might find the difficulty being lowered doesn't annoy you quite as much.
Plus, is there some dollar per hour value of games? These days with the little free time I have, I -prefer- games that are short and sweet. I'd rather pay $60 for a 2 hour game of "Braid" or "Limbo" caliber than $20 for 60 hours of final fantasy random encounters.
He obviously hasn't accepted the word "me" as part of his language yet.
You can't honestly be blaming individuals for trying to strecth their meager dollars by shopping at walmart, while at the same time giving a pardon to corporate leaders who are trying to maximize their millions by cutting jobs.
I would never eat food from a Costco or Walmart knowing what their buying practices are like.
I think I speak for the whole internet when I say we are in awe of you, good sir. [slow clap]
there is no such word as 'virii'.
Forsooth, dear sir! Thou hast yon goode pointe! Tounges be set upon stone, which hitherto is why Middle English is spake by e'ry gentleman today!
Which is to say, languages change. The summary used "virii,"we all knew what it meant, and it passes the "doesn't annoy me" test. So by my standards, it is a word despite what you and Webster's might say.
You mean the iphone was a completely different case -legally-.
In the sane world though, no, there is no real significant difference when it comes to modifying the devices you have purchased. And I think that's what the summary was suggesting. It's not as if jailbreaking your iphone is fine, but jailbreaking your xbox will kill children. Piracy can be done with both and is not a good reason.
It's not very often that researchers stumble onto something cheap and simple that could potentially save hundreds of millions of lives. I sure hope it pans out in practice.
No, but it's every other week that some researcher thinks he has.
I wonder if this has any bearing on how hot toddy's work?
Maybe if you make it wrong. If you make it "right," the booze just makes you forget that you feel sick.
but isn't this still a rather macro-level view of things, with the cutting process still causing damage to the fine structures they want to study?
No, the cryostat is designed to preserve things down to the subcellular level. Had they just cut it up with a scalpel, yeah, that would not preserve much. Fixing it with, say, paraformaldehyde, then freezing it and sectioning it, the sections do okay if you're skilled at it. You can see down to the neuron level.
It seems likely to me that future scientists will look back at this in not too long with stifled laugher and perhaps a little shock at the approach.
I personally am always astounded at what past scientists were able to accomplish with the tools at hand. Ramon Y Cajal, the "father of neuroscience" had primitive microscopes and a method of staining cells that sounds exhausting, but described the brain in astonishing detail. I personally doubt I could have accomplished what he did with the tools we have now. Unless future scientists are idiots, they'll likely realize that these are the best tools we have now.
Come on, tell me, what's the real purpose of this stuff?
If they didn't have some controversy distracting us, we might realize that they're morons who have done nothing but wasted time and resources. I mean, the underwear bomber was so stupid, he had a freaking bomb on the plane, and only managed to burn off his own dick. That's a massive failure of security eclipsed only by the even more spectacular failure of that particular terrorist. Making us debate about whether or not it's worth it to check out everyone's dicks is the only thing keeping TSA from getting rightfully sacked.
Yes, when Fox reports on something that conservatives likes to hear about it's conservative propaganda and when it reports on something liberals like to hear about it's just being insanely hypocritical
Wrong: it's hypocritical at many other times too.
Perhaps we should institute a system of tests, in which low-UID users are periodically challenged on their knowledge, and demoted if they fail - and other users are given an opportunity to filter up the ranks via the same system?
Yes, and then they would be entitled to all the privileges of a low UID!
In case you're wondering what those would be, let me tell you what those are:
1. A few people for some reason assume you know what you're talking about, at least until they realize you don't know what you're talking about
2. If you say something someone disagrees with, they might make a sarcastic comment about your low UID.
ROTLMO
We concluded that anyone smart enough to create a working time machine (especially one that didn't turn its occupant into goop) was smart enough to do the mathematical calculations. ::shrug::
Especially given that the DeLorean has "Mr. Fusion" which can generate 1.21 gigawatts of electricity or something like that from trash. And that same device absolutely cannot power the delorean itself. It -must- be gasoline in order to reach 88 mph. Converting the delorean to an electric car? More difficult than building a time machine I guess.
Then again, Doc is clearly an idiot savant. For instance, he rapidly builds a mockup of the town, clock tower, and delorean and effectively demonstrates how they will harness the lightning bolt to power the time machine. Then he connects the electricity, which predictably does nothing but start a fire.
I don't understand why you post first about a frame of reference problem and then joke about 88 miles per hour ... in reference to what?
I'd answer you, but dopey McFly didn't give me the answer yet. I gotta go pound on his head, I'll tell you as soon as he tells me.
Sincerely,
Biff
Either way, this problem sounds like it will keep computers buzzy.