As a matter of fact, no. That's exactly the reason I included the parenthetical phrase.
Actually, I'm one of those people against the death penalty for non-pacifist reasons (mostly pragmatic reasons, in fact - death is highly irreversible). But of course, because I was snarky at someone you and others obviously sympathize with, I must be Put In My Place. I stand behind my original remark though, and its tone.
If that makes me an asshole, or naive, or snarky, or holier-than-thou, I guess that's me. But the world needs more of a certain type of asshole, and I like to believe I'm that type.
Indeed. The lifespan of the sun is irrelevant to the time scale of events in its life.
If I don't sleep for 100 hours, that's a statistically interesting fact. If my heart doesn't beat for 100 minutes, that's a pretty serious deviation from the norm. If every neuron in my body fails to fire for 100 milliseconds, I don't know but I'm guessing that's just as bad, if not worse (statistically speaking of course - dead is dead).
You have a not-so-small chance to survive the bullet through your head and then you simply die of cerebral haemorrhage.
True, but an execution isn't exactly the same tactical situation as a gunfight. The patient's head could be scanned and a rifle very carefully placed to maximize the likelihood of instant death.
For that matter, I don't see why intense irradiation of the brain couldn't do the same job.
2) even more importantly, the BSD tools lack decent --help, often that tells you exactly what you want to use.
This whole debate is pretty stupid, but I'd like to point out anyway that "better" does not mean the same to everyone. In the case of --help, I have a lot of sympathy for the way BSD commands generally do it. When I type "-h" or "--help", I'd much rather see a simple list of options that exist, because I generally already know what I want, just can't remember precisely what it's called.
In fact, I find it annoying that there's no standard way (that I know of anyway) to get just a short listing of what's available. tar --help (on at least one of my linux systems) spits out 270 lines. If I wanted to fire up a pager and read a man page, I'd have typed "man".
Permanent data storage is the last thing we need. If we had all the most important knowledge according to the ancient egyptians, how much of it do you think we'd use?
We *do* have all the most important knowledge of many pretty old civilizations, and the vast majority of us call the vast majority of it rubbish, and call the ones who don't "religious extremists".
If you really think our most important knowledge won't suffer the same fate in 4,000 years, I think you're seriously mistaken.
Yeah, that's what I try to tell my reviewers when some of my research ends up with a null result. "Even though this doesn't look like much, it's actually really important because....":)
Actually, it is. Null results consistently going unpublished can lead to very wrong conclusions.
That's 5 to 10 minutes before Explorer or the start menu will respond to mouse events, not 5 to 10 minutes before the apps I need to use are open and ready to use.
After a torturously long OS boot, I get to wait for visual studio to start up, which takes nearly as long. Add on outlook, Groove, etc, and I'd say the original poster isn't too far off on 15-20 minutes before the computer is ready to do any real work.
I can tell you from experience in a large security-conscious organization that such pathological setups are not nearly as uncommon as you seem to think. The combination of antivirus and extremely aggressive login scripts bring fairly modern hardware with XP Pro to its knees on startup.
When I or any of my coworkers have to cold boot, or often even just whenever we dock an already booted laptop, it means a minimum of 5-10 minutes enforced coffee break. If you're actually in a hurry to get something for someone standing in your office, it can sure seem like 30 min.
The worst is when it boots up and tells you 10 minutes later that it's done installing some software update the login scripts had for it, so now you need to reboot. Or rather, that it's going to reboot in 30 seconds, and there's nothing you can do.
You have to hurt the bunny to turn it into an effective writing implement, which may lead to the need to find another bunny to replace the one you just wore out.
Not to mention, if you can hurt the bunny, you can hurt other kiddies. So, the school must provide the children with pre-maimed bunnies.
Although, I suppose we could just dip the bunnies in ink?
Sometimes just pointing out illogic with illogic has its point. I am self-aware. There's method to my madness. It does bring out the hypocrisy in the Moderation process.
Responding to poorly formulated arguments with carefully crafted unsound arguments with the intent to convince the less attentive or less intelligent readers of your position is very dishonest and manipulative. If you're really doing that, I'd say that you're absolutely worthy of the title "troll". And much worse.
And by the way: Hypocrisy is another red herring. Everyone is hypocritical. Hypocrisy in a debater does not make his or her arguments unsound.
Being a Fanboy, whether it be a Mac Fanboy, a Religious Fanboy, a NASA Fanboy, or any type of Fanboy for that matter, will never help an argument. Just because you and your people label me Troll does not mean you win an argument.
I don't really care one way or the other on this particular issue, but I am absolutely sick of this sort of thing. Yes, calling someone a "troll" is a mindless way of dismissing someone, every bit as logically invalid as "reductio ad Hitlerum". That's old news. But why can nobody figure out that dismissing a "fanboy" is the EXACT SAME TACTIC?
Just because you and your people label him Troll does not mean you win an argument.
Oh, PS: Your argument isn't much better than his. I'll give you "honest", just because I believe in presumption of innocence. "Based on logic" I'm not so sure about. The pyramids are just about the worst counterexample I can think of. I sure wouldn't consider the thousands of man-years of slave labor for a fancy tomb a great alternative, or at best not much different, to the NASA "money pit".
Not only that, but if you're wanting to prove that earth based science gives you more "scientific knowledge per dollar", it would be helpful if you could tell us how much scientific knowledge per dollar your example brought us. Oh wait - we don't even know how much scientific it gave us at all, let alone a rate (ignoring for now the basic quantifiability issues others have mocked).
I just can't stand those awful squiggles, it's like they're Satan rising up from ashes to haunt me with the terror of a thousand mad-libs...
I don't like the squggles much either, but when I see the wrong "it's", the wrong "you're" and other such errors in any context, squiggles or no, I get the reaction you described.
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As a matter of fact, no. That's exactly the reason I included the parenthetical phrase.
Actually, I'm one of those people against the death penalty for non-pacifist reasons (mostly pragmatic reasons, in fact - death is highly irreversible). But of course, because I was snarky at someone you and others obviously sympathize with, I must be Put In My Place. I stand behind my original remark though, and its tone.
If that makes me an asshole, or naive, or snarky, or holier-than-thou, I guess that's me. But the world needs more of a certain type of asshole, and I like to believe I'm that type.
Indeed. The lifespan of the sun is irrelevant to the time scale of events in its life.
If I don't sleep for 100 hours, that's a statistically interesting fact. If my heart doesn't beat for 100 minutes, that's a pretty serious deviation from the norm.
If every neuron in my body fails to fire for 100 milliseconds, I don't know but I'm guessing that's just as bad, if not worse (statistically speaking of course - dead is dead).
You have a not-so-small chance to survive the bullet through your head and then you simply die of cerebral haemorrhage.
True, but an execution isn't exactly the same tactical situation as a gunfight. The patient's head could be scanned and a rifle very carefully placed to maximize the likelihood of instant death.
For that matter, I don't see why intense irradiation of the brain couldn't do the same job.
"the ideals behind the death penalty."
That is a scary combination of words...
Really, you think pacifists (or whatever your preferred brand of idealist) are the only ones with ideals?
How naive.
2) even more importantly, the BSD tools lack decent --help, often that tells you exactly what you want to use.
This whole debate is pretty stupid, but I'd like to point out anyway that "better" does not mean the same to everyone. In the case of --help, I have a lot of sympathy for the way BSD commands generally do it. When I type "-h" or "--help", I'd much rather see a simple list of options that exist, because I generally already know what I want, just can't remember precisely what it's called.
In fact, I find it annoying that there's no standard way (that I know of anyway) to get just a short listing of what's available. tar --help (on at least one of my linux systems) spits out 270 lines. If I wanted to fire up a pager and read a man page, I'd have typed "man".
What a bitter little person. That's all I have to say about that.
Heck yes!
Permanent data storage is the last thing we need. If we had all the most important knowledge according to the ancient egyptians, how much of it do you think we'd use?
We *do* have all the most important knowledge of many pretty old civilizations, and the vast majority of us call the vast majority of it rubbish, and call the ones who don't "religious extremists".
If you really think our most important knowledge won't suffer the same fate in 4,000 years, I think you're seriously mistaken.
Dvorak user?
You would think God himself typed the 10 commandments on one.
Nah, He used Das Keyboard.
Yeah, that's what I try to tell my reviewers when some of my research ends up with a null result. "Even though this doesn't look like much, it's actually really important because...." :)
Actually, it is. Null results consistently going unpublished can lead to very wrong conclusions.
Sorry for the followup, just wanted to clarify:
That's 5 to 10 minutes before Explorer or the start menu will respond to mouse events, not 5 to 10 minutes before the apps I need to use are open and ready to use.
After a torturously long OS boot, I get to wait for visual studio to start up, which takes nearly as long. Add on outlook, Groove, etc, and I'd say the original poster isn't too far off on 15-20 minutes before the computer is ready to do any real work.
I can tell you from experience in a large security-conscious organization that such pathological setups are not nearly as uncommon as you seem to think. The combination of antivirus and extremely aggressive login scripts bring fairly modern hardware with XP Pro to its knees on startup.
When I or any of my coworkers have to cold boot, or often even just whenever we dock an already booted laptop, it means a minimum of 5-10 minutes enforced coffee break. If you're actually in a hurry to get something for someone standing in your office, it can sure seem like 30 min.
The worst is when it boots up and tells you 10 minutes later that it's done installing some software update the login scripts had for it, so now you need to reboot. Or rather, that it's going to reboot in 30 seconds, and there's nothing you can do.
Safer?? Obviously you've never tried to settle the bill in a large party at a bistro.
You mean there was a review in that pile of words?
Nah, someone just reads too much ;-)
"Their" is not singular, you cretin. Use "his": it's a perfectly fucking good word.
Oh, come off it. Quit wasting the world's time.
... however, the German government wants to keep the site down. According to their twitter page, ...
The German government has a twitter page? ;-)
You have to hurt the bunny to turn it into an effective writing implement, which may lead to the need to find another bunny to replace the one you just wore out.
Not to mention, if you can hurt the bunny, you can hurt other kiddies. So, the school must provide the children with pre-maimed bunnies.
Although, I suppose we could just dip the bunnies in ink?
Sometimes just pointing out illogic with illogic has its point. I am self-aware. There's method to my madness. It does bring out the hypocrisy in the Moderation process.
Responding to poorly formulated arguments with carefully crafted unsound arguments with the intent to convince the less attentive or less intelligent readers of your position is very dishonest and manipulative. If you're really doing that, I'd say that you're absolutely worthy of the title "troll". And much worse.
And by the way: Hypocrisy is another red herring. Everyone is hypocritical. Hypocrisy in a debater does not make his or her arguments unsound.
Dang, no matter how many times I proofread I just never catch them all till I hit "submit"...
Just because you and your people label him fanboy does not mean you win an argument.
Being a Fanboy, whether it be a Mac Fanboy, a Religious Fanboy, a NASA Fanboy, or any type of Fanboy for that matter, will never help an argument. Just because you and your people label me Troll does not mean you win an argument.
I don't really care one way or the other on this particular issue, but I am absolutely sick of this sort of thing. Yes, calling someone a "troll" is a mindless way of dismissing someone, every bit as logically invalid as "reductio ad Hitlerum". That's old news. But why can nobody figure out that dismissing a "fanboy" is the EXACT SAME TACTIC?
Just because you and your people label him Troll does not mean you win an argument.
Oh, PS: Your argument isn't much better than his. I'll give you "honest", just because I believe in presumption of innocence. "Based on logic" I'm not so sure about. The pyramids are just about the worst counterexample I can think of. I sure wouldn't consider the thousands of man-years of slave labor for a fancy tomb a great alternative, or at best not much different, to the NASA "money pit".
Not only that, but if you're wanting to prove that earth based science gives you more "scientific knowledge per dollar", it would be helpful if you could tell us how much scientific knowledge per dollar your example brought us. Oh wait - we don't even know how much scientific it gave us at all, let alone a rate (ignoring for now the basic quantifiability issues others have mocked).
All the people who did what Colbert told them should know that whether your part of an ironic cult or a normal cult, it's still a cult.
If that's true, then "cult" isn't the vile epithet you seem to be hoping to apply to whoever you hate today.
I just can't stand those awful squiggles, it's like they're Satan rising up from ashes to haunt me with the terror of a thousand mad-libs...
I don't like the squggles much either, but when I see the wrong "it's", the wrong "you're" and other such errors in any context, squiggles or no, I get the reaction you described.
Yes, the invention of the holodecks would spell the demise of humanity.
Demise? I dunno... by the time we have anything like holodecks, we may be badly needing the population control.