If you left in the morning and landed at night, you'd only need around 400-ish mph (1000 gets you constant time, 500 gets you 12 hours behind, assume a couple more than that of daylight). But still, that's a hell of a solar plane. The article might say if it can do that, but reading is hard and I don't wanna.
It doesn't even matter. They'll be "voluntary" like the polygraph test at my last interview was "voluntary." One of the forty sheets of paper they'll have you sign on your application before they even consider you will say, "I understand that being implanted with an RFID chip is voluntary and will not affect the decision to hire me." And then check the box next to "I am willing to have an RFID chip implanted." Of COURSE we didn't toss you out because you wouldn't get one! We just decided to go with someone with more experience and nothing to hide. Er, I mean experience. Just the experience thing.
Not at all surprising. A majority of people, given the slightest opportunity, will be dicks, as spending 15 minutes on any internet forum will confirm. If using Windows required asking random groups of people questions, then the general concensus would be that Windows users are dicks. Because they are. As are Linux users and people whose favorite color is blue. The only solution to this is to design things so that no one needs to talk to anyone to make it work, because if you filter out the sons of bitches, there will only be two people left on the internet.
That may have been true in the past, but that's old-school, bad-ass military thinking. In the present state, it's more likely to be code for, "This frigging thing is never going to work. Let's tell the public it does, and when it fails, we'll tell them it worked perfectly."
I know Slashdot has leanings certain ways on certain issues, and I'm fine with that, but we've just officially completed the smooth transition into a 15-year-old's blog.
This alone indicates the amount of risk people are willing to take is high!
Or it means people don't ask stupid questions. If someone knows they have HIV and are still going to have sex with you, they're not going to go, "Oh, yeah, I have AIDS. I just didn't think you'd care."
"Wait, you didn't WANT herpes? Dude, I'm sorry, I didn't know. Totally my bad."
I doubt regular bacon would disappear overnight or anything, but virtually every time someone comes out and says, "X-inol in corn prevents fin rot," five years later it's common knowledge that X-inol just makes food taste funny. If in twenty years, Omega-3 is still thought to make people healthy, then go adding it to things. For now, odds are you'll just end up with birth defects and adult acne.
Insightful? Seriously? Were you guys aiming for "Ridiculously off-topic" and your finger twitched?
People buying Windows aren't being tricked. I knew what I was getting when I bought my copy. I had no expectation of being able to modify it. They sell a product. If you don't want the thing, don't buy it.
OSS is good, I know, but Christ, is the open-source self-fellating around here ever getting old.
It's locked to the hardware, so it'll die when the electronics does, and you'll have to pay for it all over again.
That's just a lie. If someone at the activation place told you that, call back. They were misinformed.
All these years we've been giving MS monopoly rent for OS software in the belief that we were paying for an exciting future,
I was just paying them for an operating system. Maybe it's not a great idea for you to be buying products that don't exist yet. At least without getting some kind of contract.
I stated three things. The first was anecdotal, despite there being much evidence to support it: watching violence does not create a desire to do violence. You seem to agree.
The second was semi-anecdotal: watching sex causes arousal. If we can't take that as a given, we must have grown up in very different places.
The third, that sexual attitudes are less likely to be strongly reinforced by cultural values due to secrecy and that the secrecy leads to kids being more likely to believe that the TV is showing them something that other kids actually do are opinions. I have no data to back it up. It would be tricky to get any, just as it would be tricky to attribute the declining teenage pregnancy rate to a smaller amount of teenage sex.
And all that while cable TV was poluting the minds of youngsters with depictions of teenage orgies that they would never have any knowledge of otherwise.
I'm assuming that's sarcasm, and if it was directed at me, you've completely missed my point.
And just so we're clear, I in no way support the FCC on this.
since I'd rather be invited to an orgy, than be shot.
I think the point is that you'd rather be invited to an orgy than shoot someone, as would everyone. A lot of parents don't want their kids getting any more pushes in that direction than necessary.
Watching The Matrix doesn't give you blood lust, but watching sex does give most people the regular kind. That, combined with the fact that sex is private, meaning that everyone's perception of what is sexually normal comes from their friends' lies and the just-as-credible TV, means that TV sex actually can impact kids.
if gaming fans' claim to the contrary is correct, this research could support that. What exactly are you all afraid of?
We're just a little jaded from the last fifty, "Microsoft-funded study finds Windows has lower TCO, Linux causes cancer, Excel increases penis size 50% per day," studies.
And the study will almost certainly say, "In.05% of children, video games increase incidence of hair-pulling by 5%," and this will be spun for the kind of person that buys anything authority tells them into "Video games increase incidence of violence in children," even though it actually says everything's perfectly fine. No good can come of this, and lots of bad can.
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If you left in the morning and landed at night, you'd only need around 400-ish mph (1000 gets you constant time, 500 gets you 12 hours behind, assume a couple more than that of daylight). But still, that's a hell of a solar plane. The article might say if it can do that, but reading is hard and I don't wanna.
And I think anyone objecting to a show about evil robots whose name is an anagram for "Cyborg tune ho" should be regarded with suspicion.
If they gave you the tools to find out what the hell was going on, you might pass, and then their idiotic marketing gimmick wouldn't work.
It doesn't even matter. They'll be "voluntary" like the polygraph test at my last interview was "voluntary." One of the forty sheets of paper they'll have you sign on your application before they even consider you will say, "I understand that being implanted with an RFID chip is voluntary and will not affect the decision to hire me." And then check the box next to "I am willing to have an RFID chip implanted." Of COURSE we didn't toss you out because you wouldn't get one! We just decided to go with someone with more experience and nothing to hide. Er, I mean experience. Just the experience thing.
Someone finally found a way to make to make people go back to reading books. Good work, guys.
I'm off to patent magazines that refuse to let you turn the page for 30 seconds if there's an ad on it.
Not at all surprising. A majority of people, given the slightest opportunity, will be dicks, as spending 15 minutes on any internet forum will confirm. If using Windows required asking random groups of people questions, then the general concensus would be that Windows users are dicks. Because they are. As are Linux users and people whose favorite color is blue. The only solution to this is to design things so that no one needs to talk to anyone to make it work, because if you filter out the sons of bitches, there will only be two people left on the internet.
I've been trying to get child molesters to switch to Linux for years. Glad to finally get some backing on this kind of thing.
That may have been true in the past, but that's old-school, bad-ass military thinking. In the present state, it's more likely to be code for, "This frigging thing is never going to work. Let's tell the public it does, and when it fails, we'll tell them it worked perfectly."
I know Slashdot has leanings certain ways on certain issues, and I'm fine with that, but we've just officially completed the smooth transition into a 15-year-old's blog.
Christ, this is sad to see.
This alone indicates the amount of risk people are willing to take is high!
Or it means people don't ask stupid questions. If someone knows they have HIV and are still going to have sex with you, they're not going to go, "Oh, yeah, I have AIDS. I just didn't think you'd care."
"Wait, you didn't WANT herpes? Dude, I'm sorry, I didn't know. Totally my bad."
Brilliant! We'll just make vaccines! Why has no one thought of this before? I guess it's just one of those things that seems obvious in hindsight.
Preliminary studies show they still mostly die of having their heads lopped off and getting shoved into meat grinders.
I doubt regular bacon would disappear overnight or anything, but virtually every time someone comes out and says, "X-inol in corn prevents fin rot," five years later it's common knowledge that X-inol just makes food taste funny. If in twenty years, Omega-3 is still thought to make people healthy, then go adding it to things. For now, odds are you'll just end up with birth defects and adult acne.
Insightful? Seriously? Were you guys aiming for "Ridiculously off-topic" and your finger twitched?
People buying Windows aren't being tricked. I knew what I was getting when I bought my copy. I had no expectation of being able to modify it. They sell a product. If you don't want the thing, don't buy it.
OSS is good, I know, but Christ, is the open-source self-fellating around here ever getting old.
It's locked to the hardware, so it'll die when the electronics does, and you'll have to pay for it all over again.
That's just a lie. If someone at the activation place told you that, call back. They were misinformed.
What?
All these years we've been giving MS monopoly rent for OS software in the belief that we were paying for an exciting future,
I was just paying them for an operating system. Maybe it's not a great idea for you to be buying products that don't exist yet. At least without getting some kind of contract.
Because most parents aren't worried that their kids are going to shoot someone. You're seeing a negative in that where there's only a positive.
You're entirely right, but we're talking about the current (general) American culture, not a theoretical one with different taboos.
Context: You were defending the fining.
Not even a little bit.
I stated three things. The first was anecdotal, despite there being much evidence to support it: watching violence does not create a desire to do violence. You seem to agree.
The second was semi-anecdotal: watching sex causes arousal. If we can't take that as a given, we must have grown up in very different places.
The third, that sexual attitudes are less likely to be strongly reinforced by cultural values due to secrecy and that the secrecy leads to kids being more likely to believe that the TV is showing them something that other kids actually do are opinions. I have no data to back it up. It would be tricky to get any, just as it would be tricky to attribute the declining teenage pregnancy rate to a smaller amount of teenage sex.
And all that while cable TV was poluting the minds of youngsters with depictions of teenage orgies that they would never have any knowledge of otherwise.
I'm assuming that's sarcasm, and if it was directed at me, you've completely missed my point.
And just so we're clear, I in no way support the FCC on this.
Please don't respond to things, especially angrily, until you learn to grasp the concept that conversations have context.
since I'd rather be invited to an orgy, than be shot.
I think the point is that you'd rather be invited to an orgy than shoot someone, as would everyone. A lot of parents don't want their kids getting any more pushes in that direction than necessary.
Watching The Matrix doesn't give you blood lust, but watching sex does give most people the regular kind. That, combined with the fact that sex is private, meaning that everyone's perception of what is sexually normal comes from their friends' lies and the just-as-credible TV, means that TV sex actually can impact kids.
Great. It's been a while since I read 750 comments with the words "don't be evil."
if gaming fans' claim to the contrary is correct, this research could support that. What exactly are you all afraid of?
.05% of children, video games increase incidence of hair-pulling by 5%," and this will be spun for the kind of person that buys anything authority tells them into "Video games increase incidence of violence in children," even though it actually says everything's perfectly fine. No good can come of this, and lots of bad can.
We're just a little jaded from the last fifty, "Microsoft-funded study finds Windows has lower TCO, Linux causes cancer, Excel increases penis size 50% per day," studies.
And the study will almost certainly say, "In
I agree completely with everything you said.
... shouldn't they be barred from competition for this sort of thing?
No. I don't think I want the Olympics in charge of non-sports morality. They should have their asses beat by people that meet them, though.