I am born and bred American and couldn't agree with you more. Let me also add that the size of the GD cars is huge to start with, compared to, for example, Dutch car average size. Plus, when a Dutch car stops and parks 4 or 5 people get out. I have never been uncomfortable in a small car, don't really understand my compatriots who "need" to have a car the size of a boat to go get milk 5 times a week.
It's funny that I have seldom noticed (and I say that on purpose, because I worked with the earlier iterations of linux that were hard to deal with and just built in practice that kind of doesn't notice crashes as much as someone used to things "just working." I am not someone who cares too much for the idea of having linux rule the desktop, or what ever. I don't advocate linux for most users, even though my wife, daughters, son and some other family members use it in preference to other things. It still takes a little work, it just takes less work to run our home network that it used to in Windows.
To be precise, the Celtic had little effect on ENglish except in place names in England. The effect of Latin was mostly through French, especially the influence of the French scientists of the 1700s who used Latin for scientific terms that were accepted worldwide.
I'm still laughing at the GP, I do have a tablet (WeTab, not android) and I do use cli on it. AND it is faster than click and wait and click and click. Since he obviously doesn't know how to use a cli, let him go on all he wants, relax and munch out
I agree that the protocol does need (desperately) legitimacy, but the story about the Internet Archive about to make their archives available through bit torrent is more valuable than this. Another helpful one would be Project Gutenburg, and any other important free online sites using the BT protocol to reduce their costs and legitimize the use of BT for everyone on the net. How about a bit torrent search algorithm that helps create crowd sourced search?
Another thing to consider is what happened with Vuze and Azureus. They also went in the direction of providing a place for content producers to have a way to get their content out to more people, but the result was Vuze, which became so slow and unweildy that I left it long ago for Qbittorrent which had good search features. I still miss some aspects of Vuze/Azureus, but not enough to keep two clients active.
I could make some awesome conspiracy theories out of this, like the gnomes of Zurich who had been lending at 2% for a thousand years had begun to have to compete with Christian bankers who had been constrained by the bible (neither a borrower or a lender be: to Christians anyway) by with the Protestant revolution in Christianity the Vatican went into the game of lending (hidden of course, this is conspiracy we are creating here) at higher rates to heretics (the protestants) who set up their own banks to compete with the Roman heretics at higher rates to finance the wars and the crash, the revolution was financed by the protestant and Jewish banks to get the money back from the Roman C monarchy by spreading the debt over the country.
The British parlementary system is what you are suggesting.
My wife (who, spoiler alert, is Dutch) much prefers the Dutch system, where you vote for a party that expresses your politcal beliefs. This way it is not driven by personality, the "cool kids" don't get elected, it tends to be the nerds who really, really care about the issues of that party. The real advantage is the number of parties that they have, none of this 2-party shite, I'm talking 10, 12 or more. Yes they have a white rascist party (Party Pim Fortuin 'sp?')and a Green party, (actually maybe more than one) and a left of center, right of center, very left, very right, far left, far right, etc. It does solve some of the complaints we have about the sameness of our parties.
And, my wife points out that it is slowly becoming more personality based with groups like Party Pim Fortuin and a new far right/ Libertarian Party Gert WIlders, again based on one person's views.
But if you bemoan the lack of choice here in the US, you might remember that everywhere has a different system that struggles with the same and different problems. None are perfect, all are flawed, all are , need i say it?, human
Yeah, but how does this petition pulling move any fatcats agenda forward? I have been disgusted by the culture of fear that has grown up in the US both before 9/11 and (on steroids) after, but the TSA is just "security theatre" as often noted here. It is a pain to a thinking person but a comfort to the unthinking. But, why pull it down? How does that help the government? What is being protected by the act that seems an egregious move set to stir up.... people who care about it.
You are being too politically correct. By using language that accepts their behavior as merely being "outside the norm" "outliers" and other ways of seeing them as just being a little bit different you empower them to see themselves as different AND BETTER than the rest of us dweebs. When this plays out with hormones and the psychology of depression and alienation you get, not lack of political correctness, but people who need mental health care, they are sick.
What they need is serious counseling and therapy, they need to understand that they are not "part of society," they are sociopaths. Until we start to react to them in this way they will be empowered to act like they do.
My son, 9 years old and a futurama freak, built his own Curiosity out of his Lego collection (inherited from his sisters and added to over the last few years as well-- two suitcases full of parts and pieces) after watching the landing video and seeing the hoopla at the landing and the photos, he went to his room and returned an hour or so later... well maybe it isn't as perfect as what you get from a clean design, but he had the oven, the robot arm and the wheel layout, pretty awesome.
(proud poppa thumps chest and strides into the distance)
Haven't been there (but have been to a large part of Asia) but people I know that live there report that as long as you have money that you are happy to spend at rates that seem reasonable to you but are in fact rapacious in their local terms, they are very friendly. When you confront them for being greedy they get touchy and actually mean. Common Asian ppractice, the same in China and Thailand.
Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, I have spent the last 15 years traveling around the effing world teaching English trying to get the idea into the heads of foreign students that the spelling and pronunciation differences between to most common Englishes are minor and unimportant. ANd every effing time a bloody Brit has to jump up and say "but it's our bloody language, not yours."
Let me apologize to all those people in the world that are trying to learn a new language and want to learn the American variety because: 1) they want to talk to Americans 2) They want to do business with Americans 3) They want to travel in America 4)They realize that there are 300 million Americans and 80 million people in the UK, including a large percentage of non-native English speakers or speakers of other non-Brit varieties (Scots, Irish, Indian, Kenyan, Nigerian, Aussie, Kiwi, etc)
I want you to know that it must be a big mistake to learn American English for any of these reasons because we seem to have stolen the language from its proper owners, The British people (whichever British people the blessed P, GP, etc.meant, probably ones from Yorkshire, or Kent, or South London, damned if I know) must be the only people who own the language because it is their native language, not anyone else's. We Americans stole it from them in the 1600s and escaped by boat to Jamestown and Plymouth and other places on North America. So we have to stop using it and must begin to claim to use only our own language: American. It has two varieties, Canadian and US.
OK? Now, that we have that straight, I feel really sorry for the British teachers of English who will now be out of work because they can't teach the varieties of American that the world wants to learn. They might, mistakenly, believe that everyone will flock to them because they have the only "true" English, but once the world discovers "American" is the one they really wanted to begin with (should take about... hmm five minutes in internet time) and the rebranding takes place, the game will be over.
Look folks, I have taught with British, Scottish, Irish, Ozzie, Welsh, Kiwi, Kenyan, Canadian, South African and many other teachers over the years, and damn near every one of them has an inferiority complex about "their" English. Honestly, the lesson is easy, learn whatever the teacher has to teach, adapt it to your needs when you are in a new situation. That is it. Students understand that, they don't understand why a teacher has to insist that their English is the only "good" variety.
The IDEA behind "math(s)" is the same. The same idea lurks behind "hood" and "bonnet", "dooner" and "quilt" (aussie eng) and tons of other vocab diffs. Also between the vowel sounds for "a" and "a", all these are simple, easy differences that students can understand. Why do you have to make them important differences when the IDEA is what is important, not the execution?
This is it, if people want to hear it. What the key the understanding why we need the higher maths taught is that they help us ( the students) to create complex ideational functions mentally. They give us the mental framework of understanding so that we can think multi-dimensionally, in curves and over time with change and other data constructs that have a real mental existance because of the maths that underlie them.
Go back 4 or 5 hundred years in northern europe and almost no one could multiply. The multiplication table, being a table, is 2 dimensional. Most people lived in a world that was one-dimensional. There was themselves in a moment. Only a schooled and skilled person, in the classics and ancient languages, not in maths, could really do the complex work that required thinking about the future, the past and the strange world of "possibility."
With the rise of maths education in the 17 and 1800s came the rise of the educated middle class and all the attendant changes iin expectation of education, in understanding possibilities and change. In short, the modern world. It is now possible for me to say, with you, as maths skilled individuals, that the result was not completely causation (as in math education led to higher level thinking) or correlation (as in math education grew together with higher level thinking) but that the two abilities are correlated and mutually causational: that math grows with higher level thinking. And you understand something that would have been opaque to everyone except people like Newton and Da Vinci 300 years ago: and they would have spent some time parsing the ideas before they really got it.
That is the importance of math education, we grow, individually and socially, as we implement higher level/ math connected thinking.
to describe (Chinese) green tea as "processed" is... well the process for (as an example) LongJingCha is to heat a large (1 meter diameter) cast iron wok to a medium temperature (say about 200F, just below boiling in other words) and dump a pile of leaves in the wok. Then take your hands and spread them around the wok, using your hands you keep them moving until the are all dry and you dump them out into a bag to cool and repeat with a new pile. That's the process. some other, fancier, green teas involve warming the leaves and rolling them into little balls with flowers inside (called a "flower tea", surprisingly) or without. Sometimes the tea is processed just by spreading it on a cloth in the sun
It is entirely possible that you are talking to someone who is using an older distro, not upgraded, because they "hate/ cannot use" one of the newer DEs. So they have stayed with gnome 2 or K3 or reverted to X or LX when we both know that the choices are innumerable. I also realize that as Linux user base increases slowly we will begin to see the users from the Windows base come online without the learning that we went through: by distro-hopping, hacking, failing, messing things up, digging our way out, etc. They expect to just download, install and everything is done. True enought for starters, but 2 years later, if you have just stayed in that one place, things look old and clunky.
better and prettier. I find it shocking that "the box" is all you can get. Oh yeah, you can get a box attached to the bottom of your screen, a mini box, a maxi box, a shiny box, a black box, but what happened to creativity, to DESIGN, and i don't mean the layout of pieces inside the box, i mean the actual shape , texture, color and feel of the container. there is so much that could be done, but it seems no one is trying, blothering or caring about it. They just want some shiny Apple crap and call that design???
When I was at UVA in the 90s, there was a researcher who was studying reincarnation by studying young children who are "born" (which is to say when they are old enough to express themselves) have memories of a previous life. They know details of self, life and death that it would be impossible for them to discover without knowing things about a random person very far away. He had collected a small number of cases that were quite astounding. His conclusion: Damned if he knew what was going on, but it looked like there was at least a possibility of reincarnation.
This was not a gullible new age "doctor" but a hard headed researcher who did not expect these results. They confused him not because he wanted anything from the study but because he could discover no mechanism that would explain what was happening. Each case was separate, no one knew about his research so no one was deliberately faking data for him. Leads came from friends and ex-students who knew his interest in the question and heard about "some weird kid".
Nothing for certain here folks, keep moving, and wondering.
lived in southeast Asia and southwest china for over 15 years. ate bugs, bees, larvae, dog, snake, horse, water buffalo, and who knows what else or where all those organs came from (ever had some nice fried pig uterus, with vagina attached? I also love to cook, but i'm also not afraid to cook what comes into the kitchen, even you if you're tender enough......
In our family I use English with everyone, my wife uses Dutch with everyone, our daughters use either English Dutch Chinese or Thai, while our son uses English with me, dutch with his mom and Chinese with the Aiyi and teachers and friends
Actually, there is a lot to what you say Last year I was working in Suzhou, China, teaching English (my vocation, let's me travel and get awesome amounts of time off). One of my part-time jobs was for Samsung, teaching some mid-upper level managers in their screen plant. Thos guys were awesome, they knew their shit and turned out (as you probably know) screens for a lot of Apple product as well as their own and other top-end producers.
But i got to know these guys and found that they had mostly been bought from LG, which also had a plant in Suzhou producing screens. When Samsung set up shop there they went shopping and picked up LG's top people.
Damn, i had forgotten most of that stuff, i do remember playing pong while my ashtray filled with butts, and asteroids and something else, i forget what. I remember getting a basic compiler and learning basic at a community college, along with pascal and fortran. Pascal was the only one i liked though, still do.
I work for a university with 45,000 students on campus with attendant IT setup for teaching and research (R1 research institute). Everything is imaged and installed for every machine that comes on campus. I have an IT buddy (my "gnome" I call him) who keeps my fedora setup running with a virtualbox VM for Win7. He does the same thing for all the Macs in his building. It is his job.
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I am born and bred American and couldn't agree with you more. Let me also add that the size of the GD cars is huge to start with, compared to, for example, Dutch car average size. Plus, when a Dutch car stops and parks 4 or 5 people get out. I have never been uncomfortable in a small car, don't really understand my compatriots who "need" to have a car the size of a boat to go get milk 5 times a week.
It's funny that I have seldom noticed (and I say that on purpose, because I worked with the earlier iterations of linux that were hard to deal with and just built in practice that kind of doesn't notice crashes as much as someone used to things "just working." I am not someone who cares too much for the idea of having linux rule the desktop, or what ever. I don't advocate linux for most users, even though my wife, daughters, son and some other family members use it in preference to other things. It still takes a little work, it just takes less work to run our home network that it used to in Windows.
To be precise, the Celtic had little effect on ENglish except in place names in England. The effect of Latin was mostly through French, especially the influence of the French scientists of the 1700s who used Latin for scientific terms that were accepted worldwide.
I'm still laughing at the GP, I do have a tablet (WeTab, not android) and I do use cli on it. AND it is faster than click and wait and click and click. Since he obviously doesn't know how to use a cli, let him go on all he wants, relax and munch out
I agree that the protocol does need (desperately) legitimacy, but the story about the Internet Archive about to make their archives available through bit torrent is more valuable than this. Another helpful one would be Project Gutenburg, and any other important free online sites using the BT protocol to reduce their costs and legitimize the use of BT for everyone on the net. How about a bit torrent search algorithm that helps create crowd sourced search?
Another thing to consider is what happened with Vuze and Azureus. They also went in the direction of providing a place for content producers to have a way to get their content out to more people, but the result was Vuze, which became so slow and unweildy that I left it long ago for Qbittorrent which had good search features. I still miss some aspects of Vuze/Azureus, but not enough to keep two clients active.
yeah, good reason not to buy one
I could make some awesome conspiracy theories out of this, like the gnomes of Zurich who had been lending at 2% for a thousand years had begun to have to compete with Christian bankers who had been constrained by the bible (neither a borrower or a lender be: to Christians anyway) by with the Protestant revolution in Christianity the Vatican went into the game of lending (hidden of course, this is conspiracy we are creating here) at higher rates to heretics (the protestants) who set up their own banks to compete with the Roman heretics at higher rates to finance the wars and the crash, the revolution was financed by the protestant and Jewish banks to get the money back from the Roman C monarchy by spreading the debt over the country.
bwahahahaha
The British parlementary system is what you are suggesting.
My wife (who, spoiler alert, is Dutch) much prefers the Dutch system, where you vote for a party that expresses your politcal beliefs. This way it is not driven by personality, the "cool kids" don't get elected, it tends to be the nerds who really, really care about the issues of that party. The real advantage is the number of parties that they have, none of this 2-party shite, I'm talking 10, 12 or more. Yes they have a white rascist party (Party Pim Fortuin 'sp?')and a Green party, (actually maybe more than one) and a left of center, right of center, very left, very right, far left, far right, etc. It does solve some of the complaints we have about the sameness of our parties.
And, my wife points out that it is slowly becoming more personality based with groups like Party Pim Fortuin and a new far right/ Libertarian Party Gert WIlders, again based on one person's views.
But if you bemoan the lack of choice here in the US, you might remember that everywhere has a different system that struggles with the same and different problems. None are perfect, all are flawed, all are , need i say it?, human
Yeah, but how does this petition pulling move any fatcats agenda forward? I have been disgusted by the culture of fear that has grown up in the US both before 9/11 and (on steroids) after, but the TSA is just "security theatre" as often noted here. It is a pain to a thinking person but a comfort to the unthinking. But, why pull it down? How does that help the government? What is being protected by the act that seems an egregious move set to stir up .... people who care about it.
Why feed conspiracy .. buffs,, for no reason?
" less politically correct"
You are being too politically correct. By using language that accepts their behavior as merely being "outside the norm" "outliers" and other ways of seeing them as just being a little bit different you empower them to see themselves as different AND BETTER than the rest of us dweebs. When this plays out with hormones and the psychology of depression and alienation you get, not lack of political correctness, but people who need mental health care, they are sick.
What they need is serious counseling and therapy, they need to understand that they are not "part of society," they are sociopaths. Until we start to react to them in this way they will be empowered to act like they do.
My son, 9 years old and a futurama freak, built his own Curiosity out of his Lego collection (inherited from his sisters and added to over the last few years as well-- two suitcases full of parts and pieces) after watching the landing video and seeing the hoopla at the landing and the photos, he went to his room and returned an hour or so later... well maybe it isn't as perfect as what you get from a clean design, but he had the oven, the robot arm and the wheel layout, pretty awesome.
(proud poppa thumps chest and strides into the distance)
Haven't been there (but have been to a large part of Asia) but people I know that live there report that as long as you have money that you are happy to spend at rates that seem reasonable to you but are in fact rapacious in their local terms, they are very friendly. When you confront them for being greedy they get touchy and actually mean. Common Asian ppractice, the same in China and Thailand.
Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, I have spent the last 15 years traveling around the effing world teaching English trying to get the idea into the heads of foreign students that the spelling and pronunciation differences between to most common Englishes are minor and unimportant. ANd every effing time a bloody Brit has to jump up and say "but it's our bloody language, not yours."
Let me apologize to all those people in the world that are trying to learn a new language and want to learn the American variety because:
1) they want to talk to Americans
2) They want to do business with Americans
3) They want to travel in America
4)They realize that there are 300 million Americans and 80 million people in the UK, including a large percentage of non-native English speakers or speakers of other non-Brit varieties (Scots, Irish, Indian, Kenyan, Nigerian, Aussie, Kiwi, etc)
I want you to know that it must be a big mistake to learn American English for any of these reasons because we seem to have stolen the language from its proper owners, The British people (whichever British people the blessed P, GP, etc.meant, probably ones from Yorkshire, or Kent, or South London, damned if I know) must be the only people who own the language because it is their native language, not anyone else's. We Americans stole it from them in the 1600s and escaped by boat to Jamestown and Plymouth and other places on North America. So we have to stop using it and must begin to claim to use only our own language: American. It has two varieties, Canadian and US.
OK? Now, that we have that straight, I feel really sorry for the British teachers of English who will now be out of work because they can't teach the varieties of American that the world wants to learn. They might, mistakenly, believe that everyone will flock to them because they have the only "true" English, but once the world discovers "American" is the one they really wanted to begin with (should take about... hmm five minutes in internet time) and the rebranding takes place, the game will be over.
Look folks, I have taught with British, Scottish, Irish, Ozzie, Welsh, Kiwi, Kenyan, Canadian, South African and many other teachers over the years, and damn near every one of them has an inferiority complex about "their" English. Honestly, the lesson is easy, learn whatever the teacher has to teach, adapt it to your needs when you are in a new situation. That is it. Students understand that, they don't understand why a teacher has to insist that their English is the only "good" variety.
The IDEA behind "math(s)" is the same. The same idea lurks behind "hood" and "bonnet", "dooner" and "quilt" (aussie eng) and tons of other vocab diffs. Also between the vowel sounds for "a" and "a", all these are simple, easy differences that students can understand. Why do you have to make them important differences when the IDEA is what is important, not the execution?
This is it, if people want to hear it. What the key the understanding why we need the higher maths taught is that they help us ( the students) to create complex ideational functions mentally. They give us the mental framework of understanding so that we can think multi-dimensionally, in curves and over time with change and other data constructs that have a real mental existance because of the maths that underlie them.
Go back 4 or 5 hundred years in northern europe and almost no one could multiply. The multiplication table, being a table, is 2 dimensional. Most people lived in a world that was one-dimensional. There was themselves in a moment. Only a schooled and skilled person, in the classics and ancient languages, not in maths, could really do the complex work that required thinking about the future, the past and the strange world of "possibility."
With the rise of maths education in the 17 and 1800s came the rise of the educated middle class and all the attendant changes iin expectation of education, in understanding possibilities and change. In short, the modern world. It is now possible for me to say, with you, as maths skilled individuals, that the result was not completely causation (as in math education led to higher level thinking) or correlation (as in math education grew together with higher level thinking) but that the two abilities are correlated and mutually causational: that math grows with higher level thinking. And you understand something that would have been opaque to everyone except people like Newton and Da Vinci 300 years ago: and they would have spent some time parsing the ideas before they really got it.
That is the importance of math education, we grow, individually and socially, as we implement higher level/ math connected thinking.
wrong, these food items are good.
to describe (Chinese) green tea as "processed" is... well the process for (as an example) LongJingCha is to heat a large (1 meter diameter) cast iron wok to a medium temperature (say about 200F, just below boiling in other words) and dump a pile of leaves in the wok. Then take your hands and spread them around the wok, using your hands you keep them moving until the are all dry and you dump them out into a bag to cool and repeat with a new pile. That's the process.
some other, fancier, green teas involve warming the leaves and rolling them into little balls with flowers inside (called a "flower tea", surprisingly) or without. Sometimes the tea is processed just by spreading it on a cloth in the sun
It is entirely possible that you are talking to someone who is using an older distro, not upgraded, because they "hate/ cannot use" one of the newer DEs. So they have stayed with gnome 2 or K3 or reverted to X or LX when we both know that the choices are innumerable. I also realize that as Linux user base increases slowly we will begin to see the users from the Windows base come online without the learning that we went through: by distro-hopping, hacking, failing, messing things up, digging our way out, etc. They expect to just download, install and everything is done. True enought for starters, but 2 years later, if you have just stayed in that one place, things look old and clunky.
better and prettier. I find it shocking that "the box" is all you can get. Oh yeah, you can get a box attached to the bottom of your screen, a mini box, a maxi box, a shiny box, a black box, but what happened to creativity, to DESIGN, and i don't mean the layout of pieces inside the box, i mean the actual shape , texture, color and feel of the container. there is so much that could be done, but it seems no one is trying, blothering or caring about it. They just want some shiny Apple crap and call that design???
wanders off mumbling...
When I was at UVA in the 90s, there was a researcher who was studying reincarnation by studying young children who are "born" (which is to say when they are old enough to express themselves) have memories of a previous life. They know details of self, life and death that it would be impossible for them to discover without knowing things about a random person very far away. He had collected a small number of cases that were quite astounding. His conclusion: Damned if he knew what was going on, but it looked like there was at least a possibility of reincarnation.
This was not a gullible new age "doctor" but a hard headed researcher who did not expect these results. They confused him not because he wanted anything from the study but because he could discover no mechanism that would explain what was happening. Each case was separate, no one knew about his research so no one was deliberately faking data for him. Leads came from friends and ex-students who knew his interest in the question and heard about "some weird kid".
Nothing for certain here folks, keep moving, and wondering.
lived in southeast Asia and southwest china for over 15 years. ate bugs, bees, larvae, dog, snake, horse, water buffalo, and who knows what else or where all those organs came from (ever had some nice fried pig uterus, with vagina attached? I also love to cook, but i'm also not afraid to cook what comes into the kitchen, even you if you're tender enough......
In our family I use English with everyone, my wife uses Dutch with everyone, our daughters use either English Dutch Chinese or Thai, while our son uses English with me, dutch with his mom and Chinese with the Aiyi and teachers and friends
how is that a problem... for the speakers?
Actually, there is a lot to what you say
Last year I was working in Suzhou, China, teaching English (my vocation, let's me travel and get awesome amounts of time off). One of my part-time jobs was for Samsung, teaching some mid-upper level managers in their screen plant. Thos guys were awesome, they knew their shit and turned out (as you probably know) screens for a lot of Apple product as well as their own and other top-end producers.
But i got to know these guys and found that they had mostly been bought from LG, which also had a plant in Suzhou producing screens. When Samsung set up shop there they went shopping and picked up LG's top people.
Business.
Damn, i had forgotten most of that stuff, i do remember playing pong while my ashtray filled with butts, and asteroids and something else, i forget what.
I remember getting a basic compiler and learning basic at a community college, along with pascal and fortran. Pascal was the only one i liked though, still do.
I work for a university with 45,000 students on campus with attendant IT setup for teaching and research (R1 research institute). Everything is imaged and installed for every machine that comes on campus. I have an IT buddy (my "gnome" I call him) who keeps my fedora setup running with a virtualbox VM for Win7. He does the same thing for all the Macs in his building. It is his job.