If we can say that for every 1 out of X people born, a genius is born and Y number of them never get the proper education and Z number of them don't get enough food to stifle their genius or starve them to death... then the fact that we're growing 1 billion people a decade, and more of them are fed properly and more of them are getting an education, then we must have more bright people now than we did...before.
This also assumes that all geniuses are benevolent. How many evil geniuses are we preventing by keeping large masses of the world's population as poor and ignorant?
I disagree with quite a bit with what the GP said, but I do agree with teachers cutting them more slack. It's like speeding tickets. It's been my observation that females are a lot more likely to get a warning instead of a ticket from a cop than a guy. Girls are more likely to get emotional over the grades.
Maybe that creates an additional incentive for them to study (to avoid their emotional stress), or maybe it gives them additional incentive to use emotional manipulation. It's hard to tell.
It isn't terribly tricky to script an invocation of "explorer.exe shell:::{3080F90D-D7AD-11D9-BD98-0000947B0257}" on login;
And this is why Linux will always fail on the desktop. While users have to type shit like that it will never be adopted to the masses and Windows will continue to... oh never mind.
Bias much?
Listen, I like and respect aspects of each OS, as well as and have criticism for each. I regularly use both Windows and Linux. However, to try to satirically imply that being a Windows user involves having to deal with more cryptic bullshit than a Linux user is laughable.
Nobody would type that. Even a basic Windows user could copy and paste that into a new shortcut, or simply download it.
An intermediate Windows user could not only copy and paste it, they could have figured out how to get those magic numbers (and many other useful ones) by digging around in regedit, and created it themselves. I've personally made use of creating some of these special shortcuts or folders since the days of Win95 to do stuff like create expanding folders for Control Panel, Printers, and Dial-Up networking into the Start Menu. I never typed one in.
Why do we have to be careful of contaminating a barren wasteland that only the most ignorant could possibly believe ever contained life.
Exactly! It's kind of like the Sahara or Antarctica. One look is enough to know that plant life could not flourish in these areas. Only an ignorant person could think that these places could have ever supported abundant flora, because it's not possible that time could have changed the environment.
I remember seeing a scientific magazine discussing the history and chemistry of bread and beer, and how it was unclear which came first in history or whether or not one helped lead to the other.
That article was 20 years ago, and it is probably only one of 3 articles I can even remember specifically from the history of that magazine.
The interests of "nerds" are varied, and honestly I think you are an idiot and don't really understand "nerd" culture (no pun intended) if you are so narrow-minded that you think that the history of cheese isn't something that would not be interesting to a significant number of nerds.
It won't get shut down. Terrorist is the new Communist.
Or is it Terrorist is the new Internet Sex Predator, which was the new Satanist, which was the new Gay, which was the new Communist, which was the new Nazi, which was the new Salem Witch?
I'm sure I'm missing a few steps in between, but the fact remains: America loves finding witches.
Measles cases are higher in the U.S. than they've been in a decade, mostly because more and more nervous parents are refusing to vaccinate their kids. Contributing Editor Susan Burton tells the story of what happened recently in San Diego, when an unvaccinated 7-year-old boy returned home from a trip to Switzerland, bringing with him the measles. By the end of the ordeal, 11 other children caught the disease, and more than 60 kids had to be quarantined.
My girlfriend showed me her divorce papers. The paperwork determining ownership of their house, belongings, financial obligations, and custody of their children was far shorter than what I was asked to read for an updated EULA on Netflix, so I could simply watch another episode of the IT Crowd...
There are large gaps between what different groups find to be a big deal. For some it's complex chemicals. For some it's proof of Bejebus. For others, it's 3 boob martian pr0n.
When I hear talk about the U.S. wanting a "kill switch" for the internet (in case of cyber attacks), I think of situations like this.
Maybe the U.S. isn't going to have a revolution anytime soon, people should not allow their governments to cut them off from the rest of the world. If the government wants to protect itself in the event of cyber attacks, then create a kill switch for *essential* government connection to the internet. The private sector and smaller less essential government organizations should manage it themselves.
You are right, some of the streaming sites are so painful with commercials that I lose patience. I also agree with you that Hulu isn't as bad... though it's worse than it originally was when it first launched.
I have an additional annoyance that occurs for me when watching Blu-Ray movies and from streaming some video...
Whenever I start a streaming video from Comcast's Xfinity site, or whenever I am using my blu-ray player software and exit the player software or eject the disc, my monitor (TV) acts as though it loses the signal and I must power cycle it until it works again...
I am assuming that it is HDCP related, but it is very annoying...
DRM doesn't only fail to stop piracy, it can encourage it...
Last weekend my girlfriend rented a blu-ray from Redbox. The largest TV in my house happens to be my monitor, and the only blu-ray player I own is a drive on my PC. I attempted to start it, but instead got a message from my player software that I needed to update my software to play the movie. I checked for an update to my player software, and it said it was up to date.
Then, I looked on the drive manufacturer site looking for a firmware update for the drive, thinking that might help. My drive model was not listed on the manufacturer site. I found another support site, but they also did not list my drive. I searched for a while and eventually found out that it was only available on a support site for a European division. I updated the firmware and tried again... no luck.
By this point, I had spent 30 or 45 minutes trying to get this to work. I got fed up, and said, "Screw it, I'll just pirate it."
It took me less than a minute to find a pirated source. It took maybe 15 minutes to download it. I spent much more time than that trying to get it working legitimately, without even counting the time to drive and get the movie.
I don't pirate stuff because I'm not willing to pay it, it's because they make it a pain in the ass to be legit.
If I know ahead of time I'll have problems with DRM for either games or movie, I usually skip them entirely.
I'm an atheist, and almost vegetarian (which admittedly is kind of like being almost a virgin).
However, I think these people are jumping the gun. God didn't encourage Adam to have a vegetarian diet because vegetarianism was better, it was because God wanted all the meat for himself! This can be seen by the shortly following story of Cain and Abel.
Abel was a shepherd, and he gave an offering of meat and fat from his herd. God said, "Right on! Meat! I approve!"
Cain was a farmer, and he gave an offering from his fields. God said, "You are give me a fucking salad!? Piss off!"
This can be further shown by the fact that the only humans that were saved by the flood were with Noah, who was given the task of making sure all the animals were preserved. God wanted to ensure there would be more meat in the future.
Though... now that I think about it, the Creator loved his meat. He did kill countless numbers of people. He demanded that his followers kill many. He sent diseases, plagues, locusts, floods, and fires upon countless people. He impregnated a young virgin betrothed to another man, and do we really know if this was consensual? In general, he is a ruthless, needy, control-freak, jealous tyrant.
Cops have the job to protect the public. Their performance on that job and the amount of corruption that occurs in them carrying out that job varies immensely depending on the individual cop.
D&D had resurrections too. If you lost your D&D character because of a dumb reason, a DM has the power to hand wave them back. In D&D a DM can say, "Ok, you can start your new character at level 10". In D&D, sometimes people pull out their old characters, or DMs will have them make cameos in a new campaign.
In an MMRPG, people don't like to lose a character that they've invested hundreds (or thousands) of hours in because someone turned on a microwave and caused them to temporarily disconnect from their Wi-Fi. In an MMRPG, people don't like losing their character because another player is griefing using a hack, or by exploiting game mechanics. In an MMRPG, people are more likely to stop subscribing if their characters reach mandatory retirement, rather than continue chasing the ever-moving carrot.
MMRPGs are not primarily designed to make people happy, or to make people have fun. They are primarily designed to keep people playing.
I don't know how much of it was idealism, and how much was politics. I imagine there was a little bit of both. However, I suspect that even he may have underestimated the incredible degree of opposition and lack of cooperation from the right (even on things that they had previously supported) in order to make him as ineffectual as they possible.
Or in other words, we don't like seeing sick old people. So we try to kill them off.
The reason why the elderly who are in medical care don't have dignity is because we as a civilization have setup a structure where such people are considered a drain on society.
We don't think they are a drain on society. We think they are cash-cows. We can take their (and/or possibly their family's) life-time accumulated wealth, all the money their health insurance (or Medicaid) will allow, and pour it into high cost healthcare.
They aren't a drain on a society, only to the people that love them. For everyone else, they are an opportunity.
Drug dealers aren't heroes, or champions of empowering individuals with the right to choose.
I agree that the situation is largely because of the prohibition, and I do support decriminalization, but that doesn't change the fact that most drug dealers are pretty shady individuals.
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If we can say that for every 1 out of X people born, a genius is born and Y number of them never get the proper education and Z number of them don't get enough food to stifle their genius or starve them to death... then the fact that we're growing 1 billion people a decade, and more of them are fed properly and more of them are getting an education, then we must have more bright people now than we did...before.
This also assumes that all geniuses are benevolent. How many evil geniuses are we preventing by keeping large masses of the world's population as poor and ignorant?
I disagree with quite a bit with what the GP said, but I do agree with teachers cutting them more slack. It's like speeding tickets. It's been my observation that females are a lot more likely to get a warning instead of a ticket from a cop than a guy. Girls are more likely to get emotional over the grades.
Maybe that creates an additional incentive for them to study (to avoid their emotional stress), or maybe it gives them additional incentive to use emotional manipulation. It's hard to tell.
It isn't terribly tricky to script an invocation of "explorer.exe shell:::{3080F90D-D7AD-11D9-BD98-0000947B0257}" on login;
And this is why Linux will always fail on the desktop. While users have to type shit like that it will never be adopted to the masses and Windows will continue to... oh never mind.
Bias much?
Listen, I like and respect aspects of each OS, as well as and have criticism for each. I regularly use both Windows and Linux. However, to try to satirically imply that being a Windows user involves having to deal with more cryptic bullshit than a Linux user is laughable.
Nobody would type that. Even a basic Windows user could copy and paste that into a new shortcut, or simply download it.
An intermediate Windows user could not only copy and paste it, they could have figured out how to get those magic numbers (and many other useful ones) by digging around in regedit, and created it themselves. I've personally made use of creating some of these special shortcuts or folders since the days of Win95 to do stuff like create expanding folders for Control Panel, Printers, and Dial-Up networking into the Start Menu. I never typed one in.
Why do we have to be careful of contaminating a barren wasteland that only the most ignorant could possibly believe ever contained life.
Exactly! It's kind of like the Sahara or Antarctica. One look is enough to know that plant life could not flourish in these areas. Only an ignorant person could think that these places could have ever supported abundant flora, because it's not possible that time could have changed the environment.
I remember seeing a scientific magazine discussing the history and chemistry of bread and beer, and how it was unclear which came first in history or whether or not one helped lead to the other.
That article was 20 years ago, and it is probably only one of 3 articles I can even remember specifically from the history of that magazine.
The interests of "nerds" are varied, and honestly I think you are an idiot and don't really understand "nerd" culture (no pun intended) if you are so narrow-minded that you think that the history of cheese isn't something that would not be interesting to a significant number of nerds.
People must have looked on and though, "What they heck is he/she doing there?!? Oh my!"
Oh, come on, that was a cheesy joke.
Are you intolerant of lactose humor?
Ah, memories. Thanks for taking me back to the 90's. When you make it to the present, don't forget to say 'Hi!'
It won't get shut down. Terrorist is the new Communist.
Or is it Terrorist is the new Internet Sex Predator, which was the new Satanist, which was the new Gay, which was the new Communist, which was the new Nazi, which was the new Salem Witch?
I'm sure I'm missing a few steps in between, but the fact remains: America loves finding witches.
Now we can have powered "power ties".
A monopoly is not illegal.
True. It is possible to have a monopoly without being illegal, and it is possible to be guilty of anti-competitive acts without having a monopoly.
She had a husband. They divorced 2 years before I met her. Now you can sleep soundly without worry.
Here's a story for you, from This American Life, distributed by Public Radio International.
Episode 370: Ruining It for the Rest of Us, Act 1: Shots in the Dark
Summary:
Measles cases are higher in the U.S. than they've been in a decade, mostly because more and more nervous parents are refusing to vaccinate their kids. Contributing Editor Susan Burton tells the story of what happened recently in San Diego, when an unvaccinated 7-year-old boy returned home from a trip to Switzerland, bringing with him the measles. By the end of the ordeal, 11 other children caught the disease, and more than 60 kids had to be quarantined.
My girlfriend showed me her divorce papers. The paperwork determining ownership of their house, belongings, financial obligations, and custody of their children was far shorter than what I was asked to read for an updated EULA on Netflix, so I could simply watch another episode of the IT Crowd...
So, you expect U.S. military personnel to go along with missile strikes to domestic civilian locations?
There are large gaps between what different groups find to be a big deal. For some it's complex chemicals. For some it's proof of Bejebus. For others, it's 3 boob martian pr0n.
When I hear talk about the U.S. wanting a "kill switch" for the internet (in case of cyber attacks), I think of situations like this.
Maybe the U.S. isn't going to have a revolution anytime soon, people should not allow their governments to cut them off from the rest of the world. If the government wants to protect itself in the event of cyber attacks, then create a kill switch for *essential* government connection to the internet. The private sector and smaller less essential government organizations should manage it themselves.
You are right, some of the streaming sites are so painful with commercials that I lose patience. I also agree with you that Hulu isn't as bad... though it's worse than it originally was when it first launched.
I have an additional annoyance that occurs for me when watching Blu-Ray movies and from streaming some video...
Whenever I start a streaming video from Comcast's Xfinity site, or whenever I am using my blu-ray player software and exit the player software or eject the disc, my monitor (TV) acts as though it loses the signal and I must power cycle it until it works again...
I am assuming that it is HDCP related, but it is very annoying...
DRM doesn't only fail to stop piracy, it can encourage it...
Last weekend my girlfriend rented a blu-ray from Redbox. The largest TV in my house happens to be my monitor, and the only blu-ray player I own is a drive on my PC. I attempted to start it, but instead got a message from my player software that I needed to update my software to play the movie. I checked for an update to my player software, and it said it was up to date.
Then, I looked on the drive manufacturer site looking for a firmware update for the drive, thinking that might help. My drive model was not listed on the manufacturer site. I found another support site, but they also did not list my drive. I searched for a while and eventually found out that it was only available on a support site for a European division. I updated the firmware and tried again... no luck.
By this point, I had spent 30 or 45 minutes trying to get this to work. I got fed up, and said, "Screw it, I'll just pirate it."
It took me less than a minute to find a pirated source. It took maybe 15 minutes to download it. I spent much more time than that trying to get it working legitimately, without even counting the time to drive and get the movie.
I don't pirate stuff because I'm not willing to pay it, it's because they make it a pain in the ass to be legit.
If I know ahead of time I'll have problems with DRM for either games or movie, I usually skip them entirely.
I'm an atheist, and almost vegetarian (which admittedly is kind of like being almost a virgin).
However, I think these people are jumping the gun. God didn't encourage Adam to have a vegetarian diet because vegetarianism was better, it was because God wanted all the meat for himself! This can be seen by the shortly following story of Cain and Abel.
Abel was a shepherd, and he gave an offering of meat and fat from his herd. God said, "Right on! Meat! I approve!"
Cain was a farmer, and he gave an offering from his fields. God said, "You are give me a fucking salad!? Piss off!"
This can be further shown by the fact that the only humans that were saved by the flood were with Noah, who was given the task of making sure all the animals were preserved. God wanted to ensure there would be more meat in the future.
Though... now that I think about it, the Creator loved his meat. He did kill countless numbers of people. He demanded that his followers kill many. He sent diseases, plagues, locusts, floods, and fires upon countless people. He impregnated a young virgin betrothed to another man, and do we really know if this was consensual? In general, he is a ruthless, needy, control-freak, jealous tyrant.
Maybe the textbook-writer has a point.
Cops have the job to protect the public. Their performance on that job and the amount of corruption that occurs in them carrying out that job varies immensely depending on the individual cop.
D&D had resurrections too. If you lost your D&D character because of a dumb reason, a DM has the power to hand wave them back. In D&D a DM can say, "Ok, you can start your new character at level 10". In D&D, sometimes people pull out their old characters, or DMs will have them make cameos in a new campaign.
In an MMRPG, people don't like to lose a character that they've invested hundreds (or thousands) of hours in because someone turned on a microwave and caused them to temporarily disconnect from their Wi-Fi. In an MMRPG, people don't like losing their character because another player is griefing using a hack, or by exploiting game mechanics. In an MMRPG, people are more likely to stop subscribing if their characters reach mandatory retirement, rather than continue chasing the ever-moving carrot.
MMRPGs are not primarily designed to make people happy, or to make people have fun. They are primarily designed to keep people playing.
I don't know how much of it was idealism, and how much was politics. I imagine there was a little bit of both. However, I suspect that even he may have underestimated the incredible degree of opposition and lack of cooperation from the right (even on things that they had previously supported) in order to make him as ineffectual as they possible.
From TFS:
Martin and Livio suggest that the location of an asteroid belt relative to a Jupiter-like planet is not an accident. The
This seems to be a poor word choice. I think "coincidence" is far more appropriate choice to suggest a correlation. "Accident" seems to imply intent.
Or in other words, we don't like seeing sick old people. So we try to kill them off.
The reason why the elderly who are in medical care don't have dignity is because we as a civilization have setup a structure where such people are considered a drain on society.
We don't think they are a drain on society. We think they are cash-cows. We can take their (and/or possibly their family's) life-time accumulated wealth, all the money their health insurance (or Medicaid) will allow, and pour it into high cost healthcare.
They aren't a drain on a society, only to the people that love them. For everyone else, they are an opportunity.
Drug dealers aren't heroes, or champions of empowering individuals with the right to choose.
I agree that the situation is largely because of the prohibition, and I do support decriminalization, but that doesn't change the fact that most drug dealers are pretty shady individuals.