Hmmm...it seems the poster was communicating a thought or idea. And, gee, you know what, everything you know, everything, comes from thougts and ideas that was communicated by someone else to you.
So, in my book, you should be taking the time to thank the poster for sharing his thoughts and ideas with you. And even if you didn't agree with him, you might even learn something if you actually had an open mind.
You sound like a very angry person. I am sorry for you.
Gandhi said it best: "Everything you do is unimportant but it is important that you do it."
You have to take on these kinds of battles knowing that the odds of you alone having a significant impact on these issues are next to zero. However, no one is asking you to be a Martin Luther King and shoulder the burden of being a leader of an entire movement. There are only a handful of people who would even be capable of such a task. The worst thing you can do is get pissed and frustrated at your perceived lack of progress. No one is expecting you to change the world by yourself and you shouldn't expect that of yourself either. The changes you do make will likely not spark an entire revolution by itself. It will be small and almost imperceptable. But you have to realize that it will be there and it will be real.
But when you choose to remain completely silent, as you have apparently have, you become a part of the problem. I encourage you to keep talking about these issues and do what you can to advocate for your position. Keep reminding your friends and family about them. Write your Congressman once each month. Start a web site. Go to a city council meeting once per year when they have a public speak out. The small seeds you plant today will keep alive the hope that eventually things will change for the better. If everyone lifted just a little bit instead of shrugging their shoulders and walking away, the world would be a better place. A beautirul beach takes the work of billions of insignificant pebbles.
Take a look at the NYT opinion columnist Friedman. He's a moderate and he points out that we are the only industrialized nation without a national broadband policy. He also says Japan, behind us in broadband penetration in 2001, is now ahead of us as a direct result of the governemnt intervention.
I think it would not make it to the other side because of air friction. Theoretically, I think the object would ping pong back and forth through the shaft until it came to rest, weightless, smack in the middle of the planet.
I'm no physicist, though, so I'm probably wrong. What do others think would happen?
Hitachi (ah, see, I remembered the brand) has succeeded in getting everyone to believe that they are on the cutting edge of hard drive technology. While that may or may not be true, the key point is that perception is being largely disseminated by a cartoon and not hard data or facts. Interesting.
Yeah, not an elegant title but it's the absolute truth. They offer the worst customer service I've ever encountered. Just a few days ago, I e-mailed customer support to find out if they would special order an item not on their web site (I keep getting CompUSA gift cards from relatives). They told me to call the store.
So, I try calling the store and it was absoutely impossible to get a hold of a live person. The only thing I could get was the store manager's voice mail (like the guy is going to even listen to the fucking thing). This after complaining vociferously about this problem a couple of years earlier.
So I had to drive all the way to the store and ask someone on the floor just to have one simple question asked. WTF???
If I started handing newsletters out on the street corner that had articles about the inside dirt about my company, could I be fired? Of course I could and with good justification. Corporations are under no obligation to uphold the First Amendment. (And that's one big reason I'm against privatization of government services.)
Blogs are simply a more efficient means of communicating a message, nothing more. Why is this even controversial?
The fact remains that most people are compliant sychophants who care about nothing more than their own survival. They're too abject to assert themselves and let the boss what they really think. So, most jobs end up being pure bullshit.
More people need a "Fuck the man" attitude. If there was a little more push back in the world, we might have a fighting chance to survive in the era of gloablization. Instead, at the rate we're going, we're just going to work ourselves into a corporate-slave relationship.
I'm interested in Linus for purely selfish reasons: I can learn from him. I learn from him even though I've barely looked at any Linux source code or do any programming in C or do any kind of low-level programming for that matter. But as someone who plays a small role on a small open source development project, it's fascinating for me to hear from a person who leads such a hugely successful project and the problems and obstacles he and other developers have to overcome to be successful. It helps me put perspective on my own work.
That's not glorification, that's taking advantage of somebody else's insights and experience.
I am God. I'll tell you straight up, I don't need to waste any time with random number generators. If you're wondering how poweful I am, let me just say that if I wanted you dead, you'd never get a chance to even read this.
Now, please excuse me. I've got an urgent call in Sector 42B.
Not a good way to think. That's like saying Iran having nukes isn't a concern becuase we haven't uncovered any direct evidence. The idea is to expose the vulnerability so you can do something about it.
My bank account is represented by a bunch of 1s and 0s in some database in the sky. There's no real paper behind it. It's virtual. Now, if someone wiped out the 1s to 0s, I'd have grounds to sue.
Value and money doesn't exist in the physical world. It's a contrived social concept that we humans have created. It's an illusion. So if it's "virtual" in the real world, seems perfectly logical that it can be virtual in the virtual world, too.
When you buy into the Microsoft platform, you are buying endless upgrades for years on end.
When a user bought Windows 3.1, they also unwittingly bought Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows ME, and Windows XP. This is planned obsolescense for no other reason except to keep Micorsoft shareholders happy.
My wife has fairly severly eczema on her fingertips and they are often dry and cracked, especially in the winter. Sometimes she bleeds and has to wear a band-aid. The probability that a biometric device could make sense out of her fingers is zero.
I bought this electronic drum set for my kid at Toys 'R Us. A year, later, this guy in a yellow and orange vest comes to my door with a hammer. I let him in and he proceeds to smash the drums into tiny fragments, making my kid cry. He says, "Sorry, the model of your drum set is out of date. You have to buy the new model." What else could I do? I had to pay another $50 or my kid would go nuts.
Please! Deep thinking is about abstract thought. There is nothing more abstract than funny little symbols on a page that you have to assemble into meaning.
If teaching becomes a largely a visual process, you will lose a lot of that abstraction. Maybe that's great if you want a lot of trained monkeys to run a production line, but if you want to expand people's minds, give them a stack of philosphy, physics and math books.
OK, so now what's going to stop police from hiding GPS units on many cars parked on the street in high crime neighborhoods and tracking thousands of potential suspects?
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Hmmm...it seems the poster was communicating a thought or idea. And, gee, you know what, everything you know, everything, comes from thougts and ideas that was communicated by someone else to you.
So, in my book, you should be taking the time to thank the poster for sharing his thoughts and ideas with you. And even if you didn't agree with him, you might even learn something if you actually had an open mind.
You sound like a very angry person. I am sorry for you.
Gandhi said it best: "Everything you do is unimportant but it is important that you do it."
You have to take on these kinds of battles knowing that the odds of you alone having a significant impact on these issues are next to zero. However, no one is asking you to be a Martin Luther King and shoulder the burden of being a leader of an entire movement. There are only a handful of people who would even be capable of such a task. The worst thing you can do is get pissed and frustrated at your perceived lack of progress. No one is expecting you to change the world by yourself and you shouldn't expect that of yourself either. The changes you do make will likely not spark an entire revolution by itself. It will be small and almost imperceptable. But you have to realize that it will be there and it will be real.
But when you choose to remain completely silent, as you have apparently have, you become a part of the problem. I encourage you to keep talking about these issues and do what you can to advocate for your position. Keep reminding your friends and family about them. Write your Congressman once each month. Start a web site. Go to a city council meeting once per year when they have a public speak out. The small seeds you plant today will keep alive the hope that eventually things will change for the better. If everyone lifted just a little bit instead of shrugging their shoulders and walking away, the world would be a better place. A beautirul beach takes the work of billions of insignificant pebbles.
End pep talk. Hope it helped. Good luck.
Take a look at the NYT opinion columnist Friedman. He's a moderate and he points out that we are the only industrialized nation without a national broadband policy. He also says Japan, behind us in broadband penetration in 2001, is now ahead of us as a direct result of the governemnt intervention.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/15/opinion/15fri
Umm, you really need to RTFA. According to it, everything you just said is about to change with "Project Apollo."
Funny...I came here to ask the same question.
I think it would not make it to the other side because of air friction. Theoretically, I think the object would ping pong back and forth through the shaft until it came to rest, weightless, smack in the middle of the planet.
I'm no physicist, though, so I'm probably wrong. What do others think would happen?
Hitachi (ah, see, I remembered the brand) has succeeded in getting everyone to believe that they are on the cutting edge of hard drive technology. While that may or may not be true, the key point is that perception is being largely disseminated by a cartoon and not hard data or facts. Interesting.
I have to wonder if one motivation for this change is that it might make it tougher for Americans to dodge future drafts.
It's like hearing what the leader of China thinks about Democracy as a competing form of nation-state rule.
Yeah, not an elegant title but it's the absolute truth. They offer the worst customer service I've ever encountered. Just a few days ago, I e-mailed customer support to find out if they would special order an item not on their web site (I keep getting CompUSA gift cards from relatives). They told me to call the store.
So, I try calling the store and it was absoutely impossible to get a hold of a live person. The only thing I could get was the store manager's voice mail (like the guy is going to even listen to the fucking thing). This after complaining vociferously about this problem a couple of years earlier.
So I had to drive all the way to the store and ask someone on the floor just to have one simple question asked. WTF???
I refuse to spend my own money there.
If I started handing newsletters out on the street corner that had articles about the inside dirt about my company, could I be fired? Of course I could and with good justification. Corporations are under no obligation to uphold the First Amendment. (And that's one big reason I'm against privatization of government services.)
Blogs are simply a more efficient means of communicating a message, nothing more. Why is this even controversial?
Yeah, troll. Whatever.
The fact remains that most people are compliant sychophants who care about nothing more than their own survival. They're too abject to assert themselves and let the boss what they really think. So, most jobs end up being pure bullshit.
More people need a "Fuck the man" attitude. If there was a little more push back in the world, we might have a fighting chance to survive in the era of gloablization. Instead, at the rate we're going, we're just going to work ourselves into a corporate-slave relationship.
Good luck to all you poor, sniveling bastards.
I'm interested in Linus for purely selfish reasons: I can learn from him. I learn from him even though I've barely looked at any Linux source code or do any programming in C or do any kind of low-level programming for that matter. But as someone who plays a small role on a small open source development project, it's fascinating for me to hear from a person who leads such a hugely successful project and the problems and obstacles he and other developers have to overcome to be successful. It helps me put perspective on my own work.
That's not glorification, that's taking advantage of somebody else's insights and experience.
Who do you work for, Microsoft? A search on "subatomic matter" yielded some good results for me.
OfficeMax stickynotes are cheaper but they don't stick! Buy Post-it® brand stickynotes for a good stick everytime!
I am God. I'll tell you straight up, I don't need to waste any time with random number generators. If you're wondering how poweful I am, let me just say that if I wanted you dead, you'd never get a chance to even read this.
Now, please excuse me. I've got an urgent call in Sector 42B.
Sorry, that's the only way to accurately describe this. Next we'll be posting stories about Noah's lost ark.
...until someone discovers it?
Not a good way to think. That's like saying Iran having nukes isn't a concern becuase we haven't uncovered any direct evidence. The idea is to expose the vulnerability so you can do something about it.
My bank account is represented by a bunch of 1s and 0s in some database in the sky. There's no real paper behind it. It's virtual. Now, if someone wiped out the 1s to 0s, I'd have grounds to sue.
Value and money doesn't exist in the physical world. It's a contrived social concept that we humans have created. It's an illusion. So if it's "virtual" in the real world, seems perfectly logical that it can be virtual in the virtual world, too.
When you buy into the Microsoft platform, you are buying endless upgrades for years on end.
When a user bought Windows 3.1, they also unwittingly bought Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows ME, and Windows XP. This is planned obsolescense for no other reason except to keep Micorsoft shareholders happy.
With Linux, you avoid that ridiculous problem.
My wife has fairly severly eczema on her fingertips and they are often dry and cracked, especially in the winter. Sometimes she bleeds and has to wear a band-aid. The probability that a biometric device could make sense out of her fingers is zero.
Enter some text in the search bar and then hit tab. Instead of tabbing over to search like in IE, it changes the type of search.
Fuck these guys at Microsoft who purposefully break shit on people.
I bought this electronic drum set for my kid at Toys 'R Us. A year, later, this guy in a yellow and orange vest comes to my door with a hammer. I let him in and he proceeds to smash the drums into tiny fragments, making my kid cry. He says, "Sorry, the model of your drum set is out of date. You have to buy the new model." What else could I do? I had to pay another $50 or my kid would go nuts.
Please! Deep thinking is about abstract thought. There is nothing more abstract than funny little symbols on a page that you have to assemble into meaning.
If teaching becomes a largely a visual process, you will lose a lot of that abstraction. Maybe that's great if you want a lot of trained monkeys to run a production line, but if you want to expand people's minds, give them a stack of philosphy, physics and math books.
OK, so now what's going to stop police from hiding GPS units on many cars parked on the street in high crime neighborhoods and tracking thousands of potential suspects?
When you've got 1/4 of the population basically living in poverty, they aren't going to fork out $50 a month to surf the web.