I disagree. I think you'll find that if you sit down with a child and talk to them, you'll find that they do understand a lot more than you give them credit for. And yes, they want what they want, they're scheming and will find whatever ways to break whatever rules and escape punishments. The point is don't let them escape. The only reason people find corporal punishment to be more effective is because they don't have the patience to sit down with a child, or make the sit and think it out without going off and not making sure the punishment is being executed in full. The only reason corporal punishment is so effective is because lazy parents can hit their kid, and that kid will feel the sting of it long after the parent has stopped talking to them about it.
People don't always learn from their mistakes, but maybe society will. It's all a matter of natural selection. Person deafens himself with loud music. Person crosses street and is promptly hit by speeding bus he did not hear. Person is denied the chance to reproduce. Over time, only the people smart enough not to deafen themselves will prevail.
By that logic, this regulation of mp3 player volume level shouldn't exist either because the owners of the players should be responsible for their own actions and turn down the volume. I'm not saying I support that decision, I'm just saying it is a good point that if you're going to regulate headphone volume level, then you might as well also regulate volume level of bands.
Google has made it difficult both to find out where they keep their data centers and how many they have.
Well, you can get to know either, but just not both at the same time.
That's quantum for ya.
Does that imply that if you observe the location of one, they either build a new one or tear one down? More amusingly, if you figure out how many they have, all of the existing ones move to new locations.
You honestly do come off as self-righteous from your response. That being said, I don't think that EVERYONE who chooses not to drink is self-righteous. Many people make many choices. Drinking may be heavily woven into our society, but not everyone does it. I know many people who choose not to drink, and don't wear it as a badge to say they're better than everyone else.
Self-righteousness is independent of the activity. There are plenty of things to be self-righteous about. take your pick, environment, social equality, sex, race, sexuality, vegetarianism, and the list goes on and on.
The point is, if you choose to do ANYTHING you perceive to be good for humanity, or the earth or whatever cause you're fighting for solely for the chance to hold it above others' heads, you've missed the point.
I could see this actually being somewhat useful, though I admit I didn't read TFA. If you ignore the possible invasion of privacy which is kind of moot in such a public place, then if the algorithms to match faces work well enough, you could use it to identify criminals. I don't know if sex offenders are limited from being in malls with kid play areas, but if they are, that would be one good application I would stand for. Also if someone loses a child in a mall, this could make finding said child a lot easier.
This is like asking people what kind of shoes they own, and how fast they think they can run, then concluding that people who own running shoes run faster than those who don't.
Not really. You can measure how fast you run. Literacy is a much grayer area. How do you measure it? It's more like saying "what kind of car do you drive?" and "How good is your driving technique?"
I don't think these are completely comparable things. The biggest difference being that with ink, you are mostly bound by the manufacturer to get their specific ink cartridges, whereas with a car, you can buy gas at any gas station, there is real competition, so if you don't like the price, drive down the road and find another one. Also, I'm not saying I'm one of them, but asking if someone is against a gasoline tax seems pretty loaded as that I'm positive there are people out there that would say that yes indeed they are against a gasoline tax.
It depends on how you define corrupt. I'd be willing to bet there aren't that many people abusing government made laws to get what they want in Somalia...
I personally wonder how long it will be before people start cloning the meat of endangered species, giving us the choice of eating anything we darn well please.
Or remove the volume-limiter (Archos has very strict volume limits, worse than most devices) and sue them after damaging your hearing.
Wait, so you're saying that modding your device with their tools will void the warranty because someone might accidentally damage their hearing and sue over it? How exactly does this affect the warranty? Are my ears covered under the warranty? If they get sued for something like that, they're not going to be in more trouble because they're willing to replace faulty hardware.
This argument is flawed. Shooting someone is an illegal action. Killing people was illegal before AK-47s existed. But running a piece of software is not an illegal action, so I don't see how you can limit how and when and where people are doing so if they have legally paid for it.
in a small variation in the number of questions won't have a whole lot of difference when using a percentage to determine passing, but answering 8 questions right out of 10 is a LOT different from 800 out of 1000. Not to mention if she's illiterate, it would be slightly easier to slowly memorize what 50 questions and their answers look like than 100.
If such a law were put into place, I could see that as essentially creating a limit of one patent per organization per year that can't afford enough legal advice to ensure 100% they don't get a patent declared obvious. I'm all for getting rid of superfluous patents and money grubbing, but not at the cost of making innovation harder, especially those without money.
If I painted your fence, and someone came along and said "now thanks to him, your fence is painted" would you assume it was bad thing? Citing a cause of something is not the same as placing blame.
I don't know about the RAM requirements, but when I installed Windows 7, it wouldn't let me install unless I had at least 40GB free space on the partition. On top of that, it wouldn't install on my computer at all while I had Ubuntu installed. I wiped the hard drive and manged to install it on the exact same size partition.
I used Windows 7 for all of a day before moving back to using Ubuntu exclusively.
and I use an IBM too.
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I disagree. I think you'll find that if you sit down with a child and talk to them, you'll find that they do understand a lot more than you give them credit for. And yes, they want what they want, they're scheming and will find whatever ways to break whatever rules and escape punishments. The point is don't let them escape. The only reason people find corporal punishment to be more effective is because they don't have the patience to sit down with a child, or make the sit and think it out without going off and not making sure the punishment is being executed in full. The only reason corporal punishment is so effective is because lazy parents can hit their kid, and that kid will feel the sting of it long after the parent has stopped talking to them about it.
8 dollars an hour? I know a few high school students that would do it for that. Hell, I know a few full grown adults that would.
People don't always learn from their mistakes, but maybe society will. It's all a matter of natural selection. Person deafens himself with loud music. Person crosses street and is promptly hit by speeding bus he did not hear. Person is denied the chance to reproduce. Over time, only the people smart enough not to deafen themselves will prevail.
By that logic, this regulation of mp3 player volume level shouldn't exist either because the owners of the players should be responsible for their own actions and turn down the volume. I'm not saying I support that decision, I'm just saying it is a good point that if you're going to regulate headphone volume level, then you might as well also regulate volume level of bands.
Google has made it difficult both to find out where they keep their data centers and how many they have.
Well, you can get to know either, but just not both at the same time.
That's quantum for ya.
Does that imply that if you observe the location of one, they either build a new one or tear one down? More amusingly, if you figure out how many they have, all of the existing ones move to new locations.
You honestly do come off as self-righteous from your response. That being said, I don't think that EVERYONE who chooses not to drink is self-righteous. Many people make many choices. Drinking may be heavily woven into our society, but not everyone does it. I know many people who choose not to drink, and don't wear it as a badge to say they're better than everyone else. Self-righteousness is independent of the activity. There are plenty of things to be self-righteous about. take your pick, environment, social equality, sex, race, sexuality, vegetarianism, and the list goes on and on. The point is, if you choose to do ANYTHING you perceive to be good for humanity, or the earth or whatever cause you're fighting for solely for the chance to hold it above others' heads, you've missed the point.
Or on the flip side, maybe all that we know in our world is just an advanced video game to entertain some higher life forms.
I could see this actually being somewhat useful, though I admit I didn't read TFA. If you ignore the possible invasion of privacy which is kind of moot in such a public place, then if the algorithms to match faces work well enough, you could use it to identify criminals. I don't know if sex offenders are limited from being in malls with kid play areas, but if they are, that would be one good application I would stand for. Also if someone loses a child in a mall, this could make finding said child a lot easier.
This is like asking people what kind of shoes they own, and how fast they think they can run, then concluding that people who own running shoes run faster than those who don't.
Not really. You can measure how fast you run. Literacy is a much grayer area. How do you measure it? It's more like saying "what kind of car do you drive?" and "How good is your driving technique?"
I don't think these are completely comparable things. The biggest difference being that with ink, you are mostly bound by the manufacturer to get their specific ink cartridges, whereas with a car, you can buy gas at any gas station, there is real competition, so if you don't like the price, drive down the road and find another one. Also, I'm not saying I'm one of them, but asking if someone is against a gasoline tax seems pretty loaded as that I'm positive there are people out there that would say that yes indeed they are against a gasoline tax.
It depends on how you define corrupt. I'd be willing to bet there aren't that many people abusing government made laws to get what they want in Somalia...
I personally wonder how long it will be before people start cloning the meat of endangered species, giving us the choice of eating anything we darn well please.
Or remove the volume-limiter (Archos has very strict volume limits, worse than most devices) and sue them after damaging your hearing.
Wait, so you're saying that modding your device with their tools will void the warranty because someone might accidentally damage their hearing and sue over it? How exactly does this affect the warranty? Are my ears covered under the warranty? If they get sued for something like that, they're not going to be in more trouble because they're willing to replace faulty hardware.
This argument is flawed. Shooting someone is an illegal action. Killing people was illegal before AK-47s existed. But running a piece of software is not an illegal action, so I don't see how you can limit how and when and where people are doing so if they have legally paid for it.
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in a small variation in the number of questions won't have a whole lot of difference when using a percentage to determine passing, but answering 8 questions right out of 10 is a LOT different from 800 out of 1000. Not to mention if she's illiterate, it would be slightly easier to slowly memorize what 50 questions and their answers look like than 100.
If such a law were put into place, I could see that as essentially creating a limit of one patent per organization per year that can't afford enough legal advice to ensure 100% they don't get a patent declared obvious. I'm all for getting rid of superfluous patents and money grubbing, but not at the cost of making innovation harder, especially those without money.
If I painted your fence, and someone came along and said "now thanks to him, your fence is painted" would you assume it was bad thing? Citing a cause of something is not the same as placing blame.
I don't know about the RAM requirements, but when I installed Windows 7, it wouldn't let me install unless I had at least 40GB free space on the partition. On top of that, it wouldn't install on my computer at all while I had Ubuntu installed. I wiped the hard drive and manged to install it on the exact same size partition. I used Windows 7 for all of a day before moving back to using Ubuntu exclusively. and I use an IBM too.