The point is that a large number of people are incapable of making rational decisions in cases like this, and that is partially because of a lack of ability to quickly and easily calculate the risk and potential benefit involved.
It's like if a bug is hiding in the 200 million lines of code that a car supposedly runs, then bam, one day even though the pedal wasn't sticking for years since they fixed it off goes your toyota.
That's not really a deliberate feature, if dvorak had caught on the keys would be labeled right. Heck I wouldn't mind having a dvorak keyboard with the right keycaps.
well I'm not evangelical, but I fail to see how having a big gun collection and worrying about the IRS (who hasn't had some issue with them?) disqualifies one from teaching math, science, history and reading.
People keep saying that, but I would say citation needed. Other countries with public schools do have our problems, to varying degrees. Germany was shocked and dismayed and cried bullshit a lot when the PISA study came out, because they scored similar to the US, and had always been very cocky about how much better their schools were. But much like here, the people talking about it were often looking at the best students, in Gymnasiums. The number of people dropping out of lowest tier schools or simply ending up with a diploma that was useless was depressing. Hauptschulen were becoming more and more dangerous and useless places, and teachers were quitting. I don't know if it's gotten better since, I moved back stateside. But at the time I was quite happy that I had gone to high school in Iowa, I thought our schools were better. Granted western iowa isn't dallas or new york, and the schools were much better than most in the US probably. But this general line that everyone else has it right and we are the only ones that suck at public XYZ is patently false.
Hmm... except public safety, and significant likelihood of being the perpetrator and all that jazz are more or less tantamount to "If you didn't do anything wrong you will have nothing to fear". Part of the OPs post was more or less about thought crime. Fantasies of rape, torture, murder, etc != evidence that you did it. I fantasized about shooting a boss of mine lots of times, but as far as I know she is still alive and well. A significant portion of males and females have rape and sexual torture fantasies, in either role. The point is dreams and memories of actual events may not be distinguishable, and even if they were daydreams and dreams may be used as character evidence or evidence of motive. It's all so speculative it's kind of silly to think about right now, it's like human rights for sapient robots. But if you assume it were possible it would be a new issue that had to be dealt with.
I was just talking to a friend about this, I suggested that one buy 4 or 5 prepaid cells, rotate them out, and send the others through the mail system around the country via remailing services etc. He suggested one could start a sim card pool, and rotate randomly within a subscriber group, if you did it often enough the signal to noise would be so bad it would be hard to track individual people.
FTDI chips are great, but they are pretty expensive. Honestly, you can buy AVRs with onboard USB for less than an FTDI chip, so I kind of wonder about the future of them.
You can't get instant feedback from the moon. There's a slight delay. So, it doesn't really feel like you are holding something in your hands unless you're standing still. It mostly feels like you're drunk when you operate a waldo with a delay. People are going to have to get trained to deal with that.
Let me check in my encyclopedia reference, I just need to find the CD disc.... oh nevermind, doesn't work in my kde desktop environment anyway, I'll just check the wikipedia...
the eeepc 701 has 512 megs of ram (many upgraded to 1gb) and 4 gb of ssd. There is rarely enough disk space available to to suspend to disk with all the space being taken up with a decent linux install and a bunch of apps and maybe some mp3s and a couple movies.
You might mean blackjack. Poker is a zero sum game, some casinos take a rake or charge admission, sell drinks, or otherwise make their money, but the house doesn't generally even play poker, only provides a dealer and a table.
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Sounds a lot like proteins really... just saying. Is this sort of thing being viewed as a form of biomimetics?
don't forget inflation,it amounts to a tax.
And in america people pay money to lose pounds all the time!
The point is that a large number of people are incapable of making rational decisions in cases like this, and that is partially because of a lack of ability to quickly and easily calculate the risk and potential benefit involved.
what sports car sells for less than $1000?
or sugar pills, why poison your customers on purpose?
How about authentic counterfeit?
It's like if a bug is hiding in the 200 million lines of code that a car supposedly runs, then bam, one day even though the pedal wasn't sticking for years since they fixed it off goes your toyota.
That's not really a deliberate feature, if dvorak had caught on the keys would be labeled right. Heck I wouldn't mind having a dvorak keyboard with the right keycaps.
Doesn't suck as much as Autobahn Stau. I've driven DFW and Munich each for years I'll take dallas any day despite the speed limits.
Knives and gangrene are a lot older.
well I'm not evangelical, but I fail to see how having a big gun collection and worrying about the IRS (who hasn't had some issue with them?) disqualifies one from teaching math, science, history and reading.
Einstein, Newton and Gandhi were all capable of writing the abbreviation of et cetera correctly?
People keep saying that, but I would say citation needed. Other countries with public schools do have our problems, to varying degrees. Germany was shocked and dismayed and cried bullshit a lot when the PISA study came out, because they scored similar to the US, and had always been very cocky about how much better their schools were. But much like here, the people talking about it were often looking at the best students, in Gymnasiums. The number of people dropping out of lowest tier schools or simply ending up with a diploma that was useless was depressing. Hauptschulen were becoming more and more dangerous and useless places, and teachers were quitting. I don't know if it's gotten better since, I moved back stateside. But at the time I was quite happy that I had gone to high school in Iowa, I thought our schools were better. Granted western iowa isn't dallas or new york, and the schools were much better than most in the US probably. But this general line that everyone else has it right and we are the only ones that suck at public XYZ is patently false.
didn't they do that in superman 3?
In soviet Russia, Russian think in you!
Hmm... except public safety, and significant likelihood of being the perpetrator and all that jazz are more or less tantamount to "If you didn't do anything wrong you will have nothing to fear". Part of the OPs post was more or less about thought crime. Fantasies of rape, torture, murder, etc != evidence that you did it. I fantasized about shooting a boss of mine lots of times, but as far as I know she is still alive and well. A significant portion of males and females have rape and sexual torture fantasies, in either role. The point is dreams and memories of actual events may not be distinguishable, and even if they were daydreams and dreams may be used as character evidence or evidence of motive. It's all so speculative it's kind of silly to think about right now, it's like human rights for sapient robots. But if you assume it were possible it would be a new issue that had to be dealt with.
I was just talking to a friend about this, I suggested that one buy 4 or 5 prepaid cells, rotate them out, and send the others through the mail system around the country via remailing services etc. He suggested one could start a sim card pool, and rotate randomly within a subscriber group, if you did it often enough the signal to noise would be so bad it would be hard to track individual people.
FTDI chips are great, but they are pretty expensive. Honestly, you can buy AVRs with onboard USB for less than an FTDI chip, so I kind of wonder about the future of them.
I know it's illegal but lots of people do home distilling: http://www.homedistiller.org/ http://www.home-distilling.com/ http://www.home-distillation.com/ http://www.brewhaus.com/ I've never tried it, I stick to homebrewing, but lots of people do, and for the most part elliot ness doesn't come knocking unless they start selling it, and they don't usually go blind. Actual mileage may vary.
You can't get instant feedback from the moon. There's a slight delay. So, it doesn't really feel like you are holding something in your hands unless you're standing still. It mostly feels like you're drunk when you operate a waldo with a delay. People are going to have to get trained to deal with that.
We train for that in grad school.
Let me check in my encyclopedia reference, I just need to find the CD disc.... oh nevermind, doesn't work in my kde desktop environment anyway, I'll just check the wikipedia...
the eeepc 701 has 512 megs of ram (many upgraded to 1gb) and 4 gb of ssd. There is rarely enough disk space available to to suspend to disk with all the space being taken up with a decent linux install and a bunch of apps and maybe some mp3s and a couple movies.
I knew you were going to say that
You might mean blackjack. Poker is a zero sum game, some casinos take a rake or charge admission, sell drinks, or otherwise make their money, but the house doesn't generally even play poker, only provides a dealer and a table.