Not every time - The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times & Economist (same company) are a couple that worked. I can't think of anymore that worked though. And it is interesting the subject matter of those three papers. There must be a couple of more exceptions.
I guess no one wants to make the point that poor driver training and lack of ability contributed to the accidents - hey, the ambulance chasing lawyers can't sue anyone over that, and besides, we can't have any restrictions on people driving (like, are they smart enough and capable of controlling a two ton vehicle that can travel at upwards of 80 miles an hour).
Yep. Couldn't have said it better.
It was also the same with the Firestone Ford Explorer tire issue a few years back. Not everyone had the problem. Why? Because those people didn't drive the SUV like a sports car.
NPR interviewed one of the people who had a problem and the women sounded like she had waayyy too much coffee. An every sentence when describing her "ordeal" began with "Baby Jane, who was in the vehicle with me at the time...." She sounded like someone who drove like an idiot and wanted the $$$$ from Ford and Firestone.
It's one thing when there's a real problem with a product - it does happen and there are cars on the road that have some, but to blame problems on one's own stupidity.
Prescriptions for antidepressants have skyrocketed in recent years, but this is one of the very first attempts to figure out what ecological impact all that pharmaceutical sewage could have.
We've got to keep our emotions down. Keep a stiff upper lip. Do our part. Keep America humming. Can't show weakness. All that horseshit.
Why?
Because corporate America demands it! Don't like it! You're unemployable! You don't "fit in" - etc.... etc... etc....
Want to know where to place the blame? Look at the Fortune 500. Goddamn motherfuckers are run by sociopaths.
Suck it in! Business is more important than anything!
Don't believe me?
Whenever a politician passes a law to help someone (yeah, I know a rare occurrence ), some SOB says, "It'll hurt business!" Low and behold, the motherfucking politician changes the law!
The kids that got picked on were the small kids with napoleon complexes and would seek out fights.
I really can't blame the small kids. Size matters in this society. I don't remember if it was Crick or Watson who said this, but when asked if they were for genetic engineering of children, they responded with this (to paraphrase):
Ninety percent of CEOs are over the height of six feet. A man who's five four and a woman who's five foot even may want something a little more for their kids.
His point being that tall people have an edge, of course - not that every parent want's their kids to be CEOs.
I once worked for a guy who insisted that he got where he was by hard work. He was 6' 3", handsome Italian guy who was also a Yale football star who graduated with a degree in Economics - I don't know how well he did. Anyway, business opportunities just came to him - yes, he was a multi-millionaire. I saw his books. He was always telling me that I need to develop some "self-confidence". Easy for him to say.
When Dave Chappelle was on the "Actors Studio", he kind of chewed out a white guy about the opportunities he got because he was white and he probably never even realized what they were.
I understand. People are basically primates. The taller you are the better. The whiter you are the better.
It's not blatant. It's just how folks react towards you on a subconscious level. Blacks do it to other blacks - ever hear of the "brown paper bag" rule?
Here's an example that's a little more conscious: hot chicks. Everybody kisses the ass of the hot chick.
So basically, if you can't develop social skills you do what every other animal does: Become a predator. And if you fail at that, you're dinner.
FTFA:
Victims share much of same, negative attitude, conflict in the family.
It looks as though the victims are the other side of the same coin.
And what's not mentioned in the article is how the ramifications of bullying stick with someone for the rest of their life - there the "mousy ones", the ones without "self confidence", the ones that "don't fit in", etc....
It wouldn't surprise me the least if many of the permanently unemployed are part of this group. So, I think it costs society too.
I don't know, when you see how excited some slashotters get about anti-Apple or anti-Microsoft news it looks like they are about to cream themselves.
A lot of the Anti-Apple hatred is more of resentment for the years where any sort of Apple criticism, regardless of how valid it was, an automatic "-1 Troll" or "Flamebait".
The Anit-MS hatred is mostly the F/oSS fanbois who think MS is the man that's keeping them down.
Why does it have to be broken down by intelligence? There are plenty of "smart" kids who waste their day away on Facebook and I'm sure there are plenty of smart people wasting their day here.
It's all about limits.
When the kid is on the computer he should be doing his school work or real research. Parents need to block websites for certain hours. Or, here's a way for Linksys to get more revenue, a home router with unlimited URL blocking and a filter that actually filters based upon content - my content filter doesn't work at all.
Have a list for timed access: ex. facebook - 8pm-9pm or what ever the parent sets. I think it's unreasonable and even a bit creepy for the parent to just stand over the kid all night.
There are some who think culling the population a bit is beneficial to mankind..
If that were the case, then the areas of the World with the least conflict would have the highest population growth. There doesn't seem to be a relationship between wars and population reduction - unless you get into outright genocide; such as in Rwanda. As misanthropic as I am, I don't see that as a very efficient solution.
Economic development seems to be the best way to reduce population growth - see Europe.
Now, all we need to do is stop these entitlement programs that are based upon pyramid schemes that get politicians to beg for population growth - see Western World. We in the US are lucky because we have all those people wanting to move here and work. Wait until the Social Security and Medicare start bleeding red. All those old people in Arizona, Florida, New Mexico and even Texas will be begging for the borders to be opened up and for those workers to come here and pay their employment taxes to support them in their lifestyles.
Since the days when 640K would be enough for anyone, memory requirements have been increasing dramatically. But, what real functionality have we've received as a result of the bloat? What can you do today that you couldn't do back then? The spreadsheets are the same. Pretty much the same for Word processors - sure there's more esoteric functionality for any particular 1% of the users but is it really needed?
Also, for neurotypical parents and teachers, what "works" is what makes the child docile and compliant, not what actually produces happy, growing kids. Along those lines, ritalin (a methamphetamine derivative) "works" too. I will never forgive my parents, teachers, and childhood doctor for 20mg of meth a day for 2 years. It did just about what you'd expect.
To quote Henry Rollins - "Fuuuuuuuuck!"
Your parents were more than likely following the advice of the "experts" - doctor and teachers (*snicker*). Even if you're as young as 18, there wasn't the huge outcry over medicating children like there is now. And there wasn't the internet to do some sort of research.
I'm assuming your parents weren't medical professionals. If they were, then your disgust is well placed.
You can be a wonderful advocate for kids with autism and all the other kids that are being drugged because they can't go and burn off they're energy on the playground during the recess - recesses that are no longer allowed because of ignorant and stupid school administrators and they're needle-pricked lawyers who are soooo terrified of lawsuits.
To this day there are plenty criticisms regarding intelligence and creativity tests among the PhDs you mention. And there are a few who find it ridiculous that something as unquantifiable as "intelligence" or "creativity" can be measured with tests.
This study is being reported in a magazine for the general public. The fact that it's titled "The Creativity Crisis" is enough to have my BS detector on full. "Creativity Crisis"?! Please. How sensationalist can you get?
FTFA:
To be creative requires divergent thinking (generating many unique ideas) and then convergent thinking (combining those ideas into the best result).
Pray tell, what is the "best" result? What some academic thinks is the best result? An engineer or businessman could have completely different idea of what "best" is.
When I see this study being reproduced with different measures of creativity, then I'll take it seriously.
I don't see anyone asking if the "creativity test" is even valid.
How's the test structured? What's the researcher's definition of creativity? What are they measuring? Creativity is a very subjective concept as it is.
Just because someone creates a test doesn't mean it measures what they think it measures. We've been through all this with intelligence tests.
Well, "for now" there is not much possibilities aside from that. But in a "hopefully" near future, we'll get some easy to use and easy to set-up security for thingslike extensions and plugins, so we'll be able to ignore the "people you know and trust" part. Except for, you know, unexpected flaws in said security.
How? If you're going to use, let's say, a password and userid manager, you pretty much have to accept that the plugin is going to be storing and accessing that shit. Unless Google develops an API that acts as a secure black box - developer uses an API for passwords and UIDs and any other private type of information so that he has no access, a user will have to accept some loss of security for convenience. Then there's the issue of auditing the plugins for compliance.
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Lets see: Make sure you have a strong Admin password on your router and don't surf p0rn/warez sites. Thank you Captain Obvious!
I get more hacking attempts when I search for and try to look at Christina Hendricks images than I ever do from all the porn sits combined.
Not every time - The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times & Economist (same company) are a couple that worked. I can't think of anymore that worked though. And it is interesting the subject matter of those three papers. There must be a couple of more exceptions.
...I doubt they get much accuracy in age, and probably a large number of "indeterminate" or false positives on gender...
If some electronic add calls me a chick, I'm punching its lights out!
Thanks for saving me time.
Instead I'm agreeing with you.
I guess no one wants to make the point that poor driver training and lack of ability contributed to the accidents - hey, the ambulance chasing lawyers can't sue anyone over that, and besides, we can't have any restrictions on people driving (like, are they smart enough and capable of controlling a two ton vehicle that can travel at upwards of 80 miles an hour).
Yep. Couldn't have said it better.
It was also the same with the Firestone Ford Explorer tire issue a few years back. Not everyone had the problem. Why? Because those people didn't drive the SUV like a sports car.
NPR interviewed one of the people who had a problem and the women sounded like she had waayyy too much coffee. An every sentence when describing her "ordeal" began with "Baby Jane, who was in the vehicle with me at the time...." She sounded like someone who drove like an idiot and wanted the $$$$ from Ford and Firestone.
It's one thing when there's a real problem with a product - it does happen and there are cars on the road that have some, but to blame problems on one's own stupidity.
And Tropical vaccines are the next hot thing.
Gotcha.
Here's a 20 for pump #2. *pumps $20 worth of gas and takes off*.
Nah.
It won't happen.
Prescriptions for antidepressants have skyrocketed in recent years, but this is one of the very first attempts to figure out what ecological impact all that pharmaceutical sewage could have.
We've got to keep our emotions down. Keep a stiff upper lip. Do our part. Keep America humming. Can't show weakness. All that horseshit.
Why?
Because corporate America demands it! Don't like it! You're unemployable! You don't "fit in" - etc.... etc... etc....
Want to know where to place the blame? Look at the Fortune 500. Goddamn motherfuckers are run by sociopaths.
Suck it in! Business is more important than anything!
Don't believe me?
Whenever a politician passes a law to help someone (yeah, I know a rare occurrence ), some SOB says, "It'll hurt business!" Low and behold, the motherfucking politician changes the law!
Yeah, someone peed in my Cheereos this morning.
She even has one of those "360 degree" contracts.
Let's see what happens to her.
The kids that got picked on were the small kids with napoleon complexes and would seek out fights.
I really can't blame the small kids. Size matters in this society. I don't remember if it was Crick or Watson who said this, but when asked if they were for genetic engineering of children, they responded with this (to paraphrase):
Ninety percent of CEOs are over the height of six feet. A man who's five four and a woman who's five foot even may want something a little more for their kids.
His point being that tall people have an edge, of course - not that every parent want's their kids to be CEOs.
I once worked for a guy who insisted that he got where he was by hard work. He was 6' 3", handsome Italian guy who was also a Yale football star who graduated with a degree in Economics - I don't know how well he did. Anyway, business opportunities just came to him - yes, he was a multi-millionaire. I saw his books. He was always telling me that I need to develop some "self-confidence". Easy for him to say.
When Dave Chappelle was on the "Actors Studio", he kind of chewed out a white guy about the opportunities he got because he was white and he probably never even realized what they were.
I understand. People are basically primates. The taller you are the better. The whiter you are the better.
It's not blatant. It's just how folks react towards you on a subconscious level. Blacks do it to other blacks - ever hear of the "brown paper bag" rule?
Here's an example that's a little more conscious: hot chicks. Everybody kisses the ass of the hot chick.
So basically, if you can't develop social skills you do what every other animal does: Become a predator. And if you fail at that, you're dinner.
FTFA:
Victims share much of same, negative attitude, conflict in the family.
It looks as though the victims are the other side of the same coin.
And what's not mentioned in the article is how the ramifications of bullying stick with someone for the rest of their life - there the "mousy ones", the ones without "self confidence", the ones that "don't fit in", etc....
It wouldn't surprise me the least if many of the permanently unemployed are part of this group. So, I think it costs society too.
I don't know, when you see how excited some slashotters get about anti-Apple or anti-Microsoft news it looks like they are about to cream themselves.
A lot of the Anti-Apple hatred is more of resentment for the years where any sort of Apple criticism, regardless of how valid it was, an automatic "-1 Troll" or "Flamebait".
The Anit-MS hatred is mostly the F/oSS fanbois who think MS is the man that's keeping them down.
It's all about limits.
When the kid is on the computer he should be doing his school work or real research. Parents need to block websites for certain hours. Or, here's a way for Linksys to get more revenue, a home router with unlimited URL blocking and a filter that actually filters based upon content - my content filter doesn't work at all.
Have a list for timed access: ex. facebook - 8pm-9pm or what ever the parent sets. I think it's unreasonable and even a bit creepy for the parent to just stand over the kid all night.
Just don't touch it. Don't even look at it.
There are some who think culling the population a bit is beneficial to mankind..
If that were the case, then the areas of the World with the least conflict would have the highest population growth. There doesn't seem to be a relationship between wars and population reduction - unless you get into outright genocide; such as in Rwanda. As misanthropic as I am, I don't see that as a very efficient solution.
Economic development seems to be the best way to reduce population growth - see Europe.
Now, all we need to do is stop these entitlement programs that are based upon pyramid schemes that get politicians to beg for population growth - see Western World. We in the US are lucky because we have all those people wanting to move here and work. Wait until the Social Security and Medicare start bleeding red. All those old people in Arizona, Florida, New Mexico and even Texas will be begging for the borders to be opened up and for those workers to come here and pay their employment taxes to support them in their lifestyles.
I'm telling you. It will happen.
Coalition soldiers then walk in without a fight.
Until the Taliban truck in a bunch of Playboy bunnies, weed, and Twinkies
War is Hell.
Sarge: "Alright. Get the fruit truck and the truck loaded with female monkeys in heat."
The monkeys will then drop their weapons, run for the fruit and then for the females in heat. Coalition soldiers then walk in without a fight.
Is it the games that caused the bloat?
I see this bloat but no real improvements.
Also, for neurotypical parents and teachers, what "works" is what makes the child docile and compliant, not what actually produces happy, growing kids. Along those lines, ritalin (a methamphetamine derivative) "works" too. I will never forgive my parents, teachers, and childhood doctor for 20mg of meth a day for 2 years. It did just about what you'd expect.
To quote Henry Rollins - "Fuuuuuuuuck!"
Your parents were more than likely following the advice of the "experts" - doctor and teachers (*snicker*). Even if you're as young as 18, there wasn't the huge outcry over medicating children like there is now. And there wasn't the internet to do some sort of research.
I'm assuming your parents weren't medical professionals. If they were, then your disgust is well placed.
You can be a wonderful advocate for kids with autism and all the other kids that are being drugged because they can't go and burn off they're energy on the playground during the recess - recesses that are no longer allowed because of ignorant and stupid school administrators and they're needle-pricked lawyers who are soooo terrified of lawsuits.
This study is being reported in a magazine for the general public. The fact that it's titled "The Creativity Crisis" is enough to have my BS detector on full. "Creativity Crisis"?! Please. How sensationalist can you get?
FTFA:
To be creative requires divergent thinking (generating many unique ideas) and then convergent thinking (combining those ideas into the best result).
Pray tell, what is the "best" result? What some academic thinks is the best result? An engineer or businessman could have completely different idea of what "best" is.
When I see this study being reproduced with different measures of creativity, then I'll take it seriously.
Obviously, the population of America in 2010 is very different from the population in 1960
That's right! In the 1960s, they used more creativity enhancing substances.
I think this article is a case for the legalization of recreational drugs.
KEEP AMERICA CREATIVE! SMOKE POT!
How's the test structured? What's the researcher's definition of creativity? What are they measuring? Creativity is a very subjective concept as it is.
Just because someone creates a test doesn't mean it measures what they think it measures. We've been through all this with intelligence tests.
At my bandwidth, it would be more of a nibble. So, I'll nibble your shorts.
Well, "for now" there is not much possibilities aside from that. But in a "hopefully" near future, we'll get some easy to use and easy to set-up security for thingslike extensions and plugins, so we'll be able to ignore the "people you know and trust" part. Except for, you know, unexpected flaws in said security.
How? If you're going to use, let's say, a password and userid manager, you pretty much have to accept that the plugin is going to be storing and accessing that shit. Unless Google develops an API that acts as a secure black box - developer uses an API for passwords and UIDs and any other private type of information so that he has no access, a user will have to accept some loss of security for convenience. Then there's the issue of auditing the plugins for compliance.