Counter-examples? Johnathan Coulton, Cory Doctorow, for two. "Does not work" is not right, although perhaps a higher-quality product is needed for success than with traditional media outlets who own your soul...
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
OT on sig: the defining characteristic is also the problem? Well, I suppose you're correct: we are discussing science, with a view to change policy, so that we can prevent future generations of scientists from being bullied and stuffed in lockers as kids at the hands of non-scientists.
(such as a reg file that fixes the dreaded "Windows has the sound driver but says "no device" under sound bug)
Do you have a fix for the "opening quotes never closed" bug? Because there's a recent relevant xkcd, although it was about parens, which my emoticon could be considered to close.:)
I've shown users how to BCC themselves when sending pictures so they have a copy in their email and every single time I get "Is that what that was for? I didn't know what that thing was."
I've considered giving up the damned paycheck because the idiots cannot learn technology.
the whole first attempt at airing this was a textbook trainwreck, and the result was blamed on the show's merit.
Exactly. I remember seeing the "naked girl in a box!" trailers, and then wondering that it was weird to not see that for something like 8 episodes, and that the eighth episode was two hours, and seemed to be a back story; I thought "oh, flashback time" until I later bought the DVD. Fox sucks.
You're unusually well-informed to so unequivocally realize this.
Thanks for that. I feel the same way about you, reading the above. (Well, that is, you've been a friend for a while.:) And as for fluoride, it's a well-known waste product that they somehow convinced the government to purchase. I'm not sure foreign nations are the only sovereign ones needing invasion to save their peoples.
If they did, well that would make them unsusceptible to advertising, radically change the nature of politics, and generally might upset the precious status quo.
I've been married to a Brazilian. She said that her politicians promise "a fridge in every house" even though there's no realistic way to accomplish that. The ones that do (promise that), get elected, then stick their mitts in the government coffers (the ones that don't, waste their election campaign money). In that country, it is preferable to have a government job due to the grift. Here, it used to be that private-sector jobs were preferable; just today, I saw a Slashdot article asking "is government the next IT boom sector?" No, no it is not. If it is, it won't be for long. Back to the start of this paragraph: the Brazilian politicians were smart; they would promote education through their speech, and only their speech; when it came to allocations, education would take a back seat to everything else; politicians knew better than to let their competition be taught in the schools.
Really? That's your argument? "Because other siblings/relatives can procreate, 18-year-olds are old enough to be able to make up their minds because we can throw them into battle?" Are you sure you're thinking this through? I mean, I love the George Carlin reference in your user number, but I don't think you're making a lot of sense. To the GGGP, yeah at work we also never have time to do it right, but we somehow always manage to have 3x the time in order to do it over a few times.
Besides, if you can throw them into battle it is hard to argue that they don't have the right to make up their own minds.
I would argue the opposite; if we can throw them willingly into battle, I would argue that they are unable to make up their own minds. Dying for a cause is still dying and not spreading your seed.
so this guy's "teaching" some half-assed catch-up technique that doesn't scale next to the drawbacks of being highly unethical and is bound to lose the parents their childrens' trust if (inevitably) found out. So the value of teaching this is mostly in how it's eventually self-defeating. The fact that a holder of public trust thinks its acceptable to teach this I find... telling.
Exactly. I call it the "Tooth Fairy/Easter Bunny/Santa Claus/God" progression of teaching your children to question authority. (Unfortunately, many stop after the third lesson, without full understanding.) I love that we lie to our children to make them healthier.
Yet, oddly enough, the organisations still manage to function and nothing happens to indicate a serious failure of operation.
Well, "nothing happens except the company ends up spending more than they need to, profitability suffers, bonuses suffer, and the recruiters I talk to say my company has a bad reputation for ex-employees trying to get hired" then sure, nothing happens. Separately, cannabis cures cancer, so if your continued employment means you cannot remove the tumors that are constantly forming in your body, then I'd rather not be employed there.
You fail English. "He eyes the bitch from across the bar, and makes his move."
How about writing english that can be understood everywhere in the world?
Huh? How about using the language as it's designed? What do different locales have to do with whether it's proper English? Why am I arguing with someone who won't respond?
Just finding parallels. Like I said, I agree with you. Many of these wars could be easily solved legislatively: the illegality of drugs is unconstitutional; see the 1920s for the test. The war on obesity can be won by eliminating the government subsidy for the corn growers (HFCS, to spell it out). The war on terror can be won by keeping our troops on domestic soil.
The immune system within our own bodies is not nearly as stupid, not nearly as psychopathic.
And, I agree, our current behavior does not engender the long-term benefit of the host organism.
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Counter-examples? Johnathan Coulton, Cory Doctorow, for two. "Does not work" is not right, although perhaps a higher-quality product is needed for success than with traditional media outlets who own your soul...
First you get the sugar...
Here are the scary looking picture:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358861/BP-Gulf-oil-spill-Shocking-images-prove-seabed-STILL-coated.html
Yeah, I saw Janet Jackson on the right, scary indeed.
You have an infatuation with telephones, is what I'm picking up.
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
OT on sig: the defining characteristic is also the problem? Well, I suppose you're correct: we are discussing science, with a view to change policy, so that we can prevent future generations of scientists from being bullied and stuffed in lockers as kids at the hands of non-scientists.
You will cease, one day.
(such as a reg file that fixes the dreaded "Windows has the sound driver but says "no device" under sound bug)
Do you have a fix for the "opening quotes never closed" bug? Because there's a recent relevant xkcd, although it was about parens, which my emoticon could be considered to close. :)
I've shown users how to BCC themselves when sending pictures so they have a copy in their email and every single time I get "Is that what that was for? I didn't know what that thing was."
I've considered giving up the damned paycheck because the idiots cannot learn technology.
what a novel idea!
the whole first attempt at airing this was a textbook trainwreck, and the result was blamed on the show's merit.
Exactly. I remember seeing the "naked girl in a box!" trailers, and then wondering that it was weird to not see that for something like 8 episodes, and that the eighth episode was two hours, and seemed to be a back story; I thought "oh, flashback time" until I later bought the DVD. Fox sucks.
You're unusually well-informed to so unequivocally realize this.
Thanks for that. I feel the same way about you, reading the above. (Well, that is, you've been a friend for a while. :) And as for fluoride, it's a well-known waste product that they somehow convinced the government to purchase. I'm not sure foreign nations are the only sovereign ones needing invasion to save their peoples.
If they did, well that would make them unsusceptible to advertising, radically change the nature of politics, and generally might upset the precious status quo.
I've been married to a Brazilian. She said that her politicians promise "a fridge in every house" even though there's no realistic way to accomplish that. The ones that do (promise that), get elected, then stick their mitts in the government coffers (the ones that don't, waste their election campaign money). In that country, it is preferable to have a government job due to the grift. Here, it used to be that private-sector jobs were preferable; just today, I saw a Slashdot article asking "is government the next IT boom sector?" No, no it is not. If it is, it won't be for long. Back to the start of this paragraph: the Brazilian politicians were smart; they would promote education through their speech, and only their speech; when it came to allocations, education would take a back seat to everything else; politicians knew better than to let their competition be taught in the schools.
Really? That's your argument? "Because other siblings/relatives can procreate, 18-year-olds are old enough to be able to make up their minds because we can throw them into battle?" Are you sure you're thinking this through? I mean, I love the George Carlin reference in your user number, but I don't think you're making a lot of sense. To the GGGP, yeah at work we also never have time to do it right, but we somehow always manage to have 3x the time in order to do it over a few times.
Please don't; I expect you to refute it. See here. Or just leave it, if you agree?
Establishing relationships might turn out to be a tricky affair, even with life which has evolved under similar conditions.
Yep, the "you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup" foreign policy.
[...] so any guesses right now will probably be as worthless as primitive man trying to guess how the world worked.
Are you advocating exoplanet religions?
There are way more kids than fake kids.
For now; thanks to stopping HB Gary. But other moles will pop up in its place. The price of freedom is eternally whacking moles.
It's about keeping them in the habit of third person perspective (how does my deed look when viewed outside my personal selfishness?)
I think there's some value in cameras throughout the house, which the child can also review. Nothing like an objective third-person perspective.
The parents do.
Besides, if you can throw them into battle it is hard to argue that they don't have the right to make up their own minds.
I would argue the opposite; if we can throw them willingly into battle, I would argue that they are unable to make up their own minds. Dying for a cause is still dying and not spreading your seed.
so this guy's "teaching" some half-assed catch-up technique that doesn't scale next to the drawbacks of being highly unethical and is bound to lose the parents their childrens' trust if (inevitably) found out. So the value of teaching this is mostly in how it's eventually self-defeating. The fact that a holder of public trust thinks its acceptable to teach this I find... telling.
Exactly. I call it the "Tooth Fairy/Easter Bunny/Santa Claus/God" progression of teaching your children to question authority. (Unfortunately, many stop after the third lesson, without full understanding.) I love that we lie to our children to make them healthier.
Yet, oddly enough, the organisations still manage to function and nothing happens to indicate a serious failure of operation.
Well, "nothing happens except the company ends up spending more than they need to, profitability suffers, bonuses suffer, and the recruiters I talk to say my company has a bad reputation for ex-employees trying to get hired" then sure, nothing happens. Separately, cannabis cures cancer, so if your continued employment means you cannot remove the tumors that are constantly forming in your body, then I'd rather not be employed there.
Why is Slashdot using double spacing for some posts and not others...and how can I turn it off or is this another new feature?
Yes, I agree it's annoying. When they moved to V3 I decided to stop participating, look how far that decision made it. No better alternatives.
"Eyeing" is not a verb.
You fail English. "He eyes the bitch from across the bar, and makes his move."
How about writing english that can be understood everywhere in the world?
Huh? How about using the language as it's designed? What do different locales have to do with whether it's proper English? Why am I arguing with someone who won't respond?
Don't delude yourself, you're leaking information in many ways, not just one.
The immune system within our own bodies is not nearly as stupid, not nearly as psychopathic.
And, I agree, our current behavior does not engender the long-term benefit of the host organism.
My new favorite response to office football discussions.