Sure, people are stupid, careless, naive, etc. Having stuff STOLEN shouldn't be a consequence.
Oh... but it already is. I am just arguing that they should be allowed to make those mistakes. It's not like they will listen to useful advice anyway, right?
Do you steal kids bikes because they forget to lock them?
Heck no!
I just unscrew the front wheel and chuck it in the trash couple of blocks down the street. Pushing that bike all the way home should teach those little rascals a lesson or two. (I'm all about education and stuff like that.) And keep them off my lawn. At least for a while.
And stupid people can't help being stupid any more than smart people can help being smart. Why would you punish someone for something they have no control over?
Me? Punish? Heck no! The beauty of it is they will be punishing themselves.
We are on the same page here. It is not their fault they are stupid. I'm just saying we should respect their human rights to be stupid. And when they come in to buy the length of rope to hang themselves with - sell it to them. It is their right. Don't take away their right to be stupid. E.g. going into a bear cave to see if the bear would like some berries.
See? I'm not heartless. I care about stupid people. Deeply.
I'm an opponent of the excessive and unnecessary desire to expand technology into areas where an existing technology already does a better job.
EVERYTHING is better with the "latest thing" tacked on! How do you not understand!?
Have you ever tasted ice-cream witn an iPhone or some other smart-phone? Way better than eating it with a spoon. Even plain vanilla tastes like... so much better.
I for one don't consider it "bad" if stupid people get punished for using "0000" as their PIN.
Hey... we are long overdue for some regular punishment of stupidity. There are no longer wild bears roaming the streets at night, eating stupid people. Haven't been any for centuries. Wee need something to eliminate those genes from the pool.
Yeah... they had like... "real" police things to do. So they didn't really think it was important enough to chase him down with helicopters, SWATs and since it is Japan - ninjas and giant fucking robots.
It's like "We got him on tape for a potentially dangerous but victimless crime he committed earlier. It can wait until we find the time to haul his ass in.".
How much of your money are you willing to spend to prolong a total stranger's life?
I have 1$ folded into a origami ring in my "junk bowl" on the desk. I'd be perfectly OK to give it away to save Anonymous Coward's life - but I am not an American, so I'm not sure how to go about that...
Mind you, I mean some OTHER "Anonymous Coward", not the parent poster - cause he is a selfish son of a bitch that could do a favor to the world by getting off of it.
This is actually a lie. I paid about 60 euro for pain medicine after 3 of my teeth were pulled. This is NOT COVERED by insurance.
You have paid 60 Euros for analgesic - AFTER you had the procedure.
How much did you pay for the procedure itself? How about for the anesthetic they gave you for while they were pulling your teeth out? Or did you decide to "take it like a man", without drugs?
And tell me... where do you get pain drugs from? YOU HAVE TO HAVE THEM PRESCRIBED!
You have to have them prescribed cause they are NARCOTICS. Vodka is also a great painkiller. It can be bought for much less than 60 Euro. Oh, wait... you want something that won't fuck up your liver, nor get you hooked, but strong enough so you don't feel pain radiating from right at edge of your major CNS-point (umm... brain?).
Aaaand - is not a part of standard procedure. Most people just get that one shot before they have their tooth pulled - and they deal with it as the wound is closed and already healing as the anesthetic lets go.
And I remind you... you don't even get a fucking piece of prescibed(!) Aspirine here.
Didn't you just say that you get free antibiotics? You don't get prescription for Aspirin cause it is over-the-counter dirt-cheap drug. It costs less than a pack of gum and it has almost no harmful effects - why subsidize or control that? You wouldn't expect to have vitamin C prescribed if you had a cold, right?
Most people switch off the gene that digests the lactose in milk shortly after they are weaned, but in northern Europeans -- the descendants of an ancient cattle-rearing culture that emerged in the region some 6,000 years ago -- the gene is kept switched on in adulthood.
Like, totally. See? Hitler WAS right after all. There ARE Superior humans, and they are North Europeans.
Or is it actually more like their milk-gene is stuck, unable to switch off later in life? So Hitler was actually wrong, because North Europeans are unable to alter their DNA, but he was right because that genetic "flaw" makes them superior cause they can feed off a cow for longer than the humans that can't eat milk products?
No... wait... I got it... Nicholas Wade (The author of TFA) thinks that "enzyme" and gene" are the same thing. That's it. Yet another mystery solved. Thanks to my superior genes.
Shonk? What The Fuck is Shonk?
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1. Shonk
A range of sanwhich vans that retail in poor quality greasy food which is most definately not for the feint hearted, otherise known for selling their Shonk "'cmon lets go to the Shonk van for their utter shonk!"
"Shonky von Shonkerton is out side fancy a samosa?"
Better than most of the "sanwhich vans that retail in poor quality greasy food which is most definately not for the feint hearted", on tv lately! That doesn't make much sense.
Nothing is being "donated to the country". At least regarding "the internets".
NGOs that are there to provide aid got their own satellite and wireless links because none of the local IPSs were operational at the moment. Nothing is being donated (to Haiti) - it is for their own operational and personal use. Later, since Haitian internet backbone is operational, the backhaul bandwidth was donated (to the NGOs) by two local ISPs - AccessHaiti and MultiLink.
So in fact, Haitian companies are donating the bandwidth to NGOs who are donating the humanitarian aid and services to Haiti.
But, now that the local small ISPs are coming back online, they (local ISPs) find that the NGOs are quite happy with their current setup and don't really need the local wireless services - but are willing to switch, they just need more time. They are kinda busy doing something a little more important at the moment.
Being practically the only game in town (read: the only paying customers) - local ISPs would really like to sell them their services. But, on top of that, the wireless relays the NGOs have set up for themselves are drowning out the wireless signal of the local ISPs.
So, basically... 1 - Local ISP companies are providing the bandwidth to the relief workers for free. Which will probably change in the future. 2 - NGOs have their own equipment for the use and distributing of that bandwidth - and they are providing the humanitarian aid for free. They are willing to pay for the bandwidth but are asking for more time to switch to the local providers as they are rather busy at the moment. 3 - Local small ISPs would like to sell THEIR bandwidth (that they will buy from the ISPs mentioned under 1) to the NGOs - but they lack the capacity to do that as their wireless networks are being drowned out by the signal of the NGO's equipment.
So... it is not the case of donated food drowning out the local production. But it is going to be, one way or the other, for a while at least. Because the local ISPs want it that way. Cause it will take time for the local customers to be able to match the NGO's ability to buy the services of the local ISPs. Who will then fix their prices to match the paying capabilities of the NGOs - NOT the local population. So... in the long run, the locals will have to pay more for less longer - because NGOs can pay more and thereby they set the prices.
But in the LONGER run, when NGOs leave, locals will be left with a working ISP structure, and some money will flow into the community. So, not quite like donating food. Or clothes.
At the beginning of the video he mentions that you can "give control to the certain amount of people who can turn the feature on and off". So, it goes on automatically once it is outside of the network, BUT you can turn it on/off manually whenever you want while it is still connected to the home network.
Basically, all laptops were set to switch to "stolen mode" as soon as they get online from anywhere outside the school['s network]. And then they start sending screenshots, camera shots and DNS and IP info on regular basis.
Apparently, their IT God thought nothing about setting up the laptops kids will be taking home so their home network is considered safe. Also, their School's Resident High Inquisitor thought that since the "stolen mode" is on, that means that spying on kids is fair game.
Brilliant examples of stupidity. Simply brilliant.
Apparently, you are not a Excel user. Try copy/pasting your post above into an Office '97 Excel cell and see what happens.
Option to do something like that correctly wasn't added until the 2007 edition. Why? Was it because Microsoft is an evil heartless corporation that intentionally chokes and cripples their own applications just so they can keep selling you another version WITH those options a few years down the road? Or could it have something to do with available processing power and memory on an average PC in '97, 2000, 2003 and 2007?
Also, if you find Office '97 a paragon of text and statistical data editing, publishing and presenting... You need to get out more.
The movie I, Robot may have been okay if it were simply a standalone film
Sorry... can't agree on this.
It was on TV just last night and it is BAD. This isn't the first time I've seen it mind you. First time was truly a torture - particularly cause I've just reread the Robots couple of months prior.
Last night though, I've tried to analyze it to see if it could be made into a watchable movie with some creative editing. I came to conclusion that it would have to be cut down to about 1/3 of the current length.
- Drop most action sequences. Like Will Smith running after a robot - to point out what? That he is a clueless moron? - Drop nearly EVERYTHING Will Smith utters during the movie (nearly all his lines are completely pointless one-liners). - Cut out Shia LaBeouf completely (Why the fuck is he in this movie at all? Who is his agent? Satan?), despite the urge to have him killed in a very graphic way early on in the movie. There is a scene where he runs through traffic. Just have a bus run him over. Make his blood and guts explode across the screen... in slow motion... pretty... Umm... sorry about that. Got carried away for a moment.
- Re-dub some of the dialog so it makes sense. - Remove that idiotic red light all bad robots have in their chests just so we would know that they are bad now. - Also, drop those scenes where they are made to act like spiders or look suspicious and shifty-eyed. - Remove the pointless product placements. - Change the name of the movie. It has nearly nothing to do with the book or the stories in it - it shouldn't be called "I, Robot".
Not exactly Maddox's 3 minute cut, more like 30-minute one. It wouldn't really be a good movie, or a TV episode of some SF show, like Twilight Zone or Outer Limits. But it would be watchable.
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Sure, people are stupid, careless, naive, etc. Having stuff STOLEN shouldn't be a consequence.
Oh... but it already is. I am just arguing that they should be allowed to make those mistakes.
It's not like they will listen to useful advice anyway, right?
Do you steal kids bikes because they forget to lock them?
Heck no!
I just unscrew the front wheel and chuck it in the trash couple of blocks down the street.
Pushing that bike all the way home should teach those little rascals a lesson or two. (I'm all about education and stuff like that.)
And keep them off my lawn. At least for a while.
And stupid people can't help being stupid any more than smart people can help being smart. Why would you punish someone for something they have no control over?
Me? Punish? Heck no!
The beauty of it is they will be punishing themselves.
We are on the same page here. It is not their fault they are stupid. I'm just saying we should respect their human rights to be stupid.
And when they come in to buy the length of rope to hang themselves with - sell it to them. It is their right.
Don't take away their right to be stupid. E.g. going into a bear cave to see if the bear would like some berries.
See? I'm not heartless. I care about stupid people. Deeply.
Just... you know... tidied up a little.
Cleaner, not clean.
Cause then you can hear the Echelon guys talking on the other end...
And you start talking to them... and pretty soon, someone is busting your door in. Red team go! Red team go! Just some weird shit man.
I'm an opponent of the excessive and unnecessary desire to expand technology into areas where an existing technology already does a better job.
EVERYTHING is better with the "latest thing" tacked on! How do you not understand!?
Have you ever tasted ice-cream witn an iPhone or some other smart-phone? Way better than eating it with a spoon.
Even plain vanilla tastes like... so much better.
For the knowledge that I can sue people responsible will keep me warm at night.
Everyone will look back and think how crazy we were to synchronize ourselves to the sun, rather than [to] what our ship's central computer demands.
I for one don't consider it "bad" if stupid people get punished for using "0000" as their PIN.
Hey... we are long overdue for some regular punishment of stupidity.
There are no longer wild bears roaming the streets at night, eating stupid people. Haven't been any for centuries.
Wee need something to eliminate those genes from the pool.
HALF A FUCKING YEAR?
Yeah... they had like... "real" police things to do.
So they didn't really think it was important enough to chase him down with helicopters, SWATs and since it is Japan - ninjas and giant fucking robots.
It's like "We got him on tape for a potentially dangerous but victimless crime he committed earlier. It can wait until we find the time to haul his ass in.".
How much of your money are you willing to spend to prolong a total stranger's life?
I have 1$ folded into a origami ring in my "junk bowl" on the desk.
I'd be perfectly OK to give it away to save Anonymous Coward's life - but I am not an American, so I'm not sure how to go about that...
Mind you, I mean some OTHER "Anonymous Coward", not the parent poster - cause he is a selfish son of a bitch that could do a favor to the world by getting off of it.
Weren't we warned to "attempt no landings there"?
This is actually a lie. I paid about 60 euro for pain medicine after 3 of my teeth were pulled. This is NOT COVERED by insurance.
You have paid 60 Euros for analgesic - AFTER you had the procedure.
How much did you pay for the procedure itself? How about for the anesthetic they gave you for while they were pulling your teeth out?
Or did you decide to "take it like a man", without drugs?
And tell me... where do you get pain drugs from? YOU HAVE TO HAVE THEM PRESCRIBED!
You have to have them prescribed cause they are NARCOTICS. Vodka is also a great painkiller. It can be bought for much less than 60 Euro.
Oh, wait... you want something that won't fuck up your liver, nor get you hooked, but strong enough so you don't feel pain radiating from right at edge of your major CNS-point (umm... brain?).
Aaaand - is not a part of standard procedure.
Most people just get that one shot before they have their tooth pulled - and they deal with it as the wound is closed and already healing as the anesthetic lets go.
And I remind you... you don't even get a fucking piece of prescibed(!) Aspirine here.
Didn't you just say that you get free antibiotics?
You don't get prescription for Aspirin cause it is over-the-counter dirt-cheap drug.
It costs less than a pack of gum and it has almost no harmful effects - why subsidize or control that?
You wouldn't expect to have vitamin C prescribed if you had a cold, right?
You know... Spiderman's uncle.
That sounds exactly like something he would say.
My brain got hung up on that thought for a while trying to figure out if it would even be possible to fit that many devices in my bathroom.
See the videos below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTmzBsx6p_I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceHb98Ri4BE
The chocolate rations went up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnPvbfogeSI#t=1m17s
From TFA:
Most people switch off the gene that digests the lactose in milk shortly after they are weaned, but in northern Europeans -- the descendants of an ancient cattle-rearing culture that emerged in the region some 6,000 years ago -- the gene is kept switched on in adulthood.
Like, totally.
See? Hitler WAS right after all. There ARE Superior humans, and they are North Europeans.
Or is it actually more like their milk-gene is stuck, unable to switch off later in life?
So Hitler was actually wrong, because North Europeans are unable to alter their DNA, but he was right because that genetic "flaw" makes them superior cause they can feed off a cow for longer than the humans that can't eat milk products?
No... wait... I got it...
Nicholas Wade (The author of TFA) thinks that "enzyme" and gene" are the same thing.
That's it. Yet another mystery solved. Thanks to my superior genes.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shonk
1. Shonk
A range of sanwhich vans that retail in poor quality greasy food which is most definately not for the feint hearted, otherise known for selling their Shonk
"'cmon lets go to the Shonk van for their utter shonk!"
"Shonky von Shonkerton is out side fancy a samosa?"
Better than most of the "sanwhich vans that retail in poor quality greasy food which is most definately not for the feint hearted", on tv lately!
That doesn't make much sense.
Could it be that you were trying to say SHIT?
You can say SHIT on Slashdot.
You can also say Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker and Tits.
It's OK. We are all adults here. Although we sometimes act like we're not.
Nothing is being "donated to the country". At least regarding "the internets".
NGOs that are there to provide aid got their own satellite and wireless links because none of the local IPSs were operational at the moment. Nothing is being donated (to Haiti) - it is for their own operational and personal use.
Later, since Haitian internet backbone is operational, the backhaul bandwidth was donated (to the NGOs) by two local ISPs - AccessHaiti and MultiLink.
So in fact, Haitian companies are donating the bandwidth to NGOs who are donating the humanitarian aid and services to Haiti.
But, now that the local small ISPs are coming back online, they (local ISPs) find that the NGOs are quite happy with their current setup and don't really need the local wireless services - but are willing to switch, they just need more time.
They are kinda busy doing something a little more important at the moment.
Being practically the only game in town (read: the only paying customers) - local ISPs would really like to sell them their services.
But, on top of that, the wireless relays the NGOs have set up for themselves are drowning out the wireless signal of the local ISPs.
So, basically...
1 - Local ISP companies are providing the bandwidth to the relief workers for free. Which will probably change in the future.
2 - NGOs have their own equipment for the use and distributing of that bandwidth - and they are providing the humanitarian aid for free. They are willing to pay for the bandwidth but are asking for more time to switch to the local providers as they are rather busy at the moment.
3 - Local small ISPs would like to sell THEIR bandwidth (that they will buy from the ISPs mentioned under 1) to the NGOs - but they lack the capacity to do that as their wireless networks are being drowned out by the signal of the NGO's equipment.
So... it is not the case of donated food drowning out the local production.
But it is going to be, one way or the other, for a while at least. Because the local ISPs want it that way.
Cause it will take time for the local customers to be able to match the NGO's ability to buy the services of the local ISPs.
Who will then fix their prices to match the paying capabilities of the NGOs - NOT the local population.
So... in the long run, the locals will have to pay more for less longer - because NGOs can pay more and thereby they set the prices.
But in the LONGER run, when NGOs leave, locals will be left with a working ISP structure, and some money will flow into the community.
So, not quite like donating food. Or clothes.
At the beginning of the video he mentions that you can "give control to the certain amount of people who can turn the feature on and off".
So, it goes on automatically once it is outside of the network, BUT you can turn it on/off manually whenever you want while it is still connected to the home network.
From the link above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHu92imqJec
Basically, all laptops were set to switch to "stolen mode" as soon as they get online from anywhere outside the school['s network].
And then they start sending screenshots, camera shots and DNS and IP info on regular basis.
Apparently, their IT God thought nothing about setting up the laptops kids will be taking home so their home network is considered safe.
Also, their School's Resident High Inquisitor thought that since the "stolen mode" is on, that means that spying on kids is fair game.
Brilliant examples of stupidity. Simply brilliant.
And you have totally missed the point.
Thank you for validating my original notion regarding your previous post.
Apparently, you are not a Excel user.
Try copy/pasting your post above into an Office '97 Excel cell and see what happens.
Option to do something like that correctly wasn't added until the 2007 edition.
Why?
Was it because Microsoft is an evil heartless corporation that intentionally chokes and cripples their own applications just so they can keep selling you another version WITH those options a few years down the road?
Or could it have something to do with available processing power and memory on an average PC in '97, 2000, 2003 and 2007?
Also, if you find Office '97 a paragon of text and statistical data editing, publishing and presenting... You need to get out more.
The movie I, Robot may have been okay if it were simply a standalone film
Sorry... can't agree on this.
It was on TV just last night and it is BAD.
This isn't the first time I've seen it mind you.
First time was truly a torture - particularly cause I've just reread the Robots couple of months prior.
Last night though, I've tried to analyze it to see if it could be made into a watchable movie with some creative editing.
I came to conclusion that it would have to be cut down to about 1/3 of the current length.
- Drop most action sequences. Like Will Smith running after a robot - to point out what? That he is a clueless moron?
- Drop nearly EVERYTHING Will Smith utters during the movie (nearly all his lines are completely pointless one-liners).
- Cut out Shia LaBeouf completely (Why the fuck is he in this movie at all? Who is his agent? Satan?), despite the urge to have him killed in a very graphic way early on in the movie.
There is a scene where he runs through traffic.
Just have a bus run him over.
Make his blood and guts explode across the screen... in slow motion... pretty...
Umm... sorry about that. Got carried away for a moment.
- Re-dub some of the dialog so it makes sense.
- Remove that idiotic red light all bad robots have in their chests just so we would know that they are bad now.
- Also, drop those scenes where they are made to act like spiders or look suspicious and shifty-eyed.
- Remove the pointless product placements.
- Change the name of the movie. It has nearly nothing to do with the book or the stories in it - it shouldn't be called "I, Robot".
Not exactly Maddox's 3 minute cut, more like 30-minute one.
It wouldn't really be a good movie, or a TV episode of some SF show, like Twilight Zone or Outer Limits.
But it would be watchable.