Dumb idea. Children don't have a fully developed frontal lobe and thus, while not actually incapable, are challenged when it comes to making rational long-term decisions.
Which means that, yes, children most of the time actually don't consciously know what is good for them in the long term.
It's also the reason why we don't treat children and youths according to adult laws - their brain simply does not work that well yet in terms of thinking ahead beyond the next five minutes.
And before you ask: The development of the frontal lobe is complete when you're about 25 years old. Another reason why young "adults" act so hare-brained sometimes.
Fun part is that in Germany, such an argument would bring immediate retribution by the state - since, if they're actually employees, the companies have to copay for such things like pensions or health insurance.
Thus they'd leverage huge fines against the companies making that argument since we all know that musicians rarely see a significant dime out of their contracts - which is the reason why they're doing tours where they also sell t-shirts to make money.
That's a moronic stunt. If you roll over your customers you don't have a sustainable business model. Especially as your offerings are not needed to run a successful business.
And, no, that's not how every salesman operates: You'll be treated very differently by salesmen who want to have you as a recurring customer instead of a one-trick-pony.
But there's also Momo which even starred the author himself (Michael Ende) in the beginning of the movie - and which is actually pretty true to the book.
I love how "With Microsoft, and other operating system vendors, I think the complexity of managing your computer is really torturing users" becomes "With Microsoft, I think the complexity of managing your computer is really torturing users"
Uh, wait. And you were not able to put those same five icons on the desktop or *gasp* the taskbar?
And comparing a desktop environment to a server environment is quite dishonest. I mean, it isn't like Microsoft does not have a server version of Windows out there, y'know?
And if that kind of stuff happens in mathematics, you can easily guess why the "softer" sciences like psychology or politics won't even begin to play.
You see it's both the boon: Anyone can contribute. And the bane: Anyone can "contribute".
You did not understand the article. iOS offers two possibilities for web apps to be run:
a) open Safari on the iPhone/iPad. Surf to the web app. Run it.
b) Save the web app directly on the device, thus you don't need to open Safari first.
For the latter approach, some features are disabled and execution is slower even when the code is the same and it's executed on the same device.
That's what we're doing in Germany - my brother had to go without a driver's license for over a year due to a DUI incident.
During that year he also had to undergo repeated drug tests and visit a quite difficult psychology exam and thus prove that he wasn't likely to drive drunk again.
If he's caught again it'll be next to impossible for him to regain his driver's license.
Uh, but you need to pass a certain threshold for a statistical significance to become actually meaningful. I mean, using your (unrestrained) logic, one could use a sample size of 3 and convey some meaning from the "statistical significance" when 33% of the sample size behaved differently than the rest of 67%. I mean, they're trying to make a conjecture to the whole population which means that their sample size also has to reflect this selfsame population somehow or become meaningless.
And for your focusing argument, that's not necessarily true for all instances. There are quite a lot of variables which come into play when recalling. For example, there have been studies that reading a text once and then testing several times is better than reading several times and testing once in the long-term. Short-term recall is the other way around, however. (http://memory.psych.purdue.edu/downloads/2006_Roediger_Karpicke_PsychSci.pdf)
Let's not begin to consider stuff like emotional context, motivation and the rest.
Which essentially means that the temporal duration of a learning activity is just one among many variables - and simply repeating something ad nauseam may neither be the best nor the most effective method to learn.
Not to mention that Eugenics played a pretty big role in the US before the 2nd World War. Only after discovering the holocaust it became "unfashionable" to sterilize poor, criminal and dumb people or those of the wrong race. http://hnn.us/articles/1796.html
Yeah, I'm thankful for those drivers as well - but they still have some massive problems. I recently tried to use a dual monitor setup on an older laptop with an ATI chip.
Absolute catastrophe. Either one or the other monitor wouldn't be set to the correct resolution, show only half of the picture - and when I finally managed to get it right through some obscure config magic, the setting would have been reset upon rebooting the laptop.
And 50% of the time, trying to change the config resulted in a hardlock.
Right. Let me see:
Russia says that Russia was not responsible for the murder of Litwinenko.
Pardon me if I don't take everything that comes out of official Russia by face value, especially given their track record with the truth.
I mean, this is the former KGB - they are the masters of desinformation.
Not to slighten the achievement of projecting an image into mid air (pretty impressive, that) but this is not "holographic" per se. A holographic image would contain the image information of several angles while the io2technology's version projects a flat image.
Furthermore, holography does not mean "draw with light" - it means "draw the whole (image)" (holos = greek: "whole") since if you cut a holographic image in half, you will still have the whole picture on _both_ halves. They'll be smaller and fuzzier, though.
Yeah, good luck in trying to push a 100KHz light wave through glass, nevermind finding a 100KHz LASER.
I'll let you in on a secret: Visible light (the kind you usually put through a glass fibre) operates in the Terahertz range.
Additionally, you'll find it pretty difficult to reach Terahertz frequencies with electric pulses and push that through a wire over any kind of longer distances (skin effect).
So, I take your "dumb statement" and hand it right back at you.
That definition would not make much sense either. Optical fiber comes to mind. You don't need multiple frequencies for that one to be the equivalent/superior to the bandwidth of the old definition of broadband.
It doesn't?
Sorry, but in case of a law which makes large swaths of the population affected by said law, one definitely should have a thought about whether this law actually makes sense or not.
That's all that was asked for. No "make it legal by default", no "abandon this law". Just "look at the law and examine if it's past its due date."
I mean, just look at some older laws, for example, the one demanding that you have sex exclusively in the missionary position. Always good for a laugh.
You have a small problem with your logic here: You try to use the number as a reason, while in reality it's a symptom.
I do agree that numbers alone do not an argument make, but they point to a problem. And part of this problem may be the existance of this law. Or not.
But criminalizing a huge percentage of your citizens is never a good idea.
Except for the fact that the one he replied to didn't demand "legalization per default" in the first place.
You know, those damned qualifiers like "maybe" and such...
Another tactic: Using a "maybe we should..." and making it a "what, you want to !always!...?"
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Dumb idea. Children don't have a fully developed frontal lobe and thus, while not actually incapable, are challenged when it comes to making rational long-term decisions.
Which means that, yes, children most of the time actually don't consciously know what is good for them in the long term.
It's also the reason why we don't treat children and youths according to adult laws - their brain simply does not work that well yet in terms of thinking ahead beyond the next five minutes.
And before you ask: The development of the frontal lobe is complete when you're about 25 years old. Another reason why young "adults" act so hare-brained sometimes.
Fun part is that in Germany, such an argument would bring immediate retribution by the state - since, if they're actually employees, the companies have to copay for such things like pensions or health insurance.
Thus they'd leverage huge fines against the companies making that argument since we all know that musicians rarely see a significant dime out of their contracts - which is the reason why they're doing tours where they also sell t-shirts to make money.
Yeah, but I rather meant this as a reply to his suggested automatism that a long life leads to recognizable scar patterns on the fingertips.
I disagree. I myself have been "several years on this world" and my finger tips are certainly blemish free.
That's a moronic stunt. If you roll over your customers you don't have a sustainable business model. Especially as your offerings are not needed to run a successful business.
And, no, that's not how every salesman operates: You'll be treated very differently by salesmen who want to have you as a recurring customer instead of a one-trick-pony.
But there's also Momo which even starred the author himself (Michael Ende) in the beginning of the movie - and which is actually pretty true to the book.
I love how "With Microsoft, and other operating system vendors, I think the complexity of managing your computer is really torturing users" becomes "With Microsoft, I think the complexity of managing your computer is really torturing users"
Uh, wait. And you were not able to put those same five icons on the desktop or *gasp* the taskbar?
And comparing a desktop environment to a server environment is quite dishonest. I mean, it isn't like Microsoft does not have a server version of Windows out there, y'know?
And if that kind of stuff happens in mathematics, you can easily guess why the "softer" sciences like psychology or politics won't even begin to play.
You see it's both the boon: Anyone can contribute. And the bane: Anyone can "contribute".
You did not understand the article. iOS offers two possibilities for web apps to be run:
a) open Safari on the iPhone/iPad. Surf to the web app. Run it.
b) Save the web app directly on the device, thus you don't need to open Safari first.
For the latter approach, some features are disabled and execution is slower even when the code is the same and it's executed on the same device.
I never had to push my beetle! The engine always started up, even in the deepest of winters!
That's what we're doing in Germany - my brother had to go without a driver's license for over a year due to a DUI incident.
During that year he also had to undergo repeated drug tests and visit a quite difficult psychology exam and thus prove that he wasn't likely to drive drunk again.
If he's caught again it'll be next to impossible for him to regain his driver's license.
Tell that to the paramedics who have to scrape up your brain from the street. Or the relatives who care about you.
Uh, but you need to pass a certain threshold for a statistical significance to become actually meaningful. I mean, using your (unrestrained) logic, one could use a sample size of 3 and convey some meaning from the "statistical significance" when 33% of the sample size behaved differently than the rest of 67%. I mean, they're trying to make a conjecture to the whole population which means that their sample size also has to reflect this selfsame population somehow or become meaningless.
And for your focusing argument, that's not necessarily true for all instances. There are quite a lot of variables which come into play when recalling. For example, there have been studies that reading a text once and then testing several times is better than reading several times and testing once in the long-term. Short-term recall is the other way around, however. (http://memory.psych.purdue.edu/downloads/2006_Roediger_Karpicke_PsychSci.pdf)
Let's not begin to consider stuff like emotional context, motivation and the rest.
Which essentially means that the temporal duration of a learning activity is just one among many variables - and simply repeating something ad nauseam may neither be the best nor the most effective method to learn.
Not to mention that Eugenics played a pretty big role in the US before the 2nd World War. Only after discovering the holocaust it became "unfashionable" to sterilize poor, criminal and dumb people or those of the wrong race.
http://hnn.us/articles/1796.html
Yeah, I'm thankful for those drivers as well - but they still have some massive problems. I recently tried to use a dual monitor setup on an older laptop with an ATI chip.
Absolute catastrophe. Either one or the other monitor wouldn't be set to the correct resolution, show only half of the picture - and when I finally managed to get it right through some obscure config magic, the setting would have been reset upon rebooting the laptop.
And 50% of the time, trying to change the config resulted in a hardlock.
Right. Let me see:
Russia says that Russia was not responsible for the murder of Litwinenko.
Pardon me if I don't take everything that comes out of official Russia by face value, especially given their track record with the truth.
I mean, this is the former KGB - they are the masters of desinformation.
If you honestly think that you actually need four times the capacity, then I'd suggest getting you V8 to a mechanic fast.
Starting an engine is a tiny bit different that using the engine's torque to propel the vehicle forward.
Right. Never heard of Litwinenko, eh? Or am I mistaken and London is the capital of Russia?
Not to slighten the achievement of projecting an image into mid air (pretty impressive, that) but this is not "holographic" per se. A holographic image would contain the image information of several angles while the io2technology's version projects a flat image.
Furthermore, holography does not mean "draw with light" - it means "draw the whole (image)" (holos = greek: "whole") since if you cut a holographic image in half, you will still have the whole picture on _both_ halves. They'll be smaller and fuzzier, though.
Yeah, good luck in trying to push a 100KHz light wave through glass, nevermind finding a 100KHz LASER. I'll let you in on a secret: Visible light (the kind you usually put through a glass fibre) operates in the Terahertz range. Additionally, you'll find it pretty difficult to reach Terahertz frequencies with electric pulses and push that through a wire over any kind of longer distances (skin effect). So, I take your "dumb statement" and hand it right back at you.
That definition would not make much sense either. Optical fiber comes to mind. You don't need multiple frequencies for that one to be the equivalent/superior to the bandwidth of the old definition of broadband.
Burn it. It's hot enough that it will rip the oxygen from water, thus making it impossible to quench an aluminum fire with mere water.
It doesn't?
Sorry, but in case of a law which makes large swaths of the population affected by said law, one definitely should have a thought about whether this law actually makes sense or not.
That's all that was asked for. No "make it legal by default", no "abandon this law". Just "look at the law and examine if it's past its due date."
I mean, just look at some older laws, for example, the one demanding that you have sex exclusively in the missionary position. Always good for a laugh.
You have a small problem with your logic here: You try to use the number as a reason, while in reality it's a symptom.
I do agree that numbers alone do not an argument make, but they point to a problem. And part of this problem may be the existance of this law. Or not.
But criminalizing a huge percentage of your citizens is never a good idea.
Except for the fact that the one he replied to didn't demand "legalization per default" in the first place.
You know, those damned qualifiers like "maybe" and such...
Another tactic: Using a "maybe we should..." and making it a "what, you want to !always!...?"