Do you all live in the real world or has the dark of the basement really cut you off from outside too long? If they outright try to lobby for radical change to the system it won't get passed and the naysayers will be emboldened and any hopes of change will be harder to accomplish. At least the last point, research whether they help in the first place, sets groundwork for proving whether they help.
FFS, lasting revolution doesn't happen overnight, sometimes the wiser thing is to change things slowly and smartly.
I personally think the answer lies in the middle. Shocking I know.
Certain drugs and behaviors can lead to threats to the public good, essentially the harder drugs. Legalizing these perhaps isn't the wisest thing to do. However, psychedelics themselves tend to be harmless as long as they are taken with care. For example, as has been quoted here, weed and LSD are among the least addicting of all substances. There is no reason that they should be illegal.
Still, allowing people to be "weeded out" while taking others with them because they are under the influence is not fair to everyone else whose safety is in danger. I guess libertarians can't understand that people too have a right to live safely and not have their face chewed off, for example. Saying "it'll just happen anyway" is silly. Just because something can happen doesn't mean it is likely or less likely. You can slip on a bath rug and crack your neck but the likely hood of that happening is less than if you do extreme sports, for example.
Perhaps this validates the point of the paper in that if we had the title "Economists Investigate Political Bias On Wikipedia" we would have gone in with different feelings about the whole thing.
The fact that C and Si lie in the same group allows for the special bonding (think valence electrons and preferred oxidation states) that they have although Si might have the band gap that is needed that C doesn't. tocsy was referring to this. You don't see varied structures in Li or Na or K since they aren't like Carbon or Silicon.
That might not be a good idea. It could become overrun by scammers early on. The idealistic "libertarian" approach might work (overtime, scammers will be recognizeable as scammers by donors more easily) but by that time the site might be discredited as a haven for scammers by the majority of would-be donors
You're really setting yourself up for flaming, you know. You bring up a valid point but your method is so abrasive that few people will listen to you.
Yes, design is, in fact, a thing many people don't understand however design can make or break a product, and I wish more people who are on the left-side of their brains would realize that. We perhaps don't realize it but subconsciously we prefer more aesthetically pleasing interfaces/media/etc to ones that are uninspired. At least I do.
Anyhow, GUI's aren't always easier to use and the command line is the superior tool for some things because of one thing: it is explicit. Commands do exactly what you tell them to do, there is no guesstimation. Yes, a button is either pressed or not but you have to aim your pointer at the button:-). I can type "ps auwx | grep python" without having to move my wrist about the GUI and thus it can be quicker in some cases. Add in tab-completion and "remembering commands" is trivial.
This whole learning curve rubbish is just that, rubbish. I remember teaching my 9 year old cousin how to use a PC (she never had used one before). It didn't come "naturally" to her, she had to learn it as something new. Newsflash: buttons and switches didn't exist in nature! Saying that somehow we prefer GUIs by some a priori preference is silly. We find these familiar because buttons and switches are things we have learned to be used to from physical analogs like light switches but the "preference" stops there. There is one pre-computer analog to the command line and I bet my socks that it is more second nature(or first!) than switches: speech.
There is a reason people still use the command line and it isn't because of some cult of computer geeks that keep it going; it actually is quite useable.
I have a suspicion that like the airlines baggage fees, they'll keep prices this high even after the issues are resolved since consumers will be used to them at that point. Not to downplay the real loss of life and property, but the supplier might use this as an opportunity for the future.
Was an idea I had, well someone beat me to it.:-P Well my idea was to have a company that would serve client requests for features in various FOSS projects but this idea is cooler.
At least in the last statement you realize now there will be other's good old days. I'm not sure if your deep introspection realized that at that time those things were novel and new like the iPads and the iPhones and the iWhatevers and were uncharted territory like what the internet is (at times) today.
People drag on "these kids" just like your parents dragged on you for not going out and getting a real job/education/whatever...
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, I mean still accounting for almost three fourths of the OS market share won't save them? Let's remember what OS those browsers run on...
No, in this case, the malware is installed between the keyboard and the chair.
Do you all live in the real world or has the dark of the basement really cut you off from outside too long? If they outright try to lobby for radical change to the system it won't get passed and the naysayers will be emboldened and any hopes of change will be harder to accomplish. At least the last point, research whether they help in the first place, sets groundwork for proving whether they help.
FFS, lasting revolution doesn't happen overnight, sometimes the wiser thing is to change things slowly and smartly.
I personally think the answer lies in the middle. Shocking I know.
Certain drugs and behaviors can lead to threats to the public good, essentially the harder drugs. Legalizing these perhaps isn't the wisest thing to do. However, psychedelics themselves tend to be harmless as long as they are taken with care. For example, as has been quoted here, weed and LSD are among the least addicting of all substances. There is no reason that they should be illegal.
Still, allowing people to be "weeded out" while taking others with them because they are under the influence is not fair to everyone else whose safety is in danger. I guess libertarians can't understand that people too have a right to live safely and not have their face chewed off, for example. Saying "it'll just happen anyway" is silly. Just because something can happen doesn't mean it is likely or less likely. You can slip on a bath rug and crack your neck but the likely hood of that happening is less than if you do extreme sports, for example.
source: may be not reliable :/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rational_scale_to_assess_the_harm_of_drugs_(mean_physical_harm_and_mean_dependence).svg
If I had mod points, I would give em to you.
Does anyone else find it odd that this paper has been submitted to American Economic Review?
Perhaps this validates the point of the paper in that if we had the title "Economists Investigate Political Bias On Wikipedia" we would have gone in with different feelings about the whole thing.
#Shit, I have nothing witty to rebuttal, just insult him then, that'll work -.-
A wise physicists once said to me:
A perponderence of anecdotes is not evidence.
Instead, follow the numbers. They tend to be less biased.
All I saw was a letter from a congressman signed by former members of staff.
I don't think anyone got your sarcasm. Sad, sad.
The same minute this is posted we have a four paragraph reply. This is insane...someone really should look into this.
The fact that C and Si lie in the same group allows for the special bonding (think valence electrons and preferred oxidation states) that they have although Si might have the band gap that is needed that C doesn't. tocsy was referring to this. You don't see varied structures in Li or Na or K since they aren't like Carbon or Silicon.
That might not be a good idea. It could become overrun by scammers early on. The idealistic "libertarian" approach might work (overtime, scammers will be recognizeable as scammers by donors more easily) but by that time the site might be discredited as a haven for scammers by the majority of would-be donors
Lmfao! I'd mod you up if I had points...
Does the statistic also represent kind of how slashdot is? Only 1 in 3 "first post" comments are actually funny? I'd expect even less...
You're really setting yourself up for flaming, you know. You bring up a valid point but your method is so abrasive that few people will listen to you.
Yes, design is, in fact, a thing many people don't understand however design can make or break a product, and I wish more people who are on the left-side of their brains would realize that. We perhaps don't realize it but subconsciously we prefer more aesthetically pleasing interfaces/media/etc to ones that are uninspired. At least I do.
Anyhow, GUI's aren't always easier to use and the command line is the superior tool for some things because of one thing: it is explicit. Commands do exactly what you tell them to do, there is no guesstimation. Yes, a button is either pressed or not but you have to aim your pointer at the button :-). I can type "ps auwx | grep python" without having to move my wrist about the GUI and thus it can be quicker in some cases. Add in tab-completion and "remembering commands" is trivial.
This whole learning curve rubbish is just that, rubbish. I remember teaching my 9 year old cousin how to use a PC (she never had used one before). It didn't come "naturally" to her, she had to learn it as something new. Newsflash: buttons and switches didn't exist in nature! Saying that somehow we prefer GUIs by some a priori preference is silly. We find these familiar because buttons and switches are things we have learned to be used to from physical analogs like light switches but the "preference" stops there. There is one pre-computer analog to the command line and I bet my socks that it is more second nature(or first!) than switches: speech.
There is a reason people still use the command line and it isn't because of some cult of computer geeks that keep it going; it actually is quite useable.
I have a suspicion that like the airlines baggage fees, they'll keep prices this high even after the issues are resolved since consumers will be used to them at that point.
Not to downplay the real loss of life and property, but the supplier might use this as an opportunity for the future.
You welcome by mentioning it. Just saying :)
I think he was being sarcastic.
This is about the Linux Foundation sites, not kernel.org.
Was an idea I had, well someone beat me to it. :-P Well my idea was to have a company that would serve client requests for features in various FOSS projects but this idea is cooler.
whoever downrated this post was an idiot. it is funny and most likely true ;)
Some who actually is sane and rather intelligent. I'd befriend you somehow because such thinkers are blessings to the world.
At least in the last statement you realize now there will be other's good old days. I'm not sure if your deep introspection realized that at that time those things were novel and new like the iPads and the iPhones and the iWhatevers and were uncharted territory like what the internet is (at times) today.
People drag on "these kids" just like your parents dragged on you for not going out and getting a real job/education/whatever...
lol...