You know, like telemarketing, they wouldn't keep pushing that crap if people weren't still falling for it.
I see people's home computers covered with that Ask toll (yep) bar all the time.
Regulars here are familiar with Dunning-Kruger, but there exists a polar opposite condition thus far unnamed: when you're a winner at the cerebrally capable sweepstakes, you infer intelligence by others that may not exist. What should we call it?
On the one hand, a girl blessed with those superficial physical characteristics the men of her day find attractive in a mate will be afforded some advantages. While my list will not be jointly exhaustive, this lady who's lucky to be lovely will enjoy preferential mating status, she will be offered employment opportunities beyond her grade, she will get out of an arse load of traffic tickets, and folks will generally be overtly polite to her (yes, even other females who can't stand her).
The clear on the order of crystal advantages are easy-peasy to imagine. So you think you'd rather been born pretty?
Maybe not. Though intelligence and pretty are not mutually exclusive, human nature suggests that if you are able to ply advantage on your looks, you're not going to study as hard as the poor girl who looks like her big-nosed brother with long hair. (Ever have a friend who's sister wasn't completely unattractive, but looked just like him in the face?) And then one day, despite all the organic food, magical facial creams, clever aesthetic surgeons, and your best intentions... shoot, you're old with no particular skill set. Yes sir, old age is the revenge of the girls who had to work a little harder on merit.
Old men talk about the weather, old women talk about old men.
GP's assertion that we dwell on the minutiae is a luxury we are afforded by all the improvements in tech promoted by the parent. Dwelling, nay, embroiled in fascination by the minutiae is what makes us what we are: cogitative primates.
IMHO, using all that brain power to unravel the 'mysterious' advantage of home vs. away games is a waste of computational energy.
You're correct in that we are all animals and we share a history of surviving due to our past proficiency as killers, eaters, and, well, fuckers.
What has not escaped my attention is our obligation to care for and about our environment now that we are self-aware.
Perhaps we are the one species destined to rise above our savage origins to successfully micromanage the very environment that spawned us. If we're not, in another 200,000 years or so, the next big-brained alpha will have a run at it.
wrong starting battery's are crap for off-grid. the amp hrs are low and the plates thin they will quickly die under such usage..deep cycle battery's are different and widly used in off grid.
There's nearly always going to be a better option than the one you have before you. Having electricity conveniently available from the grid is a widely accepted best-case scenario.
But if, during the zombie apocalypse, you happen to be nesting near a car lot instead of an upscale San Fran Neighborhood, maybe you can make do.
Can someone explain why old car batteries are better suited than new ones?
Yes.
Is it perhaps that old car batteries just cannot produce the huge peak required to start the engine but that energy storage and extraction works fine at lower currents? And that therefore old batteries perform adequately at lower cost?
You want more smart people in your country? I don't have a magic pill for that, but I can give you an indicator of how close you are: When the sexy girls fuck the geeks instead of the football studs, you're getting somewhere.
Parent is describing Nerdtopia.
And there's something else in there about higher pay, too.
But somehow, if you begin to screen for exceptional intelligence, you are (horrors) implying that some of the snowflakes aren't so special after all.
We have an active religious lobby in the US that discourages free thinking, preferring indoctrination that includes no Bayesian interference.
Unless and until equivalent accolades are placed upon the throne of intellectual exceptionalism, American society is doomed to do well in the Olympics and poorly in graduating advanced math/science/physics wunderkind.
. If someone was smart enough about 777 systems to shut off the several transponders, some below deck, depressurizing the aircraft would have been trivial to accomplish.
My intuition says that someone wanted a 777 and wanted to hide it.
Had to hide the theft to get it.
But is stealing a plane full of people the easiest way to get a jet?
It seems like you're asking for an order of magnitude more search and rescue operation versus an empty plane. It seems likely someone wanted the jetload of civilians if taking the plane was the mission.
So pretty much being blissfully unaware in large packs is good for the brain. It's good to be sheeple?
For many it is.
But take the cat example from just North of here:
For all intents and purposes, I am a g0d to my cat. My level of understanding of the universe around me is so much greater than hers that I worry all the time, yet her ignorant bliss regarding the safety and nourishment she is provided leaves her rarely ever shook up.
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I see people's home computers covered with that Ask toll (yep) bar all the time.
Regulars here are familiar with Dunning-Kruger, but there exists a polar opposite condition thus far unnamed: when you're a winner at the cerebrally capable sweepstakes, you infer intelligence by others that may not exist. What should we call it?
The clear on the order of crystal advantages are easy-peasy to imagine. So you think you'd rather been born pretty?
Maybe not. Though intelligence and pretty are not mutually exclusive, human nature suggests that if you are able to ply advantage on your looks, you're not going to study as hard as the poor girl who looks like her big-nosed brother with long hair. (Ever have a friend who's sister wasn't completely unattractive, but looked just like him in the face?) And then one day, despite all the organic food, magical facial creams, clever aesthetic surgeons, and your best intentions... shoot, you're old with no particular skill set. Yes sir, old age is the revenge of the girls who had to work a little harder on merit.
It would just function as a red herring, since they can seemingly already gather more intel on you than a college roommate.
GP's assertion that we dwell on the minutiae is a luxury we are afforded by all the improvements in tech promoted by the parent. Dwelling, nay, embroiled in fascination by the minutiae is what makes us what we are: cogitative primates.
IMHO, using all that brain power to unravel the 'mysterious' advantage of home vs. away games is a waste of computational energy.
FTA: More than half the women with a mutated copy of the BRCA1 gene will develop breast cancer...
I suspect this is the marker used to inspire Mrs. Pitt to preemptively undergo the double-mastectomy... cue the small brain/breast jokes.
I'd rather have a bottle of good whiskey in front of me,
than a frontal lobotomy.
If you make your way successfully through district and appeals, we might be willing to hear and comment on your case.
turned out to be a house of phosphorous cards,
and you don't see a red flag waving?
Was your retirement locked up in there and now you find yourself too poor to pay attention?
What has not escaped my attention is our obligation to care for and about our environment now that we are self-aware.
Perhaps we are the one species destined to rise above our savage origins to successfully micromanage the very environment that spawned us. If we're not, in another 200,000 years or so, the next big-brained alpha will have a run at it.
I am actually unsure if you're the only one who got it or the only one who didn't get it. Oops... we're out of time for today.
We'll go over false dichotomy tomorrow.
After giving Gates the rights to ms-dos.
wrong starting battery's are crap for off-grid. the amp hrs are low and the plates thin they will quickly die under such usage..deep cycle battery's are different and widly used in off grid.
There's nearly always going to be a better option than the one you have before you. Having electricity conveniently available from the grid is a widely accepted best-case scenario.
But if, during the zombie apocalypse, you happen to be nesting near a car lot instead of an upscale San Fran Neighborhood, maybe you can make do.
Perhaps you're thinking of a posting forum in which not reading the article is frowned upon?
Can someone explain why old car batteries are better suited than new ones?
Yes.
Is it perhaps that old car batteries just cannot produce the huge peak required to start the engine but that energy storage and extraction works fine at lower currents? And that therefore old batteries perform adequately at lower cost?
You.
One of the perceived strengths of a life in the West is the better standard of living, complete with better individual freedoms in everyday life.
It makes you wonder why we're working so hard to alter these perceptions.
You want more smart people in your country? I don't have a magic pill for that, but I can give you an indicator of how close you are: When the sexy girls fuck the geeks instead of the football studs, you're getting somewhere.
Parent is describing Nerdtopia.
And there's something else in there about higher pay, too.
It seems a shame to discard or recycle a huge number of still viable units.
We have an active religious lobby in the US that discourages free thinking, preferring indoctrination that includes no Bayesian interference.
Unless and until equivalent accolades are placed upon the throne of intellectual exceptionalism, American society is doomed to do well in the Olympics and poorly in graduating advanced math/science/physics wunderkind.
I think it's kind of cool this may lead to an explanation for licking one's wounds.
. If someone was smart enough about 777 systems to shut off the several transponders, some below deck, depressurizing the aircraft would have been trivial to accomplish.
I know someone smart enough about 777 systems...
My intuition says that someone wanted a 777 and wanted to hide it.
Had to hide the theft to get it.
But is stealing a plane full of people the easiest way to get a jet?
It seems like you're asking for an order of magnitude more search and rescue operation versus an empty plane. It seems likely someone wanted the jetload of civilians if taking the plane was the mission.
It sure must take a selfish fuck, but they're out there.
So pretty much being blissfully unaware in large packs is good for the brain. It's good to be sheeple?
For many it is.
But take the cat example from just North of here:
For all intents and purposes, I am a g0d to my cat. My level of understanding of the universe around me is so much greater than hers that I worry all the time, yet her ignorant bliss regarding the safety and nourishment she is provided leaves her rarely ever shook up.
She must have a thick ass cortex.
But caveat emptor, it occasionally unites the masses to exchange one ruling class for another.
Does Slashdot count or does one actually need to go outside?
/. absolutely counts...
so long as your needs do not require coddling and unquestioning acceptance.